July 3, 2024 • 39 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Todd Waite of the Alley Theater about their Summer productions. Pike also speaks with Dr. Mark Burish about headaches.
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Wow, that's good stuff. Fourthof July prices on everything. There
was a little bit of talk aboutthis just a few minutes ago in that
Fox report. Traditionally a fourth ofJuly picnic might cost X. Now it's
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X plus a bunch. And evenwhen as for outrageous inflation over the past
several years, cost still way wayup ground Beef I read earlier today up
about forty percent. Disposable plates upeighty percent. Well, do you guys
eat off paper plates at the house? No? I do. Sometimes if
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exactly. That's not a bad idea. You could get away with that,
probably. What else? Catch upup about fifty percent? And according to
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the story I was reading written bya man from California, soft drinks and
I think it's about right around here. A twelve pack of name brand soft
drinks around nine dollars and eighteen centson average. That is up from five
dollars and fifty three cents in twentytwenty one, which was Biden's first year
as president. On the fourth ofJuly, and out there where this guy
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lives in California, between its recyclingfees and higher sales taxes and all that
stuff, that same twelve pack ofname brand soda runs almost a buck of
can you're gonna pay eleven dollars andchange for twelve cans of whatever unbelievable came
across a fact check piece. Speakingof unbelievable, on President Biden's claim one
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of the claims he made during thedebate about how he'd reduced the price of
insulin from four hundred dollars a shotto fifteen dollars. In fact, and
this is according to Snopes, theInflation Reduction Act, which had absolutely nothing
nothing to do with the reduction ofinflation. The Inflation Reduction Act put a
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top end price for insulin at thirtyfive dollars a month for seniors on Medicare.
I'm not sure what it did foranybody else. Thirty five bucks a
month, not fifteen dollars a shot, as he claimed, and neither was
insulin ever four hundred dollars a shot. Prior to that act, actual average
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spend on insulin for Medicare recipients wasfour hundred and forty nine dollars per year,
not four hundred bucks a shot.I don't know where he got all
that information, but it was wrong. Just yesterday, by the way,
speaking of inflation, let's go backto that for a second. Just yesterday
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I heard this fantastic explanation of theway this administration is spinning inflation, telling
us it's coming down, down,down. So here's here's what this woman
said, and it was fantastic.So you go to the doctor and the
doctor says, wow, you've gainedfifteen pounds last year, so you need
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it's a good thing. Because youdidn't gain as much as you gained,
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almost at Sports Off seven to ninety. That'll be Saturday today. I'm on
KPRC and we're about to have somefun here. Thanks for always, thanks
as always for sharing your lunch hour. In this segment, we are going
to retreat from the heat and relaxin the comfort of the Alley Theater and
maybe, you know, maybe theyjust let us stay there until the curtain
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rises. July seventeenth on Agasa Christie'sAnd Then There Were None, one of
her best works, and the startof Alley Theater Summer Chills series. With
that, I will welcome Todd Waitein his twenty fourth season. Oh my
gosh, Todd as a resident actingcompany member. Welcome aboard, Hey,
glad and glad to be here.And then it's amazing, I've done twenty
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four sis, I'm only thirty six. Yeah, you know true, I'm
the same way. I actually startedin radio twenty four years ago. So
oh wow, Yeah, and Itoo am thirty six. Unbelievable. We
can say anything on radio, can'twe. Yeah, nobody's looking, nobody
sees the fingers crossed behind our backs. One hundred and thirty productions for you
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at the alley? Really? Howmen? Yeah? Do you even?
Do you have a favorite among them? You know, it's funny because summer
chills is it's things. I havea favorite, you know, probably of
the summer chills. I'm really lovingdoing this, and then there's the drama,
so you kind of have to picka few. But I loved I
love all of the summer chills becauseit gives us a time to really play.
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You know, we say go bigor go home, Sure, have
fun with it. Somebody makes anover the top choice. We say,
yeah, I smell what you're cooking. So it's a fun time of the
summer chills so far, Elizabeth Williamson, who's directing this production, is creating
a really cool rehearsal room. Ithink this is going to be one of
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the most fun times we've had sowith that revealing too much talk about and
then there were none were you?By the way? Playing General Mackenzie that
sounds pretty pretty up there back right. He's very much kind of like this,
you know, good fly fishing inthe upper and out of Hambergees.
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Yeah, I play the older charactersnow, you know in Christmas Caroline started
as tiny Tim. Now I'm oldJoe. But what can you do?
But yeah, he I'm not goingto tell you what order I stay alive
or die. But premises, there'sthese ten soldiers, little ceramic soldiers on
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this island mansion that everybody is broughtto on false premises, and slowly these
ceramic soldiers are found broken and thatmight not be good for the next guest
at the island. And it's anisland surrounded by bad weather. You can't
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get off, or at least wedon't think you can. Again, trying
not to give away, but I'veactually done this show in different iterations two
other times, and it's a lotof fun trying to see the hear the
audience trying to figure it out orwhat happened or how people died, not
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that anybody die. Perhaps I readthis morning actually that Christy said it was
one of her most difficult books towrite. And I would think with that
many many characters, all intimately involvedin the storyline, it's not like nine
of you are are just kind ofoff to the side. There's one main
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character right right exactly. And also, you know, she was a nurse
in the war and she became anexpert on poisons. But when you get
this many deaths, oh, thismany near deaths, she had to come
up with a lot of to die, you know. And and also it's
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it's it is intricate. And alsoit's one set with multiple exits. Wow,
so how do you make that work? But she it's interesting. She
was one of those rare people thatshe did her own adaptations for the most
part of her own books. Wedid a world premiere last year of Murder
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of Roger Ackroyd, and that wasactually not one of hers, because she
thought it would be two difficul callto do. She also yeah to Murder
on the Orient Express because she thought, how do you make the train work,
and we did that as well,So we try and figure out ways
to make them work. So it'sa lot of fun. But yeah,
she had she had trouble with thisone. But she is a master playwright.
