Ever been moved by a story where passion meets purpose? That's exactly what you'll get with the tale of a young Indian inventor whose love for his grandmother spurred the creation of the Alpha Monitor, aimed to reshape Alzheimer's care. We share his inspiring journey, from the inception of this wearable device that alerts caregivers of wandering or fallen dementia patients, to the recognition and support from none other than India’s Prime Minister. But that's not all; we also take you through the buzz around Oklahoma City's potential new skyline jewel. Imagine a boardwalk leading up to the state's tallest building, a place where you might conquer your fear of heights with a cocktail in hand as you gaze out over the panoramic cityscape.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What do you think about gadgets?
You have any?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Like Inspector Gadget .
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Inspector Gadget Spy.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Kids Spy, kids Spy Kids.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I would love to have that stuff.
I mean, they're not that tiny,they're like boxes or something.
I mean, they should havedeveloped something by now that
(01:18):
you could like emergency shelter, just boom, have your own
workshop set up in the middle ofthe woods.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'd be carrying that thing everywhere.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Or like that thing in fallout that you're placing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It'd be like Fortnite in real life Just build
yourself a fort.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Anyway, the theme here is gadget.
I found an article that istitled Indian teen invents
gadget to transform dementiacare out of concern for his
grandmother.
This piqued my interest becauseI'm like what a teen invented a
gadget.
What's this about?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Right, and this is from the good news networkorg I.
When you pulled this up, I waslike that is pretty sick, the
fact that this got developed.
Usually you're trying to solvea problem and that's when the
best inventions happen, right.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, and I need to find an Indian woman and have a
kid with her.
That way, I have a super smartkid, that's almost borderline
bro.
It's slightly off.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
That's borderline, I mean borderline what?
Anyway, moving on, moving on.
What is this about?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Well, let's go down a little.
Where's the beginning of it?
Okay, an Indian teen who is aself-confessed nerd who loves
robotics.
Nerds are the best.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Don't get it wrong, ladies Nerds are the best.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Nerds are the best.
Also loved his grandmother,jssree, dearly.
Together they'll let him tocreate a new invention that
could greatly improve care forAlzheimer's patients.
Awesome, this is some.
This should be some breakingnews right here, dude, I know.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And of course they don't like saying anything about
this Weird Mainstream newsbecause the mainstream news
wants bad news.
But if you want your good, yourweird and your funny news, you
come to the WWE.
Yeah, who knows, you come tothe.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
WWE Himesh.
I'm probably going to butcherthis, but I'll try my best.
Chad Alavada was 12 years oldwhen one summer evening in 2018,
he observed his grandmother goto the kitchen to make tea for
herself.
When she exited the room, shehad left the gas on.
Oh boy, oh, doesn't sound good.
(03:36):
It's, shocked Himesh, but alsodrove him to convert the hours
spent on YouTube learning aboutrobotics into a solution that
would help ensure accidents likethis would be detected If he
weren't there.
Good idea A question he foundhimself asking several times.
Very good idea?
His grandmother, jssree, wasdiagnosed with Alzheimer's the
(03:59):
year before and, in 2023, passedaway from the debilitating
neurogenerative disease.
Right, it's kind of sad.
After, right after, or mayberight before.
By then, himesh had inventedthe Alpha monitor, a badge like
monitoring device that sends outalerts that the person wearing
it wanders off or falls.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Man that's genius dude, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Kind of like life alert sort of.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, I mean, and especially if you're dealing if
you're dealing with somebodywith any kind of dementia or
Alzheimer's or any kind of, youare not going to be able to Like
.
You want to keep your eyes onthem 24 seven, but you're not
going to be able to.
Now, there's no way, and soeven if you're with them, the
necessity for devices like thesejust to help when people aren't
(04:47):
there.
I I'd say it's very necessary.
So props to this kid.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
He used to get up at three or four in the morning and
go outside thinking she was ona train.
Himesh told the Guardian hedeveloped the wearable with
information gleaned from a visitto a care center run by
Alzheimer's in related disorders, society of India Interesting.
