June 7, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Jason Burnett about elder abuse. Pike also speaks with Dr. Andrew Doe of Alate Health. Finally, the GM of Golf Club of Houston Reese McCall on the LIV Golf tournament this weekend.
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Remember when it was impossible to misplacethe TV remote because you were the TV
remote. Remember when music sounded likethis, Remember when social media was truly
social? Hey John, how's itgoing today? Well, this show is
all about you. This is fiftyplus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on
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welcome bridey edition of the program.Oh, there are a couple of little
clouds out there now. It wasbeautiful blue sky as far as I could
see earlier. That's okay, beautifllive for a golf tournament and we just
happen to have one kicking off atGolf Club of Houston right about I think
about five minutes from now they actuallystart, actually start their their shotgun tea
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time Live Golf Houston go off allat once and just that few little minutes.
If you're unfamiliar, by the way, with a shotgun start in a
golf tournament and out there walking aroundand wondering whether you should duck or stand
behind the tree. When this starts, you'll be okay, don't worry about
that, all right, relax,There is no real gun. Well,
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do you know what a shotgun startis? Is that where they fire a
shotgun in the air? No?Well, like, no, that's it.
That's a track meets. This isnot a track meet. Most anybody
who owns golf clubs around here atleast and has friends or coworkers who play,
likely knows that at big charity tournamentsyou have to get everybody out and
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playing all at once. Otherwise,if you went out by tea times,
you'd have some groups having to startat eight o'clock in the morning and some
not even getting on the golf courseuntil maybe one or two in the afternoon,
And the result of that would benone of the early people would hang
around for the meal or the awards. They'd be worn out by the time
those late guys got in. Livegolf is using this same concept to enable
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fans to see anybody and everybody theywant to see within the same five hour
time window. The teams all goout at once, they're scattered across all
eighteen holes, and if you parkyourself in the same spot, you're guaranteed
to see every player on the golfcourse sooner or later, and that later
would be about maybe five hours afteryou sat down, when they're the last
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group of wherever they started, thegroup that started on the whole past the
one year sitting on will be comingaround last to see you. And then
they're all some of the best playersin the world. Honestly goodness. And
I got out there. I've beenout there twice. I'm going to talk
to Reese McCall by the way,the general manager of Golf Club of Houston,
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about what Lived Golf Houston has broughtthat's different and how it's different,
and we'll see how that goes.I may go out this afternoon. Actually
I might run out there, dependingon what I can get out of the
office this afternoon. I have stuffto do. As they say, quick
sidebar, I ran into it,speak of. This is a fifty plus
reference that there's kind of a tucheat the end. A friend, a
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guy who's the father of one ofmy son's baseball teammates. He and I
had a conversation yesterday and it eventuallycame around to fifty plus. He was
talking about listening to the show,and he was very quick also to remind
me that he's not quite old enoughto be in fifty plus yet, but
he listens to the show. Sohey, Andy, how you doing?
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Anyway? I think he was justbragging a little about being younger than I
am. Most of the dads inthis group are just by by chance,
I guess, but I have himin one regard, and that is that
all these games we attend now,well most of them anyway, This is
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all this select Baseball traveled around thecity, and I mean way out there
and back last night and today inWaller, and next week somewhere probably north
of tom Ball, and then aweek off and then we go to Lake
Charles. That kind of stuff.Well, you have to pay to get
in to watch your son play onthe team for which you're paying a lot
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of money for them to have theuniform and the cap. And in any
event, there's also at most ofthese places a senior discount, a senior
discount which my buddy Andy does notget, but I do so to Shay,
to shay Andy better for me.And also occasionally will. I'm quite
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flattered. When somebody working that gategoes you're over sixty five, I'm gonna
have to see some ID. It'sbeen about forty something years since I got
carded, but I got I justgiggle. I think it's pretty cool.
I'm sixty five. I say,no, I'm not sixty five, but
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I used to be. All right, onto the weather brought to us by
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will henceforth, so long as Iremember, the weather is going to be
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Doug, you like that? Yeah? That was nice. That a
little culture that was pretty cool.Cultural twist. I'm adding to be honest,
I thought you were going to forget. No, I did not.
Yeah that, to be honest,I thought I would too. Yeah,
just if we're being deadly honest.Off to market we go. Really nothing
to see here, no wild swings, oil hanging on. Just kind of
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a little north of seventy five bucks, which is about I don't know,
ten twelve to fifteen bucks too,high still and gold courtesy yet again to
Houston Gold Exchange for this down sixtyeight dollars an ounce to twenty three twenty
two, but still north of twentythree hundred dollars, so that's not at
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all terrible. There's some disturbing localnews. I will unless we have time
somewhere else. I'm gonna just letit slide and maybe Will and I can
talk about whether we want to talkabout this during the lunch hour, because
it's pretty gross some scummy teenagers allegedlyup on the northeast side of town.
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We'll take a little break. We'llbe right back on the way out.
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Aging Aged to Perfection. This isfifty plus with Doug Pike. All right,
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welcome back, thanks for listening toThanks for listening to fifty plus here
on KPRC. I'm Doug Pike.That's Will Melbourne across from me, and
that we're in the Big Boys studiotoday, the one with the window and
all that stuff, and it lookspretty darn nice outside. I'm getting I'm
getting fired up maybe about going backout to the golf tournament. Uh,
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this is an important topic we're gonnadiscuss, whether you're a senior or whether
you're just listening on behalf of asenior or just thinking, you know,
someday it might not hurt me toknow something about this stuff. And this
subject is one that really bugs me. It's abuse, elder abuse, and
we're diving in because this month alsohappens to be in addition to Men's Health
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Month, it happens to be ElderAbuse Month. We're gonna talk about men's
health in the next segment, andthat means I'm calling in the A team,
which is basically the only guy Iknow that knows this much about is
doctor Jason Burnett, co director ofthe Texas Elder Abuse and Mistreatment Institute.