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I've worked with directors who said,you know, I wanted to cut
a little bit, but she's impossibleto cut. Yeah, every line,
it's right, there's no red airrings. Everything is essential. Wow, I'm
guessing from what you've said that youcould just you could blink and miss a
critical line or a movement or somethingthat might reveal who was the real killer?
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Is that about spot On? Iwould managine, imagine, Well,
don't blink in one of our productions. Good god man, Yes, you
got to pay attention. It's true. It is true. Todd Wade on
fifty plus sounds like a great wayto enjoy an evening away from the television.
Let's shift gears a bit and talkabout the history of the theater itself.
It's been around for longer than bothof us, hasn't it It has.
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It is probably the most substantial Americanregional theater. It's really the only
company left in America that maintains afull resident company of actors and a huge
team of nearing two hundred people.All the props, the costumes, the
sets that you see on our productionsare made in house. We have one
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of the largest production facilities. Thefourteenth through eighteenth floor of the parking garage
that you see behind the main alleytheater is all production. So it's a
pretty amazing place to work. Icame down here from Canada. It is
the only regional theater because I hadbeen asked to join other theaters. It's
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the only regional theater I would haveleft Canada to come to. And I've
loved every minute of it, youknow. And it's actually, i read
this morning, it's actually two theaters. Let's mention both of them, the
Hubbard and the New House, theHubbard being the premium that will the bigger
of the two. More and moreto say, it's the premium because each
each production has a fit better inone of the two. Right. Absolutely,
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we have a small downstage theater that'svery beautifully equipped and technologically advanced.
That's where we do plays that mighthave a smaller number of people that are
attracted to it. But our truledge do work because obviously sometimes titles and
authors that people recognize will pull morepeople, sure, but the work that
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people don't know is incredibly exciting too, And people can be on the ground
floor of a play that nobody's seenthat opens in New York the following year.
And we've done that time and timeagain because we also have an in
house dramaturgy program where they are constantlylooking for new plays and we dedicate a
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whole month to the production, readingand partial mounting of new works that then
go on to our next season orseason or two later. I did Pictures
from Home, which people really lovedlast year. That was something we just
did a reading of. So theNew House is the smaller theater where we
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maybe do slightly edgier, more playful, less no one plays the cupboard.
We do everything from Shakespeare to theSummer Chills to fantastic new plays up there
too, depending on what we thinkthe draw will be. And it's been
a fantastic balance because you know,you can't just eat dessert and Andrew,
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You've got to eat it all.So we try and do every type of
theater, from comedy to drama inbetween, from classical to new work,
from A to Z as it were, Todd Waite, thank you so much.
Believe it or not, my friend, we are out of time.
I want to get you back onat some point so that we can talk
about acting and directing and the whetheror not there are enough young people coming
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into that. Can we do thatsometime? That is a fantastic question,
and I really appreciate it. Oneof my great joys as I get older
is that I get to work inthis profession with younger people and it keeps
the vibe, really keeps the riskgoing. I would love to do that.
Yeah, let's try ask you again. We'll try and get that scheduled.
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Thank you so much, Todd.All right, that's Alli Theater Summer
chills with Agasa Christie's and then therewere none. Go to Alitheater dot Org.
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to perfection. This is fifty pluswith Dougpike. All right, welcome back
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to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. As always, I certainly do appreciate
it. I hope you enjoyed thattalk about the Alley Theater. In this
segment, we're gonna address something thatactually it got its own month of recognition
through June, but I really didn'tthink that was long enough. So we're
gonna talk on this third day ofJuly. About severe headaches, about migraine
headaches, about cluster headache. Theseare things that nobody should have to endure.
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And the person I know who knowsthe most about this subject is doctor
Mark Bursh from the will Irwin HeadacheResearch Foundation, which celebrates its tenth year
this year. By the way,doctor Burch and I have talked several times
over the years, and he continuesto lead the charge toward relief for those
who suffer most from head pain.Welcome back to fifty plus, doctor Bursch.
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Thanks thanks for having me again.My pleasure. Most of us get
We get these occasional little headaches,and most of us who get them can
either take a pill or two andmake them go away, or they might
even go a well on their own. But for an unfortunate group, head
pain often comes on very quickly andescalates even more quickly into pain that pretty
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much leaves them just desperate for relief. Describe if you can, I guess,
really, what do these people experience? How hard is it? Yeah?
So for my grain, I liketo describe it to my students as
in the movies they depict as ahangover headache where you get light sensitivity,
noise sensitivity. But they can lastthree days. And you can imagine if
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you can't look at screens, ifyou can't look outside because it's so bright
and so painful to your eyes,you're going to be pretty debilitated. Question
most Yeah, well, I wasgonna say, well, let's go here.
What do we know about what causesheadaches that are this severe? Some
of it's we know that patients withmigraines it runs in families, but it
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doesn't have to. We have putpatients in scanners to see which parts of
the brain lay up, so wehave a pretty good idea of which parts
of the brain are involved, Butas far as exactly which molecules are important,
we're only starting to scratch the surfaceof that. Oh wow. And
the term, like you mentioned triggersother than I know the person closes to
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me who gets migraines also is triggeredlight and sound, but also smells too.
Is that common? Yeah? Alot of we think for migraine patients
they're kind of sensitive to everything inseens of light, noise, smell,
touch, kind of everything at theirkind of heightened sensitivity to especially during a
headache. That's a really good wayto look at it, because I can
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just see all of that being beinglegitimate with the person I'm talking about.
