April 24, 2024 • 14 mins
First, Jack reveals an odd and unique experience that he had (prior to kids). Next, a study about old age leads to Katie describing her major health transformation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How old is old? It's one more thing. I'm strong
and geddy. One more thing. You got a couple of
things for you before we get out of here. Neither
Joe or I want to do this today, this podcast.
I don't know why exactly. I'm tird, don't know why exactly,
just just ain't feeling it. Just don't feel like talking anymore.
(00:23):
I don't think I.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Get all on the field.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You've been talking for four hours.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We played nine innings. I'm in the clubhouse and managers
like tenth innings starting.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm like what It reminds me for some reason, you
saying that Katie when I was single and childless. Thank you.
What is her name, Gladys? I want to call sorry Gladys.
I wanted to call her Lola for some reason, Lola
doesn't play the harp. Thank you, Gladys for laying the
(00:55):
harp of me reminiscing about something when I was single
and childless. There were a few weekends where I would
realize on Monday morning, as I'm driving to work to
do the radio show, that I hadn't said a word
since I left work on Friday, because I hadn't interacted
with another human being at all. I saidn't word to anybody.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Hmmm, I don't really know what to say to that.
What percentage of the population can make that same claim.
I did not interact with another human being the entire weekend,
did not speak a word, fairly limited, I would guess,
but you know you do you what would you guess?
And if you as angry hermit.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I would guess that both my brothers have done it
semi regularly recently, with their kids older and out of
the house.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Like not even a phone call, Like that's bizarre.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Mean, nobody talks on the phone. And I don't know
if that's a good example. Now back in the day, No,
we're talking.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Back in the day. Yeah, right, you had Gladys play
the damn harp, then you called her Lola, And now
we're in the present. What's going on here?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Somebody explained the crowd rules we all lost?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
What does Walter say in The Big Lebowski something about
have we all lost our minds? Nobody cares about the
rules anymore?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
How much on an outlier do you think I am?
You think I'm in the one percent of the population
that has ever done.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That, or.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's fewer than five five pretty small.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
No, it's not five, it's one to one to two,
And I.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Don't think it's probably good for you. I also had
to do with like like, uh, you know, I have
a really big Friday night, maybe a long watching movies
or something. You don't feel so good on Saturday, maybe
part of Sunday. You just don't leave the house. You
order a pizza. You know, it might be an exaggeration
to have not said a word to anybody. Might have
(02:49):
said thanks to the pizza guy when he handed me
the pizza, but it wouldn't have been more than a
couple of words.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Oh, in this day and age, even with phones, I've
done that where you take the recovery day, you turn
the phone off.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Well yeah, so think about this though the younger crowd
now with their lifestyle, like you know, our producer Sean
or whatever, I'll but he had weekends where he never
said a word to anybody other than through maybe a headset, plane,
video games or a number of young people. Now that
you know, you can DoorDash or whatever, you don't have
to call anybody to order food or something. Ill, but
it happens more often than you think. It'd still be
(03:22):
a small number.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It makes me sad.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
All I know is we're moving more that direction than
away from it. I would guess, which is good.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
You can see all the statistics on how happy and
care free young people are these days.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, I don't think I ever came out of a
weekend like thinking that was like a really good time
or what an awesome weekend that was or something. I'm
not claiming that.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
See. And I'm of the day and age of cell
phones and whatnot, and it's amazing the hoops I will
jump through to avoid having to talk to somebody else.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, like I'll.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
You know, scheduling appointments online, ordering online, all that stuff.
I would much rather do that than have to call
and interact with someone.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, I avoid it now, not because I don't want
to talk to If I thought I could talk to
human being, i'd call right away. I don't want to
call and get your impossible to use automated phone system
that takes me twenty minutes and doesn't work. I'll see
if I can do it online. And the reason it
takes twenty minutes and doesn't work is because you want
me to do it online, because it's the cheapest thing
(04:22):
for you, But that's a different topic. A couple of
quick things here. I just came across this. Don't usually
talk about this sort of thing on this podcast. This
money circulating in US is expanding rapidly. We have a
money supply surge going on right now. It's the highest
level in over a year. They think that will likely
lead to inflation surging higher. Don't like that story.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
It ought to if the laws of monetary physics are
still true, and they.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Are, and then this one. This is an actual survey.
This isn't one of those done by According to walk
in Tubs, older people always look at who paid for
the survey. A lot of time surveys have just did
their crap because of who they paid for. This is
actual research done by a team of German researchers in
Germany and the United States Journal of Psychology. Stuff about
(05:16):
how what we where we think old age begins has
been moving higher. This is not surprising at all. Last July,
that's what do you think old age began for you?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Absolutely, last time, I feel like I screwed up my back.
