Mental Health

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Jennifer Bahrman about mental health.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
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like this? Remember when social media was truly social?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today? Well?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Decisions for a healthier, happier life.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go. Welcome to fifty plus this Tuesday afternoon. What
does it say here? It doesn't say what. Well, it
is one official day. What tomorrow? I believe it's Happy
or National Hamburger Day, by the way, and there are
some deals you can get if you just go looking

(01:03):
for Are you aware of that? Are you pulling that
microphone in? Say something? Right off the bat? And now,
oh come on, I was just I got excited about hamburger. Yeah,
well it's tomorrow's National Hamburgery. I want to say it's
Dairy Queen that has an offer out there, at least
that's the first one I've seen. But somewhere tomorrow especially
for this audience. The least we should get is a

(01:27):
senior discount on their best burger, And wouldn't hurt for
them to hand seniors as many burgers as they could.
We're not going to be able to eat those much longer.
I saw something off just a quick sidebar. Well. I
saw a little story that said something about how many
hamburgers are sold by fast food joints every day, and

(01:51):
then they kind of laid that against how many cows
there are on the whole planet. And when you do
the math, there aren't enough cows on the planet to
produce enough beef to make all those hamburgers that are
being sold. So what's between the buns? Will I mean?

(02:18):
Is it? Is it veggiemight or well vegetable beef? It
might be a different animal, doug could be, could be
what could it be? Will you ever had a rat
burger before? No, I haven't. I have no hesitation. I'm
very confident I've never had a rat. Well, don't say

(02:39):
that you haven't had one if you don't know if
you know what I mean? Is that what you're saying?
Oh yeah, not to my knowledge, I've never selected that
from the menu. Although quick address here. Years ago, when
Louisiana's nutrient problem was a major problem and the levees

(03:00):
were being destroyed and lots of damage was done, much
as wild hogs do here in Texas, they had a
contest in which the state rallied I think it was
about a dozen of the best chefs in Louisiana and
challenged them to come up with the best recipe for neutrient, which,

(03:23):
if you don't know, most of this audience would know
what it is. It's just essentially, it's a giant rat,
a giant like five to ten twelve pounds rat. And
the winning entry was actually, if you translated from French,
it translated to big rat on a stick, raton on bruchet,

(03:47):
something like that. It's just big rat on a stick.
It was a kebab. I believe would you eat that?
I would maybe try it. I think that if you,
if you hand it off to a good Louisiana chef,
that it would probably be delicious, especially as the prize winner,

(04:08):
especially as now Paul Prudom when he nearly destroyed the
entire redfish population on the planet when he introduced blackened redfish.
Here's another quick aside well as far as fisheries management goes,
I know you're interested in all this. So when that
recipe came out, bull redfish, the big spawning class redfish

(04:30):
were so unimportant worldwide that they were being they were
still being harvested by giant purse sayings and whatnot, but
they were going for virtual pennies, nickels, maybe dimes a
pound and being sold for conversion into dog food and
cat food. Now's it or just cat food, even I believe.

(04:52):
And then all of a sudden this recipe comes along,
and they're worth twenty times as much. And suddenly every
bowl redfish in the Gulf of Mexico was being caught
and killed in these giant boats, and it darned near
wiped them out because in the spawning season in the
fall they gather in big herds, big schools, and it

(05:15):
made it very easy. The spotter planes go up, they
find a big school of redfish, and then the little
net setter boats run out. They get the big boat
and the mothership and all this stuff all close together
near that school, and then they run that boat, the
little fast boat around the whole entire school of redfish
and everything else that's with them. Bottle nosed dolphins, sea turtles,

(05:38):
you name it, tarpin. Every fish in the sea is
around in that big area, and they all got vacuum
into a giant ship. But that was changed when CCA.
Well even CCA was even around before Black and Redfish,
but that was a big part of what saved them
as the work of CCA. And if you don't know

(05:59):
what that is, go look it up. And if you
don't know about the Star Tournament, go look that up
as well. That is a three month long excuse if
you need it to go fishing as often as you can,
because you could win a new truck, you could win
a boat, motor and trailer and a truck to pull
it with, and you can get scholarships for the kids.

