October 16, 2024 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Julia Hiner about the link between falling and dementia.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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All Right, Wednesday edition.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
The program starts right now, and in its ever never
ending quest to to keep will and on our toes
the pair of printers we use to produce things for
the show or acting up offline, it says, not doing
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me a bit of good. I was all ready to
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So welcome to Wednesday, middle of the week for most
of us, and a day on which we can finally
go outside and not break into what an immediate profuse
burst of perspiration. That's been a hot minute since we
could do that. Well, when was the last time the
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temperature was as low as it is now? I think
I have an idea, and what would you just dis
guess that we're not gonna We're not making a bet
here or anything, But when would you feel was the
last time that you walked outside and it was in
the low seventies?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Have I want to say, probably January or February?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh no, no, no, no. We still get cold fronts
even well into March and ape not during the day. Yeah, well,
and I think not the thirties. And I think our
our spring started a little early this year. It started
at around February, because that's when I started feeling seasonal allergies.
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And that's when I know the spring is sprung to
do with the tempt Yes it does. How so are
you are you? Are you allergic to thermometers?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Now?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
When the temperature is warmer, it lets the trees time
to start producing palm, the big ballooms.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yes, okay, yeah, maybe so. I can't remember when my
allergies started to act up. It was probably around the
same time. My wife and I kind of go back
and forth on this because there's there's a tie in
her mind and and now in mind, since the sea
was planted, we've been married thirty something years now, that
there can still be legitimate coal fronts up to her birthday,
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and so it's a little bit it's more complex than that, really,
but it's proven. It's proven out more than once in
those thirty four years that there would be a late
arriving norther to drop these temperatures. Either way, we're still
looking really good right now, and I'm thrilled to have it.
I don't know about you, but I've been waiting a
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long time for this, and cliche as it may be,
it really did feel pretty good to be alive when
I walked out this morning and it wasn't eighty five
overnight and headed for ninety five or one hundred. So
jumping right into the weather forecast, there is a thing
out in the Atlantic again, but it looks at present
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like it's probably going to get pushed southward once it
plods westward into the Caribbean. That's what the models that
I look at show. And again this is we're talking
about a week and a half two weeks out, so
it's way too early to pinpoint any activity for this thing.
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But consensus among the models that I've come to trust,
most say that it will get into the Caribbean, but
then veer southward and southwestward and probably slam into Honduras
or something like that, even if it One other interesting
note on this one is that it doesn't really show
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except on one model, this thing becoming a significant hurricane.
More of them show it more as maybe a week
Cat one or even just a tropical storm. And that's
way out too. We're talking about days and maybe more
than a week out. This thing's just gonna linger out there.
But this coal front is gonna do us a lot
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of favors. It'll help start the cooling process in the
Gulf of Mexico, and that's always a good sign. The
cooler that water gets, the less likely it's going to
be able to support any sort of a storm system.
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Speaker 3 (05:25):
Okay, maybe I mean I'm looking at the weather forecast
right now.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, you should be. And you don't trust me.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I mean, I don't you know, considering our our conversation yesterday,
what was that I forgot? You said that it was
going to be in the seventies all day. It will
be and it's mainly just been in the sixties all day.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I said, I was saying that would be the high
getting higher than that. I don't know if that's fab
to get into the seventies, by the way, I know
it'll get into the seventies. Bye.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I think our agreement on changing yesterday's score was based
on that it would be in the seventies all day.
Well at seventy point three o'clock in the morning. Who
actually it was this morning?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
By the way, you want to go back and look
through it all, it was in the seventies this morning
when I walked out my door.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Well, it's been in the sixties for most of the morning. Yeah,
And I think, foul. I think I don't know how
to go back and change your score to a seven
point five flag on this thing, but I might, I
honestly might downgrade it to a six point six.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I think I'm just going to rename you from from
petty to picky.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Oh my word, I'll give this one. You know what,
I'll leave yesterday's score alone. I'll leave it at a seven.
That's all fine and dandy. But i'll give this one.
This one's a six point five.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I call what you just did. By the way, yesterday
it was a seven point four, and you said seven.
Just then? What was that you said seven? Just now?
And yesterday it was seven point four. No, I think
it was a seven, yester. I don't know, pretty sure
it was a seven yesterday. I know my memory. It's
just tax sharp, tax been taxs, been walking on concrete
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for a little while. But it says you can poke
a hole in something. Maybe cheese.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Uh yes, I don't know if i'd want to put
a tack in my cheese.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
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to make an ounce of gold and bread s twice.
Over there at Houston Gold Exchange, got it has a
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if any in a piece of metal, and then he
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whether it's ten carrot, fourteen carrot, eighteen carrot, whatever it is,
and the stuff that comes out that way on the
good side of the au is worth a lot of money. Now,
it's worth a lot of money if you will. Have
you ever have you ever experienced food poisoning?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I don't know if I've experienced food poisoning. I definitely
have not felt stomachs yees.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, I don't know. Man, something last week or late
last week, so I can't put my finger on exactly
what triggered the event. And it didn't last long, thank goodness.
But that's always tough, man, especially if you're away from home.
We got a break. Oh yeah, oh man. I may
return to this later, much much common, much later, because
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in just a couple of minutes we're going to interview
somebody on a correlation between falling and accelerating dementia that
I had no idea existed until I read about this
UT Health Institute on aging. Speaking of excellent providers in
the medical field, and in fact, I'm pretty confident that
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the woman toob we're gonna speak is a part of that.