Do you know off hand what percentageof Americans get genuine migraine headaches? It
is much more common than most peoplethink, so it's about twelve percent of
the United States or twelve percent ofthe world. More common in women,
so it's up to maybe twenty fivepercent of women in their thirties might have
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a migrant any specific age groups thatare more prone than others. It usually
starts when you're a teenager. Itcan start, you know, after the
age of fifty, so some ofyour your viewership, you know, can
get those headaches. It often getsworse around menopause for some women, but
usually it starts in your teens,gets worse in your twenties and thirties,
and gets usually gets a little bitbetter in your later life, especially after
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menopause. Fingers crossed doctor Mark burshon fifty plus. And then there are
cluster headaches. Those are the worstones, right. They did a study
that we helped out with and theyranked different types of pain. Cluster headache
was number one, Number two waschildbirth, and I think number three was
kidney stones, So it was itwas bad. Yeah, that's horrible.
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And to establish just how severe thistype of head pain can become. Take
a minute to tell the story ofthe young man will Irwin, to whom
this research foundation is dedicated. Yeah, so will Irwin had actually both clusteraches
and migraine. Clustereche is sometimes knownas suicide headache just because of the level
of pain and the dark thoughts.And with will Irwin, he did commit
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suicide and unfortunately not an uncommon thingwith this disease, and so his family
wanted to do something right by him, and so that's how we got this
center started. That's such a fantasticthing they did. It really is.
Doctor Martin Burush, thank you allon that. So it's been a year
so since we last spoke. Beforewe get to the now, though,
talk about historic headache remedies and waysyou went about, say ten or twenty
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years ago, dealing with severe headaches. What was it then that you could
do so ten or twenty years wehad a few different medications, some of
them prescription. A lot of peoplewould use over the counter stuff ibuprofen,
a scene of minif in. Thosekind of standard medications. We had some
medicines to prevent the headaches, butthey were pretty old medicines, things that
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have been around for fifty years orso, and they they were more or
less band aids. I guess,really, weren't they. Yeah, they
had a lot of side effects.You know, these medicines weren't intended to
be used for migraine. They justmigraine is so common that people happened to
be getting treated for these other diseasesand they noticed, hey, this actually
kind of helped my migraines. Sowe were kind of repurposing medicines that might
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have other side effects we weren't lookingfor yea, and that does happen quite
often, doesn't it. And soto the now, are there any significant
changes in the treatment protocols and meds. Yeah, In the last five years,
I think we've had nine new medicationsthat have come out on the market.
They worked pretty similarly. They allkind of target the same molecule,
but they tend to have a lotless side effects because they're specifically designed for
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migraine. Some people may have heardof botox as a treatment for migraine,
not for wrinkles, but for migraine, and that came out fairly recently too,
so we have much better option inparticular, things you don't have to
do as often, you don't haveto take a pill every day, and
things that have a lot less sideeffects. You work along some of the
best doctors in the country, don'tyou. I am very fortunate to work
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with researchers and other neurologists that arevery good at what they do, and
I've learned a lot from them.Well, and let me let me continue,
because I know you won't, butthey're very fortunate to be working with
you as well. I'm can't.You can't exclude yourself from that group.
I'm not going to let you dothat. Yeah, you're you're my go
to source for this and talk aboutthis too. Severe headaches effect not just
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the people who get them, butentire families, right, Yeah, I
mean you can imagine that if onefamily member is not there to participate in
child activities or as around the house, or can't work, but that's just
a huge blow to the entire family. Yeah, does it really makes it
very difficult? Well, Irwin HeadacheResearch Foundation, what's at that website?
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So we have a few trials andstudies that we're working on. There's a
little bit more information, especially oncluster headache, but on a few other
headaches if you want to learn about, and then there's content and information for
us if you want to get moreinvolved in headache research, either with us
or anybody else. Is it youmentioned those trials, Who are you looking
for in those? Are they areyou looking for specific headache patterns or what
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we're mainly looking for cluster headache orsimilar disorders to cluster heache. That's obviously
our big focus with will Irwin andkind of how we got started, So
that's that's mainly we're looking for.Yeah, and I think if you're going
to work on headaches, you gotto start at the top and relieve the
people who are suffering the most.I'm so glad that's the way you're pointed,
and that's the direction you've taken.Oh mercy, doctor Mark Bure,
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so much, so many ways.I need to thank you for what you're
doing for these people who are sufferingfrom these headaches. And I'll probably be
in touch. I want to talkto you about some stuff, of course.
Yeah, thanks for having me on. Thank you very much, Yes,
sir, Wow, Will Erwin HeadacheResearch Foundation. Look it up.
If you know anybody who is sufferingfrom severe headaches, I can assure you
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back that Doug Pike as fifty pluscontinues. All right, welcome back fourth.
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The final segment of the program startsright now. Thank you all for
listening, handing off what an hourof your early afternoon, the earliest hour
of the afternoon, Thank you somuch. Before I get to some silliness
with Will and Me and just somerandom stories in just in case if somehow
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code on any credit card purchase ofguns or ammo to and I quote track
spending trends, end quote spending trends. As somebody goes out and buys a
rifle or a shotgun for hunting,buys any firearm because they like the shooting
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sports. This is very dangerous precedentthat's being set. And all it is
is it's just one more move ina chess game of new bills and new
laws designed to erode your personal privacyand your personal rights. It's not it's
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so long as nobody breaks a law. It's I don't know that it's necessarily
the federal government's business to meddle andto to know, oh everything it wants
to know, or state government inthis in this instance, in that same
state, by the way, wherepotential presidential candidate news presides, public schools.
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Did I talk about this about whatthey have to have their in their
school bathrooms yesterday? Will? Idon't think so. Don't believe I did
either. Already public schools down tothe sixth grade have to have to provide
menstrual products in their women's and allgender bathrooms, and in at least one
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men's restroom. AB two thirty,which took effect on the first now requires
those same products, and that samelisting of restrooms that schools that serve grades
three through five, third graders,fourth graders, and fifth graders. It's
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just ridiculous. And so just ifhe happens to end up on the ticket,
just remember that. Remember just well, I could go on and on
about taxes out there. I couldgo on and on about prices out there,
about the unstoppable tsunami of green thatthey're trying to heap on their citizens,
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or he's trying to heap on them. And it's a one way street
for him too. It good forthee, but not for me. He's
one of those guys unfortunately. Allright, well, let's let me see
here from the desk of Captain obviousofficially out of legitimate flavors or now you
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see it, out of legitimate flavors, cup of noodles or of them.
