April 2, 2026 • 35 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Joy DeLeon about STIs. Pike also speaks with Justin Moehin about Autism.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you only. This is
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fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, welcome again to fifty plus, where I try
every single day to figure out what pieces of news
you're tired of hearing about, what you might want to
hear a little more about, and which one of these
hundred and fifty puns is going to get me a
perfect score of five from Will He knows it's coming.
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I've already warned him. I've got a couple of them
picked out over here, and I found we have a
big commercial grade stapler, so I was able to I
was able to staple together all. Let me see how
many pages it is? Yeah? All nineteen pages of puns?
Will and between now and what is this? The early
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part of April. Between now and the end of June, no,
the end of July, I predict that I will have
read to you each and every one of these puns.
Were you prepared for that? You don't look happy about it? Hey, you,
I'll you know what, if you want to take some
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of that time and have your own little segment, you
just jump right in, or I'm going to double the puns.
So think it over quick. Look at the weather in
case you're wondering where the sunshine went. We've got a
little cool front headed our way for the weekend. When
Saturday promises a seventy percent chance of rain, and it's
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gonna be flanked by slightly lower rain chances, but chances nonetheless,
we could use more and we're gonna get plenty of clouds,
so at least whatever moisture's on the ground isn't gonna
just get sucked out of the ground and leave the
yards high and dry. You'll see the clouds if you
look outside, and you'll see bits of sunshine throughout the day.
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I may have to try to go bass fishing this afternoon,
a little bit late, right before dark. I think I'll
go on out there, and I have a strategy that
I think is going to greatly increase the numbers of
fish I've been catching.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Anyway, markets didn't respond favorably to President Trump's speech on Iran,
in which he said We're close, but not quite there
to ending the war. Stock were down a bunch early,
but they'd regained most of those losses a little while ago.
I haven't checked in about forty five minutes or an hour.
It runs. Leaders for some reason continue to just lob
drones and missiles around the region, which is forcing our
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military to hang around and keeping keeping them from doing
that by eliminating the launch sites. As soon as the
missiles fired. From what I've been reading, a missile or
a drone wherever it came from, gets one of ours
right down the chute. So hopefully they can put a
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stop to all this fairly soon and we can all
get out of there. It's just causing all this uncertainty
in our markets, and definitely in oil prices. Oil shot
up past one hundred and thirteen dollars early this morning,
but was already back down to about one hundred and
ten around eleven o'clock. It was higher. Oil was higher
by the way for reference in two thousand and eight,
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and then more recently in two thousand and twenty two,
and so you know, and worth noting, after reaching those peaks,
it tended to drop really quickly and steadily back down
once the catalyst that caused those spikes was eliminated. So
hopefully once this war stops, and once there's a decision
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made about the straight of horror moves one way or
the other, we should get back to where we were before.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
All.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
This happened very quickly to gold too, which is on
the same roller coaster as the stock market, big ups
and downs recently, and at eleven o'clock down about one
hundred and fifteen dollars to four thousand, six hundred and
ninety seven dollars an ounce. You know, that's still an
awful lot of money for a piece of gold about
the size of a quarter back when you and I
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bought a lot of gold back in the disco days,
when everybody had gold chains and gold pendants and just
dripping in gold. Well, the rich people were dripping in
gold anyway. I had a trickle, but not a drip
in any event. Back then, I was told by Brad
Schweiss when I was talking to him about some gold stuff.
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He said, back when all that was going on, gold
was fetching about three hundred dollars an ounce, so more
than ten times more than well almost fifteen times actually,
yet fifteen times in change what it was back when
a lot of us bought all that gold. Might not
be a bad time to turn it over. If it's
still sitting in the closet somewhere, go buy yourself a
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bowl or car. New ballroom news from the White House
courtesy of ktrh's Ethan Buchanan, who stopped by my desk
this morning. Approval expected today to proceed with construction of
the new and quite elaborate ballroom by the commission in
charge of that part, but US District Judge Richard Leon
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has issued an order that prohibits further construction on the site,
saying that President Trump must first gain Congressional approval for
the project. Well, according to Ethan, he explained to me,
and by the way, President Trump's team notified the court
that it was going to appeal Judge Leon's decision, noting
that modifications to the White House by past presidents were
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made without involving Congress. And what Ethan told me is
that the last time that Congress was involved in one
of these things, it was simply appropriation of the money.
It wasn't to get permission to get it done. So
those are two big deals that are very different. And
with this new ballroom being paid for with private money,
no deed to involve the House or the Senate. That
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and they, I would say, they have bigger fish to fry,
bigger things on their plates to address just now than
how this ballroom proceeds. I'll save that for later, and
I'll tee it up with a pun. Will here we go.
I had a crazy dream last night. I was swimming
in an ocean of orange soda. Turns out it was
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just a fantasy. Give a score two. Gosh, I felt
better about that one. Okay, let me put the two there.
We'll take a little break. On the way out, I'll
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It's a marvelous, marvelous asset that we have right here
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What's life without a net? If I suggest to go
to bed, leave it off.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Come back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. I certainly
do appreciate it. Bucket full of thanks. In this segment,
since it happens to be STI Awareness Month, talk about
sexually transmitted infections and they're increasing occurrence among seniors. And
to address the subject, I'll welcome in doctor Joy de Leon,
an instructional assistant professor at Texas A and M University
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in its School of Public Health, but the background in
sexual health research and substance abuse. Welcome aboard. Hi, Hi,
how are you?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I'm okay, good good, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
So among seniors, what are the most common STIs these days?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
That's going to be palmdea, gonnorrhea and stephilists and quick sidebar.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
When did they quit being called STDs and switched to STIs.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I'm I'm not sure exactly when, but when I was
I believe in when I was in my twenties, about
twenty years ago, fair enough. When you started twisting it over.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And on average, how how long after exposure do these
symptoms begin to appear with some of these, it varies.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Usually they're gonna show up sooner and female. Among females,
usually probably I'll have to get looks at up pretty specific.
