May 17, 2023 • 40 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Taryn Camp of Life & Sprinkles about her business and how to make your home the place all of the grandkids want to be at this Summer.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplacethe TV remote because you were the TV
remote for you. Remember when musicsounded like this, Remember when social media
was truly social? Hey John,how's it going today? Well, this
show is all about you. Onit a good die. This is fifty
(00:25):
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful informationon your finances, good health, and
what to do for fun. Youknow that one fifty plus brought to you
by the UNT Health Consortium on AgingInformed Decisions for a healthier, happier life.
And by Incredible. If a Staineseems indebible, you haven't tried incredible.
(00:47):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here we go.
Wednesday edition of the program starts rightnow. And if you have grandkids,
or if you have young children whojust hang around your house because you
have a pool or whatever in thebackyard, parents, bring them over whatever
it is, wherever it is.Segment three of today's show is going to
(01:07):
be a great interest to you,especially as we go into summer when all
the kids are gonna be out ofschool and maybe they're gonna be showing up
at your house because you have thingsat home that toys and games and whatever
a pool table, a pool pingpong table that their house doesn't have.
So the parents are gonna lug themover there, and they're gonna drop them
(01:30):
off with you so they can goon a little mini vacation one weekend or
a week or month however, wherever, whyever, these kids wind up at
your house. My guest in thatthird segment today is going to teach you
how to ramp up your game beyondjust going to the store and buying some
(01:51):
of that precut cookie dough and throwingthat in the oven. Her name is
tarn Camp and she's she pitched meon her own yesterday. This woman has
it's sort of like a half amillion followers or something like that, and
just out of nowhere she pitched meon this idea and on behalf of grandparents
(02:12):
everywhere. I said, absolutely,yes, let's get this done. How
about tomorrow. So here we gotoday, and it's gonna be good.
In the third segment anyway, movingforward, as sunny puffy cloud Wednesday out
there, I guess it beats thetar out of the past several days and
comes not a moment too soon.Actually, for the guys who cut my
yard especially, it's been too wetto cut for several weeks, and they're
(02:38):
actually probably gonna have to spend someextra time in the backyard where the grass
actually grows. That backyard of mine, for some reason, somehow, is
just loaded with life, loaded withnutrients in the soil. I contend to
this day that I could throw ahandful of tomato seeds into the back corner
(03:00):
specifically, and in about a weekwe could be eating those tomatoes and salads.
It's just it's nuts. It's absolutelynuts. Front yard, totally different
story. It gives me fits,although it is showing signs of improvement finally
now that I've decided to replace atleast half of it, Like, wait,
give us a chance. We're tryingto grow here, and in its
(03:23):
favor, there has been enough treetrimming in the area lately to possibly let
that grass grow. Who could haveknown twenty five thirty years ago when that
neighborhood went up that putting four oaktrees in every front yard would be an
issue except for the ones on thecorner where they got six. These trees
(03:46):
are huge now and their canopies arehuge, and pretty much any yard that
hasn't had its trees professionally and regularlytrimmed. As having trouble growing grass,
that's not our problem, not inmy house. We have been getting it
done all the time for the betterpart of thirty years now, well,
LUs say for twenty years anyway,since the trees got big enough to need
(04:10):
pruning. But yeah, you can'tmake everybody prune their trees, and so
sometimes the lights a little bit ofan issue. But it's better now.
We're all on the same page.You're all trying to grow grass over there,
and it'll work out. I guessit'll work. We'll leave with some
fun stuff, some interesting stuff,some just generic. It's not news,
it's just a story I wanted toshare. Tessa from over with the Rod
(04:34):
Ryan Show on the bus stopped bymy desk this morning to ask me about
getting into golf, about getting golfclubs. She actually she said, I
went over to Memorial and I boughta golf club. Well that's a start,
okay, So now you're you're readyto grab a golf club properly.
(04:54):
First and foremost, and this isI'm taking this opportunity to share not only
her enthusiasm but my passion for thegame of golf. And all it can
offer to folks our age. Firstof all, you don't have to be
good at golf to enjoy it.If you're not a tour pro now you're
never going to be one ever.That's okay, though. You can sure
(05:15):
have some fun on the golf courseif you just if you just commit yourself
to a few lessons, learn thebasics, and then practice as much or
as little as you want to getbetter or maintain just some modest level of
ability to move the ball forward eachtime you swing golf is it's a little
(05:38):
unique too, and that it's theonly the only other sport I can think
of this like this is bowling,where your average score is used to generate
a handicap, a number of strokesor pins you get taken off your net
score at the end, so thatyou and a really good golfer or bowler
can kind of play the same courseor the same lane at the same time,
(05:59):
and each if you has the sameshot at actually winning that day based
on that system. No need tobe embarrassed if you don't play well either.
Everybody in your group is way moreinterested in how they're playing than they
are in you and your troubles andyour mistakes, and there is absolutely no
rule in friendly golf that says youcan't just anytime you want to on any
(06:20):
hole you're on, you can't justpick up your ball, put in your
pocket and tell a group you'll startfresh on the next hole. If you
get frustrated, if you get worriedthat you're embarrassing yourself, just pick your
ball up, put it in yourpockets, say I'll meet you on the
next team. I play now andthen with a group of retired guys who
are about anywhere from fifty to eightyplus handicaps from three to twenty four.
(06:42):
We're playing from three different sets ofties, and some of us stronger than
others, some more flexible. Butonce we tee it up, we're all
on a level field thanks that ahandicap system. It's really cool. I
hope you will consider golf if you'renot getting the exercise you need, especially
if you're willing to walk the golfcourse. You can ride for a little
while till you get your legs underyou and then go from there. That'll
(07:06):
be enough about golf. Although thePGA Championship is this week, I'll be
talking about that this weekend on myOutdoor show over on Sports Talk seven ninety
Saturday and Sunday mornings at once thesun's up. You'll probably hear me either
for three or two hours, dependingon which day you're listening. On the
way to this break, I willtell you all about Kirk Holmes, the
(07:26):
third generation custom builder, been aroundhere for gosh thirty plus years, building
beautiful custom homes for anybody who wantsone, in any design or configuration or
direct Wherever you want it, they'llput it. You got a lot,
they'll put it on your lot.You want to face it north, they'll
(07:46):
face it north. Anything anywhere.It's your dream, it's your custom home,
and kirk Holmes is very good atdoing what they do. The only
two things that are common amongst everyhome they build are that twenty year structural
warranty I've mentioned that's twice the standard, and the two by six exterior walls
for fifty percent more insulation around thathouse then is offered by most most builders.
(08:11):
Kirkhomes dot com go check out theirSouthern Living showcase home in Mission Ranch
up in College Station. If youlike, take a look at some of
the online you can look at allkinds of homes they've built, some of
them bigger than others, some ofthem all different designs. It's your dream
and that's the beauty is they're ableto construct your dream. Could draw it
(08:31):
on a napkin and they can takeit from there. Go visit with them,
talk to them about making your dreamhome come true. Kirkholmes dot Com
is a website ku r k becauseat Kirkholmes it's all about you. Now.
They sure don't make them like theyused to. That's why every few
months we wash them, check hisfluids and spring on a fresh coat o
(08:52):
wax. This is fifty plus withDoug Pike. All right, welcome back
(09:16):
to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. I do I appreciate it. Be
sure to tell your friends about thisshow. If you like it, I
know you're gonna like this third segmentif you've got grandchildren, if you've got
kids, or even if you knoweven honestly, if you just like to
entertain. I'm teasing this thing alittle bit more each time, I guess.
But if you entertain over summer youhave people over the house for whatever
reasons, you're gonna want to knowwho tarn Camp is and what she does.
(09:41):
That's all I'm gonna tell you Rightnow. I'm gonna tell you about
something that ABC Television is doing forthe fall season. It's making a move.
