April 17, 2025 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dolores Woods about protein. Pike also speaks with Steve Guilday about travel.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
you by the ut Health Houston Institute on Aging Informed
Decisions for a healthier, happier life, and now fifty plus
(00:43):
with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, welcome to Thursday. M mercy. You've got one
more day in the week. You didn't want me to
say that, did you will? I'm so sorry. You can
take that out. We'll start over. No, you can say
that today. Okay, welcome to today. It's just our Friday shows
because our Friday out because they also are going to
play on probably on Sunday, or on Saturday and Sunday
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and Monday. Yep, yeah, Saturday and Sunday. By the way,
I believe one of them. Do you know the times?
It's five pm on k PERC on Saturday and then
on Sunday. I don't it's KTRH. I can't remember what
time now, hoping to gather a little momentum over there
as well. That's where this show started and it did
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very very well. And now we're going up against Clay
and Buck. Is no easy task, but I'm up for it,
and I'm trying to be much different from what they do,
which isn't hard. They come at it a totally different way,
and I respect them for that. But I want to
stay with things that aren't aren't talked about a lot,
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if that makes any sense, and also include a lot
more pleasant stuff, a lot easier stuff to digest than
the really hard scrabble stuff around here. For instance, from
the Alien Life Desk, Will we have an update? You
want some of that action? All right? By way of
the James Web Space Telescope. The most compelling evidence yet
(02:15):
that there may be life on other planets, and what
scientists found. There's a planet out there, far, far far away.
I'll tell you how far in a minute. It's pretty significant.
A planet named K two eighteen, little brother of K
two nineteen. I get no, not really made that part
of it. What they found on K two eighteen was
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the presence of dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide, which on
Earth are generated only by microbial organisms such as fidoplankton
and algae things like that. Okay, so basically there's really
no guarantee of life on this planet, which is one
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hundred and twenty four light years away, which I want
to say I did the math on it. I want
to say it was about three hundred and something trillion
miles away. That's how far it is. Think of it
like you found mouse droppings in your garage, but you
didn't find any mice. So there's a possibility, a probability
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that there are mice out there, but maybe not. Maybe
there's some other way that that gas could have been
formed other than by microbial life, and that's that would
be something that we don't know about, we don't understand yet,
but that doesn't mean it can't exist. According to this
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NEWSMAC story, scientists have identified about five thousand, eight hundred
planets beyond our Solar system and hypothesize that some of
them may be what they call Heisian planets. You know
what those are? No, A hesiand planet. I didn't need
it until I've read the definition. That is a planet
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that's covered by liquid water in habitable by micro organisms,
which is what they keep telling us they might have
found on planets a bajillion trillion miles away. What fascinates
me about this will is that science and scientists, when
they talk about potential for life on planets so far
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away being alive with microlife, they do that all the time. Well,
we may have found micro life out there, but they
never they never feel like they've found any sort of
evidence whatsoever of organisms as complex and developed as humans.
And honestly, I think with all the planets and all
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the suns and all the galaxies in the universe, and
I still have room for my faith, I really do.
But out of all of the to think that we're
the only sophisticated beings in all of that space, I
think it's pretty brassy of us, Do you not sure?
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And I mean, who are we to think that we're
the only species in the universe capable of thought and
building and growing, growing food and making tools and whatnot.
That's a pretty broad jump from micro life to us,
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and I just can't And with all the evidence that's
coming out now about UFOs, there's also a lot to
talk about there, wouldn't you say, have you been watching
any of this no, Well, there have been. There's been
a lot of testimony and a lot of releasing of
evidence and whatnot that this planet has been visited. And
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I get fascinated watching that stuff on nat GEO and
the History Channel and other places where these shows pop up.
About how much a lot of the old art work
that's found around the world from different civilizations that lived thousand,
two thousand years ago, some of these drawings looked pretty
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much like somebody standing there in a spacesuit with an
oxygen mask on. It's just amazing, or some sort of
mask on. Anyway, whatever they breathe, where they come from,
they probably got a little tank on their back, just
like we would have to do if we went somewhere
that didn't have oxygen in its atmosphere. I find that fascinating.
I really do that. It's very difficult for me to
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believe that there's nothing else out there but us. And again,
I still have plenty of room in my faith for
everything that I learned from childhood, But that doesn't mean
that we're it from the what time is it? I
can't will? Can you take that one minute to go
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so frustrating? Sometimes? Why are we watching yesterday's pregame. Now,
I like to do you really who are they playing
today today? I believe they're playing the Padres. Yesterday they
played the They finished their series with the Cardinals. So
they're back here. Yeah, they're back here with the Padres
today and tomorrow at least, because I'm going tomorrow. I
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want to go. I'm sorry, I'll have an extra ticket.
Circle the wagons are in a pickle, Circle the wagons.
But is what viral? I've already told you about the
elephants at the zoo, didn't I? Yes, yeah, that's from yesterday.
Why do I have that in my hands? I had
the wrong piece of paper. Well that's terrible. Oh you
know what today is, I'll just tell you and then
I'll go ahead and go to the break. Today is
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National Haiku Day, So in celebration of that, I want
you to create one before the end of the show.
Can you do that. I'll think about it. There's your
first line right there. I'll think about it. All right,
we gotta take a little break here. We'll go ahead
and go straight to it, so when we get back
we can sooner get to Dolores Woods. We're going to
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have a good discussion about protein. And its importance to seniors.
More fifty plus coming.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Up aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
All Right, welcome back songs about two days late, isn't it? Well?
You weren't here on Tuesday. That's a good point, all right,
Welcome back to fifty plus, Land of the Free, Home
of the Gray. We'll talk in this segment about the
importance of protein in our diets as seniors and get
into how much we need and where we can get it.
And to help me because I don't have perfect eating habits,
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I'll enlist Delores Woods, director of culinary Nutrition for the
Nourish Program at the Michael and Susan Dell Center for
Healthy Living at ut health Houston School of Public Health.
That's a mouthful, right there, Dolores, Hi, how are you?
I'm very well, Thank you, Welcome back. So I'm starting
to hear more and read more actually about the importance
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of protein for senior health, probably because I'm becoming more senior.
Why the sudden interest in this country in protein, right.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Especially for seniors. We do lose muscle mass as we age,
and protein is a great nutrient to be able to
prevent some of that muscle loss, and it's also you know,
one of those great foods that is really important for
our health.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well, are there lots of different types of proteins or
is protein just protein?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
There are many different types. So the most common sources
of protein are going to be the animal sources, so
your chicken, salmon, eggs, red meat. But there are also
a lot of plant based sources of protein. So if
you're vegetarian or you're you know, wanting to eat less
meat products, beans are a great source of protein. So
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are nuts and seeds, who I know some people are
not big fans of, but that is a good source
of protein. And dairy a lot of the dairy products
are also a great source of protein, and they're gonna
be a good source of calcium as well.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You can have my tofu. Let's talk generally about how
much protein the average scenior needs every day.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
The average person and this includes seniors, they're gonna need
about fifty five grams of protein. And to put it
in perspective, that's gonna be maybe about over the day.
