Turkey Day

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. John Higgins about Thanksgiving Day foods.

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today? Well, this show is
all about you only.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on
your finances, good health, and what to do for fun.
Fifty plus brought to you by the UT Health Houston
Institute on Aging, Informed decisions for a healthier, happier life.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome,
here we go.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Today's issue or not issue, Good Heavens, today's episode, Today's
rendition edition. They all work. I guess fifty plus, in
which we'll cover some pretty solid ground coming into the holidays.
As a first order of business, By the way, I
had a meeting earlier today with the Saint Jude Golf

(01:08):
Tournament Committee and several folks from Saint Jude, and we're
getting really close to our tea time on Monday, December eighth,
up there at Golf Club of Houston, mostly on schedule.
We intend fully to fill up both courses once again,
trying to raise money for this particularly good cause, one
that I've really wrapped my arms around since I got

(01:30):
a chance to visit there several years ago, and I
actually had a chance to go back this year, and
I politely declined because I explained to the people who
invited me, the Saint Jude people, that there was really
nothing I could see over there on a second trip
that would that would impress me more than I was

(01:52):
already impressed after making that first trip. How they handle
their business for starters, and it's it's pretty amazing when
you stop and think about it. There is no patient
billing department at Saint Jude Hospital. Everything that happens for
these kids, the treatment, transportation, housing, food, all of that
all covered by donations from folks like us. So I'll

(02:13):
be playing. A couple of more folks from our on
air staffs are going to be in And if you
want to be part of something truly unique and for
a really special cause, just email me.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I'll give you an idea how to become part of this.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
I'd be thrilled to get a few more companies involved
at a sponsorship level and then maybe fill up a
few more teams as well.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Just email me, I'll get you hooked up.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I'm on the committee and I know I know how
to get this done and get it done right for
anybody who wants to jump in Thanksgiving coming up, and
the cost of turkey downers or turkey God, what's wrong
with my brain? Will turkey dinners? You said? I guess
maybe that's it. Was it tripp to fan that's in
there that makes you sleepy. Maybe that's why I said

(02:56):
that down. Either way, the cost of turkey dinners is down,
not up as it was throughout the former administration. Food
prices across the board slowly but surely retreating as more
and more economic news shows a favorable future for American
families and businesses. The Dow was the Dow was, I

(03:18):
think just a couple of points hit or miss today,
not much moving at all after two pretty tough days,
pretty rocky road earlier, well yesterday and day before.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
It's down a little bit.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
The two of the other three indicators I watched were
in the green. Oil significantly was down more than two dollars,
sitting around fifty nine dollars a barrel, which isn't great
for oil production, but nonetheless, as we're trying to refill
this nation's strategic petroleum reserves, that's a good thing for

(03:55):
the country. We can buy that oil more cheaply than
if we were having to filler up as they say
a few years ago, when gasoline was four or five,
six seven dollars a barrel or a gallon around this
country of ours. Out in California, it's still just ridiculous
from all the taxes they have on oil, taxes, on gasoline,

(04:18):
taxes on everything out there, and they're gonna tax their
whole population out of that state at some point, everybody's
gonna be paanting for gold to try to go by
a loaf of bread. Um got that? Got that well?
Like I said, we've got room for a few more
teams at the tournament. Just email me, I'll hook you up.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Movie. Oh, gold came up a little bit too.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
It was at four thy seventy six dollars per ounce,
just a little bit of go. I saw a story
yesterday and I didn't get to it. There's a class
action suit that's been filed against a couple of airlines
that say, and have said for quite some time now,
that if you book a window seat, even if you

(04:57):
pay a premium for that seat, that doesn't necessarily entitle
you to a view of the earth and sky outside
the window, if there is a window at all. I've
noticed lately, i haven't flown much lately, but I've noticed
a couple of times that there are window seats that
don't have a window. Now, I'm sure there's a reason

