August 29, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Nahid Rianon about bone health.
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All right, Thursday edition of the program starts right now,
this August twenty ninth. As it says, over there on
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That's pretty good stuff.
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If I turned on both these microphones on the left
and the one on the right, you think they'd hear
me in stereo. Well, well you could turn it on,
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potted up, So even if you turned it on.
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course I have no choice. I'm just I'm at your mercy,
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Put it back up now?
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Okay, uh yeah, welcome to fifty plus this Thursday, where
a lot of the men in this audience, if I
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that a lot of this audience is better prepared and
equipped to win a fight or a battle or even
a war. Then the bad guys, wherever and whomever they
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might be, would want to think about us. I have
a hunch they would underestimate the middle.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And slightly older age group.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Now, once you hit a certain stage in life, you're
just you're kind of too old to fight. You're not
gonna go hand to hand with anybody, which is why
we have the Second Amendment. But nonetheless, the younger and
I'm excluding you will because I think you could handle yourself. Uh,
the younger generation in great part a little bit soft,
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I think, I really do. I've read and heard stories
just recently actually about how many women in this country
feel the same way. It's it's really interesting to see
this this change taking part.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And frankly, i'd like to see it go the other way.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's Thursday anyway, precursor to what's allegedly going to be
a really wet Friday. As though the rain that just
came rumbling in from the east and southeast wasn't enough
to get your attention. Uh, and we've got more of
the same right through the holiday weekend. So adjust your
Labor day plans according and make the most of whatever
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plan be you can cook up. And by the way,
the outdoors people in this audience who also maybe listen
to the Dougpike Show on Saturday and Sunday mornings over
on KBMME, and who also might be bracing and preparing
for the opening day Sunday of dub season, know that
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no matter how dry it is leading up to dub season,
it's extremely rare. It's happened, but not often that we
get through opening day pretty dry.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But here we go again.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It's going to be sloppy and wet and muddy over
a good portion of the properties on which dove hunting
season starts on Sunday morning at sunrise.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It's not like waterfowl hunting.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
By the way, for those of you who are new,
it's sunrise and not a half an hour before. All right,
moving forward from there, Uh, I guess we should go
into our deep dive into highs and low's and haiku.
Thanks to Texas Sender Air Quality Specialists. Because cleaner air
is healthier air. They clean ductwork. You should call them.
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Call I'll pound two to fifty and just say healthy air,
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you'll hear some you'll hear some talk, and then you'll hear, Hi,
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And that would be.
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Probably either the owner or someone very close to the
owner over there at Texas Cinder Air Quality Specialists, and
they'll explain what they do.
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Ready, well, yes, here we go.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Seven days of rain, keep umbrellas close at hand, then
back to sunscreen. Yeah, you perked up at the end
of that. That's not bad. I like the first part.
I like the first two. The first two lines were good.
But you don't like how I reference going back to
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sunny days. No, I like it being a little a
little raining well toast.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh okay, Oh so you're one of those guys.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Huh Yeah, I like it being a little cooler. The
sound of rain has been has been used since electronic speakers.
I think were invented to help people relax and get
to sleep.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And it is. It's a sedative, it really is.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I I can't tell you how many times I've sat
down trying to watch the end of an Astros game
or a Texans game, or what are a Rockets game
and stay away or golf on TV, which is also
a sedative, and if it starts raining and I can
hear the rain on the roof. In addition to trying
to watch golf tournaments. As much as I love the game,
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I'm done.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I'm out. I can't. I can't last through that. So
what's the score?
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Will?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You haven't given me a score yet, I'll give that.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Ye, you're doing pretty good. You got a se point
two yesterday. Oh excuse me. I'll try to sneak a couple.
I know, and you know what for that? It's a seven.
Now it's a seven to.
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Even it out. Yes, you were gonna get a seven
point four, but you jumped the gun. I could have
been a contender. Huh yep, hang it all right.
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Off to market we go, thanks to Houston Gold Exchange,
where everything's kind of coming up. Roses if roses were green,
still no eye popping jumps anywhere. But everything was green
before the bell, at least this morning. I haven't looked
since then. I was kind of scared too, because oil
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Fill up now for the holidays. It takes about, I.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Want to say, about eight or ten days by my
calculation to see the price of oil reflected at the pump,
and I might be off a few days. I've done
no scientific study. I didn't call anybody or look it up.
It's just anecdotal evidence collected by me, who happens to
drive a whole lot. I I yeah, put a lot
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of miles on the tires. Nothing like leading with a
disturbing story, this one out of Aurora, Colorado, where and
I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I can't help it. I've got to tell you what's
going on.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
A gang of violent Venezuelans that known to be a
violent gang, all of whom are here illegally and doing
pretty much as they please on taxpayers' dimes all the
way up in Aurora, Colorado, have pretty much taken control
of an entire apartment complex. It's being likened to a
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kind of a no go zone where even law enforcement
doesn't really want to be around there. There's a video
on x that shows heavily armed men marching right into
somebody's apartment. They just march right in in a state that,
by the way, doesn't have much respect for police or
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police work from the way their legislated body works. Scariest
part is that this is only one example of what's
kind of slowly but surely happening in American cities, lots
of them, because law enforcement buzzets get slashed in the
name of not hurting people's feelings and not incarcerating people
that don't need to be there, and our federal government
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just keeps ushering in more horrible, violent people. The people
in that video no fooling. They are armed to the teeth.
They are overarmed really to be trying to clear an apartment.