Eclimity is gonna be the one that shows up, you know,
we have with females, because discharge can change. You may
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experience itching things like that, and you know, our normal
flora tends to be a little more reactive than our
male counterparts. Males, it takes a little longer, but it's
still gonna You may still have some symptoms of itching,
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especially with gonorrhea. You may see some discharge, which may
be alarming because you're not used to having discharge, uh,
burning wing peat, things like that and so. But that
takes a little longer males, because you have a longer
urethra than females too.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That's the same reason that UTIs don't hit men the
same as they do women exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
That makes sense, same reason.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Doctor joy Deli on here on fifty plus, I'm guessing
there are all sorts of myths about how you can
and can't get an STI. What's the truth about how
they're spread.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
It's just from basically the exchange of fluids between two individuals.
Engaging and unprotected intercourse. Usually you can get it through
oral oral sex as well, like you can get gunnery
in your throat, a committee in your in your in
your mouth if we're doing unprotected and so the best
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recommendation to prevent STI is to use protection, condom, dental dance,
things like that, and also to get period obdically tested.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I wanted to ask you how often should should if
someone in this audience just identifies in their own mind
at least and privately or publicly or whatever, that they
are sexually active, how often should they be getting tested?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Well, that depends on the number of partners who have,
but usually you should get at least getting tested once
a year. If you tend to have more than you
have multiple partners and you're especially if you're not using perfection,
you should get tested more frequently six months, every three months,
depending on the number of partners that you have.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So go ahead.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Oh no, if you're you were from one partner to
the next partner, then I would get tested between those partners.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, that's a good idea as well. Are some people
more just more susceptible to contraction of an STI than others?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
To be fair women are more susceptible than just because
of the way our anatomy is set up right, and
so we're more likely to experience them. Is more likely
to get an infection, including just bacteria BAV, which is
bacterial vaginosis, and that just happens because our pH goes
off and we can get any type of bacteria and
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then that can cause an infection for us. But yes,
females tend to have get infected more frequently or might
more diagnosed, I should say, or frequently because we experience
the symptoms more frequently than males do.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And going back to the prevention of these things, the
condoms clearly and what are the that for this audience,
that was about all there was back when a lot
of us were so in our oats. What's out there
now that can help you? Mentioned something else damn of
some sort or whatever.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Okay, dental dance. So that is basically something that you
can cover if you're perform a oral sex on a woman,
then that you can cover the vaginal area with the
dental dam Uh. There's other other pieces of prophylactics that
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are out there, but that's probably the most commons to use.
I'm trying to think about what would be useful for
this audience. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Well, they can go look it up if they want
another When I think you've done your job, doctor billion
U talk about this too. My gut tells me a
lot of seniors might be really embarrassed to ask their
primary care doctors for those tests and whatnot. But these
infections can get very serious if they're ignored, can't they Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And so if they're ignored, if you know, especially with
other comorbidities, you know, heart disease being one of the
most biggest concerns for this age group, Gonna, rhea and syphiless,
especially syphilis pluses on the highest rise among seniors, and
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so syphilis can be can cause major complications, including death,
and especially with a weakened immane system and other comorbidities,
that can progress pretty quickly, especially if we're not making sure,
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you know, we're not getting tested frequently enough or and
we're not taking the necessary precautions when engaging in.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Sex.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Do the cases still tend to be on the rise.
I think you mentioned that a little while ago. And
how is it getting a lot worse? A little worse?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Are we?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Are we raining in our mistakes. What as seniors, Well, we're.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Overall the national average is going down, but among seniors
is still on the rise. And so that's why it's
a concern for seniors, for our elderly, because we still
see it going up in that age group versus the
national average still going down overall.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Is there Do you think the seniors have kind of
a fallse sense of security?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yes, so you know, the major concern when they were
younger was I don't want to get someone pregnant, sure,
or I don't want to get pregnant, and so now
they don't have that concern, so there's no need for
a condom or the thought is that there is no
need for a condom. But condoms do more than just
prevent pregnancy. They also prevent STIs and so. And even
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if you are using condoms and doing everything in the prevention,
so you should still get tested just in case, because
you know they're not full proof, not they're better than
not using anything. But we still want to get checked
periodically and outdoor doctors.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Do we need to go to a specialist of any
kind or can this testing be done just about anywhere?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You can just do it anywhere your primary care physicians
can take care of the testing for you. All you
have to do is ask. If you're too scared to
ask them in person, send them a little message over
your patient portal if you're using that, and they can
put in the lab work for you, or they should
be able to put in the lab work for you.
