Allergies Abound

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. William Yao about allergies.

Episode Transcript

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Doug Pike. Wednesday edition of theprogram starts right now. Thank you all
for listening, certainly to appreciate it. Nineteenth of June, juneteenth Day,
It's finally really well. It raineda little bit, at least in a
few spots around town. I'll startwith the weather, because it's gotten a
lot and I do mean a lotof attention since that little low pressure system

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formed down way south of here andis moving straight across west into the Mexican
the country of Mexico. And bythe way, they need the rain down
there everywhere. From about I don'tknow, maybe poort O'Connor. South into
the middle of Mexico is pretty dogon dry and has been for a while,

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so they are happy to see theweather, but maybe in some places
not quite as much. Down intoMexico, where it gets really hilly and
they're gonna get most of the rain, there's potential for mud slide. But
they do genuinely need the rain.So I hope they get what they need

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and need what they get, andthat nobody gets hurt. That's about best
I can do for that, really. And by the way, I do
wish to television whether people would eithereither get subscriptions to babble and learn Spanish,
or at least talk to someone whospeaks Spanish fluently and get the correct

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pronunciations for words south of the border, places south of the border that they're
trying to work into their forecast,because this system is moving westward into Mexico
and they are just butchering these names. It's horrible. It's almost painful to
listen to it. They're trying sohard to pronounce it in redneck Spanglish and

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it's just not working. If youknow, you know, either pronounce the
words phonetically, which we can allfigure out or brush up, brush up
on your bilinguality anyway. Time forhighs and lows in Haikup will pay attention.
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way, because cleaner air is healthierair, especially inside your house. So
here goes well. Finally, somerain, not as much as predicted.
Please don't hoard water. You getit. You not know you get it,
of course you do. You thinkpeople are gonna be hoarding water.

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I watched them and they were inhib all week. They were in Chib
on Monday stacking it up, Chibon Tuesdays stacking it up. These are
all people who've never who haven't livedhere a full summer. Yet you don't
just because there's rain five hundred milesaway and maybe a couple of little outer

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bands, a little sprinkles that madeit up here and cost me a roof
job when the forecast was for torrentialdownpourse. You don't have to go out
and buy every case of water inthe grocery store. It's just gonna sit
in your garage for the rest ofsummer, hopefully and not be needed.
And if it is needed, ifyou just go get a couple of cases

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when you need them and leave therest for everybody else. Then every time
you go to the store, therewill be a couple more cases to get.
It's very similar to what happened duringthe Great toilet paper shortage of twoth
was at twenty twenty yep when itjust bailed. I was on my way
back from on my way back backfrom Corpus, back from North Padre,

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and my wife called and said,Hey, this whole COVID thing has got
people really kind of going crazy andbuying up all the toilet paper all over
Houston. Maybe grab some on theway home. Said, I'm in Refurio.
There's a little baby hb in there. I thought, oh, I'll
just jump in there and get acouple of packages of it. I wasn't
going to clean the shelves off,but I was going to get something to

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bring home just in case, youknow, because there aren't too many substitutes
for that. And I walk inthe store and I turned the corner of
the aisle where all the paper productswere, and the Refurians get what do
they call themselves? From Refurio?Do you know? I have no idea?
I'm gonna go with refurians. Okay, they had wiped it all out.

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It was gone, it was gone. There was not a single square
of toilet paper unless they had somemaybe in the store's bathroom. And I
wasn't quite that desperate yet go gopill for a roll of toilet paper out
of the hib restroom. But yeah, I was kind of surprised, and
as the hunter in me, acceptedthe challenge, and I was able to

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weather the storm will the whole time, found it when I needed it.
And that's all you gotta do.Just bring home what you need for a
few days a week or so,depending on whether it's water or toilet paper
or whatever. Make sure you haveyour medications, your regular medications. You
need to have them, but youdon't have to stock up on all the
other stuff, he said. Andif you stock your refrigerator super super full

