Elder Abuse Awareness Month

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Jason Burnett about elder abuse.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, here we go, Welcome aboard on this wonderful,
fantastic day. Another pretty warm but otherwise pleasant day in
the Greater Houston area. No rain in the forecast. That's
nice and that's fine with me too. And by the way,
today marks the day on which the National Weather Service

(01:06):
or National Weather Service is hurricane Center. I don't know
what they were thinking. They just I guess they felt
compelled somehow to kick off the season with something to
grab our attention. So they put up one of those
little yellow waffle irons off the Carolina coast. Now that
was on the third of hurricane season. Now on the

(01:29):
fourth of hurricane season. It's just a little yellow X,
which in National Hurricane Center vernacular means rainy day and
nothing else to see and no real threat to anybody
or anything. Kind of like what it was yesterday, only
it was bigger on the screen, just this little chunk
of yellow waffle to let everybody know that nothing was

(01:52):
gonna happen over there except maybe a little rain, maybe
some good waves for the surfers of the Carolinas. I
don't know how much surfing goes on over there, I
really don't. I've never served that far north, but certainly
the east. If it had gone down into the east
coast of Florida, I would have been able to point
out a couple of spots I wouldn't mind being on
a bumpy day. In other words, take it off the

(02:15):
map altogether, will you, National Hurricane Center, and just saved
the space for real threats. That's what I'm hoping for.
The weather and weather forecasting. By the way they've become,
I think over there by default over the past four years,
they became the default distraction that most of us hungered for. Really,

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over that time, the news was dismal. Almost every day
you turn on the news and go, oh my god,
what happened? What do you do now? What are they
doing now? Why are there so many people coming into
this country? All of these things that were going on,
So we turned to the weather. We hoped that the
weather would cheer us up. After wading through a day
of news that just so rarely did anything uplifting. Felt

(02:58):
like we needed a hot shower to walk away the gloom. Sometimes,
and just like little Orfanani saying and her optimistic little diddy,
we fell asleep hoping the sun would come out tomorrow. Well,
the sun's out now metaphorically, and I believe at last,
look out my desk window. Actually the sun is out.
In reality, it's in all its skin burning glory, happy

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to see it. We need that vitamin D, and I
would bet, I would bet that a higher percentage of
people today are walking around with below normal levels of
it than when you and I grew up. This audience
of mine, not Will, Will's very young man, Alejandro in
here hanging out with Will today, both of them very young.
You could add your ages and not get mine. I

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dare say, I'm pretty sure I'm right Will. Is that
a fair assessment?

Speaker 4 (03:47):
How old are you?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
How old are you?

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Guys?

Speaker 3 (03:50):
I'll just give you the over under. Yeah, what's the
total of your ages? And you talk among yourselves.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Oh yeah, we're Do you need some help, you need
a calculator, I'd say, we're well, I guess tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Oh my gosh, who's birthday? Tomorrow's your birthday tomorrow. That's
why you're gonna be out celebrate Will happy birthday in advance.
Oh wow, Dan, cause you're not gonna be here. I
forgot about that. I apologize, thank you. So the number
is gonna change by one. But what's the number today
between the two of you?

Speaker 4 (04:21):
You're twenty seven? Okay, well then it's fifty four.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
So much higher, Will, so much higher than fifty four.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
I am.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
I had a driver's license when you were born, Will, Yeah,
you understand that. That makes sense.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Of course you had a driver's license when I was born.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, I did so. Or are you talking about it
when we were combined?

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Born?

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Combined born?

Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah, not just when you were born, Not just when
Alejandro was born, No, when the two of you together,
the amount of years you've been on the planet together.
I was driving, and I was a pretty good driver,
and now I'm even better. Really, yeah, man, Yeah, I'm comfortable.
I'm still comfortable at highway speed. And I don't.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
I get frustrated by idiots on the road, but who doesn't.
But I'm not gonna I'm not gonna stop my car
in traffic and get out pick a fistfight with anybody.
I way, no better than that way, no better than that.
I'm too old for that. I don't. I'm just not
a road rage guy. I might yell at somebody from
inside the car, maybe a little and just a little bit,

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like get out of my way, you jerk, or in
similar language. In any event, it's back to the vitamin
D part. I don't know how we got to that,
except for I am older than the two of you
put together. I don't. I don't know if it's possible
to overdose on vitamin D, but I bet mine's right
up there close. I do love to be outside. Man.