How you doing Jason Man. I'mI'm all right, I'm all fired up
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about live golf. I'm gonna golisten to the music and watch some guys
play the same afternoon. Overall,How has the attention being paid these days
to elder abuse helped it all toreduce it? Or are there just still
as many scummy people out there takingadvantage? Well, I wish I had
a better answer. Yeah, No, it's it's I mean, it's still
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still very rampant in our our youknow, communities. It's I mean,
there's still a lot of crummy people, a lot a lot of new opportunities
given you know this, you knowtechnology, those sorts of things, a
lot of social isolation that keeps oldadults at risk. And so no,
unfortunately, even though we're raising awarenessand doing more screening and building interventions,
we're not able to keep up.What would you consider the top two or
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three the most common forms of elderabuse, Well, when you think about
old abuse proper, you got financialexploitation. And that's when somebody's you know,
taking old adults money against their knowledgeor will and using it for their
own personal gain. That's usually afamily member or you know, for when
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it comes to fraud or you knowthat that's when you get your scams and
your your your your your romance scams, those types of things. But then
you've got caregiver neglect, which happensa lot because we know, we've got
a lot of older folks that arewanted to age in place and and that's
that's an admirable thing and we allwant to do that, but sometimes we
need support and sometimes that support justisn't isn't so good for us, and
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it leads to to neglect. Andso those are the two major types of
of of elder abuse. Then yougot self neglect, right, and that's
that's you know, people don't callthat older abuse because it's no perpetrator,
but it's the most common form andof you know, they gets reported to
adult protective services. What can bedone about that? If someone just just
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quit's taking care of themselves, Well, I mean there's different you know,
we got what you have to justfigure out what those causes are, what
those reasons are. Sometimes it's justthat don't have social support, So getting
somebody in their life who can providethem some sort of instrumental support by helping
them meet their needs or sometimes asthey're depressed because they're you know, lonely
and isolated. So maybe getting themconnected with somebody that can you know,
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hear them and make them feel seen, valued and heard and give them some
hope and and you know, amission in life, because sometimes we lose
that and and when that happens,we may not you know, do the
do the health promoting behaviors that weshould do. And then sometimes you just
have people who who just can't can'tdo it. They've you know, that
capacity, those sorts of things,and those require more intensive interventions. Going
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down a similar but different road,I'm gona I'm gonna kind of twist the
question around in your world, uh, with perpetrators involved. What is what's
the most serious and most dangerous uhscummiest thing, whether it be with financial
or health or emotional abuse or whatever. What's the worst that you see?
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Oh? You know it really itreally depends, Doug, just because things
can escalate, like just taking alittle bit of money can lead to somebody
being severely neglected, you know,down the road. But we've seen,
you know, we we've had casesof people who have just been severely severely
neglected by someone. And i mean, they're in the worst condition you can
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imagine for a human being, andit's just it's a shame that to see
talk about the clues before it getsto that stage. What is someone who
cares about somebody else? What arewe looking for? The little things that
that might indicate that something bigger's comingdown the road. Little things may be
a change in that person's personality andhow they may interact with folks. So
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you know, they may all ofa sudden become withdrawn or very anxious,
or you know, there may besome they may also be very excited about
this new person that they met intheir life. And you're like, well,
if you don't leave your house much, and not saying that to everybody,
but in this in certain situations,you have these sort of saliente indicators
that, well, mom's not leavingthe house much, how does she meet
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this person? And then so that'swhere you start going, Okay, how'd
you you know, here's somebody befriendingthem? So you want to look at
that. You want to look atchange and spending patterns, inability to afford
things they used to be able toafford, inability to go out and do
things they used to want to gogo do Those are some big indicators,
but a lot of times you seesome social withdrawal from folks that have been
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you know, that are survivors ofelder abuse because you know, shameful,
and they also get worried that's goingto happen again. But when that happens,
now they're at risk. Let's talkabout that, doctor Jason Burnette on
fifty plus here during Elder Abuse AwarenessAwareness Month, UH, emphasize please to
this audience that abuse is not theirfault and they don't need to feel guilty
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or shamed or anything like that.They absolutely need to report it, don't
they absolutely, Doug, And I'mvery happy you brought this up because a
lot of times, you know,we go out and we talk with older
adults and that have that have youknow, survived abuse, and they're really
actually excited to hear that it's notjust them. And I'm not saying that
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in a way of oh I'm gladit's happened to somebody else, but it
normalizes it in a way that makesthem feel comfortable to talk about it.
So you definitely need to understand that, yeah, you know, there's no
reason for it and you didn't doit. It's not your fault. If
it is happening, you know,give somebody a call, call law enforcement
or call adult protective Services one eighthundred two five fifty four hundred, get
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somebody involved who can help you getout of that situation. Is once you
get too far into it, it'shard to get out of it, really
is. We're getting tight. Ihate to do it to you, but
I mentioned that you are my ateam connection on this subject, but you
also work with team that's the TexasElder Abuse and Mistreatment Team. Talk about
that for a minute. Yes,sir, so we we're a multidisiplinary team
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of just you know, different folkswith different from different healthcare, epidemiology,
you know, public health professions,disciplines, And what we do is we've
been working on trying to solve thisproblem, building knowledge, building interventions,
building screening tools, those things toraise awareness and protect our seniors throughout the
state of Texas for over thirty yearsnow. Fantastic man, What's what's the
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best contact for somebody who's struggling withsomething like this and wants to get it
off their chest and get something doneabout it. So the best thing to
do is to call you know,the the agency that that's the frontline worker
on this every day. This iswhat they do day in and day out,
and that's Texas A doll Detective ServicesCall one eight hundred two five two
fifty four hundred, or if youwant to go online, you can just
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type in you know Texas APS andgo to their online Texas Abuse Hotline and
you can fill out a report andit can be a report for yourself,
it can be a report for somebodyelse. So just know that they're there
to help help support you. Eighthundred two five two fifty four hundred.
If somebody can't remember that number infive minutes, shoot me a text or
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use that pound two fifty and justsay fifty plus and I'll personally send it
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hours day week. That's what itneeds to be. Thank you so much,
Jason. It's always good to hearfrom you, my friend. I
appreciate Doug. Yes, sir boy. Bye. All right. Hey,
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coat of wax. This is fiftyplus with Doug Pike Dube. Here we
go. Welcome back, what isit twelve thirty three on this beautiful Friday
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afternoon? Thanks for listening. Icertainly do appreciate it. Glad you could
make it. We'll talk in thissegment about men's health because it's Men's Health
Month. Uh So we'll have thattalk also with someone I've had in the
student several times and always enjoy talkingto him. That is doctor Andrew Doe
from a late Health Welcome back,dot, Hey, thanks for having me.
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Appreciate it. I'm playing a hunchhere and I'm not gonna reveal my
answer until you tell me your answerbecause you'll know you'll your answer is going
to be the standard. But I'mgonna guess. I'm asking you, are
men from say forty to sixty orsixty five or seventy taking better or worse
care of themselves? Say in thepast eight to ten years? I would
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probably say worse. You know,That's kind of where I thought, because
there's just we're not really out theredoing much, are we now. We're
getting more and more sedentary, andwe're also getting more and more self diagnosing.
