February 26, 2026 • 35 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Rafael Samper-Ternent about the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
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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 it? Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today? Well?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This show is all about you on the Goode. 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
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fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, here we go. Yeah, well, I don't want
I'm trying not to say that the day that we're
doing these because sometimes Will has to pull one and
use it for a best of and I don't want
them to be tagged that way. You can take that
off of though, that can't you? Yeah, never mind? So anyway,
it's Thursday. How about that fifty plus No topic off
limits around here, and everyone's welcome to suggests something that
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just might push those boundaries if you want to. If
it's okay with the FCC, this is kind of how
I look at it. If it's okay with the FCC,
it's probably okay with me, that's not actually true of
my outdoor show, and don't I don't allow things to
go farther. In fact, I rain them in a little
bit more because I know, especially on that show on
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Saturday and Sunday mornings over on KBMME I have a
lot of kids in the audience, and so if you can't,
if you can't stay full on, g rated with a
conversation it might have with me on the air, then
we're gonna have to bounce you. But that being said,
over gosh, what is this my twenty sixth year of
that show. I have had to dry, I have had
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to use the dump button, which is what we call it,
fewer than I would say few more than ten times,
maybe six seven times is all in all these years.
Because every one in that audience is kind of like me,
and they respect the fact that we have kids in
the audience. So anyway, here we go, quick look at
the forecast, like I always try to do for you.
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If you haven't gotten out of bed, haven't gotten out
of the house yet, or out of the room or
wherever you are, steady dosa highs in the low eighties
with potential. Actually for some records it is after all
the end of February, it should be cooler than it is,
so we're trying to set records lows in the mid
to low sixties throughout that same stretch, which is just
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basically a reminder that we live in a place where seasons,
at least as they're known in other parts of the country,
just don't exist. We get long stretches of heat every summer,
but we don't balance that out with equally long weeks
on end of cold in I guess whatever winter is
around here, or do we really have winter in Houston.
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An argument, a very good argument, I think, could be
made for Houston having summer that lasts forever, and having
fall and spring in their appropriate times, but just blending
fall in spring to where they encapsulate winter and just
move it off the map. You could have cold spells
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in spring, you can have warm spells in fall that
would accommodate whatever unique temperature we finally hit in one
of those seasons. But I'm not so sure a good
argument couldn't be made to just say, Nope, Houston doesn't
have winter. If you agree with me, send me an email.
If you don't send me an email, or not anyway,
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far more spring like than wintry for the next four
or five days, and no rain expected until at least
next Wednesday. So basically nothing to see here in the markets.
A similarly, three down and one up. The Dow was
up a little while ago, and it wasn't up by much,
but at least it was green, whereas the other three
were on the red side. Gold then and probably still
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around now, was sitting at five thousand, one hundred and
fifty something dollars five thousand. It just it keeps getting
crazier and crazier. And every time I talk to Brad
Schweiss over there at Houston Gold Exchange, he said, I
don't know what they're waiting for. It's it can't stay
up there forever, but it's at historic highs Now, why
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not sell something that you don't really use anymore and
get a little pocket change, well a lot of pocket change.
A green pea of pure gold probably would be worth
twelve or fifteen hundred dollars right now, to put it
in perspective, So do what you gotta do. Oil is
it was at about sixty six fifty three, well at
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specifically sixty six fifty three. A couple of hours ago.
It might hang up that way until we get this
situation where Iron sorted out. They say they're not interested
in nuclear weapons, but they also say they won't tell
anybody anything about their ballistic missile pro ballistic missile program.
They're playing a dangerous game, and I suspect it won't
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end well for that regime if they cross a line,
whatever that line is. By the way, just a few
minutes ago, Fox News put out a story that our
Navy's presidence in Bahrain has been reduced to mission control
or excuse me, mission critical levels ahead of potential conflict
with a run. That's all they're saying. That's all they're doing,
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and we'll see. Oh and oh, Will, did I get
you the wordle? Score? Oh? Did I? What was it again?
How many did I get it?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
In? Two?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Will and I play this game play wordle? I'm sure
you've heard of it. We have been doing this for
what a couple of years now? I think, have you
done it yet? And you got it in for? I
don't win often. I don't know Will. It's about fifty
to fifty, isn't it? Maybe? I would think so. I
don't know that either of us is the clear winner.
In these things. Sometimes we get on runs. I got
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lucky today and had a two. He got a little
less lucky and had a four. But it's very rare
now and here. Sometimes I'll just have to give up
because I try to do it during breaks and there's
there's a little pressure on me, and I use that
excuse every time. I really don't get it quickly, but
it is real, and I do have to stop and
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put my thinking process down to come back and take
care of the real business that I'm doing here. In
any event, moving on, I got about a minute and
a half left, I think. Hillary Clinton told the House
Oversight Panel this morning. Ah, she's being deposed, I guess
you could call it today. Questioned by the House Oversight
Committee today, and her husband Bill, former President Bill will
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be in there in the same seat tomorrow. Hillary Clinton
told that panel she has no information whatsoever on Jeffrey
Epstein's criminal activity and doesn't recall ever meeting him. The
hearing was paused a few minutes ago, by the way,
because of a leaked photograph. No pictures allowed in there,
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except I guess by certain people or or to the media.
