The Bedroom Life of Seniors

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Joy Deleon about seniors and their sex lives.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?

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

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
This show is all about you, only the good. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike, helpful information on your finances,
good health, and what to do for fun. Fifty plus
brought to you by the UT Health Houston Institute on
Aging Informed Decisions for a healthier, happier life, and now

(00:43):
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Here we go. I can do it. I can do this.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, I gotta get it.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
You gotta find that tone.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's not gonna be easy. We had it right before.
Hold on one second, hold on, I'm gonna try something.
There's got to be that place where I was there.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
It is right there. Welcome, Welcome to fifty plus.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Land of lingering laryngitis. Maybe will make it, maybe we won't.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
But I couldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
I couldn't stand the thought of being on vacation for
a week, then coming back for one day, and then
bailing out again on you guys. So I'm not in
any pain. I'm not doing any any more damage to
my vocal cords. I'm just trying to get through some
stuff that's related to allergies and dry air and a
side of dehydration. Will came in a little earlier too,

(01:36):
and prop me up close to the microphone. These head
straps will are chafing my ears, but the pain in
my back's helping me ignore the ears.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
So are you sure this is the best way to
do this? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Oh, you're not even gonna help today, are you? You're
killing me man. So anyway, slight chance of rain this afternoon,
not my but just laugh along with me, because Will's
are already laughing almost out loud. You'll hear him laughing
if I break again. A little chance of rain this afternoon,
not much of it for those of us who get it.

(02:10):
And little warmer weather, which I think will all appreciate
for a few days. I could use some more humidity
in the air. I can tell you that straight up.
That's part of what the problem is for me. We've
got that taken care of it. Then after these next
two or three days, more typical early December weather and
some sunshine A head speaking of looking ahead to the

(02:30):
Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital golf tournament up at Golf
Club of Houston on Monday. Forecast calls for clear sky,
and I I have sixty three degrees. It's a little
on the cool side for golf for me, but I'll
take that over clouds and any precipitation at all. Speaking
of I posted a picture on Facebook this morning taken
from the window next to my desk. It was just

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a picture of the view I have that overlooks downtown Houston,
far far in the distance. With the photo, I put
some text on there that asked what was wrong with
the photograph, and the answer was that it wasn't of
me in a duck blind with pintails circling low overhead.
Some of you will understand the significance of that, some

(03:15):
of you will not. But anytime I see that heavy,
heavy overcast like that, it makes me want to be
in a duck blind somewhere, or maybe in a field
that soon will be full of geese trying to get
into it. I'm not tough enough anymore to guide duck
and goose's, but I do enjoy being out there any
chance I get. And no, I'm not faking laryngitis in

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advance of calling in a fake sick day to go honting.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Will, So I don't think that's happening.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
I saw something pretty cool though, And forgive me if
I've talked about it before, but there was a guy
who on Facebook who said he said, yesterday I called
in sick so that I could go fishing. And today
I'm mad because the two guys who covered for me
yesterday both are out today saying they caught that sickness

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for me.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
Would you ever?

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Did you know that's a good shot you got If
you want a day off, will you can tell them
you caught something from me, even though I'm not contagious.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
So in any event, done, I got that.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Done.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
Markets blah blah.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
No big movement either way on Wall Street this morning,
Golden Oil took an up return, but not a big
enough move to raise any investor eyebrows. And so we
go into the news from click to Houston. This first
keeps breaking like I'm like a teenager again. It's gonna work, Will,
I'm telling you, I got this. I want to make
sure I get to this interview. I really want to

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interview doctor Joy DeLeon because we are going to be
talking about Will.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Did you see the topic when you looked at it.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
We're gonna be talking about sexual wellness for seniors and
that any any of you young people out there who
are just cringing now thinking of your parents and how
you came into this world, just just get over it.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Okay. It's been going on since time began. From clickto Houston, I.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Saw the story of a small church in Sunnyside that
was targeted by thieves who stole thousands of dollars worth
of equipment from a church and forced to actually forced
cancelation of their Sunday service last week.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
I believe there were bad.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Guys in the world when I grew up here in Houston, too,
but there seemed to be some unspoken rule back then,
even among the burglars, that you just didn't steal from God.
And it's pretty clear society on the whole has straight
off the path, if you will, and I really do
hope we can find our way back to some level

