Tick Talk

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Philip Lamptey about managing tick risk to continue living a healthy outdoor life.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
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(00:43):
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, here we go this episode of fifty plus.
You had another edition. The only show that I know that,
at least in these parts. God, that's an old fashioned saying,
isn't it, At least around here in this region, Maybe
in the state, I'm not sure. The only radio show
at least I know of that's dedicated to the interests

(01:05):
and needs of seniors. And by senior I mean someone
who's lived awhile, somebody who knows the ropes, as we
also say, somebody who's had highs and those and everything
in between, and that has less a connection to age
necessarily as he or she does to just life experience.

(01:29):
I know people in their late thirties who are qualified
already by life experience to be part of this fifty
plus audience. We've got wisdom and knowledge, and well, that's
redundant wisdom and experience far beyond their years. And I'm
grateful to every one of them, and to all of
you who are twice that age or maybe even more

(01:51):
were giving me a listen here on fifty plus. It's
also the only episode of fifty plus in twenty twenty five,
by the way, that will air on a Friday the thirteenth.
This is the only one of these in the entire year.
You worried about Friday the thirteenth, will never the other
way I look at it. If a few things go wrong,

(02:13):
how would I know that it was just because it
was Friday the thirteenth? How would I know that it's different?
Just said everybody, Everybody who who's lived a hot minute,
everybody who's not being totally taken care of by somebody else,
experiences ups and downs through every day. Some are just

(02:33):
smaller than others. Some people worry about it more than others,
but that's just part of getting through this day and
getting on to the next. I'm not worried about it. Either.
I'm really not. Uh, there was an awful lot going
on this past week and all over the country too.
I was somewhat disappointed that California was allowed to be
burned and pillaged by paid agitators. I'm reading more and

(02:55):
more about the guy who's who's bank rolling all of this.
He doesn't even live in this country from what I've read,
and he is. He is a full on non democracy,
a democracy hating person who is far more fond of
either Marxism or Maoism or communism or any one of
those isms that it has nothing to do with the

(03:18):
way we live our lives here trying to break it down.
And he's got the money to do it too. It's
very frustrating he's paying for it apparently. And I mean
even more disappointed really that the city and the state
over there, have all the people who run those, the
officials in those in California and Los Angeles, just allowed
it to happen, even suit the federal government for stepping

(03:41):
into help restore peace. That's just mind boggling. Ethan Breton,
one of the reporters over on KTRH, young guy really
really got a brilliant future in journalism. In broadcast because
he does his homework. He doesn't believe anything that anybody
tells him until he can corroborate it. And that's gonna

(04:04):
serve him well, it really is. It's gonna serve him
very well. He and I were talking this morning, and
what he said is basically that this is gonna keep
happening in California. It's never gonna change now because almost
every Conservative, every Republican in the state has moved away.

(04:24):
They're gone. All that's left is people, well left, people
who don't care about anything but themselves. In the the
dozens of ways they pretend to be something they're not.
They pretend they can save the whole planet for starters,
by the way, from something something that's not really even happening.
They pretend to be different, They pretend to do this,

(04:45):
they pretend to do that, and they despise and and well,
the old phrase was canceled. Pretty much anybody who dares
to think otherwise, their minds are not open. Their minds
are very closed. And I think that that's a big
part of that party's issues right now is that they

(05:06):
don't they don't allow any outside thought to creep in.
They don't want to be challenged on anything that they
put out as the official position, whatever that may be.
And unfortunately, enough people still in the rest of the
state or in the rest of the country, in the

(05:27):
other forty nine states, including many of the ones that
are still very very blue, there are enough people from
both sides that it kind of balances out. And I
think that's not an unhealthy thing for the country to
have some red states in some blue states. I prefer
Texas to the other forty nine and the only two

(05:52):
or three I can really think I might enjoy living
in other than Texas are the same color as the state.
That's just how I am right now. I'm conservative. I've
lived long enough to watch so much more of my
money get taxed and taken for. Everything you touch now
gets taken away by tax money. A little bit here,

(06:14):
a little bit there. You get taxed on your income,
federal tax on your income, some state income taxes, which
I don't know why how those states can do that
with a straight face, but they do. So you get
taxed on your income, you get taxed on anything you buy,
you get taxed on anything you Yeah, you're gonna get

(06:35):
taxed on capital gains you're gonna get tax there's about
one hundred bazillion different to eat. Buy gasoline, you get taxed.
You buy clothes, you get taxed. You buy anything out
of the hardware store, you pay tax on it. The
government's gonna get its little piece, well it used to
be a little piece. When most of this audience knows

(06:57):
that already. Will may not be aware, I'm not sure,
but when the income tax was first proposed and put
into place, it was supposed to be temporary. It wasn't
something that the government was going to count on forever
and ever and turn into thirty some odd trillion dollars
in debt. That's not what it was supposed to be.

