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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:46):
Oops, there we go. Thank you, Will I hit the button,
But I didn't. I didn't engage the button. Will Johnny
almost spot he always is with the mics on and
Mike's off. Thank you for that, man. Welcome to you
another day at Paradise. And by that I mean I
woke up, I had a pulse, and fewer than three
things hurt when I climbed out of bed. The older
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I get, the more I realize how good it it was.
When I was a younger man, I had good health.
I believed I had all the time in the world
to get everything done that was going to need to
be done Before I reached the age I am now.
Life was very good back then. Really, I had the
patience of a saint. I was told, I've been told
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by my wife, and I've run out of patience with
a lot of the crazy things that go on in
the world. Now, though, with all that in the mirror
and still rolling ahead at full speed, which I'll con
see isn't what it used to be. At least, I
still feel pretty blessed despite hitting a few potholes along
the way. I'm not trying to be a cheerleader here.
Everybody's got things that trouble them. So if you're struggling
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with something right now, if you're dealing with it, and
a lot of us are just I don't know, they
seem like they may never get all. But so long
as so long as I got a heartbeat, I got
a chance. That's why I look at it. And I'm
coming to the realization that to shake off the bad stuff,
sometimes we got to take that chance, and not impulsively.
You don't ever want to. I'm a firm believer in
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measure twice, cut once, especially with important stuff. But once
you've sat back and really thought about a situation or
a condition or whatever that you think might be holding
you back, put together a plan that makes sense for you,
and then launch it and just see where it leads you.
Even if it doesn't work, you'll know that you tried
that and it didn't work, which means that something else
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probably will. That's kind of the way I like it's
so much. That's enough therapy for the day. We're one
day from the fourth of July, and if you looked
in our building garage this morning, you thought either that
today was the national holiday or some new pandemic had
sprung up overnight. There was virtually nobody in the garage.
I really hope all of you are able to make
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the most of whatever time you get off this weekend.
It's pretty cool when the fourth of July falls on
a Friday or a Monday. You get that nice long
weekend without having to burn a vacation day. Then again
on Thursday or Tuesday, if that's where July fourth falls,
that's also pretty sweet because you can take one vacation
day and pretty much turn it into a trip to
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Mexico if you want to a little four day weekend
wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do.
And I think four days, honestly, for me, at least
three nights. Three nights and four days is kind of
my minimum for really a chance to decompress and a
chance to get to know exactly where you are and
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where things are in whatever different town you're in. Used
to drive me nuts when I was making a lot
of runs up into the Call into the Rocky Mountains
in Colorado and over into Utah to some of these
ski resorts that I was getting to visit when I
was writing for the paper. The issue was that I
would and I was also doing radio shows up there,
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and I would go in on a Friday to make
sure that everything was right. Eye and a producer. We'd
go in on a Friday, producer would check the connection
we were going to have for Saturday and Sunday broadcasts,
and then we'd go on and either maybe make a
quick fishing trip that afternoon, maybe if there was time,
get up on the mountain for a little bit, and
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just about the time we were getting comfortable with the
surroundings and knew where everything was, the Sunday show finished,
we had to pack and we had to go back
to the airport. I like having that extra night, that
extra day to really feel like you belong there and
you know where everything is so you can make the
most of it. Speaking of Independence Day too, by the way,
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I do pray that it goes smoothly and that none
of the bad people we let in our country over
the past four years, not one of them does anything
dangerous deadly tomorrow. It may take a while for the
average American to feel safe again. Honestly, after we've learned
about just who was allowed access to our nation. We've
uncovered thousands literally of violent people, very violent people who
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walk among us. We know they're here, and it's frustrating
that people still are trying to impede law enforcement and
its effort to get these people off the streets of
our country. They're doing us no favors, and they just
continue to wreak havoc on wherever they are. Fortunately I
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did well. Actually I didn't think that we were. We
were dealing with so much of that around here in
the immediate greater Houston area. And then, wouldn't you know it,
where's this little story I was going to tell you about?
That's not it? Yeah, this right here?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
From the Gangs in America Desk from Breitbart. A joint
task force this week arrested sixteen members of the Anti
Trend Gang. It's a spin off of the Venezuelan and
Trenda Ragua gang. If only that were the end of
the gang bangers in America too. Those guys were right here,
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they were here, They in the greater Houston area, And
that's kind of frightening. Still, lots of work for law enforcement.
Operation Take Back America is in full swing and keeps
swinging till they're all gone one point five. That's perfect. Well, actually,
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let's do a little something different because it is a
holiday weekend. We will lead Well, we'll go into this
in this first segment with a multiple choice. Will you ready?
All right? Who hit it? Behind you? This is why
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insurance is so high. Save your Money or news from
waffle House Save your Money. A new poll found cheap
weddings are trending and big, expensive ones are becoming less common.
The three things most likely to cause dicker shock. This
should come to no surprise, as no surprise to anyone
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who's who's been involved at all in a wedding in
the last twenty years or fifty The venue, price, the photos,
and the food. What else really is there? I'm not
really sure there's a whole lot more to it than that, honestly.
All right, let's go ahead and get this break started
so we don't waste showtime, which I'm guilty of doing
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a lot of times, because I like to take care
of my clients, and if I start now, I can
do that. UT Health Institute on Aging is that fantastic
collaborative of providers from every medical discipline. They are specially
trained additional to the education it took them to get
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Institute on Aging utch dot edu slash Aging utch dot
edu slash Aging.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. Welcome
back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening. I certainly
do appreciate this little chunk of your midday, your lunch hour,
your happy hour, whatever it is. We'll talk in this
segment about a food item that's been in the news
for more than a year now.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Not because it's tastes good, not because it's popular, but
mostly it just was outrageously expensive and there are a
lot of reasons for that that are going away now,
thank goodness. And that would be the egg but we're
not on egg prices today. My guest and I will
talk about is something that she I don't know somebody
(09:27):
put this title on at the great debate egg whites
versus whole eggs. I didn't even know they were fighting tonight.
