February 6, 2026 • 33 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Vivian Kaul about tinnitus.
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Will?
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Dick Tracy, by the way, the comic book Detective I
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Now our personal devices can do pretty incredible things. Actually,
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nth degree, especially now that we have AI taking care
of us, they also can these these handheld phones, if misused,
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hunched over when you're twenty five years old, after tilting
your heads down fifteen hours out of the day, don't
do that. Keep your shoulders back, keep your neck straight,
and you got a chance. Where there's a ying, there's
a yang. Always good news bad news from everything great technology,
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but as with most great things, always better in moderation.
So still three or four more great days of weather.
I won't dwell, but increasing clouds Monday, and then a
fifty to fifty shot. Now it rain on Tuesday. So
that means if you really need it, you probably won't
get it. And if you don't need it, you'll probably
catch one of those heavy thunderstorms like we had a
couple of nights ago. It's going to be in the
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seventies this afternoon, the high seventies. I may have to
take a real swing at catching a bass this afternoon.
Maybe tomorrow afternoon be the same temperature. Then I've got
to get this little lake that I like to fish.
I gotta figure it out. I know that we lost
probably seventy five to eighty five, maybe ninety percent of
the fish out of there, between a significant fish kill
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and cormorants, which are my least favorite bird on the
entire planet. And even if something uglier and more devastating
came along, I still couldn't forgive what the cormorants have
already done. So they will. They'll always be a little
thorn in my side. In market news to get away
from that, Dow was up more than a thousand points,
as you just heard from Fox, as the entire algorithmic
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market rebounded from that recent route of tech stocks. I
was talking with our esteemed leader here, Eddie Martini, a
little while ago about the way the stock market was
moving and about how difficult it would be, if not impossible,
which is probably closer for any of us to keep
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up with the algorithms when it comes time to buy
and sell. The machines have taken over everything else, and
that really you and I get to trade. Still. We
can do what we want, but we're going to be
typically a day late and a dollar short. Russell was
up a full three percentage points to by the way,
that which is I don't remember exactly the number of
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points up, but percentage points more than three.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That was pretty good. Gold up seventy bucks to forty.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Nine sixty an ounce, and oil well up just north
of sixty four dollars a barrel. I filled my tank
up yesterday with gas not oil, uh at two thirty
seven a gallon, which was about twenty cents higher than
I've been paying. And now with it bumping up a
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little bit more, it might it might get to two fifty.
I hope it doesn't, but it might. By the way,
and about I don't know what do we have, how
much do I have left? So about seven or eight
minutes from now, we're gonna be talking to doctor Vivian
call about something that I've got tonightas or tendus, depending
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on I'm gonna ask her how she pronounces it, because
I've heard it pronounced both ways, even by people in
the medical community. So it's one of those tato patato things,
I suppose. In local news, students from several area high
schools planned this day to participate in the nationwide ice protest.
According to the Texas Education Agency, as I mentioned yesterday,
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those students are going to be marked absent from school,
and the teachers who encourage participation or join these high
schoolers walking down the street are going to be subject
to investigations that could lead to them losing their teaching credentials.
I'm sure they would fight it, and depending on the
judge they pulled on, they'd have a fifty to fifty
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shot probably at getting away with it. But I'm still
I'm still disturbed by teachers encouraging children to pretty much
do something that goes that is basically intended to cast
some sort of dark light on law enforcement doing what
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law enforcement's supposed to do in this country. They're following
the law, they're doing what they're supposed to do. And
if these teachers want to use current events as teachable moments,
that's fine, but don't encourage them to leave school. Leave
the kids in the classroom, talk to them there about
what's going on. Stay, or better yet, stay in the
classroom and teach the subject you're qualified to teach. Demonstrating
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to kids that it's perfectly fine to walk away from
where you're supposed to be, which someday will be a
real job with a real boss, by the way, and
walk it out to join a protest in the real world,
probably going to get them fired, perhaps, like perhaps, like
some of those teachers will after this. I hope not.
I don't want teachers to be fired, but I do
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wish they would just do their jobs and educate these
kids at least enough for us to catch up with
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Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Come back, Thanks for listening to fifty plus. I do
appreciate it in your car, office, of house, wherever, whatever,
on your radio or the iHeartRadio app in anyway. In
this segment, we're going to talk about something I deal
with on a daily basis, which is either tendas or
tenitis and whatever you call it. Doctor Vivian Call, an
assistant professor at mcgovernd Medical School and leading expert in
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complex ear disorders. She knows it way better than we do.