(07:20):
So but it is, and and we'll get through this,
we will. All right, Let's go ahead and take this
first break of the program. Will what would you like
me to tell them about? First, let's tell them about
champion trees. You know that happens to be right here
on top of the top of the pile. If your
trees haven't been checked in. Let's call it three four years.

(07:44):
That that puts a couple of storms in there, puts
some really cold weather in there, put some really hot
weather in there, all of which over time can damage
the roots, damage the root system of these big, giant,
beautiful trees you have in your yard, and render them
susceptible to being toppled or just slammed down by a

(08:05):
major storm. Which is the season we're coming into now.
It's gonna get worse before it gets better. We don't
know whether we're gonna get a storm, but if we do,
Champions Tree can come out and check all your trees.
They'll send an arburist out there for you so that
you know that your trees can withstand pretty much whatever
nature throws our way, because if they can't, there's a

(08:28):
chance they might wind up on your roof, on your cars,
on your neighbor's property, which is a whole different ball
of wax and big hornet's nest that's gonna stir up.
The arborists at Champions Tree are gonna come out. They'll
diagnose the health and well being of your trees. If
there's anything that needs to be done, anything from just

(08:49):
a feeding program to maybe a change in your watering schedule,
maybe lopping off some limbs, or maybe taking the whole
tree out. They'll give you an honest assessment of those
trees and let you know exactly what needs to be
done so that they are to the best benefit for you,
no matter what that means, No matter what that means.

(09:10):
Champions tree dot com. Give them a call, get that
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they used to.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Man. There's so much going on in the world right now.
Over in the Middle East. All hell's broken loose in
this country, All hell's broken. Oh look at you. You
got the you found it. Will Melbourne found the US Open.
I want to be peeking. JJ's fawns still at four
under par. That's what he shot yesterday. He's pared the

(10:08):
first on today's round. Sam Burns threw up a little
sixty five. That's two under par. By the way, it's
a par seventy layout. It ought to be about par
eighty and there just aren't that many people. There aren't
that many men under par in this tournament, and that's
exactly what the USGA wanted. I think they went a

(10:29):
little overboard. Frankly this morning when I looked fairly early,
there were only twelve or thirteen guys I think maybe
fifteen tops, and with most of the field either on
the course or still licking their wounds from yesterday, there
were only a dozen in change if that, at even
par or better, not just under par, but at even

(10:51):
par better. So it truly is going to be a
test for the ages. I hate to use cliche stuff
like that, but it's it's gonna be tough. And there
was some legitimate carnage yesterday as expected. Exactly what Billy
ray Brown told me when he called me two nights
ago and said, hold on tight, I've been walking on

(11:14):
in that golf course. I've been walking around with Rory
and he walked with Shane. Shane Lower and Roy played
a practice round I think it was Friday, and Billy
ray walked with them and he told me it was
it was even worse than it looked on television, even
worse than some of the descriptions beforehand. It's good luck

(11:35):
to them all. They're gonna be just cringing. A lot
of them morning, probably want to want to I won't
want to go back out there on Sunday morning if
they make it through the cut and through Saturday, because
they're not going to make it easier on Saturday. The
number eight hole is a part three. It's a part three, okay,

(11:56):
and it's playing it anywhere from about two eighty five
to I think on Saturday, it's gonna play three to
oh one, just so they can say they did it,
just so they can say there's a three hundred yard
par three hole. The only way that most of us
could reach that green in one would be if they

(12:18):
modified the golf course so that the tea was about
I don't know, one hundred feet higher than the green
and just give that ball a little more airtime to
keep traveling forward. Because I don't know about you, but
there was a time when I had that strong a swing.
But that time was way back in the rear view mirror,

(12:40):
probably back to when I invested good money in a
per Simon head for a driver. Those who are going on. Oh,
here's a putt that may go off the green. Watch
this will watch how farthest ball rolls and not so
already not going anywhere near the hole. Oh, you have
to speed pretty well. If it stops, still has stopped. Yeah,

