August 5, 2024 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dolores Woods about nutrition.
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All Right, Monday edition of the program starts right now.
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This is our first, it's our second Monday right will
third already, it's the first all in which we actually
had a staff meeting to go along with it.
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And just between us now.
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That the meeting starts at ten and not nine, I'm
sitting over there for a solid hour listening to people
recant their weekends with each other while I'm trying to
prep for this show. A little inside information. It's nothing
I can't handle. I've just got to adjust. I may
have to adjust my whole desk actually to another part
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of the room where it'll be a little bit quieter,
so that the chatty Cathys of the world can do
their thing. Monday afternoon, first in a nice string of
warm summer days to come after this past year. If
you haven't heard me say it before, I'll say it again.
I am reserving the term hot for triple digit weather only,
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but I will concede that this is going to be
a really warm.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Week like way.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It's like ray wet the edge just right at the
step over the line into hot. It won't be far
from it. And I don't count feels like values either.
It's whatever the thermometer says. That's that determines for me
whether it's hot or warm. So not hot this week,
but pretty dog on warm.
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Uh.
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That's that's gonna bring us right up to the highs
and lows and haiku courtesy of Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists.
Because cleaner air is healthier air, and then it always
will be ready. Will we'll let microphone down and respond yes,
respond Avu cibu play I said, as though I were
at the Olympics and we're watching it in the studio.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
This is kind of nice actually.
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In any event, here he goes, rain replaced by heat
hydrate and use your sunscreen.
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This too soon shall pass.
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Hmmm, dead air just really doesn't help this. Well, think
out loud about it, just like on Who wants to
be a millionaire? Think it through in your I.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Mean it's it seems a bit wordy. No, it's not.
The syllables are all exactly correct. You want me to
go over it for you.
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Yeah, rain replaced by heat that's five high drate and
use your sunscreen that's seven.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
This too soon shall pass.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Okay, So you can't get me on any wordiness tech,
Well I can get.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Because it's a little it's a little clunky. It didn't
it didn't.
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Flow you mean compared to yours. Yeah, yeah, that's what
I thought. So it didn't flow. All I'm saying, judge
not will let.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I like that?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
It was informative. Okay, that's instructional on But do I
want to hear it? I don't know too late now
for that.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I'm this one. I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I'm I'm sorry, Doug. It's getting it's getting a it's
getting a five. Five, it's getting a five. Well that's
a you know, it's a c it's a solid sea.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
And bear in mind, now, will that I try to
do these within about two minutes.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
It takes that long to really come up with something.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
But it shouldn't take any longer because I'm not trying
to win a poetry contest here, trying to inform in
a particular manner, and that should be enough. In financial news,
by the way, courtesy if Houston Gold Exchange dot Com,
global concerns over the US economy sent their markets into
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a tail spin, and hours all four major mark workers
in the tank this morning. The Dow was down almost
one thousand points when I first looked at it this morning,
and other marks in the in the Big four, among
the Big four were down several significant percentage points, not
down a few points number wise, I'm talking about percentage points.
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The world is scared of what's trying to happen over here,
and so am I.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Buyers jumped into a slow.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
They tried to stop the bleeding essentially, and and have
in some in some cases by taking advantage of just
really low low prices on some traditionally solid stocks. And
that's that helps. It's but there's still some really big
losses on the board. Oil also down around nine o'clock
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this morning to less than seventy three dollars a barrel,
which is outstanding. Of course, we're still about five or
six bucks from where it should be at least, but
it'll probably finish a little up.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I would.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I'm just gonna guess based on recent past performance. Gold
took a nosedye, but it's still good. It fell thirty
six bucks at the last time I was looking, but
was still fetching twenty four to thirty three this morning.
One of the explanations for today's market freefall was that
our president and his vice president, both of them, really
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haven't shown any strength. Neither one of them is seen
around the world is even the least bit strong among
world leaders now, and world leaders for so very long
have counted on the United States of America to be
a strong, strong partner, and that's not what they're seeing.
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Moving into other things and deliberately away from politics, which
I'm going to try to address less rather than more
during the coming weeks, not because it's not important, but
because I know I can trust this audience to do
its own research and draw its own conclusions. I mentioned
that late last week, and I'm gonna stay with it,
because there was a very good friend of mine just said, hey, man,
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you're doing a lot of that stuff, and if we
want that, we can find it just about anywhere in
talk radio, and true to form, there are talk radio
shows on right now in this market that are highly
focused on politics.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I am going to.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Try to avoid that.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Maybe allow myself one dalliance in that per show, but
otherwise I'm gonna try to stick to some more interesting stuff,
more daily, our more pertinent to our daily lives, rather
than the next four years. Because we live in the
present and I want us all to live a lot longer.
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So if something big happens, I'll share it in maybe
thirty seconds or so politically and then move on.
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If it catches your ear, you.
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Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. All right,
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welcome back to fifty plus.
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Thanks for listening.
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Certainly, do appreciate us, appreciate.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Oh my god, it's so in such a hurry for
some reason. Right sunny day out there, it's gonna get warm,
but that's okay. Heat domes and sahara and dust are
our friends this time of year because they keep you
know what, from rolling through the region like giant bowling
balls and just knocking everything down. We'll talk in this
segment about nutrition for seniors, about how our body's changing
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seniority and changing ways it causes us to really have
to rethink our diets, what we eat and how much
of it we eat, or we end up paying a
price of some sort. To explain these situations far better
than I I will enlist to Laurs Woods, director of
Culinary Nutrition for the Nourishment Program at the Michael and
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Susan Dell's Center for Healthy Living at the ut Hell
Science Center, that it's a mouthful appropriately, I guess, welcome
to lories.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Hello, how are you?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I'm very well, thank you. So before we get into
what we should and shouldn't be eating as seniors, let's
sort of start with the why of all this, and
that has to do with changes in metabolism, right.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
It does, and our body composition changes as we age,
we lose lean muscle mass and our fat mass increases,
which is a condition called circapenia, which is why you
know as we get older, it's a little harder to
lose that weight. So that then means we're going to
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have to change our lifestyle and our eating habits.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Is it really?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
It's a condition called life? Get over it?