Welcome aboard, doctor Call.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Hi, it's good to be here.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Thank you for jeving me. So, first of all, what
is it tonitas or tendas?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
They are both the same tomato tomatow.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
That's what I said exactly. So how common is this
constant ringing in my ears?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
The prevalence can range from about ten to fifteen percent
of adults. Okay, but the percentage of people who are
actually bothered by it drops down to about one to
five percent, and the people who are bothered by it
tend to be usually suffer from other things like anxiety
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or depression.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Oh wow, Okay, well I don't have that, but I
still I do have a constant little ringing, and it's
more from noise. And we'll get to that in a second.
I mean, that was That was very many years of
high volume hunting and competitive shooting before we knew a
whole lot about ear protection. So I was I was
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kind of doomed from the get go. I did well,
but it cost me.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yeah, yeah, I'd say, So, what.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Are other causes of tonight's.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
So ringing or tentatives is caused for many different places.
Most commonly, we want to make sure there's no hearing
loss because that is something treatable. So we always recommend
getting an audiogram with an audiologist or seeing your local
E and T to get that checked out well, because
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if it's from the ear, there's a whole host of
problems that we can kind of tag it to. Could
be ear wax, could be a hole in the ear drum,
could be some infection, could be a mass or maybe
a tumor. So those are something that we can easily
grasp and understand. However, if the exam is normal and
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then you have a hearing loss documented from the audiogram,
then the ringing is due to the brain filling in
the gap of the hearing loss. So hearing loss, like
you kind of alluded to, can come from noise exposure,
whether it's loud concerts or your job or hunting, anything
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like that can cause hearing loss. Hearing loss the brain
kind of perceives as a deficit. And to give you
an analogy, lots of patients, let's say, who have their
arm kind of blown off in war. They can have
phantom limb pain, right despite them not having that arm.
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It's the same concept with the brain and the ear.
So when you don't have sound coming in, the brain
fills in that gap with a sound. And so that
when people come in asking for that to be removed,
asking me for me to cut out the part that
would cause the ringing, I can't do that because that's
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actually coming from the brain. And that's similar. Example is
why you see people football players they have concussions, they
don't have any hearing loss, but they have ringing. That's
because the brain gets jostled. Right, So if you were
to have a car accident, same thing, or let's say
you have a panic attack, you can have ringing. That's
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all because the brain is basically flaring up, acting up.
And showcase that with various symptoms, ringing being one of them.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Doctor vivin call here on fifty plus. I heard that
that the the volume in my head is not the
same as everybody else is It can be very different? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yes, that is subjective, okay, And.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I also heard that even in some cases, uh, there's
a different kind maybe where the doctor can actually hear it.
It's not just in my head. But you could hear
it somehow.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Yes, those are extremely rare.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Good, So, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Those those can happen. That's called objective ten it is,
and that it can be picked up with a stethoscope
or sometimes even without that, but that would be something
that on an E and T exam that practitioner could
pick up.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
And before we anybody gets kind of really worried about this,
I read that tonight's or tenatus is very rarely a
symptom of any serious condition or disease.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Right, that is correct, Yes, this is something that is
super common, and ultimately what makes it more serious is
generally when it is tied up with a lot of
emotion dysregulation. So if you did have untreated anxiety, undertreated depression,
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or untreated schizophrenia, something more mental causing you a lot
of distress, those are the patients that can actually be
pushed kind of to the brink, to the edge because
of the ringing, because they're so wrapped up with what
the fear of that ringing could mean that it makes
them feel it and sense it much more, which is
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what leads to the treatment of those which is actually
cognitive behavioral therapy. You kind of want to untie the
emotional distress you have to the ringing, because once you
have the knowledge that ringing, just like you said, is
generally not something life threatening, you know, that should kind
of unravel the emotional response you have to the ringing.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
We're down to less than a minute. What can we
do to help ourselves or what can you do to
make this stuff stop?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
There are certain drugs that do make it worse, so
avoid aspirin, ibuprofen, and there are some drugs that are
treating hypertension that sometimes can cause it, So just talk
to your primary care doctor and see if that could
be switched. If that is the case, chemotherapy as well.
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But at the end of the day, the most important
thing is probably to go to your e in t
get an exam, get it checked out, and also a
hearing tests because more than likely you probably have some
some degree of hearing us undertreated.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Yes, that's all I do from the same thing that
got me the tendas. Okay, yeah, yeah, it gets any worse,
maybe I'll go do that right now. It doesn't really
bother me that much, so I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna.
