Brain Fitness

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Angela Catic about keeping your brain active.

Episode Transcript

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Remember when it was impossible to misplacethe TV remote because you were the TV
remote. Remember when music sounded likethis, go on? Remember when social
media was truly social? Hey,John, how's it going today? Well,
this show is all about you.This is fifty plus with Doug Pike,

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helpful information on your finances, goodhealth, and what to do for
fun. Fifty plus brought to youby the UT Health Houston Institute on Aging
Informed Decisions for a healthier, happierlife and by Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists
because clean air is healthier air.And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

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All right, let's do this.Huh. I'm back in town. I'm
glad to be back in town.And the tank of the ass I bought
to get me back here was courtesyof the Golden Nugget Casino. About that
will, I'm a high roller Imade. I didn't I certainly didn't break
the bank. But I was verypleased with the return on my investment this

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time, as it rarely happens.And what was interesting for me is having
not even been over there in probablya year. I think we actually,
I think we did a tournament therelast year. This is all baseball tournament
stuff. I don't really. Idon't go driving over there just to be
going. Although now I'm all firedup, I might start going again.

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Will Oh, by the way,in case nobody knows, Will Melbourne surprised
me. I almost didn't recognize himwhen I came in today. You look
at sharp, will new Ha.You don't like it. You don't like
it, though, do you?I mean, I do like it.
It's just so hot outside. Also, that's a good pok I needed.

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I just I couldn't deal with anothersong. So let me ask you this.
What's far more important of what thanwhat you think of it? What's
your girlfriend thing? Well, soI gave her a week's notice. I
told her that it was going tobe happening price yourself, and I think
initially it was shocked. Yeah.Sure, I think everybody who's seen me

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recently I had long hair, y'all. Y'all, yeah, y'all have only
known me with long hair. SoI think everybody's been a tiny bit shocked.
But I think she said she's growing, growing to it, you know,
But it definitely is, you know, I mean for as, I
mean, she knew me was shorthair because we met in high school and
I couldn't have long hair at thehigh school that I went to, so

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but once I got to college,I mean it was blowing. So for
about eight years, I've had almostthe longest your hair ever was. It
definitely was past the shoulders. Ohwow, yeah, what cal not as
long as cats, but it was, yeah, because mine gets to a
little bit down, like a littlebit past the shoulders, and then that's

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about it. I went to highschool one hundred years ago, as most
everybody who knows me knows, Igot out in seventy four. And one
of the requirements to be a footballplayer or a basketball or baseball player an
athlete at that school, and thatwas about all we had really for sports.
We didn't have lacross or rugbyer orany of that. But the bottom

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line is hair had to be offyour shoulder and that was it. I
don't even think it had to beabove the collar. It just had to
be off your shoulder. And thenlooking back at my yearbook picture from my
senior year, I was pushing theenvelope. I was there, so and
yeah, that was before and I'vebeen burned because the back of my head

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is finally starting to actually the hairsactually receding some. But what I've dealt
with since I was about twelve,maybe eleven, is the repercussions from my
very first ever backflip off the divingboard, which resulted in just a little
I got. Actually, I thinkit might have been like an inward flip

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going off backward, you know,because what happened was zip right there at
the top of my head, thecrown of my head. I kind of
nicked the diving board and it scrapedoff about a nickel sized chuck scalp,
and the hair never grew back upthere. So I've always had this little
bitty bald spot back there. Butnow when I look in the mirror,

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like silver dollar maybe dollar bill iscoming ye, sooner or later, you
know who knows. Well, welcomeback, Will, I'm glad I'm back,
and I'm glad you're back with yournew look. Oh, and I
got power back. I was thatwas gonna be my next question. So
you have and a new look.Yeah, Friday got the power back.
Saturday chopped the hair. How manydays was it you were without? Fourteen

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days total? Oh my, whatteendays total? Well, I'm so sorry
for that, but I'm glad it'sall done. If you like your temperature
and your humidity both in the nineties, you're in luck. And as for
this week's highs and lows and highcoup courtesy of Texas Indoor Air Qualities Specialists,

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because cleaner air is healthier air poundtwo fifty clean air, here goes,
Well, this is the first oneback in a while, so I've
had chance. Well, I actuallydidn't try. I didn't think about it
while I was gone, so Ihad to do it this morning. Here
we go, still hot and humid, little chance of rain this week.
Keep watch on, Beryl. How'sthat not bad? Great? Not bad?