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Right, Yeah, it's going to happen to all of us.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
And if I'd known as a younger man that as
a senior, I'd have to give up some of the
foods I used to love, or I would become unable
to eat all I want of anything. I'd probably I
may have made even more of a pig of myself.
So I guess it's better that it doesn't rear.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
It's ugly.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Had any earlier, my metabolism was just so high I
couldn't gain weight at all, and then just one day
the metabolic switch flipped and here I am cured of
that inability to gain weight. So what's going on there?
When we're talking about nutrition for seniors, are there specific
things that all of us should give up or is
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it more individual?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
In general, the same guidelines would apply, So we definitely
want to make sure that there's plenty of lean protein.
And again that's just because of the muscle mass that decreases,
so we want to make sure we were having good
sources of protein. Fruits, vegetables, all of the whole Creams
are really important as well. One of the things that
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we don't think about is that as we age, our
sense of smell and taste also changes, which is why
a lot of times, you know, you end up putting
too much salt. You're really overseason your food so that
you could taste it a little bit better. Okay, but
then that could have negative effects if you have high
blood pressure or you know, issues with kidneys, heart and so,
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you know, I would recommend seasoning foods with plenty of
herbs and spices rather than salt, you know. And just
one more thing. We oftentimes think, oftentimes think about these
changes as we're older, but healthy aging starts early because
it's gonna affect us, it'll catch up. So rather than
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waiting till we have, you know, some of these health issues,
it's much better to start changing our habits earlier.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Well that's a big old party pooper statement there, now, Dolores,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Oh boy?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
You know, And honestly, I'm with you one hundred percent,
I really am, Because there was there was a time
when it was not uncommon at all for me to
sit down and eat an entire bag of chips of
Hoy cookies, entire just that whole double row thing and
just sit there watching TV and drinking some milk and
eating cookies or drinking whatever. And now I gain weight
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from just walking down the cookie aisle. It's a very
cruel trick that life plays on us. Talk about how
that impacts specifically some of the organs in our bodies,
and we talked about lean muscle mass going away. Man,
I've talked about that on this show many times.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
How what is it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
About two percent a year once it starts going down?
Speaker 6 (14:27):
All right, and that's about of that's the big reason
the way we end up being so much weight when
we have more muscle mass.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
That froze moor fat.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
So eating a lot of these empty calories.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Turn excuse me, delaser, there's some sort of we've had
problems with our audio around here and we're having one
now you're not coming through clearly.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Try agains. Okay, Sorry about that way better?
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Yeah, So I was just saying that, you know, as
we get older, we're going to need less calories, okay,
And so thinking about those empty calories, like you said,
the chips, the cookies, they're really not going to provide
us any nutrients. And because we're going to need lower
calorie needs, we have to make sure that we're eating
those nutrient dense foods, especially because also with older adults,
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there could be some changes to the body's ability to
absorb certain vitamins and minerals like calcium, even a D
and vitamine clouds. We want to really make sure we're
maximizing all of the foods we're eating.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
So and we don't have to just quit cold turkey
on all the fun stuff do? Can we do this
gradually so we don't just miss it all at once?
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Absolutely small changes are really important. We don't want to
lose flavor either, So experimenting with different recipes, adding different spices.
I really think it's important for people to continue to
enjoy their food, maybe just less of it and making
some of those healthier swaps.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
So is it okay if I eat all but one
cookie in the bag? Maybe I should I should probably
aim higher?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I think, huh a little higher?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So so tell me, Dolores Woods, what what lifestyle changes
maybe can we make to help us get through this
nutritional change?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Making those small changes, eating more fruits and vegetables, choosing
you know, beans, maybe some of those whole green like
a pasta rice.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
What where do we get to?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Where do we get the most bang for our buck
in nutrition and absorption of the good stuff and elimination
of the bad stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
What specific foods.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
And not even just go right down to what you
would say that if I came to you and said
what do I really need to eat more of?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
What would it be.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Fruits and vegetables?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Okay, kind probably right, Yeah, I'm not bad about that, go.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Ahead, and beans.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Beans are actually really great for us. Okay, so those
would be some easy options.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Does it matter how you cook those beans.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Perfectly not refried or you know with babon.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
So close and.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Right, but your green leafy vegetables, also some nuts. A
lot of these plant based foods are going to be healthier.
They're also going to be healthier for our brain. And
you know, as we age, our brain health decline, so
making sure we're having these whole plants based foods is
really important for that.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I'm going to try to turn the turn the channel
to a better one for my health. I promise you, laurs,
and the next time we talk, I will be eating
more of the right stuff. And you know I have
cut back on my cookies, so at least I'm going
in that direction pretty well. Dolores Woods, thank you so
very much.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I'm going to come back to you in a few
months and I'm going to tell you what changes I've
made and I am going to make of my promise.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
You too. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
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the way out.
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Bumpoon the boom par Reed twenty twenty four. It says
on the TV.
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Still going strong over there, and we have tied. Let
me see if I've got the official.
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Count or something.
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Here.
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I'm looking, I'm looking. I'm still looking, and.
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I'm not gonna get there. Oh here it is right here,
Team USA. I'm just reading.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Team USA had a huge weekend at the Olympics, adding
twenty eight more medals on Saturday and Sunday, ten of
them gold. That leaves us dominating the overall medal count
and tied with China for the gold medal lead at
nineteen a piece. That's pretty salty. That's pretty good. That's
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pretty amazing that our team is pushing that far ahead
in the overall and back up at the top, sharing
the podium at present with China for the most goals.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
So proud of that team.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Up at Northwestern University, a team of researchers has coined
the phrase dancing molecules to describe some synthetic nanofibers they
say have potential to quicken the regeneration of cartilage beyond
what our bodies can do on their own. That I'm
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convinced at some point, in conjunction with regenerative procedures already
in place, that could really shorten the time it takes.
