Skin Care During Cold Weather

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Megan Rogge about skin care during cold weather.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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like this? Remember when social media was truly social?

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

Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Welcome back to yet another I don't know the nine
hundred and something time. Welcome to fifty plus and that
nine hundred and something. By the way, the episodes in
just the past five years or so, we don't have
them from the first four or five years, but I
can assure you that each and every one of them
was radio gold. That's what I'm going with. You agree,

(01:10):
will Yeah? I think he would agree. Quick look at
the weather, because that's kind of what we do in
the early part of the show. Half the day's already gone,
so it's not really hard to predict the other half.
Usually I tend to lean into a specific forecast model,
and so far it seems to be the most accurate,

(01:31):
so I'm staying with it. I don't want to tell
you which one it is, because then should just as
sure as I did, it would come up dead wrong
for a couple of days in a row. And that's
all I'd hear about in my poor inbox in any event.
And actually, I've never seen this before, and I doubt
I ever will again. I can't imagine it happening again.

(01:51):
So here's the deal. Rain chance today, hive sixty six.
Then I have seventy seven tomorrow. In typical Southeast Texas fashion,
I high have sixty four on Friday, and then wait
for it four straight days of the exact same high temperature,

(02:13):
which will be, by the way, a very balmy and
non wintry seventy seven degrees also very comfortable. Seventy seven
is a really good temperature. Seventy three is seventy seven
in that mid seventies window is ideal for many of
the things I like to do outdoors up to an
including waterfowl hunting. By the way, there's this misconception that

(02:36):
waterfowl hunting is best when it's just absolutely miserable outside
and that's that couldn't be farther from the truth. Actually,
most of the better, the better days I had as
a waterfowl guide. In the photographs afterward, everybody's standing around
in short sleeve t shirts and just very comfortable with

(02:59):
no outer garments at all, he said, for no good reason.
If you're wondering, by the way, and you believe in
an eight day forecast, which is kind of like believing
in unicorns in Bigfoot. In any event, Christmas Day should
be well. Supposedly will be partly cloudy with a high

(03:22):
of seventy three and a low of sixty four, which
is in almost everybody's wheelhouse as very very comfortable. Or
it could be thirty six or eighty. We really don't know,
and we won't know until then, So just hang on,
Like I said, keep a bunch of stuff in the car,
including an umbrella, by the way, which may still come
in handy. Today it's not over in the markets, which

(03:45):
are absolutely not any easier to predict than the weather. Really,
all four of the big four indicators were down, and
with the Nasdaq taking the hardest hit of all, it
was down more than a full point. About an hour ago,
I don't know where it is now.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Crude to oil then.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Was a little south of fifty six dollars a barrel,
which is that's happy days for all the holiday travel
on the roads anyway that's going to come along, And
who knows, maybe you can go to a different relative's
house farther away for the same gas money it would
cost you to get across town. That wouldn't be bad.

(04:21):
Fifty six bucks a barrel is a little on the
low side for our local economy, which is so heavily
dependent on oil and gas. Fifty six dollars a barrel
is barely i would think enough anymore to actually do
well for the oil companies, and they have to do
well because they have to invest so much money in

(04:44):
exploration and well, at least they're not having to wait
so long to get permits anymore. Thanks to the new
administration knocking down some of the old hurdles that were
put in the way of development of oil fields and
new f lines. We're getting that, at least, we're getting
that done. Gold also up a healthy chunk four thousand,

(05:07):
three hundred and fifty nine dollars an ounce. If you
look at the size of a one ounce gold coin
something you can hold in the palm of your hand
very comfortably. Just one ounce, that's all it takes, and
you're holding four thousand, three hundred and fifty nine dollars today.

