You are What You Read

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Oscar Woolnough about the cognitive functions that go into reading words.

Episode Transcript

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Remember when it was impossible to misplacethe TV remote because you were the TV
remote for you. Remember when musicsounded like this, Remember when social media
was truly social? Hey John,how's it going today? Well, the
show is all about you. Onit a good die. This is fifty

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fifty plus with Doug Pike. Letme see if I can combobulate everything in
front of me here one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven page of paper. It
seems excessive, but otherwise I wouldfeel very exposed and potentially without enough to
get through. This show had alot of things going on this morning,

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all of which I've handled. Ifeel like I have anyway, So welcome
to the Tuesday edition of the program. As always, fifty plus landed the
Free Home of the Gray. Youknow how that goes. Thank you all
for joining me. By the way, I appreciate it the markets, which
we always talk about, well,I always talk about leading into the show,

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just to give you an idea.If you're in this age group and
you're overly worried about your portfolio,don't be. There's not a whole lot
we can do to change those rightnow. Hopefully you saved enough money to
get you through retirement if you didnot, and you're still working like I

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am, mostly because I had achild my wife and I did late in
life, so I'm gonna make sureI hang around the workforce as long as
I can, as long as they'lllet me, just to make sure that
he's covered when he gets a littleolder. It's not easy raising a kid,
and it's certainly not cheap, Ican assure you of that. And
it's certainly some I suppose are morerewarding than others. Mine's got that fifteen

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year old attitude going on right now. He doesn't realize how important I am,
but he will someday, and Ihope I'm around to hear about it.
The markets down maybe a half apoint, Oil also down a little
bit. That's enough of that.The weather, actually there's a pretty good
chance of rain on Thursday, thunderstormson Thursday, but otherwise all the way

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through next week looking really really good. Which favor is a plan that I'm
kind of working on, and Imay or may not say anything about that.
I don't want to jinks things thatcould work out to my favor,
But this one's been on my listfor a long time and I hope it
works out. If it doesn't,we will march on. I'll be here,

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same as always. So where doI want to start in the news
all the way from New York.I'll start here with what I think maybe
just kind of a new level ofcrazy being considered by a New York governor,
Kathy Hokel. She has dabbled atoe in the water toward an outright

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statewide band of tobacco products and sales. Let me rattle off. I'll just
give you a couple of reasons whythis is downright nuts. First, is
this little thing we Americans like tocall freedom of choice. And as bad
as cigarettes are for us, I'ma former smoker. I gave it up
more than twenty years ago. Mywife could tell you exactly when I can't.

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I just know it's been a darneda long time. But the dumb
decision to smoke should be hours tomake. Now, should the healthcare system
provide expensive treatments for long term smokers? That's another debate altogether, and I
don't know that it should. Ithink if you make the choice to make

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a bad choice, then that's kindof on you. And only one more
for the sake of time. Imaginethe what would it take maybe ten minutes
for the entire state of New Yorkto shift its tobacco industry underground, rendering
it untaxed, which doesn't do thestate. That could cost New York hundreds

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of millions of dollars, who knows, and by the way, unregulated.
So as I guess as little,we already know that cigarettes are horrible for
your health. We know that onso many levels, your heart, your
lungs, just everything. And imaginethough, that the entire industry were not,

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at least in New York, isn'tregulated, and all kinds of weird,
crazy stuff could make its way inthat. It wouldn't take long.
They would be there too, Rememberprohibition, Well, nobody in this nobody's
that old in this audience. Ican't imagine the centenarians. Perhaps if there
are some would be possibly as littlechildren watching their parents go out with a

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wink in an odd to tell themthey were going to dinner and then come
home a little tipsy. Perhaps alcoholwas illegal in this country, but still
readily available pretty much everywhere in thecountry, just not legally. All right,
moving on in the hum, Letme see where I want to go.
I'll go to some something kind ofcool and interesting that I found this

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morning. Scientists have discovered. That'swhat they do. Have discovered an ancient
deep sea coral reef system within theGallopogus Marine Reserve in Ecuador. It's not
in Equador, It's off the coastof Ecuador. I guess, first of
its kind ever to be documented insidethat marine protected area since it was established

