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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Tuesday, first first day well, not only of live broadcast
for the week, because I take Mondays off, as most
of you already know, but the first day, or so
we're told at least first in a brutally long run
of early summer heat. If you missed the forecast last
night or this morning, know that we are allegedly moving
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into about eight or ten days if the meteorologists are correct,
about ten days of highs in the mid to high
nineties and little or no rain for that full stretch.
So hang on tight, here we go. By the time
we get through this little precursor to the real deal,
it'll be summer. I guess, same as every year about
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this time only I would have been just fine with
another month or so of highs in the high eighties.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Will you're still too young? I've asked you this.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Every year when we get to around May. The heat
doesn't bother you at all?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Yet? Does it? The heat does bother me?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
How much?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
It's my least favorite part about living in this town.
That's your least favorite part. I hate the heat, I'll
love the cold. Which would you rather have?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Will old?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
No, no, no, I'm not gonna really listen. Listen, listen
two years one mouth.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
That's what the old teachers used to say. Right, So
here's the deal. Which would you prefer? Heat or mosquitoes?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Oh? Yeah, little curveball they heat?
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Or mosquito?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Yeah if you could, if you it could be ninety
five degrees every day, but there would never be another
mosquito in Southeast Texas.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Well, mosquitoes don't like me very much, so I'll go
with the mosquitoes. No, they don't get a bit. Really,
I don't get bit. They don't like my blood.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Some just natural pheromone. Yes, what about bees to bees
tend to sting you.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
Bees don't sting me wasp. Let me kill them. Job, sure,
they just line up voluntario do I'm actually the wasp whisper.
I've had multiple wasp come into my house and I've
been able to capture them and release them safely.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Well, I thought you said you killed them will.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well when they're when they're when they're building nests in
precarious places of my front door, and I have to
I got a sink in the bathroom.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Yeah, I got a whack, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah that Now you're talking about wasps or yellow jackets,
because there's a big difference.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Sometimes it's wasped, sometimes.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
It's yellow jackets. Really they.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Sometimes they're yellow.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Sometimes they're my son. Uh, the mosquitoes he's about. He
and I are on the same page with mosquitoes, but
for honey bees. He he emits some sort of chemical
that they are drawn to, as though they were going
to little flowers. We one of the places we played
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golf regularly when he was a little kid, and was
really into golf more than as much as baseball. He's
never been out of into baseball, but he was also
a fan of golf and played a lot. Played for
his high school team his first year there and then
focused on baseball. But every time there were two places
on that property where they had hives actually set up
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so the bees could pollinate all the flowers on the
golf course and here, there and everywhere. However far they
branch out when they go, and honest to God, Will
we could not drive past those hives without him getting
stung to the point that he got kind of scared
to go by him. He would just kind of huddle
up and tell me to go as fast as I
could through there. And even then probably thirty percent of
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the time one of them would find him in his ZAPPI.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Oh yeah, I don't think I've ever been stung by
a bee really, never, not by a bee, not by
a wasp.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
You're just not outside enough, will I know.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
I mean, they're all around me, truthfully, in our yard.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
We have so many.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You've got lagustrooms bees, you got lagustriums in that yard.
They all sucked those honey bees right in for you.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
So.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Okay, Well, in any event, in any event, where were
we mosquitoes and bee?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Oh yeah, we're talking about the heat, just of course,
because it's getting hot out so well, yeah, that's like
it does every year like it does every single year
Southwest Texas Southeast Texas. Whether gives you just long enough
once fall and winter of spring and spring kind of
run their courses to almost forget how brutally hot one
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hundred degree days really are. And this past summer was
the first that it really got my attention as an outdoorsman. Now,
I'm still able to do everything I want to do outdoors.