This is that collaborative, collaborative excuse me of I don't know,
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all of these people know how to help us get
back on a good track. They're very good at what
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they do. I'm so happy that we have them right
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and hospitals as well, a lot of them right down
there in the medicenter, the heart of pretty much the
South's medical community. Go to the website, look at all
the resources they provide, no cause, just go read all
about all of it, and then find yourself a provider
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you can go to if you have something that's been
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What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, Just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Sleepy back that Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
All right, welcome back, thanks for listening to fifty plus
on this Wednesday, in the middle of the week, the
first part of the afternoon. You're probably having lunch. Maybe
I don't know what else you're doing. It's be a
beautiful day to go play golf. Maybe I'll do that
this afternoon. H mercy sakes, we are so lucky to
have this. We're gonna talk in this segment about the
relationship between falling as seniors and dementia, and I had
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no idea there was a relationship and these two seemingly
unrelated ends together. I'm going to bring in doctor Julia
hine Or, Assistant Professor in Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at
UT Health Houston and Program director of the Geriatric Medicine
Fellowship Program at ut McGovern Medical School. Welcome to flip
(12:18):
I can't even get it out. Welcome to fifty plus.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Thank you, Doug. It's so good to be back again.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, you're speaking clearly at least. Yeah, I'm glad to
have it back. So I feel like it's important on
several levels, honestly, to maybe open this conversation. Let's first
talk about fall prevention very briefly, in your mind, looking
around the average seniors home, what and where are the
most common fall risks?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Absolutely, unfortunately there's a lot, but you know some of
the big common ones. You know, I'm thinking, you know,
rugs where the edges might be curling up, or an
extension cord running from one side to the other. And
you know our textas favorite are those flip flops, the
shoes that don't stay on our feet. Well, those are
big dangers we see, but I'm sure there's many others
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as well.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You know, just just thinking back to the interviews I've
done on that topic, I'm looking at dark hallways, I'm
looking at woodstairs, tubs and showers. The average home is
just kind of a hodgepodge of mess of fall wrist
and then yeah, you add in medications and worn out
knees and hips. It's it's a long list. Let's don't
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get bogged down in there. And to tie it all
together a little bit, what's the latest in identified types
of dementia? How many are there now?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Well, there's quite a few. You know, it's hard to
give you a specific number, but you know, every like
you said, it's this umbrella term. That's the constellation of
memory loss, language changes, problem solving thinking abilities. And you know,
the most common of that is Alzheimer's dementia that probably
comprises about seventy five percent of cases. But we also
see stroke related dimentia called vascular. We see dementia from
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Parkinson Louis body front of temper, each with their own
unique symptoms and substance use can lead to dementia.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Pictures.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Infections like HIV or so called mad cow, or cruits felled, yakap,
all of those things can result in dementia like pictures,
because again it's this umbrella term that encompasses a lot
of different diagnoses.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, I feel it's pretty safe to say nobody in
this audience wants to fall or get dementia, and that
we know. It's also safe to think, I think to say,
we don't understand the tie between the two. So where
did this correlation first come to light?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yeah? So, you know, geriatricians, we take care of these
really complex patients and they present us with numerous problems
that seem very disparate and not connected. But some really
bright minds start thinking, hey, you know I and this
is coming out of mass gen and they're seeing this
connection between falling and dementia, and they were trying to
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figure out which way it went. Are the falls causing
dementia or dementia causing the faults or maybe something else
we don't even know yet, of course, right exactly, And
you know, probably the truth of it is they're probably interconnected.
And it's a bit of a bit of both, because
a lot goes into staying upright and being able to
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walk steadily, just as a lot goes into dementia risks.
So it's it's it's a great new study, but a
lot more to learn.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So do minor slips or falls count on this score
card or do they have to cause significant trauma to
fan the dementia flame?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
So definitely more on the significant side. I would not
expect to see cognitive impairment coming from you know, not
that any faults good, but you know, a scrape knee
or a bombs you know, we're we're thinking more of
bone injury that But if you hit your head, especially repeatedly,
that's when the risk of dementia like symptoms are going
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to be more prevalent.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Well, that certainly makes sense. I can I can follow
that one a little more closely. Does it take more
than one fall to ramp up the progression of dementia
or does the first one start the snowball down the hill?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
It certainly depends on how severe the head strike is
if that occurs. But yeah, repeated injury is definitely problematic.
We see that, you know, especially historically with football players
and boxers. It's that repeated you know, the punch drunk.
We don't use that term really anymore, but it's that
repeated injury. That's that's quite bad.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Doctor Julia Hiner on fifty plus here talk about the
importance of early cognitive testing after somebody my age takes
a significant fall.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Absolutely well, you know, one of the things that I
found most interesting about this kind of new research is
that often in geriatrics, things like falls or memory loss,
those are symptoms of something else. Brilliant and so kind
of looking at it from the other direction. If someone
starts falling a lot, although I hope they're not hitting
their heads, I start to wonder, why are they falling?
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Is something else wrong? And that makes me curious and
want to do that cognitive testing to see if there's
dementia and the fall was maybe just the symptom of
the changing cognitive status. So absolutely, I think when someone's
okay to be tested again, you know, stable out of
the hospital, I definitely want to drill down onto their
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you know, their cognitive status.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
At that point we're down to just very few seconds left.
But I want to ask this question, is there any
evidence that a fall could actually cause the onset of dementia.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Not that we know yet. We're there are correlations, but
we don't know the causation yet.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
If I can. So if I fall down and I
remember what made me fall down, I'm okay.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Hopefully we care about your function overall, but having a
good memory of what happened is a good good sign.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Fingers crossed. Doctor Julia Hiner, thank you so very much
for your.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Time, my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Thank you.
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plus continues. Here's more with Doug. If the printer fixed,
I'm pretty happy right now. I have paper in front
of me and just page after page after page of
good stuff to talk about. And here we are, of course,
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the bottom of the hour, not nearly as much time
as I would like, but we'll go through them one
on one by one. Do you have a pen over
their will? No? I do not. There was a pen
in here and now it's gone. It was an extra
pen as well, and I didn't take it back to
my desk. I know that I just keep bringing one
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in here usually, but the one day I didn't, the
second would one to hear. So anyway, very briefly, back
to that issue I was talking about earlier will where
I gosh, YOUA, I just got kind of crampy and all.