It's already a not a super long drawn out process,
but it could even shorten the time it takes to
repair and bear in mind, repair without invasive surgeries some
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of our tired and worn out joints. I have really
close to zero understanding of how what I read in
that story works. But I did understand very well when
I read that almost a half a billion people in
this world lived with osteoarthritis, which is the slow breakdown
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of joints over time.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
My hands in the air.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I'm still not having serious pain at all from any
of these joints of mine, except on random occasion I'll
tweak something that's already been dinged around and have to
deal with that for a few days. But I'm certain
that if this proceeds in the direction it's headed, that
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a whole lot of us are going to be living
a whole lot less in pain and a whole lot
more enjoying. However many years we've got left, there was
one here. It's kind of a speaking of where did
it go?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Hang?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
On, I'm gonna find it real quickly. He went to
the doctor. We know about that more recent here she is.
Here's what I wanted to talk about. Right here, Speaking
of aging, Elizabeth Francis will is the only pay attention
because there's a pop quiz here you ready, Elizabeth Francis
is the oldest person living in the United States?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Snap, pop quiz?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
How old is she? Will?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
One hundred and fourteen years old. You're so close. You're
so close, but that would be second place. She is
actually one hundred and fifteen. And guess where she lives, Houston, Texas.
She does, indeed, and unlike some centenarians, she doesn't contribute
her longevity to drinking a shot of whiskey or smoking
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a cigar or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Instead, she says it is her faith that has kept
her going. This woman is an amazing story. Actually spent
her life at least a major part of her adult
life caring for others, including her own father, who lived
to be ninety nine until he passed, and she has
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adhered also to the golden rule of well, not the
golden rule, but just treating other people like you would
want them to treat you.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
That's just that such a simple.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Thing to do, and sometimes you get rewarded for it,
sometimes you don't. Not everybody is going to react the
same way to a random act of kindness or whatever.
But you're gonna get a better This is another cliche.
You catch more flies with, honey. You're gonna get a
better reaction to treating somebody kindly and nicely than you
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will by staring at him.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
I had.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I walked by two people coming out of a restaurant
last night, walked by them and looked at both looked
at the eyes of both of them. We passed within
two feet of each other on a sidewalk outside the
restaurant and looked at both of them, and both of
them made concerted, deliberate effort not.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
To look me in the eye. They just looked away
completely when I walk by.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
This is an old dude. I'm just an old dude
wanting to say hello. What do you do when you
walk by somebody? Will you acknowledge them and say?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Hi? Do I know them? No, you don't know them?
No where are you from? New York? Acknowledge you? Because
it's polite.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I'm on my way, be civil, will go some manner,
show some kindness shows to see me, just nobody else
to see. Good evening, Oh, good evening to you too.
That's all I'm looking for. I'm not trying to strike
up a friendship. I'm just trying to acknowledge their existence
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and their right to be right there on.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
The sidewalk, right next to me. They can be there,
I can be there. Everybody can be there.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Just say, hey, man, we I mean, I know that.
How you doing? I know that they know that, So
let's just move it along.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
They were just bad people, they were.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
They were rude.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I found I find that very off putting that someone
can't at least acknowledge your presence and just give a nod.
You don't even have to speak, just one of those
little upward nods, you know, like a dude.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Does one of those Yo. Man, Yo, they can't see
me nodding. I'm pulling my head upward a little bit.
And No, that was messed up. It really was. I was.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I was pretty disappointed in that, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Medical evidence that too. You're gonna encounter this a lot longer.
If we live as long as medicine says, we're going
to maybe somewhere in the future somebody will say, well,
you know what they say, will one fifteen is the
new one oh five? That doesn't really ring, it doesn't work.
How about just one hundreds of the new ninety that's easier.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I don't know. Still not that. It's still a long time.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
It is a long time to live, and if you're
gonna live that way, you might as well be nice
to people. Will make it a habit when you pass
somebody close enough that you can make eye contact, just
look them in the eye.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
And here's what I'll do.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Sometimes, if somebody's doing that and they're still six feet
away and coming at me and deliberately turning their head,
I'll just go good afternoon and make them respond or
make them be rude.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
I don't if anybody do anything, I'm not making them.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I'm just I'm just hoping they respond correctly, nicely.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
What's wrong with that? Man? Just leave them alone?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Doug, Gosh, how much time we gotta go. I have
some fun stuff, some fun and funny stuff coming up
that will introduce in the fourth segment, I suppose as
part of this new format. And I haven't even gotten
to my one political thing.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
So that's good. Maybe I can make it without one. Today.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Ut Hel's Institute on Aging is that collaborative I've talked
about now for the better part of seven eight years.
I can't remember exactly how long it's been, but it'll
never be long enough for me. As long as they
are in business, and as long as I am behind
this microphone and they will let me, I will proudly
represent them, proudly explain what they do, how they do it,
and why they do it, which is take care of seniors. Basically,
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all the official provider members of ut Health Institute on
Aging have gone back and got an additional education as
to how their area of expertise applies specifically to seniors
and our changing bodies. The ones that metabolize things more slowly,
the ones that can't regulate temperature as well, and they
(29:32):
help us and they make sure that we live longer, happier,
more fruitful lives.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
It's as simple as that. Go to the website, look
at all the different resources they offer, Look at all
the opportunities they offer to learn more about yourself, to
meet up with people who are thinking the same way
you are about a specific issue, perhaps ut dot edu
slash aging. That's all you got to do is start
(29:58):
right there and you'll be glad you did dot edu
slash aging. What's life without a nap? I suggest to
go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Started clapping loudly in here and we'll.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Sorry, man, Welcome back to fifty plus. What's that guy
lying on the ground. Oh, he's a soccer player. Never mind,
he's gonna faking some injury.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
I'm sure all right.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Final segment of the afternoon.
By the way, I had to deal with a roofing
nail in my son's tie. I think it's a roofing nail,
look like one. I've been picking him up out of
the driveway for a while and they what they What
happens is they get down in the little cracks in
the concrete, the expansion joints, and every time my yard
(31:01):
man's come from the last couple of weeks, every now
I'll find another one or two. It goes with the
territory when you get a new roof, and I'm glad
to have the new roof, and that one little nail
in one little tire. So long as that's the only one,
it's fine. It happens, not a big deal anyway, He
had to go deal with trying to figure out if
(31:22):
he could get it fixed or whether it had to
be replaced. And I made a couple of calls. He
made a couple of stops this morning. It's not leaking
air horribly, but it was definitely something that needed to
be addressed. It was a nail in the tire, for
heaven's sakes. So I finally got a call into a
young man named Tyler, and I'm going to talk about
(31:42):
when I have a company that kind of goes above
and beyond for customer service, I'm gonna mention them. I am,
because I think they deserve some credit for that. And
the model apparently where Tyler works at this discount car
store off ninety in Sugarland is let's try to make
it best situation for the customer and maybe not make
the most money we can real fast. Because several places
(32:05):
that I called without even seeing the tire just said
it's going to have to be replaced. Yeah, I probably
need to replace that tire. They weren't really super interested
in fixing it. And I called a lot of places.
