Let's Talk Dermatology

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Megan Rogge about ways to keep your skin healthy.

Episode Transcript

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This show is all about you.On it a good die. This

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is fifty plus with Doug Pipe.Helpful information on your finances, good health,
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, Tuesday, Nay,
the program starts right now. Thankyou all for joining us on fifty
plus. Well, I'm just gonnatell you right now. We're in this
palatial studio of ours. I hadsome onions on my barbecue or my Mexican
food for lunch. So if itwafts, the waffs over your monitors,

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I apologize. You're okay with that? I guess we'll see when it starts
to waft. See if it wafts. I'll try to speak in tiny little
spurts and maybe that'll help. Idon't know. I doubt it. Fine
day outside. I got tickled thismorning as I drove in. And this
just goes to show you how,I guess how forecasts have to be formulated,

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because for starters, they're going tobe especially in a city the size
of Houston coupled with its outlying areas. This is basically a hundred miles by
one hundred miles they're having to talkabout as our local forecasts. Not like
we're in Topeka, Kansas, whereyou could throw a rock from one side

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and I'm just joking one side oftown to the other. But the forecast
I heard for this morning as Idrove in with my sunglasses on and my
visor down to keep the burning sunout of my eyeballs. Forecast was mostly
cloudy today with some sunshine this afternoon. Now, this was being thrown out

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there at seven six, seven fifteen, seven thirty somewhere in there, and
I thought, okay, somewhere,there probably is a cloud somewhere other than
those little faint, wispy things Isee up in the sky right now.
But even though the clouds have gatheredsome momentum and size and shape and even

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a little bit of gray color,to them outside the windows right before I
came in here. I'm betting it'sgonna be okay. And then the next
five days, if you care,the next five days, the next chance
of reign is three and a halffour days out, and that's ten percent
twice two days a ten percents precededby three days of zeros. So,

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in other words, kind of welcomeback to almost summer. Right, there
aren't a whole lot of things inlife that could be thrown at us at
our age, I feel that wehaven't already seen. We're like, after
watching the Astros game last night,we're kind of like veteran outfielders. Okay,
in Major League Baseball, we've alreadycaught a million flyballs, been catching

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them since we're in peewee ball orin this well. I was gonna say
catching them nowadays in T ball,but come to think of it, back
when my son and his friends wereplaying T ball, I don't remember any
of them catching a flyball. We'verun into the fence one hundred times,
but we're still ready to lace upthe cleats and play more games. So

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you just take what the field givesyou. You take what the game gives
you and you move on, andthat's where we are. Really. I'll
tell you briefly, because it's evenstarting to bore me, that the markets
were pretty flat all morning, oilsdown a handful of change, fifty fifty
shot. Like I said, itrained today, so they say, but

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none beyond that for about a week. I'll leave this morning with something from
that. Be careful what you askfor. A file news that led New
York City Mayor Eric Adams to askthe courts to revisit it's sanctuary city status.
First words of the quote I sawwere these, imagine this coming out

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of a politician's mouth when he's talkingabout something that he really doesn't like.
And I quote, the law ofsanctuary city was in place long before I
became mayor, and quote in otherwords, not my fault. Oh no,
no, Mayor Adams, not yourfault. Never mind that you had

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an opportunity from the day you tookoffice to make the very same legal appeal
every single day and maybe get thatchanged before you really needed it changed.
Because it's costing you every dime youcan generate up there. He's already he's
been asking for federal money forever nowto shut this stuff down. They've got

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hotels full of migrants. They've gotway big problems up there. There was
one pair of migrants who were bustedseveral weeks ago actually, and they had
in their free hotel room. Ifyou could dig through the free food containers,
there was found twenty five thousand dollars. I believe it was of Pilford

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merchandise from one of the big departmentstores there. It's just it's total.
He messed up that Eric Adams wouldlead his speech about this with it's not
my fault. Basically. He thenqualified the whole thing by saying, nobody
thought they'd ever have to actually dealwith a humanitarian crisis of this proportion.

