November 6, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Joy Deleon about sexuality as you get older.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
All Right, Wednesday edition of the program starts right now.
The midweek version, if you will, A fifty plus. This
one the day after election Day, in a day on
which a majority of Texans, at least I believe, are
breathing size of relief after months of anxiety and ad
nauseam TV commercials for candidates in every stinking race. Everybody
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was on TV, everybody was on the radio, and you
couldn't get away from it. Well, we're away from it now,
at least for a while. I'm sure there will be
There'll be things coming up in the next probably in
the next couple of three weeks, maybe a month. There'll
be residual little stuff that'll keep being mentioned. I don't
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know why, but it will anyway. I presume since the
election wasn't decided unanimously in favor of any single candidate anywhere,
except perhaps for those who ran unopposed, that some of
you may be disappointed today. So we won't dwell on it.
And if you're disappointed, I'm sorry. You did your best,
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and we did our best, and everybody did their best,
and we all all went out and voted, and that's
what matters. We all went out and voted, and that's
what matters. I will say that Wall Street, in response
to the election result really kind of jumped up. Let's
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go ahead and well, thank Houston, Gooldexchange dot com for
this report. Wall Street had a reasonably a reasonably good
shot at going way up or way down, depending on
the results, and I believe that Wall Street's a pretty
reasonable barometer and reliable barometer of the nation's pulse and optimistic.
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This morning, it was dal was up more than thirteen
hundred points, a three percent gain in mere hours. The
Nasdaq was up to Russell was up nearly five points earlier.
Oil opened lower, and I was kind of glad to
see that. But then I looked back a little while
ago and it was actually also up around ten o'clock.
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I don't know where it is now. And gold, sorry Houston,
gooldexchange dot com. Gold was down nearly seventy dollars an ounce.
That's a big chunk to take out of what it was,
but it's still it's still well north of what it
was only maybe six eight months ago. So I doubt
bred Schweice will lose any sleep over that. Gold's a
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long term play anyway. And when I sold a little
bit of gold earlier, about about a month and a half,
two months ago, now whatever it was about six weeks ago.
When I sold that stuff, it was considerably higher than
it was when I bought it a million years ago.
Most of it I bought, probably based on his calculations.
Most of it I probably paid around three hundred dollars
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an ounce, and not the twenty seven hundred it was
worth when I sold it. Going back to check the
weather map, we're kind of out of sync here. Courtesy
of Texas IAQ Specialists. Because cleaner air is healthier air,
after all, just I'll pound two fifty and eventually the
phone will ring and someone will pick it up, and
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that'll be somebody from Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists, and
they'll tell you all about what they do. There's more
rain in the forecast the rest of this week. Today's
going to be nice, sunny and beautiful, and I am
going to find my way to the golf course at
some point to try to work on a lesson that
I got about I don't know about three weeks ago
now that really really helped me. Maybe it might have
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been a month ago now. Either way, I'm gonna get
that get out there and just work on my game.
But I don't think I'm gonna have time to play
because I have to go somewhere else at about three
point thirty. That won't leave me much time. Thirty to
fifty percent chance of rain starting tomorrow and going going
straight through the weekend. I'll believe it when I see it, though,
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because it's just not They're not big chances the rest
of the week. So it might be all kind of
like it was yesterday, scattered showers. It'd be pretty cloudy
all over the place, but scattered showers. I can deal
with that. Tropics aren't ready to call it quitch just yet. Now,
Hurricane Raphael headed for the central Gulf of Mexico, and
according to the National Hurricane Center and other sources that
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I check, when these things are boiling up like this,
what it's gonna do as it slides a little closer
than I'd really prefer toward Texas, what it's gonna do,
according to the longer term models, is take a sharp
turn to the left or the right, to the north
or the south, and hopefully not pose any threat whatsoever
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to us. A lot depends on when and where Raphael
butts heads with that coal front that's headed our way.
So will you ready, highs and low's and haikup, I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna ignore it today, all right,
all right, here we go. Dark days are behind. The
sun is shining brightly. We've weathered the storm. What storm?
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It's it's it's kind of symbolic, will symbolical, symbolic haiku
of all this, this whole election cycle that we just
went through. Symbolism. Will you've heard of it? Right? I've
heard of it, and I thought I used it pretty well.
It's hold on let me write it down. Okay, it's
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a it's a three. Three should be a shame to yourself,
I don't think so. I can't wait till I get
to one of the little short things I have here
and and get an opportunity to to ask you a
question and see what kind of clever answer you can
come up with. It's and you're probably going to be starting.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
If you're lucky, you'll get a two point nine. That
will that will demand an amazing effort. Three really really will. Sorry,
all right, So moving forward, there's really no no bigger
news today than the election results, which made half the
country happy and a little less than half the country
feel I'm pretty sad, in some cases miserable. I was
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disappointed in Kamala Harris by the way last night, when
rather than going out and addressing the people who came
there in hopes of celebrating with her, she just bailed
on them. She didn't talk to anybody, she didn't do anything.
She just bailed on them, and that was I don't know.
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It kind of left me feeling like we made the
right decisions across the board. Like I've said for the
past two months, I'd have no problem at all voting
for a woman to become president. But it can't just
be a woman. It would have to be the woman
who represented my values and who had a feasible plan
by which to improve this country. And if ever it
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was easy to outline ways to improve our country, it
would be behind the hot mess in the wake of
this current administration. I tell you what, We're going to
stop here because we got to take a break when
we get back. As promised in a Facebook post I
made just a little while ago, we're gonna speak with
doctor Joy de Leon about senior sexuality. It's a pretty
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important subject and we rarely talk about it around here,
but when we do, we'll take it pretty seriously. Might laugh,
might make you think, might probably make you think a
lot more than it'll make you laugh or giggle. This
isn't a laugh giggle subject. It's it's serious and we'll
get it that way. UT Health another serious place to
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go if you want to get some good help with
anything to do with your health, anything whatsoever. The ut
Health Institute on Aging's website ut h dot edu. Slash
aging is where you can go and find just innumerable
resources that are going to be of benefit to you
or someone you know who is in whatever shape they're
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in as a senior, trying to get through, trying to
find caregivers who can really help you. That's also where
ut Health Institute on Aging comes in because all of
the card carrying members over there, and I don't know
whether they really carry cards or not, but the distinction
they do have is that each and every one of
these providers in every facet of medicine and medical care
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have gone and gott an additional education to whatever it
was they needed to get the diploma on the wall,
and that education they get on top of their formal
schooling is how they can how they can apply their
knowledge specifically to seniors and the way our bodies work.