You could have a three ounce piece of cook sorry
of three ounce piece of cooked chicken breast, which is
gonna have twenty six grams of protein. Eggs contain about
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six grams lentils if you like lentils, one cup contains
the eighteen grams. So honestly, it's not that much. I
think those people get enough protein, especially if they're eating
the animal sources.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Let's talk about asterisks. Maybe are there groups of seniors
who might need more protein or less protein than others?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah, so less protein if there are some seniors who
are maybe having issues with kidneys, so especially if they're
on dialysis, the excess protein it really kind of puts
up burning on the kidney, so that would be a concern.
But you know, seniors are active. There are a lot
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of active seniors out there, so having more protein in
that case would be better. But definitely, you know, limiting
the amount for any kidney issues is important.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Okay, And you tell me exactly what function these proteins
provide for other than the muscle loss. We talked about
that to slow that down. But at fifty sixty, seventy
years and beyond, what then is protein doing once we've
lost about all the muscle we're going to lose?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Well, it's an important the are all of the macro nutrients,
especially the protein provide calories and they're going to be
utilized as energy. So even you know, for that muscle loss,
we still need it. It plays a vital role in
everything from muscles to hormones, even our organs and skin.
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So it's those building blocks for a lot of these
vital roles, not just you know, a good food we
like to eat, but really important for all of that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And talk about supplements. What's the difference between getting your
protein from a powder or a pill and getting it
from three ounces of chicken breast? Oh no, did we
lose her again? We did? What did you do? Will?
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I did nothing. We'll leave you in suspense until Dolorus
is back, which won't take very long. By the way,
Will's cracker Jack. He's on the job. I was working
with him during the break, by the way, on a
high coup and I just just handed it to him.
And now I've already forgotten what I said. A scientist
on TikTok, I'll give you this while he's getting her
back on the line said the five second rule. I
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guess this is what apply to chicken breast too. If
you drop food on the floor, it always develops bacteria.
Whether it's been on the floor for one second or
one minute? How we doing? Will any luck at all?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
We're scrambling. I wonder what happened. I hope we can
get her back. Keep trying. Okay, I'll go back to
one of my stories over here from the let's see
where I want to go from the Harrison County desk.
Word that Democrat commissioners, by the way, according to a
Texas scorecard, story, plan to circumvent state law by using
non government organizations and nonprofits to reach its goals. This
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county commissioner's bunch does. Their goals include promotion of DEI,
a greenhouse gas tax, and income based property tax schedule.
None of this stuff, the story said, fall under what
counties can and cannot do. And once these programs get started,
you can count on a fat stack of legal fees
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coming in as they get challenged in court too. You
get her back? Will are you there?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Come in, come in Delorus. So where were we?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I was asking about supplements and pills as a source
of protein versus white meat chicken. What's the difference?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
So we want to think about the food first approach,
even the whole food.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Hey, Dolores, I believe it or not, we've got about
I'm only getting about one third of your words. Let
will try one more time and if it does doesn't work,
we will regroup. How's that? Just let him call you back? Okay,
all right, we're gonna take a little break again, and
while we're out, and Will takes one more swing here.
I don't know what the deal is with her connection.
It just seems like there's a bad line somewhere. But
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we'll we'll figure it out. If you were if you
were looking today for a medical breakthrough, by the way,
I'll give you one.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
This.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I even I even shared with somebody in the office
here whose jaw just fell open that this was even
a possibility. I would have never known from the medical
breakthrough desk. A woman has given birth after receiving a
transplant wound from her sister. I may have mentioned that yesterday.
I don't think I did, But if I did, I
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absolutely apologize, and I hope I did, because it's worth
saying twice. There's no question about that. Hmm. Now again,
we'll the lors. No says they can't take my call. Now,
she's probably still talking. It could be I don't know
what's going on. Let's just move on. Okay, let's do that.
Will and I really apologize to Dolores and to all
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of you because and I'll get her back on very shortly.
And once we do, we will make sure that the
lines clean and green like it was when we started.
What makes that happen? Will? You're the tech guy in here.
I don't know if I'm the tech guys the two
of us. Oh yeah, I don't know. You know, sometimes
it's just all about where you are. And it's a
(16:30):
good point how the reception is in any event from them.
This one, yeah, this one bugs me a little bit.
From the deportation desk comes word that the Maryland man
being treated by media like a wholesome family man. The
guy a Democrat congressman all actually flew all the way
to El Salvador to see and potentially get released from
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El Salvador in prison where he's now incarcerated. This guy
who who is he? A known member of MS thirteen,
a confirmed member of MS thirteen. He's not the choir
boy the Left makes him out to be. The Apartment
Holman Security Assistant Secretary Trisha McLaughlin said that when DHS
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caught this guy Abrego, Garcia and Maryland. He was carrying
drugs and rolls of cash, and he's got lots of
other baggage in his trunk too, including two accusations of
domestic abuse by his girlfriend, including videos and photos of
his violence and the bruises he left on her. The
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left talks about him being just a model citizen, almost
like a choir boy and a father. But as McLaughlin said,
so was Osama bin Lauden. All Right, we gotta take
a little break here on the way out, I'll tell
you about ut Health Institute on Aging, this collaborative of
I believe, I'm confident one hundred percent. Now I'm gonna
find out tomorrow afternoon he actually well at the I'll
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ask that question tomorrow when I host you TA Health
in our astro suite. How many providers are involved in this,
and I'm sure the numbers more than a thousand. I'm
very confident in that. And what these people have done
to be card carrying members of the Institute on Aging
is taking it upon themselves to invest their own time
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in getting additional training and education and how they can
apply their specific knowledge of whatever medical thing it is
they do specifically to us, to seniors, what an advantage
that is really for us to have right here mostly
in the medcenter these providers are, but almost all of
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them also work at least part of the week out
in outlying clinics and hospitals and offices, so that any
of us who are maybe a little bit too old,
too scared to go driving into the medical center comfortably,
you can be seen by one of these providers out
wherever you are in the Greater Houston metroplex. And that's
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that's a big territory that covers about nine thousand square
miles and has about six million people in it. Go
to the website, see all the resources they offer there,
and then work your way toward one of these providers
who knows you better than you know yourself. Probably they'll
help you live longer, happier, healthier lives for sure. Ut
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dot edu slash aging, utch dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
All right, welcome back, thanks for listening. I appreciate that.
