June 18, 2026 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. David Hunter about Alzheimer's Disease. Pike also speaks with the CEO of the Lone Star Flight Museum Anna Hawley about the museum's offerings.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 4 (00:52):
All right, here we go, and just like that, just
like that, after yesterday and the day before and the
day before that, when the sky was falling according to
all the chicken little forecasters on TV, Just like that,
it's sunny and warm again.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Dry weather, too dry, at least so long as you
don't count humidity. And the reason you can't count humidity
is because a wet pencil won't write on a wet
piece of paper. It just rips apart, like our plans
and dreams to do things outside when it's like it
was this morning. Oh my gosh, overnight lows of about
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eighty five that's what we get now. It's just kind
of steps on your chest when you get up and
walk outside in the morning ninety five percent humidity, it
just it just clocks you. Chokes of breath out of you,
but you plod forward. You know why, because you've lived
here all your life, or at least long enough to
have experienced this a couple of summers to acclimate, and
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you know it's not going to kill you. You're gonna
fish or play golf, or mow the lawn or go
for a walk, because as long as you can still
do any or all of those things even or anything
really remotely similar similar outdoors at three or four in
the afternoon. If you can do any of that stuff
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in the middle of the afternoon this time of year,
especially after a significant rain event, because it takes four
or five days for the steam to rise out of
the turf or out of the yard wherever you're walking.
If you can do that, you've won. You've officially beat
the heat and not let the heat beat you. It's
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kind of some of that's kind of personal, but enough
about me. I'm still amazed that so many of us
in this audience grew up without central air conditioners. Looking back,
think about it vaguely. I can remember when we got
our first little window unit air conditioner for our house
in Sharpstown. That was a game changer. It was just
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it really didn't cool. It didn't cool the house. It
was a small house, but one little air conditioner tucked
into the den window it would cool the den, I
guess if you could call it that, and the kitchen,
and beyond that to the formal living room, the little
formal dining room, the three bedrooms in the house. It
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was just still summertime in Houston, and it was staggered.
What it did was it gave you some place to
go if opening the windows wasn't doing anything to help
the rest of the house. And in the middle of summer,
opening the windows just made it hotter, it seemed like anyway,
although on a good breezy day, just because it was
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it was shady inside, at least it seemed probably six
or eight degrees cooler, but one hundreds, one hundred, and
no matter where you are, it's still gonna feel like
one hundred dry heat, wet heat. I don't care this
whole dry heat thing too. I've been in I've been
to Vegas a dozen times. I don't know. I've been
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up to North Texas where the first trip I made
up there, I was having to do some very physical
stuff outside and they said, don't worry, it's just a
dry heat up here. It's not gonna bug you. And
it does. You just don't. You don't feel the sweat
like you do down here. Your shirt doesn't get immediately
soaked after five minutes of doing what I was doing it,
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but it does down here. And one way or the
other if you're losing moisture, whether it's evaporating off your
skin immediately or whether it's just clinging to your clothing
back in the days of cotton golf shirts, and oh,
I was right out there. I was covering golf for
the newspaper. I was flying all over the country for
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these media golf trips to some of the most amazing
golf resorts on the continent. And one trip in particular
comes to mind. Two rounds a day for five days
out of Miam, out of Fort Lauderdale. Actually, I think
we were We drove down and played in Miami at
least one day of that trip. But what I remember
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very well is we would get up, have breakfast, get
on a bus, and drive to the first place we
were going to play tea time around eight o'clock, just
humidity out the wazoo, very similar to here. At eight
o'clock in the morning on a damp day. We would
go play that first round of golf, and many of us,
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before the first round even finished, would have retrieved one
of the spare shirts we would bring along, just because
the one you were wearing that was completely soaking wet.
It was like it weighed you down. It was like
it had rocks in it sewn into it somewhere, or
maybe a barbell or a dumbbell. It was just it
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was just oppressive. Those shirts were so wet and so heavy.
So you change shirts and you go back out, you
play some more, and then anyway, the long story short
on this one was on the second day, on the
second day, before we even went to play the first round,
at breakfast, some guy from Chicago. This was in spring
to late spring in Lauderdale, Miami, wherever it was we
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were housed, and he just stood up and announced, I
can't do this anymore. I cannot go out there, even
for this morning round. I'm just done. I'm gonna fly
back this afternoon. Thank you all for having me. Blah
blah blah. That's what it's like to have been raised
up north where they don't have to experience that so much.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I guess that's why so many people from up north
at least come down to Florida for the winter so
they can acclimate just in case. I don't know, their
state passes weird taxes or their city passes weird taxes,
and they want to move, and they want to move
to someplace familiar and nice, and that's what they're gonna
find in Florida or Texas. By the way, the Florida
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and Texas humidities are, I think they've run on par
with each other. I've experienced both in many, many times,
mostly here obviously that's where I'm from. But man, oh man,
I was sure I would not be opposed to retiring
to Florida someday. I like the fishing down there. I'm
very familiar with the East Coast fishing, and I have
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friends who guide on the West coast over there, so
I could pop over there every now and then as
long as they're still in business. I don't know. We'll
have to see, all right, you know what, I'm gonna
skip over because we got to keep moving. We've got
two good interviews coming up. First will be David Hunter.
In the next segment, we're gonna talk doctor David Hunter.
Excuse me, We're gonna talk about Alzheimer's disease. And then
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in the third segment today, we're gonna talk about the
Lone Star Flight Museum going out. The Institute on Aging
ut Health. Institute on Aging is something that's not quite
unique to the United States, but certainly one of only
a handful. You could probably count all of them on
one hand. The conceptual realities of what this is. It's
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a collaborative thousands of providers in this region, many of
them based in the med center, as you might imagine,
but several thousand of them who have gotten additional training
Besides what got them the diploma or the certificate on
the wall for whatever they do, they've gone back and
gotten more learned more about how to apply their specific
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knowledge to seniors. That is such an advantage that we have.
All of us seniors here have that advantage, and I'm
very proud to be able to speak on behalf of
them and continue letting you know just what you'll find
when you go to this website. In addition to being
able to start a search for a provider somewhere near you,
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a lot of them actually get out of the medicine
or a few days a week and try to help
people who don't want to go to the med center
but need their help. Very very good, good base of
people who are a part of this Institute on aging.