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You know why, because they didn'tthink anybody could get them all the way
up to New York. They didn'tthink that would happen. This is a
textbook case of what we in theSouth called crawfishing. He's gonna make sure
it's not his fault. He's gonnamake sure he knows that he's gonna do
everything he can to reverse it.But if that doesn't work, that won't

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be his fault either, because hewill have tried. He will have tried
amazing they knew exactly what they weredoing. They just never dreamed they'd see
bus loads and plainloads of migrants intheir own cities. Well, you asked
for him. Same thing. InChicago, there was a reporter back during
former Mayor Lightfoot's term. There's avideo out there that he shot going up

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to one of what once was Chica, one of Chicago's nicer hotels. But
in this video, apparently that hotelwas closed to the public and open only
to migrants. The reporter I actuallytried to get in, but he was
denied access by at first one,then two, and then three people.
Hotel residents he spoke with seemed plentyable to respond in English when asked where

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they were from, but when heasked what they planned to do in the
United States, the answer always atleast four The video I saw was that
they didn't speak English. I canbelieve that to be true in some cases,
but it sure seemed to me likethey felt very uncomfortable answering questions other
than where they were from. Muchmore likely that they just felt, yeah,

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they didn't want to talk about it. They've been told. It almost
seemed like they've been instructed to saywhere you're from, and then don't say
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thing, it might come close tobeing your dream home, you might want

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fifty percent more insulation from the hotand cold of Texas, which we're always
going to have. Go to thewebsite and take a look around Kirkholmes dot
com. That's k you r Kbecause at Kirkholmes. It's all about you
aged to perfection. This is fiftyplus with Doug Pike. All right,

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welcome back to fifty plus. Thankyou all so much for listening. As
we transition from segment one to segmenttwo, as we lean into summer,
I think it's appropriate that we talkabout our skin and how to keep it
healthy for however long we're gonna probablymake it last fingers crossed, and i'd

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encourage you all to listen while Ispeak with doctor Meghan Rogue at dermatologists with
UT Health Houston and UT Physicians.Welcome aboard, doctor Hi, Doug,
thanks for having me. Oh mypleasure. I know my peers and I
were just blissfully unaware of the damagewe were doing to our skin when we
were young, with baby oil lacedwith iodine and whatnot. But but can

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you think of any valid reason whyfewer than half of this country's older adults
now actually use sunscreens when they're outgardening or playing, or playing golf or
fishing or whatever. Sure, Ithink that you know, it's if it's
not part of your routine, ifit's not part of your habit, it's
just one more thing that you haveto do if you don't quite understand the

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effects that sun can have on yourskin, or if you just simply you
know, don't wish to put somethingkind of greasy on your skin. There's
a lot of you know, negativeconnotations from sunscreens that they're greasy, or
that they smell bad, or thatthey you know, they leave white on
all of your things, and so, you know, sunscreen can get a

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bad rep. Sometimes they're not thatthey're not that way at all anymore,
really are they They have a lotthey really have come out with a lot
of nice new sunscreens. There isthis nanotechnology where they basically have really tiny
particles of the active ingredients. Nowthat makes them much easier to rub in.

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They of course come in lots ofdifferent formulations, gels, sprays if
you don't like the positional lotions,and so yeah, there's a lot more
options. I think if you knowyou have it in a while, go
give it a try. And soI can give this audience at least a
little bit of a kick in thepants here that the sun, the damage

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the sun does to our skin isis cumulative and irreversible. It's kind of
like how concrete eats away at thetread on our tires, isn't it.
Yeah, that is true. There'snothing we're ever going to be able to
do about We can't. We can't, we have no way to reverse what's
going on. But what we cando is just stop the damage. I
guess right right, Yes, Soyou know, sun skin cancers are certainly

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a result of cumulative sun exposure,but if you can further protect yourself from
the sun, you can definitely reducethe amount of damage and the incidence of
skin cancer. Well, and justsome of the ugly things that pop up
on us. First all, beforewe scare everybody anymore, is it fair
to say that most of the weirdstuff that shows up in the mirror at

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my age is innocuous most of it? Yes, I would say. You
know, benign skin growths are muchmore common as you get older, So
I would say probably one of themost common things that brings people into my
office are skin growths called subrate keratosisor cherry and geomas. So one is

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kind of a brown, warty orwaxy looking growth that's really common as you
get older, and then the otheris like a red red bump, like
bright red and so those are concerningto people because they're new. They might
pop up, and you know,there might be many of them popping up
at a time. Sometimes they're itchyor irritated, but they are benign.

