May 28, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Aanand Naik about an exciting new resource for seniors. Pike also speaks with Tucker Preston about propane.
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All right, here we go Tuesday. Everybody's back in the saddle after the
long well, the three and ahalf day Memorial Day weekend, That's what
I would Yes, it really translatesto because it was a ghost town around
here. Our whole building was justThey might as well have turned off the
lights about Friday at noon, wouldyou say, Will Is that about right?
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I'd say even earlier. I thinkwe're lucky we were able to get
to the gate. They're going toleave the gate open for us, Thank
goodness, lucky us, I guess, But yeah, maybe about ten o'clock
or so things started thin out.It wasn't hard to find a parking place
in the garage. I can guaranteeyou that it was very nice front row
parking in the garage, not havingto wait a long time for the elevators,
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which, by the way, arethe weirdest elevators to this date that
I have ever had to deal with. I grew up will so long ago
that there were still in some buildingsin downtown Houston and still around the country,
there were people who sat in theelevator and just pushed the buttons for
you, what floor six, twelvewhatever. I thought you were going to
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say that somebody would have their theirhands on a police system and they'd pull
it for you. No, No, it wasn't. No, there was
never that a manual leum. Nobodywas that strong. I don't care what
you call him, but there's nobodythat strong in the elevator business. Oh
maybe if they get two or threepeople there, you'd have to have a
crew to just to lift the carup. Oh, easier to take the
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stairs, and wouldn't it, AndI think it would. I think they'd
be encouraged to please, please justthrow one person on your back and walk
them up I think they which ishonestly that we laugh about that, but
that's what firefighters have to do alot of times in their careers, especially
in cities that have a lot oftall buildings. They gotta people, They
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got to carry people in and outof those buildings. And that's that's a
good excuse to tip the cap tothe firefighters of America. I appreciate what
you do. And by the way, speaking of appreciation, over the weekend,
it was Memorial Day and I didsomething at the behest of my producer,
actually Melboyn came up with this idea. You're talking about me for a
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second over the weekend, will soin any event over the weekend doing my
outdoor shows over on KB and Meand Saturday Smooth a Silk, we did.
I did recognize the day for whatit was supposed to be for.
Yeah, I recognized the day properlyand even took I didn't want to take
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thirty seconds or a minute of silencebecause that would have probably triggered some alarm
within the Ober ten seconds ten secondsand it goes off the air and everybody
has to wake up early in themorning. And then I get a text
message yeah, and to realize thatit was just me being quiet. So
we did it for five seconds.And I'm glad to know the ten second
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rule because next year on Memorial Daywe're gonna go to nine. Okay,
okay, it won't it won't triggerthe light in the hall or anything like
that. But it was to recognizethe sobriety of the day, the meaning
behind the day. And then onSunday I did it twice, actually,
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once very early in the program andthen once in the final hour and about
nine thirty or so, Melbourn Melvinclicks in my ear and says, hey,
man, I got an idea.I said, what's that? He
said, I want to do somethingcoming into the last segment of the program,
and he told me what it was. And I thought, let's ramp
that up and make it even moremeaningful. And what we did is,
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when we got to the very endof the show, my outro played,
and then with about ten or twelveseconds left in that outro, I let
people know that we were going todo one more thing to recognize all the
men and women who have given theirlives in their service to this country.
And you know what, he didwhat did you do? Played taps?
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Played taps? Like is that agame or something? Will don't don't what
is you don't know what tappened?No, oh my god, you're serious,
aren't you. I just asked ifit was a game. No,
no, it sounds like, no, it's not a game. It's something
that is played at a military funeralon a bugle to acknowledge the passing of
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someone who gave their life so thatyou and I could do what we're doing
right now. So no, it'snot a game at all. Will you
missed that one by a couple ofmiles? Oh you think so, Mercy
sakes will the weather brought to you, as always by a Texas indoor air
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quality specialist, where cleaner air ishealthier air. And man, I'm getting
my vents done, getting my ducksdone soon. We got to get the
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And I can't wait. By theway, that forecast includes mean the
evening. It looks like this stuff'sgonna push in a little earlier than later
tonight, like they talked about thismorning. They don't know, They just
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really don't know. So it lookslike, according to the Weather Channel's advanced
futuristic radar, that five or sixo'clock tonight, we're gonna be getting hammered
pretty much across the entirety of Houstonif they're right this time, and then
continuing through the night and get aforty percent chance of raining tomorrow. Some
of this stuff looks pretty heavy.I don't think it's going to I don't
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know. Well. I think it'sa safe bet that it won't be as
severe as what we just experienced whata week and a half ago. Now,
I certainly hope that it's not anythinglike that, but we'll just have
to wait and see. I supposethe other the good news in the weather
is that the tropics still quiet,and I'm checking it daily now, don't
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I don't play around once we getclose to June with the tropics. Anything
I see there, I'll let youguys know about, and I will be
fair and honest in my opinion ofwhether it's anything we need to worry about
here. I did see something thatwas pretty funny this morning on the internet.
A guy looks right into Cameron sayskind of scary that the weather man
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seems to be the one being themost truthful on the news. The closest
to getting it right on the newsis the weatherman, who rarely, if
ever gets it right. Back tospeaking of Memorial Day, real quickly,
two far left leaning reps Ilean Omarand Corey Bush both made the inexcusable mistake
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of mixing up Veterans Day with MemorialDay and using that opportunity, foolish and
misguided as it was, to say, Oh, yeah, we need to
we need to take care of theon Memorial Day. We need to be
thinking about our veterans and the peoplewho have have this country and they need
mental health help, and they needhomes to live in. They're homeless,
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is fifty plus with Dougpike. AllRight, welcome back, Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it. I amdealing with laptop issues. Imagine that
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in this day and age. Ofcourse, they always happen when you don't
want them to. But good thingis, we've got something really good to
talk about now on this Tuesday,behind Labor Day, We're going to talk
in this segment about an exciting newresource for seniors. It's going to give
us a chance to more closely monitorour overall health and work with providers to
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develop plans that identify specific health goalsand create strategies for reaching them. And
with that, I will welcome doctorAnnon Nike, Executive director of ut Health
Houston's Institute on Aging and professor ofGeriatrics and Palliative Medicine. It's been a
wild doctor, but I'm glad weget to share my health priorities dot Org
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with this audience today. I'm doingreally well. It's Bill Wilde. Gosh,
it was at an Astros game thelast week. Ran into each other,
I suppose, wasn't it. OhMa, it's a good place to
meet. Yeah, we got tochange that though. We need to go
have lunch sometime. So when andwhere was the idea for my health priorities
dot org Born you know, cameout of a lot of experiences that my
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colleagues had taking care of older adultswho have, you know, several chronic
conditions and sort of hearing their complaintsabout going from one doctor to the other,
and each doctor just focuses on,you know, their condition or their
specialty, and no one's really lookingat the whole person and the big picture
and how to kind of put allthe pieces together with when you're taking care
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of someone who has multiple chronic conditions. Yeah, that's perfect really, and
it's something that all of everybody inyour profession. You know, you see
one doctor and then you go toanother doctor as a patient and maybe that
one gets the information, but youyou couldn't before really put it all onto
one page, could you. No, it's tough. In fact, I
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have a lot of people kind ofme and they say, Dot, I'm
coming to you because I just needa quarterback to kind of help me think
through all the complexity. And sometimesthat's really why they come see us.
