Caregivers' Retreat

Today, Doug Pike interviews Crystal Walter about a caregivers' retreat.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
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(00:44):
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plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
All right, we start the.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Week off as it should be started. Well, for the
longest time, this was my day off. It's no longer
my day off. You've heard me talk about that before.
Friday is not my favorite day to have off because
everybody else is trying to really button up and tighten
up and dig in on my one day off. And
this past Friday was no exception. I got I want

(01:13):
to say it was something like one hundred and sixty
emails on Friday, and.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Many of them from people who know that's my day.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
It doesn't bother them because they are working in any event,
welcome to fifty plus, this hot and getting hotter Monday,
and thanks for letting me into your car, your dining room, loubies,
wherever you are. Anton Antones wouldn't be bad about now
what it will just saying.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
I love a good Antigo too.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
We should we should just take off and go over
there some afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I do that. Let's do that. I'll buy you lunch
over there. Oh wow, how's that? You?

Speaker 3 (01:47):
And I've said it out loud in front of the
whole audience, so I can't back out.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
I'm going to title that the this podcast episode. Now, okay,
Doug buys Will Anton's in perpetuity.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Nuts you may have, You might want to go, You
might want to rewind the digital tape and replay it.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Just one.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
This is a one shot deal. Will we'll figure out
a day. I'm kind of busy this week. Maybe next month.
Do you think I could get you to say the
words perpetuity and in? No, no, not on a not
on a bet, you couldn't not anymore. I'll never say
the word again. I will never cross my lips again,
and that you can count on. In all right, let's

(02:32):
move on. Holy cow, Maybe maybe I don't know. Maybe
you're stuck out there in Fort ben County on fifty
nine where they're trying to highway crews are trying to
lengthen the bridge over the Brass River by something like
five hundred feet.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
And remember if you get stuck down there, just remember
it's not the fault of the people who are working
out there in the heat. The people who are out
there pouring concrete or moving pylons or whatever they're doing
out there. The task and the timing were decided by
somebody else, same as the aftermath of Beryl. I wrote
in an email yesterday to alignman who worked for Centerpoint

(03:11):
and explained to him that I'll never have a beef
with the people who wear tool belts to work, the
people who are out there in the heat and taking
orders from somebody in the air conditioning.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
It's not their fault.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
They're just doing what they have to do to support
their families, and they don't like being any They don't
like being out there any more than you like them
being out there.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Believe me so.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Anyway, here we are still extremely warm and potentially hot
by mid afternoon by my standard, which is triple digits
for the word hot and in front of Today's His
and Loew's and Iaikoub. By the way, courtesy also of
Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists. Because cleaner air is healthier air.
They'll pound two fifty, say healthy air, and they'll hook

(03:55):
you up.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
So you ready will.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Always well, apparently a little late, but almost always. Then
no doubt it's summer, and no doubt this heat will pass.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
We just don't know when. Oh well, turn a phrase,
you know, I'll give that. That's a seven. Dog I
liked seven. I thank you, thank you very much. That's
a That's a good way to start off the week.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
It is, it's it's a benchmark, it's a it's a
it's a week. I've had slightly higher scores in the past,
have I not? Yes, it never get an eight? Yes, okay,
So I got a seven to start. I'm gonna try
harder for tomorrow, will I promise. By the way, Uh,
you know why our Houston weather people keep talking about
Ernesto right?

