March 19, 2025 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Andrew Tritter about Botox. Pike also speaks with Teri Gilbert about home renovation.
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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 3 (00:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This show is all about you, the goode. 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
(00:43):
plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Aline Wednesday edition of the program starts try now. Thank
you all very much for listening. As usual, I do
appreciate that I Morena started off a little wetter than
some of us would have liked or expected if you
were to if you would have looked at the cash
yesterday as I did. Oh, not gonna rain around here,
maybe just a ten percent chance way up north. But
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there was a little bit more than that.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
It was.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Actually it wasn't raining, but it was misty at my
house in sugar Land this morning. That's all I'll give it.
It was not even a drizzle. It was just some
heavy air, high high density humidity. That's all I'll give
it anyway to dive straight into the weather forecast courtesy
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of Texas into Air Quality Specialists, because cleaner air is
healthier air, after all. Find out about how and why
that is at texasiaq dot net. So, as of now,
I don't think there's a drop of rain falling anywhere
in Texas, and even better, there's nothing much to see
in the way of precipitation until at least at least
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the weekend and probably only Sunday. Is as far as
that goes. This might be one of our last glimpses
of spring, honestly, so embrace it while you can, and
however you want to do that. We're not far from
from cranking up the acs twenty four to seven. And
as I continue my journey into seniority, however long it
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may last, I am becoming less and less fond of
triple digit temperatures. In the past, when I was a
much younger man, I can recall snickering a little bit
even when temperatures got above one hundred because that just
meant fewer people on the golf course. I was out there,
young and tough and drinking plenty of water and gatorade
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and just not even missing a lick. And now it's
like I used to have too cold to play golf.
Now I've got too cold. And I haven't quite hit
that threshold yet, but I'm I'm rapidly approaching a threshold
for heat. And I don't know what it's going to be.
Maybe one hundred and five that might scare me off.
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I don't think a hundred is going to keep me
away this year. But it's becoming more and more difficult
to recover. It's not difficult to get through the round.
I'll make it to eighteen. I'll make it to the
final hole, the last my fourth putt on the green
or whatever it is. I'll make it there. But then
after that, I'm gonna need some ac I'm gonna need
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to stretch out a little bit. I'm gonna need to
change clothes. I'm sure it's just I don't know. I
just don't like triple digit temperatures anywhere when you live here,
though you can't really get around it. I'm not sure
which is worse, really, the heat or the mosquitoes. And
probably there's a repellent for mosquitos. There is no real
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repellent as long as you're standing outdoors from the heat
it's just got you. And when it's one hundred and
two three four and there's no breeze blowing, even the
shade is one hundred degrees. Skipping off to the markets now,
thanks to Houston gooldexchange dot com, all the big indicators
were green a little while ago, and at that point,
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at least last time I looked a half point or
more up for all four of them. Oil also was
up a little, but still just sixty seven dollars and
thirty five cents of barrel, which kind of it softens
those weekend phillips a little on the way to your
children's your grandchildren's. For most of us, I guess baseball
and soccer and volleyball and softball tournaments and dance recitals
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did just a little bit easier. I do wish that
all of these these events for kids would kind of
get together and offer senior discounts or senior free admission
to anybody who's older than say, sixty or sixty five.
There's no reason. Parents and grandparents already pay a whole
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lot of money for their kids to participate in these
sports and for the venues to chal I get it.
They have to have somebody sitting there to take your money.
Somebody's got a man the concession stand. But that's what
booster clubs are for those venues of the fields, the
arenas for basketball kids, the gymnasiums, the dance recital venues,
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wherever they may be. There's got to be a way
to at least take that financial burden off of grandparents.
Maybe the parents. I guess they're just used to paying
so much. Boy I certainly was when my son was
younger and going to all these baseball tournaments, anywhere from
five dollars to twenty dollars to park and come into
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those venues. They just kind of get you coming and going.
A lot of them won't even let you bring in
your own bottle of water. I got turned away at
the gate once. I was just I had been drinking
this bottle of water on the way there. It was
about half full, and I was told I could not
bring that onto the premises at a A it's a
private school on the south side of town. That's about
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all I remember about it. That and the treatment I
got at the gate. Most of them are pretty good.
They'll give you a little nickel or dime off for
being old, being senior, skipping down to the new. Oh gold,
I forgot about gold. Gold still plotting mostly forward down
A dime is all it was at ten thirty and
still north of three thousand and forty dollars per troy ounce.
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It's a lot of money for an ounce of gold.
And I wonder how that would compare to what the
price was, say one hundred years ago, in today's dollars.
I wonder if it would be about the same. I
don't know, and we don't have time, I think, to
go into that.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Do we will?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
How much time do I have? Since there's no clock
on the wall. You got one minute? Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
That's perfect. Let's just tee it up. Something fun. Where
did my fun stuff go?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Today? What today is national? What day? Will today is
a national? Don't drag it out because we only had
a minute. Is it a food?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Is it a food? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It's national? Chicken? Kind of just include all of the
chicken and its relatives. Oh so that makes a bird.
Not those relatives poultry, will poultry, guinea hens, turkeys, those birds.
They're all chickens to me. Just this morning I saw
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a guy playing chicken on the freeway with all the
rest of us. Maybe he knew it was National Poultry
Day too, just didn't interpret it right, just did not
at all. I've got Oh, I've got so much more
we're gonna do as we get through this program. It's
gonna be fun. And I'm not gonna have that much
time because coming up we're gonna talk to doctor Andrew
Tritter about botox. And boys, there are a lot more
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Speaker 1 (09:41):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
All right, welcome back segment two of fifty plus here
on AM nine fifty KPRC. We are going thanks again
for sharing your lunch hour, happy hour, workout hour, whatever
it is. We'll talk in this segment of segment Good
Heavens segment about botox, which was in the news just
this past week, and I'll get to a little bit
more of that later maybe For now, though, to explain
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botox's non cosmetic uses and other things, I'll bring back
doctor Andrew Tritterer from ut Physicians, Assistant Professor and Director
of Laryngology at the Texas Voice Performance Institute. That sounds
like someplace a radio guy might need to go. Doctor,
that it is.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Indeed, it's good to be back.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Well, thank you, I appreciate that. So before we talk
about the medical uses of botox, how about an explanation
of exactly what botox does once it enters our bodies.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Absolutely, so, botox is actually a toxin that we learned
about from a certain type of bacteria that makes that
same toxin.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Actually, if you've heard of botulism before, yeah, sure, that's.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Disease that certain bacteria causes, and botox the toxin itself,
and botox is just one brand we're talking about botulinum toxin.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
But basically it weakens muscles.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
So depending on where you put it in the body,
and it has to be given as an injection into
a muscle, but depending on where you put it, it
exerts its effects there. So you can weaken pretty much
any muscle of the body in a targeted fashion as needed.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
And that's got a lot of medical applications.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And this is a temporary fix right now. It's not permanent.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Yeah, Most botox only last about three months on average.