I'm not entirely sure that this realityshow needs to exist, and I
honestly suspect that it's being done tocounterbalance ratings issues, maybe surrounding some backlash,
(10:07):
especially I would think among seniors tosome of their more recent programming decisions.
Everybody's just pivoting on a pinpoint thesedays to make sure that nobody's unhappy
with them. And if they makesomebody unhappy, they try to make it
better. They take them out andbuy them an ice cream cone or whatever.
(10:31):
This reality show will have. Yougot any I asked you if you
had ever heard of The Bachelor,What do you think that ABC might be
doing now to make old folks happy? Oh? The Grand Bachelor? Close
enough, The Golden Bachelor. TheGolden Bachelor, what a not cool name?
(10:54):
The Golden Bachelor, Where some olddude's going to get a second chance
to find love and live out therest of his years with somebody who likes
the same stuff he likes, Orat least that's what they think what could
possibly I wrote down what could possiblygo wrong with this, I'm now questioning
what could go right. I'll bemorbidly curious, I really will. It
(11:18):
might even watch the first couple ofepisodes, but if it's anything like the
traditional Bachelor shows, I'm gonna checkout as soon as that guy starts making
out with all those grandmothers who volunteeredto be part of this bizarre experiment.
I can't wait, honestly, beingtotally honest, to see who's in line
(11:39):
to take a chance on this guy. And it just says they're gonna see
if they can find him a partnerto live out the rest of his life.
Whatever that means, I guess,and I'll bet you a dollar.
Will I'll bet you a dollar thatwhen they reveal who this guy is,
no matter what he looks like,he's gonna be loaded. He's gonna be
(12:01):
financially secure. Because I don't knowmany women who would go on a reality
show for a shot at living outtheir lives with someone who who's living social
Security check to social Security check.And nothing against anyone who's found themselves in
those circumstances, but that I thinkwould be I don't think that would work
(12:26):
for the television show. It'll beinteresting, The Golden Bachelor. Can you
think of a worse name for that? Really? Oh, I'll give you
five seconds. I thought was somethingworse more time The grand Daddy Show,
The Granddaddy. Yeah, I don'tknow. I just don't like it.
(12:50):
Big debate on the other end ofthe age at spectrum. There's debate on
social media recently over whether or notparents should charge their adult children rent for
staying in the house. I'm actuallyI'm all for it, especially if that
grown up child's opted to go towork rather than go to college. Either
(13:11):
rent or maybe at least some incrementalcontributions to the grocery bill, electric bill,
water bill, stuff like that.Gotta do something right to further that
person's education on how the world works. I saw a piece yesterday on I
don't remember where it was about howparenting really, when you boil it down,
(13:31):
is about teaching kids to do thethings they have to do but they
don't want to do. It startswhen they're young, with picking up their
toys and taking baths, making theirbed. Then it's taking out the garbage,
you're washing dishes or mowing the lawn. Nobody wants to do that stuff,
not me, not you, notanybody else, but we have to.
(13:52):
It all has to be done tokeep the house running smoothly. You
have to have a job or owna business to earn money to do the
stuff you want to do and havethe stuff you want to have. And
if we don't teach them that,they're pretty unlikely to teach themselves, because
it is unpleasant to have to stopdoing something you really enjoy doing to go
(14:16):
do something you have to do.I can't tell you how many times I've
had to stop fishing to go drivemy son somewhere it needs you to come
home. I gotta go to baseballpractice. I do it because I care
about him. I do it becauseit's the right thing to do. And
(14:37):
that's what we've got to teach them. Otherwise they're gonna wind up very unnecessarily
frustrated by the real world once we'regone. No. I once played golf
with a good friend. It's beenmany years now over at river Oaks Country
Club, beautiful track. Love playingover there, haven't been in a while.
Age. I gotta call him back. We need to go back,
(15:00):
and we need to talk some businessanyway, I can host him at my
place, or he can we cango over to his either way. We're
out there on the golf course andhe looks over and there are three young
men in their twenties standing on oneof the greens looking over Putts on a
week day afternoon. And he justkind of shook his head, and I
said, what's up? He goes, I just notice who's over there in
(15:20):
that group right there. What's thebig deal about them? He said?
Right over there, amongst those threeguys there is an roughly a net worth
of about three hundred and fifty milliondollars, and not a one of them
has ever had a job, nota one. It's a good thing they
(15:41):
got money from the family, becauseit doesn't sound like they would kind of
know what to do. Well,you want to take the wheel here for
a second? Sure, Oh yes, you do? Okay, safe for
now? That's check mark. Don'teat the decorations, check mark or ignorance
is bliss. But what was thatone? Don't eat the check marks?
(16:07):
No, good lord, don't eatthe decorations. Will there we go?
That's what you want? This issure? Just one sentence in Italy,
way way long time ago, tomatoeswere used as a table decoration, but
weren't being eaten. And then somebodychopped a bunch of them up and threw
(16:30):
them in a hot, hot panof boiling water. I guess that's the
only kind of pan of boiling water. And somebody in the on the other
side of the kitchen was whipping upsome plain old pasta that just never tasted
right. They just knew there hadto be something that could go with that
pasta. And then somebody brought ina chunk of a cow that they chopped
(16:55):
all to pieces, and before youknew it, they had spaghetti knocked out
there you go. I don't thinkdid spaghetti not start in Italy? Is
that correct? Wasn't Wasn't it aChinese? I believe it was Chinese?
Yeah, I believe it was.Well, no, wonder well because the
Italians hadn't figured out to eat thetomatoes yet. Probably. All right,
(17:18):
have I got any time left atall? Will you have a minute?
Okay? I can give you this, and even less I might have time
for another one. Then NASA,this is good news. This is great
news for all of us, eventhe youngsters, even the youngest of the
young In this audience will benefit fromthis. It'll make you feel, it'll
make you sleep better at night.NASA says now that none of the dangerous
(17:38):
asteroids we know of will hit theEarth for at least the next thousand years
so and by then all it woulddo then is just wipe out a bunch
of AI computers that we're talking toeach other. Yeah, no asteroid problems.
(18:00):
I'll tell you about these paintings later. I hope the shortest one I've
got here NASA can or napping.It says here, not NASA. You
know what, I'll hold This one'sbecause I'm gonna get I'm gonna stumble my
way to being overtime and will won'tlike that. UT Health Science Center's Consortium
on Aging invite you to come overand visit them and sit down with one
(18:22):
of the doctors or nurses or othercaregivers over there to learn what it's like
to be seen and treated by someonewho specializes in senior medicine. That's all
they do. That's the only peoplethey see is us. Now. By
us, I don't mean the thirtyfive year olds in this audience who are
who are wonderfully listening on behalf oftheir parents. I'm talking about seniors.
(18:45):
We are the only people they see. We are the only people they will
treat at the Consortium on Aging becausethat's what they know best. You go
over there, give out a listof symptoms. This hurts, that doesn't
hurt. This feels pretty good,but it was hurting last week and now
it's not hurting anymore. All ofthat, they understand what you're telling them,
(19:06):
and they'll be able to help youfix anything that is wrong so that
you will do as you want todo and live a longer, happier,
healthier life. Go hang out withyour grandkids, go go on a trip
around the world, whatever you wantto do. They're gonna help keep you
in shape to do that. Utdot edu slash aging ut dot edu slash
aging Aged to Perfection. This isfifty plus with Doug Pike. All right,
(19:44):
welcome back to fifty plus. Thanksfor listening. I'm Doug. He's
will and as always, all right, do appreciate, appreciate you sharing the
show with your friends. With schoolletting out soon for summer, there's going
to be a lot more time sharedby grandparents and g children. And my
next guest is going to help youmake your house the one the grandkids want
(20:06):
to visit first and most often.And with that, I'll bring in someone
nowhere near fifty, frankly, whocan make you a hit with those kids.