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Brilliant planting. It was originated by doctor Carmel Dyer more
than ten years ago now, and everybody who's been she
passed a few years ago, and I was so sad
to see her go because I learned a lot from her,
and everybody who's been involved since has just has just
carried on, carried on what she started and continued to
make it better and better every year. Uh dot edu
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slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging. What's life without
a nap. I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
All right, Welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening
on this Wednesday day after election day. That dust is
finally settling a little bit and we'll be able to
get on with our lives. And I'm glad to do that.
Thanks you had again for sharing your lunch hour, even
if your hesita still share your lunch with Will and me.
We'll talk in this segment about seniors and their sexuality.
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And I'm sure there are a few of you kind
of cringing right now, or maybe quietly smiling, and maybe
a few thinking those were the days. But in reality,
sexuality doesn't well, it does change with age, I misspoke.
It doesn't necessarily disappear though in norsehit. And on that note,
I will welcome doctor Joy de Leon, instructional Assistant Professor
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at Texas A and M's School of Public Health, and
it's got a strong background in sexual health and wellness.
Welcome to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Doc, Hi, how are you You know?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I'm doing all right for my age and oh I
had going on let's start, I suppose with sort of
a timeline on when men and women may begin to
experience changes in sexuality and what those changes are going
to look like.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Well, when is dependent on your overall health. It can
start as early for especially for women, depending on when
they're starting to hit menopause and things like that, how
many children they've had. It can cert in your thirties,
it can certain your forties. Things can change, and so
it just depends on again, your overall health.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Likely for I'm more my.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Exercise is more with women.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
For women, it starts when we're starting to.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Get towards menopause, things start to our.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Sex drive starts to go down, which means that not
that we're not interested in sex, but the frequency of
sex may be maybe less interested in it as often as.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
We use to, or you know, for men, this may.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Be a little older. Again, it does depend on your
overall health. So the healthier are the longer you're going,
your libido is going to stay higher, your testosterone is
going to be higher. But when thows our sex hormones
start to drop off, that's when we start to see
those changes as far as our sexual organs, our sexual function,
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things like that, But if you stay healthy, you can
enjoy sex for much longer or much longer and much
more frequently. It does change with health in the sense
that if you have other health issues like heartsease, OBCD, diypes,
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those things can affect our sexual function and so just
depending again on your overall health that it can change.
But generally, I would say fifties is when we start
noticing a bigger change.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That fair enough. On the plus side, in case anybody
in this audience listening needs to plead a case to
a partner, there actually are medical benefits to a healthy
sex life, right.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yes, definitely, well physically we just talk about physical health.
We stay younger, longer to be honest, and keep those
sex hormones flowing. Essentially, we're using them, so we're more
likely to experience the benefits of having longer memories, are
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better memories because of the sex hormones that are released
during especially if you're having orgasm and things like that.
Else it is also benefit to our heart health.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
There's benefits to.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I'm trying to think just longevity in general, right, and
so in.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Your quality of life will also improve.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
We see the more active you are in various whether
you're you know, recreational activity as well as sexual health.
It's going to maintain our heart health, and that heart
health maintains our brain health and all.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Of these those things that kind of.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Overlap with one another, and so it's better to be
sexually active.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Okay, doctor Joy Deleona on fifty plus here, thank you.
So not everybody in this audience has the same sex drive,
and that's normal. So what's the best way maybe that
somebody might share with a partner that they want either
more or less sex.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Well, we can first talk about what we're comfortable with,
and especially for older generations, we're not. There's lots of
stigma around sex, and so start off with talking about
how you want to spend your time and then kind
of lead into well, these are the things that I like,
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these are the things.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
That I don't like.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I would enjoy it if we did this more often,
and you know, come from that perspective and so and
it is very hard even for the younger generation to
talk about sex and the things that they want, and
so it's it's a skill that takes some time to
build up to. But if we start talking about how
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we like to spend our time, together that might be
the easier way to transition into what I like or
how often I.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Like to have sex, or if I want.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
To have more. And sex is not just we're not
just talking about penetration. We can talk start talking about kissing.
I would like it if you gave me a kiss
when you came home from your activity or before you
left the house or things like that.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Fair enough, And we also have to address people who
are not in relationships still having the same desires, especially
I've heard there's a lot of things go on in
assisted living facilities and wherever that's going on. Even though
there's not a snowballs chance in hell of a pregnancy
coming up, it's still important maybe to keep some condoms handy. Right.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Yes, most definitely we are actually seeing a rhyse in
our big three, which are Syphilist, Gunnery, and Comydia in
assistant living facilities because people seem to be having a
good time together there. But it is important that, especially
when you're considering all your comorinities or your other health
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issues that you're having, you don't want to add to
something to your health I can ultimately hurt your ability
to have sex. And so we want to make sure
that we're you commons who want to make sure that
we're talking to our physicians, say telling them that we
are sexually active so that they can test for STI
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and things like that.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
We're down to less than a minute already, and I
did want to say this. You mentioned talking to your
doctor about it. It's important to talk to doctors, partners, friends,
whoever you think will listen honestly. And is it safe
to say very quickly, is it safe to say that
there's just nobody in the medical profession who's gonna You
can't say anything to them that will shock them or
or put them off. They're gonna they're gonna teach talk
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to you very frankly and openly about this, right, Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
They should, and they should be very comfortable talking to
you about They're an adult who they know, and I'm
sure they have they have sexual experiences, and I'm sure
there's nothing anyone can say that they haven't seen or
heard or discussed before with another patient.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
You know, there's somebody in this audience saying to themselves
right now, challenge accepted. Yes, all right, Doctor Joy DeLeon,
thank you so very much much for this. We might
have to do it again. I had several more questions
I wanted to get to, so maybe I'll get you
back on the here soon.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
All right, perfect, thank you, thank.