There is one experimental version.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Called Daxify that's not available yet outside of cosmetic purpose
that lasts about six months.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
But yeah, agree and.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Correct me if I'm wrong. This stuff's pretty powerful and
it needs to be treated as such, which means not
just getting it from somebody who opens up a storefront
on a corner of a strip center somewhere, right.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Yeah, And depending on where you're injecting it on the body,
I mean, there's lots of potential for u one ed
side effects and complications, So you got to make sure
you're going to somebody, ideally a physician who's trained in
this and knows what they're doing and that way, you
can get the appropriate dose targeted where it needs to
be to get the effect you want.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And if you don't mind you you mentioned side effects,
I saw a pretty pretty good list of stuff that
I wouldn't want to happen to me if I were
going to do that. Talk about those, yeah, of course.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
So most side effects, in terms of common things, are
really just pain, swelling, redness, or bruising at the site
where you inject it. That kind of stuff is it
goes away after a day or two. But the bigger
things really depend on which muscle you're injecting in. So say,
for example, if you're injecting into somebody's face, you know
cosmetic reasons, and you inject too much, you can make
someone's face really droopy. You can cause people's eye lids
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to close unnecessarily for me, at least, I work in
people's throats and treat things like voice conditions. So if
you put too much botox in someone's vocal cords or
their voice box, you can cause a lot of issues
with their voice being way too breathi or week you
can cause swallowing trouble.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Things like that.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Oh wow, So take us back in time to when
somebody will sitting around and just said, either a louder
to themselves, you know, botox might be really good to treat.
What what was the original thing that made a doctor
reach for botox?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Just actually, back in the seventies, botox came about as
a treatment for certain eye conditions. So there's a condition
called strip business where some of the muscles are not
pulling equally between the two eyes, and it can lead
to people having double vision. So weakening one of those
muscles that's pulling a little too much can help the
eyes be in better alignment and get better sight.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
And that was the original use at least.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Doctor Andrew Tridder here on fifty flus. I read something
this morning about the importance of getting botox only from
license people, and we talked about that already. So I'm
going to go, actually, I'm going to skip over this
and I'm going to go to the story I saw
about people who are a lot of people who use
it regularly and they're developing immunities to its effects.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Right, there is some evidence that people can develop an
immunity to botox over time. It's actually a little bit
more rare than people like to say it is. It
still can't happen, but there are lots of different versions.
Like I mentioned, Botox is just one brand. There's plenty
of others out there, so when someone starts to develop
an immunity or resistance to one specific type of the toxin,
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you can usually switch brands and find more success that way.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Something else I read that I wasn't aware of because
I've never been anywhere near botox and don't even well, yeah,
I can see some people who use it, but I
don't talk to them about it. But it also it
has to be refrigerated, if I'm not mistaken, And are
there people around town who would just keep it on
a back shelf somewhere and inject it in you anyway?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
I mean, I'm sure you can find anybody in those
kinds of situations.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Amen.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
At the ideally, yes, it is meant to be kept refrigerated.
It's actually not even in a liquid form you can inject.
It's a powder that's a very small amount at the
box file, So if you looked in the vial, you
really wouldn't see anything other than just a little cloudiness
on the bottom of the glass. But you have to
add liquid to you add some salt water or saline
to make it reconstituted so that you can then inject it.
And then once you reconstitute it, you're supposed to technically
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dispose of it because it does degrade once you start
adding liquid to it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Well, back to more positive thoughts here is both talks
being studied now as a remedy for other medical conditions.
What are we looking at toward the future.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
There's a whole host of medical applications outside of the
cosmetic stuff people are familiar with. One of the more
practical ones people may be more familiar with are migraines.
So there's a whole protocol that people will get botox
injections all around the top of their head, the back
of their neck, certain muscles that pull on the back
of the head as well that can cause headaches for people.
So some people get significant benefit in their chronic migraines
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from botox. There are people who have swallowing disorders that
use botox to help make it easier to swallow. There
are certain people that use botox to treat spasms or
tremors and different limbs or other parts of their body
or muscles that are tensing up too much. And there's
even some more kind of interesting experimental ones. There's a
condition that we started treating recently in my world where
people actually who have been unable to burp their entirely
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their entire wow, and we can do a botox injection
in their throat and get people burning again and actually provide.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I'm not so sure how beneficial that is to the
rest of the family, but nonetheless, as widespread as its
use is now, do you foresee botox ever being offered
over the counter?
Speaker 7 (16:23):
No, just mostly because one way, it has to be
kept in stored too. There's a lot of variability in
how it's given and you really just need specific training
for that.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
So again going to she knows what they're doing.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
And then also it has to be given as an injection,
so you can't really take it as a tablet.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
That's a good point, Doctor Andrew Tritter, thank you so
very much for your time.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Once again, absolutely more than welcome.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Thank you, Boby. All right, we gotta take a little
break here. On my way out, I will tell you
about ut Health Institute on aging. These are the people,
and there are lots of them. I'm guessing more than
a thousand. I still haven't made that phone call, and
I think I might try to do that today or
maybe tomorrow, or I know who to call to ask
how many people are involved in the Institute on Aging.
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But I do know that I don't know how many
right now, I know who to call. But what I
do know is that every one of those people has
whatever medical training it took for them to get the
credential they carry. Now they have gone back on their
own dime and their own time to learn more about
how they can apply their specific knowledge. There's specific training
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to seniors, which is a tremendous benefit to every one
of us who needs help with something that's bugging us.
And if you're older than about fifty five or sixty,
there's something bugging you. There is that I've been dealing
with with this for a long time, and I know
a lot of you are as well. And the Institute
on Aging has people who can take a look at
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your symptoms, take a look at what's your conditions, take
a look at or take a listen to what you're
experiencing personally, and then come up with a plan to
help you get better. That's what they do every day.
All of these people, most of them in the med center,
a lot of them in we're either working in the
med center part time, in an outlying areas part time,
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A lot of them always in an outlying hospital or
something on one of the four or five, six, seven,
eight corners around Houston. If you will go to the website,
look at all the opportunity you have there to see
different things that this whole Institute on Agent can help
you with, all kinds of free resources there for seniors
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Utch and of course the information about these providers Utch
dot edu slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging. Yeah,
they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back
fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Thanks for listening. I'm dougies Will and in this segment
we're going to talk about home improvement and how to
find the right contractors and a lot of things that
you and I may not know much about, but to
walk us through this, I'm going to bring in a
woman named Terry Gilbert, better known as the remodel Least
Welcome Aboard.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Terry Hi Doug, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh, it's my pleasure. So unfortunately, in your business, it
seems like clients are quicker to slam a bad experience
on social media than they are to praise a good one,
which I think is a little unfair frankly, and I
want to talk here about what those clients could do
upfront to improve their odds of having a good experience
with someone such as yourself. What are some of the
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questions people should ask a contractor before they signed anything.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Well, finding a good contractor is the most important part
of your project, manage every aspect. So for me, I
found that in a design service and have them come
in and help the client and walk them through the
process of selecting materials, selecting their plumbing fixtures, paint colors
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is so beneficial. So with my company, I went ahead
and incorporated a design allowance into the estimate, and so
each of my clients know when I come to do
the estimate for them, I go ahead and let them
know that we do offer these services, and they are
just thrilled to know there's someone out there that can
help them.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I would think that that would it would give you
some peace of mind, and it should give the clients
some peace of mind to know that when they start
the project, they're going to do something that a professional
designer says you that won't be horrible.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Oh women love that part, you know, Oh sure, it
just removes all the fogs. I mean, I even had
to use the service for my own home because it's
difficult to try to match your fits, you know, with
your countertop to your bagslash or your tile and your grout.