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Now you have something that you see on your genitalia,
I would recommend that you go in for a visit
and have them look at that, because there are other
concerns of herpies and general words. Those aren't as common
in this age group, but it's still a concern and
so you want them to look at that if there's
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something there. But if you're experiencing itching, burning, those kinds
of things, then you know they can put in a
test and for you to just go and get your
lab work done. Elie, there's a little less pressure when
you have to send a message versus.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, I understand that, Doctor Joy de Leon, thank you
so much for your Thomas has been very insightful and
I hope, I hope this audience is paying attention. I
really do thank.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
You, thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
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Speaker 1 (19:27):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his words,
and spring on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike once again.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
As we get back into fifty plus on this questionable
weather day, maybe rain, maybe not. In this segment, we're
gonna speak with a man I met at Stafford Center
during the Senior Expobacker in early March. He's also here
because it's National Autism Month, and he's going to talk
about autism and how it affects people who live with it,
including himself. Welcome to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Justin thank you for having me on.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
That's my pleasure, it really is. Justin Mohen here, I
saw in the bio you sent me that you were
diagnosed all the way back in nineteen eighty five over
at Texas Children's. Compared to now, how little did doctors
know about autism back.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Then, I think is more scarce than nowadays wise. I mean,
it's more resources, more awareness, there's quite a bit more information,
more people able to do diagnoses on it too. So
on nowadays too, and we've got people who are trying
to get I know some parents who are doing to
get their autizes for kids wives, and some of them
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have to some doctors have to wait a few months
to get that.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Wow, what about in school? How were you treated differently
than the other kids in school?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I mean, I mean the thing is on that in
a public school myself of the in the you know,
the late eighties nineties time framing. I mean it's just
a I mean, oh, I knew I was different because
of stuff that happened back in the day when the
school with special ad stuff, you know, sign to modified
paralyst student. But I you know, I didn't know what
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the outcome is on it.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Sure, while young, you kind of don't know what you
don't know back then. Huh yeah, So so what what
helped you get through that period and gain the confidence
that you you clearly have now based on me talking
to you.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I mean I had a speech therapy, octacial therapy, alug
and grade school and the special regular classes through all
my school years, went to my graduation and did some
college myself for my entry office administration.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Good for you. Let's let's spend volletball.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Art MEAs middle school upwards.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Right, Let's let's go back a little ways because I
like to get definitions here and and tell me what
it what is autism.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
It's a spectrum wise for people disabilities, and we've got
people who can be high functioning, well functioning, and often inspecting.
It's a broad thing I mean different. Well, I mean
I'm like high functioning and met people who are high functioning,
and there's people who are more well. In school, I
thought some classrooms when I had kids who are more
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like you know, like no you know, especially my workers
like non verbal to little no mower skills, and some
of those kids who are more more support to you know,
I mean for me, like I mean little support and
so many were around the clock support.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah. Yeah, that is a broad spectrum. I've read this
morning that one in thirty one children age I think
it was eight and younger are diagnosed as being somewhere
on that spectrum, and that boys are four times more
likely than girls to get that diagnosis. Do you agree
with there being that many cases? Now?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Pretty much? Is yeah that I agree on that while
I got except their numbers were way higher well uh
diagnosed and of course going way back to the UH
one temple, granted.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
It was way rare wise on.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
That when she hers and this is around that when
my parents were around their time frame wise when they're young.
So as like I said, old times, it's more awareness
to the UH information and what resources are becoming more available,
especially businesses like min what I work for, and the
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organ non profits the organization I'm involved with too, like
the company I worked for Bluesperagers ABA Therapy for Autism,
which back then while I was young, it was all
UH self pay and nowadays a guy like private insurance
and Medicaid takes it and ship you know covers it,
while for a d A and organizations like Hope for
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Three non profit and help more with the resources information
for autism, which should got the upcoming event for Home
Run for Autism on April twelve, I'll be throwing the
first pitch of that game a constellation field.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh very cool. Good for you man. From from your
justin Moan on fifty plus here from your observation justin
what resources do you think should be more readily available
for people with autism than they are now?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Well, the thing I think it's still a problem more
when it comes to eighteen plus age Brackett wise with
the like I say, college, employment and other things, you know,
because their employers are need more information about autism wise
and hiring and working with them and another company like mine.
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I mean it was like me not it's not easy
task to get your foot in the door of the
companies because they make stride and getting into company wise
and I've lived them for six years and it's been
great with them.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I went from an BT to I mean I was
doing the training our RBT, but departments where I congrass
with your kids. So and of course, like I mentioned
earlier in my background in the office missions that entries,
so they created position in the company for that entry
over time.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Okay, uh, tell me a.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Driving that and all the advocacy I do wise too.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, you're a busy guy, I know that. Tell me
about the waiver program you mentioned in your email. What
is that?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
It's a wait list for families I've been talking to
and of course past years or governors signed a bill
for the schools that have passed information on it as
like HCS Class American Wave weight lists to provide I
mean families to you know, to tell them about the
programs and get them on the weight list. I mean
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I was one. I mean I didn't know about it too.
I was like an adult wise about it. I mean,
if I know about what the child would probably been
in the probably gotten the resources and information and uh
got and helped up help with in common other things
I mean that get by and uh, well the health
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insurance or like the dental and everything else that meets
more helpful and independent living things and you know you're
and support services. I mean, and I was with fourteen
years and now it's like famous, I've been talking to
their twenty.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Got I got to ask you one more question before
we run out of time. What's the most common misconception
about autism?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I mean it's just yeah, misconception wise, I mean, I
mean just the uh sometimes there's information out there that's
not true. I mean I know that, but with the
I mean, but a lot of it has to do
with the where you got the different organizations and which
is true the organizations like Hopeful three are truer wise,
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I mean, and what's I'm a board member of and
uh and it's hope not to lead to a different
false information about and things on that. And I know
back then, especially the whole controversy with the ABA, you know,
on to back then, which I know it's a good point.
