October 8, 2024 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Absalon Gutierrez about diabetes.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:50):
Alright, welcome board the Tuesday edition, the Tuesday car in
this week long train, if you will, And I guess
Friday it would be appropriately called the caboose, right will,
since it's the last day and there's probably nobody in
there anyway, since I'm that's my day off, in case
nobody's figured that out yet. Well, I feel like Friday
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is kind of the start of a lot of things
for people. Long weekends, long weekends, well, just the weekend
on Friday, just the weekend in general. For some I
guess maybe they get out at noon or something, like that.
I will tell you this just speaking from firsthand information.
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You don't have a very long drive to work, do you.
I do not, Okay, Mine is more. Mine involves the
Southwest Freeway, and I can tell a lot about the
the Houston workforce by the traffic on an average day
on the freeway, which means there's only a couple of
guys going one hundred and about the same number going
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thirty five in the middle lane or in the left lane.
But by and large, fridays I think are being used
by more and more employers as the off day for
employees who are doing four day work weeks. They're going
in and working four days, ten hours a day so
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they can have a three day weekend, which is I
don't have a problem with that. I think I think
a forty hour work week is reasonable. I do, and
that's what I was raised on. Would you disagree or
agree with that? I mean, I would love to work
just forty hours. Sure, No, you're gonna get the same
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You get the same pay to work for ten hour
days as you get to work five eight hour days.
That's how the math works, will and how productivity works.
You still have to go I mean, I think you
could be just as productive in thirty two hours a week. Well,
that means you're slacking off for eight hours a week,
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that's what I hear. Or you're just goofing. I don't
think goof and Will, I don't think it's goofing. I
think you can't get it done in thirty two hours.
I think you're slack, and that's why you need the
extra eight said nobody who ever owned his own business.
All Right, it doesn't matter. I think one thing. I
think we might. Yeah, thanks for sharing your lunch with us,
(03:19):
And I think along those lines, what we need, will
is a big studio the kind of the TV talk
shows have only only set it up more like a
dinner theater. Really, and so everybody who could they could,
They could call in advance and make a reservation and
have lunch with us while we do the show. You
like that? Where would we do it? We could do
it in the breakroom, not the breakroom, but in the
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green room back there. But we could only have like
three people join us, probably I don't know, and one
of them would have to bring the food. Yeah, that's true.
So what do you want for lunch? If we can
hook this up? I would love some midday pasta so
that way I can go in for my siesta. Oh yeah,
that's the other Now I know where those other eight
(04:02):
hours are God de Costa slash Siesta. Okay, we can
make some new friends, talk about what's going on in
the world. I'd like to do that anyway. Quick look
at the weather, and ours couldn't look actually a whole
lot better. Another few days of sunshine, six or seven
of them. Actually, no rain in the forecast, so keep
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water in that grass. It's not over yet. Slightly lower
temperatures and dryer air too, so all things considered, pretty good.
I've been in touch with some guys and some good
friends over in Florida, a couple of them who are
still a little rock from what Helene did to them
before it ripped Georgia and North Carolina part and now
they are none too happy with having to go another
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round with Mother Nature, which, if you don't realize it
by now, is entirely one undefeated against humans throughout history.
We can't change the weather. We're just people. We're just
living on Mother Nature's planet, and nature can wipe us
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out anytime it's ready. Imagine going out and running all
over town to find plywood to cover your home or
your or your store windows or whatever, taking that plywood
down after Helene, thinking whoo, that was crazy. And then
finally all that plywood laying at the curb gets hauled away,
kind of like how long we had to wait for
the refuse and limbs and trees and garbage to get
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hauled away after barrel here, And then you kind of
start looking at the forecast and you realize you wish
you'd found a place in your garage you could store
all that plywood. Because here comes Melton, Here comes Milton.
All right, I will very quickly step up locally to
the plate with highs and Lowe's and haiku as always
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air to learn about what they do, all right, very quickly. Well,
here we go, so long, brutal heat. You will not
be missed at all. See you next April. April. Yeah,
it's gonna be hot. You think it's gonna Did I
come until April? I only did that for emphasis. Yeah
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it won't be March. No, Okay, we'll still be getting
coal fronts in March. Good ones too, I hope. So
so you're you're gonna make a slate. You don't hurry yet.
I mean, I liked your enthusiasm good. I like your
enthusiasm in that one. I thought the delivery was nice.
You're truly dissected.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I had that little pregnant pause at the end for emphasis.
It was punctual. Thank you. Yes, Okay, I'll give that
one a seven point five. I'll take it. I'll take
it all right. I'm gonna tell you what very quick
you I've got till thirteen off to the market. We
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The four big indicators were mixed down the middle in
color earlier. The overall chain really among them was positive.
Gold lost about a half a percentage point, but its
value is still well north to twenty six hundred. Last
time I looked per ounce, and oil actually the biggest
story on the board. Remember how it skyrocketed, yes, just
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shot up like a missile yesterday, down more than three
bucks of barrel in early trading, which I was really
glad to see. And I got a hunch that it's
gonna stay that way until at least oh, I don't know,
maybe after the first week of November. It's gonna get
lower and lower, and the left's going to take credit
for it when it really deserves no credit for it. It
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all moving on. We've got a guest coming up by
the way. We're going to talk about some breakthroughs and
they're on the they're here, but it'll be a while
before their big time, but kind of breakthrough protocols for
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Speaker 1 (09:06):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Back to fifty plus. Thank you all for sharing lunch
with us. This is the show that kind of it
shares what matters most to seniors, I think, and only
in age, not necessarily an attitude or aptitude. In this segment,
by the way, we're going to talk about some relatively
new options for people with diabetes treatments that in a
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nutshell represent some of the latest advancements in stem cell
strategies and regenerative medicine. And to explain, I'm going to
welcome back to fifty plus doctor Abslong Guchier's Associate Professor
at McGovern Medical School and Medical Director for Endocrinology at
LBJ Hospital and its clinics. Welcome back, Dot.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Great, thank you great to be here.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I appreciate your time. I really do so. Without going
full med school on my audience and me, will you
explain the mechanisms behind type one and type two diabetes?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Sure? So, basically type one diabetes, the main thing is
that your body doesn't make enough insulin. Basically, the pancreas
loses most of its ability to make insulin. And then
type two diabetes, your body is still making the insulin,
but your body doesn't use the insulin as well. Like
the tissues that need to use the insulin, they become
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very resistant to it.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Okay, that makes sense. I can go with that. I
understand that I write something recently about these stem cell
treatments that are showing great promise for diabetics. Can you
share where research is in this new protocol and what
it might mean for diabetics.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Sure? So, with stem cells, there's a lot of active
research going on. To be perfectly honest, we're still kind
of ways from it from becoming mainstream. But what they've
done is they've done several. There's been a lot of
small clinical trials done mostly in people with the type
type one, but also type two, and usually studies of
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about twenty people, and they've take it taken stem cells. Basically,
there's different kinds of stem cells, but the usual one
they get is one that comes from the bone marrow.