It was just horrible, and the food poisoning thing and
whatever got to me ran its course like it was
on the big slide at schlitterbond Man, and not the
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lazy River, the big slide. And I think it's got
to do with the spice level of things I can
and cannot eat anymore. I've narrowed it down to some
chicken that I got. It wasn't bad chicken. It was
just spicier than I'm used to and it was in
a crowd setting. Not anything that caused any issue for me, seriously,
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but it was just like, Okay, yeah, I'll eat some
of that that looks good. And it was good and
it was spicy as can be. And I used to
be able to handle all that stuff, but not anymore.
Not anymore. I used to be able to eat anything, man,
any quantity of it too. Just get on down the road.
I always like having another birthday, and I want to
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have a whole lot more, but getting from one to
the next just seems to hold more surprises these days
every year. So moving into the world, President Trump's actually
trying his hand speaking of foods and whatnot, trying his
hand it flipping and frying. Today he is spending about
an hour, the releases said, actually working at a McDonald's restaurant.
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In kind of in response to Kamala Harris's claim that's
still not entirely established that she wants worked at a
McDonald's restaurant. I'm kind of calling foul on that until
I see some old check stubs. Her upbringing I don't
think was nearly so middle class as she wants to believe.
But I'm kind of I'm almost totally disinterested. I'm almost
(23:07):
disinterested in that part of what's going on. A significant
number of this country's already understaffed border agent speaking of her,
have vowed to leave their jobs. They're gonna quit if
she's elected president. They say it's just it's undoable, it's untenable,
it's unbearable to be trying to do it. They're gonna
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seek private sector jobs. The ones who can retire gonna
do that. Of the story that I read said, and
the ones who can't are going to look for work
in the private sector. And they're quite qualified to do
other things. So anyway, that anything they say but trying
to do their jobs while this administration just continues to
tie their hands with red tape. Trump, on the other hand,
(23:50):
says he's going to hire ten thousand more border patrol
officers if he's elected. I kind of like that plan
a lot more under the circumstances. I don't want to
talk about that anymore. I saw a very interesting story
at a site called The Family Handyman. By the way,
a guy named Dan Stout wrote it, and it talked
about do you have any Apple air Tags? Will you
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have an Apple phone? Or and I'm Android? I have
an Android? I do too, Okay, anyway, this story was
about Apple air tags and kind of some pros and cons.
They're a great way to keep track of teenagers who
have a history of maybe not being entirely fourth right
about where they're going or what they're doing, or who
they're with. They're also not a bad idea. I was
thinking about this. They want to tuck one into the
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purse or pocket, of a loved one, maybe a parent
who still can drive a little bit. They still but
they've got these kind of signs and symptoms of encroaching dementia,
and maybe they occasionally wander off. Well at least with
one of those you could find them. But with those
same tags also can be used for bad things, and
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that's where this story was kind of headed on how
to detect whether somebody's following you than air tag and
if you have it says here, if you have an
iPhone of eleven or higher and what's an iOS WILL
what's that stand for? Operates some operating system, Yeah, like
internal operation. Okay, iOS of fourteen point five or higher,
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you automatically get notification if that phone detects somebody else's
air tag near you, and they the owner of the
tag is separated from it. So if they're if they're
not right there with it in their pocket, I guess
or whatever, it's gonna flat. It's gonna notify you by phone.
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For Android users, that's us WILL. There's a free track
w app called track Detect that's available at the play Story.
It doesn't send notifications automatically, you have to scan for them.
So anyway do with that information what you And by
the way, Android also has its own alternatives to air tags.
They're called I think they're called chipolo and pebble b.
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I think that was the other one. This got my attention,
it really did. And I'm gonna read one line here,
and that's it. One line I wrote for this, and
it kind of it'll say everything it needs to say
in that one line, and it makes me even more
determined to to not want a weak leader in the
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White House. And you don't have to look forward to
see the difference between the two. This morning I read
that North Korea is sending troops to Ukraine to fight
alongside Russia. That's some potentially major escalation that could with
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the North Korean leadership and Kim Jong whatever in hand
or in charge over there, that guy's got his finger
on buttons that he doesn't need to be pushing. And hope,
I hope nothing comes of this, I really do. I
hope we can get a lot of this stuff sorted
out and stopped before it ever gets to that. But
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holy cow, that's the last guy I want participating at
any level in an armed conflict. In good news, and
there's always some of that if you go looking for it,
and I did this morning. There's a flexible arm band.
Now it's loaded with loaded with little tiny electrodes, okay,
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And what it does is stimulate muscles and then use
that response from the muscle to go back and retrain
the brain to send the same signal when that muscle
needs to move in the arm. And what happens is
a lot of stroke victims have rigidity in the arm,
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and it takes them a long long time to get
that flexibility back. Some of them really don't over a
long time. But with this armband, apparently it is helping
greatly to reduce rehab time. Now, it still takes a
lot of time, and this technology is still in its infancy,
but man, oh man, all these little things that are
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coming about to help any of us who ever end
up really needing help like that, it sure is promising.
It sure does make me feel better about my chances
of living longer. Although I did read a story, I
think it was just like maybe Tuesday yesterday morning, about
how there's a longevity issue with human beings and most
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don't have to scramble around try to remember what I said,
who I said to call, what their number is. You'll
never remember that if you don't put it in the phone.
Two eight one four eight zero ninety nine hundred.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Plus to day. I hope you enjoyed that discussion I
had with doctor Heiner about the correlation between falling and
an accelerating dementia. That's kind of spooky. Now. She did
say that a little simple scrape knee or a scraped
elbow or something like that, if you go down lightly,
(30:47):
it doesn't really impact whatever dementia you may or may
not have. But if you start taking heavier tumbles and
maybe even hit your head, that could be pretty bad.
I just tripped over a story that I want to
tell you about, especially those of you who who play
the lotto system in Texas.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
This is out of Austin, and I'll just I'll give
you a summary of it. Think about what you would
determine to be unfair advantage if you were playing the lottery.