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Okay, I'll give you. I'llgive you a six on that six.
Yeah, that one was fine,It was fine. This was suitable,
It was okay, yeah, okay, Well that's fine. Ye know
you're a little rush Yeah maybe somaybe so. I guess by the way,
I have got a song stuff inmy head. The tone when you
pushed an elevator button in the hotelwe stayed in was like about a two

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full beat tone that was exactly thesame as the first note in the Beach
Boys Sloop John Bee, Are youfamiliar with the song. I'm not well.
It has this tone. I talkedto Mark Sherman about it earlier.
He's our head of FM stuff aroundhere, and Mark is a big music
guy. He was a former hostof Sunday's morning show very long time,

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and he as soon as I saidthat, we both started singing that song.
Yeah, you know it was goingon out there in the in the
pit over there was it humming inyour ears old the whole time. I
was in like Charles. Every timeI'd go in the hotel and push that
button, D do do Do do, and then off it goes. And

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actually it was a little bit abouttwo notes higher than that, two keys
higher than that, but I missed. It doesn't matter. Keep an eye
on barrel. We were talking aboutthat just a second ago. We're gonna
take a little roll in the barrel. I'm afraid not we, but the
Caribbean. Certainly it's a major hurricaneand it's ripping right across there, making
tracks now towards Jamaica. As Ibelieve, it's still categorized as A five,

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a Cat five storm. Ultimately it'ssupposed to enter the Bay of Campeche
and then the Gulf of Mexico asa tropical storm supposed to kind of fall
apart a little bit as it keepsgoing across here. And if so,
what we may see is another roundof high tides and rough seas like we
had with that earlier Well, isthat Alberto? Was that it? Yes?

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Alberto VL five. Are you familiarwith that product? No, it's
a hair care product. It doesn'tmatter. Well, you don't need it
anymore, really, you don't hardlyhave any hair. Nope, just hit
it with a little rents and getout of there anyway. That actually kind
of would be a best case scenario. We don't want a hurricane through here.
Nobody wants a hurricane anywhere, obviously, But every day we go without

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one man, it's a day closerto the finish line. So keep your
fingers crossed, say your prayers,and we'll see if we can't keep this
one down south of US way southof US. I don't want my friends
in Corpus getting dinged up either onthe way out. Ut Health Science Centers
Institute on Aging offers you at theat the website utch dot edu. Slash

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Aging offers all kinds of services,all kinds of access to different things that
can help you as a senior.This is a senior specific site, a
senior specific opportunity to be checked outand remedied by providers, by healthcare providers,

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all of whom, and there arehundreds of them involved in this,
all of whom are specially trained insenior medicine. I've had the opportunity to
speak for these folks for the betterpart of I think it's coming up on
eight years now actually, and Iwill continue so long as they will allow
me to do so. By theway, they wanted me to let you

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know about the Walk to End Alzheimer's. It's not set until just November ninth.
It's a long ways out November ninth. However, what the Institute on
Aging wants to do is feel thelargest team of any that are involved with
this walk. So if you wantto participate by all means, go to

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the website and you will find informationabout that November walk. Uth dot edu
slash Aging, ut dot edu slashaging. Yeah, they sure don't make
them like they used to. That'swhy every few months we wash him,
check his fluids, and spring ona fresh code O wax. This is

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fifty plus with Dougpike. All right, welcome back fifty plus. Feels good
to be back here. A niceday outside a few clouds. I tried
to play golf for yesterday. Inearly caught on fire. It was so
blooming hot. And when the windstopped, we started out my kind of

