An Active Lifestyle

Today, Doug Pike interviews physical therapist Chris Gallina about active aging.

Episode Transcript

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this thing? And here? Holdon side? Is that right right there?
That doesn't look to treat something atall? Know what it is?
Yeah? I do that, andthen I can do that. There we
go much better. Welcome to theWednesday edition of the program. Thank you
for listening to fifty plus. Ifyou are new to the show or new
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you from listening. Either way,you're welcome to listen to the show.
And if you're younger, perhaps you'relistening on behalf of your parents and I
certainly. Honestly, I wish thatbefore my mother passed in the final years
of her life, I wish therehad been something like this where I could
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necessarily extended her life. She foughta very long She actually outlived the time
she should have made it through withthe two different cancers that she had so
well. She was a tough one, she really was, and my family
and I were really blessed that rightbefore she passed between Christmas and New Year's

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and had been failing for several monthsup to that time, and Christmas Day
that year was the best day shehad had in a very long time,
and that could not have been anaccident. My son, who was very

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young at the time, got tospend what he will remember as a good
day with Mimi. That day formy wife and I, for my wife
and me was it was wonderful tosee her able to communicate with us,

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to see her able to smile andrecognize us, and all of that right
up to the very end. Andon that day, on that one day,
best she had had in weeks.It was fantastic. So here we
are thunderstorms again in the forecast.I'll get to that in just a second.
Nothing anything serious, it appears,But after this past week, I

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know I was gonna say a fewof us, but a lot of us,
are gonna be a little hesitant topresume we're gonna have power all the
way through a sprinkle on the slightlybright side. At least there is well,
there are still hundreds of linemen intown from out of town supplementing the

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crews of Center Point. So ifwe do need something patched up in the
next three or four days, itshouldn't take long. I would be surprised
at this point if if Center Pointlet anything stay offline more than about an
hour, if it's at all possiblyavoidable, they don't need any more negative
pr They've they've been through a lotalready, moving quickly into our highs and

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our lawns are thriving slightly cooler too, Well, I'm happy about slightly cooler.
Yeah, that alt to get meat least at one extra bonus point.

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Yep, So eight, I'm gonnaput a note there at eight.
I'm gonna have to see what itwas that well, So it was the
slightly cooler temperature. Yeah, highsin the eighties. Oh, it's not
exactly frigid. We don't have togo get a sweater, but nor do
we have to run around in ourskivies, just sprawled out on the kitchen
floor to absorb the cool of thetile. Off to market we go.

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As you heard, just a fewminutes ago, the Nasdaq just fell flat
on its face, dropped hundreds ofpoints, down more than two and a
half percentage points on the day.The down, on the other hand,
was up a half a point,which is not bad. So we'll just
call it mixed oil. Here wego again, oil spiked upward nearly two

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bucks north of eighty two point fiftylast I checked, and it the somebody
on the left needs to send amemo over to the White House and say,
hey, if you if you wantany snowballs chance of not being evicted
in January, you might want toget that oil flowing again. Otherwise,

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I just I don't see anything goodhappening there. The price of gold,
thanks as always to Houston gooldexchange dotcom holding on pretty strong, actually down
only two dollars in change and sittingat about an hour ago two thousand,
four hundred and sixty five dollars anounce. It's pretty good change. I

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bet I've got enough to make.I don't know, maybe a grand and
just old stuff that's lying around servingabsolutely no purpose than to take up space
in the top of a little Idon't know what even came in the little
cardboard box that that stuff's in,but I need to get it out of
there. Need to cash in,cash in on that stuff. Diving into

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the thick of it. From astory at n E News by Politico today,
I believe it was today, maybeyesterday. It appears that the Department
Energy Department of Energy. President Biden'sDepartment of Energy just this past year rejected
a request from Centerpoint for one hundredmillion dollars to shore up electric poles and