We call it a mesan kindal stem cell. And what
happens is the cell can develop into a lot of
different kinds of tissues. So they have to give it,
you know, chemicals and drugs to make it develop what
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you want in this case usually going to be like
an islet cell, which makes the insulin of the pankers.
That's usually that's one thing you can develop these cells
into and then you know, trans you know, and then
transplanting them into people. There's been there has been some
success with this in a few small trials, but there's
also some barriers as well. You know, sometimes the body rejects.
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You have to be able to control how they grow,
and sometimes they don't mature properly, and of course with
some types there's ethical concerns.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
That's a good point as well. Yeah, how far would
you say we are based on research you've seen in
the past from widespread availability of something like this, I think.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
They were quite a ways a way, maybe like ten
to twenty years somewhere around there. Okay, more hard to say. Yeah, Yeah,
there's still a lot of work to be done, but
you never know. With the new technologies coming out that
could steep things up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah, that's a good point to make. With AI available
for pretty much anything, it's gonna it's gonna speed up
the learning curve, I would think, I would hope.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Anyway, Yes, that's there's certainly a lot of interest in that.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Doctor Ebslong Goodsier is on fifty plus here. How exactly
are stem cells harvested from bodies?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So there's a few. There's a few different ways. The
most common ones which we've had success with have really
been the adult stem cells. One way is basically you
just you know. One way is you can do a
bone marrow biopsy and then you know, they go through
a lot of complicated harvesting procedures. You can also get
them from other tissues like fat muscle and many other tissues.
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There's also the embryonic ones, which we haven't had, you know,
from the embryo which haven't been as successful. But a
lot of the things with the adult ones is now
you can kind of program them to behave kind of
like the embryonic stem cells. They're not going to be
totally exactly the same, but you can program them to
behave that way. So a lot of advances in the
field that actually come from taking the adults and programming
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them to behave it's called IPS. A lot of advances
that come from that.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
We could take stem cells from fat I'm feeling pretty
good about my future.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I got yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Need to go ahead and get in somewhere and get
a bunch of them harvested up and frozen off, kind
of like little embryo. Yeah, can stem cells from one
person be used in another person like blood or or donations.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
There is potential for that. The problem is, of course,
it's always the body. When you use these things, the
body kind of reacts against anything it doesn't recognize SUT. So, yeah,
so you'd have to immune You probably have to use
immuni suppress more definitely have to use immune suppression. And
the problem with that is immune suppression is a lot
of side effects.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Do the immune suppressants have to be used if reject
injecting our own stem cells.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Possibly it's not gonna Maybe the answer could be no
to maybe some. It just depends, you know, kind of
on the edge. I think it's going to depend a
lot on the engineering of the stem cells.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I have a question here that came from came from
your end, not miam, because I wouldn't even know what
this is. What what are g l P one drugs?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
So gl P one drugs. These are drugs that they
mimic a hormone made by your guts, and they can
be used to treat diabetes and also obesities. So if
you've heard of a zepic or manaro, those are.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Glp went Okay, and do you feel like that combo?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Would they be used in combination with stem cells or
in addition? What how would that work?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You know? So I don't I'm not aware of anyone
trying to combine the to at this time, So that
would be kind of something to look down the road.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Is it fair, dog, just in the in the broad
picture to say that every generation says this once it
hits my age. Uh, you know, Gottley, I feel like
the next generation is going to have some really big
medical breakthroughs that keep keep them going longer? Has that?
Has that been said since time began?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
People are saying that for a while. But but the
technology keeps getting better. But also that that comes you know,
you know who has access? How much is the cost?
And also what are the ethical concerns? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, start ringing the cost bell for regenerative medicine and
stem cell stuff, and it really jumps up quickly. And
Medicare and medicaid and insurance don't cover it yet, do they?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
No? No, not as far as I'm aware.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, that's that's what I'm I'm seeing and here, and
it's it's frustrating to have, especially for the things that
are already available and and very helpful to people in
my age category. It's very frustrating when insurance is, nah,
we're not going to cover that for you, even though
it would mean a tremendous change in life. Anyway, We'll
get to that some other time. Any good online sources
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for information on this.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
So, yeah, there's there's a different site, different places like
Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic. I know if you look
them up sometimes they'll have some commentary on this.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, all right, Well, very much, very much. Thanks for
your time and your knowledge. I do appreciate both. All right,
thank you, all right, we gotta take a little break
here on the way out. I'm going to tell you
about speaking of doctors and whatnot. UT Health Institute on Aging.
I've had the honor to speak for them for the
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gets bigger and bigger and bigger. It's a collaborative of providers,
but it's also the website of this Institute on Aging
is also a tremendous source of resources that you can
use to make yourself feel better, to make yourself look better,
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to do anything you want to do that's necessary in
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That's a big boost. That's a big boost for your health,
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Speaker 1 (18:29):
Now 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 Dougpike. All right, welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Thanks for listening on this beautiful Tuesday, quite similar to yesterday,
and also tomorrow, the day after that, the day after that,
the day after that, and two more days after that.
We're looking pretty good over here. Just be thinking about
those people over in Florida who are having to two
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big ones, two big ones, almost back to back. You
wonder sometimes whether it would have been better to just
get them both over at once, and God forbid that
shit ever happened. At least at least after that first one,
they got a chance to get something to get the
yard cleaned up, at least even if they couldn't get
the tree off the house. In first Class A one
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federal recall news a warning, a Class one recall from
the Food and Drug Administration about and it doesn't pertain
to us, So nobody worry about this. I just I
just want to bring this up because when these things
do come up, and they do apply to here, you
need to listen to them because it's a serious thing.
