Discussing Diabetes

Today, Doug Pike interviews Ladawna Goering about diabetes.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
On this Tuesday afternoon, another day of extremely warm and
eventually certainly hot even by my definition of one hundred
degrees or more hot by this afternoon. Stay cool if
you can, and if you have to or really want
to do something outside, do it in small doses and

(01:12):
make sure you stay hydrated. Speaking of the weather, let's
jump straight into our highs and lows in high Coup
courtesy of Texas into air quality specialists. Because cleaner air
is healthier air always will be call pound two to
fifty say healthy air and you'll learn much much more
about that.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Are you ready?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Will grab your microphone? I am brace yourself. You're gonna
love this.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Forecasts said rain also said ten percent chance, So I say,
no rain, all right, okay? Ten percent chance means ninety
percent of the audience or ninety percent of the area,

(02:00):
whichever way you want to look at it. There's a
one in ten chance Saturday and Sunday of rain. I
think it might be it, maybe twenty percent on one
of those three days around there, Friday, Saturday, Sunday or
Saturday Sunday Monday.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
But nothing, nothing.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Remotely resembling an odds on chance of rain. So I
tried to I tried to convey that in the haikup.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
Okay, I'm I'm gonna go with the six point two.
Six point two I got seven yesterday. Yeah, okay, I'll
work harder. I can do better. I can do better.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
In the meantime, I've got some I've got some real
writing work to do. Uh, and I'll do that this
week later. I've got a couple of fishing pieces that
I need to get out to Saltwater Sportsman and a
column I owed a Texas fishing game right now and
I think I have an idea.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
I have a good idea. Actually, what I'm gonna write about?
Pardon me.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Diving straight into the markets, which was easy to do
this morning, it didn't take long to realize that the
big indicators, the main four, weren't doing much of anything.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Really. This is all thanks to Houston Gold Exchange. By
the way, of course, it is.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Main indicators shed some of their recent gains, but none
of them to any extent where you might want to
call your money manager and say, hey, what.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Do we do now? It's it's still just kind of it.
We're gonna let it ride mode.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
All they were all down, and almost all of that
little tick downward was caused by the FEDS Job report
being amended yet again downward by a significant margin from
its original posting a few days ago. They do this
almost every month now. It's becoming a very bad habit

(03:49):
that needs to be corrected toward getting it right. The
first time this one was off something like fifty thousand
jobs a month or something like that. And I don't
know whether it's a deliberate smoke screen to make things
look better. And then when people have already decided, oh yeah,
it got way better. Then they bury a little retraction

(04:10):
somewhere to say, oh, well, it actually wasn't that good
one way or the other.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
They need to get it right.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
And if the people who are in charge of counting
new jobs can't count them, then't find somebody who can.
Oil was down a pretty fat chunk early, but climb
back up to about almost seventy five dollars a barrel,
and now it's back down again a little bit, so
still eight ten dollars north of where it should be,

(04:36):
but that's okay. And gold, good, golly, Gold was up
more than twenty bucks an ounce early, closer to twenty
six hundred than twenty five hundred, but then it had
lost about half of that luster that shine around eleven o'clock,
and last I looked at it had kind of come
back a little bit the other way. So who knows

(04:58):
where it's gonna land, But wherever it lands, if you
were thinking about selling some of it, and that would
be a good time in local news. For the fourth time, now,
the fourth time I have witnessed shoplifting as it happened
in plane view and wasn't even acknowledged or recognized or

(05:18):
challenged by any of the store employees between that person
as they moved toward the front door and them being
in the parking lot. And in fact, it happened with
one of those carts that has the wheel on it
that if something's going out that shouldn't go out, it
freezes up that cart, and rather than question the person

(05:42):
about the contents of the cart, the employee walked out
there and said, here, let me fix that for you,
and opened the cart back up again so that the
shoplifter could go ahead and take everything to the car.
It's getting a little frustrating to be pretty. To be
quite honest, this is the one to actually one to Yeah,

