February 11, 2025 • 40 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Julia Hiner about normal againg and cognitive decline.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This show is all about you. This is fifty plus
with Doug Pike.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Helpful information on your finances, good health, and what to
do for fun. Fifty plus brought to you by the
UT Health Houston Institute on Aging, Informed Decisions for a healthier,
happier life.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
All right, here we go on a Tuesday, not a
very pretty tuesday. I'll have to say, will did you
have rain this morning at your house?
Speaker 5 (00:54):
I had so much rain?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Doug seriously, A yes, trying to get it. Okay, So
how long? And how on a one to ten, how
hard was it raining? Ten being a hurricane that camps
out over us, and one being just misty?
Speaker 6 (01:10):
Oh, I would say, I mean, I would say it
was about maybe like.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
A four o five.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
You could hear it on the roof. Could hear it
on the roof? It was definitely a pouring. It was comforting.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
I woke up Country Roots. I woke up at eight
and then I when did you wake up again. Nine thirty.
I saw that.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Coming a mile away. If only I had had that luxury.
It actually rained at my house for about only where
I could hear it on the roof, but only for
maybe three or four minutes. That was it, And I
too kind of nodded back off while it was going
and I didn't. I only slept a few more minutes
before my alarm went off. But it was not raining then,
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It wasn't raining all the way into work. So clearly
scattered showers today, but enough to do some damage to
the early tea times that a lot of the golf
courses around town, I'm sure. Oh well, as they say Tuesday,
well let's look at a weather forecast from Texas iaq
dot net.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
By the way, because cleaner.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Air is healthier air, after all, and they clean your
duct work, all of your ac duct work, and they
do it in a way that keeps it clean for
years to come. It's an investment, but a very good
one if you like breathing clean, healthy air.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Which most of us should so.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Anyway, good chance of rain, like Will and I have
already experienced, I think we maybe we've had ours for today. Also,
a high chance for tomorrow, then a little bit less
of a chance on Thursday and Friday, and then again
sixty percent on Saturday, and that all leads to several
days of cool air and sunshine once we get into
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the back half of the weekend, in the front part
of next week and our piece of the world. Honestly,
if you had no calendar and you were dropped into
a room for an unknown number of days and nights
you couldn't see whether it was darker light outside, well,
first of all, that would be just horrifying, it would
be torturous. But anyway, if you just walked outside one
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day and were asked in southeast Texas to guess what
season it was, will, did you pay attention.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
To what I just said or no? Yes?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Okay, So if you walked outside after being just tucked
away with no reference to day or night or any
of that stuff for a while, and you walked outside
and had to guess the season, how many times that
you guessed over the next five to twenty four hour
periods would you probably guess correctly on the season?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Hmmm? I would say, I mean for a week, for today,
I would guess that.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
We were in February.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
It's a little cool, it's a little cool, it's a
little rainy.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
You just mister know it all.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
But you know, if it gets you know, if I'm
thinking about to like Friday or Saturday where it was,
or even Sunday when it was way warmer, yeah, eighty
degree several days last week, I would definitely say April.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, but not June now because then it'd be ninety
yeah or sixty. It could be either one or one
hundred and five.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yeah. Well, thank you weather man. Will. I think that's
what I'm gonna call you from now. You just you
got it. I think that honestly.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
If if they were random shots at guessing the season
and you had no reference, I'd probably get it wrong
at least three days, three times out of ten, three
times out of seven. I would think a week's worth
of guesses, because it just fluctuates so much. But that's
that's what we love. That's what we keep telling each other.
We love about here. If you don't like the weather,
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just hanging around for half an hour, it'll change. The
markets changed a little bit up and down both this morning,
and I just checked a little while ago. One of
the formerly green ones had turned red. One of the
formerly red ones had turned green. Of the big four indicators,
but none of them moving significantly. The biggest news, thanks
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to Houston Goldexchange dot Com is gold and Man, you
could just pretty much throw out the idea of gold
hitting three thousand dollars an ounced by early summer, because
it's already well north of two thousand and nine one
hundred and thirty dollars an ounce right now. Oil sadly
also up on the high side of seventy three dollars
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a barrel just a little while ago. Once the Middle
East settles out a little bit and we ramp up
our domestic production, that should correct itself. Those four again,
my key indicators, none of them had moved even half
a point a little while ago. President Trump's tariffs I
think have some folks concerned. There may be some squeeze
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early in this process, but overall outcomes should be good
for us Now. I truly do believe that we're still
dealing with what he inherited and having to correct a
lot of that, and that work is underway at a
speed the likes of which no administration has done stuff
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like this before. And hope we will get back on
a more favorable track pretty quickly. About nine o'clock this morning,
Fox News announced that it had learned from femal leaders
that four FEMA employees are going to be fired today
actually for allegedly kind of circumventing proper channels and making
what overseers say was a payment of some fifty nine
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million dollars to continue housing and overall funding of illegal
immigrants in New York City. There's a local congressman up there,
Republican Mike Lawler said, New York City's been thrown away
millions and millions and millions of dollars to take better
care of illegal immigrants, including many who have committed violent crimes,
even better care of them than that city and state
(07:14):
have been taken care of Americans under their rooftop. Hopefully
that will, hopefully what's gonna happen today to those four
people who just said, na, you know what, we're gonna
go ahead and use that.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Money for this. Hopefully a lot of that's gonna stop, not.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Only in New York City either, they need to get there,
they need to get their city back Quickly. Related, New
York Democrats are making another play to add non citizens
to the voter registration rolls eight hundred thousand of them
now more or less, which almost certainly will undermine the
Constitution if they try to do that and basically turn
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that state into assesspool. New York wants this done to
get a more representation in federal government, which means more money,
which means more everything for the people who have been
getting rich for the last several years. Off of that,
we'll take a break. When we get back, we're gonna
talk about aging and the difference between normal aging and cognitive.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Decline, and there is a difference.
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Speaker 1 (09:56):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus. Doug Pike, Hi, welcome.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. I certainly do
appreciate it. Thanks you all for allowing.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Willing me to step into your midday hour. In this segment,
we're gonna talk about the subtle and not so subtle
differences in what's called normal aging and cognitive decline, and
to distinguish between the two, I will bring in doctor
Julia Heiner, Assistant professor in geriatric and palliative Medicine at
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ut Health Houston. And if I'm not mistaken, this is
a welcome back, right, doctor Hunter.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yes, it is good to be back. Doug. How are you.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I'm doing very well, Thank you. So let's start with
a simple definition. I kind of like to do that.
