The Flu and Trees

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Darlene Lawrence about the flu. Pike also speaks with Matt Petty about trees.

Episode Transcript

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and now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
All Right, Welcome to Friday, final leg of our weekly
five leg five day race to the weekend, which for
most of you will be filled with all kinds of
fun stuff. I have the luxury some days of getting
out of here a little bit early once I finished
the show at one. Most days I'm still here doing

(01:08):
things that I need to do, and there are a
lot of them around here. But every now and then
I'll get out. And late yesterday actually it wasn't until
almost five o'clock my friend Daniel Cook and I went
out to sample the fishing. I hate to do this
to you before the weekend, but I'm encouraged. I've been
so down on the status of these lakes. I get

(01:31):
to fish at a golf course. I played black Hawk
and so worried that the cormorants that have invaded the
place had just taken out virtually every fish in there.
But I'm regaining a little bit of confidence after yesterday's
performance of the fish. We caught a few baths. I

(01:53):
think it was three total between its two for me,
one for him, and maybe more than we also on
the same lures that we threw each of us. We
also caught catfish, We caught crappy, and we caught freshwater drum.
Not a lot of idyo those, but nonetheless, that's that's

(02:15):
a pretty good variety for a day that normally wouldn't
have been my favorite day to go fishing because it
was so clear and the pressure was so hot. So
that's enough of that. I'm sorry, I forgive me, but
I truly love fishing. I really do. It calms my soul.
It allows me to just detach from everything around me,

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and that's why I do it so much. To the
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clean that duct worker years so well that it won't
have to be cleaned again for a couple of years,
which is a pretty good deal. Cleaner air is healthier air.
That's what they always say, and I do too, So
we're pretty good Sunday through Sunday. Maybe around midday Sunday

(03:23):
there becomes this chance of rain. It's only twenty percent
officially for Sunday, and then a little more rumble and
a little more rumble on Monday when the percentage chance
goes to fifty. But before you cancel any plans, remember
that a fifty percent chance of rain is also a
fifty percent chance of dry. Temperature is good all the

(03:47):
way through lows in the sixties, highs in the seventies
to low eighties, all of which are very comfortable for
outdoor activity. It won't be long before we have to
start talking about mosquitoes, and I don't want to do that.
I don't want to have to talk about them, but
they are. They're just part of the landscape around here.
There's nothing you can do well. There are things you

(04:07):
can do to minimize your exposure to mosquitoes, but I
don't think it'd be possible to eliminate them altogether. That
ship sailed a long time ago. The markets courtesy of
Houston Goldexchange dot Com. The indicators were mixed when I
looked last They were all four down this morning, actually,
and not significantly, but enough that it caught my attention.

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And now it's two and two, and even the ones
that were most down are almost back to even from
where they started and trending upward. Oil sadly also trending upward,
but only by twenty cents of barrel, which that equates
to about no change at the pump. Really gold, this

(04:55):
one kind of surprised me a little bit. Gold fell
twenty three dollars, still trading well north of three thousand
dollars an ounced. I think it was thirty twenty when
I looked a few minutes ago, and that's that's still
a pretty dog on good price for ann ounce of goal. Ah,
what do I have here? Will three minutes? Hmmm, yes,

(05:20):
I'll do this. I'll do this. What a tangled web
we've woven in the United States, I wrote, when it
comes to educating our kids, there's a recent trend, actually
not too recents, since one case is dragged through Tennessee
courts for about three years now. The trend is lawsuits

(05:41):
being filed by illiterate students against their school districts, pretty
much saying, hey, you failed us. You didn't educate us
like you told us you would. And though every school
district in America has got its pluses and minuses, and
I'm afraid that in this century there's been a little

(06:01):
too much focus on social issues and too little focus
on the basics of education. Reading. It's a critical skill.
Math important in everyday life. I don't say that every
child needs to come out of high school fully immersed
in calculus and trig but simple math ought to be simple,

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and it ought to be easily done by pretty much anybody,
even if they don't have their phone or a calculator.
Basic math it gets you through paying your bills, it
gets you through creating a budget. That's an understanding that
all of us need to have the same with science.
We should all be not well versed, but at least
comfortable talking about science and the basic principles thereof. These

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aren't easy lawsuits to win according to the story I read,
but that a student would blame a school district for
his or her inability to read. That goes down a
lot of different paths toward probably far bigger problems. Some
of them originate in the home. I'm sure some of