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (04:45):
No, no, let me tell you why. Here's a secret.
There's not a storm in the Gulf right now. They
would like nothing more, but they don't have one. So
and if Ernesto Peter's out and nothing pops up right
away after that. What they're gonna do is tell us
about the two or three things cooking in the Eastern Pacific, because.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Maybe they'll go all the way around the world.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
And come back into the Gulf of Mexico. That's that's
how weather forecasting works. They just they have to have
something scary to talk about, because if they don't, then
what are they How are they gonna fill three or
four minutes with UDDs hot outside again and muggy too.
It's it's muggy and hot and hot and muggy, and
it's gonna be that way for probably about another six

(05:28):
or eight weeks, except on the one or two days
that it rains, and it may or may not rain
where you live. But that's what they've got. That's all
they've got. So off to market we go. By the way,
thanks to Houston Goldexchange dot Com, where the price of
gold shot up over the weekend to twenty five forty
six an ounce. I'm about to make some money. Maybe

(05:49):
maybe not new shotgun money ahead of Doveca's or new
riding real money ahead of a trip on planning, but
at least I don't know lures in a couple of
bocks amo money at least that at twenty five hundred
and changes announced it was actually down a couple of
bucks the last time I looked, but still well north
of twenty five hundred and Holy cow, that's a lot

(06:12):
to be paying for one ounce a goal. The big
four indicators all green earlier this morning, but not by much.
Oil actually down and trying to find its way to
seventy six dollars, which, as I always contend, is about
eight or ten bucks a barrel north of where it
could be and should be, if not.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Lower than that.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
We'll see, We'll see how this all plays out. You
can pretty much count on, by the way, some lower
gas prices as we get nearer and nearer to November.
In good medical news, I saw word of a newly
FDA approved cancer drug that shows promising the treatment of
a very specific brain cancer. I'm working to get somebody

(06:53):
like an oncologist, get somebody on the show to talk
in more detail about this, but I wanted to share.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
It now mediately.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
It does not cure that cancer, but what it does
is slow the progression enough to significantly delay the time
that the patient is going to require radiation or chemo,
which ultimately buys them very precious days and weeks.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
And months and maybe even years. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
I haven't got enough information yet to know that answer,
but a lot of time that they don't have to
go down those difficult paths, because chemo and radiation are
no fun, not according to anybody I know who's ever
had to deal with it. And I've known a lot
of people at my age who have, and I feel
so badly for them.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
I watched my mother go through that.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
For several years, and she fought a very good and
very long fight and beat the curve. She beat the curve.
But you can't get away from all of that forever,
all right. Coming up in the next segment, we're going
to talk to Crystal Walter about an event she if
you don't remember, we spoke to her recently. She is
the guru of caregivers and the care for the caregivers,

(08:05):
and she's got an event coming up this Saturday that
I think all of you should maybe think about if
you are amongst those who care for other people, whether
you're young and a caregiver, or whether you have a
caregiver who works really really hard, and you think they
need a little break. We'll talk about that when we
get back on the way out. I will tell you
about Kirk Coombs and the amazing homes they build everywhere

(08:29):
from around here, specifically out toward the northwest side of town,
all the way throughout the hill country. They've been doing
this for thirty something years. I can't remember exactly how
many third generation company that.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Oh, by the way, and once.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Again they've got an accolade to champion, and that would
be the title of twenty twenty four Southern Living Builder
of the Year. Nobody else, just Kirk Coombs the twenty
twenty four Southern Living Builder of the Year. And it
seems like every six eight months that Chris or Melanie
or somebody from over there calls me and says, hey,

(09:05):
we want something else.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
They're gonna need a much.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
I've talked about build enlarging their trophy room. They may
have to build a house, just a whole house for
their trophies at some point. Offering a twenty year structural
warranty which is twice the industry standard, plus two by
six exterior walls for better insulation. You can start from
whatever point in the journey you are at at which

(09:29):
you are to be correct, or you can just come
in there with full blueprints and ask them to build that. Now,
their architectural and design teams will want to take a
look to make sure that you're getting exactly what.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
You want in your dream home.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
But from that point forward, you just tap your foot
and wait till they hand you the keys and say
open your eyes, and there will be right in front
of you your dream home. Kirkholmes dot com. That's K
you are K because at kirk Holmes it's all about you.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Once life without a net, I suggest you go to
bed and sleep it off. Just wait until this show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
Right, Welcome back fifty plus.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
On this extra warm Monday. What's new around here?

