An Illegal Invasion

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you all for listening on this week'sfinal day. I guess which started out?
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those of you who are new toTexas from I don't know, southern California,
New Mexico, maybe Arizona, Nevada, most other states west and north
of here. It's normal. Okay, it's normal, especially in the morning

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or midday afternoon when the humidity isreally high around here. You will know
it because you will be able to. You could ring a cup of water
out of the American flag or aand M flag or UT or UH or

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whatever flag you're flying out in frontof your house. And if you live
here long enough to become a customedto the humidity, and then we get
a west wind or a northwest wind, or even a southwest wind, that's
the that's actually probably worse. Ifyou if you look very closely and maybe
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goes and we're not well. Will'sout today. I don't know where he
is, but I think hopefully he'sgetting his electricity back. He's had electrical
issues in this rental property. He'sin for I think the better part of
a week and change now, Andthat's just not right. So anyway,

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Cal's in here. Cal. Thiswill be your first chance to rate one
of these. It's a one toten scale, very simple haiku. Here
we go, forecast looking good,four days of sun. If they're right,
What are the chances that's your forecastin haiku? On a one to
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one? So you have no nothing, there's no past to compare to.
What do you think A six isgood? A six is good, solid
six. I'll take that. It'sbetter than average. I got an eight
from Will. I want to sayit was yesterday, mate. I don't
even remember what I said. Idon't even remember. It's really not important.
How much time do I have left? About two minutes four? This

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is awesome. Off we go.Then, oh, by the way,
we got to go to market.Of course, like the big toe.
According to nursery rhyme, off tomarket we go. Absolutely nothing of significance
that I had seen up until aboutan hour ago, at least the major
indices hovering around flat for the betterpart of the morning. The only thing

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that really moved oil was kind ofthe same way. The only thing that
really moved was gold and the priceof that thanks to Houston gooldexchange dot com,
which for inexplicable reasons, has fallena point early this morning, almost
a full point, still north oftwenty three hundred bucks. I want to
say it was about twenty three fortymaybe somewhere in there. So by and

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larger, reasonably quiet morning across theBold. Moving into a special edition of
This Day in History. It hasbeen now six years since a well trained,
well scripted little girl from halfway aroundthe world told us that humanity would
be erased if we didn't stop usingfossil fuels in five years. She told

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us six years ago that the humanlife form was doomed if we didn't stop
using fossil fuels in five years.Not a one of these doomsday predictions,
not a single one from the climateexperts, has been correct so far.
Not the ones about acid rain destroyingcrops. Does anybody remember those, Not

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depletion to zero of the ozone layer, Not the ice age that was predicted
to happen in the nineteen eighties,Not the meling of the polar ice caps
were supposed to melt that was supposedto happen in the early two thousands.
You remember that we're all just goingto be a giant flood. And by
the way, if you put aif you put an ice cube in a

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glass of water and fill that waterright to the top. When the ice
melts, you don't get a floodbecause the ice, in fact, it
probably go down just a little bitbecause of the air that was in the
ice. But that never mind,because that doesn't fit their narrative. They
won't tell you that. None ofthat stuff. We spent trillions of dollars,

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trillions of dollars fixing stuff that wasnever broken, And in November we
finally get a chance to fix anadministration that I think is kind of broken.
I know, I do case inpoint, and it's just the most
recent one. It's not the onlyone. You wouldn't know for most of
the networks and their news broadcast,but from a Fox News story yesterday and

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a couple of other other sources.I look at the two men who were
arrested in charge with killing that littlegirl here, twelve year old girl.
The two men who were arrested incharge were Venezuelans in our country illegally.
They had no business being here,They had no business being at that convenience
store, and they had no certainlyhad no business allegedly abducting and killing that

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little girl. Same for the personwho is alleged to have killed a mother
of five up north. They finallyarrested that guy. He'd been bouncing all
over the country, probably on ourdime, I'm certain of it, and
they finally caught him to By theway, just as speaking of coming in
and what not, illegally, peopletrying to enter our country illegally are being

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repelled with weapons similar to paintball guns. Okay, only these things fire projectiles
that disperse pepper spray when they hita target. The pepperball guns are being
used to discourage and deter large groupsof illegal entrants trying to just just force
their way in and overwhelm the peopleon our side, cartel people who are

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cutting border wire. And it's working, and it's really simple not to get
hit by one of these pepperballs.You know, how you do it.
You don't try to come into thecountry illegally. You find your way in
legally. And well that doesn't eventhat's not very difficult either these days.