(05:30):
I would have never believed it would be this far up,
since only a couple of years ago when I remember
it being around twenty three twenty four hundred. It's nearly
doubled in just a couple of years. And that's that's
a pretty solid investment if you've made it two years ago,
an incredible investment if you've made it five years ago,

(05:53):
and even a really good investment if you only started
buying gold in January.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
You're still way up.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
So I was never really one to to bang the
tambourine for precious metals because I thought they were a
little too volatile and in some some timeframes in my
lifetime a little too slow to keep it. They weren't
keeping up with the market growth sometimes. But man, that's
sure like that. That's why I'm not a financial advisor. Okay,

(06:23):
let's just go with that. Let's just go with that,
shall we. What is this a minute and a half? Okay,
very good. I'm gonna shift gears in and I'm gonna
go over here to one of these little shorter pieces
that I wanted to mention. I can I can burn
a minute and a half on yet another useless world record.

(06:47):
And you know, if any of you actually hold a
world record, this would be interesting. Well, what do you
think of the odds, thumbs down or thumbs up that
there is at least one person in this audience who
either does or has held a world record according to Guinness.
You think yes or no? Maybe just one? That would

(07:10):
be enough for me. My grandfather's boat driver. My grandfather
built racing boats back in the sixties. He built these
little hydroplanes that were not much bigger than a large
potato chip basically, but they would skip across the water
at ninety plus miles an hour. Now, these were ten

(07:31):
foot long boats, and he built them himself. He rebuilt
all the engines. He was an engineer for AT and
T back when AT and T was a baby and
they were laying the first communications cables from the Northeast
down into Florida. And he ended up settling down in
Florida and had that passion for boat racing almost all

(07:53):
his adult life. He even the first few years that
we went down there to visit my grandmother and my
grandfather in Florida. He had a racing boat in the garage,
one that he built and one that was still being
raced by his driver. And his driver the reason I
bring this up actually held a world record in that boat.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
We gotta go, we gotta go.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
I'll get back to this other useless world record when
we get back, or actually in a little while. Let's
just put it that way. Right now, I'm gonna tell
you about Cedar Cove RV Resort down there at the
end of Tri City Beach Road. If you've never been
to the end of Tri City Beach Road, it basically
takes you to the edge of the bay, to the
edge of Galaston Bay, and there on one side of

(08:39):
the street, you're gonna see Cedar Cove RV Resort. On
the other side, you're gonna see Thompson's Bait Camp. You
can buy fishing bait in the little convenience store at
Cedar Cove, but that's all frozen stuff. And if you
want to go with the fresh stuff or the live stuff,
just walk across the street. You're gonna find at Cedar
Cove all concrete roads, all concrete slabs, every one of

(09:01):
which has full electric, water and sewer hook up. There's
free Wi Fi throughout the place, and a bathhouse where
you can take a shower, and that convenience store that's
got a little bit of everything you might forget when
you're in such a hurry to get down to the
bay and not miss a minute of that therapeutic time
just watching the palm fronds move in the breeze and

(09:23):
listening to the water lap up on the shore. It's
a heck of a lifestyle if you want to try
it without buying it. Al Kibby, the guy who owns
the place, will rent you an RV that sleeps for
very comfortably. Will rent you one of those so that
you can get accustomed to that lifestyle. And I'd bet
by the end of next year, if you have any

(09:44):
kind of year at all, you might be at one
of those shows downtown trying to buy yourself an RV
so you can go park it back there at Cedar
Cove again. Cedar Cove Rvresort dot com is a website.
Check it out Cedar Cove Rvresort dot comed That's her perfection.
This is fifty Plus with Doug Pike. All Right, welcome

(10:05):
back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate
that as always, even on the rainy days. Thanks for
sharing your lunch hower. We're talking this segment about common
skin conditions and how winter weather is gonna impact your
skin if it hadn't already, And from the notes I got,
I think this one might surprise a few of us,
and I'm including myself because I don't know that much

(10:26):
about it either. And there's one little thing in there
that I'll point out when we get to it that
I really couldn't make sense. But I'm sure my interviewee,
doctor Megan Rogi, board certified dermatologists practicing at UT Physicians
and Memorial Hermann Hospital and Associate professor at UT HEALTHBA
Government Medical School. I'm gonna bet she can help us out.