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (10:29):
We will talk in this segment, and thanks, especially if
you've brought a friend today. I appreciate that we're gonna
talk about a caregiver's retreat that scheduled for Saturday in
bel Air, just off the West Loop, and I'm guessing
quite a few of you might want to attend, so
pay attention, and we will tell you how and by

(10:49):
we especially since it's free. Everybody wants something free, and
this is probably going to be the most the most
valuable thing you get for nothing this week. If you
go to explain, I'll bring in fifty pluses. Crystal Walter
a licensed Well, you're not mine, You're you're your own.

(11:11):
You're your own person. But I kind of like to
think of you as part of the family at least
because you were just on what a couple of weeks ago?

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Was it that you two months ago? Actually?

Speaker 5 (11:23):
I was on to withst you all my life, just
clinical social work.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Do you excuse me? Hey, Christian, do you have us
on a speakerphone? Sorry?

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, because it's a boy. It's breaking up every other word.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
Okay, sorry about.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
That, Okay, yeah, it's better. Yeah, I think it is.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
You are a licensed clinical social worker at UT Physicians
who's done what you do now for sixteen years.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
So welcome back. Sooner or later.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
I think we can both agree that each of us
is eventually going to need a caregiver, unless unless we
make an early exit.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
Right, correct, correct, and caregivers you know, being a caregiver,
As I always say, it's the labor of love, and
there's a lot of selfless acts going to that role.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
And so this.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
Saturday we want to create the space for that goal
where they can get some beautiful experiences, some you know
them siges, some ACU puncture, some stretches. You must aroma therapy,
really give them, pour into them. So they came on
to the heavy listing that they do, all.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
That, all that catering and coddling. I don't want to
come by myself. Does it count if I'm a caregiver
to a guinea pig?

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Does that county?

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Probably not.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
I leave that seat for somebody who's actually caring for
a person who really needs it. You are way more
qualified than I to answer this question, but I bet
I could come close if I did. So what what
percentage of care givers would you say? However, they landed
in that role wind up being asked to do way
more than was what was on the job description.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well, let's talk about that.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
Usually those who step up to be the caregivers are
typically by those you're very compassionate and known for that
compassion and the family, so they tend to be the.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Go to people.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
You know, So when they're acts. I don't know that
we know what we're committing until we're in the midst
of it, you know. I want to share this one
informed to working Houstonians also have care gifting duties, okay,
and so in knowing that and then trying to juggle that,

(13:48):
you they tend to experience compassion fatigue and tend to
be there on themselves.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
And it makes it critical, just like you were talking
about all these all these states that you're going to
be able to do at that retreat to help them
feel better and to take that knowledge with them when
they leave so that they can be better equipped to
manage their own self care, their own caregiver care as

(14:17):
it were, right right.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
We practicing self care. The theme this year is reframing
self care from richery to have it so you know,
when we're caring and luck is hard to step away,
you know. And that's why at this retreat we Barbers
offering free adult day services for any caregiver that has

(14:40):
a loved one but they don't have anyone to watch them.
This Saturday, we say, come register, we will watch them.
We have home health agents days, we have doctors here
that will be able to tend to your loved one,
see beautiful activities to do, engage while we take care
of you give them.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
That sounds pretty good to me.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
And by the way, the phone line is still cracking
up a little bit, but I think the audience is
gonna get understand what we're talking about, and when we're done,
I will remind them the best way to get in
touch with you.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Because space is limited for this event, isn't.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
It It is? We are limited to the people, and
we are providing breakfast six, a lot of great snacks.
We have some beautiful spouse lunch HGB, hosts of Delmont Village, Excusers,

(15:38):
we Care Collaboratory for Aging, an Ress and Education, the
Institute on Aging. It's really going to be a beauty
source of event. HHDI Care Partners. We really want this
fool be impactful for our caregivers and so in understanding
that we to be asking, you know, at first, definitely