And with that I'll bring in Anne red Wing, registered
dietitian and certified diabetes care specialist at UT Physicians Family Practice.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Welcome aboard, Anne, Hi, Doug, nice to be here.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Oh it's my pleasure, really. So I did some prep
this morning, and when I went searching for good questions,
what do you know? I came up on a piece
that was written just on the same subject. And oh
and behold, it features quotes from you throughout the whole piece,
even as your picture.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Oh my gosh, I Zinky Powers wrote that at ut.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, and so I know I've got the right person here.
So there's got to be a lot more good questions
about eggs and just fried or scrambled. Right, right, let's
get into that. I've been told over the years, for example,
that egg yolks are super high in cholesterol. I got
to stay away from them. What's the truth about that?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, they are super high in cholesterol.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
That's okay, you don't want.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, yeah, but you don't have to stay away from them.
In twenty fifteen, the USDA said, after a lot of research,
that cholesterol in food is not really causing cholesterol in
our blood to increase.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Wow, that's interesting, right, So what does cause the thing
is the increasing.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Saturated fat?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Uh? Okay, Yeah, that my hand kind of goes in
the air a little bit, maybe just a tiny bit
on satur great fat, and talk about that in addition
to the cholesterol thing we just kind of solved right there.
But talk about other positive things that egg yolks can
do for our bodies. And I've got I found like
two pages of this stuff, so go right ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So the egg yolk contains most of the nutrition in
the egg. I mean, the whole egg is a good
source of protein, but the egg yolk is what has
all the vitamins and minerals and other substances that are
really good for us.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I saw in that same story. Excuse me, but I
saw that eating two eggs a day can cover up
to thirty percent of our daily vitamin requirements. That's a
that's a big box check.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Just two eggs, right, that's right, that's right. So the
egg yolk has Vitamin A, E, D, K, all the
B vitamins in just two eggs. You get almost thirty
percent of your vitamin needs right there.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And it's according to mine. I've got these other two
pages in front of me right now, and I'm looking
at them. All all nine essential amino acids too, right
in the same two eggs. Yep, Okay, right, that's some
that's a big benefit. I'd love eggs, I really do.
And my son actually cooks eggs quite well. Believe he's
been going to cooking school for like six or seven years.
(12:32):
He's actually a helper now with these little kids, more
so than a student. So anyway, yeah, I'm gonna get
him to whip some breakfast up for both of us
if I can pull it off. Do the benefits we
talked we talked about here mostly apply to younger people
or do seniors also really benefit from me that whole egg.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You know, everybody benefits. But one of the things as
a dietician that I hear in my older patients. A
lot of times people are having dental issues, which makes
chewing more difficult. So you know, eggs are easy to chew.
And also they're having trouble eating enough protein. A lot
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of times my patients will tell me they're just not
that interested in meat or chicken. So eggs are a
fantastic source of protein. And especially now we're realizing after
a lot of research that older people need even more
protein than we ever thought before to prevent muscle loss.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, there wasn't my hand in the air again, sadly
it's it's it manifests itself in my driving distance on
the golf course. It's just so sad again.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Eat some eggs, oh, I.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Intend to believe me. Let's let's flip that egg in
the pan and talk just about the egg whites for
a minute. What on Earth and red wine triggered this
country's aversion to yolks and brought us into a whirl
where you can actually buy a cart and of just
egg whites.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
There were some studies they are called those Framingham studies,
and they were looking at cardiovascular disease in the United
States and what they kind of linked together was that
the more cholesterol people were eating in their diet, it
seemed like the higher their blood cholesterol was. And so
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they linked that together. But you know, that's the nature
science and it drives everyone crazy. The more we do research,
then we break that down a little bit more and
we realize, oh, yes, they were eating a lot of cholesterol,
but it's the fat that was in along with the
cholesterol that was really causing the problem.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
So there was a lot of recommendations about levels for cholesterol,
and that was all based on those research studies.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
There's been a lot of coarse corrections over the years
with medical research. And I'm old enough to remember when
doctors were advertising and endorsing certain cigarette brands on the air.
Oh wow, yeah, oh yeah, you're too young for that.
You don't remember that, do you really happened? I can't
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remember the brands exactly, but there'd be somebody in a
lab coat. Hi, my name is doctor so and so,
and I smoked such and such and you should too. Yeah,
wasn't it so so wrong? I guess while we've already
established what's in the yolks, and I think that's a
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really good thing. Now if I were just I saw
that if I stick with the whites, though, I've got
a better chance of losing weight. Does that make sense
or is that wrong too?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I don't think that makes sense because there's not there's
not much fat in the yolka, not enough to make
a difference in weight loss.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Okay, Well, I'm just gonna consider that wrong evidence. It
wasn't in the story that you that you were quoted in.
By the way, this was in some other research I
did with obviously a horrible source.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
And by the way, there there's there's no way the
egg industry is just throwing those unwanted yolks into the
garbage can What do they get used for?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
You know, I honestly don't know the answer to that.
You mean, when they're just when they're packaging all egg whites,
what happens to the egg yolk?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Where does that go?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I don't know the answer. I don't know the answer
to that. I'll have to research it.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yeah, but now you're curious, aren't you. If you find
that answer, please send it over to me. You just
email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I found the yolks, okay,
and that's no yet. I couldn't help myself there. I'm sorry. Uh,
is there is there anything the game by eating the
shell of the egg. We've eaten everything else so far.
What would could you rind it up and throw it
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into the scramble or what? What would that do? Nobody's
ever asked you that.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
But I don't think it would be very empty. You know,
I'm guessing that it's a I believe that it's a
really good source of calcium. Yeah, yeah, I don't know
how well we could actually absorb it.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yes, I was gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
In our digestive tract. I would have to check.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
On that, you know it. I see potential there because
there's a ton of calcium, and it would also be
sort of roughage maybe moving through your system. But like
you said, how do we absorb it? And it would
just it would ruin the taste of almost anything.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's like, well, they're probably just like, oh, sorry, no.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I was gonna say it's like chewing sand probably.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Unfortunately, Yeah, but you're right. I mean, what are they
doing with the egg yolks and what are they doing
with the eggshells?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah, they need to go somewhere. There's bound to be
they're feeding pets somewhere, some sort of animal eats those yolks.