(06:20):
So the next time you hear go are you gonna
go fishing again, the answer is it's for the kids
and their education. That's what it is. Will wow great.
It's a great organization, is what it really is. They
are very methodical, they are very careful. They move slowly
to make sure they don't do anything knee jerk. And

(06:40):
I've known about them since their beginning. I wrote thousands
upon thousands of words about CCA, all favorable they take
their time, and sometimes that's upset people. They want to
see things happen faster. But I would rather see things
happen correctly then quickly. And sometimes there's a little difference

(07:02):
between the two. A great organization. I edited their magazine,
Time Magazine for ten years too. It's just something else
I did back in the day. Seven. No, I'm not
gonna give it a phone number. We can go to
the callback thing, though, can't we. Yeah, callback button on iHeartRadio.
If you're listening on iHeartRadio right now and you look
at that screen, you'll see the little callback button. All

(07:23):
you gotta do is tap that. And you got about
fifteen seconds to say your piece. And if there's something
you want me to talk about, for example, just let
me know. We've got a topic coming up next week.
As a matter of fact, that came from a listener's request.
In fact, I need to try to email him and
let him know it's coming. All right, we're gonna go
ahead and take this first break. When we get back,

(07:45):
I'm gonna have an interview about seniors and mental health
because it's mental health Awareness week or month, and then
we'll get back to some other stuff, including some of
the weather that came through yesterday. Holy cow, what a
crazy situation? Now was UT Health Institute on Aging is
a collaborative effort among more than a thousand providers around here.

(08:07):
I don't know exactly how many. I'm having a meeting
with them next week. As a matter of fact, we'll
be sitting down for lunch over here and hopefully get
to I'll ask that question if I can remember, I
know I can help me. We'll just remember that. In
any event, we are going to meet to talk about
the future of fifty plus in its relationship with the

(08:29):
Institute on Aging, and I'm really encouraged. There are some
great ideas coming from the people over there, and we're
going to sit down and map them all out and
write them all out and really make sure that we
make this program even better than it is now. UT
Institute on Aging is all these providers who have gotten

(08:50):
additional training and education beyond what it took to get
their diplomas, beyond what it took to get them to
earn them the name doctor or therapist or trainer or
whatever they are. They want to know exactly how they
can apply their knowledge to us, to seniors and let
us live healthier, happier, longer, more productive, great lives, longer

(09:13):
time on the earth, more time, more things that we
can do for other people. That's kind of the way
I look at me. I want to be here for
a long time so I can help as many people
as I can. Uth dot edu slash aging is the website.
You can start there, see all the different resources they offer,
and then parlay your way somehow. Just keep looking, keep looking,

(09:35):
and you're gonna find plenty of answers to who can
I go see about what's bothering me right now? And
any one of these people who's part of that Institute
on aging can help you. Uth dot edu slash aging,
uth dot edu slash aging. Now, they sure don't make
them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. It was a
kind of an abrupt shut down there, will. I'm sorry,
thanks as always for listening. A reminder that if there's
a topic you want to hear about, just to email
me and I'll track down an expert who can teach
us both on the subject. In this segment, since it's
still Mental Health Awareness a month, we'll talk about self
awareness in that regard and some techniques you and I

(10:24):
can use to assess our own states of mental health
if needed too, where to turn for help, And we're
going to do that with help now from doctor Jennifer Barman,
a licensed clinical psychologist, an Assistant professor Associate Assistant Professor
at UT Health Houston. Welcome, doctor Barmon. How are you hi, Doug.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
It's wonderful being back. I'm doing great. How are you?

Speaker 2 (10:47):
I'm doing fine? I really am. I saw in the
material I Will said something about a difference between mental
health and mental illness, and that seems so simple and
clear to me that I've I've got to ask what
am I missing here?