And they come in and that is their wheelhouse and
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they make the whole transition so easy and seamless, and.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
That's part of why you're so popular, that design element.
I'm honestly, when I read that at the at the
website the first time I looked at it, that that
really got my attention. And along that same line, let's
flip the coin the other What are some red flags
that a consumer might hear from a potential contractor that
just kind of tell them, yeah, walk away.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well, I think that contractors that require large sums of
money up front, that's that's the biggest red flag for sure.
And then also references. You know, I'm able to come
in and give people three running jobs if somebody cannot
provide references or show you a running job that they
currently have to show the quality of their work.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
I might be a little suspicious.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I might be a little more than just a little pitis.
To be honest with you, A good relationship I think
between client and contractors got to just start with managing
expectations and then communication. The more the better, I guess.
So long as those calls and emails land within within
a greed hours. You don't want to get an email
at four o'clock in the morning, do you.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
No?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
And I'm going to tell you, being a woman, we
I am a communication expert.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
So I'm just gonna let that sit there. I'm not
touching that.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, I have open lines of communication with my clients
and touch base with them several times a day, and
I think that that really puts their mind at ease.
I mean, we're in people's homes, where their valuables are,
where their kids are. It's a big deal. So it's
so important to bet your contractor.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Terry Gilbert here the remodel LISTA is it off putting
terry to high quality contractors such as yourself. If a
customer asks you for a bid and you provide them
one and then without even asking how you got to
your number. They just want to knock fifteen or twenty
percent off.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
No, I think everybody's looking for a good value at
this point, and I'm not offended by that at all.
I think that is worth discussing, and you know, if
it can be done, we definitely will will help somebody out.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You know, traditionally what I've done with the work I've
had done around my house, and my house is thirty
two years old. Now, I ask upfront for the best
price somebody can give me and just let them know
that if that's in my budget, we're good to go.
And if it's not, then I'll politely decline. But I
don't try to.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I just I feel I feel like it's wrong. Everybody's
entitled to make a profit. As long as they're just
not gouging me, we're going to do business just right
then and there. So let's get to what's trending, okay,
because I'm curious, what are some of the hottest remodeling
trends over the past year or two.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Taking cabinets to the ceiling and the kitchen. You know,
a lot of kitchen cabinets don't go all the way
to the ceiling, so you lose that sworage space. Updating
the countertops courts and court site are so popular right
now and there are so many vendors. That's that's another
thing that the designer and myself.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Will help you with this.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
We steer you where it's a goat to look for products.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Also that is and paint. Paint colors, I mean, paint
colors can transform transform a room. So you know, lighter
colors are back a lot of whites and off whites.
And the reasoning behind that is because your artwork is
your color, So what you put on your walls that
is what brings the color into the home.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Gray dead, it's it's pretty dead.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
It's a little dead.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, we're tired of doing it.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It's on its less on, its least breath, I think. Yeah,
there were a lot of people I know who just
went just all in on gray. And eventually any color
that's popular today is going to be unpopular, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yes, for sure, that's how we keep the train moving.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Oh yeah, is there some it's something of a domino effect.
I think remodeling, like if somebody prominent or maybe a
neighbor adds a room or gets new windows or a
new front door or whatever. Then a lot of other
people are going to fall in line and kind of
do the same things to their homes, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Oh yes, yes, keeping up with the Jones is it's
so important and we love that part.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
That's your bread and butter, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah, So we are happy to do that and have
people provide estimates.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You bet, how often when you pull up in front
of somebody's house and there are people going in and
out working on that house, how often does a neighbor
pull up and say, hey, can I get one of
your cards?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I'd say seventy percent of the time.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Wow, Wow, that's good. That's good job insurance, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah, easy bread.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Some jobs I'm guessing are going to be harder than others.
Probably depends on whether there's electrical or plumbing involved, right,
Oh yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
So we have you know, electricians and plumbers that we
keep on staff, and we use tradesmen. That's another very
important thing to do on your project is use a tradesman,
not someone that doesn't have those credentials.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
You have a handy man from in front of home depot.
Don't do that.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, not for electrical or plumbing.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
No.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
And the next note I had, honestly in my notes,
just says good contractors have contact with good subcontractors and
that's about it, right, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yeah, your people, Your people make your business run. So
it's important to have good people.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
And boy, I have great people and back to.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
People who would maybe ask you for a lot of
money up front. If that's kind of the case, the
subs that they're calling on may not be any better, right.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Again, you really need to vet.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Your contractor and they should be able to provide a
running project and good references in that area.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
So yeah, that's that's important.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Terry Gilbert, the remodelings. Do you think there's anybody in
the entire state of Texas who has never seen an
online ad for a same day shower replacement?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
No?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
No, I believe that.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Oh my gosh. If I get if I had a
nickel just for every one of those, I could have
retired a year ago. It's incredible, isn't it. Holy cow?
So we got less than a minute. What would you
consider maybe one or two of the best big bang
for the buck remodeling update projects for older homes. I'm
asking for a friend, of course, of course.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Okay, so really and surely countertops in the kitchen and
the backslash is number one painting. A lot of kitchens
have these beautiful oak cabins. Yeah, and when we paint
the oak cabins, you can see the oak ring there.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh, come on, I like that idea. I'm gonna have
to turn my wife. I don't know whether to tell
my wife or not about this, Terry, I don't have
to think about that, Terry Gilbert remodelist dot com. Is
that that's correct, right, remodelista dot com. Thank you very
much for your time. This has been a lot of fun.
I hope we can do it again.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Uh huh bye bye, Holy cow. That was good.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I don't. I'm hesitant. I don't know whether to tell
my wife or not because I know it's going to
cost me a lot of money if I do. Berry
Hill Baja Grill family run restaurant out there on fifty
nine in sugar Land that I've been going to for
the I don't know, however, probably however long it's been opened.
My wife and I moved out that way a long
time ago, and we're still there, and so is Berry Hill.