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in nineteen ninety eight. Why solong to find it, you ask,
Well, here's one of reasons.It's down. One reason I said,
correctly, it's down at about twothousand feet. That's why. And a
couple of researchers, doctor Michelle Taylorand doctor Stewart Banks, discovered this thing

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whilst diving in an occupied vehicle knownas Alvin. It was the first time
Alvin had explored that region of thereserve and oh, what an impress darn,
my tongue's not working. It's it'sa little ahead of my brain.
Darned. What an impressive reef structurethey discovered there. That's fascinating. I've
got a little maybe trip fingers crosstrip coming up. I don't want to

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jinx it by revealing any details,but it would involve me going to someplace
with really clear water and really beautifulstuff, just not so far and certainly
not so deep. I'm not divingto four hundred meters to find what I'm
I'm looking for. So anyway,they crested this submerged volcano ridge and then

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found several kilometers of really beautiful reefstructure, pristine and teeming with life.
They recalled pink octopus, batfish,squat lobsters. It sounds like the stuff
I used to catch on fresh deadshrimp off the Gulf coast. It's fascinating.

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That just amazingly beautiful reef and apotentially good area of global significance.
Think of it as a canary inthe mine shaft for other reefs. This
is a place we can monitor,the scientists said, monitor over time to
see how it evolves with our currentsituation, whatever that situation may be.

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Oh, I Will's telling me Ineed to take a break, which is
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you now take good. I've heardthat before. All right, welcome back
to fifty plus. Thanks for listening, certainly to appreciate it. Thanks for
listening to if you like what you'rehearing, and feel free to share fifty
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I have listeners. I have beeninformed by email from all over the place

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thanks to iHeartRadio, actually as faras Kentucky. The long Distance Listener Award
goes two years ago on my outdoorshow, someone was waiting on a connecting
flight at Orley. The Paris Airportand was listening and happened to shoot me
an email that was kind of cool. So here's the deal. In this

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segment, we're going to dive intoa new subject for fifty plus. Remember
the expression you are what you readwell. As it turns out, our
brains use to justdink networks for readingand understanding complex sentences requires both of those
networks to be engaged to explain farbetter than I just did. I'll bring

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in doctor Oscar Wolno, Postdoctoral ResearchFellow in the Vivian L. Smith Department
of Neurosurgery and McGovern Medical School atUT Health Houston. Welcome aboards her.
Thank you for having me. Ikind of this is one of those things
where when I first saw it,I thought but then I thought, man,

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this is wait. I want toI want to get into this a
little bit. So what in theworld inspired you to dig so deeply into
our brains that we you you discoveredwe need more brain power than just knowing
the ABC's to read well. Ithink it's a lot of us pay for
granteats that the amount that we actuallyneed reading every day. So we're moving

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from phone calls to texts we're usingemails constantly, and to use the Internet
requires you to read constantly. Andas we're putting together sentences. As we're
reading, we not only have toprocess individual words, but we have to
construct these individual words into sentences andform the larger, more complex meaning that

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sentences and paragraphs put together. Itjust goes on as once you start,
once you open that door, itjust continues to go deeper and deeper,
doesn't it. I'm seeing this already, which was fascinating. So when did
this study start? So we startedthis a couple of years ago. So
we work with patients who have electricimplants in their brain for treating epilepsy,

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which it's a regionally rare, it'scomparatively rare procedure. So it takes us
a lot to collect in our data. So we're very grateful to the patients
that come in and working with whovolunteer their time while they're staying at the
hospitals read sentences. So how manypeople participated in it? So to this

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study we have thirty six patients.Okay, and without slipping into full on
PhD mode, but but do realizethat this audience on the whole is mature
and well educated, So I don'thold back entirely, but explain what it
was you went looking for and howyou found it. So traditionally, when
people look for brain activity in healthypeople, then we shove them into an

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m R I scanner and we canmake their brain activity and this tells us
where the brain is activating while we'rereading. But it's a very slow process,
whereas reading is very quick, likean average person will read forwards second.
So using these electrodes we get submillisecond resolution. Then we can see

