Diabetes and Mental Health

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Absalon Gutierrez about diabetes. Pike also speaks with Elisabeth Stavinoha of Mosaics about mental health and substance abuse.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. Let's push the
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That's never happened before. No, never, never, Yes I did.
I pushed the wrong button. I apologized for that, But
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I don't even know who that is. It came off
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
It doesn't look it doesn't look time sensitive, so I'm
not going to worry too much about dragging it right
back out there right now. So welcome to fifty plus
on what just may be one of the last day,
maybe the last rain free day we have for a
little while.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Anyway, I'm hoping.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
We get something out of this front that's headed down
from the northwest. But it looks like we're going to
get cheated out of a good soaking, except maybe in
a few areas, maybe on the northern edge of our signal.
Now that's not to say that we're not going to
get any rain, not to say that even those of
us who are a little closer to the coast might

(01:37):
not get a brief downpour and maybe some thunder and
lightning to go with it. But all in all, this
thing looks like it's going to be a close but
no cigar event. Moving to the markets quickly, everything's coming
up red roses early this morning, it did, anyway, as
investors continue to run a little scared.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
It seems of this AI.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Bubble that a lot of people are scared might pop,
and they're talking about it, and that just pushes things down.
I suspect that I haven't even looked, but I suspect
that the markets will turn around. I'll look during the
break and see if just see how smart I am,
and I might just quit talking about money altogether if
I'm dead wrong. But once these algorithms hit and tell

(02:23):
buyer or tell the bigger players in the market whether
to buy or sell, this might be a time when
they'd flip around and say, okay, go ahead and buy
some of this stuff now, because it's going to go
back up.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I didn't know this would happen.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
I don't know why it really really happens, but that's
what's said to be driving the Market's just this AI concern,
And I actually have an AI concern that I'll get
to that has nothing to do with money. A little
later in the program, gold and oil both were down
a bit as well. I can't the oil being down

(02:58):
hurts our local economy, certainly because the oil companies need
to be able to make a little bit of money
at least off a barrel of wale so they can
go dig more wells and develop more fields.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Gold.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
It just is what it is. It was down, not
too terribly much. But there you go into the news.
Something many of us in this audience will remember. But
I bet will. I think you'll probably have heard of
this will but never been there. Is it corrected to
say that you have heard of, but never been to

(03:33):
the Sizzler Steakhouse.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
You haven't heard of it, have you? Wow, you're so young.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Most of this audience has been to a Sizzler steakhouse.
It was a great place for a very long time
and still is in many parts of the country. They
have a lot of stores still, but each of them
has been struggling of late, well, each but the eighty
that they have completely remodeled and redone and rebranded, and
what they've done to boost sales hopefully that's their intent, obviously,

(04:08):
is come back in an iteration that is more of
a quick serve restaurant than a sit and stay restaurant,
kind of like most of the fast food places are now.
I don't know if you're going to be able to
get a t bone at the drive through window. That
might seem a little far fetched, because individual steaks do
take a little time to cook, and I wouldn't want

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my I wouldn't want my RIBI back there in a
stack with fifteen other ribis that are just being warmed
and have been for twenty or thirty minutes. I don't
know how they're going to go about doing this. I
don't know how it's going to play out. But the
bottom line is those eighty stores that are already up
and running under the transformation are said to be up

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about forty seven percent. That's a lot of change in
revenue for any kind of a restaurant, and it bodes
well for the reception they're getting. And they've already started
adding more stores to the line to get them all
fixed up and patched up and shiny new, not like

(05:14):
a new penny. Those pennies are gone. We talked about
that last week. I talked about that with my wife.
Actually she had seen the same story, and neither of
us really lament the passing of the penny. I don't
recall any place where I've been recently where somebody has
asked me if I had a couple of more pennies

(05:36):
to fill out my five dollars and seventy two cents
purchase or whatever. Nor have I said, hey, don't forget
my pennies that you owe me in this bill that
I ran up. Pennies just kind of an obsolete thing, and.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
May it rest in peace.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
At Texas A and M University from the Texas Scorecard website,
a student has brought to a lot a very liberal
bias in the school's newspaper, The Battalion.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
According to this student and.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
That story, the ratio of liberal to conservative articles in
that publication was sixteen point seven to one sixteen point
seven to one. Now he did that research only after
the battalion refused to publish his opinion piece, which I'm
going to guess was on the conservative side, and he