Utch dot edu. Slash aging is the website. Go check
them out there utch dot edu slash aging. Yell. They
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sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike fifty plus. Thank you
for listening. Certainly do appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Thanks for your continued support of the show too, by
the way, and it's wonderful sponsors. In this segment, we're
going to talk, as as we have often on fifty
plus about one of the cruelest conditions in health, and
that is Alzheimer's disease, and to share where we are
and where we're headed in that lane. I'll bring in
doctor David Hunter, a board certified and fellowship trained behavioral
neurologist and neuropsychiatrist who specializes in memory disorders. Welcome aboard, doct.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Hello, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Oh, thank you. So in case there's somebody entirely unfamiliar
in this audience, which I find a big stretch, let's
start with just a clinical definition of Alzheimer's disease. What
is it?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease, so it's caused by
abnormal proteins depositing in the brain. It is the most
common type of dementia, a disease that impairs people's thinking
over time and causes them to not be able to
take care of themselves. But we now realize that Alzheimer's
actually starts decades before they get to that point, and
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our goals these days are to identify it earlier.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And so we don't scare people in this audience. Maybe
take a second to explain that forgetting where you left
your keys once or twice doesn't mean you have Alzheimer's.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Is that certainly ahead we all get our memories, all
get worse with age, between the age of twenty and eighty,
you lose about half your a tension span. So things
that are normal for aging would be walking into a
room and forgetting why you went there, having the word
on the tip of your tongue, forgetting a colleague's name.
If the answer comes back to you eventually, that means
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that it's probably a normal aging feature.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Well, that's good. I had one person described it once
as forgetting where your keys are is not bad. Forgetting
what keys are for is bad.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
That is an accurate statement.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Okay, so the earliest symptoms go ahead, No, you go ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
The earliest symptoms that we might worry about being Alzheimer's
would be not temporarily forgetting things, but just totally forgetting
that a conversation happening, ask the same question multiple times,
missing appointments frequently because you just totally didn't remember they happen.
That's what we're gonna start worrying about something unusual.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And so when that situation starts to arise a little
more and a little more frequently, at what point do
you pull the trigger and say, Okay, we got to
get you to the doctor, or I have to get
myself to the doctor. To see what's going on.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I would advise to be rather be safe than sorry.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
So the moment you are concerned about your memory, or
your loved one is concerned that you have a memory problem,
that's when I would suggest you mention it to your
regular doctor. We now have a lot of new ways
to test for Alzheimer's, as well as treatments that will
vastly slow it down. So we want to identify people
as early as possible, much earlier than we traditionally would
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have seen them, say, five years ago.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Doctor David Hunter on fifty plus. Here, I see a
lot about doing puzzles or work, playing mind games or
whatever to stay sharp. Does any of that really work
against a disease?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yes, definitely.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
So there are mountains of evidence that both physical and
mental exercise help both through brain health in general and
specifically to prevent Alzheimer's disease. It doesn't have to be
some specific puzzle invented for memory.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I would recommend any kind of activity that keeps your
brain engage, playing games, doing puzzles, doing crossword puzzles, talking
to people, team sports, and reading a book.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Anything that keeps your.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Brain engaged is not sitting and watching TV would count
for me as mental exercise.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
We'll do a lot of that. I feel like I'm okay.
Now just check it for myself. In this rage of
social media and AI DOC, what would you say are
the most common misconceptions about Alzheimer's disease?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I would guess that the most common misconception is that
Alzheimer's disease means dementia. Dementia is an umbrella term for
any cause of cognitive impairment that is causing visability. So
a patient with dementia is the sort of person that
needs to be in a nursing home.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
The big point I.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Want to get across this newer is that we now
know that we can detect the proteins that cause Alzheimer's
disease before people have any symptoms. And then there's also
a stage where people are a bit forgetful but still
a perfectly independent. So the biggest misconception people still have
is left over from a decade ago that Alzheimer's is
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a deadly illness that affects very old people and means
you're in a nursing home already, So we want to
catch the people a decade before that.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, you mentioned early testing. How far out now can
you guys accurately diagnose.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
There's a way to detect the amyloid proteins in the
brain up to twenty years before people develop symptoms, but
that's not something.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I'd recommend for everybody.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
We now have a blood test that's relatively cheap and
quite quick, and it's called fosphot how to seventeen pTau
two one seven. That is a test I would recommend
anyone over sixty five with the memories concerned to get.
If it comes back normal, that's very reassuring you don't
have Alzheimer's and won't get it for several years. If
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that comes back abnormal, we can go for that more
expensive test to investigate further.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
That's fantastic. I'm so glad to hear that. Do you
foresee in your lifetime or mine, or even in maybe
another generation an actual cure for Alzheimer's? Is there anything
leading in that direction?
Speaker 5 (15:23):
In a way, I don't expect those ever to be
or in my lifetime I doubt will be able to
cure the disease like reverse it once it happens. But
ten years from now, I'm very optimistic we will screen
everyone at say sixty five.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
But this is these kind of.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Like we do for colonoscopy or for osteopenia and so,
and we can give them medications to prevent Alzheimer's.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
That's where I see the field going.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Well, that would be a very good compromise if that's
all we can get. That's certainly a huge step.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
For that, much better than the setus quo.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah, for families, does it have somebody who's dealing with Alzheimer's,
what's the best way to support that family?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It depends what stage of the disease they're in.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
If it's set, you're concerned about the patient's memory and
they haven't mentioned it to you, I would have a
casual conversation that, oh I heard this talk on the
Doug Park Show the other day, that we can do
something about Alzheimer's early and we should get.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
The people into screen as soon as possible.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
If you know that the patient has already been diagnosed
with Alzheimer's and they're in those early phases where there's
a bit forgetful, I would just be supportive of making
sure that they are taking care of their medications occasionally,
but we can't ever predict when they'll start having problems
with something, so just be available and support them emotionally
as well as check on their cognitive well being occasionally
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if the patient is at the point where they need caregivers.
There's a lot of good information on the Alzheimer's Association
website of strategies for caregiving and resources or facilities and such.
