How do Eyes Change Throughout Seniority?

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Stephanie Handal about eye health throughout seniority.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, here we go. I got that, got that,
put that down? Okay, welcome to fifty plus. Behind yet
another very pretty morning that potentially, at least once the
heat begins to rise, could throw out some more pop
up showers here or there or everywhere around the region.
And why not for those of you who well, I'll

(01:09):
get to this in a second. First of all, I
hinted yesterday at having golf plans yesterday afternoon with a
couple of clients and one of my co workers here,
and all the way to the course the sky was dark,
but at least it wasn't raining. If oh, well, at
least it's not raining right now. It'll be okay. And

(01:29):
the closer I got to where I was going, the
more ominous it looked. And about ten minutes out, I
guess ten or twelve minutes out, sprinkles on the windshields.
Oh gosh, here we go. Maybe it won't rain too hard.
And then another minute down the road it's it's raining.
And then another two minutes down the road it's pouring,

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to the point that I had to speed up the
windshield wipers. Two minutes from the golf course it stopped.
It wasn't raining there, and the rain I had already
kind of checked the weather channel from where I was
to where I was going, the rain was going the
other way, and I thought, boy, I sure hope this

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didn't hit the golf course. And I got there and
I knew they'd had a pounding that morning. Two and
a half inches of rain in about an hour. Just
got hammered. Uh. But by then, by the time I
got there in mid afternoon, dry up. The streets were dry,
the parking lot was dry. Everything was dry, and the

(02:35):
golf course had some still had standing water on it.
It was cart path only, but we braved the elements
and never saw another drop of rain, those humid is
all get out ninety nine point nine nine nine percent humidity.
Other than that, it was pretty good. So anyway, I
bring all that up to kind of go back into

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these pop up showers we're getting and a reminder for
a notification, I guess it is for those of you
who don't do much outdoor stuff and are not at
all into hunting. Especially understand this. Every year since time
begans strike that every year since there's been a season
for dove hunting in Texas, we have gotten moderate to

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monsoon like rainfall in the three to five days leading
up to the season opener. Texas traditionally opens its north
in Central Zone dove season on September one, which this
year opens also happens to be Labor Day, So without
even looking, I know what's coming over the weekend, I'm
pretty dog one shore. Most of this region is gonna

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get some rain, especially north of IT ten where the
Central and South zone delineation is. It's happened forever, It's
happened forever. Forecast calls for a seventy percent chance of
rain Saturday, sixty percent chance on Sunday, the final two
days before the deub season again it won't rain everywhere,

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but it will. It's gonna rain, and potentially enough anywhere
in the North and Central zones to make a muddy,
sloppy mess of what a week ago probably were dusty
dry fields. Sure could use some rain. Somebody said that
out loud, and every year I just cringe when I
hear somebody say that anytime in late August, because I

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know what's gonna happen. Sometimes it's worse than others. Sometimes
we get bigger rains than we expected, and it's this
time of year generally, roughly from June through November. If
you get my drift, it's a bad idea if you're
a New Texan or a new Houstonian to say anything
about needing. Boy, we sure could use some rain around here. No, no, no, no,

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don't say that in conversation. Don't please.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
On the forecasting side, a little farther out, nothing to
see within fifteen hundred miles across the tropics, the National
Weather Service actually laid out one of those giant yellow blobs,
and by giant, I mean it literally. This is a
tropical wave, they call it. And they just have to

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have something on the map to make themselves feel special
and useful. This one is roughly the size. I measured
it by the squares on the map. This is roughly
the size of the entire eastern seaboard of the United States.
That's what they've got us looking at. Well, don't worry
about it, though, because it's chances of becoming anything, becoming

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anything anytime soon, no better than a twenty percent chance
within the next entire week. So we're gonna get through
Labor Day without a problem. We're gonna get through a
lot of places in times without problems, and hopefully we'll
get right on through this season and get on to
winter like we're supposed to. In market news, yeah I
got time for that. I had a lot of movement, honestly.