Uh oh, Will says, we got yeah. Will says, we
gotta go. Doctor Vivian Caull, thank you so very much.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Its great to chat with you day.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
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to appreciate that. In the case the ongoing case, the
tragic case of Nancy Guthrie, daughter or mother of Savannah
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Guthrie NBC Savannah Guthrie, some guy was dumb enough to
send a ransom note of his own to the Guthries
and reference bitcoin payments and just do all the stupid
stuff that a stupid person would do if he was
thinking about trying to some.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Sort of get rich, get rich quick scheme. That's what
this guy has done. He's gotten arrested, so they've arrested somebody,
but it's not the guy who has Savannah's mother. Unfortunately,
he's not the actual kidnapper, just some twisted individual who
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thought he could make a buck. Still no news on
or from the real kidnappers yet, other than their demands
or on the current stay of eighty four year old
Nancy Guthrie, who will either she either will or already
has experienced symptoms caused by missing her medications and they
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are of concern to the family. They just said they
were necessary medications, and at eighty four, most of us
would probably have some. I don't know what they're for.
I don't know whether the kidnappers did enough research. They
clearly did some. They didn't just choose this woman at random,
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But maybe they did enough research to know what she
would need if they were going to have her for
a while. Or they're just sick individuals who don't care,
and that's the last thing that I would think any
of us would want for them. Up in New York City,
now the nation's largest and most openly communist city, word
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that on the new Mayor's watch money. Thousands of New
Yorkers have done without heat or water hot water anyway
through much of this recent cold snap. There are complaints
galore from people who have gone multiple consecutive days and
nights with no hot water and only sporadic heat for
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their homes that usually goes out in the nighttime when
they need it most. Those heat that it's they they're
getting what they voted for. One guy said he is
having to walk to a friend's house lately to shower
because there is no hot water, and anybody who has
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gone without hot water and a very cold spell knows
that the water you get in the house is just
too cold to strip down and jump into. Another family
said they're having to boil their water, boil water just
to heat their tiny little apartment. And once again, you
get what you vote for, Yes, you do. In news
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other than immigration news, which has dominated the headlines of
late comes word from USA Today that the EEOC is
investigating Nike over its treatment of white employees. At issue
is whether or not Nike discriminated against these workers as
part of its DEI program and alleged efforts to boost
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its numbers of underrepresented workers throughout the ranks. Nike responded
to USA Today to its credit, calling the situation one
of quote surprising and unusual escalation end quote. Since the
retail sports giant's been working in good faith with the
EEOC on its personnel practices. Hey, innocent until proven guilty
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always in this country, always will be and should be,
always will be and should be in I kind of
got tickled by this one. In lopsided broadcast news, the
views usual lineup of like and left minded hosts is
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going to have a new edition, going to have a
new edition. That I wrote, welcome this new person, but
that wasn't really appropriate because I doubt that she will
be welcomed. The producers of the show are putting on
that panel one Savannah Chrislely to replace one of their own,
(23:33):
one of the original or the current cast, who is
on maternity leave now for probably quite some time. So
here comes Savannah Chrisley, twenty eight year old reality TV
star who says she stands on faith, family, and freedom.
And I'm not sure any of the others on that
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panel could say the same. I've never heard of Savannah
Christly to be perfec honest, Well have you heard of her?
So that makes two of us in this room, and
there are only two in the room. But whoever she is,
at twenty eight years old, full of herself, reality TV
star from some somewhere She's definitely gonna keep the Crows
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Okay, well, if you think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Come back. Thanks for listening. Fourth and final segment of
the show starts right now, only two hours and a
couple of minutes ago. Actually, the Justice Department announced that
the FBI had arrested Zubar al bakush described as a
ling readling reader. Oh my gosh, Doug a ring leader
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in the twenty twelve attack on our consulate and ben Ghazi,
And I quote, we have never forgotten those heroes, said
US Attorney General Pam Bondi. And we have never stopped
seeking justice for that crime against our nation. If you
commit a crime against the American people anywhere in this world,
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President Trump's Justice Department will find you end quote. Al
Bakoush was charged eleven years ago, but the case was
sealed until his arrest. He faces charges of murder, terrorism,
and arson. I don't know how many of each. Cashptel,
the head of the FBI, said his bureau has captured
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six now of its ten most wanted criminals in a
single year. If you're wondering, President Biden's FBI caught four
of the top ten throughout his entire term. This is
a more aggressive, far more aggressive interest in finding the
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worst of the worst bad guys in this whole country.