Boy. Ye, that's the truth. That's not very healthy either,
is it. No? Not usually? Yeah. I'm not a doctor,
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but I have webb, so Iknow everything exactly, all right. So,
and among these three things, whichwould you say is most important exercise,
better eating or better sleep habits?Probably exercise the other ones. Yeah,
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that's a good point. Yeah,if you exercise enough, you're going
to sleep, aren't you. Absolutely? It was I don't know who it
was, somebody in I think Idon't know. Somebody once said you never
see a roofer with insomnia, andthere's a reason for that, you know.
And from your perspective, what what'sthe leading demotivator for guys in this
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in this ang grade? Is ittimes at work? Is it just excuses?
What you know? And honestly,I think it's excuses. I think
it's just the comfort level of sittingin that chair and thinking your accomplishing things.
That that's a very good point,because it's so easy to do nothing
and come up with a reason tocontinue doing nothing. What about these exercise
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programs I'm seeing online now where yousee these old guys and they're doing all
these exercises in a chair, andthat's all they're using is a chair.
What's your opinion of those? Youknow, any form of movement is going
to improve your overall quality of life. But even easier than that is just
to get up and go for awatch. Yeah, that's a good point.
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And if you can't walk around theblock, walk halfway around the block,
right, exactly, Doctor Andrew Doehere on fifty plus for Men's Health
Month. The guy I am onthis excuse thing, and I'll admit I'm
not the fittest guy in the roomanymore, but I do stay pretty active.
The guy wants to just look atout of shape guys and say,
hey, man, just go dosomething. Do one push up, walk
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up one flight of stairs, startat square one. So long as you
don't stay there and just fall backon the couch, right, we're getting
absolutely all right. So what inyour world, doc, are the most
common ailments and conditions among out ofshape men these days? So one of
the most common ones is vein disease. And the issues with that is basically,
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the blood is not returning from yourfeet back up to your heart like
it should, okay, and itcauses you to have them leg discomfort and
it's so subthle that you just kindof subconsciously start to avoid activity, and
this leads you to kind of gettingstuck in that chair and not really keeping
up a nice, healthy, activelifestyle. And all of these things I
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think, well, not all ofthem, certainly, but most of them,
I think then you hit on somethingvery important there. You can fix
them if you get to them early. But if they get to a certain
point, it becomes more and moredifficult to get out of that rut,
doesn't it. Yes, Yes,definitely. We grade pretty much every disease
has a kind of a grating scale. It's the severity of it, and
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the more severe you get, theharder it is to treat, and the
harder is it secure? Really,are men getting any better at all about
going to the doctor? Ah?Not really, unfortunately, you know.
And I sit here with stuff thatI probably ought to get looked at.
But but there I know enough frombeing to the doctors enough, like little
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stuff that I might get a dermatologistto look at on my annual physical or
on my annual checkup from him,rather than having to just rush in there
immediately. I have a pretty goodidea I'm okay, because of based on
past experience with my own body.But yeah, I'm I'm not a whole
lot better. I don't go untilI kind of have to. Is that
about par for the course? Yeah, that's very much par for the course.
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And could here's an idea maybe inthe clinics, you know, maybe
you put a little short bar inthe corner and change the channels on the
TV. I wish we could,works might get him in there. You
never know what channel you might hit. Doctor Andrew Doe here from late Health
again, if you could put ashort message on every billboard in the country
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and run it through June for Men'sHealth Month, much to the DeMay of
every dismay of every personal injury attorneyin America, if you did that,
But nonetheless, what would that messagebe from you? The message would be
see your doctor every year and don'teven know her anything. Giving your wife.
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Yeah, seeing a doctor once ayear. I have to do.
They force us to do that hereto maintain our insurance. And I would
bet that probably half the guys herewouldn't go if they didn't have to.
Yeah, and you know that's formen. That's very common. Women tend
to be the healthcare decision makers andfamilies and men kind of just sit idly
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by, and if they're not pushedto do it, they won't do it.
Speaking of not doing it, stillgetting plenty of takers on your prostrate
artery embolization, I would imagine,oh absolutely, when you think about having
you know which one is it?Bad sleeping habits not being active? The
prostate is notorious for bad sleeping habits. You're up all night trying to pee
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and waiting for you to start.You know that's going to affect your ability
to be active during the day.So that's another big thing that we men
need to be aware of, istheir prostate health. About two hours in
the clinic, in two hours orabout two weeks recovery and you're feeling a
little bit better. Oh absolutely,very quick, very easy, and good
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recovery. Back to work in notime. I gotta start thinking about it,
I really do. Just wishing isn'thelping a whole lot? Doc?
All right, doctor Andrew Doe froma late hell, thank you so much.
I really appreciate your time, sir, problem Thank you. All right,
Bubby, all right, let's takea little break here on the way
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out. I will tell you,boy, that prostate thinks I might be
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What's life without a net I suggestto go to bed, leave it
off, just wait until the show'sover. Sleepy back that Doug Pike as
fifty plus continues. All right,welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for
listening. In case you didn't knowit, there's something big going on in
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town, something very big. AndI've got a guy who's been involved since
day one on the phone, andthat would be Reese McCall, the general
manager of Golf Club of Houston.The baby is born, is it not,
Doug? You're right, we justlaunched. The shotgun has begun.
We got players out there, andthey're out there. It's going well.
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A lot of company in town thisweek. Man, when did preparation for
this event? And I'm not talkingabout the construction. We can get into
that later, but when was thefirst time you got word that this was
maybe gonna even happen? You know, we had about six months or so,
so as soon as we got word, you know, preparations began and
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we've been on the move ever since. I was gonna say, that's actually
pretty short time to get done.What I saw has been done when I
was out there this week, Holycow. And yeah, you're right.
