September 19, 2024 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Consuelo (Chelo) Walss-Bass about donating your brain to science.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
Welcome all to the Thursday edition of fifty plus This afternoon,
an hour of your time in which I I get,
I intend before it's end, to have both entertained and
informed all of you. That's my mission every time I
pushed that little red button. And I'll tell you right now,
I have gotten new medical ground to cover in the
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second segment of this show that I didn't even I
didn't even put it on Facebook today because I just
didn't want to. I want to see I want to
make it totally new, totally different, and see how many
of you like it. Or don't, and feel free shoot
me an email after the segment and let me know
whether whether it creeps you out a little bit or not.
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I haven't even told will have I? Did I tell you?
Did you look at what we're doing with that interview?
Did you just get the phone number off that I
just got the phone number? I like to be surprised. Well,
you're going to love this one. Then it's very interesting,
it really is. I'm not going to tell you anything
about it. Here's a clue, though, think about it. That's
your clue, Will, And at the end of this segment,
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before we go out, I'm going to ask you if
you have any idea deal what we're going to be
talking about. Okay, all right, Peaky sware that you didn't
look any farther than just a phone number, and then
I did not look at any further than the phone number.
I'm not surprised. As is customary in these opening remarks,
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we'll take a little walk down the weather path first,
courtesy of Texas IAQ. Because cleaner air is healthier air.
And if you'll just dial pound two fifty and say
healthy air and stay on the line for a minute,
somebody from there will answer the phone and explain to
you exactly what they do and why it's important if
you like to breathe clean air in your house. Uh,
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highs and lows in high coup starts right now, Okay,
starts right now? Are you ready? Will always no rain
through weekend? Also a touch of cooling is that you Autumn.
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I like it when you do that at the end.
That means I've taken you a little bit off where
you thought we were going.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I like that you're speaking to Autumn. Yes, that I
like a lot. Okay, I like the personification element of it.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, I'll take note of that.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Let's say that you know what what just for you, Doug,
that's an eight point two.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh my, just for you, that little chat with Autumn
and Autumn and I getting along very well, and you
just jumping right on board. Huh oh, pretty good, Will,
that's pretty good. What we have basically is a nice
bright sky, maybe a couple of puffy clouds all the
way through the weekend, and then these little ten and
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twenty percent chances of rain for the next four or
five days after that. The more notable piece of that
weather map or weather forecast shows falling high temperatures for
the day all the way through next week. It's ninety
two or ninety three, something like that today, then in ninety,
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then eighty nine, eighty eight, eighty seven, and eventually we'll
get to winter. Skipping off to market on this first
day of trading behind the Fed's half point rate cut,
all four major markers were green this morning, but it's
a cautious green though, at least at least for now.
New unemployment claims were down as well, but let's wait
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for adjustment before we before we break out. The happy
days are here again. Champagne oil up nearly two bucks
a barrel at ten thirty. That's not doing anybody any favors.
And gold thanks to Houston Gold Exchange out there on
West tim Or near Darry Ashford Gold up a chunk
and back north of twenty six hundred dollars an ounce.
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I don't know why in the world I haven't grabbed
up that little, that little palm full of gold that's
not being worn or even noticed around my house and
hauling it out there to Brad. You two can do that,
and he He is known for offering up good money
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for the contributions made to his store. If you want
to sell some gold or something else, whatever, fine watch
he's pretty good about giving you full value and maybe
even then some because he knows. He's been in this
business thirty something years, I think, and he knows it's
going to go up even more. He doesn't mind helping
people out. Barely an hour ago, the Houston Chronicle Online
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reported that human remains were found in the vehicle. They
say it's the remains of the driver of that white
suv that crashed into the Deer Park pipeline and started
a huge fire that has burned what's out now, but
it burned for days. There was nothing really they could
do except shut off the valves before and after that
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crash site and just let that product burn itself out.
There's nothing they could do. Nothing they could do, And honestly,
I'm not surprised that those remains were found there. Even
if the driver had intended to hop out and run away,
he or she almost certainly wouldn't have had any kind
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of time like that. I suspect that that was almost instantaneous.
I'm not sure. I haven't seen video, and I'm sure
there's a camera somewhere around there. If that person hit
that pipeline and remained in the car. Then it's pretty
clearly evident what the intent was there. Unfortunately, criminal investigation underway,
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but no other information is available yet. The story said
won't be easy to find usable DNA. I bet, but
I don't know. They can certainly figure out who owned
the car, because there will be there will be legible
ven numbers in at least a couple of places around
that thing that wouldn't have burned off. I don't know.
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It's sad on a lot of levels. A lot of
people who had nothing to do with that lost a
lot of property in it, and that's not going to
help their lot in life for the next couple of
weeks or so. Moving into county politics, members of the
Harris County Commissioner's Court that it looks like a new
seating arrangement in which Judge Lena Hidalgo is elevated above
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all the other members. I don't know what taxpayers paid
for that, too much. I know that whatever the amount,
when they could have just as easily saved a lot
of money by just putting one of those little kiddy
booster seats in her car in her chair, that would
have done it would have achieved the same goal. All right,
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we got to get out of here booster seat for
Judge Lena. It would have been okay, it would have worked.
Thirty years in business, bronze roofing. It's kind of a
Yoda thing. Thirty years in business you've been Is that right?
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Will?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
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All you gotta do is call them and they'll be
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I'd bet for sure if you call them today, they'll
be out there tomorrow to inspect your roof and let
you know if there's anything wrong. If there isn't, they'll
tell you that, honestly, nothing's wrong with your roof. You
don't need to fix anything. We'll see in a couple
of years. If there is a problem, they'll show you pictures,
they'll explain what's going on, they'll explain how they'll fix it.
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How long it'll take to fix it, and what it's
gonna cost. And it's up to you to take my
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Quality of work at a fair price has lasted thirty
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Speaker 1 (09:08):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Thanks as always for letting us scoot up to your
lunch bench, table, whatever or wherever you are, got your
feet propped up, do it reading a book and listening
to the show. That's okay. You can't really multitask, though,
so maybe put the book down for a few minutes.
We'll talk in this segment about you know, it's it's
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something very different and I asked Will to think about it,
and uh, he was, well, he got tied up, and
I understand that. So he he doesn't have a guess.
