How AI Can Help Caregivers and Patients

Today, Doug Pike interviews Brent Franson on how AI can help caregivers and patients.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike, Helpful information on
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Fifty plus brought to you by the UT Health Houston
Institute on Aging, Informed Decisions for a healthier, happier life.
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, here we go. Thanks to all of you
for joining Will and me in advance of what likely
will be another afternoon of isolated gully washers. And I
do mean isolated. I experienced one yesterday. Rove over to
the golf course late afternoon, left the house under nearly
clear sky, arrive under partly cloudy, but no real threat

(01:10):
in any direction. I'm gonna get in a good session here.
It'll be great. Change my shoes, loaded my clubs onto
a cart, headed over to the range, and then had
to make a a just a spin around in the
parking lot. You turn and dash for the cart barn
just to keep from drowning. It opened up from I

(01:32):
can't say there were no indications that rain was coming,
but within a course of maybe a minute and a half,
it went from a light sprinkle to a deluge, a downpour.
Had to sit in the cart barn just to keep
from drowning. Sat there long enough to check email, maybe
ten minutes or so, and then went right back to
business outside as if it hadn't rained at all, except

(01:55):
for the sloshy ground under my feet. That's when I
put the clubs back at the car and grabbed a
couple of fishing rods. It's so nice to have options.
Fishing wasn't as good as it has been over there
by the way, and I know why, and I know
where I think to look for them.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
I won't get into that until Saturday morning on my
outdoors show, but I learned a lot about bass and
their habits, and at least in this little micro example,
the small piece of water that I'm fishing over there,
I've got them. I got them figured out for now. Anyway,
day or two more of afternoon issues, we'll call it.

(02:35):
Then we're going to dry out a little bit going
into the weekend and on Monday, and then it kind
of who knows from there on the bigger weather map,
several things brewing out in the Atlantic, not the least
of which is still a hurricane Erin and Her one
hundred and five. I think it is mile and horow
winds right now throwing huge surf onto the East coast too,

(02:59):
and that not epic, not apocalyptic. I tried, actually to
find pictures of surfers taking advantage of the swell that's
being generated by this storm, and it was. It was
an interesting exercise, actually, I searched for two different two

(03:19):
different ways to look at it, Hurricane Aerin surfers and
Hurricane Aarin surfing. Microsoft puked up pictures of weather forecasters
pointing to their green screens, and a handful of images
that actually contained water, but not really anybody surfing on

(03:40):
anything like a wave. This was lifeguard stands, red flags
blowing in the breeze to let everybody know there was
a storm, but virtually no surfers or surfing images. Oh
and and an opportunity to tap a button and see
all the pictures I wanted to see of Aaron Morey,
whoever that is. Do you know who that is?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Will?

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Aaron moy Will didn't know either. Google on the other hand,
showed accurate photos of actual surfers and them surfing up
and down the East Coast, some on bigger wave than others,
but none of them on the twenty thirty fifty foot waves.
These forecasters kept saying, might they always use that word

(04:26):
they leave the leave thee out might impact the East Coast,
and there may be some thirty footers out there within
that storm, especially close to the eye, and there might
be some ten to twelve foot stuff that'll make it
to the beach tomorrow or maybe later today, even through
the weekend, and depending on where on the East Coast,
maybe even longer than that. But no, no, some that's

(04:51):
there's nothing that's gonna hit that coast. I don't think
that would make Justin Dupond or Ken Bradshaw, Garrett mcnamary
even get out of bed. If you don't know who
those people are. They're big wave surfers, and some of
the best one a little older than the other two,
but some of the best, or actually two a little
older than the one. Markets were already again around ten

(05:14):
o'clock this morning, but not by a large enough margin
to trigger any big moves by big players. I looked
again just a little while ago. It had slumped a
tiny bit more across the board, but still not an
we gotta do something. Gold down a tick, oil up,
tick pretty flat, really pretty just who home day. Since
I looked from the top here, we'll have a couple

(05:36):
of minutes. Yeah, I can do this from the top
of story that broke just a couple of hours ago.
Actually at Yahoo Finance, the European Union and these United
States of ours have established a written agreement that buttons
up a deal cut by President Trump back on July
twenty seventh. Other teror related moves being made as well,

(05:57):
quietly to generate stability in this arena. Treasury Secretary Scott
Besant told CNBC that tariff revenue is under President Trump,
and I bet this made their skin crawl. Likely would
exceed his previous estimate of three hundred billion dollars, much
of which is going to go to pay down the