You know another thing, but you know that's some of
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the stuff can be controversy, and I try to make
sure it's get no facts checked and everything else about it.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Two At times that's fantastic. Justin, I'm so glad we
got to meet at that expo, and I'm glad I
got to get you on the air today. Thank you,
Justin moan my pleasure. All right, I got a bounce
see you. All right, we got to take a break,
as we so often do. We like every episode we
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Speaker 1 (29:28):
Zero Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug
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Speaker 2 (29:35):
Fourth and final segment starts now, thank you all for listening.
I threatened Will with a barrage, an Iranian missile barrage
of puns if you will. But I'm not gonna do
that to him. But I will drop this one on
you will. And I wanted a legitimate, legitimate rating. Need
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What do you got? What do you got? What do
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the Yeah I Want. I talked to Will about this
one minute ago from the man by Way The Disgusting
but Predictable Desk, also from Fox News. This one is
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Chicago's Mayor Brandon Johnson doubled down on his recent comments
that sparked backlash in the wake of the killing of
eighteen year old loyal to the University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman.
She was just hanging out with friends and this guy,
this bad guy, Jose Medina, Adena, twenty five year old
(30:44):
illegal immigrant from Columbia, shot her dead for really no
reason at all, and at a no King's rally in
the Wendy City on Saturdays. The story says Mayor Brandon
Johnson vowed to stop assaults on immigrants. This is on
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the same day that Gorman was buried, the same day
she was buried, and he said, and I quote, we
have to end the assaults against immigrants. We have to
get active. First of all, we have to make sure
that we're participating in our democratic process. We've already seen elections.
(31:25):
Blah blah blah. That's all politics and the end of
quote there, Oh, excuse me. He does also say that
they have to force Ice out of Chicago, and that
when he was asked by a reporter on Tuesday whether
he would apologize to Gorman's parents, he just ducked the
question disappeared. That's who's running our country. Those are the
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people who are running our country into the ground. I
might add, By the way, from just about an hour
or so ago, word that the FBI officially contacted Congress
this past week to let him know about a cyber
attack classified as a major incident. According to a report,
the culprit in this major cyber attack was China, and
(32:12):
it was something that they said potentially poses a threat
to national security, and for national security reasons, they don't
go into any more detail than that, and that's perfectly
fine with me. I don't have a problem with that.
By the way, I don't know how many of you
have seen this character who is allegedly hang on, I
gotta grab my pen. I dropped it on the floor.
(32:36):
I don't know how many of you have seen this
character who calls himself Palm Beach Pete and who is
supposedly Jeffrey Epstein. If the evidence I've seen is all
true and not made up, and I have it checked
to see if it's actually fake, by AI, it may be.
But whoever did it made a very convincing image of
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Palm Beach Pete side by side with Jeffrey Epstein, right
down to the lower jaw dental work which shows that
the teeth in that lower jaw are in exactly the
same slightly crooked positions in both men's if there are
two of them, indeed of both men's mouths. It may
(33:19):
whoever put this all together, whether it's true or not,
makes a very compelling argument that Jeffrey Epstein's alive. I
tend to not think so, but I'm gonna go check.
And just in case I ever need a doppelganger, maybe
somebody who looks exactly like me. I'm gonna call him
palm Beach Pike. So if you ever think you see
(33:39):
me out the hey, are you Doug Pike, I just
might respond, No, I'm palm Beach Pike.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
No.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I doubt it'll get the it'll get the recognition that
Pistol pete Epstein did under the knife. I asked Will,
and it Will gave a very valid answer. I asked
him because I knew the answer. How long was the
longest surgery ever recorded? We'll guessed forty eight hours. That
(34:10):
makes sense, some very complicated transplant maybe, or some something
that had to be done in two or three or
four different stages. Sure, that all makes sense, but the
longest surgery, and notably Will, I didn't even think about this.
But it does not say in the story whether or
not it was successful, or whether or not the patient
(34:31):
survived one hundred and three hours of surgery. One hundred
and three hours. That's some Yeah, that's a long time.
Oh we only have one minute left, that's it. Oh
my gosh. This I found very interesting and I think
I can fill a minute. And if I can't, I'm
gonna fire another one of these things that you Will,
(34:51):
I'm gonna turn the page and make sure I've got
one ready to go. Um okay, yeah, there we go.
Startup called reflect Orbital asking for approval to launch space
mirrors that could bounce sunlight back to Earth after dark.
They said, all you need to do is open the app,
drop a pin, and sunlight will arrive at your location
(35:14):
in thirty seconds. Imagine the pranks that could be pulled
if you could make darkness light in thirty seconds. I
don't know how much it would Yeah, think about that, Will,
think about all the things. How much time do we have?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Here we go. I can't believe I got fired from
the calendar factory, Will, All I did was take a
day off. What do you got? What's my four? Okay,
I like that one. That's it for us. We'll see
you next week. Audios
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, welcome again to fifty plus, where I try
every single day to figure out what pieces of news
you're tired of hearing about, what you might want to
hear a little more about, and which one of these
hundred and fifty puns is going to get me a
perfect score of five from Will He knows it's coming.
(01:08):
I've already warned him. I've got a couple of them
picked out over here, and I found we have a
big commercial grade stapler, so I was able to I
was able to staple together all. Let me see how
many pages it is? Yeah? All nineteen pages of puns?
Will and between now and what is this? The early
(01:29):
part of April. Between now and the end of June, no,
the end of July, I predict that I will have
read to you each and every one of these puns.
Were you prepared for that? You don't look happy about it? Hey, you,
I'll you know what, if you want to take some
(01:51):
of that time and have your own little segment, you
just jump right in, or I'm going to double the puns.