What is normal aging?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Yeah? So normal aging is really just the expected progression
of humans through life phases, starting from when we're just
stating inside of our mothers, through infancy, toddlerhood, childhood, teenagers,
and then adulthood. But adulthood's a little tricky because at
what point are you a young adult versus middle aged
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or older adult? And that's where it starts to be
a little less clear.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
At some point there's a top of the hill and
then it as the saying goes it kind of goes down.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'll right, yeah, and that kind of varies for everyone
based on you know, like your health, your environment, your genes,
and sometimes just good luck.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Yeah, fingers crossed.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Huh right, So what are some of the some of
the factors that might contribute you mentioned genetics. How important
are genetics to your your overall cognitive health versus normal
aging as we get older.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, so you know, they typically say genetics account for
maybe a fourth twenty five percent of what's going on
in your environment, and how you live your life is
makes up maybe another fifty to seventy five percent. And
then yeah, again that kind of component of did you
run into things like exposures in life or you just
got good, long lived grandparents things like that can impact
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as well.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
There's no just no telling what it's going to be.
Is there are there rough.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Guidelines doctor, heinter on when normal aging mcgins or how
quickly or slowly it might progress.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yeah, So, you know, in terms of cognitive perspectives, we
really start to see some of the bigger declines starting
after seventy on average, but certainly, you know a good
chunk of people will go well beyond that and continue
to age healthy. From cognitive perspective, depending on if you
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carry certain genetics for Alzheimer's disease, you might show changes
earlier than that.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Though, whenever it starts, let's talk about what we can
do maybe to slow it down and hold it back.
Talk about how diet and exercise, for example, can sort
of hold those negative changes at bay.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
For a while.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Absolutely, I mean that is the easiest thing we can
do to impact our health, is taking care of our
whole body. It all is connected. So you know, a
lot of conversation about Mediterranean diets that continues to be
a mainstay. Some newer research says maybe eating you know,
a more traditional Japanese diet, you know, things like sushi
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and seaweed and very fermented foods. I guess it's something
for everyone, but the videos is ferment Mediterranian diet is
equivalent in some recent studies to Japanese. So you're in
good luck. But exercise, move your body, getting out socializing
is huge. You don't want to stay trapped in your
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home if you can avoid it and tell the medicine
business with family counts. Even if you have to stay home,
you can visit with people virtually.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I had that socialization thing, that the social interaction with
other people, because not only does it it just kind
of helps keep your brain a little bit sharper, but
also helps you avoid depression and just keeps your communication
skills honed right.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Absolutely, and it keeps you safe from being mistreated as well.
Having a safety network provides a lot of benefits, so
you don't you know, fall into a state of neglect
or get scammed by someone. So it's super important to
stay connected, one way or another.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
That's a very good point really.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Doctor Julia Hiner on fifty plus here talk about some
some of the more common myths about aging and cognitive decline.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Absolutely well, you know, I hear from a lot of
my patients, Oh well, I'm just getting older. That's why
my memory is, you know, changing or maybe getting worse.
And that's really not true. You know, every human young
and old has normal Hey where did I put my
keys or my cell phone kind of memory things, and
that's to be expected, but not all memory loss should
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be written off as just getting older. One that's an
age's belief that a lot of us have internalized. But two,
when we can't remember things as well, we do want
to make sure there aren't underlying issues like depression or
vitamin deficiencies or even perhaps the beginning of a dementia
for me. So it's important to evaluate those conditions and
talk to them about them with your physician.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I remember someone it may have been you who said this,
but it really resonated with me one time in the
past when this subject came up and I said something
about how I occasionally will forget where I put my keys,
and she I remember it being a woman, it may
have been you who said, it's okay if you forget
where your keys are. What would matter more is if
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you forgot what they were.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
For exactly that's really true. I'm not sure if I
can claim being someone who said it, But.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Is that really put it in perspective to to kind
of stay on that road of protecting cognitive health. What
are some of the red flags there that would indicate, okay,
we really need to get looked at a little more closely.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, I think starting to make errors in daily life activities,
like you know, forgetting for weeks that a medication needs
to be refilled, or you know, getting into more car accidents,
forgetting to go grocery shopping or to eat, and just
kind of ignoring some of those bodies. You know, signals
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that you know, drive hunger, maybe not bathing as you
once did, or your home becomes excessively messy or hoarded.
Those are things that are showing signs of a change
in your function. And really so much of it gets
back to function. Memory losses one thing and can be
an early warning sign. But when the function decreases, that's
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when I'm especially worried and wants to work up my
patient more seriously for an underlying problem.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Out of curiosity, Where where is the thinking in your
world now on the the efficacy of puzzles and brain
teasers and things like that as a sharpening tool for
the brain.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I think it's a careful road to walk. I think
there's a lot of companies out there that will sell
you their crossword puzzle brain teaser as the cure all
and I think it's you know, although staying active and
you know, doing the New York Times crossword puzzle is
great demonstration of what you have. I think it's just
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the overall engagement in activity in life. You don't want
to just kind of melt into your couch and give up.
You want to keep getting out there and engaging one
way or another. But I don't think a puzzle, unfortunately,
will will turn back the hands of the time.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
You know, if you're sitting there doing puzzles all day,
you're not exactly working at your legs and your arms
and everything else needs to be part of that.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Equation, right, yeah, well said, all right.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
So to anybody in this audience who feels like they
might be watching a little of their cheese slip off
the cracker, what's your advice to them?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Absolutely well, you know, finding something that gets you excited,
whether it's taking up a new hobby, just even going
on a walk around your block. If you have loved
ones that aren't nearby, trying to set up those you know,
either a phone call or maybe a zoom visit something
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like that. But you know, finding a way to get
and stay in society and build those important connections. That
is a good workout for the brain that you know
we all can benefit from.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
That sounds like a winner to me, Doctor Julia Hiner,
Thank you. So very much for your time today. I
truly appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
My pleasure. Thank you for having me back.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Uh huh, we'll do it again, all right. We got
to take a little break here on the way out.
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Speaker 2 (20:15):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
All right, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Segment three starts now on fifty plus. Will shall we
go serious or humorous?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And humorous?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
You never know what these things? All right, let's see
it up. Oh, by the way, what is today national?
What day? Will it is national? If it's I will
lunch day?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
You know that's tomorrow. That's tomorrow. And you know what
I'm gonna say if you ask me again tomorrow, don't
you here's your lunch tomorrow. I'm oh, I want to
keep saying that, keep saying it. Oh anyway to maybe
maybe not? It just might turn into your lucky day.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
I don't know. We'll see Today is National Guitar Day?
