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All right, welcome to fifty plus in this Thursday edition
of the program.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Thank you all for joining me. I hope you've had a.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Wonderful, wet, sloppy, stopping week at your house. Your grass
is growing tall. I know my guy, the guy who
cuts my lawn. Blessed his heart, he's had some kind
of knee problems lately, so he's not getting around like
he used to. And on top of that, he's got
this knee high grass in a lot of yards. I'm
not sure exactly what makes that grass grow so high
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and so tall, so fast, But our yard hadn't been cut.
I think it's only been like ten or eleven days
since it was cut, and my guy hadn't been able
to get back in there because there's just been so
much rain. It's got to be a combination of the
right fertilizer, the right temperatures, the right everything.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It is.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
After all, it's peak growing season for Saint Augustine, so
I guess any height that it can achieve in a
week or two is shouldn't be shouldn't come as a
surprise to anyone, but it sure does make it a
lot harder on the people who take care of our lawns.
And that goes for whether it's you taking care of
your own lawn. I got a couple of neighbors who
still do that, or maybe a teenage son. I wish
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I could have gotten my son interested in mowing the lawn,
but there was there was a little, let's just call
it a little difference of opinion on whether or not
he should be out there mowing the lawn when we
already had somebody doing it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I would be willing to bet.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Two buffalo Nichols and a silver dime that most of
the people in this audience grew up doing some sort
of yard.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Work at least.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
If it wasn't the mowing, it was the weeding. If
it wasn't the weeding, it was watering. God, remember back
when you had to move the sprinklers all around the
yard just so everything got wet. Nobody just went out
and pushed a button and had all these little sprinkler
heads pop up and water the whole yard in less
than an hour. No, we had to go out there,
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set the hose on the one spot, and then go
to the spigott and turn it to just the right,
just the right stream of water to make it hit
all the grass but not waste money on the driveway
or the sidewalk. And then a little later you had
to go out there and move the thing. And if
it was a really hot day, you didn't even turn
it off before you moved it. You just walked through
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the sprinkler and got a little little cooling off. Today,
I guess to sum it up, if you are middle
class or a little higher, pretty much everything that's going
on in your life, either something or someone is doing
that for you now. So anyway, moving forward, I want
to talk about Vibrio vulnificus. I've been talking about sunscreens.
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I did that a day or two ago. Today, though,
I want to discuss something called Vibrio vulnificus. It's a
bacteria that can absolutely positively kill you in a matter
of days if it's left entirely untreated, and there are
I think there are about eight cases over in Florida
so far.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I'm not so sure how many in Texas.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Overall, Nationally we get roughly well, it's fewer than two
hundred a year on average. So before you get scared,
before you get worried, know that you're one of contracting
this condition are extremely rare, extremely the odds against you
getting it are extremely high. But if you do get it,
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and if you just brush it off and dismiss it summarily,
it won't be long before people will be making arrangements
and remembering you fondly. I talk about this at least
two or three times a year on my Outdoors show
over on kb ME on the weekends, but I do
need to mention it here for those of you who
are maybe taking kids or grandkids to the beach, or
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maybe you're splashing around in the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf
of America, excuse me, and maybe you've got a little
cut on your skin somehow, and maybe the next morning
when you've come back, you've taken a shower, and you
wake up the next morning and where that little cut
was now there's a dark spot and you feel kind
of achey.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
If that ever happens to you.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
The instructions I got from a scientist over in and
I think North Carolina who was studying this disease in
its early stages of public awareness.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
He explained it to me this way.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
If you think you have the symptoms of vibriovnificuce that
is a dark spot and maybe some red streaking going
up your arm or leg, you have kind of the
flu like symptoms, and you just don't feel yourself, and
you were exposed to salt water somehow the day before.
The first thing you do is either get to the
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hospital if you can drive, or find somebody to take
you there if you cannot explain to the people in
the er that you have potentially gotten an infection.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
From salt water that might be vibrio.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
And he said that if they don't admit you immediately
and take you into a room and start pumping you
full of iv antibiotics. You should get out of there
and go to the next hospital and see if you
can get anybody's attention there. I had a friend of
mine years ago, a dentist who he actually his case
was elevated a little bit, or his odds were elevated
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a little bit on contracting this because he'd been a
heavy drinker and his liver was impaired and compromised. But
what happened was he ended up slipping on a boat
dock and scraping his leg and then falling into salt water.
And then he went out that afternoon and went wade fishing,
came back in felt fine, ate dinner, wakes up the
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next morning not feeling very good, but he's a long
ways from home, so it takes him about another half
day to get back, and then he's really feeling kind
of puny.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So he goes to the er and his symptoms got.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Their attention, but it was already already laid in the process.
Only a couple of days later, they amputated one leg.
Another day they amputated the other leg, and I think
it was within a week or maybe just maybe seven
eight nine days tops that man was dead. So to
avoid that two things. Number One, if you get a
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cut and you want to get in salt water, cover
it with one of those liquid bandages. And if you
get cut or scraped while you're in the water, wash
yourself off with good old soap and clean water.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Immediately after you get out.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
And then again when you get home if you run
a boat by a gallon of water and tape a
pump bottle of soap to it. Again, don't be scared
of this stuff. It's very rare that you might get it.
Just know what to do if you think you or
somebody you know has it.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Holy cow. That's the whole segment.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Okay, quick mention on the way out for ut Health
Institute on Aging, that collaborative of thousands of providers who
have extra education so that they can apply the knowledge
that got them to be a cardiologist, a pullmanologist, a trainer,
a therapist, whatever, and apply that knowledge specifically to seniors.
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The Institute on Aging has been taking care of us
for a long time. They're mostly in the med center
of these providers, but a lot of them visit outlying areas.
So you don't have to go down there if you
don't want to check the website, look at all the
free resources there, and then start your journey to finding
one of these one of these providers. UT dot edu
slash aging, Uth dot edu slash aging, and welcome back
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once again to fifty plus on this Thursday afternoon. Thank
you so very much for joining me in this segment.
I want to remind you that President Trump will address the.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Nation this evening.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
The hints that he's been giving are that there will
be a lot of talk about election integrity and in
general and specifically the lack thereof in a lot of
elections that have happened in the not so distant past.
The future of our country hinges, quite literally, on whether
or not we can make sure that the people who
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are voting in federal elections are qualified to do so.
They have to be citizens, they have to be not
in deep trouble, and hopefully, if the Save Act gets through,
they'll have to show identification when they step in there
to vote. My gut tells me he's going to to
talk tonight about some improprieties that have been discovered and
probably didn't take them long to find them either, eighty
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percent of the people in this country are concerned enough
about voter integrity and about election integrity that they want
the Save Act past. But the Democrats, unfortunately, are absolutely
ignoring their constituents and they're doing all They're doubling down
on getting illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
To be able to vote.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
And the next one that does probably won't be the
first out. No, I'll go out on a limb that
person won't be the first. So anyway, that's tonight, and
you can listen live on KTRH either in your car
or at home just by going going to the iHeartRadio
app and saying, hey, play KTRH. Coming up in the
third segment, by the way, I'll be talking to Evan
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Miller from Game Day Men's Health again about why men
don't like to go to the doctor. Most of us
grew up being told either shake it off or suck
it up when something hurt. But today we know better,
get your checkups. That's what helps keep a little problem
from becoming a big problem.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
We'll get that.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Conversation started in I don't know, maybe fifteen twenty minutes.
