June 5, 2025 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Carman Whiting about kidney health and keeping them in tip-top shape.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go, Welcome back yet again to fifty plus, where
you know every day is a blessing in some way,
shape or form. And by the way, Alejandro has taken
a range today from Will Melbourne, who took the day
off to celebrate his birthday. You know, allhandro It's a
shame that Will can't be here because we had planned
(01:04):
to take him out for a really nice lunch at
that super expensive restaurant down the street. Right he just
walked out on us.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, he's gonna miss that, unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's a shame, it really is. I was looking forward
to doing that finest restaurant in town I've heard, But yeah,
what do you think maybe next year.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, yes, yea, if he shows up.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, yeah, you know he's got to do show up.
We were ready, my pockets loaded full of money. I
was just gonna throw it around and have a great time.
And not on dancers either. That's not the kind of
place we were going to take him. So anyway, with
all the wonky stuff happening around the country just now,
I thought i'd maybe lead with some good news, And
what I'm about to tell you is actually great news
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on a number of levels that long last. In this country.
We are far enough removed from I don't know one
hundred generations of cigarette smokers in this country that the
numbers of them, both in our country and over in
the UK are among the lowest ever. We've got a
generation or two who grew up without cigarette smoking parents.
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Both of my parents smoked. My mother quit somewhere when
I was a young child, I can't remember exactly when,
but my father, my father smoked two packs a day
or more of Lucky Strike cigarettes. They're unfiltered, still are
and always have been, and that took him out at
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sixty five. His heart just couldn't take anymore and he
died way too young, especially looking at it through the
eyes of someone who's already outlived him by several years.
And I regret that deeply that he wasn't able to
knock that habit off, but he just didn't grow up
in the era that knew better. I saw a statistic
the other day too, another very promising one from the
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same line, that the number of high schoolers who are
smoking regularly now is down to something like one and
a half percent. And that's also good news, because I
can assure you, in my high school it was higher
than that. When you were in high school, or Alejandro
two weeks ago, it seemed you look so young, so jealous.
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When you were in high school, were there a lot
of kids who smoked or No.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Not handful, But it wasn't It wasn't that common.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah. Did the school have a designated area where they
could go do it?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Oh? Of course not.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, see that, And that's the same way I grew up.
There wasn't any place people tried to do it. They
do it in the bathroom, they do it out behind
the handball courts, and just they found their places. But
it was I guarantee it was more than one and
a half percent. I don't know what it was. I
don't think it was ten percent. I don't think high
school smokers are that common, or even when I was younger,
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I don't think there were that many of them. But
they were there, no question about it. So anyway, Oh,
and by the way, in defense cigars, by the way,
from a health risk standpoint, I've done the research. They're
quite different from cigarettes actually, and not nearly such a
threat because of the way they're made, because of the
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the lack of extra things that go into them to
make them as bad as cigarette could make them as
bad as cigarette. So if you enjoy a fine cigar,
by all means, please do. And that I'm speaking because
I've learned that from my own research and from that
of a man named Manny Lopez who owns and operates
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El Cubanos Cigars down in Texas City. It's one of
the only I think there are four dozen cigar manufacturing
places in the entire United States, and his down there
in Texas City is one of them. So moving on
from there from the sign here desk and stepping into
a little mud. Actually, Congress has called in quite a
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few people who were in charge of President Biden's auto
pen toward the end of his presidency, and they have
been asked to testify about exactly who did what when,
and whether or not it was actually the president who
instructed them directly to auto sign hundreds and hundreds of
pardons and executive orders on his way out the door
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between late early January and late or excuse me, early
November the election and late January the inauguration. And for
what I've seen, for what I've heard some of these
whistleblowers that have come forward or are saying that it
wouldn't as nearly so up and up as people might think.
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And the question for me is, if they do get
into this thing and they do uncover stuff, how will
will we be Will Congress be willing to go forward
and potentially press charges against the people, whoever they might be,
who flat out did this country wrong and broke the
law by putting the President's name on all those documents
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without his express knowledge and personal instruction, which is what
the rules say the auto pen is for. If anybody
else told them to go ahead and sign this, and
go ahead and sign that, I can guarantee you they're
going to roll over rather than face the charges all
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alone and sing a big song about who told them
to do it, and I'll be curious to see where
it lands after that.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I have.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Zero faith in thinking that all of this was done
one hundred percent with President Biden's blessing, and that he
knew exactly what all of those signatures were being used
to give his approval. He was not in any condition
to do that. Everybody knows it now. There's so much
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information coming forward. It'll be well. I just hope they
get it right, and I truly do all right, we
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Speaker 1 (08:41):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. All right,
welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening to do
appreciate it. You know I do always a pleasure to
know you're out there. We'll talk in this segment about
a vital organ in our bodies, a pair of them actually,
that are in charge of filtering your what I guess
kind of like your AC filter pulls all the dust
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and dirt out of the air. And to tell us
more about our kidneys, I'm going to bring in doctor
Carmen Whiting, a board certified physician and Assistant professor for
the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Mcgovernment Medical School.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Welcome aboard, doctor Whiteing.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Thank you. I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I'm glad to have you because I have no idea
what I'd be talking about. It was so set the stage.
I read this morning that our kidneys filter about fifty
gallons of fluid a day, maybe two courts of which
goes out as urine and then recycle the rest. Is
that right?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
That is absolutely correct. Our kidneys serve very critical functioning
in part to eliminate ways but also to hold onto
those vital and essential new trends our body needs.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
They sort of hum along without issue for decades and
then the next day there's a problem. What are the
early signs that would indicate something's wrong with our kidneys.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You know. Interestingly, most patients or most people have no
no signs or symptoms early on. That's why it's important
to see your physician to have these labs, these critical
UH labs checked, so we can keep an eye on
the kidney function over time. It's typically not until the
kidney function has significantly declined that people tend to have symptoms.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Would it be like sort of like a PSA test
for men, where as long as you establish a baseline
and then if it strays off the baseline, that's when
you get alerted.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yes, that's certainly a very good way of looking at it.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Okay for the guys anyway, Yeah, so far, so good.
