May 7, 2026 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike celebrates the 100th episode of 50+! Pike also speaks with Dr. Catherine Troisi about Tuberculosis.
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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? Well, this show is
all about you. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
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.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, welcome yet again to fifty plus, this time
on something of a milestone day for the show. Will
and I have been talking about this for quite some time,
and he reminded me, and I reminded him this morning.
I asked to make sure at the end of this hour,
after Will tweaks and trims and does whatever it is
he does to these show's post air, he will officially
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log the one thousandth episode of the show into the
podcast library. Any fanfare or anything like that, any cheering
over there, nothing, okay, nothing at all. Will oh a
thumbs up a thousand episodes and I get a thumbs up. Okay,
remember that I've actually done a lot more shows than that,
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but that was before we started tucking him away for podcasts.
I can't say that we've covered every topic of interest
to seniors, but I'm pretty certain we're close. And we
thank you will by the way, for adding the verbiage
in front of those so that people will know what
they can find buried inside, kind.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Of like opening up a box of chocolates.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
As was his name. Tom Hanks, better known as Forrest Gump,
would have said, I can't say that we've done it all,
like I said, but I feel like we've covered the
most important ones many times over, thanks to the tremendous
access honestly to some of the best best doctors in
the world and best caregivers in the world through my
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long standing relationship with UT Health Institute on Aging. Without them, seriously,
we couldn't possibly have learned about the breakthroughs in healthcare
that run the full gamut of senior health, about everything
that has to do with anything that is medically related.
Probably eighty percent of that has come from UT Health
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Institute on Aging and it's great resources, and I certainly
do appreciate them for being a part of this program
for the better part of at least nine years.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
It may be ten. I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
We've just been partners for so long that I don't
remember exactly when it started. So big thanks to the
Institute on Aging for lining up an all star cast
of people from literally every branch of medicine and caregiving
to lead off, and I might make this a thing
moving forward. I'll offer a quote that I saw that
really it reminded me of where we come from in
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this country.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Comes from Edward R. Murrow, who said, this.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Dig deep in our own history and our doctrine, and
remember that we are not descended from fearful men. Well
said ed kind of. I like that, I really do.
I hope you do as well, and I hope you'll
give it some thought. The inference there is that if
you want to get tough things done, you need tough
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people to do them. And we're about to probably get
into that phase of this country at two hundred and
fifty years. Most societies, most countries have flopped within two
hundred years throughout history, and we're about to celebrate two
fifty and I hope we do it in a very
good way, in a very safe way when that day
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comes along. Looking at the weather to be more current.
Just as I predicted, the forecast has changed for yesterday.
It's not supposed to rain around here today. Now they've
just eliminated the entire chance, although it'll probably look like
it's going to rain. Coastal areas have the better chance
for pre sip today, and then Tomorrow and Saturday are
looking more rainy across Southeast Texas, and then Sunday is
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supposed to be warm and after two days of rain,
probably pretty clammy as well. I'm still hoping the showers
go around the Woodlands where the Inspirity Tour Champions events
scheduled for the rest of this week. I've actually chatted briefly.
I looked at the entire lineup of who's playing out
there today and who's I look today at the entire
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lineup of who's playing more correctly and realize that I
have either chatted briefly or interviewed and several of them
more than once. About a dozen of the guys in
the field, and they're all great. The Champions to Tour
Champions events.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Are very friendly.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
The players are more accessible than PGA Tour players because
all of these guys have been around the block a
few times. They are out there kind of continuing to
live the dream of doing something they love and making
a living at it. And so you can get a
little closer to them. They'll chat you up if you
walk alongside them outside the ropes during a tournament. And
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it's just really fun to go out there and watch
these guys just literally dissect golf courses. They're still highly
skilled players. They may not hit it quite as far
as they did when they were younger, but they can
still flat play the game of golf.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Would you agree? Will?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yes, you would go ahead and agree, And I'll tell
you how smart you are. You're very smart to agree
with that. How much time do I have because I
don't want to start something I can't finish. Okay, I
can do this in ten or two minutes very easily.
From Grand Prairie comes word a Texas Scorecard that the
city of Grand Prairie has canceled an event at Epic
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Waters Indoor water Park there because it was initially advertised
as a Muslim only day named DFW Epic Eid in
reference to a Muslim holiday. That I looked it up
because I didn't know, and I like to know these
things and eid is a word that means festival or gala,
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something like that in that language. When Governor Abbot learned
about Grand Prairie's plans to hold an exclusive event on
public property, he warned that city that it could lose
more than a half a million dollars in state grants
if it went ahead and did that. To quote Abbot
from X earlier in the week, that's religious discrimination, end quote.
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And he gave Grand Prairie until May eleventh to respond.
Grand Prairie responded more quickly than that festival canceled. Just
as I noted a minute ago, money talks, money talks.
We found that out in Houston not that long ago too.
Some of the things that the city of Houston wanted
to do went against the grain of our governor. And
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he said, hey, you want your money or not. And
I'm glad he's standing up for the rights of Texans.
I truly am. There's a lot that's got to be
handled by our state legislature in the near future, or
Texas is gonna end up being a very different state
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than you or I or most of this audience wants
it to be. And I hope that day never comes.
I have lived in this state how long, Probably the
better part of sixty five of my years on the planet,
if I'm thinking about right. There was a brief sojourn
to New Orleans when my dad got transferred over there
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once before I was even ten years or right as
I was ten years old. I think I was eleven
when we moved, came back when I was fourteen, and
then I think that was just about it, really, except
for going off to college and didn't stay there long
enough to really count it. I yeah, that's a very
long story, but it was fun. I played baseball for
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one of the best programs in the country back then.
Will says, I got to get out of here. I'll
do that. And while I'm out, well I'm not really out.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I'm still here.
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Speaker 2 (09:11):
What's life without a net? I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Fifty plus, and thanks for listening on this thousandth episode,
believe it or not, Holy Cow. In this segment, we're
going to talk about something that hadn't really been discussed
here in quite some time, and that is tuberculosis. And
to help, I'm happy to bring back doctor Catherine Tchuwisi,
Professor and infectious epidemiologists at ut Health Houston School of
Public Health, and we've really got her on the line
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this time. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Doctor, Thank you and congratulations on your thousandth episode.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I'm so glad we're here, so so almost as I
usually try to do a definition first, please what is tuberculosis.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Tuberculosis is a disease caused by bacteria, usually infecting the lungs.