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the greens rolling at a If you understand what the
Stemp meter is, you'll understand this number and be amazed
by it. Probably fourteen and a half. Fourteen and a
half on the greens. That means they're putting like putting
on a pool table. But I digress. I could spend
all day talking about golf. I love this tournament. I

(13:23):
do think they overdid it though this time. I really do.
So what I'm gonna try to do here is stay
within the good news of the world and of the country.
And I've got a fairly good collection of stuff to
talk about. I think between the good news and the
comedic relief that these little short things I have, the

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short stories I gather every day can generate, we can
make it through the rest of the hour of that
and at the bottom of the hour, we're gonna be
talking to doctor Philip Lamptey, who is an expert in ticks.
And if you saw my Facebook post. A little while
ago I talked. I said that in the twelve thirty segment,

(14:08):
it'll be TikTok, not TikTok where there are some really
crazy challenges being put up lately, by the way, some
of them dangerous, But this will be TikTok. I guess
that's kind of the sound of clock makes were in
Great Britain. Maybe No, that TikTok?

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Not about right? Will? I don't think so dropped the
top off my pen, and I'm all concerned. Oh well,
I'm never I'm not really that concerned about it. So
I'll bail on it. Got that? Got that. Let's start
the good news. How much time do I have? Will
you have four and a half minuts?

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Go ahead, good, good, good, because I'm gonna start with
a program in Baltimore that is helping to restore many
many homes there when there are the big number of
one hundred year old town homes. I didn't even know
they had town homes one hundred years ago. I think
this is some Maybe they call them town homes now.
They would have been what brownstones that would be in

(15:09):
New York, right, will Row houses? Yeah? Okay, they had
to take a bunch of them out in Baltimore because
they needed a new Amtrak tunnel. And okay, I get that.
It's progress, it's moving into the future. And all these

(15:29):
homes coming down had all kinds of things. They were bought.
The people who owned them were bought out. They got
handed giant checks, I guess from Amtrak for walking away
from their home. They packed up their belongings, uh some
more than others, and moved on with their lives. And
what was left behind is a ton of stuff of legitimate,

(15:53):
in some cases significant value. And so the company in
charge to the demolition and the city and a storage
warehouse and a bunch of other people got together and
got the workmen who were demolishing all this to very
carefully extract the doors, the windows. There were hundreds of

(16:17):
modern appliances in there, microwaves, sinks, banisters, and now anybody
who wants to can go in there and shop for
those items. What's left of them. They got picked over
pretty quickly and get them at an incredible discount. And
the people who lived in a near or who still
live in a nearby underserved community were allowed to take

(16:41):
whatever they needed at no charge. All that stuff they
were given free. I think it's fantastic. I think it's
a great idea. I think we should think about doing
that here in Houston and in Texas and pretty much
all over the country. Just recycle, recycle what can be recycled.
Similar programs I read about in Belgium. These urban miners

(17:03):
they call him over there, go into condemned buildings and
pull the lumber, pull the bricks, pull the tile, pull
the stone. Stuff that can be reused and will last
another one hundred years or two or three. One man's trash,
I guess, really can be another man's treasure. Right from
the Lost and Found Desk minute and a half? Will
am I guessing?

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Right?

Speaker 3 (17:24):
You have two minutes? Okay? Good? From the Lost and
Found Desk, Arizona, teenager fourteen year old kid named Cody
Chalmers finds a wallet in the street on May second,
had credit cards in it, also had three hundred dollars
in cash in it, and Cody, because he was raised right,
Cody brings the thing home. He and his mom used

(17:45):
an ida in the wallet to find a phone number
for this owner of the wallet, and the man was
reunited with his wallet and his money and everything that
had been in it. Cody's just a good kid, and
by the way, he would have been tempted, had he
been not so well raised, perhaps to take some of

(18:06):
that money, because he'd been saving up and saving up
and saving up for a cool electric dirt bike that
he desperately wanted.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
And his mom.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
His mom put up a bost post just about his
how her son was so honest and did a good
deed and whatnot. And somebody who saw that post understood
and had had the extra cash to pony up the
full thirty five hundred dollars and buy that kid a

(18:37):
dirt bike. I thought that was pretty cool. I really did.
It just goes to show you there's a there's a
sad saying, an adage that no good deed goes unpunished.
But I think that more good deeds are rewarded than punished.