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them originate with teachers who kind of get off track,
and it explains, I think, perhaps at least in part,
why our kids are falling behind those in other countries.
We are sadly nowhere near the top really in any
of the main things that are being talked to kids
around school or around the world. And I hope we

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can write that ship sooner rather than later, because this
is something else that our future depends pretty heavily upon,
is educated people coming into the world and being able
to run businesses and work for businesses and do everything
that Americans should be doing to make sure this country
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Speaker 1 (09:21):
Eight Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
All right, welcome back to fifty plus.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Thank you all for listening so very very much. In
this segment, we're going to talk about something most of
us have had at least once in our lives and
probably hope that we will never get again. And that
thing is the lou This season alone, CDC counts about
thirty three million cases, four hundred thirty thousand hospitalizations, and

(10:03):
nineteen thousand deaths. And to shed some light on dealing
with the flu, I'm going to welcome in doctor Darlene Lawrence,
board certified in family medicine and someone who knows a
whole lot about the flu, certainly lots more than any
of us I would imagine. Welcome to fifty plus.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
Thank you so much, s Doug for having me.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
So simple questions here? How do those thirty three million
cases this season stack up against previous years?

Speaker 4 (10:31):
So those numbers are really big, that you just said,
and they do stack up to be higher than in
recent previous years. I think part of that is because
people are sort of where going away from getting the
flu shot. They're so weary from getting all these shots
they had to get during the covid pandemic, and now

(10:53):
that the covid pandemic is sort of over their shoulder,
they're saying, hey, doc, let me skip out on the
flu shot this year. I'll come back next year. And
so that's ending up with us having way more cases
this year.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah, the flu shot in the covid shots very different things.
I don't care if you feel like a pincushion or
not that I don't mind getting that flu shot that
I don't want the flu I really don't not my age,
it is.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
Not a fun thing, so right, it is not the cold.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, no kidding. Looking at all those cases and bad outcomes,
what percentage of those thirty three million people, and given
what you just said too, what percentage of those people
would you guess were not vaccinated?

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Well, this year, probably more than fifty percent of them
were not vaccinated, and so that is a really big number.
And the problem is that so many of them were
over the age of fifty. So easy to go get
your flu shot and decrease your chances of getting the
flu or at least getting less severe symptoms.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, you know, honestly, I've been getting that shot for
a lot of years now, and I can't help but
think it's saved my bacon more than once. And I know,
like you said, COVID vaccine spooked a lot of people.
I get that, But what is it that really makes
people hesitant? It's not just getting another shot. There's got
to be something more to it than that. Do you
know how any idea what that might be.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
I think some of it has to do with them
not having such faith that the flu shot is going
to stop them from getting the flu and that and
some of that comes from them waiting later into the
season to finally go ahead and get it. Well, they've
already been exposed to the flu. You have to have
your flu shot in your system for about two weeks

(12:38):
before it really provides you protection. So that early fall
time is the great time to get it before the
flu actually reaches your region. But even now, even in March,
it's not a bad idea to get a flu shot
because the flu season is going to go all the
way through the end of April.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yea.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Honestly, the flu cases year round, correct if I'm wrong,
And for anybody who thinks the beginning of spring triggers
some magical immunity to it, it's not. So let me
ask you this, what subsets of people should really think
about doing that more than others? And I know you
said fifty plus, which is this audience basically anybody else

(13:19):
on that list.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
Yes, definitely children. So we are really concerned about the
health of children, parents and grandparents, and those children who
are in the whole shot series phase of their life
between the ages of six months all the way up
until sixteen, they are going to be the ones who

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are going to get the flu from school, okay, from
daycares and from school, and so they're being exposed more
and they are also prone to get sick and actually
even be a part of those four hundred and thirty
some thousand who are being admitted to hospitals. We've even
had who've died from the flu.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
We think about kids as being pretty pretty bounced back,
you know, they get sick and they get well, and
they get sick and they get well, but apparently that
more of them end up in the hospital than we
would like. Obviously, are there any medical reasons that somebody
shouldn't get a flu shot.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Only if you are absolutely allergic to the vehicle, the
actual liquid that the flu vaccine is carried in. But
other than that, we want our pregnant ladies to get
the flu vaccine, we want our elders, we want those
who have immuno compromise. So there are different formulations of

(14:42):
flu vaccine, and they if you are getting a live
flu vaccine, which we don't even have this year, but
we've had it in the past in the form of
flu mist, you don't want to have someone who has
an immuno compromise, But everyone can get the killed vaccine.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Douc Darling Lawrence on fifty plus. Here there's a lot
of misinformation about the flu and pretty much about every
other human condition floating around online. What I mean, honestly,
you can't throw a rock without hitting some crazy story.
What are one or two of the most common myths
about preventing serious complications from the flu.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
One of the myths is that if you get if
you get a cold, it's not the flu, and if
you have a cold, it's going to be fine, You're
going to be protected from getting the flu. Well, the
cold is very different you're going to have a running nose,
some sneezing, maybe even feeling a little fever now and then.

