Uveitis

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Sam Dahr about uveitis.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
Hi, Welcome to fifty plus.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
On this bright and shiny Tuesday, very sunny outside.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
The day after, by the way, the day after the
day I.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Spend a total literally of eight hours and maybe a
little more even waiting for things to happen. Not at
my house, not sitting around the house eating a sandwich
or something. No, I was sitting in these places of
business hoping for something good to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Didn't exactly work out that way.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Two of those things actually cost me a lot of
money too, So so much in fact, that I'm seriously
thinking about hiring Sarah McLaughlin to sing that little song
she sings for puppies and kittens. Only this time. The
video will be of me sitting on a blanket on
a corner and rattling a cupful of coins.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
One of the three places I hung out for nearly
three hours was an auto repair shop, first time I've
ever had and I was there. They said, look, man,
get in early on Monday morning, and you'll be the
first person that tech takes care of when he gets there. Well,
the master technician, the guy who does all the diagnostics,
one of them is out sick. And this one guy

(01:56):
has been worked till his fingers bled, probably for a
whole So he comes in at eight o'clock and I've
been there sitting already for an hour. He comes in,
and to make this long story, this broing, grueling twenty
four hours shorter, he gets finished looking at my vehicle

(02:16):
and comes out to let me know. I don't know
if you've ever had to replace one of these, but
I do now a bad catalytic converter, got one of
those to put in, got two new two censors to
go with it, and uh, hopefully we're gonna do the
work next Monday. I wish there was a better time
to do it. I'm gonna miss two days.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Off in a row. Unfortunately, I don't want to take
a day off.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
I don't want to burn a vacation day to get
my catalytic converter.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
No, I don't want to do that.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Anyway, I had that done, and then I went to Well.
I was going to go try to hit some golf
balls and just relax on my day off. But then
I thought, I, you know, my phone's kind of walky.
I'm gonna go buy a new phone. So I go
to best Buy, where I just bought a phone similar
to mine two days earlier for a Mother's Day present
for my wife. And I sit down and I pick

(03:08):
out the phone I want, and the guy says, good.
All we got to do now is just transfer this data.
That's all we gotta do.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
No problem. When he starts to transfer it and he goes,
your phone's dead. He said, no, it's not.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
It had fifty percent when I got here. He goes, no,
it's dead now. I put it on that magnetic charger
over there, and.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I don't know. I don't know what's wrong with it.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Well, I don't know what's wrong with it either, but
I didn't do it because I did have fifty percent
when I walked into place in any event, so he
comes up with this grand plan and it worked. But
it took two and a half hours to just transfer
instead of transferring by cable, which took my wife's phone,
I don't know, ten twelve minutes. It took about an

(03:51):
hour and forty five minutes to transfer all the data
off my phone. Now, granted my phone had a lot
more on it than hers does, and there's a lot
of re as it took longer, but literally from zero
to one hundred percent in increments of one tenth of
one percent, it was like just watching molasses flow down

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a street in January.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
It was so slow.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
I went.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
I ended up making two more purchases while I was
there too, just walking around looking at stuff. We need
one of those at the house. Okay, I'll get one
of those. Ah, there's something else she'd like. I know
she'll love that. Okay, we'll get it.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
And to put the cherry on.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
The Sunday, I have clients meeting me at at the
Astros game. I'm entertaining in the suite and I had
two different clients coming and to make sure I was
there early, and this kind of forget about the rest
of the day and what had happened. I wanted to
get down there. I'm gonna go watch batting practice. I'm

(04:49):
gonna watch them take infield. I'm gonna do all of
that stuff. So I leave the house like maybe I
don't know, four fifteen, four twenty for the first time
in recollection, and I've got a pretty good memory. Still
there's no traffic. There's just no traffic. We're posted speeds
all the way from sugar Land at Highway ninety all

(05:10):
the way to the downtown exit, all the way, made
most of the lights. I'm in that stadium at five
o'clock maybe five oh five for a seven to ten
tip off.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
So yeah, I just kind of sat up there and
stared at the field.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Because I got there right about the end of batting practice.
So that was all for that and anyway, in any event,
it was good, uh, and the astros disappointed. Unfortunately, one
of the clients, by the way, could not make it
after all.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
So it was still fun.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
And one of the other people who works here had
some clients of hers in there, so it was it
was not an empty suite. It was still fun and
the people there were good. It was just frustrating to
sit in there and hope, just hope again hope the
Astros would win, and they did not, in case you
didn't know, Such is life, though, so on ward we tried.

