Vaccines for Seniors

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Catherine Troisi about vaccines for seniors.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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happier life. And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, here we go. Wednesday edition of the program
starts right now. Sorry for missing Monday and Tuesday. I
was obligated to. Well I didn't. I didn't have to go,
but I wanted to go. I got to participate in
media day up at the Woodlands at Carlton Woods, specifically
where the next edition of the Chevron Championship is upcoming

(01:08):
a little later in the spring, first major for the LPGA,
and we learned a lot about what they're doing in
the community up there, a lot about what that entire
event brings to the Woodlands and how much it helps
kids up there and pretty much everybody else. Great event

(01:28):
if you get a chance to go up there by
all means, please do when it comes along. You'll hear
more about that on the Doug Pike Show over on
kbm ME on weekends. As it gets a little closer. Here,
we are another beautiful day of puffy clouds and unseasonably
warm temperatures, at least for a couple more days. From

(01:50):
the texas iaq dot net forecast desk. I guess you
could call it that, because cleaner air is healthier air,
after all. Just go to texasiaq dot net and they'll
tell you all about how they're going to clean out
your ductwork and make it so that you don't have
to breathe any yucky stuff that might be hiding up
in there, and you won't have to for a couple
of years after they're finished with the way they do it.

(02:11):
Eighty degrees today, some places, seventy nine, some places eighty one.
On the Southwest freewall on the way home, I'll bet
it'll read about eighty four, and then eighty seven tomorrow
and eighty six on Friday before we finally catch another
little cool front Friday night and fall back into the

(02:32):
seventies again, still with more sunshine though just a ten
percent chance of rain, so a dry front as they
call it, as we call it down here. There'll be
little sprinkles, sprinkles here and there, but nothing a You're
probably gonna have to go ahead and run your sprinkler.
We're getting into springtime now. You got to get those
get those grasses growing again, get that long going, get

(02:55):
the shrubs going. So overall really nice. As we turn
the corner on spring break. In market news, thanks to
Houston gooldexchange dot com, two of the big four were
green and two of the big four were red earlier
about an hour ago. I guess which is really what
we can expect when the market is it sure how
to react to what's going on in the world. I

(03:17):
don't think there is anything to worry about long term.
For sure, there are going to be short term bursts
of panic selling and bursts of recovery buying as we
move ahead, and that's just to be expected right now. Overall,
I think six months from now we're all going to

(03:38):
be pretty solid and super enthusiastic. Oil is up about
a buck and a half sixty seven seventy five I
think it was an hour or so ago, and gold
up almost thirteen dollars back in that twenty nine and
change range twenty nine thirty three exactly, well, not exactly,
there were pennies or dimes added to that earlier, but

(04:01):
in that range. Moving on, as if there weren't already
enough issues in high school sports, well, now this at
a girl's high high let me rewind my mouth. At
a girl's high school track meet recently, in a relay race,
a runner was struck in the back of her head

(04:24):
with a metal baton by a girl she had just
passed a little bit earlier. The blow to her head
was strong enough that she pretty much collapsed on the
edge of the track. It caused a concussion and possibly
a skull fracture. They're still looking at her for that.
The girl who was hit had accidentally and incidentally bumped

(04:49):
her baton into the back of the girl who got
passed when they were kind of bunched up in a
tight in a tight turn with other people involved in
a previous turn. And turns out I guess that not
all the threats to girls in girls' sports boys. So
that's that's so sad and so shameful. Their apologies have

(05:11):
been issued, but that that just speaks to a little
bit bigger problem about how sports are perceived and how
winning is everything, and their sportsmanship has just been wadded
up and thrown out the window in some schools and
in some places. It's very frustrating for me to read

(05:33):
stories like that and not just wonder at what point
we took such a wrong turn that a young high
school athlete running a race felt compelled to just and
it's it's clearly visible in the videos. It's out there,
just felt compelled to hit another competitor in the back

(05:55):
of the head with a metal baton. That's that's not good.
Moving on from there, I'll call this exactly. Democrats continue
to blame President Trump for the price of eggs because
it's something millions of people are watching quite closely these days,
so they've latched onto it. What they're not going to

(06:17):
tell you, and they never do, is that President Trump
didn't cause eggs to go through the roof. In fact,
he inherited that problem after President Biden decided to kill
tens of millions of laying hens rather than fast track
some sort of remedy to either slow or stop the