The maintenance team I can't give themenough credit what they've been able to do
in the last six months or so, and especially the last month with all
the weather we've encountered here in Houston. It's nothing short of a miracle from
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what they got done, and playershave been raving about course conditions. We're
excited to see what they do today. Yeah, I can't wait to find
I'm kind of curious to see howlow they can go for this audience,
by the way, which are slightlyolder members. Let's say, what would
you tell them that to expect whenthey come out there if the only experience
they've had with professional golf has beenthe PGA Tour events you guys used to
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hold. Yeah, that's a greatquestion. Obviously. I've I've been fortunate
to and be involved in several ofthose past events that we've had here,
and it's different, I can tellyou. It's you know, their tagline
for live is Golfed the louder uh. And that's the case. We've got
us of going on on every keybox on the range, it's throughout the
entire property. We've got giant ledleaderboards everywhere. Uh. And even a
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concert tomorrow night that's complement tickets thatwe're excited for that as well. That's
right, Maclamor will be here,uh performing tomorrow after play. I was
I was standing on the range yesterdayright after the the rain had kind of
know what was when No, itwas Wednesday, right the rains kind of
stopped and everybody's coming out and itwas it was just like okay, just
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like a lot of different ways.And by the way, I love the
way they have the range set upby teams instead of named that the team
players are on the big banners behindeach one of those and so you can
find exactly who you're looking for.I really like that a lot. And
I'm walking around and just say,there's John Rum, there's this, here's
Cam Smith, all these guys thatI've recognized and hadn't seen in a while,
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and then that music started up andit when it first started, I
thought, oh what, wait aminute, and then after a minute it
just kind of went into the backgroundand it was enjoyable and it was uplifting.
There's John Ram, He's juggling golfballs over there, waiting for his
turn to hit. And it wasa really it's a more it's a more
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inviting atmosphere. I think, doesthat make it? Does that make sense?
Totally agree, you know, Ithink that lived as a phenomenal job,
you know, with the team conceptand getting it out there, like
you mentioned out on the range,you know, for spectators being able to
see guys who are on which team, where they're practicing, be able to
identify with them. And I wason the first tea this morning right when
we got kicked off. You know, we had for skydivers launched down with
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the American flag and live flag andget things kicked off. We had fireworks
going, music going, DJA onthe first hole doing the announcement, and
it's You're right, it's much morewelcoming. It's just a good, good
vibe, great event. And Ican't wait to se his next three days.
I'm honest to goodness has grown onme over the past few weeks.
It really has. The closer wegot then I got a chance to do
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the interview with that I can't rememberhis name right now, I'm embarrassed to
say from Live Golf, but hereally got me fired up. And then
to be out there and see itand it is most definitely different than anybody's
ever seen and I think it.Boy. I wouldn't have said this two
years ago, Reese, and youprobably remember me being very skeptical about it.
But after being there and seeing whatthey've done, I like it.
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I really do, you know,to your point earlier, you know,
it's just amazing the star power thatthey have on Live. You know,
I'm going there walking down the hallwayand I got John Ron walking towards me,
Dustin's behind me, Cam Smith walkingin front of me, and just
one after another. You look atit and it's like, Wow, they
really got some, you know,world class players. Regardless of what the
world rankings say. Right now,we got some of the best players in
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the world out here right now.Back to actually watching the golf. Now
that today, tomorrow and Sunday everybody'sout there, what's a better strategy for
someone in this audience, in thefifty plus audience. Can they bring a
chair in there and just camp outat one hole and watch everybody go by,
or would you suggest a little bitof walking to maybe see more.
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I don't know. Yeah, youknow, the one interesting thing here with
Live is obviously with the shotguns start, you know, everything's a little bit
more condensed. So back in thetour days, you know, you'd get
here at seven am for the firstfew times and you'd be here till the
end of day. You've only gotabout four and a half to five hours
of play going on out there.So, you know what, we've seen
a lot of so far. Wegot a lot of spectators kind of walking
around checking out the course. There'sdifferent hospitality options available. I think they're
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actually sold out today and tomorrow,but I think they've got a little bit
left for Sunday, So anybody lookingto kind of camp out, that's a
great option. But yeah, youcan, you know, walk around,
follow your favorite player, check outsome different holes, and see all the
action in a little bit shorter timethan a normal event that they'd be used
to. And I feel like mygeneration is my generation. I feel like
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this is the new generation of professionalgolf. And you're you're probably gonna if
somebody my age is walking around outthere, I'm probably gonna see more people
with caps turned backwards stuff like that. That that really, that's a pretty
good indicator. I was just gonnasay that, Yeah, you know,
you got some untucked shirts, slipflops and backward hat. You got some
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traditionalists out here too. You know, we got a good mix of everybody.
I think anybody's a stay of golf. You know, if they find
some time to get out here thisweek, they're going to really enjoy seeing
what all is golf and Golf Clubthe Houston have to offer. Yeah,
you know what, the only thingit is is different, that's all.
It's still top quality professional golf,there's no question about it. Looking like
you said, what you saw inthe hallway is what I saw on the
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range. These are these are unquestionablythe best players in the world. Is
part of them. The rest ofthem are doing something else. They're doing
their own thing, but there's nodoubt that these guys can bomb it.
I was having a hard time yesterday, honestly, out there or Wednesday on
the range, I was having ahard time following the drivers they were hitting.
There was a little bit of cloud. We we for the first time,
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we actually had to put up afence at the back of the range,
which we hadn't done previously, butput a fence back there to keep
the balls from bouncing across the backcart path over there. But yeah,
these guys are pretty amazing. Andfor for reference, how far is it
back to that fence. You gotabout three forty or so on a carry.
So we found a couple of ballsthat were beyond that fence yesterday.
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So I'm not sure if they winhad anything to do. It wasn't much
win out here yesterday I was.I can assure you I didn't hit any
of them. I promise recently Igot buddy. Yeah, I may try
and get out there and hunt youdown tomorrow. I'm gonna try and get
my son out between baseball games.And I want him to see this because
this is golf as he will knowit once I'm long gone or whatever.
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All Right, man, an excitingtime. We're happy to be part I
know you are, and I couldn'tbe happier for you. It's a great
Reese McCall gm of Golf Club ofHouston. Get out there, see live
golf. It's gonna be a fantasticweekend. Thank you, Reese. All
right, buddy, audios. Yeah, I know you got work to do,
man, Holy cow, what agreat deal that is. What have
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we got a couple of minutes?We have a minute? Ten? Okay,
that's perfect. Well, I wantto talk about this thing from China
that I told you about a minuteago, a visitor discovered that China's highest
waterfall in the dry season is nothingbut water being pumped from down below all
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the way up. Got these bigpumps, these big pipes keep that waterfowl
or waterfall flowing. I found that. I don't know. I think Niagara
Fall is still pretty much on itsown. I would guess the multi multi
cultural, two nation shared waterfall.Yeah. Now, baby name, what
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do you want to do baby names? Sure? Really? Okay. One
of the hottest baby name trends nowactually was inspired by the Eclipse. So
all of a sudden, there's thisbig rush on soul sol as a name
that's surging for girls, Sonny trendingfor boys, and people are actually naming
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their baby Eclipse. I couldn't dothat. That's dark. Audios.