And I'm not even going to tell you and just yet,
but to help help me with what this is, I'm
going to bring in uh UT Health doctor Consuelo Walsh Bass,
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UT Health McGovern
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Medical School. Welcome aboard.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Do you prefer is it cello? Is that right? Is that?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Correct?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I really prefer to be called cello like the instruments.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay to do that, yes, thank you. Okay, So so
here's we're going to just go. We're just gonna dive
right in here. I didn't have to read very far,
by the way, what Jose sent me to see the
phrase brain collection? Is that what I think it is?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yes, it is exactly that we well I don't we
We obtain brain donations right to understand how the brain
works human brain.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, and that's really the only way to understand how
it works. You have access to these don't donated brains
and then go about figuring out how they were I've
never honestly given it a lot of thought. But if
I did want to donate my brain to science, how
would I go about that?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Well, you, basically many people don't know this. In your
driver's license, you know, when you said you're an organ donor,
it does not include the brain.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I didn't think so I was going to ask you
about that.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
No, it does not. And so even though any other
every other organ maybe given away, the brain is not
its untouched unless you have given permission ahead of time
or spoken to your family about it, and your family
knows that it is something you would want to do,
then they would let usually their doctors know at the
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time of death, and then they goes from there.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
No sense putting it on the driver's license, Cello, because honestly,
about half the people who drive around Houston aren't even
using their brains. It would be just unused.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Well, that is correct, but that's exactly what we want.
We want people that have used the brain and truly
trying to understand. For us, the main goal is understand behavior.
We really want to know how does the brain as
an organ works to regulate how we behave? And that is,
in my opinion, one of the final frontiers of medicine.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I would imagine how much information are you typically able
to gather about these donors when you get when you
get a donation of a brain like that, are you
talking to family? Can you openly talk with their doctors
all of that? What tools are available to you to
just start your collection?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
So let me just first explain that all our brain
donations that we currently obtained come from the Harris County
Institute of Forensic Sciences, Okay, which is basically are the
mark the Harris County Medical Examiner. So whenever someone dies,
and particularly unexpectedly an unexpected death, and people need an autopsy,
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that is when they end up going to the medical
examiners and there we call the family members. We have
permission to do this and we ask if the family
if they would be willing to donate the brain of
their loved ones. It's a very difficult thing to do
because it's a really hard time, of course for the
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loved one, but we ask and then once we get
the brain, we obtain anybody's brain, at that point we
really want whoever is willing to donate. We do not
know anything about the person at that time, We just
want the brain and layer we find out as much
as we can about that person by interviewing that yes,
the family member. We do a very detailed interview. We
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call it the psychological autopsy. That is a colleague of mind,
doctor Meyer, who works also here in our department. He
developed this so that we can understand as much as
we can about the personality, the behavior, things that happen
to this person, and then we can relate that to
our biology.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I notice it we're trying to understand. You are a
professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Is that what you're
that where you're looking for is some of the keys
to what makes people go a little off kilter or
what keeps them on the right track.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
What exactly does Yeah, that's a really good question. So
my main focus and the goal of my life work
has been to understand what causes severe psychiatic disorders, particularly schizophrenia,
bipolar disorder, depression, and substance used. Is what what what
causes a person's brain, like you say, to go off
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the regular path. However, we are also very interested in
understanding behavior in general. Things that we all have impulsivity,
we all have impulsive moments, We all have, you know,
moments of anxiety, we all have moments of feeling sad,
So in general, we really want to understand how does
it we regulate all these behaviors that we all have,
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and then how then in a person that can go
way off track and develop into a severe disorder.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
So the million dollar question for me, Cello is this,
how do you retrieve all this information that's hidden somewhere
in a lifeless brain.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
That is a really brillion dollar question exactly. So let
me just tell you right now, it may your people
that listened to you may not know this. When we die,
you get the brain, and a brain of a person
with casophrenia or ripolar or any psychiatic disorder looks identical
to a control brain. It's not like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's.
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When you get the brain of a person who died
of Alzheimer's, you see very clearly, Oh, this person had Alzheimer's.
It's very obvious just looking at the brain by itself.
That's not the case with any psychiatic disorder. So currently
we don't have a way to diagnose these disorders biologically.
All that it's done by interviewing the patient. Even image
at the imaging level, we cannot see any real damage
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to the brain. And that's because all the changes that
are occurring and all behavioral disorders are really very subtle.
They're really and they occur at the gene level. You
can't even see it through a microscope. You have to
look at the genes. And that's the question, how do
you look at the genes? Well, we now have and
this is what has been that made the field finally
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start to advance, is we have the technology to look
at the genes at the single cell level. So in
every single cell, we can see which genes are up
and you know, the genes that do everything in our body,
which ones up, which ones are down? How are they
disregulated in a person with a mental health disorder. And
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we do that by you know, whole genome sequencing. We
we have a whole bunch of new technologies you know
called omix. You may have heard of this, so transcripto mix, epigenomics, UH, proteomics.
All the things that happening at the molecular level in
our brain, we can now look at that. Believe in
the human.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Brain cello Believe it or not, We're already down to
one minute. I may have to have you back for
another hour or something. Prom what is your goal in
thirty seconds or less?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Sorry, goal is to help people and understand better with
why these disorders happen, so we can have better treatment
and hopefully prevent these disorders, but also reduced stigma. I
really that's a big passion of mind, so that people
can understand that these are disorders like any like diabetes,
like cancer. If we can understand more of the biology,
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it can help in that way.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
It's fascinating to me that all this can be studied
after someone has passed and ultimately help someone in the
present and certainly going into the future. Thank you so much, Cello,
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Thank you for inviting me.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Fantastic. We'll do this again sometime, all right, we got
to take a little break. Unfortunately, I could have gone
at least another segment or two with her. I may
have to. Yeah, we'll talk about that, will you. And
I got to a way to get her back in here.
UT Health Institute on Aging kind of over right over there,
close to where she is, as a matter of fact,
is a collaborative among hundreds, if not maybe more than
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can become a member of ut Health Institute on Aging
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Speaker 1 (19:30):
What's life without a net? I suggest to go to bed,
leave it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy
back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
One, two, three, four, five six. It just went by,
did you see it? Will twelve thirty four fifty six.