They told him that it itcouldn't be a watch, because the
(05:16):
patients often take them off ifthey're heavy or uncomfortable,
and that it couldn't useBluetooth, which has a very
limited range.
Even though still in highschool, himesh was determined to
get his wearable ready formanufacture.
Geez, here he is presentingalpha monitor alpha monitor
wearable for monitoringAlzheimer's in patients.
(05:36):
Okay, in 2022, he beat 18,000entries to win a Samsung
sponsored science fair calledSamsung solve for tomorrow, from
which he pocketed a $120,000grant and the opportunity to
mentor under some of Samsung'smost experienced engineers which
is awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
If you know anything about, uh, the eastern part of
the world, or anything aboutthat part, samsung is one is
like the place you want to belike that's like one of the top
names and phones too.
Yeah, it's one of the top namesof phones, and especially in
India it's.
It's one of the places you wantto be.
Heck yeah, um, either work forthem in turn, whatever.
(06:18):
So this kid doing this isincredible.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Um, let's see.
His victory also won theadmiration of his country's
prime minister Can be, datNarendra Modi, who posted on x
that he really admired the youngman.
Geez Himesh's exams conclude inMarch, and it's then that he
says he will throw his fullweight of time and effort into
getting the alpha monitor On themarket by September.
(06:41):
After that he wants to go aheadand continue studying robotics.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Bro, that's like putting it in perspective,
that's like the king saying goahead, man, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, I know like that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Oh my gosh, that's pretty amazing.
And you know, he turnedsomething that was heartbreaking
and made it into a solution.
Yeah like that's.
That takes a lot of guts and he, he did it.
That's insane.
Yeah, this kid's gonna likesolve cancer.
I totally want to meet andshake the hand of that kid, this
(07:16):
kid's gonna do some greatthings, but even just the start
of all timers and dementia.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Hey, who knows, we'll hear.
Maybe we'll hear about himlater.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I somewhat I agree with these kids man.
Like greed has gotten too far.
We should have been years aheadin our development for solving
these diseases by now.
So you know, it might be kidsthat might turn the world on its
head.
I have no doubt.
I'm just telling you I'm.
It's gonna be kids that changethe world.
Um well, they're gonna have toanyway, yeah we need somebody,
(07:48):
we need somebody out here tochange the world because uh yeah
, it's getting crazy.
And the fact that he turned abad situation that went from bad
to worse and just decided youknow what, I'm gonna do
something about it.
That takes guts and courage.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
He's gonna be Rick's restless life, probably because
of that.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I hope so, that's genius.
Yeah, it's just, it's like uh,it's probably gonna be hospital
like a notification bell for ifyou lose your way, like if
you're a dementia patient andyou just lose your way or you
forget to turn something offlike that, it's like a
notification bell, that's.
That's Crazy genius.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I bet all the hospitals or whatever's gonna be
like, hey, we need one of these.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I hope so.
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That would be awesome or anybody that hasn't A family
member, with just the tractionwith Alzheimer's and being
endorsed by samsung Like justthe traction from that project
is gonna get enormous publicityout of it and press Well from
great inventions To Very greatbuildings.
(08:49):
Pinnacles, one might say.
The pinnacle of inventions tothe pinnacle of buildings.
Oh yeah, why not?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay, so we know this world has a lot of technology
and we know that a lot of veryfascinating people have this
dream of building skyscrapers.
So they do, and we see it incities all across the world.
They just get higher and higherand like they're like they're
trying to reach space eventually.
I think, yeah, you like theMarvel movie we saw the
(09:25):
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 wherehe's like like the elevator that
goes up or no?
No, the Marvel's.
The Marvel's where the elevatorgoes up.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It's a friggin Earth to space elevator.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
That's going to be, eventually, our skyscraper.
That would be so scary dude.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Just swaying up there .
Can you imagine just ascendingfrom Earth and then, like you
see yourself, going above theEarth in this elevator?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Can you imagine going from gravity to no gravity?
How freaky that would be.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I don't know how that elevator actually functioned,
honestly Well, there had to besome kind of that's why it was
on tracks, right?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So the theory would be that if you have something on
tracks connected to space, thenyou could force it to move even
if there's no gravity, so itwould just fall along that track
.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So what is that?