(06:06):
I'm looking at the bright side too. No rain in
the forecast through Sunday, temperatures creeping up throughout the week,
and for Saturday and Sunday, the overnight lows this is
kind of a first for the year. The overnight lows
are gonna be seventy seven and seventy nine. That's not
very low, and that's gonna really put some stress on
some air conditioners. If you haven't had your AC checked

(06:27):
up yet, and I haven't either, so don't feel alone
if you haven't. I haven't gotten mind done yet, but
I need to. I'll make that appointment, probably this afternoon. Anyway,
here comes summer. Wooh, I could live without that for
Saturday and Sunday. By the way, it's still gonna be
nice and it's not gonna go to ninety either day.

(06:48):
But those lows are not as as build up North
on Wall Street. I'll do this and we'll go to
break well up North on Wall Street. All four indicators
down between half a point and full point around nine
this morning, they still look about the same. A little
while ago, when I took another glance, Goal was down
thirty bucks but still close to forty seven hundred, and

(07:09):
Oil was just holding stubbornly at about one hundred and
one dollars in change. I'm really hoping this whole situation
gets resolved soon, and I think I.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Speak for all of us.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
I know why what's being done is being done, and
I know the importance of it, and I recognize that.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
So we just got to hold our nose till the
stint goes away. I guess it would be much more comfortable.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
I would have been much more comfortable had I spent
the entire day waiting on things in a Zcliner sleep
chair from Gallery Furniture. I could have adjusted it to
every possible position. It has every heated massage, every recliner,
every horizontal bed, and I could have done it probably

(07:54):
fifty times. But I know I would have had a
very soothing experience the way. As a reminder, every z
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need it or somebody in the family needs it, make
sure you can get in and out of that high
tech relaxation without having any kind of troubles.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
You can get it today too.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
Any gallery furniture location, z Cliner sleep chairs, gallery furniture
go check them out.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, 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 code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug pike Y Plus.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Thanks for listening.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Pretty nice afternoon out there in case you haven't been
out yet. And in this segment we're going to talk
about something called uv itis and why you and I
need to know more about this condition of the eye.
And to lead I'll enlist doctor Sam Daharr, Board certified
ophthalmologist and professor at McGovern Medical School and director of
the Retina Division of the rees rui's Department of Ophthalmology

(08:59):
and Vision Science.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
Welcome to fifty plus. Doctor Hi Doug, Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh my pleasure. So right up front here, what is
uv idis.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Uv Idis is basically rheumatologic diseases of the eye, So
people go see a rheumatologist for autoimmune joint diseases and
other types of autoimmune diseases. Uv Idis is autoimmune diseases
of the eye.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Are there different kinds of uv artists?

Speaker 3 (09:30):
There's probably about twenty or twenty five different syndromes, and
those syndromes can affect patients of any age, from small
children to folks in their eighties or nineties. Certain syndromes
are disposed a little bit more towards certain age ranges,
but uv iitis can affect people of any age range.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well, do we have any idea what causes this?

Speaker 3 (09:56):
So sometimes uv idis or infla eyes is linked to
a systemic disease, a disease that affects another part of
the body. For example, there's a disease called sarcoidosis that
can affect the lungs or the brain or the skin,
and sometimes it can also affect the eyes. But then

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there's also other uvitic diseases where the disease is just
eyes only. The people folks have the inflammation affecting their eyes,
but it doesn't affect any other part of their body.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
So what kind of symptoms are we looking for? My
audience likes a self exam? What are we looking for?