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old old group who play on Mondays, but they play a lot I don't.
Anyway. We started with fourteen guysand finished with ten. Four guys
had I think it was four whodropped out, maybe three, but it
was just that and all of thoseguys had legitimate reasons. They weren't just
bailing. So in any event,we got to get back to fifty plus
here, And thanks for remembering totune us in weekdays at noon here on

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KPRC. Not as easy as wego a little older, get a little
deeper into the years, remembering everythingsometimes, and we're gonna talk about that
about brain fitness ultimately in this segment. To help, I will bring in
doctor Angela. Kattock, a boardcertified geriatrician and Associate chief of Staff for
Education at the Michael E. DeBakeyVeterans Affairs Medical Center. Welcome aboard,

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doctor Kattock. How are you thankyou so much for having me. I'm
doing well, wonderful. Let's startwith some general information on cognitive decline,
painting with a very broad brush,if you will, at roughly what age
does cognitive decline begin. Well,in this general population, we think of

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cognitive decline as being something that comesalong with aging, and in fact,
age is the strongest risk factor wehave for cognitive decline, with the incidence
of dementia, which we can thinkof as cognitive decline that impacts our daily
activities doubly approximately every ten years afterthe age of sixty. Oh wow,

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Okay, so it's not really somethingthat most people can dodge all together.
There's going to be something coming along. How much forgetfulness is normal as we
go into the process, for example, okay, and kind of I'm asking
for a friend briefly forgetting where youleave your keys, or maybe you're reading
glasses whatever. That's not cause foralarm yet, is that correct? Right?

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Absolutely not. The good news isthat cognitive decline is not a given.
Okay. There are some changes inour cognition as we get older.
For instance, it takes us abit longer to learn new information, but
other parts of our cognition actually improve, so our vocabulary, for example,

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being able to do tasks we've donethroughout our life. These often get better
if we don't have any real medicalissues with a cognitive decline, but just
normal aging, so to speak.What role does genetics play in cognitive issues?
So there's a very small percentage ofour population where they have adherentance of

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Alzheimer's disease. But this is avery very small number of cases, and
those are in younger individuals. Soif we're thinking of our late onset Alzheimer's
disease, so in our older populationit's less clear. We know, if
your mom or dad has a historyof dementia, there's about a twofold increase

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in the risk that you will developdementia. But if your parents were older,
if they develop memory problems after theage of eighty, this doesn't have
any increased risk for you at all. Okay, I can take that.
How about lifestyle? Talk about lifestyleand how it plays a role in dementia's
in cognitive decline. So I thinkthat's really the good news. We know

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we can do a lot with ourlifestyle to delay or even stave off cognitive
decline. In fact, they thinkabout forty percent of cases of dementia are
due to factors which are modifiable,and we can talk about those, but
things such as managing our weight,getting a moderate amount of exercise, eating
a healthy diet, looking not consuminglarge amounts of alcohol. You know,

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all things that we know are goodfor our health overall are really good for
our cognition. Thank goodness for that. Huh. You know one of my
fears is living long enough to wreck. I've got a sixteen year old song
where I can finally retire, andthen being so far gone that I forget
our return. I'll just keep comingback to the office. You want to
do that old school? So theold school fallback about keeping our brains busy,

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Doctor Angela Cattock with us, bythe way, on fifty plus.
Old school was to keep our brainsbusy with puzzles and word games. Is
there any validity at all to that? There absolutely is. This is kind
of like our muscles. If wedon't use it, we can lose it.
So we want to keep our brainsactive. That's not a one size
fits all. You mentioned puzzles.I always sear puzzles and crosswords, but

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there's nothing magic about those. Itcould be reading, it could be engaging
in conversation, it could be listeningto music. The list goes on and
on. The thing that they foundis not that effective. Are these commercially
available brain simulations program things like LuminosityBecause when they find people being people,

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they do I'm going to call themgames. But the mentally stimulating activities that
they find the easiest are the mostfun. They're not doing the ones that
they really need to be doing,which are the ones that are the most
challenging. So I tell people,you know, don't use your money for
that. When you can go outand read a book, or put together
a puzzle, or do us ado code. You know, there's lots