(18:57):
I genuinely do. Or we had a time, yes, okay,
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(21:01):
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Speaker 1 (21:06):
If I suggest to go to bed, leave it off,
just wait until the show's over.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Sleepy.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues, Welcome back to
fifty plus.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Thank you very much for listening today. Most of us
who love walking in the woods and being outdoors, at
some time in our lives either already have or probably
will encounter a tick, maybe on your arm, maybe on

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your leg, maybe on your foot, maybe on whatever they
go where they want to go. Ticks are they're much
rarer encounters than those maybe with fire ants or mosquitoes,
and they're also a little trickier to deal with. And
to help with that, I'm going to bring in doctor
Philip Lampty, a member of Memorial Health go Health Urgent

(21:57):
Care and currently studying more at Harvard Medical School. Welcome aboard,
Dr Lempty.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
All right, welcome, Thank you for having me.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
I greatly appreciate it. So let's first of all, let's
talk about kind of winning where we're most likely to
encounter ticks down here in the South. What is there
a season for ticks or are they just always out
there but more people are in the woods in the
warm months.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, so takes become very active in the warm month,
So you can think about late spring to Ellie fall,
that time frame when the weather is warmer, takes become
very active and they mainly are in areas like wooded
trails when they have tall grasses. Even bakiyaks with dance

(22:44):
vegetation may have takes, you know, aggregats in there and
also with leaf piles. But I know that some of
our kids and grandkids like to play in those sea shore.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Is there is there a an equal chance of encountering
ticks in suburban neighborhoods as there is in the woods,
or are they mostly restricted to wilder areas if that's
a good term for that.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Wait, some of the neighborhoods that are have desert education,
you could still come It's a likelihood that you could
still come into contact with a ticks and areas where
there's a lot of wood piles. If there's a new
construction area and they're getting a lot of wood and
tall grass out of the area, and you happen to

(23:36):
live by news kand of neighborhoods, that becomes the area
that the tikes could be. But obviously the wild is
the area that you may have a higher concentration of takes.
So I'll see the take building.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
How mobile is a tick? How far it can't take
an uber to get into my neighborhood. How they're going
to get there? Well, you we go through them? Oh yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
So usually because some of the months it's when we
also like to go out and the engage the environment.
And we have pets too, So if our pets out
outdoors enjoying the same kind of environments that we have,
and they could either bringing them listen to us, uh
into a household.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
And I learned something today when I was reading up
for this this piece here that they're actually they're not
They're not insects. They're actually more relative to spiders from
the iraqnet family, aren't they.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
That's right, Yes, they are all in the same group
and the bigger group of uh, you know, animals and oracuments.
If you met like, you're right.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
You said, And I look down at a picture of
one that was at that page I was looking at online,
four legs on each side. I just kind of hit
myself in the foreheads. Yeah, you should have known.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Right, And it's interesting that we have different types of takes.
Even if you take you know, the Texas area, you
have four different types that are predmoninanty at the lone
style because that it's a low star state we're in.
And then you also have the brown dog and American
dog take and you have others that are also in

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the area. So it's it's different ones. But it's always
a good idea to educate yourself about the different types
because they cause different kind of diseases.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
What are the teeny tiny ones that that down here
we just call them seed ticks are about the size
of a pin head? What are those?

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, those are takes as well, But that is one
that have not fed or they are really to be younger.
Uh have just to adulthood. But that's the more reason
why we have to be vigilanted with our kids and grandkids,

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because you know, kids like to have fun outdoors, and
they really don't on plain of symptoms very early unless
you know, it really comes bother something from them, and
they don't know how some of bees takes look like.
And they are also very small, like you said, so
you may easily overlook it, especially if you're wearing back clothing,

(26:19):
which much is the color as opposed to light the
talent clues.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
So let's talk now, doctor Lampty about about how important
it is if you do find a tick on yourself.
And I didn't realize that those were little babies. I
thought there were some little miniature species like like a
poodle you can put in the purse or whatever. But
so what do we do? How do we get them off?
Because I know it's not right to just grab the
thing and yank it off. It's going to leave the

(26:46):
mouth parts under your skin. So what do we do? Right?