I guarantee it. Maybe they make chickens fatter with them.
That would bring it full circle, wouldn't it could.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Find out and red one.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
This has really been interesting, and I'm encouraged because I
do like eggs, and I've kind of stayed away from
them for a little while because I was worried that
they were going to adversely affect my health. But I
think you've You've turned me around. I'm going to the store.
I'm gonna buy two dozen today instead of just the
usual one.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Awesome, all right, They're very good for you. They were
even shown in one study people who ate one egg
a day compared to the people who didn't, their blood
pressure was lower.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Oh that is awesome, Thank you so very much. Really,
it's another first for fifty plus, by the way, and
I know we've really opened some ice. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Oh my pleasure.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
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Speaker 1 (20:53):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them. Check us
words and spring on a fred code a wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back, Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I wanted to go back to kind of what I
was talking about in the first segment a little bit
about the roundup, if you will, of illegal immigrants in
the country, and starting with some pretty bad guys. We
had sixteen gang members snatched off the streets of Greater
Houston just this week, some really rough people based on
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the charges that they've caught. Our nation was built by immigrants,
there's no question about that. But those earlier immigrants came
into this country to become Americans, not to destroy America.
They didn't give up their heritage entirely, but they they
made themselves part of hours at the same time, they
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registered upon arrival too, and then worked really hard to
earn citizenship. And the ones who did all that work
started their own businesses went to work for somebody else.
Hard working people usually were successful. One interesting thing about
people who don't have much, such as most of the
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immigrants who the reason they came here because it was
because they wanted more and they heard that they could
get that in America. People who don't have much learn
how to save what they earn, learn how to save
what they can. They use whatever money they have to
to get by and then tuck away the rest. And
you do that enough times, even on a relatively small paycheck,
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you're gonna grow a nest egg. Now, some people's eggs
are bigger than others. I get that, I really do.
But I'm not jealous of anybody who has more than
I have, because that's just that's the course they took
in their lives. They worked very hard. Everybody's lives, everybody's
stories are different, and some end up with more than others.
But money's not a cure all either. It's a handy
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thing to have if you need it, for sure, But
it's also true that some people who don't have a
lot of money are quite happy just to have what
they've got, and and it's more appealing to me, I think,
to work hard and earn that money than to just
have somebody hand it to me. If you're handing money
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to people, they become almost instantly dependent upon it. And
then if you try to take it away from them
and tell them they have to go do something to
earn money from then on, that's not really worked out well,
not in the course of history. True blessing really being
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thankful for what you have and not being bitter about
what you don't have. And that's that's the harder part.
For some people I think is they don't. They don't
they don't want to accept that they can go out
and do more for themselves. Some people. Again I'm not
saying this is everybody's story, that you can just run
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out and get a different job and make more money,
and get a different job and make more money. That's
kind of actually how young people today go into work,
and that's one of the reasons that hiring and job
changes are so complex these days. The average, the average
tenure of younger people tends to be just maybe a
(24:27):
year or two, and then they move on to a
different job. And I don't fault them for doing that,
but it makes it hard on the corporations who are
doing the hiring because it does take a lot of
time to get someone up to full speed in a
new position. And just about the time that person's getting
up to that full speed, lo and behold, they've moved on.
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They slip out. And again it's okay, that's their prerogative.
One thing interesting about people who don't have that money
is that when they earn it, they do hang on
to it. Like I was saying, now I'm getting into
that deep thought stuff. I got to stop that uh
moving out to the National Weather map, the you know
what map, the orange blob over Florida has finally moved.
(25:14):
It's crawling very slowly to the northeast, and it's going
to be a rain maker actually along both coasts of Florida, uh, Georgia,
the Carolinas. But I honestly, I hope it. I don't
know if there's any Saharan dust out there. Have you
heard about that wheel at all? The Saharan dust. Somebody
sent me an email that said, we're getting it back, hooray.
(25:36):
Have you Has it been in the news yet. I
haven't heard anything. That's one thing that I believe. I'm
such an optimist when the when the weather forecasters put
up that map that says, here comes the Saharan dust.
I just get positively giddy because that Saharan dust is
a storm killer and I like that. It's like it's
like spraying raid on ants and hopefully, hopefully that's what's
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going on. It's not supposed to really, I don't think
it's gonna be become anything really big, and I hope
it just does what Tropical Storm Andrea did a couple
of weeks ago and wanders out into the Atlantic Ocean
and then falls apart. That would be nice in the
world of high finance. All four indicators were in the
(26:24):
green this morning. And I also I read a story
about how thank you will I read a story about
how the I think it was this S and P
five hundred hit an all time high. This just despite
all the thread, all the worry over all the things
that we're gonna go wrong with our economy, and lo
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and behold, just this past week, the S and P
through the roof. Through the roof. By the way, there's
tons of advice for young people, and this would apply
to grandchildren, maybe children, depending on who you are and
when you started a family. There's a lot of advice
for young people on saving and investing. It's all over
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the internet. I would caution anybody who who would think that, Okay,
this person knows more about money than anybody else, and
I'm going to take their advice. I don't think I'd
do anything with my money before I got a second
opinion on something that's touchy. There are a lot of ways,
based on what I'm reading, to shelter your money and
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your property from really high taxes on stuff. When you
die there's a lot of information about trusts and all
these different ways, very legal, very lawful, very straight up
ways to safeguard that money from extreme taxation in a
state tax or in capital gains taxes. It's all very legitimate,
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and hey, all kinds of ways to protect what we've
worked so long to have and not a quarter or
a third of that amount to the government to the
irs when we pass. I'm gonna be looking into a
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Speaker 2 (29:39):
If I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues. All right, welcome back to
fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. Thanks Whittling somehow,
I don't know why. Uh, I don't know if I
mentioned yet or not. I was in Corpus Christy this
past weekend with my son looking at the school down
there with him and one of his buddies, who were
both interested in some studying that they could do down there,
some specific majors they could take that are relatively well
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are one of them is available pretty much anywhere. One
of them is not. In any event, it blew like crazy.