(06:04):
all four times I have I have said something to
staff in those stores, three different stores, by the way.
This one was a grocery store where I do most
of my shop and spend a lot of money in
that place. Spend a lot of money there every week.
And it was episode number two in that same store.
This time I spoke to a young woman who was

(06:25):
dressed differently from everybody else and sort of watching over
all the checkout stands, which I assume it that she
was in a management position.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
I told her what happened and asked her what the store's.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Policy was on that, and I was told that what
they do is if somebody actually tells them about it,
which probably is fairly rare. But with my report, she
assured me, Oh yeah, yeah, we'll we'll go back and
look at the video and we'll try to figure out,

(06:56):
you know, who's face that is, and we'll we'll put
a picture of it on the bulletin board, which means
basically that they're doing nothing. They're doing nothing. Well, that's
not true. What they're doing actually is passing that cost
to me and you, the people who go in there
and actually buy groceries that cost twice what they did

(07:18):
four years ago. Because the people who are stealing don't
get in any trouble for stealing, So why should they stop?

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Why shouldn't they ask for a little help.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Why don't we just assign somebody to help shoplifters get
their stuff out to the cars.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Make it easier on everybody. Wouldn't it very frustrating?

Speaker 1 (07:38):
It?

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Really? It bothers me.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
These are preventable losses, preventable losses, but they don't want
the trouble that actually stopping somebody and having them charged
with shoplifting.

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Could raise and that bothers me. It does.

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Speaker 6 (09:19):
What's life without a NET? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off. Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues, Hio, Welcome
back to fifty plus.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Thanks for listening. Certainly, do appreciate it. Thanks for sharing
your lunch hour. We'll we'll talk in this segment about
something that affects millions of Americans really and that is diabetes.
And to shed some light on this one, I will
welcome to the show. Lodonna Gearing twenty nine years a nurse,
including thirteen as a nurse practitioner.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Welcome aboard, LaDonna.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. How are
you today?

Speaker 2 (10:06):
I'm very well? Thank you.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
We just got fed pretty pretty handsomely over here, I
must say, I.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Hope it was diabetic friendly, right.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Sure, let's go with that.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
So, as I often do, I'll start by asking you
please to define what we're going to discuss.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
What exactly is diabetes?

Speaker 4 (10:25):
So well, I think you have to kind of talk
a little bit about when you talk about diabetes. There's
multiple kinds of diabetes, but the two most prevalent are
certainly type one and type two. If we're going to
focus a little more on the over a fifty listener,
which is your population, then you're going to talk more. No, no,

(10:48):
I'm kidding, but that that's your population, so that's tuned
in today. So then you're going to focus more on
type two. Now, you do have a lot that are,
you know, type one. They've been dealing with diabetes for
a while, but that's your younger population. That's more autoimmune disease.
So they have insulin deficiency, they're pancreas isn't working, they're BAA,

(11:09):
they have beta sale destruction. Early on in life. You
do have some you know, that have onset in their
adult but certainly by the time they're fifty age, they've
already been diagnosed with type one. So then we're going
to talk about type two. So one in three persons
over the age of sixty five, and certainly you know,

(11:31):
I know we're fifty and over. But by the time
sixty yeah, but sixty, by the time there's sixty five, statistically,
one in three people are going to have type two diabetes.
So that's about ninety to ninety five percent are diagnosed
with two. So and that's not an autoimmune disease, that's

(11:51):
just insulin resistance where our beta sales and our pancreas
just start working quite as well, and our sales aren't
taking up insulin like they should.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Is this another one of these examples of what the
cruel tricks that lie in wait for people as they
get a little bit older, And see, all of a sudden,
you wake up one morning and your back hurts and
you twisted it in your sleep and it hurts for
six weeks stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
Well, you know, that's a great question, because you know
a lot of times we think that well, as we
get older, things are just not going to work like
they should, okay, And this is not one of those
things that we should just expect to say, oh, well,
my pinkers just is not going to work when I
get older. And there are a lot of things that
we can do to prevent and the more we learn