(06:17):
federal debt, which is exactly where it needs to go
before we just fall into bankruptcy. I'm so glad we're
pointed in the right direction and actually making more money
so that we can get to work on whittling that down.
It'll take probably two generations if politics stay the way
they are to fix this very frustrating. There was some

(06:43):
fun stuff I had today. Oh, by the way, I'm
gonna try. I'm going to tee up a word of
the day, and bearing in mind this may or may
not stick, these are going to be words you can
drop into a sentence in any audience with high likelihood
that nobody in the room will know what they mean,
unless they also listen to fifty plus, which would be
a great idea. So right out the gate, today's word

(07:05):
of to day is unoia. And I didn't know what
it meant before, but what it turns out to be
also is the shortest word that has all five vowels.
Unoia has multiple meanings, according to AI, stemming from its
Greek roots, well minded, beautiful thinking. It can refer to
a kind of a normal mental health, a feeling of goodwill,

(07:29):
even a specific type of poetry for Heaven's sakes, And
undoubtedly the word is related to euphoria. But if you
drop that when everybody knows what that one means already
if they watch TV. All right, let's take this break
a couple of minutes early so I can try not
to be laid on anything today ut Health Institute on Aging.

(07:51):
This is the collaborative I've mentioned so many times now,
and I'm proud, very happy and proud to say that
they're signing on for yet another year with Fafty plus
because they were just made for each other. I knew
that when I talked to doctor Carmel Dyer before she passed.
The very first meeting we had about putting these two
entities together. It just made a lot of sense, and

(08:12):
it still does. This is a group of more than
one hundred providers from every field in medicine, all of
them right in this region. Most of them in the
med center, as you might well imagine, but many of
those people who primarily work in the med center also
come to outlying hospitals and clinics and offices, so that
if you don't want to go to the med center,

(08:33):
you don't have to. What makes them unique, you ask,
I'll tell you. Their uniqueness comes from their willingness to
have gone back and gotten additional training. On top of
whatever it took them to get the business card, the diploma,
the plaque, whatever it was they got from graduating through

(08:54):
their version of medical school. What they've done is learned
how to apply what they learned in school specifically to seniors.
And we have different needs. Our bodies work differently than
those of younger people. It's pretty obvious anytime you look
at one of us, one of them. Ut Health Institute
on Aging has all those providers for you and a

(09:17):
website that will provide you with tremendous information about how
to stay healthier, happier, longer, do better, have more fun,
be more active, all of that stuff that we all
want to do. Utch dot edu slash aging. Go there,
look around utch dot edu slash aging.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, second segment of
the program starts right now. I found something very interesting yesterday.
If you'll recall.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Where I gotta find out where I wrote about it
here today, that's very frustrating. If you'll recalled yesterday I
talked about us missing National Senior Citizens Day on Tuesday,
and then today in the from the same source, it

(10:19):
says that today is National Senior Citizens Day. So somebody
up there is wrong, and I don't know which, and honestly,
I don't care that much. It was just something interesting
I found, and I wanted to let it be known
that there's a good chance that we didn't miss National
Senior Citizen's Day. So if you want to do something special,

(10:42):
by all means, go ahead, you could go to McDonald's.
Whether I saw this this morning, it kind of made
me laugh. McDonald's is reportedly cutting the prices of eight
popular combo meals. A few weeks ago, the CEO publicly
admitted that its menu has gotten too expensive and pledged
to fix the problem. But if they throw in some

(11:04):
real meat somewhere, I've heard otherwise, and I don't know
whether that's true or false, but it just it's kind
of crazy. Speaking of crazy, this is even far more
crazy than anything to do with a Hamburger. Ozimpic for
dogs could hit the market in three years. The word

(11:28):
I put in front of that, just to spark my
memory when I look down, is why will would you
ever give a pet a drug like ozempic? Thank you?
We are one hundred percent in agreement that that makes
absolutely no sense. And I know some people overfeed their dogs.