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of civility soon, sooner rather than later.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
I do think we're headed in the right direction.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Another person who made a bad decision, by the way,
also from clicktou Houston, was a woman who sped away
from Pearland law enforcement when they tried to stop her
for shoplifting and wound up crashing her car, which is
dumb enough and bad enough anyway, but that car, I
guess in addition to whatever she was trying to steal
from whatever store she was in, she also had her

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three children riding along. That's not good. Wow, only two
minutes left. That was quick, all right. So here's the deal.
I still genuinely believe that most people are good people,
and that's true around the world. I saw I briefly
looked at a story about a guy who's traveled to

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something like sixty or seventy countries, and when you get
on the ground and he's from over in I want
to say, maybe Belgium, And in any event, he's been
all over the world's flown into all kinds of countries,
and when you get down at the really granular level
of civilians, not involved with government, not involved in big business,

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he was just traveling through, saying hi to people and
working his way through as a wide open and just
to see what he could find, whether people cared, and
they all did.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
It worked out very well for him. He said.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
It was remarkable how generous people were, how kind they
were when you got down into a neighborhood, and you
got down into maybe a small restaurant or something. I
still think it's going to work. My social experimentation has
gone on now for quite some time. And just this morning,
I was in a grocery store buying a breakfast sandwich,
and I deliberately spoke to four different people. I looked

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them in the eye and said good morning to four
different people, not a one of whom looked anything like me.
They weren't dressed like me, they didn't look like me.
They were different.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
And all four of them looked at me right in
the eye and said good morning.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
And that's all it took to let me know that
they didn't have any beef with anybody, and neither did I.
So all the stuff you see on the news about
how bad things are probably not a good idea to.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Go with that. We're gonna take a little break here.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
When we get back, we're gonna talk about hanky and
panky amongst singers.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
Hold on tight. Why'd your eyeberrows come up? Will?

Speaker 3 (08:08):
You're not a senior. You got a long ways to go, man,
That's all right. I'm so happy for you, by the way,
you and your fiance Cedar cove RV Resort. I just
got an email from Al Kivy this morning, and forgive
me for.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
Not printing it out.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
I had a lot going on, not the least important
of which was trying to get at least enough voice
to do a segment or two.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Here.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Will's got three and four loaded if I need them.
I'm gonna make I'm gonna push through this, and I
apologize for how horrible I sound. It'll get better, I
promise you it will. Cedar cove RV Resort down there
in Baytown, at the end of Tri City Beach Road,
across from Thompson's Bay Camp. We're by the way. There's
a big fishing tournament this weekend. Al told me that
last night they had one of those picture postcards sunsets,

(08:52):
he told me. I asked him a few questions about
what's going on down there, and at some things I
didn't know about the convenience store, which by away carries
several different kinds of frozen bait, or if you want
fresh bait or live shrimp, you just walk across the
street to Thompson's to get some of That might be
a better idea than the frozen stuff. But hey, if

(09:13):
the frozen is the way you want to go, you
go there. I also found out that this RV that
he will rent to you, so you don't have to
go buy one to try the lifestyle. It comfortably sleeps
for It's got one bedroom and then a sofa bed
kind of a thing in the probably in the eating
area where you can put a couple of kids or whatever,
and the whole family can go down there. Just drive

(09:33):
down there in the minivan or whatever you have now,
park it and then hop into that RV for the
weekend and see if that's something you really enjoy, which
you will, by the way, promise you that we're getting
into a really nice time of year to be down
there on the water. A lot of fun, a lot
more probably a lot more redfish cruising around there too.
It wouldn't be surprised if somebody caught one this afternoon.