(10:47):
Welcome back, doctor Rogi.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
Thanks so much for having me, Doug, it.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Is my pleasure. So let's start with some of the
more common skin conditions that are impacting folks in this audience.
Call them a little more seasoned, a few more miles
on their tires. What's on that short list?

Speaker 4 (11:06):
So, exzema and psyriasis are two of the conditions I'd
like to speak with you today. These are very common
skin conditions, common in young people and older people, and
they can certainly cause a lot of problems for people
in their older age and.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
For the wiser ones in my audience, the ones who
do routine self examinations. What are these conditions look like?
What are we looking for?

Speaker 4 (11:33):
Absolutely, so, psoriasis is an inflammation in the skin, so
it's going to look like a rash. Classically, these are
going to be red plaques with silvery scale, often overlying
the elbows, in the knees. It really can appear any
time in life. There's usually family history, and it could

(11:54):
be associated with arthritis, So that's psoriasis. Eczema was a
little bit different. So exima is also known as the
itch that rashes. So this is a very itchy skin condition,
not that siasis can you know, sometimes crisis is itchy. However,
eczema is really known for being very itchy, and that's

(12:16):
you know, typically one of the first things you noticed
maybe some redness or scaling of the skin, but the
rash part might not be as prominent. And this is
something that would typically appear first in childhood. That may
recur later in life, and it could be associated with
other diseases such as asthma or allergy. So that's kind
of the big two eczema and seriasis.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Uh yeah, like this life just won't stop throwing us curve,
will it? Mercy? Are there any specific body parts other
than our elbows where we ought to be looking for this?

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Well?

Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, so psoriasis commonly again affects the elbows, in the knees,
can also occur on the lower back, in the buttocks,
and in the scalp. So those are the kind of
most classic locations for psoriasis. Eggzema, on the other hand,
frequently effects on older individuals the lower legs. It does

(13:12):
affect the hands, in the face, and also in your
skin folds, like in the creases of your the bends
of your arms, or the backs of your knees. Those
might be some more common locations for egzima.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
All right, doctor Megan Rogio on fifty plus here, what
causes this skin to change from just find one day
to itch your red or bumpy and burning the next day.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
Well, we know the genetics plays a large role in
both of these conditions. So you know, as I mentioned, ezema,
can go kind of in the family with allergies or asthma.
Psoriasis may be more inflammatory arts rights. So we know
that there are genetics involved. We know that there are
potential triggers that could bring these things out in a person.

(13:58):
So for csoriasis, that might be an infection and new
medication or a period of stress.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
So well, there you go.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Similarly, for egzema, we know that stress can often cause
exzema flares as well, so that that is one influencing feature.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Okay, that is interesting. Are there any any things we
can do non medical? Let's just talk about lifestyle changes.
Maybe can we eat something different? Can we do something
different that will help this?

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Absolutely? I think that you know, a lot of research
has been done into pro inflammatory diets. Now I'm not
a dietitian or you know, a complete expert in that field,
but we know that high glycemic index foods which I
like to think of as the white food, so white bread,
white pasta, potatoes, you know, all the good stuff. Basically,

(14:56):
these are high glycemic index. These are pro and flammatory,
and these can worsen both egzema and psoriasis.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Well that's great news, doc, What about cold I read
what what does cold have to do with skin issues?

Speaker 4 (15:15):
So I think changes in season could be difficult for
anyone's skin. Egzama ansoriasis are both known to flare for
certain individuals in certain seasons, particularly with cold weather. I
think what really gets us in Houston. You know, we
don't really have low humidity outdoors. We don't really have

(15:35):
these like whipping winds you know that dry our skin out.
But what we do have are indoor heaters. And indoor
heating takes the moisture out of the air. So when
we're spending a lot of time indoors and the heat
is on, that's really drying out our environment, which can
affect our skin, dry it out, make it more scaly,
more itchy, and more problematic.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well here's the one that I that really caught me
by surprise, because I'll I thought that a good hot
shower would moisturize your skin, but it was on the
naughty list.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Why Well, hot showers are will actually cause you to
lose moisture through the skin rather than keep it in.
So we recommend that you bathe with lukewarm water and
you not exceed ten minutes in the bath of the shower.
And very importantly, when you get out of the shower,