But that's what intimidation is all about. It's about overwhelming force,
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so somebody will just comply rather than even risk doing
something that might get them in trouble. And make no
mistake also that the people in that video didn't buy
their guns at the local gun store, didn't buy their
amo there. They got that hardware the same way. They'll
keep getting it if some future law confiscates every gun
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sales on the rise in Colorado too. People are scared,
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What's life without a net? I suggest to go to bed,
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Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues, and we are back.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Second segment of fifty plus starts right now. Thank you
all for listening.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
In this segment, we're going to talk about the two
by fours that run throughout our bodies, the structural integrity
to frame, which is our bones, two hundred and something
of them, if memory serves, and so we all come
away smarter After the next ten minutes or so, I
will enlist the help of doctor Nahid Rhiannon, Assistant Professor
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of Geriatric Medicine with ut Health, the Government Medical School,
director of the Acute Care for the Elderly Program, and
overseer of the Geriatric Osteoporosis Clinic at the Center for
Healthy Aging.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Welcome aboard, Doc.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I really appreciate your time. You wear an awful lot
of hats over there, don't you.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Like all clinicians, we also teach and do research.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yees.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Teaching is an extremely part or important part of what
you do, and I appreciate that so exactly. Teach us
what is osteoporosis?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
So, as we get older, like any other body, cells
we break down and form. But as we get older,
we break down more than we can form. And when
that happens, we if you think of holes in a
wall in a structure, we form holes that cannot be
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rebuilt because formation cannot catch up with the breaking down process.
That's when bones become brittle and they break very easily
with minimal trauma or weight.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Almost becomes like a honey cone.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, yeah, that's not good. What percentage of seniors have
to deal with this?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
So we currently so one in five women, sorry, one
in two women fifty years an older and one in
five men fifty years an older usually suffer in a
factor because of osteoporosis. And about fifty million people have
low bone suffer from lowbone masks.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And so why why so many more women than men?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
So actually both men and women suffer from it, but
women during their menopause around age fifty, they start losing
faster because of lack of estrogen in them. That's why
they start losing earlier and shows up the consequences shows
up earlier than men. So it is more prevalent because
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they start early, but men also have them and they
just suffer from the factors that a little bit later
in life, like in their seventies.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Are there any subtle signs or symptoms of this disease
that we might recognize during what should be routine self exams.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Unfortunately, there is no obvious signs. But if you ever
break a bone without falling from high places, like you know,
just from standing high, that's an indication. Even if you
never had any bone density scan that we do for
screening and diagnosing osteoporosis, that history of breaking a bone
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without much trauma actually indicates that you may have osteoporosis. Also. Yeah,
also if you had a history in your parents who
had a hYP fracture or siblings who are diagnosed you
have other chronic disease is like high blood pressure, diabetes,
or if you're on certain medications like steroid, there may
be changes in your bone that we are not able
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to see with naked eye, So you need to talk
to your doctor to be screened for that.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
It's probably better we can't see that because it's never
pretty standing in front of the big mirror looking at
some of the cruel tricks time plays on us. So
away from the mirror quickly. Are there lifestyle or genetic
factors that right? You mentioned a family history. Are there
lifestyle issues that we could change to lower our risk?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yes, thanks for asking that, because what we are born with,
like you said in the Families genetics, we cannot change,
but we can try to build. Believe it or not,
we start losing bone around age thirty and we don't
see the consequences until after fifty and sixties. So to
build it in the young life. Nutrition, physical activity. Smoking
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is bad for bone. Limit alcohol to what is appropriate
for your age, making sure if you're taking a medication
that doesn't affect bone, and if you have to take it,
how to make sure that you are maintaining your bone
health with supplements and other activities. Those are very important,
and then when you get older, make sure you are
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having a healthy meal. Nutrition. Nutrition is a big part
of maintaining bone, so that includes a lot of minerals
and vitamins, but mostly what we talk about is calcium,
vitamin D, magnesium, but many other vitamins and minerals are important,
which comes from regular routine, but a healthy balanced meal.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
You know, it's testimony to the strength of our bones
that the osteoporosis can start at thirty and not manifest
itself until fifty or older. That's starting from a very
strong platform, isn't it. Yes, I fascinating.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
So there's something called peak bon mass and if you
I mean better you build, the peak gets around between
your twenty five and thirty years of age, So higher
peak you get, you start losing from there, so better
off you are.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I noticed in the higher peak.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
In the advanced paperwork I got for this about something
about estrogen replacement.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I presume that's for women, and who's a good candidate.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
So estrogen replacement is no longer a first line agent
for tweeting osteoporosis, however, because there are different kinds of
combinations and some can increase risk of cancer, so it
is important to talk to your doctor and see what
combination is good for you. Also, it can increase risk
of blood plots, so we make sure that you are
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being monitored by an expert. Physician and the dozing what
you need. Though, a lot of women at menopause because
of other menopausal symptoms do use this strategenerty placement and
that can help with bone maintenance. But like I said,
what combination and what dose is very important to know.
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So please always always seek advice from your doctor for that.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
That's always very good advice coming from a doctor or
even from poor Lilo me. Doctor Naheed Rihanna on fifty
plus here, thank you so much. Believe it or not,
we're already out of time.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I really appreciate that this is a good one and
I have personal experience with some of that with a
family member. It's never mind, it doesn't matter. But anyway,
I really listened to closely and I'll share some of
that information.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Thank you. All Right, we got to take a little
break here on the way out.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
A late health is a well it's a group of
clinics around town at which they do vascular surgeries to
eliminate a lot of problems ugly vain. If you've got those,
they can make those disappear. In some cases head pain
even they can remediate that get it out of there
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for you by shutting off the source of that pain.
They can deal with fibroids in women, and one of
the most common procedures they do is called prostate embolization.
Prostate artery embolization, which they do for the guys, obviously.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And that is really easy. It's only a couple of
hours in the office.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You sit back and relax, and you fall asleep, and
you wake up and they have identified the artery that's
feeding that prostate.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
They have shut it off. They turn the spigot off.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
No more blood get into that thing, and as it
shrinks and goes away, so do the symptoms that were
bothering you so much. They also do regenerative medicine over
there at the Late Health. You ought to ask about
that if you're dealing with chronic pain and are just
about sick and tired of doing that a l at
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covered by Medicare and Medicaid. Talk to them on the phone,
look at the website. There will be a lot of
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Speaker 1 (19:18):
Now 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 cod o wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
By Welcome Back segment three of fifty plus. This Thursday afternoon.