There are There is a helpline. It's all the Timer's
Association that space here in Houston. Their offices are on
the South Loop so they can answer location specific questions
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about services.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
That's fantastic. Are there any before we wrap up really quickly,
are there any lifestyle habits we could step up or
change that would lower risk for Alzhemmer's.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
You already mentioned the big ones. Those are mental and
physical exercise. Beyond that, we recommend some degree beyond that,
some degree of aerobic exercise. We want to keep your
brain active as long as possible, and we recommend the
diet like the Mediterranean diet, something that is lots of
lean meat, thoughts of fruits and vegetables, olive oil type
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fats instead of butter. So any sin diet like that
can help with the brain.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You said butter with such disdain.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Oh I love butter, I apologized thing with this Dane.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Oh gosh, that's funny, but not the end of the world.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
But try to eat more of the fact that you can.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
All things in moderation, and doctor Hunter, we're moderated ourselves
right out of time. Unfortunately. I really appreciate your time. Yes, sir, no,
thank you very much, my pleasure. All right, Okay, off
we go. Yeah, that was really good. Boy, he said
butter like it was a rattlesnake or something. Didn't He
didn't want eating butter, but he he liked me. I'd
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Speaker 1 (19:51):
Out, aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Fifty plus. Thank you for listening. Thanks to Doctor Hunter
for sharing the latest on Alzheimer's disease. We'll talk in
this segment about a place I've come to love in
recently in recent years, man, and that is the Lone
Star Flight Museum down at Ellington Field. It's a huge
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building actually just a few miles off of I forty
five actually too, and you can't miss it as you
enter the base and inside that building are hours worth
of interesting things to see and touch and experience and
to share the latest in the museum's offerings. I will
welcome in President and CEO and Hawley.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Welcome aboard.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Anna, Hi, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Oh my pleasure. So two days from now, on Saturday,
you will officially unveil and exhibit called Maid in Texas
one hundred and sixteen years of Aviation History. Tell me
a little bit about that.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Yes, we are super proud of this exhibit. It is
an original exhibit that was put together by artifacts from
our own collection. So it is it's called Made in
Texas one hundred and sixteen years of Aviation History. So
what it is all about. It is in conjunction with
America America to fifty all the celebrations for the two
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in our and fiftieth aniversary of our country. But what
it highlights is Texas's significant role in the evolution of
aviation and even to today. But what it will include
are photographs, artifacts and of course our own aircraft.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
But it really talks about.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
The people, the companies, the corporations, the airlines that have
been created in Texas and has contributed to the huge
success of the aviation industry. And it's a great, a
really interesting way to talk about history in Texas as
we celebrate our country's two in our fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I did the math on this thing, and going back
one hundred and sixteen years, Texas aviation got started, not
a whole lot of time, like six or eight years
after the Wright brothers made their maiden voyage. Texas didn't
waste any time getting airborne, did it.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
That's absolutely right. I mean, it's you know, Texas has
been a part of so much of American history from
the very beginning, and even with aviation in particular in
World War One and World War Two. You know, Texas
training pilots to fly these aircraft in these wars in
our history have been been significant because, as you know,
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Texas is pretty flat, and so it made it a
perfect location to train pilots. So like, for example, during
World War Two, there were hundreds of installations all over
Texas that were used to train pilots quickly and immediately
so that they could join the efforts in World War Two,
and it made all the difference in the world. That's
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how we won the war.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
If you ask me, how far back do the aircraft
you have in there go.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
So we do have a model that goes as far
back as the Right Brothers.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
That we really do tell the story about the from
the birth of aviation through the Right Brothers all the
way to a the CCT, which is a Shuttle mission
trainer and it was what astronaut NASA astronauts used to
train as part of their astronaut you know, preparations. So
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we run the gamut of AVA from aviation to aerospace
because you know, without without airplanes, there is no space travel.
So you know, we're there's so many stories to tell,
you know, this exhibit can't tell all of them, but
we give the highlights of how Texas really was significant
and in that history.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Well, if we didn't have any space history over there
at the museum, I think the people from NAS would
come over and protest.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Probably, I think you're right.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
So, so as you walk through the museum and you
you see see the visitors there, who seems to be
having more fun the younger people or the older people.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
You know, it's a toss up, it really is. I
tell you. When we first opened up here at Ellington,
which next year will be our ten year anniversary, if
you can believe that, you know it was, It wasn't
much older. It was an older crowd adults for sure,
mostly men, and people bringing in their their uncles, their
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grandfathers to come and see these amazing aircraft. But because
we've worked on so many great programs that include all
audiences of the past few years, it has grown so
much to be a really multi generational experience. There's a
Toddler terminal for the littles. There's the Flight Academy for
you know, school aged kids to sort of learn about
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lift and flight and you know, all of the Vernoulli's
principle of flight. So and then again the great stories
of all of these aircraft, whether it's commercial, military, private
planes with there. You know, every one of these aircrafts
tell a story, and our volunteers and staff love telling
the stories to whoever wants to listen.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
What's the very favorite thing you have in the entire museum?
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Oh goodness, there really is some cool stuff. I mean,
the one thing that I love the most is, you know,
we have we have the cover Dart which is hanging
you know, hanging high above in our hangars. We also
have you know, the the pits special that's hanging high
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above and when you first walk.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Into the museum.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
I choose those because to see the faces of every
single person that walks in for the first time to
the museum. They walk in and their their eyes get
filled and their mouth opens up, like see this amazing
aircraft hanging from the ceiling. That's just the start of,
you know, of what we have here for there's really
something for everyone. The DC three, you know, holds a
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special place in my heart.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Huge aircraft.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
It is the part of the dawn of the Golden
Age of air travel, so we love telling that story too.
And it also has a Texas connection. Every one of
the aircraft here in the museum have a Texas connection,
which we're proud to tell those stories.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
What is something with barely a minute left or so,
what is something that most people seem to miss when
they come through the museum for the first time that
they really need to come back and take a look
at and track down and see.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Hm I would say that the Space Gallery. You know,
it's one of the things that they're surprised that it's
here because we are a flight museum, but we tell
the story from aviation to space flight, you know, people
can climb up onto the onto the platform and look
inside the the CCT, the crew compartment trainer, and really
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see inside how astronauts lived in space, how they work
in space, because these are the actual trainers that they
worked in. I think that's an experience that a lot
of our visitors missed. But again, it tells the American story.
It tells the story of American ingenuity, and the ongoing
story of Texas's role in aviation history.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
And of course just a cornucopia of summer camps and
youth ambassador programs and badges for Scouts and educational programming
and on and on and on. At the Lone Star
Flight Museum, we are out of time. I'm so sorry. Anna,
absolutely right, Anna Holly, President and CEO of Lone Star
Flight Museum. I strongly encourage anybody in everybody who's got
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a little time to kill, maybe some grandkids, to entertain
a perfect opportunity just a few miles off the go freeway.