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of things that your disposal to keepyour brain act. That is exactly what
I was thinking so many things andin so many areas of medicine and what's
going to fix you up? Ifthey promise you they'll give you the first
bottle free, and then they'll haveyou on that pay for everything. And
I'm sure it's the same with someof these other sites that if you're having
to pay a lot of money forit and it's not being prescribed by your

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own doctor, it might be worthtaking two or three looks. Huh.
Absolutely so with the tools you havenow, doctor Catock, are there any
of these precursors or symptoms to cognitivedecline and ultimately dementia that you can control
to maybe either slow down or evenstop the progression of them? Absolutely?
So, we just talked about one, which was keeping our brain active.

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Yes, we know it's incredibly importantthat we get an adequate amount of high
quality sleep. So if your listenersare having difficulty sleeping, if they're sleeping
less than seven to eight hours pernight, or they're waking up really you
know, feeling as tired as whenthey went to bed, that's probably something
they want to talk to a medicalprofessional about because we know that poor sleep,

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as well as sleep appn being diagnosedwith that actual condition are important causes
a cognitive decline. Something I thinkwe can all appreciate when we feel kind
of buzzy or groggy after a poornight's sleep. Boy, yes, sleep,
what about sleep aids? I've readsomething or heard something recently affect I
think I may have. It mayhave been in an interview on the show.

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I'm almost positive it was someone saidthat any sleep aid at all is
bad for your cognitive issues. Yeah, they were one hundred percent right.
So slee phase work by you know, working on our brain, slowing our
brain down to put us to sleep, and they are bad actors. They
can make us definitely more confused,as well as cause us to be unsteady

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on our feet and an other hostof problems. So in geriatrics and taking
care of older adults, the onewe only want to use and be something
like melatonin. But again, Ireally encourage folks if you're having trouble sleeping,
talk to a medical provider. Iwould think, and my wife says
this a lot. I can't rememberwho said it first. Around our family
anyway, you don't see any roofers, you don't see any construction workers with

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insomnia. So exercise, a healthyexercise program could help get you better sleep.
Is that correct? It sure can. We want our body to us
of activity for our sleep, foroverall health, and for cognition. We
know that exercise helps to lower therisk of many of the diseases associated with
cognitive decline, things like heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and even depression.

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So down to about a minute,minute and a half, what if
anything should we be looking for inourselves or in a loved one. That
kind of says they've stepped over theline from occasionally forgetting the keys to something
that needs to be seen by adoctor. Yeah. Absolutely, So I
think number one, if there isa concern, the best step is to
get it checked out. It maybe something reversible. It may be that

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you're not getting good quality sleep,it may be that someone is depressed,
and when we treat that, thecognitive concerns go away. We understand that
this is scary for folks, youknow, one hundred percent scary, But
putting it off and not getting testedis it going to make it go away?
And then I think what you broughtup? You know, it's not

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forgetting where we put our keys.The kind of joke is it's forgetting what
we do with the keys, andit's not funny at all. No,
right, but yeah, I seethat. Right, But if folks are
having difficulty with their normal daily activities, that's time that we want to go
in and get checked out. AndI believe it would be like cancer.
You know, if you think youhave stage one something, you don't wait

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till it's stage four to go inand be seen right absolutely, and again,
the earlier we catch us, themore we can do to help.
Fantastic Doctor Angela Kattick, thank youso very much for this. I really
do appreciate it. My pleasure.Take care, all right, Bobby,
all right, we got to takea little break here. On the way
out, I will tell you allwell, not all about because there's so

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much I could tell, but aboutTexas Home Buyers. This is a company
that has for more than thirty yearsbeen buying and selling. Well, they
don't sell them, they yeah,I guess they do. Technically, they'll
buy your home, whether it's asingle family home, a multiple family dwelling,
piece of real estate somewhere as itsits where. If it's been flooded,

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that's okay. If it's had atree fall on the roof, that's
okay. They will still buy itexactly as is. You don't have to
fix anything, you don't have topaint anything. All you do is allow
them to come to your property.They'll walk around, briefly, take a
look at things. They know whatthey're looking at, they know what they're