A Class one is the top of the heat, that's
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the worst stuff. And from a poultry farm in Wisconsin
they have recalled. I want to say it's three hundred here,
it is three hundred and fifty thousand dozen cartons. That's
a lot of eggs. Whatever three hundred and fifty thousand
times twelve is off the top of my head, it'd
be three point five million plus another seven hundred thousand,
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so four point two million eggs sold in the North,
not down here. So in the north, I'm talking about
way north of Dallas, that's usually the designation. But no,
our eggs down here are not involved in the recall.
So just keep enjoying your breakfast. But if you know
anybody up in Michigan, Wisconsin or Illinois, and you really
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care about them, you might want to give them a
call because this class one, this Class one recall warning
is it comes along with this language year. It could
cause and I'll quote serious adverse health consequences or death
end quote. So way up there, big problem with eggs.
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Way down here, not so much. Our chickens are good
and so are the eggs they lay famous catching a
lot of heat over a tangling of this just catastrophic
situation in North Carolina. And one of the reasons it
might be behind the curve is on on all of
this is because, according to numerous videos that I saw
and meetings and reports that were in this story, I read,
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FEMAS spent a whole lot of this year trying to
bolster its relationship with the l g B t q I,
A community with nothing wrong with that as long as
it doesn't interfere with disaster support, and they they're working
on developing disaster response protocols that meet higher d e
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A DEI goals, not dead I goals. I also have
I have no problem with with trying to improve the
organization the administration, but when it comes down to picking
and choosing who gets relief when there's a major storm.
Call me old fashioned, but shouldn't disaster relief be dealt
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first to the people who need it most. It doesn't
matter what color they are, It doesn't matter their race, religion,
any other factor, any other factor. You got an American
in trouble, You got a person in trouble, even at
that point, anybody who's in trouble, Let's get them out
of trouble and then we'll sort out the rest of
it some other time. You got somebody who's hungry feeding,
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you got somebody whose house floated away, give them a
place to stay. Prioritizing by policy any group over another
group in a time of crisis absolutely unacceptable, Absolutely unacceptable
at every level. And FEMA's got a lot of explaining
to do about that. In one video, the director of
Education and Training for FEMA is seen celebrating the agency's
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efforts to have conversations with migrant trans women FEMA. The
director of education and training for the group that's supposed
to help anybody in everybody in this country who finds
themselves in crisis, not in a specific group, but in
crisis in need of dire help. FEMA is also said
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to be out of money. So where did it go?
Ukraine Lebanon training videos? This administration's looking kind of sus
to borrow that same word I used yesterday. That's two
days in a row. Will that I've used the word sus?
What do you think? Is that too many for me?
Somebody my age? Yeah, you're approaching your limit. Okay, I'll
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turn it down. I'll try not to use it again
this week. But God, with everything that's going on, it's
very difficult. If the woman who wrote that critical email
to me over the weekend about federal response to Helene
by the way, and claimed that those federal efforts had
been just nothing but stellar, if you're listening, you might
want to go back and look again at what you
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were bragging about and talking about over the weekend, just saying.
In semi related news reporter Peter Doocy, I love this guy.
He got under Karine Jean Pierre's skin again during a
press briefing in which he asked specifically about FEMA and
its funding, and rather than answer his question at all,
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Karine Jean Pierre spit out a little word salad and
then just shut down the whole meeting. Keep it up
Peter on a lighter note quantas Airlines catching well snickers.
I guess I heard Jimmy Barrett talking about this this morning.
A malfunction in this big intercontinental flight. They're going to
be in the air for twelve fourteen hours who knows
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long time. And they realized that the video system was down,
that passengers weren't going to be able to watch whatever
movie they wanted to watch. So they took a poll
and they offered different movies that could be shown to
the entire flight, all at once, And when the passengers
selected a movie, either nobody looked or nobody cared. Did
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it happened to be an R rated movie that was
being cast to the entire plane, including a bunch of
little kids, and the film delivered a bunch of profanity
and nudity. Oopsie, Daisy, I don't see this as being
grounds for any kind of real issue. You know, if
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you don't want your kids to see it, just turn
it off. There is an off button on those screens.
Or cover their eyes, or hand them a book, or
give them an iPad to play with something. But just
I don't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't raise a terribly big
stink over that if it's an honest mistake, and I
think it was in the good news corner, and there's
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always one of those from Washington State. I found this very,
very comforting and very It's got a great ending to
the story. There's a dog sitting in the middle of
the road in a rural Washington State. Okay, on not
on the freeway, but it's just sitting in the middle
of the road and it does not want to move.
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And there's a policeman, a patrolman moving through that neighborhood
and sees this dog just sitting in the road and
stops and tries to get the dog out of the road,
and every time he tries to pick it up, it
won't leave. When he finally, I think, gets it out
of the road, at one point, it goes right back
to the middle. So he starts knocking doors. Is that
your dog? Is that your dog? Is that your dog?
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Nobody recognizes this dog. He finally goes back out there,
and now the dog's just laying just splayed out in
the middle of the road like it got run over
by a tank. But it's still perfectly alert. And when
the policeman comes back over there it stands up and
starts walking and looking back and walking and looking back down.
This just kind of a windy, old dirt road, no
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name on it. And the policeman puts two and two
together and follows the dog up the road, which led
to a small cabin where he found an eighty four
year old man on the ground, still just barely able
to call for help. He'd been there for hours. He'd
fallen and snapped his legs somehow. I don't know whether
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he tore up a knee or a hip or what,
but he couldn't get up, and Gita, the little dog,
Gita pretty likely saved that guy's life. That's a good
story right there. I've got a couple more of them
when we get back, and some funny stuff too. On
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if you've got an enlarge non cancerous prostate, woo, you
know the symptoms and they're not fun. They are not fun.
If you don't know them, that means you're probably younger
than fifty and listening on behalf of your older parents.
And that's fine too. Just go look them up and
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vascular clinics there are more than I believe. There are
three clinics now, maybe more to come, I don't know.
But what they do is they go in there and
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they shut it off. They just turn it off like
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Speaker 1 (28:59):
Eight Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Well, let's wrap it up, will shall we? The Tuesday
edition of fifty plus. Thank you all for listening. Bring
some friends next time. Be sure to share the show,
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You don't need anybody else to help you. I can
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do this for you, So please email me. I'd love
to have you on board. Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
There is room for probably two. I would think maybe two,
will three tops more? Yeah? Two or fifty plus?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Same with the outdoor show. There's a little bit of
room there. But that's about it. So man, okay, so
oh do you want to go to h trees? This
is boy trees, queens or teeth? Teeth teeth. It is
the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth.