Maybe it might have camera access. I don't know. But
the bottom line is, and they have to pause because
some photo of something really important apparently got leaked. We'll
see how that all works out. Moving into something you
most of you at least might have already heard. Do
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I have a half a minute left? Will not even that? Okay,
let's go ahead and take a break. Let's go ahead
and take a break right now. And so, because I
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Speaker 1 (08:45):
What's life without a nap?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Just wait until the show's over, sleeping. Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Come back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening as
always on this beautiful Thursday morning. Will we plod huh?
Courtesy as always and my friends at ut Health Consortium
on Aging. In this segment on the heels of doctor
Schultz's information about Alzheimer's disease yesterday, we'll talk about something
called the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas with
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a man who knows this new entity quite well. That
would be doctor Raphael sam Praternet. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Doctor, Thank you, Doug. Good to be here again.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Holy cal I've been reading about this and about what
doctor Schultz and I exchanged yesterday, and I'm pretty excited
about my chances if anything happens to me in the future.
So what exactly is the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute
of Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So, the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas or
DEEPER it is an initiative that was promoted and approved
by the governor in twenty twenty five to allocate a
large amount of money to promote research related to Alzheimer's disease,
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including topics related to prevention, looking for cures, and providing
support for caregivers who provide care for persons with dementia.
So it's designed after Secret, which is another initiative from
the state of Texas that's focus on cancer and has
been focusing on cancer for many years now. So based
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on the success of the Secret Initiative, the legislation in
Texas thought that the next condition that they wanted to
target was dementia and that's where the DEEPER initiative came from.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Well, that's a good thing to have around. What's the
connection between DEEPRIT and ut Health Institute on Aging.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So doctor McCullough, who leads our Department of Neurology, has
been heavily involved in the process of framing the Deeper
initiative and supporting the initiative with the legislature and providing
evidence that we need to invest in things that can
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help us prevent dementia progression in Texas and find possible cures,
but also to support patients and families who are experiencing
dementia right now. So from the leadership at each Health Houston,
there is a large commitment on supporting this research and
moving the field forward.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And on the business side of this talk about because
I read a little bit about this deeper it is
putting about four billion dollars into this project, but that
is from what I read, a lot cheaper than the alternative, right.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So right now we're spending approximately twenty billion dollars per
year in providing care for persons living with dementia, and
that includes not only the management, the clinical management, but
also the support that they need and also the cost
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to families. So if four billion can help us significantly
move the feel forward and change the current status of
dementia and reduce the new cases and control the existing cases,
we're going to be able to save a lot of
money as a state.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
That's what the business world calls a good deal. Isn't
it yep, Doctor Raphael simper On fifty plus research shows
that Alzheimer's and other dementias are likely to spike as
more of us live longer, firing something of a preempty
strike against dementia. Does that kind of coincide with what
doctor Schultz and I talked about yesterday, about this new
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thing that potentially could reverse Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Correct, So doctor Schultz is one of the experts at
ut HEL and has been a pioneer in using and
trying new medications to reduce the burden of Alzheimer's disease.
And so there's a lot of research ongoing because we've
identified some molecules that change the progression of the disease,
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but there's still no final cure. So in the absence
of a cure, we're still working on identifying new medications.
But we're also increasing the attention that we put on prevention.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
And so the go ahead, I was going to say,
I saw something more about different too, about its support
for the care giving side of this. You mentioned it
a little bit, but how will what resources will be
available to caregivers of people with dementia through this program?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
So we don't know what resources are going to be
available yet because the Deeprive Institute has not been created,
but there are already resources out there, and so the
main drive within deeprint is to how do we make
those resources available to as many people as possible, but
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also finding other opportunities to improve the well being of
the caregivers while they provide the best care possible to
their loved ones with dementia.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Fantastic And while we've got a little time here, what
is exactly Hot Topics in Aging?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So Hot Topics in Aging is one of the main
activities that we organize at the ut Health Houston Institute
on Aging. We organize it every year to talk about
a key topic that is hot off the press of
sorts for that year. So last year we talked about
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a friendly care and this year, given Deeper, we're focusing
on dementia. So we're going to have a panel of
experts that is going to talk to us about not
only diagnosis of dementia, but also how to manage disruptive
behaviors that people with dementia could percent or the complexities
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related to care, and also how to support caregivers. And
then we're going to have a great keynote speaker, doctor
Suda Sahadri who's coming to us from San Antonio, and
doctor mccallaugh is going to close it and leverage everything
we learned that day and how we can leverage that
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for opportunities to advance research at UT Health Houston.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
It's going to be a lot of smart people in
that room.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Huh yep.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
So what when and where? I don't have a date
on this.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
So it's March thirteenth, all day from eight o'clock in
the morning to four to thirty pm in the Kooley
Center next to the School of Dentistry at UT Health Houston.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Fantastic. Is it open to the public.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
It is open to the public. There is a registration
link at the Institute on Aging website that people can
use to register, so we can get a headcount and
make sure that we will all fit in the room
and have what people will need that day to have
the best experience possible.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
How understandable would it be for me or will or
somebody who's not in your field to come in there
and learn and really understand what's coming out of everybody's mouth.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
So we've selected the speakers trying to keep everyone in mind.
Our advisory panel really forced us to think about the
whole spectrum. So there's going to be some things that
are going to be a little bit technical for clinicians,
but there's also going to be resources for caregivers and
people that are not necessarily in the healthcare field so
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they can learn and understand more about dementia and opportunities
for future benefits.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Yeah. I feel like I've learned so much from doctors
and other caregivers such as you and doctor Schultz and
all these people I've gotten to interview over over the
years I've been doing fifty plus and it really makes
me feel comfortable coming into a room like that. I'm
not gonna understand what you would, but I can at
least get enough where if I had to, I could
call you back and ask you a question. And I
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found the website for that too. It's ut h dot
E d U slash Aging slash about slash events and
that'll get them their wanting. Yep, fantastic. I hope some.