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As a matter of fact, Cedar Covervresort dot is the website.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
Go check it out. You'll you really enjoy being down there.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
And just watching the palm trees kind of sway a
little bit. Well, we don't want that much breeze, you know,
if you're from around here. You know what it's like
to be on the coast and on the bay. It's
a beautiful, beautiful thing. Cedar Cove Arvresort dot com.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
What's life without a nap? If I suggest to go
to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Well, there it goes again. Will it's gonna get better?
I promise it's getting better. It's been getting better. I
went to the doctor yesterday and Houston e nt right
there in sugar Land. They got a great guy. Welcome
back to fifty plus. If you have a quick way
to regain the lost voice, let me know this was
not from infection. Thing goodness, it's just according to that

(10:50):
E and T of mine, it's just allergies and weather
related and yuck, and that the fact that I talk
pretty much all day every day. Segment, we'll talk not
about my woes but about seniors and their sex lives. Yes,
it's that time again on fifty plus. And for help,
I'll lean on Gosh, stop it, will, I'll lean on

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doctor Joy de Leon, instructional assistant professor at Texas A
and M University in the School of Public Health.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Welcome aboard.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
If my voice cracks, I just know that I'm not
a teenager anymore.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
I just.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
So Yeah, I'm gonna work hard on this.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Younger people don't like to think about older people being
sexually active, but many of them are, aren't there.

Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yes, in fact, it's a good and healthy way to
stay active.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
In fact, yeah, let's talk about that, because aside from
the obvious short term benefit of an active libido, there
actually are medically, medically good reasons to keep that fire burning.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
Aren't there.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yes, so well, health reasons for emotional intimacy and things
like that within a relationship, but also stress reduction. We
see it does improve or help regulate blood pressure, improve
your cardiovascular health, and it can there is some indirect

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relationship to reducing high cholesterol. Anything that's keeping you active,
gets your heart racing a little bit is good for.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Health into that, just like a good diet, good exercise.
Well that's kind of partially exercise anyway, Doctor Joy Delion
on fifty plus our sexual activity and intimacy. Things that
fall under the head or use it or lose it,
or can you kind of go back to it if
you've been off the horse for a while.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
Well, you always check with your physicians. Yeah, yeah, yes,
make sure that you're you know, there's not certain concerns,
especially if you're having any physical disabilities, are any you know,
joint PIP problems, those kinds of things as what would
be most concerning, I think, But yeah, you know, as

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long as everything's you know, you're ready to go, you can, okay.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
And by the way, when I said at our age,
I was referring to my audience, not to you. I
just want to make sure you're clear on that.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yes, all right, let's talk about.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Age related things that can alter a person's interest in
insects or even the ability to just get aroused.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
So a lot of that has to do with hormonal changes,
especially among women, and so we do there is some
evidence that collagen supplementation can help, but we do see
as physically, even for women, it can become uncomfortable, and
then the desire to do that can also be limited

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because it may be painful to engage in intercourse unfortunately
for women because of the decreased estrogen. For men, we
may see a reduced libido because of decreased testosterone, and
so reduce libido and there may be a reptile difficulties
as well, and so again that you can always talk

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to your doctor about what can we do to help
with that. The staying active. Also, all the things play
with each go with each other and play into each other.
When it comes to health, it's not just your sexual healthy,
physical healthy, mountal health. All that plays into it. And
so the healthier we do all the other things are

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also our sexual health will also improve. If we keep
our healthy sex life as well, then we'll also have
better physical health. It just goes in the like that.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
You mentioned those ED pills and whatnot and performance enhancing stuff.
Are there any bad effects to those? Just to make
sure these this audience of mind doesn't think you can
just pop them like tic TACs and be a magician.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah, so you need to be especially if you're having
if you have heart disease or any those kinds of
effects can can impact your heart health. So again, always
check with your doctor. Don't just take something over the
counter or those supplements that are out there that say
that you're going to help with that. Always check with

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your physiciency if there's going to be any interactions with
the current medication that you're on. Also, there is some
mental health issues that can arise from taking certain medications,
so again, always talk to your doctor about any supplements,
any or any prescription medications you may be interested in. Also,
if you have diabetes, that's another concern, so just be

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aware of how those things. There's always interactions informed decisions.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Did I read somewhere recently that those quick weight loss
injection drugs cause a drop in libido in women?

Speaker 2 (16:05):
They can?

Speaker 5 (16:05):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (16:06):
Oh wow, is that a common side effect?