(05:20):
for that, and I'm not going to challenge that. But
I suppose that if I paid a premium for that seat,
I and specifically ask for a window seat, and it
is designated as a window seat, then there would be
a window. And maybe the change that needs to occur

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is going to come when the designation when you're buying
your ticket is let's say that ABC are the three
seats on a particular side of the plane as window,
be as middle, C, as isle. I like that C seat.
I like to stretch my legs out. But if somebody
buys an a seat, it needs to be designated either
as window or no view. You can you can sit

(06:07):
there and lean against the wall instead of leaning onto
your neighbor's shoulder, but you can't see out. And a
lot of people, I think one, not a lot. I
think a few people might go for that as opposed
to the window seat itself. But honestly, if it says window,
there ought to be a window, and that's that's pretty

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simple stuff right there.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Moving forward.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
See, I've got that, I've got that to deal with
this I found pretty funny. Remember a couple of days ago,
I don't remember exactly when. I think late last week,
we talked about Target's new greeting policy for its workers,
whereby they have to smile and acknowledge you and and

(06:51):
just be overly friendly, which in modern terms means just
barely polite.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I think I'm gonna think I'm gonna go to Target
this afternoon.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
I got some light bulbs I need to pick up
anyway for the ceiling fan and the den. I'll go
buy him there and see just how I'm treated, and
see if those workers are really doing what they're supposed
to be doing, because I've noticed in a lot of
stores over the past couple of years, people are just
not that friendly anymore. They're just not that friendly anymore.
And I've actually got another little short piece I might

(07:22):
get to about this change we've had, maybe toward the end.
I've got two good interviews coming up. I've got coming up.
I've got something on COPD. If you know anybody who
has that. And then at the bottom of the hour,
we're going to talk to doctor John Higgins, who has
never met a day that he couldn't find up lifting

(07:43):
or a topic that he couldn't make very interesting. He's
a frequent flyer on this program and I greatly appreciate
his time and his expertise. On my way out to
this break, let me tell you about Cedar Cove, harviw
Resort down there on Galveston Bay at the very very
end to try City Beach Road, near Thompson's Bake Camp.
If you know where that is, right on the bay
and with all the amenities you could possibly want in

(08:06):
a little place. You might spend a couple of nights
with the family, maybe over the holidays, go down there
for a little bit longer time. If you don't own
an RV, by the way, that's okay. You want to
try the lifestyle before you make some investment like that.
The owners of Cedar Cove have an RV that they
will rent to you for a day, a night, a week, whatever,

(08:27):
and give you an idea to get that experience, and
you're going to love it. So just prepare for all
the changes that are going to happen when you go
to one of these big shows and buy yourself an
RV and start spending all summer down there, electric water
and sewer at every side. It's all concrete, the roads
and slabs everything. They got, a bathhouse for showers, a
convenience store, free Wi Fi if the kids just have

(08:49):
to get on their little games or you have to
check something. But I would almost recommend just leaving the
devices in a box. Just lock all your phones in
a box and be a family for the whole weekend.
That would be kind of fun. Cedar Cove Rvresort dot
Com is the website.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Go check it out. I think you're gonna like what
you find there.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Cedar Cove Rvresort dot Com aged to perfection.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike, and.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
I certainly do appreciate it having a little trouble getting
in contact with doctor Sika, but when we do, when
we do, I'll bring you on as fast as I can,
and if we have to pause, we'll pause and we'll
catch up another time. On COPD, I actually know somebody
who has COPD, and I don't. I wouldn't say it

(09:40):
has dramatically interrupted that person's life. Now I don't know
the extent of the condition this person has. I don't
know a lot about it. None of my business. I
just know that it has come up in a conversation
or two, and so hopefully if we don't get it
done today, we'll get it done at another time. This is,

(10:01):
after all, though, I think it's World cop Awareness Day
and also cop Awareness Month. So we were right at
the top of the mountain and we had it nailed,
and we'll get to it. We really will back to
target for a minute. This is something that I don't
know if many of you or any of you really