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And it's usually not those that I'mconcerned about when you come to see me,
but rather finding something else, maybemore subtle, that is more of
a problem. I know a lotof people because I'm around golfers and fishermen
a lot, and so far,knock on wood, I haven't had any
skin cancer show up. I've hada lot of that other stuff you talk
about, barnacles or what my guycalls him. He said, just pick

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them off if you want to.It's no big deal. But what is
it that we're looking for that reallyshould kind of you know, I'm looking
in the mirror here, I amjust got a shower and can see everything
like it or not, and Isee something brand new? What should make
me come racing to you? Andwhat should I just watch for a while?

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Sure, so I would say,any you know, darkly pigmented mole,
especially one that's totally flat, youknow, that would be an early
sign of melanoma, would be kindof first melanomas grow in a horizontal before
they become a bump that you canactually feel, and the typically grow quickly,

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and there are many different colors andthe borders are irregular, so those
would be something concerning, especially ifthat something is new or you know,
the ugly duckling sign. I liketo say, whatever looks different than the
other types of growth that you have, that could certainly be concerning. And
then there are fast skin cancers thatgrow that kind of grow in like a

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dome shape with like a central coreto them, So that would be another
thing to kind of look out for, like a dome shaped growth with a
core at the center. These flatthings you're talking about are kind of new
to me because I'll is always underthe impression that it needed to be something
raised. So that's is that newthinking. No, not necessarily I think

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that, um, but that issomething Yes, very commonly people come in
and say, well, I wasworried about this mole because it's raised.
Um. A raised mole is notnecessarily, you know, any more concerning
than a flat mole. And likeI said, most melanomas are actually going
to arise new, not from preexisting moles, and they typically start in

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a flat phase first before they startto grow into an actual bump that you
could feel. What about the sizeof something? You ever watch Doctor Pencil
or Pimple Popper? Have you everseen that show? I have seen?
How could you? How could anybodypossibly wait until something's the size of a
grapefruit? Hey, I think youmight want to take a look at this
dog? Do you see that?Really? Does that happen? I do?

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Yeah, it's amazing what some peoplemight be able to kind of tell
themselves is okay or can wait?Um? Certainly? I think the most
concerning thing is when like something isbleeding and growing, like you really got
to come to the office to haveit checked out. So so yeah,

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those those kind of lumps under theskin, those tend to be really slow
growing, like cists and my pomas. So you know, the people do
kind of wait on those. Butthe ones that you really shouldn't wait on
are the ones that are you know, you know, painful or bleeding in
front of you. What about size? Does it matter? Quarter time Nickel?
I've heard what about size of pencil? Racer? Is that the one
where you start thinking about it?Yeah, that's that's true. I think

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bigger than the tip of a pencileraser, you know, But it's not
every growth that's bigger is going tobe a problem, and not every growth
that's smaller is not going to bea problem. If you're kind of a
general cutoff rule, but I wouldsay that, you know, certainly,
it's not the end all. Yeah, I've watched and seen some of the

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things that my friends had chopped offeventually or burned off or whatever frozen off.
And I've had my share of thoseas well, and it's really remarkable
how fast something can show up andthen how much time can actually lapse before
you look at it again and go, you know, yeah, I need
to go get that chicked out,all right, So let me shift here
to prevention before we run out oftime. So what other than a sunscreen?