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and your freezer super super full andthe power goes out and you don't have
a generator, you just lose thatmuch more so. Anyway, after catching
the early forecast on this, whenit dawned on me also that more than
a few local weather guessers might befeeling kind of left out. After watching
national news anchors, throwing out allthese sensational and mostly false stories one after

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another for the last what four years. The weather folks, especially down here,
they kind of grind through fall andwinter and spring around here without much
drama. But man, when summercomes, when that first little yellow axe
pops up on the horizon way overthere on the National Hurricane Center's map somewhere,

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it's game on, baby. Ican just see them. This,
this, they just must say tothemselves in the mirror as the makeup is
applied and their hair is sprayed sothat it wouldn't move if they went outside
in a hurricane. This is mytime. And that's what they do.
They go out there and tell ushow cataclysmic, cataclysmically bad it could be.

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I just want They use words likepotential and isolated and all these little
catchphrases, and they always qualify thepredictions because they're telling you things that are
worst case doomsday scenarios, when whatwe really need is just the truth.
I've been living here for more thansixty years, and I've been through a

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bunch of storms, and I knowwhat can happen when a really bad one
comes through, and I want tobe ready when that happens. But I
don't want I don't want to betelling people who don't understand it the way
this audience does, that they haveto be prepared for doomsday when it's going
to be a rainy day, acouple of false alarms from somebody standing in

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front of a green screen, andthese same viewers won't believe the forecast when
there really is something coming and thatcould be far more dangerous. I just
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check his fluids, and spring ona fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Allright, welcome back. Fifty plus secon
segment starts right now on this darkmoderately sprinkly day in Houston, never mind

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the apocalyptic forecast a few days ago. In this segment, we're gonna talk
about something that first impacted my life. About gosh, it's been fifteen eighteen
years, and that is allergies.Never had them as a kid, could
do anything, go anywhere, breatheanything, whatever, not so much anymore.
To tell me why nature has playedthis particularly nasty trick on me,

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I'll enlist doctor William Yao, AssistantProfessor in the Department of odo rhino Laryngology
at McGovern Medical School at ut HealthHouston. I got all of that out
in one piece and didn't mess itup. Welcome aboard, doctor hell.
How are you doing doing well?Paying? Thank you, and thank you
very much for having me on harshipmy pleasure. So what the heck happens

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in our bodies as we age I'mtalking about my audience here that enables allergies
to just move in and live rentfree in our heads and for the rest
of our lives. Oh man,that's a great question. And what I
would say is to simplify stuff.You know, as we I mean,
we all have allergies to the environment, or some of us do, and

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then what happens is over time.There's a theory where you could become allergic
to something by exposure right over time. So you might have moved, you
might have gone to a new environment, The environments might have changed, meaning
that with changes in the climate,you get more mold. So after Harvey
there was more mold than the environment, so then you become more sensitive to

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it. The other big thing forolder population is something called immunosinescence. So
it's basically a very very very fancyword for saying that your immune system gets
old and it doesn't work as wellas before, and so because it doesn't
work as well as before, itsometimes overreacts. And this is very I'm

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simplifying it quite a bit. It'sjust that you just don't respond as well.
The lining inside your nose doesn't sweepaway the allergens as well, so
all those dust particles and whatever,it doesn't sweep as well because it's older.
And then so then it's there stickingaround for a longer time. And
then on top of it, yournose is much more runnier, it overreacts

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a little bit more and thicker,so it kind of accumulates and because of
that, A lot of people,the elderly population might notice it later in
their life and they would say,like, wind the world. I never
had allergies back in my days,back when when I was young. That
was me, That is exactly meat about fifty fifty two, somewhere in
there. All of a sudden,the springtime comes along and the trees and

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the grasses start doing their thing,and I can't breathe, Like, what
is this? I have no idea. What percentage of seniors would you say
wind up dealing with this? Everybody? Or most or some man's that's all
a great question. Yeah, it'sa hard one. But there's been like

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some publications out there that would saythat, you know, five to ten
percent of the allergies is affecting basicallyold people, so the elderly population.
So I would say probably about tenpercent now Houston probably higher because of how
much allergy profile there is here.That's yeah, that's a fair assessment.