But when I called him, he said, well, have him
bring it by here and we'll take a look and
we'll try to plug it or patch it if we can.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
And that's what they ended up doing. It saved me two.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Hundred dollars worth of tire on a tire this only
got about maybe six thousand miles on it so far.
So I was very grateful, and I'm going to do
that the next time it happens. I'm going to mention
the company as well. That's kind of how I look
at my endorsements too. Good companies. Nobody can please everybody,
and I understand and respect that, and I understand if
(32:48):
your business model says to air on the whatever side.
But when people listen to a customer's issue and really
offer up more than just solution, I want to I
want to recognize that. I want I want to recognize
the good ones. And if you know somebody who know who,
if you had an experience like that with a particular company, now,
(33:10):
I don't want any of these gratuitous endorsements for your
sister in law or brother's company. If this is a
real deal and somebody surprised you with their customer service effort.
Shoot me an email and let me know, and I'll
see if I can squeeze it in somewhere. There are
a lot of great companies out there who still care
about their customers, and you can count on hearing about
(33:34):
more of them.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
I'm gonna do that for sure, almost because i can't
help myself.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
It's it's, you know, I promise very little politics, and
that no more than once a day, and or wants
a show, and it's it's like for me, watching what's
going on in the country, it's like if I saw
somebody about to get hit by a bus and I
rushed to pull them out of the street before that happened.
I'm I'm I'm gonna offer up one little tiny taste
(34:02):
of what lies ahead. Depending on which way November goes here,
I'll deal this little card. Nancy Pelosi actually said out
loud on CBS Sunday morning that President Biden, think about inflation,
think about all the I've got some interviews coming up
on what they call fundflation, which is having to budget
(34:23):
your your vacation activities because of the current situation in
the economy. Food flation because nobody can afford food anymore
so anyway, think of that, think of the border, think
of anything you want to from the past three or
four years, and then know that Nancy Pelosi actually said
(34:44):
that President Biden belongs on Mount Rushmore. And that's where
I'm gonna stop right there. It makes no sense whatsoever.
Back to the good stuff in local entertainment news. This
I borrowed from Holly Galvin Posey at click to Houston
because I saw some cool shows up there that any
of you who are in the mood to go have
(35:05):
some fun and be entertained might enjoy.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Certain de Sole back at.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Smart Financial Center in sugar Land now through August eleventh.
It's something I just saw one little quick snapshot of it.
But they call it a country version of Certain de Sole,
which those are kind of two terms that probably shouldn't
go together. But if you've ever been to a Certain
de Sole experience that I have a couple of times,
(35:34):
it's always going to be a good show. I've never
been let down by them. It's just amazing what they do.
And country or no country, it'll be kind of cool
if you don't want to hassle with tickets and don't
mind being outside. Miller Outdoor Theater's got Shakespeare's A Midsummer
Night's Dream in production through August tenth. Free seating on
(35:54):
the hill, b yob, no, not that be, bring your
own blanket or chair, and maybe some insect repellent if
mosquitoes tend to like how you smell. And oh, by
the way, if you like Barry Manilow and my wife,
does IM have to talk to her about this? You
can see his final Sugarland concert also at Smart Financial
(36:15):
Center that is set for August sixteenth, one week from Friday.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
How much time do we have? Will we have two minutes?
Speaker 3 (36:25):
I'm going to introduce a A. You're gonna have to
pick one of these three. I'm only gonna bring in
three because I'm only gonna do this once. Probably just
little short jokes.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Okay, all right, most people.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Call him dad jokes. I don't know why, but so
these are your options. Polls, loss or bars bars. Went
to the bar last night and only a fifteen minute walk,
great time. Forty five minutes though to get home. The
difference was staggering.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yeah, you see, he almost laughed out loud, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (37:00):
You almost laughed out loud. It's all right, because it's
pretty good.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
All right, let's move on into the other a little
more detailed things. Not really a bad thing taking a
personal day, or could have been worse?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Thinking the personal day? Thirty two hundred year old Egyptian
tablet shows attendance and work absences, if you can believe that,
and ancient Egyptians reasons for skipping a work day included
brewing beer stung by a scorpion. This is so creepy
(37:36):
and weird and embalming. Brother, I don't know what you
gotta do, Yeah you do? Could have been worse. No,
it's the lunch hour. I'll save that one. Maybe do
it tomorrow. Ah, well, what do I have left? Will?
How many seconds? We have? Twenty five? What could do?
(37:58):
Could have been worse?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Man felt a sharp pain while eating his Taco bell meal,
and it turned out to be what he had bitten into.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
I don't know where sharp pain?
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Yeah, whatever, I'll give you two guesses, will until we
get down to ten seconds.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
Okay, take one guess, glass, No, some it's almost hard.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Yeah, I can do it. Somebody's nose ring. We'll be
back tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
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This is our first, it's our second Monday right will
third already, it's the first all in which we actually
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And just between us now.
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That the meeting starts at ten and not nine, I'm
sitting over there for a solid hour listening to people
recant their weekends with each other while I'm trying to
prep for this show. A little inside information. It's nothing
I can't handle. I've just got to adjust. I may
have to adjust my whole desk actually to another part
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of the room where it'll be a little bit quieter,
so that the chatty Cathys of the world can do
their thing. Monday afternoon, first in a nice string of
warm summer days to come after this past year. If
you haven't heard me say it before, I'll say it again.
I am reserving the term hot for triple digit weather only,
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but I will concede that this is going to be
a really warm.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Week like way.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It's like ray wet the edge just right at the
step over the line into hot. It won't be far
from it. And I don't count feels like values either.