I wanted to use this segment to kind of one
of those sit right back and you'll hear a tale
deals of the Democrats in Sacramento who have Sacramento Sacramento, California,
who have sent a budget to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk
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that includes, I guess they're trying to run people out faster,
two massive tax increases, and we're going to get into
what they are and what they're going to do to
that state other than run everybody out. So the California
Taxpayers Association is guessing that in sheer dollar terms, these
two hikes amount to the largest tax increase in state history.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That should come as no surprise to anyone.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Up until now, state taxes had actually been higher on
public health insurance, that's their medical premiums, but nobody really
noticed because that money he was reimbursed by the federal government,
so they didn't care. And that allowed California to spend
just ridiculous, crazy numbers of dollars on medical and then
just send Washington the bill. Enter President Trump and the
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Republicans in Congress, who decided that the rest of the
country really shouldn't have to fund California's public health spendings.
Free on illegal immigrants, on housing, on food, and able
bodied people who don't want to work or volunteer. So
one of the results is this new rule that states
have to tax public and private health insurance at the
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same rates. Well, the obvious solution is for California to
cut medical spending or to find money by cutting other programs,
but that is the absolute last thing Democrats want to do.
So what they're doing is raising taxes on private insurance
up to four hundred dollars per premium hire per year.
And the second thing they've got cooking is a hike
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that affect software purchases, treating them like ordinary sales. Democrats
are just giddy with excitement because they're looking at the
software tax bringing in up to two or three billion
dollars over the next couple of years. California Taxpayers Association
those says the real cost is a lot higher because
there are more software transactions than our current corr currently
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being reported. Man, my mouth is just a couple of
steps ahead of my brain today, and I apologize. Happens
a lot with me. I get to talking too fast
and I make mistakes. But that's the human in me,
I suppose. But anyway, once those software things are taxed,
the sales are going to be more closely watched, and
that could bring in who knows that they're estimating four
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to five times as much as these early estimates are,
which could amount to more than fourteen billion dollars. And
that's good for the people who want to spend that money,
but it's really bad news for the economy out there.
Governor is almost certain to sign these increases too. His
press office is trying to blame President Trump, saying that
tax increases passed by California Democrats or somehow Trump's tax
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But how they connect those two dots is just ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I have no idea how they do it.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
That's about as bad as saying Joe Biden tried to
call inflation Putin's price hike. So that's how California's rolling
up the welcome att And now let's go to voter
fraud in New York for a minute. Just this past week,
federal agents arrested a Slovakian guy living in New Jersey
after uncovering evidence that he illegally voted in a federal
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election and then tried to hide it while he was
trying to get citizenship. He lives in this country as
a permanent resident, and was taken into custody on the
first of July by Immigration and Customs enforcements. Homeland security
investigations got a little help from the FBI too, and
from US Citizenship and Immigration Services. So the thing that
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got this guy into all this hot water, according to
the US Attorney's Office for d Or the District of
New Jersey, this guy registered to vote by falsely claiming
he was an American citizen. He then cast a ballot
in the twenty twenty two general election, and that included
races for the US House of Representatives. He probably wouldn't
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have gotten caught if he hadn't later applied for naturalization,
and on his official citizenship paperwork, he explicitly stated that
he had never registered to vote or cast a ballot
in any local, state or federal election. And we all
know that's not true now, and you can bet your
bottom dollar that he's not the only one who's done
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stuff like that. Where do I want to go? You
know what, I've been sitting on this one story for
several days now, and I want to go ahead and
bring it up since the sun's going to be coming
back out in the next day or two and going
to stay out for a while. The question was posed,
do cheap sunglasses cause more harm than good? And according
to I doctors, they actually might bargain. Sunglasses that darken
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your vision without UV protection end up letting in more
harmful UV rays than not wearing sunglasses at all. And
because the lenses are darker, your pupils dilate, they open
up even more, so they're just absorbing even more of
that of that bad stuff, the bad ultra violet rays.
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All you got to do is look for labels that
say one hundred percent in UV protection. And bearing in
mind that I've seen sunglasses that I know dog on
well had virtually zero UV protection. They cost about four
dollars and they're in a big barrel in some places,
or hanging on a big long rack of useless sunglasses.
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That's one thing you don't want to skimp on. You
don't want to go cheap O on is sunglasses. Now,
do you have to spend two or three hundred dollars
on fancy name brand sunglasses.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
No, you don't. You'll get what you pay for.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
You'll get a quality lens and quality UV protection and
polarization mostly.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
But if you don't care what symbol.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Or name is on the side, and you just want
quality lenses that protect your eyes and maybe give you
the polarization. If you're a fisherman or if you're around
the water or something. You can get those glasses for
twenty thirty bucks. They won't have the higher end protections,
they won't have the fancy lenses, they won't have the
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fancy frames, but they'll protect your eyes at least. But
don't go bargain shopping on sunglasses. That's a really, really
bad idea. So looking for an exit ramp on this
second segment freeway, I'll share something I haven't shared in
a very long time to lighten up the mood and
just make you smile a little bit. Maybe For a while,
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I was getting information at a source I check daily
on world records being set by people that, for some
reason or another, just didn't seem like they were worthy
of somebody trying it the first time, let alone trying
to do better. I called that segment useless world records,
and I consider this to be one of those. A
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Nipoly's athlete earned another world record by descending one hundred
stairs while walking on his hands.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Look at me, Look at me? What I did.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Look, I'm walking downstairs on my hands. Sure, but a
lot of you will remember this. Can you tie a
cherry stem in a knot with your tongue?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I can?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
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Speaker 2 (17:58):
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Speaker 4 (17:59):
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Speaker 2 (18:27):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you, for listening.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
We're going to talk in this segment about a man thing,
and that thing is.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Our general aversion to doctor visits.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Most of us would would rather walk on broken glass
than go to the doctor, unless it's for something that
hasn't reversed itself with advil, peptobizmol or maybe a shot
at tequila. And just explain why we're that way, as
if we don't already know, and then maybe share why,
especially for seniors, that's not a really good idea. I'm
going to welcome back to this program Evan Miller from
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Game Day Men Health out in Katie.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
How you doing out there in Katie?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Evan really good?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Doug?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
How are you really really good?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'm doing it fun man.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And so I'm gonna go ahead and guess that the
foremost reason men don't like going to the doctors because
it kind of maybe makes them feel like they're somehow
weak and maybe in the moment even unable to provide
for their family.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
There's still some of that, Yeah, I mean there's certainly
a stigma around. Hey, I just have to suck it up,
and you know, I'll go to the er if my
arm's falling off. Or something else is happening, but in
the meantime kind of leading me alone, and so there's
certainly a resistance. The other thing is kind of doug. Look,
be honest, we're big beaties, right. We don't want to
go in and get needles and poked and frauded and
answer all the questions. So we got those two things
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working against us. But look, guys, it is really important
to just come in and kind of get checked. And
that's what we do at game day. We have four
hundred and thirty five locations open nationwide. We make it simple.