(12:38):
about diabetes, the more that we know that by living well,
and that's a lot about what the Institute on Aging
is about is how can we live you know, longer, better, healthier.
So if we do these things with diet and exercise
and even healthy psychosocial living, that we can actually not

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you know, we can prolong not only heart life, kidney life,
but also are pancreas. So it's definitely not something that
just because we age that it's not going to be
working for us.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Well, Donna gearing on fifty plus here, So before we
get to and I know you're I'm going to leave
you some time to tell me what.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
I can't eat anymore? But what about what.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Are some symptoms that we could watch for in ourselves
that might indicate that we we ought to get checked out?

Speaker 4 (13:28):
Sure? Sure, So the classic symptoms and you know a
lot of people know this and you will and you
will hear this over and over again, is for diabetes.
We always hear the two or the three big ones.
Are you know, stream a lot or urine asia. And
you know, I got to go to the bathroom a lot.
So those kind of go hand in hand. If I'm

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drinking a lot, I got to go to the bathroom
a lot. And then also you know that person that
just has like an unexplained weight loss. But typically those
are the things you're going to see.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
The whole call went down. Mm hm, oh, there you go.
You're back. I don't know what what did you do?

Speaker 6 (14:11):
Will?

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Will did something? I'll blame him. No, it's not you.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
Well I didn't move, but it could certainly could.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
No, no, no, no, that was just that that believe
me that Wait, there we go. Are you back? I
don't know, Yes you are. Can you hear me? Okay,
there we go, I can. Oh talking, Yeah, keep talking,
don't ever stop.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
Okay, okay, So tell me where I left often.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Uh, you were just getting to after frequent urination. What's
the third one?

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Okay? So the third one is weight loss? Oh? Yes,
unexplained weight loss. So what I was saying though, that
that's typically we do see it in type two diabetes.
But usually we see those are the classic symptoms for
type so yeah, so usually sometimes in our older adults,
what we see is sometimes just things like we'll start

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to see like they'll have a wound or a sore
or something just doesn't it doesn't heal, or maybe you
have like some blurring of the vision. Sometimes we work
with our eye doctors. We'll get a referral from the
eye doctor and they'll say, you know what, I think
you need to see your physician, your primary care physition.

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Sometimes it can be the numbness of the hands or
the feet because they're starting to have neuropathy, and especially
in our older adults, sometimes it can be things like
dizziness because their blood sugar is not managed and they'll
start to see that.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Okay, what I don't want to do, Loadona is get
too far down the road and not know what to eat.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
And we got about a minute and a half left,
believe it or.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Not already, let's do Oh my goodness it. Yeah yeah,
so what to eat? So the biggest thing is, you
know we've all heard about the Mediterranean diet is just
that good balance of diet. We don't anymore tell people
to have a diabetic diet. We more want people to
have a nice rounded diet, but more with the healthy

(16:12):
non starchy vegetables more healthy, your meats, your lean meats,
and stay just staying away from those highly processed, highly
sugar refined sugar food. So eating healthy as Really, we
don't want people to change their lives completely because we
know that's not manageable. What we want you to do
is eat a healthy diet and then also exercise and

(16:35):
taking care of yourself. Well that's reasonable that I think
it's absolutely reasonable. And we tell people, especially you know,
Institute of Health, what matters most to you, person centered care?
What can you do? What little things you can add
to your life, parking further away at the grocery store,
Adding that walk around the neighborhood. You know, we don't