Thank you, Anna, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
You bet all right? All bye? Alruddy, I'm not kidding
about that place. The first time I went down there,
I was like, oh yeah, it's the Museum, Flight Museum, Yawn, airplanes,
what is it? But once I got in there and
I had a fascination with airplanes. Bear in mind I
had model airplanes for most of my childhood, sitting over
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there on Langdon sweating profusely and putting little models together.
But I still, I still wasn't convinced until I walked
in there that I was going to be not entirely overwhelmed, okay,
but odd certainly At how much is inside that building.
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You don't realize how big a building is until you
get inside it. Most big buildings don't look that big outside.
But they have jammed so much fascinating stuff into that
one building. It's amazing. We have to take a break.
Midway meat Market. Let me tell you all about that
Midway Meat Market not going to be giant when you
walk inside. It's a relatively small facility. It's been there
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fifty seven years. When Herman Meyer first opened Midway Meat
Market so long ago, there was no reason for it
to be giant because Katie was a tiny little town,
and he just made sure that he could take care
of anybody and everybody from Katie who needed to get
fine meat products and that's exactly what he did up
until he passed. His daughter, Trish now runs the store
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and does so with a very respectful way toward what
her father started. It's still got that country feel. It's
still got that when you walk in the door, somebody
with before you can get three steps in, somebody's gonna
say hi, Welcome to Midway. And once you get in there,
you'll see that they have a full counter of fine
meat products. They have twenty five flavors of premium sausage.
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They have all the grab and ghost snacks you could
possibly eat between here and San Antonio. And I mentioned
that because they're on I ten, just outside ninety nine.
Go to the tollway, go on Ien, go west on
under the tollway, and then take the first ktex it'll
say Downtown Katie, Downtown Ktie. Drop out there. Go to
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the second light and to your left you'll see a
strip shopping center and at the west end of that,
that's where you're gonna find Midway meat Market. If you
roll down your windows you might be able to smell it. Actually,
they have a fine lunch counter. They've always got barbecue
available in there. They're open from eight am to seven
pm every single day of the week. You might smell barbecue.
(30:29):
You might smell the cheeseburger. Somebody called My Outdoors show
recently and talked about the elk burger that they offer
in there, and said it was one of the best
things he ever ate in his life. That's what I'm
getting next time I go. I can assure you Midway
Meatmarket dot Com is the website. They've got all kinds
of things. Go to the website and look around. I
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encourage that they do these special boxes at the first
of each month, that a beef box, a chicken box,
of pork box, a premium beef box, and that gives
you enough food. They cut it all fresh, freeze it
and you come pick one up, take it home, thought
in the freezer, and start bringing out delicious meal after
delicious meal for however you want, however long you want.
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Midway Meatmarket dot Com is a website. Midway Meatmarket dot Com.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Okay, I think that sounds like a good Please.
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Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug fourth and final
segment already starting up.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I I didn't see anything unexciting in the stock market.
Everything was green, everything was looking good. Oil's already come
down to it. It was hovering between about seventy three
twenty six at at ten point thirty, and then I
looked again around eleven something. It was back up to
(31:58):
seventy four and just a nickel or so, but nonetheless
well short of what it has been for the last
few months, and not near as high as it was
in a couple of previous administrations. We all know about
that controversy at the World Cup recently, after a fan
(32:19):
had his Israeli flag confiscated but a nearby fan was
allowed to hang on to his Palestinian flag. Note that
for that game, neither of those two, that neither flag
would have been relevant to any of the either of
the teams on the pitch, as they call it, not
(32:40):
the field. I'm careful to make that distinction because it
is after all international soccer. So anyway, the long and
the short of it is, I don't think international sports
ought to show any hint of politics. And part of
that means if a fan wants to display the flag
of his or her country in support of its team,
(33:01):
even if that specific team isn't playing that day, and
let them fly it. They've traveled halfway around the world
to watch a soccer match, and if they bring their
flag with them, more power to them. They're just showing
their patriotism to their nation. This is a golden opportunity
(33:21):
to show people around the world that countries can't exist
without fighting and without prejudice. And FIFA decided, for some reason,
at that specific time and in that specific location, that
one flag was acceptable and another was not. That's a
bad move on FIFA's part. It doesn't make them look
(33:42):
good at all. All they did was leave a bitter
taste in the mouth of someone who traveled traveled here
from his homeland to sample thefa's product firsthand and pretty
much got slapped in the face. I don't I don't
understand that. Speaking of stepping where you don't belong, major
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League Baseball still catching more backlash after warning a few
pictures pictures recently that the rules sometimes sometimes the rules
disallow players writing things on their caps. Not all the time,
minds you. It's happened a few times throughout baseball's history,
but it's not going to be allowed. According to the
(34:24):
MLB's recent little finger shaking on these picture pictures not
going to be allowed when it interferes with the league's
Pride Night when the hats of those players were required,
that these guys were required to wear hats that had
a Pride flag on them. And I can I can
get on board with that if that's what the team
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wants to do. If that's what the league wants to do,
that's okay. But it's not okay if that goes against
the beliefs of the players. It's not okay. I think
you will it's not okay to tell them that they
can't share what they believe. And all they did was
(35:08):
just write the book and verse of a couple of
Bible verses on their hats. It wasn't anything horrible.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
It was.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Just them expressing their beliefs and not over shed, not
scratching out what MLB had on the front of the caps.
They didn't deface the cap at all except for just
to write a word and a couple of numbers basically
and a colon. And I think that's all the punctuation
there was. That's kind of messed up, just some it
(35:43):
is messages and flags and such on players' uniforms. I think,
I really think it ought to be optional, not mandatory.
Those guys get paid to throw a ball. They don't
get paid to support an ideology, especially one that goes
against what they believe in their heart of hearts, what
they believe down to their souls. They should have the
(36:06):
opportunity to opt out. I think, what kind of signals
are you sending up? You go out for one day
to take care of a dog, and then all of
a sudden, Okay, I get it now, I'm getting this.
It's like he's trying to land a seven forty seven
right up the middle of the runway. Good Heavens will
(36:27):
all right very quickly. Oh, by the way, today is
dump the pump down, which we're supposed to ditch our
cars and choose public transportation. Maybe ride a bike work,
or walk to work, carpool, whatever you want to do.
