February 28, 2025 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Amit K. Agarwal about Crohn's Disease. Pike also speaks with Brian Moody about cars.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
you by the UT Health Houston Institute on Aging Informed
Decisions for a healthier, happier life. And now fifty plus
(00:43):
with Doug Pike. All right, off we go into Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Holy Cow ran in third headed home with Major League
Baseball playing well, playing warm up games, if you will,
in spring training, both out in Florida and over in
Arizona and wherever else they have stadiums in the warm
weather states.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Pretty good idea of them to do that.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Although when you get right to the very end of
the season along one hundred and sixty two real full
season games away, now it could get pretty cold. They
might want to have one of those, one or two
of those games at least in a little colder climate
to see how their folks do. Anyway, if you're driving
around town right now, it's an absolutely gorgeous day outside.
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Maybe if you're not on a freeway, freeway doesn't count.
It's a bad idea to do this on a freeway.
But if you're just cruising through neighborhoods and surface streets
and not going super fast, maybe roll the windows down,
try out the old school air conditioner.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Keep you comfortable, that's what we will do.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You even remember ever being in a car that did
not have an air conditioner, maybe one was broken, but
a car that didn't have one. No, Yeah, you're way
too young for all that. When I grew up, Will
we had no cars and air conditioners. We had the windows,
which you rolled down. That's why you'll still hear people
our a say roll down your window, and you're not
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rolling anything down. You just lower your window. I think
would be the proper term to use. It's all mechanical. Now, well, yeah,
you'd roll down the windows. I can remember driving with
my friends to go surfing down at the beach on
a ninety hundred degree day and all the windows down
all the way down there. Anything you picked up that
didn't weigh more than about six or eight ounces, if
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you let it go, it would fly out the window.
It was some li were different times, will different times ours? Honestly,
our generation, my generation, and even the one behind it
a little bit, and certainly any before that. We were
the last people who didn't have uh, didn't have central
air and heat as well, last people who couldn't make
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a phone call and get just anything on the menu
of any restaurant in town drive right on our front porch.
You guys have it pretty well these days, do you
do you realize Will, how many advances there have been
since I was a kid that that you just take
for granted now and it's it's I'm.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Not It's no. It's no insult to you if you
say no, I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I'm just wondering if if your generation realizes how good
they've got it, name it, maybe.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well air conditioning, No, the ones that you haven't named already,
the ones I haven't named.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Tell a medicine. That's a big deal at my age,
Tell medicine. Yeah, you didn't even know what that is
because you don't get sick. Are you talking about ads
about No, I'm not talking about advertising at all. I'm
talking about being able to set up an appointment and
do a visual uh, a FaceTime meeting with a real
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doctor to talk about your real problems. They just don't
put hands on you and just say move your cad down,
move it up, move it over, take that off the
camera right now. Whatever they say, You don't even You
haven't taken advantage of any of that yet, have you.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
No, you guys got it.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
So good man, Your in your hand will and we've
talked about this before. Everybody's heard this. In your hand
when you pick up your phone, you are holding more
computing power than it took to get a man to
the moon. More computing power in these phones, even older
phones then it took to put somebody out.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
That's pretty cool you're in.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And what fascinates me is what's coming, because it's not
like there's going to be any time in history ever
when people look up and just go, you know, we're
pretty advanced.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Now, let's just call it quis. Let's just go with
what we've got.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
There's always going to be somebody wanting to improve everything,
and that has been going on since time began. And
I'm so glad too. I'm so glad we got past
having to rub two sticks together to make a fire.
I don't know that I would have done, I would
have survived. I feel like i'm I could have survived
back in that time. I could have when I was young.
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Certainly now i'd be a goner. First time a saber
tooth tiger rolled up, I'd be first target. Can't outrun
anything anymore. But other than that, I could. I could
make a shelter. I really could make a shelter. I'm
still I'm still capable of doing that, even in seniority.
If push came to shove and I got lost in
the woods, so long as it didn't rain buckets, I
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could find a way to keep myself warm at least.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
And that's that's half the battle, I suppose anyway.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Diving into a quick weekend forecast courtesy of Texas Indoor
Air Quality Specialists. Because cleaner area is healthier air, they
clean ductwork, and they do it very well with a
method that will keep that duct work of yours clean
for many many well not many many, but at least
a couple of years before you have to do it again.
And cleaner area is truly healthier air in your house,
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So give them a check.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Texas IAQ dot net.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
If you like today, you are going to love the
next week and change.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I looked out pretty far in.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
The worst I saw was a twenty percent chance of
rain on Monday and ten percent on Tuesday, and then
everything else is just puffy little clouds and some sunshine
and maybe none of this fog in the morning again.
That would be nice to lose that. Make some plans
to get outside, make some plans to absorb some vitamin D.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Got to do that.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
In the markets around eleven fifteen eleven thirty last I checked,
and courtesy as always a Houston gooldexchange dot com, all
four indicators still up, but not by as much as
they were to start the day. They were up a
good half point each. Now they're down to about a
quarter point each. At least they're still in the green right.
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Oil came down some. It was down a chunk early,
but still still down, but moving upward again and closing
in on seventy dollars again. It was down about sixty
nine fifty or so early this morning.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I don't know what's moving that really.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Gold fell again too, so far today by thirty seven
more dollars and at a still significant price, but kind
of losing sight down the road of twenty nine hundred
or of three thousand, which is what everybody says it's
going to get to by the middle of the year.
It's got to start climbing again to make it there.
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Now only at twenty eight to fifty eight, which is
when you stop and think about when a lot of
us bought a lot of our gold chains back in
the disco days, and a lot of men were wearing
all kinds of things around their necks on gold chains,
gold disc gold that I had a little gold oil.
Well for a time, I had gold marlin for a time.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I'll have to go will.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Okay, we'll do that. Let me just let me just
cut out clean. We'll cut out clean. We'll come right back.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Talk more about the things that are going on all
the way from Washington down to Corpus Christie. I've got
news that will not every point in between, but a
lot of them. More fifty plus This Friday is gorgeous
Friday Afternoon coming up next on AM nine to fifty KPRC.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues all right,
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Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Thank you all for listen. Certainly do appreciate it. We
are see back.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well do we know? Can you find out? Doctor Rogerwall,
are you there?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (09:01):
I am.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Oh, perfect timing, I guess I hope we didn't rush
a patient out of the room.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
We did not.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Oh good, that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
So this weekend next maybe all we get that looks
like spring, so let's get it while we can. In
this segment, we are going to talk about issues that
tend to bother more seniors than juniors. And those unpleasant
conditions are Crone's disease, collidis and ulcerative colitis, and to
explain what they are and how to deal with them,
I'm going to welcome in doctor amit Ka Igerwall, who
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was just just with a patient and specializes in these
disorders and is expert in robotic surgeries to deal with them.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Welcome aboard, sir, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I appreciate it, really do. So let's start with definitions.
Brief definitions. What's crones?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
What's alternative colitis?
Speaker 5 (09:47):
So Crone's disease is inflammation of the lining of the
digestive track when it becomes inflamed. It causes the symptoms
as far as abdominal pain, diarrhea, rectal bleeding, and then
ulcer colitis is that same type of inflammation that causes
ulcers in the lining of the colon and the rectum.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Ouch. That's got to be painful, I would think. Is
that correct socially?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Okay, So what are the symptoms of both of these
and how are they different?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Really?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
So it's very hard to differentiate between the two of them.
