From Electrolytes To Elites: Health, Media, And A Wild Parade

Birthday week lit a fire under us to make next year count. We start with the basics that actually move the needle: more protein at every meal to protect lean muscle, strategically using electrolytes to steady energy, and cutting back wheat-heavy carbs that crash mood and focus. We talk through what changes after 50, how to space protein for better recovery, and why small, boring habits beat big, flashy promises when your goal is strength and consistency.

From there, we pivot to language and power. A much-shared piece on condescending discourse—call it “Millennial Snot”—sparks a candid look at the phrases that shut people down before the facts even land. We unpack why that tone erodes trust, how it shows up in everyday conversations, and what it would look like to argue with clarity instead of superiority. Persuasion is a skill; posturing is a habit. We choose the skill.

We also examine a hard story from a cruise ship: a passenger reportedly served 33 drinks, restrained after a violent outburst, then dead hours later—now labeled a homicide in fresh legal filings. It’s a tangle of personal choices, bar policies, security training, and medical intervention. We reflect on duty of care, proportionality, and the point where prevention should have kicked in long before tempers and blood alcohol levels peaked.

A brief detour into a headline-grabbing detail at HHS—the portrait name change for a high-profile official—opens a wider conversation about records, identity, and institutional language. What belongs in an archive, and what respects lived reality? There are no cheap answers, but precision and humility help. Then a black bear strolling through a Gatlinburg Christmas parade reminds us that delightful viral clips can carry serious wildlife risks when animals associate people with food.

We close with a listener question: travel for Christmas or keep the home traditions? After trying Vegas once, we missed the rituals that anchor the season. Tell us where you land. If this episode challenged your thinking or gave you a practical health nudge, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review—what’s one tradition you’d never trade?

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Chapters

• 0:44 Birthday Week And Health Reset
• 2:18 Nutrition Research For Women 50 Plus
• 3:34 Media Tone And “Millennial Snot”
• 5:38 Cruise Tragedy And Accountability
• 9:34 HHS Portrait Name Controversy