Will you feel like you've got some good stuff for tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Good, Yeah, we've had some.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
We have had some good stuff and plenty of solid
interviews too. You don't just have to roll up an
hour of me happen? Well, this week you asked me
to play an interview that we had just recorded. But
I normally go and I from the It wasn't travel tips,
but it was from technology with aar pete absolutely and
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oh yeah, yeah yeah, so yeah this week I have
that episode planned for tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Good.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
So I go back one week and I picture a
show from the previous nice.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, that'll be a good one for sure. I like
that one. I really did. And I'm I'm trying to
set up.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I've got a friend who listens to the Outdoor show
on the weekends, who is going to be This guy
travels all over the country. He has probably logged more
miles than anybody I know, including my other all the
time driver, Rick Bie. This guy's name is, Oh, Aaron,
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that's who it is. Almost lost his name in my head. Anyway,
Between Aaron and Rick, they probably put I don't know,
half a million miles a year on their vehicles.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
It's just crazy how much they drive.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So anyway, I heard it during that break. I heard
some talk about mortgage rates and how they're coming down.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I think it was.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I wasn't really paying attention. I'd just heard the word mortgage,
and it leads me very quickly to this. The mortgage
rates around this country are still significantly higher than would
make most potential home buyers comfortable. However, if you are
an illegal immigrant living in California, if new some signs
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into law a bill that's already passed through that state's
state Assembly, then you get one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars zero interest home loan. Not available to veterans, not
available to poor Americans, but it's available to them.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
And here's the way it works. The barrower is only.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Going to pay back principle plus a small percentage of
the homes appreciation over time.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So, in other words, if they can.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Buy that home with the one fifty and then flip it,
not long afterward, in case, just in case, it does
go up in value, which I'm kind of scratching my
head to see how that's going to happen in California.
For heaven's sakes, I don't know who's going to pay
a premium to live there much longer. But in any case,
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right now, they only have to pay back principle plus
a small percentage of the appreciation depending on which way
the election goes. I would bet you that within two
years there would be debt forgiveness loan forgiveness for any
of those barrowers who haven't quite been able to make
their payments. I would suspect that illegal immigrants wouldn't be
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terribly terribly interested in worrying about paying off a loan.
They can just jump on a bus and move somewhere else.
Do some ought to think twice before he signs this one?
I doubt he will. I doubt he will think twice.
I think he'll do that. And keep in mind that
California is the state once represented in Congress by one
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Kamala Harris. Look at what's happened to most of that
once amazing state and ask yourself why there aren't well
you don't have to ask, if you look at that,
why there aren't enough U haul trucks on the planet
to help.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Everybody who wants to get out of there.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
They're leaving in droves. They're leaving in droves.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
And if you're counting on President Biden to push a
bunch more policy changes through before he leaves office, sign
a few more executive orders, you can pretty much stop counting.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
He's currently on day nine of a two week vacation.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Oval office, empty his position as commander in chief, basically vacation.
He's back in Delaware now, probably still on the beach
as we speak, relaxing. I guess you would have to
after you spend another week. The previous week was at
the home, well, if you can call a thirty seven
million dollar estate home, at the very nice home of
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Joe Keani, CEO of a medical tech company called Massimo.
And by the way, I have no quarrel at all
with Keani's estate or his right to own it. Such
are the rewards in this country for being exceptionally good
at something that others quite just haven't quite mastered. Well,
that are inheriting a boatload of money, like Walton money
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maybe I saw this just this morning. Alice Walton will pop.
Are you familiar with Alice Walton?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
No, that that well, she's Sam Walton's daughter and.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
She's in her sixties I think it is, and she
currently is worth sixty.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Eight billion dollars. Pretty good. That's pretty good for.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Just kind of rolling up and being in the right
family from the desk of how much time do I have?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I have three minutes? Oh, this is good. Let's go
to the fun stuff a little bit. Will Are you ready? Yes?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Good?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
To be or not to be? A liquid? Probably not
a good idea, and I'll scratch that one off. I
didn't do enough research on that, and it's kind of stupid.
The second one is work around for teenagers, and then third.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Acceptable or not? Will acceptable or not? That's not the
whole title. Your name is included in the title, so
you have to will there you go.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Somebody complained on Reddit after the person in front of
them on a Delta flight and it really wouldn't have
mattered what flight changed their baby's diaper right there in
the seat, just sitting right there.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
A little stinker. Huh.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I don't know how little it may have been or
how big will it just says they changed the diaper
right there. Impressive, just too lazy to go to the
bathroom with the baby really or well, you know they
have the flip flip it down basically a mini version
of what you would see in the room to work
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and do whatever you have to do to clean up
that baby and not gag the people for four rows
in all directions. I haven't been on an airplane bathroom
in a while. I normally am of the ilk. Oh
my word, will So you're my age, So when you're
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on an airplane you need to go to the bathroom.
Is there a changing station in there? Uh? It's been
a while since I paid attention, But I would be
willing to bet you a lot that because of all
the rules and regulations to accommodate everybody's tiniest little whim,
and this certainly qualifies as a much bigger than tiny whim. Yeah,
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there's got to be one. It might not be giant sized,
but it's better than changing at the seat. We imagine
sitting next to that imagine, No, that's wrong. Will so
you do you find it acceptable or not? No? See,
that's another place on which that's another thing we agree
on will see how close we are.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
We're just like peas in a pod. Will I don't
have any more time?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Do I?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
All right, we'll take a little break here on the
way out. I'll tell you about ut Health Institute on Aging,
a fantastic collaborative of one hundreds, if not maybe more
than a thousand, i'd bet by now local providers right here.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It started right here.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Ten or eleven years ago now, I believe, by a
woman named doctor Carmel Dyer, an amazing, fascinating, brilliant woman
who had a vision for doing a better job, at
least starting in Houston, of taking care of seniors. And
that's what the Institute on Aging does. All these people
who participate in this program have gone back to get
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additional training on top of their area of expertise and
what it took to get the diploma on the wall.