That's what we're familiar with, the coughing and you know
that kind of thing, but can also infect bones in
the brain, can cause meningitis, so it can spread outside
the lungs.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I didn't realize there was a connection to meningitis. That's
very interesting.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
There's a number of bacteria and viruses that can cause meningitis,
so okay.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And not just TB and I read also there's active
TB and inactive TV.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
What's the difference.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
So when you become infected with the tuberculosis bacteria, usually
your body does a good job of keeping it under control,
and it's only when something happens to your immune system.
For example, if you were HIV infected and got AIDS.
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That has been a big issue with number of cases. Okay,
but our immune systems, as we have found with other
diseases and other things in our lives, doesn't work as
well as we get older, and so tuberculosis can.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Like dormant for a long time.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Just getting older can be a risk factor that your
body can't contain the bacterium anymore. Then you have active TV,
which means you have symptoms and can spread the disease
to other When you have latent or in active TV,
you don't have symptoms and you can't spread it to others.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
And what are the numbers worldwide? And I guess in
the country how many people have this disease.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
So we have done a good job in the United
States of controlling TV. Back in the nineteen fifties, there
were about a little over fifty cases per hundred thousand
of people. Now we're down to less than three, but
it's still around worldwide. There are still a number of cases,
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particularly in low and middle income countries. And the estimates
are TV is a major killer throughout history. That one
in seven people throughout history have died from tbly amazing
when you think about it.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
There are also estimates that.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Right now between one and four and one in five
of people in the world are infected with TV. Again,
it doesn't mean that they are infectious, but it does
mean they are at risk for the that bacteria escaping
and causing damage in your body.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
And I've read this morning, doctor Catherine Truesi with me
on fifty plus here. I read this morning that it's
actually spread if you are contagious, kind of like the
same way a cold is just from a sneeze. Do
you have to be right up in that person's face
and they have to sneeze right in your face?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Or is this is it? How far will that stuff
reach if somebody's theses it out.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yeah, it's not as contagious as for example, flu or COVID.
You have to have close contact and usually not just
you know, for a little bit of time, usually for
a more extended time.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Okay, that's kind of good to know. I think I
do like that.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
What are the more common symptoms of people who have
this disease?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
So definitely coughing particularly, you might think t B if
you have or your physician or healthcare provider might have
with a cough that lasts over three weeks, coughing up blood,
losing weights, nights, sweats, chest pain, fatigue, that kind of thing.
And you know TV is often depicted in movies and
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those are the symptoms you see of heroes and heroines
who are infects.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
How do you test for TEA?
Speaker 6 (14:02):
There are a couple of ways of testing.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
You may have had a test done in your the
skin of your forearm, where it just sees if you
have either. It can't differentiate between latent and active TV.
But there are more advanced tests that can blood test
but also a chest X ray to show if you
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have active diseases.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Really what's needed for diagnosis.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And talk a little bit about who should get tested
and at what age.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
So there's no recommendation for routine testing for superculosis, but
definitely if you have any of those symptoms, if you've
been around somebody with TB, somebody in your family, you
know for children, a classmate, and health departments will do
that type of contact investigation if you've been for an
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extended period in a country that does have a higher
rate of TV. Again, it would hurt to get tested.
But let me also mention talking about children, that it
is harder to diagnose TB in children. Oh wow, although
a recent test was just published that may make it easier.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
But that's one of the problems.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Children are at higher risk for severe disease and for
active TV, and so we really want to test them
because we can treat it. They are antibiotics to treat
both latent TB, so it doesn't become active TV or
active TV if you already have symptoms, so it's important
to know whether people have it so they can get treated.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yeah, that's very good to know.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I also saw somewhere that a week in the mute,
they're a little more who's susceptible to this? And it
said it mentioned high risk settings commas such as prison
shelters and nursing homes. Is that something people in nursing
homes should really be worried about.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Yeah, and those well, the prisons, homeland alters. That's because
of close contact, prolonged close contact, so that if somebody
has TB and can spread it, you know, they are
more likely to The nursing home is age related factor.
That again, our immune systems don't work quite as well,
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just like our joint everything else in our bodies. So
certainly nursing home personnel are alert to the symptoms of
tv TB and we'll do testing if you know, they suspect.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It is tough getting old, isn't it. You get enough
miles on your tires, you're going to get a flat
sooner or later. That's right, And I'm really glad you
mentioned that it is curable, not just treatable, but it
is curable with it looks from what I read it
can take several months of antibiotics. But hey, that's a
small price to pay to get rid of that stuff, right, right, It.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Is a prolonged dosage or time of antibiotic therapy. One
of the issues worldwide that we're worried about is a
drug resistant TV and there's different forms multi drug resistant,
which means there's still some forms some antibiotics that work.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Just not the common ones.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
But and we do not see this in the United
States right now, but in other countries. I mean, we
do see multi drug resistant, right but there is extremely
drug exit d r t B that we can see
in other countries where they are just.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Very few antibiotics that will work.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
And one of the problems that leads to development of
these drug resistant TVs bacteria is that people don't continue
the six months or nine months of treatment.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
That's a lot to ask.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
It's a lot, especially in underdeveloped countries where yep, six
or eight months of something is going to be hard
to keep up with.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Whether they can.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I don't think that money wouldn't be a problem with
those antibiotics, would it cost?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Because they're typically cheap.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yeah, but some countries have very little money to go
towards true. Yeah, and you know funding has been tough
since we don't have USAID anymore.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Okay, to help out these countries.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
All right, Well that will wrap it up. We were
just about out of time here, doctor Catherine Trwesi. I
really do appreciate your time today. Thank you so much
for accommodating us yesterday after yesterday's technical.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Problems too, no problem, good to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Thank you you too.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
How about it?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
All right, we got to take another little break and
we're gonna talk about Country Boys Roofing. Country Boys is
run by John Eittman. You've been in this business a
very long time. His son Zack is working with him
now and from what I understand, doing a very fine
job of learning the trade. Anybody who comes from Country
Boy's Roofing to check out your roof after the storms
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we had last week and a lot of people are
getting them checked out, you can rest assured that they're
going to give you an accurate assessment of what's going
on up there and give you a fair and honest
price on either fixing a small problem that they find
up there and probably can do it the same day,
or perhaps it's the other extreme and you just need
a whole new roof. Either way, you're gonna get taken
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care of by Country Boys Roofing. By the way, John
asked me to ask you or tell you that if
you're considering anybody else, that's fine. You can call whoever
you want, but just make sure that they are Texas
wind Storms certified because that's going to be important if
you ever need to make an insurance claim on that roof.