They both present similarly, meaning that you can present with
abdominal pain, diarrhea or frequent bowel movements, rectal bleeding. Uh,
some people present with fatigue.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And abdominal pain. And then you have other.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Patients, especially females that will present with extreme weight loss. Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Wow, that's nobody wants that.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
And I think across the board, any sudden and unexpected
weight loss is kind of going to be bad.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
It's it means something else is going on.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Are they these conditions we're talking about here hereditary?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
So, I mean, if you go back and look at
crone disease, that's a hard question to answer. But when
you go back and looking crone disease, about twenty percent
of patients that have crones have a first degree family
relative that also has crone disease, and so your increased
risk of getting crone disease if one of your first
degree relatives has it. But is it truly genetic? We
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don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Are there any lifestyle choices that can raise the risk
for one or the other of these?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Oh? Absolutely? So you know incessant.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Cigarette smoking or tobacco use, or poor diets high in
fat red meat can also trigger this type of disease process.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, it's a shame that we have to talk badly
about red meat, especially at barbecue cook off time.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
But all things in moderation.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Right, absolutely, everything in moderation.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
In to that, doctor mc agar wall on fifty plus, here,
what's on a list of proactive diet changes that we
could make. You said to stay away from red meat
and fat for example, what do we need to load
on in their stead?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Yeah? So you know, good healthy diets consist of things
with whole grain or wheats. So you know, we're talking
about wheat breads, whole week pastas, lots of green so
we're salads, vegetables. You want to be eating meat that
is white and so turkey, chicken, seafood, all those things
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are digested well in the colon and easily past, so
the bacteria is not fester and you have turnover of
immune cells causing these types of diseases.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Going back to the symptoms, it would I would guess
that a lot of people who are developing in early
stages at least one or either of these conditions might
want to mask them with an an acid or something
like that. Does that accomplish anything but just to masks
something that needs to be checked out.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yeah, So, I mean I think that patients may have
when we have abdominal pain or reflux, they be treated
with an an acid. But things with chrons and ultra clients,
even if you treat with an acid, is still progressive.
And so if you're having some lasting longer than a
few days, you definitely need to get checked out.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Oh wow, Okay, and I'm guessing this is a pretty
easy one. It's a soft ball right down the middle
of the early detection really impacts the outcome, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
So if we can get on it sooner, then we
get you on the right medications prevent you from going
down that rabbit hole requiring eventual surgery.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's the way to do it.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I saw in the information I was sent that you
do a lot of robotic surgeries. Talk about how that's changed,
not just the way you do this, but the success
rate you have with these surgeries.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yeah, so robotic laparoscoptic surgery or one of the same,
meaning that you're doing minimally invasive pursuit. So you're through
very very small incisions and so it gives you very
precise dissection planes. The view is astronomically better than it
used to be. And so when you do those type
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of surgeries, the patients do much better because wound healing
is less, infection risk is less, hernia rates are less,
and so it all benefits the patient.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Well, how does a hernia come into this? I wouldn't
even have thought about that. Where does that risk come up?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Well, so you know, anytime you do a vowel surgery,
you have to extract the specimen from some site, that
attraction site, you can get a hernia of it.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
That makes sense.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Okay, any non surgical options whatsoever to fix what's broken here?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yeah, I mean so again, going back to healthy diet,
lifestyle exercise. But there's many medications on the market now
that treat both chrons and ultrat of.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Collidness, so they treat it to cover it up or
treat it to make it actually get better.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I had to create it to actually make it get better.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Fantastic, So surgery is a little farther down the road then, right, correct.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Usual surgery used to be one of the upfront things
that we used to do for uh in PLANM, parybwel
disease or crones or you see. But now we have
such good medication that surgery is now last resort.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Well, man, I just came up with the the that's
the hook for this interview for sure, is that surgery
is a last resort because in a lot of cases
I know that I've talked to doctors have said, well,
if you have this and it gets just a lidle
ways past square.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
One, we're going to have to go in there and
cut it out. Stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah, So, how how far into it can you still be?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Can you still use medication to get.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Out of it?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
I mean, so if you get I mean you can't present. Yeah,
it's super sick right right, Your hard rate and the
hundreds and your blood pressures that are very low. That's
something that need surgery immediately. Sure, right, but some of
this diagnosed with you know, mild rectal bleeding with you know,
five ten, fifteen pounds weight loss, and we have the diagnosis,
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then we can start them on you know, steroids, the
specific medications that are on the market, and you can
go on that therapy probably you know up upwards of
you know, I have patients on these therapies ten twelve
years without requiring surgery.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Oh wow, that's yeah, that's really good news. That's really
good news here. So for anybody who is is listening
and thinking, you know, that sounds like something I might have,
but it's probably no big deal. Talk about the longer
term consequences. We talk about how it's gonna get worse
if you don't deal with it at all. At what
point are you talking about maybe a couple of years
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that it's gonna all of a sudden be at that
point where your your blood pressures drop through the floor
and your heart rates up.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Through the roof.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I mean, I would say that if you're if your
diagnosed is one of these conditions and you're not taking
your medications, on a consistent basis, then it's going to
progress faster, okay, And when it progresses, you know you're
There's a multitude of things that you can get on
progression of disease, but the whole point here is to
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medically optimize you so you do not require any type
of surgery or need multiple medications.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Doctor I'm at agar wall On fifty plus. Thank you
so very much for answering a couple of after I
said them. They were very vague questions, and I apologize
for that, but you handled them as expertly as I
would have figured you would. Thank you so very much
for your time today. Is there a specific site you
like to send people to to learn more about this?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Yeah, I mean that there's a Crone's Colliitis Foundation website.
There's it's called IBD Network. There's another website that you
can go out and check. And the Cleveland Clinic and
Mayo Clinic also have big IBD centers and so they
have a lot of good information for patients that are
newly diagnosed or looking for more information.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
You and I are trying to keep them from having
to end up there, aren't we Absolutely, yes, sir, doctor
Age or amit, excuse me, amit k Argerwolf. Thank you
so very much.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I really do appreciate this anytime.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Happy to to talk.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
All right, we got to take a little break here
on the way out. I'm gonna tell you about a
late health. Nothing to do with Crohn's, nothing to do
with colitis. A late health is a place you can
go though. If you're an older man, for example, and
you have issues with a non cancerous enlarged prostate, they
can make that go away. They can alleviate those symptoms
with something called PAE. That's prostate artery embolization, and it
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is the procedure they most often perform at a late health,
which is vascular clinics around town. And what they do
there is manipulate blood vessels to either improve the flow
or restrict the flow, or shut off the flow of
oxygenated blood to wherever it's going. Ugly veins, you shut
it off. You got PAE issues, You shut off the
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vein or the artery that supplies that prostate, and all
those problems alleviate themselves once that thing can't keep getting
bigger and worse. Fibroids in women, some headpains, even can
be alleviated through vascular procedures, and that's all they do
at a late health vascular procedures. Everything gets done right
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there in their clinics. Usually takes a couple of hours.