But they found out now how to apply what they
know specifically to seniors.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
And we are different.
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Like I said earlier when I was talking to talking
to doctor Rhannon, next time you get out of the shower,
stand there in front of the mirror for a minute
and tell me you don't look different than you did
thirty forty years ago. They're mostly in the med center,
but many of them also practice at least a few
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cities and outlying hospitals and clinics, so that you can
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Go to the website, look at all the resources first,
just an amazing number of resources on just about anything
and everything having to do with our health. And then
on top of that, you can find your way to
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one of these providers and get seen by somebody who
really understands us UT Health Institute on aging uth dot
edu slash aging uth dot edu slash.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Aging old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch, Okay, well,
I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty plus continues.
Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Hi. Welcome back back to listening for fifty one. It
is and we'll that's seven minutes to Phil. Will that's
pretty good? I yeah, no, no, I don't want to
even do that.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
This is something that really got my attention.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Will you don't have to listen to this one because
you're not a parent at least not yet.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Unless you do you consider.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yourself a dog parent or a dog owner, not a
dog owner.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yeah, okay, well then you can skip this one.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
US General US Surgeon General, he said, mixing up the
two words together.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
A little word salad. I'm learning from the best. Lately.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
US Surgeon General issued a warning recently that parenting can
be harmful to your mental health. Duh, Yeah, it can be,
certainly can be. Almost half of parents surveyed say parenting
is overwhelming, overwhelming, and about I think it was forty
(30:48):
percent said that it's just so stressful they can't even
function most days. How pampered and coddled were you growing
up that the sudden introduction of a new family member
into your family, a baby born into the family, is
(31:12):
so disruptive, so frustrating to you that you can't function.
Just it boggles the mind. So, and here's the question
I have. Are the kids that much worse? When I
look at it, and when I think back to when
I was that age my son's sixteen now, and I
(31:33):
think back to all the things that we were doing,
then I can't say that it's the kid's fault. I
don't think they are. I don't think they're worse. I
think the parents are just soft as cheese and can't
stand it.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
When things aren't going their way. One hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Parenting has been around for a very long time, and
most of us do it proudly. We do it willingly,
regardless of the gray hair and jittery disposition it might cause.
Sounds let's play conspiracy theorist. It sounds like a sneaky
(32:17):
way to reduce us birth rates even more than they're
already down and replace us with whatever crosses the border tomorrow. Hm.
That's that's a stretch, I know, and I'm saying it
tongue in cheek almost, but certainly not something that would
(32:39):
would qualify as one hundred percent out of the realm
of possibility. To be honest with you, at this point
in the way, the country's going all right, coming back aboard?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Will all the board you ready?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yes? Won't be long before Billboard's on freeways. These titles
are getting longer, longer.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I'm sorry. Here's a short one, soft landing and contortionists.
Listened closely to the details.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Listen closely to the details.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah, contortionists was the first word, But that's okay. So
this couple up in Philadelphia, unlikely that they were celebrating
the astros tend to nothing thrumming of the Philadelphia Phillies,
which they had come in to them after beating us
(33:32):
the first two days. We lit it up yesterday, and
unfortunately I was driving and or maybe bass fishing and
hitting golf balls during a pretty good part of that game.
But I was happy to see that they had won
ten to nothing. But I digress. Okay, so let's go
back to this. A couple's suv had to be pulled
out of the water. Pay attention, will you ready you're listening?
(33:53):
Making sure had to be pulled out of a river
yesterday after they knocked it into gear. While it says
you're getting it on, whatever that means in the back seat,
they knocked the thing into gear from the back seat.
That requires some significant moving around, wouldn't you agree? Kind
(34:18):
of car an suv that's all on? Maybe a little one.
Maybe there's not much room and a foot slipped, lost
traction whatever, lost grip. Maybe they're really tall, could be yeah,
long front seat and back seat?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Did you say long?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Yeah they're long.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Let's move on. Uh this is I found this very interesting.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
A middle school teacher in South Korea asked a kid
to solve a problem on the blackboard.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Wake up, well, come back, It wasn't that bad.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
So this kid's up there, he's sweating bullets and he
can't really get the problem right.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
And so embarrassed was this child.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
When it doesn't say see it just as a kid
when he or she didn't know the answer that The
parents have now sued the teacher for causing this child
emotional abuse.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Where are you on that.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
One, Will Well, I don't know about emotional abuse.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
What else was happening?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Was it nothing the teacher berating the child? No, the child.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Got all upset and went home embarrassed. You should be
if you can't solve the problem on the board. I
doubt that the teacher was berating this kid or demeaning
him in some way, shape or form. I think the
kid was just embarrassed. Maybe he didn't study, Maybe it
just takes him a little bit longer, Maybe he has
(35:52):
learning issues. There's all kinds of reasons that could have happened,
none of which merits a lawsuit against the teacher.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
But you watch, you watch on.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
The billboards around town, somebody's gonna sink their teeth into
that and be the first one to be the law
firm of somebody, somebody and somebody, and yeah, your child
get embarrassed at the blackboard.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Call us. We're out of here. I'll be back next Tuesday, No,
next Monday. Thank you, audios.