That's exactly that's exactly what this enablesis somebody to become the quarterback. So
I took a brief stroll through itthis morning and really liked what I found.
Honestly, walk the audience if youwent through kind of the basic steps,
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where do you start? And thenwhere does that lead at health priorities
or my health priority. Yeah,so just just to be clear, it's
all one where no space is myhealth Priorities dot org, my Health Priorities
dot org. And this is away for you as an older adulter,
even if you're not older, andyou're a patient and you want to kind
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of direct your own care, andwe say you can do this by yourself.
You can do it with a familymember, love when anyone who kind
of helps you make decisions or helpsyou think through your health. And you
know, you go to the websiteand there's an introduction and it sort of
begins to walk you through it,but there's sort of an organization that we
have that on. Then there's ofa navigation bar on the left hand side
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right now, and it starts by, you know, asking the question of
what's most important to you, whatmatters most to you? And I say,
I use the term health values,and you know, these are just
the things that you want your healthfor. And so sometimes they are about
connections with people. Sometimes it's aboutlife enjoyment, things you like doing,
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things you find purpose and meaning inthings that you want to be able to
do functionally on your daily basis.So it begins by just starting by asking
you, you know, what's mostimportant to you, what do you want
your health for, and then walkthrough that process to come up with a
specific health goal. And this isa goal that's, like I would say,
is about your whole person and somethingthat's about your health. So you
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know, you might say that,you know, what's really important to me
is being able to go to thepark with my dog, and that's really
important, and then you can kindof make a goal out of that,
like I want to be able towalk, you know, several days a
week for half an hour to thepark with my dog and back and that's
really what my health goal is.And so it's something like that. It's
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a practical, something doable, andit's about your whole health. So it
incorporates what's happening in the backside.Is it's incorporating all the different conditions you
have. And we'll get into thatabout what's maybe keeping you from getting to
that goal, but we first wantyou to tell us what's most important to
you and how you can make thatinto a specific, realistic and actionable goal
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and something that we can measure futurecare around. You know, are we
getting to that goal right? Yeah? Sure? Is there such a thing
on these forms as too much information? Or is it more beneficial too on
your side as quarterback to really justhave the patient lay it all out there
in one spot, all at once. So the good thing about the website
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is it doesn't let you put intoo much. I think you're sort of
just enough. And you know howit is when you're going to the doctors
nowadays you don't have as much timeas you'd like. Well that it's sort
of coming in with something succinct andto the point. And that's what the
website tries to do. Is ittries to go from you know, a
long winded, kind of fuzzy youknow, hey, I just like really
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spending time with my dog like that. That's good to know, But how
do we make that into something that'sspecific, realistic and actionable and something that's
the sinc that the doctors know whatto do what to do with. So
so that's what the website tries todo is to give you something, you
know, to walk through it andgives you something that's just kind of to
the point in terms of a goal. And then the next step is it
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asks you what do you find burdensomeand what do you find helpful in your
care? And so it's important toknow that you know the doctor gave you.
You know, the one thing Ihear if people complain about a sepath,
that that machine that people have theirface for sleeping. So I've never
found a patient that enjoys their seahappened. Every one of them tells me
that the most burdensome thing. Butit might be some medications, or it
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might be extra doctor visits or whateverit is, and you know, you
sort of spell that out and thenand then we kind of come to a
point where we ask, Hey,what is bothersome about your health, your
condition, or your symptoms that's gettingin the way of the goal. Sometimes
that might be you know, thecepath machine or something you described before,
but often it's a symptom or acondition, something that's getting in the way
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of your goal. And the websitereally sort of teases that out and brings
that out and then we kind ofclose by putting it all together by saying,
this is the one thing from yourperspective, this is the top priority,
the one thing you want your doctorto focus on. And you might
have listed a couple of goals,so it really asks you to list one
goal and the one bothersome problem that'sgetting in the way. So at least
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there's a top priority that focuses aconversation with your doctor to say, you
know what, it's my back painand a little bit of fatigue, and
that's what's keeping me from having thosewalks to the park with my dog.
We're already down to a minute ahalf, believe it or not. And
I do want to ask you somethinghere, So who to who? Is
there a sample size big enough toknow who most greatly tends to benefit from
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using this site? You know,I think I think it's people who have
multiple chronic conditions that don't have tobe older, or it's older adults who
just have a lot of complex stuffthat they want to kind of piece together,
and it's to kind of put everythingin one place. That's here's my
whole person goal, and here's thething that's getting in the way. And
I want you to kind of quarterbackthat for me, and the doctor knows
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that, hey, I've got twoor three conditions, they're all kind of
getting in the they're all kind ofgetting in there and producing the fatigue and
the back pain. So the doctorunderstands the medical complexity, but you put
it into a place that they knowwhat to tackle and how to tackle it,
and it's enough to help you getto your goal. How do you
know which quarterback is going to beon your team or do you you know,
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I'm hoping it's your primary care provisor. Okay, person you go to
for that sort of thing, becausethat's the one person kind of put together.