You're gonna need somebody to drive you home because you
don't want to go through that wide awake. Maybe for
the veins, I think you could probably do that. I
don't know about the rest of the things, and you
should find out if any of this sounds interesting to you.
First go to the website a latehealth dot com, a
L A t E A late health dot com and
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see what they do over there. See what they can
do for well, for example, regenerative medicine for chronic pain.
They're doing a lot of that right now. Most of
what they do is covered by Medicare or Medicaid as well,
so maybe you're not going to have to go out
of pocket to get this done. You can find out
by making a couple of phone calls. The first one
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is to set up a consultation. The second one will
be to follow up. Maybe after your consultation, maybe you
have a couple more questions. Seven to one, three, five, eight, eight,
thirty eight eighty eight Doctor Andrew Doe runs this thing,
and I've talked to him many times on the air.
You've probably heard me talking with him, and I'm going
to be doing that again very soon. As a matter
of fact, I'm glad to have him on the team.
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Seven to one, three, five, eight, eight, thirty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeh. They sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
All right, Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Thanks for listening well their Oh you got the clockwork
and Will, that only took half the show.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Are you behind on all your other work?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Now I can take the clock away. No, no, no,
don't do that, never mind. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Thanks as always for sharing your lunch hour with Will
and me. Well talking this segment about your car or
maybe a future car, and my car and all things
relevant to the car industry. Now that we've gotten through
the election and are back headed in what I feel
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like is a pretty good direction, and to hear it
from a pro, I'm going to bring in Brian Moody,
Executive director of Auto Trader and Kelly Bluebook.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Welcome back, Brian.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Oh you bet so.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
The car industry has been on to understate it. Quite
the wild ride over the past four or five years,
hadn't it.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Yes, a lot of that was pandemic fuel. Well, actually
that's not true. It's more it's the response to the
pandemic that fueled that, not the actual well pandemic itself.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
I mean that's an important distinction to make, but also
just new technology and new vehicles, all that adds to
a sense of on the consumer's part, I don't really
know what's out there, so it requires more research, more
paying attention, and just being more careful with your money.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Let's go back to twenty twenty one when I'm picking
that year, because that's the year the pickup I'd driven
for a long time decided to go on strike at
about seventy miles an hour. Oh my god, transmission down
shifted from six to five all by itself, and it
felt like I was in a space capsule reenter the atmosphere.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
And then it did it again.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
It went down to fourth and that was the last
day I was in that truck. To make a long
story short, was that kind of the low, the absolute
low for the car industry over this period.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
I think we were still okay then and the low
came a little bit after And depending on what you
mean by low, I mean we just couldn't predict the future.
So one of the things that happened was automakers stopped
making cars. Some did and some just didn't think they
would be able to sell that many cars, and so
production was cut back. And when that happened, what automakers
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couldn't have foreseen was an increase in demand and an
increase in competition from multiple sources such as dealerships, rental
car companies, and individual consumers.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
And so now what I'm hearing fast forwarding to today,
so we can get out of the past and look ahead.
There's a surplus of cars out there, really new and used.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Is that correct? Pretty much from.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Every angle, Yeah, there's an abundance of new and used cars.
We think that will continue with the new cars. With
the used cars, there's a bit of concern about the
abundance of those cars. While it's fine. Now we know
the average listing price of a used car today, it's
about twenty five thousand dollars, So figure there's going to
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be many above and below. But one of the things
that we can't escape about the past is all those
new cars that didn't get made are going to result
in used cars that aren't there in the marketplace that may.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I hadn't even thought about that. Yeah, that little window
when there just were no cars. When I went to
go try and buy a new one, I had something
in mind, and I went straight to Because of where
I work, I was able to get in touch with
somebody pretty high up at this dealership. And there were
only three. There were only three available, yeah, anywhere. And
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I stalled for a few minutes, and I called the
guy back and he said, well, the black one's gone,
and there was a gray one, yeah, white, yeah, whatever
it was.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
But anyway, I just had to snap it up.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
And so let's tweak it down for seniors now who
might be in the market for cars. Talk about what
specific makes and models they tend to gravitate to, and
then we'll talk about what they should be looking for
as a senior.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Well, what's funny is what seniors are gravitate toward is
the same generally speak kind of thing that many other
people gravitate to which are small SUVs. Okay, they have
a higher ride height, but not so high, so it's
not like a monster truck, but it's also not like
a sports car. It's right there in the middle where
it's a high hit point, so it's easy to get
in and out of nice big open cargo space in
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the back. And oftentimes those types of vehicles Honto CRV
to at a RAV four, Moths, the c X fifty
Hyundai Tucson, those are all relatively fuel efficient as well.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah, that's a good point to bring up with.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I think gasoline's going to be okay, but that's a
very good point to bring up for anybody on a
fixed budget or any other reason. Did I read correctly,
Brian that Brian Moody from Kelly Bluebook and Auto Trader
with us on fifty plus, Did I read correctly that?
I think it was the RAV four that overtook the
F one fifty as the most the biggest seller.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Not quite almost, though it's almost. That's almost the case.
So the top three sellers have always been full size pickups,
and this could vary from region to region, So what
you're saying is not completely out of line. Usually what
they do is they say F series, which includes all
F two fifties F three fifties cabin chassis. So whenever
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you see like an ambulance, the front of it is
usually a FOURD that registers as a sale delivery trucks.
If the cab, front of the cab is like a
Ford truck that registers of sale. What what has happened though,
is the number one Ford, number two Chevy number three
Ram the RAV four has begin to eclipse or at
least nip at the heels of the Ram fifteen hundred,
meaning that the Twitter RAV four is beginning to sell
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as many vehicles per year as a full size pickup.
That's something we haven't seen in quite some time.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Well, it's probably especially not down here in Texas around
rodeo time. I could tell you that there are a
whole lot of Ram fours pulling horse trailers into the rodeo.
Let's tweak it down to what you think seniors should
be looking for in a new car that they might
not think about on their own, that will make their
experience with that car safer and better and and whatever
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else is in their care.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Yeah, I would say when it comes to both new
and used cars I would look for. I would not
get a car with that doesn't have side head curtain airbags.
So side airbags is one thing, but we're talking about
head curtain air bags that protect your head in case
of an accident. I also would look for cars that
have heated seats. I think the heated steering wheel is
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a great thing to happen. Like cooled seats or ventilated seats.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I like that better, you know.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I mean, if you live a way way away up north,
you probably wouldn't need the cool seats ever. But for
the rest of us, cool seats is really cool. Also,
there's a car out there that I don't think people.
It's not registered yet. It's called the Tota Crown. And
the totea Crown is basically a sedan, but it sits
a little higher off the ground, not quite as high
as an suv, but not as low as a typical sedan.
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And it's a hybrid. And if you've looked at hybrid
in the past and thought, well, it's just not for me,
and this is for someone buying a new car or
a lightly used car, today's hybrids are so much better.
The handoff between gas and electricity is just about seamless.