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It's harper to get outside too, as we keep having birthdays,
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five percent to fifty percent. And I talked to my
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gonna be talking to another Jason here in just a

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that issue, that tariff is going to raise the price
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Speaker 4 (08:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (08:17):
If I do say so myself. All right, we've got
coming up. We're gonna talk to doctor Jason Burnett about
something that impacts way too many of people in our
age and not will in Alejandro's age, and it's it's
I'll just tell you what it is. It's elder abuse.
This is elder Abuse Awareness Month. And we'll get to

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Speaker 1 (10:18):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Oh,
welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening, sartin to appreciate.
In this episode, we're gonna talk about, well I mentioned
it already. We're gonna talk about elder abuse, which really
bothers me and just about anyone in our age group
at some point in our lives could be impacted by

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it in one way or another. It comes in a
wide variety of types and degrees as well, and when
it strikes it just it nearly always impacts more than
one person. June, as I mentioned, is Elder Abuse Awareness Month.
That my next guest knows that subject very well. With that,
I'll welcome again to this program doctor Jason Burnett, gerontologist

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and co director of the Texas Elder Abuse and Mistreatment
Institute AKA Team Welcome back, Jason.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
How are you, man?

Speaker 2 (11:09):
I'm doing good? Dog? How about stuff?

Speaker 3 (11:11):
You know, I've had a good week. I don't want
to jinx it, but I've actually had a pretty good week.
I'm just gonna I'm gonna double down and let it
ride when I when I get off the air today.
I wish we could say elder abuse might go away someday,
but that's just not true at all, is it?

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah? Unfortunately I don't think so, Doug.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
And to establish let's establish the scope of elder abuse
up front here, talking about the top three or four
ways that older people get abused and taken advantage of
every day.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
Top three or four ways, I mean number one financial exploitation,
that happens. I mean, that's that's the most common. You've
got physical abuse, got emotional abuse, You've got you know,
psychological emotional abuse, let's go together. And then you got
just neglect, people who are taking care airboat adults just
not doing doing the job very well.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
What what is it about people that? God, I just
I just don't understand why it happens that family members especially,
And that's that's something we you didn't even touch on,
but I was going to get to it later, that
family members tend to do a lot of this abusing.
It's not always strangers, is it.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
No, it's mostly family members.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
I mean, yeah, you got you got fraud, those types
of things that come from scammers, people don't know. But
most of the abuse that happens comes from and I
say most, it's probably around seventy percent of the abuse
comes from you know, people we know, our neighbors are
family members, those folks, people that you know, we have
intimate relationships with.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
How does this stuff start? Well, what if somebody is
intent on scamming an older person, what what's their first
step are they? Are they trying to get familiar and
comfortable and gain that person's trust. I would guess right.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (12:59):
Sometimes, and sometimes it's they take that angle where they're
coming in and trying to build that trust, and then
sometimes it's just plant out.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Fear fear tactics.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
They'll they'll call and they'll impersonate police officers or or
the you know, or or the you know, the federal government,
you know, and they put that pressure on.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Them, you got to do this right now or else.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
And anytime that's happening, I mean that's it's usually a scam.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Uh yeah, yeah. Anytime there's a sense of urgency put
on something that you didn't know was even there yesterday,
that's probably not going to be real. Is that a
very safe assessment.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
I think that's a safe assessment.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
So what can let's stay on the money here for
a minute. What can seniors do to while they're still
mentally strong and able to do it without having somebody
else sign off on. What can they do to protect
their financial assets?

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh, this is every thing they can do.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
You know, you can put in you know, you can
you can put different sort of stop measures in, like
on your accounts to make sure that you know when
money is being spent, money's being pulled out you can
you know if if I hate to say, you know,
you know, get a financial advice, because that's not what
everybody needs to do, and that's not what everybody has

(14:17):
the capabilities of doing. But but you know, putting these
putting these notifications on your on your accounts and know
when things are moving.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
I think that's a.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
Good way, you know, just trying to trying to take
a look at your credit report when you can, making
sure somebody hasn't opened up some sort of account in
your names you don't know about.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
And then so I think those are some ways.