It's whatever the thermometer says. That's that determines for me
whether it's hot or warm. So not hot this week,
but pretty dog on warm.
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That's that's gonna bring us right up to the highs
and lows and haiku courtesy of Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists.
Because cleaner air is healthier air, and then it always
will be ready. Will we'll let microphone down and respond yes,
respond Avu cibu play I said, as though I were
at the Olympics and we're watching it in the studio.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
This is kind of nice actually.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
In any event, here he goes, rain replaced by heat
hydrate and use your sunscreen.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
This too soon shall pass.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Hmmm, dead air just really doesn't help this. Well, think
out loud about it, just like on Who wants to
be a millionaire? Think it through in your I.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Mean it's it seems a bit wordy. No, it's not.
The syllables are all exactly correct. You want me to
go over it for you.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, rain replaced by heat that's five high drate and
use your sunscreen that's seven.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
This too soon shall pass.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Okay, So you can't get me on any wordiness tech,
Well I can get.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Because it's a little it's a little clunky. It didn't
it didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Flow you mean compared to yours. Yeah, yeah, that's what
I thought. So it didn't flow. All I'm saying, judge
not will let.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I like that?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
It was informative. Okay, that's instructional on But do I
want to hear it? I don't know too late now
for that.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I'm this one. I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I'm I'm sorry, Doug. It's getting it's getting a it's
getting a five. Five, it's getting a five. Well that's
a you know, it's a c it's a solid sea.
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And bear in mind, now, will that I try to
do these within about two minutes.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
It takes that long to really come up with something.
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But it shouldn't take any longer because I'm not trying
to win a poetry contest here, trying to inform in
a particular manner, and that should be enough. In financial news,
by the way, courtesy if Houston Gold Exchange dot Com,
global concerns over the US economy sent their markets into
(04:56):
a tail spin, and hours all four major mark workers
in the tank this morning. The Dow was down almost
one thousand points when I first looked at it this morning,
and other marks in the in the Big four, among
the Big four were down several significant percentage points, not
down a few points number wise, I'm talking about percentage points.
(05:20):
The world is scared of what's trying to happen over here,
and so am I.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Buyers jumped into a slow.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
They tried to stop the bleeding essentially, and and have
in some in some cases by taking advantage of just
really low low prices on some traditionally solid stocks. And
that's that helps. It's but there's still some really big
losses on the board. Oil also down around nine o'clock
(05:50):
this morning to less than seventy three dollars a barrel,
which is outstanding. Of course, we're still about five or
six bucks from where it should be at least, but
it'll probably finish a little up.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I would.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I'm just gonna guess based on recent past performance. Gold
took a nosedye, but it's still good. It fell thirty
six bucks at the last time I was looking, but
was still fetching twenty four to thirty three this morning.
One of the explanations for today's market freefall was that
our president and his vice president, both of them, really
(06:25):
haven't shown any strength. Neither one of them is seen
around the world is even the least bit strong among
world leaders now, and world leaders for so very long
have counted on the United States of America to be
a strong, strong partner, and that's not what they're seeing.
(06:45):
Moving into other things and deliberately away from politics, which
I'm going to try to address less rather than more
during the coming weeks, not because it's not important, but
because I know I can trust this audience to do
its own research and draw its own conclusions. I mentioned
that late last week, and I'm gonna stay with it,
because there was a very good friend of mine just said, hey, man,
(07:09):
you're doing a lot of that stuff, and if we
want that, we can find it just about anywhere in
talk radio, and true to form, there are talk radio
shows on right now in this market that are highly
focused on politics.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I am going to.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Try to avoid that.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Maybe allow myself one dalliance in that per show, but
otherwise I'm gonna try to stick to some more interesting stuff,
more daily, our more pertinent to our daily lives, rather
than the next four years. Because we live in the
present and I want us all to live a lot longer.
(07:48):
So if something big happens, I'll share it in maybe
thirty seconds or so politically and then move on.
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If it catches your ear, you.
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Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. All right,
(10:04):
welcome back to fifty plus.
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Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Certainly, do appreciate us, appreciate.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Oh my god, it's so in such a hurry for
some reason. Right sunny day out there, it's gonna get warm,
but that's okay. Heat domes and sahara and dust are
our friends this time of year because they keep you
know what, from rolling through the region like giant bowling
balls and just knocking everything down. We'll talk in this
segment about nutrition for seniors, about how our body's changing
(10:34):
seniority and changing ways it causes us to really have
to rethink our diets, what we eat and how much
of it we eat, or we end up paying a
price of some sort. To explain these situations far better
than I I will enlist to Laurs Woods, director of
Culinary Nutrition for the Nourishment Program at the Michael and
(10:54):
Susan Dell's Center for Healthy Living at the ut Hell
Science Center, that it's a mouthful appropriately, I guess, welcome
to lories.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Hello, how are you?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I'm very well, thank you. So before we get into
what we should and shouldn't be eating as seniors, let's
sort of start with the why of all this, and
that has to do with changes in metabolism, right.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
It does, and our body composition changes as we age,
we lose lean muscle mass and our fat mass increases,
which is a condition called circapenia, which is why you
know as we get older, it's a little harder to
lose that weight. So that then means we're going to
(11:38):
have to change our lifestyle and our eating habits.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Is it really?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
It's a condition called life? Get over it?
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Right, Yeah, it's going to happen to all of us.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
And if I'd known as a younger man that as
a senior, I'd have to give up some of the
foods I used to love, or I would become unable
to eat all I want of anything. I'd probably I
may have made even more of a pig of myself.
So I guess it's better that it doesn't rear.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
It's ugly.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Had any earlier, my metabolism was just so high I
couldn't gain weight at all, and then just one day
the metabolic switch flipped and here I am cured of
that inability to gain weight. So what's going on there?
When we're talking about nutrition for seniors, are there specific
things that all of us should give up or is
(12:26):
it more individual?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
In general, the same guidelines would apply, So we definitely
want to make sure that there's plenty of lean protein.