It was fourteen fifteen, sixteen seconds ago. Welcome back to
the show. I appreciate you listening. I always do you
know that.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I hope you know that. If you don't send me
an email, I'll tell you just say I listened to
fifty plus today, I'll send you back a thank you.
I really will. Also from Harris County, which is where
we left off with Lena Hidalgo's new throne. I mean
seat at the that places her above everybody else at
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the table. And I don't know that I like that really.
I think it's maybe be a little bit petty and
picky on my part, but still just leave it alone.
Just sit there and be part of the crew. Don't
be don't declare yours next is I guess we're going
to have a crown and a scepter. Counties. I in
a budget reduction for the DA's office. Maybe that's what
they're gonna use AD money for, kind of sort of
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sidesteps rules that already prohibit defunding of police, because if
they can't take money from the police, maybe they'll just
take it from the people who prosecute the criminals arrested
by the police. Either way, you're gonna end up having
the same adverse fact on crime around here. It's just
gonna get worse. It's gonna get worse, and you don't
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have to you don't have to work too hard to
find ways to manipulate statistics to tilt them in either direction.
But I think the left is it just goes out
of its way to find reason to champion what I
think is a pretty pretty rough state of affairs were
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in right now. Most of the focus when we talk
about illegal immigrant immigrant crime, or we talk about violent
crimes in the inside the big cities, most of that
talk is around that. One of the things that irks
me most is the blind eye that this entire nation
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has turned to shoplifting. I saw yet another incident of
it just the other day. In fact, I walked up
to a self checkout in Target. And I think any
store that has those self checkouts has absolutely no grounds
whatsoever to whine about theft prevention and whatnot, because if
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you're letting people check out their own stuff. As I
saw and showed to the woman. There was a woman
probably about my age in charge of securing I guess
it's eight maybe ten individual do it yourself checkouts in there.
And when I walked up to the register that I
was gonna use that was open, there was an item scanned,
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probably bagged, And then when that poor woman wasn't looking,
whoever bagged that item just picked it up and walked
right out of the store. I've seen far worse examples
of that in three times now in grocery stores, once
that Dick's Sporting Goods out there in First Colony, once
at a Randalls over near like around Westbury area, And
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it's just it's happening everywhere, and nobody will do anything
about it. Nobody wants to confront the people who are
doing it. The law certainly isn't going to bother with it,
because in some jurisdictions around the country now they've put
a cap a bottom on the a minimum amount of
theft that has to occur before they'll even even come
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out and answer a call. And so the criminals know
exactly what they can take without being challenged, and they
just do that instead of doing one big haul, they
just do ten little hauls for which there will be
no charges filed, for which there can be no arrest made.
None of that. I think that's every bit as big
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a problem, especially in this economy. Things already cost enough
for the people who are paying for them, but when
other people are stealing, that cost also has to be
passed on to the consumer, the pain consumer, the lawful
can and somebody on one side or the other needs
to address that pretty quick. Speaking of from the Kamala
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Harris files, the ones that highlight scary things she said
over the years, we go back to two thousand and
seven when she said this, just because and I quote,
just because you legally possess a gun and the sanctity
of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going
to walk into that home and check to see if
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you're being responsible and safe in the way you conduct
your affairs. That ought to scare everybody in this country,
no matter which side you're on, because what that means
is you can just throw that Fourth Amendment to the
Constitution right out. You can throw that Second Amendment out too,
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because if they come in and unlawfully search your home
and determine that in their minds you are improperly stole
boring a firearm. They're gonna take the gun and they're
gonna throw you in jail or prison. Fourth Amendment says
in greater length than this, but it basically says the
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right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures. If you haven't
committed a crime, they've got no reason to go in
there unless they've got that red flag law thing where
somebody calls him and says, hey, this guy's a bad guy.
He's crazy, he may do something wild in nuts. Then
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they're just gonna come kick in your door. Well, they
may knock first to be polite. After all, they're gonna
come walk into your house because somebody else told them
you were bad, and they're gonna make that determination after
they take all your personal protection devices. I've asked several
police officers over the years just exactly how guns in
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homes for the per of personal protection, how those guns
should be stored, and the overwhelming majority of responses have included,
most emphatically, these words loaded and within reach. Somebody breaks
in your house, you don't have time to open a safe.
You don't have time to retrieve AMMO from a closet
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down the hall. You'll barely have time to react at
all before that bad guy is in your face, making
you do whatever the bad guy wants you to do.
By the way, Hillary Clinton served up her own dish
of deflection the other day when she said that Kamala
Harris doesn't need to talk about her policies or anything
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of substance leading into the election. Instead, she said something
about request to know her policies. If you're asking about that, well,
you're just setting a double standard against what based on
what ask Trump about a policy, He'll tell you. Ask
Kamala about anything, and she'll spend back to growing up
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middle class around a bunch of people who took care
of their lawns. What the hell is that? What the
hell is that? Beginning with her nomination and up through Tuesday,
By the way, Harris and her VP Walls had done
a grand total of I think it's thirteen now maybe
fourteen interviews, mostly by Walls. By the way, Kamala's Harris's
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handlers will not let her talk. They are trying to do,
They're doing everything they can to keep her away from
microphones and away from being questioned by one person and
answering to one person, President Trump JD Vance and that
same time, by the way, fifty four interviews and counting,
and every question asked of them answered with a very
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straightforward response. We'll take a little break, come back and
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Speaker 1 (28:50):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Right, Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Final segment of the program starts right now. Will says,
I got eight minutes and forty seconds to disperse. Probably
what would take about forty forty five minutes to get through.
I'll have to pick some Will, I'm gonna let you
help to always a bridesmaid four or quite a stretch.
(29:26):
For the longest golf hole in the world. You got
any idea, Well, you want to take take a swing
at it?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
No punish the longest golf hole in the world. Where
is it? It is in South Korea?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
All right? What do you want me to guess how
many yards it is? How long? Oh? I will guess
it is three hundred yards. Good gosh. You don't play
a lot of golf, Tea. I don't think I've ever
really played golf. The golf course that I play most
often has about I don't know, fourteen holes out of
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the eighteen that are longer than three hundred yards. Okay,
So anyway, So for the educated golfers in the audience
or the golfers in the audience. You don't even have
to be This is not PhD level stuff for golfers,
but for you, it's it's a fair. It's a fair. Miss. Well,
I'm not knocking you because you just don't know. That
hole is one thousand, one hundred yards on the card.
