Caretaker Information

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Moain Abu Dabrh about caretakers.

Episode Transcript

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

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:46):
On Friday, final day of the work week for most
of us, but not well, not this part of us. Well,
it's a final one for will you're not coming in
on this weekend? Are you?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I am not?

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay? Well, good for you. Enjoy your time away is
try to enjoy it as much as I will enjoy
being here tomorrow morning to talk to my outdoor show
audience over on kb ME about fishing and golf and
hunting and skiing and backpacking and canoeing and kayaking, pretty
much anything we can think of. There are some pretty

(01:20):
good outdoor stories that I'll touch on tomorrow too that
would possibly put this audience to sleep, but will have
the outdoors. Audience leaning in pretty good, so it's still
pretty cold, going to stay that way a little bit longer. Officially,
we're looking at cool but not cold by my definition,
and if you don't want that, know what that is.

(01:43):
I consider I reserve use of the word cold for
temperatures of freezing or below, So thirty two degrees or colder,
I'll use the word cold. Otherwise it's cooler, chilly, or
as my wife says, burr rabbit. I don't know where

(02:03):
that came from, she says it. Thanks to Texas i
AQ dot net for this forecast, by the way, because
it's pretty good. Clear air is healthier air, which you're
gonna want, probably clean air in your house to breathe
over the weekend while it's raining outside and chili. That's
a bad combination. That's just miserable. As a former waterfowl

(02:26):
guide out on the Katie Prairie, I can assure you
that when it's raining and blowing sideways and about forty
or fewer degrees, nobody really wants to be out there.
But some of these gung ho guys who come down
here from half the country away or even from over
in Europe. A few times they were here and they

(02:48):
were going as long as there was no lightning crashing
around us, we were gonna be sitting out there in
that mess. So anyway, slight chance of rain on Monday,
and only slight. It's only a ten percent chance on Monday,
So I'm guessing we're gonna tee it up on time,
and then we head into an absolutely beautiful mild week,

(03:08):
lots of sunshine, temperatures in the low seventies. It's gonna
be good market news. Thanks to Houston Gold Exchange. Everything
I watched this morning was as red as Texas. The
big four indicators were down, Oil was down almost a
buck and a half, and even goals down a few bucks.
On the plus side for everybody, though, our government spending

(03:30):
is about to be rained in like it's never been
rained in before, and that's gonna free up money for
every one of us as we kind of keep digging
our way out of the deep hole that was Doug
Forest the past four years. What a mess, What an
absolute mess. I want to go to. I don't want
to go to this big, long story just shit about

(03:52):
Jasmine Crockett. I'll hold that, I will hold that for
a minute and maybe do that in segment because in
segment two coming up, we're gonna talk again, and I
do this again so close to the previous time we
talked about the subject, because it's important and it bears

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mentioned pretty often, it really does. And I'm gonna get
somebody else's opinion on how caregivers can take care of
themselves and the people they're caring for without anybody burning
out or just losing their minds. The quick one on
the way out, the world's first all timber wind turbine blades,

(04:36):
wind mill blaze, these saying you're giant, the big ones.
Not just something you're gonna put in your backyard. Not
something you need to pull a little water out of
the ground to feed to water the cattle out on
the back part of your twenty thousand acre ranch. No
wind turbine blaze, the big ones. They're being built in
Germany and they're in production full time. They're going after

(04:57):
it now, after lengthy testing, gonna be up and running
in India and Europe very shortly. I would imagine and
guess what, guess what they are that the carbon fiber
blades are not They are cheaper, they are recyclable, They
are fire resistant, and they are stronger than carbon fiber.

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And somewhere in a few dozen really fancy places around
the world, maybe at a yacht club or two, maybe
at some really high dollar golf clubs, the world's fanciest
restaurants and hotels. That's where you're gonna find, I don't know,
a few dozen really really wealthy people who are glad

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they made their money on carbon fiber windmill blades before
the people who bought all of those things that have
to be buried in landfills and are horrible for the environment.
Before the people who were buying those things for millions
and billions of dollars found out there was another way,
a better way, an environmentally favorable way. But never mind

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that somebody had to get rich. Guess what today is, will?
What's today? Happy language Day? Can you tell me now?
Do you want to go with native speakers or do
you want to go with total speakers? The most spoken

(06:27):
languages in the world, the most native speakers speak what? Oh,
this is so messed up. They made this really bad?
What you know what it says? It says Chinese? Chinese
is not a language those people. I didn't really study
this before I printed it, but there's Mandarin, and what's

(06:47):
the other one? Forgive me antony Antonese? They got it wrong,
so to heck with them?