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wires against tropical weather systems. Therewas ten and a half billion dollars in
that particular purse, and the doellocated zero for Southeast Texas. This wasn't
just a slap in the face toHouston. It was also a pretty clear
indication that the current administration doesn't careat all about the safety and security of

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this country's oil and gas industry.It's kind of here hard to say how
much we would have been able tospend on what and to what extent upgrades
might have been completed before Beryl cameashore, but it's safe to say that
at least something would have been doneprior to Beryl. Fishier and Fishier now,
including the federal government in all ofthis, which had the money and

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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here we go,
Welcome back, Thanks for listening.Certainly, do appreciate second segment. Thanks

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for allowing me to share your lunchhour. By the way, I appreciate
it. Shifting gears now await fromhorrific power outages and the one that specifically
the one so many of us justendured and some fifty thousand people continued to
endure away from the attempt on PresidentTrump's life over the weekend. And we'll
talk for a bit on something upliftingand that would be an active lifestyle for

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any of us, especially seniors.To help, I'm going to enlist Chris
Galina, physical therapist at the utOrthopedic Physical Therapy Clinic. Welcome aboard,
Chris, Thanks Doug, Thanks forhaving me. You bet man, I
appreciate your time today to talk firstabout how in your world you define what
is active aging? What is thatin your mind? What do you see?

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Yeah, so I would define activeaging as this process of maintaining fulfillment
and activities that one both enjoy mentallyand physically throughout the course of life.
Right, So not stopping when wefeel like our bodies are slowing down,
or I feel like there's this overarchingbelief that there's a steady decline past a

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certain age where oh, I don'tknow if I to do the things that
I used to do right, Socontinuing to exercise, participating in sports,
maintaining a healthy diet, cooking,or even exploiting new activities that you might
want to try as we go throughoutlife. Right, that go ahead.
I'm just gonna say there's this kindof overarching fear of injury I think,

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just based on our bodies field ifwe get achs and pains. But a
lot of this can I think cantruly be prevented through maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Prevented, yes, And I don'teven think it should well to a
degree. I don't think just alittle bit of an ache and of pain
is enough to put you on sidelineyou and put you on the couch.
I've always been one to kind ofpush through all that. I don't know

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how many bushels of limbs and leavesI've raked in the past week. But
when I got out there, Ididn't want to stop, because stopping I
look like I look at as concedingthat I'm too old for that, and
I don't like that idea. Yeah, no, I totally agree. And
I think there's people on both sidesof the spectrum, right, the ones

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that want to keep moving forward anddoing the things that you love, which
I think is great. And I'mmore on that side than that. And
obviously we want to stay in ourrealms of possibility and not create injury,
right, But we also don't wantto stop moving because that's going to create
a whole flew of other issues thatare going to be much more detrimental as

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we move forward. I can giveyou a tiny, little nutshell example.
Across the street, a big treefell in the neighbor's yard and they were
out of town. So the neighbornext door and I and my son,
who's sixteen and stronger than me,now we're over there. The neighbor was
running a chainsaw, and my sonand I and the neighbor's wife were faring

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the different pieces of wood that wewere cutting that he was cutting to the
curb and tell your dog, Isaid, hell left school. Now that's
all right, that's fine, it'sreally fun. So anyway, at one
point these logs that were being cutwith the chainsaw were getting bigger and bigger,
and at one point I just finallyhad to say, you know what,

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you come get it, son,you get this one. There was
a log that was too big.I knew my limitations and I didn't blow
my whole back out again doing that. So yeah, I understand completely.
What would you feel like is areasonable forget about hauling logs to the curb
and whatnot? What's a reasonable startingpoint? And I guess you really,

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if you can't do two steps today, do one step right something? If
not? You know, if anything, Yeah, I think you got to
evaluate where your current physical fitness levelis, right, do you have any
orthopeda conditions? And there are threadythings that are getting in the way.
And I'm not saying that as likea complete limitation, but if you haven't