Speaker 5 (14:40):
And then just you know, not not being so you know,
I mean, we all want to be nice, but we
don't need to be so nice that we're handing people
our credit cards. Are going here, go down to the
store for me and and get these things for me,
because who knows what they're spending.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah, that's so frustrating to talk about how important it
is for any any body who is it becomes a
victim of elder abuse to report it so that so
that the proper steps can be taken to stop it.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
Yeah, it's extremely important though, And I said that one
thing I want, you know, your listeners to know is
that you know, this is this is something that happens
to a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
It's not just you know, if it happened to you,
it's not just you. It's not your fault, it's.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
It's it's you know, we need to normalize this thing
because unfortunately, it is a normal circumstance. And so when
these things happen, it's really important to notify.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Your dope protective services.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
You know, you can call one eight hundred two five
fifty four hundred, give them a call, let them know, hey,
this happened to me, or having somebody I know or
get law enforcement, you know, make a report to law enforcement,
having them come out and get involved, because these things
really impact, you know, the health, your the ability to
continue doing the things you want to be able to do,
especially when financial exploitations occurring.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
It's not generally a little bit of money that goes missing.
It's a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Doctor Jason Burnette on fifty plus, tell me about team.
What do you guys do.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Well.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
We we do a lot of a lot of research,
a lot of program building, a lot of educational outreach
to the to the community. We do this on and
on a you know, local level, state level, national level,
so we can you know, try to figure out how
to protect our older adults a little bit better in
terms of financial exploitation, in terms of elderbuse in general,

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but also you know, not only protecting, but once it
has happened, unfortunately, there's a lot of people that it
happens too, and we need to build programs to help
build resilience for these folks. They can bounce back from
it and you know, not not live with with poor
quality of life.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
What's the what's the scam azure? Jason?

Speaker 2 (16:45):
And uh, they change every day. You know, it depends
on the season. A lot of times.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
You know, when it comes time for Christmas, they're gonna
they're gonna hit you up with some you know, some
some stop stores and get you to send them money.
There's gonna be you know, there's there's anytime there's sort
of like with with COVID in termes, there's sort of
a health prices going on. They're gonna they're gonna, you know,
build something into that and say, oh you got it.
You gotta get this COVID car, you gotta get this
new insurance. I mean, there's all kinds of things that

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these folks do, and if they would just put their
sort of creativity into something positive, they they didn't make
money either way, but they're they're going about it the
wrong way.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Good golly, that's so sad. By the way, I looked
up the Texas Elder Abuse Hotline eight hundred two five
to fifty four hundred and somewhat ironically, Jason, when I
when I pulled this thing up, the number shows up
and everything there's a big page full of words as
you might imagine, and sites and whatnot, and that phone
number shows up, and I think it's like twenty four

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point type. That's no accident, is it?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
No, it's not.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
That's that's uh, that's the catch. You're wearing a thing,
you know, and make sure you make sure you see that.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
You know.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
Another thing is people and go to the Texas Adult
Protective or protection you know, Texas Family and the Protective
Services website. If they want to enter a uh, you.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Know, a referral through the.

Speaker 5 (18:11):
Website, you can also do it through the website anonymously.
So that's that's another place to go to to be
able to make ade and.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
What what happens when that report.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
Is made well, in that report's made, it goes to
a central intake in it for text aps, and what
they do is, you know, you you They'll they'll ask
you some questions if you do it, If you make
a phone call, they're gonna you know, they'll be on
that other than the line. They'll start asking you some
questions about the situation.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
If you do a if you if you enter into.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
The website, then what they're gonna do is they're gonna
get that information. They're gonna up calling you back and
asking you the same sort of information they would ask
if if you had called in, just to get some
details of of what's going on, what the circumstances are.
And then what they do is they route that out
to the local area wherever the incident has happened, and
then they take it from there.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Alrighty, then I'm gonna have to take it for from here.
Unfortunately we're out of time. As always, I hate this, Jason,
Thank you, doctor Jason Burnett with me on fifty plus.
Thank you so much, sir.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Taking a bet my pleasure, Audios. He is genuinely passionate
about that. He really is. He means everything He says
about trying to help and how we can find help
and whatnot. Champion, No, I already talked to you about
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I've got to put that sheet over there. I don't really,
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The weather is still very pleasant most afternoons in the evening.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
He's get a little hot in the afternoon.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
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What's life without a net?