I hope this audience takes advantage of this. I understand
from from working with your group over there at ut
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Health Institute on Aging about how much that you guys
are truly wanting to fix all of us who are broken,
and I greatly appreciate that, Doctor Samper Holy colank you. Yes, sir,
thanks for your time. Thank you, uh huh bye bye, Okay,
let's take a break, shall we. That's yeah, really, I'm
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I'll mention that again in a couple of minutes to
make sure that everybody's got it. Maybe when we get
back from this break, because if you can, if you
can give up that day, March thirteenth, just cross it
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Speaker 1 (20:10):
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 cod o wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Now that's loud, will Lordy Mercy, lorded Lordy Mercy. Okay,
speaking of loud music and moving into what something that
most of you probably already have heard, so I won't
dwell on it though. The Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation has released
its twenty twenty six list of seventeen nominees for induction
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into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later this year.
Here's the rundown. Okay, and just tell me if anything
stands out as unusual for the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame. Crows, Jeff Buckley, Mariah Carey, Phil Collins, Melissa Ethridge,
Lauren Hill Billy, Idol in Excess, Iron Maiden, Okay, Joy Division,
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New Order, New Addition, Oasis, Pink Charde, Shakira, Luther Vandross
and Wu Tang Clan Eligibility starts. I'll just go ahead
starts twenty five years after release of an artist or
band's first commercial song and play. It's a long time
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to wait, by the way, maybe a little too long
for some of the artists who abuse their bodies throughout
their careers. I would be willing to bet that some
of the people who are in the current Hall of
Fame didn't make it to the twenty five years, but
they were entered posthumously. I don't know how several of
these artists got on a list of all time great
rock and roll bands or singers. That the Foundation either
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to water down its name or have someone someone there
look up the definition of rock and roll before they
drop the twenty seven list. Or maybe there should just
be another Hall of Fame altogether, maybe the musical performers
Performers sorry, hall of Fame that would encompass anybody in
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everybody who could put classical musicians in there who died
two hundred years ago. Anyway, in news, behind recent student
walkouts and protests, somewhat ironically of the nationwide effort to
apprehend violent criminals who have killed and raped young Americans,
says being allowed into our country by the Biden bunch.
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Well Governor Greg Abbott says the Supreme Court rulings support
his stance that while students have a right to free speech,
which we all do, that right for students is not absolute.
They can't just walk away from school without facing consequences
that are going to take a lot a lot of people,
including teachers who encourage and participated in these protests. By surprise,
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Texas Education Administration Warren teachers about those consequences, which just
might be why those protests seem to have kind of
fizzled out. They may dislike ice, but probably not enough
to jeopardize their pensions. I would think that would be
a fair assessment. I've got that here, I've got this here.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
By the way, today is National Toast Day. In case
you wandered or care or both, probably not many do
you care about National Toast Day? Will? I don't either.
For the record too, it's not National Toasted Day. That
would be a very different day altogether. I would presume
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one small oversight, one giant mistake for mankind. I talked
to the only person who was sitting near me when
I was doing my prep work this morning, a woman
who's been here probably i'd say, the better part of
twelve years, maybe maybe a few more, an all female.
And I told her this, and she rightfully rolled her eyes.
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I can't imagine how or why this happened if it
had happened in the seventies or the sixties, or maybe
even the eighties. Okay, in any event, an all female
space walk was canceled in twenty excuse me, in twenty nineteen,
just what seven years ago? Not that long ago? Because
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NASA didn't have two women's space suits. That strike you
as somewhat odd. NASA the people who sent people to
the Moon with electronics and computing capacity far less than
what's in your phone today, and they didn't have a
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backup suit. They didn't have two women's suits. They never
dreamed I guess back then that there would be two
women going on a space walk at the same time.
And I'm saying that kind of half jokingly. I'm sure
there was some some explanation. I was gonna say, a
reasonable explanation. I don't know what it would be, but
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in any event, that happened, and I got nothing against NASA.
I think that's one of the coolest places I've ever been.
And I've been down there when I was younger, especially
my dad had an inside connection to NASA, and he
had all kinds of memorabilia and he brought us little
souvenirs and stuff when he would go down there and
visit with these people. And we got a couple of
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walks through there as well when I was young. Let's see. Oh,
let me go back to kind of speaking of the
protests of ICE a minute and a half. That's it, Okay,
I can do this. This is easy. Under President Trump,
Health and Human Services has located one hundred and forty
five thousand of the unaccompanied children lost lost mind you
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during the Biden administration, and sadly, thanks to the Left
and its shoddy procedures, many of those kids before they
were found were abused, worth mistreated. And in another little
quick footnote, in operation Metro Serve in Minneapolis, Minneapolis alone,
three thousand missing migrant children found there. These are kids
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who were brought in just as kind of decoys to
get people who adults who wanted to come in have
a child. Oh yeah, well let the let the lady
with the child, and let the guy with the three
children and his wife in. And they were not those
people's children at all. Same operation, by the way, took
four thousand criminals off the street, adult criminals. Thank you
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very much. Dem said it was. It said it all
when they refused, by remaining seated to put American citizens
over illegal immigrants. Any American who votes for the Democrats
in November should know that they are not a priority
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Speaker 1 (28:25):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old
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I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty plus
continues here's more with Doug Hi.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Those there are some very
robust rejoins there will today thank you for those got
my blood cruising through my veins. Uh from the what
I have, like six or seven minutes something like that
sounds about right close enough. Just let me know when
I got about two okay, from the state that keeps
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on Now, see that volume's going way way up for
some reason, I don't know what. From a state that
keeps on lowering the bar of criminal justice. California's Board
of Parole Hearings has declared one of the state's most
despicable child molesters now eligible for parole. This guy, he's
sixty four now, okay. Convicted on sixteen felony counts involving
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the abductions and sexual assault of children younger than seven
nineteen ninety nine. He was sentenced to more than twenty
years in prison plus three consecutive terms of twenty five
years to life. He should have never gotten out, but
thanks to California's elderly parole program, the board says, yeah,
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if y'all want to let him out, let him out.