(16:56):
expect everyone to go to the gym for two hours.
That kind of little things, yeah, right, but just little
things you can add into your day. Taking the stairs.
All those kind of things add up, and especially after
you eat lowers of the blood sugar tremendously if you
just add them right after you eat. Taking that walk
around the neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
The TV room in my house is upstairs, Sostros. I'm
going to get at least one trip up and down
and probably tour three. So I gotta go back to
the refrigerator and get my get my normal good healthy
food that I always pull out of there.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Right right during the game. And then during that seventh
inning stretches after that hot dog, you can take a
lap around the stadium. You why you're why you're getting
that next uh? You know, good nutritious snacks.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
YEA, Honestly, I'm with you there.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
There is no reason in the world not to park
a little farther out at the grocery store, not to
make it just a little less convenient for yourself so
that you do get those extra steps in, and I,
I honestly do try to make an effort to do that.
I don't mind parking all the way out at the
other end of the parking lot. It's not that far,
for heaven's sakes, and I do get a little extra stuff. Lo,

(18:09):
Donna Gearing, thank you so much. This is really good stuff.
Where can people find more information about diabetes?

Speaker 4 (18:16):
You know, always go to a reliable source. I think
one of the best sources is the American Diabetic Association.
They've got they've got information from if you've been diagnosed,
if you have pre diabetes, They've got all the new
standards of care. They got medications. They even they have
for medical professionals, but they also have for the lay person.

(18:37):
They've got recipes that you can try. They've got things
on exercise. They've got things on yoga for like even
if you can't get up and walk around, for chair
yoga for the older adults. They've got a lot of
really good things for patients. They even have some free
applications or apps, like for your phone, like calorie King

(18:59):
that you can use to account calories in these that
you can use.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Thank you so very much. I really do appreciate your
time today.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Absolutely, thank you for having me about my pleasure.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
Oh, Bobby all right, the Institute on Aging, speaking of
we we just heard Ledana Gearing talk about it and
we're going to talk about it again right now. This,
as she said, is a collaborative of hundreds and I
need to get an accurate number now on how many
how many healthcare providers in the greater Houston area have
signed on to do what it takes to become part

(19:32):
of this, and that is to get additional education on
top of their specialization that influences their decisions based specifically
on how what they know can be applied to seniors
to we of the older crowd, and there's nothing wrong
with that, But our bodies are different. Mine is different

(19:53):
from Wills. Yours is different from your children's, or your
younger brother, or whoever it is. Seniors and juniors have
different medical needs, very specific to our own makeups, and
the Institute on Aging addresses those. Go to the website,
look around. You'll see all kinds of information. You'll find
all kinds of resources for any and everything you can

(20:17):
imagine relating to your health. It's just that simple, and
just like Lodonna said, they're keyed in there on helping
every one of us live happier, healthier, longer lives. Utch
dot edu slash aging uth dot edu slash aging yell.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
They sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Not any dog.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
There we go segment three fifty plus on this Tuesday afternoon.
Let me put this piece of paper over here. O. Way,
we're done with that. We're done with this. You know,
I didn't want to tell the Donna, but I could
probably do better in the sweets department. I don't eat

(21:20):
a lot of sweets, and I've really I've backed off considerably,
but I could back off a little more. I heard
yet another recall, a pretty big automobile recall, during the news,
the Fox News, right before this program started, and I
asked Will if he agreed with me that there sure

(21:43):
seemed to be a lot of recalls lately, more than
we've experienced in years past. I have two right now
on mine, and one of them, one of them is
not that big a deal. It's the rear view camera,
which I grew up without any cameras in the car

(22:04):
unless we were taking a trip to a relative's house
and wanted to document a birthday party or something. But
the cameras in the car, I didn't need to back
into a parking place. I didn't need to back up
at all. I just could look in my rearview mirror.
I could look at my side mirrors. Now, I love
having backup cameras and I use them always, but sometimes

(22:29):
they don't function perfectly, and especially in parking garage.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
I don't know what it is.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Every now and then it'll just kind of fritz up
and go blue screen on me and then I just
use my mirrors and back into the spot.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
That one would be easy. The other one is.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
A little bit more complicated, and I'd need to make
another phone call. But the last the first three or
four times I called or went into any one of
the service departments at one of this particular car makers dealerships,
I was told that they didn't have the parts and
if I wanted to leave my vehicle there for a
couple of months, they put it in line. Well, I

(23:06):
don't know about you, but I can't afford to rent
a car for a couple of months and my insurance
company is not going to cover that, So.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
I don't know. That's just something to think about. Toyota's
got a.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Big one out. I think that the Tacoma. No, it's
the what's their big truck will.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Is it Tacoma?