(30:16):
A pole asked people how they squeeze toothpaste? What about
you will, top, bottom, middle, what?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I just grab it and squeeze, squeeze it, just squeeze
it for all your worth. Yep, how much toothpaste you're
putting on there? I'm putting it least, I'm covering the
whole the whole thing, just like in the TV commercials. Yes, now,
the TV commercials I have even I've read one hundred
times in the last five years. They encourage you to
(30:45):
put way more than you need. You don't need half
of that, You really don't. It'll work. Uh Anyway, the
pole found out that seventy two squeeze from the bottom
of the tube, squeeze it out from the top, which
is only gonna last so long. Eventually you're gonna have
to squeeze it out of the bottom. Are You're gonna
(31:07):
be buying toothpaste about every two weeks, four percent of
people will four percent of people said they use an
amount the size of what a pe, no even small.
A single grain of rice, single grain of grain of
rice is all the toothpaste they use. In other words,
(31:27):
they buy one two what like every year. Yeah, that's
I think that's a people. Yeah, that's I don't know
that that's enough, I really do. You got to have
a little bit more. You gonna have at least to dab. Yeah,
it's just run it down the length of the brush.
At least you don't you don't have to stack it
up like they show in the commercials with that. Well,
I'm not stacking it up. That's exactly what I do.
(31:48):
I run it across like a caterpillar on there. Yeah
that's okay, but that's too much. And then whatever I
don't use I just eat quick breakfast, yes, trying to
get out of the house, a minty breakfast. You know
what else people do who use an amount the size
of a single grain or rice, what they shaved from
side to side. They could think they well they think
(32:12):
they control the weather, and they choose the middle seat
on a plane. That's about right. I'll tell you how
they vote to but that would be I don't want
to go there. Okay, Well one more for you. We
have a couple. Yeah, we got time. Let's see archaeology news.
I'm going to give you that one. The Queen down
in Peru. An archaeological dig has uncovered the throne of
(32:36):
a woman who ruled Peru, a piece of Peru anyway,
not the entire country. It didn't exist then, about two
thousand years ago. It's very cool the pictures. I love
that kind of stuff, I really do. I'm fascinated by
history like that. The room in which this throne was
located also contained amazing artwork and artifacts from the period.
(32:57):
I do like this. There's just so much world history
that just continues to be revealed by people who are
willing to do a little digging, a little research. Maybe
you got rich from a trust fund so they don't
have to have a real job. That also would help
same source. There's a seed that was found forty years
(33:18):
ago at an archaeological dig north of Jerusalem and has
now grown into a mature tree despite exposure to environmental
stuff for more than a thousand years. And this little
tree actually sprouted after just five weeks when scientists got
it into some sterile soil. They soaked it in hormones
(33:39):
and liquid fertilizer and water, and up it came. And
it is believed will to be the species of tree
mentioned in the Bible as having special healing powers. Only
time is going to tell, though, as it's the story said,
its medicinal qualities won't be revealed to us until the
(34:00):
tree bears flowers or fruit or whatever it's got going on.
All right back to you will step up, here we go,
I'll drink to that phone snobs or chug a lug.
Chug a lug kind of similar to the second one
or the first one. Huh, sixty year old guy in
(34:21):
Korea been cleared of a dui charge. Listen to this,
but don't try it here in the United States. I
don't think it would work as well. Sure it was
South Korea, because in North Korea he probably would have
just disappeared. He stopped for suspected drunk driving, and immediately
immediately after that, after he stopped, before he has much
(34:46):
of a conversation with the police, he downs a bottle
of liquor. He got out of it. Why will can
you solve that mystery? He got out of They pull
him over for suspected drunk driving, and they want him
to take a test, and before he can do anything else,
(35:06):
he chugs a bottle of liquor, probably a little little
one of those little flask sized bottles and not a
whole quart or something that would have killed him. But
he just drinks a bottle of whiskey. How does he
get out of the charge. He offers him to the
he drank the whole bottle. No, here's the deal. After
he does that, they cannot prove his blood alcohol content.
(35:31):
Before he drank it while he was driving. Oh well
even when I was driving. I'm just not a very
good driver. Now, yeah, sure he can take my blood.
Not gonna matter. Should try that, No, no will, nobody
should try that. Ever, they should try not driving drunk.
(35:51):
I just I have a rule. I'm just flat not
doing that. I'm just not. And I saw too many
people do that when I I was younger, and that's
just that's not me. We've got a minute, Doug all right,
end of the road or useless idea end of the road.
This is it's appropriate, and I'm gonna just kind of
(36:13):
pause for a little bit because it's think about this.
There are experts today who are saying that as we
have always strived to live longer, happier, healthier lives, right,
but experts today, some of them say that children of
today are quite unlikely to live to be one hundred
(36:34):
years old, that we of our bodies just can't just
can't survive much longer than that. That's about the end
of the road. What do you think, Yes, that's fine.
I don't want to be a hundred good. There was
a woman even years ago where my mother was when
she passed in the place where she lived, who was
one hundred and six something like that.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
I don't mind. As long as I feel good, I'm
gonna keep living, and I'm gonna keep doing this show
as long as they'll have me. Thanks Will, Thanks to
all of you for listening. We'll see you tomorrow. Audios
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Speaker 3 (00:50):
Alright, welcome board the Tuesday edition, the Tuesday car in
this week long train, if you will, And I guess
Friday it would be appropriately called the caboose, right will,
since it's the last day and there's probably nobody in
there anyway, since I'm that's my day off, in case
nobody's figured that out yet. Well, I feel like Friday
(01:11):
is kind of the start of a lot of things
for people. Long weekends, long weekends, well, just the weekend
on Friday, just the weekend in general. For some I
guess maybe they get out at noon or something, like that.
I will tell you this just speaking from firsthand information.
(01:33):
You don't have a very long drive to work, do you.
I do not, Okay, Mine is more. Mine involves the
Southwest Freeway, and I can tell a lot about the
the Houston workforce by the traffic on an average day
on the freeway, which means there's only a couple of
guys going one hundred and about the same number going
(01:54):
thirty five in the middle lane or in the left lane.