And you also shouldn't have to pay any money upfront,
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according to John, because a company that's been around a
long time should have enough funding to go ahead and
buy the supplies to get that roof done, so you
don't have to worry about well, you just don't have
to worry about any of that with Country Boy's Roofing.
Country with a K, Boys with a Z. If you
are an educator, a first responder, or active military, he
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will give you fifteen hundred dollars off a complete roof replacement.
Even if you don't qualify for any of that, he
will give you one thousand dollars off just if you
can remember my name and say it when he asks.
If you qualify for a discount, that's all you gotta
do say yeah, Doug sent me and he'll take a
thousand dollars off whatever price.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
He quoted you.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Country Boy's roofing. As I said, country with a K,
Boys with a Z, countryboysroofing dot com aged to perfection.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Go back to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I was looking at a video, but I'll take that
off to get back to this show where we all belong.
On this one thousandth episode, Thank you very much. And
like I said in the very beginning, this is not
the We've done many more episodes than the one thousand.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
These are the ones.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I think Will you may be responsible for putting all
of these into podcast.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Are you not?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Maybe not quite? Yeah, somebody was doing them. I guess
a little bit beforehand, but they Yeah. In any event,
this is one thousand official, and so Will gets the
honor of being the one thousandth episode.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Put her up her moving west.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
If I may corpus Christie might want to take a
page from San Diego's book on desalination plants. Back in
the nineties, they went through out there in southern California
a significant drought year's long drought. Okay, sound familiar Corpus
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and San Diego's desalination capabilities since then have grown so
tremendously that San Diego fast forward to now, is working
out deals to provide fresh water to Arizona and Nevada
in exchange those states. If the deal goes through, and
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I'm pretty sure it will, those states would happily fund
the quarterly cost of keeping the San Diego Carlsbad desalination
plant churning out fresh water. Any idea how much fresh
water that plant churns out, how about fifty four million
gallons a day? Fifty four million gallons a day to
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the city and county it primarily serves. It can be done,
and hopefully Corpus CHRISTI can pull a few pages from
San Diego's playbook and get that done soon and get started.
They've been talking about it for several years, and every
year that they talk about at the price keeps going up. Originally,
I want to say it was like one hundred and
fifty maybe two hundred million dollars, and the last estimate
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I saw, the latest UH pegged it at more than
a billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
So you might want to get started.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Staying out west, but moving north to Washington State, where
that States Supreme Court now has cleared the way for
now to a first ever state income tax nine point
nine percent. They want to take from millionaires.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
And I know that.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
There are far more people who aren't millionaires than are,
but in this day and age and with the emphasis
on saving and working hard and whatnot, there are a
lot of millionaires. Now a million dollars isn't nearly what
it was worth thirty years ago, twenty years ago, even
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ten years ago, and a lot of people have they
have net worths of more than a million dollars, which
means they're going to start getting picked for ten percent
tax on I guess what they're making an extra ten
percent as a state tax. I'm not sure the details.
There's something to do with that. And on top of it,
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the court has ruled, the state Supreme Court has ruled
that residents essentially can't do a darn thing about it.
Only thing it looks like the state forgot, though, is
that telling voters they can experience taxation without representation kind
of goes against the framework of our nation. Those people
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voted for these idiots, and they're getting exactly what they deserve.
But still I think once this goes to the US
Supreme Court, which I'm sure is being put forth, will
be put forth very quickly, maybe that'll turn the other way.
Eastern Washington isn't so happy about this. That's the more
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conservative farming communities and counties of the state and coastal Washington.
I would imagine realizing who they put into office now
and what they're trying to pull to generate more money
to give to other people. I doubt they're very thrilled either,
but right now, at least they can't do anything about it.
This will change, you watch this will change within I
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don't know that it'll even have it'll warrant going to
the Supreme Court. If they just put forth the paperwork
and remind the people who in the Washington Supreme Court
who put this together, remind them that they can't do this,
maybe they'll have a change of heart. We'll see that
state's desperate for money, like most of the Blue states
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are speaking of. In Minnesota state government there's opted not
to subpoena ilhan Omar to talk about fraud in her
state and allegedly in her own official filings. Even Minnesota's
elected officials are turning a blind eye, I think to
what they must know is billions upon billions of dollars
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in fraud just in that state, anywhere from six to
nine billion dollars, depending on who you ask. And when
a reporter asked ilhan Omar about that just a day
or two ago, she just laughed, she laughed. They don't
think that we can turn up what the really bad
stuff is. They've turned a blind eye to all of
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that money that's been stolen from the United States government,
and in a state that didn't want anything to do
with federal government for years, Suddenly now they're saying time
and again that these fraud allegations are nothing but political theater.
Even Senator Amy Klobasher has failed to acknowledge the extent
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of the fraud in her state. And suddenly, all of
a sudden, Minnesota so called leaders are saying, you know,
if there's any fraud in Minnesota, Minnesota, the Feds can
find it. Yeah, let them find it, and they will.
Believe me, they will, and they have, they already have,
and they're going to find a whole lot more. Every
time they turn over a rock, there's one hundred million
dollars under it and some very influential people are quite
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likely to get dragged into this hot mess once the
covers are yanked off this riting corpse. I am so
tired of learning. I wish I almost wish I hadn't
known that fraud was so rampant in this country. And
we even know who's doing it, we know why they're
doing it, And there are just so many bad things
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happening in this country right now. I just thank God
for all the good things that are happening as well,
because there are good things.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I'll point to one right now. The MAO Clinic get this.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
And I need to tell somebody at work here about
this because it will greatly impact perhaps something in her life.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
The Male Clinic has announced an AI model that can
help on coologists detect pancreatic cancer, which is one of
the toughest cancers of them all. This model can detect
pancreatic cancer in routine abdominal CT scans up to three
years before clinical diagnosis. This could enable doctors to initiate
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curative treatment even before tumor are visible, which would greatly
increase the chances of survival which under current diagnostics and scheduling,
and when they find it and what they find. Survival
rate right now is as low as fifteen percent. So
anything that would bring it up to where they can
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find it three years before it can even be.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Seen, that's going to save a lot of lives down
the road.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Time to take a little trip down the road, not
very far though, maybe out to Katie, maybe out to
Midway Meat Market, where you will find the same atmosphere,
the same attitude of all the people who work there.
Country friendly, country, accommodating to anybody and everybody who walks
through the doors. They've been doing it for fifty seven years.
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They have a tremendous twenty five varieties of sausage out there.
They have beef, chicken, and pork that can be cut
by their butchers any way you want to bring it
home for the holidays, to bring it home for the
grilling season, which we're in right now. By the way,
I've learned about a special discount that's going on right now.