Stay back.
Oh hi, it's freaking out.
For a minute, I thought it wasno.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
No, but that's the theory that the elevator would
keep moving on a track becauseyou could force it.
I don't know If it was possible.
It would still be scary.
Speaking of tall buildings, wehave somebody who's very
ambitious in the middle ofnowhere doing something that
(10:50):
I've thought about in my townthat I think would be hilarious.
They're going to try to buildone of the tallest buildings in
America in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Sorry folks, Bug distracted me for a few seconds
there.
Anyway, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So they're going to build a building in Oklahoma and
try to make it one of thetallest buildings in the world.
Here's the story behind this.
You may be surprised, as wewere, to learn.
The tallest building in Americamay soon reach the skies of
Oklahoma City, the 20th mostpopulated metropolis in the
United States.
(11:27):
Developers submitted plans forthe legendary, for the legend
tower.
They call it the Legends Tower.
Okay then Somebody's ego wasinvolved with that one Legends,
yeah, the Legends Tower, maybeFor a proposed development
project called the Boardwalk atBricktown.
The building, if approved,would arise in the southern
(11:48):
state of Oklahoma and become thesixth tallest building in the
world.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Maybe we should have looked up the other five.
I mean, number six is prettygood.
This is number six, but hereare the other five Architecture
company AO.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
in real estate developer Madison Capital drew
up plans that would make thestructure the tallest in America
, surpassing the one World TradeCenter in New York City,
currently the seventh highest inthe world.
Oh, there's one of them.
The symbolic height of the 1907foot tall honors the year 1907,
(12:26):
when Oklahoma was admitted asthe 46th state of the United
States.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Hey, well, it makes sense, I guess, yeah it might
make sense.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oklahoma City is experiencing a significant
period of growth andtransformation, making it well
positioned to support largescale projects like one in
vision for Bricktown, said ScottMadison, the CEO of Madison
Capital.
The development would featurethe three smaller buildings.
You see the three smallerbuildings here.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Alongside the legends tower and will reach 581 meters
and feature a publicobservatory at the top, along
with a restaurant and bar wherevisitors can enjoy the sweeping
views.
So, in other words, it'll beopen to the public up here.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I'm not eager to climb, I'd go up there.
I go try the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
You know we went to the CN tower in Seattle.
Was it Seattle?
No, Toronto.
We went to the.
We went to the tower in Toronto.
It looks like the Space Needle.
Remember that one story we didwith the yeah with the.
It looks like that, but theythey have a restaurant up top.
(13:44):
We ate up there.
It was expensive but it was funbecause the whole restaurant
rotates, like the whole thingrotates while you're up there so
you can see the whole city.
So that was pretty cool.
I know that for this, thispicture is interesting because
look at the area they want toput it in now.
(14:06):
If you know Oklahoma andOklahoma City people, there are
not a lot of skyscrapers.
In fact you could say there arepositively none Around the
Oklahoma City area like it'slike a big, big red thumb like
here, I can bring up a cityliterally, but picture of
Oklahoma.
Real quick, I'm gonna show thisto Jesse here.
(14:27):
So wait, there's, the onlyclosest thing that you can get
out of Oklahoma would probablybe this building here.
See this taller building righthere.
(14:47):
Yeah, but look at everythingelse like this part looks like
in the middle of Columbus, ohio.
This part over here just lookslike this.
Looks like Offices in a hotel,maybe, but like see how there's.
There's not really anythingcompeting now.
Like so that's what makes itcrazy, because if they built a
(15:08):
skyscraper in the middle ofOklahoma City, you could see for
miles on a clear day.
No, no, this is.
This is what's already there.
The one that they're wanting tobuild Looks yeah, it doesn't
look like that one.
The one they're wanting tobuild looks like this it's gonna
(15:28):
be leagues above the otherbuildings a One, something
pulled right out of halo.
It really does really, you knowwhat else it reminds me of.
Like Tokyo and South Korea,they have buildings like this
Seoul, south Korea and.