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And they just do nothing all day but serve up
delicious Mexican food varieties and favorite some of the best
fish tacos you'll ever put in your mouth. I guarantee
you that. I think Tuesday maybe Fish Taco Day. I'm
not sure, but there is a special day where you
get a special price on that. But other than that,
every dime you spend in there is going to be
well worth it. They're great people. It's just a kind
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of an old school, comfortable casual place that draws a
lot of regulars to the bar area, especially for games
and whatnot that might be on TV sporting of And
if you're brand new to sugar Land and you swing
by berry Hill, somebody at one of those high top
tables in there is going to ask you to come
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join them. Just kind of stand around, look around and
say hi to somebody and hey, it's Texas and it's
berry Hill. They're gonna say hi back, and they're gonna
ask you your name, and you'll end up making a
friend probably, And if you're from around there, and if
you've been to berry Hill. You probably know I'm telling
you the truth. Maybe I'll see you there. I was,
I was in there. I think three nights ago now
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is when it was. Probably be back there before the
end of the week. Berryhill dot Com is a website,
Berryhill dot com.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Once 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.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I'm sure applies when you're having a good time, and
I am having a good time today. I hope you
are as well. Hope you've enjoyed the two interviews we did,
one on botox remodeling, neither of which in any way,
shape or form related to each other, but except that
they are I think entertaining and informative to most of
this audience. They certainly were to me and hope they
were to you. Stepping into the news locally, at least
(30:15):
from click to Houston dot com, Houston Health Department has
confirmed a case of measles here. The infected person visited
Houston Methodist Emergency Care Center at VOSS and his diagnosis
prompted the alert. Most people who grew up in the
United States have been vaccinated against the meatles measles through
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their childhood MMR shot. If you're not vaccinated, or if
you're unsure of your status, after all, you were probably
a little kid when you got it, and you may
or may not have gotten it. Maybe the records are lost.
Who knows. My wife actually found, she uncovered somehow a recording,
a record, a handwritten record of her immunizations. And as
(30:57):
it turns out, we knew this already, but I'll share
it with you. We're ten years different in age. And
as it turns out, my pediatrician as a little kid
was the same as her pediatrician as a little kid,
same street, same everything. And that's kind of like, actually
the history with my son's pediatrician. He's about to grow
out of there. But my niece, who is fifteen years
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I think his senior. My niece went to the same doctor.
That guy's been around forever as well. In Fort ben County,
parents at a school board meeting voice their opposition this
week to something called the Blue Bonnet Curriculum, which opponents
say brings religion into our schools. And that's just on America,
And they go on and on and on and on However,
(31:47):
the Texas Board of Education approved that curriculum back in
November and insists that it it just well from the
story it clicked too. It says it integrates history, literature,
the arts, and culture and only touches on religion, and
when it does, there are multiple religions mentioned, but only
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when they are contextually relevant. So it's not indoctrination. It's
not a religion lesson, it's not conversion of anybody to anything.
It's just history, basically and told with at least acknowledgment
that religion exists. There are a lot of people in
this country right now who would just as soon remove
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all reference whatsoever of any religion from our free speech,
but so far that hadn't happened, and I'm honestly I'm
kind of glad of that. It'll be up to the districts.
Every school district in the state has the option to
accept or not to use, or not use basically the
Bluebonic curriculum. But it does carry a sixty dollars bonus
(32:57):
per student for districts that adopt, so that might that
might push it over it over the edge in some districts.
I don't know about sixty bucks a student. You've got
four million students in your district. You've got half a
million students in your district. That's a lot of money,
very a lot of money. Where do you want to go?
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Will?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Let's let me bring out the fun page. How much
time do we have? We now we have four so
we already know. It's National Poultry Day. Nobody cares quick
fun facts for you. Will the oldest living child of
a president Linda Bird Johnson Robb. She is Lynda B.
(33:40):
Johnson's oldest daughter and she turns eighty one today, So
happy birthday. World's smallest international bridge is how long? Will pop? Quiz?
And I'll tell you where it is. It's in Spain,
a little village in Spain, El Marco, and it connects
to the Portuguese village of Varseaia Grande. And it's the
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smallest bridge, smallest international bridge in the world. Do you
have it in feet and feet?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I do?
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Okay, I'm gonna go with thirty feet. You know that's
not a bad guess it's nineteen It's only nineteen feet
long an international bridge. I wonder if they're the I
guess the probably the the You gotta get your passport checked.
I guess when you cross hungh. You know what Google's
(34:29):
original name was?
Speaker 8 (34:30):
Will what.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Back? Rub back for real? And then they came up
with the idea of nineteen ninety six and the founders
changed the name to Google about a year later. I
don't know why. It doesn't say why, but I think
that's kind of funny. Here's something, here's a fun fact
to throw out at the Basketball March Madness watching party
(34:53):
when they go to commercial. The moment when a sperm
fertilizes an egg, there is actual a little spark and explosion.
Good thing they're little? Oh Will yeah yeah? And you
know there's got to be a name for that. But
I can't find it anywhere. Maybe you could look that up, Will,
I don't think so. Note on the work computer. There's
(35:17):
nothing wrong with the natural reproduction of the species. There's
nothing wrong with that at all.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
Will Yeah, Well, there's definitely something wrong with Google search
algorithm about that. I'll bet toss it in Mystery Scoop
or a moment of silence, Mystery Scoop?
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Are you gonna like this?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Up?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
In New York City, there is an ice cream shop
called Surprise Scoop where the only menu item is surprise
ice cream. What it is as you go in there
and you just buy one scoop or two scoops or whatever,
and they just pile in whatever they want and that's
what you get. I know, I saw a video about
it earlier. Did you do you like it? Do you
like the idea? Yeah, it's not a bad idea. You
(35:58):
just want to them piece of ice Creamby what are
you gonna get bad ice cream? Probably not? I mean,
you know, you never know. No, I know that if
I just go in and I might do that at
Basking Robbins. I'll just walk in there and say I
want a scoop of ice cream and when they say what,
I'm gonna turn around and I'm gonna say you pick
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you pick it any one of them in the in
the case there, you just pick me one and I'm
gonna pay you full freight for it, and I'm gonna
eat it.
Speaker 8 (36:28):
Do you have a favorite flavor of ice cream?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Kind of yeah, chocolate chip, cookie dough sucker for that. Yeah,
I have a good cookie ice cream. You know what
My wife and I foun Yeah, cookies and cream. That's fine.
My wife and I found one that is made with
coconut milk. That's actually tolerable. It's good, it really is.
I'll get the brand if you want me to. Sure,
I bet you do. This is I have to I
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have to do. I have a minute or almost a minute.
You have forty five seconds. This relates to a friend
of mine soccer team in Bulgaria. He did a moment
of silence for a former player who had passed away,
only then they found out he's still alive. That same
thing will happen to years ago to former pro golfer
and friend of mine, hol Sutton. PGA magazine ran an
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oh bit for him, and immediately after its publication he
started getting phone calls from a lot of old friends
who were trying to find somebody to just send their
condolences and how's going what? I'm what? And I don't
know that that ever ended well in at least in
his estimation. He's a great man. He's got a good
(37:38):
golf course out west of town too. By the way,
that's it for today. We'll see tomorrow. Audios.
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Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This show is all about you, the goode. This is
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
Aline Wednesday edition of the program starts try now. Thank
you all very much for listening. As usual, I do
appreciate that I Morena started off a little wetter than
some of us would have liked or expected if you
were to if you would have looked at the cash
yesterday as I did. Oh, not gonna rain around here,
maybe just a ten percent chance way up north. But
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there was a little bit more than that.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
It was.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Actually it wasn't raining, but it was misty at my
house in sugar Land this morning. That's all I'll give it.