Sorry for what happened with the lords. I don't know
what that was about. We'll get back to her next week.
I'm sure we'll talk now about the affordability or lack thereof,
depending on your perspective, of travel for seniors around this
country of ours, and along the way, maybe share some
legitimate options for seniors who want to get out of
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town without going into debt. And with that, Alosher and
Steve Gilde from AARP Services, welcome back to fifty plus. Steve,
great to speak to you.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I appreciate that. So now that spring breakers have kind
of retreated back to the classrooms and before summer really
gets a grip on us, I guess this would be
a pretty good time of year for seniors to sneak
away for a while. Is that right. It's a sweet spot, right, yea.
Just like you said, the.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Kids are back in school, summer heat largely has not
quite arrived, so it's a great time to be out
on the roads. You can kind of split the difference
between the crowds and the weather, and it's a great
time to travel.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Based on the requests that come through ARP services to seniors,
seem to be traveling farther this year or staying closer
to home.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
It's a mix, right, Some people are still absolutely going
to go on that trip of a lifetime this year.
There is still some cohort of folks who have put
off that big trip, whether it was the COVID break
that we all dealt with a couple of years back,
or whether it's making sure that your wallet is prepared
for a big trip. People are still taking those quote
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unquote trip of a lifetimes at the same time. Just
like you said, you know, maybe a long weekend is
the sweet spot for people right now and a little
road trip is the way to do it. So it's
it's absolutely a mix. But people are absolutely traveling this year.
It's still it's still going to be a healthy travel season.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Can you put a finger at all on the say,
the number the average duration of trips that seniors tend
to make just by themselves.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I don't know if there's a number of trips that
people tend to make by themselves.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Nice that they're gone.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Though, yeah, sure, rather the longer yeah. And what we
do as we try to get underneath data, like the
question you just asked, is we go out and we
pull our members. And I'll tell you that in this
spring travel survey, eighty five percent of the people who
are to us told us that travel is good for
their physical health. Yeah, ninety five percent of people told
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us that it's good for their mental health. So people
are prioritizing and still making it a part of their lives,
even in the face of health challenges. While it challenges
making the plans to do it right, which can be
a challenge in and of itself, it's good for you
and people are doing it, and.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
For somebody like me who's still working and might want
to use vacation time to recharge my batteries and just
be fresh again. How long would you say would be
a minimum amount of time to really decompress, get some rest,
have some fun, and then be excited to come back
to work.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I'm going to call it a minimum of a long weekend, right, Yeah,
first night, you know, you're still feeling like I'm not
on my trip yet. You're thinking about all the things
that took to get you there. You're not quite settled
into your destination. You want to explore. You want to
get out and find the local places and the joyful
things of travel that you uncover when you just get
out and explore, perhaps without a totally set agenda.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Right, got to have at least a long weekend. And
the irony there for me has always been I used
to do a lot of travel when I was working
at the paper, covering outdoors and stuff, and I still
do on a different show that I do here. The
irony was that a lot of these trips were about
three to four days or two or three nights, and
just about the time you really start feeling comfortable wherever
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you are, you know the route around the hotel to
get exactly where you want to get, you know where
the best restaurant, You got all that, and you got
to pack up and go home. It's a bummer.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
And you know, I would say, you know, if you're
thinking about a two or three day trip, maybe you're
an ARP member. Maybe you're not only costs twenty dollars
to become one. Our members save on every facet of
the trip, whether it's renting a car with avis budget
and they're getting an SUV for as low as fifty
four dollars a day, staying in a choice hotel room,
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staying in a windhom property, saving ten percent of either
one of those. If you're an ARP member, add an
extra night because you're saving along the whole way of
your trip, so you can afford a little bit longer
trip and that that feeling of packing up and heading
back you get at least prolong at an extra twenty
four hours.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, I wanted to ask you about discounts and whatnot,
because for seniors, especially through memberships like you're talking about
with ARP services, you can you can actually get legitimate
discounts on just about everything you want to do along
the way right.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Absolutely to the mid discounts. And like I said, if
you think about a weekend road trip where you rent
a car, put the whole family, you know, multi generational
trips or popular thing this spring and summer, keep the
family together, make some memories. You rent with your ARP
discount through AVIS save thirty percent if you pay later
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thirty five percent if you pay at the time of booking.
That's real dollars in your pocket. It is that allows
you to extend your trip, save some money. And you know,
with the membership at ARP, there's a surprise ones too.
It's good to be springtime about you. Nice sunglasses are
somewhere in a drawer. You can save with aarp on,
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non prescription sunglasses or prescription lenses with lens crafters. We
have all these ways for the fifty plus traveler to
save with their membership. Use it one time.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You're gonna more than pay for that twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
It's a no brainer.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah, I'm almost convinced. I gotta, I gotta. I have
to cut some spots. After the show, I may go
over there and jump in. I would imagine a lot
of seniors these days. We got about a minute and
a half here, a lot of them. You mentioned earlier
multi generational trips. What are some of the things that
seniors need if they're organizing the trip they need to
consider during the planning stages of a just a full
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blown three generation theme parks and whatever trip that wouldn't
really matter for just a quick over in a long weekend.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
The difference between a quick overnight just you and the
spouse perhaps, or you and a buddy, as you described
an outdoor as trip or something like that, you don't
have as many points of view to consider, right. You
know the kind of restaurant you want to go to,
you know the sort of park you want to hit up.
You know the duration of the hike that you're endeavoring
to take and the difficulty associated with it. Make sure
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you have those conversations with every generation of the person
that's going on the trip. You're never going to satisfy
someone one hundred percent of the time, right, but find
the best fit so that you don't have a sulky
teenager or a you know, an older person on the
trip that can't do what you set out to do.
Make sure you talk about the itinerary and get everyone's
quote unquote buy in it. Don't make the trip a
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lot smoother and.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Make everybody feel like they got to make a choice
on some aspect of that trip, so they feel like
that was you know, you picked that restaurant, you picked
that theme park, you picked that golf course, whatever. Yeah,
I like that because even the little kids feel very
much a part of the trip, Then don't.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
They they want to contribute. They'll enjoy it more if
they feel like we're at restaurant I picked, We're going
for the hike that I laid out the plan for inclusivity.
Everyone contributing will make those memories that much better.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Last word Steve boil it down best advice for seniors
looking for phone without going.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Broke head the aarp dot org for its last save. Yeah,
there's more tips than our conversation. I could talk to
you the rest of the afternoon and still wouldn't get
it all out. Explore our website find ways to save
those dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I'm gonna go there when I get back to my desk.
I really am, Steve Gilde, Thank you so very much
again for your time. I'm sure we'll be talking again soon.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Can't wait too.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Thank you for tom Thank you all right, we got
to take a little break here. When we get back,
good heavens will it's almost time. We're rounding? What round?