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But if you have the flu, you're talking really serious
symptoms with chills, fever, shortness of breath. Sometimes in the kids,
they're getting nausea and vomiting. This can lead to problems
with you having pneumonia or bronchitis, and that's that's when
it's going to lead you to the hospital. This difference
between the common cold and the flu causes a lot

(16:01):
of misunderstanding, and there's not only misunderstanding, but just a
lot of information that's out there. When you have so
much information that's out there, it can be difficult to navigate.
And so we want to talk to your local physician,
talk to your local pharmacists at the store, and see
what they have in the way of information to give
you about this flu season.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Doctor Darling Lawrence on fifty plus here, I think a
lot of that misinformation gets translated as wishful thinking. Oh
and I hope it's a cold, and they don't go.
It's very hard to get in to see a physician
during flu season. Is it a good idea to go
just go to one of the little quick clinics at
the drug store to at least get it diagnosed correctly.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
Absolutely, and it's not that hard to get into the
physician during flu season. We are pumped up and ready
to see you.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
We want you to come.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
But also you definitely can go to your corner pharmacy,
your corners proprietory pharmacy or local pharmacists and get that
flu shot and get that patient information sheet that will
give you information about the flu. You can also go
to websites. Yes, I'm going to tell you to go
on the computer.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
What's your favorite one?

Speaker 4 (17:13):
What's the best familydoctor dot org? Familydoctor dot org. I'm ready.
It's a great place and they actually have information a
whole section about flu and it includes guide to the
Flu vaccine where you can find information and safety. And
when you go there, I don't want you to go

(17:34):
down a rabbit hole and stay on there forever because
there's so much good information. So for this week, just
get the information on the flu and then head your
way to get a flu shot.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
What else were gonna look at while we're laid up
with the flu doc? Holy cow, We'll just read the
whole website. We could.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
You can so if you get laid up with the flu,
make sure you've.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Talked to your doctor first.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
Sometimes there's things that we can do to help you
get over some of those symptoms a little bit quicker.
And then yeah, start reading through that website so you
can find ways to stay healthy.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Familydoctor dot Org. Doctor Darlene Lawrence, thank you so much
for your time. I really appreciate it. This was fun.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
You have a good day you too. Bye bye. All right,
we gotta take a little break here on the way out,
I'm going to tell you all about UT Health Institute
on Aging. Ut Health Institute on Aging was started more
than ten years ago, maybe twelve by now, I think,
by a woman named doctor Carmel Dyer, whose mission in
life was to create a collective of healthcare providers from

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every facet of that who, in addition to getting the
training they needed to get their diploma, get their credentials,
have gone and gotten additional training as to how they
can apply what they know specifically to seniors. And that
is a tremendous advantage that seniors have when they need

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Speaker 1 (19:54):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
for goods and spring on a fresh coat of wax.
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome

(20:18):
back to Pitchy Plaus.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. I'm dougies Will
and we are gonna talk in this segment. You know,
just yesterday. Actually remember this will We learned that most
of us who have entered the twilight zone of seniority,
if God gives us the time, we're probably gonna get allergies,
and we're usually gonna develop them to stuff in the
air like the yellow plague that some people call pollen,

(20:42):
which is falling in heaps from every oak tree in
my yard and gonna go right into my head. As
soon as I get home again to answer some questions
about trees and pollen and storm season and other tree
related stuff, I'm gonna enlist again. Matt Petty, certified ARBORUS
with Davy Trees here in Houston. Welcome back, Matt.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Doug, you bet so right up front here. When developers
plant those little oak trees in brand new neighborhoods, they're
essentially setting up me and my folks for some really
rough spring times, aren't they.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh my gosh. The City of Houston just put out
a report on the amount of polling in like a
five foot by five foot at the airspace, and earlier
in March the counts were like in the two hundreds.
As of yesterday, the count was eight thousand palling per particles.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
So that's how many in my nose right now. As
a matter of fact, you and me both gosh, and
this didn't happen to me. Just a quick aside, This
didn't happen to men till I was in my fifties,
and it really it really irks me. Most of us
like trees, though, and those big oak trees make it
hard to grow grass and clog up our sinuses. And
what other trees would you recommend for this climate that