But by and large, fridays I think are being used
by more and more employers as the off day for
employees who are doing four day work weeks. They're going
in and working four days, ten hours a day so
(02:14):
they can have a three day weekend, which is I
don't have a problem with that. I think I think
a forty hour work week is reasonable. I do, and
that's what I was raised on. Would you disagree or
agree with that? I mean, I would love to work
just forty hours. Sure, No, you're gonna get the same
(02:36):
You get the same pay to work for ten hour
days as you get to work five eight hour days.
That's how the math works, will and how productivity works.
You still have to go I mean, I think you
could be just as productive in thirty two hours a week. Well,
that means you're slacking off for eight hours a week,
(02:56):
that's what I hear. Or you're just goofing. I don't
think goof and Will, I don't think it's goofing. I
think you can't get it done in thirty two hours.
I think you're slack, and that's why you need the
extra eight said nobody who ever owned his own business.
All Right, it doesn't matter. I think one thing. I
think we might. Yeah, thanks for sharing your lunch with us,
(03:19):
And I think along those lines, what we need, will
is a big studio the kind of the TV talk
shows have only only set it up more like a
dinner theater. Really, and so everybody who could they could,
They could call in advance and make a reservation and
have lunch with us while we do the show. You
like that? Where would we do it? We could do
it in the breakroom, not the breakroom, but in the
(03:42):
green room back there. But we could only have like
three people join us, probably I don't know, and one
of them would have to bring the food. Yeah, that's true.
So what do you want for lunch? If we can
hook this up? I would love some midday pasta so
that way I can go in for my siesta. Oh yeah,
that's the other Now I know where those other eight
(04:02):
hours are God de Costa slash Siesta. Okay, we can
make some new friends, talk about what's going on in
the world. I'd like to do that anyway. Quick look
at the weather, and ours couldn't look actually a whole
lot better. Another few days of sunshine, six or seven
of them. Actually, no rain in the forecast, so keep
(04:22):
water in that grass. It's not over yet. Slightly lower
temperatures and dryer air too, so all things considered, pretty good.
I've been in touch with some guys and some good
friends over in Florida, a couple of them who are
still a little rock from what Helene did to them
before it ripped Georgia and North Carolina part and now
they are none too happy with having to go another
(04:44):
round with Mother Nature, which, if you don't realize it
by now, is entirely one undefeated against humans throughout history.
We can't change the weather. We're just people. We're just
living on Mother Nature's planet, and nature can wipe us
(05:04):
out anytime it's ready. Imagine going out and running all
over town to find plywood to cover your home or
your or your store windows or whatever, taking that plywood
down after Helene, thinking whoo, that was crazy. And then
finally all that plywood laying at the curb gets hauled away,
kind of like how long we had to wait for
the refuse and limbs and trees and garbage to get
(05:29):
hauled away after barrel here, And then you kind of
start looking at the forecast and you realize you wish
you'd found a place in your garage you could store
all that plywood. Because here comes Melton, Here comes Milton.
All right, I will very quickly step up locally to
the plate with highs and Lowe's and haiku as always
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is healthier air. Do I'll pound two fifty say healthy
air to learn about what they do, all right, very quickly. Well,
here we go, so long, brutal heat. You will not
be missed at all. See you next April. April. Yeah,
it's gonna be hot. You think it's gonna Did I
come until April? I only did that for emphasis. Yeah
(06:13):
it won't be March. No, Okay, we'll still be getting
coal fronts in March. Good ones too, I hope. So
so you're you're gonna make a slate. You don't hurry yet.
I mean, I liked your enthusiasm good. I like your
enthusiasm in that one. I thought the delivery was nice.
You're truly dissected.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I had that little pregnant pause at the end for emphasis.
It was punctual. Thank you. Yes, Okay, I'll give that
one a seven point five. I'll take it. I'll take
it all right. I'm gonna tell you what very quick
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(06:54):
The four big indicators were mixed down the middle in
color earlier. The overall chain really among them was positive.
Gold lost about a half a percentage point, but its
value is still well north to twenty six hundred. Last
time I looked per ounce, and oil actually the biggest
story on the board. Remember how it skyrocketed, yes, just
(07:15):
shot up like a missile yesterday, down more than three
bucks of barrel in early trading, which I was really
glad to see. And I got a hunch that it's
gonna stay that way until at least oh, I don't know,
maybe after the first week of November. It's gonna get
lower and lower, and the left's going to take credit
for it when it really deserves no credit for it. It
(07:37):
all moving on. We've got a guest coming up by
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before their big time, but kind of breakthrough protocols for
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Speaker 1 (09:06):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Back to fifty plus. Thank you all for sharing lunch
with us. This is the show that kind of it
shares what matters most to seniors, I think, and only
in age, not necessarily an attitude or aptitude. In this segment,
by the way, we're going to talk about some relatively
new options for people with diabetes treatments that in a
(09:39):
nutshell represent some of the latest advancements in stem cell
strategies and regenerative medicine. And to explain, I'm going to
welcome back to fifty plus doctor Abslong Guchier's Associate Professor
at McGovern Medical School and Medical Director for Endocrinology at
LBJ Hospital and its clinics. Welcome back, Dot.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Great, thank you great to be here.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I appreciate your time. I really do so. Without going
full med school on my audience and me, will you
explain the mechanisms behind type one and type two diabetes?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Sure? So, basically type one diabetes, the main thing is
that your body doesn't make enough insulin. Basically, the pancreas
loses most of its ability to make insulin. And then
type two diabetes, your body is still making the insulin,
but your body doesn't use the insulin as well. Like
the tissues that need to use the insulin, they become
(10:34):
very resistant to it.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Okay, that makes sense. I can go with that. I
understand that I write something recently about these stem cell
treatments that are showing great promise for diabetics. Can you
share where research is in this new protocol and what
it might mean for diabetics.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Sure? So, with stem cells, there's a lot of active
research going on. To be perfectly honest, we're still kind
of ways from it from becoming mainstream. But what they've
done is they've done several. There's been a lot of
small clinical trials done mostly in people with the type
type one, but also type two, and usually studies of
(11:15):
about twenty people, and they've take it taken stem cells. Basically,
there's different kinds of stem cells, but the usual one
they get is one that comes from the bone marrow.
We call it a mesan kindal stem cell. And what
happens is the cell can develop into a lot of
different kinds of tissues. So they have to give it,
you know, chemicals and drugs to make it develop what
(11:35):
you want in this case usually going to be like
an islet cell, which makes the insulin of the pankers.