And second head of the third? Anyway, we'll come back.
We'll touch third base and head for home. Fifty plus
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Speaker 3 (28:06):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Final segment of the show. Stars right now, and thank
you very much for listening. I certainly do appreciate that
we'll get to Loris Woods back. I know we will,
and we will continue our discussion of protein. I don't
know what happened, but it did from yesterday when I
first heard about something that happened over in Alabama. As
an outdoorsman, as a fisherman, as someone who has ridden
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in a bunch of boats a bunch of times and
actually seen firsthand a couple of accidents with boats, I
was really frustrated and sorrowful after hearing about a crash
during a professional bass fishing tournament that involved one of
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its participants. It involved a local guide in one of
his customers, and it involved at least one other boat.
Although I'm still scrambling trying to get more and more details.
There was fog in the morning, I've been told, and
then right at first light, basically when these competitors were
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going out onto that lake for that tournament, the sun
was low, and one boat was turning the corner from
left to right, and another boat, at least one more
boat at least or not to be redundant, but anyway,
was going the other direction and at apparently very high speed,
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those two collided, and somehow a third boat must have
been involved. I believe, well, maybe that guide boat had
more than just two people on it. I'm not sure.
The bottom line right now, the bottom line line three
dead and three injured because of a preventable air. There's
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just I talked to a lot of guys who have
a lot of hours, a lot more hours than I do,
certainly on the water, and we talk. We've talked countless
times about speed on the water and how fast these
boats are getting and how frustrating it is to just
(30:30):
know that these boats that are doing eighty and ninety
and some even one hundred miles an hour boats don't
operate light cars. There are no lanes, there are no
traffic lights. People just go where they want to go
in their boats, and at eighty or ninety miles an hour,
(30:51):
if you blink, something in the water might miss your
eyes and you might run over it. That could be
a log, it could be a number of things. And
if you're distracted at all, somehow your cap blows off
and you turn around to look for it behind you, Bam,
(31:12):
you run into somebody who's dealing with something else in
their boat. To lose three people in an accident like
that is something that these competitive events are going to
have to look at long and hard to keep from
happening again, because they would happen again. There's so much
(31:33):
money on the line, and these guys are so bent
on getting to a spot first that it's becoming well,
it did become deadly. And I'm not saying I'm What
I'm really wanting to say is that we need to
(31:53):
talk about, at least in these tournaments, limiting speed speed.
And how you would do that, I don't know, because
you can't have radar traps up and down the intracoastal
and a redfish tournament, you can't have people driving around
with radar guns marking the speed of every boat involved
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in a tournament that's got sixty eighty or one hundred
boats in it. That's not practical. But there would have
to be some sort of honor system that we won't
drive faster than X, because if nobody is driving faster
than X, then it doesn't matter who's got the fastest boat.
Everybody will be able to get to a certain area
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in the same amount of time more or less, and
have the same opportunity to fish it. Now would they
lose fishing time? Of course, they would. It takes a
lot longer to get someplace doing fifty miles an hour
than it does getting there at ninety Ask anybody on
the Southwest Freeway that blows by me at ninety plus
on Saturday mornings, trying to get home before the sun
(32:59):
comes up. It's it's something that needs to be addressed,
and and I'll cover that at length on Saturday. I
can assure you over on KBMME starting at seven o'clock,
I'm probably gonna lead with this story because it's that important,
and we have to find some way to make boating
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less dangerous. And with these bigger and bigger engines and
lighter and lighter boats, it's it's just doing the opposite,
it's it's potentially making it more dangerous. I'll do that
on Saturday. Uh, well, we've got got a little time.
Let me tell you about the from the sorry We're
(33:42):
Full desk comes word out of a newsweek piece that
Texas and Florida are not attracting as many new residents
as they did in recent years. And quite frankly, that's
fine with me. Texas is doing okay on most fronts
right now. I'm I'm not terribly interested in seeing the
state try to take care of more people than we
(34:03):
already have. Electricity comes to mind. First, We've seen what
happens in a freeze, We've seen what happens in a hurricane,
and we don't need to have to be fixing more
people's problems in more houses, in more places, and changing
Texas potentially in other ways. Maybe we should have will
(34:26):
What do you think about having newcomers to Texas sign
an oath of allegiance to the state before they can
live here. No, I think that goes too far. It's crazy.
Welcome to Texas sign here? What is this? Oh, it's
just it just promises you're gonna become a Texan. You're
not gonna drag all your stuff from the state. You
couldn't wait to leave and then try to implement it here,
(34:50):
which has been done unsuccessfully so far. Knock on wood, Yeah,
I wouldn't hurt my feelings. From the title nine desk
comes news that the USA fencing competitor Stephanie Turner, who
took a knee rather than compete against the transgender athlete
back in March, has been placed on twelve months probation
(35:14):
by the US Fencing governing body. She decided to step
away from fencing the wall and will use that time
to continue her discussions of why men shouldn't be allowed
to compete in women's sports. And she's going to get
a really good chance that too, when she testifies in
early May before the House Oversight Committee alongside US Fencing
(35:39):
Board chair Damien Lafeldt, who helped get men allowed in
women's fencing back in twenty twenty three. That will be
a good discussion to watch, and I do and I
intend to watch that. I hope I get more more
lead time so I can arrange to see that live
and see just way that which way that goes?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
All right?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Will coming to you? Now, let me find my little
fun stuff. I told you just national hiku da you
don't have one, though, It's okay, we'll move on. The
rule is wrong, I already did that. Never mind, I
did that when we panicked in the break with dolors
flying way too low. B YOB or I'll be okay byob.
(36:24):
That stands for in this case, bring your own bud.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Will.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Police in Washington State are looking for people to get
high on marijuana for them, so incoming police officers and
I guess some who don't have much practice can practice
their field. Sobriety tests says here the volunteers will need
to use their own weed, but the cops will provide snacks.
(36:53):
What do you think will now into Washington? It sounds
like a trap, is what it sounds.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
I think.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
So as soon as they fired up, they'll cuff them,
won't they. Yeah, yeah, they might be luring them in, yeah,
free stating it's it's fully legal there. But I mean
it does sound so strange. You know, well you still
can't drive impaired though, well yeah, I mean just like
you could have a beer. But they're not drunk. You know,
they're not saying, you know, drive impaired and come here.
(37:22):
Certainly not certainly not all right? Ten seconds six and
ten Americans admit they ignore medical symptoms that don't feel serious.
I got achs and paid. I've had them for fifteen
twenty years. They're not bothering me. I don't care, not
until something falls off. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening,
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All right, welcome to Thursday. M mercy. You've got one
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say that, did you will? I'm so sorry. You can
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I believe one of them. Do you know the times?