(06:37):
spread of avian flu from going through all those flocks
so fast to where the chickens just had to be killed.
They fled. That's the only way to get rid of
that stuff is to just remove all of the infected chickens.
And since you really can't tell which ones are and
which ones aren't for a few days, rather than risk spread,

(07:00):
they just wipe out entire flocks of millions of chickens.
And that's what made eggs go up. It takes six
months for little baby chicks to reach maturity and begin laying,
so be patient. And by the way, for the record,
I saw this morning egg price is currently down about
a buck and a half from their peak, which is
good news. Certainly you can expect a little bump I

(07:23):
think in egg prices coming into Easter for obvious reasons.
But then we should begin to see egg prices drop
back to where we can all afford omelets again. Can
I get an amen on that I do like an omelet,
I really do. I like scrambled eggs. I just like
eggs in general, just pretty much anything with eggs in it.

(07:43):
There's a dish in the deli here in the building
right outside of our door, actually across the hall, in
which they drop a fried egg on top of some
chicken in something else bowl, and that one's pretty goods
a little spice for me. I prefer the teriaki one,
which doesn't come with an egg, although it could, I

(08:04):
guess if I asked for it. It's okay by itself.
But I digress, and it's time to move on quick
little break here on the way, I will tell you
about UTH and the Institute on Aging, which I've talked
about with all of you for a long long time now,
and I'm happy to continue doing so. The Institute on
Aging is a collaborative of more than a thousand providers

(08:27):
in this region, many of them in the med Center,
as you might well imagine, but also at least some
of them, and others who don't go to the medic
who don't work in the med center, will see you
outside of there, in outlying hospitals and clinics and offices
and whatnot. And what makes these providers unique is that

(08:48):
they have gone and gott an additional education, additional instruction,
additional learning on how to apply their level of knowledge
and expertise, as it was on the diploma on their wall,
to seniors, specifically to seniors, that is such a great
advantage that we have with this Institute on Aging. These

(09:10):
providers know us quite well. They know how to apply
any medical discipline all the way from physical training and
therapy to psychiatry, psychology, cardiology, and the chronology, you name it,
any of the ologies. Anyone who's a member of the
Institute on Aging and has more knowledge about how to

(09:33):
apply all their knowledge to seniors, go to the website.
Look at all the resources there for starters. You'll be
impressed by that. And then find someone who can help
you with a very specific problem that you seem not
able to get answers to. Someone there will be able
to answer any any question you might have about anything
that's bothering you. Utch dot edu slash aging is the

(09:56):
website utch dot edu slash aging. What's life without a net?

Speaker 3 (10:02):
I suggest you go to bed and sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy back that Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Indeed it does continue. Thank you for listening on this
beautiful Wednesday afternoon. Thank you. We'll talk in this segment
about jabs as they were called during the COVID pandemic.
Only this time we'll talk more more generally about how
vaccinations work, how they can keep especially seniors, from becoming
extremely ill or possibly even dying from diseases that a

(10:35):
timely vaccination at least might make less severe. And to assist,
I am going to bring in doctor Katherine Truesi, Professor
of Infectious Disease or professor at ut Health Houston and
an infectious disease epidemiologist. Welcome aboard, Thank you for your time.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
So let's everybody remembers COVID still talk about how an
invect infectious disease outbreak begins. We're kind of run run
the course of that.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Yeah, so it depends. Of course, we got a lot
of infectious agents out there, and what we're really concerned
about in terms of outbreaks are viruses or bacteria that
spread from person to person. So and they can spread
in different ways. They can spread through the air like COVID, measles,

(11:27):
flu RSV. They can spread through the water like hepatitis
A and cholera. They can spread through from mother to
child or through sex like HIV. Some can spread skin
to skin. But the ones that we're really concerned about

(11:49):
are the air, the ones that are spread through the air,
because that can infect a lot of people. You don't
have to have intimate contact or you know, being close
contact with someone. The water born ones are obviously of concern. However,
in the United States, our water supply is safe, so

(12:12):
we don't worry about those so much good.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
We can cross those off at least. And what's the
real story on herd immunity? How does that work?