Remember when 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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welcome bridey edition of the program.Oh, there are a couple of little
clouds out there now. It wasbeautiful blue sky as far as I could
see earlier. That's okay, beautifllive for a golf tournament and we just
happen to have one kicking off atGolf Club of Houston right about I think
about five minutes from now they actuallystart, actually start their their shotgun tea
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time Live Golf Houston go off allat once and just that few little minutes.
If you're unfamiliar, by the way, with a shotgun start in a
golf tournament and out there walking aroundand wondering whether you should duck or stand
behind the tree. When this starts, you'll be okay, don't worry about
that, all right, relax,There is no real gun. Well,
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do you know what a shotgun startis? Is that where they fire a
shotgun in the air? No?Well, like, no, that's it.
That's a track meets. This isnot a track meet. Most anybody
who owns golf clubs around here atleast and has friends or coworkers who play,
likely knows that at big charity tournamentsyou have to get everybody out and
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playing all at once. Otherwise,if you went out by tea times,
you'd have some groups having to startat eight o'clock in the morning and some
not even getting on the golf courseuntil maybe one or two in the afternoon,
And the result of that would benone of the early people would hang
around for the meal or the awards. They'd be worn out by the time
those late guys got in. Livegolf is using this same concept to enable
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fans to see anybody and everybody theywant to see within the same five hour
time window. The teams all goout at once, they're scattered across all
eighteen holes, and if you parkyourself in the same spot, you're guaranteed
to see every player on the golfcourse sooner or later, and that later
would be about maybe five hours afteryou sat down, when they're the last
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group of wherever they started, thegroup that started on the whole past the
one year sitting on will be comingaround last to see you. And then
they're all some of the best playersin the world. Honestly goodness. And
I got out there. I've beenout there twice. I'm going to talk
to Reese McCall by the way,the general manager of Golf Club of Houston,
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about what Lived Golf Houston has broughtthat's different and how it's different,
and we'll see how that goes.I may go out this afternoon. Actually
I might run out there, dependingon what I can get out of the
office this afternoon. I have stuffto do. As they say, quick
sidebar, I ran into it,speak of. This is a fifty plus
reference that there's kind of a tucheat the end. A friend, a
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guy who's the father of one ofmy son's baseball teammates. He and I
had a conversation yesterday and it eventuallycame around to fifty plus. He was
talking about listening to the show,and he was very quick also to remind
me that he's not quite old enoughto be in fifty plus yet, but
he listens to the show. Sohey, Andy, how you doing?
(03:51):
Anyway? I think he was justbragging a little about being younger than I
am. Most of the dads inthis group are just by by chance,
I guess, but I have himin one regard, and that is that
all these games we attend now,well most of them anyway, This is
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all this select Baseball traveled around thecity, and I mean way out there
and back last night and today inWaller, and next week somewhere probably north
of tom Ball, and then aweek off and then we go to Lake
Charles. That kind of stuff.Well, you have to pay to get
in to watch your son play onthe team for which you're paying a lot
(04:36):
of money for them to have theuniform and the cap. And in any
event, there's also at most ofthese places a senior discount, a senior
discount which my buddy Andy does notget, but I do so to Shay,
to shay Andy better for me.And also occasionally will. I'm quite
(05:00):
flattered. When somebody working that gategoes you're over sixty five, I'm gonna
have to see some ID. It'sbeen about forty something years since I got
carded, but I got I justgiggle. I think it's pretty cool.
I'm sixty five. I say,no, I'm not sixty five, but
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Doug, you like that? Yeah? That was nice. That a
little culture that was pretty cool.Cultural twist. I'm adding to be honest,
I thought you were going to forget. No, I did not.
Yeah that, to be honest,I thought I would too. Yeah,
just if we're being deadly honest.Off to market we go. Really nothing
to see here, no wild swings, oil hanging on. Just kind of
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a little north of seventy five bucks, which is about I don't know,
ten twelve to fifteen bucks too,high still and gold courtesy yet again to
Houston Gold Exchange for this down sixtyeight dollars an ounce to twenty three twenty
two, but still north of twentythree hundred dollars, so that's not at
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all terrible. There's some disturbing localnews. I will unless we have time
somewhere else. I'm gonna just letit slide and maybe Will and I can
talk about whether we want to talkabout this during the lunch hour, because
it's pretty gross some scummy teenagers allegedlyup on the northeast side of town.
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We'll take a little break. We'llbe right back on the way out.
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Aging Aged to Perfection. This isfifty plus with Doug Pike. All right,
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welcome back, thanks for listening toThanks for listening to fifty plus here
on KPRC. I'm Doug Pike.That's Will Melbourne across from me, and
that we're in the Big Boys studiotoday, the one with the window and
all that stuff, and it lookspretty darn nice outside. I'm getting I'm
getting fired up maybe about going backout to the golf tournament. Uh,
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this is an important topic we're gonnadiscuss, whether you're a senior or whether
you're just listening on behalf of asenior or just thinking, you know,
someday it might not hurt me toknow something about this stuff. And this
subject is one that really bugs me. It's abuse, elder abuse, and
we're diving in because this month alsohappens to be in addition to Men's Health
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Month, it happens to be ElderAbuse Month. We're gonna talk about men's
health in the next segment, andthat means I'm calling in the A team,
which is basically the only guy Iknow that knows this much about is
doctor Jason Burnett, co director ofthe Texas Elder Abuse and Mistreatment Institute.