(11:50):
I'm presuming this is for weight loss. I don't know
what else it would be for unless their dog is
a diabetic. I'm not even sure one hundred percent what
ozempic does. I know. I don't want to be taking
any pills if I don't have to. From the land
of make believe aka Hollywood and all its glamorous celebrities,

(12:13):
come the opinions. I brought an entire piece this morning
that was loaded with quotes from celebrities who still refuse
to acknowledge that President Trump can do anything good or
right for this country. Bear in mind, these are the
opinions of people who make a living repeating other people's

(12:35):
words and following other people's directions on where to stand,
where to turn, where to cast an eye in another direction.
It's a tsunami of famous people who think we care
what they think, and they're weighing on President Trump's efforts
to fix what their favorite president broke during the past

(12:56):
four years. I'm perpetually amazed, one by their belief that
we give a damn about what they think, and two
by the media's willingness to share their opinions as though
anyone did care. Mainstream media uses these people and they
don't even realize it. Mainstream media uses celebrities to say

(13:16):
things that even the newscasters probably wouldn't say out loud
about our president, about the people who work with him
and the work they're doing to save this country. I'm
especially concerned by the way, and we've got a prime
example right here in Texas, by the lack of dignity

(13:36):
and respect that so called celebrities and an increasing number
of lower level politicians show to pretty much anybody right
of cinner who does it just immediately acknowledge that this
left leaning bunch is the right one. It's not going
to happen. They resort to vulgarity. Vulgar names, vulgar words

(14:00):
just roll off these people's dirty little tongues, and they
think that somehow makes their words more powerful, when in
fact it has the opposite effect on most of us.
It does anyway, on me. It does. People who fall
back on vulgarity, and especially the ones who scream and
are they raise their voice as the as the language
gets more foul and vile. All they're doing is letting

(14:24):
us know that they just don't and they don't know
any more appropriate or genuinely impactful words. That's all. That's
all I hear. When I hear people dropping bombs left
and right and calling people vulgar names and just doing
what so many of them do, it just proves what
I already thought about them to be true. Going back

(14:46):
to the lighter side, and by the way, at the
bottom of the hour, we're gonna we're gonna get in
that interview with Brent Frienz and the the creator I
believe of the of the death clock app And don't
be scared of that. We're not gonna talk about that.
We're gonna talk about how AI can do so much
for us as seniors to to maintain and improve our health.

(15:11):
And he's got he's got some good thoughts on that,
and I've got some good questions for him.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
That death clock thing, though, I tested it out for
myself yesterday, and if you missed it yesterday, I'm proud
to report that, according to that clock, I'm gonna live
a lot longer than I expected. Even so, I'm in
good shape. So far, so good. I'm gonna keep up that.
That inspired me actually to to see where it placed
me based on my current statistics. It surprised me how

(15:41):
long a life span I'm expected to have. Now that
bear in mind, this takes in no no medical history
really except that maybe you're you know, weight and body
mass index index and stuff like that. Uh so there
are those factors, hereditary things that might skew the num numbers.

(16:02):
But all things considered, if I get as many more
years as it says I got coming to me, I
feel like I've lived a pretty good and productive life. Question,
when was the last time you dropped your phone? According
to a poll taking, I don't know how many people asked,
I don't know how many of them responded. I don't

(16:24):
know who did the poll. It doesn't matter because this
is all just for fun. But the average person, it
says here, is going to drop their phone at least
ten times this year, despite it being in a nutsheller,
our most prized possession. These days, you could leave the
house without a lot of things, but you do. You'll

(16:45):
do anything not to leave the house without your phone.
I've had to turn around. Despite having lived through decades
where there were no cell phones, I found it so
uncomfortable to be on my way to work, and even
more than halfway here. Sometimes it's happened probably five times
in the last twenty years. But I found myself without

(17:08):
my phone. Oh my god, my phone's at the house.
I was picking up other stuff and I left it
right there on the kitchen table. Turn around, go all
the way home, come all the way back. It's a
good thing. I don't punch a clock down here. It's
a very good thing. So here's what really disturbed me
about finding this out. The poll found that fifty four percent.
And this is how it was phrased. I'm not making

(17:29):
this up. This is exactly how the phrase was in
the poll. Fifty four percent of people said they would
reach into a porta potty at a big music festival
to save their phone. Yes or no? Will would you
do that? You would? You'd bare handed? You can't go?