(06:28):
just thought, you know what, I'm trying to figure out
why this is. And when he went digging, he found
some pretty compelling evidence. I didn't ask for confirmation anywhere.
I just found it interesting that those were his numbers,
and I don't doubt them. Really, most colleges these days

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tend to lean that way, and that's most young people
also tend to lean that way. It takes a long
time to realize what adulting really is and how important
it is to make sure that we don't let government
intrude too deeply into our lives. It takes a while
even to learn that nothing really in life is free,

(07:12):
and somebody's got to pay for it, no matter whether
it's free. Lunch is free, bus rides free, subway free. Well,
that would include lunch and transportation with it, I guess
in some parts of the country. All right, let's pause,
if we may, and on the way out, I'll talk
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you trusting them as a customer, whether they come down
and tell you there's absolutely nothing wrong, or they come
down and have to break the news to you that
you got a little bitty place.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
That may become a leak.

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If we get any kind of wind or any kind
of damage to a roof, a little bit of hail, this,
that and the other Country Boys will be out there
to fix it for you if it's needed, and if
it's not, they'll just tell you, hey, we'll see you
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them I'm not anything, that's gonna get me that big
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is doing what it's supposed to do. That's the bottom
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Speaker 2 (10:19):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
All right, welcome back to fifty plus.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Thanks for listening and cheers even the possibility, I guess
of some rain around here. We'll talk in this segment
about diabetes and some new ways to management, and we
will do that with doctor Absalom Gucciare's Board certified and
fellowship trained into chronologist at LBGA Hospital and Associate professor
at McGovern Medical School.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Welcome back, doctor goochairs. Hi, great to be back, thank you.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
So let's tee it up first with a quick definition
of diabetes and its long term impact on our bodies.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Sure, so basically, diabetes is high blood sugar because our
body is either not able to make enough insulent or
use its own insulin appropriately and then several other body
organs get damaged as a result.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
And what external factors kind of raise the risk of diabetes,
stuff like genetics, lifestyle, and I guess you can't ignore
it with this audience.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Age what matters most.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
So there's a lot of things. The biggest one is
going to be lifestyle and uh, basically, you know, a
diet high and simple carbohydrates especially can be a risk factor.
Not getting enough exercise generally eating unhealthy that leads to obesity.
Weight can also be a risk factor. Age is a
risk factor as well, liestyle probably being the biggest one,

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and then there's several there's several other ones as well,
So lack of exercise and.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
It sounds, it sounds to me like genetics really don't
play that much of a part. And it is it
is that that's number four or five somewhere down the line.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah, it is down the line, they do play a
little bit of a part. We haven't really figured it
out entirely, but probably there's a lot of genes which
do play a part, but their effects are very small.
Now when you add them all up, they might actually,
you know, play a significant part, but not as much
as the others.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
All right, fair enough, So what is the difference And
I'm presuming there's a fine line if you can help
differentiate between the two, between pre diabetes and the real thing.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
Sure, so, pre diabetes means you're on the way to diabetes,
you don't have it quite yet. And the reason we
have this pre diabetes is just because in medicine we
use certain numbers and criteria to call something diabetes. So
if you have pre diabetes, you haven't quite met those numbers,
but you're getting close.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
You're working your way into a problem. Is that in
other words?

Speaker 4 (12:51):
Right? That?

Speaker 5 (12:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (12:53):
That sounds about right.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
So and at that point a good physician would say, hey,
you need to work on your diet. You need to
work on your exercise and bring that number back down.
How what's the best way to do that?

Speaker 4 (13:06):
So diet and exercise. So the diet you want to
do things basically you want to reduce, you know, your
calorie intake, but especially introduce simple carbohydrates like simple sugars,
white breads, candies, sodas are big, and fruit and sugary

(13:26):
fruit juices are big. Those are the ones that are
going to have some of the biggest impact. And then
with exercise, you want to you wanna most recommendations say
a total of one hundred and fifty minutes per week
of some combined cardio and aerobic and that would be
you can split that out to like thirty minutes a
day for five days, or if you have to put
it together that's okay as well. And then there are

(13:48):
some medication options as well, especially if obesity is going on.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Did all of this sounds wonderful while we're having this conversation,
but in real life a lot of people just either
can't or won't find the time. Is it okay to
start off a little slow and work up. We don't
need to just jump in with three hours a week,
do we?