There's the odds are overwhelmingly against you all the time.
But when the when the prize gets high enough, it's possible.
(31:35):
In theory, and I've talked about this with friends jokingly before.
If if we had a lot of money to burn,
the odds are x to one, and it's it's multiple
millions to one. But if you have that kind of
many of gosh, if you have that kind of money,
you could buy a ticket that carries all the winning
(31:57):
combinations of not one ticket, but you could buy all
the tickets you would need to cover every possible numerical combination,
which is exactly what three guys from Europe did with
one of our lotteries that went up to ninety five
million dollars a jackpot was won by these three guys
who used what they call a courier service, a lottery
(32:21):
courier service, to buy their tickets online. The lawmakers up
in Austin are kind of scrambling to figure out what
they can do about that, and a big part of
it is going to be to just put up a
bunch of kiosks where you can buy your tickets in
Texas and eliminate that, eliminate that online buying, especially these
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they're redoing a lot of these places, and where there
already are places where you can buy them, in stores
and on street wherever you can buy them. I'm not
really sure all the places you could buy lottery tickets.
I'm gonna kind of tweak that as well, probably to
watch for big buys such as these these guys spent
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twenty five million dollars they bet what it is. What
they did is they bet that nobody else would win.
If four people had won, they'd lost money. But by
having the only winning ticket, says right here, three Europeans
engineered ninety five million dollar lotto win with over twenty
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five million tickets. London and Malta based group, it says
here bought ninety nine percent of the number combos. Ninety
nine percent of the number combos and so hopefully they'll
fix that all right. Well, me and you for the
last couple of minutes waste of time, justice served or
(33:56):
stupid criminals time. Recent pole asked people what's the most
refreshing thing to drink cold liquid? Out of which is
a poorly constructed sentence, by the way from which to
drink cold liquid would have been a much better way
to put that. You never, never ever will into sentence
with a preposition. Please don't do that in writing. You
(34:17):
can say it. I There are occasions when it would
sound awkward to construct the sentence correctly. If it were
being written, it's a lot easier to It just rolls
off the tongue better. However, in this case, it just
jumped off the page at me like a wet mop
slap in the face. You know it was number one?
Will what?
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Who guess? A glass cup? Number two? A glass bottle?
Oh you know it came in last What a plastic cup? Oh? Okay?
You know what, if I'm hot and somebody offers me
a cold beverage, you know what, I'm not gonna say what?
Oh no, no, no, I won't. I can't drink that
out of a plastic cup. I'll just say thing you.
(35:00):
That's all I'll say. You want this justice serve. I
like this the karma. Karma lives and breathes. Even in California,
there was some guy who cut into the line at
the in and out Burger place and just kind of
just knows his car in there and butted in in
front of a guy. And you know what, the guy
behind him did what he paid for all the cars
(35:23):
behind him in line. So if mister hotshot would have
just cooled as jets and been a nice guy about it,
he too could have gotten a free burger. Are you
a fan of in and out burgers?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
I've had them in California.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Maybe it was a thage. Oh, now you're just high
rolling in I've had Paris.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
No, I've never rolls. I've never been to Rome. All right,
I have had it in California, and it's pretty it's good.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
They're not bad. There's one close to me. Actually, the
problem they're honestly, is it how long it takes to
get them. I mean, and they're moving pretty fast in there.
There's another place down there in Missouri City that typically
has if you've got four cars in line at that place,
their employees are so slow that you can just count
on being there twenty minutes maybe thirty to get through
(36:20):
the fourth car in line. It's that bad. I won't
go back there anymore, really want. I tried going inside.
It doesn't do any good. All right, let's go again,
testing the limits of stupidity. Watch where you point that,
and it's about time much where you point that, You're
man Hold on tight, everybody, especially you men in the audience.
(36:44):
Research in China has created a robotic finger that can
be used for prostate exams. I'm just reading, okay, and
they think the same technology also be used for breast exams.
Wouldn't that have to be a hand I would think
(37:06):
there's I'm sure what it is is. It's detecting somehow,
it's detecting tumors before they're even detectable, maybe by other methods.
I don't know. Whatever it is, it sounds kind of
creepy to me already. Oh my lord. Well, we gotta go,
but I'll be back tomorrow. Thank you also very much
(37:27):
for listening. I appreciate it. Audios
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The program starts right now, and in its ever never
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me a bit of good. I was all ready to
go anyway. It doesn't matter. I can work off my laptop.
So welcome to Wednesday, middle of the week for most
of us, and a day on which we can finally
go outside and not break into what an immediate profuse
burst of perspiration. That's been a hot minute since we
could do that. Well, when was the last time the
(01:34):
temperature was as low as it is now? I think
I have an idea, and what would you just dis
guess that we're not gonna We're not making a bet
here or anything, But when would you feel was the
last time that you walked outside and it was in
the low seventies?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Have I want to say, probably January or February?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh no, no, no, no. We still get cold fronts
even well into March and ape not during the day. Yeah, well,
and I think not the thirties. And I think our
our spring started a little early this year. It started
at around February, because that's when I started feeling seasonal allergies.
(02:16):
And that's when I know the spring is sprung to
do with the tempt Yes it does. How so are
you are you? Are you allergic to thermometers?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Now?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
When the temperature is warmer, it lets the trees time
to start producing palm, the big ballooms.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yes, okay, yeah, maybe so. I can't remember when my
allergies started to act up. It was probably around the
same time. My wife and I kind of go back
and forth on this because there's there's a tie in
her mind and and now in mind, since the sea
was planted, we've been married thirty something years now, that
there can still be legitimate coal fronts up to her birthday,
(03:00):
and so it's a little bit it's more complex than that, really,
but it's proven. It's proven out more than once in
those thirty four years that there would be a late
arriving norther to drop these temperatures. Either way, we're still
looking really good right now, and I'm thrilled to have it.