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It is a par seven. And there's actually a name
who knew. Uh if you got a hole in one
on the car on the on the hole, or any
par five hole, if you if you get there in two,
you get there in two, it's a double eagle, or
over there a phoenix, or no, the phoenix is a
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hole in one. If you do it in two, they
call it an ostrich And why I have no idea.
Let's let's stick with you will because I don't want
to get into this other other thing I have here.
It's too long, it'll take too long, but I might
do it next week. We're gonna go back to quite
a stretch. Then dirty trick. Then be right back, be
(31:12):
right back, be right back. A girl in Ohio was
found on Sunday morning after she hopped into her family's
suv drove it about twelve miles to Target, where she
sat back and ordered a frappuccino, and after she had
gone into the store and bought some stuff. How old
is the girl? Will to win the prize, I'll give
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you one dollar if you can guess how old that
girl was. One dollar, Yeah, one dollar. I'll say seven
years old. God, you're so close to taking my money.
This little girl was eight. I don't think it's seven.
She could have reached the pedals, but she's an eight
year old apparently a lanky thing to be able to
reach the pedals and drive her family's suv to Target,
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got herself a frap, bought herself some stuff. What do
you think she bought? Will? I thought you said she
bought a frap? Well, yeah, but that was after she
had bought other stuff at Target. It doesn't say let's
not dwell, didn't work out the bugs room at the
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inn or have some fun guy room at the end. Okay,
this also is a pop quiz. Will there are twenty
eight hotels in the world with three thousand or more
rooms for the entry level pop quiz question is in
what city are most of those hotels? I'm gonna go
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with New York City, No Paris. Oh, just quit wasting
your time. What a where are you gonna find the
most people who need hotel rooms for the their gamblers
will Oh, Vegas, Baby, Fifteen of the twenty eight are
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in Las Vegas. Fifteen of the twenty eight are in
Las Vegas. That's a lot and that just tells you
how much money pours through that place. Now, they're not
always full, but if they need what is that fifty
to forty five thousand rooms, they're there. And there are
other hotels who don't have more than three thousand. So yeah,
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they've got room for a few people in Vegas. All right,
Well I'll leave. Have some fun guy in there. Let
the games begin, or help wanted, Let the games begin?
This one I kind of liked New Jersey. Oh New Jersey.
Hugh's silly, silly thing. A random x account throws up
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this question if Disneyland is the happiest place on earth,
where do you think is the saddest place? And the
official account of the state of New Jersey, you know how,
they replied a map of Pennsylvania. Oh wow, how cool
is that? Okay, I like the creativity there, I do.
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I'm not knocking Pennsylvania. I don't know much about it
except that a friend of mine from New York City
says that the the professional sports fans in Philly are
the absolute worst fans on the planet. Absolute worst. That's
(34:31):
his opinion, not mine. Don't don't go anywhere? Will how
much time to three minutes? Yep, Okay, I'm gonna I'm
gonna go back to Arizona. NFL Cardinals season hiccle ticket
holder was told by a stadium employee that she either
had to remove her make America Great Again cap or
leave the premises. And uh uh. A guy who's been
(34:58):
ejected from stadiums in New York and now has turned
political activist, a guy named Sion Sini set on Fox
News Wednesday, Fox News Digital Wednesday. Quote that's just what
this country has become. And the fact that she did
it and put it in the can is the reason
why they asked her to do it, because they know
that she probably would probably comply. You'd have to kill
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me for me to take off my MAGA hat without
force and quote. The team sent a letter apologizing to
the woman, said the employee was going to go undergo
more training. That's not really it's they don't allow political
signs and political banners, but they don't restrict political clothing
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or hats, and apparently that employee just took it upon
himself for herself, whichever it was. And the problem is
that the lift is just so frightened everybody on the
right that I just don't dare raise a stake for
fear of getting yelled at or spit on, or maybe
even punch in the nose or worse or worse, all
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of which has happened to people who've done nothing more
than just share their feelings. If somebody wearing a cap
that had a message I didn't like, so the picture
of this, I'm walking into a stadium somewhere and the
guy's got on a cap for some cause that I
don't agree with. But that's all he's doing, is just
walking in with this cap on his head. I don't
care how strongly I disagree with the message. I wouldn't
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go after the messenger. And if somebody told him to
take it off, I just say leave him alone. He's
just wearing a hat. That's how he feels. He's got
a right to have that opinion, even if we don't
agree with it. The only exceptions might be messages about
what child abuse or human trafficking, something like that, illegal voting,
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something like that. I might things that we just find
universally abhorrent, abhor it. There you have that. Uh you done?
Will are we done? Thirty seconds less twenty seconds? Hottest
thing in women's fashion, Not for me, not for them,
(37:13):
for most. Four thousand dollars for designer boots that make
you look like you have what on your feet? Will feet?
I'll give you a hint. Ye they look like horse
hoofs four grand. That's two thousand dollars a foot. I
can't do that, Audios
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Welcome all to the Thursday edition of fifty plus This afternoon,
an hour of your time in which I I get,
I intend before it's end, to have both entertained and
informed all of you. That's my mission every time I
pushed that little red button. And I'll tell you right now,
I have gotten new medical ground to cover in the
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second segment of this show that I didn't even I
didn't even put it on Facebook today because I just
didn't want to. I want to see I want to
make it totally new, totally different, and see how many
of you like it. Or don't, and feel free shoot
me an email after the segment and let me know
whether whether it creeps you out a little bit or not.
(01:36):
I haven't even told will have I? Did I tell you?
Did you look at what we're doing with that interview?
Did you just get the phone number off that I
just got the phone number? I like to be surprised. Well,
you're going to love this one. Then it's very interesting,
it really is. I'm not going to tell you anything
about it. Here's a clue, though, think about it. That's
your clue, Will, And at the end of this segment,
(01:56):
before we go out, I'm going to ask you if
you have any idea deal what we're going to be
talking about. Okay, all right, Peaky sware that you didn't
look any farther than just a phone number, and then
I did not look at any further than the phone number.