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Right. There's always something in theair that can get as Sydney exactly,
oh my goodness. And symptoms.What about the symptoms? Are they about
the same as for children with allergiesor different or worse or better? What
ah, So it's it's fairly similar. Okay, the symptoms are fairly similar.
The only issue is for older patientsthere's some interaction with say, drugs

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and stuff like that, so itcould sometimes make it worse sometimes masks it.
And then the other thing though,to kind of keep in mind is
that you know, if you grewup with allergies or entire life and you
never breathe, like have a goodbreath through your nose, and you're used
to that, you're gonna be usedto that, right, Okay. So
let's say that you were able tobreathe beforehand, and then you take it

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away, then you notice it more, so perhaps the perspective might have changed
as well. Addition to some ofthe symptoms, I had a horribly deviated
septum up until about I don't know, it was about four or maybe five
years ago that I got fixed,maybe four, and all of a sudden
I could breathe again, and thatdid help. And then springtime came and
I'm like, okay, back tosquare one, but I am much better,

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thank goodness. And back back astep or two. Doctor, Is
there anything seniors are doing differently intheir seniorness that's causing these allergies to awaken.
Can we avoid it somehow? Unfortunately, No, there's nothing that you
could do to avoid it. Iguess, you know, you could live

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a healthy life and all that kindof stuff, but realistically speaking, there's
not much. The things that youcould do as seniors to kind of it
would be to have some dust covers. Dust might covers at home, you
know, high temperature wash to cleanaway all the you know, allergens in
the environment. Just making sure thatthe ac area doesn't have mold. Dude,

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you don't have mold in your house, so if you're in a senior
living facility, there might be moldin the ac dust or something like that,
and then basically you're constantly exposed.So limiting exposure would be good.
Now that said, I'm not goingto recommend stop going outside and living your
life either, So that's it's thatfine line. I just happened to have

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a happen to have an endorser.One of my sponsors for this show does
duct work cleaning, So that wouldbe a good idea, wouldn't it.
Yep? Exactly. Yeah, boy, I'm gonna call him right after the
show and say, man, wegot to do something here, Oh mercy,
doctor William I I on fifty plus. Can allergies mask the symptoms of
other diseases? Yes, that's perhapsone of the hardest and trickiest things.

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So at least in my practice,I see a lot of this. So
patients would come in saying allergies,and as a rhinology and sort of sinus
expert here we see a lot ofpolyps, right, chronic saying sideds so
you have growth in your nose.And then people would say, oh,
it's just allergies, don't worry aboutit. And then later it's a tumor,
or it's a polyp in your nose. Go earlier today we had a

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lady who came in and it wasa melanoma. It was a tumor.
Wow, you know, I meanthis is there's a lot of it,
right, It's a whole gamut andan extreme. But if it's unilateral,
you want to be a little morecognizant about it and probably have it checked
out. If it's bilateral and it'slike systemic, so meaning that itchy odds
you know, and like seasonal likeyou doug where you get out springtime,

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it happens. But then it goesaway. That's a whole different story than
it's continuous all the time. It'sunilateral and you get more infections and stuff
like that. You smell something bunkingin your nose all the time, then
there's something more there. Well,let's let's get before we run out of
time in how we can deal withthis the treatments that are available. And

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we've got maybe a minute and ahalf to do that. Oh gosh,
okay. I though, to simplifystuff. Treatment, there's a topical medical
therapy. The first thing is avoidingallergies. One. You know, you
could see analogist and get allergy treatment, which would be an immunotherapy. But
even before that, most likely peopleare going to say, okay, let's
use topical steroids, which would belike on the market fluticozone, floonnaise,

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nasen x, something like that.You want to aim it to your ears
so that that's where the money isat. That's the thing that swells up
and within your nose. Right,you'll do it two weeks. It's not
going to change after one week.You do it for at least two weeks
and it starts working. Number two, I would say some pills so that
would be antihistamines, take it everyday. So those are treatment options.