Only nobody told anybody so Houston's freeways look this morning
just like they always do, real quickly. Ninety one year
old Grandma Other was shown the never before seen video
(36:50):
footage from her wedding in nineteen fifty five. That'll warm
your heart a little. We'll see you later, Audios
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All right, here we go, and just like that, just
like that, after yesterday and the day before and the
day before that, when the sky was falling according to
all the chicken little forecasters on TV, Just like that,
it's sunny and warm again.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Dry weather, too dry, at least so long as you
don't count humidity. And the reason you can't count humidity
is because a wet pencil won't write on a wet
piece of paper. It just rips apart, like our plans
and dreams to do things outside when it's like it
was this morning. Oh my gosh, overnight lows of about
(01:33):
eighty five that's what we get now. It's just kind
of steps on your chest when you get up and
walk outside in the morning ninety five percent humidity, it
just it just clocks you. Chokes of breath out of you,
but you plod forward. You know why, because you've lived
here all your life, or at least long enough to
have experienced this a couple of summers to acclimate, and
(01:56):
you know it's not going to kill you. You're gonna
fish or play golf, or mow the lawn or go
for a walk, because as long as you can still
do any or all of those things even or anything
really remotely similar similar outdoors at three or four in
the afternoon. If you can do any of that stuff
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in the middle of the afternoon this time of year,
especially after a significant rain event, because it takes four
or five days for the steam to rise out of
the turf or out of the yard wherever you're walking.
If you can do that, you've won. You've officially beat
the heat and not let the heat beat you. It's
(02:39):
kind of some of that's kind of personal, but enough
about me. I'm still amazed that so many of us
in this audience grew up without central air conditioners. Looking back,
think about it vaguely. I can remember when we got
our first little window unit air conditioner for our house
in Sharpstown. That was a game changer. It was just
(03:02):
it really didn't cool. It didn't cool the house. It
was a small house, but one little air conditioner tucked
into the den window it would cool the den, I
guess if you could call it that, and the kitchen,
and beyond that to the formal living room, the little
formal dining room, the three bedrooms in the house. It
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was just still summertime in Houston, and it was staggered.
What it did was it gave you some place to
go if opening the windows wasn't doing anything to help
the rest of the house. And in the middle of summer,
opening the windows just made it hotter, it seemed like anyway,
although on a good breezy day, just because it was
(03:48):
it was shady inside, at least it seemed probably six
or eight degrees cooler, but one hundreds, one hundred, and
no matter where you are, it's still gonna feel like
one hundred dry heat, wet heat. I don't care this
whole dry heat thing too. I've been in I've been
to Vegas a dozen times. I don't know. I've been
(04:10):
up to North Texas where the first trip I made
up there, I was having to do some very physical
stuff outside and they said, don't worry, it's just a
dry heat up here. It's not gonna bug you. And
it does. You just don't. You don't feel the sweat
like you do down here. Your shirt doesn't get immediately
soaked after five minutes of doing what I was doing it,
(04:34):
but it does down here. And one way or the
other if you're losing moisture, whether it's evaporating off your
skin immediately or whether it's just clinging to your clothing
back in the days of cotton golf shirts, and oh,
I was right out there. I was covering golf for
the newspaper. I was flying all over the country for
(04:54):
these media golf trips to some of the most amazing
golf resorts on the continent. And one trip in particular
comes to mind. Two rounds a day for five days
out of Miam, out of Fort Lauderdale. Actually, I think
we were We drove down and played in Miami at
least one day of that trip. But what I remember
(05:18):
very well is we would get up, have breakfast, get
on a bus, and drive to the first place we
were going to play tea time around eight o'clock, just
humidity out the wazoo, very similar to here. At eight
o'clock in the morning on a damp day. We would
go play that first round of golf, and many of us,
(05:39):
before the first round even finished, would have retrieved one
of the spare shirts we would bring along, just because
the one you were wearing that was completely soaking wet.
It was like it weighed you down. It was like
it had rocks in it sewn into it somewhere, or
maybe a barbell or a dumbbell. It was just it
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was just oppressive. Those shirts were so wet and so heavy.
So you change shirts and you go back out, you
play some more, and then anyway, the long story short
on this one was on the second day, on the
second day, before we even went to play the first round,
at breakfast, some guy from Chicago. This was in spring
to late spring in Lauderdale, Miami, wherever it was we
(06:24):
were housed, and he just stood up and announced, I
can't do this anymore. I cannot go out there, even
for this morning round. I'm just done. I'm gonna fly
back this afternoon. Thank you all for having me. Blah
blah blah. That's what it's like to have been raised
up north where they don't have to experience that so much.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I guess that's why so many people from up north
at least come down to Florida for the winter so
they can acclimate just in case. I don't know, their
state passes weird taxes or their city passes weird taxes,
and they want to move, and they want to move
to someplace familiar and nice, and that's what they're gonna
find in Florida or Texas. By the way, the Florida
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and Texas humidities are, I think they've run on par
with each other. I've experienced both in many, many times,
mostly here obviously that's where I'm from. But man, oh man,
I was sure I would not be opposed to retiring
to Florida someday. I like the fishing down there. I'm
very familiar with the East Coast fishing, and I have
(07:27):
friends who guide on the West coast over there, so
I could pop over there every now and then as
long as they're still in business. I don't know. We'll
have to see, all right, you know what, I'm gonna
skip over because we got to keep moving. We've got
two good interviews coming up. First will be David Hunter.
In the next segment, we're gonna talk doctor David Hunter.
Excuse me, We're gonna talk about Alzheimer's disease. And then
(07:50):
in the third segment today, we're gonna talk about the
Lone Star Flight Museum going out. The Institute on Aging
ut Health. Institute on Aging is something that's not quite
unique to the United States, but certainly one of only
a handful. You could probably count all of them on
one hand. The conceptual realities of what this is. It's
(08:15):
a collaborative thousands of providers in this region, many of
them based in the med center, as you might imagine,
but several thousand of them who have gotten additional training
Besides what got them the diploma or the certificate on
the wall for whatever they do, they've gone back and
gotten more learned more about how to apply their specific
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knowledge to seniors. That is such an advantage that we have.
All of us seniors here have that advantage, and I'm
very proud to be able to speak on behalf of
them and continue letting you know just what you'll find
when you go to this website. In addition to being
able to start a search for a provider somewhere near you,
(08:58):
a lot of them actually get out of the medicine
or a few days a week and try to help
people who don't want to go to the med center
but need their help. Very very good, good base of
people who are a part of this Institute on aging.