But you'd be surprised. Sometimes.I've given this to cardiologists and the
ones who kind of get it,and they're like, yeah, that is
actually helpful to me. And youknow it is with hard doctors nowadays they're
tackling two or three different heart thingsat the same time also, and so
I found even some specialists you kindof just get it, like when they
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see it. And this the websitewill produce a document a PDF that you
can download or print out, andyou can take it with you to the
doctor's office to help you. Perfect, doctor Annon Nay, thank you so
very much. My Health Priorities dotorg. It's all one word, my
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is fifty plus with Doug Pike.That's so heavy? Will can we find
something a little lighter and more upbeat? All right, Welcome back fifty plus.
Thanks to doctor Ann Nyak for sharingMyhealthproorities dot org. We'll talk in
this segment about electricity and more specificallyreally about taking kind of a broader look
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at the energy grid, and we'regonna do that with a man named Tucker
Perkins. He is host of thePath to Zero podcast and president and CEO
of the pro Paane Education and ResearchCouncil. Welcome aboard, Tucker, Oh,
thank you for having me. Lookingforward to the next time with you
there. Thank you, bet so. Lots of places really to start on
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this one. But let's just tryto go back, however far you got
to go back to maybe find afirst reference to replacing fossil fuels with electricity,
And when and where did that ideaget pushed forward? Well, it
probably been bouncing around a long timebecause I think so many people all want
to live on a on a healthierand a cleaner planet. Right we are,
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I think, been a unique view. I think of ours, even
though we represent the profane industry,we are very much in agreement that we
should prioritize the health of our planet, the health of our children, and
the health of our plants, andthen our ability to get there. So
you know, that's been that's beena four most effort of ours from the
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beginning. I think where we tendto feel strongly is that you won't You
will never get there just by relyingon electricity. The electricity. We need
so much electricity, and you've seenit today at the top where you live,
they're building a data center. Ifeel like on every corner where I
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live, and so our needs forelectricity to grow more and more. And
what we see is the more andmore electricity we use, the more we
to revert back to those dirtier sources. And there's a way to be good
to the planet, be good toour own health, be able to get
affordable, accessible solutions. And oneof those things is by relying on the
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low carbon part of fossil fuels likepropane and natural gas. I knew you'd
get to propane pretty quick. Idon't blame you either, propting that.
Hey, my brother in laws inthe natural gas business. So and that's
it's important to bring that up too, because the oil and gas under especially
the gas under this country right now, could fuel us for probably what a
couple of hundred years. I wantto make sure that we I feel like
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we ought to be using those thingswisely until technology catches up with better cleaner
ways to make electricity than windmills andsolar panels. Am I on track?
Really? No? Actually, youjust jumped to perhaps the next level of
this, which would be energy securityand energy into dependance. But if we
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line all those important topics up ina row, first off, friendliness for
the planet, doing the best wecan do to reduce greenhouse gases, doing
the best we can for our ownhealth. And I tend to think about
our children's health because they're more susceptibleto asthma, bronchitis from certainly a lot
of pollutants that come from producing electricitybeing able to be for our own economic
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well being and whether that's your andmy economic well being well that of our
own country. And then the nextpiece is we think about energy independence.
All of those point you to afrankly, using more natural gas more profeine
than using less. It's funny peoplesay, well, we should only use
electricity, whether quick to say,certainly coal, oil and wood are bad,
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but for some reason electricity that's madefrom coal, oil and wood is
acceptable. And it's even worse rightbecause you got you got to waste all
the energy to make electricity, transferelectricity for it. So a lot of
skeptics out there about climate deadlines,the headlines over the past what forty to
fifty years, have have put upa lot of expiration dates on you know,
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when the doom and gloom starts,and not a one of them's come
to pass. Is there anything thatis on the horizon you see that we
need to be paying attention to orshould we just plod forward slowly and steadily
with kind of where we're well whereI think we should be, and probably
you think we should be, butthe administration maybe disagrees with us. Yeah,
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I think I think this whole movementto electric vehicles is perhaps a bit
misguided, whether it's about how wedrive and it's not at all about what
you and I drive for personal cars, I'm you. You are welcome to
drive anything you want, from yourbicycle to attractor trailer, because you don't
drive enough miles to really make adifference. We tend to focus on medium
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duty, heavy duty fleets because theydrive millions of miles and they get relatively
low miles per gallon. And soas we think about getting to a cleaner
climate, the one thing we're notgoing to sacrifice low carbon fuels like propane
and natural gas. We don't believethis migration to electric vehicles is really good
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for the planet, certainly not goodfor your and my wallet. As we
think about having to pay for theseincreased costs and for me, we actually
are completely supportive. Let's let's befocused on greenhouse gases, let's be focused
on our emissions. But when wedo it, we tend to think about
the whole thing. So Rotherlan's saying, I drive a car that's you mission
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free at the tailpipe. Let's thinkabout that full cycle, right, What
did it take to make batteries?What did it take to dispose of batteries?
You know? Is the power companythat you're buying your power from that
charges your car, is that cleanpower? Is that NATAM power? And
I understand that people will say,certainly, the grid may be dirty today,
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but we hope it'll be cleaner.But we can offer clean solutions today,
solutions that you and I can afford, and they're good for the earth
and they're good for our health.You're one of the smartest guys I've talked
to on this subject. I'm goingto ask you a question about something I
see on the internet pretty regularly,stories about how, first of all,
carbon dioxide only comprises a tiny littlefraction of our atmosphere, and then it
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wouldn't take much of a CO tworeduction to start killing off trees and plants
that produce oxygen, or either ofthose two statements false. Well, I'm
not going to say they're false,and I'm sure they're not going to say
they're true. And to your point, I've talked to so many climate scientists,
people that are at the top oftheir fields, and what I see
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is any lack of agreement, franklyabout what is the role of carbon what's
the role of carbon dioxide? Youknow what? What is that I tend
to follow, as I'm quick tosay the Appalachian Trail theory, which I
know you live a long way fromthe Appalachian Trail, but the statement there
is, while on the Appalachian Trail, leave only footprints and take only pictures.
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So we tend to love talking aboutthings that nobody talks about. Let's
conserve resources when we can, Let'suse as much as efficient solutions as possible.