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, it's something. We use those words, but we don't
necessarily think about what they mean. But if we're replace
mental with physical health, it can help us. The sipher
the two. So, just like physical health really refers to
a state of well being, mental health similarly refers to
that state of well being, while physical illness refers to conditions.
And so individuals who experience a mental illness have a

(11:21):
diagnosable condition that affects and individual's mood, their cognitions or behavior.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Oh yeah, and it's something I think the physical and mental.
The distinguishing factor there is you can't see mental illness
really unless somebody exhibits some really outward symptoms. A lot
of people just carry it around and nobody knows anything
about what they got, right.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
That is very true. It's an invisible disease. It's similar
to other invisible diseases that we have, you know, things
like chronic pain, diabetes, hypertension. It's something that other people
aren't going to see. And that's kind of a problem
with mental illness or mental health is that it's not
something that necessarily people can notice. They might notice that
you're a little more bummed out, they might notice that

(12:03):
someone's crying more and more anxious, But a lot of
it is internally experienced without it being something that others
in one's environment or one's tribe, so to say, can
really pick up on.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
I think it would be harder, I think, to disguise
mental illness than physical or Am I wrong? Would it
be harder to do to keep people from knowing you
have a mental illness or a physical illness.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
I think it depends on the type of mental illness,
similarly as the type of physical illness. You know, if
someone has a broken leg and you're walking around with
a cast, it's something the whole world's going to seem,
Versus if someone is dealing with, let's say, hypertension, it's
not something that necessarily others are going to notice. Similarly
with mental illness, you know, something like depression or anxiety

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is a lot of it just felt internally, versus something
on the more severe end of mental illness, things like schizophrenia, psychosis,
or maybe you see an individual or what seems like
they're talking to to the voices or someone that's not there,
that's going to be a lot more obvious, right, But
the vast majority of mental illness that we experience is

(13:10):
more that invisible. It is that depression, it is that anxiety,
It is new or developmental things even, and so that
isn't something that necessarily others are going to pick up
on as blatantly.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Let's lean back now into the awareness part of this
month's attention to mental illness, which means kind of digging
into our own issues rather than just pointing at the
guy talking to a mailbox. What are some of the
ways we can sort out sort of interview ourselves as
to our own mental well being? What's the checklist that
we have to ask ourselves.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
That's a great question. So awareness is really important as
it pertains to mental health because there's so much stigma
involved with mental health and mental illness. But realistically, mental
and physical health go hand in hand. Just like when
someone is feeling physically unwell, experiencing, for example, like a
viral cold, may notice that one's feeling more down, more irritable,
just not as cognitively as sharp as one normally is.

(14:06):
And similarly the other way around it applies to so
when someone is dealing with mental health that's feeling unwell,
they may be experiencing complaints such as headaches, gas, intestinal upset,
or similarly, as with a physical unwealth that they may
know that they're just cognitively not as sharp as normal.

(14:26):
And so how do we check in with ourselves. It's
a lot of it has to do with noticing those
things of I wonder where this like headache is coming from.
I'm wondering where some of these physical complaints are coming from.
I'm noticing I'm not enjoying life as much as they
used to. I know, I'm feeling a lot of tension.
Things of that nature can really be a way that
we pick up ourselves, like, oh, my mental health is

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not exactly where I would like it to be.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, and it's hard to acknowledge that. I guess and
then find your way, Doctor Jennifer Barman here on fifty plus.
Almost all of us who've made to the age group
that I'm in any way either have endured some sort
of mental strain or depression or anxiety, or maybe they're
they're in dealing with it right now. What are some
of the ways we can try to turn our minds

(15:13):
down a safer path and get some relief from feeling
so poorly? Because you're right, the mental and physical stuff
goes together. If you aren't right mentally, you're not going
to be right physically, and vice versas. So where do
we start in changing that?

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Well, First of it's never too late to practice good
mental health techniques, So self care is really really important there.
And I know self care at some point at this
bad reputation that's sort of for really do more self indulgence.
That's not what it fully encapsulates. So taking care of
ourselves physically, you know, things like getting good sleep, eating well,
seeing hydrated, getting out of nature, investing in their social communities,

(15:51):
regular doctor's appointments, and getting involved in movement can all
be ways that we actually take care of ourselves really
effectively and thereby also helping the strength and our mental health.
But we also have the professionals out there right, so
things like seeking out therapy, consultation with a psychiatrist, getting
involved in support groups are some other ways that we

(16:12):
can also ensure that our mental health is right where
we want it to be.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Is there any improvement in the problem with the stigma
surrounding mental health in this country? Are we doing better
at recognizing that it's not just for it's not just
for them, it's for everybody.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
You're right, it is for everybody, And I think as
a society we are improving, but there's still a lot
of growth to go. There's still, unfortunately a lot of
stigma associated with it of asking for help, and that's
one of those things that we tend to be harshest
to ourselves, where maybe if a friend, a family member,
a loved one came up to us and said he
I think I'm struggling a little bit mentally here, we

(16:51):
would be super supportive of it. That oftentimes the stigma
though we associate with ourselves when we may feel like
we're not as good emotionally as we would like to be,
as goods psychologically as where we should be. That's when
we may break that stigma up and prevent us from
reaching out to other people, reaching out to the professionals.