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That's simple medical management then comes toyou know, the allergy shots. Then
if it's still continuous, like youhad a septoplast, your turbatant reduction is
magical in a sense actually physically producethis d or increases as size. Right,
So that's more for a nasal allergicrhinitis symptoms, that's gonna work like
magic. There's in office options andoperating room options, so there's a gamut,

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right, medical management, surgical management, and then within the surgical management,
there's in the office you could dosomething to kind of reduce the turbinans,
make more airway space, and thendecrease the post nasal drip so the
drainage on the vacuous throat into oR similar but a little more extensive.
Sounds very good. I think whatI'm going to take away from this,
and I hope my audience does,is that you don't need to be suffering.

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Are There are treatments, and thereare a lot of different ones.
Something is going to be right foryou if you're suffering with this. Doctor
William, y'all, thank you sovery much for your time. That was
very helpful, It really was absolutelythink. Thank you very much for having
me on your show. My pleasureanytime. Thank you. All right,
we got to take a little breakhere on the way out ut Health Institute

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on Aging, the Institute on Aging, and by the way, they are
sponsoring a team for the Walk toEnd Alzheimer's. Yeah, I think that's
it. I'll have to double checkon exactly how the wording is because I
want all of you, I wouldencourage you all to go sign up for

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their team. The walk isn't untilNovember, so we have plenty of time
to talk about it, plenty oftime, plenty of time to get involved
with this, and I would encourageall of you to do that. It's
going to be a fantastic cause.In the meantime. In the meantime,
the Institute on Aging is and alwayshas been, for the better part of
ten years now, a collaborative effortamong hundreds of providers in this area,

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all of whom have gone back andgott an additional education in how that whatever
they studied to become as a doctor, a therapist, a trainer, whatever
applies to seniors applies to us.And that is so important as we get
a little bit older, we don'twant to get I hate to use the

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word rubber stentp because doctors don't dothat. But the doctors and other caregivers
in ut Health Institute on Aging havea leg up. They really do,
because they have gone back deliberately tomake sure that what they're doing is best
for their senior patients. Makes alot of sense. Go look at the

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website. You'll get an idea ofthe services and the things that they can
provide you, the connections they canprovide. And then of course these providers
all over town. They mostly inthe medical center, as you would expect,
but they also a lot of themspend time outside the medical center working

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with other people who live out thatway and can't necessarily get into town.
It's hard, it really is.I understand that I don't like going in
the medical center. I will ifI have to, but I'd rather meet
somebody out in sugar Land where Ilive. Uth dot edu slash Aging start
there, call them, look themup, get on that website and learn
what it's got. You'll you'll beglad you did. Uth dot edu slash

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Aging Aged to Perfection. This isfifty plus with Dougpike. Well, it's
actually drizzling. Unless you're on thefreeway doing fifty miles an hour, you

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probably and depending on which side ofthe west Loop you're on right now,
the southbound side's doing about they're doingabout twenty twenty five. Northbound west Loop
shocker, doing about fifty to fiftyfive. I would say maybe a few
people trying to beat that. EvenI don't know why. There's no reason
to drive that fasten the rain thatscares me. I'm I'm not old,

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I'm not scared of driving, butI just don't like the way other people
drive. It was a wreck onceagain at the West Park Curve this morning
on fifty nine outbound. Thank goodness. It would have taken me forever to
get here years ago. And Imentioned this before, but I'll do it
again. When my son was prettyyoung, actually when he was maybe seven
eight years old, he used tocome down here on the weekends and hang

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out at the studio with me.Thought it was cool. No longer cool,
but anyway, and on the wayhome we were talking about driving.
It was raining, and I wastalking about how when he started driving,
someday he had to be careful.He might have been a little older,
maybe eleven or ten or twelve orsomething. In any event, I said
it as a matter of fact aswe came up toward the West Park Curve.
As a matter of fact, thisis a very dangerous area when it's