(17:51):
I don't know, you know, come to think of it,
I would certainly consider it, depending on how far into
the abyss it fell. If I could still see it,
I'd make a grab for it. If I couldn't see
it anymore, I think I might just kiss it goodbye,
just go buy a new phone and start making phone

(18:13):
calls to get all the documentation and all that information. Really,
the only thing that's not available elsewhere are the numbers.
I guess you've saved in your phone. Oh good, heavens,
we do, don't we. I got to quit, well, not
all together, but I'm going to start now to tell
you about a late Health again. Late Health is the
vascular clinic run by doctor Andrew Doe, for whom I've

(18:36):
spoken now for several years and enjoyed every conversation we've had.
He's actually been kind enough to do a lot of
interviews with me on various things that he does there
and parts of medicine that we don't hear. A lot
about vascular procedures can help with the low hanging fruit
is ugly veins. Anybody who's got those doesn't like them,

(18:57):
I'm sure, And if you can go in there and
for a very reasonable rate, get those things erased. A
lot of what they do actually is covered by Medicare
and Medicaid too. I don't know about the veins, but
a lot of the procedures they perform are covered.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
The most common procedure done in those offices is prostate
artery embolization for the older gentleman in the audience, and gosh,
if you've got one of those, a noncancerous in large prostate.
You know the symptoms. You don't like them either. They
take care of fibroids for women. There are some head
pains that can be relieved through vascular procedures. There are

(19:33):
all kinds of things that they do in there that
I didn't even realize until I actually had Doctor Doe
in here. And when I was doing the prep for
that interview, I just saw all these things, and that
entire interview was Okay, tell me about this, tell me
about this, tell me about this. And I learned a
ton that day. I learned something from them. Every time
every interview I do, I learned stuff. Seven one, three, five, eight, eight,

(19:57):
thirty eight eighty eight. Everything's done in the clinic. Everything's
done right there. A couple of hours. You're gonna need
a ride home. Then you can recover at home and
feel healthier, happier, and all of that good stuff as
quick as possible. Seven to one, three, five, eight, eight,
thirty eight eighty eight. What's life without a nap? If

(20:18):
I suggest to go to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
All right, Welcome back to fifty plus and thanks for
listening on this Thursday afternoon. So far, so good with
the weather, it's not doing anything yet. In this segment
on the heels of or write on National Senior Citizen's Day,
depending on which source you look at it, it's so
important and I'm gonna talk to guys gonna emphasize this.

(20:50):
It's so important our ages to get regular exams and tests,
and to explain why. I'm going to bring in Brent
Fransen and acknowledge up front that he's the guy who
created a death clock app. You're supposed to give you
a pretty good idea. How would you'll be when you
take your last breath? I took the test yesterday Brent,
by the way, and I'm proud to say I got
a lot of years coming. If you guys are right

(21:12):
to hear it, love to hear it, Sigret cross Man,
and so would help run anybody off. We're not going
to talk about anybody's demise here. In fact, we're going
to talk about how AI can really help caregivers and
patients stay ahead of something like that.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Right, yeah, So what death clock does? So it's an
app you answer as you know, you answer about thirty
questions and it makes two predictions. So one is it
predicts the day you're going to die, and it's the
AI is trained on twelve hundred longevity studies. But it
also predicts how much longer you can live if you're

(21:47):
really proactive about managing your health. And really, that's what
we're focused on doing, is we're focused on helping people
make the changes that they need to make to live
long and healthy lives.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
When would you say you've first felt like technology and
AI were really going to change healthcare in a big way.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
I mean, I think so we've our healthcare system is
very reactive. So it's good at helping you if you're
already sick, but it's not good at preventing you from
getting sick in the first place. And so what happens
is is the more money you have, the longer you live.
And basically what happens is people who have a lot
of money, they get private docks, they opt out of

(22:28):
the healthcare system to get better preventative healthcare. And so
what we realized was there's not enough money to go around,
there aren't enough private docs to go around. Let's see
if we can combine AI with somebody's health data to
basically create a set of recommendations for preventative health that
are similar to what you would get from a private doc,

(22:51):
but at a fraction of the cost. I mean, we
are less than one hundred dollars a year.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Sure, that's not a bad idea either. And all the
information we're getting from all these doctors that we have
to visit, it's all being I don't know how much
of it is being shared, because we've come a long
way from the old Manila folders that had handwritten records
of our health in a doctor's office. How much of
what these doctors gather on us is is shared amongst

(23:16):
all the other doctors.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
It's not shared very well. So from a privacy perspective,
that's a good thing. But from a your data is
accessible to all of the doctors you might see who
might need it, it's not a good thing. And so
what we're trying to do at death Blok is we're saying, hey,
your health data is really important for understanding your health

(23:41):
and for building plans to help you live longer. What
kind of screenings do you need, What kind of supplements
should you be taking, what kind of medication should you
be talking to your doctor about and so you kind
of have to Every individual has to own that. So
that's what we're trying to do is make it really
easy to get all of your health data into one
place and then training an AI on that. We call