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But I did see a headline that shared that we
had a three point three percent growth in our economy
in Q two, which was even higher than earlier estimates,
even with terrifishues. Speaking of By the way, a story
just a little while ago shared that Mexico, at President
Trump's request, is imposing new tariffs on China to stay

(06:21):
in good graces with us. There's all kinds of things
going on in this world, and I'll maybe get to
a little bit more about that later. Maybe not. I'm
not sure. Overall, though, job news is good too, Fewer layoffs,
fewer jobless claims. Oil up a tick, or excuse me,
oiled down a tick, Gold up a tick again. I

(06:42):
wish you know I made us I sold and I'd
say I sold some gold. It's like I had a
bushel basketful of it. No, I had a tiny, tiny,
little handful of gold. But it actually it amounted to worth,
you know, worth. It bought me a couple of tanks
of gas anyway. But if I had waited, if I

(07:02):
had waited until now to sell it, and this was
about a year, year and a half ago, I would
have made what fifty percent more seventy five percent more,
fifty percent more roughly than I did. But you'd never know.
And one thing's for sure, it hadn't gone down in
that time. You'll see incremental movements up and down, but

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generally gold has been a pretty dog on good investment.
I know that when I bought that gold, it was
about three hundred dollars an ounce according to the guy
sold it too. In any event, let's go ahead and
get this first break started, will so we can stay
on time because I got so much to unpacked today
if I get a chance to do it. UT Health

(07:43):
Institute on Aging is that collaborative of providers from quite
literally every medical discipline, mostly in the med center where
you would expect the best doctors in the region to be,
but a whole lot of them, a majority of them,
I believe, will also be out in outlying areas at Paarland, Kingwood, Katie,

(08:04):
the Woodlands, where else, Sugarland where I am. They come
out there so that people who can't get to the
med center can see them as well. And we as
seniors need to see these people because they have gotten
additional training in ahead above and beyond what it took
to get them out of med school. They've gone back

(08:24):
and learned more about how to apply that knowledge, specifically
to seniors. Pretty handy resource to have. I would say,
go to the website, look around there. You'll spend some
time there too, and then set yourself up with a
consultation to see one of these providers who have done
this for us uth dot edu slash aging uth dot

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edu slash aging.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
What's life without a net? If I suggest to go
to bed, sleep it off, just wait until the show's over.
Sleepy Back to Dougpike has fifty continues back.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
To fifty plus, Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
Let's go there, check that, got that done? Moving to
page two of my notes, and I'll try to say
this without laughing out loud. The country, at least the
younger half of the mostly women and girls in this country,

(09:23):
is all a twitter over the announcement of the engagement
of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. Will did you just
did you just get all excited when you heard about that?
Not really, nor did I. I don't know why everybody's
so excited about it. I'm sure all the T shirt
and insulated mug makers and the what else do those

(09:47):
people buy at concerts whatever it is, they're already retooling
so they can get that Taylor Kelsey. They get that
Taylor Kelsey merch ready for her next tour right, probably
gonna take his name? Sure? Why not? NFL has to
be positively giddy too over this. They've got fourteen year
old girls watching NFL football in numbers they couldn't have dreamed,

(10:10):
all because a pop star and a tight end have
officially decided to tie the knot. I do wish them
a wonderful and happy marriage. I have no nothing against
either of them and their plans, but I also have
to wonder if that's going to withstand the pressure that
such a public relationship puts on both people. In Bolt,

(10:32):
she's a megastar under a global spotlight, no question about it,
and he can catch a ball, just kidding. He's an
exceptional tight end. I'll give him that, but still she's
got the chops. I did see a story right before
I came in. I wish I'd had time to take
a look at it about their pre nuptial agreement. I
don't know whether it went into detail or not. I

(10:52):
presume not, because that's nobody's business. But nonetheless, it still
is an interesting thing that they are doing this, and again,
I do hope it works well for them, and they're
both bright enough to realize exactly what each of them
brings to the relationship. They're going in. Eyes wide open,
moving on. In case you haven't noticed, nearly all the
big Hollywood stars who have supported the left for so

(11:16):
many decades really now are kind of obviously missing from
the talk shows, from newspaper headlines lately. Could it be
that even they see the writing on the wall and
have finally kind of lost interest in paddling a sinking ship?
My gut says. My gut says, most of them are

(11:38):
going to continue to vote left just because that's what
they've always done, but they're they're just not gonna be
so loud about it, not going to be so openly
celebratory about doing so, because there's just no way any
rational person could step back and really examine a lot
of what we've learned in the past six months and

(11:59):
think that that the left is on the right side
of a whole lot of issues. They're not. Not, in
my opinion anyway, and that's no more valuable than anybody else's.
But that's just the way I look at it. Maybe
they're really realizing that when politicians in there camp talk
about raising taxes even higher, which has been done in
the last forty eight hours by a couple of people,