They can get forty fifty or even sixty miles per gallon,
so I would reconsider a hybrid if you drove one
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of a pass and didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Let's stop on the hybrid note, and I may circle
back to try and grab you again for the other
half of the page of questions I had here. Brian
Moody from Kelly Book and Auto Trader, thank you so
very much.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I really appreciate all this.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Yep, thank you my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
All right, by bye, all.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Right, we gotta take a little break, hold on and
drop my pen again.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I'm so glad he said that about about hybrids, too, will,
because that's what I bought my son as his first
vehicle and the only one that I'll ever pay in
full for. Once he wants a new car, he's gonna
have to He's gonna have to get out of his
own pocket and trade that one in.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
All right, we got to take a little break here.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
We will come back to wrap up fifty plus for
this gorgeous Friday afternoon. I wish I could I have
something I have to do this afternoon at three point thirty,
and I kind of wish I could go to the
golf course, but maybe some other time.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
That's okay.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
What I'm going to be doing is family related and
very important, which those are kind of that's kind of redundant, honestly. Well,
take a little break here, we'll come back to wrap
it up on Friday. Fifty plus on AM nine to
fifty kprc.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Okay, I think that sounds like a good bread.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug A welcome back.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Nine minutes to play will but I'm not playing yet.
I've got a couple of things I need to get
through here, starting at the top, I guess us. Attorney
Pambondi has released more than one hundred pages of documents
relative to Jeffrey Epstein and his travels and his Despicable
Island and all of that. Some of the information that
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she released already was available to the public, but much
of it was seeing public light kind of for the
first time. The list of names is far too long
to read on the air, but it's worth a look
to anybody who might wonder. Also worth noting because liberals
are chasing this thing wildly. President Trump is listed as
one of his contacts, as one of Epstein's contacts, but
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from what I've read so far, there's no evidence that
he ever visited that island. My name and number in
a lot of people's phones. That's as a contact, But
that doesn't mean I've been to their house. And for
the record, I've never been to any island owned by
one person. Well, have you ever been to someone's private island? No,
(30:57):
I'm trying to think of anything that Even I went
to a couple of fishing camps down on the lower
Laguna Madre. I wonder if that counts. They were on
little tiny little bits of shell scattered on both sides
of the ICW Maybe not in wasted money news, and
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there's been a lot of that lately. US Supreme Court
Justice John Roberts paused a federal judge's order that would
have forced President Trump in his administration to shell out
two billion dollars in foreign aid up to and including now.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Doge has found our tax dollars actually.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Paid for Ukrainian models to go to fashion weeks in
Paris and other European cities. How that just let that
sink in for a minute, to send fashion models to
fashion weeks, fashion models from Ukraine now to fashion weeks
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all over Europe. That doesn't seem very beneficial to the
average American. Uh got just one after another. Liberals are
panicking over Elon Musk and his team as it whittles
away at programs and handouts that we we just flat
can't afford this stuff, and we certainly shouldn't be distributing
any more of that money until our own country and
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all of its citizens enjoy the same things these these
payments have made possible for people. And I don't know
one hundred countries who knows the golden goose, that golden
goose that sucked us drive financially is finally getting carved
up by two people who genuinely want to fix what
nearly broke this country. And and these people have just
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been so blind to the waste in federal government that
that they don't even they don't even see it for
the insanity that it is. There are a handful of
programs at USA, for example, that makes sense and probably
are going to be continued, but there's so much just
garbage in there. There's so much fluff that that helps
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nobody in this country that it really needs to go.
We have, like I said, we've sent Ukrainian models to
Fashion Week, we promoted travel to other countries. What's that
do for flood victims in North Carolina or fire victims
in California?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
How does that help them? It's been an open wallet
for so long.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
These people act like they're entitled to this money somehow,
but they've forgotten whose money they're spending. And that's years
in mind, and it's coming to an end. So that
our countries, our country is.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Going to survive.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
It can survive if we take out so much of
this money that we'd never had to spend in the
first place.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
We just print it.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
It's just paper, and its value has been diminished by
the willingness of the previous administration. Just go ahead and
print a few more trillion dollars. What's another trillion.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Up in our name?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Up in Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
I love this one.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Jeff Bezos, the man who owned now the Washington Post,
has decided to revamp its editorial pages. And the people
at that paper, and some of the people who are
close to that paper are just calling this a terrible tragedy.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
That the man who owns this newspaper.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
And by the way, they're making a big deal out
of the fact that he paid less for his news
for that newspaper than half the value of his boat.
If that newspaper was let worth less than half the
value of his boat, it doesn't mean he has an
extravagant boat. It means that paper had lost that much
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of its value because it had gone totally liberal and
people weren't reading it anymore. In Bezos's own words, Bezos's
own words, quote writing this is what he wants to
do with this paper moving forward. Quote writing every day
in support and defense of two pillars, personal liberties and
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free markets, and they're losing their minds. It scares the
pants off of liberals publishing the truth and both sides
of it.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
How could we do that?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
That's outrageous.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
No one of the former editors actually called it shocking,
claiming that writing about liberty and free markets is somehow
a betrayal of free expression.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
That seems to define free expression expression.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Really, I would think, all right, well, oh, by the way,
real quickly, Harris County commissioners voted I think it was
yesterday or maybe this morning to cover eight hundred and
seventy thousand dollars in legal fees racked up by County
Judge Lena Hidalgo and a former staffer involved in a
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case surrounding company called Elevate Strategies. The only dissenting vote
to shell out six hundred and seventy two thousand dollars
for Hidalgo and another two hundred grand for the other
person involved. In this particular instance, The only dissenting vote
was cast by the Loan Republican on the commission. Will
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in Archaeology News, can I can I do that real quick?
Never mind, I'm gonna do it anyway. It's okay, you
keep typing. Scientists have discovered for the first time in decades,
and actually I think it's in a century an unknown
and unlooted tomb of an actual Egyptian phayroh fut. Most
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the second, I wish there were more pictures because I'd
love to see stuff like that, and I'm sure they'll
be forthcoming, but there's just not much available on it
right now. Let's shift to the good stuff for the
last minute and a half. Will Oh, By the way,
it's National Pancake Day.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
You in Oh a pancakes.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
You're gonna cook some for your girlfriend tonight. I think
that would be a nice thing, a nice gesture.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Will I'm okaying about that, all right? All right, so
let's move past there. Never mind. What syrup do you like?
Just plain old maple syrup like a.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Blueberry, like a strawberry I like. I like a good boisonberry.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
No, that's good stuff.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
I like a good old maple syrup.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
So you know, if I given the choice in a
restaurant that has both, I'll pick blueberry over maple. But
at the house, maple, I'm not gonna buy a blueberry
syrup for the once every two months that we we
cook pantec cakes. Get how many parking spaces there are
in the US, Twill, I'll help you out two billion,
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two billion seven.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
For every car in the country. And yet when you
go to the grocery store, what can't you find decent
park I can't find the blueberry maple syrup. Huh.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
On this day in history, will In eighteen fifty four,
fifty people opposed to slavery met at a schoolhouse in
reeponn Wisconsin and laid the foundation for the Republican Party,
which they founded in the second meeting about a month later.
That's pretty cool. Spring forward, not this weekend, but next weekend.
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We get some extra daylight to go play golf and
do whatever we want to do.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
That's it for this week. I'll be back next Tuesday.