And more power to them. Just keep going after him.
I don't know where they arrested this guy. By the way.
I don't. I don't recall whether the story even said so.
I think it did. I may I may have jumped
over it from the High Cost of Medication desk. And
speaking of our president, comes word yesterday that President Trump
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has rolled out trumparx dot gov now, which is a
website that already offers a long list of medications that
almost certainly are going to be at a whole lot
less than what you're paying now some of the multiples
we as Americans have borne the brunt of medication costs
worldwide for decades. We pay sometimes two, three, four, five
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times what people in other countries are paying for the
same exact medications. But that's coming to a halt now
with the opening of trump urx dot gov and the
list of meds available there is just going to continue
to grow under agreements he struck with multi to pull
pharmaceutical makers around the world. Literally, I think there were fifteen.
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I think that we're kind of the big players in
the game, and deals have been struck. If I don't,
I don't think I'm miss speaking here. Deals have been
struck with fourteen of them to just stop overcharging us,
just stop it. It's a real thing. Go check it out.
Trumparx dot gov. I don't know if I want to
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talk about this guy or not. I will. How much
time do I have?
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Got?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Five? Maybe four? That's enough. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries
of New York just can't wait until the midterms, when
he foresees Democrats reclaiming the House and shortly thereafter cleaning
up what he calls President Trump's corruption. Essentially, all he did, though,
in this explanation of what that meant, was spout buzzwords
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and beat tired horses. Here's a quote from him. We're
going to fight hard to tackle the issues that matter
end quote, said every politician ever and HOCKEYM. Jeffreys. That
matter to whom, by the way, to Americans or to Democrats,
and there are to Republicans or Democrats. I'm not going
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to exclude Democrats as not being American. That was a
misspeak on my part anyway. He then went on to
say that the Democrats would do exactly what President Trump's
done for the past year. He spent a year fixing
the broken, corrupt, fraud infested mess left to him by
a president who wasn't even calling his shots. The little
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speech was a brilliant piece of deflection, too, of passing
the blame for everything Democrats have done in recent years
on to the one man, the one man they know
is breaking their party into pieces. Because Americans don't want communism,
Americans don't want boys in girls' bathrooms, Americans don't want
their tax dollars paying billions in bills, millions to fraudsters.
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They want affordable health care, they want affordable meds. They
want illegal immigrants removed from our country so that we
can go back to taking care of Americans first.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I don't really don't know where this country slipped off
that track where undocumented immigrants' rights superseded those of American citizens.
But that's where we are now. That's where the left
is now, and they've been exposed for what really is
and they can't stand it. So they're gonna they're gonna
blame everybody that gets in their way, starting with the
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one man that they've blamed for the past ten years
for anything that ever went wrong. Jeffery's even had the
brass to talk about insuring a free and fair election
in November, but his side doesn't want voters to have
to show a picture, idea to cast a vote. I
have to I have to show idea to go fish,
idea to buy a fishing license, a fishing license. And
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they don't want voters to have to do that little
thing just to prove who they are, to prove they're
American citizens, by the way, because we're the only ones
who can can vote in national elections. But not if
they have their way, President trumpet is his administration or
pulling back the curtain on just historical fraud corruption throughout
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this country, mostly by the left, is turning out to be.
And the best the left can do is just tell
Americans about whom they really don't care, by the way,
that everything he's uncovered, well, that's what they've been doing
for years. That's what the Republicans have been doing this forever.
It's somehow his fault everything that's wrong. I don't like that.
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How much time do I have left now? Will one minute?
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I'd love to tell you in long term, no, I
can do it. If you've ever wondered recently when the
next illegal immigrant truck driver would kill another American. That
was tuesday. Yet another guy who entered our country from
Kazakhstan under Biden administration, got relise, went into a sanctuary date,
got a commercial driver's license, and then on Tuesday killed
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four people on an Indiana highway. Another thing I wonder
about every now and then is how all these lawmakers,
many of them on the left, and I'm probably a
few on the right too, make so much money once
they get into federal office. So does the president actually,
and his administration is investigating some of these people to
(33:28):
find out how they go into office being worth less
than one hundred thousand dollars net worth less than one
hundred thousand, and a few short years later six eight, ten,
twelve million dollars. Stay there long enough, you can beat
Nancy Pelosi. That's it for today. We'll see you next week. Audios.