It's kind of like ramens difference,same thing, of course, same thing.
Bottom line is they just debuted anothernew flavor that's going to be available
at Walmart all summer. Li Iusually don't talk about product placement or new
products because they're so ridiculous. Butthis out ridiculous is all of the others.
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You know what, These ramen noodlesare going to be flavored? Like
what some'mores that sound appealing at allto you? Why not? Why not
would you buy those? No?I wouldn't either. We have that in
common. That's good, now yousee it. What's something will that used
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to be common but sort of justvanished over time? Can you think of
anything that comes to mind something thatused to be common and is just vanished
over time? And all of thesethat are here are very Yeah, Okay,
let's see. I think let mehelp because answering machine, though very
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common. Well, that was inthe Stone age, as will voiceovers and
movie trailers. Now they just showedit the clip there's no no and prizes
in cereal boxes. No more ofthat, too bad, so sad,
that's fine. The shoes with wheelsin them, you had some of those,
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didn't know. I never got myparents didn't get me heels, and
I know they regret it. Andyou know what, it just tongue in
cheek was added to this list bythe people who created it. Jobs that
don't expect a tip. Have youbeen any place lately where there's not a
tip jar other than maybe the publiclibrary, any retail establishment, Yeah,
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target won't be long, won't belong. There'll be a little jar there.
Show me your receipt or drop somethingin the jar that would be inspirational for
all the wrong reasons. And here'ssomething else that they added, the prestige
of an Ivy League degree. Idon't know, and you were close because
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one of the things that has disappearedbut used to be so very very common
voicemail. No, almost nobody leavesvoices. I don't even I don't even
have a voicemail box set up.I caught myself leaving one today because I
just and then I as soon asI stopped and hung up, I sent
a text to the same person becauseI know the text will be seen before
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the other parents on Reddit posting themost unethical hacks they've used on their kids.
This one is the meanest of all. And I didn't even see any
of the others. And if youcan think of something your parents told you
as a kid that you found outlater on wasn't real, here's the one
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that just drives me crazy. Whenthe ice cream truck plays music that means
it's out of ice cream. Howcruel is Oh that's awful? How cruel
is that I got to get thosekids those SpongeBob looking ice creams, you
know with the eyes. Did youever chase after an ice cream truck?
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I probably did at some point,you know, I don't even know that
an ice cream truck I take thatback. For a couple of summers,
there were a few of them,a few of them rolling through my neighborhood,
but not It wasn't a regular thing, and it wasn't something that my
son would remember at all. Idon't think, because I barely well.
That didn't mean anything that I barelyremember it. Maybe not. You know,
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I've been craven. I've been craven. Snow cones. Snow cones,
yeah, for what to eat?Yeah? They are good. What else
would you do with the snow cone? Was a kid over in late Charles
and instead of taking this the foulballs over to the teams and throwing them
back into the game, he washoarding them. And you know who was
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his complicit partner in that crime?Who his mother? Wow, she was
stuffing them in her purse, brandnew baseballs. Out they'd go. He'd
run get them and bring them backand here you go, on does that
have to do with snow cones?Huh? Well, when I was little,
if you returned the snow cone orreturned a foul ball to the concession
stand, they would give you asnow cone and then they would take the
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balls out back out to the field. It's horrible, absolutely horrible. Well
all right, well, can youdo anything in twenty seconds? Yeah?
The bomb squad in China detonated anold grenade found in a ninety year old
woman's house, World War two typewith a wooden handle. Turns out that
for the last twenty years she'd beenusing it as a hammer let that sink
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in. We'll be back tomorrow,Audios.
Remember when it was impossible to misplacethe TV remote because you were the TV
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however, up north of eighty threedollars a barrel. Thank you, mister
President, thanks for that. Wewent from energy independence to eighty three dollars
a barrel on the fourth of July, and that's not necessary. And I
just hope it changes and soon goldthanks to Houston Gold Exchange. And I'm
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not sure what I need to callBread this afternoon, if I can,
if I can find a minute andask what's pushing this, or maybe he
could text me or email me ifhe's listening right now. Up thirty five
dollars an ounce today at two thousand, three hundred sixty eight dollars and fifty
cents per ounce for gold. MaybeI waited just long enough to strike it
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rich. With the little bits andpieces of scrap gold laying around the house,
Wow, that's good stuff. Fourthof July prices on everything. There
was a little bit of talk aboutthis just a few minutes ago in that
Fox report. Traditionally a fourth ofJuly picnic might cost X. Now it's
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X plus a bunch. And evenwhen as for outrageous inflation over the past
several years, cost still way wayup ground Beef I read earlier today up
about forty percent. Disposable plates upeighty percent. Well, do you guys
eat off paper plates at the house? No? I do. Sometimes if
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I'm just fixing myself a little sandwichor something, I'm not gonna grab out
a dinner plate and muddy that thingup. I'm just gonna use a paper
you know what I do. Ijust get the ingredients and I just drop
them into my mouth and then justchew like crazy, flavors all mixed up
exactly. That's not a bad idea. You could get away with that,
probably. What else? Catch upup about fifty percent? And according to
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the story I was reading written bya man from California, soft drinks and
I think it's about right around here. A twelve pack of name brand soft
drinks around nine dollars and eighteen centson average. That is up from five
dollars and fifty three cents in twentytwenty one, which was Biden's first year
as president. On the fourth ofJuly, and out there where this guy
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lives in California, between its recyclingfees and higher sales taxes and all that
stuff, that same twelve pack ofname brand soda runs almost a buck of
can you're gonna pay eleven dollars andchange for twelve cans of whatever unbelievable came
across a fact check piece. Speakingof unbelievable, on President Biden's claim one
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of the claims he made during thedebate about how he'd reduced the price of
insulin from four hundred dollars a shotto fifteen dollars. In fact, and
this is according to Snopes, theInflation Reduction Act, which had absolutely nothing
nothing to do with the reduction ofinflation. The Inflation Reduction Act put a
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top end price for insulin at thirtyfive dollars a month for seniors on Medicare.