I don't know about you, but I've been waiting a
(03:22):
long time for this, and cliche as it may be,
it really did feel pretty good to be alive when
I walked out this morning and it wasn't eighty five
overnight and headed for ninety five or one hundred. So
jumping right into the weather forecast, there is a thing
out in the Atlantic again, but it looks at present
(03:43):
like it's probably going to get pushed southward once it
plods westward into the Caribbean. That's what the models that
I look at show. And again this is we're talking
about a week and a half two weeks out, so
it's way too early to pinpoint any activity for this thing.
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But consensus among the models that I've come to trust,
most say that it will get into the Caribbean, but
then veer southward and southwestward and probably slam into Honduras
or something like that, even if it One other interesting
note on this one is that it doesn't really show
(04:29):
except on one model, this thing becoming a significant hurricane.
More of them show it more as maybe a week
Cat one or even just a tropical storm. And that's
way out too. We're talking about days and maybe more
than a week out. This thing's just gonna linger out there.
But this coal front is gonna do us a lot
(04:50):
of favors. It'll help start the cooling process in the
Gulf of Mexico, and that's always a good sign. The
cooler that water gets, the less likely it's going to
be able to support any sort of a storm system.
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Speaker 3 (05:25):
Okay, maybe I mean I'm looking at the weather forecast
right now.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, you should be. And you don't trust me.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I mean, I don't you know, considering our our conversation yesterday,
what was that I forgot? You said that it was
going to be in the seventies all day. It will
be and it's mainly just been in the sixties all day.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I said, I was saying that would be the high
getting higher than that. I don't know if that's fab
to get into the seventies, by the way, I know
it'll get into the seventies. Bye.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I think our agreement on changing yesterday's score was based
on that it would be in the seventies all day.
Well at seventy point three o'clock in the morning. Who
actually it was this morning?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
By the way, you want to go back and look
through it all, it was in the seventies this morning
when I walked out my door.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Well, it's been in the sixties for most of the morning. Yeah,
And I think, foul. I think I don't know how
to go back and change your score to a seven
point five flag on this thing, but I might, I
honestly might downgrade it to a six point six.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I think I'm just going to rename you from from
petty to picky.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Oh my word, I'll give this one. You know what,
I'll leave yesterday's score alone. I'll leave it at a seven.
That's all fine and dandy. But i'll give this one.
This one's a six point five.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I call what you just did. By the way, yesterday
it was a seven point four, and you said seven.
Just then? What was that you said seven? Just now?
And yesterday it was seven point four. No, I think
it was a seven, yester. I don't know, pretty sure
it was a seven yesterday. I know my memory. It's
just tax sharp, tax been taxs, been walking on concrete
(07:24):
for a little while. But it says you can poke
a hole in something. Maybe cheese.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Uh yes, I don't know if i'd want to put
a tack in my cheese.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
No, sounds dangerous. Oh so okay, So off the market
we go. Thanks to Houston Gold Exchange, where the colors
were mostly green. The Nasdaq was down a touch, but
not even a tenth of a point, So irrelevant is
the word that keeps coming up gold. Speaking of up
gold up again, nearly another ten bucks, and as as
(07:56):
he'll kick clicking as it was at twenty six hundred,
it was just ten dollars short, just ten dollars short
of twenty seven hundred dollars an ounce. I'm telling you,
if you've got anything around the house that's made of anything,
even with a little bit of gold content in it,
surprisingly doesn't take a lot. It doesn't take a lot
(08:19):
to make an ounce of gold and bread s twice.
Over there at Houston Gold Exchange, got it has a
device that can tell exactly what the gold content is,
if any in a piece of metal, and then he
can break that down, because you can you can melt
it all down and extract the gold from whatever it is,
(08:40):
whether it's ten carrot, fourteen carrot, eighteen carrot, whatever it is,
and the stuff that comes out that way on the
good side of the au is worth a lot of money. Now,
it's worth a lot of money if you will. Have
you ever have you ever experienced food poisoning?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I don't know if I've experienced food poisoning. I definitely
have not felt stomachs yees.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, I don't know. Man, something last week or late
last week, so I can't put my finger on exactly
what triggered the event. And it didn't last long, thank goodness.
But that's always tough, man, especially if you're away from home.
We got a break. Oh yeah, oh man. I may
return to this later, much much common, much later, because
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in just a couple of minutes we're going to interview
somebody on a correlation between falling and accelerating dementia that
I had no idea existed until I read about this
UT Health Institute on aging. Speaking of excellent providers in
the medical field, and in fact, I'm pretty confident that
(09:51):
the woman toob we're gonna speak is a part of that.
This is that collaborative, collaborative excuse me of I don't know,
probably more more than a thousand providers from every single
medical discipline, no matter what you name it. There are
members of this group who are from it and have
gone back and gotten additional education so that they can
(10:13):
apply their knowledge, specifically to seniors and mold us back
into shape. When we get a little out of shape,
anything goes wrong, these doctors and nurses and therapists and counselors,
all of these people know how to help us get
back on a good track. They're very good at what
(10:35):
they do. I'm so happy that we have them right
here in Houston and around Houston too, and outlying clinics
and hospitals as well, a lot of them right down
there in the medicenter, the heart of pretty much the
South's medical community. Go to the website, look at all
the resources they provide, no cause, just go read all
about all of it, and then find yourself a provider
(10:57):
you can go to if you have something that's been
bothering you and you want to be seen by somebody
who really understands what's going on in your body. Ut
H dot edu slash aging ut H dot edu slash aging.