It was not even a drizzle. It was just some
heavy air, high high density humidity. That's all I'll give
it anyway to dive straight into the weather forecast courtesy
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of Texas into Air Quality Specialists, because cleaner air is
healthier air, after all. Find out about how and why
that is at texasiaq dot net. So, as of now,
I don't think there's a drop of rain falling anywhere
in Texas, and even better, there's nothing much to see
in the way of precipitation until at least at least
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the weekend and probably only Sunday. Is as far as
that goes. This might be one of our last glimpses
of spring, honestly, so embrace it while you can, and
however you want to do that. We're not far from
from cranking up the acs twenty four to seven. And
as I continue my journey into seniority, however long it
(02:13):
may last, I am becoming less and less fond of
triple digit temperatures. In the past, when I was a
much younger man, I can recall snickering a little bit
even when temperatures got above one hundred because that just
meant fewer people on the golf course. I was out there,
young and tough and drinking plenty of water and gatorade
(02:36):
and just not even missing a lick. And now it's
like I used to have too cold to play golf.
Now I've got too cold. And I haven't quite hit
that threshold yet, but I'm I'm rapidly approaching a threshold
for heat. And I don't know what it's going to be.
Maybe one hundred and five that might scare me off.
(02:57):
I don't think a hundred is going to keep me
away this year. But it's becoming more and more difficult
to recover. It's not difficult to get through the round.
I'll make it to eighteen. I'll make it to the
final hole, the last my fourth putt on the green
or whatever it is. I'll make it there. But then
after that, I'm gonna need some ac I'm gonna need
(03:21):
to stretch out a little bit. I'm gonna need to
change clothes. I'm sure it's just I don't know. I
just don't like triple digit temperatures anywhere when you live here,
though you can't really get around it. I'm not sure
which is worse, really, the heat or the mosquitoes. And
probably there's a repellent for mosquitos. There is no real
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repellent as long as you're standing outdoors from the heat
it's just got you. And when it's one hundred and
two three four and there's no breeze blowing, even the
shade is one hundred degrees. Skipping off to the markets now,
thanks to Houston gooldexchange dot com, all the big indicators
were green a little while ago, and at that point,
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at least last time I looked a half point or
more up for all four of them. Oil also was
up a little, but still just sixty seven dollars and
thirty five cents of barrel, which kind of it softens
those weekend phillips a little on the way to your
children's your grandchildren's. For most of us, I guess baseball
and soccer and volleyball and softball tournaments and dance recitals
(04:30):
did just a little bit easier. I do wish that
all of these these events for kids would kind of
get together and offer senior discounts or senior free admission
to anybody who's older than say, sixty or sixty five.
There's no reason. Parents and grandparents already pay a whole
(04:53):
lot of money for their kids to participate in these
sports and for the venues to chal I get it.
They have to have somebody sitting there to take your money.
Somebody's got a man the concession stand. But that's what
booster clubs are for those venues of the fields, the
arenas for basketball kids, the gymnasiums, the dance recital venues,
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wherever they may be. There's got to be a way
to at least take that financial burden off of grandparents.
Maybe the parents. I guess they're just used to paying
so much. Boy I certainly was when my son was
younger and going to all these baseball tournaments, anywhere from
five dollars to twenty dollars to park and come into
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those venues. They just kind of get you coming and going.
A lot of them won't even let you bring in
your own bottle of water. I got turned away at
the gate once. I was just I had been drinking
this bottle of water on the way there. It was
about half full, and I was told I could not
bring that onto the premises at a A it's a
private school on the south side of town. That's about
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all I remember about it. That and the treatment I
got at the gate. Most of them are pretty good.
They'll give you a little nickel or dime off for
being old, being senior, skipping down to the new. Oh gold,
I forgot about gold. Gold still plotting mostly forward down
A dime is all it was at ten thirty and
still north of three thousand and forty dollars per troy ounce.
(06:32):
It's a lot of money for an ounce of gold.
And I wonder how that would compare to what the
price was, say one hundred years ago, in today's dollars.
I wonder if it would be about the same. I
don't know, and we don't have time, I think, to
go into that.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Do we will?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
How much time do I have? Since there's no clock
on the wall. You got one minute? Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
That's perfect. Let's just tee it up. Something fun. Where
did my fun stuff go?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Today? What today is national? What day? Will today is
a national? Don't drag it out because we only had
a minute. Is it a food?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Is it a food? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It's national? Chicken? Kind of just include all of the
chicken and its relatives. Oh so that makes a bird.
Not those relatives poultry, will poultry, guinea hens, turkeys, those birds.
They're all chickens to me. Just this morning I saw
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a guy playing chicken on the freeway with all the
rest of us. Maybe he knew it was National Poultry
Day too, just didn't interpret it right, just did not
at all. I've got Oh, I've got so much more
we're gonna do as we get through this program. It's
gonna be fun. And I'm not gonna have that much
time because coming up we're gonna talk to doctor Andrew
Tritter about botox. And boys, there are a lot more
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better all by itself. But if you go to a
late health they will take care of you with something
called prostate artery embolization, which means they're gonna go in
and they're gonna shut off the blood supply to that
prostate and it's gonna just expire. It's going to be
suffocated in a sense and rendered unable to hurt you anymore,
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unable to change your bathroom habits, unable to change anything anymore.
They also do fibroid procedures. These are vascular procedures done
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take care fibroids, take care of ugly veins. There are
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Speaker 1 (09:41):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
All right, welcome back segment two of fifty plus here
on AM nine fifty KPRC. We are going thanks again
for sharing your lunch hour, happy hour, workout hour, whatever
it is. We'll talk in this segment of segment Good
Heavens segment about botox, which was in the news just
this past week, and I'll get to a little bit
more of that later maybe For now, though, to explain
(10:20):
botox's non cosmetic uses and other things, I'll bring back
doctor Andrew Tritterer from ut Physicians, Assistant Professor and Director
of Laryngology at the Texas Voice Performance Institute. That sounds
like someplace a radio guy might need to go. Doctor,
that it is.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Indeed, it's good to be back.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Well, thank you, I appreciate that. So before we talk
about the medical uses of botox, how about an explanation
of exactly what botox does once it enters our bodies.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Absolutely, so, botox is actually a toxin that we learned
about from a certain type of bacteria that makes that
same toxin.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Actually, if you've heard of botulism before, yeah, sure, that's.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Disease that certain bacteria causes, and botox the toxin itself,
and botox is just one brand we're talking about botulinum toxin.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
But basically it weakens muscles.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
So depending on where you put it in the body,
and it has to be given as an injection into
a muscle, but depending on where you put it, it
exerts its effects there. So you can weaken pretty much
any muscle of the body in a targeted fashion as needed.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
And that's got a lot of medical applications.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And this is a temporary fix right now. It's not permanent.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Yeah, Most botox only last about three months on average.