That doesn't mean he's getting out, But to even make
him eligible for parole, I bet that makes a lot
of people who were younger than seven in nineteen ninety
nine very uncomfortable now that they're in their thirties. The
Sacramento County DA guy named Dan Hoe criticized the board's assessment,
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saying this, and I quote, this defendant is the worst
of the worst, a child predator who lures, grabs, kidnaps,
and assaults children. He will reoffend and is a ticking
time bomb. End quote. California, Ain't none need to expect
anymore from that mud hole. Meanwhile, in Texas, a guy
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who spent nearly thirty years behind bars for a double
murder in nineteen ninety eight was executed this past month.
I don't understand why it takes that long. Honestly, I
just don't understand why it takes that long. But they
didn't ask me. New Jersey Governor Mikey Sheryl and her
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husband Jack but mostly her, were booed on versfully at
a hockey game that was the first for Olympic gold
medalist Jack Hughes and some of his teammates since they
got home. Cheryl was supposed to introduce and recognize Hughes
before the game, but fans let her know in no
uncertain terms what they thought about her in the way
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she's running their state. I think they feel kind of
duped I think a lot of people are feeling duped
by the left and what's going on right now. I
still I go back to the I'll never It's burned
into my brain right now, the image when President Trump said,
if you're in favor of protecting American citizens before illegal aliens,
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stand up, and every Republican stood up, and every Democrat
sat down, didn't move. Not one of them had the
courage to go against the others because they know if
they if they crossed that bridge, they're gonna be that's
committing political suicide for them. They'll be pariased for the
rest of their careers they have any more career. On
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the heels of President Trump's address, news from the Department
Homeland Security that historic progress has been made in safeguarding
American soil from the staggering invasion we suffered under President Biden.
Secretary Christy Nome just this week said that in the
past thirteen months, nearly three million illegal aliens no longer
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in our country. About two point two million of them
left voluntarily. They left on their own because they were
offered if they did it on their own. Number one,
they got free passage, they were they booked the flights
for them, helped them out, gave them a little running
money to get home on or get wherever they were going,
and said, by the way, if you hang out for
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a little while and just wait, maybe you'll be given
a chance to return and become American citizens and do
it the right way. By the way, more than seven
hundred and thirteen thousand illegal immigrants were deported. We are
safer for them their departure, and we've still got a
long way to go. That's that's kind of the issue now.
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And every time we turn around, some Biden appointed judge
or Obama appointed judge throws a roadblock, throws a hurdle
out in front of President Trump. And in the effort
we're making to try to make this country safer, try
and like hell to make this country safer. In related news,
by the way, Department of Health and Human Services under
President Trump has located all those lost children, all those
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lost children, just like I said a little while ago.
All right. In local news. In the local news, rodeo
seasons here, trail rides are underway. Cookoffs around the corner.
Greatest rodeo on Earth headed our way. Time to dust off,
you dress boots if you have those, you know. I
see more people, honestly at the rodeo in in kind
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of beat up boots. Maybe it's their work boots. Maybe
they've just got that one pair of cowboy boots they
bought a long time ago and they just use them
year after year. But there are also lots of people
out there here in some really shiny, really been there
looking as Western as they can, despite being maybe officers
or CEOs of some big corporate conglomerate here in town.
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They are not scared to put some money into some
wardrobe for the rodeo. Time to get your hat reshaped
if it's lost its look sitting in the closet for
a year. Maybe polish up your favorite belt buckle, the
big one, not anything else. It's the only belt you
got that looks like that, probably And that's okay. Livestock
showing rodeo really quite the spectacle, honestly. But the best
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part of the rodeo is how much it contributes to
Houston and communities around here, millions upon millions every year
in scholarships and donations equipment. If you've never been, I
don't know why not, can't help but enjoy yourself at
the cookoff, the fair inside, watching all those cowboys and
cowgirls do the things that you won't believe until you
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see them in action, and you even get a concert.
There's that too. The rodeo is the cool part, as
far as I'm concerned. We're out of here. We'll be
back tomorrow. Thank you all for listening. Audios
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Hey John, how's it going today? Well?
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All right, here we go. Yeah, well, I don't want
I'm trying not to say that the day that we're
doing these because sometimes Will has to pull one and
use it for a best of and I don't want
them to be tagged that way. You can take that
off of though, that can't you? Yeah, never mind? So anyway,
it's Thursday. How about that fifty plus No topic off
limits around here, and everyone's welcome to suggests something that
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just might push those boundaries if you want to. If
it's okay with the FCC, this is kind of how
I look at it. If it's okay with the FCC,
it's probably okay with me, that's not actually true of
my outdoor show, and don't I don't allow things to
go farther. In fact, I rain them in a little
bit more because I know, especially on that show on
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Saturday and Sunday mornings over on KBMME I have a
lot of kids in the audience, and so if you can't,
if you can't stay full on, g rated with a
conversation it might have with me on the air, then
we're gonna have to bounce you. But that being said,
over gosh, what is this my twenty sixth year of
that show. I have had to dry, I have had
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to use the dump button, which is what we call it,
fewer than I would say few more than ten times,
maybe six seven times is all in all these years.