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, Just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Sleepy back that Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
All right, welcome back, thanks for listening to fifty plus
on this Wednesday, in the middle of the week, the
first part of the afternoon. You're probably having lunch. Maybe
I don't know what else you're doing. It's be a
beautiful day to go play golf. Maybe I'll do that
this afternoon. H mercy sakes, we are so lucky to
have this. We're gonna talk in this segment about the
relationship between falling as seniors and dementia, and I had
(11:57):
no idea there was a relationship and these two seemingly
unrelated ends together. I'm going to bring in doctor Julia
hine Or, Assistant Professor in Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at
UT Health Houston and Program director of the Geriatric Medicine
Fellowship Program at ut McGovern Medical School. Welcome to flip
(12:18):
I can't even get it out. Welcome to fifty plus.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Thank you, Doug. It's so good to be back again.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, you're speaking clearly at least. Yeah, I'm glad to
have it back. So I feel like it's important on
several levels, honestly, to maybe open this conversation. Let's first
talk about fall prevention very briefly, in your mind, looking
around the average seniors home, what and where are the
most common fall risks?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Absolutely, unfortunately there's a lot, but you know some of
the big common ones. You know, I'm thinking, you know,
rugs where the edges might be curling up, or an
extension cord running from one side to the other. And
you know our textas favorite are those flip flops, the
shoes that don't stay on our feet. Well, those are
big dangers we see, but I'm sure there's many others
(13:04):
as well.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You know, just just thinking back to the interviews I've
done on that topic, I'm looking at dark hallways, I'm
looking at woodstairs, tubs and showers. The average home is
just kind of a hodgepodge of mess of fall wrist
and then yeah, you add in medications and worn out
knees and hips. It's it's a long list. Let's don't
(13:24):
get bogged down in there. And to tie it all
together a little bit, what's the latest in identified types
of dementia? How many are there now?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Well, there's quite a few. You know, it's hard to
give you a specific number, but you know, every like
you said, it's this umbrella term. That's the constellation of
memory loss, language changes, problem solving thinking abilities. And you know,
the most common of that is Alzheimer's dementia that probably
comprises about seventy five percent of cases. But we also
see stroke related dimentia called vascular. We see dementia from
(13:58):
Parkinson Louis body front of temper, each with their own
unique symptoms and substance use can lead to dementia.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Pictures.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Infections like HIV or so called mad cow, or cruits felled, yakap,
all of those things can result in dementia like pictures,
because again it's this umbrella term that encompasses a lot
of different diagnoses.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, I feel it's pretty safe to say nobody in
this audience wants to fall or get dementia, and that
we know. It's also safe to think, I think to say,
we don't understand the tie between the two. So where
did this correlation first come to light?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yeah? So, you know, geriatricians, we take care of these
really complex patients and they present us with numerous problems
that seem very disparate and not connected. But some really
bright minds start thinking, hey, you know I and this
is coming out of mass gen and they're seeing this
connection between falling and dementia, and they were trying to
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figure out which way it went. Are the falls causing
dementia or dementia causing the faults or maybe something else
we don't even know yet, of course, right exactly, And
you know, probably the truth of it is they're probably interconnected.
And it's a bit of a bit of both, because
a lot goes into staying upright and being able to
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walk steadily, just as a lot goes into dementia risks.
So it's it's it's a great new study, but a
lot more to learn.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So do minor slips or falls count on this score
card or do they have to cause significant trauma to
fan the dementia flame?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
So definitely more on the significant side. I would not
expect to see cognitive impairment coming from you know, not
that any faults good, but you know, a scrape knee
or a bombs you know, we're we're thinking more of
bone injury that But if you hit your head, especially repeatedly,
that's when the risk of dementia like symptoms are going
(15:53):
to be more prevalent.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Well, that certainly makes sense. I can I can follow
that one a little more closely. Does it take more
than one fall to ramp up the progression of dementia
or does the first one start the snowball down the hill?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
It certainly depends on how severe the head strike is
if that occurs. But yeah, repeated injury is definitely problematic.
We see that, you know, especially historically with football players
and boxers. It's that repeated you know, the punch drunk.
We don't use that term really anymore, but it's that
repeated injury. That's that's quite bad.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Doctor Julia Hiner on fifty plus here talk about the
importance of early cognitive testing after somebody my age takes
a significant fall.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Absolutely well, you know, one of the things that I
found most interesting about this kind of new research is
that often in geriatrics, things like falls or memory loss,
those are symptoms of something else. Brilliant and so kind
of looking at it from the other direction. If someone
starts falling a lot, although I hope they're not hitting
their heads, I start to wonder, why are they falling?
(17:00):
Is something else wrong? And that makes me curious and
want to do that cognitive testing to see if there's
dementia and the fall was maybe just the symptom of
the changing cognitive status. So absolutely, I think when someone's
okay to be tested again, you know, stable out of
the hospital, I definitely want to drill down onto their
(17:20):
you know, their cognitive status.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
At that point we're down to just very few seconds left.
But I want to ask this question, is there any
evidence that a fall could actually cause the onset of dementia.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Not that we know yet. We're there are correlations, but
we don't know the causation yet.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
If I can. So if I fall down and I
remember what made me fall down, I'm okay.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Hopefully we care about your function overall, but having a
good memory of what happened is a good good sign.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Fingers crossed. Doctor Julia Hiner, thank you so very much
for your.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Time, my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
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The bottom line is the late health can help you
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It's a long story. The doctor over there, doctor Andrew,
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Speaker 1 (20:21):
Old guys rule, And of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Hey, I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty
plus continues. Here's more with Doug. If the printer fixed,
I'm pretty happy right now. I have paper in front
of me and just page after page after page of
good stuff to talk about. And here we are, of course,
(20:49):
the bottom of the hour, not nearly as much time
as I would like, but we'll go through them one
on one by one. Do you have a pen over
their will? No? I do not. There was a pen
in here and now it's gone. It was an extra
pen as well, and I didn't take it back to
my desk. I know that I just keep bringing one
(21:10):
in here usually, but the one day I didn't, the
second would one to hear. So anyway, very briefly, back
to that issue I was talking about earlier will where
I gosh, YOUA, I just got kind of crampy and all.