(16:02):
UTR We want our patients, but we also want the
community to come out in hubs too, and so we
welcome you on and I hope that you joined us
this time as a gift to really pour into yourself
so you can be ready takes for the next task
of caregiving.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Well, and for anybody who's thinking about going but needs
one little nudge, just understand, this is what you're gonna
be is among other people who are doing the same
things you're doing, who are stressing the same way as
you are, and who will Nobody will understand better what
you're going through than a bunch of other caregivers in
the room, and it's a great opportunity to network with

(16:40):
them and maybe make a new friend. At least get
a phone number you can call and say, Hey, I'm
kind of stressing out.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
What do we do?

Speaker 5 (16:46):
Yes, exactly. This safe space, the second space for just caregivers,
and this to have so many great resources there. We're
going to have the youth center, We're going to have
to for spiritual and health. We're going to have your
first healthcare inst be an agency on aging, stretch labs,

(17:07):
not Missing Yoga, really, Goop institutions are here to help.
We're going to final perceptions, corotactic practice.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Hey, Crystal, I hate to interrupt you, but we're already
at the end of our time. Where can they sign up?
Where can they find us?

Speaker 5 (17:25):
Go to ut physicians dot com slash for slash caregivers
slash retreat and they can slattery to contact me at
seven one three, four eight six one three Z Field three.
Thank you Doug having today.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Four eight six one three what.

Speaker 5 (17:44):
Groad three zero three seven one three four eight six
one three road three.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Okay, I got it now, I'll mention it again in
the next segment. That way, we'll be sure to get it.
Thank you so much, Chrystal. I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
We appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Oh my pleasure. Thank you. All right.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
I think we made it through that. I hope you
got the gist of that. I don't know what's wrong
with this electronically in here. That phone line was good
with her last time. A late health If you are
a grown man like me and got more gray hair
than other like me, and you suddenly realized that sometime

(18:22):
back in your fifties, maybe you started having issues with
getting up in the middle of the night to go
to the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
What was that about you couldn't sleep through the night?
You just said, tossing and turning.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Maybe you have to get up a couple of times
even or maybe you have other issues just with that
part of your body, that area of your body. Well,
the good news is that a late health, a vascular clint.
Actually several clinics around town. At a late health they
do a process called prostate artery embolization, and the simpler
way to put that is, they identify the artery that

(18:55):
is feeding that enlarged, non cancerous prostate and causing all
the problems, and they shut it off. They turn off
the water. It'd be like if you're standing there enjoying
a nice warm shower and then all of a sudden
somebody turns off the water. You're gonna get out of
the tub. What happens to that prostate, though, is it
it shrinks, It dies, like somebody cutting off your air.

(19:18):
We don't want that to happen. They're gonna cut off
the blood to that. They can do it with women
who are having issues with fibroids, with anybody who's having
issues with ugly veins, and even in some cases head
pain can be alleviated with vascular therapy. Most of what
they do in their clinics, and they do all of
what they do in their clinics because that's far better

(19:41):
and safer for you than a hospital stay. Most of
it is covered by Medicare and Medicaid, and they also
do regenerative medicine at a late Health which is tremendously
helpful for anyone who suffers with chronic pain, and nobody
should have to deal with chronic pain, regenerative medicine, prostrate
artery emblization. Go to the website look at all that

(20:03):
they can do for you. A latehealth dot com that's
a L A T E. A Latehealth dot com, or
give them a call. Seven one three five eight eight
thirty eight eighty eight. Seven one three five eight eight
thirty eight eighty eight.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Welcome back to Monday's show.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Thank you all for listening us over. We do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
I am going in just a minute. I want you
to go get a pen if you are interested at all,
because I know that was kind of a weird technically interview,
but I have that phone number. And bottom line is
there's no charge for admission. You're gonna be there for
several hours and you're gonna be treated to a lot
of information, a lot of relaxation that I'm confident you