Not go home with me. Are there any segments of
the population, doctor, who are at higher risk than the
rest of us?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yes, there are, critically UH those people who are of
African American descent, Asian Americans and Native Americans tend to
have a greater incidence of chronic kidney disease.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
That's not fair, It is not.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Deserve right, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
What about genetics? Is there anything genetically that increases risk?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Yes, a family history of chronic kidney disease is a
very important risk factor, and that's why it's important to
have these conversations and families. When kidney function declines, you
know what's happening with the kidneys.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Doctor crumbin Whiting on fifty plus here how common is
kidney disease?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
There are about thirty million Americans who suffer from chronic
kidney disease, but sadly, only about ten to twenty percent
of people know they even have a loss of their
kidney function. This is something in the medical community. We're
trying to decrease that gap.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Well, if there aren't really outward symptoms, then the decrease
in that gap is going to have to come from
some sort of advanced test, right.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Indeed, they are very simple blood and urine tests that
are done routinely when you see your doctor for your
wellness visits, and those of you who suffer from chronic
diseases often have these labs done more and more frequently.
So these are opportunities to have conversations with your doctor
about what's going on with your kidney function.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Is this something that a primary care physician would routinely
check for in a blood panel, or is this something
we need to ask for.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Generally speaking, we check these things routinely during office visit.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Okay, good, I'm glad to know that, really because I
have to I give it feels like about a quarter
of blood when I go in there to get up.
Is that for me at my age? But that's good
to know. Do our kidneys weaken or develop disease with age?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yes, as we age, we do lose some kidney function.
That's just sort of naturally occurring, just like you know,
everything else kind of weirds out as we age. Yes,
I kidneys have a function. I have a tendency to
also uh decrease as we age. However, there are things
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you can do to help preserve and protect your kidney.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Function, which would be we need to know, help please.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Some of which is maintaining a healthy lifestyle, not smoking,
maintaining adequate hydration, avoiding over use of over the counter
pain medications such as anti inflammatory medications. These would include
I'd be profen a leave and those like it. To
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limit our use to only as necessary. Prolonged and daily
use can definitely weaken our kidney function over time. Uh,
Trying to maintain a healthy weight, good diet, and exercise
and if you are in one of those categories where
you're a greater risk, making sure those things are managed
appropriately raised you can't do anything about. However, if you
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have high blood pressure or diabetes, making sure those things
are very well managed will help protect and preserve your
kidney function.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I saw also that trauma like a blunt for something
like maybe a wreck, or you find yourself in a
fight with somebody who kidney punches you, that can cause
problems too.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Right, Absolutely, trauma can definitely injure your kidneys, So stay
out of fights if at all possible.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
That's such a good tip, boys, right there. Only the
doctor would know about that. At my age, I'm not
winning any fist fights, I can guarantee you indeed. So
how capable then, is a healthy kidney to repair itself
after something like that, not from disease, but just a
big bruise.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
You know? The good news is that we have to
and it's very very unlikely we're going to injure both
in a fight, we hope.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Oh my gos, you've already lost, so.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
We believe you know, the kidneys can recover after an
acute injury. But what's important to note, though, is that
if you've ever had any kind of insult to your
kidney that your risk for developing chronic kidney disease does
go up over time. So it's very important to continue
to monitor your kidney function even after they've recovered.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So good, diet, good, all of that. And then for
people who who actually do develop kidney disease, how effective
are the current treatments and medications.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Over the years, we have some very good medications have
been developed to help preserve and protect kidney function, some
of which are, you know, blood pressure medications that improve
blood flow to the kidney's help improve kidney function or
at least prevent progression to advanced disease. And there are
some very new drugs on the market that work very
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very well to do that. So seeing your doctor and
learning more about these or even asking questions about these
medications is really important.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I saw something this morning when I was reading and
researching about kidney transplants and what I'd learned that I
didn't know. I knew you could, I knew it could
be done. I've heard of all that, but I didn't
realize that they can come from even deceased patients, as
like an organ donor person can put that on the list, right.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Yes, that is correct. So patients who have in stage
A rental disease, those that are on dialysis are eligible
depending on if they meet a certain criteria for kidney transplant.
And oftentimes we get those from people who've unfortunately had
a major accident, are an imminent death. We are able
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to harvest those the kidneys from those patients. You know,
also there are living donor programs. Because we have two kidneys,
some patients can receive a kidney from a living donor.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
What's the risk to the living donor losing one?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
You know, the risk is very low. We do very
well with just the one kidney.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, then you really don't want to get in this
fight exactly.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
You really don't want to get punched in the kidneys don't.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Have a backup anymore, exactly. And that's gracious. So Doctor
Carmon White, thanks so very much for your time. Really,
what have I missed? What's the take home message? The
one thing that people need to know about their kidneys?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
I would have to say probably the thing I would
say to people that they should one see your doctor
annually for your well business. It's important to check to
drink a lot of fluids, keep water, intake healthy. Sixty
four ounces the day is what we need to do.
And then if you have any risk factors for kidney disease,
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try to maintain the best control you can of your
blood pressure, diabetes, and please talk to your family about
your medical history. That's one of the most important things
we can do so that we can screen people when
they need to be screened.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Okay, follow up, because we got about thirty seconds. So
you mentioned how important it is to drink liquids. That
opened a big door for some of my audience. I
suspect is what is a good liquid and what's a
bad liquid.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I would suggest water for most things. Obviously, if you're
a person who exercises a lot, you may need to
replace your electrolytes. So a good low sugar, low sodium
sports drink will also be good. But sixty four ounces
of water a day for most people is what we need.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I gotta go drink some water. Indeed, yeah, some people
around here. You know, it's the women who are better
at it than the men in this office too. I'm
telling you straight up, I'm not gonna lie. I have
one guy who just fills a jug and drinks it
every day, but the rest of us a little bit
more coffee and stuff like that. Doc.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, justin just an easy tip. If you drink one
sixteen ounce bottle of water which each meal, and one
extra one, you got your sixty four ounces a day.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Okay, I can. Yeah, I could do that. I'm going
to start today too, I promise you. I am. I'm trying.