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wet, because there's kind of alittle hump as you go into this curve,
and when your car lifts up offthat hump a little bit, there's
not as much pressure on the ground, and a lot of times they lose
traction. And I was getting intothe weeds with him when right in front
of us in one lane to theright, and I always when I go
through there when it's wet, Ialways try to get to the inside lane,

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because what happens is they start,they they lose traction, and they
fly off to the right side.And that's exactly what a pickup truck did
right in front of my pickup truck. And my son's eyes got just big
as saucers, and he's going,wow, Dad, you were right,
And I'm thinking, good time,and I hope you don't get hurt,
dude, And he spun it aroundtwice and ended up kind of recovering actually

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over toward the right shoulder, butat least pointed in the right direction,
and he actually kind of kind ofgot his act together, and before we
even really got out of sight range, she just kind of plodded on like
nothing had happened. Fortunately, nota lot of traffic on the freeway that
morning, and so I get Ipresume he made it home or maybe he

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just went to a tire store tofix that problem. So yesterday, in
static free AM radio on the notrandy drive home from here, I heard
an interesting follow up. I guesswe could call it to news that President
Biden wants to grant amnesty to abouta half a million illegal migrants who are
married to US citizens and been inthe country for ten years or more,

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permanent status, cleared to work here, and a fast track of course by
November if they can pull it off, I guess, fast tracked to voting
why not for the next president ofthe United States. What they didn't say,
though, and what this story Iheard shared, is that once those
people get welcomed to US citizenship,then they also can bring their relatives into
our country and we'll have to takecare of them as well. So you

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give them a vote, they votefor the person who's paying them the most,
the person who's not going to askthem to leave the country because they're
here illegally. After all, thatdoesn't really matter to the left. But
they're going to bring in a couplemore million miles to feed if this administration

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gets away with sidestepping the legislative processyet again, it's just a remarkable miss
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley called out PresidentBiden and Sacra Haunt Secretary Alejandro Majorcus for
even considering amnesty for illegal illegal immigrants. It's a slap in the face,
he said, to every American taxpayerand to every migrant who entered this country

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legally. It really is there.There's no easier, softer way to put
it. Somebody who went through theprocess to do it right, to take
the steps and raise that hand andpledge allegiance and answer questions on a test
about this country, or he justwalk across and promise to come to a

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court hearing and later sometime, atsome point some person will be elected president
who will just let you in andnot worry about it. Yeah, just
make them all voters. Holly alsopointed out in a letter to Majorcas that
the main accused of murdering twenty twoyear old Lake and Riley paroled into the
country on the basis of lack ofdetention capacity. That's how he got in.

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They didn't have any place to puthim. Probably had a pretty good
idea what kind of person he was. Illegal immigrants just they continue to rape,
they continue to kill American citizens,and we have lost none of those
Americans. Had our president had thegood sense not to allow these horrible people
ever to cross our borders. It'sshameful. It's an embarrassment. It's an

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embarrassment. It really is. Noneed to take a break already, Well,
dad, gimmuck. Okay, TexasHomebuyers fantastic people. If you haven't
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good plea. Fifty plus continues.Here's more with Doug all right, welcome
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this stopping ring. Oh the stormthat was not and boy to hear it
last week. You would have thoughtwe would. I would have had to
take one of my kayaks to workthis morning. But no, nothing Monday,
nothing Tuesday, not much today.And so now my new roof is

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on hold for at least another weekbecause that's how long it's going to be
drizzly and nasty. Again, becomingvery frustrated by this. It's become personal
for me because I needed I wantedthat new roof taken care of. I
really do's. That's the top ofour list right now, my wife and
me, and it's not happening becauseof a bad forecast that lasted two days.