I'm not sure what it did foranybody else. Thirty five bucks a
month, not fifteen dollars a shot, as he claimed, and neither was
insulin ever four hundred dollars a shot. Prior to that act, actual average
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spend on insulin for Medicare recipients wasfour hundred and forty nine dollars per year,
not four hundred bucks a shot.I don't know where he got all
that information, but it was wrong. Just yesterday, by the way,
speaking of inflation, let's go backto that for a second. Just yesterday
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I heard this fantastic explanation of theway this administration is spinning inflation, telling
us it's coming down, down,down. So here's here's what this woman
said, and it was fantastic.So you go to the doctor and the
doctor says, wow, you've gainedfifteen pounds last year, so you need
to lose some weight. And thenwhen you go in the next year,
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you go in there, you geton the scale and you've gained five more
pounds. But you explained to thedoctor that gaining five pounds is way better
than gaining ten or fifteen pounds,which might be if you'd already shed that
ten that got you into trouble,but you haven't, and now you weigh
more than you weighed a year ago. But you're trying to spend it like
it's a good thing. Because youdidn't gain as much as you gained,
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then it's neither have They same withjobs. Democrats in the media bragging about
all the new jobs in May twohundred and twenty one thousand of them proof
that the economy solid, they said. But what they didn't tell you was
that about one hundred and seventy fivethousand of those jobs were federal government jobs
paid for with our tax dollars.At least the ones were not spending on
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hotels for illegal immigrants or oil fromour enemies. Well, that list is
endless. Its administration has been gaslight in America for four years. Look
at a straight in the eye andjust lying. You can't let ten or
twelve million random unvetted people, mostlymales of military age. You can't let
all those people into this country andthen pretend a last minute stop gap somehow
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almost at Sports Off seven to ninety. That'll be Saturday today. I'm on
KPRC and we're about to have somefun here. Thanks for always, thanks
as always for sharing your lunch hour. In this segment, we are going
to retreat from the heat and relaxin the comfort of the Alley Theater and
maybe, you know, maybe theyjust let us stay there until the curtain
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rises. July seventeenth on Agasa Christie'sAnd Then There Were None, one of
her best works, and the startof Alley Theater Summer Chills series. With
that, I will welcome Todd Waitein his twenty fourth season. Oh my
gosh, Todd as a resident actingcompany member. Welcome aboard, Hey,
glad and glad to be here.And then it's amazing, I've done twenty
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four sis, I'm only thirty six. Yeah, you know true, I'm
the same way. I actually startedin radio twenty four years ago. So
oh wow, Yeah, and Itoo am thirty six. Unbelievable. We
can say anything on radio, can'twe. Yeah, nobody's looking, nobody
sees the fingers crossed behind our backs. One hundred and thirty productions for you
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at the alley? Really? Howmen? Yeah? Do you even?
Do you have a favorite among them? You know, it's funny because summer
chills is it's things. I havea favorite, you know, probably of
the summer chills. I'm really lovingdoing this, and then there's the drama,
so you kind of have to picka few. But I loved I
love all of the summer chills becauseit gives us a time to really play.
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You know, we say go bigor go home, Sure, have
fun with it. Somebody makes anover the top choice. We say,
yeah, I smell what you're cooking. So it's a fun time of the
summer chills so far, Elizabeth Williamson, who's directing this production, is creating
a really cool rehearsal room. Ithink this is going to be one of
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the most fun times we've had sowith that revealing too much talk about and
then there were none were you?By the way? Playing General Mackenzie that
sounds pretty pretty up there back right. He's very much kind of like this,
you know, good fly fishing inthe upper and out of Hambergees.
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Yeah, I play the older charactersnow, you know in Christmas Caroline started
as tiny Tim. Now I'm oldJoe. But what can you do?
But yeah, he I'm not goingto tell you what order I stay alive
or die. But premises, there'sthese ten soldiers, little ceramic soldiers on
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this island mansion that everybody is broughtto on false premises, and slowly these
ceramic soldiers are found broken and thatmight not be good for the next guest
at the island. And it's anisland surrounded by bad weather. You can't
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get off, or at least wedon't think you can. Again, trying
not to give away, but I'veactually done this show in different iterations two
other times, and it's a lotof fun trying to see the hear the
audience trying to figure it out orwhat happened or how people died, not
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that anybody die. Perhaps I readthis morning actually that Christy said it was
one of her most difficult books towrite. And I would think with that
many many characters, all intimately involvedin the storyline, it's not like nine
of you are are just kind ofoff to the side. There's one main
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character right right exactly. And also, you know, she was a nurse
in the war and she became anexpert on poisons. But when you get
this many deaths, oh, thismany near deaths, she had to come
up with a lot of to die, you know. And and also it's
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it's it is intricate. And alsoit's one set with multiple exits. Wow,
so how do you make that work? But she it's interesting. She
was one of those rare people thatshe did her own adaptations for the most
part of her own books. Wedid a world premiere last year of Murder
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of Roger Ackroyd, and that wasactually not one of hers, because she
thought it would be two difficul callto do. She also yeah to Murder
on the Orient Express because she thought, how do you make the train work,
and we did that as well,So we try and figure out ways
to make them work. So it'sa lot of fun. But yeah,
she had she had trouble with thisone. But she is a master playwright.
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I've worked with directors who said,you know, I wanted to cut
a little bit, but she's impossibleto cut. Yeah, every line,
it's right, there's no red airrings. Everything is essential. Wow, I'm
guessing from what you've said that youcould just you could blink and miss a
critical line or a movement or somethingthat might reveal who was the real killer?