Utch dot edu. Slash aging is the website. Go check
them out there utch dot edu slash aging. Yell. They
(09:20):
sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike fifty plus. Thank you
for listening. Certainly do appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Thanks for your continued support of the show too, by
the way, and it's wonderful sponsors. In this segment, we're
going to talk, as as we have often on fifty
plus about one of the cruelest conditions in health, and
that is Alzheimer's disease, and to share where we are
and where we're headed in that lane. I'll bring in
doctor David Hunter, a board certified and fellowship trained behavioral
neurologist and neuropsychiatrist who specializes in memory disorders. Welcome aboard, doct.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Hello, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Oh, thank you. So in case there's somebody entirely unfamiliar
in this audience, which I find a big stretch, let's
start with just a clinical definition of Alzheimer's disease. What
is it?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease, so it's caused by
abnormal proteins depositing in the brain. It is the most
common type of dementia, a disease that impairs people's thinking
over time and causes them to not be able to
take care of themselves. But we now realize that Alzheimer's
actually starts decades before they get to that point, and
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our goals these days are to identify it earlier.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And so we don't scare people in this audience. Maybe
take a second to explain that forgetting where you left
your keys once or twice doesn't mean you have Alzheimer's.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Is that certainly ahead we all get our memories, all
get worse with age, between the age of twenty and eighty,
you lose about half your a tension span. So things
that are normal for aging would be walking into a
room and forgetting why you went there, having the word
on the tip of your tongue, forgetting a colleague's name.
If the answer comes back to you eventually, that means
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that it's probably a normal aging feature.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Well, that's good. I had one person described it once
as forgetting where your keys are is not bad. Forgetting
what keys are for is bad.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
That is an accurate statement.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Okay, so the earliest symptoms go ahead, No, you go ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
The earliest symptoms that we might worry about being Alzheimer's
would be not temporarily forgetting things, but just totally forgetting
that a conversation happening, ask the same question multiple times,
missing appointments frequently because you just totally didn't remember they happen.
That's what we're gonna start worrying about something unusual.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And so when that situation starts to arise a little
more and a little more frequently, at what point do
you pull the trigger and say, Okay, we got to
get you to the doctor, or I have to get
myself to the doctor. To see what's going on.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I would advise to be rather be safe than sorry.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
So the moment you are concerned about your memory, or
your loved one is concerned that you have a memory problem,
that's when I would suggest you mention it to your
regular doctor. We now have a lot of new ways
to test for Alzheimer's, as well as treatments that will
vastly slow it down. So we want to identify people
as early as possible, much earlier than we traditionally would
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have seen them, say, five years ago.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Doctor David Hunter on fifty plus. Here, I see a
lot about doing puzzles or work, playing mind games or
whatever to stay sharp. Does any of that really work
against a disease?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yes, definitely.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
So there are mountains of evidence that both physical and
mental exercise help both through brain health in general and
specifically to prevent Alzheimer's disease. It doesn't have to be
some specific puzzle invented for memory.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I would recommend any kind of activity that keeps your
brain engage, playing games, doing puzzles, doing crossword puzzles, talking
to people, team sports, and reading a book.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Anything that keeps your.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Brain engaged is not sitting and watching TV would count
for me as mental exercise.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
We'll do a lot of that. I feel like I'm okay.
Now just check it for myself. In this rage of
social media and AI DOC, what would you say are
the most common misconceptions about Alzheimer's disease?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I would guess that the most common misconception is that
Alzheimer's disease means dementia. Dementia is an umbrella term for
any cause of cognitive impairment that is causing visability. So
a patient with dementia is the sort of person that
needs to be in a nursing home.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
The big point I.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Want to get across this newer is that we now
know that we can detect the proteins that cause Alzheimer's
disease before people have any symptoms. And then there's also
a stage where people are a bit forgetful but still
a perfectly independent. So the biggest misconception people still have
is left over from a decade ago that Alzheimer's is
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a deadly illness that affects very old people and means
you're in a nursing home already, So we want to
catch the people a decade before that.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, you mentioned early testing. How far out now can
you guys accurately diagnose.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
There's a way to detect the amyloid proteins in the
brain up to twenty years before people develop symptoms, but
that's not something.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I'd recommend for everybody.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
We now have a blood test that's relatively cheap and
quite quick, and it's called fosphot how to seventeen pTau
two one seven. That is a test I would recommend
anyone over sixty five with the memories concerned to get.
If it comes back normal, that's very reassuring you don't
have Alzheimer's and won't get it for several years. If
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that comes back abnormal, we can go for that more
expensive test to investigate further.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
That's fantastic. I'm so glad to hear that. Do you
foresee in your lifetime or mine, or even in maybe
another generation an actual cure for Alzheimer's? Is there anything
leading in that direction?
Speaker 5 (15:23):
In a way, I don't expect those ever to be
or in my lifetime I doubt will be able to
cure the disease like reverse it once it happens. But
ten years from now, I'm very optimistic we will screen
everyone at say sixty five.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
But this is these kind of.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Like we do for colonoscopy or for osteopenia and so,
and we can give them medications to prevent Alzheimer's.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
That's where I see the field going.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Well, that would be a very good compromise if that's
all we can get. That's certainly a huge step.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
For that, much better than the setus quo.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah, for families, does it have somebody who's dealing with Alzheimer's,
what's the best way to support that family?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It depends what stage of the disease they're in.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
If it's set, you're concerned about the patient's memory and
they haven't mentioned it to you, I would have a
casual conversation that, oh I heard this talk on the
Doug Park Show the other day, that we can do
something about Alzheimer's early and we should get.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
The people into screen as soon as possible.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
If you know that the patient has already been diagnosed
with Alzheimer's and they're in those early phases where there's
a bit forgetful, I would just be supportive of making
sure that they are taking care of their medications occasionally,
but we can't ever predict when they'll start having problems
with something, so just be available and support them emotionally
as well as check on their cognitive well being occasionally
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if the patient is at the point where they need caregivers.
There's a lot of good information on the Alzheimer's Association
website of strategies for caregiving and resources or facilities and such.