(21:05):
will find very, very beneficial if you are a caregiver,
or if you have a caregiver who could use a
little break.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Write the number down.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
I want you to go get a pen now, Will
and I are going to chat for a second while
you go get something to write with, and then when
you come back, I will tell you that phone number
to contact her directly, because the capacity is for sixty
and sixty only, and that's not a whole lot of
people in a city where there are probably at least

(21:35):
a couple hundred thousand caregivers. All right, well, I'll give
you three choices. Little dog, big money.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
Put them up or put it down, little dog, big money.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
So name a few of the dog species you think
are most expensive.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Oh okay, um, it's gotta be something toy, right, we're
going with little dogs really just dogs. Man.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Oh, I'll help you. I'll help you because people are
already getting back with their pencils. English bulldogs, French bulldogs,
chow chows. But the one of the most expensive, if
not the most expensive, I'm pretty confident, is the Tibetan mastiff,
which is in no way a small dog. The average

(22:29):
mail Tibetan mastiff run about one hundred pounds. And there
was a puppy actually sold over in I believe it
was in China, and somebody paid more than a million
dollars for that puppy. And that's not the first time
a million dollars has been paid for one of those
ridiculous dogs. One hundred plus pounds. You'd have to carry

(22:52):
a garbage can liner when you walk that dog. You
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
I know exactly, I know exactly what you're putting down.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
Bug.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Okay, let's move on, shall we. So if you are
interested in that caregiver's retreat off six ' ten at
bel Air this Saturday. The telephone number to get right
straight in touch with Crystal is seven to one three
four eight six one three zero three seven one three

(23:24):
four eight six one three zero three. I would encourage
anybody and everybody who's even thinking about it to make
that call. You will not regret it whatsoever. I can't
ignore the Democrat National Convention on going up in Chicago,
where ironically that city has erected several miles of fencing.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Called it a wall. Maybe, huh.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
To keep people who don't belong at the convention from
entering the convention unlawfully. So Wall's work in Chica, but
not at the southern border. That's a problem for me
and from that party's nominee for president, the woman who
got that distinction without a single vote being cast for her.
By the way, comes this little gem delivered to a

(24:12):
high school football team during a speech about being a
role model, in which she served up a just a
heap and helping of words salad that day. By the way,
the tastiest bit, though, the tastiest bit was this, and
I quote, you will be undefeated even if you don't

(24:33):
win every game, end quote, with respect. That's That's not
how football works. It's not how world leadership works. And
it sure as hell in how war works. How can
anyone say so much and yet say so little at
the same time. This drives me creat moving on, but

(24:54):
not far. I saw another story. Hey, it is DNC week.
I can't help it, can't ignore this stuff. At Harris's website,
in the opt in box where you provide your contact
information in addition to your name, you can now choose
from one of nine one of nine pro excuse me
pronoun options nine pronoun options.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
I couldn't. I couldn't have told you there were nine.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
I could think of four, probably, but there are apparently
nine at least. So how many ways exactly is the
Left going to keep dreaming up to continue dividing this
country into smaller and smaller groups that ultimately are encouraged
to feud with each other for.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Its all over?

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Just pull the shades back, take a really close look
at what's going on. Pull the curtain back to borrow
from the Wizard of Oz. Oh, I have Wizard of
Oz news. Well, hold on, let me find that piece
of paper. I found this very interesting.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Where did it go? Ah? I'm frustrated because I don't
see it here? Oh? Here it is right here.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Trivia facts from the Wizard of These are great conversation starters.
Will you'll need one this weekend, probably when you're hanging out.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
With your peeps?

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Okay, all going anywhere? Are you doing anything?

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Any parties? I have no idea. Is Labor Day? No,
it's two.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Weekends from now right, I don't know. I'm not sure either.
Did you know Will that the producers actually wanted Shirley
Temple to play Dorothy did you know that.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
I did not know that they did.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
But when MGM took over production, they cast their own actress.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
That would be Judy Garland. Well why did they think
that a drink could play Dorothy?