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with Doug Pike. All right, off we go into Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Holy Cow ran in third headed home with Major League
Baseball playing well, playing warm up games, if you will,
in spring training, both out in Florida and over in
Arizona and wherever else they have stadiums in the warm
weather states.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Pretty good idea of them to do that.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Although when you get right to the very end of
the season along one hundred and sixty two real full
season games away, now it could get pretty cold. They
might want to have one of those, one or two
of those games at least in a little colder climate
to see how their folks do. Anyway, if you're driving
around town right now, it's an absolutely gorgeous day outside.
(01:29):
Maybe if you're not on a freeway, freeway doesn't count.
It's a bad idea to do this on a freeway.
But if you're just cruising through neighborhoods and surface streets
and not going super fast, maybe roll the windows down,
try out the old school air conditioner.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Keep you comfortable, that's what we will do.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You even remember ever being in a car that did
not have an air conditioner, maybe one was broken, but
a car that didn't have one. No, Yeah, you're way
too young for all that. When I grew up, Will
we had no cars and air conditioners. We had the windows,
which you rolled down. That's why you'll still hear people
our a say roll down your window, and you're not
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rolling anything down. You just lower your window. I think
would be the proper term to use. It's all mechanical. Now, well, yeah,
you'd roll down the windows. I can remember driving with
my friends to go surfing down at the beach on
a ninety hundred degree day and all the windows down
all the way down there. Anything you picked up that
didn't weigh more than about six or eight ounces, if
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you let it go, it would fly out the window.
It was some li were different times, will different times ours? Honestly,
our generation, my generation, and even the one behind it
a little bit, and certainly any before that. We were
the last people who didn't have uh, didn't have central
air and heat as well, last people who couldn't make
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a phone call and get just anything on the menu
of any restaurant in town drive right on our front porch.
You guys have it pretty well these days, do you
do you realize Will, how many advances there have been
since I was a kid that that you just take
for granted now and it's it's I'm.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Not It's no. It's no insult to you if you
say no, I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I'm just wondering if if your generation realizes how good
they've got it, name it, maybe.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well air conditioning, No, the ones that you haven't named already,
the ones I haven't named.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Tell a medicine. That's a big deal at my age,
Tell medicine. Yeah, you didn't even know what that is
because you don't get sick. Are you talking about ads
about No, I'm not talking about advertising at all. I'm
talking about being able to set up an appointment and
do a visual uh, a FaceTime meeting with a real
(03:53):
doctor to talk about your real problems. They just don't
put hands on you and just say move your cad down,
move it up, move it over, take that off the
camera right now. Whatever they say, You don't even You
haven't taken advantage of any of that yet, have you.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
No, you guys got it.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
So good man, Your in your hand will and we've
talked about this before. Everybody's heard this. In your hand
when you pick up your phone, you are holding more
computing power than it took to get a man to
the moon. More computing power in these phones, even older
phones then it took to put somebody out.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
That's pretty cool you're in.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And what fascinates me is what's coming, because it's not
like there's going to be any time in history ever
when people look up and just go, you know, we're
pretty advanced.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Now, let's just call it quis. Let's just go with
what we've got.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
There's always going to be somebody wanting to improve everything,
and that has been going on since time began. And
I'm so glad too. I'm so glad we got past
having to rub two sticks together to make a fire.
I don't know that I would have done, I would
have survived. I feel like i'm I could have survived
back in that time. I could have when I was young.
(05:11):
Certainly now i'd be a goner. First time a saber
tooth tiger rolled up, I'd be first target. Can't outrun
anything anymore. But other than that, I could. I could
make a shelter. I really could make a shelter. I'm
still I'm still capable of doing that, even in seniority.
If push came to shove and I got lost in
the woods, so long as it didn't rain buckets, I
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could find a way to keep myself warm at least.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
And that's that's half the battle, I suppose anyway.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Diving into a quick weekend forecast courtesy of Texas Indoor
Air Quality Specialists. Because cleaner area is healthier air, they
clean ductwork, and they do it very well with a
method that will keep that duct work of yours clean
for many many well not many many, but at least
a couple of years before you have to do it again.
And cleaner area is truly healthier air in your house,
(06:04):
So give them a check.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Texas IAQ dot net.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
If you like today, you are going to love the
next week and change.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I looked out pretty far in.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
The worst I saw was a twenty percent chance of
rain on Monday and ten percent on Tuesday, and then
everything else is just puffy little clouds and some sunshine
and maybe none of this fog in the morning again.
That would be nice to lose that. Make some plans
to get outside, make some plans to absorb some vitamin D.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Got to do that.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
In the markets around eleven fifteen eleven thirty last I checked,
and courtesy as always a Houston gooldexchange dot com, all
four indicators still up, but not by as much as
they were to start the day. They were up a
good half point each. Now they're down to about a
quarter point each. At least they're still in the green right.
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Oil came down some. It was down a chunk early,
but still still down, but moving upward again and closing
in on seventy dollars again. It was down about sixty
nine fifty or so early this morning.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I don't know what's moving that really.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Gold fell again too, so far today by thirty seven
more dollars and at a still significant price, but kind
of losing sight down the road of twenty nine hundred
or of three thousand, which is what everybody says it's
going to get to by the middle of the year.
It's got to start climbing again to make it there.
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Now only at twenty eight to fifty eight, which is
when you stop and think about when a lot of
us bought a lot of our gold chains back in
the disco days, and a lot of men were wearing
all kinds of things around their necks on gold chains,
gold disc gold that I had a little gold oil.
Well for a time, I had gold marlin for a time.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I'll have to go will.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Okay, we'll do that. Let me just let me just
cut out clean. We'll cut out clean. We'll come right back.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Talk more about the things that are going on all
the way from Washington down to Corpus Christie. I've got
news that will not every point in between, but a
lot of them. More fifty plus This Friday is gorgeous
Friday Afternoon coming up next on AM nine to fifty KPRC.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues all right,
(08:48):
Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Thank you all for listen. Certainly do appreciate it. We
are see back.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well do we know? Can you find out? Doctor Rogerwall,
are you there?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (09:01):
I am.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Oh, perfect timing, I guess I hope we didn't rush
a patient out of the room.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
We did not.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Oh good, that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
So this weekend next maybe all we get that looks
like spring, so let's get it while we can. In
this segment, we are going to talk about issues that
tend to bother more seniors than juniors. And those unpleasant
conditions are Crone's disease, collidis and ulcerative colitis, and to
explain what they are and how to deal with them,
I'm going to welcome in doctor amit Ka Igerwall, who
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was just just with a patient and specializes in these
disorders and is expert in robotic surgeries to deal with them.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Welcome aboard, sir, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I appreciate it, really do. So let's start with definitions.
Brief definitions. What's crones?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
What's alternative colitis?
Speaker 5 (09:47):
So Crone's disease is inflammation of the lining of the
digestive track when it becomes inflamed. It causes the symptoms
as far as abdominal pain, diarrhea, rectal bleeding, and then
ulcer colitis is that same type of inflammation that causes
ulcers in the lining of the colon and the rectum.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Ouch. That's got to be painful, I would think. Is
that correct socially?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Okay, So what are the symptoms of both of these
and how are they different?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Really?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
So it's very hard to differentiate between the two of them.