(16:26):
just pat your skin dry and then immediately apply a
moisturizing cream within three minutes of exiting the shower or
the bath. This is to lock in the moisture that
your skin is just experienced in the shower. Too hot
and you're gonna lose it.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
You're talking to a grown man about padding in lotion
after a shower.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
I well you'll feel better.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, okay, Well that's all it takes. Oh, mercy, I
don't know about that. Are there any of these over
the count We got about a minute and a half left.
Are there any of these over the counter creams or
lotions that might shut that stuff down before it gets
before it warrants a trip to you? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (17:04):
I think absolutely. I think when you're thinking about moisturizing
your skin, remember lotions are not that great. Creams are better,
and ointments are the best. So a greasy ointment like
something like aquafor or Seravey healing ointments. These are moisturizers
that can really again lock in the moisture in your skin,

(17:25):
protect your skin from outside influences, and that could be
really helpful for both eggs anions.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
That's gonna be tough. Some of those things you just meant,
like the aqua forest, like dipping yourself in a chapstick.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
It's just which could feel good if you if you.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Have really quickly.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
While I've got a board certified dermatologists on the phone
talk about winter sun damage in thirty seconds.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
Sun damage still occurs in the winter time, right, so
we do need to be careful, especially for the snow
bunnies who like to go up and you know, do
some skiing. Oh yeah, sun the action bounces off the snow,
so it'll get you twice. It'll get you from above
and then bounced off of the of the snow and
reflective surfaces. So please do remember to still wear some

(18:11):
protection during the winter month.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Doctor Reagan Mogi, thank you, ROGI excuse me about that,
Reagan Mogy, Megan Rogi, Doctor meganrog thank you still very much.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Thank you, Bess, always a pleasure.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Uh huh bye bye.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
Holy cow.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, m that's gonna be tough, but I think I'm
gonna try it just to see if my skin feels better.
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(19:13):
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Speaker 1 (19:15):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Here we go. Welcome back, Thanks for listening. As always,
I do generously and tremendously appreciate what you do for us,
no question about it.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Which is listen and share.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Listen and share, share the story or share the show
if you would please. I can't wait to get more
and more and more listeners. I'm actually becoming more active
with social media too. After I just casually put up
a video a reel on Facebook of all the corm
rants in that lake that I used to fish so

(20:03):
successfully years ago, and it got I don't know, five
six seven hundred something, a lot of you, a lot
of thousands of views. I think it was thought, Wow,
this might work, this social media thing and all of this, Yeah,
it could work. So I'm gonna be posting more and
not just anything. I'm not gonna show you what I

(20:25):
had for breakfast. I don't nobody cares what I eat,
Nobody cares what I drive. At this point, nobody cares
much about any of that. But I'll just I'll do
what I can and when it makes sense, and if
I see, I'm gonna do more. I think moving forward
into twenty twenty six, that applied to this audience I've

(20:47):
been I've been more. I've been quicker to post things
that involve the outdoors or golf, because that's just kind
of what I do when I'm outside, and I like
being outside. I don't know how many people really care
what I can see out my window in the office,
although I've actually gotten under a couple of circumstances, one

(21:07):
a rainbow, in the other what was it some other
phenomenon outside the office window. Apparently I felt it was
worthy of posting, and it did. Okay, I don't want
to go to Chicago. Really, here's a story that I
found this morning that did not surprise me in the

(21:27):
least so as predictable as rain in a hurricane. Okay,
Chuck Schumer banging the gun control tambourine again in the
wake of that shooting up at Brown University, which is
a gun free zone. By the way, he and his
followers just cannot seem to understand that the problem at

(21:48):
Brown wasn't a lack of gun control. They had controlled
the guns on campus, or so they thought by putting
signs in all the buildings and in all these notices.
I'm sure they're tacked trees somewhere. This is a gun
free zone. There shouldn't have been a single gun on campus.