Tarn Camp also known as Life andSprinkles. I like that, already,
welcome to fifty plus. Hi,how are you actually, well a
little close to fifty. How areyou? You're a fiven? You're a
(20:29):
fiven number one. I did seethat you majored in hospitality management and spend
time in food service. But betweenthe lines, I was reading the words
of somebody who wanted more from thateducation, somebody who wanted to be a
little more hands on and all in. Am I right, Yes, completely.
I major in hospitality management, andthen I worked in the food service
(20:52):
industry for years and years after.But I had grown up watching Sandra Leaves
of My Homemade and loved all ofher recipes and how approachable they were and
how family friendly they were. Sowhen social media became a big thing,
I really really got into it,and I kind of geared my channel that
(21:15):
way, and then all of thepeople that follow me love it, and
I get so much great feedback thatit's totally the place I was supposed to
wind up. I knew I hadthe right person for this interview. This
is going to be so enlightening toa lot of people. Just offhand.
How many recipes do you think youhave at present? Oh jeez, well,
(21:36):
I make about four hundred videos ayear in each one different recipe.
I've been doing it for like threeto four years, so I have so
many, so many recipes. Yeah, and it's really cool because when I
do post on social media, I'llsay something like this is a raspberry poundcake,
(21:57):
and then everyone's so interactive, theysay, can you do blueberry lemon
pie? So you know, youkeep experimenting and trying it, and it's
just so fun because people come upwith the most amazing ideas. Awesome.
Taran camp On fifty plus from Lifeand the Sprinkles dot Com, let's help
grandparents in this audience start thinking outsidethe ice box. Maybe maybe dare to
(22:19):
do something more colorful and exciting withthe grandkids and bake a dozen chocolate chip
cookies. Okay, where do westart. I have a lot of grandparents
that dmme or pmme, and theyalways tell me how much fun they have
with their grandkids. With the recipesthat I put out because they are homemade,
(22:41):
so it's a lot of really easy, approachable ingredients and they are making
something homemade, but it's not toobig of a mess. It's nothing that
they haven't heard of, and ithas really simplified steps two or three that
come to mind that are favorites amonggrandparents and the grandkids. Well, shockingly,
I make these chocolate covered oreos andchocolate covered more and they're super simple
(23:07):
to make, but there's just littletouches here and there that you can do
to customize it for Mario Brothers orBarbie or decorated and characters. And they're
always sending me the different photos ofhow they're turning out, and it is
so adorable and it's something that theycan do with them, especially during each
holiday, so they'll send me Easterand then fall in, Halloween and Christmas,
(23:30):
so it's it's so much fun yearround. Anybody ever send you a
picture something they cooked and you wantedto write back, try again, you
know what. I don't know ifit's just because it's really easy, but
like, the only thing that Isee is that these kids have such other
time they put seven thousand sprinkles onit or they're covered with Eminem's, But
(23:53):
I mean, I guess I don'tblame them. What's the average prep and
cook time for the recipes you're you'regoing to recommend to somebody. It depends
if it's something like take like ano churn ice cream, I mean they
only take like fifteen twenty minutes.And then even the cupcakes and the cakes,
it's really just the bake time allof it. All of it usually
(24:15):
only has a few steps that arekind of broken down so that the cake
can do it very easily and thegrandparents don't have to hover over them or
be too nervous. So I wouldsay, like some of them can be
done in like thirty minutes. That'sawesome, and that's a good amount of
time because you can hold the kidsattention that long. You wouldn't want something
(24:36):
that you can do in two minutesbecause it probably wouldn't be original or interesting,
and you don't want something that willtake two hours with all the infamite
emphasis. Excuse me on what kidsare eating now? Taran, do you
do you divide your recipes into likehealthy stuff on this side of the page
and delicious on the other, orwhat kind of you know, more than
anything, I get gluten free.Yeah, and it's really really cool because
(25:00):
Oreos are gluten free. You know, they have a gluten free choice now,
So making those chocolate covered Oreos isa no brainer for the gluten free
and that the cakes and the cupcakesbecause there are so many box mixes and
you know, easy flour hacks.It turns out to be a pretty simple
(25:21):
thing and the taste is almost identicalexcellent. I don't want to run out
of time before we get to talkingabout your website and how it works.
So we pick a plan, yousend recipes, but in the middle there
are we going to give you informationon kind of what the theme of this
party is or how old the kidsare whatever, So how does that work
exactly? So say it's a birthdayparty. A big one that I'm getting
(25:45):
right now is Mario Brothers the movie. Yeah, so people will say,
you know, can you do acookie a cupcake? And then maybe something
like a fruit cup or you knowsomething maybe not as for those kids.
Yeah, So then I'll send backa few different ideas and I'll actually photograph
it so they can have a pictureto copy, do a shopping list,
(26:07):
and It's really cute because I getto hear what the kids like, and
you know how many people will bethere and whether it's going to be many.
Oh, come back, where didshe go? I think the oven
might have gone up. Well,you want to try and call her back,
(26:30):
Well, I don't not take abreak. I'm gonna take a break,
and when we come back, we'regonna have her back on the phone
because I want to wrap this upwith her and make sure you guys know
how to get in touch with her. That's tearing camp from Life and Sprinkles
dot com. A Late Health willhelp you, Well, they got two
locations around around town where they canhelp you get over things that are little
(26:51):
problems potentially becoming big problems, butwe don't want them to be that.
At a Late Health they're gonna helpyou make sure that that problem doesn't get
any worse, in fact, thatit gets resolved. Something like a large
prostate that's noncancer, is something likefibroids, something like back pain or neck
paint or joint pain, ugly veins, things like that that either make you
(27:12):
uncomfortable or make you just not likewhat you see in the mirror. I
got a mirror. I'm not themost thrilled person in the world. I
may knock on their door one dayand go get some help with some of
my stuff. A late health dotcom covered by Medicare. Most of their
procedures take maybe a couple of hoursin the office and that's it. Find
(27:33):
out more. Go to a latehealth dot com or call seven one three
five eight eight thirty eight thirty excuseme seven one three five eight eight thirty
eight eighty eight seven one three fiveeight eight thirty eight eighty eight, or
again a late health alat e alate health dot com old guy's rule.
And of course, women never getold if you want to avoid sleeping on
(27:57):
the couch. Okay, well,I think that sounds like a good plan.
Fifty plus continues. Here's more withDoug. All right, welcome back
to plus. Thanks for listening.Certainly to appreciate it. We'll go ahead
(28:17):
and bring tearing back on. Ican't believe it just fell apart. What
happened, Taran? Did something comeout of the oven too soon? I
don't know. I was like,I can hear them, but they can't
hear me. Holy cow. Yeah, I just went totally Where did she
go. I don't know where shewas on it, but I wasn't gonna
just leave it like that. Therewas no way I could do that because
(28:37):
I wanted to continue explaining a littlebit about your website, which I dug
around the first time in probably fiveyears that I've dug around a website that
doesn't have golf balls or fishing equipmenton it. So you should feel very
proud that you caught my attention foras long as you did. Let's talk
about that. You have seasonal themes, you have just a theme for just
(28:57):
about anything. And then how sowe say, Okay, I've got a
party, I got forty people coming. What do you send them? So
I will send over the final product. We'll have the recipes, the ingredient
lists like a shopping list, andI'll have all the scraps with it.
And then I'll even most likely onthe if they're a little bit trickier or
(29:21):
if I'm going to show how todo the placement, know some of the
things, I'll send a video aswell, and then some suggestions on different
toppers or customs sprinkle mixes. Soit'll all be in one little package sent
over in about a week, wheredid you get your passion for the kitchen?
Where did that start? You know, I'm really happy you asked that.
(29:41):
So I had collective cookbooks for yearsand years and years, and one
New Year's Eve, I was like, it's going to be my resolution to
just start making stuff from them,and I put them all in an Excel
Spredgiet and I randomly picked recipes andI started just making them back to mac
and then after that I just fellin, Look, you know who's my
favorite or the best cook in ourhouse? My fifteen year old son.