They're running the special on discounted meat packages and they're
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gonna do them for the first ten days of each month.
And right now you can get either a premium beef box,
a grill Master barbecue box, a chicken variety box, a
port family box, or a smoked meat box, every one
of which offers different varieties of cuts and seasoned meats
ready to grill at a discounted not too much, but
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it's a significant discount, believe me, just a little bit
less than or a lot less than you're gonna pay
anywhere else. Probably big specials. Prices can change now with
the cost of all those meats, as you might well imagine,
but the value you're gonna get will be exceptional. For
everything you get, all you have to do is call
and order those and then pick them up in forty
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eight hours. They're gonna be packaged and frozen, but it's
all cut fresh.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
They've already sold some.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
They're gonna be selling a whole lot more, I would
imagine after you guys find out about it and start
making that phone call.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Midway Meat Market's.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
On Highway ninety Old Highway ninety, a couple of miles
into Katie just it's the first Katie exit off ien.
Go in there, ask them about that, order up a cheeseburger,
Go sit at one of the tables in there and
kind of the lunch area and just enjoy it. And
then grab some stuff to take home with you. Midwaymeetmarket
dot com is the website Midwaymeetmarket dot Com.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
That's why every few months we wash him, check us fluids,
and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Thank you for listening to this one thousandth official to
be filed later podcast episode of the show. Will we'll
be handling that shortly after we what us to take
about an hour, maybe five minutes somewhere between there. Okay,
a little later this afternoon is the best. Guess we
(30:59):
should take odds on this. Will we should bet on
when it'll be up. You could at least give this
one a little special attention, right, couldn't get.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
It on up there?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
I wish I had a name of everybody who's listening.
Do you remember, Well, you would not remember Will, but
many of the people in this audience would remember Romper Room.
Have you ever even heard of that? It was a
kid's television show that aired weekend mornings and it was
on k or ktr K channel thirteen. And the woman,
(31:28):
the woman who dressed in a little cat suit was
named Kidderick with just eyes between the KTRK, and most
of the kids had no idea what that was. But
if you went down there and participated in the studio
audience full of little kids, and it was your birthday,
you got to reach into a big jar or whatever
it was and grab out a handful of pennies, which
(31:51):
back then, hey, amen, you could probably even a little
kid's hand could probably pick up fifty sixty pennies, and
every one of those pennies was worth at least a
piece of bubble gum or something like that. And for
five pennies you could get a candy bar. So that
was a good swap on your birthday to get your
parents to take you down there. I just I remember
(32:11):
that like it was yesterday.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Watching that show.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I'm sure I can't remember when, but I do remember
reading that the woman who played Kettererick had passed years ago,
and it just I think it made a lot of
Houstonians quite sad, because we grow this audience of mine, grew.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Up with her. It was very interesting.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Let's go to California, shall we wear? Representative Katie Porter admitted,
probably not intentionally, what very few other Democrats have ever
said out loud, and certainly not in front of cameras
or microphones. And that is the truth that California is
protecting illegal migrants as a sanctuary state because those people are,
(32:58):
as she said, about the only group that's keeping California's
population up, while millions upon millions of disgruntled Californians they
just they fed up. They head east as fast as
they can get a U haul truck or gas up
their private jets. They get out as fast as they can.
They come here, they go, maybe not so far east,
(33:19):
maybe just go over into Nevada or anywhere basically, but
California or New York or any other bluestate. Millions of
people leaving as fast as they can. Porter's direct quote
was this, these are of the illegal immigrants. These are Californians.
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They contribute to our economy, they pay taxes, and they're
one of the only ways that our state has been
growing in recent years, one of the only ways. About
how about the only way because everybody else is moving
out unless somebody is forced, probably against their will to
(34:00):
if they want to keep their job, they have to
move to California. That would be a tough pill to Swallow.
I had a friend during my son's little league career,
one of the other boys fathers who got transferred out there,
and even then, this has been ten years ago, eight
years ago at least, even then, he was kind of like, yeah, yeah,
(34:23):
but we really don't want to go out there, but
I kind of have to because they're paying.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Me a lot more money, and on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
So I don't blame him for going, but I wouldn't
be surprised either to go to a little league field
or maybe go to a high school baseball game and
see that guy sitting in the stands.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Back here again from the whose side are you on?
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Desk comes word that Democrat rep from Washington were back
there again. Pramila Jayapaul admitted openly to trying to help
Cuba get oil, which essential is uh, And I'm quoting
from the story aiding a communist adversary in coordination with
foreign countries to violate American sanctions end quote. That's actually
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what Senator Rick Scott said on x That's where that
quote came from.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
The left, thinking very incorrectly that it was helping our country,
has elected scores of people to even federal office now
who actually despise the United States. We've got them in
public office and they are doing their level best to
crush us. And that's got that's got to stop in
the midterms. That's that's our one of our the best
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the best thing we can do for our country is
just drain the swamp. As has been said so many times,
it's very frustrating. They abuse those offices. They they take
an oath to protect and defend our country and then
abuse those offices on a regular basis. These are people
who swear their allegiance to America. I would think, I
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would think that trying to circumvent federal sanctions would somehow
be punishable and possibly even get her booted from the House.
We'll have to wait and see if the House has
the courage to stand up for America or not. And
back to some more good news.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
I don't want to end on all this politics stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
I almost I don't like to talk about it, but
I think it's so important, especially for us, for seniors.
We can't just sit around and think everybody else will
vote the right way. We don't need to be at
the polls now, we do need to be there every
election from now till the day we die. We need
to cast our votes and hopefully write this ship of ours.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Back to the good news really quick.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
A papyrus fragment discovered in a sixteen year old Egyptian
mummy contained a short passage from Homer's Iliad and marks
the first time that literature has been discovered in a burial.
The text in greater detail was from the Catalog of
Ships and booked. The passage listing the Greek forces before Troy,
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and one of the most iconic texts said the story
in all of Western literature. So whoever that was who passed,
probably was a very well respected and very learned person
for sixteen hundred years ago.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Think about this.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Imagine sixteen hundred years from now, when people buried over
the past one hundred years or so might be examined.
What books might scientists discover.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Among those remains?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
You wonder, how about that maybe the cat in the
hat that would impress them, right, Mad Magazine, and the
one that you know is going to be in somebody's
casket somewhere. You ready for this one will fifty shades
of gray. That's it for today. We'll see tomorrow. Audios.
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, welcome yet again to fifty plus, this time
on something of a milestone day for the show. Will
and I have been talking about this for quite some time,
and he reminded me, and I reminded him this morning.