Can you play the guitar? Well, no, nor can. I.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I dabbled in keyboards years ago, mostly just stuff that
I composed myself, which sounds kind of weird, but I
just I never learned to play by taking lessons. I
just learned from trying to repeat the sounds of other
songs and then just made up my own stuff and
it was fun. And then one time I forgot to
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change out the batteries. Well, I had batteries in this
particular keyboard that had memory in it, and I had all.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
My songs saved in it.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
And then somehow the thing got unplugged by somebody I
don't know who, and after a long time I realized
that the batteries also had died, so and all that
memory went with that. So they're still up in my
head somewhere. Probably when I sit down to a keyboard. Now,
I can get bits and pieces, but it's it's kind
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of like my brain. The hard drives full, and some
things are just harder to recall than others, like a
very full phone or laptop.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Sadly, So back to the humor part.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
You want to go with useless world record in case
you missed it? Or heart shaped what.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
In case you missed it?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Thirty nine percent of Americans said they planned to celebrate
Valentine's Day, but sixteen percent aren't sure. I think in
case you missed it the reason for that? What was
you think the reason would be that? Sixteen percent said
they're not sure yet.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
I don't know. I think they're going to be.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
In bars looking for a Valentine. You think you'd go
to the club. I'm not dating anybody right now. Let's
go find somebody and kind of turn it into a
little many New Year's celebration. Just look at somebody and
say Happy Valentine's Day, and then plan a big kiss
on them.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
See how that works out for you. I think that
would work or not? Will We don't know. I have
no idea.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I know you haven't been in a relationship as long
as I have, but you've been in one long enough
to know that if you even said anything about giving
somebody a big old kiss and wishing him a happy
Valentine's Day on this day, other than your girlfriend or
my wife, that would be a problem, wouldn't it?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Sure probably would. All right, let me decide here, tell
you what.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
We'll go back to the to the front pages, and
then we'll circle back in.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
A little bit to the others.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
After Hamas claimed that Israel had broken the rules of
the seasfire and a lot of you have already heard
about this, and when after Hamas said it wasn't going
to release any more hostages just yet. President Trump sent
a little message to that group to get back to
releasing hostages or brace for serious consequences, and I would
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take you by his word. We'll see what happens. He
told him Matt had to start up by Saturday and
get back to it. The creepy part about hamas from
what I've read to it, this is so weird. They
actually I'm pretty sure I remember reading this just this
past week. Again not the first time I've heard it,
that they will hang on to the bodies of hostages
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who have died while held captive by them.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Which is I don't know, that's some that's just bizarre.
That's almost demonic.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I don't know why they would do something like that,
and I hope that's not the case, but if it is,
they start sending back the deceased bodies of hostages that
we've still been led to believe our alife, that might
come down on them at least as bad, if not worse.
In deportation news, and I wish I could say I'm
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surprised by this, but I'm not. Leaked information that just
this past week actually enabled gang members and other violent
illegal immigrants to just disappear right before raids happened at
places we knew they were, got out of there before
they could be captured. It is looking more and more
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like those leaks originated within the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
There's still there's a big investigation going on right now,
and I don't know any more than you do, and
you probably don't know a whole lot more than I
do about this unless you're directly involved. But the bottom
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line is, if that's the case, and if we've had
people on the inside aiding and abetting these these horrible
people from these gangs and people who have committed unthinkable
acts in this country of ours, something's got to be done.
Borders are Tom Holman said as much this morning, and
he let it be known that they have a fair
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idea as to who or who of a couple of
people or more people.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
I don't know. They haven't said exactly how many people
are involved, if.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
More than one might be involved, or any indication of
who it is, at least not as.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Of about an hour ago.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
And whoever it is, I do hope they find the league,
and I do hope they prosecute that person to the
fullest extent of law.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I really do.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
That's just unthinkable that someone within that organization could so
drastically betray.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
The United States of America. That's just not good.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
All right, Well, back to your page over here that
makes sense. Check your chips or might want to rethink
that plan.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Check your chips.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Check to make sure you have Yeah, you got a dog.
Is that dog micro chip?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (27:08):
So here's the deal. Will then you need to perk
up and listen up. Make sure that your pets microchip
still works. People are freaking well, says freaking out. I
think they're concerned maybe, but not freaking out like I
don't know, like college kids over some political thing. Let's
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just make sure that your dog's chip or cats chip
or whatever your chipmunks chip are still working. Because there
was a company called Save This Life, a chip maker
that's gone under no moss.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
It's long gone, and.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
The chips that they made have to be reregistered through
another company before they will work again. So at some
point you need to swing by the vent and them
to double check to make sure your chip is still working. Otherwise,
if that precious pet of yours gets loose, you may
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have a hard time finding them. That's that's a great service.
I think registering pets like that through implantation of those microchips.
But if it's not working, it's kind of like having
all kinds of stuff on your phone that doesn't work.
My wife was worried last night that her she couldn't
get access to her personal email, our personal email, not
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on her phone, not on her iPad, not on the
PC we have at the house, none of that. And
I ended up calling the provider that we use, and
was kind of sort of what I expected. After I'd
tried a couple of times myself. They said, we're experiencing
trouble with our email. Please be patient. Our people are
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working on it. So I suspect that if she goes
in today it'll be all right. They won't leave that
thing down long.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
All right, we got to take a break.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
On the way out, I'll tell you about the fishing
show that is coming up this week Wednesday. That would
be tomorrow through Sunday at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Everything you could possibly imagine as a fisherman or an
aspiring fisherman, or someone who just has a casual interest
even in the water, and beautiful places to go visit
(29:21):
around the country. In the world, it's all represented right
there in the Fishing Show, especially as fishing tackle goes.
Everything from the tiniest little split ring up to offshore
trolling gear for giant blue marlin is going to be
there in the George R. Brown Convention Center so that
you can get in there and get hands on and
(29:42):
talk to the people who are involved with R and D.
Talk to the people factory representatives who can really get
into the weeds with you on exactly how that piece
of gear came to be and what it's intended to
do and how it does that. There'll be boats there,
There'll be kayaks there, kids lex on Saturday and Sunday
with giveaways.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
For the kids. Whether you just absolutely or obsessed with
fishing as am I, or you just want to learn
about fishing as an adult who never really got the chance,
do not miss. This is the fiftieth annual.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
This is the golden anniversary of the Fishing Show, and
it's gonna be the best one yet. I don't know
how they keep making them better every year, but they do.
Fiftieth Annual Fishing Show. Go to Houston Fishingshow dot com.
That's Houston fishingshow dot com.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh cod O wax.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
All right, welcome back. Segment three starts now on fifty plus.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Will shall we go serious or humorous?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Humorous?
Speaker 5 (31:03):
You never know what these things? All right, let's tear
it up. Oh, by the way, what is today national?
What day? Will it is national? I will lunch day?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
You know that's tomorrow. That's tomorrow. And you know what
I'm gonna say if you ask me again tomorrow, don't
you here's your lunch tomorrow. I want to keep saying that,
keep saying it anyway to maybe maybe not. It just
might turn into your lucky day.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
I don't know. We'll see Today is National Guitar Day?
Can you play the guitar? Will no? Nor can?
Speaker 4 (31:42):
I dabbled in keyboards years ago, mostly just stuff that
I composed myself, which sounds kind of weird, but I
just I never learned to play by taking lessons. I
just learned from trying to repeat the sounds of other
songs and then just made up my own stuff and
it was fun. And then one time I forgot to
(32:04):
change out the batteries. Well, I had batteries in this
particular keyboard that had memory in it, and I had all.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
My songs saved in it.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
And then somehow the thing got unplugged by somebody I
don't know who, and after a long time I realized
that the batteries also had died, so and all that
memory went with that. So they're still up in my
head somewhere. Probably when I sit down to a keyboard.