Our plan was to do a lot of fishing and
then wrap up the visit with a tour of the
campus down there, and it just blew a million of course,
until the morning we had to go take the tour
and leave, so we missed out on good fishing, but
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we did get a actually got a personal tour. Anyway.
The reason I bring that up is because I had
this story I believe it was a day or two ago,
and failed to report on it. A lifeguard up in
New Jersey, Jersey, Jersey on Wednesday, a lifeguard was impaled
(30:55):
by a beach umbrella. And I guarantee you the wind
blowing down there Sunday afternoon that could have done that
went through the woman's arm pit and came out her back,
and fortunately, very fortunately, she was injured. Obviously, anything that
goes through your armpitting out your back, that's that's a
(31:18):
pretty significant injury. She's lucky she didn't lose a lung.
But long story short is she's gonna be okay. Thank
goodness for that. Right from the Won't Go Away desk.
By way the San Antonio Express News, betto or Art
gathered a Texas crowd of about a thousand people from
the Alamo City over there, who wondered what he had
(31:38):
to say. Mostly apparently, he said about the same things
he's always said. Hopefully Texas has welcomed enough conservative Californias
now who couldn't get out of there fast enough to
offset whatever lingering base still supports the guy. He and
Gavin Newsome, honestly, I think have a lot in common,
(31:58):
except Beto just hasn't been quite as successful at the polls.
And hey, it's politics. You never know which way it's
gonna go. You really don't anymore. And that's why everybody, Hey,
I don't care what side you vote for. I truly,
truly don't just exercise your right to vote that way.
You know you've done all you could to make the
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world look the way you want it to work. Will
Melbourne only a matter of time? I'll just make it too,
only a matter of time? And how is this possible?
How is this possible? Idaho's attorney general said that a
sign that says everybody's welcome here. Everyone is welcome here.
(32:46):
That's all the sign says, violates state law and cannot
be hung in a classroom. You think of anything that
would make that offensive? Will I know? I don't know. Yeah,
I don't know what it could possibly be. Everyone is
welcome here against Idaho's state law. I might have to
(33:10):
look that up and see if I can get a
little more clarification, because that seems a bit weird, just
a bit weird. I don't need that piece of paper.
I did find out, By the way, there was a
poll taking people who were asked, what are you going
to do for the holidays? And will and I and
(33:31):
forty three percent I believe it was I'll look real quickly. Yeah,
forty three percent of the people polled said their plans
include absolutely nothing. They're just gonna stay home and chill
and do whatever else they want to do. While they're
doing absolutely nothing, I guess doing nothing is something technically.
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There are only two companies, by the way, I don't
know whether this is in the country or the world,
but only two companies that have a perfect triple A
credit rating, one of them Johnson and Johnson. The other
went back. In fact, I think Johnson Johnson may be
the largest advertiser in the world. I'm not one hundred
(34:19):
percent sure on that, but I know I'm close. And
the other one is Microsoft, which that doesn't surprise me
at all. I found it. I found it, man, a
little bit more than just interesting that Antarctica, the bottom
of the planet. Antarctica now gets about one hundred and
twenty three thousand tourists a year, and I'm just wondering
(34:45):
how long it's going to be before there's a McDonald's
and a theme park. They they cannot let that go.
I don't know. Certainly there can't be a commercial airport
in Antarctic. I would think there is one, So they're
just taking people in a few at a time, I
would imagine, But one hundred and twenty three thousand people
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are going to Antarctica a long flight from here, but
that might take a day or so. Check that from
the Wall Street desk on Sunday. Word that despite all
that doom and gloom, this is what I was talking
about a little bit earlier. S and P five hundred
hit that record high last week and only today, by
(35:31):
the way, the latest jobs report showed a significantly higher
number of new jobs than expected. And on top of that,
the FEDS expected the lower interest rates as many as
three times before the end of the end of the year,
and that certainly would really loosen up money things. Appreciate
that from the I've got about enough time for one
(35:54):
good one. All right, here's a good one the common
sense desk, thanks for playing common sense. The more and
more universities are are suddenly reconsidering their stances on men
and women's sports, since they've gotten word that continuing down
that path would result in withdrawal of government grants. And
(36:15):
what do you know, all of a sudden, they're reconsidering
those policies. You know, maybe we should keep women out
of men's sports or men out of women's sports. And
by the way, that whole thing for the last couple
of years has cost I don't know how many hopes
and dreams of young girls and women to just be dashed.
(36:36):
They couldn't get the scholarships they deserved because the team
spots were taken by other people. They couldn't get anything
they really wanted. And now maybe title nine will mean
something again, I certainly hope.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
So.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
All right, that is fast and quickly. Gonna wrap this up.
By the way, teenage drivers spend about twenty one percent
of their time behind the wheel looking at their phones. That,
my friends, is why insurance is so high. I got one,
I've got a youngster, and it's rough. That's gonna do
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Oops, there we go. Thank you, Will I hit the button,
But I didn't. I didn't engage the button. Will Johnny
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Mike's off. Thank you for that, man. Welcome to you
another day at Paradise. And by that I mean I
woke up, I had a pulse, and fewer than three
things hurt when I climbed out of bed. The older
(01:08):
I get, the more I realize how good it it was.
When I was a younger man, I had good health.
I believed I had all the time in the world
to get everything done that was going to need to
be done Before I reached the age I am now.
Life was very good back then. Really, I had the
patience of a saint. I was told, I've been told
(01:29):
by my wife, and I've run out of patience with
a lot of the crazy things that go on in
the world. Now, though, with all that in the mirror
and still rolling ahead at full speed, which I'll con
see isn't what it used to be. At least, I
still feel pretty blessed despite hitting a few potholes along
the way. I'm not trying to be a cheerleader here.