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Is there anything we can do?Is there anything on late night TV
that really works to help our skin? I mean sun avoid in so seek
shade when you are outdoors. Andthen sun protective clothing is is really I
think important, especially if you don'tlike applying sunscreen, because that'll give you
really good lasting protection. There areclothes that have the upf or ultra protective

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factor in them. You want tolook for clothes that are upf fifty or
higher, and you know why,brim hats and bandanas to cover the next
things like that, So all thoseare important. And then just make sure
that you reapply sunscreen. One applicationis not going to get you through the
whole day, so every two hoursor if you're sweating or swimming, then

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you need to reapply afterwards. Everyeverything you're talking about. It's just so
simple to do, and we needto do it. On the shade part.
It works out well for me whenI play golf because I hardly ever
hit a fairway anyway, so I'musually out in the trees. Doctor Megan
Roge on fifty plus, thank youso very much. I really do appreciate
your time. No problems by allright, Senior trade shows. If you

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are interested in a consumer show thatcaters only to us and all the things
that we might want or need,like a dermatologist, like some help with
medicare, like some handyman, helparound the house, things like that.
It's all there at the senior tradeshows. And there is one this Thursday

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at GSH Event Center right here inHouston. Doors open at ten o'clock in
the morning. I promise if yougo over there and walk through, walk
up and down every aisle, takeyour time, plan to spend a little
time there. I think they'll havesnacks there. They usually do. Keep
you nice and refresh, get somewater in you, get a little light
snack to make it down the nextaisle. You'll find something you're glad you're

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gonna have found at the Senior Tradeshows. These things have been going on
for years. I'm so happy nowthat I'm able to speak for them.
Senior Trade Shows dot Com. That'sthe website. You can go there and
see all about what they do andfind that schedule Senior Trade Shows dot Com.
Now they sure don't make them likethey used to. That's why every

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few months we wash them, checkhis fluids and spray on a fresh cutle
wax. This is fifty plus withDoug Pike, Oh my word, pounding

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on the console in here and knockmy phone over twelve thirty three or so,
I guess it is on a ninefifty KPRC. Thank you for listening.
This is fifty plus. I'm Dougi'swill and we'll plod forward. By
the way, Thank all of youwho have I don't know who did it
all but any and all of youwho have actively shared this show with friends,
because it's working and more and morepeople are being drawn to the show,

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and that can only do us allbetter. By the way, I
got a solicitation for an interview fromsomeone this morning that I it just caught
me, as you know what,this world's full of ugly, mean,
weird, goofy crazy stuff right now, negative stuff. I need something positive.

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And when I saw this one comeacross the transom, I thought,
yeah, I need to get thiswoman on the phone. Her name is
I want to say her name is. It's Taran camp that's her name.
And apparently will she has something likehalf a million followers on inside. I
don't know whatever, she's got abunch, but what she does and what

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I'm gonna allow her to share withthis audience tomorrow is she is what they
call a menu planner. Okay,now she's she doesn't she's not a caterer.
She's not gonna bring food to yourhouse. What she's gonna do?
And she said, she said,this is wonderful that you've accepted this interview,
because I get a lot of calls, a lot of emails from grandparents,

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wanting to entertain their grandchildren for aparty or a special occasion, a
different special occasion than a party,and whatever it is. What she does
for a nominal fee is suggest toyou two or three, say, dessert
options, two or three appetizers,and maybe something else, a cake or

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whatever, and for twenty thirty fortybucks. Not a lot of money.
Really, when you stop and thinkabout what you're gonna get for it.
You're gonna get recipes, you're gonnaget shopping lists and everything, but the
labor to make whatever it is you'reabout to make, all the instructions.
And I think that's pretty cool,I really do. I'd be tempted.

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I'm gonna I'm scared to do it, but I'm gonna share this with my
son because I think he'll take advantage. He loves to cook, and he
can follow a recipe and he'll evenmake it his own a little bit.
If he thinks somebody who's received onthe receiving end will like a little bit
more of something and a little lessof something else, so coming with it,

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maybe I'll maybe I'll do that.Maybe I'll won't will do you cook
much? Maybe sometimes I'll take thatas a no, no, No,
you don't cook, not at all. When's the last time you cooked your
girlfriend a meal, a real meal, not something in the microwave? Oh
you mean, I mean like stovetopor grill or stovetop. You know.