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What actually, it's probably harder toget in legally than it is illegally.
I know it is. We'll talkabout that more a little later in the
program. On the way out,I'll tell you about a late health probably
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This is fifty plus with Dougpike.All right, welcome back to fifty

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plus. Thanks for sharing your lunchhour with us. We will talk in
this segment about something called platelet richplasma therapy PRP therapy. It is which
is proving increasingly effective at dealing withtroublesome joints and muscles and all kinds of
body parts. I guess just spellingout for us. I will enlist doctor
Manicum Kumarabo, Professor at the Departmentof Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging at Mcgovernment Medical

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School at ut Health Houston and betterknown within his community and thankfully for me,
doctor Nix, I'm told, welcometo fifty plus, doctor Nix,
thank you so much for having meon, Doug. It would have had
I not been able to call youthat, it would have been inevitable to
that. I would have tripped overthat and felt horrible about it later on.

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So thanks so soft. Gosh,we are talking about the future of
kind of bone and joint health here, right, and I guess that covers
an overwhelming majority of scene years areto be listed very closely. Huh.
I'm almost not sure where to start, so let's go with the definition.
So what is plasma ridge platelet therapy? So plasma ridged platelet therapy, or

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PRP as it's more known around inthe everywhere, is the treatment that uses
a person's own blood to help healinjuries. What we're looking at is a
blood. You know, blood hasgot multiple components inside it. It's got
red blood cells and white cells andplatelets. Platelests are small cells that actually
help you blood flop, but theyalso have a lot of growth factors.
And we're going to lean on thatto actually help us heal the body as

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well. So what we do iswe take small amounts of blood and then
spin it down and extract those factorsof platelet factors, and we concentrate them,
and then we inject it back intothe person and the site way we
want them to do the healing partof it and to promote healing. That's
basically putting it into a nutshell.Who who is on the short list of

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best candidates for PRP? Absolutely,I mean I've had a wide experience of
treating all the way from young athletes, kids all the way up to seniors.
And in my patient population, Iget to see about fifty a lot
of about fifty people as well.These are weekend warriors and also people have
eggs and drowns, and typically whathappens is I go after the soft issue

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or the joints where I'm targeting themto help them actually heal a little bit
better. A classic example would besomething like tennis elbow. You know,
the weekend warriors to go around andplay tennis and then eventually come back to
people who don't also play tennis.Also get this. This is where you
get pain on the inside of theelbow. On the outside of elbow,
we have muscle injuries. So whatwe do is do a targeted therapy.

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We use alpaounder guide it and injectPRP or plato ridge plasma into these sites
to promote healing. That's kind ofwhat we want to do, and so
those are things that we can goback. I'm guessing it can be used
from what I read this morning andpretty much most parts of the body,
and the best performance is in thejoints. I saw muscle mentioned as well.