(22:12):
And that's about as tightly as you can control guns
in a place where apparently the security isn't nearly as
as thorough and complete as they thought it was. Because
what happened was what happens in any gun free zone
when things go bad, is that the bad guys don't care.

(22:39):
To a deranged criminal, those signs mean nothing. And actually, no,
that's not true. That's not true. Because those signs mean
to the shooter that the shooter is unlikely to encounter
any resistance whatsoever as he or she I guess that's possible.
Almost no chance anyone's gonna challenge a shooter until until

(23:00):
he runs out of AMMO carrying.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Pepper spray on campus. Good for you. But if a.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Super bad guy, and if somebody wants to come up
and steal your wallet or something like that, you might
be able to pepper spray and stop them. But if
you're just never you're never gonna win a gunfight with
a stick or a spray or any of that stuff.
And more gun laws won't change a thing. Ask Chicago,
ask Baltimore. Criminals don't obey the law. That's the concept

(23:32):
that the left just doesn't get. I don't care how
many signs you put up and say you can't have
a gun here, doesn't matter. And the harder it is
for good people to get guns, the easier it is
for the bad guys to just wave one and get
whatever they want. Schumer's totally wrong, and he probably knows that.

(23:53):
He probably knows that, but he just couldn't let this
opportunity pass to try to shove more gun control down
our throats, which is just not it's not what we need.
It's really not. I speaking of at MSNBC, which, hey,
I check all the news sources, good or bad. I

(24:15):
did trip over a Washington Post story that was put
up at the MSNBC site that pretty much details the
comings and goings of Tyler Robinson, the man accused of
killing Charlie Kirk and in the time before and after,
he's alleged to have climbed onto a rooftop where, by
the way, no law enforcement managed to see him prone

(24:39):
and holding a rifle not that far away anyway. It's
a fourteen minute read. It is, so sit down, grab
yourself a little beverage, maybe a snack, and then dig
into that stuff and see how how incredible, it's just
incredible how the guy managed to come compartmentalized, to tuck

(25:02):
his plan into a tiny, little dark portion of his
brain that morning while he interacted with friends on social
media and played games and just did all this time,
all this stuff leading up until when those shots were fired. Allegedly,

(25:22):
Remember a long time ago, when two guys in a
car decided it would be a good idea to run
over to just plow through in their car, retired police
chief who was just out for a bike ride. Well,
those two finally were convicted and sentenced, or well, they
were convicted earlier but sentenced finally both got life. The

(25:45):
younger of the two, eighteen year old guy, got eighteen
years to life, and the older guy who was involved,
twenty years old, got twenty years to life, and that
I think was pretty generous. Actually, the sentences were agreed
to by both sides, which they have to be, and

(26:05):
that's what happened there. Pulling up my waiters for this
walk through the current news, it appears how much time
do I have here? Will two minutes three sixteen two,
that's perfect. It appears that the Clinton's Bill and Hillary
have lawyered up and are pushing back very strongly against

(26:27):
testifying before the House Oversight Panel, and it's Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
I heard some talk about that this morning on the
way in. Their refusal to appear and provide live testimony
is potentially going to result in contempt proceedings, which wouldn't
look good. And counsel for the former president and Secretary

(26:49):
of State have accused President Trump. Now they're trying to
divert See they're gonna they're accusing him of trying to
divert attention away from his relationship with Epstein, which he's
been pretty open and honest about. I'm fairly confident. There's
all sorts of stuff to unpack here, and as always,
innocent until proven guilty. Okay, it's going to take a while.