But we're quick to say, let'sdon't destroy the planet to save the
earth, right, I mean,as we see us doing that, to
agree, let's it's not going tobe just about wind and solar. It's
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certainly going to be a broad Welove to talk about that wide app to
a cleaner climate, and whether peoplewant to agree or not, I tend
to think people, certainly in Texas, love to think about that differently.
But we're going to need to relyon these clean, low carbon fuels like
propane or natural gas and frankly tomorrow, renewable natural gas and renewable propine.
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I'm a big fan of technology solvinga lot of problems, and I think
we're seeing now this migration to lowercarbon natural gas, lower carbon conventional propane,
and then a whole host of renewablesources. We talked about sustainable aviation
fuel because nobody thinks that we're goingto really fly electric planes from Houston to
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Singapore. I hate to be there. We know we were lying, Tucker.
I hate to break you up,but we were out of time already.
This has been one of the mostopen and honest discussions of this topic
I've heard in a long time,and I may I may just have to
call you back. There's a voiceof reason on the other end of this
phone line, and I'm really appreciativeof your time today. Tucker Perkins from
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the Propane Education and Research Council,Thank you, sir, Thank you so
much. Stuff. You've been allright. Holy cow, I could have
gone another twenty minutes with this guy. It's just there's some logic behind what
he's talking about. It's not allor nothing. We don't have to we
don't have to rely on windmills,and solar panels and pixie dust for electricity.
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dot com. What's life without anap? If I suggest you go to
bed, sleep it off, justwait until the show's over. Sleepy Back
to Dougpike has Fit continues And Ijust dropped my pen hand Mercy so far
(31:11):
down to the floor in back alittle tight last night going to bed after
I played golf yesterday. Monday's myday off, and I tried to play
golf and even though it was aholiday, and I knew it was gonna
be a little bit slower than usual. We still got around in good time.
Boy, that the heat really startedto get to me a little bit.
And we're not even into summer yet. It's not even junior yet,
(31:33):
not quite. I'm gonna push forwardthough, I'm gonna find a way.
I'm not gonna quit. I justcan't imagine quitting. All right, Well,
let's have a little fun, shallwe. H you want to go
to the bay? Do you wantto go to on the money or get
off my lawn? M on thebay? On the bay, sitting on
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the dock of the bay. Thereis a property in the San Francisco Bay
area for sale four hundred grand.There's only one drawback. I don't even
think Texas home buyers take a swingat this. You know, this might
be this might be their one exception. The reason is that the entire property,
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the whole property, is underwater.Oh in the Atlanta situation. Huh
so somebody's trying to sell the bottomof the sea. I didn't know you
could do that. I didn't knowyou could own underwater place. How do
they get down there? Do theyhave to dive there or do they just
take a submarine submarine two three personsub run around, check the front yard,
(32:40):
check the backyard, build something,get a contractor in there and get
on your scuba suit. Really hardto swing a hammer in water. It'd
be hard to drive. I feellike you probably have to build it up
on land first off. Yeah,just push it off the side of the
ship. That's about as that makesas much sense as this whole story does.
Really, All right, let's moveon. What are those red spots?
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Ink spot or free admission? I'mgonna say free admission? The World
Economic Form I have a reason.I have an explanation for this. At
the end, the World Economic Forumranked the best countries for tourism. Okay,
which is number one, the numberone country for tourism. Ooh,
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number one country for tourists. I'llgive you a hint. Spain is second,
Japan, France and Australia are third, fourth and fifth. What's number
one? You need it with Dubaius of a will you know why?
Why? Because admissions free and whenyou get here you can stay as long
as you want and will feed you. We'll give you someplace to live.
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I heard I thought you were talkingabout tours. Well that's what it says,
here's tourism, But what what arethese people after a lot of them
are just tourists, are just hangingaround. They are also some military people
here. I feel like there's alot of people that come to visit the
US. Well, clearly they do. We don't know how good we got
it. I guess what we do. But you know, ah, this
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is kind of funny. Groom wasarrested in Indiana this month. Listen to
what he did, and then listento his explanation and think of this is
like a Jersey thing. Okay,this is Jersey or Chicago. I'm talking
about back in gangster days. Becauseat this wedding, the groom shot a
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wedding guest in the hand. Hesays, it didn't mean to it just
happened during the and I'll quote Russelland Bustle end quote of an argument with
another guest. So he's packing heatat the wedding, walking down the aisle,
he's strapped and kind of sounds likea Texas thing, to be honest,
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No, no, we'll more civilizedthat. No, that's not even
Texas. Shame on you, Iknow those you don't know what TAPS is.
I feel like that's a Texas thing. On Friday, the TSA said
it screened two point nine five millionpassengers airline passengers, which is a new
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record. Just this past November forThanksgiving two point nine to one nine million
passengers. Everybody's back to flying.Have you been in an airport lately?
Kind of yell? How many?What percentage of people would you say are
wearing masks in the in the airport? Now? Nine? Maybe? Yeah?
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Not very much? Just a few? Uh for people who say they
feel more negative as they age,the average person in some polls done by
people will never meet. We don'teven know how many said they started feeling
more sour at what age? Willprobably four five, maybe forty two by
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the time we reach qualification for thisprogram. We are just mean as nasty
dirt. We'll be back tomorrow.We're not mean, We're good people. Audios
Remember what it was impossible to misplacethe TV remote because you were the TV
remote. Remember when music sounded likethis, Remember when social media was truly
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All right, here we go Tuesday. Everybody's back in the saddle after the
long well, the three and ahalf day Memorial Day weekend, That's what
I would Yes, it really translatesto because it was a ghost town around
here. Our whole building was justThey might as well have turned off the
lights about Friday at noon, wouldyou say, Will Is that about right?