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bidding on, and then they willgo back to their office and usually that
same day you will get an emailor a call from them with a top
dollar cash offer to take that homeoff your hands. Maybe it's a divorce,
it's got this. Maybe it's aninheritance. You didn't really want the
house, but you got it.There's all foreclosures, there's all kinds of

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reasons that you wouldn't want to hangon to a home or a piece of
property, And for whatever your reason, Texas home Buyers will take care of
that and they can usually close withintwo weeks. You get your money,
they get the keys, and everybodygoes on their way happier for the exchange.

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Texas home Buyers seven one three,six four nine two twenty two seven
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Doug Pike. Buttered. I'm allfired up. I'm glad to be back,

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I really am. I have gotI looked at July a month two
months ago and thought, you know, that's gonna be pretty busy, trying
to juggle all these different things.I've got to juggle this month, and
now that it's here, it's comingat me like a freight train, these
different days when I have to goplaces and do things and be elsewhere.
And when I go out the nexttime, though, I'm going to carry

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the little box and I'm gonna dothis show, presuming I could remember which
buttons to push. Uh. AndI know I might have to have a
third party on the line when youand I are trying to connect this thing.
Man, I might have to getcal involved. He's the one who
showed me how to do it thefirst time. And I actually wrote up
a sheet of step by step instructionsand you know what, I lost the

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sheet. Oh, I'm gonna haveto call doctor Cattock back and see if
that. You gotta get a folderor something, send an email. I'll
just get it tattooed, plug inthe machine, okay, and then down
halfway down my leg somewhere we'd beconnected. If we're lucky, we actually
panicky. I don't know if youwere called, but when I was doing

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my shows from down at Moody Gardens, whilst on the same weekend I was
hosting this fantastic fly fishing film festivalthey've had now for several years, and
I've been fortunate enough tom see itthe last two years, and I plan
on being back there. I reallydo. I'm gonna keep going. I
love doing that stuff. The cinematographyis amazing. In any event, I

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had to do that, and calI said, cal, I think I
can do the Sunday Show myself ifyou just show me again how to turn
the machine on and what to doand one, two three, and I
wrote it all down and we werehumming along. Well, we were just
humming along, and right at Ithink in the final segment of the show,
just as we started that segment,I hear this, and then we

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were gone. Just poof, thewhole machine just went black and I couldn't
figure out why it was dark andthere was nothing on the screen, nothing
at all. I'm thinking, ohmy gosh, what am I gonna do?
And so of course we're panicing.We're trying to get everything reconnected,
and I ended up having to dothe last two or three minutes by phone
just to get it done. Butthe good news is that I found out

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the only thing that had happened wasthere's a little connector in there that's really
sensitive and if you just just blowon it, it'll kind of fritz out
and not be connected anymore. Sonow that I know that, if I
had that problem again, I wouldknow to just unplug, replug, unsnap,

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resnap everything, just get that solidconnection and then get about a half
a roll of duct tape and sentit on there. Real good. They
probably engineering wouldn't mind that. Youthink, Oh, you think I don't
know a m I wanted to runthat by Tom or Bob. Bob would
be the one who would twist offif I sent back the comrex with a
half a roll of duck tape.Maybe, in any event, I think

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I'm gonna give it a try,and so we should be good. We
should be good, and it allshould be fine. Speaking in this,
you know, this next trip Iwant to make is not that far away,
so in a worst case scenario,I might even be able to drive
back and just see what's up.It's time for me to put on my

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safety sam hat for a minute.Okay. My buddy Rudy, who listens
weekends and weekdays, sent me wordthis past week that there have been more
than a few drownings along beaches notjust Texas, but around the pretty much
around the Florida coast and the GulfCoast, and I guess I would presume

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up both coasts and especially along theGulf Coast and then over all the way
over through Florida. There are onoccasion seriously strong riptides moving up and down
the beach, and they will inplaces like San Louis pass any any exit
and entrance from the Gulf of Mexicointo the bays or along the beach front

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when the wind and tied are stackedup just right. The bottom line is,
if you're hauling kids or grandkids tothe beach this week, and you
are not a certified lifeguard willing tosit in a chair and watch them,
please pay attention to the signs atthe beach to make sure that you're not
stepping into water that could sweep youaway and kill you or those kids.