I've lived this long. I'm not gonna let age trick
me with something else than can talk.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
All right, thank you so much, uh huh.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
By bye bye, all right, we gotta take a little
break here. That that was good information actually, and I
know as soon as she says liquids, everybody's thinking, Okay, yeah,
I can drink sixty four ounces of beer in a day.
I do it all the time, family family cookout. Sixty
four What is twelve? That'd be what seven? No, that'd
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Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
As all ways, I do appreciate it, you know, I do.
You know I do. I have got several things to
get to here, and then Alejandro and I are going
to do what Will and I would normally do when
it's not Will's birthday. He just arbitraged. Do you take
a day off when you have a birthday?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Al Hundre, Well, this year, I didn't work that day,
so I don't think I ever have.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I haven't either. It's more fun to come into the office.
Everybody pat you on the back tells you how old
you look all that stuff. You haven't gotten to that
stage yet. Anybody who's older than you will tell you
look old. People who are younger than you will probably
tell you at some point in your life that, hey,
you look pretty good for your age. I'm hoping to
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keep that part alive. We'll see how it works out.
From the roundup desk. By way of MSN, I just
continues to arrest illegal immigrants around the country, and in
a recent roundup of about two thousand people unlawfully here,
one of them a suspected OLC A member, And by
suspected that means they have a pretty darn good idea
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that that's where this guy is. My gut tells me
he's not the only one either, And as the round
up continues around the country and more enemies of our
nation are nabbed and sent packing, my concern is that
the ones who've eluded ICE so far are gonna ramp up,
are gonna expedite any bad, sinister, horrible plans they've got.
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I hope I'm wrong, and I'm glad we've got the
the technology to find most of these people before they
can act on stuff. That guy was a guy rested
the other day for I don't remember exactly how it
turned out that they went and searched his place, but
it was full of weapons. There was a fully automatic
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machine gun in there, some rather disturbing stuff. Just yeah,
this guy was a bad guy, and he's he's off
the streets now, thank goodness. It's really foolish for anybody
to think that there are thousands, well not to think it,
but to dismiss the fact that there are thousands of
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truly evil people here now who weren't here four years ago.
So many towards the end of the Biden administration, the
numbers that was overwhelming the border basically, and everybody knows it.
And so many of these people were young fighting age men,
soldier age men traveling by themselves. They weren't I would
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be willing to bet anything that they were not coming
over here to just see the world, to make a
better life for themselves, and not bring their families. These
were young men of fighting age, and they got in
here by the tens of thousands. It's kind of scary, really,
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a lot of them from countries that absolutely despise the
United States of America, by the way, and everything it
stands for. How people can continue to interfere with ICE's
efforts to do its job. It's just it's beyond me.
Out in San Diego, this big old mob, a liberal people,
forced ICE agents to abandon a roundup of bad guys
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and the people we don't know anything about nothing. I'll
never understand that US citizens supporting the bad guys when that, yeah,
it's makes no sense. It makes no sense whatsoever. One
of these guys in that crowd, I was listening to
the audio of it, and he was calling the ICE
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agents cowards. He's very sadly mistaken. It's it's time that
ICE was given the authority, I think, to arrest and
charge people for interference in their missions. Just take them,
take them down, cuff them up, and haul them to jail.
These guys, were they that this mob was big eno
If there were only about a dozen ICE agents on
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the ground, a couple of vans, maybe three vans, I
don't know, But there were so many of these people
who thought that the ICE agents were in the wrong
that they just opted to not do anything. They had
to get out of there. It's deserved. It's disturbing that
that people still think that way. Where are we on time?
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Let me see here? Oh, just a couple of minutes.
That's all we have, is that right?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
That's what I got?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Okay, well, in a couple of minutes. And let's let's
let you have a little fun. You get to choose
from Frankly, my dear, which is a do you know
where that movie quote comes from? And the rest of it?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Yeah, gone with the wind? Right, Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Frankly, my dear, tragically misguided or turned the key.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I don't know what turned the key means. So let's
let's do that.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Try that one. Do you like your door when you're
just popping out for a quick errand?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Only twenty five percent of Americans say they always lock
their door when they leave the house. That's alarmingly low.
But then again, I've lived where I live for a
long time. I feel comfortable and confident that there probably
wouldn't be a problem in my neighborhood out there in
sugar Land. But then again, twenty years ago it was
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I think, when someone broke into a neighbor's house down
the street, and then into a second neighbor's house over
the fence from there, and one of them was home
when it happened, and fortunately scared the guys off. But yeah,
we lock it up every time we leave, and I
can't imagine not doing that. It makes no sense. Twenty
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five percent of Americans say they always do. That's all.
Some of us have said here, lock up, no matter
how long we're going to be gone, And seven percent
said they locked their door even to go check the mail.
I guess, presuming the box is at the curve. Yeah,
if I'm walking to the curb and back. No, if
I'm walking now where I am, we have one of
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those little neighborhood mailbox things, and I'm walking one hundred
yards probably one hundred and twenty yards maybe to the
mailbox and would actually lose sight of my home briefly.
And yeah, I'm locking up if I'm doing that. If
I can't see the house, I'm locking up. If I
can see it, I'm still okay. I think that makes.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Sense, Alejandro, I can agree with that.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Okay, well, look at that. We agree. That's something will
hardly ever does with me. I feel very vindicated here already.