So think it over quick. Look at the weather in
case you're wondering where the sunshine went. We've got a
little cool front headed our way for the weekend. When
Saturday promises a seventy percent chance of rain, and it's
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gonna be flanked by slightly lower rain chances, but chances nonetheless,
we could use more and we're gonna get plenty of clouds,
so at least whatever moisture's on the ground isn't gonna
just get sucked out of the ground and leave the
yards high and dry. You'll see the clouds if you
look outside, and you'll see bits of sunshine throughout the day.
(02:36):
I may have to try to go bass fishing this afternoon,
a little bit late, right before dark. I think I'll
go on out there, and I have a strategy that
I think is going to greatly increase the numbers of
fish I've been catching.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Anyway, markets didn't respond favorably to President Trump's speech on Iran,
in which he said We're close, but not quite there
to ending the war. Stock were down a bunch early,
but they'd regained most of those losses a little while ago.
I haven't checked in about forty five minutes or an hour.
It runs. Leaders for some reason continue to just lob
drones and missiles around the region, which is forcing our
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military to hang around and keeping keeping them from doing
that by eliminating the launch sites. As soon as the
missiles fired. From what I've been reading, a missile or
a drone wherever it came from, gets one of ours
right down the chute. So hopefully they can put a
(03:35):
stop to all this fairly soon and we can all
get out of there. It's just causing all this uncertainty
in our markets, and definitely in oil prices. Oil shot
up past one hundred and thirteen dollars early this morning,
but was already back down to about one hundred and
ten around eleven o'clock. It was higher. Oil was higher
by the way for reference in two thousand and eight,
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and then more recently in two thousand and twenty two,
and so you know, and worth noting, after reaching those peaks,
it tended to drop really quickly and steadily back down
once the catalyst that caused those spikes was eliminated. So
hopefully once this war stops, and once there's a decision
(04:20):
made about the straight of horror moves one way or
the other, we should get back to where we were before.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
All.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
This happened very quickly to gold too, which is on
the same roller coaster as the stock market, big ups
and downs recently, and at eleven o'clock down about one
hundred and fifteen dollars to four thousand, six hundred and
ninety seven dollars an ounce. You know, that's still an
awful lot of money for a piece of gold about
the size of a quarter back when you and I
(04:48):
bought a lot of gold back in the disco days,
when everybody had gold chains and gold pendants and just
dripping in gold. Well, the rich people were dripping in
gold anyway. I had a trickle, but not a drip
in any event. Back then, I was told by Brad
Schweiss when I was talking to him about some gold stuff.
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He said, back when all that was going on, gold
was fetching about three hundred dollars an ounce, so more
than ten times more than well almost fifteen times actually,
yet fifteen times in change what it was back when
a lot of us bought all that gold. Might not
be a bad time to turn it over. If it's
still sitting in the closet somewhere, go buy yourself a
(05:31):
bowl or car. New ballroom news from the White House
courtesy of ktrh's Ethan Buchanan, who stopped by my desk
this morning. Approval expected today to proceed with construction of
the new and quite elaborate ballroom by the commission in
charge of that part, but US District Judge Richard Leon
(05:52):
has issued an order that prohibits further construction on the site,
saying that President Trump must first gain Congressional approval for
the project. Well, according to Ethan, he explained to me,
and by the way, President Trump's team notified the court
that it was going to appeal Judge Leon's decision, noting
that modifications to the White House by past presidents were
(06:14):
made without involving Congress. And what Ethan told me is
that the last time that Congress was involved in one
of these things, it was simply appropriation of the money.
It wasn't to get permission to get it done. So
those are two big deals that are very different. And
with this new ballroom being paid for with private money,
no deed to involve the House or the Senate. That
(06:37):
and they, I would say, they have bigger fish to fry,
bigger things on their plates to address just now than
how this ballroom proceeds. I'll save that for later, and
I'll tee it up with a pun. Will here we go.
I had a crazy dream last night. I was swimming
in an ocean of orange soda. Turns out it was
(07:01):
just a fantasy. Give a score two. Gosh, I felt
better about that one. Okay, let me put the two there.
We'll take a little break. On the way out, I'll
tell you about ut Health Institute on Aging. Nothing funny
about that place, dead serious that they're going to help
you and me and every other senior you know get better.
(07:24):
And they're going to do so because every member, the
thousands of members of this Institute on Aging have gotten
additional training to whatever got them their diploma so that
they can apply all of that knowledge specifically to seniors.
It's a whole different set of rules, a whole new playbook.
Once you become a senior, your body doesn't react to
(07:45):
anything like it does when you're younger and stronger and
tougher and just full of vim and vigor. But if
you want to get the best treatment you can get,
you need to talk to somebody from this Institute on Aging.
It's a marvelous, marvelous asset that we have right here
in our own backyard in Houston. Only a handful you
can count them on one hand of places anything like
(08:05):
the Institute on Aging around the country, and personally, from
knowing these people for the better part of ten or
eleven years, I'd say that ours is biggest and best.
Most of them in the med center all the time,
but a lot of them also come out to outlying
clinics and hospitals and offices and whatnot, so that people
who need to see them can go to the website
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look around. You'll be amazed at the resources there. And
then if you need help, start your search for a provider.
Uth dot edu slash aging uth dot edu slash aging.