(30:07):
He has has taken cooking lessons sincehe was about six, and now he's
graduated now to where he's he's assistingthe guy who teaches the cooking lessons at
the same school where he started learning. And um, yeah he can.
He can knock it out of thepark, he really can. And there's
so much online too to learn fromTucker YouTube, all these sleeps. So
(30:29):
that's really really cool. Life andSprinkles dot com house business, good good.
I thought it would be a littleflower around summer, but you know
what, people like ice cream cakestoo, So yeah, well round the
main reason for this conversation the grandparentssuddenly now that schools out are going to
(30:49):
be seeing those grandkids more often.And like I said right up front,
hey make them come to make themwant to come to your house. Don't
make it a chore to go tograndma's house. Then want to come over
there, you know. Yeah,and if they it's the party is even
just summertime, we can totally dostuff like that where there's stream and pool
(31:10):
treats and absolutely that that's just thisfun. Can't have enough of those.
Thank you, Tarry. This wasreally a pleasure, and I hope the
audience appreciates this. I know theywill. I know they will because they
got grandkids coming to see them.Um. Yeah, go to the website
Life and Sprinkles dot com if youget a chance, Tarn, help tell
(31:30):
your folks about me. Let's getthis show going, all right, Well,
okay, it's been a true pleasure. I'm so glad to be able
to talk about something a lot lighterand fluffier than some of the topics we
have to cover around here medically andwhatnot. This has has been a real
breath of fresh air. Thank youso much, Tarran Camp. Thank you.
(31:52):
Yeah, YouTube, Life and Sprinklesdot Com. That's some fun right
there, all right, will checkthis out. A pair of small portraits,
perhaps made spontaneously, have been foundthat were done by none other than
(32:12):
Rembrandt. His distant in laws werefeatured in these two verys the smallest works
of his that are known to exist, And there they look to be.
The images actually maybe eight inches squaresomewhere in there, but still to look
at them, you can tell thiswasn't any paint by number staff. It's
(32:36):
just fascinating the detail he can putinto something that's small. Estimated to have
been painted around sixteen thirty five,they depict a wealthy plumber, Jan Williams
vander Plume and his wife Yepkin Carols, who lived in the city of Leiden.
(32:59):
They're on married Rembrandt's cousin. Butthat's about as close as they get
to any any more, any moreconnection than that. What do you think,
will is the estimated value of thesepaintings, which are about to go
up for auction because they were justfound randomly, says I discovered recently among
(33:20):
a private collection. Nobody really evenknew the Are we going starting bids?
What is he estimated buying price?Um, I'm gonna, I'm gonna start
with for the pair, for thepair, so you get are you getting
a deal on them? You know, volume discount? Okay, let's say
(33:42):
um, let's say it's uh,it's it's three million each. I'm gonna
go with, uh, you know, a five five million for the pair.
You're in the game. Actually,this is one of your better guesses.
I know you're gonna be as startledas I. Six point two five
million to ten million were in there, six and a quarter to ten million
dollars for these two paintings. Ifit says here previous sales are any indication,
(34:07):
Well, the past is usually indicativeof the present future. So there
you go. Not a bad littlefind in that private collection. Yeah,
I wish I could find something likethat, honestly, in my garage or
in my parents old box of stuffthey passed down to me whatever. I
doubt that. I know. Mymom actually had a couple of original paintings
(34:30):
by a woman who lived down thestreet from her where the last house that
my parents both owned before my dadpassed away. But they're not rem brands.
They're good, they're pretty, they'renot rem brands. How much time
do we have left now? Oh, Doug, we have I mean,
well less than six. We haveabout five minutes and fifteen seconds. Oh,
(34:52):
that's perfect because I got a coupleof things I want to go over
before we leave here. By theway, I'm so disappointed. Now in
Hershey's they have launched will they havelaunched Reese's vegan plant based cups and chocolate
bars. It's ridiculous, they've they'vejust they may have lost me until they
(35:14):
take those things off the shelf.Honestly, how many how many kids do
you think come next Easter are gonnarun around the yard looking for plant based
chocolate cups? Have you ever hadsome? No? And I don't want
some? They're bad? You haveyou really eaten them? I've I've had
(35:35):
plant based chocolate before it Reese's chocolatecups. Well not Reese's, of course,
but you know, but it's notlike they're gonna not sell the other
stuff. So why aren't you gonnabuy the other What is your favorite real
candy? My favorite whatever? Realcandy? Well, I'm more of a
gummy man. Have you those kindof gummies? Have you ever had?
(35:57):
No, don't dodge the question,what those lines of gummies? No,
I'm not those kinds. Again,I'm not the special gummies you know on
special occasions, but I'm talking moreabout Albany's. Have you ever had Albanie
gummy mares? Had those whatever?I don't know, the ones in the
gold package with a Harriboos. Yeah. Well, look, next time you're
(36:21):
at the store, you need togo and get yourself some Albanies. Are
they gonna cost more than the otherones? No, they're not dug I'm
not buying gourmet gummies. They're goodrefused. I'm not gonna eat them.
I'm not gonna eat them or thosevegan Reese's cups either. I just can't.
Well, it's just against it,just to try. Why don't you
trying to ten? Okay, I'lltry one on a one to ten before
(36:45):
I do that, before I wastemy money on the only one I'll ever
buy. What is the comparison Ifa Reese's peanut cut buttercup is real,
one is a ten? Which itis on the scale of candies? What
is the vegan plant based fake cup? Well, I don't know. I
haven't tried it yet. Okay againsta Hershey bar? How much? What
(37:09):
if a Hershey bar is ten,then what is a plant based chocolate bar
Hershey Bar two. You can't saya Hershey bar is ten. It's the
most basic. I'm just using itas scale too for the measurement purposes.
I'm gonna go with you know,I mean, i'd say it still.
(37:31):
See it's pretty good, you knowwith an eight? No, how about
that an eight? What? Letme ask you this, what candy bar
would you step over to have avegan plant based bar instead? Yeah?
A Hershey's bar? Really? Absolutely, it's so boring with you. Yeah,
but it's it's real chocolate. Itis ridiculous. Well, I don't
know how it's ridiculous? Is itreal chocolate? How many kids you think
(37:53):
are gonna run around at Easter huntingfor plant based easter egg Well, I
think they're hunting for Easter eggs.I don't think that they're necessarily you know,
I don't know that there's something goodinside and there's nothing good inside of
Well, how do you know you'venever tried it? What are you trying
to get it up? If youtry it? What happens if you actually
love it? Huh? I'll stillnot do it again because I'm not scared.
(38:15):
It's nuts, that's nuts if youend up the Snickers is nuts.
Well, okay, the Baby Ruthis nuts. But when and true to
form, I guess that's technically plantbased now, isn't it. It's got
peanuts in it, so the peanutbutter cup also is vegan. So now
(38:36):
what now? What will I think? It's ridiculous. I can't do that.
I had to put that down.Um, welcome home, Governor Greg
Abbott. Send another busload of migrantsthis week to the Naval Observatory in Washington,
d C. Right down the streetactually from Vice President Kamala Harris's home.
Correct me if I'm wrong on twopoints. First, our president appointed
(39:00):
her as official administration to overseer ofthe border crisis early in his term,
and so far as I know,she hasn't actually spent any time checking out
the border crisis. Oh maybe thisis our way of showing her kind of
what it's like, sort of whatit's like, even though it's just millions
(39:22):
of people have found their way inhere. Now, I had some stuff
I wanted to talk about that,and I mean, I'm gonna say this
for tomorrow because I want to beable to really dig into it. All
Right, Well, we're from thegovernment. Sleep on it or AI decides
what we should look like. Sleepon it. Napping it, says here
(39:44):
can boost your creativity, particularly ifyou are able to think about something as
you're falling asleep. Mostly I'm justthinking about falling asleep. Yeah yeah,
come back, will please? Ohlord, I'm gonna scratch that one out.
That didn't go anywhere near the wayI wanted it to over in Australia.