That's usually that's one thing you can develop these cells
into and then you know, trans you know, and then
transplanting them into people. There's been there has been some
success with this in a few small trials, but there's
also some barriers as well. You know, sometimes the body rejects.
(12:00):
You have to be able to control how they grow,
and sometimes they don't mature properly, and of course with
some types there's ethical concerns.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
That's a good point as well. Yeah, how far would
you say we are based on research you've seen in
the past from widespread availability of something like this, I think.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
They were quite a ways a way, maybe like ten
to twenty years somewhere around there. Okay, more hard to say. Yeah, Yeah,
there's still a lot of work to be done, but
you never know. With the new technologies coming out that
could steep things up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah, that's a good point to make. With AI available
for pretty much anything, it's gonna it's gonna speed up
the learning curve, I would think, I would hope.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Anyway, Yes, that's there's certainly a lot of interest in that.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Doctor Ebslong Goodsier is on fifty plus here. How exactly
are stem cells harvested from bodies?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So there's a few. There's a few different ways. The
most common ones which we've had success with have really
been the adult stem cells. One way is basically you
just you know. One way is you can do a
bone marrow biopsy and then you know, they go through
a lot of complicated harvesting procedures. You can also get
them from other tissues like fat muscle and many other tissues.
(13:13):
There's also the embryonic ones, which we haven't had, you know,
from the embryo which haven't been as successful. But a
lot of the things with the adult ones is now
you can kind of program them to behave kind of
like the embryonic stem cells. They're not going to be
totally exactly the same, but you can program them to
behave that way. So a lot of advances in the
field that actually come from taking the adults and programming
(13:34):
them to behave it's called IPS. A lot of advances
that come from that.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
We could take stem cells from fat I'm feeling pretty
good about my future.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I got yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Need to go ahead and get in somewhere and get
a bunch of them harvested up and frozen off, kind
of like little embryo. Yeah, can stem cells from one
person be used in another person like blood or or donations.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
There is potential for that. The problem is, of course,
it's always the body. When you use these things, the
body kind of reacts against anything it doesn't recognize SUT. So, yeah,
so you'd have to immune You probably have to use
immuni suppress more definitely have to use immune suppression. And
the problem with that is immune suppression is a lot
of side effects.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Do the immune suppressants have to be used if reject
injecting our own stem cells.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Possibly it's not gonna Maybe the answer could be no
to maybe some. It just depends, you know, kind of
on the edge. I think it's going to depend a
lot on the engineering of the stem cells.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I have a question here that came from came from
your end, not miam, because I wouldn't even know what
this is. What what are g l P one drugs?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
So gl P one drugs. These are drugs that they
mimic a hormone made by your guts, and they can
be used to treat diabetes and also obesities. So if
you've heard of a zepic or manaro, those are.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Glp went Okay, and do you feel like that combo?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Would they be used in combination with stem cells or
in addition? What how would that work?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You know? So I don't I'm not aware of anyone
trying to combine the to at this time, So that
would be kind of something to look down the road.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Is it fair, dog, just in the in the broad
picture to say that every generation says this once it
hits my age. Uh, you know, Gottley, I feel like
the next generation is going to have some really big
medical breakthroughs that keep keep them going longer? Has that?
Has that been said since time began?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
People are saying that for a while. But but the
technology keeps getting better. But also that that comes you know,
you know who has access? How much is the cost?
And also what are the ethical concerns? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, start ringing the cost bell for regenerative medicine and
stem cell stuff, and it really jumps up quickly. And
Medicare and medicaid and insurance don't cover it yet, do they?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
No? No, not as far as I'm aware.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, that's that's what I'm I'm seeing and here, and
it's it's frustrating to have, especially for the things that
are already available and and very helpful to people in
my age category. It's very frustrating when insurance is, nah,
we're not going to cover that for you, even though
it would mean a tremendous change in life. Anyway, We'll
get to that some other time. Any good online sources
(16:30):
for information on this.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
So, yeah, there's there's a different site, different places like
Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic. I know if you look
them up sometimes they'll have some commentary on this.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, all right, Well, very much, very much. Thanks for
your time and your knowledge. I do appreciate both. All right,
thank you, all right, we gotta take a little break
here on the way out. I'm going to tell you
about speaking of doctors and whatnot. UT Health Institute on Aging.
I've had the honor to speak for them for the
better part of nine maybe ten years now, and every
(17:07):
year the activity around this UT Health Institute on Aging
gets bigger and bigger and bigger. It's a collaborative of providers,
but it's also the website of this Institute on Aging
is also a tremendous source of resources that you can
use to make yourself feel better, to make yourself look better,
(17:30):
to do anything you want to do that's necessary in
an aging body. Okay, that's who we are. We're seniors
and our bodies are different from younger people's bodies. And
all of the providers who are a part of this,
this collaborative effort, all of them are specially trained above
(17:50):
and beyond their whatever they had to take to get
the diploma on the wall in the office, above and
beyond that, they've gone back gotten additional information, addition education
on how they can apply their expertise specifically to us.
That's a big boost. That's a big boost for your health,
for my health, for anybody else's in our age group,
(18:11):
whether it's your parents, whether it's a sibling, whatever it is.
If you're if you're a senior, and you want to
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start at this website ut dot ed u slash aging,
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Speaker 1 (18:29):
Now 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 Dougpike. All right, welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Thanks for listening on this beautiful Tuesday, quite similar to yesterday,
and also tomorrow, the day after that, the day after that,
the day after that, and two more days after that.
We're looking pretty good over here. Just be thinking about
those people over in Florida who are having to two
(19:12):
big ones, two big ones, almost back to back. You
wonder sometimes whether it would have been better to just
get them both over at once, and God forbid that
shit ever happened. At least at least after that first one,
they got a chance to get something to get the
yard cleaned up, at least even if they couldn't get
the tree off the house. In first Class A one
(19:38):
federal recall news a warning, a Class one recall from
the Food and Drug Administration about and it doesn't pertain
to us, So nobody worry about this. I just I
just want to bring this up because when these things
do come up, and they do apply to here, you
need to listen to them because it's a serious thing.