Everybody's got things that trouble them. So if you're struggling
(01:53):
with something right now, if you're dealing with it, and
a lot of us are just I don't know, they
seem like they may never get all. But so long
as so long as I got a heartbeat, I got
a chance. That's why I look at it. And I'm
coming to the realization that to shake off the bad stuff,
sometimes we got to take that chance, and not impulsively.
You don't ever want to. I'm a firm believer in
(02:15):
measure twice, cut once, especially with important stuff. But once
you've sat back and really thought about a situation or
a condition or whatever that you think might be holding
you back, put together a plan that makes sense for you,
and then launch it and just see where it leads you.
Even if it doesn't work, you'll know that you tried
that and it didn't work, which means that something else
(02:39):
probably will. That's kind of the way I like it's
so much. That's enough therapy for the day. We're one
day from the fourth of July, and if you looked
in our building garage this morning, you thought either that
today was the national holiday or some new pandemic had
sprung up overnight. There was virtually nobody in the garage.
I really hope all of you are able to make
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the most of whatever time you get off this weekend.
It's pretty cool when the fourth of July falls on
a Friday or a Monday. You get that nice long
weekend without having to burn a vacation day. Then again
on Thursday or Tuesday, if that's where July fourth falls,
that's also pretty sweet because you can take one vacation
day and pretty much turn it into a trip to
(03:22):
Mexico if you want to a little four day weekend
wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do.
And I think four days, honestly, for me, at least
three nights. Three nights and four days is kind of
my minimum for really a chance to decompress and a
chance to get to know exactly where you are and
(03:44):
where things are in whatever different town you're in. Used
to drive me nuts when I was making a lot
of runs up into the Call into the Rocky Mountains
in Colorado and over into Utah to some of these
ski resorts that I was getting to visit when I
was writing for the paper. The issue was that I
would and I was also doing radio shows up there,
(04:06):
and I would go in on a Friday to make
sure that everything was right. Eye and a producer. We'd
go in on a Friday, producer would check the connection
we were going to have for Saturday and Sunday broadcasts,
and then we'd go on and either maybe make a
quick fishing trip that afternoon, maybe if there was time,
get up on the mountain for a little bit, and
(04:28):
just about the time we were getting comfortable with the
surroundings and knew where everything was, the Sunday show finished,
we had to pack and we had to go back
to the airport. I like having that extra night, that
extra day to really feel like you belong there and
you know where everything is so you can make the
most of it. Speaking of Independence Day too, by the way,
(04:51):
I do pray that it goes smoothly and that none
of the bad people we let in our country over
the past four years, not one of them does anything
dangerous deadly tomorrow. It may take a while for the
average American to feel safe again. Honestly, after we've learned
about just who was allowed access to our nation. We've
uncovered thousands literally of violent people, very violent people who
(05:16):
walk among us. We know they're here, and it's frustrating
that people still are trying to impede law enforcement and
its effort to get these people off the streets of
our country. They're doing us no favors, and they just
continue to wreak havoc on wherever they are. Fortunately I
(05:41):
did well. Actually I didn't think that we were. We
were dealing with so much of that around here in
the immediate greater Houston area. And then, wouldn't you know it,
where's this little story I was going to tell you about?
That's not it? Yeah, this right here?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
From the Gangs in America Desk from Breitbart. A joint
task force this week arrested sixteen members of the Anti
Trend Gang. It's a spin off of the Venezuelan and
Trenda Ragua gang. If only that were the end of
the gang bangers in America too. Those guys were right here,
(06:22):
they were here, They in the greater Houston area, And
that's kind of frightening. Still, lots of work for law enforcement.
Operation Take Back America is in full swing and keeps
swinging till they're all gone one point five. That's perfect. Well, actually,
(06:42):
let's do a little something different because it is a
holiday weekend. We will lead Well, we'll go into this
in this first segment with a multiple choice. Will you ready?
All right? Who hit it? Behind you? This is why
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insurance is so high. Save your Money or news from
waffle House Save your Money. A new poll found cheap
weddings are trending and big, expensive ones are becoming less common.
The three things most likely to cause dicker shock. This
should come to no surprise, as no surprise to anyone
(07:27):
who's who's been involved at all in a wedding in
the last twenty years or fifty The venue, price, the photos,
and the food. What else really is there? I'm not
really sure there's a whole lot more to it than that, honestly.
All right, let's go ahead and get this break started
so we don't waste showtime, which I'm guilty of doing
(07:47):
a lot of times, because I like to take care
of my clients, and if I start now, I can
do that. UT Health Institute on Aging is that fantastic
collaborative of providers from every medical discipline. They are specially
trained additional to the education it took them to get
their diplomas in how to apply their knowledge to seniors,
specifically to us. They are mostly in the medcenter most
(08:11):
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to outlining hospitals and communities and offices and clinics and whatnot,
so that if you don't want to go to the
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take a look at all the tremendous resources that are
available there, and then work your way into a consultation
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(08:34):
Institute on Aging utch dot edu slash Aging utch dot
edu slash Aging.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. Welcome
back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening. I certainly
do appreciate this little chunk of your midday, your lunch hour,
your happy hour, whatever it is. We'll talk in this
segment about a food item that's been in the news
for more than a year now.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Not because it's tastes good, not because it's popular, but
mostly it just was outrageously expensive and there are a
lot of reasons for that that are going away now,
thank goodness. And that would be the egg but we're
not on egg prices today. My guest and I will
talk about is something that she I don't know somebody
(09:27):
put this title on at the great debate egg whites
versus whole eggs. I didn't even know they were fighting tonight.
And with that I'll bring in Anne red Wing, registered
dietitian and certified diabetes care specialist at UT Physicians Family Practice.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Welcome aboard, Anne, Hi, Doug, nice to be here.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Oh it's my pleasure, really. So I did some prep
this morning, and when I went searching for good questions,
what do you know? I came up on a piece
that was written just on the same subject. And oh
and behold, it features quotes from you throughout the whole piece,
even as your picture.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Oh my gosh, I Zinky Powers wrote that at ut.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, and so I know I've got the right person here.