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I I turned the stove on,and I get the spaghettios out, and
I dump them in the bowl andthen put them on the stove. Now,
put them on the stove in alittle pot, a little yeah,
you know, a little pan,and then you know, we sort of
just we just eat. We eatthat just together, three meals a day,

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straight out of the can. Yep, you can heat the can.
You know you could do that ifyou had to. I wouldn't advise it.
I mean I normally. So howlong do you think she's gonna put
up with this? Will? Oh? She's not, she's not. Does
she leave us morning? Is thatwhere you're trying to tell me? Yeah,
that's exactly what I'm gonna go anempty house? Yeah? Is you?
And the dog says no, she'staking the dog taking the dog.

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So okay, there you go.Oh, I gotta get to this base
NERD news because I don't want tomiss it. The largest explosion. Pay
attention to this, will, becausethere's gonna be a pop quiz for you.
The largest explosion ever seen has beencaptured by astronomers, more than ten
times brighter than any known supernova,three times brighter than the most radiant tital

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disruption event. Whatever that is.Oh, that's where a start says,
here falls into a black hole.So this is big. This is big.
How long will has this thing lasted? And bear in mind that it's
still going on. I'm gonna gowith two point three billion years? Lord?

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No, Will, Oh my gosh, it's lasted currently more than three
years, more than three years.For reference, will supernova only visible for
a few months. So supernova onsteroids. That's what this, this is
it took place. I'll give youa chance to redeem yourself. Will.

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How long? How far away wasit when it happened? And well,
yeah, how long I'm gonna gowith. How far away I'm gonna go
with it was It's gotta be prettyfar. It's been light years. Yeah,
it's gotta be pretty far away.It's pretty far away. Using my
extensive knowledge of physics and astronomy,I think it's maybe about one hundred million

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light years away. She thought youwere being extreme. Didn't you you did,
didn't you? Uh? No,you It ran over you like a
bus on a bug eight billion lightyears away. When the universe this is
all just so mind blowing. It'sso hard to wrap your head around a

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concept of the fact that that theuniverse was around six billion years old and
currently is thirteen point seven billion yearsold. How they determine all this stuff?
Honest to goodness, it would takemore than a couple of semesters to
learn. And it does fascinate me. Ah. It says most supernova and

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title disruption events only last for acouple of months before fading away. For
something to be this bright for twoplus years was very unusual. It is
believed it continues here once again.I'm sorry, I'm just satisfying my own
fascination. It believed. It's believedthe incredibly powerful boom was caused by a

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vast cloud of gas. Pop quizwill how much bigger than our son?
I mean, it's got to beat least a few times bigger, thousands
of times, it says here largerthan our son that then fell into the
jaws of a super massive black hole. And how they just look up in

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the sky and get a couple ofsnapshots from a space telescope and then come
to those conclusions. Ah, that'spretty cool. This is boy, This
is like taking a bath. Itsays such events are very rare, typified
by the thick dusty ring left behindin the aftermath. Kind of like a

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bath after I went out and playedit at the baseball fields all day long.
Thick dusty ring around the tub.Oh my word, let's move on,
shall we. I want to findout if anybody could possibly let me
know how in the world Americans canwatch what's happening in this Hunter Biden investigation

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and not lose their minds. Thishas gone on for a couple of years
now, and we learned just yesterdaythat the IRS has actually yanked its entire
team off the case reported on ordersfrom the Department of Justice ales that actually
followed this case or all reports significantand very strong evidence that at the very

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least, this case needs high levelinvestigation. The only reason I can even
imagine it's not getting the attention itdeserves is that other people also kind of
have some secrets stucked away and theydon't want them being shown under any kind
of a spotlight. Cases like thisor the whole reason Department of Justice is