Oh really started the shuffling like I'm ninety and it's
a lot better now.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But that has a lot to do with it, because
I was gonna mention my mom and dad have different
numbers on that, and for those reasons, my mom's physical
health is not near where my dad's is. So I
don't know what she would say, but she would probably
say old age starts. Well, I can tell you the
average now is seventy five. If you ask a senior,
when does old age begin, it's now seventy five. Seventy
(06:02):
five is the new sixty five, because it used to
be not that many years ago. People said old age
started at sixty five. Now that would seem kind of crazy,
I think for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yes, for me, it started at forty eight. That's when
you start hurting yourself, you know, just doing the most
basic things like walking or something.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah. I was just in the lunch room and one
of the saleswomen who is now in her forties, was
talking about all forties or not what I thought they
would be talking about trying to work out, and she
keeps getting hurt and blah blah blah. Yeah, but so
now it's seventy five. Is both sixty five? My dad
says eighty eighties when old age starts. But that's because
he was still riding his horse up till eighty two.
(06:39):
My mom has not been as physically as gifted as him,
and would put it a little earlier, but probably about surprisingly.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
The horse was seventy five. What it's an old horse,
Joe horse?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
When are you going to get off of me? That
is the question. When do I have When do I
get to be an old age? That do only makes sense.
I suppose life expectancy and help. But my mom regularly
says when she she was a kid, people in their
sixties were considered old. You were done with life in
your sixties. Nobody would have thought you played golf or
rode a horse, or rode bikes or vacationed or anything
(07:12):
in your sixties.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You were just starting a new career. You kidding.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You were just in a rocking chair in your sixties,
which now, of course seems crazy. You're the youngest amongst
Katie and he thoughts on this, or does everything over
the age of forty five just seem ancient to you?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
No, both my parents are in their early to mid seventies,
and they're both young as can be, So I don't
even think seventy five is old. In my perspective, and I, dude,
everything started hurting on me last year. And I had
a stroke when I was thirty one, so I'm ninety.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's why we get along so at having a stroke
at thirty one would change your view of it. I
didn't have any health situation really at all until I
got cancer at forty nine.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
But dude, my health went nuts at twenty nine. A
kidney problem came up out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
A quote mutated gene.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I have a hereditary condition that is a mutated gene
because nobody else in my family has it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
And then I stroked out in twenty twenty. It was wild,
have no idea.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
What caused that?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
The stroke?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, well it was a mixture of not taking care
of myself in stress.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Okay, They said, oh really, but some of it was
in your control.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yeah, I just I I wasn't exercising at all.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I was obese big time.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Were you really? I can't picture you obese at all?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Two pounds?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Were you really? This is new information, so that that's
why you're always talking about working out and you eat
so healthy.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, I had I had to make a change.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The doctors were like this, you don't they actually call
said that I dodged a bullet because I had three
TIA's over the course.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Of a week.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah. Yeah, Well it'll get your attention, want it?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah yeah, huge? Kind of like what I mean.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Michaelangelo had had the big shock diabetes diagnosis and had
to make it complete change on his life, eye opening.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
That's why I've been saying for a long time that
I'd like to have a minor heart attack.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I think a minor heart attack would get my attention
and I wouldn't need donuts and stuff anymore. I don't
want a major heart atack. I don't want to die.
I got kids to raise. But I think a minor
heart attack just a little a huh, like flicking my
ear huh. Wake up.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Well, good luck with that plan. That's between you and
the almighty, who you'll be meeting sooner than later. But
that's an interesting way to approach life. Note to self,
take blood pressure this afternoon. Yes, oh yeah, it's always
a good idea. One final note on brain health, because
during your little screen about not having contact with any
(09:43):
human being for an entire weekend, you know so much
of what we are is neurologically predetermined. Honestly, and if
you're a neurological outsider or outlier, you just are and
you can, as I always say, you can operate within
a certain narraw wish lane of the way you're made.