(27:11):
And by the way, for the record, if you're wondering,
which most of you wouldn't be, for good reason. The
most recent time in which a former president testified this
way was in nineteen eighty three, when then former President
Gerald Ford appeared before a committee like that to talk
about celebration of the bi centennial that would happen four

(27:36):
years later, three and a half four years later. Whenever
it was, I think it actually occurred in nineteen eighty seven,
if memory serves. Yeah, the Clintons, I don't think want
any part of this, and I don't blame them, I
really don't. I think there's everybody's got things that they
don't want to share, and this with this Epstein thing. Hey,

(28:01):
like I said, innocent until proven guilty, Right, Oh, I
got that taken care of. I've got this taken care of.
I'll save these last two here, actually the last four
four when we get back from this break and on
the way out, I'll tell you about the Institute on
Aging ut Health, Institute on Agent to be specific, one

(28:21):
of only a handful of collaborative efforts in the entire
country that do exactly what this one does, and what
it does is gather any and everybody who is willing
in the medical field, no matter what branch of medicine
they're in, no matter what they learn to get the
diploma on the wall, they go back on their own dime,
on their own time, and learn how they can apply

(28:45):
the knowledge they have already, specifically and more concisely to seniors,
You me, anybody else in our age category can be
seen by someone who has voluntarily gone back and gotten
this dial training so that they can become part of
this group, part of this collaborative effort among thousands literally

(29:06):
of providers all around the country. The ones in Houston
here are primarily in the med center where else, but
they also practice routinely in outlying clinics and hospitals and offices,
so that if you don't want to go to the
med center, you really don't have to go to the website.
I encourage you to do that and watch yourself for time,

(29:28):
because once you start opening up these little windows and
going down the rabbit hole of well, there's something about this,
I need to read about that, and something about that
I need to read about this, and then oh, yeah,
I need to start looking for a provider who can
help me with that, because it's bothered me a little
bit and I do want to live a longer, happier,
healthier life. That's all you got to do. Go to
the website, start there and you will. I think you'll

(29:50):
be very impressed and very satisfied with the journey it
takes you on utch dot edu, slash aging uth dot edu,
slash aging.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
Okay, well, do you think that sounds like a good plan?

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Fifty plus continues here's more with Doug.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus, fourth and final segment.
As I've said so many times, not nine hundred times
or whatever, nine to twenty something like that, but I
bet I've said fourth and final segment exactly in that phraseology.
What what do you think will three hundred times. Maybe
I need to freshen it up. I'm going to change

(30:37):
the way I come in and go out of segments,
I think for twenty twenty six, just to mix it
up a little bit. I don't want to be too
terribly predictable, and I feel like the show sometimes gets
that way. I may change up the front end too,
might hold back on the weather because all you got
to do is look out the window. Really, although I

(30:58):
do like to look at forecasts because as much time
as I spend outdoors, it's as much for me as
it is for all of you. I want to make
sure that if you want to go outdoors, there's nothing's
going to hold you back. Let's just kind of look
at it that way. So moving into Oh, by the way,
in the very first segment, I talked about world records,
and I got sidetracked talking about my grandfather's racing boats

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and how one of them was actually in it under
in that Guinness Book of World Records a long, long,
long long time ago. I think back in the sixties.
The boat name was sky Hoot and the driver's name.
I remember it very well because it was a really
cool thing that my grandfather had anything in the book
of World records, and it was there for a while.

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The driver's name, I believe was Red McConnell, and he
was I guess he was the guy that my grandfather
trusted to drive a little ten foot boat at ninety
miles an hour. And I did get to see them
race a little bit. I remember, being a very small child.
I can't really understand much of it, but I was

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at some of the races. So anyway, the guy did
the same thing I did in the first moment, didn't I.
This German guy earns a world record. He started collecting
these particular things in nineteen ninety four and in nineteen
or excuse me, in two thousand and two he set
a record for his collection of it's a holiday themed

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collection that he has, and he has in two thousand
and two. Twenty three years ago, he had six thousand,
one hundred snow globes. Well, he has proudly, proudly grown
his collection now and established a new world record. This guy,

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Joseph Cardinal, broke his own record for the large collection
of snow globes. When the adjudicator that's a fancy word
for judge, referee or whatever, they call him. This guy
doesn't give his name. He's probably embarrassed that he had
to go do it and count these things. But they