How you doing Jason Man. I'mI'm all right, I'm all fired up
(08:56):
about live golf. I'm gonna golisten to the music and watch some guys
play the same afternoon. Overall,How has the attention being paid these days
to elder abuse helped it all toreduce it? Or are there just still
as many scummy people out there takingadvantage? Well, I wish I had
a better answer. Yeah, No, it's it's I mean, it's still
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still very rampant in our our youknow, communities. It's I mean,
there's still a lot of crummy people, a lot a lot of new opportunities
given you know this, you knowtechnology, those sorts of things, a
lot of social isolation that keeps oldadults at risk. And so no,
unfortunately, even though we're raising awarenessand doing more screening and building interventions,
we're not able to keep up.What would you consider the top two or
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three the most common forms of elderabuse, Well, when you think about
old abuse proper, you got financialexploitation. And that's when somebody's you know,
taking old adults money against their knowledgeor will and using it for their
own personal gain. That's usually afamily member or you know, for when
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it comes to fraud or you knowthat that's when you get your scams and
your your your your your romance scams, those types of things. But then
you've got caregiver neglect, which happensa lot because we know, we've got
a lot of older folks that arewanted to age in place and and that's
that's an admirable thing and we allwant to do that, but sometimes we
need support and sometimes that support justisn't isn't so good for us, and
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it leads to to neglect. Andso those are the two major types of
of of elder abuse. Then yougot self neglect, right, and that's
that's you know, people don't callthat older abuse because it's no perpetrator,
but it's the most common form andof you know, they gets reported to
adult protective services. What can bedone about that? If someone just just
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quit's taking care of themselves, Well, I mean there's different you know,
we got what you have to justfigure out what those causes are, what
those reasons are. Sometimes it's justthat don't have social support, So getting
somebody in their life who can providethem some sort of instrumental support by helping
them meet their needs or sometimes asthey're depressed because they're you know, lonely
and isolated. So maybe getting themconnected with somebody that can you know,
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hear them and make them feel seen, valued and heard and give them some
hope and and you know, amission in life, because sometimes we lose
that and and when that happens,we may not you know, do the
do the health promoting behaviors that weshould do. And then sometimes you just
have people who who just can't can'tdo it. They've you know, that
capacity, those sorts of things,and those require more intensive interventions. Going
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down a similar but different road,I'm gona I'm gonna kind of twist the
question around in your world, uh, with perpetrators involved. What is what's
the most serious and most dangerous uhscummiest thing, whether it be with financial
or health or emotional abuse or whatever. What's the worst that you see?
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Oh? You know it really itreally depends, Doug, just because things
can escalate, like just taking alittle bit of money can lead to somebody
being severely neglected, you know,down the road. But we've seen,
you know, we we've had casesof people who have just been severely severely
neglected by someone. And i mean, they're in the worst condition you can
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imagine for a human being, andit's just it's a shame that to see
talk about the clues before it getsto that stage. What is someone who
cares about somebody else? What arewe looking for? The little things that
that might indicate that something bigger's comingdown the road. Little things may be
a change in that person's personality andhow they may interact with folks. So
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you know, they may all ofa sudden become withdrawn or very anxious,
or you know, there may besome they may also be very excited about
this new person that they met intheir life. And you're like, well,
if you don't leave your house much, and not saying that to everybody,
but in this in certain situations,you have these sort of saliente indicators
that, well, mom's not leavingthe house much, how does she meet
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this person? And then so that'swhere you start going, Okay, how'd
you you know, here's somebody befriendingthem? So you want to look at
that. You want to look atchange and spending patterns, inability to afford
things they used to be able toafford, inability to go out and do
things they used to want to gogo do Those are some big indicators,
but a lot of times you seesome social withdrawal from folks that have been
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you know, that are survivors ofelder abuse because you know, shameful,
and they also get worried that's goingto happen again. But when that happens,
now they're at risk. Let's talkabout that, doctor Jason Burnette on
fifty plus here during Elder Abuse AwarenessAwareness Month, UH, emphasize please to
this audience that abuse is not theirfault and they don't need to feel guilty
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or shamed or anything like that.They absolutely need to report it, don't
they absolutely, Doug, And I'mvery happy you brought this up because a
lot of times, you know,we go out and we talk with older
adults and that have that have youknow, survived abuse, and they're really
actually excited to hear that it's notjust them. And I'm not saying that
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in a way of oh I'm gladit's happened to somebody else, but it
normalizes it in a way that makesthem feel comfortable to talk about it.
So you definitely need to understand that, yeah, you know, there's no
reason for it and you didn't doit. It's not your fault. If
it is happening, you know,give somebody a call, call law enforcement
or call adult protective Services one eighthundred two five fifty four hundred, get
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somebody involved who can help you getout of that situation. Is once you
get too far into it, it'shard to get out of it, really
is. We're getting tight. Ihate to do it to you, but
I mentioned that you are my ateam connection on this subject, but you
also work with team that's the TexasElder Abuse and Mistreatment Team. Talk about
that for a minute. Yes,sir, so we we're a multidisiplinary team
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of just you know, different folkswith different from different healthcare, epidemiology,
you know, public health professions,disciplines, And what we do is we've
been working on trying to solve thisproblem, building knowledge, building interventions,
building screening tools, those things toraise awareness and protect our seniors throughout the
state of Texas for over thirty yearsnow. Fantastic man, What's what's the
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best contact for somebody who's struggling withsomething like this and wants to get it
off their chest and get something doneabout it. So the best thing to
do is to call you know,the the agency that that's the frontline worker
on this every day. This iswhat they do day in and day out,
and that's Texas A doll Detective ServicesCall one eight hundred two five two
fifty four hundred, or if youwant to go online, you can just
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type in you know Texas APS andgo to their online Texas Abuse Hotline and
you can fill out a report andit can be a report for yourself,
it can be a report for somebodyelse. So just know that they're there
to help help support you. Eighthundred two five two fifty four hundred.
If somebody can't remember that number infive minutes, shoot me a text or
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use that pound two fifty and justsay fifty plus and I'll personally send it
right back to you. Doctor JoelFree, Doug toll free, twenty four
hours day week. That's what itneeds to be. Thank you so much,
Jason. It's always good to hearfrom you, my friend. I
appreciate Doug. Yes, sir boy. Bye. All right. Hey,
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coat of wax. This is fiftyplus with Doug Pike Dube. Here we
go. Welcome back, what isit twelve thirty three on this beautiful Friday
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afternoon? Thanks for listening. Icertainly do appreciate it. Glad you could
make it. We'll talk in thissegment about men's health because it's Men's Health
Month. Uh So we'll have thattalk also with someone I've had in the
student several times and always enjoy talkingto him. That is doctor Andrew Doe
from a late Health Welcome back,dot, Hey, thanks for having me.
(18:08):
Appreciate it. I'm playing a hunchhere and I'm not gonna reveal my
answer until you tell me your answerbecause you'll know you'll your answer is going
to be the standard. But I'mgonna guess. I'm asking you, are
men from say forty to sixty orsixty five or seventy taking better or worse
care of themselves? Say in thepast eight to ten years? I would
(18:33):
probably say worse. You know,That's kind of where I thought, because
there's just we're not really out theredoing much, are we now. We're
getting more and more sedentary, andwe're also getting more and more self diagnosing.