You know, it's forty five minutes of your time. We
get you checked out, see what going on with you.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
And I know that when we do get banged up,
just like you said, it's kind of a suck it up,
walk it off.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And that's that's not always a good idea. I'll give
you a quick example.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
When I was playing high school football during the off season,
we'd play soccer to stay in shape, and some kid
missed the ball once and kicked the top of my
foot and it really, I mean it hurt like hell,
and coach said, walk it off, man.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You'll be all right.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Well, the next morning there's a big dark blue spot
on the bottom of my foot, and my mom takes me.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
To the to the er or wherever we went for
an X row X ray.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I had a broken bone in the top of my
foot and that guy just wanted me to walk it
off and I ended up having to spend six weeks
and the ugliest shoes you've ever seen back in platform
shoe days.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Man, as a grown man, you just have.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
To trust your pain level and the duration of that
pain and suck it up and go to the doctor, don't.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
You You should really? I mean, look, the reality guy
is out there and Katie is the days where you're
waiting two three hours right to go to the doctor.
That's starting to change and it's something we really take
pride in a game day men's health, as I mentioned
Dog and we're there based in Katie as well. You
know it's gonna be thirty forty five minutes of your time,
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so it doesn't, you know, destroy your entire day. You
go in, we get you checked out, we see what's
happening with you, We look at your mormale levels, we
talk about energy, we talk about sleep, and guys, you
know you aren't sleeping well out there. You know, we
can help solve that, get you feeling better and more
motivated to go about your day. It really, it really
isn't a big big deal. It's just taking that first
step through the door.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, that that's the hardest step too.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Evan Miller here on fifty plus from Game Day Men's health.
How prevalent is is in men is the fear of
hearing bad news? How much does that keep somebody out
of the doctor's office. I just don't want to hear.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
It, you know, that's the big eat, right, out of sight,
out of mind. Yeah, don't tell me. I'll go about
my day, and you know, if a problem really happens,
then you know that's what the R is for. Right,
anything else, just leave me alone. You know, we're changing
that kind of mentality. We treat hundreds of thousands of
minute at game Day and the beauty is, Look, if
you come in early, you get a screening done, whether
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it's your prosperate levels, your testosterone levels, we can get
you checked out early before it becomes a problem later on. Right,
No one everyone wants to live a long, healthy life.
Sometimes you wait too long, you don't get that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, I have.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I had a dermatologist appointment just yesterday and there was
a little something on my head that I, you know,
I'll blow it off.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I'll and i'd pick at it and scratch at it.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
And I got in there yesterday and he said, uh, uh,
we're gonna buyopsie this like oh boy, He goes, now,
you told me you scratched it.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I said, yeah, quite a bit. He goes, well, let's
just hopefully that's all it is. The way it looks
now is just be from you scratching it. But I've
got a look.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
So now that's hanging over my head, but at least
I've got it.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I've got it behind me.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Now I've got the test that the sample's going out,
and hopefully it'll be okay. I think there's one more
issue too, especially with men who are still working, and
that's the risk in our minds at least, that we
might have to stop work for some period of time
to get well. And once again, I'd rather feel sick
and be at work taking care of my family than
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be laying in the bed and not be not able
to help.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Right. Yeah, that's definitely a part of this thing. You
kind of have to look at the outside of that,
which is, look, if I don't take care of something now,
I might be out more time right in the future. Yeah,
So guys like we like to do a you know,
kind of a spreadsheet analysis, right, all right, what is
it going to cost me it out versus later? The
price is usually a lot steeper later. Yeah, so think
about it that way.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Yeah, absolutely, that's a very good way to look at it.
Regular checkups and tests for starters. What would you consider
a good what do you guys check when somebody comes
in and says, hey, check me out stem to stern,
what are you going to be looking at?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Well?
Speaker 5 (23:51):
The good thing with game Day, right is we're checking
the things that impact your life the most right on
the front end. And guys out there we do a
free console anybody anywhere throughout the United States we come
into a game Day get their Testostero levels checked, right,
And why is that important? Because Testostero is responsible for
your mood, it's responsible for energy levels, it's responsible for sleep, sex, drive, right,
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all the things that we really really care about every day.
And then we also check your prostate level. So prostate cancer, guys,
is the number one cancer for men out there. If
detected and found early enough, it's super treatable and you
can get on with your life. So right right out
the gate, we're doing a little blood test. Doesn't hurt,
I promise you know. We get your levels back in
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fifteen minutes, and then you're right in front of one
of our licensed clinicians to talk about, hey, what's my
energy level? Like how am I sleeping? Is my prostate healthy?
You just kind of get that bill of good health
from us, assuming that everything looks well, and you get
on with your day, and then we have programs that
help you kind of get back on your feet. I mean,
everybody wants to have more energy to get through the day,
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need to drink coffee all day, want to have energy
to play with your kids when you get home, do
all the sports on the weekend. As soon as that
kind of clock goes off for most guys that's around
forty forty five years old, you just kind of feel
like the light switch got turned off. So that's what
we do at game day, guys, is we get that
light switch back on so you feel more engaged in
your day, more motivated to kind of be the guy
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you want to be. Get back to how you felt,
you know, early on in life. Yeah, so that you
can live along lives full of you know, passion and joy.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
The one of the big problems I think for guys
is just the atmosphere in ninety nine percent of doctor's
offices around the country.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
You go in there, it's just hysterial place.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Nobody's looking up, nobody's talking in the In the Dermo
office yesterday, there's six people sitting in the waiting room,
every single one of them. Man, I'm an observer, and
every single one I'm just staring at their phones. And
I'm guessing that game day places don't look like that.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
They don't. Yeah, I mean I can do a game
day You're gonna think, you know, am I really the
doctor's office that certainly doesn't feel like that. It feels
like a kind of a sports lounge. So we got
a ESPN on TV, We got snacks for you, super
friendly staff.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
The funny part, Doug, is a lot of guys come
in to game day. They kind of want to hang
out there all day, you know, happily.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
This is kind of cool.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Maybe I could just work out of a game day office.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Sure, Yeah, there's got to be another test you can
give me so I don't have to go back to work.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, I could see that, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
See.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
So, how many locations did you say you have?
Speaker 5 (26:27):
We have four hundred and thirty five locations located around
the country. We have plenty of locations throughout the state
of Texas or right there in Katie as well, were
right down the street, you know, so you don't have
to drive a long way to come see us. You know,
you can pop in. We have same day appointments. You
can book an appointment online, go to our website, game
day Men'shealth dot com, and off you go.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Well, that same day appointment is very appealing as well.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Yeah, we want speed, right, We don't want to book
an appointment three weeks later and then I got to,
you know, put it on my calendar. No, we get
you in real quick. You know, we're busy, right, guys
are busy. Her privileged speed and.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Convenience sounds good to me. Evan Miller, Thank you very much.
Evan Miller from Game Day Men's Health.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Out there, and Katie, if you if your energy is down,
I may have to make an appointment out there. By
the way, I'll call you back and ask you a
little more detail about that, and yeah, I think I'm
gonna have to I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Man, I got no energy anymore. I'm a million years old, and.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
My wife thinks it's my wife thinks it is testosterone.
We'll have to figure that out, Evan. Thanks again, Man,
I really appreciate your time.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
You got it, Doug. All right, We'll see you soon, you.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Bet, I hope. So thanks man.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Audios all right by oh Man oh Man. Yeah, I'm
thinking about it, okay. And on my way out here,
I want to remind you that if you like meat products,
if you like fresh ground beef, if you like cheeseburgers,
if you like twenty five flavors of premium sausage, you
need to go to Midway Meat Market out in Katie.