(21:50):
don't maybe shed as much pollen, don't suffocate the grass,
And can it help God forbid withstand up an occasional hurricane.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Point on that is, we do our due diligence on
trying to reduce the pall account, but our neighbors don't
pallen flies for you know, miles away. So heeck I
just drive through West Texas and get cedar fever. I
mean it could be anyway, yeah, point, if you want
to try, you could go with cherries, You could go
with you know, your pecans. You go with something that

(22:22):
has a little bit uh you ever see like when
you're walking around the neighborhood and you see these little
called cakings, they look like these little worms that are
hanging on the tree. Yeah, so stay away from trees
that put out those little cakins because that's where the
paul is being produced. On your oaks or maples or elms,
the carms seem to be a little bit better. But
like I said, you know, I get asked this question

(22:43):
every spring, what can I do? I had one very
nice customer telling me, Hey, I want to cut down
these oak trees in my yard because my allergies are
kicking my butt. Well, guess what, You're cutting your trees down,
but your neighbors aren't, so it doesn't do any of it.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
That's kind of a very parallels kind of global warming almost.
If we if we do something here, that's great, but
if our neighbors around the world don't do it, it's
not gonna do as much good.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
But every time I see that African dust come across,
it makes me think about that.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah. I have no problem with African dust, I really don't.
I have no.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Problem about the Chinese smug Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah. Big trees drink a lot of water too, don't they.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Oh? Yes, the four Servers put out in an article
a couple of years back, I says about ten to
twelve gallons of water for every inch of diameter. Oh
my word, you got a twenty inch tree. I could
drink about two hundred gallons of water a week in
the summer. So yeah, they're drinking it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
The trees in my neighborhood now are twenty five thirty
years old. I've been in my house thirty two years
and these are big trees. Of all the trees at
the tree stores, Matt, are there any ones you would
recommend other than I thought cherry trees. By the way,
I'm gonna I'm gonna get away from this, but I
will ask you. I thought cherry trees were more of
a northern, colder climate tree.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yeah, you can get a southern like a Carolina cherry
and put it here in this area. They're heavily bird
planted and uh, you know the Bayous and other areas.
But you can go to plenty of farms or nurseries
and pick up like a loyal cherriot. So they're one
of the few ones that are evergreen. So they act
as good screening and they're also good for you know, pollinators.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
And I like the evergreen idea right now because we're
just we're breaking leaves like nobody's business. The actually produce economy.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
If Houston growing going crazy with the oil markets going
back up, and I have to have some sort of.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Screen time, maybe we're gonna burn that of oil. Guess
do these trees actually produce cherries? Because there are like
six and a half seven dollars a pound in the.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Store, man, So stay away from eating from the Carolina
loyal cherry. They actually have a little bit of Strycht
nine in them. Oh gosh, all right, good, be fine,
but don't don't feed into the dog.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
And for somebody who's maybe thinking about wanting to draw
butterflies or humming birds or something like that, what are
your front runners for the pollinators in the neckar zippers?

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Well, you know, most of them like what we call
tree forms or shrubs couple, it's a little bit smaller.
You know, your oaks are gonna track, you know, So
the oaks, instead of being pollinators, are good hosts for
when they're ready to transition their larval stage. And so
you know, when the butterflies are flying around and laying
eggs and then you know, going through the larva and
then you know, transition into their metamorphosis. Oaks are good

(25:35):
for that. But in terms of actual you know, butterflies
flying around looking through food. It's gonna be a lot
of your tree forms or shrubs, so milkweed and you know,
smaller flowering plants.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Enough Matt Petty from Davy Trees on fifty plus here,
while there's still time before storm season, talk about making
sure our trees are strong and healthy. What are we
looking for that would tell us the trees in decline.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Well, what I like to do is I compare trees
for one next to the other. So I look at
my neighbor's trees. I look at my trees. I look
at the top, middle, and the bottom. I break them
into three different quadrants, and then I look at lea sized,
dense The color shape, you know, is the tree uniform
from the top to the bottom. It how's my tree?
Look at my neighbors as everybody's kind of looking the same.