I asked to make sure at the end of this hour,
after Will tweaks and trims and does whatever it is
he does to these show's post air, he will officially
(01:07):
log the one thousandth episode of the show into the
podcast library. Any fanfare or anything like that, any cheering
over there, nothing, okay, nothing at all. Will oh a
thumbs up a thousand episodes and I get a thumbs up. Okay,
remember that I've actually done a lot more shows than that,
(01:29):
but that was before we started tucking him away for podcasts.
I can't say that we've covered every topic of interest
to seniors, but I'm pretty certain we're close. And we
thank you will by the way, for adding the verbiage
in front of those so that people will know what
they can find buried inside, kind.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Of like opening up a box of chocolates.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
As was his name. Tom Hanks, better known as Forrest Gump,
would have said, I can't say that we've done it all,
like I said, but I feel like we've covered the
most important ones many times over, thanks to the tremendous
access honestly to some of the best best doctors in
the world and best caregivers in the world through my
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long standing relationship with UT Health Institute on Aging. Without them, seriously,
we couldn't possibly have learned about the breakthroughs in healthcare
that run the full gamut of senior health, about everything
that has to do with anything that is medically related.
Probably eighty percent of that has come from UT Health
(02:38):
Institute on Aging and it's great resources, and I certainly
do appreciate them for being a part of this program
for the better part of at least nine years.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
It may be ten. I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
We've just been partners for so long that I don't
remember exactly when it started. So big thanks to the
Institute on Aging for lining up an all star cast
of people from literally every branch of medicine and caregiving
to lead off, and I might make this a thing
moving forward. I'll offer a quote that I saw that
really it reminded me of where we come from in
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this country.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Comes from Edward R. Murrow, who said, this.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Dig deep in our own history and our doctrine, and
remember that we are not descended from fearful men. Well
said ed kind of. I like that, I really do.
I hope you do as well, and I hope you'll
give it some thought. The inference there is that if
you want to get tough things done, you need tough
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people to do them. And we're about to probably get
into that phase of this country at two hundred and
fifty years. Most societies, most countries have flopped within two
hundred years throughout history, and we're about to celebrate two
fifty and I hope we do it in a very
good way, in a very safe way when that day
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comes along. Looking at the weather to be more current.
Just as I predicted, the forecast has changed for yesterday.
It's not supposed to rain around here today. Now they've
just eliminated the entire chance, although it'll probably look like
it's going to rain. Coastal areas have the better chance
for pre sip today, and then Tomorrow and Saturday are
looking more rainy across Southeast Texas, and then Sunday is
(04:24):
supposed to be warm and after two days of rain,
probably pretty clammy as well. I'm still hoping the showers
go around the Woodlands where the Inspirity Tour Champions events
scheduled for the rest of this week. I've actually chatted briefly.
I looked at the entire lineup of who's playing out
there today and who's I look today at the entire
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lineup of who's playing more correctly and realize that I
have either chatted briefly or interviewed and several of them
more than once. About a dozen of the guys in
the field, and they're all great. The Champions to Tour
Champions events.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Are very friendly.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
The players are more accessible than PGA Tour players because
all of these guys have been around the block a
few times. They are out there kind of continuing to
live the dream of doing something they love and making
a living at it. And so you can get a
little closer to them. They'll chat you up if you
walk alongside them outside the ropes during a tournament. And
(05:28):
it's just really fun to go out there and watch
these guys just literally dissect golf courses. They're still highly
skilled players. They may not hit it quite as far
as they did when they were younger, but they can
still flat play the game of golf.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Would you agree? Will?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yes, you would go ahead and agree, And I'll tell
you how smart you are. You're very smart to agree
with that. How much time do I have because I
don't want to start something I can't finish. Okay, I
can do this in ten or two minutes very easily.
From Grand Prairie comes word a Texas Scorecard that the
city of Grand Prairie has canceled an event at Epic
(06:05):
Waters Indoor water Park there because it was initially advertised
as a Muslim only day named DFW Epic Eid in
reference to a Muslim holiday. That I looked it up
because I didn't know, and I like to know these
things and eid is a word that means festival or gala,
(06:26):
something like that in that language. When Governor Abbot learned
about Grand Prairie's plans to hold an exclusive event on
public property, he warned that city that it could lose
more than a half a million dollars in state grants
if it went ahead and did that. To quote Abbot
from X earlier in the week, that's religious discrimination, end quote.
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And he gave Grand Prairie until May eleventh to respond.
Grand Prairie responded more quickly than that festival canceled. Just
as I noted a minute ago, money talks, money talks.
We found that out in Houston not that long ago too.
Some of the things that the city of Houston wanted
to do went against the grain of our governor. And
(07:14):
he said, hey, you want your money or not. And
I'm glad he's standing up for the rights of Texans.
I truly am. There's a lot that's got to be
handled by our state legislature in the near future, or
Texas is gonna end up being a very different state
(07:35):
than you or I or most of this audience wants
it to be. And I hope that day never comes.
I have lived in this state how long, Probably the
better part of sixty five of my years on the planet,
if I'm thinking about right. There was a brief sojourn
to New Orleans when my dad got transferred over there
(07:57):
once before I was even ten years or right as
I was ten years old. I think I was eleven
when we moved, came back when I was fourteen, and
then I think that was just about it, really, except
for going off to college and didn't stay there long
enough to really count it. I yeah, that's a very
long story, but it was fun. I played baseball for
(08:18):
one of the best programs in the country back then.
Will says, I got to get out of here. I'll
do that. And while I'm out, well I'm not really out.
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I'm still here.
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Speaker 2 (09:11):
What's life without a net? I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Fifty plus, and thanks for listening on this thousandth episode,
believe it or not, Holy Cow. In this segment, we're
going to talk about something that hadn't really been discussed
here in quite some time, and that is tuberculosis. And
to help, I'm happy to bring back doctor Catherine Tchuwisi,
Professor and infectious epidemiologists at ut Health Houston School of
Public Health, and we've really got her on the line
(09:43):
this time. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Doctor, Thank you and congratulations on your thousandth episode.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I'm so glad we're here, so so almost as I
usually try to do a definition first, please what is tuberculosis.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Tuberculosis is a disease caused by bacteria, usually infecting the lungs.
That's what we're familiar with, the coughing and you know
that kind of thing, but can also infect bones in
the brain, can cause meningitis, so it can spread outside
the lungs.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I didn't realize there was a connection to meningitis. That's
very interesting.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
There's a number of bacteria and viruses that can cause meningitis,
so okay.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And not just TB and I read also there's active
TB and inactive TV.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
What's the difference.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
So when you become infected with the tuberculosis bacteria, usually
your body does a good job of keeping it under control,
and it's only when something happens to your immune system.