Speaker 2 (21:12):
If I suggest to go to bed, leave it off, just.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Wait until the show's over. Sleepy back to Doug Pike
as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
You know I do. You absolutely must know that. Moving on,
let me see what I've got over here. I think
that put it away, get this, Let's see what's there.
That was Jason, there's so much. If you've ever watched
me work, I do remote broadcast from time to time,
and if you've ever watched me work, you'll probably not
see anybody in this business drag more papers onto the

(21:43):
console than me. I just have to spread out. I
need like a six by two and a half or
whatever those folding tables are, and probably could use a
little extra reach for everything that I have here, But
I feel like it's all important to me in one way.
The other end, I want to make sure it's all
within reach so that when I need it, I can

(22:04):
get it in the news. So enough of that trivia
from the sign here desk. Former President Biden's back in
the headlines again. Well actually not himself, not Biden himself,
but specifically his autopen, the device that presidents have used
for decades now, but initially only for things like thank

(22:24):
you notes or invitations. It was actually President Obama that
first used autopen to sign government business documents. He even
carried a portable autopen when he traveled. But now, after
hundreds and hundreds of signatures on Biden's way out, mostly
pardons for friends and relatives, there's little glitch there. The

(22:45):
law does say that autopen can be used to sign pardons,
for example, but only if the president directly instructs an
assistant or aid to do that. So Biden, to most sources,
most anyway, was in no shape to issue that many
direct orders to sign that many pardons in the last

(23:09):
few weeks of his presidency. And if that can be proved,
then if it could be proved that those pardons were
signed without his direct order, then those partons aren't worth
the paper they're printed on. And that's going to open
up some really big cans of worms from the Good
News for Veterans desk, And anytime I find good news

(23:33):
for veterans, you're gonna hear about it from me. I
can assure you that's important to me, as it is
not quite as important as it is to these veterans.
But anytime and every time, and by the way, if
you fancy yourself someone who supports our military and are
willing to put a little bit of money where your
mouth is. I have a feature called This Week in
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(23:58):
our military all the way from the beginning of this country.
And it doesn't cost an arm and a leg. And
I feel personally like it ought to be airing on
every station we own, in every market we are, ten
times a day, just to remind people that the things
we get to do in this country didn't come without

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a price. It may seem like it because we haven't
had war on our soil, but man, it's yeah. Thousands
upon thousands of people have given their lives in service
to this country and they they deserve more, and I'm
happy to recognize them in these little pieces. They're well crafted.
Our imaging guy to a great job, Mike Bobian is

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his name. He's fantastic with that stuff and he nailed
it on this one. And that's something you could be
a part of. If you want, just email me. Doug
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by the way, with one of my the the longest
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about them in a little while anyway back to the

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good news for the veterans, there's a group called the
Honor Foundation that connects veterans with veterans for something as
simple as a cup of coffee and a place to
help struggling veterans get back on a good pass since
they left the armed forces. This one's not it's not
a crisis intervention tool in the way Camp Hope right

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here in Houston is. It's more of a just kind
of a time and a place, a regular scheduled time
and place where these veterans can meet with people who
have walked in their footsteps, who have gone before them
and found their way back to civilian jobs back into

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They help these struggling veterans get assimilated back into everyday
life in our country, which is not easy. It's harder
for some than others, but it's not easy for any
of them. It just can't be. They're coming back into
a war where there's not nearly so much structure in
order as there was in the military, and not well

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mostly no bad guys trying to take you out on
a daily basis. Honor Foundation also does a lot of
just connecting veterans to veterans veterans to other professionals so
that they can make connections that maybe can get them
hired and get them a job where they can become
self sufficient again a little faster and get them back
on their feet. Hats off to them, Hats off to

(26:28):
camp hope, has off to any any organization that does
what they do very quickly. Will what have we got
thirty seconds or so?

Speaker 4 (26:37):
One minute?

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Oh okay, Well I was wagging my finger. Well, you
wagged it up there once, and you took it down.
You wagged it up there again. So I was just
trying to count seconds between them. Dog gone? Will important
piece of the puzzle? Or not so fast?