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
And that is with total speakers? Now, what with what
languages spoken by the most people? Not just native speakers,
but by the most people. It's an easy when just
go with your go with your gut, will two billion?

Speaker 1 (07:12):
No?

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Not how many? Not Chin, not Cantonese or or Mandarin.
What is the language that is has the total most
total speakers? Oh? English?

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (07:27):
How many? Two billion? That's too many. It's actually you're close.
I'll give you credit for that. It's one point five billion.
That's a lot of people with whom you and I
could communicate if only we had some medium through which
we could communicate on a broad scale. Oh wait, we're

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doing that now, aren't we. Will. I'm pretty pretty confident
there's not a billion and a half people listening, though,
But if they were, they could understand us. Right, all right,
If you've got an enlarged noncancrist prostate, understand this. A
late health with its vascular procedures performed around town every day,

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can't alleviate the symptoms of that nasty old thing you're
gonna start experience if you haven't already. There's a pretty
good chance you might start experiencing symptoms around fifty fifty
five somewhere in there, maybe sixty in The numbers go
up with age. But at a late health you can
have that problem resolved through processed process called part and

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spit it out DOUG prostate artery embolization. They go in,
they find the artery that's feeding that thing and causing
you all those issues, and they plug it up. They
plug it up. No more blood gets to that prostate,
and without oxygenated blood, it starts to shrink and shrivel
and just die and go away, and along with it

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go all those symptoms. They can help also with some
forms of head pain. They can help with ugly vans
if you don't like the way they look on the
back of your legs or wherever they are. They could
help with fibroids and women and many many other things
they do through vascular procedures at a late health. Get

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on the phone, go see what they can do for you.
Most of which is covered by Medicare and Medicaid, and
all of which is done in their clinics. No hospital visits,
all that worrisome stuff where you might go home with
something you didn't drag in there. No, no, no. Regenerative
medicine too, for people who have chronic pain. That's really
important these days. Man, if you're in chronic pain, you

(09:36):
don't want to be and there aren't that many options,
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Speaker 1 (10:00):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Welcome back on this Friday afternoon, fifty plus on AM
nine to fifty KPRC on this chili Friday afternoon. I
promise it'll be better. It will maybe not over the weekend,
but next week looks really nice. We'll talk in this
segment about something we've covered to here before many times
over the ten years we've done this program as a
matter of fact, but I feel like it kind of

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can never be covered enough. So far as I'm concerned
and that's the importance of caregiver. Caregivers getting the help
they need to avoid burnout, which sometimes lead to that
caregiver ended up needing a third person to give them
a little break. So to help me, I'm going to
bring on doctor muwayan Abu Dhabra, who's specials in patients,
specializes in patients with multiple chronic conditions, especially within the

(10:58):
geriatric vulnerable in disparate populations. Welcome to fifty plus doctor.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Great to be with you, Doug. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
I appreciate your time. I really do so. Sooner or later,
most of us, if we don't die suddenly, are going
to need increasing levels of care. And that care, in
many cases is going to come from a family member
who probably really didn't dream of being in that role,
for someone who's just been thrust into that position or
maybe sees it on the horizon for themselves. What's the
best first piece of advice you'd give them.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Well, it's really important to recognize that caregiving is a task,
is a major task on its own, so one have
to understand that they need to assess what is their
own capacity or own ability to take on this work,
what are the things that are involved in it, and
what are the resources that they have within and around them.

(11:52):
So those are three important things to recognize.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, I think as you go through that, it's it's
important also to let these people though there's certainly not
alone and that there are just like I know, you
can tell me about their networks of other people they
can join where caregivers are going to help each other
through this process, right, correct.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
It's really helpful to lean and understand who is around
you and what resources are available to you. So if
you have family members, if you have friends, neighbors, your community,
be specific in asking them what you would like help with,
you know, ask for some help, some break. Also for

(12:35):
those around caregivers, check in emotionally, be available to them
when they need a little respite. Sometimes we think that
those who are providing care need a lot of support.
Sometimes just the smallest thing can make all the difference.
The availability of resources and the community is really crucial.