Now I can get bits and pieces, but it's it's
(32:34):
kind of like my brain. The hard drives full, and
some things are just harder to recall than others, like
a very full phone or laptop.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Sadly, So back to the humor part.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
You want to go with useless world record in case
you missed it? Or heart shaped what.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
M in case you missed it?
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Thirty nine percent of a mayor erkans said they planned
to celebrate Valentine's Day, but sixteen percent aren't sure. I
think in case you missed it? The reason for that?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
What was?
Speaker 4 (33:13):
You think the reason would be that sixteen percent said
they're not sure yet.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
I don't know. I think they're going to be.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
In bars looking for a Valentine. Oh, you think you'd
go to the club. I'm not dating anybody right now.
Let's go find somebody and kind of turn it into
a little many New Year's celebration. Just look at somebody
and say Happy Valentine's Day and then plan a big
kiss on them.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
See how that works out for you. I think that
would work or not?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Will? We don't know.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I know you haven't been in a relationship as long
as I have, but you've been in one long enough
to know that if you even said anything about giving
somebody a big old kiss and wishing him a happy
Valentine's Day on this day, other than your girlfriend or
my wife, that would be a problem.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Wouldn't it? Sure probably would.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
All right, let me decide here, I'll tell you what.
We'll go back to the to the front pages, and
then we'll circle back in a little bit to the others.
After Hamas claimed that Israel had broken the rules of
the ceasefire, and I'm sure a lot of you have
already heard about this, and when after Hamas said it
wasn't gonna release any more hostages just yet, President Trump
(34:31):
sent a little message to that group to get back
to releasing hostages or brace for serious consequences, and I
would I would take you back his word. We'll see
what happens. He told him that had to start up
by Saturday and get back to it. The creepy part
about hamas from what I've read to it, this is
so weird. They actually I'm pretty sure I remember reading
(34:54):
this just this past week. Again not the first time
I've heard it, that they will hang on to the
bodies of hostages who have died while held captive by them,
which is I don't know, that's some that's just bizarre,
that's almost demonic. I don't know why they would do
something like that, and I hope that's not the case,
but if it is, they start sending back the deceased
(35:17):
bodies of hostages that we've still been led to believe
or alive, that might come down on them at least
as bad, if not worse in deportation news. And I
wish I could say I'm surprised by this, but I'm not.
Leaked information that just this past week actually enabled gang
members and other violent illegal immigrants to just disappear right
(35:40):
before raids happened at places we knew they were got
out of there before they could be captured. It is
looking more and more like those leaks originated within the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. There's still there's a big investigation
(36:02):
going on right now, and I don't know any more
than you do, and you probably don't know a whole
lot more than I do about this unless you're directly involved.
But the bottom line is, if that's the case, and
if we've had people on the inside aiding and abetting
these these horrible people from these gangs and people who
(36:22):
have committed unthinkable acts in this country of ours, something's
got to be done. Borders are Tom Holman said as
much this morning, and he let it be known that
they have a fair idea as to who or who
of a couple of people or more people.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
I don't know. They haven't said exactly how many people
are involved, if.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
More than one might be involved, or any indication of
who it is, at least.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Not as of about an hour ago.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
And whoever it is, I do hope they find the leak,
and I do hope they prosecute that person to the
fullest extent of law.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
I really do.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
That's just unthinkable that someone within that organization could so
drastically betray the United States of America.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
That's just not good.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
All right, Well back to your page over here, that
makes sense. Check your chips, or might want.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
To rethink that plan.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Check your chips.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Check to make sure you have Yeah, you got a dog.
Is that dog micro chip?
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (37:31):
So here's the deal. Will then you need to perk
up and listen up. Make sure that your pets microchip
still works. People are freaking well, says freaking out. I
think they're concerned maybe, but not freaking out like I
don't know, like college kids over some political thing. Let's
(37:51):
just make sure that your dog's chip or cats chip
or whatever your chipmunks chip are still working. Because there
was a company called Save This Life, a chip maker that's.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Gone under no miss, it's long gone, and.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
The chips that they made have to be reregistered through
another company before they will work again. So at some
point you need to swing by the vent and ask
them to double check to make sure your chip is
still working. Otherwise, if that precious pet of yours gets loose,
(38:31):
you may have a hard time finding them. That's that's
a great service. I think registering pets like that through
implantation of those microchips. But if it's not working, it's
kind of like having all kinds of stuff on your
phone that doesn't work. My wife was worried last night
that her she couldn't get access to her her personal email,
(38:51):
our personal email, not on her phone, not on her
her iPad, not on the PC we have at the house,
no one of that. And I ended up calling the
provider that we use, and was kind of sort of
what I expected. After I'd tried a couple of times myself.
They said, we're experiencing trouble with our email. Please be patient.
(39:16):
Our people are working on it. So I suspect that
if she goes in today.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
It'll be all right. They won't leave that thing down long.
All right, We got to take a break.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
On the way out, I'll tell you about the fishing
show that is coming up this week Wednesday. That would
be tomorrow through Sunday at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Everything you could possibly imagine as a fisherman or an
aspiring fisherman, or someone who just has a casual interest
even in the water, and beautiful places to go visit
(39:44):
around the country in the world. It's all represented right
there in the Fishing Show, especially as fishing tackle goes.
Everything from the tiniest little split ring up to offshore
trolling gear for giant blue marlin is going to be
there in the George R. Brown Convention Center so that
you can get in there and get hands on and
(40:05):
talk to the people who are involved with R and D.
Talk to the people factory representatives who can really get
into the weeds with you on exactly how that piece
of gear came to be and what it's intended to
do and how it does that. There'll be boats there,
There'll be kayaks there, kids clinics on Saturday and Sunday
with giveaways.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
For the kids.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
Whether you just absolutely or obsessed with fishing as am I,
or you just want to learn about fishing as an
adult who never really got the chance, do not miss.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
This is the fiftieth annual.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
This is the golden anniversary of the Fishing Show, and
it's gonna be the best one yet. I don't know
how they keep making them better every year, but they do.
Fiftieth Annual Fishing Show. Go to Houston fishingshow dot com.
That's Houston fishingshow dot com,
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Speaker 4 (00:45):
All right, here we go on a Tuesday, not a
very pretty tuesday. I'll have to say, will did you
have rain this morning at your house?
Speaker 5 (00:54):
I had so much rain?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Doug seriously, A yes, trying to get it. Okay, So
how long? And how on a one to ten, how
hard was it raining? Ten being a hurricane that camps
out over us, and one being just misty?