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They're just a few miles west of ninety nine off
I ten, very easy to find, and they've been in
the same place for fifty seven years, open eight am
to seven pm every single day of the week, and
they've got one of the best cheeseburgers at their lunch
counter you will ever have. I don't know whether I
like Midway so much, because I've been going there for
the better part of thirty five or forty years, or
(28:24):
because I hadn't been in a while, and I went
back in and got one of those cheeseburgers again, and
it tasted even better than I remembered. Hand the butcher
a list of everything you want to take home and
cook for the next couple of weeks. Then go over
to that lunch counter and get yourself a cheeseburger while
all that's being put together for you. Midway Meatmarket dot
Com is the website Midwaymeatmarket dot com. Welcome, as they
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used to say, to the jungle, as the song screeched
so many years ago when it was released back in
September of eighty seven in the UK. That was on
the debut album titled Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses,
and then it was re spin it out Doug re
released here in October of nineteen eighty eight. And for
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about half of you, I'd guess you already knew that,
And for the other half, I'm sure you enjoyed listening
to the Bengals, the Eagles, maybe Madonna who had a
lot of hits back then, Fleetwood, Mac Janet Jackson.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
The list goes on and on. I do think music
was a.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Little bit better back then, although there are still some
artists today who who are I think superior to many
of the others. There's a handful of good ones today,
let's put it, and maybe a few more percentage wise,
really good quality musicians and singers from longer ago. So anyway,
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if you haven't heard, President Trump is going to address
the nation tonight, and you'll be able to hear the
whole speech on KTRH if you're driving around or if
you're at home, you can also go to your home
electronic personal assistant, eavesdropper or whatever you want to call it,
and just say, hey, whoever play KTRH on iHeartRadio. That's
(30:10):
all you have to do, and the station will pop
up and you'll be able to hear the entire speech.
What he's going to be talking about, from what I've gathered,
is he I think he's got some pretty interesting things
to share about election election integrity and in some specific instances,
a lack thereof that continues to threaten every future election
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in our country until we root out all the cheaters
and put them all in prison. You know, my gut
tells me election fraud might wind up being as common
as daycare fraud or senior center fraud, or leering centers,
you know, where the kids are supposed to leer about
math and science and history, only there aren't any kids,
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and they sure as heck aren't leering anything.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I really do hope we can get that done too.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
I think there has been a tremendous amount of fraud
in elections in recent years, and I think at this
point we may have some much harder evidence. And if
my guess is right from the teas is that President
Trump has put out so far, he may have enough
to put a few people in reasonably high positions put
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them in prison. It still bothers me that eighty percent
of this country, Democrat or Republican or independent or communist
or socialist or whatever, eighty percent want fair and honest elections,
and they want only What they want is the Save Act. Basically,
they want identification of the people who are casting these votes,
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to make sure that each and every one of them
is an American citizen. The problem is that the people
that those that part of the eighty percent elected anyway,
that Democrats don't want that. They want illegal immigrants voting.
They want anybody and everybody voting, because there they the
more random votes they can get from people who will
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do it. They'll vote anyway somebody tells them to, so
long as they're going to get free medical care and
free food and free housing and free phones, free travel.
I don't get free travel. If moderate Democrats want to
see how far they've been thrown under the bus, all
they have to do is look at the way the
Democrats are treating the Save Act. Those same people ought
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to be championing that, ought to be beating the tambourine
for the Save Act and for requiring positive identification of
photo ID to prove you're a citizen before you can vote.
They ought to be all over that, but they're not,
and that means they're not living up to the oath
they took to uphold our constitution when they got elected.
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They don't care anymore. We've got communists and socialists telling
the Democrats what to do now, and that Democrats are
just rolling over But enough that so meanway. Meanwhile, halfway
around the world, Iran is learning what happens when you
break a promise to a strong willed, no holds barred
president of the United States. We are systematically taking out
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every military target that's left over there. They're almost out
of rocket launchers, almost out of missiles. They it was
just recently that they fired off four hundred and something
missiles in a day, and more recently they're only lobbing
for three four dozen in a whole day. And it
may not be because they don't have the missiles. They
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just don't have the missile launchers. Because every time one
of those things fires off, our eyes in the sky,
see where it originated, See where it originated, I said, correctly,
and then fire a missile down there and blow the
thing up. They've known their fighting a losing battle ever
since the first day of Operation Epic Fury, but they're
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hard headed. Regime of Death to America leadership keeps just
breaking promises after which we, led finally by a strong leader,
continue to ramp up the destruction of pretty much anything
and everything military in that country. The Iranians from jump
on this failed to realize that they are not dealing
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with President Biden. They're not dealing with Obama. They're dealing
with the guy who is insistent upon them meeting what
we tell them to do, not doing what they want
to do, or telling us what they want to do,
and then doing something else.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Their navy's gone.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
They're just about everything they've got has gone, and I
guess they're just going to keep keep going until it's
all gone. President Trump has talked several times, and with
increasing urgency, it seems in his voice, about just going
ahead and finishing the job. And I can assure you
those people over there, I don't think he will take
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out the civilian stuff. He's not about destroying the civilians
in Iran, but he's going to keep pecking away at
those leaders until finally there's nobody. When one leader gets
taken out, nobody in the country's going to raise their
hand and say, hey, how about me, because they're going
to know what will happen if they do. Oh and
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by the way, I had a long time I say
a long time ago, back when all the high schools
were graduating all their seniors. I saw a story that
I never did get around to tell him, but I
think it's worth it. It's kind of interesting in the
fact that it showcases the arrogance and pomposity that some
people have.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
So anyway, back.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Then, from over in North Carolina, there were several families
very angry because they were denied entry into the venue
in which their precious seniors were going to be graduated.
The fire Marshal, though, said the whole place was a
capacity and nobody else could come in. Those parents' reactions
to that situation were really they're just prima facial evidence
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that this whole country is is self focused and pomp
us and we don't have to play by the rules
because we have graduating seniors. Well, I had a graduating
senior this year, and when my wife and I went
in there to secure five or six seats each. First
of all, each of the families got a certain number
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of tickets, and because we were in a big venue,
we even.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Could have bought more.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
But the deal is you only get so many tickets,
and then like for us, there was room for more.
What happened in a North Carolina graduation ceremony over there
was that these parents, these parents were turned down and
booted out by the fire marshal because the place was
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full and for that graduation, at least in this one case,
for that graduation, each of the families was allowed seven tickets. Okay,
seven tickets, that's how many of you get. You got
to be there. You got to be there, this guy says.
This one guy that was interviewed, He said, I got
there about twelve forty. The event was supposed to start,
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by the way, at twelve thirty. He got there ten
minutes late, with thirty to forty people. He wanted to
see his kid graduate. Pitched a big hissy fit about
it too, And guess where that got him nowhere? And
guess where it should have got him nowhere? And one
more little story from all the way on the other
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end of the country off in Washington State. That state
is issuing language translation devices to its police officers so
that they can communicate more clearly in fifty languages. Seems
to me it would be a lot easier to just
recognize that English is the official language of these United
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States and not force police to scream, get on the ground,
or drive the gun into a translator device while the
bad guy just drops f bombs in response in fifty languages.
Off hand, and I feel like I'm pretty spot on
on this. I can't think of a single country that
doesn't require people who live there permanently to learn that
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country's official language. I speak English solo.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Met the Poquito Espanol.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
I am bichen deutscha utuje de froncis io sumalo yard,
but nothing else. So I guess I could get around
in a lot of places if I had to. One
thing I can't get around is running out of time, though,
so thank you all for listening.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
We'll be back tomorrow. Audios.