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participated in strenuous exercise in a while, I think it's sick to say we
got to start with things like,all right, can I go for a
lengthy walk? Can I do somelight resistance training? Right? I like
to start with what I call multijoint exercises, which would be more of
like those squats hip hinges things thatinvolve a large amount of muscle groups that

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require core stability, things that aregoing to be a little more functional,
Right makes sense? Yeah, Ithink yeah. So as we go through
life, right, we participate insports when we're younger and hopefully when we're
older too, but maybe not tothe extent that we did before. So
I think that jumping off point isreally saying, Okay, what have I

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been doing in the last three tofive years? Am I adapt to perform
these things like lift a heavy logs? Have I squatted a certain amount of
weight? Have I deadlifted? CanI pick a heavy basket up from the
floor? And then kind of gofrom there. Also important to know that
even as you get a little strongerand feel a little better, there's no

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reason to rush into something very intense. It's an all very gradual progression,
especially for seniors. Right. Oh, absolutely, yeah. So things that
depth truly do a depth a littlebit more slowly. As we age,
we lose a little bit of muscleelasticity across sectional area. Things that we

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rebound quickly when we're younger, andwe might require a little more recovery time.
So, starting with light, forexample, I'll give you a squat
progression. We might start with bodyweight, like three sets of ten,
and then we build our endurance up. We do three sets of twenty still
body weight, and then when thatgets easy, we'll progress to some dumbbell

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resistance or weight vests, anchor weightsomething that can make the exercise a little
bit harder. And we just wantto take that gradually, maybe on a
weekly or two week basis, ratherthan, oh, the next time,
I'm going to add fifteen to twentypounds, right, Oh sure, and
carry it around the block and upa few flights of stairs too. While
we're at huh, we're already downto two minutes, believe it or not.

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I feel like accountability is really importantas well. It's good to have
an exercise partner for that, isn'tit. Oh yeah, yeah. I
think having someone monitor looking at form. I always recommend if someone, especially
if they haven't worked out in awhile, wants to get into exercise,
seek out personal trainer or a professional. So one of the big things that

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I'll kind of plug physical therapists here. I think we get looked at as
kind of the fixers when there's aproblem where there can be a preventative measure
right, Like, okay, Iwant to get into some shoulders some upper
body exercise. We can show yousome road hitt or tough things to do
here and there, and then youcan even relay that to your workout partner

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or for talking cardio vets. You'relike, if you're going for a walk,
create a group, right, havea friend or type a couple of
people go with you, and thattends to motivates people a little bit better,
both mentally and physically, because sometimesit's hard to do things on your
own. Like you're saying, YOknow well, and you bring up a
very good point. It if you'regoing to do exercise and really take it

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seriously, at least at some pointearly on in the exercise, get some
help from a professional to make surethat the technique is absolutely correct, because
otherwise it's kind of like making abad golf swing a thousand times. You
just get really good at making abad golf swing, and so if you're
doing it, yeah, we allcan. If you do it right,

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though, and you get professional help, you're going to make sure that you
get the maximum benefit from that exercise, rather than waking up one morning where
you can't even get out of bedbecause your back hurts so bad. Absolutely.
Yeah. And I think people getworried about the longevity of like how
long do I need to work withsomeone? Or like do I need to
go to PT for weeks? Likeit doesn't need to be like that.