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Speaker 2 (20:05):
Welcome back fifty plus on AM nine fifty KPRC. Good
thing it wasn't AM nine ninety Will we'd had to
wait a long time to launch this program. That ever
dawn on you some of my brain work. Yeah, because
it's nine fifty so fifty plus it just made sense.
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But if you had to be ninety to listen, that
would really that would kind of narrow the audience. I
would think, just a just a smidge, as they say,
just a teensy weensy smidge, boy, back to where we were.
We just I'm glad we're through this, and I just
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I just saw a Facebook post from a guy I
consider a friend and always will, but who who sounded
very kind of uncertain of the future under another Donald
Trump presidency, and his wife came right back behind him
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and seemed to be thrilled to death. And it's very
interesting to see that dynamic play out. If I'm reading
them correctly, I may be off a little bit. I'm
not sure, but if I run into them, I'll ask
them who was happy and who was sad? Or were
you both happy or both said? It was kind of
hard to tell. One thing I know is that we
just can't allow our federal government to just tax every
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one of us into poverty and spend the money they
get from us and the money they print on stuff
that's not going to help anybody but a handful of people.
We just can't keep sending billions of dollars to countries
around the world. We can't keep funding hotel rooms and
food and phones and transportation for people who aren't even
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supposed to be here. It's not it's not sustainable. It's
really not. We've got a Americans who can't afford groceries,
and millions of them, millions of us who can't afford
groceries anymore. And that's that's just got to stop. I
will I well, one more thing. What it did really
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showed me once and for all that Americans won't stand
for federal overreach. They won't tolerate law fair, which was
used for the past year and a half, two years,
whatever it is, to try to prevent this from happening.
It didn't work, and we're smart enough not to fall
for all of that. Democrats spent two point one billion
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dollars trying to keep what happened from happening, and it
did because we saw through it all. One more by
the way, and then I'll move on, I promise, even Californians.
Californians went against the grain and passed an anti crime
proposition that Harris refused to support. There are criminals all
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over this country right now who are asking themselves what
the hell they're gonna do, because the rest for robbing
and stealing and killing aren't gonna end up with personal
recognizance bonds anymore. We had walked as a country, We
had walked right up to the just the edge of
the cliff and had one foot in the air yesterday.
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Been so bad for so long, lots of people forgot
what it's like not to have hotels and cities overrun
with immigrants, not to pay more than two dollars for
a gallon of gas. And when fuel goes down, which
it will pretty quickly, I hope, so will the cost
of everything we buy and consume because it won't cost
so much to transport it around the country. It's just
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it all works. Totally different subject here, but one I
found interesting. Will Have we ever done.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
This?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Just end from the Cocaine Bust Worldwide network? Have I
done anything like that ever before? I don't think so.
We've talked about a cocaine bus grease, Yeah, but nothing
like this. Okay, pop quiz, will And I'm gonna judge
you on you accuracy of your answer, all right, because
you deserve to be judged today, because you gave me
a three a three on my high coup, which is
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way harder than what you're gonna have to do, is
just take an educated guess. I think that people will
agree with me. A ship a shipload of bananas docked
at Algacius in Spain. Excuse me, alge sirius, I'm not sure.
Spain was boarded and searched on October fourteenth and ultimately
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found to be carrying a big stash of cocaine. So
how big is big?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Will?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
How many? How many pounds of cocaine? Well, I feel
like it's normally measured in kilos, is it not?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
No?
Speaker 6 (24:54):
This is this was converted to pounds, converted to pounds? Yes,
say three hundred pounds.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Well, yeah, I'm gonna have to grade you right now.
You get a point three. That's all you get, Not
three hundred pounds. Will not three thousand pounds? Will? That
banana boat coughed up twenty six thousand pounds of cocaine
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twenty six thousand pounds, thirteen tons of the stuff. I
wasn't aware that there were any seizures that big going
on around the world. There was one in Great Britain recently,
twelve thousand, five hundred pounds, and then in Rotterdam coming
in the other door for Europe, seventeen thousand, six hundred
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pounds hidden in bananas, because bananas come in by the shipload,
and they would have to to be as cheap as
they are when they get to the grocery store. Go
find something else in the grocery store that you can
get fresh every day of the year and pay less
than fifty cents a pound for it. If you're paying
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more than fifty cents a pound for your for your bananas, well,
aren't you fancy? You know what bananas costs? Will how many?
Because a pound a pound in the average grocery store
in Houston, Sugarland, all say four dollars a pound? Oh god,
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are you serious? Do you buy? You don't shop, do you?
I don't buy bananas. You don't You've never bought a banana.
I don't buy bananas. I don't need the ba Depending
on where you're shopping, there anywhere from about forty seven
to forty nine cents a pound, all right, and you
might pay a few more pennies for the organic bananas,
which makes no sense to me, because the entire banana
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is protected by that thick skin. What what's the problem.
Just just buy your banana and enjoy it. That's the
cheapest thing I've put in a grocery sack in a
long time too. Even a bag, a little one of
the little baby bags of em and M's costs way
more than that. Okay, so we got through cocaine bus news.