Speaker 4 (12:21):
So in order for a disease to spread, and I'm
going to talk about airborne viruses, you have to have
you know, an infected person with the virus has to
have someone who's susceptible to the virus to spread it through.
So if people are immune, and that can happen in

(12:44):
two ways. One they could have had the infection before
and now they're immune, or they could have been vaccinated
and are immune that way. So if there are enough
people in the community, then at our immune that is,
can't be infected with this virus from the person who

(13:06):
unfortunately got infected, then the virus has no place to
go and it just stops with that person. And when
we talk about herd immunity also called community immunity, we
often talk about what percent of the community needs to
be protected. And yeah, and that that percent depends on

(13:29):
how infectious the virus is. So the nine percent we're
hearing about measles, that's because measles is one, if not
the most infectious agent we know.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yikes, Yeah, let's talk about measles as long as we're here.
Is that MMR shot we as seniors got this this
audience decades ago. We got that shot. Is that working
for us?

Speaker 4 (13:55):
Like everything in life, it depends. Oh gos So, some
of myself included had measles before the vaccine. If you
had measles, and we generally assume that anyone born between
before nineteen fifty seven had measles, it's just so infectious.
Everybody got it as a child. That should provide you

(14:16):
with lifelong immunity. Now, if you are compromised, if you're
in your nineties, say you might want to talk to
your healthcare provider. It doesn't hurt to get a booster.
But the general feeling is that we are still protected now.
If you were vaccinated, the first vaccine came out in

(14:36):
nineteen sixty three, it worked, but not as well as
the one we have now. And that first vaccine was
around between nineteen sixty three and nineteen sixty eight. If
you know that you were vaccinated during that time period,
then the recommendation is to get another dose right now

(14:56):
of the new I don't know if it's new, being
around some six, but of this updated scene, right.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Doctor Catherine Trocy on fifty plus. I don't want to
run out of time here before we talk about how
many vaccines are available right now for seniors and maybe
which ones you think are I don't want to say
more important than others, but I will, So what do
you think.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
That's stop like choosing your favorite child? You know, I'm
co editor of a manual on infectious diseases, and I've
been reviewing a lot of chapters, and every single chapter
says the risk is higher for those of US over
sixty five years of age. So I would be reluctant
to say some of these are more important than others.

(15:44):
I mean, why not be protected against what you can
be protected against. But the respiratory ones, because those spread easier,
are particularly important. Okay, flue RSV, COVID. The recommendation with
the COVID vaccine is that again those of US over

(16:04):
sixty five get a second dose this this year this season.
You know, some of them we may not need them. Measles, munks,
Rubella again, if you had it in a as a child,
if you've been previously vaccinated, you should be good. Vericella,
that's chicken pox again. If you had it as a child,

(16:25):
you have lifelong immunity. However, you can get shingles. So
one that's really important not from causing outbreaks, but from
personal misery, that is preventing personal misery, is a shingles vaccine.
The chicken pox virus can stay in your body and

(16:47):
as you get older or maybe not even so old,
can can cause you know, a very painful disease shingles.
So you know that one's important. New macacco vaccine. We've
got updated vaccines that work very well to prevent pneumonia,
which is often very severe a cause of death in

(17:08):
older folks. So yeah, there's a lot of them out there.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Alrighty, doctor Catherine TROYCI. Believe it or not, we've already
hit the finish line from what I gather. Just try
to get them all if you can, especially if you're
over sixty five, right, just take.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
Care of yourself, and some of them you may not
need to talk to your healthcare provider.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
That's a very good idea. Yeah, thank you so much
for your time. I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
You're welcome.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
By bye.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
All right, we're gonna take a little break here. On
the way out, I'll tell you about late Health again.
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You're gonna be headed home where you can recover there
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(18:16):
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and then get on the phone with them and get
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(18:40):
dot com aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
All right, welcome back fifty plus this Wednesday afternoon and

(19:01):
a beautiful one. Well, you got the outdoors plans this afternoon?
All right? Mine, that's pretty vague. Yes or no, it's
a yes or no question. Are you contemplating it?

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Oh? Contemplate it.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Beautiful day. You gotta get out and get some Vitamin D.
Do you get plenty of sunshine? And walking the dog
doesn't really count. I don't think how long you stayut
when you walk the dog. I mean fifteen minutes, minim
that's not bad. Fifteen minutes. You get a little Vitamin
D and make it feel better, help you sleep at night.
All that good stuff, all of that good stuff. You

(19:37):
gotta get outside. I'm so outdoors addicted. I can't imagine.
I can't imagine even living in the far Northwest where
it's just cloudy all the time.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
I would love it.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
No, you would not cloudy and rainy all the time.
It's my favorite time.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
You just gonna go take a nap. I mean, I
don't think i'd be taking a nap, but it'd be
a good.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
What would you do?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Then you'd be stuck inside with no I'd walk outside.
That's when I'd go outside, put on a raincoat and
just trodge on it shrudge.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
That would be so fun. No, no, no, no, no,
will sunshine sunshine, sunshine on my shoulder all that stuff?
John Denver? No, no, no, good, rain drops keep falling
on my head? Is that you more?