Because every one in that audience is kind of like me,
and they respect the fact that we have kids in
the audience. So anyway, here we go, quick look at
the forecast, like I always try to do for you.
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If you haven't gotten out of bed, haven't gotten out
of the house yet, or out of the room or
wherever you are, steady dosa highs in the low eighties
with potential. Actually for some records it is after all
the end of February, it should be cooler than it is,
so we're trying to set records lows in the mid
to low sixties throughout that same stretch, which is just
(02:38):
basically a reminder that we live in a place where seasons,
at least as they're known in other parts of the country,
just don't exist. We get long stretches of heat every summer,
but we don't balance that out with equally long weeks
on end of cold in I guess whatever winter is
around here, or do we really have winter in Houston.
(03:01):
An argument, a very good argument, I think, could be
made for Houston having summer that lasts forever, and having
fall and spring in their appropriate times, but just blending
fall in spring to where they encapsulate winter and just
move it off the map. You could have cold spells
(03:24):
in spring, you can have warm spells in fall that
would accommodate whatever unique temperature we finally hit in one
of those seasons. But I'm not so sure a good
argument couldn't be made to just say, Nope, Houston doesn't
have winter. If you agree with me, send me an email.
If you don't send me an email, or not anyway,
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far more spring like than wintry for the next four
or five days, and no rain expected until at least
next Wednesday. So basically nothing to see here in the markets.
A similarly, three down and one up. The Dow was
up a little while ago, and it wasn't up by much,
but at least it was green, whereas the other three
were on the red side. Gold then and probably still
(04:07):
around now, was sitting at five thousand, one hundred and
fifty something dollars five thousand. It just it keeps getting
crazier and crazier. And every time I talk to Brad
Schweiss over there at Houston Gold Exchange, he said, I
don't know what they're waiting for. It's it can't stay
up there forever, but it's at historic highs Now, why
(04:28):
not sell something that you don't really use anymore and
get a little pocket change, well a lot of pocket change.
A green pea of pure gold probably would be worth
twelve or fifteen hundred dollars right now, to put it
in perspective, So do what you gotta do. Oil is
it was at about sixty six fifty three, well at
(04:50):
specifically sixty six fifty three. A couple of hours ago.
It might hang up that way until we get this
situation where Iron sorted out. They say they're not interested
in nuclear weapons, but they also say they won't tell
anybody anything about their ballistic missile pro ballistic missile program.
They're playing a dangerous game, and I suspect it won't
(05:10):
end well for that regime if they cross a line,
whatever that line is. By the way, just a few
minutes ago, Fox News put out a story that our
Navy's presidence in Bahrain has been reduced to mission control
or excuse me, mission critical levels ahead of potential conflict
with a run. That's all they're saying. That's all they're doing,
(05:33):
and we'll see. Oh and oh, Will, did I get
you the wordle? Score? Oh? Did I? What was it again?
How many did I get it?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
In? Two?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Will and I play this game play wordle? I'm sure
you've heard of it. We have been doing this for
what a couple of years now? I think, have you
done it yet? And you got it in for? I
don't win often. I don't know Will. It's about fifty
to fifty, isn't it? Maybe? I would think so. I
don't know that either of us is the clear winner.
In these things. Sometimes we get on runs. I got
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lucky today and had a two. He got a little
less lucky and had a four. But it's very rare
now and here. Sometimes I'll just have to give up
because I try to do it during breaks and there's
there's a little pressure on me, and I use that
excuse every time. I really don't get it quickly, but
it is real, and I do have to stop and
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put my thinking process down to come back and take
care of the real business that I'm doing here. In
any event, moving on, I got about a minute and
a half left, I think. Hillary Clinton told the House
Oversight Panel this morning. Ah, she's being deposed, I guess
you could call it today. Questioned by the House Oversight
Committee today, and her husband Bill, former President Bill will
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be in there in the same seat tomorrow. Hillary Clinton
told that panel she has no information whatsoever on Jeffrey
Epstein's criminal activity and doesn't recall ever meeting him. The
hearing was paused a few minutes ago, by the way,
because of a leaked photograph. No pictures allowed in there,
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except I guess by certain people or or to the media.
Maybe it might have camera access. I don't know. But
the bottom line is, and they have to pause because
some photo of something really important apparently got leaked. We'll
see how that all works out. Moving into something you
most of you at least might have already heard. Do
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I have a half a minute left? Will not even that? Okay,
let's go ahead and take a break. Let's go ahead
and take a break right now. And so, because I
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it's a little confusing to me. But I think and
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Speaker 1 (08:45):
What's life without a nap?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Just wait until the show's over, sleeping. Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Come back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening as
always on this beautiful Thursday morning. Will we plod huh?
Courtesy as always and my friends at ut Health Consortium
on Aging. In this segment on the heels of doctor
Schultz's information about Alzheimer's disease yesterday, we'll talk about something
called the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas with
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a man who knows this new entity quite well. That
would be doctor Raphael sam Praternet. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Doctor, Thank you, Doug. Good to be here again.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Holy cal I've been reading about this and about what
doctor Schultz and I exchanged yesterday, and I'm pretty excited
about my chances if anything happens to me in the future.