Speaker 5 (14:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (14:09):
That is fine. You can start slow and work up,
and if you do it with other people, certainly that
can be very encouraging, you know, to have kind of
that you know, community encouragement around you to do it,
and then you can talk to your doctor because there
might be certain programs that are better for you than others.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Accountability, right, isn't it exactly?

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Okay, yeah, doctor Absalon Gucieras on fifty plus. I heard
recently that those weight loss injections like ozempic are helping
people manage diabetes.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
What's the story there?

Speaker 4 (14:39):
Sure, so. Ozempic does a lot of things. Actually, one
of the things that does is it does help lower
your blood sugar. It also kind of also helps curb
your appetite. Part of it works on the brain. It
helps you use your own insulin better, and it protects
a lot of organs in the body, and you do
lose Most people will lose some weight with it.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
There's not a medication on the plant. It doesn't have
side effects. What about prozembic.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
So the most common side effect is nausea, and about
almost fifty percent of people who are on it will
get some nausea, but it usually goes away in a
few weeks. When you take the dose up, you may
get it again, usually goes away in a few weeks.
Having said that, some people will get worse side effects
like severe diarrhea, constipation, or boming. And those are the

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ones who may or may not want to stay on it.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, I'm going to vote for may not. I'm just guessing, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Any what about long term use of something like this,
even if you're not getting any symptoms at all, not
get any adverse symptoms.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
So what's interesting is with long term use, we know
that not only does it lower blood sugar and lower weight,
but it actually protects the heart if you stay on it.
And this is an effect which we think actually is
independence of the weight loss. There's heart protection, there's kidney protection,
and there's liver protection, and there might even be protec
action from things like Parkinson's as well. That's been emerging

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as well. You may possibly Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases.
So there are long term benefits, but the challenge here
is that to get those benefits, you have to stay
on it. So it becomes a very long term kind
of drug.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Correct me if I'm wrong. But that's fairly expensive, is
it not?

Speaker 4 (16:21):
It is, although efforts are being made to lower it.
It's certainly a barrier to prescribing it in some people.
But there's currently efforts. I know there's currently government efforts
to try to lower the price, although it may still
be out of reach for some people.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Down to about a half a minute, what's the best
single advice for anybody who's got diabetes or darn near
has it.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
I would say, go talk to your primary care doctor
and you know, go over your numbers, go over your situation,
and they'll go over your other diseases as well, because
there's a lot of other diseases usually going on at
the same time. And then make a plan with your doctor,
you know, to eat better, exercise and view with those
of their diseases. And the doctor may also decide to

(17:02):
change some medicines.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
Make a plan and execute the plan. Doctor abslong you sir,
Thank you very much, appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, all right, we gotta take a little break here.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
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(18:19):
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Speaker 1 (18:42):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Fifty plus thanks for listening. I had the chance to
meet my next guest two mondays ago at a golf tournament.
She and another woman were there to talk about a
group called Mosaics, which is all about helping people with
mental health or substance abuse issues find their way back
from whatever took them.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
To where they are.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
And with that, I will welcome the director of Mosaics,
Elizabeth Stavanoa to fifty plus.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Doug. Thank you for having me.
May I make this slight a slight correction please, I'm
the director of development of ye I say you were
the director.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
The director.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
So very sorry. So I saw at the webs let's
focus on Mosaics. I'll and I'll correct that in my
copy here. I saw at the website that you guys
are just about to roll into your tenth year. Tell
me how Mosaics got started.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
My pleasure. So in twenty sixteen, Mosaics was founded by
a handful of mothers in the Woodland Spring are that
we're dealing with various issues within their own family, different
ages and different mental health struggles, including substance abuse. And
what they found was they kept hitting the walls and
navigating the system, whether it be through insurance providers, a