There are There is a helpline. It's all the Timer's
Association that space here in Houston. Their offices are on
the South Loop so they can answer location specific questions
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about services.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
That's fantastic. Are there any before we wrap up really quickly,
are there any lifestyle habits we could step up or
change that would lower risk for Alzhemmer's.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
You already mentioned the big ones. Those are mental and
physical exercise. Beyond that, we recommend some degree beyond that,
some degree of aerobic exercise. We want to keep your
brain active as long as possible, and we recommend the
diet like the Mediterranean diet, something that is lots of
lean meat, thoughts of fruits and vegetables, olive oil type
(17:48):
fats instead of butter. So any sin diet like that
can help with the brain.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You said butter with such disdain.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Oh I love butter, I apologized thing with this Dane.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Oh gosh, that's funny, but not the end of the world.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
But try to eat more of the fact that you can.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
All things in moderation, and doctor Hunter, we're moderated ourselves
right out of time. Unfortunately. I really appreciate your time. Yes, sir, no,
thank you very much, my pleasure. All right, Okay, off
we go. Yeah, that was really good. Boy, he said
butter like it was a rattlesnake or something. Didn't He
didn't want eating butter, but he he liked me. I'd
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Out, aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Fifty plus. Thank you for listening. Thanks to Doctor Hunter
for sharing the latest on Alzheimer's disease. We'll talk in
this segment about a place I've come to love in
recently in recent years, man, and that is the Lone
Star Flight Museum down at Ellington Field. It's a huge
(20:13):
building actually just a few miles off of I forty
five actually too, and you can't miss it as you
enter the base and inside that building are hours worth
of interesting things to see and touch and experience and
to share the latest in the museum's offerings. I will
welcome in President and CEO and Hawley.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Welcome aboard.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Anna, Hi, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Oh my pleasure. So two days from now, on Saturday,
you will officially unveil and exhibit called Maid in Texas
one hundred and sixteen years of Aviation History. Tell me
a little bit about that.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Yes, we are super proud of this exhibit. It is
an original exhibit that was put together by artifacts from
our own collection. So it is it's called Made in
Texas one hundred and sixteen years of Aviation History. So
what it is all about. It is in conjunction with
America America to fifty all the celebrations for the two
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in our and fiftieth aniversary of our country. But what
it highlights is Texas's significant role in the evolution of
aviation and even to today. But what it will include
are photographs, artifacts and of course our own aircraft.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
But it really talks about.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
The people, the companies, the corporations, the airlines that have
been created in Texas and has contributed to the huge
success of the aviation industry. And it's a great, a
really interesting way to talk about history in Texas as
we celebrate our country's two in our fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I did the math on this thing, and going back
one hundred and sixteen years, Texas aviation got started, not
a whole lot of time, like six or eight years
after the Wright brothers made their maiden voyage. Texas didn't
waste any time getting airborne, did it.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
That's absolutely right. I mean, it's you know, Texas has
been a part of so much of American history from
the very beginning, and even with aviation in particular in
World War One and World War Two. You know, Texas
training pilots to fly these aircraft in these wars in
our history have been been significant because, as you know,
(22:30):
Texas is pretty flat, and so it made it a
perfect location to train pilots. So like, for example, during
World War Two, there were hundreds of installations all over
Texas that were used to train pilots quickly and immediately
so that they could join the efforts in World War Two,
and it made all the difference in the world. That's
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how we won the war.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
If you ask me, how far back do the aircraft
you have in there go.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
So we do have a model that goes as far
back as the Right Brothers.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
That we really do tell the story about the from
the birth of aviation through the Right Brothers all the
way to a the CCT, which is a Shuttle mission
trainer and it was what astronaut NASA astronauts used to
train as part of their astronaut you know, preparations. So
(23:29):
we run the gamut of AVA from aviation to aerospace
because you know, without without airplanes, there is no space travel.
So you know, we're there's so many stories to tell,
you know, this exhibit can't tell all of them, but
we give the highlights of how Texas really was significant
and in that history.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Well, if we didn't have any space history over there
at the museum, I think the people from NAS would
come over and protest.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Probably, I think you're right.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
So, so as you walk through the museum and you
you see see the visitors there, who seems to be
having more fun the younger people or the older people.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
You know, it's a toss up, it really is. I
tell you. When we first opened up here at Ellington,
which next year will be our ten year anniversary, if
you can believe that, you know it was, It wasn't
much older. It was an older crowd adults for sure,
mostly men, and people bringing in their their uncles, their
(24:27):
grandfathers to come and see these amazing aircraft. But because
we've worked on so many great programs that include all
audiences of the past few years, it has grown so
much to be a really multi generational experience. There's a
Toddler terminal for the littles. There's the Flight Academy for
you know, school aged kids to sort of learn about
(24:49):
lift and flight and you know, all of the Vernoulli's
principle of flight. So and then again the great stories
of all of these aircraft, whether it's commercial, military, private
planes with there. You know, every one of these aircrafts
tell a story, and our volunteers and staff love telling
the stories to whoever wants to listen.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
What's the very favorite thing you have in the entire museum?
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Oh goodness, there really is some cool stuff. I mean,
the one thing that I love the most is, you know,
we have we have the cover Dart which is hanging
you know, hanging high above in our hangars. We also
have you know, the the pits special that's hanging high
(25:37):
above and when you first walk.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Into the museum.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
I choose those because to see the faces of every
single person that walks in for the first time to
the museum. They walk in and their their eyes get
filled and their mouth opens up, like see this amazing
aircraft hanging from the ceiling. That's just the start of,
you know, of what we have here for there's really
something for everyone. The DC three, you know, holds a
(26:05):
special place in my heart.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Huge aircraft.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
It is the part of the dawn of the Golden
Age of air travel, so we love telling that story too.
And it also has a Texas connection. Every one of
the aircraft here in the museum have a Texas connection,
which we're proud to tell those stories.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
What is something with barely a minute left or so,
what is something that most people seem to miss when
they come through the museum for the first time that
they really need to come back and take a look
at and track down and see.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Hm I would say that the Space Gallery. You know,
it's one of the things that they're surprised that it's
here because we are a flight museum, but we tell
the story from aviation to space flight, you know, people
can climb up onto the onto the platform and look
inside the the CCT, the crew compartment trainer, and really
(26:57):
see inside how astronauts lived in space, how they work
in space, because these are the actual trainers that they
worked in. I think that's an experience that a lot
of our visitors missed. But again, it tells the American story.
It tells the story of American ingenuity, and the ongoing
story of Texas's role in aviation history.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
And of course just a cornucopia of summer camps and
youth ambassador programs and badges for Scouts and educational programming
and on and on and on. At the Lone Star
Flight Museum, we are out of time. I'm so sorry. Anna,
absolutely right, Anna Holly, President and CEO of Lone Star
Flight Museum. I strongly encourage anybody in everybody who's got
(27:40):
a little time to kill, maybe some grandkids, to entertain
a perfect opportunity just a few miles off the go freeway.