So what exactly is the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute
of Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So, the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas or
DEEPER it is an initiative that was promoted and approved
by the governor in twenty twenty five to allocate a
large amount of money to promote research related to Alzheimer's disease,
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including topics related to prevention, looking for cures, and providing
support for caregivers who provide care for persons with dementia.
So it's designed after Secret, which is another initiative from
the state of Texas that's focus on cancer and has
been focusing on cancer for many years now. So based
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on the success of the Secret Initiative, the legislation in
Texas thought that the next condition that they wanted to
target was dementia and that's where the DEEPER initiative came from.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Well, that's a good thing to have around. What's the
connection between DEEPRIT and ut Health Institute on Aging.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So doctor McCullough, who leads our Department of Neurology, has
been heavily involved in the process of framing the Deeper
initiative and supporting the initiative with the legislature and providing
evidence that we need to invest in things that can
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help us prevent dementia progression in Texas and find possible cures,
but also to support patients and families who are experiencing
dementia right now. So from the leadership at each Health Houston,
there is a large commitment on supporting this research and
moving the field forward.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And on the business side of this talk about because
I read a little bit about this deeper it is
putting about four billion dollars into this project, but that
is from what I read, a lot cheaper than the alternative, right.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So right now we're spending approximately twenty billion dollars per
year in providing care for persons living with dementia, and
that includes not only the management, the clinical management, but
also the support that they need and also the cost
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to families. So if four billion can help us significantly
move the feel forward and change the current status of
dementia and reduce the new cases and control the existing cases,
we're going to be able to save a lot of
money as a state.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
That's what the business world calls a good deal. Isn't
it yep, Doctor Raphael simper On fifty plus research shows
that Alzheimer's and other dementias are likely to spike as
more of us live longer, firing something of a preempty
strike against dementia. Does that kind of coincide with what
doctor Schultz and I talked about yesterday, about this new
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thing that potentially could reverse Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Correct, So doctor Schultz is one of the experts at
ut HEL and has been a pioneer in using and
trying new medications to reduce the burden of Alzheimer's disease.
And so there's a lot of research ongoing because we've
identified some molecules that change the progression of the disease,
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but there's still no final cure. So in the absence
of a cure, we're still working on identifying new medications.
But we're also increasing the attention that we put on prevention.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
And so the go ahead, I was going to say,
I saw something more about different too, about its support
for the care giving side of this. You mentioned it
a little bit, but how will what resources will be
available to caregivers of people with dementia through this program?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
So we don't know what resources are going to be
available yet because the Deeprive Institute has not been created,
but there are already resources out there, and so the
main drive within deeprint is to how do we make
those resources available to as many people as possible, but
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also finding other opportunities to improve the well being of
the caregivers while they provide the best care possible to
their loved ones with dementia.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Fantastic And while we've got a little time here, what
is exactly Hot Topics in Aging?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So Hot Topics in Aging is one of the main
activities that we organize at the ut Health Houston Institute
on Aging. We organize it every year to talk about
a key topic that is hot off the press of
sorts for that year. So last year we talked about
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a friendly care and this year, given Deeper, we're focusing
on dementia. So we're going to have a panel of
experts that is going to talk to us about not
only diagnosis of dementia, but also how to manage disruptive
behaviors that people with dementia could percent or the complexities
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related to care, and also how to support caregivers. And
then we're going to have a great keynote speaker, doctor
Suda Sahadri who's coming to us from San Antonio, and
doctor mccallaugh is going to close it and leverage everything
we learned that day and how we can leverage that
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for opportunities to advance research at UT Health Houston.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
It's going to be a lot of smart people in
that room.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Huh yep.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
So what when and where? I don't have a date
on this.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
So it's March thirteenth, all day from eight o'clock in
the morning to four to thirty pm in the Kooley
Center next to the School of Dentistry at UT Health Houston.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Fantastic. Is it open to the public.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
It is open to the public. There is a registration
link at the Institute on Aging website that people can
use to register, so we can get a headcount and
make sure that we will all fit in the room
and have what people will need that day to have
the best experience possible.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
How understandable would it be for me or will or
somebody who's not in your field to come in there
and learn and really understand what's coming out of everybody's mouth.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
So we've selected the speakers trying to keep everyone in mind.
Our advisory panel really forced us to think about the
whole spectrum. So there's going to be some things that
are going to be a little bit technical for clinicians,
but there's also going to be resources for caregivers and
people that are not necessarily in the healthcare field so
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they can learn and understand more about dementia and opportunities
for future benefits.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Yeah. I feel like I've learned so much from doctors
and other caregivers such as you and doctor Schultz and
all these people I've gotten to interview over over the
years I've been doing fifty plus and it really makes
me feel comfortable coming into a room like that. I'm
not gonna understand what you would, but I can at
least get enough where if I had to, I could
call you back and ask you a question. And I
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found the website for that too. It's ut h dot
E d U slash Aging slash about slash events and
that'll get them their wanting. Yep, fantastic. I hope some.