Speaker 5 (16:09):
It is not a common it's just one of with
the weight loss medications you wanted, the most important. The
biggest side effect is thyroid. It's attacked on your thyroid.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
I've heard for years doctor Dillon about what goes on
after the lights go out and assisted living facilities, which
is a pretty good segue I think into sexual safety
for seniors talk about that.

Speaker 5 (16:35):
So we do see a higher rate of STIs among otherly,
especially those that are living in nursing home services, living
those kinds of or retirement villages, and so we still
want to use condoms. Even though pregnancy risk is not

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a concern for most all older adults, sci risks still exist,
especially if you're having multiple partners, which you know, whatever
it works for you is working for you. But so
we want to make sure that we're having face sex
and making sure that, especially if you're having multiple partners

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or your partner maybe having multiple partners, that we're getting
tested regularly, regularly with your doctor. So when you go
in let them know I'm still sexually active, I'd like
to get checked it and you know, depending on how
active you are, every six months to a year would
be good to you know, at your annual checkup for

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STI screening. Make sure we're using contents and make sure
that we're using them the correct way, We're not keeping
them in our back pocket or keeping them.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
We're down to just maybe half a minute or so.
Do seniors tend to be open and honest with their
health providers about sex or do they just kind of
ignore it on routine visits.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
I think it's ignored a lot of the time. I
don't think it's brought up as often as it should be,
especially you know, I imagine most of the older adults group
in a generational where we didn't talk about sex openly,
and so usually it doesn't become a concern until there
is something it is a concern you know, something's happening,

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and so we should be talking, be open and us
about our sexual activity level with our position so that
we can stay healthy and so that we can make
sure that we're not getting other infections that spis that
are preventable.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Doctor joy Deli, I hate to tell you, but we're
out of time, doctor joy Deli on Thank you so much.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Thank you, doctor, thank you. We got to take a
little break.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
I made it through.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
That's two will I'm round and second and I'm headed
for third. UTLS Institute on Aging. Maybe somebody could help
me over there and fix my voice. I think I'm
on the right track. I feel very comfortable where I
am now as opposed to where I was this morning,
which was virtually nothing.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
So I'm working on it.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
I'm gonna make it through this show, and I hope
you'll indulge me and just let me get through what
I want to tell you guys about today so that
we can do it again tomorrow. UTLS Institute on Aging
is this collaborative that I've talked about now for the
better part of ten years.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
I think it is maybe eleven. I'm not really sure.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
They've been on board with me that long, and they'll
I'm gonna stay on as long as I'm gonna stay
on as long as they'll keep me. They have more
than a thousand members from every walk of the medical profession,
and all of those people have gone back on their
own dime and got an additional training in whatever it

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is they work on so that they can apply that
knowledge specifically to seniors. That's the key, specifically to us,
because we're different than young people. I'm way different than Will.
Will's different from me, So that's what they provide to you.
They're mostly in the medical center, so that's kind of
where you'd expect to find them, but most of those

(20:11):
providers also spend a little time in outlying areas around
the greater Houston metropolitan area, so that if you don't want.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
To drive into the mediciner, you don't have to.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Start at the website and you'll be overwhelmed by how
much information is there by how many resources are available there,
and then work your way too. If you have a
specific issue, work your way toward a provider who can
help you with that from the perspective of someone who
knows us, who knows seniors utch dot edu slash aging,
utch dot edu slash aging.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
You know, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Months we wash them, check us fluids, and spring on
a fresh code of wax.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Every time I start, I don't know why. If I
don't talk for a minute, it comes back like I'm
four years old. Oh my gosh, all right back to
where I was when we left off here. I still
genuinely believe that this whole world is full of mostly
good people who've just been trained in recent years to

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avoid social contact and fear other people and keep their
mouths shut for fear of cancelation or whatever. And I'm
out to change that by continuing my quest to be
friendly to everybody I encounter personally, just in case I
ever need a job at Target. All of these people

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that I've run into seem very nice. Now I'm gonna
put an asterisk by that, because I've found that when
people are driving their cars, they're not so friendly and nice,
and the horn has become just an extension of their

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frustration and where in some cases, And I think this
all goes back to when people finally got cell phones
that they could hold in one hand and use to
look up anything from any resource on the planet. And
get stuck in a red light, and they immediately their