Tokyo, japan, they havebuildings like this that look
crazy cool.
So Maybe Oklahoma's justdecided, you know what, since
(15:49):
they're not wanting to move likethey're not wanting to move our
tech.
We're gonna move our tech, so wewanted to be.
We believe that thisdevelopment will be an iconic
destination for the city,further driving the expansion
and diversification Of thegrowing economy, drawing an
investment, new business andjobs, says Madison.
We hope to see the boardwalk atBricktown stand as the pride of
(16:10):
Oklahoma City, a catalyst forurban evolution.
The boardwalk embodies thespirited essence of Oklahoma
City, honoring its rich past,dynamic present and promising
future.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Our lot boys Sound like that oh managing partner.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Rob, I think I was doing a speech there.
I don't remember what happened.
I kind of blacked out there fora second.
You were one of the tallestbuildings in the world are oh,
hey, there they are?
We got a list for you, dubai.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Of course Dubai.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh wait a burj Khalifa one 2717 feet, or that's
the one that was in fast andfurious.
Yeah, I think so.
In fact, they used a few ofthose buildings in the fast and
the furious on purpose.
It was kind of like a touristnumber two koala Lumpak.
Malaysia.
Malaysia Merdica, merdica 118.
(17:09):
It is two thousand two hundredand twenty seven feet tall.
Shanghai China coming in atnumber three with the Shanghai
Tower, 2073 feet.
You guys can all look at thesetwo.
If you want, just go up look uppictures of them.
They are pretty impressive.
I will tell you that myself.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Number four is Mecca, saudi Arabia.
Hey, look, another one, notanother one, sort of sort of
close, I guess, in theneighborhood, in the
neighborhood, big neighborhood,a barrage outbait clock tower
clocking in at 1971 feet.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
The next one, fifth one on the list, it would be
China, shenzhen, china Ping onFinance Center, at 1965 feet.
Their finance center is one ofthe tallest buildings in the
world.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Oh hey, it's in proposed.
Oklahoma City is legendaryright under it.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, so that's if they, if they approve it and
they build it, that's going tobe in sixth place, right under
China.
It would beat out South Korea.
So South Korea, seoul, southKorea, like we were just talking
about the lot world tower at 18, 19 feet, so 1800, 19 feet.
(18:24):
And then finally, number seven,the World Trade Center.
New York City 17700 or 1776 feet.
There you go.
So yeah, there's the list.
So it would be on for numbersix and it would kick New York
City down to number eight.
Bummer, I mean, I really stillin the top 10, still in the top
(18:50):
10.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, it'd be a top 10 list there you go, I'll tell
you what.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
If they build this I've been to Oklahoma and
Oklahoma City I'd go visit.
We could go down there and trythe food and go up to the
restaurant and try the food andthen I'll record Jesse shaking
on camera.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I totally would do.
I'd be like hey, hey, shake mewhen we're up there.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You know what?
We'll look out the windowshaking together.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And then somebody else record it in a few hours
when I go down the stairs.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
No, he'll be like.
He'll be like, uh, uh.
I'll talk to you in a few hours, once I get the feeling of my
legs back.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Once I'm all the way down the stairs, every biggest
linkie with me.
Everyone loves this link.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Somehow I feel like the food would be delicious.
It better be.
What did they say?
They said an observatory andrestaurant and a bar.
So yeah, for the people thatcan't handle heights, they got a
bar for you.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I might get a drink when I'm up there.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
No, but it looks really interesting.
The smaller buildings.
I'm not sure what the smallerbuildings are for, but it does
look like to hold it up.
No, no, I know from thispicture it looks like it would
be kind of a shopping center, abunch of offices and maybe a
park up here.
Looks like it might be a metropark up on top.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
It looks interesting.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
That would be neat.
Hey, I'm down.
Have they want to break somerecords?
I've always said that Americais behind in tech and especially
in buildings.
We're really behind.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So I mean look, new York was number eight seven.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, we don't even come close to some of the
craziest stuff in New York.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That's a little messed up.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Hey, you know I'm down for some new building
inventions.