A Class one is the top of the heat, that's
(20:00):
the worst stuff. And from a poultry farm in Wisconsin
they have recalled. I want to say it's three hundred here,
it is three hundred and fifty thousand dozen cartons. That's
a lot of eggs. Whatever three hundred and fifty thousand
times twelve is off the top of my head, it'd
be three point five million plus another seven hundred thousand,
(20:21):
so four point two million eggs sold in the North,
not down here. So in the north, I'm talking about
way north of Dallas, that's usually the designation. But no,
our eggs down here are not involved in the recall.
So just keep enjoying your breakfast. But if you know
anybody up in Michigan, Wisconsin or Illinois, and you really
(20:43):
care about them, you might want to give them a
call because this class one, this Class one recall warning
is it comes along with this language year. It could
cause and I'll quote serious adverse health consequences or death
end quote. So way up there, big problem with eggs.
(21:04):
Way down here, not so much. Our chickens are good
and so are the eggs they lay famous catching a
lot of heat over a tangling of this just catastrophic
situation in North Carolina. And one of the reasons it
might be behind the curve is on on all of
this is because, according to numerous videos that I saw
and meetings and reports that were in this story, I read,
(21:28):
FEMAS spent a whole lot of this year trying to
bolster its relationship with the l g B t q I,
A community with nothing wrong with that as long as
it doesn't interfere with disaster support, and they they're working
on developing disaster response protocols that meet higher d e
(21:49):
A DEI goals, not dead I goals. I also have
I have no problem with with trying to improve the
organization the administration, but when it comes down to picking
and choosing who gets relief when there's a major storm.
Call me old fashioned, but shouldn't disaster relief be dealt
(22:09):
first to the people who need it most. It doesn't
matter what color they are, It doesn't matter their race, religion,
any other factor, any other factor. You got an American
in trouble, You got a person in trouble, even at
that point, anybody who's in trouble, Let's get them out
of trouble and then we'll sort out the rest of
it some other time. You got somebody who's hungry feeding,
(22:31):
you got somebody whose house floated away, give them a
place to stay. Prioritizing by policy any group over another
group in a time of crisis absolutely unacceptable, Absolutely unacceptable
at every level. And FEMA's got a lot of explaining
to do about that. In one video, the director of
Education and Training for FEMA is seen celebrating the agency's
(22:55):
efforts to have conversations with migrant trans women FEMA. The
director of education and training for the group that's supposed
to help anybody in everybody in this country who finds
themselves in crisis, not in a specific group, but in
crisis in need of dire help. FEMA is also said
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to be out of money. So where did it go?
Ukraine Lebanon training videos? This administration's looking kind of sus
to borrow that same word I used yesterday. That's two
days in a row. Will that I've used the word sus?
What do you think? Is that too many for me?
Somebody my age? Yeah, you're approaching your limit. Okay, I'll
(23:42):
turn it down. I'll try not to use it again
this week. But God, with everything that's going on, it's
very difficult. If the woman who wrote that critical email
to me over the weekend about federal response to Helene
by the way, and claimed that those federal efforts had
been just nothing but stellar, if you're listening, you might
want to go back and look again at what you
(24:03):
were bragging about and talking about over the weekend, just saying.
In semi related news reporter Peter Doocy, I love this guy.
He got under Karine Jean Pierre's skin again during a
press briefing in which he asked specifically about FEMA and
its funding, and rather than answer his question at all,
(24:23):
Karine Jean Pierre spit out a little word salad and
then just shut down the whole meeting. Keep it up
Peter on a lighter note quantas Airlines catching well snickers.
I guess I heard Jimmy Barrett talking about this this morning.
A malfunction in this big intercontinental flight. They're going to
be in the air for twelve fourteen hours who knows
(24:44):
long time. And they realized that the video system was down,
that passengers weren't going to be able to watch whatever
movie they wanted to watch. So they took a poll
and they offered different movies that could be shown to
the entire flight, all at once, And when the passengers
selected a movie, either nobody looked or nobody cared. Did
(25:08):
it happened to be an R rated movie that was
being cast to the entire plane, including a bunch of
little kids, and the film delivered a bunch of profanity
and nudity. Oopsie, Daisy, I don't see this as being
grounds for any kind of real issue. You know, if
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you don't want your kids to see it, just turn
it off. There is an off button on those screens.
Or cover their eyes, or hand them a book, or
give them an iPad to play with something. But just
I don't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't raise a terribly big
stink over that if it's an honest mistake, and I
think it was in the good news corner, and there's
(25:52):
always one of those from Washington State. I found this very,
very comforting and very It's got a great ending to
the story. There's a dog sitting in the middle of
the road in a rural Washington State. Okay, on not
on the freeway, but it's just sitting in the middle
of the road and it does not want to move.
(26:13):
And there's a policeman, a patrolman moving through that neighborhood
and sees this dog just sitting in the road and
stops and tries to get the dog out of the road,
and every time he tries to pick it up, it
won't leave. When he finally, I think, gets it out
of the road, at one point, it goes right back
to the middle. So he starts knocking doors. Is that
your dog? Is that your dog? Is that your dog?
(26:35):
Nobody recognizes this dog. He finally goes back out there,
and now the dog's just laying just splayed out in
the middle of the road like it got run over
by a tank. But it's still perfectly alert. And when
the policeman comes back over there it stands up and
starts walking and looking back and walking and looking back down.
This just kind of a windy, old dirt road, no
(26:59):
name on it. And the policeman puts two and two
together and follows the dog up the road, which led
to a small cabin where he found an eighty four
year old man on the ground, still just barely able
to call for help. He'd been there for hours. He'd
fallen and snapped his legs somehow. I don't know whether
(27:21):
he tore up a knee or a hip or what,
but he couldn't get up, and Gita, the little dog,
Gita pretty likely saved that guy's life. That's a good
story right there. I've got a couple more of them
when we get back, and some funny stuff too. On
the way out of late health. If you have got
(27:41):
if you've got an enlarge non cancerous prostate, woo, you
know the symptoms and they're not fun. They are not fun.
If you don't know them, that means you're probably younger
than fifty and listening on behalf of your older parents.
And that's fine too. Just go look them up and
when you recognize him someday, remember I told you about
a late health and something called prostate artery embolization. These
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vascular clinics there are more than I believe. There are
three clinics now, maybe more to come, I don't know.