Speaker 4 (20:23):
You?

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yes? All right?

Speaker 2 (20:25):
From France, from the Telegraph comes a story about newly
opened beauty salons that cater exclusively to what group of people? Well,
it's not a pet beauty salon, it's people. What people
are their clients and only their clients. You want to

(20:47):
take a stab at this one?

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Mmm? Good? Look, I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
The group that you would least suspect that would be
bald people. No, how about children? How about little kids?
Little girls four or five, six years old, maybe a
little older before they age out. I guess to these
places mostly young girls being they're being treated like princesses.
Of course, they get facials, they get scrubs, they get

(21:14):
nail polished on their fingers and toes, they get their
hair done, all of these things that might be you
would suspect that would be great for the pampered and
spoiled children of people who can afford these services. However,
doctors are chiming in as they should to say, you know, wait,

(21:38):
just pump the brakes a little bit. This might not
be all that good for these girls. Dermatologists say that
there's quite a bit of risk to these children's still developing,
still growing skin, and psychologists are even more concerned about
the unrealistic body imaging that results from transforming little girls.

(22:00):
And to glamorize little girls. I guess for as long
as the applications last. But what then, So then all
that stuff gets washed away, And when all the makeup
is removed and all of that stuff is taken away
and they become little girls again, some of these little

(22:21):
girls aren't going to be so satisfied with themselves. These
salons are opening all over France, and I'm I'm glad
they have it, at least to my knowledge, don't. I
don't have a daughter, and I don't the little kid world.
I'm beyond the little kid world now. My son's a
junior in high school. But if these are opening up,
the concerns here would be the same as the concerns

(22:44):
in Europe. These kids are. It's not easy or not
inexpensive to do this. Cost ranges from about maybe seventy
five to eighty ninety bucks for bucks for one child too.
They're doing you guessed it, the little birthday part parties
and all of that, and that's running seven to eight
hundred dollars or more depending on what you want for

(23:08):
kids as young as three four five years old. Not good?
What was it? What would that be? Neighbor?

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Is that right? I don't speak French, not at all.
No people who do will know what I'm saying. You
will not should guarantee la fide dely tailed up hold
this he tells who need them elik. You can look
that up if you want. Will or not people who
speak French know exactly what I was saying. I think
they do. I think my pronunciation is still at least

(23:38):
close enough to correct that someone could figure it out.
Southwest Airlines the it was the only up up until
well until May twenty eighth. I believe it is. It
will still be the only airline that still lets you

(23:59):
check two bags for free. After that, After that you
have to be an a list passenger. Are you an
a lister on Southwest?

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Will? I don't think I'm an a listra anywhere?

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Sure you are, Man, you are to me, Will, oh wow? Thanks?
Still you are man, You're you're my producer, You're you're
still here. You're still hanging out and you're still taking
care of me from noon to one Tuesday through Friday,
and I guess Monday too, because you put that best
stuff together and I've never had anybody complain about it.
Feel free to complain if you want to, and I'll

(24:37):
bring it up with Will. No, maybe not Will. I'll
handle them if anybody. If anybody's rowdy with you and
says anything mean about you, I'll defend you. You know
I will. So back to Southwest Airlines. The rest of
us are gonna have to fork out more money, I
guess to bring the clothes and the equipment and the

(25:00):
toilet trees and everything else we need for our trip
to wherever Southwest is headed that day. And by the
way in the story, I saw at USA today. It
did not mention how much all those little extra fees
might be, So I guess brace yourself. Huh, there's no
telling how much it's gonna cost. I would hope it
wouldn't be too much more. I would hope they would

(25:21):
break us in gently. I don't want to suddenly walk
up there and have a very inexpensive ticket coupled with
more to put my bags on the plane than the
price to sit in the seat. That would be a
little much, I think, uh will turning to you. Oh,
by the way, today is National Girl Scout Day. Did

(25:43):
you know that?