What's life without a net? If I suggest to go
to bed, leave it off.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Come back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. I certainly
do appreciate it. Bucket full of thanks. In this segment,
since it happens to be STI Awareness Month, talk about
sexually transmitted infections and they're increasing occurrence among seniors. And
to address the subject, I'll welcome in doctor Joy de Leon,
an instructional assistant professor at Texas A and M University
(09:11):
in its School of Public Health, but the background in
sexual health research and substance abuse. Welcome aboard. Hi, Hi,
how are you?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I'm okay, good good, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
So among seniors, what are the most common STIs these days?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
That's going to be palmdea, gonnorrhea and stephilists and quick sidebar.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
When did they quit being called STDs and switched to STIs.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I'm I'm not sure exactly when, but when I was
I believe in when I was in my twenties, about
twenty years ago, fair enough. When you started twisting it over.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And on average, how how long after exposure do these
symptoms begin to appear with some of these, it varies.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Usually they're gonna show up sooner and female. Among females,
usually probably I'll have to get looks at up pretty specific.
Eclimity is gonna be the one that shows up, you know,
we have with females, because discharge can change. You may
(10:25):
experience itching things like that, and you know, our normal
flora tends to be a little more reactive than our
male counterparts. Males, it takes a little longer, but it's
still gonna You may still have some symptoms of itching,
(10:46):
especially with gonorrhea. You may see some discharge, which may
be alarming because you're not used to having discharge, uh,
burning wing peat, things like that and so. But that
takes a little longer males, because you have a longer
urethra than females too.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That's the same reason that UTIs don't hit men the
same as they do women exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
That makes sense, same reason.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Doctor joy Deli on here on fifty plus, I'm guessing
there are all sorts of myths about how you can
and can't get an STI. What's the truth about how
they're spread.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
It's just from basically the exchange of fluids between two individuals.
Engaging and unprotected intercourse. Usually you can get it through
oral oral sex as well, like you can get gunnery
in your throat, a committee in your in your in
your mouth if we're doing unprotected and so the best
(11:48):
recommendation to prevent STI is to use protection, condom, dental dance,
things like that, and also to get period obdically tested.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I wanted to ask you how often should should if
someone in this audience just identifies in their own mind
at least and privately or publicly or whatever, that they
are sexually active, how often should they be getting tested?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Well, that depends on the number of partners who have,
but usually you should get at least getting tested once
a year. If you tend to have more than you
have multiple partners and you're especially if you're not using perfection,
you should get tested more frequently six months, every three months,
depending on the number of partners that you have.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So go ahead.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Oh no, if you're you were from one partner to
the next partner, then I would get tested between those partners.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, that's a good idea as well. Are some people
more just more susceptible to contraction of an STI than others?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
To be fair women are more susceptible than just because
of the way our anatomy is set up right, and
so we're more likely to experience them. Is more likely
to get an infection, including just bacteria BAV, which is
bacterial vaginosis, and that just happens because our pH goes
off and we can get any type of bacteria and
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then that can cause an infection for us. But yes,
females tend to have get infected more frequently or might
more diagnosed, I should say, or frequently because we experience
the symptoms more frequently than males do.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And going back to the prevention of these things, the
condoms clearly and what are the that for this audience,
that was about all there was back when a lot
of us were so in our oats. What's out there
now that can help you? Mentioned something else damn of
some sort or whatever.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Okay, dental dance. So that is basically something that you
can cover if you're perform a oral sex on a woman,
then that you can cover the vaginal area with the
dental dam Uh. There's other other pieces of prophylactics that
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are out there, but that's probably the most commons to use.
I'm trying to think about what would be useful for
this audience. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Well, they can go look it up if they want
another When I think you've done your job, doctor billion
U talk about this too. My gut tells me a
lot of seniors might be really embarrassed to ask their
primary care doctors for those tests and whatnot. But these
infections can get very serious if they're ignored, can't they Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And so if they're ignored, if you know, especially with
other comorbidities, you know, heart disease being one of the
most biggest concerns for this age group, Gonna, rhea and syphiless,
especially syphilis pluses on the highest rise among seniors, and
(15:05):
so syphilis can be can cause major complications, including death,
and especially with a weakened immane system and other comorbidities,
that can progress pretty quickly, especially if we're not making sure,
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you know, we're not getting tested frequently enough or and
we're not taking the necessary precautions when engaging in.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Sex.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Do the cases still tend to be on the rise.
I think you mentioned that a little while ago. And
how is it getting a lot worse? A little worse?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Are we?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Are we raining in our mistakes. What as seniors, Well, we're.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Overall the national average is going down, but among seniors
is still on the rise. And so that's why it's
a concern for seniors, for our elderly, because we still
see it going up in that age group versus the
national average still going down overall.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Is there Do you think the seniors have kind of
a fallse sense of security?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yes, so you know, the major concern when they were
younger was I don't want to get someone pregnant, sure,
or I don't want to get pregnant, and so now
they don't have that concern, so there's no need for
a condom or the thought is that there is no
need for a condom. But condoms do more than just
prevent pregnancy. They also prevent STIs and so. And even
(16:43):
if you are using condoms and doing everything in the prevention,
so you should still get tested just in case, because
you know they're not full proof, not they're better than
not using anything. But we still want to get checked
periodically and outdoor doctors.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Do we need to go to a specialist of any
kind or can this testing be done just about anywhere?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You can just do it anywhere your primary care physicians
can take care of the testing for you. All you
have to do is ask. If you're too scared to
ask them in person, send them a little message over
your patient portal if you're using that, and they can
put in the lab work for you, or they should
be able to put in the lab work for you.