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There are so many free or low resources that can
be available. As you said, there are networks out there
and institutions that offer that like AARP, Alzheimer's Association, the
Family Caregiver Alliance. Many resources that are available that we
can reach out to.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
I really like what you said about being specific as well,
so it would be the difference. And I can see
it when I say it, or I can hear it
when I say it. I need help or I need
somebody who could take my father to the doctor on
Thursday at too. Those are two very different things, aren't they.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Indeed, it is really important to be specific, and also
that goes both ways for the person who is needing
help and for those who are offering help. You can
say how about that, I can bring you dinner on Tuesday,
or I can give you thirty minutes break on that
day so you can go out and do what you
need to do. So that's really helpful.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah, it would be to somebody. And to somebody who's
who's been doing this a long time and is really
close to burnout, those thirty minutes could mean an awful
life lot, and the responsibility just gets larger, and as
a patient becomes less self sufficient, that additional burden's going
to take a toll. What are some early signs that
a caregiver could watch for it his or herself himself

(14:13):
for herself, or maybe that somebody could watch for in
the person who's doing the caregiving that they're really close
to the tipping point.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
That is a crucial thing to recognize. Burnout creeps and slowly.
So if you're constantly feeling exhausted, irritable, struggling to sleep,
or losing patients easily, those are some warning signs. Some
caregivers developed a heightened sense of even cynicism, and the

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worst and most concerning is when they start having thoughts
of even harming themselves. So those are really important size
to recognize.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
I hadn't even thought of it going that far, but
I could see how someone could get that way if
they just felt so overwhelmed and couldn't find any help anywhere.
There wouldn't be a whole lot of easy exits, would there, Alie,
that's so bad, doctor moyne Abu Dhabra on fifty plus
here before that hits, are there any time saving or
sanity saving tips you can offer specifically to keep these

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caregivers from stepping across that line.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, we feel overwhelmed when we are in that role.
So it's important to take a step back and think
about small things, small changes, you know, thing like micro breakes.
Just one minute counts, so use it, don't lose it.
Take those small breaks, deep breathing, step outside, take a walk,

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call a friend, watch something funny, whatever brings you joy
in that moment. So that's number one. Micro breaks. Number two,
share the load. As we talked earlier, reach out to
family and friends and neighbors. Be kind to yourself. Really,
self compassion is crucial. Cultivate rezil the things that help

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you to stand up when you are down, be it feeling,
you know, mindfulness except in self compassion, faith practices, humor, curiosity,
whatever helps you really, so those can be helpful thing
And do the things that you have already done in
the past that can be helpful to you, whatever they are.

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Some people thrive on journaling, listening to music, playing with animals,
So really leaning to those things.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Before we run out of time, doctor, I wanted to,
and I didn't point it out in the last interview
I did on this. The rest of the family sitting
out of town somewhere, maybe even out of state. They
can't be there, but they could sure send a few bucks,
so you could hire somebody to take a break. Right.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Indeed, caregiving is taxing financially, so sometimes that way of
helping can make all the differences can help people take
care of any need medications, food, hiring someone to help them.
So that's that's very important.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
I appreciate this, doctor Boyne Abu Dhabra, thank you so much.
It's a really important topic, especially for the young people
in this audience who listen for their parents and maybe
see some of this coming on the horizon. This is
really good advice. Thank you very much for your time.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Thank you for having me my pleasure.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
All right, sadly, we have to take another little break
here right now. I could have gone on for an
hour talking about that. I really could. It's so important
and it's so stressful to the people who have to
do it. It really is. I understand it. Believe me.
I do ut Hel's Institute on Aging. I would bet
there are resources there that could help someone who needs
a little help with figuring out how to be a

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good caregiver and not burn out. It's an amazing collaborative
of providers. The Institute on Aging is who have all
received training. In addition to what it took them to
get out of school, they've gotten more help, more education
on how to apply the knowledge they learned in that
school wherever it was to seniors. There's specific field as