(12:23):
maybe they're figuring out that they're the rich people who
are going to have to shell out more if that
ever happens, if they ever take control again. Right here
in Houston, I saw a very interesting story right here
in Houston, what happened to our clock? Will? Oh that's tragic.
Oh thank you, Now that's comfortable, much more comfortable. A

(12:47):
guy who saw his stolen tailgate online and called police
wound up actually helping law enforcement uncover a disturbing trend
in car theft around here. I'm sure they knew about it,
but to get inside and bust this operation was good

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for all of us. Really, the thieves are using high
tech electronics now to clone key fobs and then drive
away in a stolen car for which they programmed a
brand new key. In five, six, seven, maybe eight minutes.
Tops kho you eleven reported this. It just came from

(13:28):
a money Wise story, and that money Wise story credited
Channel Party Channel eleven. Harris County Sheriff's deputies found blank
key fobs and a programming device when they went out
looking for that stolen tailgate technology. All this technology really
is only as good as and as beneficial as the

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people using it, which is kind of scary considered how
many weirdos and scumbags and just dishonest people, just straight
up professional career thieves are out there. No, it was
what was it? A couple of weeks ago? I sent
when there was there was some criminal I can't remember

(14:11):
who it was, but was just let out and had
gone back out and committed more crimes and whatnot, and
I got in touch with my good friend. Everybody knows, well,
not everybody in this audience wouldn't know who Captain Scott
and All is. But if you're a fisherman and you
listen to my outdoor show or on BMME on the weekend,
KBMME on the weekends, you would know. In any event,

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Scott worked for HPD for many, many years. He was
a street cup for a while, and then he ultimately
ended up retiring from the homicide division. So he's seen
a lot. And when this came up about some guy
being arrested twenty thirty times, I don't remember what the
number was, I called Scott and I asked him straight up,

(14:53):
I said, how many times would you think that these
hardened criminals commit a crime but don't get caught for it.
In other words, for each arrest, how many other crimes
have they probably committed? And he told it like it was,

(15:13):
He said, it's staggering numbers. Staggering numbers. He and the
way he made me realize what he was saying, and
how pervasive this is for them. For these people, he said,
what do you do? You get up every day and
you go to work, right, You go down to the
radio station, you work on prep, you do all of

(15:34):
this stuff, and you do that every day because it's
your job. Burglars, thieves, robbers, carjackers, they're no different. That's
their job, that's their profession. And they do it all day,

(15:55):
every day. And especially the ones who are on drugs.
He said, But because not only do they have to
get money for drugs this morning, they got to get
money for more drugs at noon, and more drugs to
get them through the night, and just keep that up.
It's just a constant grind for them to make their

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quota to borrow from sales. Lingo, Yeah, oh today's word
of the day. Will you know I'm a little bit
jealous of Will right now. He let me know right
before the show that he solved the world in two
two chances, two tries. It makes me want to it
makes me want to really think outside the box, because, yeah,

(16:39):
we have an interesting I think I know how he
goes about word, and I guess he probably presumes the
same thing about me. But this one. He's gotten me
kind of stumped on. I'm not sure where to start now.
So anyway, today's word of the day is diminution. It's
actually a pretty easy one. Most of you probably know.
It's the actor process of becoming less. Doreen st. Felix

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in The New Yorker a while back back in February
after the super Bowl wrote this, After that game, a
sense of a basement hovers over the performer of the
super Bowl halftime show. It is slight, but it is there.
The gig, a live gig, is essentially done for free.

(17:26):
It ends, the performer is spirited away, and the multimillion
dollar commercials and multi million dollar game resume its popular
music as the doula to football the next morning, everybody
makes big talk about history and legend making the feeling
of diminution lingers. Well put, Doreen, well put. We'll take

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a little break here, be right back. On the way out.
I'll tell you about Cedar Cove RV Resort. No diminution
over there, just a great place to go enjoy a
sunset over the bay, a sunrise over the bay, or
both multiple times. If you want to go over there
and park your RV or motor home or pop up
camp or trailer, whatever it is you've got, you can

(18:13):
put on one of their concrete slabs, hook up to
electric sewer and water at every one of those slabs,
and then just enjoy the bay life, free WiFi, got
a bathhouse where you can take sheriff you get all
worked up in the heat. All that, plus some pretty
good fishing when the wind and the tider right, which
they have been lately, by the way, I bet you