It was just horrible, and the food poisoning thing and
whatever got to me ran its course like it was
on the big slide at schlitterbond Man, and not the
(21:32):
lazy River, the big slide. And I think it's got
to do with the spice level of things I can
and cannot eat anymore. I've narrowed it down to some
chicken that I got. It wasn't bad chicken. It was
just spicier than I'm used to and it was in
a crowd setting. Not anything that caused any issue for me, seriously,
(21:56):
but it was just like, Okay, yeah, I'll eat some
of that that looks good. And it was good and
it was spicy as can be. And I used to
be able to handle all that stuff, but not anymore.
Not anymore. I used to be able to eat anything, man,
any quantity of it too. Just get on down the road.
I always like having another birthday, and I want to
(22:18):
have a whole lot more, but getting from one to
the next just seems to hold more surprises these days
every year. So moving into the world, President Trump's actually
trying his hand speaking of foods and whatnot, trying his
hand it flipping and frying. Today he is spending about
an hour, the releases said, actually working at a McDonald's restaurant.
(22:42):
In kind of in response to Kamala Harris's claim that's
still not entirely established that she wants worked at a
McDonald's restaurant. I'm kind of calling foul on that until
I see some old check stubs. Her upbringing I don't
think was nearly so middle class as she wants to believe.
But I'm kind of I'm almost totally disinterested. I'm almost
(23:07):
disinterested in that part of what's going on. A significant
number of this country's already understaffed border agent speaking of her,
have vowed to leave their jobs. They're gonna quit if
she's elected president. They say it's just it's undoable, it's untenable,
it's unbearable to be trying to do it. They're gonna
(23:28):
seek private sector jobs. The ones who can retire gonna
do that. Of the story that I read said, and
the ones who can't are going to look for work
in the private sector. And they're quite qualified to do
other things. So anyway, that anything they say but trying
to do their jobs while this administration just continues to
tie their hands with red tape. Trump, on the other hand,
(23:50):
says he's going to hire ten thousand more border patrol
officers if he's elected. I kind of like that plan
a lot more under the circumstances. I don't want to
talk about that anymore. I saw a very interesting story
at a site called The Family Handyman. By the way,
a guy named Dan Stout wrote it, and it talked
about do you have any Apple air Tags? Will you
(24:11):
have an Apple phone? Or and I'm Android? I have
an Android? I do too, Okay, anyway, this story was
about Apple air tags and kind of some pros and cons.
They're a great way to keep track of teenagers who
have a history of maybe not being entirely fourth right
about where they're going or what they're doing, or who
they're with. They're also not a bad idea. I was
thinking about this. They want to tuck one into the
(24:33):
purse or pocket, of a loved one, maybe a parent
who still can drive a little bit. They still but
they've got these kind of signs and symptoms of encroaching dementia,
and maybe they occasionally wander off. Well at least with
one of those you could find them. But with those
same tags also can be used for bad things, and
(24:54):
that's where this story was kind of headed on how
to detect whether somebody's following you than air tag and
if you have it says here, if you have an
iPhone of eleven or higher and what's an iOS WILL
what's that stand for? Operates some operating system, Yeah, like
internal operation. Okay, iOS of fourteen point five or higher,
(25:16):
you automatically get notification if that phone detects somebody else's
air tag near you, and they the owner of the
tag is separated from it. So if they're if they're
not right there with it in their pocket, I guess
or whatever, it's gonna flat. It's gonna notify you by phone.
(25:39):
For Android users, that's us WILL. There's a free track
w app called track Detect that's available at the play Story.
It doesn't send notifications automatically, you have to scan for them.
So anyway do with that information what you And by
the way, Android also has its own alternatives to air tags.
They're called I think they're called chipolo and pebble b.
(26:01):
I think that was the other one. This got my attention,
it really did. And I'm gonna read one line here,
and that's it. One line I wrote for this, and
it kind of it'll say everything it needs to say
in that one line, and it makes me even more
determined to to not want a weak leader in the
(26:24):
White House. And you don't have to look forward to
see the difference between the two. This morning I read
that North Korea is sending troops to Ukraine to fight
alongside Russia. That's some potentially major escalation that could with
(26:48):
the North Korean leadership and Kim Jong whatever in hand
or in charge over there, that guy's got his finger
on buttons that he doesn't need to be pushing. And hope,
I hope nothing comes of this, I really do. I
hope we can get a lot of this stuff sorted
out and stopped before it ever gets to that. But
(27:10):
holy cow, that's the last guy I want participating at
any level in an armed conflict. In good news, and
there's always some of that if you go looking for it,
and I did this morning. There's a flexible arm band.
Now it's loaded with loaded with little tiny electrodes, okay,
(27:32):
And what it does is stimulate muscles and then use
that response from the muscle to go back and retrain
the brain to send the same signal when that muscle
needs to move in the arm. And what happens is
a lot of stroke victims have rigidity in the arm,
(27:54):
and it takes them a long long time to get
that flexibility back. Some of them really don't over a
long time. But with this armband, apparently it is helping
greatly to reduce rehab time. Now, it still takes a
lot of time, and this technology is still in its infancy,
but man, oh man, all these little things that are
(28:16):
coming about to help any of us who ever end
up really needing help like that, it sure is promising.
It sure does make me feel better about my chances
of living longer. Although I did read a story, I
think it was just like maybe Tuesday yesterday morning, about
how there's a longevity issue with human beings and most
(28:40):
of this new generation coming in may not make a
hundred even though there's been a lot of people said
they might. It doesn't matter. Bron's Roofing, I'll tell you
about them. Bronze Roofing that's run by a guy named
Skeeter Braun. I've known him for many, many years. He's
helped my house. I've lived in that house thirty two years.
This is the second roof he's put on it now,
and he's come by. I had done some little minor
(29:01):
repairs when they were needed as well, and I've always
got great service. I've always got the right price. I've
always got everything from him that I would expect from
a roofer I can trust. I trust him to offer
you a great deal on a complete new roof, on
replacements for little parts of a roof, maybe repairs from
(29:21):
storm damage or whatever. And they'll come out and inspect
your roof for absolutely free, not gonna cost you a dime.