I'm not surprised. As is customary in these opening remarks,
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we'll take a little walk down the weather path first,
courtesy of Texas IAQ. Because cleaner air is healthier air.
And if you'll just dial pound two fifty and say
healthy air and stay on the line for a minute,
somebody from there will answer the phone and explain to
you exactly what they do and why it's important if
you like to breathe clean air in your house. Uh,
(02:40):
highs and lows in high coup starts right now, Okay,
starts right now? Are you ready? Will always no rain
through weekend? Also a touch of cooling is that you Autumn.
(03:00):
I like it when you do that at the end.
That means I've taken you a little bit off where
you thought we were going.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I like that you're speaking to Autumn. Yes, that I
like a lot. Okay, I like the personification element of it.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, I'll take note of that.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Let's say that you know what what just for you, Doug,
that's an eight point two.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh my, just for you, that little chat with Autumn
and Autumn and I getting along very well, and you
just jumping right on board. Huh oh, pretty good, Will,
that's pretty good. What we have basically is a nice
bright sky, maybe a couple of puffy clouds all the
way through the weekend, and then these little ten and
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twenty percent chances of rain for the next four or
five days after that. The more notable piece of that
weather map or weather forecast shows falling high temperatures for
the day all the way through next week. It's ninety
two or ninety three, something like that today, then in ninety,
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then eighty nine, eighty eight, eighty seven, and eventually we'll
get to winter. Skipping off to market on this first
day of trading behind the Fed's half point rate cut,
all four major markers were green this morning, but it's
a cautious green though, at least at least for now.
New unemployment claims were down as well, but let's wait
(04:26):
for adjustment before we before we break out. The happy
days are here again. Champagne oil up nearly two bucks
a barrel at ten thirty. That's not doing anybody any favors.
And gold thanks to Houston Gold Exchange out there on
West tim Or near Darry Ashford Gold up a chunk
and back north of twenty six hundred dollars an ounce.
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I don't know why in the world I haven't grabbed
up that little, that little palm full of gold that's
not being worn or even noticed around my house and
hauling it out there to Brad. You two can do that,
and he He is known for offering up good money
(05:09):
for the contributions made to his store. If you want
to sell some gold or something else, whatever, fine watch
he's pretty good about giving you full value and maybe
even then some because he knows. He's been in this
business thirty something years, I think, and he knows it's
going to go up even more. He doesn't mind helping
people out. Barely an hour ago, the Houston Chronicle Online
(05:31):
reported that human remains were found in the vehicle. They
say it's the remains of the driver of that white
suv that crashed into the Deer Park pipeline and started
a huge fire that has burned what's out now, but
it burned for days. There was nothing really they could
do except shut off the valves before and after that
(05:53):
crash site and just let that product burn itself out.
There's nothing they could do. Nothing they could do, And honestly,
I'm not surprised that those remains were found there. Even
if the driver had intended to hop out and run away,
he or she almost certainly wouldn't have had any kind
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of time like that. I suspect that that was almost instantaneous.
I'm not sure. I haven't seen video, and I'm sure
there's a camera somewhere around there. If that person hit
that pipeline and remained in the car. Then it's pretty
clearly evident what the intent was there. Unfortunately, criminal investigation underway,
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but no other information is available yet. The story said
won't be easy to find usable DNA. I bet, but
I don't know. They can certainly figure out who owned
the car, because there will be there will be legible
ven numbers in at least a couple of places around
that thing that wouldn't have burned off. I don't know.
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It's sad on a lot of levels. A lot of
people who had nothing to do with that lost a
lot of property in it, and that's not going to
help their lot in life for the next couple of
weeks or so. Moving into county politics, members of the
Harris County Commissioner's Court that it looks like a new
seating arrangement in which Judge Lena Hidalgo is elevated above
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all the other members. I don't know what taxpayers paid
for that, too much. I know that whatever the amount,
when they could have just as easily saved a lot
of money by just putting one of those little kiddy
booster seats in her car in her chair, that would
have done it would have achieved the same goal. All right,
(07:40):
we got to get out of here booster seat for
Judge Lena. It would have been okay, it would have worked.
Thirty years in business, bronze roofing. It's kind of a
Yoda thing. Thirty years in business you've been Is that right?
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Will?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Sounds like it? I know, quality work at a fair price.
That's what Braun's has done for the entire time they've
been in business, ever since Skeeter Braun decided he was
gonna start in the roofing business. Good roof can last
you fifteen plus years if you take care of it.
All you gotta do is call them and they'll be
out there, usually within twenty four hours under conditions like these.
(08:14):
I'd bet for sure if you call them today, they'll
be out there tomorrow to inspect your roof and let
you know if there's anything wrong. If there isn't, they'll
tell you that, honestly, nothing's wrong with your roof. You
don't need to fix anything. We'll see in a couple
of years. If there is a problem, they'll show you pictures,
they'll explain what's going on, they'll explain how they'll fix it.
(08:34):
How long it'll take to fix it, and what it's
gonna cost. And it's up to you to take my
advice and say get started when you get all that,
because you're not gonna find better work at a better price.
Quality of work at a fair price has lasted thirty
plus years for Skeeter Braun, and he's not going to
change tracks. Now give him a call, get your free estimate.
(08:56):
No matter what kind of roof you have. I like
this little line, Braun, has you covered two eight one
four eight zero ninety nine two eight one four eight
zero nine nine hundred.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Thanks as always for letting us scoot up to your
lunch bench, table, whatever or wherever you are, got your
feet propped up, do it reading a book and listening
to the show. That's okay. You can't really multitask, though,
so maybe put the book down for a few minutes.
We'll talk in this segment about you know, it's it's
(09:47):
something very different and I asked Will to think about it,
and uh, he was, well, he got tied up, and
I understand that. So he he doesn't have a guess.
