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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 4 (00:50):
All right, Monday edition of the program starts right now.
And if it sounds like my voice has a little
pep in it because I was gone all this past week,
those of you who listened to regularly probably knew that already.
Will what did you get some good stuff in there
for him? I hope?
Speaker 5 (01:07):
So?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Oh yeah, Okay, making sure you is there any particular
segment you recall running that you thought, you know, this
is gonna be one they'll really they'll really relate to
and they'll.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Like, oh yeah, the ones where you were like, it's Tuesday,
and then I played it on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Oh well done, Will, Well makes my job. It went
all out, didn't you. Well, you'll never hear me do
that again. I'm gonna really mess you up. Now I'll
have to do a little extraly. Oh well, I don't
know why I keep putting the square peg in the
round hole Will. Anyway, this is my first day back
(01:48):
from a whirlwind week of a vacation during which I
got a chance to really see a pretty big chunk
of Texas. Actually the plan unfolded late. I was in
the I was only planning on taking one day off
up until what was it that Thursday, Will, when I
just said, okay, I'm taking the whole week. I think
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it was it was maybe Wednesday. Gave you a little
bit of notice, but not a lot, and it made
good sense to it was. Actually I got to credit
my wife with the idea, because I was only going
to take that one day off to run up to
Whispering Pines and participate in a sponsor and media appreciation
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day ahead of the Spirit International, which is a biannual
golf tournament up there at Whispering Pines, And she said,
why don't you just take the whole day off. You
need it. You haven't had any time off in a
very long time. And she was right, and I did it,
and it was a lot of fun, it really was.
And I started this morning. I started prepping with far
(02:51):
too much detail in the story of what I accomplished
in one week. So I whittled it down and yeah,
it was pretty good. And in quick footnote, Friday is
my one day off each week, so we'll start there.
I played golf with friends that morning Friday morning, ran
a couple of errands that afternoon. Sun Saturday was actually
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pretty quiet. I had things to do around the house,
a little bit of packing for the week to come,
and just try. I tried my very best to sit still.
And unless I'm exactly I'm totally exhausted. I'm not good
at that. I don't know why. Maybe it's just because
I like to be outside and sitting still usually means
being inside. In any event, I was gonna go into
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all that detail, but I'll just note the activities instead.
So Sunday, around noon, I drive to Own, Alaska. You
know where that is? Well, no, Well it's way up
in East Texas, very close to Lake Livingston, Okay, and
that's That afternoon I fished with a good friend, Forrest Wilkinson,
and then Monday morning and I got to spend the
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night at their house. It was very nice of them
to do that. By the way, his wife and I
like a cooked a delicious, delicious dinner. So I go
to a drive to Whispering Pines on Monday morning for
that golf tournament. Well what wasn't a tournament. It was
just a fun round, but a drive out there awesome
place by way. You ought to look it up if
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you want to really go see the course and watch
some of the best amateur players from around the world,
usually about two dozen teams from that many countries and
two women two men on each team, and the likes
of Scottie Scheffler, Jordan Spieth, loreno Choa miss A really
in a ton more Bransonedtecker played in the Spirit one
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year though. Anyway, the bottom line is I was there
on Monday. I fished there on the way out, drove
straight back to Sugarland to sleep in my own bed,
and then Tuesday morning I got up and drove to Corpus,
fished that evening, fished hard. The next morning, played golf
at Corpus Christy Country Club. Middle of the day. Hot
as blazes, by the way, but I played really well,
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fished hard again that evening, fished again Thursday morning, then
drove back home, then slept in my own bed, and
then got up and played golf again Friday morning. And
then something that afternoon needed doing around the house. I
don't know what it was, but then I was back
in the saddle here for my outdoors shows on KB
and ME over the weekend. Glad to be back in
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this studio as well. So anyway, rolling back into familiar territory,
let's do this. We'll take a quick look at the
weather courtesy of Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists, because cleaner
air is healthier, after all, D'll pound two to fifty
say healthy air to learn more now for highs and
lows in haighkup, And this is all we'll do before
we take the first break. You ready will yes, great
(05:44):
weather while out That would be in reference to me,
great weather this week as well. Cooler temps ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You know, Doug, the last time you said cooler temps
were ahead, thank you are just you were playing to
an audience that wanted to hear it.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Wanted to hear it, So.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Tell me what I want to hear exactly. No, I'm
not that kind of guy. I don't miss words. It's
gotten hot while it was hot while I was out,
and I'm not gonna be hot this week too. He's
coming down after that to lie to me, Doug. Well,
I don't know, all right, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Hold on, I have to put my prediction down. Okay,
put your prediction. Okay, Well, I mean I I just
simply don't believe you. It's gotta go. Hold on, I
got to bring it down.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, it's gotta be afore this time.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Oh, come on, I think you're lying to me, Doug.