How much time do I have now? None?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Pretty much?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, okay, Well let's get out of here, then, Elate
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grateful that they do that because I've been able to
help a lot of you. They get quite a few
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and you're over about sixty, you probably know what I'm
talking about. What they do is they go in there
and they identify the artery that's supplying the blood to
the prostate, and then they plug it up. They shut
it down. I don't know what they use. I've never
really asked doctor Doe, and I don't really care. I
would assume that it's not Plato or sand or silly Putty,
(29:45):
but I don't know that. All I know is it
takes care of the problem. Same with fibroids for women,
same with ugly veins for anybody who's got them, same
with some head pains. Been doing this for quite some time,
and he's very good at what he does, along with
so many other procedures. By the way, I had him
on for a live interview recently and we talked at
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Old Guy's rule. And of course, women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Okay, well, if you think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. All Right, welcome
back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
Got Alejandro in here. Will's off somewhere.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Having the time of his life. I'm sure, celebrating his birthday.
You know, we probably shouldn't tell Will about the dinner
we had planned for him, the lunch at that very
expensive restaurant. I was man, I was prepared to just
open my wallet for him. I was ready. And he
didn't show up today. So maybe next year, Alejandro, Maybe
(31:30):
next year.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Do you think he's listening.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
No, no, there is not a chance. There is not
a chance. And if he is, he can call in,
and if he begs on air, then maybe we could.
Maybe we could take him to lunch. But the big
restaurant's off the table. Now, I'll just go take him
next door and buy him a turkey sandwich. All right,
I'm gonna let you have a little more fun here.
(31:54):
And these these are actually from I think it was
yesterday or maybe the day before. I'm not sure. Long
lost sounds long but not forgotten or I don't like
that one. Just one of those two long lost sounds
are long gone, but not forgotten.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I'll take the long lost sounds.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
People thirty and older, you can't even play this time,
can you, Alejandro? People thirty and older are listing sounds
from their childhoods. Maybe be thinking of one of these
that younger generations, people who are being born now won't
ever hear. And from my generation the sound of a
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floppy disk being read? Do you not even know what
that is?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I know what that is?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Oh okay, yeah, the che chunk of a manual credit
mark card machine. You don't know what that is? Do
you know a manual credit card machine used to be
the numbers on your credit card were raised, they were embossed,
and there was a machine You put the card on
there and a little there were four little holders at
each corner to get it to stay where it stay put.
(33:03):
And then you put a piece of a receipt, if
you will. That was like four layers that had carbon
paper in between them all, and then you ran this
heavy roller back and forth across it, and that would
imprint the numbers and the important information from the card
onto that that paper. Those are gone, thank God too.
(33:25):
They were nothing. And it says here the clink of
metal seat belt buckles. I kind of remember that, but
it's I've been wearing seat belts so long. I remember
there were no seat belt sounds because there were no
seat belts when we made trips across the country, no
seat belts.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
I definitely didn't see.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
No oh no oh, crawl up in the back window
on it, Like if you were traveling when it was
cold and you were the little kid, you could just
crawl up in the back window and get the sunshine
through your through the through the rear window. Different world.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Man.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah, it sounds barbaric, doesn't it? Like how did you survive?
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Now?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Not all of us did? Yeah, it was it was. Okay,
let's get you another one here, and then I might
do I might do one more of my thing. I'll
do a UFO thing after this. Though, we're gonna go
with who watches these just in time or sign of
the times?
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I'll say who watches these?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
For fifty Alex, a twenty one year old TikToker in
New York, got arrested after a string of videos that
showed him going around to stores and dumping big buckets
of food on his head. It says, here are things
like black beans and a huge bucket of eggs. Who
(34:45):
watches that?
Speaker 4 (34:46):
People?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
This has got to be your generation.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I really not anybody I know, not you.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
No, no, no, you all have respectable iques, but a
whole lot of people don't. And anybody who would who
would turn somebody like that into an influencer into a
must see on TikTok? And by the way, I've talked
about this in China, the people on TikTok don't see
(35:12):
any of this stupid stuff we do, none of it.
They don't see any of it because their government deletes
all that stuff. It's only outside of China where TikTok
is what we see over here. And that's that ought
to tell us a lot right there from the what
(35:33):
was the other one I was gonna do for you?
Oh sign of the times, real quick red light cameras.
You all know what those were, and there weren't popular
at all, and they're gone around here at least now
there's some startup company that wants to add solar powered
stop signs, solar powered stop sign cameras at every intersection
with a stop sign, Gonna use AI to process the
(35:56):
infractions in real time. Law enforcement reviews of videos send
you a citation says pay up, and they split the
revenue with the city. How greatly opposed are you to that,
Please say super opposed.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I am super opposed.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
That's just ridiculous. I mean, just let us live our lives.
I mean, I understand what stop signs are for, and
I understand that if you run one, you've done something
that's against the law. But we don't need we don't
need the AI police. By the way, there's a group
that claims that AI is actually God and that before
long we're gonna have AI running the show and having
(36:36):
revivals and sermons and all of that. Well, guess what
AI is programmed by people. And anybody who thinks that
AI is God is forgetting that one little fact. They're
just nuts. The world's just going to hell in a handbasket,
Alejandro said, this old person over across the console from you.
(36:57):
Now we're gonna be okay. We have smart people coming up,
black will like Alejandro, good kids, good young people, to
keep this country going where we've got to go. Are
we out of time?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yet?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Certainly we are? Oh ten seconds, I can do that.
Thank you Alejandro for coming in here. I greatly appreciate that.
And the donut. I might eat one more if it's
okay with you. I'm out tomorrow, but I hope you'll
still listen. There's a good show set up, audios,
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go, Welcome back yet again to fifty plus, where
you know every day is a blessing in some way,
shape or form. And by the way, Alejandro has taken
a range today from Will Melbourne, who took the day
off to celebrate his birthday. You know, allhandro It's a
shame that Will can't be here because we had planned
(01:04):
to take him out for a really nice lunch at
that super expensive restaurant down the street. Right he just
walked out on us.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, he's gonna miss that, unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's a shame, it really is. I was looking forward
to doing that finest restaurant in town I've heard, But yeah,
what do you think maybe next year.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, yes, yea, if he shows up.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, yeah, you know he's got to do show up.