But what they do is they go in there and
they identify the artery that's feeding that pesky prostate and
they shut it off. They just turn it off like
a spigot. And once that blood supply is taken away,
the prostrate shrivels up and out with it go all
(28:27):
those symptoms that procedures covered by medicare too, So why
are you waiting? Go to a late Health. They do
a lot of other work too. Go to the website
and take a look around ugly veins, fibroids, even head
pain in some cases. And they do a lot of
regenerative medicine right there as well. A latehealth dot com
Ala te latehealth dot Com. Seven to one, three five eight,
(28:50):
eight thirty eight eighty eight. It's a very easy number
to remember. I'll give it to you again. Seven to one,
three five eight, eight thirty eight eighty.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Eight Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Well, let's wrap it up, will shall we? The Tuesday
edition of fifty plus. Thank you all for listening. Bring
some friends next time. Be sure to share the show,
will you? And if you're interested at all in becoming
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can do that myself. I don't need anybody to help me.
You don't need anybody else to help you. I can
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do this for you, So please email me. I'd love
to have you on board. Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
There is room for probably two. I would think maybe two,
will three tops more? Yeah? Two or fifty plus?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Same with the outdoor show. There's a little bit of
room there. But that's about it. So man, okay, so
oh do you want to go to h trees? This
is boy trees, queens or teeth? Teeth teeth. It is
the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth.
(30:16):
A pole asked people how they squeeze toothpaste? What about
you will, top, bottom, middle, what?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I just grab it and squeeze, squeeze it, just squeeze
it for all your worth. Yep, how much toothpaste you're
putting on there? I'm putting it least, I'm covering the
whole the whole thing, just like in the TV commercials. Yes, now,
the TV commercials I have even I've read one hundred
times in the last five years. They encourage you to
(30:45):
put way more than you need. You don't need half
of that, You really don't. It'll work. Uh Anyway, the
pole found out that seventy two squeeze from the bottom
of the tube, squeeze it out from the top, which
is only gonna last so long. Eventually you're gonna have
to squeeze it out of the bottom. Are You're gonna
(31:07):
be buying toothpaste about every two weeks, four percent of
people will four percent of people said they use an
amount the size of what a pe, no even small.
A single grain of rice, single grain of grain of
rice is all the toothpaste they use. In other words,
(31:27):
they buy one two what like every year. Yeah, that's
I think that's a people. Yeah, that's I don't know
that that's enough, I really do. You got to have
a little bit more. You gonna have at least to dab. Yeah,
it's just run it down the length of the brush.
At least you don't you don't have to stack it
up like they show in the commercials with that. Well,
I'm not stacking it up. That's exactly what I do.
(31:48):
I run it across like a caterpillar on there. Yeah
that's okay, but that's too much. And then whatever I
don't use I just eat quick breakfast, yes, trying to
get out of the house, a minty breakfast. You know
what else people do who use an amount the size
of a single grain or rice, what they shaved from
side to side. They could think they well they think
(32:12):
they control the weather, and they choose the middle seat
on a plane. That's about right. I'll tell you how
they vote to but that would be I don't want
to go there. Okay, Well one more for you. We
have a couple. Yeah, we got time. Let's see archaeology news.
I'm going to give you that one. The Queen down
in Peru. An archaeological dig has uncovered the throne of
(32:36):
a woman who ruled Peru, a piece of Peru anyway,
not the entire country. It didn't exist then, about two
thousand years ago. It's very cool the pictures. I love
that kind of stuff, I really do. I'm fascinated by
history like that. The room in which this throne was
located also contained amazing artwork and artifacts from the period.
(32:57):
I do like this. There's just so much world history
that just continues to be revealed by people who are
willing to do a little digging, a little research. Maybe
you got rich from a trust fund so they don't
have to have a real job. That also would help
same source. There's a seed that was found forty years
(33:18):
ago at an archaeological dig north of Jerusalem and has
now grown into a mature tree despite exposure to environmental
stuff for more than a thousand years. And this little
tree actually sprouted after just five weeks when scientists got
it into some sterile soil. They soaked it in hormones
(33:39):
and liquid fertilizer and water, and up it came. And
it is believed will to be the species of tree
mentioned in the Bible as having special healing powers. Only
time is going to tell, though, as it's the story said,
its medicinal qualities won't be revealed to us until the
(34:00):
tree bears flowers or fruit or whatever it's got going on.
All right back to you will step up, here we go,
I'll drink to that phone snobs or chug a lug.
Chug a lug kind of similar to the second one
or the first one. Huh, sixty year old guy in
(34:21):
Korea been cleared of a dui charge. Listen to this,
but don't try it here in the United States. I
don't think it would work as well. Sure it was
South Korea, because in North Korea he probably would have
just disappeared. He stopped for suspected drunk driving, and immediately
immediately after that, after he stopped, before he has much
(34:46):
of a conversation with the police, he downs a bottle
of liquor. He got out of it. Why will can
you solve that mystery? He got out of They pull
him over for suspected drunk driving, and they want him
to take a test, and before he can do anything else,
(35:06):
he chugs a bottle of liquor, probably a little little
one of those little flask sized bottles and not a
whole quart or something that would have killed him. But
he just drinks a bottle of whiskey. How does he
get out of the charge. He offers him to the
he drank the whole bottle. No, here's the deal. After
he does that, they cannot prove his blood alcohol content.
(35:31):
Before he drank it while he was driving. Oh well
even when I was driving. I'm just not a very
good driver. Now, yeah, sure he can take my blood.
Not gonna matter. Should try that, No, no will, nobody
should try that. Ever, they should try not driving drunk.
(35:51):
I just I have a rule. I'm just flat not
doing that. I'm just not. And I saw too many
people do that when I I was younger, and that's
just that's not me. We've got a minute, Doug all right,
end of the road or useless idea end of the road.
This is it's appropriate, and I'm gonna just kind of
(36:13):
pause for a little bit because it's think about this.
There are experts today who are saying that as we
have always strived to live longer, happier, healthier lives, right,
but experts today, some of them say that children of
today are quite unlikely to live to be one hundred
(36:34):
years old, that we of our bodies just can't just
can't survive much longer than that. That's about the end
of the road. What do you think, Yes, that's fine.
I don't want to be a hundred good. There was
a woman even years ago where my mother was when
she passed in the place where she lived, who was
one hundred and six something like that.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
I don't mind. As long as I feel good, I'm
gonna keep living, and I'm gonna keep doing this show
as long as they'll have me. Thanks Will, Thanks to
all of you for listening. We'll see you tomorrow. Audios
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