They both present similarly, meaning that you can present with
abdominal pain, diarrhea or frequent bowel movements, rectal bleeding. Uh,
some people present with fatigue.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And abdominal pain. And then you have other.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Patients, especially females that will present with extreme weight loss. Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Wow, that's nobody wants that.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
And I think across the board, any sudden and unexpected
weight loss is kind of going to be bad.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
It's it means something else is going on.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Are they these conditions we're talking about here hereditary?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
So, I mean, if you go back and look at
crone disease, that's a hard question to answer. But when
you go back and looking crone disease, about twenty percent
of patients that have crones have a first degree family
relative that also has crone disease, and so your increased
risk of getting crone disease if one of your first
degree relatives has it. But is it truly genetic? We
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don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Are there any lifestyle choices that can raise the risk
for one or the other of these?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Oh? Absolutely? So you know incessant.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Cigarette smoking or tobacco use, or poor diets high in
fat red meat can also trigger this type of disease process.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, it's a shame that we have to talk badly
about red meat, especially at barbecue cook off time.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
But all things in moderation.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Right, absolutely, everything in moderation.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
In to that, doctor mc agar wall on fifty plus, here,
what's on a list of proactive diet changes that we
could make. You said to stay away from red meat
and fat for example, what do we need to load
on in their stead?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Yeah? So you know, good healthy diets consist of things
with whole grain or wheats. So you know, we're talking
about wheat breads, whole week pastas, lots of green so
we're salads, vegetables. You want to be eating meat that
is white and so turkey, chicken, seafood, all those things
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are digested well in the colon and easily past, so
the bacteria is not fester and you have turnover of
immune cells causing these types of diseases.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Going back to the symptoms, it would I would guess
that a lot of people who are developing in early
stages at least one or either of these conditions might
want to mask them with an an acid or something
like that. Does that accomplish anything but just to masks
something that needs to be checked out.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yeah, So, I mean I think that patients may have
when we have abdominal pain or reflux, they be treated
with an an acid. But things with chrons and ultra clients,
even if you treat with an acid, is still progressive.
And so if you're having some lasting longer than a
few days, you definitely need to get checked out.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Oh wow, Okay, and I'm guessing this is a pretty
easy one. It's a soft ball right down the middle
of the early detection really impacts the outcome, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
So if we can get on it sooner, then we
get you on the right medications prevent you from going
down that rabbit hole requiring eventual surgery.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's the way to do it.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I saw in the information I was sent that you
do a lot of robotic surgeries. Talk about how that's changed,
not just the way you do this, but the success
rate you have with these surgeries.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yeah, so robotic laparoscoptic surgery or one of the same,
meaning that you're doing minimally invasive pursuit. So you're through
very very small incisions and so it gives you very
precise dissection planes. The view is astronomically better than it
used to be. And so when you do those type
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of surgeries, the patients do much better because wound healing
is less, infection risk is less, hernia rates are less,
and so it all benefits the patient.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Well, how does a hernia come into this? I wouldn't
even have thought about that. Where does that risk come up?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Well, so you know, anytime you do a vowel surgery,
you have to extract the specimen from some site, that
attraction site, you can get a hernia of it.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
That makes sense.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Okay, any non surgical options whatsoever to fix what's broken here?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yeah, I mean so again, going back to healthy diet,
lifestyle exercise. But there's many medications on the market now
that treat both chrons and ultrat of.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Collidness, so they treat it to cover it up or
treat it to make it actually get better.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I had to create it to actually make it get better.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Fantastic, So surgery is a little farther down the road then, right, correct.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Usual surgery used to be one of the upfront things
that we used to do for uh in PLANM, parybwel
disease or crones or you see. But now we have
such good medication that surgery is now last resort.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Well, man, I just came up with the the that's
the hook for this interview for sure, is that surgery
is a last resort because in a lot of cases
I know that I've talked to doctors have said, well,
if you have this and it gets just a lidle
ways past square.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
One, we're going to have to go in there and
cut it out. Stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah, So, how how far into it can you still be?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Can you still use medication to get.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Out of it?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
I mean, so if you get I mean you can't present. Yeah,
it's super sick right right, Your hard rate and the
hundreds and your blood pressures that are very low. That's
something that need surgery immediately. Sure, right, but some of
this diagnosed with you know, mild rectal bleeding with you know,
five ten, fifteen pounds weight loss, and we have the diagnosis,
(16:10):
then we can start them on you know, steroids, the
specific medications that are on the market, and you can
go on that therapy probably you know up upwards of
you know, I have patients on these therapies ten twelve
years without requiring surgery.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Oh wow, that's yeah, that's really good news. That's really
good news here. So for anybody who is is listening
and thinking, you know, that sounds like something I might have,
but it's probably no big deal. Talk about the longer
term consequences. We talk about how it's gonna get worse
if you don't deal with it at all. At what
point are you talking about maybe a couple of years
(16:46):
that it's gonna all of a sudden be at that
point where your your blood pressures drop through the floor
and your heart rates up.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Through the roof.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I mean, I would say that if you're if your
diagnosed is one of these conditions and you're not taking
your medications, on a consistent basis, then it's going to
progress faster, okay, And when it progresses, you know you're
There's a multitude of things that you can get on
progression of disease, but the whole point here is to
(17:16):
medically optimize you so you do not require any type
of surgery or need multiple medications.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Doctor I'm at agar wall On fifty plus. Thank you
so very much for answering a couple of after I
said them. They were very vague questions, and I apologize
for that, but you handled them as expertly as I
would have figured you would. Thank you so very much
for your time today. Is there a specific site you
like to send people to to learn more about this?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Yeah, I mean that there's a Crone's Colliitis Foundation website.
There's it's called IBD Network. There's another website that you
can go out and check. And the Cleveland Clinic and
Mayo Clinic also have big IBD centers and so they
have a lot of good information for patients that are
newly diagnosed or looking for more information.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
You and I are trying to keep them from having
to end up there, aren't we Absolutely, yes, sir, doctor
Age or amit, excuse me, amit k Argerwolf. Thank you
so very much.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I really do appreciate this anytime.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Happy to to talk.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
All right, we got to take a little break here
on the way out. I'm gonna tell you about a
late health. Nothing to do with Crohn's, nothing to do
with colitis. A late health is a place you can
go though. If you're an older man, for example, and
you have issues with a non cancerous enlarged prostate, they
can make that go away. They can alleviate those symptoms
with something called PAE. That's prostate artery embolization, and it
(18:45):
is the procedure they most often perform at a late health,
which is vascular clinics around town. And what they do
there is manipulate blood vessels to either improve the flow
or restrict the flow, or shut off the flow of
oxygenated blood to wherever it's going. Ugly veins, you shut
it off. You got PAE issues, You shut off the
(19:10):
vein or the artery that supplies that prostate, and all
those problems alleviate themselves once that thing can't keep getting
bigger and worse. Fibroids in women, some headpains, even can
be alleviated through vascular procedures, and that's all they do
at a late health vascular procedures. Everything gets done right
(19:31):
there in their clinics. Usually takes a couple of hours.
You're gonna need somebody to drive you home because you
don't want to go through that wide awake. Maybe for
the veins, I think you could probably do that. I
don't know about the rest of the things, and you
should find out if any of this sounds interesting to you.