Speaker 6 (01:10):
Oh, I would say, I mean, I would say it
was about maybe like.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
A four o five.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
You could hear it on the roof. Could hear it
on the roof? It was definitely a pouring. It was comforting.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
I woke up Country Roots. I woke up at eight
and then I when did you wake up again. Nine thirty.
I saw that.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Coming a mile away. If only I had had that luxury.
It actually rained at my house for about only where
I could hear it on the roof, but only for
maybe three or four minutes. That was it, And I
too kind of nodded back off while it was going
and I didn't. I only slept a few more minutes
before my alarm went off. But it was not raining then,
(01:57):
It wasn't raining all the way into work. So clearly
scattered showers today, but enough to do some damage to
the early tea times that a lot of the golf
courses around town, I'm sure. Oh well, as they say Tuesday,
well let's look at a weather forecast from Texas iaq
dot net.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
By the way, because cleaner.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
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duct work, all of your ac duct work, and they
do it in a way that keeps it clean for
years to come. It's an investment, but a very good
one if you like breathing clean, healthy air.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Which most of us should so.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Anyway, good chance of rain, like Will and I have
already experienced, I think we maybe we've had ours for today. Also,
a high chance for tomorrow, then a little bit less
of a chance on Thursday and Friday, and then again
sixty percent on Saturday, and that all leads to several
days of cool air and sunshine once we get into
(02:59):
the back half of the weekend, in the front part
of next week and our piece of the world. Honestly,
if you had no calendar and you were dropped into
a room for an unknown number of days and nights
you couldn't see whether it was darker light outside, well,
first of all, that would be just horrifying, it would
be torturous. But anyway, if you just walked outside one
(03:22):
day and were asked in southeast Texas to guess what
season it was, will, did you pay attention.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
To what I just said or no? Yes?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Okay, So if you walked outside after being just tucked
away with no reference to day or night or any
of that stuff for a while, and you walked outside
and had to guess the season, how many times that
you guessed over the next five to twenty four hour
periods would you probably guess correctly on the season?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Hmmm? I would say, I mean for a week, for today,
I would guess that.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
We were in February.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
It's a little cool, it's a little cool, it's a
little rainy.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
You just mister know it all.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
But you know, if it gets you know, if I'm
thinking about to like Friday or Saturday where it was,
or even Sunday when it was way warmer, yeah, eighty
degree several days last week, I would definitely say April.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, but not June now because then it'd be ninety
yeah or sixty. It could be either one or one
hundred and five.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yeah. Well, thank you weather man. Will. I think that's
what I'm gonna call you from now. You just you
got it. I think that honestly.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
If if they were random shots at guessing the season
and you had no reference, I'd probably get it wrong
at least three days, three times out of ten, three
times out of seven. I would think a week's worth
of guesses, because it just fluctuates so much. But that's
that's what we love. That's what we keep telling each other.
We love about here. If you don't like the weather,
(05:03):
just hanging around for half an hour, it'll change. The
markets changed a little bit up and down both this morning,
and I just checked a little while ago. One of
the formerly green ones had turned red. One of the
formerly red ones had turned green. Of the big four indicators,
but none of them moving significantly. The biggest news, thanks
(05:24):
to Houston Goldexchange dot Com is gold and Man, you
could just pretty much throw out the idea of gold
hitting three thousand dollars an ounced by early summer, because
it's already well north of two thousand and nine one
hundred and thirty dollars an ounce right now. Oil sadly
also up on the high side of seventy three dollars
(05:47):
a barrel just a little while ago. Once the Middle
East settles out a little bit and we ramp up
our domestic production, that should correct itself. Those four again,
my key indicators, none of them had moved even half
a point a little while ago. President Trump's tariffs I
think have some folks concerned. There may be some squeeze
(06:07):
early in this process, but overall outcomes should be good
for us Now. I truly do believe that we're still
dealing with what he inherited and having to correct a
lot of that, and that work is underway at a
speed the likes of which no administration has done stuff
(06:27):
like this before. And hope we will get back on
a more favorable track pretty quickly. About nine o'clock this morning,
Fox News announced that it had learned from femal leaders
that four FEMA employees are going to be fired today
actually for allegedly kind of circumventing proper channels and making
what overseers say was a payment of some fifty nine
(06:51):
million dollars to continue housing and overall funding of illegal
immigrants in New York City. There's a local congressman up there,
Republican Mike Lawler said, New York City's been thrown away
millions and millions and millions of dollars to take better
care of illegal immigrants, including many who have committed violent crimes,
even better care of them than that city and state
(07:14):
have been taken care of Americans under their rooftop. Hopefully
that will, hopefully what's gonna happen today to those four
people who just said, na, you know what, we're gonna
go ahead and use that.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Money for this. Hopefully a lot of that's gonna stop, not.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Only in New York City either, they need to get there,
they need to get their city back Quickly. Related, New
York Democrats are making another play to add non citizens
to the voter registration rolls eight hundred thousand of them
now more or less, which almost certainly will undermine the
Constitution if they try to do that and basically turn
(07:52):
that state into assesspool. New York wants this done to
get a more representation in federal government, which means more money,
which means more everything for the people who have been
getting rich for the last several years. Off of that,
we'll take a break. When we get back, we're gonna
talk about aging and the difference between normal aging and cognitive.
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Decline, and there is a difference.
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Speaker 1 (09:56):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus. Doug Pike, Hi, welcome.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. I certainly do
appreciate it. Thanks you all for allowing.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Willing me to step into your midday hour. In this segment,
we're gonna talk about the subtle and not so subtle
differences in what's called normal aging and cognitive decline, and
to distinguish between the two, I will bring in doctor
Julia Heiner, Assistant professor in geriatric and palliative Medicine at
(10:40):
ut Health Houston. And if I'm not mistaken, this is
a welcome back, right, doctor Hunter.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yes, it is good to be back. Doug. How are you.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I'm doing very well, Thank you. So let's start with
a simple definition. I kind of like to do that.
What is normal aging?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Yeah? So normal aging is really just the expected progression
of humans through life phases, starting from when we're just
stating inside of our mothers, through infancy, toddlerhood, childhood, teenagers,
and then adulthood. But adulthood's a little tricky because at
what point are you a young adult versus middle aged
(11:18):
or older adult? And that's where it starts to be
a little less clear.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
At some point there's a top of the hill and
then it as the saying goes it kind of goes down.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'll right, yeah, and that kind of varies for everyone
based on you know, like your health, your environment, your genes,
and sometimes just good luck.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Yeah, fingers crossed.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Huh right, So what are some of the some of
the factors that might contribute you mentioned genetics. How important
are genetics to your your overall cognitive health versus normal
aging as we get older.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, so you know, they typically say genetics account for
maybe a fourth twenty five percent of what's going on
in your environment, and how you live your life is
makes up maybe another fifty to seventy five percent. And
then yeah, again that kind of component of did you
run into things like exposures in life or you just
got good, long lived grandparents things like that can impact
(12:16):
as well.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
There's no just no telling what it's going to be.