We were ready, my pockets loaded full of money. I
was just gonna throw it around and have a great time.
And not on dancers either. That's not the kind of
place we were going to take him. So anyway, with
all the wonky stuff happening around the country just now,
I thought i'd maybe lead with some good news, And
what I'm about to tell you is actually great news
(01:43):
on a number of levels that long last. In this country.
We are far enough removed from I don't know one
hundred generations of cigarette smokers in this country that the
numbers of them, both in our country and over in
the UK are among the lowest ever. We've got a
generation or two who grew up without cigarette smoking parents.
(02:08):
Both of my parents smoked. My mother quit somewhere when
I was a young child, I can't remember exactly when,
but my father, my father smoked two packs a day
or more of Lucky Strike cigarettes. They're unfiltered, still are
and always have been, and that took him out at
(02:29):
sixty five. His heart just couldn't take anymore and he
died way too young, especially looking at it through the
eyes of someone who's already outlived him by several years.
And I regret that deeply that he wasn't able to
knock that habit off, but he just didn't grow up
in the era that knew better. I saw a statistic
the other day too, another very promising one from the
(02:52):
same line, that the number of high schoolers who are
smoking regularly now is down to something like one and
a half percent. And that's also good news, because I
can assure you, in my high school it was higher
than that. When you were in high school, or Alejandro
two weeks ago, it seemed you look so young, so jealous.
(03:18):
When you were in high school, were there a lot
of kids who smoked or No.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Not handful, But it wasn't It wasn't that common.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah. Did the school have a designated area where they
could go do it?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Oh? Of course not.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, see that, And that's the same way I grew up.
There wasn't any place people tried to do it. They
do it in the bathroom, they do it out behind
the handball courts, and just they found their places. But
it was I guarantee it was more than one and
a half percent. I don't know what it was. I
don't think it was ten percent. I don't think high
school smokers are that common, or even when I was younger,
(03:52):
I don't think there were that many of them. But
they were there, no question about it. So anyway, Oh,
and by the way, in defense cigars, by the way,
from a health risk standpoint, I've done the research. They're
quite different from cigarettes actually, and not nearly such a
threat because of the way they're made, because of the
(04:12):
the lack of extra things that go into them to
make them as bad as cigarette could make them as
bad as cigarette. So if you enjoy a fine cigar,
by all means, please do. And that I'm speaking because
I've learned that from my own research and from that
of a man named Manny Lopez who owns and operates
(04:33):
El Cubanos Cigars down in Texas City. It's one of
the only I think there are four dozen cigar manufacturing
places in the entire United States, and his down there
in Texas City is one of them. So moving on
from there from the sign here desk and stepping into
a little mud. Actually, Congress has called in quite a
(04:55):
few people who were in charge of President Biden's auto
pen toward the end of his presidency, and they have
been asked to testify about exactly who did what when,
and whether or not it was actually the president who
instructed them directly to auto sign hundreds and hundreds of
pardons and executive orders on his way out the door
(05:18):
between late early January and late or excuse me, early
November the election and late January the inauguration. And for
what I've seen, for what I've heard some of these
whistleblowers that have come forward or are saying that it
wouldn't as nearly so up and up as people might think.
(05:41):
And the question for me is, if they do get
into this thing and they do uncover stuff, how will
will we be Will Congress be willing to go forward
and potentially press charges against the people, whoever they might be,
who flat out did this country wrong and broke the
law by putting the President's name on all those documents
(06:04):
without his express knowledge and personal instruction, which is what
the rules say the auto pen is for. If anybody
else told them to go ahead and sign this, and
go ahead and sign that, I can guarantee you they're
going to roll over rather than face the charges all
(06:24):
alone and sing a big song about who told them
to do it, and I'll be curious to see where
it lands after that.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I have.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Zero faith in thinking that all of this was done
one hundred percent with President Biden's blessing, and that he
knew exactly what all of those signatures were being used
to give his approval. He was not in any condition
to do that. Everybody knows it now. There's so much
(06:55):
information coming forward. It'll be well. I just hope they
get it right, and I truly do all right, we
got to take a little break here on the way out.
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Speaker 1 (08:41):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. All right,
welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening to do
appreciate it. You know I do always a pleasure to
know you're out there. We'll talk in this segment about
a vital organ in our bodies, a pair of them actually,
that are in charge of filtering your what I guess
kind of like your AC filter pulls all the dust
(09:03):
and dirt out of the air. And to tell us
more about our kidneys, I'm going to bring in doctor
Carmen Whiting, a board certified physician and Assistant professor for
the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Mcgovernment Medical School.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Welcome aboard, doctor Whiteing.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Thank you. I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I'm glad to have you because I have no idea
what I'd be talking about. It was so set the stage.
I read this morning that our kidneys filter about fifty
gallons of fluid a day, maybe two courts of which
goes out as urine and then recycle the rest. Is
that right?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
That is absolutely correct. Our kidneys serve very critical functioning
in part to eliminate ways but also to hold onto
those vital and essential new trends our body needs.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
They sort of hum along without issue for decades and
then the next day there's a problem. What are the
early signs that would indicate something's wrong with our kidneys.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You know. Interestingly, most patients or most people have no
no signs or symptoms early on. That's why it's important
to see your physician to have these labs, these critical
UH labs checked, so we can keep an eye on
the kidney function over time. It's typically not until the
kidney function has significantly declined that people tend to have symptoms.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Would it be like sort of like a PSA test
for men, where as long as you establish a baseline
and then if it strays off the baseline, that's when
you get alerted.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yes, that's certainly a very good way of looking at it.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Okay for the guys anyway, Yeah, so far, so good.