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I'd say even earlier. I thinkwe're lucky we were able to get
to the gate. They're going toleave the gate open for us, Thank
goodness, lucky us, I guess, But yeah, maybe about ten o'clock
or so things started thin out.It wasn't hard to find a parking place
in the garage. I can guaranteeyou that it was very nice front row
parking in the garage, not havingto wait a long time for the elevators,
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which, by the way, arethe weirdest elevators to this date that
I have ever had to deal with. I grew up will so long ago
that there were still in some buildingsin downtown Houston and still around the country,
there were people who sat in theelevator and just pushed the buttons for
you, what floor six, twelvewhatever. I thought you were going to
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say that somebody would have their theirhands on a police system and they'd pull
it for you. No, No, it wasn't. No, there was
never that a manual leum. Nobodywas that strong. I don't care what
you call him, but there's nobodythat strong in the elevator business. Oh
maybe if they get two or threepeople there, you'd have to have a
crew to just to lift the carup. Oh, easier to take the
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stairs, and wouldn't it, AndI think it would. I think they'd
be encouraged to please, please justthrow one person on your back and walk
them up I think they which ishonestly that we laugh about that, but
that's what firefighters have to do alot of times in their careers, especially
in cities that have a lot oftall buildings. They gotta people, They
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got to carry people in and outof those buildings. And that's that's a
good excuse to tip the cap tothe firefighters of America. I appreciate what
you do. And by the way, speaking of appreciation, over the weekend,
it was Memorial Day and I didsomething at the behest of my producer,
actually Melboyn came up with this idea. You're talking about me for a
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second over the weekend, will soin any event over the weekend doing my
outdoor shows over on KB and Meand Saturday Smooth a Silk, we did.
I did recognize the day for whatit was supposed to be for.
Yeah, I recognized the day properlyand even took I didn't want to take
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thirty seconds or a minute of silencebecause that would have probably triggered some alarm
within the Ober ten seconds ten secondsand it goes off the air and everybody
has to wake up early in themorning. And then I get a text
message yeah, and to realize thatit was just me being quiet. So
we did it for five seconds.And I'm glad to know the ten second
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rule because next year on Memorial Daywe're gonna go to nine. Okay,
okay, it won't it won't triggerthe light in the hall or anything like
that. But it was to recognizethe sobriety of the day, the meaning
behind the day. And then onSunday I did it twice, actually,
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once very early in the program andthen once in the final hour and about
nine thirty or so, Melbourn Melvinclicks in my ear and says, hey,
man, I got an idea.I said, what's that? He
said, I want to do somethingcoming into the last segment of the program,
and he told me what it was. And I thought, let's ramp
that up and make it even moremeaningful. And what we did is,
(04:36):
when we got to the very endof the show, my outro played,
and then with about ten or twelveseconds left in that outro, I let
people know that we were going todo one more thing to recognize all the
men and women who have given theirlives in their service to this country.
And you know what, he didwhat did you do? Played taps?
(04:58):
Played taps? Like is that agame or something? Will don't don't what
is you don't know what tappened?No, oh my god, you're serious,
aren't you. I just asked ifit was a game. No,
no, it sounds like, no, it's not a game. It's something
that is played at a military funeralon a bugle to acknowledge the passing of
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someone who gave their life so thatyou and I could do what we're doing
right now. So no, it'snot a game at all. Will you
missed that one by a couple ofmiles? Oh you think so, Mercy
sakes will the weather brought to you, as always by a Texas indoor air
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quality specialist, where cleaner air ishealthier air. And man, I'm getting
my vents done, getting my ducksdone soon. We got to get the
door, then we're getting the roof, and then we're getting the ducks done.
And I can't wait. By theway, that forecast includes mean the
evening. It looks like this stuff'sgonna push in a little earlier than later
tonight, like they talked about thismorning. They don't know, They just
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really don't know. So it lookslike, according to the Weather Channel's advanced
futuristic radar, that five or sixo'clock tonight, we're gonna be getting hammered
pretty much across the entirety of Houstonif they're right this time, and then
continuing through the night and get aforty percent chance of raining tomorrow. Some
of this stuff looks pretty heavy.I don't think it's going to I don't
(06:30):
know. Well. I think it'sa safe bet that it won't be as
severe as what we just experienced whata week and a half ago. Now,
I certainly hope that it's not anythinglike that, but we'll just have
to wait and see. I supposethe other the good news in the weather
is that the tropics still quiet,and I'm checking it daily now, don't
(06:53):
I don't play around once we getclose to June with the tropics. Anything
I see there, I'll let youguys know about, and I will be
fair and honest in my opinion ofwhether it's anything we need to worry about
here. I did see something thatwas pretty funny this morning on the internet.
A guy looks right into Cameron sayskind of scary that the weather man
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seems to be the one being themost truthful on the news. The closest
to getting it right on the newsis the weatherman, who rarely, if
ever gets it right. Back tospeaking of Memorial Day, real quickly,
two far left leaning reps Ilean Omarand Corey Bush both made the inexcusable mistake
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of mixing up Veterans Day with MemorialDay and using that opportunity, foolish and
misguided as it was, to say, Oh, yeah, we need to
we need to take care of theon Memorial Day. We need to be
thinking about our veterans and the peoplewho have have this country and they need
mental health help, and they needhomes to live in. They're homeless,
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they're all of that, and that'sall true, but that's not what Memorial
Day was about. And those peopleare making laws for our country and they
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k because at Kirk Coombs it's allabout you, aged to perfection. This
is fifty plus with Dougpike. AllRight, welcome back, Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it. I amdealing with laptop issues. Imagine that
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in this day and age. Ofcourse, they always happen when you don't
want them to. But good thingis, we've got something really good to
talk about now on this Tuesday,behind Labor Day, We're going to talk
in this segment about an exciting newresource for seniors. It's going to give
us a chance to more closely monitorour overall health and work with providers to
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develop plans that identify specific health goalsand create strategies for reaching them. And
with that, I will welcome doctorAnnon Nike, Executive director of ut Health
Houston's Institute on Aging and professor ofGeriatrics and Palliative Medicine. It's been a
wild doctor, but I'm glad weget to share my health priorities dot Org
(10:37):
with this audience today. I'm doingreally well. It's Bill Wilde. Gosh,
it was at an Astros game thelast week. Ran into each other,
I suppose, wasn't it. OhMa, it's a good place to
meet. Yeah, we got tochange that though. We need to go
have lunch sometime. So when andwhere was the idea for my health priorities
dot org Born you know, cameout of a lot of experiences that my
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colleagues had taking care of older adultswho have, you know, several chronic
conditions and sort of hearing their complaintsabout going from one doctor to the other,
and each doctor just focuses on,you know, their condition or their
specialty, and no one's really lookingat the whole person and the big picture
and how to kind of put allthe pieces together with when you're taking care
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of someone who has multiple chronic conditions. Yeah, that's perfect really, and
it's something that all of everybody inyour profession. You know, you see
one doctor and then you go toanother doctor as a patient and maybe that
one gets the information, but youyou couldn't before really put it all onto
one page, could you. No, it's tough. In fact, I
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have a lot of people kind ofme and they say, Dot, I'm
coming to you because I just needa quarterback to kind of help me think
through all the complexity. And sometimesthat's really why they come see us.