So there's got to be a lot more good questions
about eggs and just fried or scrambled. Right, right, let's
get into that. I've been told over the years, for example,
that egg yolks are super high in cholesterol. I got
to stay away from them. What's the truth about that?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, they are super high in cholesterol.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
That's okay, you don't want.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, yeah, but you don't have to stay away from them.
In twenty fifteen, the USDA said, after a lot of research,
that cholesterol in food is not really causing cholesterol in
our blood to increase.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Wow, that's interesting, right, So what does cause the thing
is the increasing.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Saturated fat?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Uh? Okay, Yeah, that my hand kind of goes in
the air a little bit, maybe just a tiny bit
on satur great fat, and talk about that in addition
to the cholesterol thing we just kind of solved right there.
But talk about other positive things that egg yolks can
do for our bodies. And I've got I found like
two pages of this stuff, so go right ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So the egg yolk contains most of the nutrition in
the egg. I mean, the whole egg is a good
source of protein, but the egg yolk is what has
all the vitamins and minerals and other substances that are
really good for us.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I saw in that same story. Excuse me, but I
saw that eating two eggs a day can cover up
to thirty percent of our daily vitamin requirements. That's a
that's a big box check.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Just two eggs, right, that's right, that's right. So the
egg yolk has Vitamin A, E, D, K, all the
B vitamins in just two eggs. You get almost thirty
percent of your vitamin needs right there.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And it's according to mine. I've got these other two
pages in front of me right now, and I'm looking
at them. All all nine essential amino acids too, right
in the same two eggs. Yep, Okay, right, that's some
that's a big benefit. I'd love eggs, I really do.
And my son actually cooks eggs quite well. Believe he's
been going to cooking school for like six or seven years.
(12:32):
He's actually a helper now with these little kids, more
so than a student. So anyway, yeah, I'm gonna get
him to whip some breakfast up for both of us
if I can pull it off. Do the benefits we
talked we talked about here mostly apply to younger people
or do seniors also really benefit from me that whole egg.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You know, everybody benefits. But one of the things as
a dietician that I hear in my older patients. A
lot of times people are having dental issues, which makes
chewing more difficult. So you know, eggs are easy to chew.
And also they're having trouble eating enough protein. A lot
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of times my patients will tell me they're just not
that interested in meat or chicken. So eggs are a
fantastic source of protein. And especially now we're realizing after
a lot of research that older people need even more
protein than we ever thought before to prevent muscle loss.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, there wasn't my hand in the air again, sadly
it's it's it manifests itself in my driving distance on
the golf course. It's just so sad again.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Eat some eggs, oh, I.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Intend to believe me. Let's let's flip that egg in
the pan and talk just about the egg whites for
a minute. What on Earth and red wine triggered this
country's aversion to yolks and brought us into a whirl
where you can actually buy a cart and of just
egg whites.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
There were some studies they are called those Framingham studies,
and they were looking at cardiovascular disease in the United
States and what they kind of linked together was that
the more cholesterol people were eating in their diet, it
seemed like the higher their blood cholesterol was. And so
(14:34):
they linked that together. But you know, that's the nature
science and it drives everyone crazy. The more we do research,
then we break that down a little bit more and
we realize, oh, yes, they were eating a lot of cholesterol,
but it's the fat that was in along with the
cholesterol that was really causing the problem.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
So there was a lot of recommendations about levels for cholesterol,
and that was all based on those research studies.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
There's been a lot of coarse corrections over the years
with medical research. And I'm old enough to remember when
doctors were advertising and endorsing certain cigarette brands on the air.
Oh wow, yeah, oh yeah, you're too young for that.
You don't remember that, do you really happened? I can't
(15:23):
remember the brands exactly, but there'd be somebody in a
lab coat. Hi, my name is doctor so and so,
and I smoked such and such and you should too. Yeah,
wasn't it so so wrong? I guess while we've already
established what's in the yolks, and I think that's a
(15:44):
really good thing. Now if I were just I saw
that if I stick with the whites, though, I've got
a better chance of losing weight. Does that make sense
or is that wrong too?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I don't think that makes sense because there's not there's
not much fat in the yolka, not enough to make
a difference in weight loss.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Okay, Well, I'm just gonna consider that wrong evidence. It
wasn't in the story that you that you were quoted in.
By the way, this was in some other research I
did with obviously a horrible source.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
And by the way, there there's there's no way the
egg industry is just throwing those unwanted yolks into the
garbage can What do they get used for?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
You know, I honestly don't know the answer to that.
You mean, when they're just when they're packaging all egg whites,
what happens to the egg yolk?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Where does that go?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I don't know the answer. I don't know the answer
to that. I'll have to research it.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yeah, but now you're curious, aren't you. If you find
that answer, please send it over to me. You just
email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I found the yolks, okay,
and that's no yet. I couldn't help myself there. I'm sorry. Uh,
is there is there anything the game by eating the
shell of the egg. We've eaten everything else so far.
What would could you rind it up and throw it
(17:00):
into the scramble or what? What would that do? Nobody's
ever asked you that.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
But I don't think it would be very empty. You know,
I'm guessing that it's a I believe that it's a
really good source of calcium. Yeah, yeah, I don't know
how well we could actually absorb it.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yes, I was gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
In our digestive tract. I would have to check.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
On that, you know it. I see potential there because
there's a ton of calcium, and it would also be
sort of roughage maybe moving through your system. But like
you said, how do we absorb it? And it would
just it would ruin the taste of almost anything.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's like, well, they're probably just like, oh, sorry, no.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I was gonna say it's like chewing sand probably.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Unfortunately, Yeah, but you're right. I mean, what are they
doing with the egg yolks and what are they doing
with the eggshells?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah, they need to go somewhere. There's bound to be
they're feeding pets somewhere, some sort of animal eats those yolks.
I guarantee it. Maybe they make chickens fatter with them.