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Thank you all for joining me. I hope you've had a.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Wonderful, wet, sloppy, stopping week at your house. Your grass
is growing tall. I know my guy, the guy who
cuts my lawn. Blessed his heart, he's had some kind
of knee problems lately, so he's not getting around like
he used to. And on top of that, he's got
this knee high grass in a lot of yards. I'm
not sure exactly what makes that grass grow so high
(01:20):
and so tall, so fast, But our yard hadn't been cut.
I think it's only been like ten or eleven days
since it was cut, and my guy hadn't been able
to get back in there because there's just been so
much rain. It's got to be a combination of the
right fertilizer, the right temperatures, the right everything.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It is.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
After all, it's peak growing season for Saint Augustine, so
I guess any height that it can achieve in a
week or two is shouldn't be shouldn't come as a
surprise to anyone, but it sure does make it a
lot harder on the people who take care of our lawns.
And that goes for whether it's you taking care of
your own lawn. I got a couple of neighbors who
still do that, or maybe a teenage son. I wish
(02:02):
I could have gotten my son interested in mowing the lawn,
but there was there was a little, let's just call
it a little difference of opinion on whether or not
he should be out there mowing the lawn when we
already had somebody doing it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I would be willing to bet.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Two buffalo Nichols and a silver dime that most of
the people in this audience grew up doing some sort
of yard.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Work at least.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
If it wasn't the mowing, it was the weeding. If
it wasn't the weeding, it was watering. God, remember back
when you had to move the sprinklers all around the
yard just so everything got wet. Nobody just went out
and pushed a button and had all these little sprinkler
heads pop up and water the whole yard in less
than an hour. No, we had to go out there,
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set the hose on the one spot, and then go
to the spigott and turn it to just the right,
just the right stream of water to make it hit
all the grass but not waste money on the driveway
or the sidewalk. And then a little later you had
to go out there and move the thing. And if
it was a really hot day, you didn't even turn
it off before you moved it. You just walked through
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the sprinkler and got a little little cooling off. Today,
I guess to sum it up, if you are middle
class or a little higher, pretty much everything that's going
on in your life, either something or someone is doing
that for you now. So anyway, moving forward, I want
to talk about Vibrio vulnificus. I've been talking about sunscreens.
(03:27):
I did that a day or two ago. Today, though,
I want to discuss something called Vibrio vulnificus. It's a
bacteria that can absolutely positively kill you in a matter
of days if it's left entirely untreated, and there are
I think there are about eight cases over in Florida
so far.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I'm not so sure how many in Texas.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Overall, Nationally we get roughly well, it's fewer than two
hundred a year on average. So before you get scared,
before you get worried, know that you're one of contracting
this condition are extremely rare, extremely the odds against you
getting it are extremely high. But if you do get it,
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and if you just brush it off and dismiss it summarily,
it won't be long before people will be making arrangements
and remembering you fondly. I talk about this at least
two or three times a year on my Outdoors show
over on kb ME on the weekends, but I do
need to mention it here for those of you who
are maybe taking kids or grandkids to the beach, or
(04:33):
maybe you're splashing around in the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf
of America, excuse me, and maybe you've got a little
cut on your skin somehow, and maybe the next morning
when you've come back, you've taken a shower, and you
wake up the next morning and where that little cut
was now there's a dark spot and you feel kind
of achey.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
If that ever happens to you.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
The instructions I got from a scientist over in and
I think North Carolina who was studying this disease in
its early stages of public awareness.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
He explained it to me this way.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
If you think you have the symptoms of vibriovnificuce that
is a dark spot and maybe some red streaking going
up your arm or leg, you have kind of the
flu like symptoms, and you just don't feel yourself, and
you were exposed to salt water somehow the day before.
The first thing you do is either get to the
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hospital if you can drive, or find somebody to take
you there if you cannot explain to the people in
the er that you have potentially gotten an infection.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
From salt water that might be vibrio.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
And he said that if they don't admit you immediately
and take you into a room and start pumping you
full of iv antibiotics. You should get out of there
and go to the next hospital and see if you
can get anybody's attention there. I had a friend of
mine years ago, a dentist who he actually his case
was elevated a little bit, or his odds were elevated
(06:03):
a little bit on contracting this because he'd been a
heavy drinker and his liver was impaired and compromised. But
what happened was he ended up slipping on a boat
dock and scraping his leg and then falling into salt water.
And then he went out that afternoon and went wade fishing,
came back in felt fine, ate dinner, wakes up the
(06:24):
next morning not feeling very good, but he's a long
ways from home, so it takes him about another half
day to get back, and then he's really feeling kind
of puny.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So he goes to the er and his symptoms got.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Their attention, but it was already already laid in the process.
Only a couple of days later, they amputated one leg.
Another day they amputated the other leg, and I think
it was within a week or maybe just maybe seven
eight nine days tops that man was dead. So to
avoid that two things. Number One, if you get a
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cut and you want to get in salt water, cover
it with one of those liquid bandages. And if you
get cut or scraped while you're in the water, wash
yourself off with good old soap and clean water.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Immediately after you get out.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
And then again when you get home if you run
a boat by a gallon of water and tape a
pump bottle of soap to it. Again, don't be scared
of this stuff. It's very rare that you might get it.
Just know what to do if you think you or
somebody you know has it.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Holy cow. That's the whole segment.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Okay, quick mention on the way out for ut Health
Institute on Aging, that collaborative of thousands of providers who
have extra education so that they can apply the knowledge
that got them to be a cardiologist, a pullmanologist, a trainer,
a therapist, whatever, and apply that knowledge specifically to seniors.
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The Institute on Aging has been taking care of us
for a long time. They're mostly in the med center
of these providers, but a lot of them visit outlying areas.
So you don't have to go down there if you
don't want to check the website, look at all the
free resources there, and then start your journey to finding
one of these one of these providers. UT dot edu
slash aging, Uth dot edu slash aging, and welcome back
(08:13):
once again to fifty plus on this Thursday afternoon. Thank
you so very much for joining me in this segment.
I want to remind you that President Trump will address the.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Nation this evening.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
The hints that he's been giving are that there will
be a lot of talk about election integrity and in
general and specifically the lack thereof in a lot of
elections that have happened in the not so distant past.
The future of our country hinges, quite literally, on whether
or not we can make sure that the people who
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are voting in federal elections are qualified to do so.
They have to be citizens, they have to be not
in deep trouble, and hopefully, if the Save Act gets through,
they'll have to show identification when they step in there
to vote. My gut tells me he's going to to
talk tonight about some improprieties that have been discovered and
probably didn't take them long to find them either, eighty
(09:07):
percent of the people in this country are concerned enough
about voter integrity and about election integrity that they want
the Save Act past. But the Democrats, unfortunately, are absolutely
ignoring their constituents and they're doing all They're doubling down
on getting illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
To be able to vote.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
And the next one that does probably won't be the
first out. No, I'll go out on a limb that
person won't be the first. So anyway, that's tonight, and
you can listen live on KTRH either in your car
or at home just by going going to the iHeartRadio
app and saying, hey, play KTRH. Coming up in the
third segment, by the way, I'll be talking to Evan
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Miller from Game Day Men's Health again about why men
don't like to go to the doctor. Most of us
grew up being told either shake it off or suck
it up when something hurt. But today we know better,
get your checkups. That's what helps keep a little problem
from becoming a big problem.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
We'll get that.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Conversation started in I don't know, maybe fifteen twenty minutes.