Speaker 3 (25:44):
I knew that it was the World Wide Web's birthday?

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (25:48):
I see that over there on the screen. Well, that
just pales in comparison to the Girl Scouts, who are
much older than the World Wide Web at one hundred
thirteen years today. So happy birthday, Girl Scouts. And in
related news, in Cookie News, the Girl Scouts are, it
says here facing a class action lawsuit over the alleged

(26:13):
presence of heavy metals and pesticides in one of my favorites,
thin Mints and other cookies. The Girl Scouts say these
are trace amounts that are nearly everywhere so I guess
that'll have to be decided in a courtroom somewhere, and
I'm not gonna take sides. That's for the legal people

(26:33):
to figure out. I do like thin mints, though you
have a favorite, real favorite girl Scout.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Cookie, I'm a caramel delight man.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Caramel. That's not my favorite. It's okay, it's okay, but
not my favorite. Does it have sticky caramel on them?
Or is it just a flavoring? I think got a
little bit drizzled on the top? Is that I don't
know if it hasn't drizzled on the top. I know
it has chocolate drizzled on this. Oh okay, maybe a

(27:03):
little bit. I think it's on the inside of the cookies.
Oh it's it's what you put the coconut shavings. I
got you. We have to take a break, don't we.
Good heavens will do that. We'll take this break. We'll
come right back and wrap up this edition of fifty plus.
And by the way, if you want to become a
part of this family, and I've already I've got some

(27:24):
really good people I've got hopefully to bring on and
welcome aboard in the short term future. If you want
to be part of that, or if you want really
to be part of anything that we do here at
iHeart I can help you with that. I really can,
and I would love to do that. My Cigar Guy
is coming on next week. It's mostly gonna be over
on KBMME, but I'm gonna have him on here to

(27:47):
kind of explain what he does. That's a feature I'm
going to bring in and talk to some of these
business owners that I work with, business owners that I
really truly believe you'll enjoy their stories as much or
more than any others you've heard. These are truly unique,
hard working people, and especially Manny, Manny and Mike. When

(28:08):
Mike gets feeling better, he's been under the weather for
a little while, Mike Mercado, I want to talk to
him again too. We'll take a little break here, we'll
be right back to wrap it up. Fifty plus on
AM nine to fifty kp RC.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah. 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 twelve forty nine on AM nine,

(28:40):
fifty on this another gorgeous day.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
It's gonna be warm today, warmer, warmer, for two more days,
and then then we get a little break, get another
springtime spell. It's roller coaster season as the mercury goes
up one day, down the next, back up. Some days wet,
some days dry. Who cares? Get outside and have some fun.
All right, well, let's go back to you for a minute,

(29:05):
and I'll give you the choice of that's a little
early in the blink of an eye, or do not
flush in the blink of an eye. Okay, let me
see your eyes from it. Okay, I'm just checking the
latest trend. It says for masculine men, it says in

(29:27):
this story, this is trending is trimming their eyelashes. Their
eyelash eyelashes, not shaving their eyebrows, trimming their eyelashes, which, apparently,
whoever's doing it thinks makes them look more masculine. Would

(29:50):
you agree or disagree with that? Will?

Speaker 3 (29:53):
I've never thought, never even contemplated. Have you no eyebrows trimmed?
The last time I got a haircut at middle part?

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Long? Yeah, clean up the brow. I barely have any eyebrows,
but I no, I can't do this somehow. I doubt
that many cowboys competing at the rodeo this month are
trimming their eyelashes. Hey, I can ride that bull this afternoon,
but I can't miss my eyelash appointment later. I got

(30:28):
to get out of here right after eight. Now, well
you can tell. You could tell if you get up
close enough to somebody and to follow up. By the way,
there's this list online of hobbies and interests that men
I don't know who they surveyed that men have that
they keep secret from their friends. You got any secrets? Well,

(30:52):
hobbies are interesting that are secret I have. I knew
better than to ask that question. I really did anything
you could share on air. They wouldn't be kicked off.
They wouldn't be secrets. Then, Doug, Well that's okay. You
could just drop one of them in there, can you?

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Let's see what kind?

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Okay 's see what. I'll make it easy on you.
I'll just give you the three that they say are
very common, all right, and then you can just tell
me if that's one of your little secret pleasures, having
stuffed animals on your bed, You got any of those?