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, so blurry vision, persistent floaters, pain with light, what
we call photophobia or a persistent red eye. If the
eye is persistently red for days or weeks, that can
be a sign of evi iitis as well.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, some of those symptoms could be triggered by allergy,
exposure to smoke, or a lot of things. At what
point should someone stop looking in the mirror and thinking,
you know, that's just something else, it'll go away, and
make an appointment to go see a real doctor.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
I think the two things are severity and timing. So
typically allergies or smoke exposure usually don't affect vision, or
if they do, it might be for a few hours
or for a day. But if a page, if someone
finds that while my vision has been down in an
eye for two or three days and it's not getting

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any better, that should be brought to attention.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
How do you diagnose UV artists?

Speaker 3 (11:38):
So the UV artist is diagnosed based on our exam
and the clinic with our special microscope instruments that we
used to look into the eye and with some special
imaging in the clinic as well, and with those things,
we typically get a pretty good sense that there's UV
artists going on inside the eye, and then we may
order some very targeted blood work.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
How do you so well?

Speaker 4 (12:03):
First of all, so we don't panic anyone, Doctor Dorr,
I'm guessing this is a fairly uncommon condition, am I right.

Speaker 5 (12:11):
It's relatively uncommon.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
The incidence in the prevalence of the United States, I
would estimate is probably one out of one hundred and
fifty or one out of two hundred people may experience
cuv ititis in their lifetime, So it's not super common,
but it's definitely out there.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
And back to the cold truth about this.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
If someone does have actually have uv iitis but ignores it,
things can go bad pretty quickly, can't they.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
They can go bad sometimes quickly, absolutely, or sometimes just
chronically or months or years.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
Because uv iitists can take either pattern.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
It can be very acute and hit you hard and fast,
or it can be smoldering and just sort of brew
along for a long time.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
There's both patterns.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
Like most ailments, it's important to get treatment early and
it just that's one of the bottom lines that's going
to be on my top ten list of things that
I learned on fifty plus and earlier is always better
than later, isn't it?

Speaker 5 (13:17):
Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (13:18):
And that's really why we advise people, certainly if you
you know, I always tell people if you notice a
persistent change in your vision, bring it to attention, because
we see folks come in who say, well, I haven't
to he ale the sea out of the eye for
six months.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
So if you have something going on and you've gone three,
four or five days and you're not seeing very well
out of an eye, bring it to attention.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
Go see an eye doctor.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
That reminds me a little bit of that doctor Pimple
Popper on TV where people show up with assist that's
the size of a softball and she'll say, how long
have you had this? Oh, about nineteen years? Yes, we
now doctor Sam dharr on fifty plus. What are the
treatment options? So we have a lot of good treatments

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for uv itis. There's two main classes of treatment.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Number one steroids and we may give people steroid eye drops,
steroid pills, steroid injections to the eye. And then number two,
we borrow a lot of medicines from the rheumatology world,
Medicines that people take by mouth or sometimes medicines that
people give themselves an injection every couple of weeks. There's
a medicine called Umera that you may see advertised on

(14:32):
TV that's used for a lot of rheumatologic conditions, and
we use it for uv ititis as well.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
I want to go backwards for just a second and
talk about this injection into the eye thing.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
You guys put needles in eyeballs now.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
We do that all the time.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
And you know, we inject medicines for all kinds of
conditions into the eye. We've talked in the past about
how we inject medicines for macular de generation, for severe diabetic.

Speaker 5 (14:58):
Retinopathy, and certainly for uv ititis as well.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
There are medicines that we can inject into the eye,
typically steroid medicines.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
How do you keep people from jumping out of the chair.

Speaker 5 (15:09):
You'd be amazed. People do really well.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
We do it in a regular exam chair, and we
clean the eye, and we numb up the eye and
people feel a quick little pinch and then it's done.
And everyone always says, Oh, it wasn't as bad as
I thought it would be.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
Oh, I'm thinking it's gonna be really bad. But I
have I've taken a slight bit of comfort from what
you just said.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
I think I could.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
I could do it if I had to are there
any specific ages at which people might really be more
concerned than others with this?

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Really, the thing that's tricky about uv idis is it
can really happen at any age. I've seen five year
olds with uv idis and every age. And so the
main thing is if something seems off, or if you
have a child and it seems that their visual behavior
is a little bit.