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Can you inject this stuff right intomuscle as well? Absolutely, muscle.
So if you can imagine these areyour own selves, that's the best
part. So we're not actually puttingin a foreign agent. It's just actually
your own cells which have all thesegrowth factors and things that are concentrated in
them. So we direct them intothe site of muscle injury. Let's say,
for example, I tore a portionof a muscle. We're trying to

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promote healing in a faster way.We want to try and get it healed
a better, So that's why wetarget them into muscle. As far as
joints are concerned, one of thebig downsides we all have as we get
older is we lose a little bitof cottilage as we go through. And
what happens with plato rich plasma orPRP is it's got some growth factors which
go and from a small lining aroundyour joint and give you a little bit

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of extra help to try and healthose processes. We're not very good at
recreating all of cottlage, but thisgives you a little bit more lining a
crustalp if. That's the reason whyjoints also helps when it gets to the
end. Anything anything is better thannothing. Is Is it an accurate statement
doctor Nicks to say that that plateletrich therapy is or platelet rich platelet rich

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plasma is like steroids on steroids.Ah, that's a very interesting conversation.
So I know people refer to itall the time that way, but it's
interesting that you're using your own factorsto boost is probably the best way I
would use the reason why I wantto use the word steroids. Steroids actually
does the opposite, and they hadkind of calms tissue down in a different

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way. It's a chemical that's actuallydoing it. So that's the reason why
I would love to use the wordboosts or healthy heal more than actually the
word steroids. But yeah, that'sfair. It's it's not steroid because steroids
don't come from your own body.Clearly, that's always difference. Doctor Nicks
from mut the ones we use.Yeah, yeah, doctor Nick from ut
Health Houston on fifty plus this morning, so or this afternoon. Excuse me,

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you're the you're in the imaging departmentof ut Health talk about the connection
between imaging and pr therapy. Soit's interesting. So the way I use
imaging in my realm of how ithelp patients is I use all the sound
predominantly to direct therapy. That's oneway of getting into the spot. So
if you want to treat a particularmuscle or sight of injury, so first

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is to identify it and to identifywe use these mri as a dominant thing,
so where you put a patient toa large magnet and that produces images
which gives you more detail about softdishes, particularly muscles, ligaments and cartilage
and things like that. And onceyou identify where you want to go with
then you have an armamentarium, particularlylike ull sound or X rays to guide
the therapy. So you want toplace the needle in the spot where you

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want it to be, and that'sthe advantage of using imaging to do that
as well. So there's a bigrealm of imaging which uses both diagnostic and
follow up and also in therapy.So that's where the Department of Imaging comes
in and three people. In mykind of realm, we use our skill
sets to direct therapy to be helpingpeople heal up a little bit faster just
because we can target where we wantto go. I hope that kind of

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helps. Yeah, absolutely it helps. A question I have now is,
so you talk about seeing it withthe imaging and being able to put the
needle in just the right place.Accuracy matters, obviously. Are there people
who are doing this therapy kind ofalmost well I hate to even use like
botox okay, where they don't reallyknow where they're going and they're kind of

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they're not the right people to seein this, because I don't want people
to get fooled by somebody who's who'snot one hundred percent on board and skilled
in this. Thanks for that question, doargy. So the biggest challenge with
prp IS is a lot of noisein the world of PRP, Unfortunately,
it's used all the way from restorationof hair all the way down to your
toes. Because it's your own cels, you can pretty much inject it anywhere.

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That's the safety part of it.But the downside is it's being used
in a way that it's not scientific. It's used in a way which it's
not completely helping you in that direction. So that's something to watch out for.
So if people are going to seekout this therapy, I would say,
look at the profile of food theperson helping you out with this,
excuse me, and also to tryand find out if this can be done
in a targeted way. Are theseThis is not from what I read,

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and correct me if I'm wrong,But it's not permanent. This is something
that's going to help for a certainamount of time, but you might have
to go back and get some moreshots later. Correct that is unfortunately correct.
So what we're leveraging here is we'llleveraging the capability of the human body
to heal and we try and helpit out with your own selves. And
all we're trying to do is totarget ourselves in a particular region. So

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if you can imagine if we havehealing cells in a particular potion, and
we can continue to do damage toit, for example, a knee joint,
for example, where you have cottilagewear and tear, all of us
continue we want you to be active. If you're walking on it, you
damage your cartilage a little further,so you might have to need another one
of these injections later on in timeto help you again. And that interval