Speaker 3 (31:27):
I have no stuffed animals on my bed unless it's
the dog's toys.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Fair enough, Okay, I'll move on to the next one.
One of these things here, says liking motivational quotes. Do
you have any favorite quotes motivational quotes to just get
you out of bed and get you going in the morning. No,
I don't either. Just the alarm clock. The alarm clock

(31:53):
is my motivation. That means I gotta get up. I
got stuff to do, and I don't have to have
I don't have to read something to know that I've
got work to do today. And then the last one
will and I gotta hunt. You might this one might
be on your list. Enjoying bubble baths? No, no, not

(32:13):
a bubble bath, guy, I'm a shower man. When when
you were a little kid, was mister bubble still around
when you were a little kid. I think it's still
op It probably is. Yeah, why would it go away? No,
I'm the same way. I can't. No, that's not for me.
I'm not getting my eyelashes trimmed. The headline on the

(32:36):
story was misleading and it really freaked me out. It
said men are getting their eyelashes shaved, Like, wow, how
would you do that? It would have to be done
with an electric razor. I'm not anybody getting near my
eyeball with a straight razor. Only cow yeah, be a
little now, that would be. That would be tough guy

(32:57):
stuff there. I guess. Okay, well one more then I've
got a couple of little shorties. I've got to get
two over here, justture every day eats. Not so happy
place and not how life works. Not so happy place.
This is interesting. There's an image going viral of a
McDonald's play place at a new location over on the

(33:20):
East coast, well not on the east coast, but east
of here, east northeast of here by a couple of
hundred and three hundred miles somewhere in there. Anyway. The
bottom line is, in this McDonald's playplace are two chairs
in front of two screens. That's the entire children's play
space in a McDonald's. It used to be slides and

(33:44):
bubble pits, were ballpits, all those things, all things to
climb on, places to burn up energy and work up
an appetite, which made McDonald's more money, I'm sure. But
now it's just a couple of screens and a couple
of chairs that it's nostalgic parents say they they're calling

(34:05):
it in a word, what would you think they're calling
it will and it's exactly what you're thinking.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
They would call it a really good time.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Now you missed the you missed the mark. They're calling
it depressing. And I would have to agree.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
What are just sitting in.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
A chair staring at a screen. That's that's not that's
not what. That's not a kid's happy place. That's not
good for kids at all. They need to be challenged,
they need to be active, they need all of that
to develop correctly. I already mentioned I already wished the
girl Scouts a happy birthday. I'll move over to ah

(34:47):
got three minutes. Yeah, okay. Saw a story earlier today
about an independent study that studied the actual number of
illegal immigrants who entered our country during the past four years.
And guess that's what. It's probably higher than you think,
probably a lot higher than you think, according to this
post border rush study. Now that the tsunami of incoming

(35:12):
has been reduced to a trickle, the number was set
during Biden's presidency at a little more than eighteen million people.
They walked in, they swam in, they were flown in
from other countries, and most of them are still here
in two months now. On the plus side, President Trump

(35:35):
has removed more of the of the worst criminals among
these immigrants than were booted out of our country during
the entire previous administration. They had four years to do
something and just chose to do nothing and left a
big mess to be cleaned up. Unfortunately, it's getting cleaned up.
And I'm optimistic about the future. I truly am, I

(35:58):
truly am. There's going to be hiccups along the way.
There's gonna be bumps along the way. Some of these
things are they just kind of go hand in hand
with It's like getting over an illness. You don't get
better in one day. It takes a while, and you
might have a little relapse from time to time. But
it's definitely gonna get better in one minute, I can.

(36:18):
I'll give you one more shot, will oh, And I'll
just tell you a good news story. Okay. A bus
driver in Kentucky went above and beyond the call of
duty when he saw one of his regular riders crying,
little boy like six seven years old getting on getting
on the bus, and the driver, thirty five year old
guy named Larry Ferris Junior. Turns out it was pajama

(36:39):
day and this little kid had no pajamas, so Larry
got him to school. He dropped off all the kids
at school, and this poor little case is so upset,
so upset, but Larry took off in the bus, went
to the Dollar General store, bought two different pajama outfits
for this kid, and hauled him back just in time

(37:01):
for him to enjoy the school day with him.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
That's pretty good, I will, yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
I think so. Yeah. You want to make tomorrow pajama day? Yeah,
let's do it. Where are your pajama tomorrow? We're out
of here. I'm gonna go get some pajamas somewhere. See
you tomorrow. Audios.