And I'm not even going to tell you and just yet,
but to help help me with what this is, I'm
going to bring in uh UT Health doctor Consuelo Walsh Bass,
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UT Health McGovern
(10:11):
Medical School. Welcome aboard.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Do you prefer is it cello? Is that right? Is that?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Correct?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I really prefer to be called cello like the instruments.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay to do that, yes, thank you. Okay, So so
here's we're going to just go. We're just gonna dive
right in here. I didn't have to read very far,
by the way, what Jose sent me to see the
phrase brain collection? Is that what I think it is?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yes, it is exactly that we well I don't we
We obtain brain donations right to understand how the brain
works human brain.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, and that's really the only way to understand how
it works. You have access to these don't donated brains
and then go about figuring out how they were I've
never honestly given it a lot of thought. But if
I did want to donate my brain to science, how
would I go about that?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Well, you, basically many people don't know this. In your
driver's license, you know, when you said you're an organ donor,
it does not include the brain.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I didn't think so I was going to ask you
about that.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
No, it does not. And so even though any other
every other organ maybe given away, the brain is not
its untouched unless you have given permission ahead of time
or spoken to your family about it, and your family
knows that it is something you would want to do,
then they would let usually their doctors know at the
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time of death, and then they goes from there.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
No sense putting it on the driver's license, Cello, because honestly,
about half the people who drive around Houston aren't even
using their brains. It would be just unused.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Well, that is correct, but that's exactly what we want.
We want people that have used the brain and truly
trying to understand. For us, the main goal is understand behavior.
We really want to know how does the brain as
an organ works to regulate how we behave? And that is,
in my opinion, one of the final frontiers of medicine.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I would imagine how much information are you typically able
to gather about these donors when you get when you
get a donation of a brain like that, are you
talking to family? Can you openly talk with their doctors
all of that? What tools are available to you to
just start your collection?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
So let me just first explain that all our brain
donations that we currently obtained come from the Harris County
Institute of Forensic Sciences, Okay, which is basically are the
mark the Harris County Medical Examiner. So whenever someone dies,
and particularly unexpectedly an unexpected death, and people need an autopsy,
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that is when they end up going to the medical
examiners and there we call the family members. We have
permission to do this and we ask if the family
if they would be willing to donate the brain of
their loved ones. It's a very difficult thing to do
because it's a really hard time, of course for the
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loved one, but we ask and then once we get
the brain, we obtain anybody's brain, at that point we
really want whoever is willing to donate. We do not
know anything about the person at that time, We just
want the brain and layer we find out as much
as we can about that person by interviewing that yes,
the family member. We do a very detailed interview. We
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call it the psychological autopsy. That is a colleague of mind,
doctor Meyer, who works also here in our department. He
developed this so that we can understand as much as
we can about the personality, the behavior, things that happen
to this person, and then we can relate that to
our biology.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I notice it we're trying to understand. You are a
professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Is that what you're
that where you're looking for is some of the keys
to what makes people go a little off kilter or
what keeps them on the right track.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
What exactly does Yeah, that's a really good question. So
my main focus and the goal of my life work
has been to understand what causes severe psychiatic disorders, particularly schizophrenia,
bipolar disorder, depression, and substance used. Is what what what
causes a person's brain, like you say, to go off
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the regular path. However, we are also very interested in
understanding behavior in general. Things that we all have impulsivity,
we all have impulsive moments, We all have, you know,
moments of anxiety, we all have moments of feeling sad,
So in general, we really want to understand how does
it we regulate all these behaviors that we all have,
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and then how then in a person that can go
way off track and develop into a severe disorder.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
So the million dollar question for me, Cello is this,
how do you retrieve all this information that's hidden somewhere
in a lifeless brain.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
That is a really brillion dollar question exactly. So let
me just tell you right now, it may your people
that listened to you may not know this. When we die,
you get the brain, and a brain of a person
with casophrenia or ripolar or any psychiatic disorder looks identical
to a control brain. It's not like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's.
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When you get the brain of a person who died
of Alzheimer's, you see very clearly, Oh, this person had Alzheimer's.
It's very obvious just looking at the brain by itself.
That's not the case with any psychiatic disorder. So currently
we don't have a way to diagnose these disorders biologically.
All that it's done by interviewing the patient. Even image
at the imaging level, we cannot see any real damage
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to the brain. And that's because all the changes that
are occurring and all behavioral disorders are really very subtle.
They're really and they occur at the gene level. You
can't even see it through a microscope. You have to
look at the genes. And that's the question, how do
you look at the genes? Well, we now have and
this is what has been that made the field finally
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start to advance, is we have the technology to look
at the genes at the single cell level. So in
every single cell, we can see which genes are up
and you know, the genes that do everything in our body,
which ones up, which ones are down? How are they
disregulated in a person with a mental health disorder. And
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we do that by you know, whole genome sequencing. We
we have a whole bunch of new technologies you know
called omix. You may have heard of this, so transcripto mix, epigenomics, UH, proteomics.
All the things that happening at the molecular level in
our brain, we can now look at that. Believe in
the human.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Brain cello Believe it or not, We're already down to
one minute. I may have to have you back for
another hour or something. Prom what is your goal in
thirty seconds or less?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Sorry, goal is to help people and understand better with
why these disorders happen, so we can have better treatment
and hopefully prevent these disorders, but also reduced stigma. I
really that's a big passion of mind, so that people
can understand that these are disorders like any like diabetes,
like cancer. If we can understand more of the biology,
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it can help in that way.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
It's fascinating to me that all this can be studied
after someone has passed and ultimately help someone in the
present and certainly going into the future. Thank you so much, Cello,
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Thank you for inviting me.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Fantastic. We'll do this again sometime, all right, we got
to take a little break. Unfortunately, I could have gone
at least another segment or two with her. I may
have to. Yeah, we'll talk about that, will you. And
I got to a way to get her back in here.
UT Health Institute on Aging kind of over right over there,
close to where she is, as a matter of fact,
is a collaborative among hundreds, if not maybe more than
(18:12):
a thousand by now. They've been at this for more
than ten years and picking up other members almost well,
I'm sure weekly. Anybody who is already within the medical
community anywhere but who is interested in helping seniors specifically
can become a member of ut Health Institute on Aging
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by taking additional training and learning exactly how their knowledge
can be applied to us. It's a big deal, it
really is. If you're a senior, you know that sometimes
you'll go to the doctor and they'll be telling you
something that you know, well, that would have been great
information when I was about forty, but I'm not forty anymore,
and I need to talk to somebody who knows what's
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making me TICKT Health Institute on Aging is loaded with
people who can and do that, and they work all
over this great, big, beautiful region in which we live.