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That's good. Now we're gonna we're gonna go. Yeah, I know,
we're gonna mix it up when we get back, do
a little of this, a little of that to get
us to the end, and then I'll still have some
good fun stuff for tomorrow. On the way out of
late health is where you if you are one of
the guys in the audience, maybe fifty to fifty five,
maybe a little older, and you're you're getting these weird symptoms. Hey,
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you have to go to the bathroom more often than
you used to. Or sometimes you feel like you're all
done and you're emptied out, and then you walk back
to your desk or get back to fishing or playing golf,
come out of the woods, and you think I've got
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possibly caused by a non cancerous and large prostate amongst
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go in there with. And most of what they do
is covered by Medicare, and Medicare that prostate artery embolization
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to that prostate and then going in with special gear
and equipment and whatnot and shutting it off. They plug
it up. I don't know what they fill it with,
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but whatever they fill it with shuts off the blood
supply to it, and the symptoms and the prostate kind
of go away. They do fibroids, and women, they do
ugly veins, and everybody. They do. There are some instances
of head pain that can be alleviated with vascular surgery,
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Speaker 1 (29:28):
Old guys rule, And of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. Final segment of
the program starts right now.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Thank you for listening on the I guess day after
the election it was tight for a while. Last night,
it really was. I went to bed long before anything
had been well, much of anything at least had been called,
and I did, and like I said yesterday, no matter
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what happened, I was going to be back here at
work today. I got stuff to do regardless of how
these things fall. And that's something to remember, no matter
where you are in the process or who you voted for.
Most of us in this age group, in this audience
have been through enough presidential elections to feel like we'll
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get through it, and hopefully by the time there's another one,
this country won't be so deeply divided as it is
right now. We'll have people being able to just sit
across the table from each other and disagree and have
a civil conversation rather than being screamed at and yelled
at and spat on and all the nasty stuff that
(30:55):
was going on in the View already. This morning, Sonny
Hoston said she was worried about internment camps and all
sorts of things that she thinks President Trump will do
in when he's in office, things that she doesn't like. Wait,
who cares about the view hosts anyway? Never mind, By
(31:15):
the way, Democrats already blaming Harris and Walls, they're eating
their own basically, rather than just facing up to the
fact that they didn't put up any one or anything
of substance in front of Americans who were kind of
tired of open borders and soft on crime judges and
inflation and all that. There's a Texas expression for people
(31:37):
like them, and it's all hat and no cattle. And yeah,
Donald Trump won won all four battleground states. That should
tell you something about just how frustrated Americans have become
with the direction this country was going. Kelly and Conway
came out and thanked the View and Oprah for the
Trump win. By the way, them and so many more
(31:59):
people from the left eye, she thought nobody would realize
they weren't being entirely truthful. Out of nowhere. By the way,
President Trump elected as president elect and will go into
office in January, and this morning, just who would have
thought this would happen. Russia floats the idea of a
reset with the US after Trump wins. The one that
(32:25):
concerns me more than Russia is Iran. They've got nukes
and they just may be dumb enough to launch one,
and that would be the onset of World War three.
I would hope that potential onset because I would hope
that that Trump and Putin would get on the horn,
and maybe the the Chinese government would all get on
(32:48):
the horn and say, you know what, we gotta we
gotta hang we gotta hang back. It's just not worth it.
There's a cool another cool kind of a military thing
I saw talking there. There's talk of using seven forty
sevens as essentially flying aircraft carriers to shuttle fighter jets
near areas of engagement, kind of like the floating ones.
(33:12):
Do now that would be that would be a risky proposition.
I think it would be a lot easier for an
enemy to to down an aircraft than it would be
to sink an aircraft carrier. I don't know, it's just me. Well,
do you know what national date is? No, it's food,
(33:36):
and it's I'll give you a hit. It's kind of
related to one of the other foods that was national
day for this week. And why they're so close together.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
I don't know, it's National Tomato soup Day.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
No, No, it's actually National Nacho Day. Eighty percent of
Americans like nachos, five percent don't, and fifteen percent have
no opinion, Like okay, so what this is another one
of those just waste of a pole poles. And by
(34:13):
the way, that eighty percent makes ta or makes nachos
our favorite Mexican food. It's the least involved. It's just
a chip and cheese, and that's our favorite Mexican food.
We need to aim a little higher. What's your favorite
Mexican food? Will Mendudo? Mine would be enchilas del mar.
(34:37):
You know what that is? Seafood? Yes, sir, and they're
delicious anywhere I've gotten them, everywhere I've gotten now. I
do like the white cream sauce, not that red stuff.
It just I'm too old for that. Not tough enough
from another wasted pole. Thirty percent of Americans say they
prefer holding hands with interlocked fingers, twenty percent say with
cupped hands, and thirty eight percent are fine with either.
(35:03):
Four percent said neither. I don't know how you hold
hands without one or the other. So that was basically
wasted time on your part, my part, and everybody else's part.
I'm sorry for that. Ah hmm, boy, there's a lot.
I'm gonna get to most of this tomorrow. People are
going back to the mall, by the way, it says
(35:25):
here past five years. They're going back, but not to shop.
They're going back for dining and for movies and VR centers,
all kinds of things like that sick Chinese man. Will
You're gonna like this. There's this guy Overn, China and
he's sick, but his family needs to confirm his identity
(35:47):
at the bank for a money transfer, so in his
hospital bed, they wheel him out of the hospital and
down to the bank so they can get his money.
I don't. I think that's messed up. I don't know
why somebody from the bank couldn't drive to the hospital.
All right, I'm gonna drive back to my desk, get
(36:07):
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All Right, Wednesday edition of the program starts right now.
The midweek version, if you will, A fifty plus. This
one the day after election Day, in a day on
which a majority of Texans, at least I believe, are
breathing size of relief after months of anxiety and ad
nauseam TV commercials for candidates in every stinking race. Everybody
(01:15):
was on TV, everybody was on the radio, and you
couldn't get away from it. Well, we're away from it now,
at least for a while. I'm sure there will be
There'll be things coming up in the next probably in
the next couple of three weeks, maybe a month. There'll
be residual little stuff that'll keep being mentioned. I don't
(01:35):
know why, but it will anyway. I presume since the
election wasn't decided unanimously in favor of any single candidate anywhere,
except perhaps for those who ran unopposed, that some of
you may be disappointed today. So we won't dwell on it.