Speaker 5 (15:59):
Not quite what you would expect to have an eye exam.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
Let's step back a little bit and talk about just
things my audience might be able to do to protect
their eyes generally and maybe specifically against uv artis.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Well, there's no real specific protection for uv itis itself,
but in general for eye health, we say avoid tobacco,
tobacco products of vaping, and try to eat your dark,
leafy green vegetables, and those are really the main things
to do for your eyes.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
That's about enough. Huh, that's not bad.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
That's enough.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
I can do that. I can do that.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
Doc.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
So even if they feel fine, how often should my
seniors in this audience go get their eyes checked?

Speaker 3 (16:44):
I would say, once you're over fifty, have an eye
exam every one to two years for life.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Oh wow, Okay, so I don't have to go back
every year.

Speaker 5 (16:53):
Now, you know, every one to two years should work.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
And certainly if you go and you have a normal exam,
probably every couple of years is okay. And if you
haven't something that needs attention, your eye doctor will bring
you in sooner.

Speaker 5 (17:07):
You know.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
About all I'm going for now is just making sure
my prescription is right with my contacts.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
But I'm knock on wood.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
I've my eyes have taken good care of me over
the years, and I've seen some amazing things.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
Yes, that's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
If you had one message to share with this audience,
what would it be.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
My main message is if you notice your vision is
not doing what it usually does in one or both
eyes for for a couple days, bring that to attention.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
That sounds good to me. Thank you so much, doctor
sam Dar. I really appreciate your time, sir.

Speaker 5 (17:44):
My pleasure. Thanks so much.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
Uh huh boy, All right, let's tee it up with
mid May Midway.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Rewind that you can cut that out right?

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Well?

Speaker 4 (17:53):
No ah, man, Well, we do guarantee human though, don't we.
Let's start with Midway meat Market, shall we. Midway's out
there on old Highway ninety about. I don't know, maybe
a couple of miles, three miles past ninety nine off Iten,
you'll take the first Katie exit when you get under

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ninety nine there, and that will lead you right into
town parallel to I ten and into a small town world. Really,
that Katie, that little part of Katie anyway, is still
very very friendly, very country.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Not grown up.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
Now.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
You get out of there a little ways and you'll
find all kinds of stuff. But if you want to
find the good stuff, Midway meat Market and just stay
on that little road. And when you get into what
used to be kind of the main drag of old Katie,
there's a light right there, and to the left there
on the south side of the road will be Midway
Meat Market. Fifty seven years of taking care of people
who need to come in and get their barbecue meat

(18:52):
products for the summertime. Maybe they want to get some
grab and go snacks, or on the way to San Antonio,
or just coming in from a long drive and you
want something to chew on for those last thirty forty
five minutes of your drive.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
They're open seven.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
Days a week, seven days a week, eight am to
seven pm, and they are more than happy to help
you get exactly the meat cuts you want, help you
select from their twenty five different flavors of sausage, and
just make sure that you get the best products you
can out of Midway Meat Market used to be run
by the man who started at Herman Meyer. He's passed

(19:26):
and his daughter, Trish is making a really really great
run at just following in his legacy and making sure
that everybody who wants something out of Midway Meat Market
gets exactly what they want, even if it's a lunch
they serve. They've got a lunch counter there. You can
get a barbecue lunch with all the sides, or you
can get a cheeseburger, which I'm kind of a favor

(19:46):
that I really do. That's one of the best cheeseburgers
I've ever eaten. Midway meat Market. Midwaymeat Market dot com
is the website. Very easy to find. By the way,
they are starting monthly specials for the first eight to
ten days of the month where they're preparing these different
types of boxes of meat products that you can order
come out in a day or two, pick it up

(20:08):
and then have I don't know, I don't know how
long they'll last.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
A week, two weeks. Who knows of just.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
Delicious meat products in different styles and flavorings and whatnot.
You'll have to watch the website and listen for more
details as I get them from Midway meat Market Midway
meat Market dot com aged to perfection.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike at fifty plus.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Thanks for listening. Bottom of the hour. Still sunny outside
best I know. I haven't looked outside. I haven't been
to a window in about thirty five minutes, but the
forecast says it's going to be no rain through Sunday.
So make your plans now. I guess slipping into the
news and starting right here in Texas from Texas Scorecard.
Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Netflix. In the suit,