If they want to start this, Iam all for it, man, Because
number one thing I want to do onmy list is travel and find out
that would be awesome and weencourage you guys to travel.
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Speaker 2 (21:33):
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Speaker 1 (21:36):
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True, true.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
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All right, guys, we'll checkyou in next week and we'll see
you next time on weird worldvariety.
See you later, guys.
What do you think about gadgets?
You have any?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Like Inspector Gadget .
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Inspector Gadget Spy.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Kids Spy, kids Spy Kids.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I would love to have that stuff.
I mean, they're not that tiny,they're like boxes or something.
I mean, they should havedeveloped something by now that
(01:18):
you could like emergency shelter, just boom, have your own
workshop set up in the middle ofthe woods.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'd be carrying that thing everywhere.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Or like that thing in fallout that you're placing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It'd be like Fortnite in real life Just build
yourself a fort.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Anyway, the theme here is gadget.
I found an article that istitled Indian teen invents
gadget to transform dementiacare out of concern for his
grandmother.
This piqued my interest becauseI'm like what a teen invented a
gadget.
What's this about?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Right, and this is from the good news networkorg I.
When you pulled this up, I waslike that is pretty sick, the
fact that this got developed.
Usually you're trying to solvea problem and that's when the
best inventions happen, right.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, and I need to find an Indian woman and have a
kid with her.
That way, I have a super smartkid, that's almost borderline
bro.
It's slightly off.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
That's borderline, I mean borderline what?
Anyway, moving on, moving on.
What is this about?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Well, let's go down a little.
Where's the beginning of it?
Okay, an Indian teen who is aself-confessed nerd who loves
robotics.
Nerds are the best.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Don't get it wrong, ladies Nerds are the best.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Nerds are the best.
Also loved his grandmother,jssree, dearly.
Together they'll let him tocreate a new invention that
could greatly improve care forAlzheimer's patients.
Awesome, this is some.
This should be some breakingnews right here, dude, I know.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And of course they don't like saying anything about
this Weird Mainstream newsbecause the mainstream news
wants bad news.
But if you want your good, yourweird and your funny news, you
come to the WWE.
Yeah, who knows, you come tothe.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
WWE Himesh.
I'm probably going to butcherthis, but I'll try my best.
Chad Alavada was 12 years oldwhen one summer evening in 2018,
he observed his grandmother goto the kitchen to make tea for
herself.
When she exited the room, shehad left the gas on.
Oh boy, oh, doesn't sound good.
(03:36):
It's, shocked Himesh, but alsodrove him to convert the hours
spent on YouTube learning aboutrobotics into a solution that
would help ensure accidents likethis would be detected If he
weren't there.
Good idea A question he foundhimself asking several times.
Very good idea?
His grandmother, jssree, wasdiagnosed with Alzheimer's the
(03:59):
year before and, in 2023, passedaway from the debilitating
neurogenerative disease.
Right, it's kind of sad.
After, right after, or mayberight before.
By then, himesh had inventedthe Alpha monitor, a badge like
monitoring device that sends outalerts that the person wearing
it wanders off or falls.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Man that's genius dude, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Kind of like life alert sort of.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, I mean, and especially if you're dealing if
you're dealing with somebodywith any kind of dementia or
Alzheimer's or any kind of, youare not going to be able to Like
.
You want to keep your eyes onthem 24 seven, but you're not
going to be able to.
Now, there's no way, and soeven if you're with them, the
necessity for devices like thesejust to help when people aren't
(04:47):
there.
I I'd say it's very necessary.
So props to this kid.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
He used to get up at three or four in the morning and
go outside thinking she was ona train.
Himesh told the Guardian hedeveloped the wearable with
information gleaned from a visitto a care center run by
Alzheimer's in related disorders, society of India Interesting.
They told him that it itcouldn't be a watch, because the
(05:16):
patients often take them off ifthey're heavy or uncomfortable,
and that it couldn't useBluetooth, which has a very
limited range.
Even though still in highschool, himesh was determined to
get his wearable ready formanufacture.