That's exactly that's exactly what this enablesis somebody to become the quarterback. So
I took a brief stroll through itthis morning and really liked what I found.
Honestly, walk the audience if youwent through kind of the basic steps,
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where do you start? And thenwhere does that lead at health priorities
or my health priority. Yeah,so just just to be clear, it's
all one where no space is myhealth Priorities dot org, my Health Priorities
dot org. And this is away for you as an older adulter,
even if you're not older, andyou're a patient and you want to kind
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of direct your own care, andwe say you can do this by yourself.
You can do it with a familymember, love when anyone who kind
of helps you make decisions or helpsyou think through your health. And you
know, you go to the websiteand there's an introduction and it sort of
begins to walk you through it,but there's sort of an organization that we
have that on. Then there's ofa navigation bar on the left hand side
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right now, and it starts by, you know, asking the question of
what's most important to you, whatmatters most to you? And I say,
I use the term health values,and you know, these are just
the things that you want your healthfor. And so sometimes they are about
connections with people. Sometimes it's aboutlife enjoyment, things you like doing,
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things you find purpose and meaning inthings that you want to be able to
do functionally on your daily basis.So it begins by just starting by asking
you, you know, what's mostimportant to you, what do you want
your health for, and then walkthrough that process to come up with a
specific health goal. And this isa goal that's, like I would say,
is about your whole person and somethingthat's about your health. So you
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know, you might say that,you know, what's really important to me
is being able to go to thepark with my dog, and that's really
important, and then you can kindof make a goal out of that,
like I want to be able towalk, you know, several days a
week for half an hour to thepark with my dog and back and that's
really what my health goal is.And so it's something like that. It's
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a practical, something doable, andit's about your whole health. So it
incorporates what's happening in the backside.Is it's incorporating all the different conditions you
have. And we'll get into thatabout what's maybe keeping you from getting to
that goal, but we first wantyou to tell us what's most important to
you and how you can make thatinto a specific, realistic and actionable goal
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and something that we can measure futurecare around. You know, are we
getting to that goal right? Yeah? Sure? Is there such a thing
on these forms as too much information? Or is it more beneficial too on
your side as quarterback to really justhave the patient lay it all out there
in one spot, all at once. So the good thing about the website
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is it doesn't let you put intoo much. I think you're sort of
just enough. And you know howit is when you're going to the doctors
nowadays you don't have as much timeas you'd like. Well that it's sort
of coming in with something succinct andto the point. And that's what the
website tries to do. Is ittries to go from you know, a
long winded, kind of fuzzy youknow, hey, I just like really
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spending time with my dog like that. That's good to know, But how
do we make that into something that'sspecific, realistic and actionable and something that's
the sinc that the doctors know whatto do what to do with. So
so that's what the website tries todo is to give you something, you
know, to walk through it andgives you something that's just kind of to
the point in terms of a goal. And then the next step is it
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asks you what do you find burdensomeand what do you find helpful in your
care? And so it's important toknow that you know the doctor gave you.
You know, the one thing Ihear if people complain about a sepath,
that that machine that people have theirface for sleeping. So I've never
found a patient that enjoys their seahappened. Every one of them tells me
that the most burdensome thing. Butit might be some medications, or it
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might be extra doctor visits or whateverit is, and you know, you
sort of spell that out and thenand then we kind of come to a
point where we ask, Hey,what is bothersome about your health, your
condition, or your symptoms that's gettingin the way of the goal. Sometimes
that might be you know, thecepath machine or something you described before,
but often it's a symptom or acondition, something that's getting in the way
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of your goal. And the websitereally sort of teases that out and brings
that out and then we kind ofclose by putting it all together by saying,
this is the one thing from yourperspective, this is the top priority,
the one thing you want your doctorto focus on. And you might
have listed a couple of goals,so it really asks you to list one
goal and the one bothersome problem that'sgetting in the way. So at least
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there's a top priority that focuses aconversation with your doctor to say, you
know what, it's my back painand a little bit of fatigue, and
that's what's keeping me from having thosewalks to the park with my dog.
We're already down to a minute ahalf, believe it or not. And
I do want to ask you somethinghere, So who to who? Is
there a sample size big enough toknow who most greatly tends to benefit from
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using this site? You know,I think I think it's people who have
multiple chronic conditions that don't have tobe older, or it's older adults who
just have a lot of complex stuffthat they want to kind of piece together,
and it's to kind of put everythingin one place. That's here's my
whole person goal, and here's thething that's getting in the way. And
I want you to kind of quarterbackthat for me, and the doctor knows
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that, hey, I've got twoor three conditions, they're all kind of
getting in the they're all kind ofgetting in there and producing the fatigue and
the back pain. So the doctorunderstands the medical complexity, but you put
it into a place that they knowwhat to tackle and how to tackle it,
and it's enough to help you getto your goal. How do you
know which quarterback is going to beon your team or do you you know,
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I'm hoping it's your primary care provisor. Okay, person you go to
for that sort of thing, becausethat's the one person kind of put together.
But you'd be surprised. Sometimes.I've given this to cardiologists and the
ones who kind of get it,and they're like, yeah, that is
actually helpful to me. And youknow it is with hard doctors nowadays they're
tackling two or three different heart thingsat the same time also, and so
I found even some specialists you kindof just get it, like when they
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see it. And this the websitewill produce a document a PDF that you
can download or print out, andyou can take it with you to the
doctor's office to help you. Perfect, doctor Annon Nay, thank you so
very much. My Health Priorities dotorg. It's all one word, my
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That's al at e a latehealth dotcom. Yeah, they sure don't
make them like they used to.That's why every few months we wash them,
check his fluids and spray on afree is code O wax. This
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is fifty plus with Doug Pike.That's so heavy? Will can we find
something a little lighter and more upbeat? All right, Welcome back fifty plus.