(10:22):
have noticed, but if you have children, maybe middle schoolers
to teenagers and high schoolers, you might have seen some
of this. So here's the deal. My wife and I
got a catalog in the mail yesterday from someplace we
bought something from thirty years ago, and they still send
us catalogs, And this particular catalog was this company's Children's

(10:49):
War and we're talking about kids from maybe they appear
to be middle schoolers, maybe young high schoolers. And then
the last two pages in the catalog were a couple
of kids who were younger, maybe six seven years old,
grade school kids at best, and.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Throughout that catalog.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
My wife opened it up in front of me and said, hey,
I want you to look at this and tell me
what's different. What stands out to you about these these
photographs here of these kids. And I'm looking and I'm
trying to figure it out, and I'm still trying to
figure it out, and I said, you know, it's just
not hitting me, and mostly because I was looking at
the clothes for something maybe inappropriate, And in fact, there

(11:32):
was one outfit on a young girl that my wife
and I both thought was a little inappropriate for her age.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
But that's beside the point.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
That wasn't the that wasn't the highlight that she had
noticed almost immediately got the ideas, will so here's the
deal kids today, And now that it's in modeling, now
that it's in print, and I don't know that I've
seen it on TV, but every one of the photographs

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of every one of those children, all the way through
that catalog, with the exception of that backpage and two
younger girls, not a one of those kids, boy or girl,
was smiling in the photograph, not a single one. They
look depressed, They looked down, They looked like they missed
the bus, They looked like they skipped lunch and wished

(12:22):
they hadn't. They looked like they failed their exam or
their little arithmetic test in the third grade. I don't
understand why why that's popular. And the only thing that
I can hang on to is that all of these
trends in fashion and whatnot tend to come and go,

(12:44):
and the sooner we get back to smiling around here,
which I think is going to be a lot easier
to do, certainly for grown ups, as the economy continues
to strengthen, as some of this extra trillion dollars in
Saudi investment in our country start getting taken care of,
and we start seeing the benefits of all this investment
in our country. Since we change presidents, I think smiles

(13:08):
are gonna come back, and I certainly hope they do,
because looking at those kids, it really it's different. And
I hope I'd love for you guys to let me
know whether you're seeing the same things. Grab one of
the catalogs you got in the mailbox in the last
two weeks, and or that you get in the next
week or so at least to the beginning of December.

(13:28):
They'll be hammering these catalogs as fast as they can
put postage on them. And let me know if that
doesn't look really somewhat shocking to you. After the way
we grew up, as soon as a camera came up
for family photos for whatever, smile, everybody say cheese, say whatever.

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And now it's just not that way. And I've noticed that,
and so as my wife. In pictures of her my
son's friends, they're all just kind of standing there and
they don't smile. Very few of them will break out
a smile unless mom or Dad's standing around to force it.
And nothing looks more forced than a forced smile. This

(14:12):
I found interesting. Years ago, I did a feature on
my outdoor show over on kbmme and the one I'm
still doing after twenty five years. I've been doing that
show as a matter of fact. And by the way,
if you want in on some of that, feel free
to let me know because I'll take care of you personally.
That's one opportunity I have here is to work with

(14:33):
clients who want to be part of the show, who
want to be part of the sponsorship family. It's you
don't have to talk to anybody else. You can just
talk to me and I'll get it all taken care
of for you. And I always take good care of
the people who take care of me. So I digress.
On my outdoor show, I did a feature called could
I Make This Up? Some of you might remember it

(14:54):
if you've listened for a long time, the rest of
you not so much.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
So I'll explain what I did.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
What I did was I had a great source for
very unique, very odd, very weird outdoors related stories. And
that source has long since come and gone, It went
out of business, couldn't make any money. But the long
and the short of it was I would pluck a
paragraph from one of those stories, maybe six eight lines,

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about twenty to thirty seconds, and then I would of
this crazy weird story, just the truth, absolutely true, but
weirdess could be. And then I would sit down and
just empty my head and let my imagination run completely wild,
and write down eight lines of an also outdoors related

(15:42):
story that was totally fabricated. And I very confidently remember
probably batting about five hundred on that about being able
to fool the people who were listening to the stories,
listen to both of them, and then you could win
some golf for maybe a fishing rod or something like that.
By the way, I have some golf to give away now.