(40:07):
Never mind, we gotta go.I'll talk to you tomorrow. Audios
Remember when it was impossible to misplacethe TV remote because you were the TV
remote for you. Remember when musicsounded like this, Remember when social media
was truly social? Hey John,how's it going today? Well, this
show is all about you. Onit a good die. This is fifty
(00:25):
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful informationon your finances, good health, and
what to do for fun. Youknow that one fifty plus brought to you
by the UNT Health Consortium on AgingInformed Decisions for a healthier, happier life.
And by Incredible. If a Staineseems indebible, you haven't tried incredible.
(00:47):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here we go.
Wednesday edition of the program starts rightnow. And if you have grandkids,
or if you have young children whojust hang around your house because you
have a pool or whatever in thebackyard, parents, bring them over whatever
it is, wherever it is.Segment three of today's show is going to
(01:07):
be a great interest to you,especially as we go into summer when all
the kids are gonna be out ofschool and maybe they're gonna be showing up
at your house because you have thingsat home that toys and games and whatever
a pool table, a pool pingpong table that their house doesn't have.
So the parents are gonna lug themover there, and they're gonna drop them
(01:30):
off with you so they can goon a little mini vacation one weekend or
a week or month however, wherever, whyever, these kids wind up at
your house. My guest in thatthird segment today is going to teach you
how to ramp up your game beyondjust going to the store and buying some
(01:51):
of that precut cookie dough and throwingthat in the oven. Her name is
tarn Camp and she's she pitched meon her own yesterday. This woman has
it's sort of like a half amillion followers or something like that, and
just out of nowhere she pitched meon this idea and on behalf of grandparents
(02:12):
everywhere. I said, absolutely,yes, let's get this done. How
about tomorrow. So here we gotoday, and it's gonna be good.
In the third segment anyway, movingforward, as sunny puffy cloud Wednesday out
there, I guess it beats thetar out of the past several days and
comes not a moment too soon.Actually, for the guys who cut my
yard especially, it's been too wetto cut for several weeks, and they're
(02:38):
actually probably gonna have to spend someextra time in the backyard where the grass
actually grows. That backyard of mine, for some reason, somehow, is
just loaded with life, loaded withnutrients in the soil. I contend to
this day that I could throw ahandful of tomato seeds into the back corner
(03:00):
specifically, and in about a weekwe could be eating those tomatoes and salads.
It's just it's nuts. It's absolutelynuts. Front yard, totally different
story. It gives me fits,although it is showing signs of improvement finally
now that I've decided to replace atleast half of it, Like, wait,
give us a chance. We're tryingto grow here, and in its
(03:23):
favor, there has been enough treetrimming in the area lately to possibly let
that grass grow. Who could haveknown twenty five thirty years ago when that
neighborhood went up that putting four oaktrees in every front yard would be an
issue except for the ones on thecorner where they got six. These trees
(03:46):
are huge now and their canopies arehuge, and pretty much any yard that
hasn't had its trees professionally and regularlytrimmed. As having trouble growing grass,
that's not our problem, not inmy house. We have been getting it
done all the time for the betterpart of thirty years now, well,
LUs say for twenty years anyway,since the trees got big enough to need
(04:10):
pruning. But yeah, you can'tmake everybody prune their trees, and so
sometimes the lights a little bit ofan issue. But it's better now.
We're all on the same page.You're all trying to grow grass over there,
and it'll work out. I guessit'll work. We'll leave with some
fun stuff, some interesting stuff,some just generic. It's not news,
it's just a story I wanted toshare. Tessa from over with the Rod
(04:34):
Ryan Show on the bus stopped bymy desk this morning to ask me about
getting into golf, about getting golfclubs. She actually she said, I
went over to Memorial and I boughta golf club. Well that's a start,
okay, So now you're you're readyto grab a golf club properly.
(04:54):
First and foremost, and this isI'm taking this opportunity to share not only
her enthusiasm but my passion for thegame of golf. And all it can
offer to folks our age. Firstof all, you don't have to be
good at golf to enjoy it.If you're not a tour pro now you're
never going to be one ever.That's okay, though. You can sure
(05:15):
have some fun on the golf courseif you just if you just commit yourself
to a few lessons, learn thebasics, and then practice as much or
as little as you want to getbetter or maintain just some modest level of
ability to move the ball forward eachtime you swing golf is it's a little
(05:38):
unique too, and that it's theonly the only other sport I can think
of this like this is bowling,where your average score is used to generate
a handicap, a number of strokesor pins you get taken off your net
score at the end, so thatyou and a really good golfer or bowler
can kind of play the same courseor the same lane at the same time,
(05:59):
and each if you has the sameshot at actually winning that day based
on that system. No need tobe embarrassed if you don't play well either.
Everybody in your group is way moreinterested in how they're playing than they
are in you and your troubles andyour mistakes, and there is absolutely no
rule in friendly golf that says youcan't just anytime you want to on any
(06:20):
hole you're on, you can't justpick up your ball, put in your
pocket and tell a group you'll startfresh on the next hole. If you
get frustrated, if you get worriedthat you're embarrassing yourself, just pick your
ball up, put it in yourpockets, say I'll meet you on the
next team. I play now andthen with a group of retired guys who
are about anywhere from fifty to eightyplus handicaps from three to twenty four.
(06:42):
We're playing from three different sets ofties, and some of us stronger than
others, some more flexible. Butonce we tee it up, we're all
on a level field thanks that ahandicap system. It's really cool. I
hope you will consider golf if you'renot getting the exercise you need, especially
if you're willing to walk the golfcourse. You can ride for a little
while till you get your legs underyou and then go from there. That'll
(07:06):
be enough about golf. Although thePGA Championship is this week, I'll be
talking about that this weekend on myOutdoor show over on Sports Talk seven ninety
Saturday and Sunday mornings at once thesun's up. You'll probably hear me either
for three or two hours, dependingon which day you're listening. On the
way to this break, I willtell you all about Kirk Holmes, the
(07:26):
third generation custom builder, been aroundhere for gosh thirty plus years, building
beautiful custom homes for anybody who wantsone, in any design or configuration or
direct Wherever you want it, they'llput it. You got a lot,
they'll put it on your lot.You want to face it north, they'll
(07:46):
face it north. Anything anywhere.It's your dream, it's your custom home,
and kirk Holmes is very good atdoing what they do. The only
two things that are common amongst everyhome they build are that twenty year structural
warranty I've mentioned that's twice the standard, and the two by six exterior walls
for fifty percent more insulation around thathouse then is offered by most most builders.
(08:11):
Kirkhomes dot com go check out theirSouthern Living showcase home in Mission Ranch
up in College Station. If youlike, take a look at some of
the online you can look at allkinds of homes they've built, some of
them bigger than others, some ofthem all different designs. It's your dream
and that's the beauty is they're ableto construct your dream. Could draw it
(08:31):
on a napkin and they can takeit from there. Go visit with them,
talk to them about making your dreamhome come true. Kirkholmes dot Com
is a website ku r k becauseat Kirkholmes it's all about you. Now.
They sure don't make them like theyused to. That's why every few
months we wash them, check hisfluids and spring on a fresh coat o
(08:52):
wax. This is fifty plus withDoug Pike. All right, welcome back
(09:16):
to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. I do I appreciate it. Be
sure to tell your friends about thisshow. If you like it, I
know you're gonna like this third segmentif you've got grandchildren, if you've got
kids, or even if you knoweven honestly, if you just like to
entertain. I'm teasing this thing alittle bit more each time, I guess.
But if you entertain over summer youhave people over the house for whatever
reasons, you're gonna want to knowwho tarn Camp is and what she does.
(09:41):
That's all I'm gonna tell you Rightnow. I'm gonna tell you about
something that ABC Television is doing forthe fall season. It's making a move.
I'm not entirely sure that this realityshow needs to exist, and I
honestly suspect that it's being done tocounterbalance ratings issues, maybe surrounding some backlash,
(10:07):
especially I would think among seniors tosome of their more recent programming decisions.