(18:34):
the fishing has been pretty dog one good over there
Cedar Cove RV Resort. He also has an RV available
for rent. If you and your family don't want to
go through the trouble and hassle and expense of renting
or buying your own RV, you can just rent the
one he's got over there. They'll put it on a
slab for you. They'll get it all cleaned up and

(18:56):
ready to go. It's kind of like Brendon Beckfiety Bred
and Breakfast on the Bay, B and B on the Bay.
Will came up with that. I had something close, but
I like Will's better Bred and Breakfast. Where'd there r go?
Brett and Breakfast on the Bay Cedarcovearbresort dot com cedar

(19:17):
Cove Arvresort dot com.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
We'll talk in this segment about our eyeballs, which, as
most probably all of you older than about sixty already know,
tend to change with seniority and to understand where you
are where you'll likely be down the road, I'm going
to bring in doctor Stephanie Handle, therapeutic and glaucoma optometric
specialist at ut Health Houston Robert Sizziki Clinic. Welcome aboard,

(19:56):
doctor Handel.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Thank you so much, Dagan, thank you for having me back.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Oh my pleasure. Yeah, I'm glad. So up front, I
vaguely remember the first few times I experienced floaters in
my vision. I wanted to swat at them at first
because I thought they were yeah, you know. Then I
realized that wasn't going to help at all. So for
the younger folks in this audience who aren't yet familiar,

(20:21):
explain what those little things that are going to look
like a swarm of flies actually are.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
Yeah, so floaters. So in the back of our eyes,
we have a you can think of it kind of
like a gel, and when we're young, that gel is
completely transparent, we can't see it at all. But as
we have birthdays, sometimes that gel can start to separate
into water with these floating strands of collagen, and those

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floaters that we're seeing are actually the shadow that's being
cast on our retina when light hits those little floating
strands of collagen. Now nine times out of ten when
we see floaters, it's just that, and they're the normal floaters,
and they're just these little collagen strands. But they can
also be a warning sign that something is wrong with

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our eyes. So if we see them, if we're seeing
an increase in them, or if they're changing, that would
be a good reason to come in and see one
of us.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Absolutely what I can think of about a dozen reasons, honestly,
So we don't need an exam know what a floater
is if we've already got them, but to what are
the things that we should be looking for, little symptoms,
early onset of stuff that really warrants a trip to
somebody with your skill level.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
So I'm so glad you asked this. There's this misconception
that your vision just is supposed to decline with age,
and that is just not true. Our near vision from
about age forty to about age sixty, our near vision
is going to decline naturally. Those are just what we
call age related changes. But our distance vision, the vision

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that we use to drive and to see road signs
and to watch movies, that really should be staying stable.
So if your distance vision is changing, that is that
could be a warning sign that that potentially is telling
us that something is changing. And probably it's just we
need glasses and our prescriptions changing, maybe we're developing cataracts,

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but it can be a warning sign that it's something
more serious. So I would say, if you're noticing any
vision changes, it's probably time to come in and see
one of us.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
For the mostly senior audience of mine I have here,
how often do we need to get our eyes examined
beyond say sixty sixty five.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
So the recommendation from both the Optimetric Association and the
Association of Ophthalmologists is once a year, even if we're
not having any vision problems, no pain, no symptoms, once
a year gives us a chance to sort of check in,
make sure everything's healthy and prevent problems before they start.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
If we're going to someone new, I haven't seen this
doctor before. They don't know us, We don't know them.
They don't have a chart that we brought with us
for some reason. Is there anything specific we should request
at sixty five plus during that routine exam?

Speaker 3 (23:17):
So a comprehensive exam with an optometrist or an ophthalmologist
is going to involve us checking the eye from front
to back. So we're going to check the house of
the eye, We're going to check pressure, and then from there,
if there are any other tests that we need to run,
any scans that we need to run, we can kind
of decide from there based on what the doctor is

(23:37):
seeing at that time. I would say, if you're seeing
someone new and you've had any kind of scans or
any kind of special tests done at whatever previous office
that you've been to, it wouldn't be a bad idea
to get those records and bring them with you because
often what we're looking for is some kind of change
throughout the years. So if you have that great information from.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yeah, exactly it was like this, like this, like this.
Now it's like that. That's that's a red slagre. Is
it more important, doctor Stephanie handle here on fifty plus
by the way, is it more important or about the
same importance for older people to protect their eyes from
the sun?