And again that's just because of the muscle mass that decreases,
so we want to make sure we were having good
sources of protein. Fruits, vegetables, all of the whole Creams
are really important as well. One of the things that
(12:49):
we don't think about is that as we age, our
sense of smell and taste also changes, which is why
a lot of times, you know, you end up putting
too much salt. You're really overseason your food so that
you could taste it a little bit better. Okay, but
then that could have negative effects if you have high
blood pressure or you know, issues with kidneys, heart and so,
(13:12):
you know, I would recommend seasoning foods with plenty of
herbs and spices rather than salt, you know. And just
one more thing. We oftentimes think, oftentimes think about these
changes as we're older, but healthy aging starts early because
it's gonna affect us, it'll catch up. So rather than
(13:33):
waiting till we have, you know, some of these health issues,
it's much better to start changing our habits earlier.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Well that's a big old party pooper statement there, now, Dolores,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Oh boy?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
You know, And honestly, I'm with you one hundred percent,
I really am, Because there was there was a time
when it was not uncommon at all for me to
sit down and eat an entire bag of chips of
Hoy cookies, entire just that whole double row thing and
just sit there watching TV and drinking some milk and
eating cookies or drinking whatever. And now I gain weight
(14:07):
from just walking down the cookie aisle. It's a very
cruel trick that life plays on us. Talk about how
that impacts specifically some of the organs in our bodies,
and we talked about lean muscle mass going away. Man,
I've talked about that on this show many times.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
How what is it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
About two percent a year once it starts going down?
Speaker 6 (14:27):
All right, and that's about of that's the big reason
the way we end up being so much weight when
we have more muscle mass.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
That froze moor fat.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
So eating a lot of these empty calories.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Turn excuse me, delaser, there's some sort of we've had
problems with our audio around here and we're having one
now you're not coming through clearly.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Try agains. Okay, Sorry about that way better?
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Yeah, So I was just saying that, you know, as
we get older, we're going to need less calories, okay,
And so thinking about those empty calories, like you said,
the chips, the cookies, they're really not going to provide
us any nutrients. And because we're going to need lower
calorie needs, we have to make sure that we're eating
those nutrient dense foods, especially because also with older adults,
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there could be some changes to the body's ability to
absorb certain vitamins and minerals like calcium, even a D
and vitamine clouds. We want to really make sure we're
maximizing all of the foods we're eating.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
So and we don't have to just quit cold turkey
on all the fun stuff do? Can we do this
gradually so we don't just miss it all at once?
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Absolutely small changes are really important. We don't want to
lose flavor either, So experimenting with different recipes, adding different spices.
I really think it's important for people to continue to
enjoy their food, maybe just less of it and making
some of those healthier swaps.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
So is it okay if I eat all but one
cookie in the bag? Maybe I should I should probably
aim higher?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I think, huh a little higher?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So so tell me, Dolores Woods, what what lifestyle changes
maybe can we make to help us get through this
nutritional change?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Making those small changes, eating more fruits and vegetables, choosing
you know, beans, maybe some of those whole green like
a pasta rice.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
What where do we get to?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Where do we get the most bang for our buck
in nutrition and absorption of the good stuff and elimination
of the bad stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
What specific foods.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
And not even just go right down to what you
would say that if I came to you and said
what do I really need to eat more of?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
What would it be.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Fruits and vegetables?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Okay, kind probably right, Yeah, I'm not bad about that, go.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Ahead, and beans.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Beans are actually really great for us. Okay, so those
would be some easy options.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Does it matter how you cook those beans.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Perfectly not refried or you know with babon.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
So close and.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Right, but your green leafy vegetables, also some nuts. A
lot of these plant based foods are going to be healthier.
They're also going to be healthier for our brain. And
you know, as we age, our brain health decline, so
making sure we're having these whole plants based foods is
really important for that.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I'm going to try to turn the turn the channel
to a better one for my health. I promise you, laurs,
and the next time we talk, I will be eating
more of the right stuff. And you know I have
cut back on my cookies, so at least I'm going
in that direction pretty well. Dolores Woods, thank you so
very much.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I'm going to come back to you in a few
months and I'm going to tell you what changes I've
made and I am going to make of my promise.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
You too. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
All right, we've got to take a little break on
the way out.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
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actually there are several clinics around town that fly the
late health flag. And what they do is vascular work
that can eliminate or certainly remediate some issues with well
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pretty much anything. Vascular ugly veins come to mind. Everybody's
see those on other people's legs or maybe on their
own legs, and a late Health can take care of
that just a couple of hours in the office. Under
similar circumstances, a couple of hours in the office, they
can take care of in large non cancerous prostates. They
can take care of fibroids in women. They can take
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care of head pain even in some cases by shutting
off little tiny arteries that are supplying oxygenated blood to
a troublesome piece of your anatomy. They can help you
with that and make it go away. When when the
oxygen goes away, whatever it's feeding goes away with it,
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and so do the symptoms, the horrible symptoms of some
of these things. They also do regenerative medicine at a
late Health, which is a fantastic way to deal with
chronic pain, and it's becoming better. And I've actually got
something I'm going to talk about when we get back
in the next segment to support that type of work
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and to see some real good news for the future
even of regenerative medicine, it's about to get even better.
Let's start with a late health. They can fix those
problems for you right now. Seven one three five eight eight.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Thirty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Go to the website to go to a late health
dot com a L E A L A t E
A latehealth dot com and just see what they can
do for you in a couple of hours in the office,
usually paid for by Medicare Medicaid, and you get to
stay home to recuperate where you're gonna feel more comfortable
and not have to worry about bringing something home from
a hospital that you didn't have when you got there.
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Seven one three five eight eight thirty eight eight eight
seven one three five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight.
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Bumpoon the boom par Reed twenty twenty four. It says
on the TV.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Still going strong over there, and we have tied. Let
me see if I've got the official.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Count or something.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Here.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I'm looking, I'm looking. I'm still looking, and.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I'm not gonna get there. Oh here it is right here,
Team USA. I'm just reading.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Team USA had a huge weekend at the Olympics, adding
twenty eight more medals on Saturday and Sunday, ten of
them gold. That leaves us dominating the overall medal count
and tied with China for the gold medal lead at
nineteen a piece. That's pretty salty. That's pretty good. That's
(21:34):
pretty amazing that our team is pushing that far ahead
in the overall and back up at the top, sharing
the podium at present with China for the most goals.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
So proud of that team.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Up at Northwestern University, a team of researchers has coined
the phrase dancing molecules to describe some synthetic nanofibers they
say have potential to quicken the regeneration of cartilage beyond
what our bodies can do on their own. That I'm
(22:15):
convinced at some point, in conjunction with regenerative procedures already
in place, that could really shorten the time it takes.