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it applies to us, whether that's that's ophthalmology, whether it's GI,
whether it's cardiology, neurology, aneology. If they are part of
the Institute on Aging, they have gone and gotten that
extra information that helps them dial into us and help

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us get better. When we've got something that's broken or
even slightly damaged and we don't want it to get worse,
you go to the website ut h dot edu slash
aging and you start looking around and you'll find crazy
amounts of resource, crazy amounts of information that will help
you solve whatever's bothering you. Ut h dot ed U

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slash aging U t h dot ed U slash aging.
They sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Boom for them, Boom boom boom. Here we go. Third segment.
Start trying now twelve thirty five on AM nine to
fifty KPRC. You're listening to fifty plus. Thank you very
much for doing so. Back to the first segment when
I mentioned Jasmine Crockett the Texas Democrat representative who very
recently while she was on the View, which to me

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is like watching a bunch of third graders try to
explain how to build a house. Anyway, she insulted on
that program the majority of Americans, the ones who voted
for President Trump when she was there. Representative Crockett when
asked what she thought of the nation's overwhelming support for
our president, well, she said this quote. We've got to

(20:08):
do better at education. People don't understand end quote. Well, actually,
Representative Crockett when asked if by me, I would have
to say, you're the one who doesn't understand, because it
is we who understood perfectly. Even before it happened that

(20:29):
the former president and every person on his team were
doing their level best to dismantle this country one brick
at a time and throw those bricks off a bridge
as fast as they could. And if President Trump and
his team hadn't been elected, honestly, I think that likely
would have spelled the end for the Land of the
Free and the Home of the braid. The reason Democrats

(20:50):
are screaming and claiming that President Trump is so bad
is because they know they know he's about to expose
every single one of them for the crooked sticks that
they are. Every time I turn around to see a
story about a Democratic politician who came into Congress worth
a half a million dollars or so. If that work

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there work for what six eight years or ten years
for us at roughly well current salary, and it has
been for a few years one hundred and seventy four
thousand dollars a year, and then somehow they blink a
few times and they're worth eight, ten, fifteen million dollars.
How does that happen? We're about to find out. We

(21:36):
are about to find out. Well, let's let's do this.
Let's go back and forth between the big stories in
the little stories, and I'll come to you and let
you choose between unsolved mysteries. Find a new phrase or
they all do it, just in different ways. Find a

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new phrase somebody asked, and you can jump in on
this if you have one. What statement makes you roll
your eyes immediately? And these are mostly work related things?
You got anything? Yeah, we are a family. Oh yeah,
that should have been on the list. Maybe it's a
little lower down. The term alpha male is one that

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bothers people. It's an eye roller. I've done my research. Yep.
You know that just means I don't care what you think.
I'm just gonna tell you what I think. And I
think I'm right because I, after all, did my research
and I don't think you did. That's that's kind of that.
And there's a similar one, the phrase my truth, Well,

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my truth is this, and that just tells me right
there that you're not even interested in facts. That's just
your truth. That's what you believe. That's a fairy tale.
Am I right?

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (22:57):
Were you listening? Kind of kind of focus? Will focus?

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Man?

Speaker 3 (23:03):
You got something shiny over there distracting you? Yes, what
are you doing? I got a crossword puss? Oh my god,
I will. I'm keeping my brain active, dog because I'm
just because I've dominated you in wordle this week. Don't
be up, I say no. We tied today. We did
tie today. That was an interesting word, an interesting day.

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It was an off week for me. Okay one? Oh no, wait.
I promised to go from back and forth from the
big ones to the little ones and see Virginia, Virginia,
will or California, Virginia. From Virginia by way of Fox
News Television comes story of a woman who's little girl

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and other little girls. Did I talk about this yesterday?
I feel like I did. Oh no, I may have.
I think I told my wife last night, but we
didn't get to it yesterday. Maybe, But anyway, it's worth
it again because this mom, after swim lessons at a
high school I believe it was at a high school
pool with the high school locker rooms and all that stuff.
She and all the other moms walk into the girl's

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locker room with their little girls who have been practicing
their swimming and trying to get them changed and get
them on the way home, and they're standing in the
middle of the locker room. As a grown man with
no clothes on, naked man standing right there in the
middle of the locker room, I identify as a woman.
That's what he says. And he sticks around and he
hangs around, and he makes everybody uncomfortable and lo and