Is there are there rough.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Guidelines doctor, heinter on when normal aging mcgins or how
quickly or slowly it might progress.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yeah, So, you know, in terms of cognitive perspectives, we
really start to see some of the bigger declines starting
after seventy on average, but certainly, you know a good
chunk of people will go well beyond that and continue
to age healthy. From cognitive perspective, depending on if you
(12:49):
carry certain genetics for Alzheimer's disease, you might show changes
earlier than that.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Though, whenever it starts, let's talk about what we can
do maybe to slow it down and hold it back.
Talk about how diet and exercise, for example, can sort
of hold those negative changes at bay.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
For a while.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Absolutely, I mean that is the easiest thing we can
do to impact our health, is taking care of our
whole body. It all is connected. So you know, a
lot of conversation about Mediterranean diets that continues to be
a mainstay. Some newer research says maybe eating you know,
a more traditional Japanese diet, you know, things like sushi
(13:27):
and seaweed and very fermented foods. I guess it's something
for everyone, but the videos is ferment Mediterranian diet is
equivalent in some recent studies to Japanese. So you're in
good luck. But exercise, move your body, getting out socializing
is huge. You don't want to stay trapped in your
(13:48):
home if you can avoid it and tell the medicine
business with family counts. Even if you have to stay home,
you can visit with people virtually.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I had that socialization thing, that the social interaction with
other people, because not only does it it just kind
of helps keep your brain a little bit sharper, but
also helps you avoid depression and just keeps your communication
skills honed right.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Absolutely, and it keeps you safe from being mistreated as well.
Having a safety network provides a lot of benefits, so
you don't you know, fall into a state of neglect
or get scammed by someone. So it's super important to
stay connected, one way or another.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
That's a very good point really.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Doctor Julia Hiner on fifty plus here talk about some
some of the more common myths about aging and cognitive decline.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Absolutely well, you know, I hear from a lot of
my patients, Oh well, I'm just getting older. That's why
my memory is, you know, changing or maybe getting worse.
And that's really not true. You know, every human young
and old has normal Hey where did I put my
keys or my cell phone kind of memory things, and
that's to be expected, but not all memory loss should
(14:59):
be written off as just getting older. One that's an
age's belief that a lot of us have internalized. But two,
when we can't remember things as well, we do want
to make sure there aren't underlying issues like depression or
vitamin deficiencies or even perhaps the beginning of a dementia
for me. So it's important to evaluate those conditions and
talk to them about them with your physician.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I remember someone it may have been you who said this,
but it really resonated with me one time in the
past when this subject came up and I said something
about how I occasionally will forget where I put my keys,
and she I remember it being a woman, it may
have been you who said, it's okay if you forget
where your keys are. What would matter more is if
(15:45):
you forgot what they were.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
For exactly that's really true. I'm not sure if I
can claim being someone who said it, But.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Is that really put it in perspective to to kind
of stay on that road of protecting cognitive health. What
are some of the red flags there that would indicate, okay,
we really need to get looked at a little more closely.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, I think starting to make errors in daily life activities,
like you know, forgetting for weeks that a medication needs
to be refilled, or you know, getting into more car accidents,
forgetting to go grocery shopping or to eat, and just
kind of ignoring some of those bodies. You know, signals
(16:35):
that you know, drive hunger, maybe not bathing as you
once did, or your home becomes excessively messy or hoarded.
Those are things that are showing signs of a change
in your function. And really so much of it gets
back to function. Memory losses one thing and can be
an early warning sign. But when the function decreases, that's
(16:57):
when I'm especially worried and wants to work up my
patient more seriously for an underlying problem.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Out of curiosity, Where where is the thinking in your
world now on the the efficacy of puzzles and brain
teasers and things like that as a sharpening tool for
the brain.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I think it's a careful road to walk. I think
there's a lot of companies out there that will sell
you their crossword puzzle brain teaser as the cure all
and I think it's you know, although staying active and
you know, doing the New York Times crossword puzzle is
great demonstration of what you have. I think it's just
(17:39):
the overall engagement in activity in life. You don't want
to just kind of melt into your couch and give up.
You want to keep getting out there and engaging one
way or another. But I don't think a puzzle, unfortunately,
will will turn back the hands of the time.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
You know, if you're sitting there doing puzzles all day,
you're not exactly working at your legs and your arms
and everything else needs to be part of that.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Equation, right, yeah, well said, all right.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
So to anybody in this audience who feels like they
might be watching a little of their cheese slip off
the cracker, what's your advice to them?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Absolutely well, you know, finding something that gets you excited,
whether it's taking up a new hobby, just even going
on a walk around your block. If you have loved
ones that aren't nearby, trying to set up those you know,
either a phone call or maybe a zoom visit something
(18:33):
like that. But you know, finding a way to get
and stay in society and build those important connections. That
is a good workout for the brain that you know
we all can benefit from.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
That sounds like a winner to me, Doctor Julia Hiner,
Thank you. So very much for your time today. I
truly appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
My pleasure. Thank you for having me back.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Uh huh, we'll do it again, all right. We got
to take a little break here on the way out.
Ut Health Institute on a is a collaborative effort among
one hundreds, if not more than a thousand providers. I'm
not exactly sure what the right number is, but it's
a lot of people who have taken it upon themselves.
(19:13):
After they've gone through medical school, after they've gone through
nursing school, through pharmaceutical school, all of these things. Anybody
who has that affiliation with the Institute on Aging has
gone back and got an additional training and how they
can apply their expertise specifically to us, specifically to seniors,
(19:33):
and that is a tremendous benefit to us. Go to
their website, take a look around, look at all the
different resources they offered. It's all free stuff to peruse
and absorb. And then if you need to get in
touch with one of the providers who is part of
this Institute on Aging and be seen by someone who
(19:54):
who understands us a little bit better, who knows what
we need to make us feel better. Dot ed U
slash aging U t H dot ed U slash aging.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
All right, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Segment three starts now on fifty plus. Will shall we
go serious or humorous?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And humorous?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
You never know what these things? All right, let's see
it up. Oh, by the way, what is today national?
What day? Will it is national? If it's I will
lunch day?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
You know that's tomorrow. That's tomorrow. And you know what
I'm gonna say if you ask me again tomorrow, don't
you here's your lunch tomorrow. I'm oh, I want to
keep saying that, keep saying it. Oh anyway to maybe
maybe not? It just might turn into your lucky day.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
I don't know. We'll see Today is National Guitar Day?