(20:14):
wait list, uh, not qualifying, you don't make enough money,
you make too much money. It became very stressful and aggravating,
and so they literally got together and started their own research,
put together a binder and organized it by grief, trauma,
substance abuse, you name it under the sun. And so

(20:37):
they started with that, and it grew and grew and grew,
and so volunteers got involved, licensed clinicians got involved, and
slowly but surely, we became the calling center. If you
will to answer the answer the phone be a loving
ear and the ear that navigates someone in need for

(20:59):
mental health and recovery and substance abuse.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
In many ways, this is exactly how fifty plus came
about because I was navigating without any experience whatsoever as
my mother's health began to fail in her later years, and.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
It was very frustrating. And that's kind of why I
did this.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
I exactly understand why you're doing what you do and
talk about how how you help and what resources you
provide to these people.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
That call you.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
Okay, so I know we're on fifty plus and I'm
in that demographic. We do, though you know, we get
phone calls from every background and in every age. So
when we have a twelve to thirteen licensed clinicians that
answer the phone, they do a intake interview basically within

(21:51):
twenty four to fourty eight hours, we connect the individual
and the individual could be calling on behalf of themselves,
or have to love one or even an employee, and
then we provide them. We go into our database. We
have over twenty nine hundred counselors, therapists, doctors, hospitals and
in and out patient care that are highly vetted in

(22:12):
our system. We match them with a good match and
then we follow up and say did you follow through?
Because ultimately it's up the individual to seek the help,
but we are there as an encourager and we contact
me this back up and say what's so important and
what makes Mosaics so unique that we work with individuals
who are not insured, under insured, or perhaps your insurance,

(22:36):
this isn't that great and our services are at no charge.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
Wow, Well, you just find a way to help people.
Period into story, because that's what you want to do,
is help people.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
That is correct, because we are by the community for
the community, and our motels really to change lives and
save lives every.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
Day, Elizabeth Stevano from Mosaics on fifty plus. And to
address that elephant in the room you just did by
saying that you don't charge anything for your services. You
just kind of you get in the middle say Okay,
somebody's just called who needs help, and we're going to
connect them to the person who can help them best

(23:17):
they can. And then the thing that I like most
is you don't just pat them on the back and
say good luck and here's who to call.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
You follow up. I like that a lot.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
That is that is correct. We follow up and even
even weeks after. And let me just say that that
our clinicians are navigators. They contact the three resources and
say this is the is this is the issue we
have at hand, and that individual will say yes, I
will make room. They could be booked thirty days out,
sixty days out. No, they know if they're calling from Mosaics,

(23:50):
we have a place for you. We will find a
place for you, carve out a space for you, and
you will be seen. We often negotiate the prices with
the with the the counselor or the physician, the hospital,
the doctor, and we also can come in if need be,
and assist with scholarship funds to assist that individual or

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family to make sure that they get the services that
they do so desperately need.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Is what you do.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
And I think I already know the answer to this,
something that has a beginning and any kind of an end.
Or is it just more like once we start helping,
and we really never let go unless they tell us to.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
Well, we don't ever really want to let go, but
we don't want to be intrusive as well. But I
will tell you, I will share with the audience that
it is a pleasure and an honor. And I've seen
our navigators get so emotional when they get phone calls
and emails that say, do you remember me? It's been
six months, do you remember me? And it means the

(24:52):
world because that is why we do what we do.
And to your point, Doug, about fifty plus individual, you know,
when you've been a caregiver the other type of of course,
we see many phone calls loss of a parent, a child,
a spouse, retirement, depression to you know, who am I

(25:13):
and I just I just need an outlet and they
don't know where to go and who to turn to
and we have that we have all of that.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah, I can't imagine how emotionals some of those moments are.
When somebody who needs help accepts it and then is
able to come back six months, eight months, a year
later under his or her own power and say, hey,
look at me, I'm all cleaned up. I'm looking pretty
good right now, and it's all thanks to you. That's
pretty impressive.