It's mostly that's fishing and golf, but after that and
not so much cleaning out the garage and and weeding
flower beds and trimming trees and all that stuff. I
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convinced myself that it's too hot to do that, and
it probably will be too hot to do that again
until I don't know, October.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Maybe somewhere in there, I could still do all that
stuff I like to do.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
But what happens afterward is that the fatigue kind of
sets in a little bit earlier, and it tends to
linger a little bit longer, and some of that probably
resulted from minor dehydration. I try to keep my head
and the water trough through all of it, but I'm
probably not getting all the water I need. And if
you don't already know if you're going to be outdoors
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on Thursday, you need to top off the tank on Wednesday,
not Thursday morning, on your way.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
To wherever you're going to be outside.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I learned that from Charlie Epps, a former professional golfer
and currently world world class grandpa. From what I hear,
he is such a fan of his grandson. We used
to run into each other at baseball tournaments. I think
his grandson's a couple of years younger than my son,
but we were playing in the same overall tournaments that
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they have six or eight different age groups and all that,
and I bounce up.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Against him every now and then.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Nearly impossible to catch up on hydration once you've stepped
into the triple digit heat. And another quick tip on
that before we have to go out.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Steer clear.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
If you can of icy cold water in the heat,
your body can't process that without warming it, and that
wastes energy and it just makes your situation a little
bit worse. Cool water's okay, and it won't shock.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Your system, but don't try to quench your thirst or
that of your kids and grandkids with a big old
jug of icy cold water and a bunch of cubes.
Rolling around in there. That's not what they need. All right,
We're gonna take a little break here. When we get back,
we'll talk to doctor Meghan Rogi. She is a dermatologist,
and speaking of sun and heat, we're gonna talk about
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what the sun does to our skin and it's not pretty.
On the way out, I'll tell you about UT Health
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Speaker 1 (09:28):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Hi, welcome back fifty plus.
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it if you didn't know.
And among other things, May is also National Skin cancer
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Awareness Month. Most of my generation grew up suffering some
pretty bad burns. Honestly, it's sunscreen wasn't a thing then,
unless you count the zinc oxide on a few surfers nose.
That's about all I had, and that's about the only
effort I really made to do anything about it. We
cooked ourselves pretty badly and a lot of us are
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paying for that.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
To explain how the sun damages our skin and why
sunscreens are a really dog on good idea, I'll bring
in doctor Megan Rogy, board certified dermatologists with ut Physicians
and Memorial Hermann Hospital and Assistant Professor at Associate Professor
at ut Hell's Mcgovernment Medical School. Welcome aboard, doctor.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
Thank you so much for having me, Dougah, that's my pleasure.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
So is it ever too late to start wearing sunscreen?
Speaker 8 (10:38):
No, definitely not. We do know that, unfortunately, most of
the sun damage that leads to skin cancer happens when
people are young. We know that because people who grow
up in more temperate climates who then go on to
move to other areas with higher UV radiation, like let's say,
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if they moved from England to Australia, they don't get
skin cancers at the same rate as people who grow
up in Australia. So we know that the younger years
are particularly important to skin cancer development, and the reason
for that is because UV radiation causes mutations in the
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skin cells DNA, and over time those mutations are just
kind of becoming greater and greater, So we call that
like a mutational load. So older people have a higher
mutational load. However, there are further insults from UV radiation
that can lead to skin cancer in people who have
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sun damaged skin. So I do tell my patients it's
never too late to start wearing sunscreen because you may
prevent those further mutational changes that may lead to skin cancer.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
You're telling everybody in my generation basically that the baby
oil and iodine we used to put on our skin
was probably not a good.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
Idea, probably not the best thing. Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Oh my words.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
And that being said, it's is it true or not true?
I think I remember this that sun damage is kind
of cumulative and that once it's done, it can never
be undone too, right, that's true.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
It is cumulative over time. I think one of the
worst things you can do for your skin is to
get sunburned. So I always tell my patients that, you know,
it's okay if you want to spend time in the sun,
but getting a sunburn has a high that every every
sunburn that you get increases your risk for skin cancer.
And so some skin cancer is like melanoma or basal
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cell carcinoma, which is the most common type of skin cancer,
those are very correlated with sunburns. There are other types
of skin cancers like squam a cell carcinoma that really
have to do with more of the cumulative effect of
sun Okay, so the kind of a combination of things
going on.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Doctor Megan Rogi on fifty plus here got to be
at least a couple of people in this audience thinking
to themselves, but our skin cells get replaced all the time.
We shed that skin and then new skin comes along.
Doesn't that take the sun damage with it up?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Teach it up for you. There you go.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
I wish it were that simple. You know, your body's
immune system is working at all times to clear out
these mutated cells. So if you you know, that's why
tell some patients they might have a pre skin cancer,
but it actually never goes on to become a skin cancer.