Speaker 6 (23:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (23:24):
I think that Tacoma, and then.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
One of the bigger Lexus SUVs. They're gonna have to
replace the engines in I don't know, it was one
hundred thousand or more of those things, completely replace the engines.
And I have to where are these things being made
if they're being made in the US of A. And
that's getting through that troubles me. And if we're importing

(23:47):
them from factories elsewhere, that I guess is equally troubling.
All right, So on where we tried north to Chicago
and the Democrat National Convention, I can't help myself.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
It's the Democrat National Convention and it needs to be
mentioned and covered where. Just yesterday, our own Harris County
Judge Lena Hidalgoes stood in front of the crowd and
talked about how she's been at the helm here through
seven hurricanes. Seven hurricanes, only nobody here can find more

(24:18):
than two that made landfall since she took the rings.
She also championed Kamala Harris's trip here after Hurricane Beryl,
while most Texans, including myself, keep scratching their heads over
why Harris, in nearly four years, still hadn't addressed the
gaping hole that is our southern border.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
I'll let that go.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
I'll let that go, and I'll move on to let's
get away from politics now, and honestly I do. I
hope you'll do your own research for the election and
be sure to look at just look at countries where
governments set prices and where government suppresses free speech and government.
You to drive certain cars or use certain cooking methods,

(25:05):
and I'd tell you to look for countries that have
open borders and let in dreadful people by the millions,
but that's never happened in history. So instead, just go
to try to find a country where socialism or communism
actually worked for the working class. You won't find one.
Socialism and communism benefit only the most elite and powerful,

(25:27):
and they leave absolutely no upward path for anybody who
dares challenge those people in any way, shape or form.
So good luck, good luck to us all in the
local news all over television yesterday after a verdict was
reached in the civil trial against the parents of the
young man who shot and killed I think it was
eight and injured several more at Santa Fe High School

(25:51):
several years ago. His parents were found not responsible for
the deaths or additional injuries caused by their son, who
was seventeen at the time in stea Dead. The jury
placed eighty percent of the blame on the then seventeen
year old and twenty percent on the online company that
sold the AMMO to him. It's a tragedy, there's no

(26:14):
question about it, and they actually wheeled the actual gun
safe in which their guns were stored, and the locking
mechanisms and all that into the courtroom, and it was
it was a very moving and emotional reading of all
the counts and all the money that was involved, with

(26:34):
like three hundred million and change total that the court found.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
I think it's the way it worked.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
The court found or the jury found them responsible for,
or found them being the shooter and the AMMO company
and their percentage is responsible for. But his kid's in
his twenties now, he doesn't have any money. He's in
an institution, a mental institution where he's hopefully getting some
sort of help. Oh in secret service news will and

(27:03):
I'm sure everybody else has heard about it.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Oh hang on, excuse me. I'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
I brought my baby to work today and he sounds
kind of hungry, So just give me a minute.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Well, okay, you go with that.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
God really, seriously, you didn't hear any You didn't hear
any of that?

Speaker 2 (27:19):
What baby, brilliant? My baby that I have to go feed?
What baby? The baby? What baby? The baby?

Speaker 3 (27:27):
I need to feed before I come back to my post.
You talk happens, It happens. All over the country. Don't
you read the news? All right, we got to take
a little break on the way out.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Late health is the Vasket.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Well, they are vascular clinics at which you can be
treated for a number of things that could be causing
you some very uncomfortable symptoms if they're not addressed, and
if you you can either call them or you can
look at the website, it doesn't matter which, and you'll
get plenty of information about what they do. They do
work on in large noncancerous prostates. They do work on fibroids,

(28:05):
they do work on ugly veins if they're popping up
all over you. There's even alleviation of head pain through
vascular work. That really it's it's pretty amazing what they
can do over there, and a lot of it's covered
by Medicare and Medicaid. Most of it actually a couple
of hours in the office. Then you get to go home.