You can intentionally be more outgoing because you know it's
(10:04):
good for you. Blah blah blah, but you are who
you are. Having said that, we were talking about handwriting
and why so many states are trying to bring back
handwriting incursive. I was intrigued because there wasn't a lot
of information in the article we had, and I was
reading into it and apparently, according to neuropsychologists, there's something
about handwriting that involves all sorts of different parts of
(10:28):
your brain that govern language and creativity and physical stuff
and whatever, and they all have to interconnect and work
together to yield handwriting. And it's really good for your brain. Well,
I mean, it's a use it or lose it thing
with your brain.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I'm completely aware of that, and of just the idea
of That's why journaling and that sort of stuff is
so important. There's something about writing down thoughts that can
get them out of your head and arrange them in
ways that they don't get arranged otherwise. And people have
known this for centuries, and if you don't do it,
you should try it. I do it every day, sometimes
twice a day. But writing things down organizes them in
(11:10):
your head or gets them out of your head, like
if you got to you know, why do I keep
thinking about this thing that's driving me nuts? Write it
down a couple of times and it can go away.
Trust me, I've done it. I don't know how many times,
but I do. They know that printing doesn't do the
same thing as cursive because I print everything. I've had
success with it. And that's why I just don't understand
why they're bringing back cursive specifically.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I really can't imagine why it would be different.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I can't, I don't.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I don't know, which doesn't mean that it's not. I
just can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
One question that I don't think they've answered, because I've
looked into this and read some stuff about it. They're
not sure if typing works the same way as I
was just talking about or not, because you are picking
specific letters and having to manipulate your fingers and everything
like that.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, well, and what about playing a musical instrument? And
although you can't compel a kid to play the guitar,
but you can have them right in school, and it's
good for the brains.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
They brought back if you didn't hear us talking about this,
they brought back cursive, I think down twenty two states,
and I just wondered, why, what's the argument for it.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I'm seeing that curse.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
According to the Google cursive engages more areas of the
brain than when you print.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I if that's true, it's true, right, I do know,
because I know some of these people. There's just a
hanging onto cursive because I've always done it. I'm good
at it, and my grandma did it, and that's why
that drives some of it. But if it's better for you,
it's better for you, and I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
All I know is that the environment of the beast,
the human beast, is evolving at five thousand times the
speed that the beast can adapt to it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
M yeah, probably more like five hundred thousand times of speed.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
But yeah, all right, how about five million times?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But the point being, yeah, what are we going to
do with that?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I was hoping he'd say, yeah, how about fifty million times? Huh.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And we're not even close to how fast it's going
to go as soon as AI and everything kicks in.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
So well, we're all doomed, doomed to insanity, misery, drug addiction,
public fornication.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Who knows, we might know, we.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Wish public fornication, maybe some babies would be born. So
if I was one percent of the population that didn't
talk to anybody over the weekend, that number will be
seventy five percent here in about ten years.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I think, and the survivors will write that history, but
not incursive because their brains have stopped working.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
That's something too funny not to end on.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I try and make crank calls on my landline phone,
but nobody talks on the fund anymore. So I just
rained the s and.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Rings and rings, nobody answered.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Nobody answers you refrigerator running?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
What? Well, I guess that's it.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
M
How old is old? It's one more thing. I'm strong
and geddy. One more thing. You got a couple of
things for you before we get out of here. Neither
Joe or I want to do this today, this podcast.
I don't know why exactly. I'm tird, don't know why exactly,
just just ain't feeling it. Just don't feel like talking anymore.
(00:23):
I don't think I.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Get all on the field.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You've been talking for four hours.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We played nine innings. I'm in the clubhouse and managers
like tenth innings starting.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm like what It reminds me for some reason, you
saying that Katie when I was single and childless. Thank you.
What is her name, Gladys? I want to call sorry Gladys.
I wanted to call her Lola for some reason, Lola
doesn't play the harp. Thank you, Gladys for laying the
(00:55):
harp of me reminiscing about something when I was single
and childless. There were a few weekends where I would
realize on Monday morning, as I'm driving to work to
do the radio show, that I hadn't said a word
since I left work on Friday, because I hadn't interacted
with another human being at all. I saidn't word to anybody.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Hmmm, I don't really know what to say to that.
What percentage of the population can make that same claim.
I did not interact with another human being the entire weekend,
did not speak a word, fairly limited, I would guess,
but you know you do you what would you guess?
And if you as angry hermit.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I would guess that both my brothers have done it
semi regularly recently, with their kids older and out of
the house.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Like not even a phone call, Like that's bizarre.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Mean, nobody talks on the phone. And I don't know
if that's a good example. Now back in the day, No,
we're talking.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Back in the day. Yeah, right, you had Gladys play
the damn harp, then you called her Lola, And now
we're in the present. What's going on here?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Somebody explained the crowd rules we all lost?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
What does Walter say in The Big Lebowski something about
have we all lost our minds? Nobody cares about the
rules anymore?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
How much on an outlier do you think I am?