And if you're disappointed, I'm sorry. You did your best,
(01:57):
and we did our best, and everybody did their best,
and we all all went out and voted, and that's
what matters. We all went out and voted, and that's
what matters. I will say that Wall Street, in response
to the election result really kind of jumped up. Let's
(02:18):
go ahead and well, thank Houston, Gooldexchange dot com for
this report. Wall Street had a reasonably a reasonably good
shot at going way up or way down, depending on
the results, and I believe that Wall Street's a pretty
reasonable barometer and reliable barometer of the nation's pulse and optimistic.
(02:40):
This morning, it was dal was up more than thirteen
hundred points, a three percent gain in mere hours. The
Nasdaq was up to Russell was up nearly five points earlier.
Oil opened lower, and I was kind of glad to
see that. But then I looked back a little while
ago and it was actually also up around ten o'clock.
(03:02):
I don't know where it is now. And gold, sorry Houston,
gooldexchange dot com. Gold was down nearly seventy dollars an ounce.
That's a big chunk to take out of what it was,
but it's still it's still well north of what it
was only maybe six eight months ago. So I doubt
bred Schweice will lose any sleep over that. Gold's a
(03:24):
long term play anyway. And when I sold a little
bit of gold earlier, about about a month and a half,
two months ago, now whatever it was about six weeks ago.
When I sold that stuff, it was considerably higher than
it was when I bought it a million years ago.
Most of it I bought, probably based on his calculations.
Most of it I probably paid around three hundred dollars
(03:46):
an ounce, and not the twenty seven hundred it was
worth when I sold it. Going back to check the
weather map, we're kind of out of sync here. Courtesy
of Texas IAQ Specialists. Because cleaner air is healthier air,
after all, just I'll pound two fifty and eventually the
phone will ring and someone will pick it up, and
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that'll be somebody from Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists, and
they'll tell you all about what they do. There's more
rain in the forecast the rest of this week. Today's
going to be nice, sunny and beautiful, and I am
going to find my way to the golf course at
some point to try to work on a lesson that
I got about I don't know about three weeks ago
now that really really helped me. Maybe it might have
(04:27):
been a month ago now. Either way, I'm gonna get
that get out there and just work on my game.
But I don't think I'm gonna have time to play
because I have to go somewhere else at about three
point thirty. That won't leave me much time. Thirty to
fifty percent chance of rain starting tomorrow and going going
straight through the weekend. I'll believe it when I see it, though,
(04:47):
because it's just not They're not big chances the rest
of the week. So it might be all kind of
like it was yesterday, scattered showers. It'd be pretty cloudy
all over the place, but scattered showers. I can deal
with that. Tropics aren't ready to call it quitch just yet. Now,
Hurricane Raphael headed for the central Gulf of Mexico, and
according to the National Hurricane Center and other sources that
(05:12):
I check, when these things are boiling up like this,
what it's gonna do as it slides a little closer
than I'd really prefer toward Texas, what it's gonna do,
according to the longer term models, is take a sharp
turn to the left or the right, to the north
or the south, and hopefully not pose any threat whatsoever
(05:32):
to us. A lot depends on when and where Raphael
butts heads with that coal front that's headed our way.
So will you ready, highs and low's and haikup, I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna ignore it today, all right,
all right, here we go. Dark days are behind. The
sun is shining brightly. We've weathered the storm. What storm?
(06:00):
It's it's it's kind of symbolic, will symbolical, symbolic haiku
of all this, this whole election cycle that we just
went through. Symbolism. Will you've heard of it? Right? I've
heard of it, and I thought I used it pretty well.
It's hold on let me write it down. Okay, it's
(06:22):
a it's a three. Three should be a shame to yourself,
I don't think so. I can't wait till I get
to one of the little short things I have here
and and get an opportunity to to ask you a
question and see what kind of clever answer you can
come up with. It's and you're probably going to be starting.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
If you're lucky, you'll get a two point nine. That
will that will demand an amazing effort. Three really really will. Sorry,
all right, So moving forward, there's really no no bigger
news today than the election results, which made half the
country happy and a little less than half the country
feel I'm pretty sad, in some cases miserable. I was
(07:03):
disappointed in Kamala Harris by the way last night, when
rather than going out and addressing the people who came
there in hopes of celebrating with her, she just bailed
on them. She didn't talk to anybody, she didn't do anything.
She just bailed on them, and that was I don't know.
(07:25):
It kind of left me feeling like we made the
right decisions across the board. Like I've said for the
past two months, I'd have no problem at all voting
for a woman to become president. But it can't just
be a woman. It would have to be the woman
who represented my values and who had a feasible plan
by which to improve this country. And if ever it
(07:46):
was easy to outline ways to improve our country, it
would be behind the hot mess in the wake of
this current administration. I tell you what, We're going to
stop here because we got to take a break when
we get back. As promised in a Facebook post I
made just a little while ago, we're gonna speak with
doctor Joy de Leon about senior sexuality. It's a pretty
(08:11):
important subject and we rarely talk about it around here,
but when we do, we'll take it pretty seriously. Might laugh,
might make you think, might probably make you think a
lot more than it'll make you laugh or giggle. This
isn't a laugh giggle subject. It's it's serious and we'll
get it that way. UT Health another serious place to
(08:32):
go if you want to get some good help with
anything to do with your health, anything whatsoever. The ut
Health Institute on Aging's website ut h dot edu. Slash
aging is where you can go and find just innumerable
resources that are going to be of benefit to you
or someone you know who is in whatever shape they're
(08:54):
in as a senior, trying to get through, trying to
find caregivers who can really help you. That's also where
ut Health Institute on Aging comes in because all of
the card carrying members over there, and I don't know
whether they really carry cards or not, but the distinction
they do have is that each and every one of
these providers in every facet of medicine and medical care
(09:17):
have gone and gott an additional education to whatever it
was they needed to get the diploma on the wall,
and that education they get on top of their formal
schooling is how they can how they can apply their
knowledge specifically to seniors and the way our bodies work.