There is one experimental version.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Called Daxify that's not available yet outside of cosmetic purpose
that lasts about six months.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
But yeah, agree and.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Correct me if I'm wrong. This stuff's pretty powerful and
it needs to be treated as such, which means not
just getting it from somebody who opens up a storefront
on a corner of a strip center somewhere, right.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Yeah, And depending on where you're injecting it on the body,
I mean, there's lots of potential for u one ed
side effects and complications, So you got to make sure
you're going to somebody, ideally a physician who's trained in
this and knows what they're doing and that way, you
can get the appropriate dose targeted where it needs to
be to get the effect you want.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And if you don't mind you you mentioned side effects,
I saw a pretty pretty good list of stuff that
I wouldn't want to happen to me if I were
going to do that. Talk about those, yeah, of course.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
So most side effects, in terms of common things, are
really just pain, swelling, redness, or bruising at the site
where you inject it. That kind of stuff is it
goes away after a day or two. But the bigger
things really depend on which muscle you're injecting in. So say,
for example, if you're injecting into somebody's face, you know
cosmetic reasons, and you inject too much, you can make
someone's face really droopy. You can cause people's eye lids
(12:39):
to close unnecessarily for me, at least, I work in
people's throats and treat things like voice conditions. So if
you put too much botox in someone's vocal cords or
their voice box, you can cause a lot of issues
with their voice being way too breathi or week you
can cause swallowing trouble.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Things like that.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Oh wow, So take us back in time to when
somebody will sitting around and just said, either a louder
to themselves, you know, botox might be really good to treat.
What what was the original thing that made a doctor
reach for botox?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Just actually, back in the seventies, botox came about as
a treatment for certain eye conditions. So there's a condition
called strip business where some of the muscles are not
pulling equally between the two eyes, and it can lead
to people having double vision. So weakening one of those
muscles that's pulling a little too much can help the
eyes be in better alignment and get better sight.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
And that was the original use at least.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Doctor Andrew Tridder here on fifty flus. I read something
this morning about the importance of getting botox only from
license people, and we talked about that already. So I'm
going to go, actually, I'm going to skip over this
and I'm going to go to the story I saw
about people who are a lot of people who use
it regularly and they're developing immunities to its effects.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Right, there is some evidence that people can develop an
immunity to botox over time. It's actually a little bit
more rare than people like to say it is. It
still can't happen, but there are lots of different versions.
Like I mentioned, Botox is just one brand. There's plenty
of others out there, so when someone starts to develop
an immunity or resistance to one specific type of the toxin,
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you can usually switch brands and find more success that way.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Something else I read that I wasn't aware of because
I've never been anywhere near botox and don't even well, yeah,
I can see some people who use it, but I
don't talk to them about it. But it also it
has to be refrigerated, if I'm not mistaken, And are
there people around town who would just keep it on
a back shelf somewhere and inject it in you anyway?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
I mean, I'm sure you can find anybody in those
kinds of situations.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Amen.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
At the ideally, yes, it is meant to be kept refrigerated.
It's actually not even in a liquid form you can inject.
It's a powder that's a very small amount at the
box file, So if you looked in the vial, you
really wouldn't see anything other than just a little cloudiness
on the bottom of the glass. But you have to
add liquid to you add some salt water or saline
to make it reconstituted so that you can then inject it.
And then once you reconstitute it, you're supposed to technically
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dispose of it because it does degrade once you start
adding liquid to it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Well, back to more positive thoughts here is both talks
being studied now as a remedy for other medical conditions.
What are we looking at toward the future.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
There's a whole host of medical applications outside of the
cosmetic stuff people are familiar with. One of the more
practical ones people may be more familiar with are migraines.
So there's a whole protocol that people will get botox
injections all around the top of their head, the back
of their neck, certain muscles that pull on the back
of the head as well that can cause headaches for people.
So some people get significant benefit in their chronic migraines
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from botox. There are people who have swallowing disorders that
use botox to help make it easier to swallow. There
are certain people that use botox to treat spasms or
tremors and different limbs or other parts of their body
or muscles that are tensing up too much. And there's
even some more kind of interesting experimental ones. There's a
condition that we started treating recently in my world where
people actually who have been unable to burp their entirely
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their entire wow, and we can do a botox injection
in their throat and get people burning again and actually provide.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I'm not so sure how beneficial that is to the
rest of the family, but nonetheless, as widespread as its
use is now, do you foresee botox ever being offered
over the counter?
Speaker 7 (16:23):
No, just mostly because one way, it has to be
kept in stored too. There's a lot of variability in
how it's given and you really just need specific training
for that.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
So again going to she knows what they're doing.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
And then also it has to be given as an injection,
so you can't really take it as a tablet.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
That's a good point, Doctor Andrew Tritter, thank you so
very much for your time.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Once again, absolutely more than welcome.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Thank you, Boby. All right, we gotta take a little
break here. On my way out, I will tell you
about ut Health Institute on aging. These are the people,
and there are lots of them. I'm guessing more than
a thousand. I still haven't made that phone call, and
I think I might try to do that today or
maybe tomorrow, or I know who to call to ask
how many people are involved in the Institute on Aging.
(17:06):
But I do know that I don't know how many
right now, I know who to call. But what I
do know is that every one of those people has
whatever medical training it took for them to get the
credential they carry. Now they have gone back on their
own dime and their own time to learn more about
how they can apply their specific knowledge. There's specific training
(17:29):
to seniors, which is a tremendous benefit to every one
of us who needs help with something that's bugging us.
And if you're older than about fifty five or sixty,
there's something bugging you. There is that I've been dealing
with with this for a long time, and I know
a lot of you are as well. And the Institute
on Aging has people who can take a look at
(17:50):
your symptoms, take a look at what's your conditions, take
a look at or take a listen to what you're
experiencing personally, and then come up with a plan to
help you get better. That's what they do every day.
All of these people, most of them in the med center,
a lot of them in we're either working in the
med center part time, in an outlying areas part time,
(18:12):
A lot of them always in an outlying hospital or
something on one of the four or five, six, seven,
eight corners around Houston. If you will go to the website,
look at all the opportunity you have there to see
different things that this whole Institute on Agent can help
you with, all kinds of free resources there for seniors
(18:35):
Utch and of course the information about these providers Utch
dot edu slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging. Yeah,
they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back
fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Thanks for listening. I'm dougies Will and in this segment
we're going to talk about home improvement and how to
find the right contractors and a lot of things that
you and I may not know much about, but to
walk us through this, I'm going to bring in a
woman named Terry Gilbert, better known as the remodel Least
Welcome Aboard.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Terry Hi Doug, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh, it's my pleasure. So unfortunately, in your business, it
seems like clients are quicker to slam a bad experience
on social media than they are to praise a good one,
which I think is a little unfair frankly, and I
want to talk here about what those clients could do
upfront to improve their odds of having a good experience
with someone such as yourself. What are some of the
(19:46):
questions people should ask a contractor before they signed anything.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Well, finding a good contractor is the most important part
of your project, manage every aspect. So for me, I
found that in a design service and have them come
in and help the client and walk them through the
process of selecting materials, selecting their plumbing fixtures, paint colors
(20:12):
is so beneficial. So with my company, I went ahead
and incorporated a design allowance into the estimate, and so
each of my clients know when I come to do
the estimate for them, I go ahead and let them
know that we do offer these services, and they are
just thrilled to know there's someone out there that can
help them.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I would think that that would it would give you
some peace of mind, and it should give the clients
some peace of mind to know that when they start
the project, they're going to do something that a professional
designer says you that won't be horrible.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Oh women love that part, you know, Oh sure, it
just removes all the fogs. I mean, I even had
to use the service for my own home because it's
difficult to try to match your fits, you know, with
your countertop to your bagslash or your tile and your grout.