(17:28):
Now you have something that you see on your genitalia,
I would recommend that you go in for a visit
and have them look at that, because there are other
concerns of herpies and general words. Those aren't as common
in this age group, but it's still a concern and
so you want them to look at that if there's
(17:50):
something there. But if you're experiencing itching, burning, those kinds
of things, then you know they can put in a
test and for you to just go and get your
lab work done. Elie, there's a little less pressure when
you have to send a message versus.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, I understand that, Doctor Joy de Leon, thank you
so much for your Thomas has been very insightful and
I hope, I hope this audience is paying attention. I
really do thank.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
You, thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
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Speaker 1 (19:27):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his words,
and spring on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike once again.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
As we get back into fifty plus on this questionable
weather day, maybe rain, maybe not. In this segment, we're
gonna speak with a man I met at Stafford Center
during the Senior Expobacker in early March. He's also here
because it's National Autism Month, and he's going to talk
about autism and how it affects people who live with it,
including himself. Welcome to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Justin thank you for having me on.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
That's my pleasure, it really is. Justin Mohen here, I
saw in the bio you sent me that you were
diagnosed all the way back in nineteen eighty five over
at Texas Children's. Compared to now, how little did doctors
know about autism back.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Then, I think is more scarce than nowadays wise. I mean,
it's more resources, more awareness, there's quite a bit more information,
more people able to do diagnoses on it too. So
on nowadays too, and we've got people who are trying
to get I know some parents who are doing to
get their autizes for kids wives, and some of them
(20:38):
have to some doctors have to wait a few months
to get that.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Wow, what about in school? How were you treated differently
than the other kids in school?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I mean, I mean the thing is on that in
a public school myself of the in the you know,
the late eighties nineties time framing. I mean it's just
a I mean, oh, I knew I was different because
of stuff that happened back in the day when the
school with special ad stuff, you know, sign to modified
paralyst student. But I you know, I didn't know what
(21:10):
the outcome is on it.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Sure, while young, you kind of don't know what you
don't know back then. Huh yeah, So so what what
helped you get through that period and gain the confidence
that you you clearly have now based on me talking
to you.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I mean I had a speech therapy, octacial therapy, alug
and grade school and the special regular classes through all
my school years, went to my graduation and did some
college myself for my entry office administration.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Good for you. Let's let's spend volletball.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Art MEAs middle school upwards.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Right, Let's let's go back a little ways because I
like to get definitions here and and tell me what
it what is autism.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
It's a spectrum wise for people disabilities, and we've got
people who can be high functioning, well functioning, and often inspecting.
It's a broad thing I mean different. Well, I mean
I'm like high functioning and met people who are high functioning,
and there's people who are more well. In school, I
thought some classrooms when I had kids who are more
(22:18):
like you know, like no you know, especially my workers
like non verbal to little no mower skills, and some
of those kids who are more more support to you know,
I mean for me, like I mean little support and
so many were around the clock support.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah. Yeah, that is a broad spectrum. I've read this
morning that one in thirty one children age I think
it was eight and younger are diagnosed as being somewhere
on that spectrum, and that boys are four times more
likely than girls to get that diagnosis. Do you agree
with there being that many cases? Now?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Pretty much? Is yeah that I agree on that while
I got except their numbers were way higher well uh
diagnosed and of course going way back to the UH
one temple, granted.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
It was way rare wise on.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
That when she hers and this is around that when
my parents were around their time frame wise when they're young.
So as like I said, old times, it's more awareness
to the UH information and what resources are becoming more available,
especially businesses like min what I work for, and the
(23:32):
organ non profits the organization I'm involved with too, like
the company I worked for Bluesperagers ABA Therapy for Autism,
which back then while I was young, it was all
UH self pay and nowadays a guy like private insurance
and Medicaid takes it and ship you know covers it,
while for a d A and organizations like Hope for
(23:54):
Three non profit and help more with the resources information
for autism, which should got the upcoming event for Home
Run for Autism on April twelve, I'll be throwing the
first pitch of that game a constellation field.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh very cool. Good for you man. From from your
justin Moan on fifty plus here from your observation justin
what resources do you think should be more readily available
for people with autism than they are now?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Well, the thing I think it's still a problem more
when it comes to eighteen plus age Brackett wise with
the like I say, college, employment and other things, you know,
because their employers are need more information about autism wise
and hiring and working with them and another company like mine.
(24:40):
I mean it was like me not it's not easy
task to get your foot in the door of the
companies because they make stride and getting into company wise
and I've lived them for six years and it's been
great with them.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I went from an BT to I mean I was
doing the training our RBT, but departments where I congrass
with your kids. So and of course, like I mentioned
earlier in my background in the office missions that entries,
so they created position in the company for that entry
over time.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Okay, uh, tell me a.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Driving that and all the advocacy I do wise too.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, you're a busy guy, I know that. Tell me
about the waiver program you mentioned in your email. What
is that?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
It's a wait list for families I've been talking to
and of course past years or governors signed a bill
for the schools that have passed information on it as
like HCS Class American Wave weight lists to provide I
mean families to you know, to tell them about the
programs and get them on the weight list. I mean
(25:44):
I was one. I mean I didn't know about it too.
I was like an adult wise about it. I mean,
if I know about what the child would probably been
in the probably gotten the resources and information and uh
got and helped up help with in common other things
I mean that get by and uh, well the health
(26:05):
insurance or like the dental and everything else that meets
more helpful and independent living things and you know you're
and support services. I mean, and I was with fourteen
years and now it's like famous, I've been talking to
their twenty.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Got I got to ask you one more question before
we run out of time. What's the most common misconception
about autism?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I mean it's just yeah, misconception wise, I mean, I
mean just the uh sometimes there's information out there that's
not true. I mean I know that, but with the
I mean, but a lot of it has to do
with the where you got the different organizations and which
is true the organizations like Hopeful three are truer wise,
(26:50):
I mean, and what's I'm a board member of and
uh and it's hope not to lead to a different
false information about and things on that. And I know
back then, especially the whole controversy with the ABA, you know,
on to back then, which I know it's a good point.