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
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Remote for you.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
All right, Thursday edition of the program starts right now,
this August twenty ninth. As it says, over there on
the big giant clock on the wall, thank you will.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That's pretty good stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
If I turned on both these microphones on the left
and the one on the right, you think they'd hear
me in stereo. Well, well you could turn it on,
but I know the answer. The other mic is not
potted up, So even if you turned it on.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So you can.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, you control all of that, don't you. Yeah, of
course I have no choice. I'm just I'm at your mercy,
that's true. I mean I could go just like move
this one down, and then this becomes the will Mobley.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Put it back up now?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Okay, uh yeah, welcome to fifty plus this Thursday, where
a lot of the men in this audience, if I
had to bet or guess or whatever, I would guess
that a lot of this audience is better prepared and
equipped to win a fight or a battle or even
a war. Then the bad guys, wherever and whomever they
(01:50):
might be, would want to think about us. I have
a hunch they would underestimate the middle.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And slightly older age group.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Now, once you hit a certain stage in life, you're
just you're kind of too old to fight. You're not
gonna go hand to hand with anybody, which is why
we have the Second Amendment. But nonetheless, the younger and
I'm excluding you will because I think you could handle yourself. Uh,
the younger generation in great part a little bit soft,
(02:22):
I think, I really do. I've read and heard stories
just recently actually about how many women in this country
feel the same way. It's it's really interesting to see
this this change taking part.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And frankly, i'd like to see it go the other way.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's Thursday anyway, precursor to what's allegedly going to be
a really wet Friday. As though the rain that just
came rumbling in from the east and southeast wasn't enough
to get your attention. Uh, and we've got more of
the same right through the holiday weekend. So adjust your
Labor day plans according and make the most of whatever
(03:02):
plan be you can cook up. And by the way,
the outdoors people in this audience who also maybe listen
to the Dougpike Show on Saturday and Sunday mornings over
on KBMME, and who also might be bracing and preparing
for the opening day Sunday of dub season, know that
(03:24):
no matter how dry it is leading up to dub season,
it's extremely rare. It's happened, but not often that we
get through opening day pretty dry.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But here we go again.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It's going to be sloppy and wet and muddy over
a good portion of the properties on which dove hunting
season starts on Sunday morning at sunrise.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It's not like waterfowl hunting.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
By the way, for those of you who are new,
it's sunrise and not a half an hour before. All right,
moving forward from there, Uh, I guess we should go
into our deep dive into highs and low's and haiku.
Thanks to Texas Sender Air Quality Specialists. Because cleaner air
is healthier air. They clean ductwork. You should call them.
(04:12):
Call I'll pound two to fifty and just say healthy air,
and then stay on the line for a second and
you'll hear some you'll hear some talk, and then you'll hear, Hi,
what can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And that would be.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Probably either the owner or someone very close to the
owner over there at Texas Cinder Air Quality Specialists, and
they'll explain what they do.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Ready, well, yes, here we go.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Seven days of rain, keep umbrellas close at hand, then
back to sunscreen. Yeah, you perked up at the end
of that. That's not bad. I like the first part.
I like the first two. The first two lines were good.
But you don't like how I reference going back to
(04:55):
sunny days. No, I like it being a little a
little raining well toast.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh okay, Oh so you're one of those guys.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Huh Yeah, I like it being a little cooler. The
sound of rain has been has been used since electronic speakers.
I think were invented to help people relax and get
to sleep.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And it is. It's a sedative, it really is.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I I can't tell you how many times I've sat
down trying to watch the end of an Astros game
or a Texans game, or what are a Rockets game
and stay away or golf on TV, which is also
a sedative, and if it starts raining and I can
hear the rain on the roof. In addition to trying
to watch golf tournaments. As much as I love the game,
(05:44):
I'm done.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I'm out. I can't. I can't last through that. So
what's the score?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Will?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You haven't given me a score yet, I'll give that.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Ye, you're doing pretty good. You got a se point
two yesterday. Oh excuse me. I'll try to sneak a couple.
I know, and you know what for that? It's a seven.
Now it's a seven to.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Even it out. Yes, you were gonna get a seven
point four, but you jumped the gun. I could have
been a contender. Huh yep, hang it all right.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Off to market we go, thanks to Houston Gold Exchange,
where everything's kind of coming up. Roses if roses were green,
still no eye popping jumps anywhere. But everything was green
before the bell, at least this morning. I haven't looked
since then. I was kind of scared too, because oil
was marching upward again, back north of seventy five bucks.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Fill up now for the holidays. It takes about, I.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Want to say, about eight or ten days by my
calculation to see the price of oil reflected at the pump,
and I might be off a few days. I've done
no scientific study. I didn't call anybody or look it up.
It's just anecdotal evidence collected by me, who happens to
drive a whole lot. I I yeah, put a lot
(07:01):
of miles on the tires. Nothing like leading with a
disturbing story, this one out of Aurora, Colorado, where and
I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I can't help it. I've got to tell you what's
going on.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
A gang of violent Venezuelans that known to be a
violent gang, all of whom are here illegally and doing
pretty much as they please on taxpayers' dimes all the
way up in Aurora, Colorado, have pretty much taken control
of an entire apartment complex. It's being likened to a
(07:33):
kind of a no go zone where even law enforcement
doesn't really want to be around there. There's a video
on x that shows heavily armed men marching right into
somebody's apartment. They just march right in in a state that,
by the way, doesn't have much respect for police or
(07:54):
police work from the way their legislated body works. Scariest
part is that this is only one example of what's
kind of slowly but surely happening in American cities, lots
of them, because law enforcement buzzets get slashed in the
name of not hurting people's feelings and not incarcerating people
that don't need to be there, and our federal government
(08:16):
just keeps ushering in more horrible, violent people. The people
in that video no fooling. They are armed to the teeth.
They are overarmed really to be trying to clear an apartment.