That would bring it full circle, wouldn't it could.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Find out and red one.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
This has really been interesting, and I'm encouraged because I
do like eggs, and I've kind of stayed away from
them for a little while because I was worried that
they were going to adversely affect my health. But I
think you've You've turned me around. I'm going to the store.
I'm gonna buy two dozen today instead of just the
usual one.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Awesome, all right, They're very good for you. They were
even shown in one study people who ate one egg
a day compared to the people who didn't, their blood
pressure was lower.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Oh that is awesome, Thank you so very much. Really,
it's another first for fifty plus, by the way, and
I know we've really opened some ice. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Oh my pleasure.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
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(19:28):
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(19:49):
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Speaker 1 (20:53):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them. Check us
words and spring on a fred code a wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back, Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I wanted to go back to kind of what I
was talking about in the first segment a little bit
about the roundup, if you will, of illegal immigrants in
the country, and starting with some pretty bad guys. We
had sixteen gang members snatched off the streets of Greater
Houston just this week, some really rough people based on
(21:29):
the charges that they've caught. Our nation was built by immigrants,
there's no question about that. But those earlier immigrants came
into this country to become Americans, not to destroy America.
They didn't give up their heritage entirely, but they they
made themselves part of hours at the same time, they
(21:52):
registered upon arrival too, and then worked really hard to
earn citizenship. And the ones who did all that work
started their own businesses went to work for somebody else.
Hard working people usually were successful. One interesting thing about
people who don't have much, such as most of the
(22:13):
immigrants who the reason they came here because it was
because they wanted more and they heard that they could
get that in America. People who don't have much learn
how to save what they earn, learn how to save
what they can. They use whatever money they have to
to get by and then tuck away the rest. And
you do that enough times, even on a relatively small paycheck,
(22:37):
you're gonna grow a nest egg. Now, some people's eggs
are bigger than others. I get that, I really do.
But I'm not jealous of anybody who has more than
I have, because that's just that's the course they took
in their lives. They worked very hard. Everybody's lives, everybody's
stories are different, and some end up with more than others.
But money's not a cure all either. It's a handy
(22:59):
thing to have if you need it, for sure, But
it's also true that some people who don't have a
lot of money are quite happy just to have what
they've got, and and it's more appealing to me, I think,
to work hard and earn that money than to just
have somebody hand it to me. If you're handing money
(23:20):
to people, they become almost instantly dependent upon it. And
then if you try to take it away from them
and tell them they have to go do something to
earn money from then on, that's not really worked out well,
not in the course of history. True blessing really being
(23:42):
thankful for what you have and not being bitter about
what you don't have. And that's that's the harder part.
For some people I think is they don't. They don't
they don't want to accept that they can go out
and do more for themselves. Some people. Again I'm not
saying this is everybody's story, that you can just run
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out and get a different job and make more money,
and get a different job and make more money. That's
kind of actually how young people today go into work,
and that's one of the reasons that hiring and job
changes are so complex these days. The average, the average
tenure of younger people tends to be just maybe a
(24:27):
year or two, and then they move on to a
different job. And I don't fault them for doing that,
but it makes it hard on the corporations who are
doing the hiring because it does take a lot of
time to get someone up to full speed in a
new position. And just about the time that person's getting
up to that full speed, lo and behold, they've moved on.
(24:50):
They slip out. And again it's okay, that's their prerogative.
One thing interesting about people who don't have that money
is that when they earn it, they do hang on
to it. Like I was saying, now I'm getting into
that deep thought stuff. I got to stop that uh
moving out to the National Weather map, the you know
what map, the orange blob over Florida has finally moved.
(25:14):
It's crawling very slowly to the northeast, and it's going
to be a rain maker actually along both coasts of Florida, uh, Georgia,
the Carolinas. But I honestly, I hope it. I don't
know if there's any Saharan dust out there. Have you
heard about that wheel at all? The Saharan dust. Somebody
sent me an email that said, we're getting it back, hooray.
(25:36):
Have you Has it been in the news yet. I
haven't heard anything. That's one thing that I believe. I'm
such an optimist when the when the weather forecasters put
up that map that says, here comes the Saharan dust.
I just get positively giddy because that Saharan dust is
a storm killer and I like that. It's like it's
like spraying raid on ants and hopefully, hopefully that's what's
(26:01):
going on. It's not supposed to really, I don't think
it's gonna be become anything really big, and I hope
it just does what Tropical Storm Andrea did a couple
of weeks ago and wanders out into the Atlantic Ocean
and then falls apart. That would be nice in the
world of high finance. All four indicators were in the
(26:24):
green this morning. And I also I read a story
about how thank you will I read a story about
how the I think it was this S and P
five hundred hit an all time high. This just despite
all the thread, all the worry over all the things
that we're gonna go wrong with our economy, and lo
(26:46):
and behold, just this past week, the S and P
through the roof. Through the roof. By the way, there's
tons of advice for young people, and this would apply
to grandchildren, maybe children, depending on who you are and
when you started a family. There's a lot of advice
for young people on saving and investing. It's all over
(27:07):
the internet. I would caution anybody who who would think that, Okay,
this person knows more about money than anybody else, and
I'm going to take their advice. I don't think I'd
do anything with my money before I got a second
opinion on something that's touchy. There are a lot of ways,
based on what I'm reading, to shelter your money and
(27:29):
your property from really high taxes on stuff. When you
die there's a lot of information about trusts and all
these different ways, very legal, very lawful, very straight up
ways to safeguard that money from extreme taxation in a
state tax or in capital gains taxes. It's all very legitimate,
(27:54):
and hey, all kinds of ways to protect what we've
worked so long to have and not a quarter or
a third of that amount to the government to the
irs when we pass. I'm gonna be looking into a
lot of that stuff for my son. I really am
Champions Tree Preservation company up in guess where Champions, and
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what they do, what they've done for decades now, is
sending Arborus to your house. That Arbous assesses your trees,
each and every one of them, says, okay, that one's good,
that one needs some food, that one needs a little haircut,
and this one she gotta go. And once you get
those assessments, once you get that work done, you don't
(28:39):
have to worry once storm season comes that something in
your yard is going to fall onto your house. A
very good friend of mine in Barrel last year had
a very large pine tree just roll over and fall
on his roof toward his house to pieces. You don't
want that, Let Champions Tree Preservation. Come out there and
(28:59):
make sure that your trees are gonna stand up to
whatever nature throws our way this summer and fall. They
own all of their equipment. They even have a tree farm.