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varies so from person to person,as well as the degree of activity as
well. I've heard that a lotof insurances and I think even Medicare are
still hesitant to pay for these procedures. Is that correct or do you see
that changing soon? I mean,there are a few insurance companies which now
would agree to pay for PRP,but mature them don't. And the reason

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for that is, again, there'sevidence both ways to suggest there are certain
situations that you need to treat themand there are certain situations where it's not
a great effective option, and that'sthe reason why insurance companies are insted.
But as we go through this timeand process, I'm almost certain that insurance
companies will pick up on this andsay, hey, you know what,
we should support this therapy for theright and the right appropriate patients and the
appropriate conditions that we want to treat, and that's where it's going to come

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in. There's a quality of lifeissue. If somebody's having a really hard
time just walking around the block,that's impacting their health a lot more than
whether you've got to be able toexercise to keep your body going right.
And this is something that will helppeople do that. I don't know why
they won't pay for it. You'reso absolutely right. I mean, so

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it's it's very important for us tomake people as active as we possibly can,
and they want so. The primarything, for example, even in
this therapy is our interest is tohelp people get to the next page or
exercise their joints, filled up musclepower. The focus is actually on the
second part of it. But thisis a therapy that will actually help you
get there, and that's what wewant to do. Someday, somehow,

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I'm going to look into a shoulderissue that I have from when I blew
out my humorous my left side thatbone up there throwing a softball. And
it's a long story, but that'sthat. Yeah, never mind, I
might call you at some point andasking about this, Oh mercy doctor next,
thank you so much for your time. This has been very very helpful.
I appreciate it. Thank you somuch for having me on your shirt.

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That's very kind of you. Iwant any take care all right?
Thanks? All right, we gotto talk. Take a break here.
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spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike

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to move my water cup over alittle bit, because I've got so many
pieces of paper I'm spreading out infront of me. Got about an hour
of material left and only about lessthan half an hour to get through it
all. Where to start, old, where to start? I'll start with
electric vehicles. That's kind of fun. Always I'm seeing more and more bragging
by the eco fina, especially sinceGreta Thunburger, Thornberger, whatever her name,

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I can't remember, the one whowas wrong so long ago and carved
a path for so many more tobe wrong in her wake. So anyway,
the eco fanatics about. They're braggingabout charging stations going up and how
many of them there are, andhow many more there are going to be.
And you know what's almost always inthe background of those photos. And

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there was one I saw it onFacebook. I've seen it several times now.
There's this charging area where there Idon't know three four dust in charging
stations out there. They look likelittle gas pumps, but they're electricity pumps.
Isn't that cute? Oh man,They're gonna charge so many cars.
Well, in the background of thephoto are two significantly large diesel generators right

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there. Not solar panels, notwindmills, No, they're diesel generators.
And they didn't even have the senseto put bushes in front of them,
to maybe hide them back there.Why couldn't they do that? At least
it would have been it would havebeen a little better optic for all these

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chargers, neatly aligned and ready tocharge a car. Proud moment for ev
fans everywhere, except for that oneteensy little booger on the wall. Huh.
Two giant diesel generators. They didn'teven they didn't even make an attempt.
They're just so they're so sure thatyou're gonna lap it up up and
be so happy to see the chargingstations that you won't even notice the generators.

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I guess they're using fossil fuel tooperate EVY charging stations. And the
Emperor is standing there buck naked,and you're telling them what a beautiful suit
he's wearing. Unbelievable. Not you, not my audience, not this audience,

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No way, no way. Italked about the pepperball guns. That's
it's remarkable to me that people wouldthere was there was a person interview talking
about how how tough it is behit with a pepperball gun and how they're
even shooting them into and some ofthem, the pepper balls are hitting women,

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and I don't know, but probablyI'm sure a few children may have
been struck by them. But theonly the only way those people are getting
struck by those as if they areone trying to cross the border illegally,
and two in the midst of cartelpeople cutting down the wire, in the

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midst of other people just crowding andshoving their way into our country. Like
I said before, you don't wantto get hit by a pepper ball,
don't cross the border illegally. It'sjust that easy. It's just that easy.