Your body's immune system fights it off on its own,
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and so you know, that could be a reason why
some older people also get skin cancers more frequently if
their immune systems aren't working as well, then that's going
to leave that kind of you know, mutations unchecked, and
then that might lead to more skin cancer.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
So let's get into contemporary means of keeping that sun
off of a start with the sunscreens.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
What works and what doesn't.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
Yes, so you want to look for a broad spectrum
sunscreen with an SPF of at least thirty. I would
say if you're headed out to the beach or the
golf course, you're going to be in the sun for
several hours. I would not do anything less than fifty,
and make sure that you reapply every two hours in
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the sun. That's very important. Most people do get it on,
but it's really the reapplication I think that trips people up. Additionally,
if you're going to be doing something where you're sweating,
which like in Houston, what are we not doing wedding exactly?
So we need water resistant sunscreen. So those are sold
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in forty minutes or eighty minutes, and so I would
recommend getting an eighty minute and then of course you
have to reapply every eighty minute.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Our things very easy on the golf course.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
That's just put some more on when you make the
turn I think for for fishing and outdoor uh, baseball
and soccer and softball tournaments, it's it's gonna have to
be something. It's very easy to set an alarm on
your on your phone, isn't it, and just.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Do it that way.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's a really great way to
do it. Set an alarm, and yeah, make sure to
get remind others around you as well.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
You know what I go ahead, go ahead. I was
gonna say, just a couple of minutes, time out your turn.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Okay, I was going to say, sometimes I tell my
patients just bring, you know, a sun shirt with you
or a wide brim hat and if you reach that
you know, two hour maximum and you aren't able to reapply,
just go ahead and throw one of those shirts on.
Get yourself covered.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Yeah, that's what I was.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Going to ask you about. What what determines SPF for clothing.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
So they have a different gradation system. It's called the
ultraviolet protective factor and so that's you know, sunscreen basically
embedded right into clothes. Because unfortunately, something like a white
cotton T shirt only gives about an SPS value of four,
so it's really not high at all to where many
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types of clothing, so this specialized clothing protects you. And
I tell my patients to look for ups of fifty
or greater for their.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Clothes and noses in the ears.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Those are pretty much hot spots for skin cancers, I
would imagine. But set the record straight for somebody who's
wondering whether or not they can get skin cancer in
places where they've never even had sun exposure, that is true.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Yes, there are you know, some types of skin cancer
that can form on the bottom of your feet or
the palms of your hands, places that we know don't
get a lot of sun. Places, you know, in the
groin area, if you have history of genital warts or insince,
that could turn into skin cancer. So definitely it can happen.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Are there any truth really safe to get a tan?
We got about thirty seconds, you know, I.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
Would say probably not. I would say go for those
artificial bronzer spray hands. Those are great, and just avoid
trying to get that effect from the sun's radiation.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
It's like picking the right stain color for your deck,
isn't it. You just got to figure out how much
tan you want and go for it, all right, Doctor
Meghan reggae ROGI thank you so very much.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Has been really helpful. I appreciate it great.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Oh yeah, my pleasure.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
All right, we got to take a little break here.
I learned a lot there, and God bless me. I'm
so blessed that I haven't had problems with my skin yet.
I really am for all the exposure I got.
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Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. All right,
welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Bottom of
the hour, well five minutes past the bottom of the hour.
That's close enough, as they say in horseshoes and hand grenades.
From the fin financial desk, briefly, I promise three of
the big forest dell rising behind yesterday's huge upticking value.
(20:07):
Only the Dow was down, and that was down a
half of one percent, and that I'm pretty sure was
just algorithms triggering profit taking after things jumped the way
they did yesterday.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
So nothing to.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
See there, really, but a good bit of good news
if you read and understand a lot of what's going
on in the brilliant chess game that our president is
playing right now while everybody else is kind of playing checkers.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Let's go will to some lighter stuff and by then, yeah,
I'll wait on that one.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Yeah, let's do some lighter stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Well, oh, By the way, what All American Day is
it today?
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Just go for the most obvious thing. What is all American?
All American?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
It's apple pie?