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Is that about spot On? Iwould managine, imagine, Well,
don't blink in one of our productions. Good god man, Yes, you
got to pay attention. It's true. It is true. Todd Wade on
fifty plus sounds like a great wayto enjoy an evening away from the television.
Let's shift gears a bit and talkabout the history of the theater itself.
It's been around for longer than bothof us, hasn't it It has.
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It is probably the most substantial Americanregional theater. It's really the only
company left in America that maintains afull resident company of actors and a huge
team of nearing two hundred people.All the props, the costumes, the
sets that you see on our productionsare made in house. We have one
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of the largest production facilities. Thefourteenth through eighteenth floor of the parking garage
that you see behind the main alleytheater is all production. So it's a
pretty amazing place to work. Icame down here from Canada. It is
the only regional theater because I hadbeen asked to join other theaters. It's
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the only regional theater I would haveleft Canada to come to. And I've
loved every minute of it, youknow. And it's actually, i read
this morning, it's actually two theaters. Let's mention both of them, the
Hubbard and the New House, theHubbard being the premium that will the bigger
of the two. More and moreto say, it's the premium because each
each production has a fit better inone of the two. Right. Absolutely,
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we have a small downstage theater that'svery beautifully equipped and technologically advanced.
That's where we do plays that mighthave a smaller number of people that are
attracted to it. But our truledge do work because obviously sometimes titles and
authors that people recognize will pull morepeople, sure, but the work that
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people don't know is incredibly exciting too, And people can be on the ground
floor of a play that nobody's seenthat opens in New York the following year.
And we've done that time and timeagain because we also have an in
house dramaturgy program where they are constantlylooking for new plays and we dedicate a
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whole month to the production, readingand partial mounting of new works that then
go on to our next season orseason or two later. I did Pictures
from Home, which people really lovedlast year. That was something we just
did a reading of. So theNew House is the smaller theater where we
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maybe do slightly edgier, more playful, less no one plays the cupboard.
We do everything from Shakespeare to theSummer Chills to fantastic new plays up there
too, depending on what we thinkthe draw will be. And it's been
a fantastic balance because you know,you can't just eat dessert and Andrew,
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You've got to eat it all.So we try and do every type of
theater, from comedy to drama inbetween, from classical to new work,
from A to Z as it were, Todd Waite, thank you so much.
Believe it or not, my friend, we are out of time.
I want to get you back onat some point so that we can talk
about acting and directing and the whetheror not there are enough young people coming
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into that. Can we do thatsometime? That is a fantastic question,
and I really appreciate it. Oneof my great joys as I get older
is that I get to work inthis profession with younger people and it keeps
the vibe, really keeps the riskgoing. I would love to do that.
Yeah, let's try ask you again. We'll try and get that scheduled.
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Thank you so much, Todd.All right, that's Alli Theater Summer
chills with Agasa Christie's and then therewere none. Go to Alitheater dot Org.
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to perfection. This is fifty pluswith Dougpike. All right, welcome back
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to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. As always, I certainly do appreciate
it. I hope you enjoyed thattalk about the Alley Theater. In this
segment, we're gonna address something thatactually it got its own month of recognition
through June, but I really didn'tthink that was long enough. So we're
gonna talk on this third day ofJuly. About severe headaches, about migraine
headaches, about cluster headache. Theseare things that nobody should have to endure.
(21:36):
And the person I know who knowsthe most about this subject is doctor
Mark Bursh from the will Irwin HeadacheResearch Foundation, which celebrates its tenth year
this year. By the way,doctor Burch and I have talked several times
over the years, and he continuesto lead the charge toward relief for those
who suffer most from head pain.Welcome back to fifty plus, doctor Bursch.
(21:57):
Thanks thanks for having me again.My pleasure. Most of us get
We get these occasional little headaches,and most of us who get them can
either take a pill or two andmake them go away, or they might
even go a well on their own. But for an unfortunate group, head
pain often comes on very quickly andescalates even more quickly into pain that pretty
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much leaves them just desperate for relief. Describe if you can, I guess,
really, what do these people experience? How hard is it? Yeah?
So for my grain, I liketo describe it to my students as
in the movies they depict as ahangover headache where you get light sensitivity,
noise sensitivity. But they can lastthree days. And you can imagine if
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you can't look at screens, ifyou can't look outside because it's so bright
and so painful to your eyes,you're going to be pretty debilitated. Question
most Yeah, well, I wasgonna say, well, let's go here.
What do we know about what causesheadaches that are this severe? Some
of it's we know that patients withmigraines it runs in families, but it
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doesn't have to. We have putpatients in scanners to see which parts of
the brain lay up, so wehave a pretty good idea of which parts
of the brain are involved, Butas far as exactly which molecules are important,
we're only starting to scratch the surfaceof that. Oh wow. And
the term, like you mentioned triggersother than I know the person closes to
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me who gets migraines also is triggeredlight and sound, but also smells too.
Is that common? Yeah? Alot of we think for migraine patients
they're kind of sensitive to everything inseens of light, noise, smell,
touch, kind of everything at theirkind of heightened sensitivity to especially during a
headache. That's a really good wayto look at it, because I can
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just see all of that being beinglegitimate with the person I'm talking about.
Do you know off hand what percentageof Americans get genuine migraine headaches? It
is much more common than most peoplethink, so it's about twelve percent of
the United States or twelve percent ofthe world. More common in women,
so it's up to maybe twenty fivepercent of women in their thirties might have
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a migrant any specific age groups thatare more prone than others. It usually
starts when you're a teenager. Itcan start, you know, after the
age of fifty, so some ofyour your viewership, you know, can
get those headaches. It often getsworse around menopause for some women, but
usually it starts in your teens,gets worse in your twenties and thirties,
and gets usually gets a little bitbetter in your later life, especially after
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menopause. Fingers crossed doctor Mark burshon fifty plus. And then there are
cluster headaches. Those are the worstones, right. They did a study
that we helped out with and theyranked different types of pain. Cluster headache
was number one, Number two waschildbirth, and I think number three was
kidney stones, So it was itwas bad. Yeah, that's horrible.