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Oh I didn't mention this before.Vice President Kamala Harris one of her
secret service agents hauled off in handcuffsrecently. By the way, these stories
are coming from the cutting room floor, which I'm going to try to do.
I'm gonna try to use Friday's latein the program to sweep up a
few things that I thought were warrantedsome attention earlier in the week, but

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I never got to and this isone of them. Our secret service agents
was hauled off in handcuffs after recentlyattacking that woman's superior while on duty at
joint Bass Andrews in Maryland. Youjust go ahead and write your own punchline
for that one. Let's move offof this for a second, and we've

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got a whole nother segment. Ican do the fun, easy, relaxing,
humorous, going into the weekend stuff. So I'll come back to the
other four minutes. That's good.Will cal has it on a big giant
screen in here, a big giantscreen. How much time I have.
This makes it so easy. We'rewe're gonna have to talk to Will about
that when he gets back. Putthat up there, show him how to

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do that, and that way hecan do whatever it is he's doing over
there while I'm working on this show, and we'll be good. So in
pre election panic move News, PresidentBiden's crew contemplating use of executive order.
We've talked about this to get workpermit. It's permanent resident, retient,

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spit it out residency, and ultimatelycitizenship to what's going to amount to millions
of people already here unlawfully by theway, God's handslapped by heart hardline Democrats
for doing anything that would slow thisinvasion, which is what it is.
He didn't close the gate at allwith this twenty five hundred a day thing.

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The truth is that the border personnelwho are dealing with these people get
overwhelmed if there are even a fractionof that many people coming in. He's
done nothing. The hardliners didn't likethe optics though, of setting a cap
I guess on the freeloaders and crooksand murderers pouring in. So now he's

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thrown the deep blue Democrats a boneby vowing to tee up millions more for
socialism, millions more dollars and continuedsocial support for people who snuck in,
or if they didn't sneak in,they get caught and then they have to
pinky swear that they will show upfor a court date in what years I

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don't know, I don't know.Which brings me right back to my deep
concern for Americans who are poor,for our veterans who get pennies on the
dollar, of the benefits afforded topeople about whom we know nothing nothing.

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They're here from one hundred and seventyseven countries just this year alone, just
this year alone, one hundred andseventy seven countries. They're pouring in because
they're being welcomed in, and becausewe are handing them more than we give
our own. That's what bothers methe most. I think they've got a

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really they need to step back andlisten closely to what they're being told to
people who support this administration, andthen do some personal research on their owns
outside the out far outside the contremeconstraints of mainstream media, which is so
far, it's so far gone out. Journalism as I grew up with it
no longer exists. It really doesn't. Every piece in every newspaper is an

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opinion piece now, whether it's writtenthat way cleverly or not, and every
one of them leans in the samedirection. Unfortunately, you know what happens
when every piece in a tall structurestarts leaning in the same direction and it
falls. That's what happens. Andif we don't regain our balance, that's
what's going to happen to America.A minute, in eleven seconds. What

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can I do with that? Youcan change the tone. I'll do that.
Cal, I'm gonna enlist you topick one of these things. Okay,
get up an exercise out of Chinaor is that a gun in your
huggies? You didn't hear that onethis year or this week. I've already
done. I've done the gun whenI ready this week already, let's get

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China. Well that's a combination ofthe two. But out of China.
There's a new study out of Chinathat says the single most important contributor to
healthy aging and longevity is mental wellbeing. Which that's from the desk of
Captain obvious. I could have putthat in there and a close second it

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said, though, and this iswhere you just you just have to throw
it out the window. Good,I've got just enough time. Number two
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I don't know. Yes on thechill part, uh No. On the
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What's life without a nap? Isuggest you go to bed and sleep it
off. Just wait until the show'sover. Sleepy back to Dougpike as fifty
plus can tinues BI Welcome back ward. The final segment of the program starts
right now, very quickly. We'llremind all of you and hope we can