Speaker 5 (20:58):
It is?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
It is National apple Pie Day. Will i'll a mode
or what would you call it?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Naked buck? Naked apple pie? No, no dressing whatsoever?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Whip cream?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Whip cream? Oh that's for pumpkin pie. That's better on
pumpkin pie.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
You think that whip cream doesn't go on every single pie?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
I guess you're right. Come on, I guess you're right.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Will a little bit of cream is good on every pie?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Go big or go home?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Expensive sweets or heart healthy um, expensive sweets.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Okay, you've walked yourself into a pop quiz. Will if
bees earned minimum wage, how much labor costs would there
be in a standard issue jar of honey? If bees
made minimum wage, what's the labor for a single jar
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of honey?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Take a stab, will, Yeah, I promise you won't get closed,
so don't worry about it. Okay, sixty dollars, get this.
I don't know who has time to make this up?
And if they got paid for, they swindled somebody out
of their money because I think they just kind of
made this up.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
One hundred and eighty.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Two thousand dollars in labor costs for the bees if
they unionize, which I hope they never do because they're out.
Goes the honey, not a narrow another honey and butter
biscuit at any where? Do they serve that cheddars has them?
And there's another place? What's the other one that has?
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Though? Will little cross sauts with butter and honey on them?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
What can you think? Yo?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
You were to listen you talk to you weren't even
paying attention, of.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Course, not.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
From the global war?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Oh wait, what desk?
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Come word of something you likely won't see or hear
in mainstream news. Get this Antarctica. Ant Arctica gained from
twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three two hundred billion
tons of ice two hundred billion tons of ice, and
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quite interestingly, in that same period, other parts of the planet,
not at the very bottom, concurrently experienced extreme heat waves.
So bottom line, we don't know nearly as much about
our planet as we think we do. And what's worth
noting in all of this really is that for years,
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for years, most of this audience will recall this too.
We were being told that global warming this and global
warming that was going to be the doomsday. It started
back with al Gore one hundred years ago, and we
all we heard then was about global warming until we
also started having these real dramatic cold spells. So now
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instead of that, they just call it climate change. Earth
getting hotter, oceans are rising because the ice capture melting,
and if we don't all buy electric cars and put
solar panels on our roofs and stop cows from expelling gas,
we're just all gonna melt or burn or both.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
If you didn't notice, they replaced that global warming thing
with that climate change thing to accommodate the normal fluctuation
of Earth temperatures year to year. Okay, millennia to millennia.
Adding two hundred billion tons of ice to Antarctica in
a couple of years is pretty darn significant. And it
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didn't happen because of a windmill farm in the Midwest either.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
More good, and I'll hold that. But this is interesting.
We might get to it before the end.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Shifting into the nuts and bolts of the nation. From
the employment desk came a story that it just confirms
that President Biden's job reports from Q three of last
year were totally bogus. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has
confirmed now long after they thought anyone would care. But
(25:24):
I do, because I get a little miffed by this
that Biden's report from then, talking about gaining three hundred
and ninety nine thousand new jobs in that quarter, actually
was a loss of about a thousand private sector jobs.
That didn't even hold flat. We lost a thousand jobs.
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At the same time, his entire administration was looking us
in the eye through the cameras and telling us they
gained three hundred and ninety nine thousand new jobs.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
That's not good.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
A closer look to from the same Bureau of Labor
Statistics reveals an overall loss from March of twenty twenty
three to March of twenty twenty four of five hundred
and ninety eight thousand jobs. That's why there were so
many people panicking. That's why we were all upset. And
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they knew it, and they lied again. They spun this
uplifting job report thing, knowing full well, and they did
it more than once too, full well, that this country
was putting more and more people out of work under
the structure we were in then, and thank god that's
over now. Deliberate deceit is what it was, in hopes,
of course, of garnering votes to sink the country even
(26:40):
deeper into that cess pool. And all the while, a
whole lot of people in Congress who came in there
with little or no money and are making less than
two hundred thousand dollars a year, suddenly they're getting magically
filthy rich off strategic movements of money that you and
I never even know happened.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
It's hopefully all that's. Hopefully all that's done and behind us. Now.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Will you want some good news or you want a
little bit more from the fun desk? Whatever you can
do in thirty sex thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
You know what I can do.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I can just I can just punt and come back
with a little bit more time, hunt and come back
with a little more.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
So here's what I'll do. I'll tell you about berry Hill.
How's that will?