(17:12):
But that's actually really really important that we do that.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
It's something that really does require professional help because the
answer you're going to get from from people who don't
really know any better is, oh, you just got to
you just got to dig out of this man, you're
going to be okay. You just got to stop thinking
that way. And that's not as easy it sounds.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Is it. It's definitely not. You know, that thing pull
yourself up by the bootstraps is insufficient here, and that's
where seeing mental health from the same lens that we
see physical health is really important. We wouldn't give someone
that advice when it comes to maybe a diagnosis like cancer, diabetes,
or something of that nature. So why is it okay
that we give that advice as it pertains to our

(17:50):
mental health. It's one and the same as that they
do go hand in hand. So I think it's how
we approach people turning to us. It's not about them
just giving them advice or just change the way you think,
change the way you feel. That's so much easier said
than done.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
It's probably something that boiled, that came to a head
after many years of gradual decline, and then somebody all
of a sudden says, oh, you can just turn this
around start, you know, be happy tomorrow. No, that's not
how is it?

Speaker 3 (18:19):
That isn't not at all? If only we're that easiest.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Oh, yes, isn't that the truth? Doctor Jennifer Barman. One
quick question. Do you have any stats on the percentage
of seniors who are diagnosed andly with milder versions of
mental illness?

Speaker 3 (18:33):
That's a great question. I don't have the actual stats
in front of me, but it is definitely something alarming.
It's something we're seeing an increase in the recent decades.
You know, suicide rates are heightened among seniors. And you know,
when we think suicide, we often think depression, since those
have frequently seen together. So yes, the figures do imply

(18:54):
that there is an increase, but it is something. As
I said, it's never too late to practice mental health
techniques and get health as well. You know, we've got
some amazing resources out in the community institutions such as
my own ut health, but there's also the National Suicide
Prevention or Crisis Hotline and text line, and they even
have a chat option online ninety eight. And I always say,

(19:16):
if all else fails, the nine one one number something
we've very much had in Green throughout our life, and
that is definitely a resource that everyone has available twenty
fours a day, sevent days a week.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Doctor Jennifer Barman, thank you so very much.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Doug will do it again. I promise you we will.
I enjoy talking to you. I learn a lot from you.
I do. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
I appreciate that my pleasure. Have a great day.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
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Speaker 1 (22:04):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy back that Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
All right, here we go, Welcome back. What a day?
What a night?

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Holy cow? We caught a pretty good thunderstorm yesterday afternoon,
and then one that actually seemed a little bit worse
early this morning. How was it at your place? Will
any excitement? No, we had light rain, that was it. Yeah,
that wasn't bad. I had There was one lightning strike
just before dawn this morning. The one yesterday afternoon ran

(22:38):
me off the golf course. We got sixteen holes in
before the siren went off. There was actually some minor
street flooding on Highway six between ninety and fifty nine
on the way home. Nothing that shut it down, but
enough to make everybody in every lane slow down at least.
But gosh, early this morning, I don't know, it's probably
five five thirty, maybe quarter six somewhere in there, there

(23:00):
was a lightning strike that sounded like it hit my
sock drawer. I mean, it was just there was a
it was a flash bang in the truest sense of
the word. There was no time to count out how
many second thousand and one, thousand and two. I couldn't
even get out the thch in thousand before that one
went off and it was loud, man, I mean it

(23:22):
was loud. I was surprised it didn't set off a
couple of car alarms or something in the neighborhood because
you could just feel the house shake. It was something else.
Dan Matthews from over on KB and me lost power overnight,
and I guess all of that went on here, there
and everywhere. I haven't heard. I don't know of anybody
else who lost power, but I think the number that