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And to establish just how severe thistype of head pain can become. Take
a minute to tell the story ofthe young man will Irwin, to whom
this research foundation is dedicated. Yeah, so will Irwin had actually both clusteraches
and migraine. Clustereche is sometimes knownas suicide headache just because of the level
of pain and the dark thoughts.And with will Irwin, he did commit
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suicide and unfortunately not an uncommon thingwith this disease, and so his family
wanted to do something right by him, and so that's how we got this
center started. That's such a fantasticthing they did. It really is.
Doctor Martin Burush, thank you allon that. So it's been a year
so since we last spoke. Beforewe get to the now, though,
talk about historic headache remedies and waysyou went about, say ten or twenty
(25:42):
years ago, dealing with severe headaches. What was it then that you could
do so ten or twenty years wehad a few different medications, some of
them prescription. A lot of peoplewould use over the counter stuff ibuprofen,
a scene of minif in. Thosekind of standard medications. We had some
medicines to prevent the headaches, butthey were pretty old medicines, things that
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have been around for fifty years orso, and they they were more or
less band aids. I guess,really, weren't they. Yeah, they
had a lot of side effects.You know, these medicines weren't intended to
be used for migraine. They justmigraine is so common that people happened to
be getting treated for these other diseasesand they noticed, hey, this actually
kind of helped my migraines. Sowe were kind of repurposing medicines that might
(26:27):
have other side effects we weren't lookingfor yea, and that does happen quite
often, doesn't it. And soto the now, are there any significant
changes in the treatment protocols and meds. Yeah, In the last five years,
I think we've had nine new medicationsthat have come out on the market.
They worked pretty similarly. They allkind of target the same molecule,
but they tend to have a lotless side effects because they're specifically designed for
(26:48):
migraine. Some people may have heardof botox as a treatment for migraine,
not for wrinkles, but for migraine, and that came out fairly recently too,
so we have much better option inparticular, things you don't have to
do as often, you don't haveto take a pill every day, and
things that have a lot less sideeffects. You work along some of the
best doctors in the country, don'tyou. I am very fortunate to work
(27:11):
with researchers and other neurologists that arevery good at what they do, and
I've learned a lot from them.Well, and let me let me continue,
because I know you won't, butthey're very fortunate to be working with
you as well. I'm can't.You can't exclude yourself from that group.
I'm not going to let you dothat. Yeah, you're you're my go
to source for this and talk aboutthis too. Severe headaches effect not just
(27:34):
the people who get them, butentire families, right, Yeah, I
mean you can imagine that if onefamily member is not there to participate in
child activities or as around the house, or can't work, but that's just
a huge blow to the entire family. Yeah, does it really makes it
very difficult? Well, Irwin HeadacheResearch Foundation, what's at that website?
(28:00):
So we have a few trials andstudies that we're working on. There's a
little bit more information, especially oncluster headache, but on a few other
headaches if you want to learn about, and then there's content and information for
us if you want to get moreinvolved in headache research, either with us
or anybody else. Is it youmentioned those trials, Who are you looking
for in those? Are they areyou looking for specific headache patterns or what
(28:23):
we're mainly looking for cluster headache orsimilar disorders to cluster heache. That's obviously
our big focus with will Irwin andkind of how we got started, So
that's that's mainly we're looking for.Yeah, and I think if you're going
to work on headaches, you gotto start at the top and relieve the
people who are suffering the most.I'm so glad that's the way you're pointed,
and that's the direction you've taken.Oh mercy, doctor Mark Bure,
(28:47):
so much, so many ways.I need to thank you for what you're
doing for these people who are sufferingfrom these headaches. And I'll probably be
in touch. I want to talkto you about some stuff, of course.
Yeah, thanks for having me on. Thank you very much, Yes,
sir, Wow, Will Erwin HeadacheResearch Foundation. Look it up.
If you know anybody who is sufferingfrom severe headaches, I can assure you
(29:10):
that website and then maybe some followup, maybe a consultation, maybe treatment,
maybe part of a trial. Whatever. Anybody who is suffering from stuff
like that needs all the help theycan get, and that foundation is doing
a fantastic job with that. Texashome Buyers can do a fantastic job for
you if you're looking to move ahome, a property, a single family
(29:33):
dwelling, a multifamily dwelling that youjust don't want to own anymore. You
own it now, but you don'twant to own it tomorrow or well,
let's say a week and a halffrom now. We can't work miracles here,
but what we can do at Texas, well, they can do it.
Texas home Buyers is come to thatproperty wherever it is, whether it's
got a tree laying on the roof, whether it's got water damage from a
(29:56):
flood, whether you inherit it,whether it needs to be dissolved in a
divorce, whatever the reason you wantto sell that home, and sell it
right now. They'll come out,look around. They won't ask you to
paint anything. They won't ask youto fix anything. No change in the
floors, none of that stuff.No hauling all your furniture out so they
(30:17):
can put teeny tiny furniture in thereand make it look bigger. They'll just
come through, walk through, goback to the office, and usually in
the same day, they will sendyou a top dollar offer, top dollar
offer. Been doing this for thirtyplus years. They know what they're doing,
A plus rated with a better businessbureau. They're going to do a
(30:37):
good job for you. They makethat offer and if you accept it,
usually within two weeks, you canclose on that home. You hand them
the keys, they hand you thecheck, and you go your way.
Seven one three six four nine twentytwo twenty two. Seven one three six
four nine twenty two twenty two.If you want to learn more about this,
(30:59):
let's to the Texas Home Buyers Radio. That's Saturday's at three pm right
here on KPRC. What's Life withouta Net? If I suggest to go
to bed, sleep it off,just wait until the show's over. Sleepy
back that Doug Pike as fifty pluscontinues. All right, welcome back fourth.