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a yang. Always good news bad news from everything great technology,
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but as with most great things, always better in moderation.
So still three or four more great days of weather.
I won't dwell, but increasing clouds Monday, and then a
fifty to fifty shot. Now it rain on Tuesday. So
that means if you really need it, you probably won't
get it. And if you don't need it, you'll probably
catch one of those heavy thunderstorms like we had a
couple of nights ago. It's going to be in the
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seventies this afternoon, the high seventies. I may have to
take a real swing at catching a bass this afternoon.
Maybe tomorrow afternoon be the same temperature. Then I've got
to get this little lake that I like to fish.
I gotta figure it out. I know that we lost
probably seventy five to eighty five, maybe ninety percent of
the fish out of there, between a significant fish kill
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and cormorants, which are my least favorite bird on the
entire planet. And even if something uglier and more devastating
came along, I still couldn't forgive what the cormorants have
already done. So they will. They'll always be a little
thorn in my side. In market news to get away
from that, Dow was up more than a thousand points,
as you just heard from Fox, as the entire algorithmic
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was talking with our esteemed leader here, Eddie Martini, a
little while ago about the way the stock market was
moving and about how difficult it would be, if not impossible,
which is probably closer for any of us to keep
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up with the algorithms when it comes time to buy
and sell. The machines have taken over everything else, and
that really you and I get to trade. Still. We
can do what we want, but we're going to be
typically a day late and a dollar short. Russell was
up a full three percentage points to by the way,
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Speaker 2 (05:07):
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Speaker 3 (05:10):
Nine sixty an ounce, and oil well up just north
of sixty four dollars a barrel. I filled my tank
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seven a gallon, which was about twenty cents higher than
I've been paying. And now with it bumping up a
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little bit more, it might it might get to two fifty.
I hope it doesn't, but it might. By the way,
and about I don't know what do we have, how
much do I have left? So about seven or eight
minutes from now, we're gonna be talking to doctor Vivian
call about something that I've got tonightas or tendus, depending
(05:52):
on I'm gonna ask her how she pronounces it, because
I've heard it pronounced both ways, even by people in
the medical community. So it's one of those tato patato things,
I suppose. In local news, students from several area high
schools planned this day to participate in the nationwide ice protest.
According to the Texas Education Agency, as I mentioned yesterday,
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those students are going to be marked absent from school,
and the teachers who encourage participation or join these high
schoolers walking down the street are going to be subject
to investigations that could lead to them losing their teaching credentials.
I'm sure they would fight it, and depending on the
judge they pulled on, they'd have a fifty to fifty
(06:38):
shot probably at getting away with it. But I'm still
I'm still disturbed by teachers encouraging children to pretty much
do something that goes that is basically intended to cast
some sort of dark light on law enforcement doing what
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law enforcement's supposed to do in this country. They're following
the law, they're doing what they're supposed to do. And
if these teachers want to use current events as teachable moments,
that's fine, but don't encourage them to leave school. Leave
the kids in the classroom, talk to them there about
what's going on. Stay, or better yet, stay in the
classroom and teach the subject you're qualified to teach. Demonstrating
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to kids that it's perfectly fine to walk away from
where you're supposed to be, which someday will be a
real job with a real boss, by the way, and
walk it out to join a protest in the real world,
probably going to get them fired, perhaps, like perhaps, like
some of those teachers will after this. I hope not.
I don't want teachers to be fired, but I do
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kids at least enough for us to catch up with
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Speaker 3 (09:55):
Come back, Thanks for listening to fifty plus. I do
appreciate it in your car, office, of house, wherever, whatever,
on your radio or the iHeartRadio app in anyway. In
this segment, we're going to talk about something I deal
with on a daily basis, which is either tendas or
tenitis and whatever you call it. Doctor Vivian Call, an
assistant professor at mcgovernd Medical School and leading expert in
(10:19):
complex ear disorders. She knows it way better than we do.
Welcome aboard, doctor Call.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Hi, it's good to be here.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Thank you for jeving me. So, first of all, what
is it tonitas or tendas?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
They are both the same tomato tomatow.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
That's what I said exactly. So how common is this
constant ringing in my ears?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
The prevalence can range from about ten to fifteen percent
of adults. Okay, but the percentage of people who are
actually bothered by it drops down to about one to
five percent, and the people who are bothered by it
tend to be usually suffer from other things like anxiety
(11:07):
or depression.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Oh wow, Okay, well I don't have that, but I
still I do have a constant little ringing, and it's
more from noise. And we'll get to that in a second.