I wanted to use this segment to kind of one
of those sit right back and you'll hear a tale
deals of the Democrats in Sacramento who have Sacramento Sacramento, California,
who have sent a budget to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk
(10:27):
that includes, I guess they're trying to run people out faster,
two massive tax increases, and we're going to get into
what they are and what they're going to do to
that state other than run everybody out. So the California
Taxpayers Association is guessing that in sheer dollar terms, these
two hikes amount to the largest tax increase in state history.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That should come as no surprise to anyone.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Up until now, state taxes had actually been higher on
public health insurance, that's their medical premiums, but nobody really
noticed because that money he was reimbursed by the federal government,
so they didn't care. And that allowed California to spend
just ridiculous, crazy numbers of dollars on medical and then
just send Washington the bill. Enter President Trump and the
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Republicans in Congress, who decided that the rest of the
country really shouldn't have to fund California's public health spendings.
Free on illegal immigrants, on housing, on food, and able
bodied people who don't want to work or volunteer. So
one of the results is this new rule that states
have to tax public and private health insurance at the
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same rates. Well, the obvious solution is for California to
cut medical spending or to find money by cutting other programs,
but that is the absolute last thing Democrats want to do.
So what they're doing is raising taxes on private insurance
up to four hundred dollars per premium hire per year.
And the second thing they've got cooking is a hike
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that affect software purchases, treating them like ordinary sales. Democrats
are just giddy with excitement because they're looking at the
software tax bringing in up to two or three billion
dollars over the next couple of years. California Taxpayers Association
those says the real cost is a lot higher because
there are more software transactions than our current corr currently
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being reported. Man, my mouth is just a couple of
steps ahead of my brain today, and I apologize. Happens
a lot with me. I get to talking too fast
and I make mistakes. But that's the human in me,
I suppose. But anyway, once those software things are taxed,
the sales are going to be more closely watched, and
that could bring in who knows that they're estimating four
(12:43):
to five times as much as these early estimates are,
which could amount to more than fourteen billion dollars. And
that's good for the people who want to spend that money,
but it's really bad news for the economy out there.
Governor is almost certain to sign these increases too. His
press office is trying to blame President Trump, saying that
tax increases passed by California Democrats or somehow Trump's tax
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But how they connect those two dots is just ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I have no idea how they do it.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
That's about as bad as saying Joe Biden tried to
call inflation Putin's price hike. So that's how California's rolling
up the welcome att And now let's go to voter
fraud in New York for a minute. Just this past week,
federal agents arrested a Slovakian guy living in New Jersey
after uncovering evidence that he illegally voted in a federal
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election and then tried to hide it while he was
trying to get citizenship. He lives in this country as
a permanent resident, and was taken into custody on the
first of July by Immigration and Customs enforcements. Homeland security
investigations got a little help from the FBI too, and
from US Citizenship and Immigration Services. So the thing that
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got this guy into all this hot water, according to
the US Attorney's Office for d Or the District of
New Jersey, this guy registered to vote by falsely claiming
he was an American citizen. He then cast a ballot
in the twenty twenty two general election, and that included
races for the US House of Representatives. He probably wouldn't
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have gotten caught if he hadn't later applied for naturalization,
and on his official citizenship paperwork, he explicitly stated that
he had never registered to vote or cast a ballot
in any local, state or federal election. And we all
know that's not true now, and you can bet your
bottom dollar that he's not the only one who's done
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stuff like that. Where do I want to go? You
know what, I've been sitting on this one story for
several days now, and I want to go ahead and
bring it up since the sun's going to be coming
back out in the next day or two and going
to stay out for a while. The question was posed,
do cheap sunglasses cause more harm than good? And according
to I doctors, they actually might bargain. Sunglasses that darken
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your vision without UV protection end up letting in more
harmful UV rays than not wearing sunglasses at all. And
because the lenses are darker, your pupils dilate, they open
up even more, so they're just absorbing even more of
that of that bad stuff, the bad ultra violet rays.
(15:22):
All you got to do is look for labels that
say one hundred percent in UV protection. And bearing in
mind that I've seen sunglasses that I know dog on
well had virtually zero UV protection. They cost about four
dollars and they're in a big barrel in some places,
or hanging on a big long rack of useless sunglasses.
(15:45):
That's one thing you don't want to skimp on. You
don't want to go cheap O on is sunglasses. Now,
do you have to spend two or three hundred dollars
on fancy name brand sunglasses.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
No, you don't. You'll get what you pay for.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
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Or name is on the side, and you just want
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the water or something. You can get those glasses for
twenty thirty bucks. They won't have the higher end protections,
they won't have the fancy lenses, they won't have the
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fancy frames, but they'll protect your eyes at least. But
don't go bargain shopping on sunglasses. That's a really, really
bad idea. So looking for an exit ramp on this
second segment freeway, I'll share something I haven't shared in
a very long time to lighten up the mood and
just make you smile a little bit. Maybe For a while,
(16:49):
I was getting information at a source I check daily
on world records being set by people that, for some
reason or another, just didn't seem like they were worthy
of somebody trying it the first time, let alone trying
to do better. I called that segment useless world records,
and I consider this to be one of those. A
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Nipoly's athlete earned another world record by descending one hundred
stairs while walking on his hands.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Look at me, Look at me? What I did.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Look, I'm walking downstairs on my hands. Sure, but a
lot of you will remember this. Can you tie a
cherry stem in a knot with your tongue?
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I can?
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All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you, for listening.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
We're going to talk in this segment about a man thing,
and that thing is.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Our general aversion to doctor visits.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Most of us would would rather walk on broken glass
than go to the doctor, unless it's for something that
hasn't reversed itself with advil, peptobizmol or maybe a shot
at tequila. And just explain why we're that way, as
if we don't already know, and then maybe share why,
especially for seniors, that's not a really good idea. I'm
going to welcome back to this program Evan Miller from
(18:59):
Game Day Men Health out in Katie.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
How you doing out there in Katie?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Evan really good?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Doug?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
How are you really really good?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'm doing it fun man.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And so I'm gonna go ahead and guess that the
foremost reason men don't like going to the doctors because
it kind of maybe makes them feel like they're somehow
weak and maybe in the moment even unable to provide
for their family.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
There's still some of that, Yeah, I mean there's certainly
a stigma around. Hey, I just have to suck it up,
and you know, I'll go to the er if my
arm's falling off. Or something else is happening, but in
the meantime kind of leading me alone, and so there's
certainly a resistance. The other thing is kind of doug. Look,
be honest, we're big beaties, right. We don't want to
go in and get needles and poked and frauded and
answer all the questions. So we got those two things
(19:45):
working against us. But look, guys, it is really important
to just come in and kind of get checked. And
that's what we do at game day. We have four
hundred and thirty five locations open nationwide. We make it simple.
You know, it's forty five minutes of your time. We
get you checked out, see what going on with you.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
And I know that when we do get banged up,
just like you said, it's kind of a suck it up,
walk it off.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And that's that's not always a good idea. I'll give
you a quick example.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
When I was playing high school football during the off season,
we'd play soccer to stay in shape, and some kid
missed the ball once and kicked the top of my
foot and it really, I mean it hurt like hell,
and coach said, walk it off, man.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You'll be all right.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Well, the next morning there's a big dark blue spot
on the bottom of my foot, and my mom takes me.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
To the to the er or wherever we went for
an X row X ray.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I had a broken bone in the top of my
foot and that guy just wanted me to walk it
off and I ended up having to spend six weeks
and the ugliest shoes you've ever seen back in platform
shoe days.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Man, as a grown man, you just have.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
To trust your pain level and the duration of that
pain and suck it up and go to the doctor, don't.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
You You should really? I mean, look, the reality guy
is out there and Katie is the days where you're
waiting two three hours right to go to the doctor.