It's five pm on k PERC on Saturday and then
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time now, hoping to gather a little momentum over there
as well. That's where this show started and it did
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and Buck. Is no easy task, but I'm up for it,
and I'm trying to be much different from what they do,
which isn't hard. They come at it a totally different way,
and I respect them for that. But I want to
stay with things that aren't aren't talked about a lot,
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if that makes any sense, and also include a lot
more pleasant stuff, a lot easier stuff to digest than
the really hard scrabble stuff around here. For instance, from
the Alien Life Desk, Will we have an update? You
want some of that action? All right? By way of
the James Web Space Telescope. The most compelling evidence yet
(02:15):
that there may be life on other planets, and what
scientists found. There's a planet out there, far, far far away.
I'll tell you how far in a minute. It's pretty significant.
A planet named K two eighteen, little brother of K
two nineteen. I get no, not really made that part
of it. What they found on K two eighteen was
(02:37):
the presence of dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide, which on
Earth are generated only by microbial organisms such as fidoplankton
and algae things like that. Okay, so basically there's really
no guarantee of life on this planet, which is one
(02:59):
hundred and twenty four light years away, which I want
to say I did the math on it. I want
to say it was about three hundred and something trillion
miles away. That's how far it is. Think of it
like you found mouse droppings in your garage, but you
didn't find any mice. So there's a possibility, a probability
(03:23):
that there are mice out there, but maybe not. Maybe
there's some other way that that gas could have been
formed other than by microbial life, and that's that would
be something that we don't know about, we don't understand yet,
but that doesn't mean it can't exist. According to this
(03:44):
NEWSMAC story, scientists have identified about five thousand, eight hundred
planets beyond our Solar system and hypothesize that some of
them may be what they call Heisian planets. You know
what those are? No, A hesiand planet. I didn't need
it until I've read the definition. That is a planet
(04:05):
that's covered by liquid water in habitable by micro organisms,
which is what they keep telling us they might have
found on planets a bajillion trillion miles away. What fascinates
me about this will is that science and scientists, when
they talk about potential for life on planets so far
(04:28):
away being alive with microlife, they do that all the time. Well,
we may have found micro life out there, but they
never they never feel like they've found any sort of
evidence whatsoever of organisms as complex and developed as humans.
And honestly, I think with all the planets and all
(04:51):
the suns and all the galaxies in the universe, and
I still have room for my faith, I really do.
But out of all of the to think that we're
the only sophisticated beings in all of that space, I
think it's pretty brassy of us, Do you not sure?
(05:14):
And I mean, who are we to think that we're
the only species in the universe capable of thought and
building and growing, growing food and making tools and whatnot.
That's a pretty broad jump from micro life to us,
(05:34):
and I just can't And with all the evidence that's
coming out now about UFOs, there's also a lot to
talk about there, wouldn't you say, have you been watching
any of this no, Well, there have been. There's been
a lot of testimony and a lot of releasing of
evidence and whatnot that this planet has been visited. And
(05:56):
I get fascinated watching that stuff on nat GEO and
the History Channel and other places where these shows pop up.
About how much a lot of the old art work
that's found around the world from different civilizations that lived thousand,
two thousand years ago, some of these drawings looked pretty
(06:18):
much like somebody standing there in a spacesuit with an
oxygen mask on. It's just amazing, or some sort of
mask on. Anyway, whatever they breathe, where they come from,
they probably got a little tank on their back, just
like we would have to do if we went somewhere
that didn't have oxygen in its atmosphere. I find that fascinating.
I really do that. It's very difficult for me to
(06:41):
believe that there's nothing else out there but us. And again,
I still have plenty of room in my faith for
everything that I learned from childhood, But that doesn't mean
that we're it from the what time is it? I
can't will? Can you take that one minute to go
(07:04):
so frustrating? Sometimes? Why are we watching yesterday's pregame. Now,
I like to do you really who are they playing
today today? I believe they're playing the Padres. Yesterday they
played the They finished their series with the Cardinals. So
they're back here. Yeah, they're back here with the Padres
today and tomorrow at least, because I'm going tomorrow. I
(07:24):
want to go. I'm sorry, I'll have an extra ticket.
Circle the wagons are in a pickle, Circle the wagons.
But is what viral? I've already told you about the
elephants at the zoo, didn't I? Yes, yeah, that's from yesterday.
Why do I have that in my hands? I had
the wrong piece of paper. Well that's terrible. Oh you
know what today is, I'll just tell you and then
I'll go ahead and go to the break. Today is
(07:45):
National Haiku Day, So in celebration of that, I want
you to create one before the end of the show.
Can you do that. I'll think about it. There's your
first line right there. I'll think about it. All right,
we gotta take a little break here. We'll go ahead
and go straight to it, so when we get back
we can sooner get to Dolores Woods. We're going to
(08:05):
have a good discussion about protein. And its importance to seniors.
More fifty plus coming.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
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Speaker 2 (08:17):
All Right, welcome back songs about two days late, isn't it? Well?
You weren't here on Tuesday. That's a good point, all right,
Welcome back to fifty plus, Land of the Free, Home
of the Gray. We'll talk in this segment about the
importance of protein in our diets as seniors and get
into how much we need and where we can get it.
And to help me because I don't have perfect eating habits,
(08:38):
I'll enlist Delores Woods, director of culinary Nutrition for the
Nourish Program at the Michael and Susan Dell Center for
Healthy Living at ut health Houston School of Public Health.
That's a mouthful, right there, Dolores, Hi, how are you?
I'm very well, Thank you, Welcome back. So I'm starting
to hear more and read more actually about the importance
(09:01):
of protein for senior health, probably because I'm becoming more senior.
Why the sudden interest in this country in protein, right.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Especially for seniors. We do lose muscle mass as we age,
and protein is a great nutrient to be able to
prevent some of that muscle loss, and it's also you know,
one of those great foods that is really important for
our health.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well, are there lots of different types of proteins or
is protein just protein?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
There are many different types. So the most common sources
of protein are going to be the animal sources, so
your chicken, salmon, eggs, red meat. But there are also
a lot of plant based sources of protein. So if
you're vegetarian or you're you know, wanting to eat less
meat products, beans are a great source of protein. So
(09:57):
are nuts and seeds, who I know some people are
not big fans of, but that is a good source
of protein. And dairy a lot of the dairy products
are also a great source of protein, and they're gonna
be a good source of calcium as well.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You can have my tofu. Let's talk generally about how
much protein the average scenior needs every day.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
The average person and this includes seniors, they're gonna need
about fifty five grams of protein. And to put it
in perspective, that's gonna be maybe about over the day.