(20:56):
Netflix is accused of harvesting behavioral data from subscribers, including kids,
while publicly publicly presenting itself as being kind of privacy focused.
There's much more at Texas Scorecard, and I would encourage
you to go read about it, including an ask that
Netflix disable auto play by default on children's profiles. I

(21:21):
don't know a whole lot about all of that, and
Netflix denies all the allegations, said the Texas Scorecard story,
and a Netflix spokesman said, by the way, the suit's
based on inaccurate and distorted information. Innocent until proven guilty always,
But I'm glad there's a watchdog up there at least,
feeling like this needs to be this needs to be

(21:42):
looked at more than just a little bit.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
And from just a few hours ago.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
By the way, on MSN story by Ben Dykes that
says Iran has put itself into a bad spot with China,
which buys a whole lot of oil from Iran, and
China wants that whole straight up moose thing stopped once
that's shut down to end, and none too soon. President

(22:06):
Trump knows how this is playing out with other countries,
countries that need the oil from Iran, especially China, and
pressure on Iran now is coming from from all kinds
of directions and certainly more than one superpower. Iran's running
out of cards to play, and for all of us,
For all of us, I hope it works out pretty quickly.

(22:28):
I'm about fed up with this too. I understand why
it's being done, and I don't want I don't want
to leave with the job undone, which is what three
or four previous presidents did in regard to Iran's nuclear aspirations.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
So hopefully we'll get it. Hopefully we'll get it.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
Finished once and for all, and then and have consequences
if they try to cheat, which would not surprise me
at all. Out West Again, demonstrators gathered outside of Portland hotel,
where FBI director Cash Pateel was believed to be staying.
He was there to attend the funeral of a friend,
in which he was even a pullberry, I believe if

(23:08):
I read right, And here come the protesters yelling and
screaming for hours outside this hotel, despite frankly no confirmation
that Patel was even there, and with no consideration whatso
other for other guests in the hotel, because you know
their wishes and their thoughts, and there whatever come first

(23:30):
before anybody else. I think that's a big part of
what's wrong with this country. Too many people think that
they are more important than everybody else. And hopefully we'll
get past that at some point and be able to
mind our manners and be gracious hosts and be gracious this,
that and the other.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Can't ignore that hunt.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
Of virus story that's been going around. Got the cruise
ship a lot of passengers held on there for a while,
and finally they start letting them off because it's just
not as bad as a lot of the news networks
are telling you it is. It's just nearly it's not. Well,

(24:11):
microphone just did a one on me running away. It's
not nearly as much of a situation, if you will,
as anything like COVID or I don't know, some plague
from a thousand years ago. Hunter virus is contagious and
it's caught by I believe, by breathing in particles of

(24:35):
something to do with the droppings of certain rodents, only
a few species of rodents, and that's how it happened
on that cruise ship. Apparently they figured out who was
in the area where.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
It was contracted.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
Three people died, several others were pretty ill, but the
rest of the people weren't. They were asymptomatic, they were
feeling okay, and finally they all got set home. Basically,
some of them are still having to stay at home
and monitor themselves for a little while longer, kind of
self contained isolation. But really it's just there's been so

(25:13):
many fake news outlets comparing this to COVID. When the
two are vastly different. COVID spreads pretty easily and quickly.
All you got to do is is many of the
upper respiratory diseases are like that. Somebody sneezes on you,
you got to and somebody sneezes on you three or
four times, got a pretty good chance of picking up
whatever's making them sneeze if it's not an allergy. This

(25:35):
hunt of virus can jump from human to human too,
but it's rare that it happens, and people who actually
know about this say there's really no threat to the
public and that the right protocols are already in place
to put this behind us. So if anybody tells you
to go hoard toilet paper because we're about to have
a hunt of virus epidemic, just tell them now, tell