Speaker 3 (24:18):
You know, I would say it's important for everybody to
protect their eyes from the sun. We're getting We're getting
lots of UV light from the sun U V a
uv B that can cause it can cause the normal
age related changes like cataract formation to accelerate. But also
getting too much of that UV light we know is

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associated with certain cancers, both on the eye, on the eyelids,
and even inside the eye. So having a good pair
of UV protective glasses whenever we're in the sun it
is going to be really, really helpful. That's a huge
recommendation for anyone any age.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Good call. Yes, what's your opinion on multifocal lenses in contexts?

Speaker 3 (25:00):
I think they work really well for some patients and
other patients there are maybe some other options that are
a little bit better for them, but really you only
know if you try. So if that's something that you
think you might be interested in doing, come on in.
Let's give you a try, and let's see if we
can find you something that makes you feel comfortable with
your vision. Everywhere.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
My eye doctor is a golfer, as am I, and
every time I go in he says, so what do
you want to do with your vision here? We may
may need to make a little change. Just let me
see the ball way out there. I've got forty pairs
of reading glasses. It doesn't matter, yea in every room.
Back to eye health, and we've only got about a
minute or so. Is it possible to eat enough carrots

(25:40):
to improve your vision? Or is it that just a myth?
And if if there's something we can do to improve it,
what do we do?

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Sos are a good idea, just getting your body some
healthy nutrition, exercise that's appropriate for your age and your health.
And there actually is an ingredient in car greening, the
vitamin and carrots that helps our vision. But I would say,
just keep up with your routine I exam, keep your
body as healthy as you can, and give your optometist

(26:11):
or your optimologist, your I care provider a chance to
help them start and spot problems before they become a problem.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
I don't want this to be the first interview ever
where we didn't say and get some exercise. So there
I'll say it for you. Why not, doctor Stephanie handled,
thank you so very much for your time. Again, I
really do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Teg thank you for having me my pleasure.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
All right, Yes, boy, we gotta take Yeah, I couldn't.
I couldn't resist that exercise thing. I'm glad, she laughed.
Country boys are roofing. That's John Eitman and his son Zack,
who is working with him now and hopefully taking a
little bit of a little bit of stuff off John's plate.
He he just burns a candle at both ends every

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single day, running around town trying to find out where
some of these pop up storms have delivered hail and
that has happened in the last week or two, and
where anybody else might have an issue with their roof
or even think they have one, or just wants to
be proactive and get him up there to take a
walk around and see what's going on. A small problem

(27:18):
in a roof often doesn't really show up inside your
house with even some of the heavy rain we've had lately,
because it doesn't have a lot of wind associated with
it doesn't have branches banging off the roof. What you
need to do is get somebody with the qualifications of
John Eitman from Country Boys Roofing up there to make

(27:38):
sure that some little thing won't become a big thing
if we do get a big blow through here. One
of the things I really like about Country Boys too,
and about the way John conducts his business, is that
for any military, any teachers, any first responders, he offers
a fifteen hundred dollars discount on a complete roof. And
even if you're not in one of those groups, even

(28:00):
if he said just tell them, tell them, I'll give
them a thousand dollars off just for mentioning your name.
That's a pretty good deal on a roof, and he's
got some of the most reasonable prices. He's also got
a financing option available now which has just come just
come available, and I'm glad he's got that, because not
everybody can afford to shell out all that money for
a new roof, especially if insurance isn't gonna pay for it.

(28:23):
Country Boys Roofing Country with a K, Boys with a Z.
For you gen z Ers and millennials, if you're a
boomer like me. Just spell it the way you would
have always spelled Countryboys Roofing dot Com and it'll take
you right to the same site, Countryboysroofing dot Com.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Old guy's rule. And of course, women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
I think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Fifty plus continues here's more with Doug co.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
To fifty plus Hugain time one, two, three, four, yeah,
four segment right now. And I do have some things
I really want to unpack. And then if we have
a little time later, I'll get all lighten up the
mood a bit, a touch a smidge in Let's go
here First. In Whitey Baby News, a potential Vanity Fair

(29:22):
cover that would feature First Lady Milania Trump is being
reconsidered by its editorial team over fear that as many
as half of its editorial staff would walk away from
their jobs if she appears on that cover. Really, good riddance.