Thank you, Anna, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
You bet all right? All bye? Alruddy, I'm not kidding
about that place. The first time I went down there,
I was like, oh yeah, it's the Museum, Flight Museum, Yawn, airplanes,
what is it? But once I got in there and
I had a fascination with airplanes. Bear in mind I
had model airplanes for most of my childhood, sitting over
(28:14):
there on Langdon sweating profusely and putting little models together.
But I still, I still wasn't convinced until I walked
in there that I was going to be not entirely overwhelmed, okay,
but odd certainly At how much is inside that building.
(28:36):
You don't realize how big a building is until you
get inside it. Most big buildings don't look that big outside.
But they have jammed so much fascinating stuff into that
one building. It's amazing. We have to take a break.
Midway meat Market. Let me tell you all about that
Midway Meat Market not going to be giant when you
walk inside. It's a relatively small facility. It's been there
(29:00):
fifty seven years. When Herman Meyer first opened Midway Meat
Market so long ago, there was no reason for it
to be giant because Katie was a tiny little town,
and he just made sure that he could take care
of anybody and everybody from Katie who needed to get
fine meat products and that's exactly what he did up
until he passed. His daughter, Trish now runs the store
(29:22):
and does so with a very respectful way toward what
her father started. It's still got that country feel. It's
still got that when you walk in the door, somebody
with before you can get three steps in, somebody's gonna
say hi, Welcome to Midway. And once you get in there,
you'll see that they have a full counter of fine
meat products. They have twenty five flavors of premium sausage.
(29:45):
They have all the grab and ghost snacks you could
possibly eat between here and San Antonio. And I mentioned
that because they're on I ten, just outside ninety nine.
Go to the tollway, go on Ien, go west on
under the tollway, and then take the first ktex it'll
say Downtown Katie, Downtown Ktie. Drop out there. Go to
(30:08):
the second light and to your left you'll see a
strip shopping center and at the west end of that,
that's where you're gonna find Midway meat Market. If you
roll down your windows you might be able to smell it. Actually,
they have a fine lunch counter. They've always got barbecue
available in there. They're open from eight am to seven
pm every single day of the week. You might smell barbecue.
(30:29):
You might smell the cheeseburger. Somebody called My Outdoors show
recently and talked about the elk burger that they offer
in there, and said it was one of the best
things he ever ate in his life. That's what I'm
getting next time I go. I can assure you Midway
Meatmarket dot Com is the website. They've got all kinds
of things. Go to the website and look around. I
(30:50):
encourage that they do these special boxes at the first
of each month, that a beef box, a chicken box,
of pork box, a premium beef box, and that gives
you enough food. They cut it all fresh, freeze it
and you come pick one up, take it home, thought
in the freezer, and start bringing out delicious meal after
delicious meal for however you want, however long you want.
(31:14):
Midway Meatmarket dot Com is a website. Midway Meatmarket dot Com.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Okay, I think that sounds like a good Please.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug fourth and final
segment already starting up.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I I didn't see anything unexciting in the stock market.
Everything was green, everything was looking good. Oil's already come
down to it. It was hovering between about seventy three
twenty six at at ten point thirty, and then I
looked again around eleven something. It was back up to
(31:58):
seventy four and just a nickel or so, but nonetheless
well short of what it has been for the last
few months, and not near as high as it was
in a couple of previous administrations. We all know about
that controversy at the World Cup recently, after a fan
(32:19):
had his Israeli flag confiscated but a nearby fan was
allowed to hang on to his Palestinian flag. Note that
for that game, neither of those two, that neither flag
would have been relevant to any of the either of
the teams on the pitch, as they call it, not
(32:40):
the field. I'm careful to make that distinction because it
is after all international soccer. So anyway, the long and
the short of it is, I don't think international sports
ought to show any hint of politics. And part of
that means if a fan wants to display the flag
of his or her country in support of its team,
(33:01):
even if that specific team isn't playing that day, and
let them fly it. They've traveled halfway around the world
to watch a soccer match, and if they bring their
flag with them, more power to them. They're just showing
their patriotism to their nation. This is a golden opportunity
(33:21):
to show people around the world that countries can't exist
without fighting and without prejudice. And FIFA decided, for some reason,
at that specific time and in that specific location, that
one flag was acceptable and another was not. That's a
bad move on FIFA's part. It doesn't make them look
(33:42):
good at all. All they did was leave a bitter
taste in the mouth of someone who traveled traveled here
from his homeland to sample thefa's product firsthand and pretty
much got slapped in the face. I don't I don't
understand that. Speaking of stepping where you don't belong, major
(34:04):
League Baseball still catching more backlash after warning a few
pictures pictures recently that the rules sometimes sometimes the rules
disallow players writing things on their caps. Not all the time,
minds you. It's happened a few times throughout baseball's history,
but it's not going to be allowed. According to the
(34:24):
MLB's recent little finger shaking on these picture pictures not
going to be allowed when it interferes with the league's
Pride Night when the hats of those players were required,
that these guys were required to wear hats that had
a Pride flag on them. And I can I can
get on board with that if that's what the team
(34:47):
wants to do. If that's what the league wants to do,
that's okay. But it's not okay if that goes against
the beliefs of the players. It's not okay. I think
you will it's not okay to tell them that they
can't share what they believe. And all they did was
(35:08):
just write the book and verse of a couple of
Bible verses on their hats. It wasn't anything horrible.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
It was.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Just them expressing their beliefs and not over shed, not
scratching out what MLB had on the front of the caps.
They didn't deface the cap at all except for just
to write a word and a couple of numbers basically
and a colon. And I think that's all the punctuation
there was. That's kind of messed up, just some it
(35:43):
is messages and flags and such on players' uniforms. I think,
I really think it ought to be optional, not mandatory.
Those guys get paid to throw a ball. They don't
get paid to support an ideology, especially one that goes
against what they believe in their heart of hearts, what
they believe down to their souls. They should have the
(36:06):
opportunity to opt out. I think, what kind of signals
are you sending up? You go out for one day
to take care of a dog, and then all of
a sudden, Okay, I get it now, I'm getting this.
It's like he's trying to land a seven forty seven
right up the middle of the runway. Good Heavens will
(36:27):
all right very quickly. Oh, by the way, today is
dump the pump down, which we're supposed to ditch our
cars and choose public transportation. Maybe ride a bike work,
or walk to work, carpool, whatever you want to do.
Only nobody told anybody so Houston's freeways look this morning
just like they always do, real quickly. Ninety one year
old Grandma Other was shown the never before seen video
(36:50):
footage from her wedding in nineteen fifty five. That'll warm
your heart a little. We'll see you later, Audios
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