Go to the website. Look at all the resources. First,
look at all the opportunity you have to learn about
help if you need it at home, to learn about
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places you can go, to learn about coming events. All
of these good things are there as are as is
access to all these providers. Uth dot edu slash aging,
uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
What's life without a net? I suggest to go to bed,
leave it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy
back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
One, two, three, four, five six. It just went by,
did you see it? Will twelve thirty four fifty six.
It was fourteen fifteen, sixteen seconds ago. Welcome back to
the show. I appreciate you listening. I always do you
know that.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I hope you know that. If you don't send me
an email, I'll tell you just say I listened to
fifty plus today, I'll send you back a thank you.
I really will. Also from Harris County, which is where
we left off with Lena Hidalgo's new throne. I mean
seat at the that places her above everybody else at
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the table. And I don't know that I like that really.
I think it's maybe be a little bit petty and
picky on my part, but still just leave it alone.
Just sit there and be part of the crew. Don't
be don't declare yours next is I guess we're going
to have a crown and a scepter. Counties. I in
a budget reduction for the DA's office. Maybe that's what
they're gonna use AD money for, kind of sort of
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sidesteps rules that already prohibit defunding of police, because if
they can't take money from the police, maybe they'll just
take it from the people who prosecute the criminals arrested
by the police. Either way, you're gonna end up having
the same adverse fact on crime around here. It's just
gonna get worse. It's gonna get worse, and you don't
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have to you don't have to work too hard to
find ways to manipulate statistics to tilt them in either direction.
But I think the left is it just goes out
of its way to find reason to champion what I
think is a pretty pretty rough state of affairs were
(21:27):
in right now. Most of the focus when we talk
about illegal immigrant immigrant crime, or we talk about violent
crimes in the inside the big cities, most of that
talk is around that. One of the things that irks
me most is the blind eye that this entire nation
(21:49):
has turned to shoplifting. I saw yet another incident of
it just the other day. In fact, I walked up
to a self checkout in Target. And I think any
store that has those self checkouts has absolutely no grounds
whatsoever to whine about theft prevention and whatnot, because if
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you're letting people check out their own stuff. As I
saw and showed to the woman. There was a woman
probably about my age in charge of securing I guess
it's eight maybe ten individual do it yourself checkouts in there.
And when I walked up to the register that I
was gonna use that was open, there was an item scanned,
(22:35):
probably bagged, And then when that poor woman wasn't looking,
whoever bagged that item just picked it up and walked
right out of the store. I've seen far worse examples
of that in three times now in grocery stores, once
that Dick's Sporting Goods out there in First Colony, once
at a Randalls over near like around Westbury area, And
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it's just it's happening everywhere, and nobody will do anything
about it. Nobody wants to confront the people who are
doing it. The law certainly isn't going to bother with it,
because in some jurisdictions around the country now they've put
a cap a bottom on the a minimum amount of
theft that has to occur before they'll even even come
(23:24):
out and answer a call. And so the criminals know
exactly what they can take without being challenged, and they
just do that instead of doing one big haul, they
just do ten little hauls for which there will be
no charges filed, for which there can be no arrest made.
None of that. I think that's every bit as big
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a problem, especially in this economy. Things already cost enough
for the people who are paying for them, but when
other people are stealing, that cost also has to be
passed on to the consumer, the pain consumer, the lawful
can and somebody on one side or the other needs
to address that pretty quick. Speaking of from the Kamala
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Harris files, the ones that highlight scary things she said
over the years, we go back to two thousand and
seven when she said this, just because and I quote,
just because you legally possess a gun and the sanctity
of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going
to walk into that home and check to see if
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you're being responsible and safe in the way you conduct
your affairs. That ought to scare everybody in this country,
no matter which side you're on, because what that means
is you can just throw that Fourth Amendment to the
Constitution right out. You can throw that Second Amendment out too,
(24:51):
because if they come in and unlawfully search your home
and determine that in their minds you are improperly stole
boring a firearm. They're gonna take the gun and they're
gonna throw you in jail or prison. Fourth Amendment says
in greater length than this, but it basically says the
(25:13):
right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures. If you haven't
committed a crime, they've got no reason to go in
there unless they've got that red flag law thing where
somebody calls him and says, hey, this guy's a bad guy.
He's crazy, he may do something wild in nuts. Then
(25:34):
they're just gonna come kick in your door. Well, they
may knock first to be polite. After all, they're gonna
come walk into your house because somebody else told them
you were bad, and they're gonna make that determination after
they take all your personal protection devices. I've asked several
police officers over the years just exactly how guns in
(25:58):
homes for the per of personal protection, how those guns
should be stored, and the overwhelming majority of responses have included,
most emphatically, these words loaded and within reach. Somebody breaks
in your house, you don't have time to open a safe.
You don't have time to retrieve AMMO from a closet
(26:20):
down the hall. You'll barely have time to react at
all before that bad guy is in your face, making
you do whatever the bad guy wants you to do.
By the way, Hillary Clinton served up her own dish
of deflection the other day when she said that Kamala
Harris doesn't need to talk about her policies or anything
(26:41):
of substance leading into the election. Instead, she said something
about request to know her policies. If you're asking about that, well,
you're just setting a double standard against what based on
what ask Trump about a policy, He'll tell you. Ask
Kamala about anything, and she'll spend back to growing up
(27:02):
middle class around a bunch of people who took care
of their lawns. What the hell is that? What the
hell is that? Beginning with her nomination and up through Tuesday,
By the way, Harris and her VP Walls had done
a grand total of I think it's thirteen now maybe
fourteen interviews, mostly by Walls. By the way, Kamala's Harris's
(27:25):
handlers will not let her talk. They are trying to do,
They're doing everything they can to keep her away from
microphones and away from being questioned by one person and
answering to one person, President Trump JD Vance and that
same time, by the way, fifty four interviews and counting,
and every question asked of them answered with a very
(27:47):
straightforward response. We'll take a little break, come back and
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Speaker 1 (28:50):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Right, Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Final segment of the program starts right now. Will says,
I got eight minutes and forty seconds to disperse. Probably
what would take about forty forty five minutes to get through.