Boy. Ye, that's the truth. That's not very healthy either,
is it. No? Not usually? Yeah. I'm not a doctor,
(18:57):
but I have webb, so Iknow everything exactly, all right. So,
and among these three things, whichwould you say is most important exercise,
better eating or better sleep habits?Probably exercise the other ones. Yeah,
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that's a good point. Yeah,if you exercise enough, you're going
to sleep, aren't you. Absolutely? It was I don't know who it
was, somebody in I think Idon't know. Somebody once said you never
see a roofer with insomnia, andthere's a reason for that, you know.
And from your perspective, what what'sthe leading demotivator for guys in this
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in this ang grade? Is ittimes at work? Is it just excuses?
What you know? And honestly,I think it's excuses. I think
it's just the comfort level of sittingin that chair and thinking your accomplishing things.
That that's a very good point,because it's so easy to do nothing
and come up with a reason tocontinue doing nothing. What about these exercise
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programs I'm seeing online now where yousee these old guys and they're doing all
these exercises in a chair, andthat's all they're using is a chair.
What's your opinion of those? Youknow, any form of movement is going
to improve your overall quality of life. But even easier than that is just
to get up and go for awatch. Yeah, that's a good point.
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And if you can't walk around theblock, walk halfway around the block,
right, exactly, Doctor Andrew Doehere on fifty plus for Men's Health
Month. The guy I am onthis excuse thing, and I'll admit I'm
not the fittest guy in the roomanymore, but I do stay pretty active.
The guy wants to just look atout of shape guys and say,
hey, man, just go dosomething. Do one push up, walk
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up one flight of stairs, startat square one. So long as you
don't stay there and just fall backon the couch, right, we're getting
absolutely all right. So what inyour world, doc, are the most
common ailments and conditions among out ofshape men these days? So one of
the most common ones is vein disease. And the issues with that is basically,
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the blood is not returning from yourfeet back up to your heart like
it should, okay, and itcauses you to have them leg discomfort and
it's so subthle that you just kindof subconsciously start to avoid activity, and
this leads you to kind of gettingstuck in that chair and not really keeping
up a nice, healthy, activelifestyle. And all of these things I
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think, well, not all ofthem, certainly, but most of them,
I think then you hit on somethingvery important there. You can fix
them if you get to them early. But if they get to a certain
point, it becomes more and moredifficult to get out of that rut,
doesn't it. Yes, Yes,definitely. We grade pretty much every disease
has a kind of a grating scale. It's the severity of it, and
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the more severe you get, theharder it is to treat, and the
harder is it secure? Really,are men getting any better at all about
going to the doctor? Ah?Not really, unfortunately, you know.
And I sit here with stuff thatI probably ought to get looked at.
But but there I know enough frombeing to the doctors enough, like little
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stuff that I might get a dermatologistto look at on my annual physical or
on my annual checkup from him,rather than having to just rush in there
immediately. I have a pretty goodidea I'm okay, because of based on
past experience with my own body.But yeah, I'm I'm not a whole
lot better. I don't go untilI kind of have to. Is that
about par for the course? Yeah, that's very much par for the course.
(22:42):
And could here's an idea maybe inthe clinics, you know, maybe
you put a little short bar inthe corner and change the channels on the
TV. I wish we could,works might get him in there. You
never know what channel you might hit. Doctor Andrew Doe here from late Health
again, if you could put ashort message on every billboard in the country
(23:04):
and run it through June for Men'sHealth Month, much to the DeMay of
every dismay of every personal injury attorneyin America, if you did that,
But nonetheless, what would that messagebe from you? The message would be
see your doctor every year and don'teven know her anything. Giving your wife.
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Yeah, seeing a doctor once ayear. I have to do.
They force us to do that hereto maintain our insurance. And I would
bet that probably half the guys herewouldn't go if they didn't have to.
Yeah, and you know that's formen. That's very common. Women tend
to be the healthcare decision makers andfamilies and men kind of just sit idly
(23:48):
by, and if they're not pushedto do it, they won't do it.
Speaking of not doing it, stillgetting plenty of takers on your prostrate
artery embolization, I would imagine,oh absolutely, when you think about having
you know which one is it?Bad sleeping habits not being active? The
prostate is notorious for bad sleeping habits. You're up all night trying to pee
(24:10):
and waiting for you to start.You know that's going to affect your ability
to be active during the day.So that's another big thing that we men
need to be aware of, istheir prostate health. About two hours in
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recovery. Back to work in notime. I gotta start thinking about it,
I really do. Just wishing isn'thelping a whole lot? Doc?
All right, doctor Andrew Doe froma late hell, thank you so much.
I really appreciate your time, sir, problem Thank you. All right,
Bubby, all right, let's takea little break here on the way
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What's life without a net I suggestto go to bed, leave it
off, just wait until the show'sover. Sleepy back that Doug Pike as
fifty plus continues. All right,welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for
listening. In case you didn't knowit, there's something big going on in
(27:30):
town, something very big. AndI've got a guy who's been involved since
day one on the phone, andthat would be Reese McCall, the general
manager of Golf Club of Houston.The baby is born, is it not,
Doug? You're right, we justlaunched. The shotgun has begun.
We got players out there, andthey're out there. It's going well.
(27:52):
A lot of company in town thisweek. Man, when did preparation for
this event? And I'm not talkingabout the construction. We can get into
that later, but when was thefirst time you got word that this was
maybe gonna even happen? You know, we had about six months or so,
so as soon as we got word, you know, preparations began and
(28:12):
we've been on the move ever since. I was gonna say, that's actually
pretty short time to get done.What I saw has been done when I
was out there this week, Holycow. And yeah, you're right.
The maintenance team I can't give themenough credit what they've been able to do
in the last six months or so, and especially the last month with all
the weather we've encountered here in Houston. It's nothing short of a miracle from
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what they got done, and playershave been raving about course conditions. We're
excited to see what they do today. Yeah, I can't wait to find
I'm kind of curious to see howlow they can go for this audience,
by the way, which are slightlyolder members. Let's say, what would
you tell them that to expect whenthey come out there if the only experience
they've had with professional golf has beenthe PGA Tour events you guys used to
(28:56):
hold. Yeah, that's a greatquestion. Obviously. I've I've been fortunate
to and be involved in several ofthose past events that we've had here,
and it's different, I can tellyou. It's you know, their tagline
for live is Golfed the louder uh. And that's the case. We've got
us of going on on every keybox on the range, it's throughout the
entire property. We've got giant ledleaderboards everywhere. Uh. And even a
(29:18):
concert tomorrow night that's complement tickets thatwe're excited for that as well. That's
right, Maclamor will be here,uh performing tomorrow after play. I was
I was standing on the range yesterdayright after the the rain had kind of
know what was when No, itwas Wednesday, right the rains kind of
stopped and everybody's coming out and itwas it was just like okay, just
(29:38):
like a lot of different ways.And by the way, I love the
way they have the range set upby teams instead of named that the team
players are on the big banners behindeach one of those and so you can
find exactly who you're looking for.I really like that a lot. And
I'm walking around and just say,there's John Rum, there's this, here's
Cam Smith, all these guys thatI've recognized and hadn't seen in a while,
(30:00):
and then that music started up andit when it first started, I
thought, oh what, wait aminute, and then after a minute it
just kind of went into the backgroundand it was enjoyable and it was uplifting.