You could have a three ounce piece of cook sorry
of three ounce piece of cooked chicken breast, which is
gonna have twenty six grams of protein. Eggs contain about
(10:44):
six grams lentils if you like lentils, one cup contains
the eighteen grams. So honestly, it's not that much. I
think those people get enough protein, especially if they're eating
the animal sources.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Let's talk about asterisks. Maybe are there groups of seniors
who might need more protein or less protein than others?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah, so less protein if there are some seniors who
are maybe having issues with kidneys, so especially if they're
on dialysis, the excess protein it really kind of puts
up burning on the kidney, so that would be a concern.
But you know, seniors are active. There are a lot
(11:31):
of active seniors out there, so having more protein in
that case would be better. But definitely, you know, limiting
the amount for any kidney issues is important.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Okay, And you tell me exactly what function these proteins
provide for other than the muscle loss. We talked about
that to slow that down. But at fifty sixty, seventy
years and beyond, what then is protein doing once we've
lost about all the muscle we're going to lose?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Well, it's an important the are all of the macro nutrients,
especially the protein provide calories and they're going to be
utilized as energy. So even you know, for that muscle loss,
we still need it. It plays a vital role in
everything from muscles to hormones, even our organs and skin.
(12:23):
So it's those building blocks for a lot of these
vital roles, not just you know, a good food we
like to eat, but really important for all of that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And talk about supplements. What's the difference between getting your
protein from a powder or a pill and getting it
from three ounces of chicken breast? Oh no, did we
lose her again? We did? What did you do? Will?
(12:54):
I did nothing. We'll leave you in suspense until Dolorus
is back, which won't take very long. By the way,
Will's cracker Jack. He's on the job. I was working
with him during the break, by the way, on a
high coup and I just just handed it to him.
And now I've already forgotten what I said. A scientist
on TikTok, I'll give you this while he's getting her
back on the line said the five second rule. I
(13:15):
guess this is what apply to chicken breast too. If
you drop food on the floor, it always develops bacteria.
Whether it's been on the floor for one second or
one minute? How we doing? Will any luck at all?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
We're scrambling. I wonder what happened. I hope we can
get her back. Keep trying. Okay, I'll go back to
one of my stories over here from the let's see
where I want to go from the Harrison County desk.
Word that Democrat commissioners, by the way, according to a
Texas scorecard, story, plan to circumvent state law by using
non government organizations and nonprofits to reach its goals. This
(13:56):
county commissioner's bunch does. Their goals include promotion of DEI,
a greenhouse gas tax, and income based property tax schedule.
None of this stuff, the story said, fall under what
counties can and cannot do. And once these programs get started,
you can count on a fat stack of legal fees
(14:17):
coming in as they get challenged in court too. You
get her back? Will are you there?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Come in, come in Delorus. So where were we?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I was asking about supplements and pills as a source
of protein versus white meat chicken. What's the difference?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
So we want to think about the food first approach,
even the whole food.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Hey, Dolores, I believe it or not, we've got about
I'm only getting about one third of your words. Let
will try one more time and if it does doesn't work,
we will regroup. How's that? Just let him call you back? Okay,
all right, we're gonna take a little break again, and
while we're out, and Will takes one more swing here.
I don't know what the deal is with her connection.
It just seems like there's a bad line somewhere. But
(15:14):
we'll we'll figure it out. If you were if you
were looking today for a medical breakthrough, by the way,
I'll give you one.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
This.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I even I even shared with somebody in the office
here whose jaw just fell open that this was even
a possibility. I would have never known from the medical
breakthrough desk. A woman has given birth after receiving a
transplant wound from her sister. I may have mentioned that yesterday.
I don't think I did, But if I did, I
(15:43):
absolutely apologize, and I hope I did, because it's worth
saying twice. There's no question about that. Hmm. Now again,
we'll the lors. No says they can't take my call. Now,
she's probably still talking. It could be I don't know
what's going on. Let's just move on. Okay, let's do that.
Will and I really apologize to Dolores and to all
(16:08):
of you because and I'll get her back on very shortly.
And once we do, we will make sure that the
lines clean and green like it was when we started.
What makes that happen? Will? You're the tech guy in here.
I don't know if I'm the tech guys the two
of us. Oh yeah, I don't know. You know, sometimes
it's just all about where you are. And it's a
(16:30):
good point how the reception is in any event from them.
This one, yeah, this one bugs me a little bit.
From the deportation desk comes word that the Maryland man
being treated by media like a wholesome family man. The
guy a Democrat congressman all actually flew all the way
to El Salvador to see and potentially get released from
(16:53):
El Salvador in prison where he's now incarcerated. This guy
who who is he? A known member of MS thirteen,
a confirmed member of MS thirteen. He's not the choir
boy the Left makes him out to be. The Apartment
Holman Security Assistant Secretary Trisha McLaughlin said that when DHS
(17:15):
caught this guy Abrego, Garcia and Maryland. He was carrying
drugs and rolls of cash, and he's got lots of
other baggage in his trunk too, including two accusations of
domestic abuse by his girlfriend, including videos and photos of
his violence and the bruises he left on her. The
(17:37):
left talks about him being just a model citizen, almost
like a choir boy and a father. But as McLaughlin said,
so was Osama bin Lauden. All Right, we gotta take
a little break here on the way out, I'll tell
you about ut Health Institute on Aging, this collaborative of
I believe, I'm confident one hundred percent. Now I'm gonna
find out tomorrow afternoon he actually well at the I'll
(18:01):
ask that question tomorrow when I host you TA Health
in our astro suite. How many providers are involved in this,
and I'm sure the numbers more than a thousand. I'm
very confident in that. And what these people have done
to be card carrying members of the Institute on Aging
is taking it upon themselves to invest their own time
(18:21):
in getting additional training and education and how they can
apply their specific knowledge of whatever medical thing it is
they do specifically to us, to seniors, what an advantage
that is really for us to have right here mostly
in the medcenter these providers are, but almost all of
(18:41):
them also work at least part of the week out
in outlying clinics and hospitals and offices, so that any
of us who are maybe a little bit too old,
too scared to go driving into the medical center comfortably,
you can be seen by one of these providers out
wherever you are in the Greater Houston metroplex. And that's
(19:02):
that's a big territory that covers about nine thousand square
miles and has about six million people in it. Go
to the website, see all the resources they offer there,
and then work your way toward one of these providers
who knows you better than you know yourself. Probably they'll
help you live longer, happier, healthier lives for sure. Ut
(19:24):
dot edu slash aging, utch dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
All right, welcome back, thanks for listening. I appreciate that.
Sorry for what happened with the lords. I don't know
what that was about. We'll get back to her next week.