For example, if you were HIV infected and got AIDS.
(10:56):
That has been a big issue with number of cases. Okay,
but our immune systems, as we have found with other
diseases and other things in our lives, doesn't work as
well as we get older, and so tuberculosis can.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Like dormant for a long time.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Just getting older can be a risk factor that your
body can't contain the bacterium anymore. Then you have active TV,
which means you have symptoms and can spread the disease
to other When you have latent or in active TV,
you don't have symptoms and you can't spread it to others.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
And what are the numbers worldwide? And I guess in
the country how many people have this disease.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
So we have done a good job in the United
States of controlling TV. Back in the nineteen fifties, there
were about a little over fifty cases per hundred thousand
of people. Now we're down to less than three, but
it's still around worldwide. There are still a number of cases,
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particularly in low and middle income countries. And the estimates
are TV is a major killer throughout history. That one
in seven people throughout history have died from tbly amazing
when you think about it.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
There are also estimates that.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Right now between one and four and one in five
of people in the world are infected with TV. Again,
it doesn't mean that they are infectious, but it does
mean they are at risk for the that bacteria escaping
and causing damage in your body.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
And I've read this morning, doctor Catherine Truesi with me
on fifty plus here. I read this morning that it's
actually spread if you are contagious, kind of like the
same way a cold is just from a sneeze. Do
you have to be right up in that person's face
and they have to sneeze right in your face?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Or is this is it? How far will that stuff
reach if somebody's theses it out.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yeah, it's not as contagious as for example, flu or COVID.
You have to have close contact and usually not just
you know, for a little bit of time, usually for
a more extended time.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Okay, that's kind of good to know. I think I
do like that.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
What are the more common symptoms of people who have
this disease?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
So definitely coughing particularly, you might think t B if
you have or your physician or healthcare provider might have
with a cough that lasts over three weeks, coughing up blood,
losing weights, nights, sweats, chest pain, fatigue, that kind of thing.
And you know TV is often depicted in movies and
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those are the symptoms you see of heroes and heroines
who are infects.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
How do you test for TEA?
Speaker 6 (14:02):
There are a couple of ways of testing.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
You may have had a test done in your the
skin of your forearm, where it just sees if you
have either. It can't differentiate between latent and active TV.
But there are more advanced tests that can blood test
but also a chest X ray to show if you
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have active diseases.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Really what's needed for diagnosis.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And talk a little bit about who should get tested
and at what age.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
So there's no recommendation for routine testing for superculosis, but
definitely if you have any of those symptoms, if you've
been around somebody with TB, somebody in your family, you
know for children, a classmate, and health departments will do
that type of contact investigation if you've been for an
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extended period in a country that does have a higher
rate of TV. Again, it would hurt to get tested.
But let me also mention talking about children, that it
is harder to diagnose TB in children. Oh wow, although
a recent test was just published that may make it easier.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
But that's one of the problems.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Children are at higher risk for severe disease and for
active TV, and so we really want to test them
because we can treat it. They are antibiotics to treat
both latent TB, so it doesn't become active TV or
active TV if you already have symptoms, so it's important
to know whether people have it so they can get treated.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yeah, that's very good to know.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I also saw somewhere that a week in the mute,
they're a little more who's susceptible to this? And it
said it mentioned high risk settings commas such as prison
shelters and nursing homes. Is that something people in nursing
homes should really be worried about.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Yeah, and those well, the prisons, homeland alters. That's because
of close contact, prolonged close contact, so that if somebody
has TB and can spread it, you know, they are
more likely to The nursing home is age related factor.
That again, our immune systems don't work quite as well,
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just like our joint everything else in our bodies. So
certainly nursing home personnel are alert to the symptoms of
tv TB and we'll do testing if you know, they suspect.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It is tough getting old, isn't it. You get enough
miles on your tires, you're going to get a flat
sooner or later. That's right, And I'm really glad you
mentioned that it is curable, not just treatable, but it
is curable with it looks from what I read it
can take several months of antibiotics. But hey, that's a
small price to pay to get rid of that stuff, right, right, It.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Is a prolonged dosage or time of antibiotic therapy. One
of the issues worldwide that we're worried about is a
drug resistant TV and there's different forms multi drug resistant,
which means there's still some forms some antibiotics that work.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Just not the common ones.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
But and we do not see this in the United
States right now, but in other countries. I mean, we
do see multi drug resistant, right but there is extremely
drug exit d r t B that we can see
in other countries where they are just.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Very few antibiotics that will work.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
And one of the problems that leads to development of
these drug resistant TVs bacteria is that people don't continue
the six months or nine months of treatment.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
That's a lot to ask.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
It's a lot, especially in underdeveloped countries where yep, six
or eight months of something is going to be hard
to keep up with.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Whether they can.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I don't think that money wouldn't be a problem with
those antibiotics, would it cost?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Because they're typically cheap.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yeah, but some countries have very little money to go
towards true. Yeah, and you know funding has been tough
since we don't have USAID anymore.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Okay, to help out these countries.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
All right, Well that will wrap it up. We were
just about out of time here, doctor Catherine Trwesi. I
really do appreciate your time today. Thank you so much
for accommodating us yesterday after yesterday's technical.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Problems too, no problem, good to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Thank you you too.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
How about it?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
All right, we got to take another little break and
we're gonna talk about Country Boys Roofing. Country Boys is
run by John Eittman. You've been in this business a
very long time. His son Zack is working with him
now and from what I understand, doing a very fine
job of learning the trade. Anybody who comes from Country
Boy's Roofing to check out your roof after the storms
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we had last week and a lot of people are
getting them checked out, you can rest assured that they're
going to give you an accurate assessment of what's going
on up there and give you a fair and honest
price on either fixing a small problem that they find
up there and probably can do it the same day,
or perhaps it's the other extreme and you just need
a whole new roof. Either way, you're gonna get taken
(19:26):
care of by Country Boys Roofing. By the way, John
asked me to ask you or tell you that if
you're considering anybody else, that's fine. You can call whoever
you want, but just make sure that they are Texas
wind Storms certified because that's going to be important if
you ever need to make an insurance claim on that roof.
And you also shouldn't have to pay any money upfront,
(19:47):
according to John, because a company that's been around a
long time should have enough funding to go ahead and
buy the supplies to get that roof done, so you
don't have to worry about well, you just don't have
to worry about any of that with Country Boy's Roofing.