(16:03):
I'm gonna bring back the Texas Temperature game once we
get another good coal front through here. But in any event,
so here's the deal. Well, I was reminded of that
because I stumbled onto a border patrol story that's pretty
tough to swallow unless you know it's true, which I do,
because the source is good. Smugglers, as you know, come

(16:23):
in all shapes and sizes, and they try every way
possible to bring some really crazy things into our country illegally.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
But never have I ever heard of something like this.
I don't want to go into great detail.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
I'll just lay out the particulars and then we'll move on.
There's an American guy lives in Tijuana. Now he's coming
across the border where he apparently he lives in Tijuana.
He's coming in here, I guess to visit somebody, and
he got stopped when officers noticed a well, there's no
easy way to say this. They noticed an unusual bulge

(16:59):
in his and upon inspection, they turned up two very
heavily sedated birds. The story says they are orange fronted parakeets.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
That's a subspecies I.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
Wasn't aware of, which apparently have bills larger than standard parakeets.
At the first glance, I would have sworn these things
were some sort of parrot and not parakeet. I've never
seen a parakeet that looked like that, not from here
all the way down into Argentina. And let's just say

(17:35):
it was a good thing for him. They didn't wake
up because I doubt they would have been happy to
be where they were, and if they decided to, well,
never mind, all right, let's take this second break of
the program. Shall we?

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Ut?

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Health Institute on Aging is this amazing collaborative of providers
from every medical discipline. They have given of themselves, their time,
probably some of their resources, to step back for a
day or two, a week, whatever it's taken for them
to learn how to apply their medical knowledge in whatever

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field it's in. They've learned how to apply that to
specifically senior issues. All of us who are in seniority
now know that we tick a little differently than the
other clocks out there walking around.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
It's just the way it is, and there's nothing we
can do about it.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
But what we can do through this Institute on Aging
is be seen by people who understand that most of
them in the Med Center, as you might well imagine,
but many of them practicing outside of there, all the
way into outlying areas and goodness, from Kingwood down to Pearland,
from Katie over to Pasadena. Somebody from that Institute on

(18:49):
Aging is going to be close enough by that you
don't have to drive into the Med Center if you
don't want to, at least a couple of days a week.
Go to the website, look around, check out all the resources,
and then just think your lucky stars. You live in Houston,
where this place is, Well, it's not a place. It's
a collaborative. It's a bunch of people. Utch dot ed
u slash aging. Start there, you're going to be amazed

(19:10):
at what they have to offer as far as resources,
and then start looking for a provider Utch dot edu
slash aging.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Well, they sure don't make them like they used to.
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.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Segment three, of this program starts right now, and I'm
glad we're here because we're going to talk about eating
your way through the holidays without wrecking your health, which
isn't always easy, as most of us have experienced at
least once or twice in our lives, our long, happy,
wonderful lives which we've all stayed perfectly one hundred percent

(19:51):
fit and healthy. Well, I slipped off the curb there, didn't.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
I Uh.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's not always easy, though, as most of us know.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
And I'm going to bring back to help me with this,
my frequent flyer on fifty plus seat one A in
first class, doctor John Higgins, sports cardiologist to the Rockets
and Rice Athletics marathon runner and I haven't done that
and member of the admissions committee at Mcgovernment Medical School.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Welcome back, Doctor Higgins.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
Hey, Doug, Ay, I enjoy fine first class with you.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, sure, sit back and relax whatever you need, Doc.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
So let's start with kind of the low hanging fruit
of not so healthy holiday foods, which would include what
fatty meats and sugary drinks and desserts, okay in moderation
or turn and.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Run away, you know, probably okay in moderation, Doug. But
you know, if you've got a choice, you know, make
the healthier choice. So for example, you know, pumpkin pie
versus pecan pie, that's an easy one. The pumpkin pie
is definitely much more healthy and less calories and fat.