Geez, here he is presentingalpha monitor alpha monitor
wearable for monitoringAlzheimer's in patients.
(05:36):
Okay, in 2022, he beat 18,000entries to win a Samsung
sponsored science fair calledSamsung solve for tomorrow, from
which he pocketed a $120,000grant and the opportunity to
mentor under some of Samsung'smost experienced engineers which
is awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
If you know anything about, uh, the eastern part of
the world, or anything aboutthat part, samsung is one is
like the place you want to belike that's like one of the top
names and phones too.
Yeah, it's one of the top namesof phones, and especially in
India it's.
It's one of the places you wantto be.
Heck yeah, um, either work forthem in turn, whatever.
(06:18):
So this kid doing this isincredible.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Um, let's see.
His victory also won theadmiration of his country's
prime minister Can be, datNarendra Modi, who posted on x
that he really admired the youngman.
Geez Himesh's exams conclude inMarch, and it's then that he
says he will throw his fullweight of time and effort into
getting the alpha monitor On themarket by September.
(06:41):
After that he wants to go aheadand continue studying robotics.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Bro, that's like putting it in perspective,
that's like the king saying goahead, man, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, I know like that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Oh my gosh, that's pretty amazing.
And you know, he turnedsomething that was heartbreaking
and made it into a solution.
Yeah like that's.
That takes a lot of guts and he, he did it.
That's insane.
Yeah, this kid's gonna likesolve cancer.
I totally want to meet andshake the hand of that kid, this
(07:16):
kid's gonna do some greatthings, but even just the start
of all timers and dementia.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Hey, who knows, we'll hear.
Maybe we'll hear about himlater.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I somewhat I agree with these kids man.
Like greed has gotten too far.
We should have been years aheadin our development for solving
these diseases by now.
So you know, it might be kidsthat might turn the world on its
head.
I have no doubt.
I'm just telling you I'm.
It's gonna be kids that changethe world.
Um well, they're gonna have toanyway, yeah we need somebody,
(07:48):
we need somebody out here tochange the world because uh yeah
, it's getting crazy.
And the fact that he turned abad situation that went from bad
to worse and just decided youknow what, I'm gonna do
something about it.
That takes guts and courage.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
He's gonna be Rick's restless life, probably because
of that.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I hope so, that's genius.
Yeah, it's just, it's like uh,it's probably gonna be hospital
like a notification bell for ifyou lose your way, like if
you're a dementia patient andyou just lose your way or you
forget to turn something offlike that, it's like a
notification bell, that's.
That's Crazy genius.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I bet all the hospitals or whatever's gonna be
like, hey, we need one of these.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I hope so.
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That would be awesome or anybody that hasn't A family
member, with just the tractionwith Alzheimer's and being
endorsed by samsung Like justthe traction from that project
is gonna get enormous publicityout of it and press Well from
great inventions To Very greatbuildings.
(08:49):
Pinnacles, one might say.
The pinnacle of inventions tothe pinnacle of buildings.
Oh yeah, why not?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay, so we know this world has a lot of technology
and we know that a lot of veryfascinating people have this
dream of building skyscrapers.
So they do, and we see it incities all across the world.
They just get higher and higherand like they're like they're
trying to reach space eventually.
I think, yeah, you like theMarvel movie we saw the
(09:25):
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 wherehe's like like the elevator that
goes up or no?
No, the Marvel's.
The Marvel's where the elevatorgoes up.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It's a friggin Earth to space elevator.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
That's going to be, eventually, our skyscraper.
That would be so scary dude.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Just swaying up there .
Can you imagine just ascendingfrom Earth and then, like you
see yourself, going above theEarth in this elevator?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Can you imagine going from gravity to no gravity?
How freaky that would be.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I don't know how that elevator actually functioned,
honestly Well, there had to besome kind of that's why it was
on tracks, right?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So the theory would be that if you have something on
tracks connected to space, thenyou could force it to move even
if there's no gravity, so itwould just fall along that track
.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So what is that?
Stay back.
Oh hi, it's freaking out.
For a minute, I thought it wasno.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
No, but that's the theory that the elevator would
keep moving on a track becauseyou could force it.