Everybody's just pivoting on a pinpoint thesedays to make sure that nobody's unhappy
with them. And if they makesomebody unhappy, they try to make it
better. They take them out andbuy them an ice cream cone or whatever.
(10:31):
This reality show will have. Yougot any I asked you if you
had ever heard of The Bachelor,What do you think that ABC might be
doing now to make old folks happy? Oh? The Grand Bachelor? Close
enough, The Golden Bachelor. TheGolden Bachelor, what a not cool name?
(10:54):
The Golden Bachelor, Where some olddude's going to get a second chance
to find love and live out therest of his years with somebody who likes
the same stuff he likes, Orat least that's what they think what could
possibly I wrote down what could possiblygo wrong with this, I'm now questioning
what could go right. I'll bemorbidly curious, I really will. It
(11:18):
might even watch the first couple ofepisodes, but if it's anything like the
traditional Bachelor shows, I'm gonna checkout as soon as that guy starts making
out with all those grandmothers who volunteeredto be part of this bizarre experiment.
I can't wait, honestly, beingtotally honest, to see who's in line
(11:39):
to take a chance on this guy. And it just says they're gonna see
if they can find him a partnerto live out the rest of his life.
Whatever that means, I guess,and I'll bet you a dollar.
Will I'll bet you a dollar thatwhen they reveal who this guy is,
no matter what he looks like,he's gonna be loaded. He's gonna be
(12:01):
financially secure. Because I don't knowmany women who would go on a reality
show for a shot at living outtheir lives with someone who who's living social
Security check to social Security check.And nothing against anyone who's found themselves in
those circumstances, but that I thinkwould be I don't think that would work
(12:26):
for the television show. It'll beinteresting, The Golden Bachelor. Can you
think of a worse name for that? Really? Oh, I'll give you
five seconds. I thought was somethingworse more time The grand Daddy Show,
The Granddaddy. Yeah, I don'tknow. I just don't like it.
(12:50):
Big debate on the other end ofthe age at spectrum. There's debate on
social media recently over whether or notparents should charge their adult children rent for
staying in the house. I'm actuallyI'm all for it, especially if that
grown up child's opted to go towork rather than go to college. Either
(13:11):
rent or maybe at least some incrementalcontributions to the grocery bill, electric bill,
water bill, stuff like that.Gotta do something right to further that
person's education on how the world works. I saw a piece yesterday on I
don't remember where it was about howparenting really, when you boil it down,
(13:31):
is about teaching kids to do thethings they have to do but they
don't want to do. It startswhen they're young, with picking up their
toys and taking baths, making theirbed. Then it's taking out the garbage,
you're washing dishes or mowing the lawn. Nobody wants to do that stuff,
not me, not you, notanybody else, but we have to.
(13:52):
It all has to be done tokeep the house running smoothly. You
have to have a job or owna business to earn money to do the
stuff you want to do and havethe stuff you want to have. And
if we don't teach them that,they're pretty unlikely to teach themselves, because
it is unpleasant to have to stopdoing something you really enjoy doing to go
(14:16):
do something you have to do.I can't tell you how many times I've
had to stop fishing to go drivemy son somewhere it needs you to come
home. I gotta go to baseballpractice. I do it because I care
about him. I do it becauseit's the right thing to do. And
(14:37):
that's what we've got to teach them. Otherwise they're gonna wind up very unnecessarily
frustrated by the real world once we'regone. No. I once played golf
with a good friend. It's beenmany years now over at river Oaks Country
Club, beautiful track. Love playingover there, haven't been in a while.
Age. I gotta call him back. We need to go back,
(15:00):
and we need to talk some businessanyway, I can host him at my
place, or he can we cango over to his either way. We're
out there on the golf course andhe looks over and there are three young
men in their twenties standing on oneof the greens looking over Putts on a
week day afternoon. And he justkind of shook his head, and I
said, what's up? He goes, I just notice who's over there in
(15:20):
that group right there. What's thebig deal about them? He said?
Right over there, amongst those threeguys there is an roughly a net worth
of about three hundred and fifty milliondollars, and not a one of them
has ever had a job, nota one. It's a good thing they
(15:41):
got money from the family, becauseit doesn't sound like they would kind of
know what to do. Well,you want to take the wheel here for
a second? Sure, Oh yes, you do? Okay, safe for
now? That's check mark. Don'teat the decorations, check mark or ignorance
is bliss. But what was thatone? Don't eat the check marks?
(16:07):
No, good lord, don't eatthe decorations. Will there we go?
That's what you want? This issure? Just one sentence in Italy,
way way long time ago, tomatoeswere used as a table decoration, but
weren't being eaten. And then somebodychopped a bunch of them up and threw
(16:30):
them in a hot, hot panof boiling water. I guess that's the
only kind of pan of boiling water. And somebody in the on the other
side of the kitchen was whipping upsome plain old pasta that just never tasted
right. They just knew there hadto be something that could go with that
pasta. And then somebody brought ina chunk of a cow that they chopped
(16:55):
all to pieces, and before youknew it, they had spaghetti knocked out
there you go. I don't thinkdid spaghetti not start in Italy? Is
that correct? Wasn't Wasn't it aChinese? I believe it was Chinese?
Yeah, I believe it was.Well, no, wonder well because the
Italians hadn't figured out to eat thetomatoes yet. Probably. All right,
(17:18):
have I got any time left atall? Will you have a minute?
Okay? I can give you this, and even less I might have time
for another one. Then NASA,this is good news. This is great
news for all of us, eventhe youngsters, even the youngest of the
young In this audience will benefit fromthis. It'll make you feel, it'll
make you sleep better at night.NASA says now that none of the dangerous
(17:38):
asteroids we know of will hit theEarth for at least the next thousand years
so and by then all it woulddo then is just wipe out a bunch
of AI computers that we're talking toeach other. Yeah, no asteroid problems.
(18:00):
I'll tell you about these paintings later. I hope the shortest one I've
got here NASA can or napping.It says here, not NASA. You
know what, I'll hold This one'sbecause I'm gonna get I'm gonna stumble my
way to being overtime and will won'tlike that. UT Health Science Center's Consortium
on Aging invite you to come overand visit them and sit down with one
(18:22):
of the doctors or nurses or othercaregivers over there to learn what it's like
to be seen and treated by someonewho specializes in senior medicine. That's all
they do. That's the only peoplethey see is us. Now. By
us, I don't mean the thirtyfive year olds in this audience who are
who are wonderfully listening on behalf oftheir parents. I'm talking about seniors.
(18:45):
We are the only people they see. We are the only people they will
treat at the Consortium on Aging becausethat's what they know best. You go
over there, give out a listof symptoms. This hurts, that doesn't
hurt. This feels pretty good,but it was hurting last week and now
it's not hurting anymore. All ofthat, they understand what you're telling them,
(19:06):
and they'll be able to help youfix anything that is wrong so that
you will do as you want todo and live a longer, happier,
healthier life. Go hang out withyour grandkids, go go on a trip
around the world, whatever you wantto do. They're gonna help keep you
in shape to do that. Utdot edu slash aging ut dot edu slash
aging Aged to Perfection. This isfifty plus with Doug Pike. All right,
(19:44):
welcome back to fifty plus. Thanksfor listening. I'm Doug. He's
will and as always, all right, do appreciate, appreciate you sharing the
show with your friends. With schoolletting out soon for summer, there's going
to be a lot more time sharedby grandparents and g children. And my
next guest is going to help youmake your house the one the grandkids want
(20:06):
to visit first and most often.And with that, I'll bring in someone
nowhere near fifty, frankly, whocan make you a hit with those kids.
Tarn Camp also known as Life andSprinkles. I like that, already,
welcome to fifty plus. Hi,how are you actually, well a
little close to fifty. How areyou? You're a fiven? You're a
(20:29):
fiven number one. I did seethat you majored in hospitality management and spend
time in food service. But betweenthe lines, I was reading the words
of somebody who wanted more from thateducation, somebody who wanted to be a
little more hands on and all in. Am I right, Yes, completely.