(23:42):
I heard this morning was it was either six thousand
or sixty thousand at least had temporary outages, and so
all in all, I don't know. Well, if it was
let's say it was sixty thousand, customers will out of
what I'm million probably in this area, or two or

(24:03):
three million, isn't it. Remember when it all went out,
two or three million and sixty thousand were without power
for a little while. Wouldn't you give Center Point a
little bit better grade than it's had in the last
few years? I would have to. They've buried tons of
tons of electric lines. Now, they've trimmed a lot of trees.
They they kind of got their hand forced, frankly, and

(24:25):
they had it coming to they. I think they were
kind of riding the easy train for a long time.
Let'sp my little neighborhood out in sugar Land. Come to
find out, we're on a very small grid of only
like fifty or sixty homes, and so when there's a
major outage all over town, they're not going to come

(24:46):
fix our little fifty or sixty until all the ones
that are five hundred or two thousand or ten thousand
get fixed, because if you could, if you can flip
one switch and fix fifty thousand homes, or one switch
and flip and fix fifty, they're gonna do that bigger
chunk every time, and that leaves us in the dark,
in the heat or cold or whatever for an unreasonably

(25:09):
long time. There ought to be a every other storm.
They start at the bottom and work up, and then
in the alter that they work it from the top down.
That's the only way it could be fair, honestly, because
there's no there's no reason that we should suffer just
because we're on a small grid. We didn't we didn't
know our grid was small. It doesn't make any sense

(25:29):
at all, not to me anyway, not to me, my
friend Ah. Nothing showing yet on the you know what map,
but no time like the present to go ahead and
create your checklist too before there is a need for
that number one thing on your your summer storm season

(25:50):
checklist has got to be medications at our age. Get
your doctor to prescribe a couple of weeks worth of
extras so you don't have to worry about that, because
if the power goes out again like it did a
while back, and stays out for a week or two
weeks where you are, you may not be able to
get to a drug store to even get help. And

(26:10):
if you can get to a drug store, if their
powers out, they might not be able to feel your prescription.
Everything is so electronic now that that creates problems, and
big problems too. In Texas. From the no Snap, no
Cap desk, that's where the younger listeners will you got it,

(26:32):
the no cap And what does that mean? No cap?
No lie? That's right, it means you're telling the truth.
From the Texas scorecard word that the Texas House has
passed legislation that prohibits using SNAP benefits, that's the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance program. They can't purchase soda anymore. Once this

(26:54):
thing gets on through the supplemental well, that program to
allow recipients to purchase just about anything they wanted with
that money tax money. By the way, the version of
this bill that got through the Senate actually included candy.
It took away candy, cookies and energy drinks. You know,

(27:15):
I need to go back and reread that to whether
it included them as things that couldn't be bought or
it was okay to buy those. I'll go back and
double check that. But they are hammering down on soda,
and I think that's pretty good unless they want to
take the word nutrition out of the program. Name House

(27:36):
Human Services Committee opted to remove those other groups. I
was talking about next part of the signature of Governor Abbott,
which is required that new law also has to get
clearance a waiver from the US Department of Agriculture, which
is it's in the works. It just hasn't been completed yet,
and I think it's I think it's been sent up
the ladder as they say, well, let's go and have

(27:58):
a little fun before we get to the next segmentum Well,
by the way, a point to ponder, and this is
this is something I'm gonna try to find at least
one example of just some curious fact that you can
use as a conversation starter somewhere. You'll probably use this
one tonight, Will. I'm sure you'll go home and tell

(28:19):
your your girlfriend about this. You're ready, yep. Your fingers
have fingertips, but your toes don't have toe tips yet.
You can tiptoe, but you can't tip finger. What's that
on an interest level? Is that a fact? Is that

(28:39):
it's just something to think about? I guess it's something
to conversation start, a point to ponder. I think I
won't be thinking about that much. I need to find
to complete the alliteration. I need to find a company
that's name starts with oh, Primo, Primo, dors. I might
talk to Jason about this. A point to ponder from
Primo or Popeyes or Pennies? What else will pennies? Pickleball? No, no,

(29:10):
I'm not endorsing pickleball. It's the number one leading cause
of orthopedic injury and seniors. How can I do that
to my my peers? Man, you teach them how to
not get injured. Yeah, I know how. Play pool, Okay,
just don't get hit by one of the balls. Play
not pickleball. Tell them to not be so competitive on