I'm sure we'll talk now about the affordability or lack thereof,
depending on your perspective, of travel for seniors around this
country of ours, and along the way, maybe share some
legitimate options for seniors who want to get out of
(20:02):
town without going into debt. And with that, Alosher and
Steve Gilde from AARP Services, welcome back to fifty plus. Steve,
great to speak to you.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I appreciate that. So now that spring breakers have kind
of retreated back to the classrooms and before summer really
gets a grip on us, I guess this would be
a pretty good time of year for seniors to sneak
away for a while. Is that right. It's a sweet spot, right, yea.
Just like you said, the.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Kids are back in school, summer heat largely has not
quite arrived, so it's a great time to be out
on the roads. You can kind of split the difference
between the crowds and the weather, and it's a great
time to travel.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Based on the requests that come through ARP services to seniors,
seem to be traveling farther this year or staying closer
to home.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
It's a mix, right, Some people are still absolutely going
to go on that trip of a lifetime this year.
There is still some cohort of folks who have put
off that big trip, whether it was the COVID break
that we all dealt with a couple of years back,
or whether it's making sure that your wallet is prepared
for a big trip. People are still taking those quote
(21:10):
unquote trip of a lifetimes at the same time. Just
like you said, you know, maybe a long weekend is
the sweet spot for people right now and a little
road trip is the way to do it. So it's
it's absolutely a mix. But people are absolutely traveling this year.
It's still it's still going to be a healthy travel season.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Can you put a finger at all on the say,
the number the average duration of trips that seniors tend
to make just by themselves.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I don't know if there's a number of trips that
people tend to make by themselves.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Nice that they're gone.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Though, yeah, sure, rather the longer yeah. And what we
do as we try to get underneath data, like the
question you just asked, is we go out and we
pull our members. And I'll tell you that in this
spring travel survey, eighty five percent of the people who
are to us told us that travel is good for
their physical health. Yeah, ninety five percent of people told
(22:05):
us that it's good for their mental health. So people
are prioritizing and still making it a part of their lives,
even in the face of health challenges. While it challenges
making the plans to do it right, which can be
a challenge in and of itself, it's good for you
and people are doing it, and.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
For somebody like me who's still working and might want
to use vacation time to recharge my batteries and just
be fresh again. How long would you say would be
a minimum amount of time to really decompress, get some rest,
have some fun, and then be excited to come back
to work.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I'm going to call it a minimum of a long weekend, right, Yeah,
first night, you know, you're still feeling like I'm not
on my trip yet. You're thinking about all the things
that took to get you there. You're not quite settled
into your destination. You want to explore. You want to
get out and find the local places and the joyful
things of travel that you uncover when you just get
out and explore, perhaps without a totally set agenda.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Right, got to have at least a long weekend. And
the irony there for me has always been I used
to do a lot of travel when I was working
at the paper, covering outdoors and stuff, and I still
do on a different show that I do here. The
irony was that a lot of these trips were about
three to four days or two or three nights, and
just about the time you really start feeling comfortable wherever
(23:23):
you are, you know the route around the hotel to
get exactly where you want to get, you know where
the best restaurant, You got all that, and you got
to pack up and go home. It's a bummer.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
And you know, I would say, you know, if you're
thinking about a two or three day trip, maybe you're
an ARP member. Maybe you're not only costs twenty dollars
to become one. Our members save on every facet of
the trip, whether it's renting a car with avis budget
and they're getting an SUV for as low as fifty
four dollars a day, staying in a choice hotel room,
(23:55):
staying in a windhom property, saving ten percent of either
one of those. If you're an ARP member, add an
extra night because you're saving along the whole way of
your trip, so you can afford a little bit longer
trip and that that feeling of packing up and heading
back you get at least prolong at an extra twenty
four hours.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, I wanted to ask you about discounts and whatnot,
because for seniors, especially through memberships like you're talking about
with ARP services, you can you can actually get legitimate
discounts on just about everything you want to do along
the way right.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Absolutely to the mid discounts. And like I said, if
you think about a weekend road trip where you rent
a car, put the whole family, you know, multi generational
trips or popular thing this spring and summer, keep the
family together, make some memories. You rent with your ARP
discount through AVIS save thirty percent if you pay later
(24:48):
thirty five percent if you pay at the time of booking.
That's real dollars in your pocket. It is that allows
you to extend your trip, save some money. And you know,
with the membership at ARP, there's a surprise ones too.
It's good to be springtime about you. Nice sunglasses are
somewhere in a drawer. You can save with aarp on,
(25:08):
non prescription sunglasses or prescription lenses with lens crafters. We
have all these ways for the fifty plus traveler to
save with their membership. Use it one time.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You're gonna more than pay for that twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
It's a no brainer.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah, I'm almost convinced. I gotta, I gotta. I have
to cut some spots. After the show, I may go
over there and jump in. I would imagine a lot
of seniors these days. We got about a minute and
a half here, a lot of them. You mentioned earlier
multi generational trips. What are some of the things that
seniors need if they're organizing the trip they need to
consider during the planning stages of a just a full
(25:47):
blown three generation theme parks and whatever trip that wouldn't
really matter for just a quick over in a long weekend.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
The difference between a quick overnight just you and the
spouse perhaps, or you and a buddy, as you described
an outdoor as trip or something like that, you don't
have as many points of view to consider, right. You
know the kind of restaurant you want to go to,
you know the sort of park you want to hit up.
You know the duration of the hike that you're endeavoring
to take and the difficulty associated with it. Make sure
(26:16):
you have those conversations with every generation of the person
that's going on the trip. You're never going to satisfy
someone one hundred percent of the time, right, but find
the best fit so that you don't have a sulky
teenager or a you know, an older person on the
trip that can't do what you set out to do.
Make sure you talk about the itinerary and get everyone's
quote unquote buy in it. Don't make the trip a
(26:37):
lot smoother and.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Make everybody feel like they got to make a choice
on some aspect of that trip, so they feel like
that was you know, you picked that restaurant, you picked
that theme park, you picked that golf course, whatever. Yeah,
I like that because even the little kids feel very
much a part of the trip, Then don't.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
They they want to contribute. They'll enjoy it more if
they feel like we're at restaurant I picked, We're going
for the hike that I laid out the plan for inclusivity.
Everyone contributing will make those memories that much better.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Last word Steve boil it down best advice for seniors
looking for phone without going.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Broke head the aarp dot org for its last save. Yeah,
there's more tips than our conversation. I could talk to
you the rest of the afternoon and still wouldn't get
it all out. Explore our website find ways to save
those dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I'm gonna go there when I get back to my desk.
I really am, Steve Gilde, Thank you so very much
again for your time. I'm sure we'll be talking again soon.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Can't wait too.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Thank you for tom Thank you all right, we got
to take a little break here. When we get back,
good heavens will it's almost time. We're rounding? What round?