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went to this guy's home in Nuremberg and confirmed that
he now owns eleven thousand snow globes, all different. By
the way, I didn't I wouldn't have thought there would
be eleven thousand different snow globes period, but he's got
that many. And by the way, if you're considering breaking

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the snow globe record, or if you're close to breaking
it now and you're gonna be looking for extra pieces,
we can't be friends. I'm sorry. That's just nah nah.
You want to talk about your duck decoy collection, that's cool.
Your antique lure collection, that's cool. Golf memorabilia. I do

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have a pick of Oh who was it? I gotta remember.
If I remember for the end of the show, I'll
tell you. If I don't, I won't because it's not
that important. But I did have a listener once send
me a picture of Golly. I'll think of it as
soon as we go off the air. In any event,
it's a beautiful picture and a very Yeah, it's a

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great guy.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
H up in Chicago.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Operation Midway Blitz has brought about the arrest of more
than eight hundred suspected members of Trende Ragua. Okay, not
random immigrants, not random people. These were suspect, were and
are suspected members of a really violent global gang. And

(34:45):
Chicago's Chicago's mayor and governor of Illinois. I think those
arrests do more harm than good to the what they
call the peaceful people in that city. Governor Pritzker actually
called ice officers and I'll quote jack booted thugs roaming
around a peaceful downtown end quote Uh, well, it's peaceful

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until the gunfire breaks out every night, one of the
highest murder rates in the country for so so long,
despite by the way, extremely strict gun laws. Chuck Schumer,
unbelievable that they just they have their eyes so closed,
they just can't nothing to see here. Everybody's just fine.

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We don't need you running through our city picking up
these these people, these hard working people. Well, yeah, they're
working to kill your citizens. That's not a that's not
a good thing, and I don't know how it could
ever be a good thing. So hopefully, uh, we're still
headed in this good direction. Let me get off of that.

(35:54):
Let's get something good. I'm not even going to tell
you about Minnesota right now. Now, I'm going to go
back to this is something medical and it's good news,
which I like to give back. Christmas of twenty twenty four,
there was a five year old kid, Brent Allinger, isolated
in a child Cancer Ward, diagnosed with precursor B cell

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acute lymphoblastic leukemia Harvard, a rare and aggressive mutation. It
says here that rendered standard chemotherapies and surgeries ineffective. Okay,
so fast forward to Christmas of twenty twenty five. This

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little girl is doing much much better and they are
able to she is able to live a much more
normal life because this procedure she got isn't chemo therapy.
It's called car T cell cancer therapy, which is an obviously,

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it's a Nobel Prize winning therapy for this particular cancer,
and it's looking very promising that it will save a
whole lot of lives, especially young lives. Doctor Higman, I
don't see the first name here. I'm sorry, I'm looking.
I'm looking. I'm looking. Oh, it's got to be in here. Actually, no,

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it's not in any event uh. This doctor Higman and
her Rosewell Park Roswell Park colleagues said that this this
therapy is okay even for the youngest patients who can
benefit not only for its efficacy, but also it's safety
compared to chemo, which is so important, so important. Chemo
is is hard on the body. Ask anybody who's ever

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had it. My mother had it, and to her credit,
she was she was pretty she she hid her struggle.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
With it well, but.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Everybody knew, or her best friend knew. I know that,
but she kind of hid it from us because she
didn't want us to worry about her while she was Eventually,
she eventually passed, not with just one, but two different
cancers that ate her up pretty bad. This pediatric on
College is a guy named doctor A. J. Gupta said,

(38:23):
chemotherapy is so toxic. We're trying to make it so
patients have a better quality of life even after they're
done with treatment. And that's where the disconnect has been
for quite some time with people who have especially kids
who have cancers. Kind of like what Saint Jude treats.
This is something that would have fallen in Saint Jude
Laps or Saint Jude's Lap. I wouldn't have been surprised

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if that's where it was going on, because they take
on the sickest of the sick, and who knows, maybe
the research for that came from there.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
In any event, that's gonna do it for today.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
We'll be back tomorrow. Thank you all for listening. Audios