(31:23):
The final segment of the program startsright now. Thank you all for
listening, handing off what an hourof your early afternoon, the earliest hour
of the afternoon, Thank you somuch. Before I get to some silliness
with Will and Me and just somerandom stories in just in case if somehow
(31:45):
someway California Governor Gavin Newsom finds hisway out to the ballot, just know
this if you're a Texan and youlike the shooting sports, or if you
just don't like people poking their noseinto your business. Some new rules went
into effect July one over in California. One of those laws requires an identifying
(32:07):
code on any credit card purchase ofguns or ammo to and I quote track
spending trends, end quote spending trends. As somebody goes out and buys a
rifle or a shotgun for hunting,buys any firearm because they like the shooting
(32:28):
sports. This is very dangerous precedentthat's being set. And all it is
is it's just one more move ina chess game of new bills and new
laws designed to erode your personal privacyand your personal rights. It's not it's
(32:49):
so long as nobody breaks a law. It's I don't know that it's necessarily
the federal government's business to meddle andto to know, oh everything it wants
to know, or state government inthis in this instance, in that same
state, by the way, wherepotential presidential candidate news presides, public schools.
(33:13):
Did I talk about this about whatthey have to have their in their
school bathrooms yesterday? Will? Idon't think so. Don't believe I did
either. Already public schools down tothe sixth grade have to have to provide
menstrual products in their women's and allgender bathrooms, and in at least one
(33:35):
men's restroom. AB two thirty,which took effect on the first now requires
those same products, and that samelisting of restrooms that schools that serve grades
three through five, third graders,fourth graders, and fifth graders. It's
(33:55):
just ridiculous. And so just ifhe happens to end up on the ticket,
just remember that. Remember just well, I could go on and on
about taxes out there. I couldgo on and on about prices out there,
about the unstoppable tsunami of green thatthey're trying to heap on their citizens,
(34:20):
or he's trying to heap on them. And it's a one way street
for him too. It good forthee, but not for me. He's
one of those guys unfortunately. Allright, well, let's let me see
here from the desk of Captain obviousofficially out of legitimate flavors or now you
(34:42):
see it, out of legitimate flavors, cup of noodles or of them.
It's kind of like ramens difference,same thing, of course, same thing.
Bottom line is they just debuted anothernew flavor that's going to be available
at Walmart all summer. Li Iusually don't talk about product placement or new
products because they're so ridiculous. Butthis out ridiculous is all of the others.
(35:07):
You know what, These ramen noodlesare going to be flavored? Like
what some'mores that sound appealing at allto you? Why not? Why not
would you buy those? No?I wouldn't either. We have that in
common. That's good, now yousee it. What's something will that used
(35:29):
to be common but sort of justvanished over time? Can you think of
anything that comes to mind something thatused to be common and is just vanished
over time? And all of thesethat are here are very Yeah, Okay,
let's see. I think let mehelp because answering machine, though very
(35:52):
common. Well, that was inthe Stone age, as will voiceovers and
movie trailers. Now they just showedit the clip there's no no and prizes
in cereal boxes. No more ofthat, too bad, so sad,
that's fine. The shoes with wheelsin them, you had some of those,
(36:13):
didn't know. I never got myparents didn't get me heels, and
I know they regret it. Andyou know what, it just tongue in
cheek was added to this list bythe people who created it. Jobs that
don't expect a tip. Have youbeen any place lately where there's not a
tip jar other than maybe the publiclibrary, any retail establishment, Yeah,
(36:38):
target won't be long, won't belong. There'll be a little jar there.
Show me your receipt or drop somethingin the jar that would be inspirational for
all the wrong reasons. And here'ssomething else that they added, the prestige
of an Ivy League degree. Idon't know, and you were close because
(37:00):
one of the things that has disappearedbut used to be so very very common
voicemail. No, almost nobody leavesvoices. I don't even I don't even
have a voicemail box set up.I caught myself leaving one today because I
just and then I as soon asI stopped and hung up, I sent
a text to the same person becauseI know the text will be seen before
(37:22):
the other parents on Reddit posting themost unethical hacks they've used on their kids.
This one is the meanest of all. And I didn't even see any
of the others. And if youcan think of something your parents told you
as a kid that you found outlater on wasn't real, here's the one
(37:42):
that just drives me crazy. Whenthe ice cream truck plays music that means
it's out of ice cream. Howcruel is Oh that's awful? How cruel
is that I got to get thosekids those SpongeBob looking ice creams, you
know with the eyes. Did youever chase after an ice cream truck?
(38:05):
I probably did at some point,you know, I don't even know that
an ice cream truck I take thatback. For a couple of summers,
there were a few of them,a few of them rolling through my neighborhood,
but not It wasn't a regular thing, and it wasn't something that my
son would remember at all. Idon't think, because I barely well.
That didn't mean anything that I barelyremember it. Maybe not. You know,
(38:28):
I've been craven. I've been craven. Snow cones. Snow cones,
yeah, for what to eat?Yeah? They are good. What else
would you do with the snow cone? Was a kid over in late Charles
and instead of taking this the foulballs over to the teams and throwing them
back into the game, he washoarding them. And you know who was
(38:49):
his complicit partner in that crime?Who his mother? Wow, she was
stuffing them in her purse, brandnew baseballs. Out they'd go. He'd
run get them and bring them backand here you go, on does that
have to do with snow cones?Huh? Well, when I was little,
if you returned the snow cone orreturned a foul ball to the concession
stand, they would give you asnow cone and then they would take the
(39:10):
balls out back out to the field. It's horrible, absolutely horrible. Well
all right, well, can youdo anything in twenty seconds? Yeah?
The bomb squad in China detonated anold grenade found in a ninety year old
woman's house, World War two typewith a wooden handle. Turns out that
for the last twenty years she'd beenusing it as a hammer let that sink
(39:36):
in. We'll be back tomorrow,Audios.
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