You know another thing, but you know that's some of
(27:11):
the stuff can be controversy, and I try to make
sure it's get no facts checked and everything else about it.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Two At times that's fantastic. Justin, I'm so glad we
got to meet at that expo, and I'm glad I
got to get you on the air today. Thank you,
Justin moan my pleasure. All right, I got a bounce
see you. All right, we got to take a break,
as we so often do. We like every episode we
do at this time, and on the way out, I'm
(27:40):
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Speaker 1 (29:28):
Zero Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug
Pike fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Fourth and final segment starts now, thank you all for listening.
I threatened Will with a barrage, an Iranian missile barrage
of puns if you will. But I'm not gonna do
that to him. But I will drop this one on
you will. And I wanted a legitimate, legitimate rating. Need
ARC save two of every animal. I know a guy,
(30:01):
What do you got? What do you got? What do
you got? Two? Okay, I'm gonna back off then for
a minute. I might come back with one more from
the Yeah I Want. I talked to Will about this
one minute ago from the man by Way The Disgusting
but Predictable Desk, also from Fox News. This one is
(30:22):
Chicago's Mayor Brandon Johnson doubled down on his recent comments
that sparked backlash in the wake of the killing of
eighteen year old loyal to the University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman.
She was just hanging out with friends and this guy,
this bad guy, Jose Medina, Adena, twenty five year old
(30:44):
illegal immigrant from Columbia, shot her dead for really no
reason at all, and at a no King's rally in
the Wendy City on Saturdays. The story says Mayor Brandon
Johnson vowed to stop assaults on immigrants. This is on
(31:04):
the same day that Gorman was buried, the same day
she was buried, and he said, and I quote, we
have to end the assaults against immigrants. We have to
get active. First of all, we have to make sure
that we're participating in our democratic process. We've already seen elections.
(31:25):
Blah blah blah. That's all politics and the end of
quote there, Oh, excuse me. He does also say that
they have to force Ice out of Chicago, and that
when he was asked by a reporter on Tuesday whether
he would apologize to Gorman's parents, he just ducked the
question disappeared. That's who's running our country. Those are the
(31:49):
people who are running our country into the ground. I
might add, By the way, from just about an hour
or so ago, word that the FBI officially contacted Congress
this past week to let him know about a cyber
attack classified as a major incident. According to a report,
the culprit in this major cyber attack was China, and
(32:12):
it was something that they said potentially poses a threat
to national security, and for national security reasons, they don't
go into any more detail than that, and that's perfectly
fine with me. I don't have a problem with that.
By the way, I don't know how many of you
have seen this character who is allegedly hang on, I
gotta grab my pen. I dropped it on the floor.
(32:36):
I don't know how many of you have seen this
character who calls himself Palm Beach Pete and who is
supposedly Jeffrey Epstein. If the evidence I've seen is all
true and not made up, and I have it checked
to see if it's actually fake, by AI, it may be.
But whoever did it made a very convincing image of
(32:58):
Palm Beach Pete side by side with Jeffrey Epstein, right
down to the lower jaw dental work which shows that
the teeth in that lower jaw are in exactly the
same slightly crooked positions in both men's if there are
two of them, indeed of both men's mouths. It may
(33:19):
whoever put this all together, whether it's true or not,
makes a very compelling argument that Jeffrey Epstein's alive. I
tend to not think so, but I'm gonna go check.
And just in case I ever need a doppelganger, maybe
somebody who looks exactly like me. I'm gonna call him
palm Beach Pike. So if you ever think you see
(33:39):
me out the hey, are you Doug Pike, I just
might respond, No, I'm palm Beach Pike.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
No.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I doubt it'll get the it'll get the recognition that
Pistol pete Epstein did under the knife. I asked Will,
and it Will gave a very valid answer. I asked
him because I knew the answer. How long was the
longest surgery ever recorded? We'll guessed forty eight hours. That
(34:10):
makes sense, some very complicated transplant maybe, or some something
that had to be done in two or three or
four different stages. Sure, that all makes sense, but the
longest surgery, and notably Will, I didn't even think about this.
But it does not say in the story whether or
not it was successful, or whether or not the patient
(34:31):
survived one hundred and three hours of surgery. One hundred
and three hours. That's some Yeah, that's a long time.
Oh we only have one minute left, that's it. Oh
my gosh. This I found very interesting and I think
I can fill a minute. And if I can't, I'm
gonna fire another one of these things that you Will,
(34:51):
I'm gonna turn the page and make sure I've got
one ready to go. Um okay, yeah, there we go.
Startup called reflect Orbital asking for approval to launch space
mirrors that could bounce sunlight back to Earth after dark.
They said, all you need to do is open the app,
drop a pin, and sunlight will arrive at your location
(35:14):
in thirty seconds. Imagine the pranks that could be pulled
if you could make darkness light in thirty seconds. I
don't know how much it would Yeah, think about that, Will,
think about all the things. How much time do we have?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Here we go. I can't believe I got fired from
the calendar factory, Will, All I did was take a
day off. What do you got? What's my four? Okay,
I like that one. That's it for us. We'll see
you next week. Audios
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