I've been, I've been gone. Give me a chance to
get back up to speed.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I think you're lying to me about these cooler dumbs.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
We'll see and I don't appreciate you. So, so if
in three days it's not lower than ninety two degrees,
it's if it is lower than ninety two degrees we
were VISal.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I want I want it to be at the high
eighty four degrees.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
What that coler cooler doesn't doesn't mean eighty four. You
don't get to pick what oh, I do You're gonna pick.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
What cooler is?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
No? No, we're living in Okay. Yeah, spoken like a
true young person. Holy cow. So here's the deal. Will
cooler means if it's ninety five today and it's ninety
four tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
I am correct, technically it is cooler, But does it
per real cooler?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Is it a noticeable difference?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Irrelevant?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Can you go outside and tell me if it's ninety
four ninety five or I can all feel the same.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
No, you cannot.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You're lying again, Doug, You're lying again. No, Will I
wouldn't do that. All right, we got wait, need to
let me out first, rattle out of the box. One
of my favorites UT Health Institute on Aging. This is
that collaborative. Probably I don't know a thousand providers around
(08:11):
Houston now, maybe more. They've been at it so long,
and each and every one of the people who is
involved and is I don't know if it's such a thing,
but a card carrying member of UT Health Institute on Aging.
Each of them has has gone through medical school, gone
through nursing school, gone through therapy school, whatever it is
to obtain the current credentials they have and then they've
(08:34):
gone back for additional education as to how they can
apply that expertise to seniors, to us, and that makes
a big difference, it really does. They understand how our
bodies function, which is totally different. Mind works differently than Will's,
and Will's is going to work differently than mine for
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probably another forty years. He's lucky. Extra education is what
makes the difference in seeing a provider, and many of them.
They are excellent doctors all over this town, okay, but
there are also excellent doctors who have gone back and
been trained to take care of us. And that's what
UT Health Institute on Aging does. Go to their website,
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look at all the resources they provide there, all of
which pertain to seniors, and then look at all the
different providers who are available to see you pretty much
anywhere in town, anywhere around town, in the outlying areas
of clinics and hospitals on the from the Woodlands to
sugar Land and beyond, from Kingwood to Katie. It's all
(09:39):
there just for you and me, not for Will. Utch
dot edu slash aginguth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
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 coat of wax.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
This is fifty plus with Doug pipe.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Second segment starts now well forty almost twelfth excuse me,
twelve twenty one. I gotta turn toward that big clock,
got it. I need better recognition of the clock, as
if I take my eyes off of it, I don't
know what happens. I'm just glad to be back here
safe and sound. I did a lot of driving, as
(10:30):
I mentioned, over the last week, and sometimes I was
getting passed by people doing one hundred and something on
the freeways and the highways, mostly on the on fifty nine,
mostly on fifty nine all the way up to Whispering
Pines and on Alaska and Trinity and all of that
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way past Huntsville. Most of that time was pretty good.
The people up there tend to and people on that
bigger road tend to kind of be a little more
polite than people in the city. People who have driven
a lot on interstate roads tend to be. They might
be going a little faster than you or a little
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slower than you, but buying large, you're pretty well behaved.