(29:33):
the courts. Don't tell me. Don't tell people like me
that I cannot be not competitive. I can't go play
a game. It's kind of like, can't just have fun,
just whack the whiffle ball. But you got to keep score,
will or otherwise you have no idea whether you're any
good at it or not. And what's the point of
playing it? It matters to me, Oh, well, I'm an

(29:57):
I'm an athlete. If you're talking to the senior in
the audience, it's not like they're going professional. It's just
a way to get some exercise. The ones who are
getting hurt Will are taking the game very seriously, exactly.
Hold on, I'm gonna walk that back. I don't think
you have to be serious about pickleball to get hurt.
Otherwise there would be fewer people hurt because I would

(30:21):
bet that most of the people who play it kind
of do it like you do, just for fun. But man,
if I guarantee you I could, I could grab three
guys I know right now who have not played any
more pickleball than I have, and if the four of
us got on that court by fifteen minutes into the game,
we'd be diving for balls. Well, you know what, I

(30:42):
also say, what do some stretches beforehand? Well, blimber up
a little bit. What's the point of that. Have you
seen the size of a pickleball court? You can stretch
from one side to the other. I think that's the
problem is you're going in raw cold. You need to
warm up them. Yeah, I'll tell you what I've learned out.
I need to warm up my golf muscles every time

(31:04):
I play. Now exact, Holy cow, if I were to
take a full swing right, just walk straight up to
the first tea and take a full swing, I'd pribably
snap a hip. Probably, so we got to take a
break on the way out. I'll tell you about Berry
Hill Grill. Is it family run restaurant out there on
fifty nine in sugar Land at Sugar Creek Boulevard, been

(31:24):
there for the better part of thirty something years and
has some of I could say some of, but I'm
confident when I say the best fish tacos in Southeast
Texas at least maybe a bigger area. My wife and
I found Berry Hill more than twenty years ago, maybe
twenty five or so, and now it's your turn to
try a very casual, family friendly restaurant that's had the

(31:48):
same two primary chefs in the kitchen now for decades,
just churning out delicious Mexican food text mex Really, all
the different favorites you can think of are on that
big menu over the place where you place your order,
And if you're new to Sugarland, go in there and
just let a couple of people know that they'll welcome

(32:09):
you to their table, probably on that sports bar side.
There's all kinds of high tops in there, and then
there's outdoor dining as well. And I would be willing
to bet that if you walked in and just said,
excuse me, I'm brand new to this area, who could
help me figure out where the best places to go are,
you'd probably have. You'd probably see four or five hands

(32:29):
waving you over. They're just that friendly. They've got a
couple of private rooms in the back if you want
to hold some kind of an event there. And they
do catering all over town, which is something that we
are taking advantage of here at iHeart and getting some
absolutely delicious meals sent over here on occasion for good occasions,
the best occasions Barry Hill Sugarland dot com is the website.

(32:56):
They'll be happy to help you with anything you need
and whatever you're ordering, don't forget to say and trace letches.
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Speaker 1 (33:10):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
All right, welcome back, fourth and final segment of the
program starts right now. Thank you all for listening. Let
me go through a couple of more important things than
the some of the shorties we've got around here. From
the Let It Go Desk through Breitbart comes word that
actor Jesse Smollett. Remember him. He posted on Instagram this

(33:36):
past Saturday that he actually did get jumped six years
ago and that the city of Chicago is part of
a conspiracy to discredit him. He's maintained his innocence the
whole time, but the evidence presented in the case against
him says otherwise, according to the Illinois Supreme Court. So
I don't know why he wanted to bring that back up,

(33:57):
and I don't know how that will benefit him anyway,
but it's his right to do it. He can if
he believes in his innocence. Then more power to him,
and I thought, I don't think he wants to go
through any of that again. Though, also via Breitbart, from
the trim the Fat Desk comes word that the Social

(34:18):
Security Administration has removed twelve point three million people from
its roster, people who were alleged to be older than
one hundred and twenty years. That doesn't mean they were
all receiving payments, and there remain lingering cases in all

(34:38):
age categories of people who are registered, even with two
different birth dates, which can't be real. Bottom line the
story said is that this purge of non existent people
from Social Securities rosters is saving millions, if not billions,
of dollars for us all because there are some of