I don't know If it was possible.
It would still be scary.
Speaking of tall buildings, wehave somebody who's very
ambitious in the middle ofnowhere doing something that
(10:50):
I've thought about in my townthat I think would be hilarious.
They're going to try to buildone of the tallest buildings in
America in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Sorry folks, Bug distracted me for a few seconds
there.
Anyway, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So they're going to build a building in Oklahoma and
try to make it one of thetallest buildings in the world.
Here's the story behind this.
You may be surprised, as wewere, to learn.
The tallest building in Americamay soon reach the skies of
Oklahoma City, the 20th mostpopulated metropolis in the
United States.
(11:27):
Developers submitted plans forthe legendary, for the legend
tower.
They call it the Legends Tower.
Okay then Somebody's ego wasinvolved with that one Legends,
yeah, the Legends Tower, maybeFor a proposed development
project called the Boardwalk atBricktown.
The building, if approved,would arise in the southern
(11:48):
state of Oklahoma and become thesixth tallest building in the
world.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Maybe we should have looked up the other five.
I mean, number six is prettygood.
This is number six, but hereare the other five Architecture
company AO.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
in real estate developer Madison Capital drew
up plans that would make thestructure the tallest in America
, surpassing the one World TradeCenter in New York City,
currently the seventh highest inthe world.
Oh, there's one of them.
The symbolic height of the 1907foot tall honors the year 1907,
(12:26):
when Oklahoma was admitted asthe 46th state of the United
States.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Hey, well, it makes sense, I guess, yeah it might
make sense.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oklahoma City is experiencing a significant
period of growth andtransformation, making it well
positioned to support largescale projects like one in
vision for Bricktown, said ScottMadison, the CEO of Madison
Capital.
The development would featurethe three smaller buildings.
You see the three smallerbuildings here.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Alongside the legends tower and will reach 581 meters
and feature a publicobservatory at the top, along
with a restaurant and bar wherevisitors can enjoy the sweeping
views.
So, in other words, it'll beopen to the public up here.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I'm not eager to climb, I'd go up there.
I go try the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
You know we went to the CN tower in Seattle.
Was it Seattle?
No, Toronto.
We went to the.
We went to the tower in Toronto.
It looks like the Space Needle.
Remember that one story we didwith the yeah with the.
It looks like that, but theythey have a restaurant up top.
(13:44):
We ate up there.
It was expensive but it was funbecause the whole restaurant
rotates, like the whole thingrotates while you're up there so
you can see the whole city.
So that was pretty cool.
I know that for this, thispicture is interesting because
look at the area they want toput it in now.
(14:06):
If you know Oklahoma andOklahoma City people, there are
not a lot of skyscrapers.
In fact you could say there arepositively none Around the
Oklahoma City area like it'slike a big, big red thumb like
here, I can bring up a cityliterally, but picture of
Oklahoma.
Real quick, I'm gonna show thisto Jesse here.
(14:27):
So wait, there's, the onlyclosest thing that you can get
out of Oklahoma would probablybe this building here.
See this taller building righthere.
(14:47):
Yeah, but look at everythingelse like this part looks like
in the middle of Columbus, ohio.
This part over here just lookslike this.
Looks like Offices in a hotel,maybe, but like see how there's.
There's not really anythingcompeting now.
Like so that's what makes itcrazy, because if they built a
(15:08):
skyscraper in the middle ofOklahoma City, you could see for
miles on a clear day.
No, no, this is.
This is what's already there.
The one that they're wanting tobuild Looks yeah, it doesn't
look like that one.
The one they're wanting tobuild looks like this it's gonna
(15:28):
be leagues above the otherbuildings a One, something
pulled right out of halo.
It really does really, you knowwhat else it reminds me of.
Like Tokyo and South Korea,they have buildings like this
Seoul, south Korea and.
Tokyo, japan, they havebuildings like this that look
crazy cool.
So Maybe Oklahoma's justdecided, you know what, since
(15:49):
they're not wanting to move likethey're not wanting to move our
tech.
We're gonna move our tech, so wewanted to be.