(22:19):
heads go down just to they just drop their heads
to their phones and start looking and typing and looking
and typing.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
The light turns green, they don't look up.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
I tell you something you can you can use as
kind of a social experiment if you want to have
some fun with people. If you look over and you
see that the person leave about ten feet between your
car and the car in front of you. Now that that,
in some cases will make people hank at you, as
though moving up six or seven feet in the line

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for the red light will make some difference on whether
they get through or not. But leave some leave some
room before the car in front of you, and then
look and if you see on either side of you
some looking at their phone, just let your foot off
the gap, let your foot off the brake a little
bit and roll forward about two feet and wash their
head pop up. They'll catch the movement from there in

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their peripheral vision and they'll look up, and then when
you stop, they'll look back down. And you give them
about six eight seconds more. A lot of lights give
you plenty of time. The ones on Highway six and
down where I live run probably two and a half
to three minutes, it seems like if you're waiting on
them to change from the other direction. So yeah, and

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you can just get them to look up and look
up and look up. They're like little trained puppets or
trained animals to every time they see move and other
peripheral vision, they look up to see if the light's green,
and then when it's not, they look back down. In
any event that that's where it gets kind of ugly
and road rage, which shouldn't be a thing. By the way,

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we're all trying to get somewhere, and we're all in
a hurry, so just be patient with the people who
can't drive as fast as you and be as comfort
as you. I get passed on the way to work
on Saturday and Sunday mornings. I get passed by people
who are doing in excess of one hundred miles an
hour almost every trip in and I've learned that the

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best thing you can do if you see one of
them coming is just maintain your speed and your lane
because they'll go around you. They're not stupid, they're not
going to try to push you out of the way.
They'll go around. But if you zig and they zig
at the same time, that's when you see some of
those really nasty crashes and sky Mike has to come

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on and tell you to avoid an area because there's
a serious wreck.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
I don't want that to happen to anybody.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
And on the flip side of that, I also invariably
will pass someone who's doing forty or maybe thirty, or
maybe like the guy I saw one time who was
on the shoulder of fifty nine inbound at the belt
wag eight roughly and just decided that he needed to
go all the way across all the traffic light lanes

(25:04):
with pretty good activity going on, and that didn't work
out well at all. This guy caused a major pile
up that I saw happen in my rear view mirror. Well,
I didn't see exactly when it started, but I looked
up and then I saw him kind of cross and
I had to make sure I was looking at what
I had to see in front of me, and then

(25:25):
I look back and there were.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
Cars bouncing all over the place. It was horrible.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Absolutely horrible. I hope nobody got seriously hurt them, but
I'm not sure. Let's go to Texas Tech University, shall
we became the next this week to overhaul course content
for a Texas scorecard story. They are eliminating the advocacy
of quote, race or sext based prejudice end quote. It

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shuts down. There's a laundry list of things that shuts down,
but in a nutshell, basically, they're saying that that you
can't have anything that declares any race or sex superior
to another. You can't say that any individual is inherently
racist or sexist or oppressive. You can't say that any

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person should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment for
anything in that realm. It's just a lot more common
sense guidance, and I was kind of glad to see
that come out. It puts everybody back on a level
playing field, which.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
Is where we all need to be.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
And who knows how that's going to work out. You know,
there's another story I wanted to get to, kind of yeah,
the flip side of that. I'm going to shift pages
here just so you know that not all colleges are
coming around to sensibility.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
Yet from a Fox.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
News story, a graduate teaching assistant at the University of
Oklahoma gave a student there a zero on an assignment
for no other reason that anybody can figure out. He
says differently, she I'm not sure which no, it's I
believe it is a woman who's the teacher assistant. It's

(27:07):
a long story, but the bottom line is gave a
zero to a young woman student, a junior in pre
med for basically no other reason than that she used
biblical support for the essays she had to write after
reading an article. The whole class was assigned to read

(27:29):
an article on a lot of gender ideology and even
going taking it all the way back to the middle
school level. And she used her Christian faith. That was
the foundation on which she built her response. And the
requirements for the piece were listed, and she checked all

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those boxes. She did exactly what she was asked to do.
But then the TA disagreed and slept that zero on it,
and that.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
God, well, this woman, I believe it's a woman. I
really do call to her.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
The student's essay offensive says she needed more empathy in
her writing. It had bold faced references to several others
similar in scope and showing that a notably high percentage
of professors and their assistance. This is just it's just
confirms that there's just still within the college education system,

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there are.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
A whole lot of people who.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Who are just immersed in their own ideologies and fantasies.
And I'm glad to see Texas Tech going the other way.
Maybe Oklahoma to take a page from their playbook. Not
for football though, Good heaven, how much time do I
have none?