I'll come out take a look at that roof. If
you need repairs, they'll tell you about them, tell you
what it's gonna cost, what it's gonna take to fix it,
how long it's gonna take. All of that, and your
best bet at that point, unless you just want to
waste time getting two or three more estimates and risking
(29:42):
another rainstorm that's gonna make it leagal even worse. Let
us go ahead and tell them to get started. You
don't stay in business that long without doing a good job,
quality work at a fair price. You're not gonna find
better quality at a better price than what you'll get
from bronze roofing. Two eight one four eight zero ninety
nine hundred. Put that number in your phone so you
(30:02):
don't have to scramble around try to remember what I said,
who I said to call, what their number is. You'll
never remember that if you don't put it in the phone.
Two eight one four eight zero ninety nine hundred.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Plus to day. I hope you enjoyed that discussion I
had with doctor Heiner about the correlation between falling and
an accelerating dementia. That's kind of spooky. Now. She did
say that a little simple scrape knee or a scraped
elbow or something like that, if you go down lightly,
(30:47):
it doesn't really impact whatever dementia you may or may
not have. But if you start taking heavier tumbles and
maybe even hit your head, that could be pretty bad.
I just tripped over a story that I want to
tell you about, especially those of you who who play
the lotto system in Texas.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
This is out of Austin, and I'll just I'll give
you a summary of it. Think about what you would
determine to be unfair advantage if you were playing the lottery.
There's the odds are overwhelmingly against you all the time.
But when the when the prize gets high enough, it's possible.
(31:35):
In theory, and I've talked about this with friends jokingly before.
If if we had a lot of money to burn,
the odds are x to one, and it's it's multiple
millions to one. But if you have that kind of
many of gosh, if you have that kind of money,
you could buy a ticket that carries all the winning
(31:57):
combinations of not one ticket, but you could buy all
the tickets you would need to cover every possible numerical combination,
which is exactly what three guys from Europe did with
one of our lotteries that went up to ninety five
million dollars a jackpot was won by these three guys
who used what they call a courier service, a lottery
(32:21):
courier service, to buy their tickets online. The lawmakers up
in Austin are kind of scrambling to figure out what
they can do about that, and a big part of
it is going to be to just put up a
bunch of kiosks where you can buy your tickets in
Texas and eliminate that, eliminate that online buying, especially these
(32:47):
they're redoing a lot of these places, and where there
already are places where you can buy them, in stores
and on street wherever you can buy them. I'm not
really sure all the places you could buy lottery tickets.
I'm gonna kind of tweak that as well, probably to
watch for big buys such as these these guys spent
(33:09):
twenty five million dollars they bet what it is. What
they did is they bet that nobody else would win.
If four people had won, they'd lost money. But by
having the only winning ticket, says right here, three Europeans
engineered ninety five million dollar lotto win with over twenty
(33:32):
five million tickets. London and Malta based group, it says
here bought ninety nine percent of the number combos. Ninety
nine percent of the number combos and so hopefully they'll
fix that all right. Well, me and you for the
last couple of minutes waste of time, justice served or
(33:56):
stupid criminals time. Recent pole asked people what's the most
refreshing thing to drink cold liquid? Out of which is
a poorly constructed sentence, by the way from which to
drink cold liquid would have been a much better way
to put that. You never, never ever will into sentence
with a preposition. Please don't do that in writing. You
(34:17):
can say it. I There are occasions when it would
sound awkward to construct the sentence correctly. If it were
being written, it's a lot easier to It just rolls
off the tongue better. However, in this case, it just
jumped off the page at me like a wet mop
slap in the face. You know it was number one?
Will what?
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Who guess? A glass cup? Number two? A glass bottle?
Oh you know it came in last What a plastic cup? Oh? Okay?
You know what, if I'm hot and somebody offers me
a cold beverage, you know what, I'm not gonna say what?
Oh no, no, no, I won't. I can't drink that
out of a plastic cup. I'll just say thing you.
(35:00):
That's all I'll say. You want this justice serve. I
like this the karma. Karma lives and breathes. Even in California,
there was some guy who cut into the line at
the in and out Burger place and just kind of
just knows his car in there and butted in in
front of a guy. And you know what, the guy
behind him did what he paid for all the cars
(35:23):
behind him in line. So if mister hotshot would have
just cooled as jets and been a nice guy about it,
he too could have gotten a free burger. Are you
a fan of in and out burgers?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
I've had them in California.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Maybe it was a thage. Oh, now you're just high
rolling in I've had Paris.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
No, I've never rolls. I've never been to Rome. All right,
I have had it in California, and it's pretty it's good.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
They're not bad. There's one close to me. Actually, the
problem they're honestly, is it how long it takes to
get them. I mean, and they're moving pretty fast in there.
There's another place down there in Missouri City that typically
has if you've got four cars in line at that place,
their employees are so slow that you can just count
on being there twenty minutes maybe thirty to get through
(36:20):
the fourth car in line. It's that bad. I won't
go back there anymore, really want. I tried going inside.
It doesn't do any good. All right, let's go again,
testing the limits of stupidity. Watch where you point that,
and it's about time much where you point that, You're
man Hold on tight, everybody, especially you men in the audience.
(36:44):
Research in China has created a robotic finger that can
be used for prostate exams. I'm just reading, okay, and
they think the same technology also be used for breast exams.
Wouldn't that have to be a hand I would think
(37:06):
there's I'm sure what it is is. It's detecting somehow,
it's detecting tumors before they're even detectable, maybe by other methods.
I don't know. Whatever it is, it sounds kind of
creepy to me already. Oh my lord. Well, we gotta go,
but I'll be back tomorrow. Thank you also very much
(37:27):
for listening. I appreciate it. Audios
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