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what it is, or at leastat least it was what it was intended
to be. This is an embarrassmentfor our nation. It really is.
All this happened as more and moreevidence arises, one hundred and seventy pieces
in counting of suspicious activity in onedeal. This is why it's it's bothersome

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that they would just walk away.The irs million bucks went through sixteen different
wire transfers to different companies, throughfive different banks before it ultimately landed in
Biden family hands. That's a prettyserious effort. At least it looks like
it innocent until proven guilty. Okay, I get that, but it sure

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looks like somebody was trying to hidea piggybank somewhere. All right, Well
where did this other piece of money, piece of paper go? I don't
have it. Maybe it's all illusionor sorry, no refunds. Maybe it's
all an illusion. Students at Stanfordworking on aipowered glasses that act like a

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personal teleprompter to help you chitchat.They listen to what people say and then
pop up things in your vision rightthere inside the lenses. So they could
be helpful for job interviews. MaybeI don't know if I would want to
do that for dates, because ifyou just start rambling off what AI is

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telling you, if AI tells yousomething really oopsie, Daisy, that's not
good. On the way out.Yes, well I saw your hands contorting
back and forth. I know whatit means. UT Health Science centerce Consourium
on Aging would be happy to helpyou get rid of some issue that's bothering
you as a senior. They knowwhat makes seniors healthy, and they know

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what makes seniors ill, and theyare very good at fixing things that are
broken on seniors. We are theonly people seen at UT Health Science Centers
Consortium on Aging, and everyone thereis specially trained in senior medicine. Go
to the website, look around,read the downloadable guides. Make sure that
you're seeing someone the next time youhave an ailment who understands from the time

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you lay out your symptoms probably what'swrong, probably before many other doctors would
be able to do that. AndI'm not knocking other doctors. I'm just
saying that these people, the doctorsa nerve, this is the therapist.
All of them are specially trained aboutus ut H dot edu slash aging ut

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H dot edu slash aging Once lifewithout a NAT. I suggest to go
to bed and sleep it off.Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy.
Back to Doug Pike as fifty pluscontinues. All right, welcome back

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to fifty plus. Fourth and finalsegment of the program starts. Now we've
got what six eight minutes? Willsomething like that? Yeah, about eight
minutes, not ten though, nowthat would have been nice for a change.
I guess it's good that there arepeople interested enough in this show that
they want to part it and that'sYeah, this audience is worth supporting,

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that's for sure. This is thereal Americans as far as I'm concerned,
people who we got our hands dirtygrowing up. We learn to take care
of ourselves. That's all. Areally interesting piece this morning on what parents
are supposed to do, and basically, parents have to teach kids to do

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the things they don't want to do, because when they flip at eighteen or
twenty one, twenty two and leavethe house, they need that skill.
They need to be able to makethemselves do what they have to do before
what they want to do, Otherwisethey'll never do that stuff. You couldn't
convince my son of that right nowand assure you of that, all right,

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Will, I'm gonna give you achance, and I'll go back to
my other stuff here. I alreadytold well, this one, I'll tell
you because I've already told Will,and I don't want to just leave it
here. Some kid who qualified fora Make a Wish, A kid who
clearly has some bad disease, andthese not maybe long. I don't know

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exactly what the qualifications are, butI have a pretty good idea of the
concept. This twelve year old child'smake a Wish was to get arrested,
and some police in Utah made thathappen for him. I really the little

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overline I put on here was likefather, like son. I don't know
what on earth would make a childwant to be arrested. I just don't
get it. All right, Well, I'll let you pick one of these
money money going down or going up? Oh, well, let's go up,

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Let's go up. I'm actually gonnacross this out the one I had
on going up, but I'm gonnaput where I have getting high. That's
this is the one I'm gonna readinstead of the going up one. Because
I think this is more interesting.Weddings in space. This is your shot.
Will, Now you can really makeit special. Weddings in space are
about to be a thing. Itsays here listen, tell me this doesn't