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Not so fast?

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Eighty eight year old woman in the Czech Republic nearly
buried alive until she woke up in her coffin and
let them know that not her time. So was she
in the ground already or no, I don't believe she
was in the ground, but she had been prepped pretty
much for groundwork, and yeah, hey they they didn't embalm

(27:19):
hear me. Hey it's the Czech Republic. I don't know
what they do over there. But she was still she
she was back from whatever wherever she went she was
back okay, and she did not like being in that box,
not at all. I wouldn't either very I'm kind of claustrophobic.
That would really freak me out. All right, we got
to take a little break here on the way out.
UT Health Institute on Aging. That's who I'm meeting right

(27:42):
after this show to talk about what we're gonna do
to make the show even better in the coming year.
And they have some good ideas that I believe I
do as well. They are at present an amazing collaborative
of providers from every medical discipline, you name it, if
it's medically related, there's somebody within that field that is

(28:03):
a member of the UT Health Institute on Aging, and
those people, because they care so much about seniors, go
back and get additional training, additional education to what got
them the diploma on the wall or in the office,
so that they can apply all of their knowledge directly
to the issues of seniors. That's an amazing resource that's

(28:24):
available right here, mostly in the med center, but many
of them also do work throughout the week at outlying
clinics and hospitals and offices. So if you don't want
to go into the med center, you don't really have to,
but they'd be happy to see you wherever you can
see them because they care about seniors. They really truly do.
Go to the website, look at all the resources available there.

(28:46):
That's going to take you a while. And then once
you're done with that, start focusing on kind of dialing
it down into a specific provider that you believe can
help you. And then make that phone call, set up
a consultation or appointment, and go get yourself to feeling
better and living longer and making more use of the
time you got left on this earth. Ut dot edu

(29:08):
slash aging ut dot edu slash aging.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch, o.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Heyer, you think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Fifty plus continues Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
Welcome back, fourth and final segment of fifty plus. Thank
you all for listening. I really do appreciate it. You
must know that I do. By now, will hm, We
did that. Let's go. I'll give you a choice of these.
These are a little bit bigger stories from the apple
doesn't fall far from the tree or the determination desk.

(29:51):
The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree. This one's
pretty interesting here, and then I'll get to the determination,
and then we'll have some fun. North Carolina woman called
to her daughter's middle school because the child was fighting
in class and they wanted to have a talk with
the mom. Thirty three year old woman arrives at the

(30:12):
school doesn't like what she's hearing, so she she's accused.
Now after being arrested, she allegedly shoved the principal out
of the way and grabbed the assistant superintendent with both
hands around her neck forcibly enough to leave mars and
cause difficulty in breathing for that assistant superintendent. You know

(30:35):
who I feel sorry for is that daughter from being
raised that way. Can't imagine what it's like to live
in a home like that, can you will?

Speaker 4 (30:43):
It's just it's so sad. Really, can I imagine it?

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah? I guess the wwe I could imagine it? Well, yeah,
we can imagine it. I wouldn't want to live it.
I wouldn't heap that on anybody. That girl's kind of
messed up. When I kind of messed up. She really
met and her mama right there, same as the others. Okay,
from the Determination desk. This is a good news story

(31:07):
and I'm glad we have it. By way of Fox
good News comes word that a Tennessee woman, forty seven
years old, Amanda Jutton, graduated Magna cum Cloudy from Tennessee
Tech University. Here's the hook. Will despite being totally blind
for years after retinitis pigmentosa, finally took her site completely away.

(31:27):
Her story a very inspiring one and I'd encourage anybody
who would like to even just to look at it
for a minute. It won't take you a minute to
read the story, but just imagine not being able to
read anything because you can't see it. And she went
all the way through, got her degree, graduates Magna Cumloudie.

(31:48):
It's amazing, it really is. It'll pop up if you
do just search Amanda Jutton, it's j U E. Tte
in blind Tennessee Tech and it'll pop up. Disabled people
have a voice. She said that. I'll say it too.
They have a voice, and she's using hers to kind
of let everybody else know that that, like she did,
you can pretty much achieve anything you want to achieve

(32:11):
despite a setback if you just put your mind to it.
She went across the stage with her her dog, her
companion dog, and the two young gentlemen who were graduating
alongside her. They kind of helped walk her up there
and get through it. She said she was nervous going
up there because she had a lot of hands to

(32:31):
shake and a lot of things to do and couldn't
see any of it. So hats off to her. It's
National Cheese Day. Will we're gonna do anything about that?