Speaker 5 (28:47):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Okay, we'll take this break and come back. I got
some I got some good stuff. It'll be kind of fun.
Got some good stuff, some weird stuff. I'll see what
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Speaker 3 (29:37):
All right, welcome back forth and final segment. I think
I'm gonna make it through.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Will.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
I think I am for today and maybe part of tomorrow.
Will I'm going to be identifying as a pony. I
want to know why, because I'm a little horse. You
know what my pronouns are, secretariat and ski biss sea biscuit.
I can't even get it out of there, tariot and

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sea biscuit. Just for today and tomorrow. I gotta you know,
you gotta make hay when the sun shines. Man, I've
got an opportunity here. I could have just I could
have just curled up in a ball and said, oh
my gosh, I can't do my show today because I'm
a little horse. But no, no, I had to rise up.
I had to stand up and be counted. I owe

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it to this audience of mine that's given me the
opportunity to do what I've been able to do for
now for twenty five years. Believe it or not, it's
been that long since the first hour of my life
on radio, which seemed like the longest hour of my
life period. Did I tell you that story, I'll tell
it very quickly. So when I got asked to do this,

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we went through a lot of bells and whistles and
hoops and whatever, and finally got it done. And the
first day of the first show came up. It was
gonna it was on k t r H on Saturday mornings,
a one hour show and for the first for the
first episode of whatever I was gonna be on radio,
there was a second guy, of a veteran of radio

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broadcast in sports. It was gonna come in there and
be my partner until I got comfortable, and he was.
He told me, he said, yeah, I'm gonna be able
to stick with you, and as long as you need me,
you just keep me posting.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
So I got in there.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
In the first I set up all my prep work,
like I've got spread out in front of me here
to do an hour of conversation with another guy who
doesn't know a whole lot about the outdoors. But we
were gonna kind of have some fun and joke about that.
I've done that with a lot of different people over
the years. And the second week I got in there
and I had all my prep set up to talk

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to him again, and I saw him in the hall
right like five minutes before we go on going back.
He was going back in to finish the last segment
of his show, and I said, hey, I'm looking forward
to working with you again. He goes, oh about that. Yeah.
The sports director asked me how you did last week.
I told him you did great and you didn't need
me anymore, and he said, okay, so I'm leaving, and

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he left and I was staring at four or five
pieces of paper that were designed to be an interaction
with somebody questions. I was going to answer his questions,
he was going to answer mine. And that was the
longest hour of my life. I couldn't wait. I just
it was so hard. But now I'm very comfortable, and

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I love what I'm doing, and I'm very glad I'm here.
And that's why I mustard today. I owe it to
the audience that supported me for as long as you have.
And I don't take that lightly. I really don't. Speaking
of media and marketing and whatnot, and I know how
important it is to reach consumers at the right time
and in the right place with the right message, and

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I saw a picture today of a billboard being towed
on a barge along a beautiful beach full of tourists.
Now the first instinct in me as somebody in this
business as well, that's genius, right, that's smart.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
But then I thought, is it intrusive?

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Well, yeah, maybe a little, maybe a little for however
long it takes that barge of putt putt putt putt
putt up the beach and back down the beach. Presumly
I guess there's a second side on it. They wouldn't
just try to take it around the planet with one
side only. That would be a very poor management decision,
bad waste of fuel. So it's a little intrusive, granted,

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but it's and it's new, and it's but it's temporary,
just like and this is something that I was talking
to our market president Paul Lambert about it. He's seen
those things on the beaches in Florida. I haven't seen
one off Galveston yet. And it may be because our
water stays a.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Little bit bumpy.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Maybe not, who knows, Maybe somebody's got that in mind now.
In any event, though, he pointed out that for forever
he's seen those things when he's made his trips, and
I look back to Paul's a good a good bit
younger than I am, and I look back to the
days when sky riding was the thing. Have you ever

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have you ever seen sky riding will around here?