That's starting to change and it's something we really take
pride in a game day men's health, as I mentioned
Dog and we're there based in Katie as well. You
know it's gonna be thirty forty five minutes of your time,
(21:15):
so it doesn't, you know, destroy your entire day. You
go in, we get you checked out, we see what's
happening with you, We look at your mormale levels, we
talk about energy, we talk about sleep, and guys, you
know you aren't sleeping well out there. You know, we
can help solve that, get you feeling better and more
motivated to go about your day. It really, it really
isn't a big big deal. It's just taking that first
step through the door.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, that that's the hardest step too.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Evan Miller here on fifty plus from Game Day Men's health.
How prevalent is is in men is the fear of
hearing bad news? How much does that keep somebody out
of the doctor's office. I just don't want to hear.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
It, you know, that's the big eat, right, out of sight,
out of mind. Yeah, don't tell me. I'll go about
my day, and you know, if a problem really happens,
then you know that's what the R is for. Right,
anything else, just leave me alone. You know, we're changing
that kind of mentality. We treat hundreds of thousands of
minute at game Day and the beauty is, Look, if
you come in early, you get a screening done, whether
(22:10):
it's your prosperate levels, your testosterone levels, we can get
you checked out early before it becomes a problem later on. Right,
No one everyone wants to live a long, healthy life.
Sometimes you wait too long, you don't get that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, I have.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I had a dermatologist appointment just yesterday and there was
a little something on my head that I, you know,
I'll blow it off.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I'll and i'd pick at it and scratch at it.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
And I got in there yesterday and he said, uh, uh,
we're gonna buyopsie this like oh boy, He goes, now,
you told me you scratched it.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I said, yeah, quite a bit. He goes, well, let's
just hopefully that's all it is. The way it looks
now is just be from you scratching it. But I've
got a look.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
So now that's hanging over my head, but at least
I've got it.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I've got it behind me.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Now I've got the test that the sample's going out,
and hopefully it'll be okay. I think there's one more
issue too, especially with men who are still working, and
that's the risk in our minds at least, that we
might have to stop work for some period of time
to get well. And once again, I'd rather feel sick
and be at work taking care of my family than
(23:14):
be laying in the bed and not be not able
to help.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Right. Yeah, that's definitely a part of this thing. You
kind of have to look at the outside of that,
which is, look, if I don't take care of something now,
I might be out more time right in the future. Yeah,
So guys like we like to do a you know,
kind of a spreadsheet analysis, right, all right, what is
it going to cost me it out versus later? The
price is usually a lot steeper later. Yeah, so think
about it that way.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Yeah, absolutely, that's a very good way to look at it.
Regular checkups and tests for starters. What would you consider
a good what do you guys check when somebody comes
in and says, hey, check me out stem to stern,
what are you going to be looking at?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Well?
Speaker 5 (23:51):
The good thing with game Day, right is we're checking
the things that impact your life the most right on
the front end. And guys out there we do a
free console anybody anywhere throughout the United States we come
into a game Day get their Testostero levels checked, right,
And why is that important? Because Testostero is responsible for
your mood, it's responsible for energy levels, it's responsible for sleep, sex, drive, right,
(24:13):
all the things that we really really care about every day.
And then we also check your prostate level. So prostate cancer, guys,
is the number one cancer for men out there. If
detected and found early enough, it's super treatable and you
can get on with your life. So right right out
the gate, we're doing a little blood test. Doesn't hurt,
I promise you know. We get your levels back in
(24:34):
fifteen minutes, and then you're right in front of one
of our licensed clinicians to talk about, hey, what's my
energy level? Like how am I sleeping? Is my prostate healthy?
You just kind of get that bill of good health
from us, assuming that everything looks well, and you get
on with your day, and then we have programs that
help you kind of get back on your feet. I mean,
everybody wants to have more energy to get through the day,
(24:55):
need to drink coffee all day, want to have energy
to play with your kids when you get home, do
all the sports on the weekend. As soon as that
kind of clock goes off for most guys that's around
forty forty five years old, you just kind of feel
like the light switch got turned off. So that's what
we do at game day, guys, is we get that
light switch back on so you feel more engaged in
your day, more motivated to kind of be the guy
(25:16):
you want to be. Get back to how you felt,
you know, early on in life. Yeah, so that you
can live along lives full of you know, passion and joy.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
The one of the big problems I think for guys
is just the atmosphere in ninety nine percent of doctor's
offices around the country.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
You go in there, it's just hysterial place.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Nobody's looking up, nobody's talking in the In the Dermo
office yesterday, there's six people sitting in the waiting room,
every single one of them. Man, I'm an observer, and
every single one I'm just staring at their phones. And
I'm guessing that game day places don't look like that.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
They don't. Yeah, I mean I can do a game
day You're gonna think, you know, am I really the
doctor's office that certainly doesn't feel like that. It feels
like a kind of a sports lounge. So we got
a ESPN on TV, We got snacks for you, super
friendly staff.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
The funny part, Doug, is a lot of guys come
in to game day. They kind of want to hang
out there all day, you know, happily.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
This is kind of cool.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Maybe I could just work out of a game day office.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Sure, Yeah, there's got to be another test you can
give me so I don't have to go back to work.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, I could see that, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
See.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
So, how many locations did you say you have?
Speaker 5 (26:27):
We have four hundred and thirty five locations located around
the country. We have plenty of locations throughout the state
of Texas or right there in Katie as well, were
right down the street, you know, so you don't have
to drive a long way to come see us. You know,
you can pop in. We have same day appointments. You
can book an appointment online, go to our website, game
day Men'shealth dot com, and off you go.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Well, that same day appointment is very appealing as well.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Yeah, we want speed, right, We don't want to book
an appointment three weeks later and then I got to,
you know, put it on my calendar. No, we get
you in real quick. You know, we're busy, right, guys
are busy. Her privileged speed and.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Convenience sounds good to me. Evan Miller, Thank you very much.
Evan Miller from Game Day Men's Health.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Out there, and Katie, if you if your energy is down,
I may have to make an appointment out there. By
the way, I'll call you back and ask you a
little more detail about that, and yeah, I think I'm
gonna have to I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Man, I got no energy anymore. I'm a million years old, and.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
My wife thinks it's my wife thinks it is testosterone.
We'll have to figure that out, Evan. Thanks again, Man,
I really appreciate your time.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
You got it, Doug. All right, We'll see you soon, you.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Bet, I hope. So thanks man.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Audios all right by oh Man oh Man. Yeah, I'm
thinking about it, okay. And on my way out here,
I want to remind you that if you like meat products,
if you like fresh ground beef, if you like cheeseburgers,
if you like twenty five flavors of premium sausage, you
need to go to Midway Meat Market out in Katie.