Country with a K, Boys with a Z. If you
are an educator, a first responder, or active military, he
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will give you fifteen hundred dollars off a complete roof replacement.
Even if you don't qualify for any of that, he
will give you one thousand dollars off just if you
can remember my name and say it when he asks.
If you qualify for a discount, that's all you gotta
do say yeah, Doug sent me and he'll take a
thousand dollars off whatever price.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
He quoted you.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Country Boy's roofing. As I said, country with a K,
Boys with a Z, countryboysroofing dot com aged to perfection.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
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Speaker 4 (20:42):
Go back to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I was looking at a video, but I'll take that
off to get back to this show where we all belong.
On this one thousandth episode, Thank you very much. And
like I said in the very beginning, this is not
the We've done many more episodes than the one thousand.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
These are the ones.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I think Will you may be responsible for putting all
of these into podcast.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Are you not?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Maybe not quite? Yeah, somebody was doing them. I guess
a little bit beforehand, but they Yeah. In any event,
this is one thousand official, and so Will gets the
honor of being the one thousandth episode.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Put her up her moving west.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
If I may corpus Christie might want to take a
page from San Diego's book on desalination plants. Back in
the nineties, they went through out there in southern California
a significant drought year's long drought. Okay, sound familiar Corpus
(21:46):
and San Diego's desalination capabilities since then have grown so
tremendously that San Diego fast forward to now, is working
out deals to provide fresh water to Arizona and Nevada
in exchange those states. If the deal goes through, and
(22:08):
I'm pretty sure it will, those states would happily fund
the quarterly cost of keeping the San Diego Carlsbad desalination
plant churning out fresh water. Any idea how much fresh
water that plant churns out, how about fifty four million
gallons a day? Fifty four million gallons a day to
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the city and county it primarily serves. It can be done,
and hopefully Corpus CHRISTI can pull a few pages from
San Diego's playbook and get that done soon and get started.
They've been talking about it for several years, and every
year that they talk about at the price keeps going up. Originally,
I want to say it was like one hundred and
fifty maybe two hundred million dollars, and the last estimate
(22:54):
I saw, the latest UH pegged it at more than
a billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
So you might want to get started.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Staying out west, but moving north to Washington State, where
that States Supreme Court now has cleared the way for
now to a first ever state income tax nine point
nine percent. They want to take from millionaires.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
And I know that.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
There are far more people who aren't millionaires than are,
but in this day and age and with the emphasis
on saving and working hard and whatnot, there are a
lot of millionaires. Now a million dollars isn't nearly what
it was worth thirty years ago, twenty years ago, even
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ten years ago, and a lot of people have they
have net worths of more than a million dollars, which
means they're going to start getting picked for ten percent
tax on I guess what they're making an extra ten
percent as a state tax. I'm not sure the details.
There's something to do with that. And on top of it,
(24:03):
the court has ruled, the state Supreme Court has ruled
that residents essentially can't do a darn thing about it.
Only thing it looks like the state forgot, though, is
that telling voters they can experience taxation without representation kind
of goes against the framework of our nation. Those people
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voted for these idiots, and they're getting exactly what they deserve.
But still I think once this goes to the US
Supreme Court, which I'm sure is being put forth, will
be put forth very quickly, maybe that'll turn the other way.
Eastern Washington isn't so happy about this. That's the more
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conservative farming communities and counties of the state and coastal Washington.
I would imagine realizing who they put into office now
and what they're trying to pull to generate more money
to give to other people. I doubt they're very thrilled either,
but right now, at least they can't do anything about it.
This will change, you watch this will change within I
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don't know that it'll even have it'll warrant going to
the Supreme Court. If they just put forth the paperwork
and remind the people who in the Washington Supreme Court
who put this together, remind them that they can't do this,
maybe they'll have a change of heart. We'll see that
state's desperate for money, like most of the Blue states
(25:29):
are speaking of. In Minnesota state government there's opted not
to subpoena ilhan Omar to talk about fraud in her
state and allegedly in her own official filings. Even Minnesota's
elected officials are turning a blind eye, I think to
what they must know is billions upon billions of dollars
(25:49):
in fraud just in that state, anywhere from six to
nine billion dollars, depending on who you ask. And when
a reporter asked ilhan Omar about that just a day
or two ago, she just laughed, she laughed. They don't
think that we can turn up what the really bad
stuff is. They've turned a blind eye to all of
(26:12):
that money that's been stolen from the United States government,
and in a state that didn't want anything to do
with federal government for years, Suddenly now they're saying time
and again that these fraud allegations are nothing but political theater.
Even Senator Amy Klobasher has failed to acknowledge the extent
(26:32):
of the fraud in her state. And suddenly, all of
a sudden, Minnesota so called leaders are saying, you know,
if there's any fraud in Minnesota, Minnesota, the Feds can
find it. Yeah, let them find it, and they will.
Believe me, they will, and they have, they already have,
and they're going to find a whole lot more. Every
time they turn over a rock, there's one hundred million
dollars under it and some very influential people are quite
(26:54):
likely to get dragged into this hot mess once the
covers are yanked off this riting corpse. I am so
tired of learning. I wish I almost wish I hadn't
known that fraud was so rampant in this country. And
we even know who's doing it, we know why they're
doing it, And there are just so many bad things
(27:17):
happening in this country right now. I just thank God
for all the good things that are happening as well,
because there are good things.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I'll point to one right now. The MAO Clinic get this.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
And I need to tell somebody at work here about
this because it will greatly impact perhaps something in her life.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
The Male Clinic has announced an AI model that can
help on coologists detect pancreatic cancer, which is one of
the toughest cancers of them all. This model can detect
pancreatic cancer in routine abdominal CT scans up to three
years before clinical diagnosis. This could enable doctors to initiate
(27:58):
curative treatment even before tumor are visible, which would greatly
increase the chances of survival which under current diagnostics and scheduling,
and when they find it and what they find. Survival
rate right now is as low as fifteen percent. So
anything that would bring it up to where they can
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find it three years before it can even be.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Seen, that's going to save a lot of lives down
the road.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Time to take a little trip down the road, not
very far though, maybe out to Katie, maybe out to
Midway Meat Market, where you will find the same atmosphere,
the same attitude of all the people who work there.
Country friendly, country, accommodating to anybody and everybody who walks
through the doors. They've been doing it for fifty seven years.
(28:45):
They have a tremendous twenty five varieties of sausage out there.
They have beef, chicken, and pork that can be cut
by their butchers any way you want to bring it
home for the holidays, to bring it home for the
grilling season, which we're in right now. By the way,
I've learned about a special discount that's going on right now.