Speaker 2 (26:50):
So instead of tweezer and a steady hand is most
of the time does a great job. There are other
commercial products in the market as I'm taking tikes out,
but the principle behind it is that you would hold
the twists and take up the ticke as close that
can as you can, and keep the fan pressure on

(27:14):
the tick and then apply steady traction pressure. And with that,
most of the time the take will come out hole
the mouth parts and will come out hole like you're
right you mentioned. Sometimes the mouth parts, some of them
gets repending, and that's the point where you would have
to see a health professional mission that that's okay. And

(27:36):
after removing the stick, you go ahead and wipe the
area with some alcohol just to decrease the chances of
infection from the bank. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
The whole reason we're worried about tex is because they
spread diseases to people. And how long after, you know,
if I found a tick on myself today, Let's say
it's Friday afternoon, I find I found a tick on
myself today, and I get home and I get it
out for there, how long before I can breathe a
sigh of relief and say, you know, I'm gonna be
okay here. Yeah?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
So if so, Typically what happens is that when it
takes your take gets into contact with the skin, it
takes up idea and half for the mouth to be
fully embedded, and they start feeling before that time, they're
really not putting anything into your body. So the chances

(28:27):
of you getting any disease is minimum good if you
go past thirty six hours or a couple of days
after the take has been there, or you really don't
know when the take got attached to you or you
see it. Take that as a big one. That's in
God's meaning that it's been feeling. Those who will increase

(28:48):
your chances of getting take bone disease, and there are
different paths of them. I would say that you know,
if if that becomes the case, then for the next
several days, that's what's ouse for symptoms, which mainly is
you know, you may see a rash, you may see fevers,

(29:10):
you could have headaches, fatigue, joint them must with eggs
or joint swelling and rash typic. If you see any
of those symptoms. As soon as you see that, just
make sure that you're getting with your healthcare provider so
we can be evaluated and we'll stand in the history

(29:33):
management for those symptoms.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Doctor Philip Lampty here, thank you so much. It seemed
to make they don't do anything fast they're kind of
like the sloughs of the iracted world. I think, huh
right there the last.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, I'll say that just look out, learn about them,
dress appropriately. But I always say that it shouldn't keep
us in because being outdoors and being active is one
of the most important ways for staying healthy and improving
our overall health. So I'll still say that we should

(30:11):
know about them, know that they are BANDI pops in
the environment, and then look out for if we dress uppropriately,
if we're come into contact with them and we have
any symptoms or we have any questions at all about takes.
Reach out to your healthcare provider and they'll give you
great information for you to enjoy outdoors.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Thank you so much for your time, doctor Philip Mpty.
I appreciate, my friend.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
My pleasure be at your show.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
All right. That sums it up, yea. If somebody wants
to keep me indoors, they're going to have to tie
you to a chair. That's the only shot, only shot
at keeping me indoors. I don't I much prefer the
out of doors except to sleep, and I don't mind
them even all the way out of this segment, I'll
tell you about RV resort speaking of being outdoors, what

(31:02):
a great place. You go over to Cedar Cove. It's
all over close to Baytown, down Tri City Beach Road
near Thompson's Bay Camp. If you've ever heard of that,
If you haven't look it up, it's a it's been
there almost forever. It's like a landmark. I think maybe
yet you go down there, you don't. I think it's

(31:23):
on the left side of the road. I'm not sure.
I got to get over there and take a good
look around. I've looked at it on the map, and
I've had enough conversations with Al Kibbi to know that
he runs a really nice place down there for you
to go spend a day, a week, a month, just park,
park your RV there and leave it. It's it's very
affordable to live that way, even for a relatively extended time.

(31:47):
All of his roads or concrete. All of his slabs
are concrete. They've got electric water and sewer at every site.
Wi Fi place, take showers, all that. It's a pretty
dog on good fishing. When the tie in the window right,
it might not be bad over there today. As a
matter of fact, it's easy to get over there. It's
fun to stay there. A lot of people get travel stipends,

(32:09):
they get accommodations when they're here doing jobs. A lot
of people who work in the refineries over that way,
and rather than go stay in some motel and have
to listen to people walking up and down the halls
all night and sleep restlessly and worry about anything, they
just bring a little travel trailer and park it over

(32:30):
at Cedar cove RV Resort and wake up to sunrises
and go to bed to sunsets. They can step a
little later. If you want Cedar cove Rvresort dot com,
go to that website, take a look around. It's really
a nice place to consider spending a little time this
summer with the family.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Cedar cove Rvresort dot com. Old guys rule, and of
course women never get old. If you want to avoid
sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Do you think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Fifty plus continues here's more with Doug.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening,
starting to appreciate it. The leaderboard is on the TV
right now, really quickly, Sam Burns, Thurston Lawrence, Well, they
already moved it away now, and all of a sudden
there's just one page and then it's into the people
who are over par. Will you do you know how
to tell whether somebody's over under par on a golf leaderboard?