You think I'm in the one percent of the population
that has ever done.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That, or.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's fewer than five five pretty small.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
No, it's not five, it's one to one to two,
And I.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Don't think it's probably good for you. I also had
to do with like like, uh, you know, I have
a really big Friday night, maybe a long watching movies
or something. You don't feel so good on Saturday, maybe
part of Sunday. You just don't leave the house. You
order a pizza. You know, it might be an exaggeration
to have not said a word to anybody. Might have
(02:49):
said thanks to the pizza guy when he handed me
the pizza, but it wouldn't have been more than a
couple of words.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Oh, in this day and age, even with phones, I've
done that where you take the recovery day, you turn
the phone off.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Well yeah, so think about this though the younger crowd
now with their lifestyle, like you know, our producer Sean
or whatever, I'll but he had weekends where he never
said a word to anybody other than through maybe a headset, plane,
video games or a number of young people. Now that
you know, you can DoorDash or whatever, you don't have
to call anybody to order food or something. Ill, but
it happens more often than you think. It'd still be
(03:22):
a small number.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It makes me sad.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
All I know is we're moving more that direction than
away from it. I would guess, which is good.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
You can see all the statistics on how happy and
care free young people are these days.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, I don't think I ever came out of a
weekend like thinking that was like a really good time
or what an awesome weekend that was or something. I'm
not claiming that.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
See. And I'm of the day and age of cell
phones and whatnot, and it's amazing the hoops I will
jump through to avoid having to talk to somebody else.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, like I'll.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
You know, scheduling appointments online, ordering online, all that stuff.
I would much rather do that than have to call
and interact with someone.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, I avoid it now, not because I don't want
to talk to If I thought I could talk to
human being, i'd call right away. I don't want to
call and get your impossible to use automated phone system
that takes me twenty minutes and doesn't work. I'll see
if I can do it online. And the reason it
takes twenty minutes and doesn't work is because you want
me to do it online, because it's the cheapest thing
(04:22):
for you, But that's a different topic. A couple of
quick things here. I just came across this. Don't usually
talk about this sort of thing on this podcast. This
money circulating in US is expanding rapidly. We have a
money supply surge going on right now. It's the highest
level in over a year. They think that will likely
lead to inflation surging higher. Don't like that story.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
It ought to if the laws of monetary physics are
still true, and they.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Are, and then this one. This is an actual survey.
This isn't one of those done by According to walk
in Tubs, older people always look at who paid for
the survey. A lot of time surveys have just did
their crap because of who they paid for. This is
actual research done by a team of German researchers in
Germany and the United States Journal of Psychology. Stuff about
(05:16):
how what we where we think old age begins has
been moving higher. This is not surprising at all. Last July,
that's what do you think old age began for you?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Absolutely, last time, I feel like I screwed up my back.
Oh really started the shuffling like I'm ninety and it's
a lot better now.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But that has a lot to do with it, because
I was gonna mention my mom and dad have different
numbers on that, and for those reasons, my mom's physical
health is not near where my dad's is. So I
don't know what she would say, but she would probably
say old age starts. Well, I can tell you the
average now is seventy five. If you ask a senior,
when does old age begin, it's now seventy five. Seventy
(06:02):
five is the new sixty five, because it used to
be not that many years ago. People said old age
started at sixty five. Now that would seem kind of crazy,
I think for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yes, for me, it started at forty eight. That's when
you start hurting yourself, you know, just doing the most
basic things like walking or something.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah. I was just in the lunch room and one
of the saleswomen who is now in her forties, was
talking about all forties or not what I thought they
would be talking about trying to work out, and she
keeps getting hurt and blah blah blah. Yeah, but so
now it's seventy five. Is both sixty five? My dad
says eighty eighties when old age starts. But that's because
he was still riding his horse up till eighty two.
(06:39):
My mom has not been as physically as gifted as him,
and would put it a little earlier, but probably about surprisingly.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
The horse was seventy five. What it's an old horse,
Joe horse?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
When are you going to get off of me? That
is the question. When do I have When do I
get to be an old age? That do only makes sense.