(20:58):
You know, candied yams versus green beans that are you know,
not cooked in oil or just steamed, you know, stuffing
versus a little bit of mashed potatoes with a little
bit of gravy. You know, again, the mashed potatoes is
going to be the healthier, you know, having a dinner
roll instead of you know, loading up on the corn bread.

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So you can think about things that are healthy, I
mean most of them. You can probably feel them in
your in your hands or on your plate. You can
see the oil, and that's going to give you a tip,
Doug that those ones are the probably the ones to
kind of do the moderation or avoid. But if you
get a choice, Doug, try to, you know, pick the

(21:43):
healthy things. And always first when you're get in your
plate ready, get the vegetables on, and we recommend try
to get half your plate covered with vegetables, so you
kind of and the healthy vegetables like roasted or or steamed.
That way, you'll kind of avoid too much of the
bad guys.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
What about broccoli, rice cast role asking for.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
A ye oh yeah, absolutely, that that's a friend, Doug.
You know, any anything that is going to be uh,
you know, veggies where there's not you know, they're they're
cooked without too much oil or too much sweet kind
of additives or coatings. Fruits, things that are you know,

(22:26):
going to be more colorful in general, and things that
have higher fiber. Those are the sort of things. And
and of course you know with the turkey itself, the
wider turkey meat is healthier than the darker turkey meat.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Why why is that?

Speaker 4 (22:44):
It has something to do with the the muscle of
the dark turkey meat, Doug has higher fat and salt
and sugar content than the the whiter one. For it,
it's because of the different type of muscle, is my own.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, yeah, that that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
And the same is true with ducks and geese, the
migratory birds, their chest muscle, which is the breast meat
is very very dark because they have to run long
long or fly long long distances at a time. It's
the sprinters, the quail, the turkeys, the chuckers, the pheasants,
all of them that have very white breast meat, because

(23:23):
they're more for sprinting to get away from a predator
as opposed to having to fly halfway down the country.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Ah. Oh see that's a that's that's great knowledge to Yeah,
that makes sense. Done. Thank you. I've learned learned something today.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
So since you've learned something today, now, can I can
I classify corn bread as a vegetable?

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Says corn right on.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
The I think I think you're right that, Doug. I
think you're right just once as long as you as
long as you know that tomatoes are a fruit.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Okay, Yeah, I was going to ask you about that.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
Who eats fruit other than Waldorf salad? Who eats fruit
at Thanksgiving?

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Well?

Speaker 4 (24:04):
I think what you can do, Doug, is have fruit
as a sort of small servings of fruit as a
sort of mixed in with your appetite like that. Yeah,
so you know, having some fruit and veggies, you know,
whether it be some some of the different berries, or

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some grapes, or or having some carrots with some hummus.
You know, just some veggie platters or fruit platters just
around you know, around the bar, or you know, before
the main meal, so that or around the television so
that people can kind of snack on some of the
healthy stuff, and you know, of course, you know you
want to have some of the other stuff too. Otherwise

(24:46):
people you know, jump ship and say, hell, where where's
the proper Thanksgiving food?

Speaker 2 (24:55):
John Higgins here on fifty plus with me.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
So let's say you screwed up to the table and
you just all off the wagon as soon as the
food starts being pasted. You got your plate hoigh hot
pile high with stuff you love, and you power through
it all just right down to the chinatte plate aside
from having to loosen your belt. What sort of symptoms
can you expect and when to let you know that
you just made a mistake in over eight.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Well, Doug, if you're you know, any sort of major
sort of heart symptoms that you're having, and you know,
like the big ones that we talk about is are
if you're getting like quite out of breath, or you're
having really uh bad kind of strong palpitations while where
you feel in your heart racing or you're getting chest pressure,