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Okay, if you can, ifyou can get lucky and get a parking
spot close by, maybe do yourswimming and frolicking in the water close to
a lifeguard stand somewhere. There's noharm in that, just gives you extra
eyes. Already this summer, likeI said, there have been a lot
of people have drowned because of this, and they just don't know how to
survive the experience of that water pullingthem away from the beach, pulling them

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out a little rock growing is insteadof the waves pushing you toward the beach.
All of that can if you knowhow to float, you can buy
yourself an awful lot of time byjust allowing the current to take you wherever
it finishes. And it will finish. It's not gonna drag you halfway to
Mexico. It'll it'll pretty much fizzleout, not terribly far out, and

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then you can carefully and slowly andmethodically kind of make your way back to
where you can get your feet underyou. Anytime, anybody in your groups
in the water this weekend or anyother time, really, somebody not in
the water needs to have eyes onthose people or that person, no matter
what their age. That's just it'sit's critical, it really is. It

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could cost you your whole holiday.Easy to get distracted on the beach for
some of us more than others.But there is nothing more important, nothing
more important than somebody in that water. So keep your eyes out. Please
do lunch hour, how much timedid I have one or two. You
now have a minute and a halflunch hour alert. Okay, I'm gonna
give you this. If you havea week's stomach, cover your ears.

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In North Korea, we're well.You gotta pay attention to this because it's
good in North Korea so they cangrow enough food crops because they don't have
adequate fertilizer. The government there hasordered every family to collect and dry twenty
two pounds of human waste okay,to use this fertilizer. And this isn't

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the first time they've done that either. In fact, it's a fairly common
order of Kim jong Un in winterahead of the planning season. But this
time they're being asked to make theirdonations during the heat of summer. They
are not happy either, but Ibet that if they protest, they might
wind up in charge of the entireneighborhood's donations to the cause. So I

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guess that when we come fall,are preparing our lawns for winter and spreading
eight twelve sixteen, North Koreans willbe running two two two. We'll take
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a net? I suggest you goto bed and sleep it off. Just

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wait until the show's over. SleepyBack to Doug Pike, as fifty plus
continues, Welcome back, thanks forlistening. Fifty plus. So much going

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on while I was gone. Ialmost hated to leave during the week of
the debates because I knew there wasgonna be some juicy stuff. And boy
was there. Boy was there.And now the left is playing the blame
game, and even the president's familyblamed the prep team and the prep team
blaming the family for the performance ofour president during the elections, when I

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don't know that anybody could have doneany more to change the perception. It
just was what it was. ElonMusk, by the way, called out
Kamala Harris Vice President Harris, thatis, for her claim that President Trump
would ban abortion nationwide if he's reelected. Trump has said numerous times and including

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during the debate, that he woulddo no such thing. He left it
to the States. Her statement wasuntrue, straight up, and she knew
it when she said it. Sheheard the same heard the same debate we
heard, She's seen the same quotesfrom him we've seen, and mister Musk
reposted a screenshot of what Harris hadposted, along with corroborating evidence that President

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Trump would not ban a b andadded this note and I love it,
and I quote when when will politiciansor at least the intern who runs their
account learn that lying on this platformdoesn't work anymore? When will they learn?
Clearly, it seemed like not anytimesoon. Meanwhile, down in Panama,

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place in Panama called the Darien Gap. You ever heard of that will
Darien Gap? Nope, I hadn'teither until now, been traveled though by
hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants whoeventually made it here. Already they come
walking up the continent. Our federalgovernment wants the Panamedians to close that gap,

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and they said, sure, buthere's the deal. To make it
easier. On Panama, our federalgovernment is going to fly thousands of people
who are illegally in Panama back totheir home countries. At least, they're
not going to bring them up hereanymore. So they say, but still