There's John Ram, He's juggling golfballs over there, waiting for his
turn to hit. And it wasa really it's a more it's a more
(30:21):
inviting atmosphere. I think, doesthat make it? Does that make sense?
Totally agree, you know, Ithink that lived as a phenomenal job,
you know, with the team conceptand getting it out there, like
you mentioned out on the range,you know, for spectators being able to
see guys who are on which team, where they're practicing, be able to
identify with them. And I wason the first tea this morning right when
we got kicked off. You know, we had for skydivers launched down with
(30:45):
the American flag and live flag andget things kicked off. We had fireworks
going, music going, DJA onthe first hole doing the announcement, and
it's You're right, it's much morewelcoming. It's just a good, good
vibe, great event. And Ican't wait to se his next three days.
I'm honest to goodness has grown onme over the past few weeks.
It really has. The closer wegot then I got a chance to do
(31:07):
the interview with that I can't rememberhis name right now, I'm embarrassed to
say from Live Golf, but hereally got me fired up. And then
to be out there and see itand it is most definitely different than anybody's
ever seen and I think it.Boy. I wouldn't have said this two
years ago, Reese, and youprobably remember me being very skeptical about it.
But after being there and seeing whatthey've done, I like it.
(31:30):
I really do, you know,to your point earlier, you know,
it's just amazing the star power thatthey have on Live. You know,
I'm going there walking down the hallwayand I got John Ron walking towards me,
Dustin's behind me, Cam Smith walkingin front of me, and just
one after another. You look atit and it's like, Wow, they
really got some, you know,world class players. Regardless of what the
world rankings say. Right now,we got some of the best players in
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the world out here right now.Back to actually watching the golf. Now
that today, tomorrow and Sunday everybody'sout there, what's a better strategy for
someone in this audience, in thefifty plus audience. Can they bring a
chair in there and just camp outat one hole and watch everybody go by,
or would you suggest a little bitof walking to maybe see more.
(32:14):
I don't know. Yeah, youknow, the one interesting thing here with
Live is obviously with the shotguns start, you know, everything's a little bit
more condensed. So back in thetour days, you know, you'd get
here at seven am for the firstfew times and you'd be here till the
end of day. You've only gotabout four and a half to five hours
of play going on out there.So, you know what, we've seen
a lot of so far. Wegot a lot of spectators kind of walking
around checking out the course. There'sdifferent hospitality options available. I think they're
(32:37):
actually sold out today and tomorrow,but I think they've got a little bit
left for Sunday, So anybody lookingto kind of camp out, that's a
great option. But yeah, youcan, you know, walk around,
follow your favorite player, check outsome different holes, and see all the
action in a little bit shorter timethan a normal event that they'd be used
to. And I feel like mygeneration is my generation. I feel like
(32:58):
this is the new generation of professionalgolf. And you're you're probably gonna if
somebody my age is walking around outthere, I'm probably gonna see more people
with caps turned backwards stuff like that. That that really, that's a pretty
good indicator. I was just gonnasay that, Yeah, you know,
you got some untucked shirts, slipflops and backward hat. You got some
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traditionalists out here too. You know, we got a good mix of everybody.
I think anybody's a stay of golf. You know, if they find
some time to get out here thisweek, they're going to really enjoy seeing
what all is golf and Golf Clubthe Houston have to offer. Yeah,
you know what, the only thingit is is different, that's all.
It's still top quality professional golf,there's no question about it. Looking like
you said, what you saw inthe hallway is what I saw on the
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range. These are these are unquestionablythe best players in the world. Is
part of them. The rest ofthem are doing something else. They're doing
their own thing, but there's nodoubt that these guys can bomb it.
I was having a hard time yesterday, honestly, out there or Wednesday on
the range, I was having ahard time following the drivers they were hitting.
There was a little bit of cloud. We we for the first time,
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we actually had to put up afence at the back of the range,
which we hadn't done previously, butput a fence back there to keep
the balls from bouncing across the backcart path over there. But yeah,
these guys are pretty amazing. Andfor for reference, how far is it
back to that fence. You gotabout three forty or so on a carry.
So we found a couple of ballsthat were beyond that fence yesterday.
(34:30):
So I'm not sure if they winhad anything to do. It wasn't much
win out here yesterday I was.I can assure you I didn't hit any
of them. I promise recently Igot buddy. Yeah, I may try
and get out there and hunt youdown tomorrow. I'm gonna try and get
my son out between baseball games.And I want him to see this because
this is golf as he will knowit once I'm long gone or whatever.
(34:52):
All Right, man, an excitingtime. We're happy to be part I
know you are, and I couldn'tbe happier for you. It's a great
Reese McCall gm of Golf Club ofHouston. Get out there, see live
golf. It's gonna be a fantasticweekend. Thank you, Reese. All
right, buddy, audios. Yeah, I know you got work to do,
man, Holy cow, what agreat deal that is. What have
(35:13):
we got a couple of minutes?We have a minute? Ten? Okay,
that's perfect. Well, I wantto talk about this thing from China
that I told you about a minuteago, a visitor discovered that China's highest
waterfall in the dry season is nothingbut water being pumped from down below all
(35:34):
the way up. Got these bigpumps, these big pipes keep that waterfowl
or waterfall flowing. I found that. I don't know. I think Niagara
Fall is still pretty much on itsown. I would guess the multi multi
cultural, two nation shared waterfall.Yeah. Now, baby name, what
(36:00):
do you want to do baby names? Sure? Really? Okay. One
of the hottest baby name trends nowactually was inspired by the Eclipse. So
all of a sudden, there's thisbig rush on soul sol as a name
that's surging for girls, Sonny trendingfor boys, and people are actually naming
(36:23):
their baby Eclipse. I couldn't dothat. That's dark. Audios.
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