(25:58):
them you're good.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
There is a single.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Line that I saw again today, and I've seen it
before and i't I haven't mentioned it yet though, uttered
by Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary, that tells the entire
story of New York City Mayor Moron Zomdani in a
few words paraphrasing because my PC ate the full story
before I could copy.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
It and paste it in a nutshell.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
What he said is that New York's mayor has become
the best salesman ever for Miami real estate.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
And he's right.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
I guess Runner up might be gad about Gavin out
there in California because his policies are.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Man.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
They're causing people to jump out and move to Texas
in anyplace else they can get with a tank of gas,
take a California gas five six eight bucks a gallon.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
I don't want any part of that. Yeah, both of them.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Mom.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Donnie dropped his recent property tax height.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
Now he's all focused up on that pe de terror tax,
which taxes second homes worth more than five million dollars.
Good luck with that, I'm Donny. Country boys roofing. We
are fast approaching storm season, and that means there's no
time like now to get that roof checked out by

(27:10):
Country Boys roofing. I've been talking to John Aitman for
a long time now about how many little things can
go wrong with a roof that can't be seen probably
from the ground, but that his inspectors will find or
him if he comes out to your house, they will
find what's wrong with that roof. They'll come down and
tell you exactly what it is, maybe even able to

(27:30):
fix it that same day if it's not too big
a deal. If it is a bigger deal than that,
they'll schedule to come back out and tell you exactly
what it's going to cost. He won't ask you for
any money upfront, and you can get that roof patch there.
If you need a complete roof, and you're lucky enough
and nice enough to our country to be an educator,
active duty military, or a first responder, then you can

(27:53):
get fifteen hundred dollars off. Just let him work up
the deal and say, oh, by the way, I'm active military,
by the way, I'm an educate, and you get fifteen.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Hundred dollars off that price.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Even if you don't qualify for any of that, you
can get one thousand dollars off a complete roof just
by mentioning my name.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
That's not bad.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Texas Windstorm Certified, which John tells me any roofer who
works on your house should be in this region and
he's never gonna ask you for money upfront. Country Boys
roofing Country with a K, Boys with a Z, Countryboysroofing
dot Com.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Old Guy's rule, And of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
Okay, well I think that sounds like a good pleath.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug fifty plus.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Thank you for listening, just when you think, just when
I thought I had seen the silliest goofiest national whatever day,
and there are some goofy ones. I don't know why
we have. Do you have any idea what it is? Well,
didn't look good. You're you should be proud. Today is

(29:07):
National Odometer Day. Yeah, that warranted the grimace you just
gave it. There's no reason whatsoever to have a National
Odometer Day when we have so many other, far more
important things to think about and talk about and discuss
and remedy in this country. But it is so when

(29:30):
you get in your car today, when you finally get
in the car if you haven't yet, or when you
get back in it to run an errand later on today,
take a little look at that odometer and see how
many miles you've got on your car.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
I've got.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
I have a five year old car that's got one
hundred and nine thousand miles on it, and ninety percent
of that I'd say, well, not ninety probably eighty five
percent of that is baseball practices, baseball tournaments, baseball lessons,
baseball everything. I don't regret one of those miles. I

(30:10):
really don't. I'm glad I was there for my son.
We made sure that he had somebody in the stands
almost every game, now that he started driving himself to
all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Sometimes I'm not there, but I wish I were. I do.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
I love watching kids play baseball. It's a fun age
and they are. They get more upset about mistakes than
a good coach would. A good coach uses a mistake
as a teaching moment, because you're you're developing your players
for down the road. It's not don't let anybody fool

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you into thinking that if your son or daughter just
takes a couple of more private lessons with them or somebody,
they know that they're gonna have a sure shot at
college athletics. That's that's out the way it works out.
And I know from coaching that some of the kids
I coached who had great potential and were good players,

(31:08):
very good players ten eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, Somewhere in
there there were great players. They really were, but they
burned out. They burned out, and they never played again. No,
I'm not going to play baseball anymore.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Well, sure you are.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
You need some more lessons. You're going to go play
college ball. You're going to be a professional player. No,
not baseball. I might try tennis, I might try soccer.
I don't know, but I'm done with baseball, and all
of a sudden, the parents feel like they've been cheated
because they invested so much money in all that.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
But if you.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
Try to push, and this is a conversation I've had
with my son a lot of times. I've told him
what it would take to play for a college baseball team,
and I've also told him that it's his decision whether
he plays or not, because the last thing I want
would be for me to have forced him and pushed him,