(28:25):
Somebody's gonna have to drive you. You go home to recuperate,
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Speaker 1 (28:59):
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Speaker 6 (29:06):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug Hi. Welcome back.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Fourth and final segment of the show starts right now.
Thank you very much for listening. And I don't know
what do I want to do here. First, I'll do
this first and foremost. Our eleventh, if you can believe it,
eleventh annual golf tournament for Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital
over in Memphis, goes off in December, on December ninth.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Actually it's usually on the first Monday in December, but
the ninth clearly.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Is not the first. It'll be the second. And I
don't know why that is, but that's what I believe
the date to be. If you haven't played in this
tournament yet, I hope you'll join us this year. I'd
also like to get some more of my people involved in.
This is a first class event, no question. At Golf
Club of Houston. We fill up both courses, and we
fill them up quickly. And the only way to get
a team or a sponsorship for the past few years,

(30:24):
and it'll be the same this time, is to jump
on board early. Go to the Saint Jude Houston website
or call their local office here and kind of get
in why you can and if you're interested in one
of those one of those sponsorships, something really unique that
you would like to sponsor, or we have several that
are still available, not all of them, believe me about it.

(30:45):
I think about more than more than a half have
already been gobbled up by the people who had them
last year. And thanks to every one of you who
participated last year, and I hope we can get many, many.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
More this year.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
If you're interested in in one of those sponsorships, seriously,
just email me directly, Doug Pike Atiheartmedia dot com and
I will be happy to explain how all of that works,
what's available, and see if we can't get you involved
in one of the most amazing things we've ever done
around here. Last year, between the golf tournament which raised
it was four hundred and forty something thousand dollars that

(31:21):
day and the radio fond that we held shortly thereafter
for a few days on all our stations, our contribution
to Saint Jude last year was more than a million
dollars and we fully intend to do that again this year.
And I don't think it's going to be a problem.
You're gonna get one of the best goodie bags.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
You've ever had. To shoot me an email. I'll let
you know what's going on.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
I'll let you know who to contact if you want
to just join up and buy a team, or if
you want a sponsorship. Like I said, I've got all
the information on all that as well, and I can
help you with that. All right, So let's here's something
interesting I found in Good Guy News. Well, you're familiar
with Charles Barkley, right, Yes, NBA Star now Superstar TV

(32:09):
analyst all that. Barkley who, after Turner Sports Network lost
its bid to hang on to the broadcast of the NBA,
Barkley actually turned down an offer of one hundred million
dollars to jump ship and go to another network just
so he could stick with his current team and safeguard

(32:33):
their jobs for another year, which takes them to the
end of their current contract. That's a pretty nice guy
right there, and it just kind of goes to tell
you what it goes to show you what kind of
bank Barkley must already have to just say no thank
you to one hundred million dollars.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
That's a lot here, in a lot.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Of respect from a lot of people for not jumping
feet first onto the money train and thinking instead.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
About the futures of people other than himself.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
I've always kind of thought that he was that way.
He was a lot like how he is now. He
can be brutally honest when he's doing commentary on sports.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
But he just seems to be that kind of guy.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
I had to kind of laugh when I saw a
story about a guy in London describing himself as a
hobbyist hedge trimmer who trimmed several very large shrubs in
his neighborhood to resemble works of honor or works of art,
excuse me, in honor of his deceased wife, whom he
happened to have met in art school and was with

(33:40):
for forty seven years before she passed. One piece looks
like a giant cat and it's actually it's trimmed to perfection.
It looks like a giant green cat. Another is a
replication of Henry Morris sculpture named Reclining Nude, and it
is also huge, also trimmed in fine detail. Oh, one

(34:04):
more thing. The grieving sculptor's name Tim Bush in Mississippi. No,
we're gonna go to the easy stuff, now, the fun stuff,
the short stuff. Turn that around and okay, well, pay
attention front and center Melbourne. Oh, by the way, today's
National Radio Day and National Bacon Lover's Day. Which way

(34:25):
are you going? Livelihood or delicious and crispy?