I major in hospitality management, andthen I worked in the food service
(20:52):
industry for years and years after.But I had grown up watching Sandra Leaves
of My Homemade and loved all ofher recipes and how approachable they were and
how family friendly they were. Sowhen social media became a big thing,
I really really got into it,and I kind of geared my channel that
(21:15):
way, and then all of thepeople that follow me love it, and
I get so much great feedback thatit's totally the place I was supposed to
wind up. I knew I hadthe right person for this interview. This
is going to be so enlightening toa lot of people. Just offhand.
How many recipes do you think youhave at present? Oh jeez, well,
(21:36):
I make about four hundred videos ayear in each one different recipe.
I've been doing it for like threeto four years, so I have so
many, so many recipes. Yeah, and it's really cool because when I
do post on social media, I'llsay something like this is a raspberry poundcake,
(21:57):
and then everyone's so interactive, theysay, can you do blueberry lemon
pie? So you know, youkeep experimenting and trying it, and it's
just so fun because people come upwith the most amazing ideas. Awesome.
Taran camp On fifty plus from Lifeand the Sprinkles dot Com, let's help
grandparents in this audience start thinking outsidethe ice box. Maybe maybe dare to
(22:19):
do something more colorful and exciting withthe grandkids and bake a dozen chocolate chip
cookies. Okay, where do westart. I have a lot of grandparents
that dmme or pmme, and theyalways tell me how much fun they have
with their grandkids. With the recipesthat I put out because they are homemade,
(22:41):
so it's a lot of really easy, approachable ingredients and they are making
something homemade, but it's not toobig of a mess. It's nothing that
they haven't heard of, and ithas really simplified steps two or three that
come to mind that are favorites amonggrandparents and the grandkids. Well, shockingly,
I make these chocolate covered oreos andchocolate covered more and they're super simple
(23:07):
to make, but there's just littletouches here and there that you can do
to customize it for Mario Brothers orBarbie or decorated and characters. And they're
always sending me the different photos ofhow they're turning out, and it is
so adorable and it's something that theycan do with them, especially during each
holiday, so they'll send me Easterand then fall in, Halloween and Christmas,
(23:30):
so it's it's so much fun yearround. Anybody ever send you a
picture something they cooked and you wantedto write back, try again, you
know what. I don't know ifit's just because it's really easy, but
like, the only thing that Isee is that these kids have such other
time they put seven thousand sprinkles onit or they're covered with Eminem's, But
(23:53):
I mean, I guess I don'tblame them. What's the average prep and
cook time for the recipes you're you'regoing to recommend to somebody. It depends
if it's something like take like ano churn ice cream, I mean they
only take like fifteen twenty minutes.And then even the cupcakes and the cakes,
it's really just the bake time allof it. All of it usually
(24:15):
only has a few steps that arekind of broken down so that the cake
can do it very easily and thegrandparents don't have to hover over them or
be too nervous. So I wouldsay, like some of them can be
done in like thirty minutes. That'sawesome, and that's a good amount of
time because you can hold the kidsattention that long. You wouldn't want something
(24:36):
that you can do in two minutesbecause it probably wouldn't be original or interesting,
and you don't want something that willtake two hours with all the infamite
emphasis. Excuse me on what kidsare eating now? Taran, do you
do you divide your recipes into likehealthy stuff on this side of the page
and delicious on the other, orwhat kind of you know, more than
anything, I get gluten free.Yeah, and it's really really cool because
(25:00):
Oreos are gluten free. You know, they have a gluten free choice now,
So making those chocolate covered Oreos isa no brainer for the gluten free
and that the cakes and the cupcakesbecause there are so many box mixes and
you know, easy flour hacks.It turns out to be a pretty simple
(25:21):
thing and the taste is almost identicalexcellent. I don't want to run out
of time before we get to talkingabout your website and how it works.
So we pick a plan, yousend recipes, but in the middle there
are we going to give you informationon kind of what the theme of this
party is or how old the kidsare whatever, So how does that work
exactly? So say it's a birthdayparty. A big one that I'm getting
(25:45):
right now is Mario Brothers the movie. Yeah, so people will say,
you know, can you do acookie a cupcake? And then maybe something
like a fruit cup or you knowsomething maybe not as for those kids.
Yeah, So then I'll send backa few different ideas and I'll actually photograph
it so they can have a pictureto copy, do a shopping list,
(26:07):
and It's really cute because I getto hear what the kids like, and
you know how many people will bethere and whether it's going to be many.
Oh, come back, where didshe go? I think the oven
might have gone up. Well,you want to try and call her back,
(26:30):
Well, I don't not take abreak. I'm gonna take a break,
and when we come back, we'regonna have her back on the phone
because I want to wrap this upwith her and make sure you guys know
how to get in touch with her. That's tearing camp from Life and Sprinkles
dot com. A Late Health willhelp you, Well, they got two
locations around around town where they canhelp you get over things that are little
(26:51):
problems potentially becoming big problems, butwe don't want them to be that.
At a Late Health they're gonna helpyou make sure that that problem doesn't get
any worse, in fact, thatit gets resolved. Something like a large
prostate that's noncancer, is something likefibroids, something like back pain or neck
paint or joint pain, ugly veins, things like that that either make you
(27:12):
uncomfortable or make you just not likewhat you see in the mirror. I
got a mirror. I'm not themost thrilled person in the world. I
may knock on their door one dayand go get some help with some of
my stuff. A late health dotcom covered by Medicare. Most of their
procedures take maybe a couple of hoursin the office and that's it. Find
(27:33):
out more. Go to a latehealth dot com or call seven one three
five eight eight thirty eight thirty excuseme seven one three five eight eight thirty
eight eighty eight seven one three fiveeight eight thirty eight eighty eight, or
again a late health alat e alate health dot com old guy's rule.
And of course, women never getold if you want to avoid sleeping on
(27:57):
the couch. Okay, well,I think that sounds like a good plan.
Fifty plus continues. Here's more withDoug. All right, welcome back
to plus. Thanks for listening.Certainly to appreciate it. We'll go ahead
(28:17):
and bring tearing back on. Ican't believe it just fell apart. What
happened, Taran? Did something comeout of the oven too soon? I
don't know. I was like,I can hear them, but they can't
hear me. Holy cow. Yeah, I just went totally Where did she
go. I don't know where shewas on it, but I wasn't gonna
just leave it like that. Therewas no way I could do that because
(28:37):
I wanted to continue explaining a littlebit about your website, which I dug
around the first time in probably fiveyears that I've dug around a website that
doesn't have golf balls or fishing equipmenton it. So you should feel very
proud that you caught my attention foras long as you did. Let's talk
about that. You have seasonal themes, you have just a theme for just
(28:57):
about anything. And then how sowe say, Okay, I've got a
party, I got forty people coming. What do you send them? So
I will send over the final product. We'll have the recipes, the ingredient
lists like a shopping list, andI'll have all the scraps with it.
And then I'll even most likely onthe if they're a little bit trickier or
(29:21):
if I'm going to show how todo the placement, know some of the
things, I'll send a video aswell, and then some suggestions on different
toppers or customs sprinkle mixes. Soit'll all be in one little package sent
over in about a week, wheredid you get your passion for the kitchen?
Where did that start? You know, I'm really happy you asked that.
(29:41):
So I had collective cookbooks for yearsand years and years, and one
New Year's Eve, I was like, it's going to be my resolution to
just start making stuff from them,and I put them all in an Excel
Spredgiet and I randomly picked recipes andI started just making them back to mac
and then after that I just fellin, Look, you know who's my
favorite or the best cook in ourhouse? My fifteen year old son.
(30:07):
He has has taken cooking lessons sincehe was about six, and now he's
graduated now to where he's he's assistingthe guy who teaches the cooking lessons at
the same school where he started learning. And um, yeah he can.