(24:28):
behold when they report it and the police come out
and do a little investigation, and a little white not
that day, but later on they arrest this guy because
he's also a registered sex offender and he's taken this
I identify as a woman thing to get gain access
to little girls. I guess probably the grown women wherever

(24:52):
he wants to be. But he can stand around buck
naked and nobody, everybody was scared to say anything to him. Well,
as it turns out, not only was he there, he
went to other places and did that after that incident,
and he had already been arrested for it, I think
once before, not that long ago. But the Left says

(25:17):
it's okay, it's okay for those people to be in
those locker rooms the way they identify is where they
should be, and I have to disagree. I have to disagree.
He was arrested earlier this year for doing the same thing.
Public school districts that allowed this to happen, and get this,
they have no intention of change in the rules based

(25:38):
on the statement they put out according to Arlington Public Schools,
quote will continue to foster an inclusive community for all,
including those who identify as members of the LGBTQ plus
community end quote. So they don't care that a od

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man is standing in the locker room with little girls
and that that just can't work out. Well. When they
got out of that room and back in the car
on the way home, the mom, the mom who was interviewed.
Viewed said she and her daughter kind of looked at
each other, and the mom asked the daughter she wanted
to talk about what happened, and her daughter could only
say this, I can't stop seeing it. That's disgusting that

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that's what that's the image that's in that little girl's
head after going and trying to enjoy a swim lesson
and having to go back to the same place to
enjoy swim lessons again. Well, she doesn't have to. Her
mom gave her that option too. Look, if you don't
want to go back, we won't go back. And I'd
be willing to bet you that some of those people

(26:48):
they won't go back because they know better. It just
can't happen anymore. Same with transgender athletes and sports. These
guys are they're not only stealing trophies in locker rooms.
In this case, at least, the grown up guy was
in there only to please himself and to steal these
little girl's innocence. And that's that really irks me. And

(27:12):
I'm well, I'm out of time for this segment, sadly boy,
And it probably best because I yeah, I don't really
I don't really like any of that at all. I'll
tell you what, We'll take a little break here, we'll
come back and wrap it up for the week. I'll
give you a little tease on what's going on tomorrow
in the outdoors world, and then we'll we'll have a

(27:34):
little more fun with Will if I can get him
off that crossword puzzle. More of fifty plus coming up
after this What's life without a net? I suggest to
go to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
All right, for the final segments starts right now. We've
got what nine minutes? Will, that's pretty good. Huh. We
get back early because I didn't have a long winded, yappy,
yappy yappity life spot suy. Yes, well that's good. Then
I'm gonna take advantage of this time because the back
to hang on. Make a little note here, there we go.
That's something I saw quite a while back actually on Facebook,

(28:18):
when Congresswoman AOC whined about her entire generation coming of
age in this country and never experiencing American prosperity? Really, AOC,
what what can we not do? What can we not achieve?

(28:40):
That's so common anywhere else in the world Americans are are.
We're free to move about the country whenever and wherever
we want to go. We're free to go to school
or not go to school. Free to do whatever job
we want to do to earn a living. We're free
to make our own decisions about where we live, how
we dress, how we spend our money. Free to sit

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in a coffee shop and write screenplays, or walk through
a park and soak up sunshine, or sit on the
couch and watch two hundred channels of television or scroll
through social media. Free to do everything or do nothing.
In a nation where we're all seen by the rest
of the world. Is pretty darn prosperous. You've got honest,

(29:24):
hardworking people from other countries who forfeit everything they've got
to get into this country, even if they're penniless when
they get here and start over, knowing that if they work,
they can achieve, and they can be successful as well.
And as the guy who wrote that post a long

(29:46):
time ago noted, we don't lack for prosperity. We're just
overloaded at present with ungratefulness and entitlement from a bunch
of winers who can't change the light bulb our country.
Everything it provides us is taken for granted, really by
people who've never known any other way. They don't know
what they don't have. But if they would travel around

(30:08):
the world somehow and get dropped into places where there's
real poverty, where there is real suffering, just generational suffering,
they might change their tune just a little little bit.
They want more. These people do, they want more, but
they can't even tell you what more looks like, let