I hope this audience takes advantage of this. I understand
from from working with your group over there at ut
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Health Institute on Aging about how much that you guys
are truly wanting to fix all of us who are broken,
and I greatly appreciate that, Doctor Samper Holy colank you. Yes, sir,
thanks for your time. Thank you, uh huh bye bye, Okay,
let's take a break, shall we. That's yeah, really, I'm
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I'll mention that again in a couple of minutes to
make sure that everybody's got it. Maybe when we get
back from this break, because if you can, if you
can give up that day, March thirteenth, just cross it
off your calendar and checkbox going to ut Health Institute
on Agent Well, going down for that event. As I've
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case of maybe some exercise regimen to become habit. That's
important to making long term changes is getting started and
giving just kind of priming the pump, if you will.
If you do something for sixteen weeks, you're going to
see a lot of results, and they're going to make
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maybe do this together to make yourselves accountable and make
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Speaker 1 (20:10):
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 cod o wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Now that's loud, will Lordy Mercy, lorded Lordy Mercy. Okay,
speaking of loud music and moving into what something that
most of you probably already have heard, so I won't
dwell on it though. The Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation has released
its twenty twenty six list of seventeen nominees for induction
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into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later this year.
Here's the rundown. Okay, and just tell me if anything
stands out as unusual for the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame. Crows, Jeff Buckley, Mariah Carey, Phil Collins, Melissa Ethridge,
Lauren Hill Billy, Idol in Excess, Iron Maiden, Okay, Joy Division,
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New Order, New Addition, Oasis, Pink Charde, Shakira, Luther Vandross
and Wu Tang Clan Eligibility starts. I'll just go ahead
starts twenty five years after release of an artist or
band's first commercial song and play. It's a long time
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to wait, by the way, maybe a little too long
for some of the artists who abuse their bodies throughout
their careers. I would be willing to bet that some
of the people who are in the current Hall of
Fame didn't make it to the twenty five years, but
they were entered posthumously. I don't know how several of
these artists got on a list of all time great
rock and roll bands or singers. That the Foundation either
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to water down its name or have someone someone there
look up the definition of rock and roll before they
drop the twenty seven list. Or maybe there should just
be another Hall of Fame altogether, maybe the musical performers
Performers sorry, hall of Fame that would encompass anybody in
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everybody who could put classical musicians in there who died
two hundred years ago. Anyway, in news, behind recent student
walkouts and protests, somewhat ironically of the nationwide effort to
apprehend violent criminals who have killed and raped young Americans,
says being allowed into our country by the Biden bunch.
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Well Governor Greg Abbott says the Supreme Court rulings support
his stance that while students have a right to free speech,
which we all do, that right for students is not absolute.
They can't just walk away from school without facing consequences
that are going to take a lot a lot of people,
including teachers who encourage and participated in these protests. By surprise,
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Texas Education Administration Warren teachers about those consequences, which just
might be why those protests seem to have kind of
fizzled out. They may dislike ice, but probably not enough
to jeopardize their pensions. I would think that would be
a fair assessment. I've got that here, I've got this here.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
By the way, today is National Toast Day. In case
you wandered or care or both, probably not many do
you care about National Toast Day? Will? I don't either.
For the record too, it's not National Toasted Day. That
would be a very different day altogether. I would presume
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one small oversight, one giant mistake for mankind. I talked
to the only person who was sitting near me when
I was doing my prep work this morning, a woman
who's been here probably i'd say, the better part of
twelve years, maybe maybe a few more, an all female.
And I told her this, and she rightfully rolled her eyes.
(24:10):
I can't imagine how or why this happened if it
had happened in the seventies or the sixties, or maybe
even the eighties. Okay, in any event, an all female
space walk was canceled in twenty excuse me, in twenty nineteen,
just what seven years ago? Not that long ago? Because
(24:32):
NASA didn't have two women's space suits. That strike you
as somewhat odd. NASA the people who sent people to
the Moon with electronics and computing capacity far less than
what's in your phone today, and they didn't have a
(24:54):
backup suit. They didn't have two women's suits. They never
dreamed I guess back then that there would be two
women going on a space walk at the same time.
And I'm saying that kind of half jokingly. I'm sure
there was some some explanation. I was gonna say, a
reasonable explanation. I don't know what it would be, but
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in any event, that happened, and I got nothing against NASA.
I think that's one of the coolest places I've ever been.
And I've been down there when I was younger, especially
my dad had an inside connection to NASA, and he
had all kinds of memorabilia and he brought us little
souvenirs and stuff when he would go down there and
visit with these people. And we got a couple of
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walks through there as well when I was young. Let's see. Oh,
let me go back to kind of speaking of the
protests of ICE a minute and a half. That's it, Okay,
I can do this. This is easy. Under President Trump,
Health and Human Services has located one hundred and forty
five thousand of the unaccompanied children lost lost mind you
(26:01):
during the Biden administration, and sadly, thanks to the Left
and its shoddy procedures, many of those kids before they
were found were abused, worth mistreated. And in another little
quick footnote, in operation Metro Serve in Minneapolis, Minneapolis alone,
three thousand missing migrant children found there. These are kids
(26:25):
who were brought in just as kind of decoys to
get people who adults who wanted to come in have
a child. Oh yeah, well let the let the lady
with the child, and let the guy with the three
children and his wife in. And they were not those
people's children at all. Same operation, by the way, took
four thousand criminals off the street, adult criminals. Thank you
(26:47):
very much. Dem said it was. It said it all
when they refused, by remaining seated to put American citizens
over illegal immigrants. Any American who votes for the Democrats
in November should know that they are not a priority
among any of the members of Congress. I gotta take
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look around. That'll encourage you to go up there and
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of Cold Spring, kind of smack in the middle of
Texas and in the middle of some of the most
beautiful scener you'll ever see. Wait till spring if you want,
but by then the big deal is gonna be over.