(09:38):
Brilliant planting. It was originated by doctor Carmel Dyer more
than ten years ago now, and everybody who's been she
passed a few years ago, and I was so sad
to see her go because I learned a lot from her,
and everybody who's been involved since has just has just
carried on, carried on what she started and continued to
make it better and better every year. Uh dot edu
(10:01):
slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging. What's life without
a nap. I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
All right, Welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening
on this Wednesday day after election day. That dust is
finally settling a little bit and we'll be able to
get on with our lives. And I'm glad to do that.
Thanks you had again for sharing your lunch hour, even
if your hesita still share your lunch with Will and me.
We'll talk in this segment about seniors and their sexuality.
(10:43):
And I'm sure there are a few of you kind
of cringing right now, or maybe quietly smiling, and maybe
a few thinking those were the days. But in reality,
sexuality doesn't well, it does change with age, I misspoke.
It doesn't necessarily disappear though in norsehit. And on that note,
I will welcome doctor Joy de Leon, instructional Assistant Professor
(11:05):
at Texas A and M's School of Public Health, and
it's got a strong background in sexual health and wellness.
Welcome to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Doc, Hi, how are you You know?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I'm doing all right for my age and oh I
had going on let's start, I suppose with sort of
a timeline on when men and women may begin to
experience changes in sexuality and what those changes are going
to look like.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Well, when is dependent on your overall health. It can
start as early for especially for women, depending on when
they're starting to hit menopause and things like that, how
many children they've had. It can cert in your thirties,
it can certain your forties. Things can change, and so
it just depends on again, your overall health.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Likely for I'm more my.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Exercise is more with women.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
For women, it starts when we're starting to.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Get towards menopause, things start to our.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Sex drive starts to go down, which means that not
that we're not interested in sex, but the frequency of
sex may be maybe less interested in it as often as.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
We use to, or you know, for men, this may.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Be a little older. Again, it does depend on your
overall health. So the healthier are the longer you're going,
your libido is going to stay higher, your testosterone is
going to be higher. But when thows our sex hormones
start to drop off, that's when we start to see
those changes as far as our sexual organs, our sexual function,
(12:39):
things like that, But if you stay healthy, you can
enjoy sex for much longer or much longer and much
more frequently. It does change with health in the sense
that if you have other health issues like heartsease, OBCD, diypes,
(13:00):
those things can affect our sexual function and so just
depending again on your overall health that it can change.
But generally, I would say fifties is when we start
noticing a bigger change.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That fair enough. On the plus side, in case anybody
in this audience listening needs to plead a case to
a partner, there actually are medical benefits to a healthy
sex life, right.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yes, definitely, well physically we just talk about physical health.
We stay younger, longer to be honest, and keep those
sex hormones flowing. Essentially, we're using them, so we're more
likely to experience the benefits of having longer memories, are
(13:48):
better memories because of the sex hormones that are released
during especially if you're having orgasm and things like that.
Else it is also benefit to our heart health.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
There's benefits to.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I'm trying to think just longevity in general, right, and
so in.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Your quality of life will also improve.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
We see the more active you are in various whether
you're you know, recreational activity as well as sexual health.
It's going to maintain our heart health, and that heart
health maintains our brain health and all.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Of these those things that kind of.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Overlap with one another, and so it's better to be
sexually active.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Okay, doctor Joy Deleona on fifty plus here, thank you.
So not everybody in this audience has the same sex drive,
and that's normal. So what's the best way maybe that
somebody might share with a partner that they want either
more or less sex.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Well, we can first talk about what we're comfortable with,
and especially for older generations, we're not. There's lots of
stigma around sex, and so start off with talking about
how you want to spend your time and then kind
of lead into well, these are the things that I like,
(15:16):
these are the things.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
That I don't like.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I would enjoy it if we did this more often,
and you know, come from that perspective and so and
it is very hard even for the younger generation to
talk about sex and the things that they want, and
so it's it's a skill that takes some time to
build up to. But if we start talking about how
(15:40):
we like to spend our time, together that might be
the easier way to transition into what I like or
how often I.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Like to have sex, or if I want.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
To have more. And sex is not just we're not
just talking about penetration. We can talk start talking about kissing.
I would like it if you gave me a kiss
when you came home from your activity or before you
left the house or things like that.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Fair enough, And we also have to address people who
are not in relationships still having the same desires, especially
I've heard there's a lot of things go on in
assisted living facilities and wherever that's going on. Even though
there's not a snowballs chance in hell of a pregnancy
coming up, it's still important maybe to keep some condoms handy. Right.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Yes, most definitely we are actually seeing a rhyse in
our big three, which are Syphilist, Gunnery, and Comydia in
assistant living facilities because people seem to be having a
good time together there. But it is important that, especially
when you're considering all your comorinities or your other health
(16:47):
issues that you're having, you don't want to add to
something to your health I can ultimately hurt your ability
to have sex. And so we want to make sure
that we're you commons who want to make sure that
we're talking to our physicians, say telling them that we
are sexually active so that they can test for STI
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and things like that.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
We're down to less than a minute already, and I
did want to say this. You mentioned talking to your
doctor about it. It's important to talk to doctors, partners, friends,
whoever you think will listen honestly. And is it safe
to say very quickly, is it safe to say that
there's just nobody in the medical profession who's gonna You
can't say anything to them that will shock them or
or put them off. They're gonna they're gonna teach talk
(17:30):
to you very frankly and openly about this, right, Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
They should, and they should be very comfortable talking to
you about They're an adult who they know, and I'm
sure they have they have sexual experiences, and I'm sure
there's nothing anyone can say that they haven't seen or
heard or discussed before with another patient.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
You know, there's somebody in this audience saying to themselves
right now, challenge accepted. Yes, all right, Doctor Joy DeLeon,
thank you so very much much for this. We might
have to do it again. I had several more questions
I wanted to get to, so maybe I'll get you
back on the here soon.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
All right, perfect, thank you, thank.