(26:21):
If I notice that there's some variations when we play
that game, one thing's is one thing is not like
the other thing that you should call on arborist, having
them come out and take a look.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
I may send you a picture of a tree in
my neighborhood right next to where the community mailbox is.
It looks like it's on its last legs, like it's
going to fall on somebody's car tomorrow afternoon, if not
before that. Yeah, I may send you a picture. Now,
you guys do come out and do free consultations.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Right, Yeah, that's right. Davy Free is one of a
few companies will come out and do a free inspection
and evaluation and no trucks.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Are That's a very good thing. And I saw something
at the website about the Talking Trees podcast. How how
often does that come out?

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Davy Tree is a you know, international company. We got
off pretty much in every major American city. So you're
gonna get one of those talking points probably weekly. They
got them on Facebook or the YouTube or you know
any of the things that the Twitter or any of
those things that the new generations use. But yeah, you
can go online and find it. Any good talking points
in davy dot com.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Matt Petty here. So when you're driving around neighborhood we're
almost out of time, But I got to ask this question.
You're driving around neighborhoods, traffic's pretty light. Are you looking
for sick trees the same way I'm looking for golf
courses and places to fish.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
I definitely have my neck creamed up with so I
got a degree in forestry and out of school. Somehow
my neck got stuck permanently looking up and as I
drive or walk or do whatever I'm doing. Yeah, I'm
always looking out for trees or headaches or widow makers.
And I do my best to try to make people aware.
You know, the worst thing we could ever hope for

(27:58):
is someone to have another Greg Abbott situation them.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
You know, the parallel for me actually is not the
fishing and golf courses. Want to think about it. As
a writer for forty something years, it's typos. And if
there's a typo on a restaurant menu, I can see
it from across the room. They just jump out at me.
It just drives me crazy. Anything I pick up in print,
if there's anything wrong grammatically or spelling wise, it's gonna

(28:23):
jump at me. Matt once again, a pleasure, my friend.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Anytime Doug send me what you need, you bet.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, I may send you that picture so I can
get this. This house is for sale, that's what spooks me.
I don't think they're gonna do anything to it, so
maybe we can encourage it.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
I always hesitant where I park because the first thing
I do is I look to see is something gonna
fall on my tree?

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Now there's something else I gotta look at all right? Man, Hey,
thanks Matt, I see definitely Audios. That's a good guy
right there. And Davy trees. Just like he said, they
will come out. They'll send an arborus to your house
to look at all your trees and do a consultation
for you and see what's up. Maybe make a suggestion,
maybe tell you you're doing it exactly right. Who knows. We

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are gonna take a little break here. We will be
back to wrap up this Friday edition of fifty plus
in just a few minutes. More of fifty plus coming
up on a nine fifty k p RC Old guys
rule and of course women never get old. If you
want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. All right, welcome back.
Final segment of fifty plus for this week starts right now.

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Thank you all for listening. You're gonna scratch that out.
I want to come back over to here and look
for some things that I really want to get to today.
We talked about that. That's okay. From the katching desk
by way of USA, today comes the story of Amir Khan.
Do you know who that is?

Speaker 5 (30:08):
Will?

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Amir Khan? Amir Khan. Yeah, that's a man's name, young man.
You don't know. You're typing frantically over there, aren't you.
He is the manager of the McNeese State Cowboys. Oh
I thought he was a British boxer. No, that's not
the right, amer Kan. He's the team's manager, Will, and

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he's described by team members as the pretty much the
background or backbone excuse me, backbone of the whole crew,
indispensable teammate in his own right. And the good news
for Amir Khan is that he's the first team manager
ever to earn an NIL deal. He's he's making bank.

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Is it bank or bag? These days? How do they?
How do the young people just you get a bag,
but you make bank? Okay, Well, he's getting bags and bank.
He's being courted actually by several other companies after this
first deal, and they're big names. I'm not gonna mention them.
You'll see them on TV soon enough. They're not gonna
get a free plug from me. So even if you

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can't shoot threes or hit home runs or throw touchdown passes,
you too, young people can still cash in on college sports,
which is great, honestly, more power to him. Too bad.
The same type of recognition isn't yet offered to young
adults who do other amazing things and don't take their
clothes off to earn it. That's a boy. That's another

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story all in itself. Different kind of fans there. I guess, well,
let's go to the fun stuff, because there's a lot
of it today and I don't want to drag anybody
down anymore. Who's got time to count spring cleaning or
beam me up?