(29:46):
You're publishing a magazine, nothing else. You're not curing disease,
you're not solving the world's problems. It's just a magazine
that's a long standing when it's been a around a while.
But It's nothing more important than that. And to those
who would walk, I can guarantee you they are each

(30:08):
and every one of them replaceable. Get over yourselves, Get
off your high horses. This woman's done more than those
assistant editors and copywriters and illustrators have done collectively in
their entire lives. Leave a good paying job just because
you don't like one cover of one issue of a magazine.

(30:30):
That's pretty short sighted. That's pretty short sighted.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
But bye.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
This just in from California too. Right as I was
buttoning up and getting ready to come in here, and
with very little room left on the page, I could
have kept typing. It doesn't matter out of California, according
to a release I just saw right before the show,
and I did double check. I took the time because
I felt comfortable with the source that I saw this

(30:59):
at at which I saw this to be correct. I
felt comfortable with it. But then again, I wanted to
make sure that there was other stuff backing it up
on the internet, and indeed there was. There were several
mentions of what I'm about to tell you, and it
just tells you how far lost I believe California is

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now with its policies and practices. According to that release,
girls in California are required now in there was a
California Department of Education document on there somewhere as well.
The girls are required to fill out a form that

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says they have a mental health issue if they don't
want to share a restroom or a locker room with boys.
The girls have to say there's something wrong with them
if they don't want to share a locker room with boys.

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That's what it said, and that is we we're turned
inside out. We got a long ways to go, got
a long ways to go to fix these issues we're
having here. Remember jim Psaki, who anyway, you know who
she was. She's the woman who wants the spokeswoman for

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President Biden. She attacked Prayer in the wake of that
horrific shooting in Minnesota yesterday. I'll just quote what she said.
And they always have to work in since they can't
say cuss words on the air, they find the softer
side of those, just to you know, just for emphasis,

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to make sure that everybody knows they're really really serious
about this. Jim Psaki, here's the quote, and I quote,
Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayer does not in school shootings.
Prayer does not make parents feel safe sending their kids
to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back enough

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with the thoughts and prayers end quote. People who have
no faith can't be expected to understand prayer in its purpose.
But to criticize something about which you know nothing only
highlights your own ignorance. Really, jen you know what else

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won't stop this stricter gun laws, and you don't have
to look far to figure that out. Chicago has some
of the strictest gun laws in this entire country, indeed
in the world, and also has one of the highest
murder rates by firearm. So no, that's not what it
is and worth noting, by the way, several recent mass

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shooters have deliberately researched their targets to make sure they
were soft, meaning there were no armed guards, law enforcement
people on campus stop them. That's no accident, and that's
something in this new era in which we find ourselves
needs to be addressed. I've heard parents of schools where

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they have arm protection interviewed, and every one of them
has said, it really does make me feel safer that
someone who is trained in the use of a firearm
be it law enforcement or teachers perhaps or whatever. At
least they know that the average lunatic would be gunman
is more likely to just no, I'm not going there.

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I'll never get anything done there. They'll just go somewhere
else to create chaos and tragedy. And we also need
to definitely need to address mental health a little more
directly and perhaps look at some of the confusion we're
piling onto adolescents about who they are and where they
fit in society, which in some cases honestly leads to
some not to some u for gettiness for these kids,

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but even more confusion long term greater potential they may
slip into an increasingly dark place. And it just it
bothers me. It really does that that some of this
still goes on, Some of this still goes on. Quick
sidebar by the way, related to this story, because I've
only got about a minute left seeing in mouthpiece, Evan
Perez still has his foot in that same mouth Uh.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
He said on the.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Air that semi automatic guns can shoot dozens of bullets
in just one trigger pull. Nobody fat checks these people anymore.
I guess maybe the acronym stands for consistently not news.
I thought of that a little while ago. Factually incorrect
as usual. So no, I got a couple of more
things I'll bring out tomorrow on the way to the end.

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H gosh, which one of these?

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Here's one for the Labor Day barbecue. Will you good?
You have barbecue plans thumbs up, thumbs down, outdoor plans
at all, gathering not even the thumbs up for gathering.
I don't either. I don't blame you, just chill. Nike's
just do it slogan is based on a murderer's last words.

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That's kind of creepy. I see them on Thanks for listening,
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