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not just where activates, but whenthings are activating, when things activate relative
to each other, which areas aretalking to each other? Wow, am
I on this? We go aheadplease? So we found these networks that
the first one, the activity fromthe brain's frontal lobe in the front of
your brain sends information to the temporallobe and that activation kind of ramps up

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as you go through the sentence.That's kind of setting the build up of
this information of the meaning of thesentence. Am I? We have?
Second? So what would I becorrect to say then that say reading a
children's book uses different brain function ordifferent levels of brain function. Then maybe
you say reading a doctoral dissertation onneurological brain function. While reading depends on

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your reading background, a lot ofhow your brain activates it depends on how
well you can predict what's coming next. So your brain, every part of
your brain is designed to try andpredict what's coming next in the world.
So if he gave you a sentencelike he opened the door with the then

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you can almost about what the finalword of that sentence is going to be.
So you're kind of predict based onthe context of what's coming next to
make it more efficient to process theeach new words that's coming up. It's
trying to stay ahead, isn't it? Yes? Okay, doctor as this
is fascinating on fifty plus, Sowhat is the significance from my audience and

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me of what you turned up?So when we're trying to understand language in
the healthy brain, that is becausewe want to understand what's going wrong when
someone has an issue with their languagenetwork, so be that dyslexia, which
affects up to fifteen percent of thepopulation, or also with basia. So

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this is a very common following strokeor the brain injury that people will or
disrupt people's ability to use language.So recently Bruce Willis that was one of
the reasons that he tired is Kartand said he has a phase journey as
issues processing language. So it wantsa better on the how these networks were

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in the healthy brain, to understandwhat's going wrong in when they're damaged,
and also how we can get peopleback to being able to use language more
freely. It's fantastic, doctor askerwall Know on fifty plus. How much
as a sidebar, how much asa percentage would you say that we and
by we I mean people like youaround the world, how much do we

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know about the human brain? Oh? I think there is a lot of
questions we can still answer. Weare scratching the surface, and there is
a lot we know. We knowkind of the higher order functions of what
each brain area does, but thereis a loss of new or is that

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we don't quite understand yet, notentirely, unlike a smartphone or a laptop
right for most of us. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff my laptop
will do that I don't even knowit does. But that's okay. Do
you ever, doctor Willow, Doyou ever take a step back from yourself
and just marvel at what you andother researchers are learning about our brains.

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Is it as fascinating you as itis to me? Oh? Yeah,
this is my dream job. Ican't imagine doing anything else. And it's
always work. Talking to people whodon't work in the field always brings me
back to like, how weird whatI do today? Yet you're not painting

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houses, are you? And nothingwrong with that. Somebody's got to do
that. But where you go isa rare space and I'm so glad there
are people like you out there doingthat for people like me very quick.
How much time do I have,well, thirty seconds, very quickly,
in twenty seconds or less? IsAI dangerous or beneficial to humanity? So

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as long as we keep as longas we know how to make ethical AI,
then I think in the short termit is going to be a big
disruptor. But it is something thatis going to change human society. It's
inevitable, really, isn't it.Yes? And I like the way you
maintain the ethical nature of it.That is perfect. Thank you so much,

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doctor Oscar will No, this wasfascinating. I enjoyed it. I
really did. I appreciate your time, sir. Thank you very much for
having me, did you bet?All right? We've got to take a
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tell you a start, brown brown, brown, brown brown? Is that
will? This is one Bourbon,one Scotch, one beer by George thorough

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Good and the Destroyers. Is thereany significance to you playing that? Now?
Are you thirsty? Is that whatyou're telling me? No? Not
really thirsty. Just saw that itwas an eight minute long song and I
thought making lunch plans. Yeah,all right, enough of that. Let's
move on, shall we to something? You want to go lighter? Darker?