And they come in and that is their wheelhouse and
(21:09):
they make the whole transition so easy and seamless, and.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
That's part of why you're so popular, that design element.
I'm honestly, when I read that at the at the
website the first time I looked at it, that that
really got my attention. And along that same line, let's
flip the coin the other What are some red flags
that a consumer might hear from a potential contractor that
just kind of tell them, yeah, walk away.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well, I think that contractors that require large sums of
money up front, that's that's the biggest red flag for sure.
And then also references. You know, I'm able to come
in and give people three running jobs if somebody cannot
provide references or show you a running job that they
currently have to show the quality of their work.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
I might be a little suspicious.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I might be a little more than just a little pitis.
To be honest with you, A good relationship I think
between client and contractors got to just start with managing
expectations and then communication. The more the better, I guess.
So long as those calls and emails land within within
a greed hours. You don't want to get an email
at four o'clock in the morning, do you.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
No?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
And I'm going to tell you, being a woman, we
I am a communication expert.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
So I'm just gonna let that sit there. I'm not
touching that.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, I have open lines of communication with my clients
and touch base with them several times a day, and
I think that that really puts their mind at ease.
I mean, we're in people's homes, where their valuables are,
where their kids are. It's a big deal. So it's
so important to bet your contractor.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Terry Gilbert here the remodel LISTA is it off putting
terry to high quality contractors such as yourself. If a
customer asks you for a bid and you provide them
one and then without even asking how you got to
your number. They just want to knock fifteen or twenty
percent off.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
No, I think everybody's looking for a good value at
this point, and I'm not offended by that at all.
I think that is worth discussing, and you know, if
it can be done, we definitely will will help somebody out.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You know, traditionally what I've done with the work I've
had done around my house, and my house is thirty
two years old. Now, I ask upfront for the best
price somebody can give me and just let them know
that if that's in my budget, we're good to go.
And if it's not, then I'll politely decline. But I
don't try to.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I just I feel I feel like it's wrong. Everybody's
entitled to make a profit. As long as they're just
not gouging me, we're going to do business just right
then and there. So let's get to what's trending, okay,
because I'm curious, what are some of the hottest remodeling
trends over the past year or two.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Taking cabinets to the ceiling and the kitchen. You know,
a lot of kitchen cabinets don't go all the way
to the ceiling, so you lose that sworage space. Updating
the countertops courts and court site are so popular right
now and there are so many vendors. That's that's another
thing that the designer and myself.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Will help you with this.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
We steer you where it's a goat to look for products.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Also that is and paint. Paint colors, I mean, paint
colors can transform transform a room. So you know, lighter
colors are back a lot of whites and off whites.
And the reasoning behind that is because your artwork is
your color, So what you put on your walls that
is what brings the color into the home.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Gray dead, it's it's pretty dead.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
It's a little dead.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, we're tired of doing it.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It's on its less on, its least breath, I think. Yeah,
there were a lot of people I know who just
went just all in on gray. And eventually any color
that's popular today is going to be unpopular, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yes, for sure, that's how we keep the train moving.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Oh yeah, is there some it's something of a domino effect.
I think remodeling, like if somebody prominent or maybe a
neighbor adds a room or gets new windows or a
new front door or whatever. Then a lot of other
people are going to fall in line and kind of
do the same things to their homes, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Oh yes, yes, keeping up with the Jones is it's
so important and we love that part.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
That's your bread and butter, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah, So we are happy to do that and have
people provide estimates.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You bet, how often when you pull up in front
of somebody's house and there are people going in and
out working on that house, how often does a neighbor
pull up and say, hey, can I get one of
your cards?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I'd say seventy percent of the time.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Wow, Wow, that's good. That's good job insurance, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah, easy bread.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Some jobs I'm guessing are going to be harder than others.
Probably depends on whether there's electrical or plumbing involved, right,
Oh yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
So we have you know, electricians and plumbers that we
keep on staff, and we use tradesmen. That's another very
important thing to do on your project is use a tradesman,
not someone that doesn't have those credentials.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
You have a handy man from in front of home depot.
Don't do that.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, not for electrical or plumbing.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
No.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
And the next note I had, honestly in my notes,
just says good contractors have contact with good subcontractors and
that's about it, right, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yeah, your people, Your people make your business run. So
it's important to have good people.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
And boy, I have great people and back to.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
People who would maybe ask you for a lot of
money up front. If that's kind of the case, the
subs that they're calling on may not be any better, right.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Again, you really need to vet.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Your contractor and they should be able to provide a
running project and good references in that area.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
So yeah, that's that's important.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Terry Gilbert, the remodelings. Do you think there's anybody in
the entire state of Texas who has never seen an
online ad for a same day shower replacement?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
No?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
No, I believe that.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Oh my gosh. If I get if I had a
nickel just for every one of those, I could have
retired a year ago. It's incredible, isn't it. Holy cow?
So we got less than a minute. What would you
consider maybe one or two of the best big bang
for the buck remodeling update projects for older homes. I'm
asking for a friend, of course, of course.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Okay, so really and surely countertops in the kitchen and
the backslash is number one painting. A lot of kitchens
have these beautiful oak cabins. Yeah, and when we paint
the oak cabins, you can see the oak ring there.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh, come on, I like that idea. I'm gonna have
to turn my wife. I don't know whether to tell
my wife or not about this, Terry, I don't have
to think about that, Terry Gilbert remodelist dot com. Is
that that's correct, right, remodelista dot com. Thank you very
much for your time. This has been a lot of fun.
I hope we can do it again.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Uh huh bye bye, Holy cow. That was good.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I don't. I'm hesitant. I don't know whether to tell
my wife or not because I know it's going to
cost me a lot of money if I do. Berry
Hill Baja Grill family run restaurant out there on fifty
nine in sugar Land that I've been going to for
the I don't know, however, probably however long it's been opened.
My wife and I moved out that way a long
time ago, and we're still there, and so is Berry Hill.