First go to the website a latehealth dot com, a
L A t E A late health dot com and
(19:53):
see what they do over there. See what they can
do for well, for example, regenerative medicine for chronic pain.
They're doing a lot of that right now. Most of
what they do is covered by Medicare or Medicaid as well,
so maybe you're not going to have to go out
of pocket to get this done. You can find out
by making a couple of phone calls. The first one
(20:13):
is to set up a consultation. The second one will
be to follow up. Maybe after your consultation, maybe you
have a couple more questions. Seven to one, three, five, eight, eight,
thirty eight eighty eight Doctor Andrew Doe runs this thing,
and I've talked to him many times on the air.
You've probably heard me talking with him, and I'm going
to be doing that again very soon. As a matter
of fact, I'm glad to have him on the team.
(20:34):
Seven to one, three, five, eight, eight, thirty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeh. They sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
All right, Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Thanks for listening well their Oh you got the clockwork
and Will, that only took half the show.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Are you behind on all your other work?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Now I can take the clock away. No, no, no,
don't do that, never mind. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Thanks as always for sharing your lunch hour with Will
and me. Well talking this segment about your car or
maybe a future car, and my car and all things
relevant to the car industry. Now that we've gotten through
the election and are back headed in what I feel
(21:27):
like is a pretty good direction, and to hear it
from a pro, I'm going to bring in Brian Moody,
Executive director of Auto Trader and Kelly Bluebook.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Welcome back, Brian.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Oh you bet so.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
The car industry has been on to understate it. Quite
the wild ride over the past four or five years,
hadn't it.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Yes, a lot of that was pandemic fuel. Well, actually
that's not true. It's more it's the response to the
pandemic that fueled that, not the actual well pandemic itself.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
I mean that's an important distinction to make, but also
just new technology and new vehicles, all that adds to
a sense of on the consumer's part, I don't really
know what's out there, so it requires more research, more
paying attention, and just being more careful with your money.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Let's go back to twenty twenty one when I'm picking
that year, because that's the year the pickup I'd driven
for a long time decided to go on strike at
about seventy miles an hour. Oh my god, transmission down
shifted from six to five all by itself, and it
felt like I was in a space capsule reenter the atmosphere.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
And then it did it again.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
It went down to fourth and that was the last
day I was in that truck. To make a long
story short, was that kind of the low, the absolute
low for the car industry over this period.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
I think we were still okay then and the low
came a little bit after And depending on what you
mean by low, I mean we just couldn't predict the future.
So one of the things that happened was automakers stopped
making cars. Some did and some just didn't think they
would be able to sell that many cars, and so
production was cut back. And when that happened, what automakers
(23:14):
couldn't have foreseen was an increase in demand and an
increase in competition from multiple sources such as dealerships, rental
car companies, and individual consumers.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
And so now what I'm hearing fast forwarding to today,
so we can get out of the past and look ahead.
There's a surplus of cars out there, really new and used.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Is that correct? Pretty much from.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Every angle, Yeah, there's an abundance of new and used cars.
We think that will continue with the new cars. With
the used cars, there's a bit of concern about the
abundance of those cars. While it's fine. Now we know
the average listing price of a used car today, it's
about twenty five thousand dollars, So figure there's going to
(23:57):
be many above and below. But one of the things
that we can't escape about the past is all those
new cars that didn't get made are going to result
in used cars that aren't there in the marketplace that may.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I hadn't even thought about that. Yeah, that little window
when there just were no cars. When I went to
go try and buy a new one, I had something
in mind, and I went straight to Because of where
I work, I was able to get in touch with
somebody pretty high up at this dealership. And there were
only three. There were only three available, yeah, anywhere. And
(24:28):
I stalled for a few minutes, and I called the
guy back and he said, well, the black one's gone,
and there was a gray one, yeah, white, yeah, whatever
it was.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
But anyway, I just had to snap it up.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
And so let's tweak it down for seniors now who
might be in the market for cars. Talk about what
specific makes and models they tend to gravitate to, and
then we'll talk about what they should be looking for
as a senior.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Well, what's funny is what seniors are gravitate toward is
the same generally speak kind of thing that many other
people gravitate to which are small SUVs. Okay, they have
a higher ride height, but not so high, so it's
not like a monster truck, but it's also not like
a sports car. It's right there in the middle where
it's a high hit point, so it's easy to get
in and out of nice big open cargo space in
(25:16):
the back. And oftentimes those types of vehicles Honto CRV
to at a RAV four, Moths, the c X fifty
Hyundai Tucson, those are all relatively fuel efficient as well.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah, that's a good point to bring up with.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I think gasoline's going to be okay, but that's a
very good point to bring up for anybody on a
fixed budget or any other reason. Did I read correctly,
Brian that Brian Moody from Kelly Bluebook and Auto Trader
with us on fifty plus, Did I read correctly that?
I think it was the RAV four that overtook the
F one fifty as the most the biggest seller.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Not quite almost, though it's almost. That's almost the case.
So the top three sellers have always been full size pickups,
and this could vary from region to region, So what
you're saying is not completely out of line. Usually what
they do is they say F series, which includes all
F two fifties F three fifties cabin chassis. So whenever
(26:10):
you see like an ambulance, the front of it is
usually a FOURD that registers as a sale delivery trucks.
If the cab, front of the cab is like a
Ford truck that registers of sale. What what has happened though,
is the number one Ford, number two Chevy number three
Ram the RAV four has begin to eclipse or at
least nip at the heels of the Ram fifteen hundred,
meaning that the Twitter RAV four is beginning to sell
(26:33):
as many vehicles per year as a full size pickup.
That's something we haven't seen in quite some time.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Well, it's probably especially not down here in Texas around
rodeo time. I could tell you that there are a
whole lot of Ram fours pulling horse trailers into the rodeo.
Let's tweak it down to what you think seniors should
be looking for in a new car that they might
not think about on their own, that will make their
experience with that car safer and better and and whatever
(27:00):
else is in their care.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Yeah, I would say when it comes to both new
and used cars I would look for. I would not
get a car with that doesn't have side head curtain airbags.
So side airbags is one thing, but we're talking about
head curtain air bags that protect your head in case
of an accident. I also would look for cars that
have heated seats. I think the heated steering wheel is
(27:26):
a great thing to happen. Like cooled seats or ventilated seats.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I like that better, you know.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I mean, if you live a way way away up north,
you probably wouldn't need the cool seats ever. But for
the rest of us, cool seats is really cool. Also,
there's a car out there that I don't think people.
It's not registered yet. It's called the Tota Crown. And
the totea Crown is basically a sedan, but it sits
a little higher off the ground, not quite as high
as an suv, but not as low as a typical sedan.
(27:57):
And it's a hybrid. And if you've looked at hybrid
in the past and thought, well, it's just not for me,
and this is for someone buying a new car or
a lightly used car, today's hybrids are so much better.
The handoff between gas and electricity is just about seamless.