(24:01):
it a health concierge that can help you understand what
does my current health look like? And then what do
I need to do to be healthy? You know, you
know the best way to cure, to treat a disease,
that to prevent getting it in the first place. Trying
to help you understand what you need to do.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
And lots of lots of what you're doing with the
data you you get and the answers to the questions.
All of that comes from people make it, especially seniors,
making sure they make their regular appointments for checkups, and
then that gives you and their doctors and any and
the patient themselves a way to kind of compare current

(24:38):
stuff against last year's numbers. And the more the more
an app knows, the more AI knows, the better it's
gonna do, I hope.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Right, Yeah, the smarter it's going to be in making
those recommendations. And so you really want to understand your
own health as it relates to what we call the
four horsemen of death. So this is cancer, diabetes, heart disease,
and dementia. These are the things that are that are
most likely to take our lives, and so we want
to minimize our risk associated with those things. So for

(25:09):
most of those, it's just regular blood work. You want
to make sure that you're doing your blood work every
six months or every year so you understand, hey, my
markers for diabetes or for heart disease or they headed
in the right direction or they headed in the wrong direction.
And then on cancer specifically, you really want to pay
attention to the screening recommendations. Getting your colonoscopy, doing your

(25:31):
lung scans if you're if you're a former smoker, you know,
scan for breast cancer, mammograms if you're a female. So
you want to take those really seriously because you want
to catch that cancer early if it is if it
is going to show up.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Boy, isn't that the truth down to about a minute. Unfortunately,
any yellow flags or red flags being raised in regard
to AI and healthcare, I know.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
I mean, it can hallucinate. So you always want to
be you want to be using the AI to basically
make you a better patient. And then but you always
want to be checking with your doctor. And then the
second thing I'd say, there are a lot of companies
that are recommending things that aren't really backed by science.
They're recommending these full body scams, or they're recommending really

(26:17):
extensive blood work that you don't need. So you always
want to be you always want to be cautious about
some of the promises that seem too good to be true.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
You know that that's so true right now? All these
the doctors have to make money to do what they
do and sometimes a couple extra tests, yeah, might might
help them out. Huh.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, And it's more of the companies that are selling them.
I think the doctors, if anything, they don't they don't
test enough. Yeah, okay, but yeah, there's a lot of
there's a lot of hucksters.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Pretty much anywhere you look these days. Brent Hanson, thank
you for France and saying thank you so much. Death
Clock app is is where I found what they do
and it's it's pretty fascinating. I encourage this audience to
go check it out. Thank you, Brent, Thank you. Yes, sir,
all right, we got to take a little break here
on the way there. Country boys roofing. Country boys roofs

(27:08):
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I'm very proud that he's allowing me to speak for
him as well. I've gotten to know what he does
where he does it, which is pretty much anywhere. Most
roofers will do that for you. But what John does,
in addition is offer discounts to anybody who is a

(27:31):
first responder, anybody who is a teacher, anybody's who has
been or is in the military. Fifteen hundred dollars off
a complete roof. You need a thousand dollars off of
complete roof just for dropping my name. And no, you
can't stack him. I'm gonna tell you every time, I'm
gonna tell you can't stack those discounts. What I will
tell you that John told me two days ago is

(27:53):
that there was some hail that came through this area
with those big old thunder bumpers that were running around.
I believe it was on maybe either Monday or Tuesday.
There was some significant sized hail like quarter to golf
ball sized hell. And if you happen to hear the
pitter patter on your roof, you might want to get
John out there to take a look, get Countryboy's Roofing

(28:16):
to come by, take a look at that roof to
make sure that some hail that may have fallen on
your house didn't do any damage, because if it did
and we get a hurricane, the intensity of a hurricane
is just going to magnify and make far worse any
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(28:37):
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Speaker 1 (28:56):
Old Guy's rule, And of course, women get old if
you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
If you think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Fifty plus continues.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Here's more with Doug once again. Final segment of the
program starts right now. I just got something from Dan
who listens regularly. Thank you, Dan. It's pretty funny. This
guy's just sitting there the picture has nothing to do
with what it says. It's interesting though it says I
got myself a senior GPS. Not only does it tell

(29:30):
me my destination, it also tells me why I wanted
to go there. I already have someone who does that,
And thank goodness, because every now and then I'll forget.
Every now and then I'll forgets, Hey, what did I
need at the store?