But that's what intimidation is all about. It's about overwhelming force,
(08:37):
so somebody will just comply rather than even risk doing
something that might get them in trouble. And make no
mistake also that the people in that video didn't buy
their guns at the local gun store, didn't buy their
amo there. They got that hardware the same way. They'll
keep getting it if some future law confiscates every gun
(08:58):
lawful people own every one of them. Surprise, legal gun
sales on the rise in Colorado too. People are scared,
and rightfully so all right, we got to take a
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Speaker 1 (10:14):
What's life without a net? I suggest to go to bed,
leave it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues, and we are back.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Second segment of fifty plus starts right now. Thank you
all for listening.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
In this segment, we're going to talk about the two
by fours that run throughout our bodies, the structural integrity
to frame, which is our bones, two hundred and something
of them, if memory serves, and so we all come
away smarter After the next ten minutes or so, I
will enlist the help of doctor Nahid Rhiannon, Assistant Professor
(10:57):
of Geriatric Medicine with ut Health, the Government Medical School,
director of the Acute Care for the Elderly Program, and
overseer of the Geriatric Osteoporosis Clinic at the Center for
Healthy Aging.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Welcome aboard, Doc.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I really appreciate your time. You wear an awful lot
of hats over there, don't you.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Like all clinicians, we also teach and do research.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yees.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Teaching is an extremely part or important part of what
you do, and I appreciate that so exactly. Teach us
what is osteoporosis?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
So, as we get older, like any other body, cells
we break down and form. But as we get older,
we break down more than we can form. And when
that happens, we if you think of holes in a
wall in a structure, we form holes that cannot be
(11:58):
rebuilt because formation cannot catch up with the breaking down process.
That's when bones become brittle and they break very easily
with minimal trauma or weight.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Almost becomes like a honey cone.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, yeah, that's not good. What percentage of seniors have
to deal with this?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
So we currently so one in five women, sorry, one
in two women fifty years an older and one in
five men fifty years an older usually suffer in a
factor because of osteoporosis. And about fifty million people have
low bone suffer from lowbone masks.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And so why why so many more women than men?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
So actually both men and women suffer from it, but
women during their menopause around age fifty, they start losing
faster because of lack of estrogen in them. That's why
they start losing earlier and shows up the consequences shows
up earlier than men. So it is more prevalent because
(13:05):
they start early, but men also have them and they
just suffer from the factors that a little bit later
in life, like in their seventies.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Are there any subtle signs or symptoms of this disease
that we might recognize during what should be routine self exams.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Unfortunately, there is no obvious signs. But if you ever
break a bone without falling from high places, like you know,
just from standing high, that's an indication. Even if you
never had any bone density scan that we do for
screening and diagnosing osteoporosis, that history of breaking a bone
(13:46):
without much trauma actually indicates that you may have osteoporosis. Also. Yeah,
also if you had a history in your parents who
had a hYP fracture or siblings who are diagnosed you
have other chronic disease is like high blood pressure, diabetes,
or if you're on certain medications like steroid, there may
be changes in your bone that we are not able
(14:08):
to see with naked eye, So you need to talk
to your doctor to be screened for that.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
It's probably better we can't see that because it's never
pretty standing in front of the big mirror looking at
some of the cruel tricks time plays on us. So
away from the mirror quickly. Are there lifestyle or genetic
factors that right? You mentioned a family history. Are there
lifestyle issues that we could change to lower our risk?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yes, thanks for asking that, because what we are born with,
like you said in the Families genetics, we cannot change,
but we can try to build. Believe it or not,
we start losing bone around age thirty and we don't
see the consequences until after fifty and sixties. So to
build it in the young life. Nutrition, physical activity. Smoking
(14:58):
is bad for bone. Limit alcohol to what is appropriate
for your age, making sure if you're taking a medication
that doesn't affect bone, and if you have to take it,
how to make sure that you are maintaining your bone
health with supplements and other activities. Those are very important,
and then when you get older, make sure you are
(15:20):
having a healthy meal. Nutrition. Nutrition is a big part
of maintaining bone, so that includes a lot of minerals
and vitamins, but mostly what we talk about is calcium,
vitamin D, magnesium, but many other vitamins and minerals are important,
which comes from regular routine, but a healthy balanced meal.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
You know, it's testimony to the strength of our bones
that the osteoporosis can start at thirty and not manifest
itself until fifty or older. That's starting from a very
strong platform, isn't it. Yes, I fascinating.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
So there's something called peak bon mass and if you
I mean better you build, the peak gets around between
your twenty five and thirty years of age, So higher
peak you get, you start losing from there, so better
off you are.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I noticed in the higher peak.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
In the advanced paperwork I got for this about something
about estrogen replacement.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I presume that's for women, and who's a good candidate.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
So estrogen replacement is no longer a first line agent
for tweeting osteoporosis, however, because there are different kinds of
combinations and some can increase risk of cancer, so it
is important to talk to your doctor and see what
combination is good for you. Also, it can increase risk
of blood plots, so we make sure that you are
(16:55):
being monitored by an expert. Physician and the dozing what
you need. Though, a lot of women at menopause because
of other menopausal symptoms do use this strategenerty placement and
that can help with bone maintenance. But like I said,
what combination and what dose is very important to know.
(17:16):
So please always always seek advice from your doctor for that.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
That's always very good advice coming from a doctor or
even from poor Lilo me. Doctor Naheed Rihanna on fifty
plus here, thank you so much. Believe it or not,
we're already out of time.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I really appreciate that this is a good one and
I have personal experience with some of that with a
family member. It's never mind, it doesn't matter. But anyway,
I really listened to closely and I'll share some of
that information.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Thank you. All Right, we got to take a little
break here on the way out.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
A late health is a well it's a group of
clinics around town at which they do vascular surgeries to
eliminate a lot of problems ugly vain. If you've got those,
they can make those disappear. In some cases head pain
even they can remediate that get it out of there
(18:08):
for you by shutting off the source of that pain.
They can deal with fibroids in women, and one of
the most common procedures they do is called prostate embolization.
Prostate artery embolization, which they do for the guys, obviously.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And that is really easy. It's only a couple of
hours in the office.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You sit back and relax, and you fall asleep, and
you wake up and they have identified the artery that's
feeding that prostate.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
They have shut it off. They turn the spigot off.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
No more blood get into that thing, and as it
shrinks and goes away, so do the symptoms that were
bothering you so much. They also do regenerative medicine over
there at the Late Health. You ought to ask about
that if you're dealing with chronic pain and are just
about sick and tired of doing that a l at
e Late Health. A lot of what they do is
(19:01):
covered by Medicare and Medicaid. Talk to them on the phone,
look at the website. There will be a lot of
explanation either way. Seven one three, five, eight, eight thirty
eight eighty eight. Seven one three, five eight eight thirty
eight eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Now 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 cod o wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
By Welcome Back segment three of fifty plus. This Thursday afternoon.