Not go home with me. Are there any segments of
the population, doctor, who are at higher risk than the
rest of us?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yes, there are, critically UH those people who are of
African American descent, Asian Americans and Native Americans tend to
have a greater incidence of chronic kidney disease.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
That's not fair, It is not.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Deserve right, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
What about genetics? Is there anything genetically that increases risk?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Yes, a family history of chronic kidney disease is a
very important risk factor, and that's why it's important to
have these conversations and families. When kidney function declines, you
know what's happening with the kidneys.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Doctor crumbin Whiting on fifty plus here how common is
kidney disease?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
There are about thirty million Americans who suffer from chronic
kidney disease, but sadly, only about ten to twenty percent
of people know they even have a loss of their
kidney function. This is something in the medical community. We're
trying to decrease that gap.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Well, if there aren't really outward symptoms, then the decrease
in that gap is going to have to come from
some sort of advanced test, right.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Indeed, they are very simple blood and urine tests that
are done routinely when you see your doctor for your
wellness visits, and those of you who suffer from chronic
diseases often have these labs done more and more frequently.
So these are opportunities to have conversations with your doctor
about what's going on with your kidney function.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Is this something that a primary care physician would routinely
check for in a blood panel, or is this something
we need to ask for.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Generally speaking, we check these things routinely during office visit.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Okay, good, I'm glad to know that, really because I
have to I give it feels like about a quarter
of blood when I go in there to get up.
Is that for me at my age? But that's good
to know. Do our kidneys weaken or develop disease with age?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yes, as we age, we do lose some kidney function.
That's just sort of naturally occurring, just like you know,
everything else kind of weirds out as we age. Yes,
I kidneys have a function. I have a tendency to
also uh decrease as we age. However, there are things
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you can do to help preserve and protect your kidney.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Function, which would be we need to know, help please.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Some of which is maintaining a healthy lifestyle, not smoking,
maintaining adequate hydration, avoiding over use of over the counter
pain medications such as anti inflammatory medications. These would include
I'd be profen a leave and those like it. To
(13:45):
limit our use to only as necessary. Prolonged and daily
use can definitely weaken our kidney function over time. Uh,
Trying to maintain a healthy weight, good diet, and exercise
and if you are in one of those categories where
you're a greater risk, making sure those things are managed
appropriately raised you can't do anything about. However, if you
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have high blood pressure or diabetes, making sure those things
are very well managed will help protect and preserve your
kidney function.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I saw also that trauma like a blunt for something
like maybe a wreck, or you find yourself in a
fight with somebody who kidney punches you, that can cause
problems too.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Right, Absolutely, trauma can definitely injure your kidneys, So stay
out of fights if at all possible.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
That's such a good tip, boys, right there. Only the
doctor would know about that. At my age, I'm not
winning any fist fights, I can guarantee you indeed. So
how capable then, is a healthy kidney to repair itself
after something like that, not from disease, but just a
big bruise.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
You know? The good news is that we have to
and it's very very unlikely we're going to injure both
in a fight, we hope.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Oh my gos, you've already lost, so.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
We believe you know, the kidneys can recover after an
acute injury. But what's important to note, though, is that
if you've ever had any kind of insult to your
kidney that your risk for developing chronic kidney disease does
go up over time. So it's very important to continue
to monitor your kidney function even after they've recovered.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So good, diet, good, all of that. And then for
people who who actually do develop kidney disease, how effective
are the current treatments and medications.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Over the years, we have some very good medications have
been developed to help preserve and protect kidney function, some
of which are, you know, blood pressure medications that improve
blood flow to the kidney's help improve kidney function or
at least prevent progression to advanced disease. And there are
some very new drugs on the market that work very
(15:59):
very well to do that. So seeing your doctor and
learning more about these or even asking questions about these
medications is really important.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I saw something this morning when I was reading and
researching about kidney transplants and what I'd learned that I
didn't know. I knew you could, I knew it could
be done. I've heard of all that, but I didn't
realize that they can come from even deceased patients, as
like an organ donor person can put that on the list, right.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Yes, that is correct. So patients who have in stage
A rental disease, those that are on dialysis are eligible
depending on if they meet a certain criteria for kidney transplant.
And oftentimes we get those from people who've unfortunately had
a major accident, are an imminent death. We are able
(16:53):
to harvest those the kidneys from those patients. You know,
also there are living donor programs. Because we have two kidneys,
some patients can receive a kidney from a living donor.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
What's the risk to the living donor losing one?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
You know, the risk is very low. We do very
well with just the one kidney.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, then you really don't want to get in this
fight exactly.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
You really don't want to get punched in the kidneys don't.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Have a backup anymore, exactly. And that's gracious. So Doctor
Carmon White, thanks so very much for your time. Really,
what have I missed? What's the take home message? The
one thing that people need to know about their kidneys?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
I would have to say probably the thing I would
say to people that they should one see your doctor
annually for your well business. It's important to check to
drink a lot of fluids, keep water, intake healthy. Sixty
four ounces the day is what we need to do.
And then if you have any risk factors for kidney disease,
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try to maintain the best control you can of your
blood pressure, diabetes, and please talk to your family about
your medical history. That's one of the most important things
we can do so that we can screen people when
they need to be screened.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Okay, follow up, because we got about thirty seconds. So
you mentioned how important it is to drink liquids. That
opened a big door for some of my audience. I
suspect is what is a good liquid and what's a
bad liquid.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I would suggest water for most things. Obviously, if you're
a person who exercises a lot, you may need to
replace your electrolytes. So a good low sugar, low sodium
sports drink will also be good. But sixty four ounces
of water a day for most people is what we need.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I gotta go drink some water. Indeed, yeah, some people
around here. You know, it's the women who are better
at it than the men in this office too. I'm
telling you straight up, I'm not gonna lie. I have
one guy who just fills a jug and drinks it
every day, but the rest of us a little bit
more coffee and stuff like that. Doc.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, justin just an easy tip. If you drink one
sixteen ounce bottle of water which each meal, and one
extra one, you got your sixty four ounces a day.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Okay, I can. Yeah, I could do that. I'm going
to start today too, I promise you. I am. I'm trying.