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if those that they're doing that onour dime, on your dime, will
on mine, on everybody who's listening, they're going to use our tax dollars
to fly these people back to theirhomes. So if these people are in
Panama already, that means Panama somehowlet them in why then, is it
our responsibility to fly them anywhere?Just don't just and at every step of

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the way these people have been allowedto pass on through because they've agreed to
keep going. But that's kind ofmessed up. How much time do I
have? I have several minutes,don't I? Oh, yeah, let's
go. We have five minutes?Oh? Holy cow in u T Austin
News. You're familiar? Will yes? Okay you The Longhorns are going to

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be playing for the first season inthe SEC. This fault and UT folks
want to know whether that horns downsymbol will be a penalty in football games.
Respectfully, I gotta wonder just howsensitive we've become. Whatever happened to

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Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Words and gestures. It's a handgesture, and short of maybe that one,
short of that, that's all itis. How is that a penalty
in college football? If I wereplaying a team and we had a special

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hand sign and they made fun ofit or twisted it somehow, and we're
just showing that hand gesture, Iwould just sip my team down and say,
look, if they want to dothat, use it as motivation to
just play harder, Just go stompthem, play football and beat them at
football. Don't get all worked upor over somebody turning your your sign upside

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down? Do you agree or disagree? Rule? Well, I don't really
care. I don't really care.I went to I went to D three
school, you know, Okay,I don't really care. You know what
I was thinking about, though,was the A and M baseball coach that
Now, yeah, t what aboutthat story? Did he? Yeah?
Yeah he did? Didn't he?He took him to the College World Series

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and that immediately jump ship. It'sall about the Phillam and blank will Monny,
sir. I bet he got awhat do they call it? Bag?
Now? Oh? Yeah? Abig bag? Yeah? Didn't he
though? Probably two bags, maybethree? Maybe a Gucci bag, you
know, maybe full of money.In New York City on the final day

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of Pride Month, this path whatwas it? Two days ago? When
an lgbt Q Plus parade was movingthrough city streets, Anti Israel pro testers
thought it'd be a great idea togo block the route and vandalize the floats
and let the LGBTQ plus community knowthey didn't want its support and just like

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that, fewer supporters for all ofthis protest that's going on. I don't
know what they were thinking, honestly, I really don't. I think that
was a very poor decision on somebody'spart, though, to go and bust
up any parade when some group ofpeople is celebrating their lifestyle. And this
has nothing to do with good orbad, right or wrong on the LGBTQ

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plus people, because they are whothey are, and they take great pride
in themselves and rightfully so. Andthey're having a parade and somebody comes and
messes up their parade audio support seeyou later. Back to the federal government
for a minute. The latest officialrules for federal employees at the Department of
the Interior and the Department of theInterior only for now, by the way.

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They want to make sure everybody feelsincluded. And the new rules there
call for not using any term thatsomebody in charge deems offensive. I guess
they can't use any term, includingman made. Okay, can't say that
anymore. I guess you say humanmade, I don't know, or being

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made. I'm not sure. Youcan't say male, you can't say female,
you can't say aunt or uncle.Instead, you're supposed to say parent
sibling. Yeah, that's my parentssibling, Bob no no. And the
word heterosexual also apparently offensive to somebody. And rest assured that if nobody pushes

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back these these ridiculous rules on whatwe say, will it will spread like
linguistic COVID across the whole country.They'll even tell employees. They do actually
tell employees ADI. If they don'tknow someone's preferred pronoun, then you've got
to start out. You got adefault to they them until the person shares

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what they want to be what theywant to be called. There's nothing but
increased control over speech. It's worldUFO day. Will do you believe in
UFOs? Unidentified flying objects now?Will uniformed fantastic radio hosts that start with
oh, that's silent, So anyway, do you or not? It kind

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of depends on which UFOs you're talkingabout. And we also have ten seconds.
Well, then we don't have timeto discuss. Do we were just
quibbling over definition? We're like theDLA or d OI. We'll be back
to Marve'll sort it out then,audios