Then I got back to Houston. Finally, I cut through
Houston on Tuesday or on Monday to spend the night
here and then drive on down to Corpus, And boy,
once you get pretty much inside ninety nine, you better
be holding on and you better have your head on
a swivel. People drive like maniacs, they really do, they
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really do. So anyway, off to market. We didn't quite
get there in the first segment, and this is courtesy
of Houston Gold Exchange dot Com. Nothing really moving dramatically
in either direction this morning, which is good, I suppose,
except oil, which was up more than a buck almost
sixty nine dollars a barrel as of about a half
(11:56):
an hour ago. Gold was down a little but still
forty five minutes ago a significant two thousand, six hundred
and fifty six dollars an ounce. And when I was
talking to Brad Swiss from over at Houston Gold Exchange
this morning about some stuff, he said, you'd be surprised
how many people come here with just a little tiny
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bit of gold that they want to sell. Maybe it's
an old ring or something like that, and they're stund
at how much money they walk out with. They really are,
because it at that price it doesn't take a whole
lot of gold to add up. So anyway, think about that.
I'm planning a trip over there this week too, as
much as anything else, to talk a little fishing with
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bread and because we both do like to fish. And
in fact, I'm going to share that little tidbit from
down there in the surf with him. Did I I
never mind, I won't to go back into that in
a category that I'm going to be calling things to
consider before the election. Consider this in USA, not the
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chain link or cedar plank kind in the sword fight kind.
In fencing news, a man who only took up the
sport six months ago. Six months ago just took second
place at a major regional championship of the US Fencing
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Association in the women's division. He won mash after match
to get that get that silver medal against some of
the top women fencers in that region. And to kind
of put it in perspective, there's a quote from the
guy and I'll quote it here. Quote I started in
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February and fell in love with it.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
End quote.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
The thirty nine year old guy who is he's transgender,
and on a whim, he takes up a sport and
in six months dominates, dominates the competition. He took out
a lot of opponents to get to that finals match.
And I don't know what the score was in the finals.
(14:11):
It doesn't matter to me. The USA Fencing decided a
couple of years ago to open the women's division to
pretty much anybody who identifies that way, regardless of what's
still being called. They're assigned sex at birth. So in
he went, and he signs up, and there he goes,
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there he goes, and they did that in the explanation
I saw from US Fencing. They did that in the
name of fairness, which is garbage really, if they'd ever
asked themselves exactly how fair is it to the actual
women who train and compete in that division. How fair
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is it to have someone who is considerably taller, considerably stronger,
standing there purporting to be pretending to be a woman,
because this person, that's not an easy thing to do.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I have.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
I know a man very well whose sons, Both of
his sons are internationally competitive in fencing in the epige divisions,
one little older than the others. They travel the world
doing this, but they don't have to deal with something
like that. The women in USA fencing at least do.
(15:32):
And I wonder what it's going to take to change
some of that. One of the two people running for
US Senate and our state also supports men in women's sports,
same for one of the two presidential candidates in sports
in locker rooms, in public bathrooms. And I don't think
that's right. I really don't. I can't imagine being a woman,
(15:54):
an assigned at birth woman, and being forced to accept
that someone would grown man Jenitalia might be standing bucknket
in a locker room or shower with me, and there
wouldn't be a thing I could do about it. Can't
say anything, can't say anything at all unless you get
in trouble. Men and women's sports isn't so base as that.
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It's more of a safety issue as well. There's video
everywhere now men and women's sports injuring the women against
whom they compete, and it's wrong. It's just wrong every time.
It's wrong. From the overreaction category, I found this pretty interesting.
Now let's go to something good will and I'll let
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you pick. Well do you want? First of all, there's
two choices you have to make. Number one good news
or number two just simple, easy going, not really heavy news. Uh,
not really heavy news. Okay, we'll go with the simple stuff.
Speaking of Oh, this is just something I'll throw out
as a conversation starter. If you really want to derail
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whatever trained people are on, you can leave with. Oh,
by the way, you could drop this one on your
girlfriend this weekend or next week, no Wednesday, is that right?
You're taking the whole day off and you're gonna celebrate
her birthday in style, because that's kind of a man
you are. Yeah, good job, okay, good job, just drop
this on her. Oh by the way, by the way,
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Martha Stewart has been struck by lightning three times. Oh well,
see that's the reaction I had when I read it.