(34:59):
those people who who have been receiving checks long past
their expiration. And anybody who's on that list at one
hundred and twenty, if their relatives, if their survivors, have
been collecting that money, I think we ought to ask
for it back. It's only fair. From the Sad Reality

(35:21):
in Media Desk comes word that over the Memorial Day weekend,
mainstream meet mainstream media spent a whole lot more time
talking about George Floyd than it did honoring the men
and women who gave their lives in defense of our country.
News coverage, what we actually see on television is never
an accident. You've got to remember that this wasn't just

(35:43):
an oversight on somebody's part. Executives decide what does and
doesn't make air, and in this case, they did a
grave disservice to the armed forces of the United States.
I saw one report I believe it was out of
Los Angeles where a there was all kinds of disruption

(36:04):
and people just a mob scene on the streets, spray
painting everything from buses and train cars to police cars
and damaging storefronts and property and just making a mess
of things. And they claimed it was because of holiday rowdiness. Oh,

(36:24):
these are just people celebrating the holiday but not doing
it right. No, that's not anybody celebrating. First of all,
you don't celebrate Memorial Day. You honor the day by
recognizing the people who made it possible for these thugs.
I guess to go buy spray paint and spray painted

(36:45):
on stuff. I very frustrating to see how the spin
goes sometimes. Will do I come back to you? Now, Yes,
let's do that. We've got a couple of things here
I would like to get to. Are you ready? Yes,
wash your mouth out with soap. My audience knows what
that means, do you yes? Okay? Making sure, okay, but

(37:08):
just don't roll over or bonvoyage, bon voyage. A new
report just let this sink in for a second, will
A new report says that the perfect vacation lasts eleven
days and costs eighty eight hundred dollars per person and

(37:30):
is three hours from home. Can you think of any
place within three hours where we're sitting that you and
your girlfriend would like to go spend seventeen thousand dollars
to stay for a week and a half. And it's
not by cards, by plane. It says three and a
half hours from home from Hume. Well, yeah, okay, even

(37:55):
by plane, you're not gonna You're basically not gonna get
out of the Continental US unless you want to go
spend eighteen grand in Mexico? Is it New York? Oh,
it doesn't matter. It doesn't say where. It's just three
hours from home. So you're gonna get on a jet
and until until Elon Musk super super duper faster plane

(38:17):
can get us to Europe in a half an hour.
You're gonna have to You're gonna have to stay domestic,
like I said, unless you go south so La. You
want to spend eighteen grand in La. You want to
go spend eleven days at disney World or Disneyland. I
don't want to go to disney. That's a lot of money.
That's a lot of money to spend. Get on an airplane,

(38:40):
even if you're flying first class, it's gonna be hard.
I don't know for me, and maybe I'm just a
poor guy. Okay, but eighty eight hundred dollars per person
to be gone for a week, that seems that seems
pretty high. Seems pretty high. So long, Yeah, what have
you got three kids? I know two families that have
five children, all of them, well, some of them I

(39:02):
guess would get children's food prices and children's maybe, I
don't know. You can stack three or four of them
in one of the rooms with a parent. There's stacked
three in one room and two in the other with
one parent each, which kind of takes away from the
family or the parents vacation. But nonetheless, that's a boatload
of money. That's a lot. Okay, Well, I'm gonna go back,

(39:25):
but just don't roll over or wash your mouth that
was soap. Wash your mouth that would soap. You just
wouldn't let me do it, would you. Second study in
less than a year found that Americans have the filthiest
mouths in the world. Around one in every three thousand
words on American websites is a swear word. UK ranked

(39:47):
second at just one in every forty two hundred words.
And yet if you listen to my radio shows, you
won't hear any, especially by the way, on my outdoor
show on the weekends. It is so g rated. I mean,
it's just nothing. But I got my finger on the
dump button. U no, no, we're out? Is this it?

(40:10):
Three seconds? Or ten seconds? Ten seconds? Oh good? All right,
you got ten seconds to say a very cool word
right now? No will. I'm gonna stick to my guns.
I respect my audience. They don't want to hear it.
Neither do I. We're out. We'll see it tomorrow, Audios.