Thanks to doctor Ann Nyak for sharingMyhealthproorities dot org. We'll talk in
this segment about electricity and more specificallyreally about taking kind of a broader look
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at the energy grid, and we'regonna do that with a man named Tucker
Perkins. He is host of thePath to Zero podcast and president and CEO
of the pro Paane Education and ResearchCouncil. Welcome aboard, Tucker, Oh,
thank you for having me. Lookingforward to the next time with you
there. Thank you, bet so. Lots of places really to start on
(20:47):
this one. But let's just tryto go back, however far you got
to go back to maybe find afirst reference to replacing fossil fuels with electricity,
And when and where did that ideaget pushed forward? Well, it
probably been bouncing around a long timebecause I think so many people all want
to live on a on a healthierand a cleaner planet. Right we are,
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I think, been a unique view. I think of ours, even
though we represent the profane industry,we are very much in agreement that we
should prioritize the health of our planet, the health of our children, and
the health of our plants, andthen our ability to get there. So
you know, that's been that's beena four most effort of ours from the
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beginning. I think where we tendto feel strongly is that you won't You
will never get there just by relyingon electricity. The electricity. We need
so much electricity, and you've seenit today at the top where you live,
they're building a data center. Ifeel like on every corner where I
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live, and so our needs forelectricity to grow more and more. And
what we see is the more andmore electricity we use, the more we
to revert back to those dirtier sources. And there's a way to be good
to the planet, be good toour own health, be able to get
affordable, accessible solutions. And oneof those things is by relying on the
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low carbon part of fossil fuels likepropane and natural gas. I knew you'd
get to propane pretty quick. Idon't blame you either, propting that.
Hey, my brother in laws inthe natural gas business. So and that's
it's important to bring that up too, because the oil and gas under especially
the gas under this country right now, could fuel us for probably what a
couple of hundred years. I wantto make sure that we I feel like
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we ought to be using those thingswisely until technology catches up with better cleaner
ways to make electricity than windmills andsolar panels. Am I on track?
Really? No? Actually, youjust jumped to perhaps the next level of
this, which would be energy securityand energy into dependance. But if we
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line all those important topics up ina row, first off, friendliness for
the planet, doing the best wecan do to reduce greenhouse gases, doing
the best we can for our ownhealth. And I tend to think about
our children's health because they're more susceptibleto asthma, bronchitis from certainly a lot
of pollutants that come from producing electricitybeing able to be for our own economic
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well being and whether that's your andmy economic well being well that of our
own country. And then the nextpiece is we think about energy independence.
All of those point you to afrankly, using more natural gas more profeine
than using less. It's funny peoplesay, well, we should only use
electricity, whether quick to say,certainly coal, oil and wood are bad,
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but for some reason electricity that's madefrom coal, oil and wood is
acceptable. And it's even worse rightbecause you got you got to waste all
the energy to make electricity, transferelectricity for it. So a lot of
skeptics out there about climate deadlines,the headlines over the past what forty to
fifty years, have have put upa lot of expiration dates on you know,
(24:15):
when the doom and gloom starts,and not a one of them's come
to pass. Is there anything thatis on the horizon you see that we
need to be paying attention to orshould we just plod forward slowly and steadily
with kind of where we're well whereI think we should be, and probably
you think we should be, butthe administration maybe disagrees with us. Yeah,
(24:36):
I think I think this whole movementto electric vehicles is perhaps a bit
misguided, whether it's about how wedrive and it's not at all about what
you and I drive for personal cars, I'm you. You are welcome to
drive anything you want, from yourbicycle to attractor trailer, because you don't
drive enough miles to really make adifference. We tend to focus on medium
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duty, heavy duty fleets because theydrive millions of miles and they get relatively
low miles per gallon. And soas we think about getting to a cleaner
climate, the one thing we're notgoing to sacrifice low carbon fuels like propane
and natural gas. We don't believethis migration to electric vehicles is really good
(25:22):
for the planet, certainly not goodfor your and my wallet. As we
think about having to pay for theseincreased costs and for me, we actually
are completely supportive. Let's let's befocused on greenhouse gases, let's be focused
on our emissions. But when wedo it, we tend to think about
the whole thing. So Rotherlan's saying, I drive a car that's you mission
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free at the tailpipe. Let's thinkabout that full cycle, right, What
did it take to make batteries?What did it take to dispose of batteries?
You know? Is the power companythat you're buying your power from that
charges your car, is that cleanpower? Is that NATAM power? And
I understand that people will say,certainly, the grid may be dirty today,
(26:06):
but we hope it'll be cleaner.But we can offer clean solutions today,
solutions that you and I can afford, and they're good for the earth
and they're good for our health.You're one of the smartest guys I've talked
to on this subject. I'm goingto ask you a question about something I
see on the internet pretty regularly,stories about how, first of all,
carbon dioxide only comprises a tiny littlefraction of our atmosphere, and then it
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wouldn't take much of a CO tworeduction to start killing off trees and plants
that produce oxygen, or either ofthose two statements false. Well, I'm
not going to say they're false,and I'm sure they're not going to say
they're true. And to your point, I've talked to so many climate scientists,
people that are at the top oftheir fields, and what I see
(26:52):
is any lack of agreement, franklyabout what is the role of carbon what's
the role of carbon dioxide? Youknow what? What is that I tend
to follow, as I'm quick tosay the Appalachian Trail theory, which I
know you live a long way fromthe Appalachian Trail, but the statement there
is, while on the Appalachian Trail, leave only footprints and take only pictures.
(27:15):
So we tend to love talking aboutthings that nobody talks about. Let's
conserve resources when we can, Let'suse as much as efficient solutions as possible.
But we're quick to say, let'sdon't destroy the planet to save the
earth, right, I mean,as we see us doing that, to
agree, let's it's not going tobe just about wind and solar. It's
(27:37):
certainly going to be a broad Welove to talk about that wide app to
a cleaner climate, and whether peoplewant to agree or not, I tend
to think people, certainly in Texas, love to think about that differently.
But we're going to need to relyon these clean, low carbon fuels like
propane or natural gas and frankly tomorrow, renewable natural gas and renewable propine.
(28:00):
I'm a big fan of technology solvinga lot of problems, and I think
we're seeing now this migration to lowercarbon natural gas, lower carbon conventional propane,
and then a whole host of renewablesources. We talked about sustainable aviation
fuel because nobody thinks that we're goingto really fly electric planes from Houston to
(28:25):
Singapore. I hate to be there. We know we were lying, Tucker.