Speaker 3 (26:36):
You've got it, You've got the cart before the horse
will This is also interesting actor, a guy named Frank Marvel. Okay,
Frank Marvel actually played five roles in that film, same guy,
five parts. I wonder if he got paid five times
five hours. Probably not, probably not. They were just looking
around one day and somebody got sick and they said, hey,

(26:59):
you want to do this for sure?

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (27:01):
What were the rules?

Speaker 3 (27:02):
The wizard okay, Professor Marvel, the gatekeeper, the carriage driver,
and the guard wow, all played by the same guy.
All And by the way, the book included animals that
were not included in the screenplay because MGM decided what.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
That it was just too much monkey business. You know,
you're you're kind of on the right track.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
They decided that some of these animals in the book
would be too scary for young viewers, which brings me
to those damned flying monkeys.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
They scared the jeepers out of me. Now did they scarey? You? No,
not at all. I've never been scared in my entire life. Never. No,
I don't feel fear well, thanks Spartacus, and I don't
fear fear.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
Okay, Miss Harris, turn off Miss Harris's mike please, No,
I'm not going to get out of the word salad.
Trap man, you're just making stuff up. Now, you're just
making stuff up. We got to take a break. That's
a good time to pause. Ut Health Institute on Aging.

(28:20):
As I've mentioned, for as long as they've allowed me
so far, and I will for as long as they
will allow me henceforth. It's a group of people, a
group of people hundreds, if not maybe more than a thousand,
I would bet by now they've been around for eight
or nine, maybe ten years.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
And what they do.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Each of these people, regardless of their their expertise, their
field of study in medicine, in medical care, they go
back and they learn more about how to apply their
specific knowledge in what they're good at. E and ts, cardiologists, neurologists,

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every every ologist there is in medicine, plus trainers and
therapists and anybody in the field. Nurses, they go back
and they learn more as to how they can better
apply what they know to seniors specifically, that's what they do,
and they're very good at what they do extra education

(29:18):
so that they can apply their knowledge better to us
than other providers. All these doctors around here are good,
but anybody who's a member of the Institute on Aging
is a little better equipped to deal with seniors. That's
all I'm saying. Go to the website. You'll see what
I mean. You'll see all the resources they provide for

(29:39):
anybody who like us is well, we're all in the
same boat. Basically, we're not getting any younger, and our
bodies are changing, our systems are changing. Everything is changing
about us, and that requires slightly different attention and the
people with ut Health Institute on Aging can provide that
specific attention.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Go to the website UA.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Dot edu slash Aging, ut H dot ed u slash
Aging Aged to Perfection.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Oh ready that late in the day. We'll hold it now.
This this album went very quickly, I believe.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Let's let's start off light and see where it goes.
In this segment, I'm gonna go back to well by
the way, it's National Potato Day and I'm not gonna
say much more about that because I got bored reading
about favorite potato recipes and preparations, and there's only so
many things, like about one hundred apparently, that you can

(30:49):
do with a potato. But it's still gonna taste mostly
like a potato. And if it doesn't taste like a potato,
it's just gonna be. It'll just take on the flavor
of whatever you douse it in.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
You agree, will.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
With a what a potato by itself doesn't really doesn't
really have much flavor. No, it's gotta be just a potato.
It's like you can put a pine tree in the
living room, but that doesn't make it a Christmas tree
until you put all the ornaments on it, right, right, Okay,
So we're gonna move on from that one. I'll go

(31:24):
to three entirely different ones. Our entire society is built
on deceit.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
That's a long headline.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
It's your turn, or there's a sucker born every minute.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
There's a sucker born every minute.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Don't really have anything there, will, I was just testing
a theory. No, I'm kidding, but I had you, you know,
I had the founder of spanks. You know what that is, yeah,
I know, it's spanks born spanks. No, not even on
a Friday night after a couple of drinks. You don't
have to get a couple of drinks in me for