I mean, that was That was very many years of
high volume hunting and competitive shooting before we knew a
whole lot about ear protection. So I was I was
(11:28):
kind of doomed from the get go. I did well,
but it cost me.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yeah, yeah, I'd say, So, what.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Are other causes of tonight's.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
So ringing or tentatives is caused for many different places.
Most commonly, we want to make sure there's no hearing
loss because that is something treatable. So we always recommend
getting an audiogram with an audiologist or seeing your local
E and T to get that checked out well, because
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if it's from the ear, there's a whole host of
problems that we can kind of tag it to. Could
be ear wax, could be a hole in the ear drum,
could be some infection, could be a mass or maybe
a tumor. So those are something that we can easily
grasp and understand. However, if the exam is normal and
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then you have a hearing loss documented from the audiogram,
then the ringing is due to the brain filling in
the gap of the hearing loss. So hearing loss, like
you kind of alluded to, can come from noise exposure,
whether it's loud concerts or your job or hunting, anything
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like that can cause hearing loss. Hearing loss the brain
kind of perceives as a deficit. And to give you
an analogy, lots of patients, let's say, who have their
arm kind of blown off in war. They can have
phantom limb pain, right despite them not having that arm.
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It's the same concept with the brain and the ear.
So when you don't have sound coming in, the brain
fills in that gap with a sound. And so that
when people come in asking for that to be removed,
asking me for me to cut out the part that
would cause the ringing, I can't do that because that's
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actually coming from the brain. And that's similar. Example is
why you see people football players they have concussions, they
don't have any hearing loss, but they have ringing. That's
because the brain gets jostled. Right, So if you were
to have a car accident, same thing, or let's say
you have a panic attack, you can have ringing. That's
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all because the brain is basically flaring up, acting up.
And showcase that with various symptoms, ringing being one of them.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Doctor vivin call here on fifty plus. I heard that
that the the volume in my head is not the
same as everybody else is It can be very different? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yes, that is subjective, okay, And.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I also heard that even in some cases, uh, there's
a different kind maybe where the doctor can actually hear it.
It's not just in my head. But you could hear
it somehow.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Yes, those are extremely rare.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Good, So, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Those those can happen. That's called objective ten it is,
and that it can be picked up with a stethoscope
or sometimes even without that, but that would be something
that on an E and T exam that practitioner could
pick up.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
And before we anybody gets kind of really worried about this,
I read that tonight's or tenatus is very rarely a
symptom of any serious condition or disease.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Right, that is correct, Yes, this is something that is
super common, and ultimately what makes it more serious is
generally when it is tied up with a lot of
emotion dysregulation. So if you did have untreated anxiety, undertreated depression,
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or untreated schizophrenia, something more mental causing you a lot
of distress, those are the patients that can actually be
pushed kind of to the brink, to the edge because
of the ringing, because they're so wrapped up with what
the fear of that ringing could mean that it makes
them feel it and sense it much more, which is
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what leads to the treatment of those which is actually
cognitive behavioral therapy. You kind of want to untie the
emotional distress you have to the ringing, because once you
have the knowledge that ringing, just like you said, is
generally not something life threatening, you know, that should kind
of unravel the emotional response you have to the ringing.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
We're down to less than a minute. What can we
do to help ourselves or what can you do to
make this stuff stop?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
There are certain drugs that do make it worse, so
avoid aspirin, ibuprofen, and there are some drugs that are
treating hypertension that sometimes can cause it, So just talk
to your primary care doctor and see if that could
be switched. If that is the case, chemotherapy as well.
(16:43):
But at the end of the day, the most important
thing is probably to go to your e in t
get an exam, get it checked out, and also a
hearing tests because more than likely you probably have some
some degree of hearing us undertreated.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Yes, that's all I do from the same thing that
got me the tendas. Okay, yeah, yeah, it gets any worse,
maybe I'll go do that right now. It doesn't really
bother me that much, so I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna.