(28:02):
They're just a few miles west of ninety nine off
I ten, very easy to find, and they've been in
the same place for fifty seven years, open eight am
to seven pm every single day of the week, and
they've got one of the best cheeseburgers at their lunch
counter you will ever have. I don't know whether I
like Midway so much, because I've been going there for
the better part of thirty five or forty years, or
(28:24):
because I hadn't been in a while, and I went
back in and got one of those cheeseburgers again, and
it tasted even better than I remembered. Hand the butcher
a list of everything you want to take home and
cook for the next couple of weeks. Then go over
to that lunch counter and get yourself a cheeseburger while
all that's being put together for you. Midway Meatmarket dot
Com is the website Midwaymeatmarket dot com. Welcome, as they
(28:49):
used to say, to the jungle, as the song screeched
so many years ago when it was released back in
September of eighty seven in the UK. That was on
the debut album titled Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses,
and then it was re spin it out Doug re
released here in October of nineteen eighty eight. And for
(29:11):
about half of you, I'd guess you already knew that,
And for the other half, I'm sure you enjoyed listening
to the Bengals, the Eagles, maybe Madonna who had a
lot of hits back then, Fleetwood, Mac Janet Jackson.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
The list goes on and on. I do think music
was a.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Little bit better back then, although there are still some
artists today who who are I think superior to many
of the others. There's a handful of good ones today,
let's put it, and maybe a few more percentage wise,
really good quality musicians and singers from longer ago. So anyway,
(29:48):
if you haven't heard, President Trump is going to address
the nation tonight, and you'll be able to hear the
whole speech on KTRH if you're driving around or if
you're at home, you can also go to your home
electronic personal assistant, eavesdropper or whatever you want to call it,
and just say, hey, whoever play KTRH on iHeartRadio. That's
(30:10):
all you have to do, and the station will pop
up and you'll be able to hear the entire speech.
What he's going to be talking about, from what I've gathered,
is he I think he's got some pretty interesting things
to share about election election integrity and in some specific instances,
a lack thereof that continues to threaten every future election
(30:31):
in our country until we root out all the cheaters
and put them all in prison. You know, my gut
tells me election fraud might wind up being as common
as daycare fraud or senior center fraud, or leering centers,
you know, where the kids are supposed to leer about
math and science and history, only there aren't any kids,
(30:51):
and they sure as heck aren't leering anything.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I really do hope we can get that done too.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
I think there has been a tremendous amount of fraud
in elections in recent years, and I think at this
point we may have some much harder evidence. And if
my guess is right from the teas is that President
Trump has put out so far, he may have enough
to put a few people in reasonably high positions put
(31:21):
them in prison. It still bothers me that eighty percent
of this country, Democrat or Republican or independent or communist
or socialist or whatever, eighty percent want fair and honest elections,
and they want only What they want is the Save Act. Basically,
they want identification of the people who are casting these votes,
(31:42):
to make sure that each and every one of them
is an American citizen. The problem is that the people
that those that part of the eighty percent elected anyway,
that Democrats don't want that. They want illegal immigrants voting.
They want anybody and everybody voting, because there they the
more random votes they can get from people who will
(32:05):
do it. They'll vote anyway somebody tells them to, so
long as they're going to get free medical care and
free food and free housing and free phones, free travel.
I don't get free travel. If moderate Democrats want to
see how far they've been thrown under the bus, all
they have to do is look at the way the
Democrats are treating the Save Act. Those same people ought
(32:26):
to be championing that, ought to be beating the tambourine
for the Save Act and for requiring positive identification of
photo ID to prove you're a citizen before you can vote.
They ought to be all over that, but they're not,
and that means they're not living up to the oath
they took to uphold our constitution when they got elected.
(32:51):
They don't care anymore. We've got communists and socialists telling
the Democrats what to do now, and that Democrats are
just rolling over But enough that so meanway. Meanwhile, halfway
around the world, Iran is learning what happens when you
break a promise to a strong willed, no holds barred
president of the United States. We are systematically taking out
(33:14):
every military target that's left over there. They're almost out
of rocket launchers, almost out of missiles. They it was
just recently that they fired off four hundred and something
missiles in a day, and more recently they're only lobbing
for three four dozen in a whole day. And it
may not be because they don't have the missiles. They
(33:36):
just don't have the missile launchers. Because every time one
of those things fires off, our eyes in the sky,
see where it originated, See where it originated, I said, correctly,
and then fire a missile down there and blow the
thing up. They've known their fighting a losing battle ever
since the first day of Operation Epic Fury, but they're
(33:57):
hard headed. Regime of Death to America leadership keeps just
breaking promises after which we, led finally by a strong leader,
continue to ramp up the destruction of pretty much anything
and everything military in that country. The Iranians from jump
on this failed to realize that they are not dealing
(34:17):
with President Biden. They're not dealing with Obama. They're dealing
with the guy who is insistent upon them meeting what
we tell them to do, not doing what they want
to do, or telling us what they want to do,
and then doing something else.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Their navy's gone.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
They're just about everything they've got has gone, and I
guess they're just going to keep keep going until it's
all gone. President Trump has talked several times, and with
increasing urgency, it seems in his voice, about just going
ahead and finishing the job. And I can assure you
those people over there, I don't think he will take
(34:58):
out the civilian stuff. He's not about destroying the civilians
in Iran, but he's going to keep pecking away at
those leaders until finally there's nobody. When one leader gets
taken out, nobody in the country's going to raise their
hand and say, hey, how about me, because they're going
to know what will happen if they do. Oh and
(35:18):
by the way, I had a long time I say
a long time ago, back when all the high schools
were graduating all their seniors. I saw a story that
I never did get around to tell him, but I
think it's worth it. It's kind of interesting in the
fact that it showcases the arrogance and pomposity that some
people have.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
So anyway, back.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Then, from over in North Carolina, there were several families
very angry because they were denied entry into the venue
in which their precious seniors were going to be graduated.
The fire Marshal, though, said the whole place was a
capacity and nobody else could come in. Those parents' reactions
to that situation were really they're just prima facial evidence
(36:04):
that this whole country is is self focused and pomp
us and we don't have to play by the rules
because we have graduating seniors. Well, I had a graduating
senior this year, and when my wife and I went
in there to secure five or six seats each. First
of all, each of the families got a certain number
(36:24):
of tickets, and because we were in a big venue,
we even.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Could have bought more.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
But the deal is you only get so many tickets,
and then like for us, there was room for more.
What happened in a North Carolina graduation ceremony over there
was that these parents, these parents were turned down and
booted out by the fire marshal because the place was
(36:49):
full and for that graduation, at least in this one case,
for that graduation, each of the families was allowed seven tickets. Okay,
seven tickets, that's how many of you get. You got
to be there. You got to be there, this guy says.
This one guy that was interviewed, He said, I got
there about twelve forty. The event was supposed to start,
(37:12):
by the way, at twelve thirty. He got there ten
minutes late, with thirty to forty people. He wanted to
see his kid graduate. Pitched a big hissy fit about
it too, And guess where that got him nowhere? And
guess where it should have got him nowhere? And one
more little story from all the way on the other
(37:34):
end of the country off in Washington State. That state
is issuing language translation devices to its police officers so
that they can communicate more clearly in fifty languages. Seems
to me it would be a lot easier to just
recognize that English is the official language of these United
(37:55):
States and not force police to scream, get on the ground,
or drive the gun into a translator device while the
bad guy just drops f bombs in response in fifty languages.
Off hand, and I feel like I'm pretty spot on
on this. I can't think of a single country that
doesn't require people who live there permanently to learn that
(38:18):
country's official language. I speak English solo.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Met the Poquito Espanol.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
I am bichen deutscha utuje de froncis io sumalo yard,
but nothing else. So I guess I could get around
in a lot of places if I had to. One
thing I can't get around is running out of time, though,
so thank you all for listening.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
We'll be back tomorrow. Audios.
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