Transcript

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Hello, good morning. Happy Tuesday. I'm feeling pretty good today. I started taking drinking electrolytes. Gatorade. I guess you could drink Gatorade, but I bought this brand called LMNT. You know, they're in the individual package you could add to water to try it. We'll see. I think you know you could also drink Gatorade. But I'm feeling pretty good. And I'm changed my eating habits of eating a lot of protein, vegetables, you know, trying to stay away from wheat carbs. I know I've talked about this a dozen times already. But I'm on my mission year to uh this week is my birthday week. So I'll be 59 on Thursday. Thank you very much. And I am on a mission for this next year to be in the best shape I possibly can by the time I turn 60. And and nutrition is part of it. And I've really been researching a lot of things. I mean, really studying and researching a lot of things with uh women over a certain age who have certain conditions and um so it's specifically for me. All right, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to go off on a tangent there. We have some stories for you over here on the X file. Um, by the way, I changed my handle back to Carol Remarks. I don't know if I told you all that before already. Um, let's see. The first thing I want to mention, I want you to go over and read this article from the New York Post. I'm not gonna read it all here, but I think this is a very good thing. I don't know, it's not good, but it's very interesting. Millennial Snot is what it's called. The Smarmy Patronizing Way Liberal Elites Talk Down to the Rest of Us. Now, I I'm sure you've noticed this. It's just an interesting read. It's kind of long, but it's spot on. I really do think it's correct. I know people like this. Uh, they don't have P the people I know don't have PhDs, but they they are certainly highly educated, the people I know that do this. And they are millennials and they do talk like this. Oh, it's just it's annoying as crap with the way they talk down to you. Um, let's be very clear. Here is one of them. This is an extremely bad look for you. And then one starts off with Um, frankly, you know people like this. You know people like this. Go read it. I think it's interesting. Uh it's long, I'm not going to get into it here. I have other ones I want to talk about. Royal Caribbean Cruise passenger was served 33 drinks before he died in custody for the New York Post. And they're they're doing this as a homicide. I think that's wrong. The death of a Royal Caribbean passenger has been ruled homicide after crew members allegedly served him nearly three dozen drinks at the ship's bar bar before he died, according to a new lawsuit. Michael Virgin35 was served 33 drinks at one of the ship's bars on the day he died in custody on December 2024. According to this was like a year ago. According to a wrongful death lawsuit recently filed by his fiancee and obtained by TMZ. Virgil was detained during a drunken rage in which he had allegedly attacked and threatened to kill a crew member and passengers. They have pictures of him too. But he died within hours after being restrained and taken into custody by cruise ship security. I think I remember this according to the lawsuit, uh, with Virgil's family initially. Allegedly, they injected him with a sedative which killed him. Because I guess he had those 33. But anyway, they're bringing this. I mean, this was a frickin' year ago. A year later, the family is standing by that claim in their new lawsuit, and they said Virgil's cause of death was changed to homicide legal paper show. I think that's wrong. Crew members directed them. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, back up. Virgil had boarded the Mexico-bound cruise with his fiancee and seven-year-old autistic son when they were told their room wasn't ready the that fateful day. So what does he do? He goes to the bar and with an autistic son, seven-year-old autistic son, he goes to the bar and starts drinking. Yeah, that's real responsible, isn't it? Um crew members directed them to a bar where they remained for a period of time, but when their son grew restless, Virgil's wife took him to check in on their room while he remained at the bar. It was dur shame on him. I mean, I just think that's wrong. You can go finish reading that if you'd like. I think it's wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Uh good news here, I guess. If, you know, good news, we take it where we can. Trump admin corrects name of transgender. Richard Levine, Levine, Levine, on official HHS portrait life site, but from life site. This is from Life Site News, actually. Um, so I guess they, you know, like the old presidents, they have all the presidents up in a hallway or somewhere. And the and then, so I guess they do the same thing with the um HHS Health and Human Services Department as well. Well, I guess sh he had Rachel written uh on his, but but the they've changed it to back to Richard. U.S. Presidential Donald Trump's administration has reportedly changed gender-confused Admiral Richard Rachel Levine's name under his official portrait to include his male name. So I guess they're leaving Rachel up there too. No, if you had any balls, which he does probably, you would take the Rachel off of the portrait. During the federal shutdown, the first name of Joe Biden's former assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Richard Rachel Levine, was changed from his presumed female name Rachel to his birth name Richard, according to inf so they're saying it, they changed it during the federal shutdown. The current leadership I did I read that? Are they repeating? Yes, they repeated a paragraph. Uh so yeah, that's good news. Yay, I guess. Whatever. Okay, last fun little I hope it's fun anyway. I hope I haven't read I didn't read how it turned out. Wondering Black Bear crashes Christmas parade in Tennessee, stunning spectators. And it has a video, but obviously we can't play the video here. Uh it was Claws C-L-A-W S for a Christmas celebration. These people and their attempt to be clever writing these articles, I swear. A seemingly unfaced black bear crashed a Christmas parade route in Tennessee, becoming the star of the show in front of a crowd of onlookers, according to jaw-dropping footage and local reports. And they have pictures of them. The bear made a surprise appearance at the 50th annual Christmas parade in Gatlinburg on Friday. You know, I've never been to Gatlinburg. I well, I think one time my daughter and I went we kind of did we stay there? Yeah, we well, yeah that's right. We went to uh Dolly World Dollywood, sorry. And then we I guess we drove up there and through it, but we didn't really stop. I want to go and stay somewhere up there. Uh let's see, videos posted to social media captured stunned onlookers whipping out whipping out their phones as the mmal made the cleared road its runway adorned with holiday lights. He just wanted to see what was happening. Crowds on the side of the roadway, which was empty except for the wondering bear, were heard yelling as the creature calmly strutted off into a parking lot, waiting on the Christmas parade and a bear came out, one excited user posted. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency told WVLT that the bear caught on camera has possibly gotten used to human has gotten used to human contact and may need to be put down if it sees humans as a source of food. Oh dear. Uh the bear is at some point going to come in physical contact with a human and probably have to be euphanized. Um that's not the word we have to be epitheli I don't even know what that word is for its actions. So help us keep bears wild, blah, blah, blah. So there's that. Okay, my question of the day. For Christmas time, any Christmas of your past, have you gone out of town for Christmas? We have. We went to Las Vegas one year for Christmas. It was okay. It was alright. You know, it seemed to be fun at the time, but you know, we got kind of we missed all the regular traditional activities. We kind of missed that. So we won't be doing that again. All right, that's all I've got for now. I hope you well, other than you know, being in the military and away from home. Of course I had Christmases like that as well. Um, but anyway, I meant purposeful, like on purpose. Do you have you ever gone on vacation for Christmas? On purpose. That's the question. Okay, gotta go. Thanks for listening. Have a great Tuesday.