There's nothing else here, There's there's nothing else that can
go with that. But that's just it. So okay, So
here are your choices. Will simple pleasures. No, man, we're
out of time, aren't we we are? Okay, I'll give
(17:42):
you the three, and then as soon as we get back,
we'll pick one and roll with it. Simple pleasures. Wasted
pole or obsession rarely works. You be thinking about that
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Speaker 1 (19:42):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
All Right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you listening
on this Monday afternoon. I really enjoyed being back in
the saddle. I gotta tell you it's fun. I had
a great weekend too. I had my fiftieth high school
reunion and a lot of us still there a lot.
I'm still looking pretty good. I must say. We were
such a good looking class though there was really almost
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no way could have gone wrong. Will probably the best
look at high school class ever to graduate out of
the city at least and perhaps out of the entire state. Really.
Oh yeah. We grew up in a time where we
were we were good looking kids, man, and it's just
it's carried on all the way to now when we're
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a little bit older. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody
taking care of themselves, everybody looking pretty dog on good.
Now we got miles on our tire. I guess I
do everybody. I just I never would have guessed it. Doug, Yeah, thanks,
Will Well, thanks for that. You just could have noted
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you over with a feather when I said that, couldn't.
I Yeah. Now, they're a good looking group, and it was.
It was so fun seeing all these people again and
just talking about not just about high school stuff. And
we were talking about high school stuff. But then I
ran into a few guys who have turned into really
dedicated fishermen, kind of like me, And so there were
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several trips planned. I hope, I hope they all come true.
I really do. I would love to fish with everybody
there I talked to who likes to fish. All in
due time, I've got to find the time about maybe
a I would think maybe a third. And this is
kind of interesting, Maybe a third of those people are
retired now, but the rest are still working to some
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and the ones who were retired are just early into it,
and and the ones who were working are probably getting
very close to retirement age. But I did, I did
seem to talk to an inordinate number of people who
are still working. And I think that's just a reflection
of this economy and how difficult it is for a
lot of people to just to just keep going. Social securities.
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Certainly isn't going to let you live a fun lifestyle
and and do the things you might have been accustomed
to doing any earlier in your life. But all in all,
it was it was a great experience. It really was.
I'm glad I went, and I was tired. I got
to tell you, I was tired because of all that,
all that I had done in the previous five or
six days. But it was worth it. And it was
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close to home too. I didn't have to go very far.
It was actually it was only five minutes. If that
from where I play all my golf or not all
of it, most of it anyway, I played three, I
played two new courses. To me, well ones, it doesn't matter.
I don't want to get wiped out into golf. All right,
Let's let's get back to where we were, will you
and me? Simple pleasures? Wasted pole or obsession rarely works.
(23:02):
Obsession rarely. Why did I know you were gonna do that?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
TikTok?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
What is that dingling over? You keep hitting that microphone? Yeah,
the microphone keeps on falling down. Well, and then I
gotta put it right back up, hymns. Go to the website, Wow,
get that microphone to Okay, maybe we can get them
to sponsor the show. Take a look at that microphone.
(23:28):
There's a good reason, TikTok all about sleep maxing or
it says you're or obsessing over the perfect night's sleep,
But experts say that that can backfire, cause anxiety and
end up giving you a worst night sleep. It's because
you worry about getting a good night sleep. It's very
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difficult for me sometimes to to kind of let go
of that because I tend to wake up in the
night one or two times. Anyway, there's somebody calling me
from Maryland. Really, I can't do that. Hold on, I
have to screen the call, and yeah, that's close enough,
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you know what, I'm just gonna wipe the whole thing
out of there. Why do people call me in the
middle of this. I don't know who that is. I
don't know that many people in Maryland. Maybe they'll leave
me a voicemail. In any event, will sleep for me
comes very easily. I have a routine and it works,
and it's worked for a long time, and even when
I have crossword puzzles, and then once my eyes start
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to get heavy and I realize I've I've written on
my hand or something like that, or just scribbled down
the puzzle with a pen as my eyes shut and
I'm trying to go to sleep, then I'll put all
that away real quick. And then I turn on an
app that's on my iPad and close it. So I've
got darkness and this lovely, soothing voice convinces me that
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it's time to go to sleep. And I bet it's
been six months at lee. It's about a six or
seven minute thing, and I doubt that I could cite
three times in the last six months where I've actually
heard the whole thing heard the Now it's coming back
as a spam risk. That's interesting. What's wrong with these people?