I hate to break you up,but we were out of time already.
This has been one of the mostopen and honest discussions of this topic
I've heard in a long time,and I may I may just have to
call you back. There's a voiceof reason on the other end of this
phone line, and I'm really appreciativeof your time today. Tucker Perkins from
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the Propane Education and Research Council,Thank you, sir, Thank you so
much. Stuff. You've been allright. Holy cow, I could have
gone another twenty minutes with this guy. It's just there's some logic behind what
he's talking about. It's not allor nothing. We don't have to we
don't have to rely on windmills,and solar panels and pixie dust for electricity.
(29:10):
We can do this cleanly and wecan do it where it works in
both directions. Everything we need toaccomplish, we can accomplish. That's a
good start. It's a good startto big conversation. Primo Doors a good
place to start if you are interestedin getting a new front door on your
home, as my wife and Ihave done now and we are starting to
countdown. It is one week fromyesterday that we're going to have a front
(29:30):
door put on our house, abrand new, beautiful door for Primo Doors
can't wait. Competitive pricing, whichis important these days as everybody knows,
and you don't really want to goto a box door to buy a door
for your front for the front ofyour house, because you don't know who's
going to be installing it. Youdon't really know where it came from,
you don't know the quality nearly somuch as if you go over to the
(29:52):
showroom that Primo Doors has over onNorth Post Oak about ten minutes from where
I am, if that, andjust go through the process with someone over
there, let them help you siftthrough the thousands of options you have after
you've after you've gone to the websitePremo doors dot com and looked at the
before and after pictures, which willget you really excited and motivated to do
(30:15):
this. Maybe you've got some taxrefund dollars laying around. Maybe it's just
time because the weather has beaten thebeauty out of your current front door.
Whatever the reason, Promote Doors canhelp you with a wood door, a
fiberglass oor door, an iron doorfor maximum security. Whatever it is you
need on your house, they willtake care of you. Promote doors dot
(30:37):
com is the website drop my name, and the owner promised he would give
you a nice little discount. I'mnot gonna tell you how much, but
I will tell you it'll save youat least a couple hundred dollars Primo doors
dot com. What's life without anap? If I suggest you go to
bed, sleep it off, justwait until the show's over. Sleepy Back
to Dougpike has Fit continues And Ijust dropped my pen hand Mercy so far
(31:11):
down to the floor in back alittle tight last night going to bed after
I played golf yesterday. Monday's myday off, and I tried to play
golf and even though it was aholiday, and I knew it was gonna
be a little bit slower than usual. We still got around in good time.
Boy, that the heat really startedto get to me a little bit.
And we're not even into summer yet. It's not even junior yet,
(31:33):
not quite. I'm gonna push forwardthough, I'm gonna find a way.
I'm not gonna quit. I justcan't imagine quitting. All right, Well,
let's have a little fun, shallwe. H you want to go
to the bay? Do you wantto go to on the money or get
off my lawn? M on thebay? On the bay, sitting on
(31:56):
the dock of the bay. Thereis a property in the San Francisco Bay
area for sale four hundred grand.There's only one drawback. I don't even
think Texas home buyers take a swingat this. You know, this might
be this might be their one exception. The reason is that the entire property,
(32:17):
the whole property, is underwater.Oh in the Atlanta situation. Huh
so somebody's trying to sell the bottomof the sea. I didn't know you
could do that. I didn't knowyou could own underwater place. How do
they get down there? Do theyhave to dive there or do they just
take a submarine submarine two three personsub run around, check the front yard,
(32:40):
check the backyard, build something,get a contractor in there and get
on your scuba suit. Really hardto swing a hammer in water. It'd
be hard to drive. I feellike you probably have to build it up
on land first off. Yeah,just push it off the side of the
ship. That's about as that makesas much sense as this whole story does.
Really, All right, let's moveon. What are those red spots?
(33:09):
Ink spot or free admission? I'mgonna say free admission? The World
Economic Form I have a reason.I have an explanation for this. At
the end, the World Economic Forumranked the best countries for tourism. Okay,
which is number one, the numberone country for tourism. Ooh,
(33:35):
number one country for tourists. I'llgive you a hint. Spain is second,
Japan, France and Australia are third, fourth and fifth. What's number
one? You need it with Dubaius of a will you know why?
Why? Because admissions free and whenyou get here you can stay as long
as you want and will feed you. We'll give you someplace to live.
(33:58):
I heard I thought you were talkingabout tours. Well that's what it says,
here's tourism, But what what arethese people after a lot of them
are just tourists, are just hangingaround. They are also some military people
here. I feel like there's alot of people that come to visit the
US. Well, clearly they do. We don't know how good we got
it. I guess what we do. But you know, ah, this
(34:21):
is kind of funny. Groom wasarrested in Indiana this month. Listen to
what he did, and then listento his explanation and think of this is
like a Jersey thing. Okay,this is Jersey or Chicago. I'm talking
about back in gangster days. Becauseat this wedding, the groom shot a
(34:43):
wedding guest in the hand. Hesays, it didn't mean to it just
happened during the and I'll quote Russelland Bustle end quote of an argument with
another guest. So he's packing heatat the wedding, walking down the aisle,
he's strapped and kind of sounds likea Texas thing, to be honest,
(35:08):
No, no, we'll more civilizedthat. No, that's not even
Texas. Shame on you, Iknow those you don't know what TAPS is.
I feel like that's a Texas thing. On Friday, the TSA said
it screened two point nine five millionpassengers airline passengers, which is a new
(35:31):
record. Just this past November forThanksgiving two point nine to one nine million
passengers. Everybody's back to flying.Have you been in an airport lately?
Kind of yell? How many?What percentage of people would you say are
wearing masks in the in the airport? Now? Nine? Maybe? Yeah?
(35:52):
Not very much? Just a few? Uh for people who say they
feel more negative as they age,the average person in some polls done by
people will never meet. We don'teven know how many said they started feeling
more sour at what age? Willprobably four five, maybe forty two by
(36:15):
the time we reach qualification for thisprogram. We are just mean as nasty
dirt. We'll be back tomorrow.We're not mean, We're good people. Audios
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