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Even a couple of sessions just toget kick started to make it feel a
heck of a lot better and evaluatingand finding that kind of progression that we
talked about a couple of minutes ago. It's perfect. Chris Colina, thank
you so very much. I reallydo appreciate the help this morning. Can
they where can they get a holdof you? Yeah? So I'm with
the UT Sports Medicine Group in theMedcenter A. I'm at sixty four hundred

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Fani Street on the twenty second floor. Oh wow. If you're type in
UT physical therapy, you can giveus a call at our office and I'd
be happy to chat, or youcan come in for an evaluation. Wonderful.
Thank you so much, Chris,yep, no problem, thank you.
H boy. All right. UTHealth Institute on Aging. Speaking of

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great things around the medical center.This this group, it's a collaborative of
one hundreds of providers, including physicaltherapists, including surgeons, including nurses,
including everybody who wants to specifically carefor seniors. Because that's what they do
is they get their credits that areexplained on the diploma that hangs in their

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office wall, and then they goback for more education on how to apply
that knowledge specifically to seniors and ourissues. It's just it's that simple.
But it's really not simple. Whatthey do is fantastic. It involves a
lot of extra effort on their parts, which makes these people extra special when
it comes to taking care of us. Uth dot edu slash aging. Go

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there, get a look at allthe services they provide, get a look
at all the information that's available aboutcurrent things going on, about the heat,
about staying hydrated, things like that, about your skin. All of
that can be addressed with a quicktrip to that website and a little searching
uth dot edu slash aging Aged toperfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

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All right, welcome back, segmentthree. It is on fifty plus
this Wednesday afternoon, post barrel.It was our turn in the barrel and
it's still forty fifty thousand people withoutpower. What are we twelve days in
now that's just insane. There's noreason for that, and we're finding more
and more reasons and more and more. It's very frustrating, and I hope,

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I genuinely hope that everybody who's stillwithout power gets it back today,
and if there's anybody left after todaywithout power, they need to get it
back day after today, which istomorrow. There's just no excuse for this,
no none, whatsoever. And I'mconfident that Centerpoint is going to be

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held accountable and that quite quickly we'llfind out why we didn't get that money
from the federal government, from theDOE to start working on our problem.
It's going to be a monumental taskto hang on to Houston after this.
People don't want to live through thatagain. I don't want to live through

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that again. Now they're up onthe North side a lot of areas,
didn't You have to remember that despitewhat was it, two three million people
without power in this greater metropolitan area, that means half of them never lost
power. Half of them never lostpower. So we got to find out
how that happened and then apply itto everybody else's house so we don't deal

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with this again. Grasping its straws, is what I put in front of
this. The left is having moreand more difficulty finding reasons to criticize President
Trump. It's harder for him nowhe's gaining a lot of momentum, but
they can always find something. Andtwo days ago, when he appeared suddenly

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at the Republican National Convention with thatsquare bandage on his ear, they picked
that part of They picked that apartand made fun of it, basically in
my eyes, conceding that they justwere throwing in the towel. They got
nothing left, nothing left to gripeabout about. The man can't can't argue

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with his policies. Really, youcan't argue with his stance on immigration.
You can't argue with his stance oninflation or oil and gas. So let's
pick on his bandage. Let's dothat make let's make fun of his bandage.
That's all they had, And sowhat I'm frustrated by that side.

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Speaking of straws, Beryl just mayhave been the one that broke the camel's
back for I think a million ormore hustoning's I was talking about this just
just minute ago, a full thirdthirty percent. Well, yeah, three
out of ten thirty percent, nota full third. Thirty percent of the
city's residence according to a poll takenby the University of Houston, said they

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are considering a move after being leftin the heat and humidity and darkness of
Beryl. I don't blame them,really, I can't say I haven't considered
a move yet. I'm I'm notmoving north of Idea. I'm not even
moving close to I twenty, butmaybe just a little farther north in this
general area. I can't move terriblyfar from the coast. I think I

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would wither and die if I livedin the corn Belt. Nothing wrong with
the Midwest. There are great peopleup there. I know a lot of
people from there. I know alot of people who still live there.
But it's just too darn far fromthe beach for me. I don't think
I could handle that. I reallydon't disturbed me this morning to read that

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the head of Homeland Security, AlejandroMayorcus is said to be interfering with the
investigation of the assassination attempt on formerPresident Trump Secret Services under his watchful eye,
part of his department, and nowfrom a Breitbart story this morning,