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made him go to baseball, and then he gets upset
because maybe he doesn't make a team, and it's my
fault because I pushed him to do it. I've given
him a pretty long leash, I think, and I'm fairly
confident that he's he's got He's a level headed kid,
and he'll he'll do what he needs to do to

(32:21):
become somebody important. Someday, and I just hope I'm around
to watch a bunch of it. I got a late
start at fatherhood. We'll see. I have to see how
it works out. The clock's ticket on me. In other words,
but I still feel pretty good. I think I can
make it. In a new poll, fifty speaking of yeah,
in a new poll, fifty six percent of people think

(32:42):
that they're cool.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Now, do you think you're cool? Will you don't at all?
Or just kind of cool? None? I think you're pretty cool,
really are you?

Speaker 4 (32:51):
You're joking me? You're a cool dude anyway? What you
don't fall into that category? Then, since you don't think it?
U Forty three percent said they were cool in high school?
Were you cool in high school?

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Oh? Well, I don't doubt I don't believe you. I don't.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
Sixteen percent said they consider themselves very cool, and twelve
percent admitted that they're not cool at all. No, that's
not you, will, it's just not you're somewhat introverted. I'll
give you that, but you're yeah. I know you better
than that. You're not uncool, not at all. I titled

(33:32):
this one matchmaker matchmaker, and I don't know you know
what bumble is right.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
I didn't really. I'd heard of it, but I didn't
really understand it. But that's that dating app where since
its inception it made it. It carved its niche in
that the woman had to message first to initiate a conversation.
Now they say that they're they're changing all of that,
they're taking that away, and they say they're doing it

(33:58):
because people are getting burned out with dating apps and
are moving on toward an AI matchmaking system. So if
you were in that position, would you let AI pick
out your perfect match? I think there are far too
many problems with that than there are solutions.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
I wouldn't. There's no way i'd do that. No way.
How much time to have? Two three, two and a half.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
Okay, let's see, Yeah, I mentioned this briefly. Iran thought
it could impress President Trump with this piece agreement that
included Iran being allowed to continue having enriched uranium. But
you know they promised to only use that general or
that material to drum up a bunch of electricity and

(34:48):
for feeding hungry babies and all that. Well, thanks, but
no thanks. Iron They thought our president would cave too,
but he knows what's at stake, And anybody who believes
anything coming out of Iran is living in a very
very twisted dream that in a short time, if we
allow this would end up being a nightmare. From the

(35:09):
Washington Examiner, and then I'll probably give you one or
two more little things to think about, and I think
it'll be time. A Minnesota group that was praised for
years by Democrats for its crime prevention efforts is accused
now of funneling charitable assets toward luxury cars and travel
Sounds familiar, doesn't it, to the tune of about six
point five million dollars for just this one guy who

(35:32):
ran that organization and thought he had it all figured out,
and he did about six and a half million dollars
worth of figuring. Now though I kind of figure if
he doesn't, I don't know, if he doesn't have a
good excuse.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
He might I figure he might wind up in prison.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
And that's you know, that we have had that much
money stolen from us by so many people over so
many years.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
It's it's almost an.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Embarrassment that our own government was turning blind eye. They
had to have been in some of these cases. There's
no way that they didn't know when they see somebody
who just came to this country six months ago with nothing,
driving around in a Lamborghini.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Yeah, there's something wrong there, there's something wrong. Ah, what
do I want to use through thirty seconds? Okay, I
can do two of these.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
This I like, well first, okay, I'm gonna yeah, I'll
end with this when the court has awarded a German
tourist more than eleven hundred dollars after his family was
left with this poor, poor family. They were left without
sun loungers while on vacation in Greece because the other
guests got up and got there first. Oh they didn't

(36:45):
get their little chairs too bad, pal, See you audios
s tomorrow