Uh oh, Will says, we got yeah. Will says, we
gotta go. Doctor Vivian Caull, thank you so very much.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Its great to chat with you day.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
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That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
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fifty plus with Doug Pike plus. Thanks for listening, certainly
to appreciate that. In the case the ongoing case, the
tragic case of Nancy Guthrie, daughter or mother of Savannah
(19:10):
Guthrie NBC Savannah Guthrie, some guy was dumb enough to
send a ransom note of his own to the Guthries
and reference bitcoin payments and just do all the stupid
stuff that a stupid person would do if he was
thinking about trying to some.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Sort of get rich, get rich quick scheme. That's what
this guy has done. He's gotten arrested, so they've arrested somebody,
but it's not the guy who has Savannah's mother. Unfortunately,
he's not the actual kidnapper, just some twisted individual who
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thought he could make a buck. Still no news on
or from the real kidnappers yet, other than their demands
or on the current stay of eighty four year old
Nancy Guthrie, who will either she either will or already
has experienced symptoms caused by missing her medications and they
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are of concern to the family. They just said they
were necessary medications, and at eighty four, most of us
would probably have some. I don't know what they're for.
I don't know whether the kidnappers did enough research. They
clearly did some. They didn't just choose this woman at random,
(20:33):
But maybe they did enough research to know what she
would need if they were going to have her for
a while. Or they're just sick individuals who don't care,
and that's the last thing that I would think any
of us would want for them. Up in New York City,
now the nation's largest and most openly communist city, word
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that on the new Mayor's watch money. Thousands of New
Yorkers have done without heat or water hot water anyway
through much of this recent cold snap. There are complaints
galore from people who have gone multiple consecutive days and
nights with no hot water and only sporadic heat for
(21:21):
their homes that usually goes out in the nighttime when
they need it most. Those heat that it's they they're
getting what they voted for. One guy said he is
having to walk to a friend's house lately to shower
because there is no hot water, and anybody who has
(21:43):
gone without hot water and a very cold spell knows
that the water you get in the house is just
too cold to strip down and jump into. Another family
said they're having to boil their water, boil water just
to heat their tiny little apartment. And once again, you
get what you vote for, Yes, you do. In news
(22:06):
other than immigration news, which has dominated the headlines of
late comes word from USA Today that the EEOC is
investigating Nike over its treatment of white employees. At issue
is whether or not Nike discriminated against these workers as
part of its DEI program and alleged efforts to boost
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its numbers of underrepresented workers throughout the ranks. Nike responded
to USA Today to its credit, calling the situation one
of quote surprising and unusual escalation end quote. Since the
retail sports giant's been working in good faith with the
EEOC on its personnel practices. Hey, innocent until proven guilty
(22:51):
always in this country, always will be and should be,
always will be and should be in I kind of
got tickled by this one. In lopsided broadcast news, the
views usual lineup of like and left minded hosts is
(23:12):
going to have a new edition, going to have a
new edition. That I wrote, welcome this new person, but
that wasn't really appropriate because I doubt that she will
be welcomed. The producers of the show are putting on
that panel one Savannah Chrislely to replace one of their own,
(23:33):
one of the original or the current cast, who is
on maternity leave now for probably quite some time. So
here comes Savannah Chrisley, twenty eight year old reality TV
star who says she stands on faith, family, and freedom.
And I'm not sure any of the others on that
(23:53):
panel could say the same. I've never heard of Savannah
Christly to be perfec honest, Well have you heard of her?
So that makes two of us in this room, and
there are only two in the room. But whoever she is,
at twenty eight years old, full of herself, reality TV
star from some somewhere She's definitely gonna keep the Crows
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on their toes. Count on some very lively discussions, livelier
than usual when Chris le joins the show as pretty
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And if you've ever watched the show, first of all,
why and second you know that they're gonna I don't
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know if they'll try to change her mind, but you
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Old guys rule, and of course, women never get old.
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Okay, well, if you think that sounds like a good plan.
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Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Come back. Thanks for listening. Fourth and final segment of
the show starts right now, only two hours and a
couple of minutes ago. Actually, the Justice Department announced that
the FBI had arrested Zubar al bakush described as a
ling readling reader. Oh my gosh, Doug a ring leader
(26:55):
in the twenty twelve attack on our consulate and ben Ghazi,
And I quote, we have never forgotten those heroes, said
US Attorney General Pam Bondi. And we have never stopped
seeking justice for that crime against our nation. If you
commit a crime against the American people anywhere in this world,
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President Trump's Justice Department will find you end quote. Al
Bakoush was charged eleven years ago, but the case was
sealed until his arrest. He faces charges of murder, terrorism,
and arson. I don't know how many of each. Cashptel,
the head of the FBI, said his bureau has captured
(27:37):
six now of its ten most wanted criminals in a
single year. If you're wondering, President Biden's FBI caught four
of the top ten throughout his entire term. This is
a more aggressive, far more aggressive interest in finding the
(27:58):
worst of the worst bad guys in this whole country.