Speaker 5 (25:40):
It's uh, it is impressive if it's an honor for
me to join Mosaics. And I think that the biggest
thing that we see is you know, obviously, is depression
and grief of loss in our lives and over time
and how to process that.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah, and it's it's it's very comforting to know that
this resource is there for somebody who doesn't really want
to get maybe they don't want to tell family that
they're depressed, or they're just not processing something the way
they want to. Maybe they have a substance abuse problem.
They can call Mosaics and be be seen and heard

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without any expectation.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
I guess it's just the asest way to say it.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
That is that is that is correct, and it is
completely confidential, and it's a beautiful it's a beautiful thing,
and I'm so pleased to be engaged with us. I
would like to add that, because I know your audience
is broad that while we are primarily located in Magnolia,
so we serve Montgomery County, Harris County, Walker County, Waller County,

(26:43):
and Grinds County, we're not limited to that though. That's
just where the majority of our phone calls seem to
come from.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
All Right, So, unfortunately I am limited on time and
ours is up. I'm gonna have to get you back
on though. I've got more questions for you, if that's
all right.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
Listen.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Thank you Alisa Stavanoa from Mosaics. Yeah, thank you very much. Godley,
what a great organization.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Look them up.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
I've been reading that website a long time. All Right,
we gotta take a little break here, I will. I'll
be back in what three minutes? Will four, ten, twenty thirty.
I'll be back when Will puts the light back on.
Standby once life without a nap.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off, just
wait until the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike.
As fifty plus continues, You didn't even get all the
way to the music.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Well, I just guy just keeps drumming away, waiting for
the rest of the band to get back from off stage.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Where do I want to go? Here?

Speaker 3 (27:45):
I I'll pass this. I'll come back to it, though,
I will come back to what I'm looking at right now.
If you have trouble staying asleep at night, there's a
lot of reasons that could happen. But consider this. I
found this this morning at the Good News Network. And
it's not just for you and me. It's actually probably
applicable to as much or more even to teenagers and

(28:08):
younger adults. One of the things that research has shown
matter most to good uninterrupted sleep. It's one of the
simplest things you can think of. Darkness, just darkness, which
is what happens at night in nature. Little starlight here,
maybe a little moonlight there. But no street lights, no phones,

(28:31):
no headlights coming through your windows if you're on a
road or a busy street, whatever, just nothing, nothing, no
orange glow from the charger plugged into the wall. I
within my eyesight, depending on which way I'm facing, are
the two little lights. There's a I think a red

(28:51):
and maybe a green light on my my WiFi. What's
I can't remember the word anyway, it's the upstairs part
of the Wi Fi. All of that research has shown
now contributes to interruption of your sleep, maybe a little,
maybe a lot, But anytime it does that what's happening

(29:12):
is that your brains pick up that light, and when
they do, they react in ways that are gonna bother
you physically and mentally. Night Time light can cause they
have determined inflammation in your blood system can cause even
more serious problems with your brain and your heart. Bottom line,
overnight light increased risk of heart disease and brain disorders.

(29:35):
So you be the judge of whether you just really
need to leave that phone next to the night or
on the night stand where it's gonna maybe vibrate and
light up every time somebody decides to message you in
the middle of the night. I'm I'm gonna make some
changes around my house just because of this.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
I already have trouble enough sleeping through the night for
various reasons, and I don't need more. Over in Scotland,
man was walking his two year old Collie on this
seashore cliff. This is good news in It's either North
Maven or North Mayvine Peninsula. Okay, and when the dog slipped, oops,

(30:15):
this dog fell more than one hundred feet down that steep,
rocky face and landed and stopped not at the bottom.
So now the dog's a little more than halfway down
and I'm assuming beat up pretty good. I'm sure the
owner thought the dog was dead until a good time
later when the Coastguard rescue team arrived. They tried to

(30:40):
rescue by sea, but realized they couldn't get close enough
to that steep face to do that, or high enough
from the boat, so they bring in this it's almost
like a mountain well, it is kind of a mountainous
rescue team with ropes and pulleys and all kinds of
ways to get a dog back up. So they send
a guy down by a rope, he grabs a dog,

(31:03):
they bring it back up there bouncing who knows how
many times. Anyway, this dog named Wisp was okay. It
took fourteen rescuers and a whole bunch of rope to
get the job done, but they got it done. And
I am still wondering how that dog didn't break a bone.
In the picture with the fourteen rescuers, that dog is