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (34:31):
I guess I'll go with delicious and crispy National.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
We're gonna we're gonna combine the two.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
We're gonna go with National Radio Bacon Lover's Day, which
covers probably most of this audience, I would think, so,
at least the two in this room.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
You're a bacon lover, I can tell. I can just
tell I'll eat bacon from time to time. Well, ought
to be transparent and truthful. Yeah, that's that's kind of
where I am with it. If it's on the.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Plate or on whatever I've ordered, I'll eat it. But
I do I have backed off just a little bit
because I'm a senior and you're not, and you can
get away with all that I can't necessarily. All right,
here we go, will totally agree? Put there or just
landed there or hip fracture risk?

Speaker 6 (35:18):
Put there? Just landed there.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
People on social media are talking about the most disgusting
things they have put in their mouths on purpose or not.
Oh well, well, see that's where it comes into or
just landed there because soap is on the list, and
that I mean I was a little kid. I was
a little kid, and I can remember getting my mouth
washed out with soap more than we were saying bad

(35:41):
word might have been.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Might have been.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
I'm sure my mother wasn't just trying to polish my teeth.
I probably said something I shouldn't have and I don't
even know what it was. But what about this one
will seagull?

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Pooh? Nobody put that there?

Speaker 3 (35:55):
It just landed there because they were looking up and
talking about the seagulls and one of them, yeah, one
of them got them a cockroach. Somebody had a cockroach
in their mouth. Have you seen the There's a video
I think it's a TikTok video of a woman over
in Asia somewhere, and she's she's got a hamburger on
her plate, and she's being filmed.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
I don't think she's being watched, she's being filmed.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
And there's a big cockroach walking across, just walking across
the counter.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
She grabs it, she opens her burger.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
Puts it in and takes a big old bite, big
crunchy bite.

Speaker 6 (36:30):
I have not seen that.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Oh yeah, I'll find it for you. You'll love it. No,
please do, I'll love it.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
And the other one was this is kind of creepy too.
A cat sneeze. Okay, now, how why are you? Why
do you have your mouth open in front of your cat? Well,
somebody talking to it, probably talking to it. I talked
to my dogs all the time.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Oh that's it.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Well, that's another one I had on this list too.
There's let me see what the percentage is. More than
half of dog owners, it says dog.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Parents here, but I'm not going there.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
More than half of dog owners say they let their
dogs lick their faces.

Speaker 6 (37:05):
Do you do that? No?

Speaker 3 (37:07):
I don't either. I've seen where dog tongues go. Yeah,
and I don't what I tell them. Yeah, I see dog.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Yeah, yeah, I'm hip to your game. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
I think they're doing it on purpose. They let their
dogs lick their faces. They need to pay more attention
to their dogs.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
What they need to do? How much time do I have?

Speaker 6 (37:27):
We have one minute?

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Millennials are talking about the old person hills they'll die on,
and they include tell me if you're for this or
against it?

Speaker 2 (37:38):
You're along with it or not? Yes or no? New
car head lights are too bright?

Speaker 7 (37:44):
Honestly, I when I got my car, I ante okay, Well,
when I turned the lights on the first time driving
at night, I thought that I had the brights on
because it was so bright.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
I couldn't believe it. And then I realized that it
was just yes or no.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
You should not have to download an app for everything?
Yeah you agree?

Speaker 6 (38:09):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 2 (38:10):
And last, but not least, how much time do we have?

Speaker 3 (38:12):
No?

Speaker 2 (38:13):
We have fifteen. I want to make this very dramatic.
Yes or no?

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Will QR code menus are annoying? They're fine, Oh no,
they're annoying. Bring me an old fashioned memory, and I'll
get my readers out and I'll be fine, and I'll
order before you do.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
That's it for today. We'll see you tomorrow. Audios.