Probably where you can get right now at least twenty
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thousand dollars off all their lots and pay no closing costs.
You buy it now, build a house on it tomorrow,
build later if you want to, don't build later. You
can hold on to it as an investment. Whatever you
want to do with it. It will be your land
country lifestyle, designed to last and design with amenities that
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will endure for decades to come. Whitetail Ranch tx dot
com is the website. Go check it out. Whitetailranch, TX
dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch. Okay, well,
I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty plus
continues here's more with Doug Hi.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Those there are some very
robust rejoins there will today thank you for those got
my blood cruising through my veins. Uh from the what
I have, like six or seven minutes something like that
sounds about right close enough. Just let me know when
I got about two okay, from the state that keeps
(29:01):
on Now, see that volume's going way way up for
some reason, I don't know what. From a state that
keeps on lowering the bar of criminal justice. California's Board
of Parole Hearings has declared one of the state's most
despicable child molesters now eligible for parole. This guy, he's
sixty four now, okay. Convicted on sixteen felony counts involving
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the abductions and sexual assault of children younger than seven
nineteen ninety nine. He was sentenced to more than twenty
years in prison plus three consecutive terms of twenty five
years to life. He should have never gotten out, but
thanks to California's elderly parole program, the board says, yeah,
(29:50):
if y'all want to let him out, let him out.
That doesn't mean he's getting out, But to even make
him eligible for parole, I bet that makes a lot
of people who were younger than seven in nineteen ninety
nine very uncomfortable now that they're in their thirties. The
Sacramento County DA guy named Dan Hoe criticized the board's assessment,
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saying this, and I quote, this defendant is the worst
of the worst, a child predator who lures, grabs, kidnaps,
and assaults children. He will reoffend and is a ticking
time bomb. End quote. California, Ain't none need to expect
anymore from that mud hole. Meanwhile, in Texas, a guy
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who spent nearly thirty years behind bars for a double
murder in nineteen ninety eight was executed this past month.
I don't understand why it takes that long. Honestly, I
just don't understand why it takes that long. But they
didn't ask me. New Jersey Governor Mikey Sheryl and her
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husband Jack but mostly her, were booed on versfully at
a hockey game that was the first for Olympic gold
medalist Jack Hughes and some of his teammates since they
got home. Cheryl was supposed to introduce and recognize Hughes
before the game, but fans let her know in no
uncertain terms what they thought about her in the way
(31:16):
she's running their state. I think they feel kind of
duped I think a lot of people are feeling duped
by the left and what's going on right now. I
still I go back to the I'll never It's burned
into my brain right now, the image when President Trump said,
if you're in favor of protecting American citizens before illegal aliens,
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stand up, and every Republican stood up, and every Democrat
sat down, didn't move. Not one of them had the
courage to go against the others because they know if
they if they crossed that bridge, they're gonna be that's
committing political suicide for them. They'll be pariased for the
rest of their careers they have any more career. On
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the heels of President Trump's address, news from the Department
Homeland Security that historic progress has been made in safeguarding
American soil from the staggering invasion we suffered under President Biden.
Secretary Christy Nome just this week said that in the
past thirteen months, nearly three million illegal aliens no longer
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in our country. About two point two million of them
left voluntarily. They left on their own because they were
offered if they did it on their own. Number one,
they got free passage, they were they booked the flights
for them, helped them out, gave them a little running
money to get home on or get wherever they were going,
and said, by the way, if you hang out for
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a little while and just wait, maybe you'll be given
a chance to return and become American citizens and do
it the right way. By the way, more than seven
hundred and thirteen thousand illegal immigrants were deported. We are
safer for them their departure, and we've still got a
long way to go. That's that's kind of the issue now.
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And every time we turn around, some Biden appointed judge
or Obama appointed judge throws a roadblock, throws a hurdle
out in front of President Trump. And in the effort
we're making to try to make this country safer, try
and like hell to make this country safer. In related news,
by the way, Department of Health and Human Services under
President Trump has located all those lost children, all those
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lost children, just like I said a little while ago.
All right. In local news. In the local news, rodeo
seasons here, trail rides are underway. Cookoffs around the corner.
Greatest rodeo on Earth headed our way. Time to dust off,
you dress boots if you have those, you know. I
see more people, honestly at the rodeo in in kind
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of beat up boots. Maybe it's their work boots. Maybe
they've just got that one pair of cowboy boots they
bought a long time ago and they just use them
year after year. But there are also lots of people
out there here in some really shiny, really been there
looking as Western as they can, despite being maybe officers
or CEOs of some big corporate conglomerate here in town.
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They are not scared to put some money into some
wardrobe for the rodeo. Time to get your hat reshaped
if it's lost its look sitting in the closet for
a year. Maybe polish up your favorite belt buckle, the
big one, not anything else. It's the only belt you
got that looks like that, probably And that's okay. Livestock
showing rodeo really quite the spectacle, honestly. But the best
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part of the rodeo is how much it contributes to
Houston and communities around here, millions upon millions every year
in scholarships and donations equipment. If you've never been, I
don't know why not, can't help but enjoy yourself at
the cookoff, the fair inside, watching all those cowboys and
cowgirls do the things that you won't believe until you
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see them in action, and you even get a concert.
There's that too. The rodeo is the cool part, as
far as I'm concerned. We're out of here. We'll be
back tomorrow. Thank you all for listening. Audios
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