(30:31):
alone where to get it, or how much it's gonna cost.
What that bunch wants, the aocs of the world, they
don't want prosperity, what they've already got that just don't
realize it. What they really want is attention. They just
want attention. And that's kind of why she has to
jump in front of a microphone every now and then
and the app and the app speaking of AOC. Tom

(30:53):
Holman launched an investigation into her and her webinar that
she offered up for illegal immigrants, which outlined was distance
tactics that those people could use to either delay or
impede their apprehension and or deportation AOC. If nothing else,
she might wind up getting the plug pulled on federal

(31:16):
money currently propping up that New York City empty wallet
that's been well, you know who else got on her
or got on New York Pam Bondy. Pam Bondy jumped
right in and said, you know what, here we go.
We're gonna kind of come after you. Where is that
little piece of paper I at here? Pam Bondy filed

(31:36):
charges against the State of New York, against its governor,
against Letitia James, and against I can't remember the man's name,
and I'm looking for it here. I know I have
it in my notes there it is US Attorney General.
Pambondi announced her first in her first official press conference
that the Department has filed charges against the state Kathy

(31:58):
Hokle as governor's attorney General, Lea Tisa James, and this guy,
Mark Schroeder, commissioner of the New York DMV. I don't
know how he's involved allegedly. I don't know what got
him dragged into this, but maybe he just I don't know.
I don't know, but that's what's out there. According to

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Bondi said this and I quote, this is a New
dojay and we are taking steps to protect Americans. New
York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens.
It stops today. As you know, we sued Illinois and
New York didn't listen, So now you're next. And I

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would not be I would not be happy if I
were on the wrong side of Pam Bondi. She seems
like a go getter and someone who is not going
to stop until until we figure out what's going on
with all of this. All right, well back to you.
What could go wrong? Nothing else to work on? Or

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hen party, Let's do still on the crossword? Will nothing? No?
I finished that one. Let's do what was it the
second one? Nothing else to worry about? No, nothing else
to work on? Well, okay, you want to do that one? Yeah.

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California lawmaker is proposing to make He's using taxpayer time.
The taxpayers of California have him in Sacramento to do
a job, and part of his job, he has determined,
is to introduce a proposal to make Bigfoot the state's

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official mythical creature. He is going to at some point
want to vote on that. I don't know. I could
probably think of about one hundred things some pretty hot
topics that might be more important than making Bigfoot their

(34:16):
official mythical creature. You got, how about you worry about
taking care of wildfires? How about you start using good
forestry practices. How about you stop, I don't know, stop
being California good lord. They have a horrible homelessness crisis

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out there as well. I was reading about that this morning.
Just staggering number of homeless people. I think it was
the word. The number was roughly eight times as many
homeless people in California as there are in Texas, about
eight times as many. And they don't do anything about it.

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And the reason for that is because there's no money
in getting those people off the streets and getting them
started up again, the grant money that the big dollars
come from. Trying to solve the homelessness problem without addressing alcoholism,
without addressing drug abuse, and without addressing mental illness. And

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until you decide to focus on the problem and not
the result of the problem, They're not going to get
anywhere with that. How can they really? There's nowhere to
go with that home mercy six, well, one more, I
think it'll get us out of here. Let's see. I
want a good one too. So I'm gonna give you

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low balling and crossing their fingers hen party or look
at me. I'm so pretty Uh the low balling? What
do you think that might be about? There's a story
in the news that that if you think for just
a minute, you might get it. What is seventy six

(36:12):
passengers from the Delta flight that crashed and flipped up
in Toronto are being offered thirty grand apiece, which means
that that would be a two point three million dollar
more or less payout for Delta. Do they take the
would you take the money? Will? Or would you say

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I don't know? Or would you join the eventual class
action suit that you know is coming. Yeah, I don't know.
I think it. Just give me the money. We had
ten seconds, that's it? Okay, Well I would Yeah, if
I wasn't really hurt, I might. I'm not that way,
all right. We'll see you tomorrow on kbm E at

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seven o'clock. We will see you back here Tuesday at noon.
Thank you all for listening. Have a wonderful weekend. Audios