Speaker 1 (33:25):
No?

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Okay, never mind then, but oh is it the plus one? Yeah? Yeah, yeah?
Go to US Open leader board and tell me how
many people have a negative number in front of their
names at the top of the board. And they're gonna
be in order, so it'll be Burns and it'll be
a couple of a handful of other guys. But I'm
kind of curious to know how many people are under

(33:47):
par at present. Here we are, about halfway through the
second round of the US Open this year, and going
to say, four, six, eight, eight guys under par? How
many even par? One? Just one guy at even Robert Macin. Yeah, okay,

(34:08):
so nine people even or better. The USGA is gonna
I don't know whether it intended for this course to
play that hard. If it did, I think they've they've
made their point, and maybe they soften it up just
a little bit for the weekend to give these guys

(34:29):
a chance to show off, or maybe they just keep
their their thumb on them and let them squirm. If
you watch the watch the disaster reel from yesterday, some
of the best players in the world not advancing the
ball more than two or three feet out of that

(34:49):
rough with full swings around the greens. It becomes crazy
trying to figure out just how hard to swing to
get the all to get up in the air and
move six or seven feet forward, and then still try
to stop it on the green. But I digress from golf.

(35:12):
I'll talk I'll talk about a lot of golf tomorrow
on my outdoor show over on kb ME. I'll talk
us open and I'll relay some of the stuff that
I learned from Billy ray Brown. I'm trying to get
him on. I haven't heard from him yet. Maybe I
don't know how to check my text messages when I
get finished. But he's gonna if his schedule allows him

(35:33):
to do it tomorrow, he's going to jump back on
the show with me then and we'll we'll get his idea.
As a man who's played in a bunch of golf
tournaments in his life, he's done, he's done playing, and
we're setting up to kind of a fun round. And
now that I know he's he hadn't been playing in
a long time. I feel like I can kind of

(35:54):
at least hold my own. I'll never be able to
keep up with professional players. When they tell you they're
playing horrible golf, that means they're probably shooting seventy seven
and that's that's their horrible number from the lone star.
Okra desk Researchers at Tarletan State University in Stephenville, Texas
right here have determined that those slimy little strings inside

(36:18):
okra and the gel in fini Greek seeds is that
how do you pronounce that? Will fennel?

Speaker 2 (36:26):
No?

Speaker 3 (36:26):
Well, it says f e n u g r e
e k Fini Greek seeds just might trap microplastics better
than the synthetic polymers that are being used now to
do that stuff. Early testing showed that these two substances
remove as much as ninety percent will ninety percent of microplastics,

(36:49):
and that's from saltwater, fresh water, waste water, anywhere it
might be found, which is great. I just hope okra
prices don't go up because that would be terrible for
people who like gumbo. What would they use instead? You
can't use synthetic whatever it was. You can't just swap
out your what was it the polymer synthetic polymers for okray,

(37:13):
that's not gonna work. All right, let's go, Kyle Lee.
I have a couple of them. I'll sit on these
other two. I think how much time do I have?
Will we got to let's go to the fun stuff. Okay. Today,
by the way, is national Blame someone else day? And

(37:33):
you got anybody in mind? Who now will? I haven't
done anything wrong today, neither have you. You're gonna blame
me for something you did? You just hold one in
reserve somewhere. Yeah, I'll think about it. All right, you
do that all you shouldn't have? Or well it makes
sense sort of, or let the pain customers cover it?

Speaker 2 (37:56):
M what was that?

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Middle one? Kind of sort of makes sense sort of? Okay.
A list of harmless conspiracy theories. It might be true.
For example, Starbucks Baris's are told to misspell customers' names
on the cup to get free advertising from people posting
photos of their cups on social media. I think that's
true or false. I don't think they need We only

(38:20):
have like a mere adj Okay, so that's false, right,
According to you. Your phone's microphone is constantly hot because
it's listening for keywords to target advertising. Yeah, okay, I
I don't know about that. Area fifty one a publicity
stumped by the government to hide the real test facility.
Oh my good No, the rest of these are pretty boring.

(38:45):
Never mind poor little sugar on it or not a
chance of being true, not a chance. In fifteen seconds,
the New York Post claims there's a dangerous new sleeping
hack out of China where senior citizens are hanging from
their necks in public parks to catch a few winks.
No way, no way, will That is not true. We

(39:09):
gotta go. Thank you for listening. Idi