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Bad up in Philadelphia, Big RealtyCompany. There also ran three coffee
shops that weren't making any money actuallylately, but they were kept on they
were kept open and a loss toout of just out of kind heartedness helped

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the folks who worked there with compensationand health benefits. And then the people
who worked there decided to unionize andmake some demands and whatnot. And when
that happened, the burden on ownershipgrew and just like that, poof well,
there were other things. There weresome leases that were coming up,

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and the company, the parent company, made a decision, a business decision,
to shut down those coffee shops.It just wasn't working out anymore and
they couldn't keep it up. Soanyway, the people who worked there decided
to go to the streets with megaphonesand signs. And this according to a

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story by a guy named man orwoman. I'm not sure. Taylor Montgomery
yesterday at Woke wars is the website, saw this. It just showed up
in my feed and happened to readit a few of the former workers.
It was noted by Montgomery war hamasheadscarves. Why they did that, I'm
not really sure. I'm not surehow that works into their cause, but

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I guess they just did it fora fact and maybe to turn heads.
In any event, this guy notedand I would have to agree that losing
a job is tough on anybody whoexperiences it. I do agree with that.
It's a kick in the teeth ifyou're in there doing your job every
day. But business decisions aren't basedon emotion, not in successful businesses,

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or based on dollars and cents.Always have been, always will be.
So that's that's why when one thinghappened, then another thing happened, then
another thing happened, that what happenedhappened. If that doesn't confuse anybody too
badly, I'm califeigning you. Thispast week, a Secret Service agent off

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duty at the time, but attachedto President Obama's security detail. He was
out there visiting President Biden. Ibelieve anyway, this Secret Service agent was
robbed at gunpoint by a crook whohad a gun in one of the most
gun unfriendly states in the entire country. They have some of the strictest gun
laws anywhere, and a bad guywith a gun. Imagine that the agent's

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bag was stolen. No information onthe bag, no notes on what was
in it, and it's none ofour business, really, none of our
business. And the agent actually wasable to draw a gun and shoot at
the bad guy. But no wordon whether the bad guy was hit.
California, by the way, intwenty twenty one, led the nation in

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active shooter incidents despite its horribly tightgun laws. You know why, because
those laws only prevent good guys fromhaving guns. In the animal Kingdom,
well you'll like this story. It'scuddly, Okay. These people had a
pet donkey several years ago, backin twenty nineteen. This pet donkey disappeared

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while the couple and the donkey wereon a leisurely walked through the woods through
the hillsides of the animal gets spookedto who knows why it disappears, and
then it showed up recently in aphotograph of a herd of elk who I

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guess just took this donkey under itits wings and said, yeah, come
on, y'all, you can hangout with us. Not gonna take up
a lot of space. Kind oflooks like them really and from the undersea
world. Now this one that's boring. I'm not gonna do the undersea world.
Let's have a little fun. Willget up an exercise out of China

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or small victories, uh, smallvictories. Talking about how they won the
genetic lottery and bragging about things likenot being affected by mosquito bites, being
able to fall asleep quickly every night, and having better than twenty twenty vision.

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Those aren't brag level things. Threeexamples insect repellent, ambient, and
glasses. They can give you theexact same thing. So no, it's
not genetic lottery. Can you hearme now? Will? Is that a
gun in your Huggies? Or parentof the year? Can you hear me

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now? In Florida, people weresearching for a guy wanted on a parole
violation and eventually found him hiding inthe ceiling. Why because somebody called him
and he didn't have his phone turnedoff. And now to the Huggies,

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this one, I don't even know. You can just figure this out for
yourself. A mom in Iowa facingcharges after she didn't keep an eye on
her three year old and somebody foundthis little boy walking down a street with
a loaded handgun that she had leftclearly accessible on a nightstand. That's not

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good. Figure this out. Will. Broke women prefer men with more feminine
facial features over manly men like you. You got a beard, You're a
manly man. Will. What isbroke women mean? I don't know,
I guess women who are looking forsomebody to settle down with and who can

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take care of them anyway. Itsays possibly they like that because those men
seem more loyal and more likely toinvest in long term parental care. What
on earth out of a dopey surveyas that, uh uh, if you
just find somebody, I never mind, I'm not even tomorrow. We'll be
back. We'll let this one,We'll let this one just simmer till tomorrow.

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