I've lived this long. I'm not gonna let age trick
me with something else than can talk.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
All right, thank you so much, uh huh.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
By bye bye, all right, we gotta take a little
break here. That that was good information actually, and I
know as soon as she says liquids, everybody's thinking, Okay, yeah,
I can drink sixty four ounces of beer in a day.
I do it all the time, family family cookout. Sixty
four What is twelve? That'd be what seven? No, that'd
be eighty six beers that'd be seventy two. Yeah, there's
(19:53):
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Speaker 1 (21:52):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
As all ways, I do appreciate it, you know, I do.
You know I do. I have got several things to
get to here, and then Alejandro and I are going
to do what Will and I would normally do when
it's not Will's birthday. He just arbitraged. Do you take
a day off when you have a birthday?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Al Hundre, Well, this year, I didn't work that day,
so I don't think I ever have.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I haven't either. It's more fun to come into the office.
Everybody pat you on the back tells you how old
you look all that stuff. You haven't gotten to that
stage yet. Anybody who's older than you will tell you
look old. People who are younger than you will probably
tell you at some point in your life that, hey,
you look pretty good for your age. I'm hoping to
(22:43):
keep that part alive. We'll see how it works out.
From the roundup desk. By way of MSN, I just
continues to arrest illegal immigrants around the country, and in
a recent roundup of about two thousand people unlawfully here,
one of them a suspected OLC A member, And by
suspected that means they have a pretty darn good idea
(23:07):
that that's where this guy is. My gut tells me
he's not the only one either, And as the round
up continues around the country and more enemies of our
nation are nabbed and sent packing, my concern is that
the ones who've eluded ICE so far are gonna ramp up,
are gonna expedite any bad, sinister, horrible plans they've got.
(23:28):
I hope I'm wrong, and I'm glad we've got the
the technology to find most of these people before they
can act on stuff. That guy was a guy rested
the other day for I don't remember exactly how it
turned out that they went and searched his place, but
it was full of weapons. There was a fully automatic
(23:50):
machine gun in there, some rather disturbing stuff. Just yeah,
this guy was a bad guy, and he's he's off
the streets now, thank goodness. It's really foolish for anybody
to think that there are thousands, well not to think it,
but to dismiss the fact that there are thousands of
(24:13):
truly evil people here now who weren't here four years ago.
So many towards the end of the Biden administration, the
numbers that was overwhelming the border basically, and everybody knows it.
And so many of these people were young fighting age men,
soldier age men traveling by themselves. They weren't I would
(24:39):
be willing to bet anything that they were not coming
over here to just see the world, to make a
better life for themselves, and not bring their families. These
were young men of fighting age, and they got in
here by the tens of thousands. It's kind of scary, really,
(25:00):
a lot of them from countries that absolutely despise the
United States of America, by the way, and everything it
stands for. How people can continue to interfere with ICE's
efforts to do its job. It's just it's beyond me.
Out in San Diego, this big old mob, a liberal people,
forced ICE agents to abandon a roundup of bad guys
(25:21):
and the people we don't know anything about nothing. I'll
never understand that US citizens supporting the bad guys when that, yeah,
it's makes no sense. It makes no sense whatsoever. One
of these guys in that crowd, I was listening to
the audio of it, and he was calling the ICE
(25:42):
agents cowards. He's very sadly mistaken. It's it's time that
ICE was given the authority, I think, to arrest and
charge people for interference in their missions. Just take them,
take them down, cuff them up, and haul them to jail.
These guys, were they that this mob was big eno
If there were only about a dozen ICE agents on
(26:02):
the ground, a couple of vans, maybe three vans, I
don't know, But there were so many of these people
who thought that the ICE agents were in the wrong
that they just opted to not do anything. They had
to get out of there. It's deserved. It's disturbing that
that people still think that way. Where are we on time?
(26:26):
Let me see here? Oh, just a couple of minutes.
That's all we have, is that right?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
That's what I got?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Okay, well, in a couple of minutes. And let's let's
let you have a little fun. You get to choose
from Frankly, my dear, which is a do you know
where that movie quote comes from? And the rest of it?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Yeah, gone with the wind? Right, Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Frankly, my dear, tragically misguided or turned the key.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I don't know what turned the key means. So let's
let's do that.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Try that one. Do you like your door when you're
just popping out for a quick errand?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Only twenty five percent of Americans say they always lock
their door when they leave the house. That's alarmingly low.
But then again, I've lived where I live for a
long time. I feel comfortable and confident that there probably
wouldn't be a problem in my neighborhood out there in
sugar Land. But then again, twenty years ago it was
(27:25):
I think, when someone broke into a neighbor's house down
the street, and then into a second neighbor's house over
the fence from there, and one of them was home
when it happened, and fortunately scared the guys off. But yeah,
we lock it up every time we leave, and I
can't imagine not doing that. It makes no sense. Twenty
(27:45):
five percent of Americans say they always do. That's all.
Some of us have said here, lock up, no matter
how long we're going to be gone, And seven percent
said they locked their door even to go check the mail.
I guess, presuming the box is at the curve. Yeah,
if I'm walking to the curb and back. No, if
I'm walking now where I am, we have one of
(28:06):
those little neighborhood mailbox things, and I'm walking one hundred
yards probably one hundred and twenty yards maybe to the
mailbox and would actually lose sight of my home briefly.
And yeah, I'm locking up if I'm doing that. If
I can't see the house, I'm locking up. If I
can see it, I'm still okay. I think that makes.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Sense, Alejandro, I can agree with that.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Okay, well, look at that. We agree. That's something will
hardly ever does with me. I feel very vindicated here already.