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Again?

Speaker 3 (29:46):
It's my wife, I'm talking about what was I gonna get?
Drive all the way to the store with just one
hundred percent convinced that I can remember six or seven
things on a simple list, and I try everything short
of writing it down. I don't like to have to
write it down. But when she gives me a list
I do. I graciously accept it. Thank you, because then

(30:08):
I know I can probably not forget any anything on
the list, although I have in the past missed something,
but well, never mind, it doesn't matter. Why moving on,
We already talked about dropping our phones. I don't want
to talk about that again. That's pretty nasty. By the way.
According to a recent report, the average American says that

(30:30):
the perfect, the ideal salary is seventy four thousand dollars
a year, nineteen percent of people say they need more.
They need about one hundred to feel cozy. So wherever
you are, know if you're happy with what you're making,
if you're happy living where you live and doing what
you do every day, it doesn't matter how much money

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you make. It really doesn't. I know several people who
make a lot of money who are not very happy.
They're not happy people. They make a lot of money
and someday maybe that'll be good for them. Uh. This
one I titled put down the Pumpkins, and I couldn't.
I couldn't find any good punctuation that would really make

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sense of this anyway. A new instacart report, it says here,
found pumpkin spice season is peaking earlier and earlier each year.
We all know that, we're keenly aware. Back in twenty
twenty one, the pumpkin spy stuff didn't show up until October.
Last year, the peak was September seventeenth, It was ten

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days earlier than the previous year. And then the pumpkin
spice latte is set to return to Starbucks next Tuesday.
Why because it's become a tradition and everybody wants what

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everybody has to have, and everybody has to have except me.
Will are you a pumpkin spice fan? Two thumbs down.
I would hope if you could lift them both right now,
that would be great. They'd both be down, just like mine.
I could not care less about pumpkin spice than anything,
and people just lap it up because it's Oh, it's

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available now. Yeah, we got to go get it next year.
My money's on the fourth of July. Why not. You
can't have it available all the time because then there's
no sense of urgency to get it as soon as
it comes out. But if you back it up to
July instead of August, hey you get a little bit

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more money, a little more pumpkin money. It messed up,
just messed up. Let me go back over here. There
were a couple of short, little bits and pieces I
wanted to get to. Oh, by the way, this week's
Teacher of the Week Melissa Crocker from Seven Lakes High School,
teacher and coach who, according to the person who nominated Alyssa,

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empowers those around her to grow both academically and personally.
That's a pretty good goal. Cheers to all the teachers
out there who show up for work and tackle whatever
a classroom full of kids can throw at them. I
don't know if I'm tough enough for that anymore. I've
known people who have gotten into teaching and left it.
And then I just had a brief email, or that

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was an email. It was messenger exchange with my math teacher.
I believe it was. No, it wasn't geometry. It might
have been a pre cul class in high school. I
don't remember exactly what I was learning from her, but
I do remember enjoying her class, and i'd let her
know that ongoing construction the border wall is going to
require another step in the effort to keep people from

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climbing it. It's already tall enough to pose a pretty
good challenge to most people who think climb is a
way to get in. Trump, though, has recently ordered that
steel panels, all of them, be painted black, which will
help preserve the metal in the panels for one thing,
but it's also gonna in South Texas, it's gonna make

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them pretty darn hot and not so enticing to climb.
So far, so good, And they're also adding increased security
down there. Cameras, sensors, other detection technology. Great ideas, every
one of them. Keep it up, Keep it up, Holy cow.
In Little League Baseball news, I'll finish with this story
since the Little League World Series is going on. They're

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down to six teams by the way, today this evening,
this afternoon, Latin America versus the Caribbean Region at three,
and then the US Mountain Region against the Southeast Region
of America at seven, So check that out. The story.
A player from the Dominican Republic found he was way

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older than his paperwork said. This is quite a while back,
but it's interesting. He was playing as a twelve year
old in the World Junior League Cup or whatever it
was called. When he was seventeen years old, and the light.
The light got found out when the San Diego Padres
actually said they were gonna draft this kid when he
turned sixteen because at the time they thought he was fourteen,

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but he was really in his twenties. Crazy tape on
his play shows he was pretty good, but he wasn't.
He wasn't really as dominant as he would have been
as he should have been playing at nineteen against twelve
year olds. Ah, let the kids play, Let him have fun.
That's it for today. We'll be back tomorrow. Thank you
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