He can knock it out of thepark, he really can. And there's
so much online too to learn fromTucker YouTube, all these sleeps. So
(30:29):
that's really really cool. Life andSprinkles dot com house business, good good.
I thought it would be a littleflower around summer, but you know
what, people like ice cream cakestoo, So yeah, well round the
main reason for this conversation the grandparentssuddenly now that schools out are going to
(30:49):
be seeing those grandkids more often.And like I said right up front,
hey make them come to make themwant to come to your house. Don't
make it a chore to go tograndma's house. Then want to come over
there, you know. Yeah,and if they it's the party is even
just summertime, we can totally dostuff like that where there's stream and pool
(31:10):
treats and absolutely that that's just thisfun. Can't have enough of those.
Thank you, Tarry. This wasreally a pleasure, and I hope the
audience appreciates this. I know theywill. I know they will because they
got grandkids coming to see them.Um. Yeah, go to the website
Life and Sprinkles dot com if youget a chance, Tarn, help tell
(31:30):
your folks about me. Let's getthis show going, all right, Well,
okay, it's been a true pleasure. I'm so glad to be able
to talk about something a lot lighterand fluffier than some of the topics we
have to cover around here medically andwhatnot. This has has been a real
breath of fresh air. Thank youso much, Tarran Camp. Thank you.
(31:52):
Yeah, YouTube, Life and Sprinklesdot Com. That's some fun right
there, all right, will checkthis out. A pair of small portraits,
perhaps made spontaneously, have been foundthat were done by none other than
(32:12):
Rembrandt. His distant in laws werefeatured in these two verys the smallest works
of his that are known to exist, And there they look to be.
The images actually maybe eight inches squaresomewhere in there, but still to look
at them, you can tell thiswasn't any paint by number staff. It's
(32:36):
just fascinating the detail he can putinto something that's small. Estimated to have
been painted around sixteen thirty five,they depict a wealthy plumber, Jan Williams
vander Plume and his wife Yepkin Carols, who lived in the city of Leiden.
(32:59):
They're on married Rembrandt's cousin. Butthat's about as close as they get
to any any more, any moreconnection than that. What do you think,
will is the estimated value of thesepaintings, which are about to go
up for auction because they were justfound randomly, says I discovered recently among
(33:20):
a private collection. Nobody really evenknew the Are we going starting bids?
What is he estimated buying price?Um, I'm gonna, I'm gonna start
with for the pair, for thepair, so you get are you getting
a deal on them? You know, volume discount? Okay, let's say
(33:42):
um, let's say it's uh,it's it's three million each. I'm gonna
go with, uh, you know, a five five million for the pair.
You're in the game. Actually,this is one of your better guesses.
I know you're gonna be as startledas I. Six point two five
million to ten million were in there, six and a quarter to ten million
dollars for these two paintings. Ifit says here previous sales are any indication,
(34:07):
Well, the past is usually indicativeof the present future. So there
you go. Not a bad littlefind in that private collection. Yeah,
I wish I could find something likethat, honestly, in my garage or
in my parents old box of stuffthey passed down to me whatever. I
doubt that. I know. Mymom actually had a couple of original paintings
(34:30):
by a woman who lived down thestreet from her where the last house that
my parents both owned before my dadpassed away. But they're not rem brands.
They're good, they're pretty, they'renot rem brands. How much time
do we have left now? Oh, Doug, we have I mean,
well less than six. We haveabout five minutes and fifteen seconds. Oh,
(34:52):
that's perfect because I got a coupleof things I want to go over
before we leave here. By theway, I'm so disappointed. Now in
Hershey's they have launched will they havelaunched Reese's vegan plant based cups and chocolate
bars. It's ridiculous, they've they'vejust they may have lost me until they
(35:14):
take those things off the shelf.Honestly, how many how many kids do
you think come next Easter are gonnarun around the yard looking for plant based
chocolate cups? Have you ever hadsome? No? And I don't want
some? They're bad? You haveyou really eaten them? I've I've had
(35:35):
plant based chocolate before it Reese's chocolatecups. Well not Reese's, of course,
but you know, but it's notlike they're gonna not sell the other
stuff. So why aren't you gonnabuy the other What is your favorite real
candy? My favorite whatever? Realcandy? Well, I'm more of a
gummy man. Have you those kindof gummies? Have you ever had?
(35:57):
No, don't dodge the question,what those lines of gummies? No,
I'm not those kinds. Again,I'm not the special gummies you know on
special occasions, but I'm talking moreabout Albany's. Have you ever had Albanie
gummy mares? Had those whatever?I don't know, the ones in the
gold package with a Harriboos. Yeah. Well, look, next time you're
(36:21):
at the store, you need togo and get yourself some Albanies. Are
they gonna cost more than the otherones? No, they're not dug I'm
not buying gourmet gummies. They're goodrefused. I'm not gonna eat them.
I'm not gonna eat them or thosevegan Reese's cups either. I just can't.
Well, it's just against it,just to try. Why don't you
trying to ten? Okay, I'lltry one on a one to ten before
(36:45):
I do that, before I wastemy money on the only one I'll ever
buy. What is the comparison Ifa Reese's peanut cut buttercup is real,
one is a ten? Which itis on the scale of candies? What
is the vegan plant based fake cup? Well, I don't know. I
haven't tried it yet. Okay againsta Hershey bar? How much? What
(37:09):
if a Hershey bar is ten,then what is a plant based chocolate bar
Hershey Bar two. You can't saya Hershey bar is ten. It's the
most basic. I'm just using itas scale too for the measurement purposes.
I'm gonna go with you know,I mean, i'd say it still.
(37:31):
See it's pretty good, you knowwith an eight? No, how about
that an eight? What? Letme ask you this, what candy bar
would you step over to have avegan plant based bar instead? Yeah?
A Hershey's bar? Really? Absolutely, it's so boring with you. Yeah,
but it's it's real chocolate. Itis ridiculous. Well, I don't
know how it's ridiculous? Is itreal chocolate? How many kids you think
(37:53):
are gonna run around at Easter huntingfor plant based easter egg Well, I
think they're hunting for Easter eggs.I don't think that they're necessarily you know,
I don't know that there's something goodinside and there's nothing good inside of
Well, how do you know you'venever tried it? What are you trying
to get it up? If youtry it? What happens if you actually
love it? Huh? I'll stillnot do it again because I'm not scared.
(38:15):
It's nuts, that's nuts if youend up the Snickers is nuts.
Well, okay, the Baby Ruthis nuts. But when and true to
form, I guess that's technically plantbased now, isn't it. It's got
peanuts in it, so the peanutbutter cup also is vegan. So now
(38:36):
what now? What will I think? It's ridiculous. I can't do that.
I had to put that down.Um, welcome home, Governor Greg
Abbott. Send another busload of migrantsthis week to the Naval Observatory in Washington,
d C. Right down the streetactually from Vice President Kamala Harris's home.
Correct me if I'm wrong on twopoints. First, our president appointed
(39:00):
her as official administration to overseer ofthe border crisis early in his term,
and so far as I know,she hasn't actually spent any time checking out
the border crisis. Oh maybe thisis our way of showing her kind of
what it's like, sort of whatit's like, even though it's just millions
(39:22):
of people have found their way inhere. Now, I had some stuff
I wanted to talk about that,and I mean, I'm gonna say this
for tomorrow because I want to beable to really dig into it. All
Right, Well, we're from thegovernment. Sleep on it or AI decides
what we should look like. Sleepon it. Napping it, says here
(39:44):
can boost your creativity, particularly ifyou are able to think about something as
you're falling asleep. Mostly I'm justthinking about falling asleep. Yeah yeah,
come back, will please? Ohlord, I'm gonna scratch that one out.
That didn't go anywhere near the wayI wanted it to over in Australia.
(40:07):
Never mind, we gotta go.I'll talk to you tomorrow. Audios
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Therapy Gecko
An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.