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Will? Let's go darker? Really? Okay? If you insist?
Um, this is somewhat disturbing.I'm trying to decide which one? Okay,
on the darker side. Do youwant to go with the debt limit,

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the debt ceiling? Do you wantto go with bear spray not hair
spray, bear spray, or doyou want to go with crazy drivers.
Let's go with crazy drivers' se Thisis something I saw just like three minutes
before I had to come over tothe studio. Apologies for saying like I
just despise saying that myself and Idid just then. It's such an unnecessary

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word in most sentences. People complainingon that neighborhood app wherever your neighborhood is,
whatever it is, it's it's aI think a national platform now,
but complaining about young drivers and thestupid stuff they do. There was a
photograph that accompanied this particular post onthe subject that showed a young person,

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a young teenaged boy, not aman yet, or he'd be hopefully smarter
than this, the passenger side windowopen and he is resting his backside on
the frame of the open window whilsthe sits outside the car, perched upon

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that spot. There are just somany things that could go right. And
the person who put the post upsaid, I follow these guys for blocks.
This guy just sitting outside the windowhaving a good time, like a
You wouldn't even let your dog stickitself that far out the window if you
were driving around with it. Andwhy these kids think that's cool or funny

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There's only one explanation, honestly,to dissuade stupid behavior like that, or
it will never stop. And thatis a policeman turning the corner, seeing
that, pulling them over, writingtickets. Same with the speed saying,
with the stop sign running, thered light running, same with weaving in
and out of traffic on the freeway. I can't come to work on a

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Saturday or Sunday morning when the trafficisn't terribly bad without being passed by at
least. And this is twelve mileson the freeway. That's it. Twelve
or thirteen miles. That's all ittakes me to get once I get on
the freeway to get here from whereI live. And I can't get here
in those twelve or thirteen minutes withoutsomebody passing me doing anywhere I don't know,

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ninety to one hundred and ten milesan hour. They don't know if
I'm gonna change lanes as they're comingup behind me. They don't know if
I'm gonna suddenly have to break forsome debris in the road, And frankly,
I guess they don't care. Ijust guess they don't care. The
only thing that's gonna shut that downis some big, fat, hefty fines,

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and that in turn they get enoughof them, especially young like that,
that's going to drive their insurance upwhere they can't even afford to drive
anymore. And that would not hurtmy feelings, honestly. I'll be the
first to confess that the next timethat I'd turn a corner and hit the
gas and burn rub well. Iguess it's hard with traction control now,

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but it wasn't hard when I wasyounger, and we weren't scared to do
it sometimes, but we learned prettyquickly as we got caught. And I
by we, I say my entireage group. You get caught once or
twice doing that and pulled over andeither threatened with or having a citation written

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for you, it'll wake you up, I'll tell you what. I'll wake
up fast. And it happened tome once, and I wasn't I wasn't
really scared of losing control on wetroads until I lost control on a wet
road and the little truck I wasdriving did a one eighty and then a
three sixty and one eighty is fiveforty and ended up going backwards up onto

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the median, which was just wideenough for that little truck, and it
just nestled itself within three or fourinches of the fencing in between that side
of I ten and the other side. Just as in the wet road.
On the wet road, a semitruck blew by me and absolutely would have

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annihilated me had my truck not stoppedwhere it did. God was looking out
for me that day, and I'mso glad because otherwise, well, there'd
be a lot of things different inmy life. Okay, Is that enough
of that dark stuff? Will?Can we can we go onto something else?
Yeah? Thank you, thank youvery much. How about waste of
time? And when I die?Or now that one's scoofy or online friends,

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don't take that one. Let's gowith when I die, I'll do
that. That's what. That's kindof dark too, don't you think you're
the one who said that's true?It is kind of funny in a way.
Serve ask people what they want donewith their remains, and the most
popular answer was what will eaten?Oh God, you're you are so pleasantly

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unpredictable. Sometimes I'm gonna go withmore. People want to be burned.
But then what and then scattered inthe Pacific, Well, that's that's warm
enough. Scattered in nature. Somepeople don't like the ocean, but they
love the woods. Some people don'tlike the desert, but they like a

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lakefront somewhere. Their favorite place.There, their happy place. That's where
they want their ashes to be scattered. There are a lot of surfers over
the years who have had their ashesscattered at sea. And it's kind of
a big deal really, when abunch of surfers will get together and they'll
all paddle out together out past thebreakers and whatnot, and then release some

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former surfers ashes like that. It'san interesting thing. The tenth most popular
response, and I don't I can'teven name the other eight between one and
ten, but the tenth most popularthing I could. I could probably name
five of them, but that'd beabout it. The tenth was a Viking
funeral. How many people? Howmany people would have said that? And