(31:24):
just standing there. I'm probably if it was a video,
dog would be wagging his tail. Hey, thanks for getting
me back up here. So here, how much time do
I have will because I want to get into this,
but I don't want to have to stop in the middle.
Two oh, I got five Oh, we got lies to
talk about. So here's a bit of a frightening story
actually this morning, and it kind of ties in a

(31:46):
little bit with what I was talking about with mosaics. Okay,
how often AI and teenagers interact, and how often that
same interaction winds up with AI causing unsafe and downright
harmful interaction with these young people by what IT says

(32:06):
and what IT recommends that they do about it. I'm
working on an interview in the near future on this
subject after I saw what I saw this morning. In
the meantime, do a little research on your own to
learn just how serious this is. AI doesn't care about you,
or me or anybody else in the world. AI is
taken on the role pretty much of we're going to

(32:28):
be in charge soon enough, and we don't care if one.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Of you pays the price. Because here's what's happened.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
In some cases, AI has actually been identified as being
directly responsible from with people who have maybe depression or
whatever to end up self harming or even committing suicide,
which has already happened in several cases. And that's really

(32:54):
really frightening. So at the very least, talk to your
kids about AI and about the damage that can cause
to them and anybody around them. That's just so frightening,
so very very frightening. Took care of that, took care
of that, take care of that.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Got that.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
I'm feeling pretty good about getting to the end of
this one. We'll I'll tell you what. Two minutes, four
minutes still, Oh good. I'm gonna get to do some
of those little funny things too. So in the world
of world records, and if anybody in this audience has
listen to my outdoor show on the weekends, and any
of them there who might be coming in here, know

(33:31):
that what I'm about to do is expose yet another
world record that I find very unnecessary, useless waste of time.
And why Guinness continues to allow this, I really don't know.
So I'm gonna tell you one, and then I'm going
to go back to a couple of these little things

(33:52):
that I found yesterday from professional athletes, seeing as how
the Texans are well, they finally got themselves back to
fifty to fifty. I don't know how that's a big deal,
but it still is. And maybe they've got a shot
at the playoffs if they can keep doing what they're
doing and the rockets. I'm loving what they're doing. I
don't know how many of you saw the game. I

(34:12):
guess it was two nights ago that went into overtime
on some of the most miraculous things in the last
minute or so of that game that I've ever seen,
and then concluded with an equally amazing shot.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
And so anyway, that's where I'll be in a minute.
Back to these useless records.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
Okay, some guy somewhere and I'm not even gonna name him,
I'm not gonna say where he did it, but this
guy actually earned a place in the Guinness Book of
World Records for riding a unicycle while carrying seven bowling balls.

(34:51):
I guess the former record was six. I don't know
how far he had to ride it to earn the accolade,
but whatever, I want to know why this merits recognition
as a world record when nobody but the guy who
did it, and the guy who works for Guinness and

(35:13):
had to stand there and watch it, cares it all?

Speaker 2 (35:17):
I don't care. Well, do you care about that? I
would hope not.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
How insecure these people, these record breakers, that they invest
considerable time, considerable effort into honing what they perceive I
think as an amazing unique skill, and if they can
just pull it off for ten seconds or thirty seconds,
maybe they can break the former.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
World record for some idiotic feet. There are I think
fist bumps.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
There's a record for the most fist bumps in I
don't know, thirty seconds, a minute, whatever it is, none
of which makes any difference whatsoever in my life.

Speaker 4 (35:59):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
I'll give you a second because I saw this one
at the same time, so I can't really ignore it.
It's equally ridiculous, and I'm gonna tell it to you will.
Are you a fan of bagpipes? Are you really a
fan of bagpipes? Are you playing along?

Speaker 4 (36:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (36:17):
Okay, No, that's a flute. You just played the air flute. Okay,
I get it. I don't know what you're doing in there.
I'm kind of confused.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Now.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
So here's how these people earn their record and boy,
there's a big old stack of them in the photograph.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
I don't know how many it took, but I know
that they broke.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
A very specific world record for the number of bagpipers.
You're a big fan of heavy metal, okay, so here's
what you got, bagpipers playing ac DC's it's a long
way to the top. What I want to see is
a bagpiper riding a unicycle, juggling bowling balls.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Audios.