I'll have to pick some Will, I'm gonna let you
help to always a bridesmaid four or quite a stretch.
(29:26):
For the longest golf hole in the world. You got
any idea, Well, you want to take take a swing
at it?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
No punish the longest golf hole in the world. Where
is it? It is in South Korea?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
All right? What do you want me to guess how
many yards it is? How long? Oh? I will guess
it is three hundred yards. Good gosh. You don't play
a lot of golf, Tea. I don't think I've ever
really played golf. The golf course that I play most
often has about I don't know, fourteen holes out of
(30:02):
the eighteen that are longer than three hundred yards. Okay,
So anyway, So for the educated golfers in the audience
or the golfers in the audience. You don't even have
to be This is not PhD level stuff for golfers,
but for you, it's it's a fair. It's a fair. Miss. Well,
I'm not knocking you because you just don't know. That
hole is one thousand, one hundred yards on the card.
(30:26):
It is a par seven. And there's actually a name
who knew. Uh if you got a hole in one
on the car on the on the hole, or any
par five hole, if you if you get there in two,
you get there in two, it's a double eagle, or
over there a phoenix, or no, the phoenix is a
(30:48):
hole in one. If you do it in two, they
call it an ostrich And why I have no idea.
Let's let's stick with you will because I don't want
to get into this other other thing I have here.
It's too long, it'll take too long, but I might
do it next week. We're gonna go back to quite
a stretch. Then dirty trick. Then be right back, be
(31:12):
right back, be right back. A girl in Ohio was
found on Sunday morning after she hopped into her family's
suv drove it about twelve miles to Target, where she
sat back and ordered a frappuccino, and after she had
gone into the store and bought some stuff. How old
is the girl? Will to win the prize, I'll give
(31:33):
you one dollar if you can guess how old that
girl was. One dollar, Yeah, one dollar. I'll say seven
years old. God, you're so close to taking my money.
This little girl was eight. I don't think it's seven.
She could have reached the pedals, but she's an eight
year old apparently a lanky thing to be able to
reach the pedals and drive her family's suv to Target,
(31:58):
got herself a frap, bought herself some stuff. What do
you think she bought? Will? I thought you said she
bought a frap? Well, yeah, but that was after she
had bought other stuff at Target. It doesn't say let's
not dwell, didn't work out the bugs room at the
(32:18):
inn or have some fun guy room at the end. Okay,
this also is a pop quiz. Will there are twenty
eight hotels in the world with three thousand or more
rooms for the entry level pop quiz question is in
what city are most of those hotels? I'm gonna go
(32:40):
with New York City, No Paris. Oh, just quit wasting
your time. What a where are you gonna find the
most people who need hotel rooms for the their gamblers
will Oh, Vegas, Baby, Fifteen of the twenty eight are
(33:01):
in Las Vegas. Fifteen of the twenty eight are in
Las Vegas. That's a lot and that just tells you
how much money pours through that place. Now, they're not
always full, but if they need what is that fifty
to forty five thousand rooms, they're there. And there are
other hotels who don't have more than three thousand. So yeah,
(33:23):
they've got room for a few people in Vegas. All right,
Well I'll leave. Have some fun guy in there. Let
the games begin, or help wanted, Let the games begin?
This one I kind of liked New Jersey. Oh New Jersey.
Hugh's silly, silly thing. A random x account throws up
(33:47):
this question if Disneyland is the happiest place on earth,
where do you think is the saddest place? And the
official account of the state of New Jersey, you know how,
they replied a map of Pennsylvania. Oh wow, how cool
is that? Okay, I like the creativity there, I do.
(34:11):
I'm not knocking Pennsylvania. I don't know much about it
except that a friend of mine from New York City
says that the the professional sports fans in Philly are
the absolute worst fans on the planet. Absolute worst. That's
(34:31):
his opinion, not mine. Don't don't go anywhere? Will how
much time to three minutes? Yep, Okay, I'm gonna I'm
gonna go back to Arizona. NFL Cardinals season hiccle ticket
holder was told by a stadium employee that she either
had to remove her make America Great Again cap or
leave the premises. And uh uh. A guy who's been
(34:58):
ejected from stadiums in New York and now has turned
political activist, a guy named Sion Sini set on Fox
News Wednesday, Fox News Digital Wednesday. Quote that's just what
this country has become. And the fact that she did
it and put it in the can is the reason
why they asked her to do it, because they know
that she probably would probably comply. You'd have to kill
(35:22):
me for me to take off my MAGA hat without
force and quote. The team sent a letter apologizing to
the woman, said the employee was going to go undergo
more training. That's not really it's they don't allow political
signs and political banners, but they don't restrict political clothing
(35:46):
or hats, and apparently that employee just took it upon
himself for herself, whichever it was. And the problem is
that the lift is just so frightened everybody on the
right that I just don't dare raise a stake for
fear of getting yelled at or spit on, or maybe
even punch in the nose or worse or worse, all
(36:08):
of which has happened to people who've done nothing more
than just share their feelings. If somebody wearing a cap
that had a message I didn't like, so the picture
of this, I'm walking into a stadium somewhere and the
guy's got on a cap for some cause that I
don't agree with. But that's all he's doing, is just
walking in with this cap on his head. I don't
care how strongly I disagree with the message. I wouldn't
(36:31):
go after the messenger. And if somebody told him to
take it off, I just say leave him alone. He's
just wearing a hat. That's how he feels. He's got
a right to have that opinion, even if we don't
agree with it. The only exceptions might be messages about
what child abuse or human trafficking, something like that, illegal voting,
(36:52):
something like that. I might things that we just find
universally abhorrent, abhor it. There you have that. Uh you done?
Will are we done? Thirty seconds less twenty seconds? Hottest
thing in women's fashion, Not for me, not for them,
(37:13):
for most. Four thousand dollars for designer boots that make
you look like you have what on your feet? Will feet?
I'll give you a hint. Ye they look like horse
hoofs four grand. That's two thousand dollars a foot. I
can't do that, Audios
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