They can get forty fifty or even sixty miles per gallon,
so I would reconsider a hybrid if you drove one
(28:17):
of a pass and didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Let's stop on the hybrid note, and I may circle
back to try and grab you again for the other
half of the page of questions I had here. Brian
Moody from Kelly Book and Auto Trader, thank you so
very much.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I really appreciate all this.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Yep, thank you my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
All right, by bye, all.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Right, we gotta take a little break, hold on and
drop my pen again.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I'm so glad he said that about about hybrids, too, will,
because that's what I bought my son as his first
vehicle and the only one that I'll ever pay in
full for. Once he wants a new car, he's gonna
have to He's gonna have to get out of his
own pocket and trade that one in.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
All right, we got to take a little break here.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
We will come back to wrap up fifty plus for
this gorgeous Friday afternoon. I wish I could I have
something I have to do this afternoon at three point thirty,
and I kind of wish I could go to the
golf course, but maybe some other time.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
That's okay.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
What I'm going to be doing is family related and
very important, which those are kind of that's kind of redundant, honestly. Well,
take a little break here, we'll come back to wrap
it up on Friday. Fifty plus on AM nine to
fifty kprc.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Okay, I think that sounds like a good bread.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug A welcome back.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Nine minutes to play will but I'm not playing yet.
I've got a couple of things I need to get
through here, starting at the top, I guess us. Attorney
Pambondi has released more than one hundred pages of documents
relative to Jeffrey Epstein and his travels and his Despicable
Island and all of that. Some of the information that
(30:10):
she released already was available to the public, but much
of it was seeing public light kind of for the
first time. The list of names is far too long
to read on the air, but it's worth a look
to anybody who might wonder. Also worth noting because liberals
are chasing this thing wildly. President Trump is listed as
one of his contacts, as one of Epstein's contacts, but
(30:33):
from what I've read so far, there's no evidence that
he ever visited that island. My name and number in
a lot of people's phones. That's as a contact, But
that doesn't mean I've been to their house. And for
the record, I've never been to any island owned by
one person. Well, have you ever been to someone's private island? No,
(30:57):
I'm trying to think of anything that Even I went
to a couple of fishing camps down on the lower
Laguna Madre. I wonder if that counts. They were on
little tiny little bits of shell scattered on both sides
of the ICW Maybe not in wasted money news, and
(31:17):
there's been a lot of that lately. US Supreme Court
Justice John Roberts paused a federal judge's order that would
have forced President Trump in his administration to shell out
two billion dollars in foreign aid up to and including now.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Doge has found our tax dollars actually.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Paid for Ukrainian models to go to fashion weeks in
Paris and other European cities. How that just let that
sink in for a minute, to send fashion models to
fashion weeks, fashion models from Ukraine now to fashion weeks
(31:57):
all over Europe. That doesn't seem very beneficial to the
average American. Uh got just one after another. Liberals are
panicking over Elon Musk and his team as it whittles
away at programs and handouts that we we just flat
can't afford this stuff, and we certainly shouldn't be distributing
any more of that money until our own country and
(32:18):
all of its citizens enjoy the same things these these
payments have made possible for people. And I don't know
one hundred countries who knows the golden goose, that golden
goose that sucked us drive financially is finally getting carved
up by two people who genuinely want to fix what
nearly broke this country. And and these people have just
(32:39):
been so blind to the waste in federal government that
that they don't even they don't even see it for
the insanity that it is. There are a handful of
programs at USA, for example, that makes sense and probably
are going to be continued, but there's so much just
garbage in there. There's so much fluff that that helps
(33:01):
nobody in this country that it really needs to go.
We have, like I said, we've sent Ukrainian models to
Fashion Week, we promoted travel to other countries. What's that
do for flood victims in North Carolina or fire victims
in California?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
How does that help them? It's been an open wallet
for so long.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
These people act like they're entitled to this money somehow,
but they've forgotten whose money they're spending. And that's years
in mind, and it's coming to an end. So that
our countries, our country is.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Going to survive.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
It can survive if we take out so much of
this money that we'd never had to spend in the
first place.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
We just print it.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
It's just paper, and its value has been diminished by
the willingness of the previous administration. Just go ahead and
print a few more trillion dollars. What's another trillion.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Up in our name?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Up in Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
I love this one.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Jeff Bezos, the man who owned now the Washington Post,
has decided to revamp its editorial pages. And the people
at that paper, and some of the people who are
close to that paper are just calling this a terrible tragedy.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
That the man who owns this newspaper.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
And by the way, they're making a big deal out
of the fact that he paid less for his news
for that newspaper than half the value of his boat.
If that newspaper was let worth less than half the
value of his boat, it doesn't mean he has an
extravagant boat. It means that paper had lost that much
(34:37):
of its value because it had gone totally liberal and
people weren't reading it anymore. In Bezos's own words, Bezos's
own words, quote writing this is what he wants to
do with this paper moving forward. Quote writing every day
in support and defense of two pillars, personal liberties and
(34:59):
free markets, and they're losing their minds. It scares the
pants off of liberals publishing the truth and both sides
of it.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
How could we do that?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
That's outrageous.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
No one of the former editors actually called it shocking,
claiming that writing about liberty and free markets is somehow
a betrayal of free expression.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
That seems to define free expression expression.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Really, I would think, all right, well, oh, by the way,
real quickly, Harris County commissioners voted I think it was
yesterday or maybe this morning to cover eight hundred and
seventy thousand dollars in legal fees racked up by County
Judge Lena Hidalgo and a former staffer involved in a
(35:43):
case surrounding company called Elevate Strategies. The only dissenting vote
to shell out six hundred and seventy two thousand dollars
for Hidalgo and another two hundred grand for the other
person involved. In this particular instance, The only dissenting vote
was cast by the Loan Republican on the commission. Will
(36:05):
in Archaeology News, can I can I do that real quick?
Never mind, I'm gonna do it anyway. It's okay, you
keep typing. Scientists have discovered for the first time in decades,
and actually I think it's in a century an unknown
and unlooted tomb of an actual Egyptian phayroh fut. Most
(36:26):
the second, I wish there were more pictures because I'd
love to see stuff like that, and I'm sure they'll
be forthcoming, but there's just not much available on it
right now. Let's shift to the good stuff for the
last minute and a half. Will Oh, By the way,
it's National Pancake Day.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
You in Oh a pancakes.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
You're gonna cook some for your girlfriend tonight. I think
that would be a nice thing, a nice gesture.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Will I'm okaying about that, all right? All right, so
let's move past there. Never mind. What syrup do you like?
Just plain old maple syrup like a.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Blueberry, like a strawberry I like. I like a good boisonberry.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
No, that's good stuff.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
I like a good old maple syrup.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
So you know, if I given the choice in a
restaurant that has both, I'll pick blueberry over maple. But
at the house, maple, I'm not gonna buy a blueberry
syrup for the once every two months that we we
cook pantec cakes. Get how many parking spaces there are
in the US, Twill, I'll help you out two billion,
(37:35):
two billion seven.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
For every car in the country. And yet when you
go to the grocery store, what can't you find decent
park I can't find the blueberry maple syrup. Huh.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
On this day in history, will In eighteen fifty four,
fifty people opposed to slavery met at a schoolhouse in
reeponn Wisconsin and laid the foundation for the Republican Party,
which they founded in the second meeting about a month later.
That's pretty cool. Spring forward, not this weekend, but next weekend.
(38:06):
We get some extra daylight to go play golf and
do whatever we want to do.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
That's it for this week. I'll be back next Tuesday.
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