We believe that thisdevelopment will be an iconic
destination for the city,further driving the expansion
and diversification Of thegrowing economy, drawing an
investment, new business andjobs, says Madison.
We hope to see the boardwalk atBricktown stand as the pride of
(16:10):
Oklahoma City, a catalyst forurban evolution.
The boardwalk embodies thespirited essence of Oklahoma
City, honoring its rich past,dynamic present and promising
future.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Our lot boys Sound like that oh managing partner.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Rob, I think I was doing a speech there.
I don't remember what happened.
I kind of blacked out there fora second.
You were one of the tallestbuildings in the world are oh,
hey, there they are?
We got a list for you, dubai.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Of course Dubai.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh wait a burj Khalifa one 2717 feet, or that's
the one that was in fast andfurious.
Yeah, I think so.
In fact, they used a few ofthose buildings in the fast and
the furious on purpose.
It was kind of like a touristnumber two koala Lumpak.
Malaysia.
Malaysia Merdica, merdica 118.
(17:09):
It is two thousand two hundredand twenty seven feet tall.
Shanghai China coming in atnumber three with the Shanghai
Tower, 2073 feet.
You guys can all look at thesetwo.
If you want, just go up look uppictures of them.
They are pretty impressive.
I will tell you that myself.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Number four is Mecca, saudi Arabia.
Hey, look, another one, notanother one, sort of sort of
close, I guess, in theneighborhood, in the
neighborhood, big neighborhood,a barrage outbait clock tower
clocking in at 1971 feet.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
The next one, fifth one on the list, it would be
China, shenzhen, china Ping onFinance Center, at 1965 feet.
Their finance center is one ofthe tallest buildings in the
world.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Oh hey, it's in proposed.
Oklahoma City is legendaryright under it.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, so that's if they, if they approve it and
they build it, that's going tobe in sixth place, right under
China.
It would beat out South Korea.
So South Korea, seoul, southKorea, like we were just talking
about the lot world tower at 18, 19 feet, so 1800, 19 feet.
(18:24):
And then finally, number seven,the World Trade Center.
New York City 17700 or 1776 feet.
There you go.
So yeah, there's the list.
So it would be on for numbersix and it would kick New York
City down to number eight.
Bummer, I mean, I really stillin the top 10, still in the top
(18:50):
10.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, it'd be a top 10 list there you go, I'll tell
you what.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
If they build this I've been to Oklahoma and
Oklahoma City I'd go visit.
We could go down there and trythe food and go up to the
restaurant and try the food andthen I'll record Jesse shaking
on camera.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I totally would do.
I'd be like hey, hey, shake mewhen we're up there.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You know what?
We'll look out the windowshaking together.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And then somebody else record it in a few hours
when I go down the stairs.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
No, he'll be like.
He'll be like, uh, uh.
I'll talk to you in a few hours, once I get the feeling of my
legs back.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Once I'm all the way down the stairs, every biggest
linkie with me.
Everyone loves this link.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Somehow I feel like the food would be delicious.
It better be.
What did they say?
They said an observatory andrestaurant and a bar.
So yeah, for the people thatcan't handle heights, they got a
bar for you.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I might get a drink when I'm up there.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
No, but it looks really interesting.
The smaller buildings.
I'm not sure what the smallerbuildings are for, but it does
look like to hold it up.
No, no, I know from thispicture it looks like it would
be kind of a shopping center, abunch of offices and maybe a
park up here.
Looks like it might be a metropark up on top.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
It looks interesting.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
That would be neat.
Hey, I'm down.
Have they want to break somerecords?
I've always said that Americais behind in tech and especially
in buildings.
We're really behind.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So I mean look, new York was number eight seven.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, we don't even come close to some of the
craziest stuff in New York.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That's a little messed up.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Hey, you know I'm down for some new building
inventions.
If they want to start this, Iam all for it, man, Because
number one thing I want to do onmy list is travel and find out
that would be awesome and weencourage you guys to travel.
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Speaker 2 (21:33):
We can talk weird about anything, we can make
jokes.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I definitely do.
True, true.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
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