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it's not maybe one in a hundred, really, one in a thousand and
one in a million, a Vikingfuneral. That's too much Game of Thrones
right there. You'd have to havesomebody who's really good at shooting a bow
and arrow. Shooting a bow andarrow and really good. They would have
to all be in costumer It justreally wouldn't be effective at all. It

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just be like some maniac shooting aflaming arrow. Okay, that's enough of
that. The Red crossed wasting everybody'stime with a new initiative they put out
called play by the Rules. Haveyou heard anything about that? Will?
No, it's great, this willwork, you know. It will play
by the rules. Asking the playersof first person shooter games, all these

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online games that people play, whatwould what would a few of them be?
Mortal Kombat is that one? No, that would be It would be
like something call of Duty Duty.Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Okay, so what the Red Crosswants you to do while you're playing this
game is to respect the real worldrules of war. Okay, this is

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in a game. They don't.They want you to not target non violent
characters or civilian buildings or even sharing. They want you to share med kits
with your enemies and still play thegame and still win it, which would
be virtually impossible. Good luck withthat Red Cross. It's it's a noble

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thing. It's it's almost bud light. I don't think that they know how
these games are played. No,they don't. That's the problem. Or
what the what the testosterone and andadrenaline levels of young men are when they're
playing these games? Be like,be like HPD asking people who play Grand

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Theft Auto to respect people's personal propertyand traffic laws. Wouldn't that be a
wouldn't that be a fun game toplay? Just imagine pulling up to a
red light and then just waiting therefor two minutes there? Uh, you
lose? Why did I lose?He didn't lose your You didn't use your

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blinker, bro, you forgot touse your blinker? Oh my word?
Did you know? Will that thereare people in this world who some of
the things that they embarrassingly late inlife learned, like the like the symbol
the trademark of target is actually atarget. A lot of people don't don't
realize that it's true. It's true. I know somebody who did not realize

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that until almost like around fifty yearsold. Mick Jagger. One of those
things is is two names. It'snot Mick Jagger like McMuffin, And a
lot of people didn't know that allright, we gotta take a break here
on the way, I'll tell youabout ut Health Science Centers Consortium one Aging
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because they don't treat anybody else there. This is all senior medicine. Everybody
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there, take a look around uthdot edu slash aging. Once life without
a Neck, I suggest you goto bed, sleep it off, just
wait until the show's over. Issleepy. Back to Doug Pike as fifty
plus continues somewhere around twelve fifty.Let me see what my phone says,

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fifty, My watch says fifty?Are we right? Will you are actually
right? As you said it?It turned to twelve fifty. Well,
I waited until just then. Imade sure made sure that it worked.
There is talk, by the way, in case you haven't heard anybody else
around here talking about it, whichall of us who host shows on our

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AM stations here at iHeart and Houstonhave been doing for a couple of days
now and will continue to do fora while. There's talk among automakers about
the necessity or not of AM radiosin cars and trucks, and without those.
Without those you would lose Millions ofAmericans would lose access to local emergency

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information, especially when your cell phonedies because there's no electricity. You can't
really listen to your cell phone ifit's not working. And even then,
the information you get on that phone, the little alert you get and whatnot?
What is it? A horrible tonefollowed by two or three sentences of

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text that don't really tell you alot. You're in trouble, Stay sheltered,
That's all they'll give you. AnAM radio, on the other hand,
in your car, can let youknow if you need to get away
from where you are, let youknow if you need to stay put.
It will give you information that nolittle text message can possibly give you.

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Because right here on KTRH, forexample, during a hurricane, we have
twenty four seven coverage that includes informationshared by our listeners, which we then
distribute to anybody and everybody who hearsit on their AM radio in the car.
It's important stuff to have, andyou can be part of making sure

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that they don't take these AM radiosout of the cars, and you'll still
be able to listen, but it'llbe more complicated, more difficult, and
in an emergency you don't have timefor that. Just punch on, Just
turn on your radio and punch inthe button that you always push for one
of our AM stations. Tell Congressyou want to keep AM radios in the
cars and trucks. You can dothat by texting AM the letters AM to

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five two eight eight six. TextAM to five two eight eight six.
Tell Congress to keep the dog onAM radios in the cars. It's just
not that hard. I told Willthat the song he played coming Back was

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pretty spot on and handy to gointo this study by NASA, or not
the song, but the little whatis it the rejoin the sweeper? Yeah,
the sweeper, that's what they callit. About the length of a
perfect nap, And according to NASA, after about what eleven guesses will you
were actually to give you credit,and I'll always do that when you're close.