If a tree has to come out and you want
to replace it, they can help you with that as well.
They'll be there every time you need them. I'd strongly
recommend geting that assessment now while there's nothing headed our
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two zero one call them today. What's life without a nap?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
If I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues. All right, welcome back to
fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. Thanks Whittling somehow,
I don't know why. Uh, I don't know if I
mentioned yet or not. I was in Corpus Christy this
past weekend with my son looking at the school down
there with him and one of his buddies, who were
both interested in some studying that they could do down there,
some specific majors they could take that are relatively well
(30:13):
are one of them is available pretty much anywhere. One
of them is not. In any event, it blew like crazy.
Our plan was to do a lot of fishing and
then wrap up the visit with a tour of the
campus down there, and it just blew a million of course,
until the morning we had to go take the tour
and leave, so we missed out on good fishing, but
(30:34):
we did get a actually got a personal tour. Anyway.
The reason I bring that up is because I had
this story I believe it was a day or two ago,
and failed to report on it. A lifeguard up in
New Jersey, Jersey, Jersey on Wednesday, a lifeguard was impaled
(30:55):
by a beach umbrella. And I guarantee you the wind
blowing down there Sunday afternoon that could have done that
went through the woman's arm pit and came out her back,
and fortunately, very fortunately, she was injured. Obviously, anything that
goes through your armpitting out your back, that's that's a
(31:18):
pretty significant injury. She's lucky she didn't lose a lung.
But long story short is she's gonna be okay. Thank
goodness for that. Right from the Won't Go Away desk.
By way the San Antonio Express News, betto or Art
gathered a Texas crowd of about a thousand people from
the Alamo City over there, who wondered what he had
(31:38):
to say. Mostly apparently, he said about the same things
he's always said. Hopefully Texas has welcomed enough conservative Californias
now who couldn't get out of there fast enough to
offset whatever lingering base still supports the guy. He and
Gavin Newsome, honestly, I think have a lot in common,
(31:58):
except Beto just hasn't been quite as successful at the polls.
And hey, it's politics. You never know which way it's
gonna go. You really don't anymore. And that's why everybody, Hey,
I don't care what side you vote for. I truly,
truly don't just exercise your right to vote that way.
You know you've done all you could to make the
(32:20):
world look the way you want it to work. Will
Melbourne only a matter of time? I'll just make it too,
only a matter of time? And how is this possible?
How is this possible? Idaho's attorney general said that a
sign that says everybody's welcome here. Everyone is welcome here.
(32:46):
That's all the sign says, violates state law and cannot
be hung in a classroom. You think of anything that
would make that offensive? Will I know? I don't know. Yeah,
I don't know what it could possibly be. Everyone is
welcome here against Idaho's state law. I might have to
(33:10):
look that up and see if I can get a
little more clarification, because that seems a bit weird, just
a bit weird. I don't need that piece of paper.
I did find out, By the way, there was a
poll taking people who were asked, what are you going
to do for the holidays? And will and I and
(33:31):
forty three percent I believe it was I'll look real quickly. Yeah,
forty three percent of the people polled said their plans
include absolutely nothing. They're just gonna stay home and chill
and do whatever else they want to do. While they're
doing absolutely nothing, I guess doing nothing is something technically.
(33:55):
There are only two companies, by the way, I don't
know whether this is in the country or the world,
but only two companies that have a perfect triple A
credit rating, one of them Johnson and Johnson. The other
went back. In fact, I think Johnson Johnson may be
the largest advertiser in the world. I'm not one hundred
(34:19):
percent sure on that, but I know I'm close. And
the other one is Microsoft, which that doesn't surprise me
at all. I found it. I found it, man, a
little bit more than just interesting that Antarctica, the bottom
of the planet. Antarctica now gets about one hundred and
twenty three thousand tourists a year, and I'm just wondering
(34:45):
how long it's going to be before there's a McDonald's
and a theme park. They they cannot let that go.
I don't know. Certainly there can't be a commercial airport
in Antarctic. I would think there is one, So they're
just taking people in a few at a time, I
would imagine, But one hundred and twenty three thousand people
(35:08):
are going to Antarctica a long flight from here, but
that might take a day or so. Check that from
the Wall Street desk on Sunday. Word that despite all
that doom and gloom, this is what I was talking
about a little bit earlier. S and P five hundred
hit that record high last week and only today, by
(35:31):
the way, the latest jobs report showed a significantly higher
number of new jobs than expected. And on top of that,
the FEDS expected the lower interest rates as many as
three times before the end of the end of the year,
and that certainly would really loosen up money things. Appreciate
that from the I've got about enough time for one
(35:54):
good one. All right, here's a good one the common
sense desk, thanks for playing common sense. The more and
more universities are are suddenly reconsidering their stances on men
and women's sports, since they've gotten word that continuing down
that path would result in withdrawal of government grants. And
(36:15):
what do you know, all of a sudden, they're reconsidering
those policies. You know, maybe we should keep women out
of men's sports or men out of women's sports. And
by the way, that whole thing for the last couple
of years has cost I don't know how many hopes
and dreams of young girls and women to just be dashed.
(36:36):
They couldn't get the scholarships they deserved because the team
spots were taken by other people. They couldn't get anything
they really wanted. And now maybe title nine will mean
something again, I certainly hope.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
So.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
All right, that is fast and quickly. Gonna wrap this up.
By the way, teenage drivers spend about twenty one percent
of their time behind the wheel looking at their phones. That,
my friends, is why insurance is so high. I got one,
I've got a youngster, and it's rough. That's gonna do
it for today. Thank you for listening. We'll be back tomorrow. Audios.
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