They're running the special on discounted meat packages and they're
(29:08):
gonna do them for the first ten days of each month.
And right now you can get either a premium beef box,
a grill Master barbecue box, a chicken variety box, a
port family box, or a smoked meat box, every one
of which offers different varieties of cuts and seasoned meats
ready to grill at a discounted not too much, but
(29:30):
it's a significant discount, believe me, just a little bit
less than or a lot less than you're gonna pay
anywhere else. Probably big specials. Prices can change now with
the cost of all those meats, as you might well imagine,
but the value you're gonna get will be exceptional. For
everything you get, all you have to do is call
and order those and then pick them up in forty
(29:51):
eight hours. They're gonna be packaged and frozen, but it's
all cut fresh.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
They've already sold some.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
They're gonna be selling a whole lot more, I would
imagine after you guys find out about it and start
making that phone call.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Midway Meat Market's.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
On Highway ninety Old Highway ninety, a couple of miles
into Katie just it's the first Katie exit off ien.
Go in there, ask them about that, order up a cheeseburger,
Go sit at one of the tables in there and
kind of the lunch area and just enjoy it. And
then grab some stuff to take home with you. Midwaymeetmarket
dot com is the website Midwaymeetmarket dot Com.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
That's why every few months we wash him, check us fluids,
and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Thank you for listening to this one thousandth official to
be filed later podcast episode of the show. Will we'll
be handling that shortly after we what us to take
about an hour, maybe five minutes somewhere between there. Okay,
a little later this afternoon is the best. Guess we
(30:59):
should take odds on this. Will we should bet on
when it'll be up. You could at least give this
one a little special attention, right, couldn't get.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
It on up there?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
I wish I had a name of everybody who's listening.
Do you remember, Well, you would not remember Will, but
many of the people in this audience would remember Romper Room.
Have you ever even heard of that? It was a
kid's television show that aired weekend mornings and it was
on k or ktr K channel thirteen. And the woman,
(31:28):
the woman who dressed in a little cat suit was
named Kidderick with just eyes between the KTRK, and most
of the kids had no idea what that was. But
if you went down there and participated in the studio
audience full of little kids, and it was your birthday,
you got to reach into a big jar or whatever
it was and grab out a handful of pennies, which
(31:51):
back then, hey, amen, you could probably even a little
kid's hand could probably pick up fifty sixty pennies, and
every one of those pennies was worth at least a
piece of bubble gum or something like that. And for
five pennies you could get a candy bar. So that
was a good swap on your birthday to get your
parents to take you down there. I just I remember
(32:11):
that like it was yesterday.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Watching that show.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I'm sure I can't remember when, but I do remember
reading that the woman who played Kettererick had passed years ago,
and it just I think it made a lot of
Houstonians quite sad, because we grow this audience of mine, grew.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Up with her. It was very interesting.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Let's go to California, shall we wear? Representative Katie Porter admitted,
probably not intentionally, what very few other Democrats have ever
said out loud, and certainly not in front of cameras
or microphones. And that is the truth that California is
protecting illegal migrants as a sanctuary state because those people are,
(32:58):
as she said, about the only group that's keeping California's
population up, while millions upon millions of disgruntled Californians they
just they fed up. They head east as fast as
they can get a U haul truck or gas up
their private jets. They get out as fast as they can.
They come here, they go, maybe not so far east,
(33:19):
maybe just go over into Nevada or anywhere basically, but
California or New York or any other bluestate. Millions of
people leaving as fast as they can. Porter's direct quote
was this, these are of the illegal immigrants. These are Californians.
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They contribute to our economy, they pay taxes, and they're
one of the only ways that our state has been
growing in recent years, one of the only ways. About
how about the only way because everybody else is moving
out unless somebody is forced, probably against their will to
(34:00):
if they want to keep their job, they have to
move to California. That would be a tough pill to Swallow.
I had a friend during my son's little league career,
one of the other boys fathers who got transferred out there,
and even then, this has been ten years ago, eight
years ago at least, even then, he was kind of like, yeah, yeah,
(34:23):
but we really don't want to go out there, but
I kind of have to because they're paying.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Me a lot more money, and on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
So I don't blame him for going, but I wouldn't
be surprised either to go to a little league field
or maybe go to a high school baseball game and
see that guy sitting in the stands.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Back here again from the whose side are you on?
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Desk comes word that Democrat rep from Washington were back
there again. Pramila Jayapaul admitted openly to trying to help
Cuba get oil, which essential is uh, And I'm quoting
from the story aiding a communist adversary in coordination with
foreign countries to violate American sanctions end quote. That's actually
(35:11):
what Senator Rick Scott said on x That's where that
quote came from.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
The left, thinking very incorrectly that it was helping our country,
has elected scores of people to even federal office now
who actually despise the United States. We've got them in
public office and they are doing their level best to
crush us. And that's got that's got to stop in
the midterms. That's that's our one of our the best
(35:40):
the best thing we can do for our country is
just drain the swamp. As has been said so many times,
it's very frustrating. They abuse those offices. They they take
an oath to protect and defend our country and then
abuse those offices on a regular basis. These are people
who swear their allegiance to America. I would think, I
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would think that trying to circumvent federal sanctions would somehow
be punishable and possibly even get her booted from the House.
We'll have to wait and see if the House has
the courage to stand up for America or not. And
back to some more good news.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
I don't want to end on all this politics stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
I almost I don't like to talk about it, but
I think it's so important, especially for us, for seniors.
We can't just sit around and think everybody else will
vote the right way. We don't need to be at
the polls now, we do need to be there every
election from now till the day we die. We need
to cast our votes and hopefully write this ship of ours.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Back to the good news really quick.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
A papyrus fragment discovered in a sixteen year old Egyptian
mummy contained a short passage from Homer's Iliad and marks
the first time that literature has been discovered in a burial.
The text in greater detail was from the Catalog of
Ships and booked. The passage listing the Greek forces before Troy,
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and one of the most iconic texts said the story
in all of Western literature. So whoever that was who passed,
probably was a very well respected and very learned person
for sixteen hundred years ago.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Think about this.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Imagine sixteen hundred years from now, when people buried over
the past one hundred years or so might be examined.
What books might scientists discover.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Among those remains?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
You wonder, how about that maybe the cat in the
hat that would impress them, right, Mad Magazine, and the
one that you know is going to be in somebody's
casket somewhere. You ready for this one will fifty shades
of gray. That's it for today. We'll see tomorrow. Audios.
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