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Swipe down to decline there. I'll take that, okay, I
bet you. There's no voicemail either no, or it is
telling me it's the irs and they're going to charge
me a dollar and a half or something whatever. H
one more real quick, because I don't I don't want
to get into a longer story. Since I look up
and we've only got one minute left, will so we're
gonna go. We'll go back to simple pleasures or sock
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it to me or how lazy are we?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Sock it to me?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
The pole?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Ask people what they do? This is a pop quiz
for you. What do you do when you get all
the clothes out of the dryer and you find out
that there's one sock missing? Its mate? What do you
do with that one sock?
Speaker 5 (26:04):
I usually, Oh, well, we have a basket that we
put odd socks.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
How many you got in there? Right now?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
It's full.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
It's full. It's full. Check the under the washing machine
and dryer.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I mean no, not at all.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
That might be a place or behind them.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Sometimes have also just years of different places that we
lived at.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Well, that's a good point. I've been in the same
place for thirty two years now something like that, and
we have we have socks that are in the same condition,
but there may be ten of them, maybe ten, And
every now and then I'll I'll just kind of look
at that. My wife will set them aside in one
place as they come out, and I'll see one that
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I have upstairs. Where the odd socks are for my
son or me or whoever. Well, I don't know. There's
a couple of different piles, but sometimes you just get
lucky and find a match. I don't know where they
come back from. I don't know they've been on cation
or what where do they go? Will do you know?
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Oh, I have no idea. I think socks are just
constantly trying to escape us. I don't think they really
like their job that much.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
That's why there's no sock prisons, because you couldn't keep
them in it. No, that's what that's it. That's exactly.
That's the only reason.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
There's no If a sock could do any other job,
what would it do besides be on your feet?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
You know? It makes a handy mitten in the wintertime,
if your hands are cold, what wants to what you
can do with odd socks? You could do that with
odd socks. No, they don't even have to match. You know,
there's just all this societal demand that socks and gloves match.
(27:41):
You know, the left hand has to look like the
right hand, the left foot has to look like the
right foot. Shoes too. Why not just wear different shoes?
Why son just stop wearing socks all together?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Take down big sock.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
That's kind of nasty sound, and I don't know, I
think that could be unsanitary.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
I don't like wearing sho shoes. I don't like wearing socks,
and to be honest, I don't like wearing shirts either.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
When you fly, do you put your bare foot up
on the I'm not a heathen, Doug. I thought you
were gonna say, Hell, Billy, no, I'm not a heathen.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Okay, I respect my fellow passengers.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Well that's that's good, up you will. I appreciate that.
We gotta go to break.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Man.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
If I had my brothers, what it's an antique word,
I wouldn't have a shirt or shoe others or socks
on at all. I in my underwear all day long. Dog. Well,
at least there's that will Welcome to Welcome to your
(28:44):
ruined lunch hour, brought to you by Will Melbourne in
his skivvies, which is a good word that goes alongside druthers.
I suppose let's bail out of this will a late
health if age has kind of snuck on you, snuck
up on you as a guy, and you are suddenly
finding yourself with the symptoms of an enlarged, non cancerous prostate,
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which can be kind of problematic, really, and I'm getting
closer and closer to having to do something about this.
I think the bottom line is most well, yeah, at
least a quarter of men, not most, but many men
over about fifty five have those symptoms. And if you do,
you know what they are and you hate them, well,
the Late Health can help you with that. They do
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a process called prostate artery embolization by which they go it.
They're a vascular clinic, okay clinics, there's several of them
around town. They go in there, identify the exact artery
that is feeding that prostate and keeping it alive and
keeping it growing, and they shut it off. It's like
turning off the water. It's your sink. You can't fill
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the sink if you can't turn on the water, and
that's what they do with that artery, and the sink
doesn't fill up any more. And in your body, the
artery actually kind of just shrivels up and goes away,
and along with it go those symptoms. Same for fibroids
and women, same for ugly veins on anybody who's got them.