(25:43):
those things might indicate that you've gone you know, too
far and too far I think, yeah, Yeah, that's that's
kind of definitely the end of the spectrum. Now, if
you've if you've overdone it, Doug and you're just you know,
feeling a bit bloated and tired, then what we do
recommend is, you know, before you get up to get

(26:07):
your dessert or get your second seconds, we definitely recommend
you wait for about twenty minutes, you know, because oftentimes
your hunger sensation in your brain it's delayed from when
you actually eat the food. And I think we talked
about this before on another episode, that it's important to
try to eat your food slowly and to chew you know,

(26:31):
the food more. The more times you chew the actual
more sated you get again. And of course, you know,
making sure you're having some pauses, having a little bit
of drink in between your food, and if you are
drinking wine, you know, or beer, I do recommend you
alternate with your alcohol, you know, have your glass of

(26:52):
alcohol and then have your glass of water so that
you because you know the alcohol is going to dehydrate
you and you know the water will help to rehydrate you.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
On that point, we are gonna have to call it quits.
I'm afraid we're right at the bottom of this one.
Thank you so very much as always, doctor Nigan.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Happy Thanksgiving, Doug, and hopefully I want to see any
of your patients at the hospital.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
No, no, no, they're all gonna be They're gonna be
minding their p's and q's, I can assure you.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Thanks, Doc.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
All right, thanks, all right, gotta take you a little
break here going out. Country boys roofing talk to John
Nightman yesterday morning at some point before the show. I
know that because I talked about talking to him yesterday
then as well as now. What he talked about was
how important it is to get that roof of yours
checked out. Now it's a very slow time for rufers.

(27:40):
He'll be able to get out to your house very quick.
Either here his son Zach, and they'll come out and
take a look, or both of them maybe come out
take a look around and make sure that ruf of
yours is doing the job that it's.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Supposed to do.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
If the lid has issues, okay, if that lid on
your jar has issues, they will probably have for a
little problem anyway, what they need to fix it right
there on the truck and you can talk to them
about what it'll cost. It won't be much. He's very
very reasonable with making sure little things don't become big things.
That's called long term, long term, good ethical work. That's

(28:15):
the way he does everything with everybody he deals with.
He wants to make sure first and foremost that your
roof is fixed, and then maybe he'll make some money
down the road when you need a whole new roof, which,
by the way, when that time comes. Number one, he's
got a finance company he's working with right now that
will help you spread out the cost of that new
roof over a time so that it's not so not

(28:37):
just a big sticker shock thing you have to deal with.
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or pastor or present military, you can get fifteen hundred
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get a thousand dollars off that roof just for dropping
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get them to inspect your roof, and then put their
number in your speed dial. So next time we have
an issue, next time you do have a problem with
your roof, you won't have to scratch your head and

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try to remember who I was talking about. Countryboysroofing dot Com.
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me and everybody in our age group. Just spell it
like you did for the spelling and be back in
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Speaker 1 (29:41):
And of course, women never get old if you want
to avoid sleeping on the couch. O.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
Hey, I think that sounds like okay?

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Please fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug will and I.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
We're discussing academics during the break and well, I do
have actually an edge caation story here. President Trump's immigration crackdown,
I learned today, is very slowly, but very surely relieving
some of the crowding in America's K through twelve schools
in Miami. For instance, from a Breitbart story, only two thousand,

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five hundred and fifty children of immigrants entered its school
system this year now for comparison, so you'll just know
how significant that is. The past year during President Biden's administration,
saw registration of fourteen thousand children of immigrants, and the

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year before that twenty thousand children of immigrants. Hmm. What
I'm happiest about, honestly, well two things. Number one and
that they work together. Number One, the t get an
incredible burden lifted off their shoulders because classrooms had to