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You were very close with your firstguess of twenty minutes, and then
we played the high low game tillwe got to twenty six. NASA says
that when you nap for twenty sixminutes, you will be fifty four percent
more alert than thirty four percent betterat whatever you do next. What I'll
do next, thank you NASA,is roll over and finish my nap.

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Twenty six minutes. That's some.That's not enough, I guess there.
I have two things here actually thatfall under the category, and I'm looking
for the other one here. Holdon just one second, um, well
here's one. I think there areprobably three or four here, but I'll

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give you two of them real quick. Number one thing that just makes me
wonder just how dumb they think weare. There's a third one right there.
I knew I had three. Azoo over in the UK's looking to
hire people to dress up in ridiculouscostumes to accomplish what will you'll you don't

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have a snowballs chance of even gettingclose the witch zoom over in the UK
somewhere the witch zoo. No,there's no zoos for witches. Will Okay,
they are trying to replace the animals. I like that, like where
you're going. No, they're gonnause these to deter seagulls. Now,

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how does a seagull know if someone'sin costume? Really, unless they're gonna
make them. Maybe costumes of gianthuman sized owls or other birds of prey,
Perhaps giant eagles that just might eata seagull. Maybe that, But
otherwise no, so straight too.Just how stupid are we? There is

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a dairy farm that has started offeringcow petting events to help people destress.
Get a dog man, just rescuea dog or not. Everybody wants,
you know, the responsibility of takingcare of an animal. Okay, so

(36:45):
go to somebody's house that has adog and go pett You can't just bother
people all the time. I'm surethey would enjoy their dog getting some extra
affection. Maybe maybe you wouldn't ifI called you and said, well,
I'm really stressed out. Can Icome over and pet your dog ten minutes
and say go find a cow?You probably would? You probably would will

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speaking of cows. And this isthis is probably the world's worst anything related
to a barbecue idea. And it'sa stretch to even I shouldn't have said
that, because now I'll just messit all up for people who hear this
and then can't get it out oftheir heads. Some dude in India claims

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that you can protect your car fromthe summer heat by slathering it in what
will cow dung? Yet, well, manure dung? Is that really?
Nobody calls it that in the UnitedStates? Well, I do, do
you? Well, you're the onlyone, I think. Perhaps the guy
in New York Times, a columnistsuggested this week this is also a dumb

(37:52):
statement that people use bear spray insteadof guns should defend themselves from people who
break into their homes. God,where do I start? If if the
bad guys not close, for example, or hiding behind the door, that
spray of yours is pretty much useless. And if the guy has a gun,
the bad guy well, you're probablygonna get shot. I wish these

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people who want to tell us aboutself defense would would take some courses in
self defense. Maybe they don't,they just don't know they need live training.
I've seen videos of police training wherepeople who are training to become police

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officers and are already understanding of theheightened alert they need to be in to
go through this training still make reallydumb mistakes that get them, that get
them nabbed by the bad guys andtaken out bear spray for heaven. Say,
oh, by the way, theguy who wrote the column owns guns.
So the hypocrisy continues. It's goodfor me, but it's not good

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for you to have that. Yeahyou don't. You don't need one of
those, No reason for you tohave one. I'm looking for something I
have got. I'll tell you what. I'm gonna save this for tomorrow,
and I'm gonna put a highlighter aroundit. You know that nasty sargas and
weed that rolls up on the beach, will I have not one, but
two fantastic repurposing things that are goingon right now in the world with that

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nasty, vile smelling stuff. Nevermind all right, we'll be back tomorrow.
Thank you for listening to certainly toappreciate it. Tell a friend bring
them along next time. Audios.