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Berry Hill? Sugarland is at. It's at Sugar Creek Boulevard
in fifty nine on the inbound side, northbound side of
fifty nine.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Very easy to find.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
It's been where it is for the better part of
thirty years. It was kind of hidden behind some oak
trees along the freeway, but if you've ever been down
on the Feeder street around there, you can't miss it.
It's right there facing fifty nine. Got a big old
sign out front. There's outdoor and indoor dining. The two
main people in the kitchen there have been the same
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two main people in the kitchen for the better part
of I don't know, twenty years something like that. They
churn out some of the most delicious traditional tex Mex
food you'll ever eat. And the fish tacos there, according
to pretty much anybody who's ever eaten one that I've
talked to, are the best they've found. Bar None Berry
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Hill Brand's been around a long time. This is the
one store that's still being run by the owner's wife
and her two sons. He passed away a few years ago.
Now Wendy and her sons are making sure that the
tradition of Barry Hills lives on.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
It's a very.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Friendly, very family oriented place, and you can go in
there and to the left there's tables and family dining
tables and boosts and whatnot. Three private rooms in the
back if you need that and then up front to
the right or as you walk in is the sports
bar area. If you will, and if you're brand new
to sugar Land, just walk in there and say, hey,
I'm new who would like to make a new friend,
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And somebody's gonna raise their hand and welcome you to
their table. I'd almost guarantee that if you got the
guts to say that out loud, this, somebody's gonna just
welcome you in. Great food, great people, trace lets us
to die for. By the way, Berryhillsugarland dot com is
the website. Go there, check it out Berryhillsugarland dot com.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
What's life without a net? If I suggest to go
to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues. All right, welcome back forth.
Final segment of the program starts right now. We've got
about ten minutes. Will seven to nine ten?
Speaker 5 (29:41):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I'm gonna need every one of them, I really am.
More good news from that desk from a while ago.
A Salk Institute study working on medicinal plants out in
San Diego.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Pretty interesting.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
There's a plant called a federer familiar with that will
It has a history of use to cure everything from
allergies to headaches to syphilis, and it's also under a
microscope now as a potential foundation for help with other conditions.
Where we're reopening the books, if you will, on some
of these plants that have provided legitimate medical help with
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all the things that ail humans. A lot of these
plants have been out there for hundreds, if not thousands
of years. Plant called Urbi Santa urbacana, they say, has
potential as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. This is stuff
that grows wild in some parts of the world and
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is just invaluable as medicine in the rest of the world.
And I guess right where it is. If you happen
to be wise and old enough and wise enough to
see the benefit from these plants, it's the most common
plant that comes to mind as a cure or a
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treatment for anything. For me anyway, is alo alo vera plants?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Do you use that on burns?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Will?
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Yes? Like? Likewise, I'm sure, in fact, I need to
get another aloe plant. We haven't had one since my
son was young and he was diging himself up and
touching hot thing whatever.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
And had to use the allo more than once. I
wouldn't mind having somewhere around the house again. You know
what'd be another thing that is a legitimate plant that
solves a problem. And we talked about it over the weekend.
I believe it was on the Outdoor Show over on
KBME Saturday morning. It might have been Sunday morning, I
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don't remember, but using Saturday because we were talking about
things that sting and bite and whatnot. And when the
subject of beastings comes up, which you wouldn't know about
because they don't like you, or maybe they just like
you too much.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
They don't want to bother you. Maybe I am a
friend to a friend to the best. Then the apiary, Yeah, okay,
you a parian.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
I like having my rachnids around my spiders. They keep
the the insects at bay.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
You better be careful your spider's leveled to eat one
of your bees. That wouldn't be cool.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
I keep exact the event, Well, the plant. Let's get
back to medicinal plants. Tobacco. If you ever do get
a bee sting, and you know somebody who happens to
smoke cigars or cigarettes, dampen some tobacco and put it
on that sting and it will stop.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Hurting almost immediately.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
First, you got to go spend what ten dollars on
a pack of cigarettes?
Speaker 6 (32:44):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (32:45):
You can put those in the medicine cabinet. That's for real,
that is for absolute, one hundred percent real. Ask your mom.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
I will ask your doctor mom, and she will tell
you that, Yes, tobacco has been used for century, probably
as a sting remedy. That's what my parents both smoked.
My mom quit fairly early, and my dad continued to
smoke right up till the day he died because of them.