It's already a not a super long drawn out process,
but it could even shorten the time it takes to
repair and bear in mind, repair without invasive surgeries some
(22:38):
of our tired and worn out joints. I have really
close to zero understanding of how what I read in
that story works. But I did understand very well when
I read that almost a half a billion people in
this world lived with osteoarthritis, which is the slow breakdown
(23:00):
of joints over time.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
My hands in the air.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I'm still not having serious pain at all from any
of these joints of mine, except on random occasion I'll
tweak something that's already been dinged around and have to
deal with that for a few days. But I'm certain
that if this proceeds in the direction it's headed, that
(23:25):
a whole lot of us are going to be living
a whole lot less in pain and a whole lot
more enjoying. However many years we've got left, there was
one here. It's kind of a speaking of where did
it go?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Hang?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
On, I'm gonna find it real quickly. He went to
the doctor. We know about that more recent here she is.
Here's what I wanted to talk about. Right here, Speaking
of aging, Elizabeth Francis will is the only pay attention
because there's a pop quiz here you ready, Elizabeth Francis
is the oldest person living in the United States?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Snap, pop quiz?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
How old is she? Will?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
One hundred and fourteen years old. You're so close. You're
so close, but that would be second place. She is
actually one hundred and fifteen. And guess where she lives, Houston, Texas.
She does, indeed, and unlike some centenarians, she doesn't contribute
her longevity to drinking a shot of whiskey or smoking
(24:29):
a cigar or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Instead, she says it is her faith that has kept
her going. This woman is an amazing story. Actually spent
her life at least a major part of her adult
life caring for others, including her own father, who lived
to be ninety nine until he passed, and she has
(24:53):
adhered also to the golden rule of well, not the
golden rule, but just treating other people like you would
want them to treat you.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
That's just that such a simple.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Thing to do, and sometimes you get rewarded for it,
sometimes you don't. Not everybody is going to react the
same way to a random act of kindness or whatever.
But you're gonna get a better This is another cliche.
You catch more flies with, honey. You're gonna get a
better reaction to treating somebody kindly and nicely than you
(25:27):
will by staring at him.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
I had.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I walked by two people coming out of a restaurant
last night, walked by them and looked at both looked
at the eyes of both of them. We passed within
two feet of each other on a sidewalk outside the
restaurant and looked at both of them, and both of
them made concerted, deliberate effort not.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
To look me in the eye. They just looked away
completely when I walk by.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
This is an old dude. I'm just an old dude
wanting to say hello. What do you do when you
walk by somebody? Will you acknowledge them and say?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Hi? Do I know them? No, you don't know them?
No where are you from? New York? Acknowledge you? Because
it's polite.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I'm on my way, be civil, will go some manner,
show some kindness shows to see me, just nobody else
to see. Good evening, Oh, good evening to you too.
That's all I'm looking for. I'm not trying to strike
up a friendship. I'm just trying to acknowledge their existence
(26:36):
and their right to be right there on.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
The sidewalk, right next to me. They can be there,
I can be there. Everybody can be there.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Just say, hey, man, we I mean, I know that.
How you doing? I know that they know that, So
let's just move it along.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
They were just bad people, they were.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
They were rude.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I found I find that very off putting that someone
can't at least acknowledge your presence and just give a nod.
You don't even have to speak, just one of those
little upward nods, you know, like a dude.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Does one of those Yo. Man, Yo, they can't see
me nodding. I'm pulling my head upward a little bit.
And No, that was messed up. It really was. I was.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I was pretty disappointed in that, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Medical evidence that too. You're gonna encounter this a lot longer.
If we live as long as medicine says, we're going
to maybe somewhere in the future somebody will say, well,
you know what they say, will one fifteen is the
new one oh five? That doesn't really ring, it doesn't work.
How about just one hundreds of the new ninety that's easier.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I don't know. Still not that. It's still a long time.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
It is a long time to live, and if you're
gonna live that way, you might as well be nice
to people. Will make it a habit when you pass
somebody close enough that you can make eye contact, just
look them in the eye.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
And here's what I'll do.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Sometimes, if somebody's doing that and they're still six feet
away and coming at me and deliberately turning their head,
I'll just go good afternoon and make them respond or
make them be rude.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
I don't if anybody do anything, I'm not making them.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I'm just I'm just hoping they respond correctly, nicely.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
What's wrong with that? Man? Just leave them alone?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Doug, Gosh, how much time we gotta go. I have
some fun stuff, some fun and funny stuff coming up
that will introduce in the fourth segment, I suppose as
part of this new format. And I haven't even gotten
to my one political thing.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
So that's good. Maybe I can make it without one. Today.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Ut Hel's Institute on Aging is that collaborative I've talked
about now for the better part of seven eight years.
I can't remember exactly how long it's been, but it'll
never be long enough for me. As long as they
are in business, and as long as I am behind
this microphone and they will let me, I will proudly
represent them, proudly explain what they do, how they do it,
and why they do it, which is take care of seniors. Basically,
(29:08):
all the official provider members of ut Health Institute on
Aging have gone back and got an additional education as
to how their area of expertise applies specifically to seniors
and our changing bodies. The ones that metabolize things more slowly,
the ones that can't regulate temperature as well, and they
(29:32):
help us and they make sure that we live longer, happier,
more fruitful lives.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
It's as simple as that. Go to the website, look
at all the different resources they offer, Look at all
the opportunities they offer to learn more about yourself, to
meet up with people who are thinking the same way
you are about a specific issue, perhaps ut dot edu
slash aging. That's all you got to do is start
(29:58):
right there and you'll be glad you did dot edu
slash aging. What's life without a nap? I suggest to
go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Started clapping loudly in here and we'll.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Sorry, man, Welcome back to fifty plus. What's that guy
lying on the ground. Oh, he's a soccer player. Never mind,
he's gonna faking some injury.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
I'm sure all right.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Final segment of the afternoon.