Can you play the guitar? Well, no, nor can. I.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I dabbled in keyboards years ago, mostly just stuff that
I composed myself, which sounds kind of weird, but I
just I never learned to play by taking lessons. I
just learned from trying to repeat the sounds of other
songs and then just made up my own stuff and
it was fun. And then one time I forgot to
(21:42):
change out the batteries. Well, I had batteries in this
particular keyboard that had memory in it, and I had all.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
My songs saved in it.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
And then somehow the thing got unplugged by somebody I
don't know who, and after a long time I realized
that the batteries also had died, so and all that
memory went with that. So they're still up in my
head somewhere. Probably when I sit down to a keyboard. Now,
I can get bits and pieces, but it's it's kind
(22:12):
of like my brain. The hard drives full, and some
things are just harder to recall than others, like a
very full phone or laptop.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Sadly, So back to the humor part.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
You want to go with useless world record in case
you missed it? Or heart shaped what.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
In case you missed it?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Thirty nine percent of Americans said they planned to celebrate
Valentine's Day, but sixteen percent aren't sure. I think in
case you missed it the reason for that? What was
you think the reason would be that? Sixteen percent said
they're not sure yet.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
I don't know. I think they're going to be.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
In bars looking for a Valentine. You think you'd go
to the club. I'm not dating anybody right now. Let's
go find somebody and kind of turn it into a
little many New Year's celebration. Just look at somebody and
say Happy Valentine's Day, and then plan a big kiss
on them.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
See how that works out for you. I think that
would work or not? Will We don't know. I have
no idea.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I know you haven't been in a relationship as long
as I have, but you've been in one long enough
to know that if you even said anything about giving
somebody a big old kiss and wishing him a happy
Valentine's Day on this day, other than your girlfriend or
my wife, that would be a problem, wouldn't it?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Sure probably would. All right, let me decide here, tell
you what.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
We'll go back to the to the front pages, and
then we'll circle back in.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
A little bit to the others.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
After Hamas claimed that Israel had broken the rules of
the seasfire and a lot of you have already heard
about this, and when after Hamas said it wasn't going
to release any more hostages just yet. President Trump sent
a little message to that group to get back to
releasing hostages or brace for serious consequences, and I would
(24:17):
take you by his word. We'll see what happens. He
told him Matt had to start up by Saturday and
get back to it. The creepy part about hamas from
what I've read to it, this is so weird. They
actually I'm pretty sure I remember reading this just this
past week. Again not the first time I've heard it,
that they will hang on to the bodies of hostages
(24:38):
who have died while held captive by them.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Which is I don't know, that's some that's just bizarre.
That's almost demonic.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I don't know why they would do something like that,
and I hope that's not the case, but if it is,
they start sending back the deceased bodies of hostages that
we've still been led to believe our alife, that might
come down on them at least as bad, if not worse.
In deportation news, and I wish I could say I'm
(25:06):
surprised by this, but I'm not. Leaked information that just
this past week actually enabled gang members and other violent
illegal immigrants to just disappear right before raids happened at
places we knew they were, got out of there before
they could be captured. It is looking more and more
(25:28):
like those leaks originated within the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
There's still there's a big investigation going on right now,
and I don't know any more than you do, and
you probably don't know a whole lot more than I
do about this unless you're directly involved. But the bottom
(25:48):
line is, if that's the case, and if we've had
people on the inside aiding and abetting these these horrible
people from these gangs and people who have committed unthinkable
acts in this country of ours, something's got to be done.
Borders are Tom Holman said as much this morning, and
he let it be known that they have a fair
(26:11):
idea as to who or who of a couple of
people or more people.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
I don't know. They haven't said exactly how many people
are involved, if.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
More than one might be involved, or any indication of
who it is, at least not as.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Of about an hour ago.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
And whoever it is, I do hope they find the league,
and I do hope they prosecute that person to the
fullest extent of law.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I really do.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
That's just unthinkable that someone within that organization could so
drastically betray.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
The United States of America. That's just not good.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
All right, Well, back to your page over here that
makes sense. Check your chips or might want to rethink
that plan.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Check your chips.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Check to make sure you have Yeah, you got a dog.
Is that dog micro chip?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (27:08):
So here's the deal. Will then you need to perk
up and listen up. Make sure that your pets microchip
still works. People are freaking well, says freaking out. I
think they're concerned maybe, but not freaking out like I
don't know, like college kids over some political thing. Let's
(27:29):
just make sure that your dog's chip or cats chip
or whatever your chipmunks chip are still working. Because there
was a company called Save This Life, a chip maker
that's gone under no moss.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
It's long gone, and.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
The chips that they made have to be reregistered through
another company before they will work again. So at some
point you need to swing by the vent and them
to double check to make sure your chip is still working. Otherwise,
if that precious pet of yours gets loose, you may
(28:09):
have a hard time finding them. That's that's a great service.
I think registering pets like that through implantation of those microchips.
But if it's not working, it's kind of like having
all kinds of stuff on your phone that doesn't work.
My wife was worried last night that her she couldn't
get access to her personal email, our personal email, not
(28:30):
on her phone, not on her iPad, not on the
PC we have at the house, none of that. And
I ended up calling the provider that we use, and
was kind of sort of what I expected. After I'd
tried a couple of times myself. They said, we're experiencing
trouble with our email. Please be patient. Our people are
(28:54):
working on it. So I suspect that if she goes
in today it'll be all right. They won't leave that
thing down long.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
All right, we got to take a break.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
On the way out, I'll tell you about the fishing
show that is coming up this week Wednesday. That would
be tomorrow through Sunday at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Everything you could possibly imagine as a fisherman or an
aspiring fisherman, or someone who just has a casual interest
even in the water, and beautiful places to go visit
(29:21):
around the country. In the world, it's all represented right
there in the Fishing Show, especially as fishing tackle goes.
Everything from the tiniest little split ring up to offshore
trolling gear for giant blue marlin is going to be
there in the George R. Brown Convention Center so that
you can get in there and get hands on and
(29:42):
talk to the people who are involved with R and D.
Talk to the people factory representatives who can really get
into the weeds with you on exactly how that piece
of gear came to be and what it's intended to
do and how it does that. There'll be boats there,
There'll be kayaks there, kids lex on Saturday and Sunday
with giveaways.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
For the kids. Whether you just absolutely or obsessed with
fishing as am I, or you just want to learn
about fishing as an adult who never really got the chance,
do not miss. This is the fiftieth annual.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
This is the golden anniversary of the Fishing Show, and
it's gonna be the best one yet. I don't know
how they keep making them better every year, but they do.
Fiftieth Annual Fishing Show. Go to Houston Fishingshow dot com.
That's Houston fishingshow dot com.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh cod O wax.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
All right, welcome back. Segment three starts now on fifty plus.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Will shall we go serious or humorous?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Humorous?
Speaker 5 (31:03):
You never know what these things? All right, let's tear
it up. Oh, by the way, what is today national?
What day? Will it is national? I will lunch day?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
You know that's tomorrow. That's tomorrow. And you know what
I'm gonna say if you ask me again tomorrow, don't
you here's your lunch tomorrow. I want to keep saying that,
keep saying it anyway to maybe maybe not. It just
might turn into your lucky day.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
I don't know. We'll see Today is National Guitar Day?