And more power to them. Just keep going after him.
I don't know where they arrested this guy. By the way.
I don't. I don't recall whether the story even said so.
I think it did. I may I may have jumped
over it from the High Cost of Medication desk. And
speaking of our president, comes word yesterday that President Trump
(28:20):
has rolled out trumparx dot gov now, which is a
website that already offers a long list of medications that
almost certainly are going to be at a whole lot
less than what you're paying now some of the multiples
we as Americans have borne the brunt of medication costs
worldwide for decades. We pay sometimes two, three, four, five
(28:44):
times what people in other countries are paying for the
same exact medications. But that's coming to a halt now
with the opening of trump urx dot gov and the
list of meds available there is just going to continue
to grow under agreements he struck with multi to pull
pharmaceutical makers around the world. Literally, I think there were fifteen.
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I think that we're kind of the big players in
the game, and deals have been struck. If I don't,
I don't think I'm miss speaking here. Deals have been
struck with fourteen of them to just stop overcharging us,
just stop it. It's a real thing. Go check it out.
Trumparx dot gov. I don't know if I want to
(29:28):
talk about this guy or not. I will. How much
time do I have?
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Got?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Five? Maybe four? That's enough. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries
of New York just can't wait until the midterms, when
he foresees Democrats reclaiming the House and shortly thereafter cleaning
up what he calls President Trump's corruption. Essentially, all he did, though,
in this explanation of what that meant, was spout buzzwords
(29:52):
and beat tired horses. Here's a quote from him. We're
going to fight hard to tackle the issues that matter
end quote, said every politician ever and HOCKEYM. Jeffreys. That
matter to whom, by the way, to Americans or to Democrats,
and there are to Republicans or Democrats. I'm not going
(30:16):
to exclude Democrats as not being American. That was a
misspeak on my part anyway. He then went on to
say that the Democrats would do exactly what President Trump's
done for the past year. He spent a year fixing
the broken, corrupt, fraud infested mess left to him by
a president who wasn't even calling his shots. The little
(30:38):
speech was a brilliant piece of deflection, too, of passing
the blame for everything Democrats have done in recent years
on to the one man, the one man they know
is breaking their party into pieces. Because Americans don't want communism,
Americans don't want boys in girls' bathrooms, Americans don't want
their tax dollars paying billions in bills, millions to fraudsters.
(31:02):
They want affordable health care, they want affordable meds. They
want illegal immigrants removed from our country so that we
can go back to taking care of Americans first.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I don't really don't know where this country slipped off
that track where undocumented immigrants' rights superseded those of American citizens.
But that's where we are now. That's where the left
is now, and they've been exposed for what really is
and they can't stand it. So they're gonna they're gonna
blame everybody that gets in their way, starting with the
(31:32):
one man that they've blamed for the past ten years
for anything that ever went wrong. Jeffery's even had the
brass to talk about insuring a free and fair election
in November, but his side doesn't want voters to have
to show a picture, idea to cast a vote. I
have to I have to show idea to go fish,
idea to buy a fishing license, a fishing license. And
(31:54):
they don't want voters to have to do that little
thing just to prove who they are, to prove they're
American citizens, by the way, because we're the only ones
who can can vote in national elections. But not if
they have their way, President trumpet is his administration or
pulling back the curtain on just historical fraud corruption throughout
(32:16):
this country, mostly by the left, is turning out to be.
And the best the left can do is just tell
Americans about whom they really don't care, by the way,
that everything he's uncovered, well, that's what they've been doing
for years. That's what the Republicans have been doing this forever.
It's somehow his fault everything that's wrong. I don't like that.
(32:40):
How much time do I have left now? Will one minute?
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I'd love to tell you in long term, no, I
can do it. If you've ever wondered recently when the
next illegal immigrant truck driver would kill another American. That
was tuesday. Yet another guy who entered our country from
Kazakhstan under Biden administration, got relise, went into a sanctuary date,
got a commercial driver's license, and then on Tuesday killed
(33:04):
four people on an Indiana highway. Another thing I wonder
about every now and then is how all these lawmakers,
many of them on the left, and I'm probably a
few on the right too, make so much money once
they get into federal office. So does the president actually,
and his administration is investigating some of these people to
(33:28):
find out how they go into office being worth less
than one hundred thousand dollars net worth less than one
hundred thousand, and a few short years later six eight, ten,
twelve million dollars. Stay there long enough, you can beat
Nancy Pelosi. That's it for today. We'll see you next week. Audios.
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