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DHS is standing between the Secret Serviceand the House Oversight Committee that's looking for
answers as to how a young manwith a rifle crawled onto a rooftop at
relatively close range to our former president. He got close anybody who I believe

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it was one hundred and twenty yardswhat I read somewhere that is with a
rifle, with the type of riflehe had, that's not far. That's
not far. And but for thegrace of God, and that one just
subtle move that President Trump made rightas a shot was being squeezed off,

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ended up losing a little piece ofhis ear instead of a far, far
more tragic outcome. And for anybodyto get in the way, for anybody
to offer up anything but one hundredpercent transparency, one hundred percent accurate information
from day one, from minute one, after all of that's settled, that's

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just horrifying to me that this guycan get away with this. This is
the same guy, by the way, who has been telling us for three
years that the border is secure whilesome what ten million, I don't know,
give or take a few million,ten million or more people walked right
into our country and we're distributed attaxpayer expense all over this country of ours.

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I'm getting kind of agitated. Ineed to soften it up a little
bit. Will I need your help? Let's go, shall we? Oh?
Filthy rich times? Too hot,diggity dog or sweet tooth Hot?
Today is National hot Dog Day anda particular brand. It doesn't say which,

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so you could look it up online. I'm sure it's holding a contest
asking people to share their wildest toppingmashups on social media. That's the first
time I've ever said the word mashup, I think, really yeah, probably
so, It's just it seems likea clumsy, immature word to me.
The winner gets twenty five hundred bucksand the ultimate backyard cookout for how many

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people you know? Will? Wouldthe ultimate backyard cookout be hot dogs?
We haven't named any names, butI'm telling you right now, if it's
going to be the ultimate backyard cookoffor cookout, be some bristles up there
the ribs. What's the thing youput on a on a hot dog?

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The wildest, craziest thing, probablymustard? Yeah, what about what are
you putting on chocolate syrup? Well? Have you heard of those hot dogs
and Boston that are you know?The chalk. It's like an ice cream
dog. They fill it up likewith the sausage case. No ice cream,
Oh that's not a hot dog,and then sprinkles. But is there

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still a hot dog in the middleor is it just ice cream in sausage
skin? That? What? Really? That's disgusting. Come on, you
know what sausage skin is, right? Yeah, and you'd still eat it
with ice cream in it? Maybemy taste good. There's a lot of
things you can put whipped cream onto make them taste better, but that's

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A latehealth dot com What's life withouta net? I suggest you go to
bed, sleep it off, justwait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues, how did you fare with Barrel?

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I'm curious. I want to getsome answers from people in our age group.
How did you get through it?Did you have to stay home in
your dark hot house? And ifso, how on Earth did you get
through it? Because I know alot of people would like some tips on
this. I have a neighbor whogrew up over in the Middle East in

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a very hot, hot climate,and one thing that they did over there
that helped greatly to get comfortable atnight and be able to fall asleep was
used just damp towels. I'm surein her childhood it was damp cloth towels,

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something along the lines of maybe awashcloth or even a piece of a
torn piece of bed sheet, anything, but they would dampen them with water
and then lay them across their arms. And for me, I think another
good place to put one of thosethings would be across your belly. And
if you do that, she said, you can significantly cool your body without

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We're not going to make it sixtydegrees, okay, but you're going to
bring it to at least a temperaturethat is is tolerable. And I know
that second night when my wife actuallyafter their right after the first night,
we realized it wasn't going to work. We had to find a place to
stay and it was extremely difficult.I went out and went to I think

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ten nine or ten hotels around whereI live, and every one of them
either already had a sign either inthe parking lot or on the door of
the hotel to say no vacancy.And in a few cases, I actually
my hopes got up because there wasno sign. And then once you got
in there was a sign on thecounter that said no vacancy. And then