Will you feel like you've got some good stuff for tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Good, Yeah, we've had some.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
We have had some good stuff and plenty of solid
interviews too. You don't just have to roll up an
hour of me happen? Well, this week you asked me
to play an interview that we had just recorded. But
I normally go and I from the It wasn't travel tips,
but it was from technology with aar pete absolutely and
(20:14):
oh yeah, yeah yeah, so yeah this week I have
that episode planned for tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Good.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
So I go back one week and I picture a
show from the previous nice.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, that'll be a good one for sure. I like
that one. I really did. And I'm I'm trying to
set up.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I've got a friend who listens to the Outdoor show
on the weekends, who is going to be This guy
travels all over the country. He has probably logged more
miles than anybody I know, including my other all the
time driver, Rick Bie. This guy's name is, Oh, Aaron,
(20:52):
that's who it is. Almost lost his name in my head. Anyway,
Between Aaron and Rick, they probably put I don't know,
half a million miles a year on their vehicles.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
It's just crazy how much they drive.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So anyway, I heard it during that break. I heard
some talk about mortgage rates and how they're coming down.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I think it was.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I wasn't really paying attention. I'd just heard the word mortgage,
and it leads me very quickly to this. The mortgage
rates around this country are still significantly higher than would
make most potential home buyers comfortable. However, if you are
an illegal immigrant living in California, if new some signs
(21:38):
into law a bill that's already passed through that state's
state Assembly, then you get one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars zero interest home loan. Not available to veterans, not
available to poor Americans, but it's available to them.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
And here's the way it works. The barrower is only.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Going to pay back principle plus a small percentage of
the homes appreciation over time.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So, in other words, if they can.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Buy that home with the one fifty and then flip it,
not long afterward, in case, just in case, it does
go up in value, which I'm kind of scratching my
head to see how that's going to happen in California.
For heaven's sakes, I don't know who's going to pay
a premium to live there much longer. But in any case,
(22:34):
right now, they only have to pay back principle plus
a small percentage of the appreciation depending on which way
the election goes. I would bet you that within two
years there would be debt forgiveness loan forgiveness for any
of those barrowers who haven't quite been able to make
their payments. I would suspect that illegal immigrants wouldn't be
(22:55):
terribly terribly interested in worrying about paying off a loan.
They can just jump on a bus and move somewhere else.
Do some ought to think twice before he signs this one?
I doubt he will. I doubt he will think twice.
I think he'll do that. And keep in mind that
California is the state once represented in Congress by one
(23:19):
Kamala Harris. Look at what's happened to most of that
once amazing state and ask yourself why there aren't well
you don't have to ask, if you look at that,
why there aren't enough U haul trucks on the planet
to help.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Everybody who wants to get out of there.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
They're leaving in droves. They're leaving in droves.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
And if you're counting on President Biden to push a
bunch more policy changes through before he leaves office, sign
a few more executive orders, you can pretty much stop counting.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
He's currently on day nine of a two week vacation.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Oval office, empty his position as commander in chief, basically vacation.
He's back in Delaware now, probably still on the beach
as we speak, relaxing. I guess you would have to
after you spend another week. The previous week was at
the home, well, if you can call a thirty seven
million dollar estate home, at the very nice home of
(24:16):
Joe Keani, CEO of a medical tech company called Massimo.
And by the way, I have no quarrel at all
with Keani's estate or his right to own it. Such
are the rewards in this country for being exceptionally good
at something that others quite just haven't quite mastered. Well,
that are inheriting a boatload of money, like Walton money
(24:37):
maybe I saw this just this morning. Alice Walton will pop.
Are you familiar with Alice Walton?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
No, that that well, she's Sam Walton's daughter and.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
She's in her sixties I think it is, and she
currently is worth sixty.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Eight billion dollars. Pretty good. That's pretty good for.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Just kind of rolling up and being in the right
family from the desk of how much time do I have?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I have three minutes? Oh, this is good. Let's go
to the fun stuff a little bit. Will Are you ready? Yes?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Good?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
To be or not to be? A liquid? Probably not
a good idea, and I'll scratch that one off. I
didn't do enough research on that, and it's kind of stupid.
The second one is work around for teenagers, and then third.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Acceptable or not? Will acceptable or not? That's not the
whole title. Your name is included in the title, so
you have to will there you go.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Somebody complained on Reddit after the person in front of
them on a Delta flight and it really wouldn't have
mattered what flight changed their baby's diaper right there in
the seat, just sitting right there.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
A little stinker. Huh.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I don't know how little it may have been or
how big will it just says they changed the diaper
right there. Impressive, just too lazy to go to the
bathroom with the baby really or well, you know they
have the flip flip it down basically a mini version
of what you would see in the room to work
(26:20):
and do whatever you have to do to clean up
that baby and not gag the people for four rows
in all directions. I haven't been on an airplane bathroom
in a while. I normally am of the ilk. Oh
my word, will So you're my age, So when you're
(26:41):
on an airplane you need to go to the bathroom.