How much time do I have now? None?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Pretty much?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, okay, Well let's get out of here, then, Elate
health that a late health has been with me for now,
probably I think three years. Doctor Andrew Doe and his
team have allowed me to speak for them, and I'm
grateful that they do that because I've been able to
help a lot of you. They get quite a few
phone calls from this show actually, and a lot of
site visits. They are a vascular clinic, and what they
(29:03):
do in this vascular clinic is alleviate problems that can
be remedied by either enhancing the blood flow to a
particular part of your body or removing that just shutting
it off. In prostate embolization, what they do for noncancerous
swollen prostates which cause horrible symptoms. If you're a guy
(29:24):
and you're over about sixty, you probably know what I'm
talking about. What they do is they go in there
and they identify the artery that's supplying the blood to
the prostate, and then they plug it up. They shut
it down. I don't know what they use. I've never
really asked doctor Doe, and I don't really care. I
would assume that it's not Plato or sand or silly Putty,
(29:45):
but I don't know that. All I know is it
takes care of the problem. Same with fibroids for women,
same with ugly veins for anybody who's got them, same
with some head pains. Been doing this for quite some time,
and he's very good at what he does, along with
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on for a live interview recently and we talked at
(30:07):
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and all of it is very helpful and very It
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Old Guy's rule. And of course, women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Okay, well, if you think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. All Right, welcome
back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
Got Alejandro in here. Will's off somewhere.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Having the time of his life. I'm sure, celebrating his birthday.
You know, we probably shouldn't tell Will about the dinner
we had planned for him, the lunch at that very
expensive restaurant. I was man, I was prepared to just
open my wallet for him. I was ready. And he
didn't show up today. So maybe next year, Alejandro, Maybe
(31:30):
next year.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Do you think he's listening.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
No, no, there is not a chance. There is not
a chance. And if he is, he can call in,
and if he begs on air, then maybe we could.
Maybe we could take him to lunch. But the big
restaurant's off the table. Now, I'll just go take him
next door and buy him a turkey sandwich. All right,
I'm gonna let you have a little more fun here.
(31:54):
And these these are actually from I think it was
yesterday or maybe the day before. I'm not sure. Long
lost sounds long but not forgotten or I don't like
that one. Just one of those two long lost sounds
are long gone, but not forgotten.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I'll take the long lost sounds.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
People thirty and older, you can't even play this time,
can you, Alejandro? People thirty and older are listing sounds
from their childhoods. Maybe be thinking of one of these
that younger generations, people who are being born now won't
ever hear. And from my generation the sound of a
(32:36):
floppy disk being read? Do you not even know what
that is?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I know what that is?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Oh okay, yeah, the che chunk of a manual credit
mark card machine. You don't know what that is? Do
you know a manual credit card machine used to be
the numbers on your credit card were raised, they were embossed,
and there was a machine You put the card on
there and a little there were four little holders at
each corner to get it to stay where it stay put.
(33:03):
And then you put a piece of a receipt, if
you will. That was like four layers that had carbon
paper in between them all, and then you ran this
heavy roller back and forth across it, and that would
imprint the numbers and the important information from the card
onto that that paper. Those are gone, thank God too.
(33:25):
They were nothing. And it says here the clink of
metal seat belt buckles. I kind of remember that, but
it's I've been wearing seat belts so long. I remember
there were no seat belt sounds because there were no
seat belts when we made trips across the country, no
seat belts.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
I definitely didn't see.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
No oh no oh, crawl up in the back window
on it, Like if you were traveling when it was
cold and you were the little kid, you could just
crawl up in the back window and get the sunshine
through your through the through the rear window. Different world.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Man.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah, it sounds barbaric, doesn't it? Like how did you survive?
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Now?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Not all of us did? Yeah, it was it was. Okay,
let's get you another one here, and then I might
do I might do one more of my thing. I'll
do a UFO thing after this. Though, we're gonna go
with who watches these just in time or sign of
the times?
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I'll say who watches these?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
For fifty Alex, a twenty one year old TikToker in
New York, got arrested after a string of videos that
showed him going around to stores and dumping big buckets
of food on his head. It says, here are things
like black beans and a huge bucket of eggs. Who
(34:45):
watches that?
Speaker 4 (34:46):
People?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
This has got to be your generation.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I really not anybody I know, not you.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
No, no, no, you all have respectable iques, but a
whole lot of people don't. And anybody who would who
would turn somebody like that into an influencer into a
must see on TikTok? And by the way, I've talked
about this in China, the people on TikTok don't see
(35:12):
any of this stupid stuff we do, none of it.
They don't see any of it because their government deletes
all that stuff. It's only outside of China where TikTok
is what we see over here. And that's that ought
to tell us a lot right there from the what
(35:33):
was the other one I was gonna do for you?
Oh sign of the times, real quick red light cameras.
You all know what those were, and there weren't popular
at all, and they're gone around here at least now
there's some startup company that wants to add solar powered
stop signs, solar powered stop sign cameras at every intersection
with a stop sign, Gonna use AI to process the
(35:56):
infractions in real time. Law enforcement reviews of videos send
you a citation says pay up, and they split the
revenue with the city. How greatly opposed are you to that,
Please say super opposed.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I am super opposed.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
That's just ridiculous. I mean, just let us live our lives.
I mean, I understand what stop signs are for, and
I understand that if you run one, you've done something
that's against the law. But we don't need we don't
need the AI police. By the way, there's a group
that claims that AI is actually God and that before
long we're gonna have AI running the show and having
(36:36):
revivals and sermons and all of that. Well, guess what
AI is programmed by people. And anybody who thinks that
AI is God is forgetting that one little fact. They're
just nuts. The world's just going to hell in a handbasket,
Alejandro said, this old person over across the console from you.
(36:57):
Now we're gonna be okay. We have smart people coming up,
black will like Alejandro, good kids, good young people, to
keep this country going where we've got to go. Are
we out of time?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yet?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Certainly we are? Oh ten seconds, I can do that.
Thank you Alejandro for coming in here. I greatly appreciate that.
And the donut. I might eat one more if it's
okay with you. I'm out tomorrow, but I hope you'll
still listen. There's a good show set up, audios,
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