Speaker 4 (32:42):
Am I gonna do anything about that?

Speaker 3 (32:44):
I deliberate. I guess I'll probably eat some cheese. You
got a favorite type American that is blue cheese dressing.
American cheese is the worst cheese, it says who says
me the most of the world. You got to you
gotta justify that hell because it doesn't taste as good
as other cheeses. What what are you putting it on?

(33:06):
If you put it on a baloney sandwich is great, okay,
But I would prefer just to not eat a baloney sandwich.
So what kind of cheese?

Speaker 2 (33:13):
What?

Speaker 3 (33:14):
I'm a gooda man. I know you a good of man?
Will still, Oh, I get it, I'm a gooda man.
What what does gooda taste like? Is it a hard.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
No, it's a it's a it's a soft cheese. It's delicious,
soft as cheese. Will all right, that's the end of
the show, folks. Yeah, I'm bringing back that joke from yesterday.
It's the end of the show. Folks.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
We gotta go. No, we don't say if I know
anything about you, will. I know you can take a joke,
and you know I can too, So heep it on. Man,
it doesn't bother me.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
I meant to tell you about the banana man too. No, yeah,
tell me about the banana man. So I'm looking around
on Facebook a little bit this morning because I have messages.
I got to check in there that messenger stuff and whatnot.
And I see this how to eat a banana? Like,
who doesn't know? And when I said something out loud
at my desk about how to eat a banana, two

(34:11):
people who sit close to me said, do you peel
it from the top of the bottom?

Speaker 4 (34:15):
Like?

Speaker 3 (34:16):
This guy doesn't do either. One. This guy, he's in
a coat and tie, will And he's seated at a
linen cloth covered table with fine china and silver, real
silver silverware, and on his dinner plate is a banana.
Banana excuse me. He's British somehow, or English or somewhere

(34:39):
over there in Great Britain. And he proceeds to show
you the proper way to eat a banana.

Speaker 4 (34:45):
Do you know how that is? Will? And how is it?

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Well? First you cut off one inch off the off
each end, cut off the stem end, then you cut
off the back end, and you just set those aside.
And then you use your knife to cut a slit
down the middle of the banana, and not on the top,
but on the side. And then you gently use your

(35:08):
knife and fork to peel back that peel off the top,
and then you start cutting off half inch long segments.
They'll probably take you twenty minutes to the banana that way.
I don't have that kind of time. I don't. I'm
sorry if that that makes me a just a barbarian
to just pick the banana up, remove the peel an idiot.

(35:30):
He says that we eat bananas like primates. Well, okay,
I had no problem with that, do you No? I
didn't think you would. All right, Well, dog gone now
we're cooking, or get a second opinion.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
Dog gone now we're cooking.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
Oh, there's two different things. I'll get them both. Dog
in the UK ran off missing for a month Will
until someone spotted it swimming to an island at a
place that is one hundred miles from its home. Somebody
stole that dog. That dog didn't run one hundred miles
in a month.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
How big is the dog?

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Doesn't say? I didn't what I didn't? Look? Some dogs
know me. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
Some dogs can run for miles.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
But I mean, what is he in a triathlon? Now
he's swimming out to an island. Maybe may see some
of those dogs that are built. They got muscles on them.
Oh my god, you're looking way too close. Will uh No.
Now we're cooking. Woman on TikTok being roasted for a
hack she learned, she said from her grandmother, Italian grandmother.

(36:40):
She uses a cucumber to a cut cucumber to grease
a pan to make a slippery fried egg. But you
know what, most of the commenters noted. But she's also
using a nonstick pan, and they argue, no Italian grandmother
would ever pass on using oil to make a pant slicker,

(37:03):
even for a Friday. All right, ten seconds, that's it, yep, Yeah,
we'll just cash in, Alejandro. Will be back with me
tomorrow Will's birthday. Tomorrow, Happy birthday, Will. We'll be back then.
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