Is there a changing station in there? Uh? It's been
a while since I paid attention, But I would be
willing to bet you a lot that because of all
the rules and regulations to accommodate everybody's tiniest little whim,
and this certainly qualifies as a much bigger than tiny whim. Yeah,
(27:03):
there's got to be one. It might not be giant sized,
but it's better than changing at the seat. We imagine
sitting next to that imagine, No, that's wrong. Will so
you do you find it acceptable or not? No? See,
that's another place on which that's another thing we agree
on will see how close we are.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
We're just like peas in a pod. Will I don't
have any more time?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Do I?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
All right, we'll take a little break here on the
way out. I'll tell you about ut Health Institute on Aging,
a fantastic collaborative of one hundreds, if not maybe more
than a thousand, i'd bet by now local providers right here.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It started right here.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Ten or eleven years ago now, I believe, by a
woman named doctor Carmel Dyer, an amazing, fascinating, brilliant woman
who had a vision for doing a better job, at
least starting in Houston, of taking care of seniors. And
that's what the Institute on Aging does. All these people
who participate in this program have gone back to get
(28:11):
additional training on top of their area of expertise and
what it took to get the diploma on the wall.
But they found out now how to apply what they
know specifically to seniors.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
And we are different.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Like I said earlier when I was talking to talking
to doctor Rhannon, next time you get out of the shower,
stand there in front of the mirror for a minute
and tell me you don't look different than you did
thirty forty years ago. They're mostly in the med center,
but many of them also practice at least a few
days a week outside of that area, out into outlying
(28:46):
cities and outlying hospitals and clinics, so that you can
see one of them pretty easily for anything that's bugging you.
Go to the website, look at all the resources first,
just an amazing number of resources on just about anything
and everything having to do with our health. And then
on top of that, you can find your way to
(29:06):
one of these providers and get seen by somebody who
really understands us UT Health Institute on aging uth dot
edu slash aging uth dot edu slash.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Aging old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch, Okay, well,
I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty plus continues.
Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Hi. Welcome back back to listening for fifty one. It
is and we'll that's seven minutes to Phil. Will that's
pretty good? I yeah, no, no, I don't want to
even do that.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
This is something that really got my attention.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Will you don't have to listen to this one because
you're not a parent at least not yet.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Unless you do you consider.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yourself a dog parent or a dog owner, not a
dog owner.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yeah, okay, well then you can skip this one.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
US General US Surgeon General, he said, mixing up the
two words together.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
A little word salad. I'm learning from the best. Lately.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
US Surgeon General issued a warning recently that parenting can
be harmful to your mental health. Duh, Yeah, it can be,
certainly can be. Almost half of parents surveyed say parenting
is overwhelming, overwhelming, and about I think it was forty
(30:48):
percent said that it's just so stressful they can't even
function most days. How pampered and coddled were you growing
up that the sudden introduction of a new family member
into your family, a baby born into the family, is
(31:12):
so disruptive, so frustrating to you that you can't function.
Just it boggles the mind. So, and here's the question
I have. Are the kids that much worse? When I
look at it, and when I think back to when
I was that age my son's sixteen now, and I
(31:33):
think back to all the things that we were doing,
then I can't say that it's the kid's fault. I
don't think they are. I don't think they're worse. I
think the parents are just soft as cheese and can't
stand it.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
When things aren't going their way. One hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Parenting has been around for a very long time, and
most of us do it proudly. We do it willingly,
regardless of the gray hair and jittery disposition it might cause.
Sounds let's play conspiracy theorist. It sounds like a sneaky
(32:17):
way to reduce us birth rates even more than they're
already down and replace us with whatever crosses the border tomorrow. Hm.
That's that's a stretch, I know, and I'm saying it
tongue in cheek almost, but certainly not something that would
(32:39):
would qualify as one hundred percent out of the realm
of possibility. To be honest with you, at this point
in the way, the country's going all right, coming back aboard?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Will all the board you ready?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yes? Won't be long before Billboard's on freeways. These titles
are getting longer, longer.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I'm sorry. Here's a short one, soft landing and contortionists.
Listened closely to the details.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Listen closely to the details.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah, contortionists was the first word, But that's okay. So
this couple up in Philadelphia, unlikely that they were celebrating
the astros tend to nothing thrumming of the Philadelphia Phillies,
which they had come in to them after beating us
(33:32):
the first two days. We lit it up yesterday, and
unfortunately I was driving and or maybe bass fishing and
hitting golf balls during a pretty good part of that game.
But I was happy to see that they had won
ten to nothing. But I digress. Okay, so let's go
back to this. A couple's suv had to be pulled
out of the water. Pay attention, will you ready you're listening?
(33:53):
Making sure had to be pulled out of a river
yesterday after they knocked it into gear. While it says
you're getting it on, whatever that means in the back seat,
they knocked the thing into gear from the back seat.
That requires some significant moving around, wouldn't you agree? Kind
(34:18):
of car an suv that's all on? Maybe a little one.
Maybe there's not much room and a foot slipped, lost
traction whatever, lost grip. Maybe they're really tall, could be yeah,
long front seat and back seat?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Did you say long?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Yeah they're long.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Let's move on. Uh this is I found this very interesting.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
A middle school teacher in South Korea asked a kid
to solve a problem on the blackboard.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Wake up, well, come back, It wasn't that bad.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
So this kid's up there, he's sweating bullets and he
can't really get the problem right.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
And so embarrassed was this child.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
When it doesn't say see it just as a kid
when he or she didn't know the answer that The
parents have now sued the teacher for causing this child
emotional abuse.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Where are you on that.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
One, Will Well, I don't know about emotional abuse.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
What else was happening?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Was it nothing the teacher berating the child? No, the child.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Got all upset and went home embarrassed. You should be
if you can't solve the problem on the board. I
doubt that the teacher was berating this kid or demeaning
him in some way, shape or form. I think the
kid was just embarrassed. Maybe he didn't study, Maybe it
just takes him a little bit longer, Maybe he has
(35:52):
learning issues. There's all kinds of reasons that could have happened,
none of which merits a lawsuit against the teacher.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
But you watch, you watch on.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
The billboards around town, somebody's gonna sink their teeth into
that and be the first one to be the law
firm of somebody, somebody and somebody, and yeah, your child
get embarrassed at the blackboard.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Call us. We're out of here. I'll be back next Tuesday, No,
next Monday. Thank you, audios.
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