Speaker 5 (34:07):
Now?

Speaker 3 (34:08):
You see the airplanes they're dragging those car dealership banners
up and down the beach and all around Houston. They'll
usually fly a loop around the sixth, a loop around
the six ten loop, or maybe if they've got enough
gas in their little plane, maybe around Beltway eight or something.
But you don't really see many of those anymore either.
But maybe these new floating billboards will become the norm.

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I'd never seen that boat thing though, I've never seen that,
And I've been on a lot of beaches in a
lot of places, and I'd never seen that until I
saw it right there. The wool story or no, No,
I don't have time, do I?

Speaker 4 (34:47):
How much time do I have? Four minutes?

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Holy cow, I've got four minutes of voice left, four
and a half. I better clear it out. Let me
take one more simple water. I think I can make it.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
There. That's way better.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
From the We've been ripped off for year's desk word that,
and this shouldn't surprise anybody. The level of abuse in
the food stamp and SNAP programs is just it's exponentially
higher than any of us could have imagined. These programs
were designed to help needy people get back on their

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feet and back to supporting themselves, but they evolved into
a lifestyle, into professions for some people, professional mooching by
capable people who could work but just decide not to
work because they can live fairly comfortably on all the
benefits of federal and state benefits they get our tax dollars.

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We found out that the SNAP program was paying thousands
of dead people thousands more we're getting double benefits. Now
we're finding out that some of these food stamp and
Snap programs also allow people to shop in vape stores
and liquor stores, which doesn't seem like healthy dietary need.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
It's just it's amazing, it's just amazing.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
I don't know how we ever got that far off
track with all of that, but you have to remember
that any anything that is created for good can also
be turned into something bad, and that I think is
what's happened with an overwhelming number of the programs in
federal government. This, I think is going to be interesting.

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Speaking of federal government, going to our president. Two things
about the President. I think I got time. First, for
all the babies in the United States are soon to
be born, I guess a pledge of six point two
five billion with a B dollars for Michael Bell from
Dell Technologies.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Michael Dell Technologies.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
President Trump's promised to provide American babies with a thousand
dollars savings accounts at birth. Is what this grant, this
very generous gift from the Dells is giving us. They're
gonna be called Trump accounts, and it's gonna be real.
First of all, who has six point two five billion
dollars to spare like that?

Speaker 4 (37:22):
You? You me?

Speaker 2 (37:23):
No?

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Could we come up with maybe six thousand, two hundred
and fifty dollars between us?

Speaker 4 (37:30):
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
In any event, it's gonna set these kids up really
well because they're gonna have that thousand dollars at birth
in a savings account that they can't touch for a
long time. I hope, and I hope they don't touch it,
because if they leave it alone for thirty forty fifty years,
maybe sixty years, all of a sudden, there'll be a
lot of money in there. Now, what that money will
be worth, I'm not so sure at the end of

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that road. But compound interest is a real and very
beneficial thing. It's far more than just throwing that money
at people who feel somehow entitled free money for food.
And the more kids you get, the more money you get,
the money for food not being used for food. As
we found out, we keep peeking under covers and keep

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finding more places where American tax dollars have been going
in the wrong direction for a.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
Very long time.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Keep looking, whoever's looking and finding all this stuff, Just
keep looking, just keep looking, keep finding, and keep scratching
those programs out. With one minute to go, I'll stick
with the president really quickly. President Trump and the staff
are looking into an alternative to income tax. The goal
just like I said, they're going to eliminate federal income

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tax and replace it. And now it'll have to be replaced.
We need a lot of money to run this country,
not as much as we've been spending, as we found
out from all the liberal programs.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
That just sucked to strive for decades.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
But what he's talking about is using tariff income, which
is proving quite handy and quite capable of covering most
of all this stuff. And by the way, and in
case you didn't know, our income tax was supposed to
be temporary when it was put into place, not permanent.
Maybe we can fix that. That's it for today, Thanks

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for listening, thanks for bearing with me.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
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