Can you play the guitar? Will no? Nor can?
Speaker 4 (31:42):
I dabbled in keyboards years ago, mostly just stuff that
I composed myself, which sounds kind of weird, but I
just I never learned to play by taking lessons. I
just learned from trying to repeat the sounds of other
songs and then just made up my own stuff and
it was fun. And then one time I forgot to
(32:04):
change out the batteries. Well, I had batteries in this
particular keyboard that had memory in it, and I had all.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
My songs saved in it.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
And then somehow the thing got unplugged by somebody I
don't know who, and after a long time I realized
that the batteries also had died, so and all that
memory went with that. So they're still up in my
head somewhere. Probably when I sit down to a keyboard.
Now I can get bits and pieces, but it's it's
(32:34):
kind of like my brain. The hard drives full, and
some things are just harder to recall than others, like
a very full phone or laptop.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Sadly, So back to the humor part.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
You want to go with useless world record in case
you missed it? Or heart shaped what.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
M in case you missed it?
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Thirty nine percent of a mayor erkans said they planned
to celebrate Valentine's Day, but sixteen percent aren't sure. I
think in case you missed it? The reason for that?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
What was?
Speaker 4 (33:13):
You think the reason would be that sixteen percent said
they're not sure yet.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
I don't know. I think they're going to be.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
In bars looking for a Valentine. Oh, you think you'd
go to the club. I'm not dating anybody right now.
Let's go find somebody and kind of turn it into
a little many New Year's celebration. Just look at somebody
and say Happy Valentine's Day and then plan a big
kiss on them.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
See how that works out for you. I think that
would work or not?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Will? We don't know.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I know you haven't been in a relationship as long
as I have, but you've been in one long enough
to know that if you even said anything about giving
somebody a big old kiss and wishing him a happy
Valentine's Day on this day, other than your girlfriend or
my wife, that would be a problem.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Wouldn't it? Sure probably would.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
All right, let me decide here, I'll tell you what.
We'll go back to the to the front pages, and
then we'll circle back in a little bit to the others.
After Hamas claimed that Israel had broken the rules of
the ceasefire, and I'm sure a lot of you have
already heard about this, and when after Hamas said it
wasn't gonna release any more hostages just yet, President Trump
(34:31):
sent a little message to that group to get back
to releasing hostages or brace for serious consequences, and I
would I would take you back his word. We'll see
what happens. He told him that had to start up
by Saturday and get back to it. The creepy part
about hamas from what I've read to it, this is
so weird. They actually I'm pretty sure I remember reading
(34:54):
this just this past week. Again not the first time
I've heard it, that they will hang on to the
bodies of hostages who have died while held captive by them,
which is I don't know, that's some that's just bizarre,
that's almost demonic. I don't know why they would do
something like that, and I hope that's not the case,
but if it is, they start sending back the deceased
(35:17):
bodies of hostages that we've still been led to believe
or alive, that might come down on them at least
as bad, if not worse in deportation news. And I
wish I could say I'm surprised by this, but I'm not.
Leaked information that just this past week actually enabled gang
members and other violent illegal immigrants to just disappear right
(35:40):
before raids happened at places we knew they were got
out of there before they could be captured. It is
looking more and more like those leaks originated within the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. There's still there's a big investigation
(36:02):
going on right now, and I don't know any more
than you do, and you probably don't know a whole
lot more than I do about this unless you're directly involved.
But the bottom line is, if that's the case, and
if we've had people on the inside aiding and abetting
these these horrible people from these gangs and people who
(36:22):
have committed unthinkable acts in this country of ours, something's
got to be done. Borders are Tom Holman said as
much this morning, and he let it be known that
they have a fair idea as to who or who
of a couple of people or more people.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
I don't know. They haven't said exactly how many people
are involved, if.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
More than one might be involved, or any indication of
who it is, at least.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Not as of about an hour ago.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
And whoever it is, I do hope they find the leak,
and I do hope they prosecute that person to the
fullest extent of law.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
I really do.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
That's just unthinkable that someone within that organization could so
drastically betray the United States of America.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
That's just not good.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
All right, Well back to your page over here, that
makes sense. Check your chips, or might want.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
To rethink that plan.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Check your chips.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Check to make sure you have Yeah, you got a dog.
Is that dog micro chip?
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (37:31):
So here's the deal. Will then you need to perk
up and listen up. Make sure that your pets microchip
still works. People are freaking well, says freaking out. I
think they're concerned maybe, but not freaking out like I
don't know, like college kids over some political thing. Let's
(37:51):
just make sure that your dog's chip or cats chip
or whatever your chipmunks chip are still working. Because there
was a company called Save This Life, a chip maker that's.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Gone under no miss, it's long gone, and.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
The chips that they made have to be reregistered through
another company before they will work again. So at some
point you need to swing by the vent and ask
them to double check to make sure your chip is
still working. Otherwise, if that precious pet of yours gets loose,
(38:31):
you may have a hard time finding them. That's that's
a great service. I think registering pets like that through
implantation of those microchips. But if it's not working, it's
kind of like having all kinds of stuff on your
phone that doesn't work. My wife was worried last night
that her she couldn't get access to her her personal email,
(38:51):
our personal email, not on her phone, not on her
her iPad, not on the PC we have at the house,
no one of that. And I ended up calling the
provider that we use, and was kind of sort of
what I expected. After I'd tried a couple of times myself.
They said, we're experiencing trouble with our email. Please be patient.
(39:16):
Our people are working on it. So I suspect that
if she goes in today.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
It'll be all right. They won't leave that thing down long.
All right, We got to take a break.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
On the way out, I'll tell you about the fishing
show that is coming up this week Wednesday. That would
be tomorrow through Sunday at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Everything you could possibly imagine as a fisherman or an
aspiring fisherman, or someone who just has a casual interest
even in the water, and beautiful places to go visit
(39:44):
around the country in the world. It's all represented right
there in the Fishing Show, especially as fishing tackle goes.
Everything from the tiniest little split ring up to offshore
trolling gear for giant blue marlin is going to be
there in the George R. Brown Convention Center so that
you can get in there and get hands on and
(40:05):
talk to the people who are involved with R and D.
Talk to the people factory representatives who can really get
into the weeds with you on exactly how that piece
of gear came to be and what it's intended to
do and how it does that. There'll be boats there,
There'll be kayaks there, kids clinics on Saturday and Sunday
with giveaways.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
For the kids.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
Whether you just absolutely or obsessed with fishing as am I,
or you just want to learn about fishing as an
adult who never really got the chance, do not miss.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
This is the fiftieth annual.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
This is the golden anniversary of the Fishing Show, and
it's gonna be the best one yet. I don't know
how they keep making them better every year, but they do.
Fiftieth Annual Fishing Show. Go to Houston fishingshow dot com.
That's Houston fishingshow dot com,
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