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But more than once after I came running in the
house with a bee sting from either a honey bee
or a yellow jacket or whatever. Go get one of
dad's cigarettes, put a little mush it up in a
little bit of water and make kind of a paste
out of it, almost, and then just slap it on
there and put a band aid over it, and five
minutes later, rip it off and go back outside and play.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Light it up. Take a little puff like a puff puff,
put it out on the on the beeting. No, well
that's not how it works, my god. Yeah, we're just
cauterizing it. No, you don't have to add any fire
will That's not how it works.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
From the h Yeah, there's that one. That's well, I'll leave.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
That one from the criminal gangs because I have a
couple of minutes. Here via Breitbart comes word that six
illegal immigrants, three adults and three juveniles are charged with murder.
Now after what appears to have been a robbery gone bad.
I think it was in North Carolina, maybe South. This
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woman was in her car. Six people come up to her,
I guess, asking for money. I'm not really sure. The
six have been arrested, but the bottom line is they
found her car about seven miles from home with her
body still in it, and fortunately we're able to make
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arrests in this case. The ages of the people who
are accused of these of this crime ranged from twenty
one to thirteen. A thirteen year old wrapped up in that.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
That's just messed up. Let's just mess up so bad
so And.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
From the same desk, by the desk, by the way,
on the Fox New Side comes the story of another
Venezuelan gang, potentially more dangerous, if that's possible, then trendy Aragua. Uh,
this one has its site set on a little bit
more of rural America as it continues its expansion here.
It's called anti trend and an unsealed federal indictment from
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back in April accuses twenty one men of criminal activity
in New York City. Now, no, that is not a
rural area, clearly, but these people are involved in drug trafficking,
sex trafficking of young women, of homicide, other violent crimes.
They're said to be concentrating their efforts in more rural areas.
Why you wonder, Well, that's where law enforcement sometimes lacks
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the manpower and resources to keep tabs on this type
of activity and stop it before it grows. They just
don't have the They just don't have the the support
system that will give them the opportunity to shut these
people down. And the bad guys know that maximum gain
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for minimal risk, they know that. So that's a little
spooky and hopefully hopefully not this way yet. There was
one woman I think it up in North Texas somewhere
maybe Dallas, who was followed home and I think it
was three guys busted into her house and used an
app on their phone to communicate with her. So that
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she knew they meant business, and she ended up giving
them watches and expensive purses, a bunch of cash, whatever
whatever they asked for. I guess using technology to communicate,
because otherwise they would have just stood there and not
known what each other was saying. Let's go back to
the lighter, more fun stuff. Come fly with me, whereas well,
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here it is right here, go.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Big or go home home?
Speaker 5 (37:01):
And where did I put that one? I've got to
go find it. I know how to say it.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Anyway, go big or go home, Come fly with me,
or no, they're not, come fly with me. Some woman
getting on an airplane somewhere brings with her an entire
rotisserie chicken because she wants to get her protein on
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the flight. And she says that, she says in a video,
that's a way to give yourself a first class experience
without paying for first class.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
I got news for her. If you're carrying.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Your own chicken on the airplane, that is not a
first class experience unless you also have brought a little
white linen baby tablecloth to put over your tray that.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
You pull down from the seat back in front of you.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Unless unless you're offered real utensils to cut it up
and eat it with.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
But yeah, she showed it.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
It wasn't in one of those little plastic things like
a dome on top in a lot of supermarkets. This
is the one that's in the ziplock bag. It's just
a little and it's this, this pitiful looking little chicken.
It is like about the size of a Cornish inn.
And she's so proud that she's taking that on the
airplane with her. She's beat the system. Will now she's
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eating high on the hog. Of course, no she's not.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
She can just find a rotissree chicken when she landed.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Well, yeah, but she wanted she's multitasking. She wants to
get her her protein on the fly. And you know
what I had is the other title for that? Thanks
for flying, KFC. I like that one real quick. We
got to do this when you're nuts is what I
have on it. I got thirty seconds, is that right?
This guy's going viral for his story about a roommate.
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This roommate of his steals some of the first guy's
cake out of the firsty's many fridge. Okay, they're roommates,
but this second guy goes in there and grabs his
cake and eats it, and he's allergic to the peanuts
in it, And now he wants that first guy from
whom he stole that cake to pay his medical bills
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for poisoning him. No thanks, we'll see it tomorrow, Audios.