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Speaker 2 (20:05):
Welcome back fifty plus on AM nine fifty KPRC. Good
thing it wasn't AM nine ninety Will we'd had to
wait a long time to launch this program. That ever
dawn on you some of my brain work. Yeah, because
it's nine fifty so fifty plus it just made sense.
(20:28):
But if you had to be ninety to listen, that
would really that would kind of narrow the audience. I
would think, just a just a smidge, as they say,
just a teensy weensy smidge, boy, back to where we were.
We just I'm glad we're through this, and I just
(20:48):
I just saw a Facebook post from a guy I
consider a friend and always will, but who who sounded
very kind of uncertain of the future under another Donald
Trump presidency, and his wife came right back behind him
(21:11):
and seemed to be thrilled to death. And it's very
interesting to see that dynamic play out. If I'm reading
them correctly, I may be off a little bit. I'm
not sure, but if I run into them, I'll ask
them who was happy and who was sad? Or were
you both happy or both said? It was kind of
hard to tell. One thing I know is that we
just can't allow our federal government to just tax every
(21:33):
one of us into poverty and spend the money they
get from us and the money they print on stuff
that's not going to help anybody but a handful of people.
We just can't keep sending billions of dollars to countries
around the world. We can't keep funding hotel rooms and
food and phones and transportation for people who aren't even
(21:54):
supposed to be here. It's not it's not sustainable. It's
really not. We've got a Americans who can't afford groceries,
and millions of them, millions of us who can't afford
groceries anymore. And that's that's just got to stop. I
will I well, one more thing. What it did really
(22:15):
showed me once and for all that Americans won't stand
for federal overreach. They won't tolerate law fair, which was
used for the past year and a half, two years,
whatever it is, to try to prevent this from happening.
It didn't work, and we're smart enough not to fall
for all of that. Democrats spent two point one billion
(22:37):
dollars trying to keep what happened from happening, and it
did because we saw through it all. One more by
the way, and then I'll move on, I promise, even Californians.
Californians went against the grain and passed an anti crime
proposition that Harris refused to support. There are criminals all
(23:01):
over this country right now who are asking themselves what
the hell they're gonna do, because the rest for robbing
and stealing and killing aren't gonna end up with personal
recognizance bonds anymore. We had walked as a country, We
had walked right up to the just the edge of
the cliff and had one foot in the air yesterday.
(23:22):
Been so bad for so long, lots of people forgot
what it's like not to have hotels and cities overrun
with immigrants, not to pay more than two dollars for
a gallon of gas. And when fuel goes down, which
it will pretty quickly, I hope, so will the cost
of everything we buy and consume because it won't cost
so much to transport it around the country. It's just
(23:44):
it all works. Totally different subject here, but one I
found interesting. Will Have we ever done.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
This?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Just end from the Cocaine Bust Worldwide network? Have I
done anything like that ever before? I don't think so.
We've talked about a cocaine bus grease, Yeah, but nothing
like this. Okay, pop quiz, will And I'm gonna judge
you on you accuracy of your answer, all right, because
you deserve to be judged today, because you gave me
a three a three on my high coup, which is
(24:16):
way harder than what you're gonna have to do, is
just take an educated guess. I think that people will
agree with me. A ship a shipload of bananas docked
at Algacius in Spain. Excuse me, alge sirius, I'm not sure.
Spain was boarded and searched on October fourteenth and ultimately
(24:37):
found to be carrying a big stash of cocaine. So
how big is big?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Will?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
How many? How many pounds of cocaine? Well, I feel
like it's normally measured in kilos, is it not?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
No?
Speaker 6 (24:54):
This is this was converted to pounds, converted to pounds? Yes,
say three hundred pounds.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Well, yeah, I'm gonna have to grade you right now.
You get a point three. That's all you get, Not
three hundred pounds. Will not three thousand pounds? Will? That
banana boat coughed up twenty six thousand pounds of cocaine
(25:26):
twenty six thousand pounds, thirteen tons of the stuff. I
wasn't aware that there were any seizures that big going
on around the world. There was one in Great Britain recently,
twelve thousand, five hundred pounds, and then in Rotterdam coming
in the other door for Europe, seventeen thousand, six hundred
(25:50):
pounds hidden in bananas, because bananas come in by the shipload,
and they would have to to be as cheap as
they are when they get to the grocery store. Go
find something else in the grocery store that you can
get fresh every day of the year and pay less
than fifty cents a pound for it. If you're paying
(26:11):
more than fifty cents a pound for your for your bananas, well,
aren't you fancy? You know what bananas costs? Will how many?
Because a pound a pound in the average grocery store
in Houston, Sugarland, all say four dollars a pound? Oh god,
(26:36):
are you serious? Do you buy? You don't shop, do you?
I don't buy bananas. You don't You've never bought a banana.
I don't buy bananas. I don't need the ba Depending
on where you're shopping, there anywhere from about forty seven
to forty nine cents a pound, all right, and you
might pay a few more pennies for the organic bananas,
which makes no sense to me, because the entire banana
(26:58):
is protected by that thick skin. What what's the problem.
Just just buy your banana and enjoy it. That's the
cheapest thing I've put in a grocery sack in a
long time too. Even a bag, a little one of
the little baby bags of em and M's costs way
more than that. Okay, so we got through cocaine bus news.