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Beat me up? Beat me up? Is gonna This includes
a pop quiz and you sorry, you picked it, not me.
There's a list of states now with the highest This
is so bizarre in waste of time, but it's bizarre
enough it's bizarreness overrides its waste of timeness. So there's

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a list of states out now. I don't know who
came up with it that have the highest likelihood of
an alien abduction. Guess which state was number one? Will
the most most likely place where you might be abducted
by an alien. Oh hi, uh no, forty nine more guesses?
Will oh? Man, I'll give you two more. Okay, No,

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you're not gonna get it. You can't give me a hint.
Is it in the Is it in what region? Is
it in west? The western half of the United States?

Speaker 5 (32:57):
Western half? So you're not even gonna western quarrider the Midwest.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
I didn't say that. I said the western quarter to
the west coast. I didn't say that either it could
be or it could not be. Okay, yes, I'll give
you a chance. Pick one of those three states on
the west coast. Okay, which one is it? Oregon? No,
it's California. There is no way that aliens would drop

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down and if they understood anything about about this world,
that they would look at California's and go, yeah, we
want to study those guys. Now, you know where the
least logical place is that you might be abducted by
an alien? If they're out there, I think there. I
think there is other intelligent life out there, and I
have room in my in my world, in my brain

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for that, and the support of my religious beliefs too,
So I can make peace with both sides of that.
Guess who's dead last will whose dead lives? Louisiana? Yeah,
do you know what it was? In second place? Florida. Now,
I believe that maybe maybe the aliens are kind of

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coastal people. They like the beach, so they've got California.
What the Louisiana and Florida, I know, but not oceanic coastline,
Gulf of Mexico coast. You gotta deal with the Mississippi
River and all that. All right. Tip of the day,
pet Peeve, are keeping up with the Joneses? Uh, pet Peeve,

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this one, this one is a real deal, and I'm
glad I'm getting to talk about it. Scammers in Washington
State and probably pretty soon coming to a phone near you,
are praying on the owners whose pets have gone missing.
They call the number on the flier, They claim to
be from a shelter nearby and say they need money

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right away for emergency care for your pet and want
it to be sent digitally. That would kind of raise
the flag for me. You know, I'm gonna rush over there.
You go ahead and get started, and I'm gonna rush
over and write your check as soon as I see
my precious little dog or cat or bird or whatever.

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Would you would you think about this? Honestly? Would you
maybe fall for something like that? I don't know, No,
because I know where my dogs are.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
No what if? No?

Speaker 2 (35:24):
But see they prey on people whose dogs are missing.
So you got the posters up on the signs on
the light poles and mailboxes. My dogs would never go
miss it. They love me too much. Yeah, yeah, open
the door. I'm telling you, sit on the couch. They

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love me too much. They know where they're bread's buttered.
Open the door. Keep it up with the Joneses wheel
in the menu, or exactly exactly the perfectly round one
in a billion an egg sold in an auction for
how much will it's got? Pop quiz? Got to be

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so stinky? It's perfectly round, though a one in a billion,
perfectly round? Yes, perfectly. It's still in the shell. It's
not like they just cracked it and said this used
to be around. You gotta prove it.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
I'm gonna say to get the bag. The bag, I'll
say ten thousand dollars, only five hundred bucks. It's an egg,
will egg? I don't know the way that you're saying
it's being sold at.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
An auction that tricked you. Trick you will. So that's
six thousand dollars a dozen. And the good thing we
change administrations, or we'd probably be looking at that in
h g b oh my word. Oh, here's a here's
a public service announcement for snack lovers. Are you ready
for this one?

Speaker 5 (36:53):
Will?

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yeah? If you open your bag of chips? How do
you open your bag of chips? Just gonna pull part
the talk? Yes, if you'll turn it upside down and
open it there, it redistributes all the seasoning throughout the
entire bag. Never think of that. Well, why don't I
just turn it upside down and then turn it back

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shake it up? Why not? I saw something interesting the
other day. I don't know if it's true, but this
guy put an egg in a in a kind of
a wet towel and rolled it up very tightly and
then just kind of spun it around with both hands
and just made it go round and around and so
to scramble it. Yeah, and it does work, but this
guy not to scramble it. He hard boiled it, and

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you end up with a yellow, hard boiled mush of
white and yolk. It didn't look it didn't look tasty
at all. No, not at all. You got twenty seconds,
I know, and that's where I'm trying figure out where
I want to go. Oh pop quiz? How much did
the two stranded astronauts get paid extra for being up

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there forever to fifty thousand, five bucks a day? Five
bucks a day. I would never go back, would you?

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (38:07):
All right, Well, I'll be back tomorrow morning on Sports
Talk seven ninety at seven o'clock. I'll be back here
next Tuesday at noon. Thanks for listening, Audios