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really make this work. UT HealthHouston's Institute on Aging is putting together a
team for this year's Houston walked toEnd Alzheimer's on November ninth, and there
is a lot of hard work yetto be done, but there are some
tremendous kind of breakthroughs really in thisfight against Alzheimer's, and hopefully with that

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walk being as successful as it canbe, with all the people we can
muster to go out and take careof business that day, November ninth,
that would be great. Go toutch dot edu slash wtea that's Walk to
End Alzheimer's. I've got a hunchthat if you went there and just used
the site that I always talk about, utch dot edu slash aging, you

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could also find some information. Sohopefully you guys will do that. Hopefully
a lot of you will be ableto walk that day. I will most
likely be in here doing the show, but I will be there in spirit.
At least there is some good news. And I really kind of like
this when I saw a very small, very portable, solar powered manufacturing device

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can create plastic products like water tanks, storage bins, even small boat frames.
It says most anywhere it has accessto sunshine. This device uses the
sun's rays that are they then't getmagnified by a series of mirrors and they

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heat raw plastic and then use rotationalmolding to create pretty much anything that can
be made from plastic anywhere very quickly. It's kind of a self contained thing
that just gets You can drop itin by air, I would imagine,
or bring it in by truck whatever, which this thing just holds great,

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great promise in emergency situations where wouldn'thurt, where there's a there's a clean
water source, for example, butno way for people to get it back
to their homes. You could justdrop one of these in there and roto
mold two hundred five gallon containers andeverybody could take home five gallons of water
that night. I guess it wouldtake a little bit longer to do two

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hundred, but you get my drift. It's a fantastic, absolutely fantastic thing.
Seeing more and more of this,this emergency friendly stuff coming about,
and probably not a bad idea tohave it around, I would think,
all right, let's take it easy, cal on the way to the end
of the road today. Let mesee where I am. I don't even

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have a I'll title this one what'syour name? Higher education is the second
one and tastes like, no,it doesn't. Those are the three.
Okay, let's do what's your name? What's your name? Scientists say now

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that elephants call each other by name. Have you seen this story. No,
they do first name, first name. They figured out that an elephant
was called by the other elephants.You know what it was. Why are
you shaking your head? That's prettyfunny, you know it is. Well,

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but it's a true story. Thesescientists actually say these elephants call each
other by name. I wonder though, if they're gonna call each other different
names when they're angry, you know, like wives and girlfriends. Yeah,
yeah, the whole thing. Ohyeah, yeah, is that a that's

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a bad elephant sound too. Bythe way, isn't it wasn't my best
effort. I'll admit that. Uh, the higher education when and then we'll
go to three more. I'll justbreak from tradition at Harvard. There's a
team at Harvard that's saying UFOs couldbe coming from aliens secretly living underground.

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What are they smoking in those littletents? I don't understand that, honest
to goodness, aliens living underground?Will where would they be living? I've
heard of that under the bridge,the trolls under on the ice. Captain,
Yeah, that's what I've heard.No, I don't know, no,

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will or no, I'm sorry,knots out? Okay, what do
I have fifty two seconds. Okay, let's find one that I can do
that I really will like. Hmm, how about easiest pie? Someone online
ask what's something that seems easy toother people but it's difficult for you?

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Math, basic navigation, hula hooping, and chopsticks. I'm really good at
basic navigation, honestly goodness. IfI drive someplace once, even if it's
three hours away. Some of theranches I used to visit when I was
working at the paper and doing alot of deer hunting, I would drive
three hours to a ranch, noGPS, just handwritten directions. If I

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made it there the first time anddrove home after that, next year,
the whole next winter, I'm out, and I'm going kind of like we
are here, huh. Fiight fourthree two one. We'll see you next
week on Tuesday. Thanks for listening, Audios