Same even in some cases with head pain. And most
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of what they do is covered by Medicare and Medicaid,
so really there's no reason to wait. Go ahead and
get that done. They also do regenerative medicine, by the way,
which is great with chronic pain. Seven one three, five eight,
eight thirty eight eighty eight. Call them up, get a
little get a little phone time with them, go over
there and maybe have a consultation and let them explain
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exactly what they're gonna do for you. Seven to one,
three five, eight, eight thirty eight eighty eight. Seven one
three five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Old guys rule. And of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Hold I think that sounds like a good please fifty
plus continues. Here's more with.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Doug, roll them back fifty plus On this Monday, this
beautiful monday outside, I don't think I've seen a cloud
all day. Will of course, we can't see any of
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them from in here, in this little cracker barrel we're in.
But nonetheless, even when I have been outside and I
sit adjacent to a big window that faces east. Unfortunately,
so every morning, every afternoon, I think it is the
cleaning people come in here and they lift open those blinds,
and not blinds or shades, they roll them up all
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the way up to the top of the big tall windows.
And every morning when I come in my desk is
about ninety eight degrees. This is even in the wintertime too.
It just it's like a little look, a little oven almost,
and it's just it's just overly warm, especially on the
weekends when they don't run on the air conditioner ore heater.
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It's freezing in the wintertime, and and hot as blazes
in the summertime at my desk over there on the weekends. Otherwise,
it's just the glare that's mostly an issue. All right, Well,
I'm gonna give you one more chance and then I'm
gonna go to a couple of things I wanted to
get to that are legitimate good news. Let's go we
did that when let's go with how lazy are we
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are we for sale? Sign? Or how stupid are we.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
For sale sign?
Speaker 4 (32:30):
He didn't want to pick on people at all. Did
you lazy or stupid? For sale sign? A couple of
Arkansas arrested after they tried to sell their two month
old boy to a guy at a camp ground for
a thousand bucks and a six pack of beer. That
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on how many levels is that messed up? Oh? Yeah,
a lot? Okay, a lot? And the guy the by
the buyer and that's the word they use here. So
apparently the transaction must have taken place, and maybe somebody
else reported it or the buyer went ahead and did it,
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and that then he called the authorities to let him know.
He was mostly concerned about the baby's welfare, but he
probably wanted his thousand bucks back too, I would think,
or maybe you know what he should have done. He said, look,
you give me the baby, I'll give you the six
pack now, and then I'll go get the money. Okay,
because I don't have that kind of money laying around,
but I want to take the baby with me as collateral,
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and I'll give you the beer on mine and then
I'm going straight to the police department and go catch
those crazy people before they do something, before they have
another baby to sell. That's so messed up. I just
STI don't understand how people can be that way. I
really don't. So I promise some good news to balance
all this craziness out. And on the medical side, this
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one really caught my attention and trying to trying to
get in touch with an expert. How much time do
I have will that's perfect? I'm trying to get in
touch with someone from ut Health to talk about this
subject hopefully. This week in China, a woman became the
first person on the planet to have her type one
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diabetes cured, not just kind of taken care of, not
just held at bay, cured through a stem cell procedure.
Type one diabetes is classified as an autoimmune disease. It's
not something you'd get from your diet or from lack
of exercise or any of that stuff. This is the
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diabetes that requires insulin injections and sometimes results in very
dreadful consequences. Later in life if you don't address it.
It's still a long way to go before that procedure
is going to find its way here, I'm sure. But
the fact that it's been done once successfully holds a
lot of really good potential moving forward. A cure generated
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by the patients on stem cells, that's a tremendous forward step.
Will it really is all right? How lazy are we?
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Will?
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Uber? Uber is going to partner with Spirit Halloween stores. Okay,
so you could pay an Uber driver to go grab
your costume so that you don't even have to put
on some This is right up your alley. Will you
can sit around in your underwear, no socks, no pants,
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no shirt and say bring me a costume. Audios.