And second head of the third? Anyway, we'll come back.
We'll touch third base and head for home. Fifty plus
on AM nine to fifty kp RC Bold guys rule
(28:00):
and of course, women never get old. If you want
to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Final segment of the show. Stars right now, and thank
you very much for listening. I certainly do appreciate that
we'll get to Loris Woods back. I know we will,
and we will continue our discussion of protein. I don't
know what happened, but it did from yesterday when I
first heard about something that happened over in Alabama. As
an outdoorsman, as a fisherman, as someone who has ridden
(28:38):
in a bunch of boats a bunch of times and
actually seen firsthand a couple of accidents with boats, I
was really frustrated and sorrowful after hearing about a crash
during a professional bass fishing tournament that involved one of
(28:58):
its participants. It involved a local guide in one of
his customers, and it involved at least one other boat.
Although I'm still scrambling trying to get more and more details.
There was fog in the morning, I've been told, and
then right at first light, basically when these competitors were
(29:23):
going out onto that lake for that tournament, the sun
was low, and one boat was turning the corner from
left to right, and another boat, at least one more
boat at least or not to be redundant, but anyway,
was going the other direction and at apparently very high speed,
(29:44):
those two collided, and somehow a third boat must have
been involved. I believe, well, maybe that guide boat had
more than just two people on it. I'm not sure.
The bottom line right now, the bottom line line three
dead and three injured because of a preventable air. There's
(30:10):
just I talked to a lot of guys who have
a lot of hours, a lot more hours than I do,
certainly on the water, and we talk. We've talked countless
times about speed on the water and how fast these
boats are getting and how frustrating it is to just
(30:30):
know that these boats that are doing eighty and ninety
and some even one hundred miles an hour boats don't
operate light cars. There are no lanes, there are no
traffic lights. People just go where they want to go
in their boats, and at eighty or ninety miles an hour,
(30:51):
if you blink, something in the water might miss your
eyes and you might run over it. That could be
a log, it could be a number of things. And
if you're distracted at all, somehow your cap blows off
and you turn around to look for it behind you, Bam,
(31:12):
you run into somebody who's dealing with something else in
their boat. To lose three people in an accident like
that is something that these competitive events are going to
have to look at long and hard to keep from
happening again, because they would happen again. There's so much
(31:33):
money on the line, and these guys are so bent
on getting to a spot first that it's becoming well,
it did become deadly. And I'm not saying I'm What
I'm really wanting to say is that we need to
(31:53):
talk about, at least in these tournaments, limiting speed speed.
And how you would do that, I don't know, because
you can't have radar traps up and down the intracoastal
and a redfish tournament, you can't have people driving around
with radar guns marking the speed of every boat involved
(32:15):
in a tournament that's got sixty eighty or one hundred
boats in it. That's not practical. But there would have
to be some sort of honor system that we won't
drive faster than X, because if nobody is driving faster
than X, then it doesn't matter who's got the fastest boat.
Everybody will be able to get to a certain area
(32:37):
in the same amount of time more or less, and
have the same opportunity to fish it. Now would they
lose fishing time? Of course, they would. It takes a
lot longer to get someplace doing fifty miles an hour
than it does getting there at ninety Ask anybody on
the Southwest Freeway that blows by me at ninety plus
on Saturday mornings, trying to get home before the sun
(32:59):
comes up. It's it's something that needs to be addressed,
and and I'll cover that at length on Saturday. I
can assure you over on KBMME starting at seven o'clock,
I'm probably gonna lead with this story because it's that important,
and we have to find some way to make boating
(33:21):
less dangerous. And with these bigger and bigger engines and
lighter and lighter boats, it's it's just doing the opposite,
it's it's potentially making it more dangerous. I'll do that
on Saturday. Uh, well, we've got got a little time.
Let me tell you about the from the sorry We're
(33:42):
Full desk comes word out of a newsweek piece that
Texas and Florida are not attracting as many new residents
as they did in recent years. And quite frankly, that's
fine with me. Texas is doing okay on most fronts
right now. I'm I'm not terribly interested in seeing the
state try to take care of more people than we
(34:03):
already have. Electricity comes to mind. First, We've seen what
happens in a freeze, We've seen what happens in a hurricane,
and we don't need to have to be fixing more
people's problems in more houses, in more places, and changing
Texas potentially in other ways. Maybe we should have will
(34:26):
What do you think about having newcomers to Texas sign
an oath of allegiance to the state before they can
live here. No, I think that goes too far. It's crazy.
Welcome to Texas sign here? What is this? Oh, it's
just it just promises you're gonna become a Texan. You're
not gonna drag all your stuff from the state. You
couldn't wait to leave and then try to implement it here,
(34:50):
which has been done unsuccessfully so far. Knock on wood, Yeah,
I wouldn't hurt my feelings. From the title nine desk
comes news that the USA fencing competitor Stephanie Turner, who
took a knee rather than compete against the transgender athlete
back in March, has been placed on twelve months probation
(35:14):
by the US Fencing governing body. She decided to step
away from fencing the wall and will use that time
to continue her discussions of why men shouldn't be allowed
to compete in women's sports. And she's going to get
a really good chance that too, when she testifies in
early May before the House Oversight Committee alongside US Fencing
(35:39):
Board chair Damien Lafeldt, who helped get men allowed in
women's fencing back in twenty twenty three. That will be
a good discussion to watch, and I do and I
intend to watch that. I hope I get more more
lead time so I can arrange to see that live
and see just way that which way that goes?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
All right?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Will coming to you? Now, let me find my little
fun stuff. I told you just national hiku da you
don't have one, though, It's okay, we'll move on. The
rule is wrong, I already did that. Never mind, I
did that when we panicked in the break with dolors
flying way too low. B YOB or I'll be okay byob.
(36:24):
That stands for in this case, bring your own bud.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Will.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Police in Washington State are looking for people to get
high on marijuana for them, so incoming police officers and
I guess some who don't have much practice can practice
their field. Sobriety tests says here the volunteers will need
to use their own weed, but the cops will provide snacks.
(36:53):
What do you think will now into Washington? It sounds
like a trap, is what it sounds.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
I think.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
So as soon as they fired up, they'll cuff them,
won't they. Yeah, yeah, they might be luring them in, yeah,
free stating it's it's fully legal there. But I mean
it does sound so strange. You know, well you still
can't drive impaired though, well yeah, I mean just like
you could have a beer. But they're not drunk. You know,
they're not saying, you know, drive impaired and come here.
(37:22):
Certainly not certainly not all right? Ten seconds six and
ten Americans admit they ignore medical symptoms that don't feel serious.
I got achs and paid. I've had them for fifteen
twenty years. They're not bothering me. I don't care, not
until something falls off. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening,
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