(28:24):
And they just do nothing all day but serve up
delicious Mexican food varieties and favorite some of the best
fish tacos you'll ever put in your mouth. I guarantee
you that. I think Tuesday maybe Fish Taco Day. I'm
not sure, but there is a special day where you
get a special price on that. But other than that,
every dime you spend in there is going to be
well worth it. They're great people. It's just a kind
(28:48):
of an old school, comfortable casual place that draws a
lot of regulars to the bar area, especially for games
and whatnot that might be on TV sporting of And
if you're brand new to sugar Land and you swing
by berry Hill, somebody at one of those high top
tables in there is going to ask you to come
(29:08):
join them. Just kind of stand around, look around and
say hi to somebody and hey, it's Texas and it's
berry Hill. They're gonna say hi back, and they're gonna
ask you your name, and you'll end up making a
friend probably, And if you're from around there, and if
you've been to berry Hill. You probably know I'm telling
you the truth. Maybe I'll see you there. I was,
I was in there. I think three nights ago now
(29:30):
is when it was. Probably be back there before the
end of the week. Berryhill dot Com is a website,
Berryhill dot com.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Once 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.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I'm sure applies when you're having a good time, and
I am having a good time today. I hope you
are as well. Hope you've enjoyed the two interviews we did,
one on botox remodeling, neither of which in any way,
shape or form related to each other, but except that
they are I think entertaining and informative to most of
this audience. They certainly were to me and hope they
were to you. Stepping into the news locally, at least
(30:15):
from click to Houston dot com, Houston Health Department has
confirmed a case of measles here. The infected person visited
Houston Methodist Emergency Care Center at VOSS and his diagnosis
prompted the alert. Most people who grew up in the
United States have been vaccinated against the meatles measles through
(30:35):
their childhood MMR shot. If you're not vaccinated, or if
you're unsure of your status, after all, you were probably
a little kid when you got it, and you may
or may not have gotten it. Maybe the records are lost.
Who knows. My wife actually found, she uncovered somehow a recording,
a record, a handwritten record of her immunizations. And as
(30:57):
it turns out, we knew this already, but I'll share
it with you. We're ten years different in age. And
as it turns out, my pediatrician as a little kid
was the same as her pediatrician as a little kid,
same street, same everything. And that's kind of like, actually
the history with my son's pediatrician. He's about to grow
out of there. But my niece, who is fifteen years
(31:23):
I think his senior. My niece went to the same doctor.
That guy's been around forever as well. In Fort ben County,
parents at a school board meeting voice their opposition this
week to something called the Blue Bonnet Curriculum, which opponents
say brings religion into our schools. And that's just on America,
And they go on and on and on and on However,
(31:47):
the Texas Board of Education approved that curriculum back in
November and insists that it it just well from the
story it clicked too. It says it integrates history, literature,
the arts, and culture and only touches on religion, and
when it does, there are multiple religions mentioned, but only
(32:10):
when they are contextually relevant. So it's not indoctrination. It's
not a religion lesson, it's not conversion of anybody to anything.
It's just history, basically and told with at least acknowledgment
that religion exists. There are a lot of people in
this country right now who would just as soon remove
(32:34):
all reference whatsoever of any religion from our free speech,
but so far that hadn't happened, and I'm honestly I'm
kind of glad of that. It'll be up to the districts.
Every school district in the state has the option to
accept or not to use, or not use basically the
Bluebonic curriculum. But it does carry a sixty dollars bonus
(32:57):
per student for districts that adopt, so that might that
might push it over it over the edge in some districts.
I don't know about sixty bucks a student. You've got
four million students in your district. You've got half a
million students in your district. That's a lot of money,
very a lot of money. Where do you want to go?
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Will?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Let's let me bring out the fun page. How much
time do we have? We now we have four so
we already know. It's National Poultry Day. Nobody cares quick
fun facts for you. Will the oldest living child of
a president Linda Bird Johnson Robb. She is Lynda B.
(33:40):
Johnson's oldest daughter and she turns eighty one today, So
happy birthday. World's smallest international bridge is how long? Will pop? Quiz?
And I'll tell you where it is. It's in Spain,
a little village in Spain, El Marco, and it connects
to the Portuguese village of Varseaia Grande. And it's the
(34:03):
smallest bridge, smallest international bridge in the world. Do you
have it in feet and feet?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I do?
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Okay, I'm gonna go with thirty feet. You know that's
not a bad guess it's nineteen It's only nineteen feet
long an international bridge. I wonder if they're the I
guess the probably the the You gotta get your passport checked.
I guess when you cross hungh. You know what Google's
(34:29):
original name was?
Speaker 8 (34:30):
Will what.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Back? Rub back for real? And then they came up
with the idea of nineteen ninety six and the founders
changed the name to Google about a year later. I
don't know why. It doesn't say why, but I think
that's kind of funny. Here's something, here's a fun fact
to throw out at the Basketball March Madness watching party
(34:53):
when they go to commercial. The moment when a sperm
fertilizes an egg, there is actual a little spark and explosion.
Good thing they're little? Oh Will yeah yeah? And you
know there's got to be a name for that. But
I can't find it anywhere. Maybe you could look that up, Will,
I don't think so. Note on the work computer. There's
(35:17):
nothing wrong with the natural reproduction of the species. There's
nothing wrong with that at all.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
Will Yeah, Well, there's definitely something wrong with Google search
algorithm about that. I'll bet toss it in Mystery Scoop
or a moment of silence, Mystery Scoop?
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Are you gonna like this?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Up?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
In New York City, there is an ice cream shop
called Surprise Scoop where the only menu item is surprise
ice cream. What it is as you go in there
and you just buy one scoop or two scoops or whatever,
and they just pile in whatever they want and that's
what you get. I know, I saw a video about
it earlier. Did you do you like it? Do you
like the idea? Yeah, it's not a bad idea. You
(35:58):
just want to them piece of ice Creamby what are
you gonna get bad ice cream? Probably not? I mean,
you know, you never know. No, I know that if
I just go in and I might do that at
Basking Robbins. I'll just walk in there and say I
want a scoop of ice cream and when they say what,
I'm gonna turn around and I'm gonna say you pick
(36:21):
you pick it any one of them in the in
the case there, you just pick me one and I'm
gonna pay you full freight for it, and I'm gonna
eat it.
Speaker 8 (36:28):
Do you have a favorite flavor of ice cream?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Kind of yeah, chocolate chip, cookie dough sucker for that. Yeah,
I have a good cookie ice cream. You know what
My wife and I foun Yeah, cookies and cream. That's fine.
My wife and I found one that is made with
coconut milk. That's actually tolerable. It's good, it really is.
I'll get the brand if you want me to. Sure,
I bet you do. This is I have to I
(36:53):
have to do. I have a minute or almost a minute.
You have forty five seconds. This relates to a friend
of mine soccer team in Bulgaria. He did a moment
of silence for a former player who had passed away,
only then they found out he's still alive. That same
thing will happen to years ago to former pro golfer
and friend of mine, hol Sutton. PGA magazine ran an
(37:15):
oh bit for him, and immediately after its publication he
started getting phone calls from a lot of old friends
who were trying to find somebody to just send their
condolences and how's going what? I'm what? And I don't
know that that ever ended well in at least in
his estimation. He's a great man. He's got a good
(37:38):
golf course out west of town too. By the way,
that's it for today. We'll see tomorrow. Audios.
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