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have been ridiculously crowded under those circumstances. Just in two
years time, thirty four thousand extra kids.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Who weren't supposed to be there.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Now, what we have is an opportunity for all those
children who are still there to get educated correctly, hopefully
depending on the curriculum their curriculum they're being taught, but
hopefully a better chance at getting a real education, rather
than having to have teachers and teachers assistants and translators

(31:38):
and this, that and the other around there trying to
navigate the pass of thirty four thousand kids down down
to only twenty five hundred and fifty kids this year.
That's pretty remarkable, really. Next stops on the President's list
of removal of illegal immigrants are Mississippi and Louisiana, and

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in an operation that I think is appropriately named. I
saw one place that says swamp sweep in another swamp suite.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
I suspect that.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
The correct name for that project is swamp sweep, but
I'm not sure. But anyway, slowly, but surely, and with certainty,
people who don't belong here are being advised on television
and through other media to leave, and even offered money
to do so, to help them get back to where
they want to go. And they also leave if they

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do it that way, with a promise that they may
be able to return lawfully someday. The people who try
to dodge that offer and stay here, especially the ones
who've committed major crimes, are being picked up and sent
packing as fast.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
As the law allows.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
So we are we are at some point going to
start seeing, just as Miami's school did, Cassine a change
and fewer people who you had had to wonder, why
is that person here? All right?

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Moving from there to there?

Speaker 3 (33:09):
There was another page I wanted to get to where
I had some pretty good stuff on it. Where did
it go? I don't even see it?

Speaker 4 (33:16):
Well?

Speaker 3 (33:16):
How much time do I have. I want to talk
a little bit more about AI in these last couple
of minutes, the stories I'm seeing and I have.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Put in concrete now. I hope it stays.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
There. An interview coming up on December second, Mark your calendar.
I'm want to be talking with a doctor who has
been exploring how AI and I ricocheted off of this yesterday,
and I'll try to go a little more in depth
with it. How AI and teenagers are not mixing so well,

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and it's the AI that's doing the damage to the teenagers,
not the reverse. These AI systems are what we thought
as a society and as a world, was that AI
was going to be the answer to all our problems,
the instant gratification that we all so desperately seek in
everything we do. If I need, if I need needed,

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if I ever needed to write another term paper, which
won't happen, but if I did, first of all, it
would it would be hard for me to.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Sit down and let AI do it.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Okay, But a lot of kids do this now, and
they end up getting caught most of the time because
there is not only AI to write the essay, but
there's also AI to detect whether AI wrote an essay.
So it's a battle now between these robotic opportunities to

(34:48):
I don't want to call it cheating unless the professor
says no, you absolutely positively have to write this all
on your own. If that's the case, then yes, AI
is cheating. But at least do some research and gather information.
I don't really have a problem with that, because we
had the encyclopedias when we grew up. They're archaic and

(35:09):
really frightfully short of what AI can do. But that's
not my real problem with AI. The real problem, as
I noted yesterday, is that AI is interacting with young
people who suffer from mental health issues and not doing
and well, I can't say not doing anything, but in

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some cases it's already been well documented. In some cases
is actually encouraging these young people to harm themselves. And
there have even been suicides among young people attributed to
directly to AI, and that I have a real problem with.

(35:52):
That's why I'm going to interview this doctor on December second,
I believe it is. I'm gonna be taking a little
time off week to recharge and maybe catch a fish,
maybe play some golf, maybe do a little hunting.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
I'm not sure exactly what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
It'll be kind of a staycation unless some great opportunity
comes along, and then I might take that because I'll
be on vacation. So in any of it, thank you
all for listening. How much time do I have to
fill now? Will?

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Thirty seconds? Second? Do that's standing on my head? The
most important thing I want to get across to you
guys before Thanksgiving, because this will be my last shot here,
is how much you all mean to me and how
much I appreciate you listening. How much I appreciate you
telling your friends. A lot of times when somebody says, hey,
I listen to your show. So and so told me

(36:40):
to listen to it, they love it. I greatly appreciate that.
If you want to be part of the family, all
you gotta do is email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
That's it for now, have a great Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
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