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one of them I actually had totalk to a real person who told me
there was no vacancy. Oh,there you have it. Speaking of all
of that, one more time,on Center Point, I've got a question
this while we we have forty fiftythousand people still in the dark Center Point,
apparently Spend has spent so far onrental eight hundred million dollars on twenty

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portable generators. I saw that itwas possibly a rental because the rate of
eight hundred million dollars was so farnumber twenty portable generators. These are huge
generators, by the way, whichcould power entire neighborhoods. But according to
a story in the Chronicle, notmany of those generators have been switched on

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even before barrel after barrel, duringbarrel. And here's one of the reasons
in this this kind of is troublingthat they spend that much money and have
that resource and don't use it.But then you keep reading and you find
out that they're really not all thatmobile for starters. They're huge pieces of

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equipment that have to be a sebold on site wherever they're going to be
put and it takes days to assemblethe bigger ones. And then on top
of that, you have to havesome sort of special permit from whom I'm
not sure or care. I reallyI don't care who those permits have to

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come through. Those permits should havebeen applied for when barrel came into the
Gulf of Mexico, and then ifit had gone somewhere else. Okay,
never mind, nothing to see here. Everybody stand down. You're glad we
had those permits in place in casewe needed them. And at the same
in the same token, why wouldn'tthere be crews assigned to and just standing

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next to with wrenches in their hands. Why wouldn't there be crews assigned to
assemble those things if they were necessary? Now I don't know where. One
of the problems with a generator thatwould power a whole neighborhood is determining which
neighborhood gets it. And for me, if I saw the pieces of one

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of those rumbling down the main dragout in my neighborhood, I would want
to make sure that it stopped withinrange of my house. I don't think
you or I would have any sayso whatsoever. And where those things got
used, and I gosh, theskeptic in me wants to say that they
would be used where centerpoint people are, but I hope they're not that way.

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I hope they're not that way.The more people we can get back
up. And why haven't they beendeployed now when you have fairly small pockets
of outage still that probably could begreatly helped by firing up a couple of
these generators. I don't. Idon't understand why that's not been done.

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I don't, and I'll have togo back and read that story more.
But if anything ever comes at usagain, and it certainly will at some
point, we know that I wouldhope that they would get these. I
guess there's some sort of federal permit. I don't know why it would be
a federal permit. I don't knowwhy they would have any trouble getting state

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permits in a time of emergency,but apparently there was some issue. Let's
get off of this, will,let's get back to the fund stuff.
Okay, so we talked about thatone. I've offered that one and you've
rejected it. I can fix thathigher or lower or bottoms up, bottoms
up, bottoms up. It iselement on TikTok claims that a TSA agent

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told her that quote, people withblessed posteriors end quote set off the X
ray machine more often than not.Why what does that have to do with
anything? What do you mean setsit off? They're gonna get pulled aside

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for further in space, their oftheir their body at TSA. Yeah,
yeah, I wonder if it's implants, you know, because that would certainly
appear to be something foreign and notwhere it should be. Wouldn't you think
maybe that's what it is. Idon't know. I really don't. Okay,

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I'm gonna leave two in the mix, and then I'm gonna add one
more. I can fix that higheror lower or pay no attention, pay
no attention, will How much timedo I have? You have one minute?
You have to reject your offer?Pay no attention A candidate, This
I couldn't make this up if Itried. A candidate for the New Hampshire

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House of Representatives is hoping that hispeople, the people have his fine state,
can look past a little says uh. He says he made some bad
mistakes when he was younger, somebad choices, but he's learned from them.
You know what he did will whathe got himself convicted of murder?

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Wow? Thirty five years ago now, but still convicted of murder. That's
kind of a big deal. Hebeat and strangled a motel manager to death.
Wow. But he wants to representyou in the New Hampshire House of
Representatives. Forty nine year old womanin South Carolina arrested for embezzling nearly twenty

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grand. This is so bad.Twenty grand from the Girl Scouts. We'll
be back tomorrow more of this Audios