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sound kind of familiar. Will You'reready a where did it go? There
is a high altitude balloon company plansto start sending people up by the end
of next year for weddings in space. That sounds that ring a bell at
all, like maybe a dinner bell. You remember that like two weeks ago

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when we talked about Yeah, dinnerand outer space. Remember is it the
same company. Yeah, it's gottabe cost the same amount of money,
one hundred twenty five thousand a guest. And the joke is the guests per
person that's for the weddings, andI think that's exactly what it was for
dinner and outer space too. Andthe joke of it all is they don't

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even go to outer space. Theyjust go up in a balloon, kind
of like that Chinese spy balloon.They get it way up there, but
it's not outer space, but they'recalling it a space wedding. There's plenty
of space up there, but you'renot in space. You're just near space.
I guess I don't know. Idon't. I don't know that a
balloon would work very well in zerogravity. That would have there would be

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no reason for the balloon really,and men re entry would be a bear,
wouldn't it. Oh my gosh.So let me go back over to
this other page. The weird stuffthat's going on in this world. Oh,
this is this is something that I'mcautiously optimistic over. Okay. Brittney

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Griner, w NBA star, whospent time in a Russian prison, recently
played Friday Night in her first gamesince being released from that prison and return
to this country, which I'm gladshe was. I don't want any American
held anywhere and the rest of theworld in a prison, I really don't,
no matter what their political beliefs,if they're American, they need to

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come back here and we'll talk tohim here. What she did was stand
during the playing of the national anthem. This time she said it was different,
and I truly hope she was sincere. I truly hope she takes the
opportunity at some point to come outand say she was wrong about her country.
As a move in that direction.I'd also like to see her do

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as only one team member in thephotograph did, but most of the people
in the stands we're doing, andthat is placed her hand over her heart
during that song. If she reallybelieves what she's saying she believes, now,
that's a small thing she could doto let us all know she's more
sincere than it it may look.I'm going to give her the benefit of

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the doubt for right now, butI'd really like to hear more. I'd
really like to see what she's doingsix months or a year from now.
Great story from up in Michigan.A fourteen year old kid looking through the
window of his house out across thebackyard where his little eight year old sister

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is playing and looking for mushrooms.Why that I have no idea she's out
there. A guy comes out ofthe woods and throws a hand over her
mouth and grabs her and is draggingher into the woods. And that fourteen
his kid. The bad guys onlyseventeen, but he didn't know that looks
like a big dude. The kid, the fourteen year old in the house,

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grabs his sling shot and I'm guessinga pocket full of metal ball bearings
based on the rest of the story, and he goes out into the yard
and starts chasing this dude, andhis first shot hits the guy square in
the back of the head and knockshim just silly enough and her sim just

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badly enough that he lets go alittle bit of a little sister and she's
out of there. The guy turnson him, and he reloads his sling
shot and lands one square in themiddle of this guy's chest, just smokes
him, and he turns around andtakes off into the woods. The police

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come and the I don't know howthey found him, but the rest of
the story said that they found himhiding in a gas station. He was
hiding in a gas station, andI'm sure that the big knot on his
head and the bruise on his chestwere evidence enough to have probable calls to

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cuff him and haul him away.That story ends about as happily as it
could end. I'm sure that littlegirl is gonna have nightmares. I'm sure
the little boy's gonna have nightmares.But man on man, at some point
in their lives, after enough therapy, they're gonna have one heck of a
door to tell, and I'm thrilledto share that story with you. Guys.

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All right, real quick, willgoing down nervous habit or yeah,
but no, let's do going down? Thank goodness, going up? Get
this. Remember all the worry wehad over the price of eggs last year?
Um? Yeah, plummeting it sayshere they're plummeting wholesale price. If
a dozen eggs, how much willwholesale price dozen eggs? Oh, I

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don't buy eggs. I didn't askyou. If you I'm gonna go with
I don't know. Let's five dollarsninety four cents, eat eggs, eat
some omelet's have some fun. We'llbe back tomorrow. Audios.