(27:20):
That's good. Now we're gonna we're gonna go. Yeah, I know,
we're gonna mix it up when we get back, do
a little of this, a little of that to get
us to the end, and then I'll still have some
good fun stuff for tomorrow. On the way out of
late health is where you if you are one of
the guys in the audience, maybe fifty to fifty five,
maybe a little older, and you're you're getting these weird symptoms. Hey,
(27:41):
you have to go to the bathroom more often than
you used to. Or sometimes you feel like you're all
done and you're emptied out, and then you walk back
to your desk or get back to fishing or playing golf,
come out of the woods, and you think I've got
to go again. What's the deal? Well, it's incomplete, empty,
possibly caused by a non cancerous and large prostate amongst
(28:01):
other symptoms along in the short of it is a
late health a vascular well. Vascular clinics around town can
help with a procedure one of many they do, by
the way, for all kinds of different conditions and such,
usually within a couple of hours in the office, and
you get to go home and recuperate there, so you
don't have to worry about ever having to go into
a hospital and maybe haul home something you didn't even
(28:24):
go in there with. And most of what they do
is covered by Medicare, and Medicare that prostate artery embolization
entails finding and isolating the exact artery that's supplying blood
to that prostate and then going in with special gear
and equipment and whatnot and shutting it off. They plug
it up. I don't know what they fill it with,
(28:46):
but whatever they fill it with shuts off the blood
supply to it, and the symptoms and the prostate kind
of go away. They do fibroids, and women, they do
ugly veins, and everybody. They do. There are some instances
of head pain that can be alleviated with vascular surgery,
and they all all those things happen right there in
the office, mostly covered by Medicare and Medicaid too, and
(29:09):
regenerative medicine. Let's not forget that new procedure relatively new anyway,
that is proving incredibly successful with chronic pain seven one, three,
five eight, eight thirty eight eighty eight A latehealth dot
com ala te seven one three, five eight eight thirty
eight eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Old guys rule, And of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. Final segment of
the program starts right now.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Thank you for listening on the I guess day after
the election it was tight for a while. Last night,
it really was. I went to bed long before anything
had been well, much of anything at least had been called,
and I did, and like I said yesterday, no matter
(30:13):
what happened, I was going to be back here at
work today. I got stuff to do regardless of how
these things fall. And that's something to remember, no matter
where you are in the process or who you voted for.
Most of us in this age group, in this audience
have been through enough presidential elections to feel like we'll
(30:35):
get through it, and hopefully by the time there's another one,
this country won't be so deeply divided as it is
right now. We'll have people being able to just sit
across the table from each other and disagree and have
a civil conversation rather than being screamed at and yelled
at and spat on and all the nasty stuff that
(30:55):
was going on in the View already. This morning, Sonny
Hoston said she was worried about internment camps and all
sorts of things that she thinks President Trump will do
in when he's in office, things that she doesn't like. Wait,
who cares about the view hosts anyway? Never mind, By
(31:15):
the way, Democrats already blaming Harris and Walls, they're eating
their own basically, rather than just facing up to the
fact that they didn't put up any one or anything
of substance in front of Americans who were kind of
tired of open borders and soft on crime judges and
inflation and all that. There's a Texas expression for people
(31:37):
like them, and it's all hat and no cattle. And yeah,
Donald Trump won won all four battleground states. That should
tell you something about just how frustrated Americans have become
with the direction this country was going. Kelly and Conway
came out and thanked the View and Oprah for the
Trump win. By the way, them and so many more
(31:59):
people from the left eye, she thought nobody would realize
they weren't being entirely truthful. Out of nowhere. By the way,
President Trump elected as president elect and will go into
office in January, and this morning, just who would have
thought this would happen. Russia floats the idea of a
reset with the US after Trump wins. The one that
(32:25):
concerns me more than Russia is Iran. They've got nukes
and they just may be dumb enough to launch one,
and that would be the onset of World War three.
I would hope that potential onset because I would hope
that that Trump and Putin would get on the horn,
and maybe the the Chinese government would all get on
(32:48):
the horn and say, you know what, we gotta we
gotta hang we gotta hang back. It's just not worth it.
There's a cool another cool kind of a military thing
I saw talking there. There's talk of using seven forty
sevens as essentially flying aircraft carriers to shuttle fighter jets
near areas of engagement, kind of like the floating ones.
(33:12):
Do now that would be that would be a risky proposition.
I think it would be a lot easier for an
enemy to to down an aircraft than it would be
to sink an aircraft carrier. I don't know, it's just me. Well,
do you know what national date is? No, it's food,
(33:36):
and it's I'll give you a hit. It's kind of
related to one of the other foods that was national
day for this week. And why they're so close together.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
I don't know, it's National Tomato soup Day.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
No, No, it's actually National Nacho Day. Eighty percent of
Americans like nachos, five percent don't, and fifteen percent have
no opinion, Like okay, so what this is another one
of those just waste of a pole poles. And by
(34:13):
the way, that eighty percent makes ta or makes nachos
our favorite Mexican food. It's the least involved. It's just
a chip and cheese, and that's our favorite Mexican food.
We need to aim a little higher. What's your favorite
Mexican food? Will Mendudo? Mine would be enchilas del mar.
(34:37):
You know what that is? Seafood? Yes, sir, and they're
delicious anywhere I've gotten them, everywhere I've gotten now. I
do like the white cream sauce, not that red stuff.
It just I'm too old for that. Not tough enough
from another wasted pole. Thirty percent of Americans say they
prefer holding hands with interlocked fingers, twenty percent say with
cupped hands, and thirty eight percent are fine with either.
(35:03):
Four percent said neither. I don't know how you hold
hands without one or the other. So that was basically
wasted time on your part, my part, and everybody else's part.
I'm sorry for that. Ah hmm, boy, there's a lot.
I'm gonna get to most of this tomorrow. People are
going back to the mall, by the way, it says
(35:25):
here past five years. They're going back, but not to shop.
They're going back for dining and for movies and VR centers,
all kinds of things like that sick Chinese man. Will
You're gonna like this. There's this guy Overn, China and
he's sick, but his family needs to confirm his identity
(35:47):
at the bank for a money transfer, so in his
hospital bed, they wheel him out of the hospital and
down to the bank so they can get his money.
I don't. I think that's messed up. I don't know
why somebody from the bank couldn't drive to the hospital.
All right, I'm gonna drive back to my desk, get
(36:07):
ready for tomorrow. Thanks for listening, Audios
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