By the way, I had to deal with a roofing
nail in my son's tie. I think it's a roofing nail,
look like one. I've been picking him up out of
the driveway for a while and they what they What
happens is they get down in the little cracks in
the concrete, the expansion joints, and every time my yard
(31:01):
man's come from the last couple of weeks, every now
I'll find another one or two. It goes with the
territory when you get a new roof, and I'm glad
to have the new roof, and that one little nail
in one little tire. So long as that's the only one,
it's fine. It happens, not a big deal anyway, He
had to go deal with trying to figure out if
(31:22):
he could get it fixed or whether it had to
be replaced. And I made a couple of calls. He
made a couple of stops this morning. It's not leaking
air horribly, but it was definitely something that needed to
be addressed. It was a nail in the tire, for
heaven's sakes. So I finally got a call into a
young man named Tyler, and I'm going to talk about
(31:42):
when I have a company that kind of goes above
and beyond for customer service, I'm gonna mention them. I am,
because I think they deserve some credit for that. And
the model apparently where Tyler works at this discount car
store off ninety in Sugarland is let's try to make
it best situation for the customer and maybe not make
the most money we can real fast. Because several places
(32:05):
that I called without even seeing the tire just said
it's going to have to be replaced. Yeah, I probably
need to replace that tire. They weren't really super interested
in fixing it. And I called a lot of places.
But when I called him, he said, well, have him
bring it by here and we'll take a look and
we'll try to plug it or patch it if we can.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
And that's what they ended up doing. It saved me two.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Hundred dollars worth of tire on a tire this only
got about maybe six thousand miles on it so far.
So I was very grateful, and I'm going to do
that the next time it happens. I'm going to mention
the company as well. That's kind of how I look
at my endorsements too. Good companies. Nobody can please everybody,
and I understand and respect that, and I understand if
(32:48):
your business model says to air on the whatever side.
But when people listen to a customer's issue and really
offer up more than just solution, I want to I
want to recognize that. I want I want to recognize
the good ones. And if you know somebody who know who,
if you had an experience like that with a particular company, now,
(33:10):
I don't want any of these gratuitous endorsements for your
sister in law or brother's company. If this is a
real deal and somebody surprised you with their customer service effort.
Shoot me an email and let me know, and I'll
see if I can squeeze it in somewhere. There are
a lot of great companies out there who still care
about their customers, and you can count on hearing about
(33:34):
more of them.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
I'm gonna do that for sure, almost because i can't
help myself.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
It's it's, you know, I promise very little politics, and
that no more than once a day, and or wants
a show, and it's it's like for me, watching what's
going on in the country, it's like if I saw
somebody about to get hit by a bus and I
rushed to pull them out of the street before that happened.
I'm I'm I'm gonna offer up one little tiny taste
(34:02):
of what lies ahead. Depending on which way November goes here,
I'll deal this little card. Nancy Pelosi actually said out
loud on CBS Sunday morning that President Biden, think about inflation,
think about all the I've got some interviews coming up
on what they call fundflation, which is having to budget
(34:23):
your your vacation activities because of the current situation in
the economy. Food flation because nobody can afford food anymore
so anyway, think of that, think of the border, think
of anything you want to from the past three or
four years, and then know that Nancy Pelosi actually said
(34:44):
that President Biden belongs on Mount Rushmore. And that's where
I'm gonna stop right there. It makes no sense whatsoever.
Back to the good stuff in local entertainment news. This
I borrowed from Holly Galvin Posey at click to Houston
because I saw some cool shows up there that any
of you who are in the mood to go have
(35:05):
some fun and be entertained might enjoy.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Certain de Sole back at.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Smart Financial Center in sugar Land now through August eleventh.
It's something I just saw one little quick snapshot of it.
But they call it a country version of Certain de Sole,
which those are kind of two terms that probably shouldn't
go together. But if you've ever been to a Certain
de Sole experience that I have a couple of times,
(35:34):
it's always going to be a good show. I've never
been let down by them. It's just amazing what they do.
And country or no country, it'll be kind of cool
if you don't want to hassle with tickets and don't
mind being outside. Miller Outdoor Theater's got Shakespeare's A Midsummer
Night's Dream in production through August tenth. Free seating on
(35:54):
the hill, b yob, no, not that be, bring your
own blanket or chair, and maybe some insect repellent if
mosquitoes tend to like how you smell. And oh, by
the way, if you like Barry Manilow and my wife,
does IM have to talk to her about this? You
can see his final Sugarland concert also at Smart Financial
(36:15):
Center that is set for August sixteenth, one week from Friday.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
How much time do we have? Will we have two minutes?
Speaker 3 (36:25):
I'm going to introduce a A. You're gonna have to
pick one of these three. I'm only gonna bring in
three because I'm only gonna do this once. Probably just
little short jokes.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Okay, all right, most people.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Call him dad jokes. I don't know why, but so
these are your options. Polls, loss or bars bars. Went
to the bar last night and only a fifteen minute walk,
great time. Forty five minutes though to get home. The
difference was staggering.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yeah, you see, he almost laughed out loud, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (37:00):
You almost laughed out loud. It's all right, because it's
pretty good.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
All right, let's move on into the other a little
more detailed things. Not really a bad thing taking a
personal day, or could have been worse?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Thinking the personal day? Thirty two hundred year old Egyptian
tablet shows attendance and work absences, if you can believe that,
and ancient Egyptians reasons for skipping a work day included
brewing beer stung by a scorpion. This is so creepy
(37:36):
and weird and embalming. Brother, I don't know what you
gotta do, Yeah you do? Could have been worse. No,
it's the lunch hour. I'll save that one. Maybe do
it tomorrow. Ah, well, what do I have left? Will?
How many seconds? We have? Twenty five? What could do?
(37:58):
Could have been worse?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Man felt a sharp pain while eating his Taco bell meal,
and it turned out to be what he had bitten into.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
I don't know where sharp pain?
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Yeah, whatever, I'll give you two guesses, will until we
get down to ten seconds.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
Okay, take one guess, glass, No, some it's almost hard.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Yeah, I can do it. Somebody's nose ring. We'll be
back tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
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