(32:02):
me to wear spanks. Founder of Spanks has a new
shoe called Sneaks, which is basically high heeled sneakers. And
I normally don't even talk about these things, but when
they're this ridiculous, I'm going for it. Coming out tomorrow,
you can get yourself a pair of sneaks for four

(32:25):
to six hundred.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Dollars a pair. Not only that much, it's a steel.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
This sneaky way to take people's money for nothing of value.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
I don't know if it's sneaky. It's pretty upfront about it.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
How about this well now boarding at gate number nine,
four hundred and thirty six.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
You want that one? Or stay in your lane? Stay
in your lane?

Speaker 3 (32:51):
Ug new report in the Washington Post about how adults
are creating lemonade stands and running them as side hustles.
They're almost like food trucks, though, so they aren't competing
with local preteens.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Leave the little kids out of this.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Don't steal money from little kids who are learning about business.
Don't open a lemonade stand?

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Would you do that?

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Would you just go driving up and down the street,
and some poor kids out there. He's had his mom
make him a picture of lemonade. He's got his little
Dixie cups out there, and he's wanting two bits. Do
you know how much two bits is? No, twenty five cents?

Speaker 2 (33:30):
So they want fifty six.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Well nowadays a dollar and you're gonna get about six
ounces of lemonade out of this kid. Or here comes
Will in his van lemonade, lemonade undercutting the kid, Yes,
with an inferior product.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Oh, I don't think it'll be inferior. I think the
thing is that mind will absolutely be better because these
kids selling lemonade, they make the worst lemonade. It's known
their lemonade sucks. You're serving up hard li and aren't you? Yes,
some getting people krunk? Krunk? Is that the new word? No,

(34:06):
it's an old sid. Oh, it's a very old word.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
Let me tell you about this boarding at Gate nine thousand,
four hundred and thirty six. There's a list of US
airports with the longest walks. Okay DFW International Airport and
ops the worst airport known to man. Guess how far
it is between the check in counter and the farthest gate.
How many feet? Okay, what is it in? Just go

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ahead and just take your guests.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Give me the unit.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
What's the measurement? No, I want you to feeder yards
either one?

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Okay? Yard? Okay, I'm gonna go with yards. I'm gonna
say it's five hundred yards.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
No, it's farther than that. And you can just forget yards.
How many miles?

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Two point one six miles? It is awful. You got
to get an uber.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
They should have little golf cart ubers in there to
get from one terminal to the note.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
They should deincorporate Dallas as a city. You might as well.
They should just they should just change the airport and
fix that. Put the ticket counter in the middle and
then spread out that. I think Houston's airport is big,
but it's not two miles to the other of the airport. Now.
I've been to DFW one time and it was the

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worst experience in my life. I could agree with that.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
I've been through there more than once, and I don't
remember a really good experience. What the worst one was
when I was coming back from a ski trip in
Colorado and we got diverted to DFW. Hmmm, I could
have lived without that. Boy, I got all kinds of
stuff about the DNC. We'll talk about that tomorrow. A

(35:51):
mom in Kansas telling people to think twice before running
any major appliances at night. Will you know why?

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Why?

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Because she ran her dish washer right before she turned
it on, right before she went to bed. Woke up
to her house nearly burning down.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Burning down.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
The dishwasher apparently short circuited somehow. Who doesn't know that?
Who doesn't know that? Apparently mom's in Kansas, at least
one of them.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
All right, we got twenty seconds stuff o.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
AI not just helping kids cheat on homework, it's also
helping job seekers deceive interviewers. Boy, there was an issue
at my son's school, a big hullabaloo. I might tell
you about that tomorrow, first day of class. First day
of class.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
We'll be back tomorrow. I'll tell you that story then.
Thanks for listening, Audios