I suppose life expectancy and help. But my mom regularly
says when she she was a kid, people in their
sixties were considered old. You were done with life in
your sixties. Nobody would have thought you played golf or
rode a horse, or rode bikes or vacationed or anything
(07:12):
in your sixties.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You were just starting a new career. You kidding.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You were just in a rocking chair in your sixties,
which now, of course seems crazy. You're the youngest amongst
Katie and he thoughts on this, or does everything over
the age of forty five just seem ancient to you?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
No, both my parents are in their early to mid seventies,
and they're both young as can be, So I don't
even think seventy five is old. In my perspective, and I, dude,
everything started hurting on me last year. And I had
a stroke when I was thirty one, so I'm ninety.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's why we get along so at having a stroke
at thirty one would change your view of it. I
didn't have any health situation really at all until I
got cancer at forty nine.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
But dude, my health went nuts at twenty nine. A
kidney problem came up out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
A quote mutated gene.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I have a hereditary condition that is a mutated gene
because nobody else in my family has it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
And then I stroked out in twenty twenty. It was wild,
have no idea.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
What caused that?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
The stroke?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, well it was a mixture of not taking care
of myself in stress.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Okay, They said, oh really, but some of it was
in your control.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yeah, I just I I wasn't exercising at all.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I was obese big time.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Were you really? I can't picture you obese at all?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Two pounds?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Were you really? This is new information, so that that's
why you're always talking about working out and you eat
so healthy.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, I had I had to make a change.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The doctors were like this, you don't they actually call
said that I dodged a bullet because I had three
TIA's over the course.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Of a week.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah. Yeah, Well it'll get your attention, want it?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah yeah, huge? Kind of like what I mean.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Michaelangelo had had the big shock diabetes diagnosis and had
to make it complete change on his life, eye opening.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
That's why I've been saying for a long time that
I'd like to have a minor heart attack.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I think a minor heart attack would get my attention
and I wouldn't need donuts and stuff anymore. I don't
want a major heart atack. I don't want to die.
I got kids to raise. But I think a minor
heart attack just a little a huh, like flicking my
ear huh. Wake up.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Well, good luck with that plan. That's between you and
the almighty, who you'll be meeting sooner than later. But
that's an interesting way to approach life. Note to self,
take blood pressure this afternoon. Yes, oh yeah, it's always
a good idea. One final note on brain health, because
during your little screen about not having contact with any
(09:43):
human being for an entire weekend, you know so much
of what we are is neurologically predetermined. Honestly, and if
you're a neurological outsider or outlier, you just are and
you can, as I always say, you can operate within
a certain narraw wish lane of the way you're made.
You can intentionally be more outgoing because you know it's
(10:04):
good for you. Blah blah blah, but you are who
you are. Having said that, we were talking about handwriting
and why so many states are trying to bring back
handwriting incursive. I was intrigued because there wasn't a lot
of information in the article we had, and I was
reading into it and apparently, according to neuropsychologists, there's something
about handwriting that involves all sorts of different parts of
(10:28):
your brain that govern language and creativity and physical stuff
and whatever, and they all have to interconnect and work
together to yield handwriting. And it's really good for your brain. Well,
I mean, it's a use it or lose it thing
with your brain.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I'm completely aware of that, and of just the idea
of That's why journaling and that sort of stuff is
so important. There's something about writing down thoughts that can
get them out of your head and arrange them in
ways that they don't get arranged otherwise. And people have
known this for centuries, and if you don't do it,
you should try it. I do it every day, sometimes
twice a day. But writing things down organizes them in
(11:10):
your head or gets them out of your head, like
if you got to you know, why do I keep
thinking about this thing that's driving me nuts? Write it
down a couple of times and it can go away.
Trust me, I've done it. I don't know how many times,
but I do. They know that printing doesn't do the
same thing as cursive because I print everything. I've had
success with it. And that's why I just don't understand
why they're bringing back cursive specifically.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I really can't imagine why it would be different.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I can't, I don't.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I don't know, which doesn't mean that it's not. I
just can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
One question that I don't think they've answered, because I've
looked into this and read some stuff about it. They're
not sure if typing works the same way as I
was just talking about or not, because you are picking
specific letters and having to manipulate your fingers and everything
like that.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, well, and what about playing a musical instrument? And
although you can't compel a kid to play the guitar,
but you can have them right in school, and it's
good for the brains.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
They brought back if you didn't hear us talking about this,
they brought back cursive, I think down twenty two states,
and I just wondered, why, what's the argument for it.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I'm seeing that curse.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
According to the Google cursive engages more areas of the
brain than when you print.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I if that's true, it's true, right, I do know,
because I know some of these people. There's just a
hanging onto cursive because I've always done it. I'm good
at it, and my grandma did it, and that's why
that drives some of it. But if it's better for you,
it's better for you, and I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
All I know is that the environment of the beast,
the human beast, is evolving at five thousand times the
speed that the beast can adapt to it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
M yeah, probably more like five hundred thousand times of speed.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
But yeah, all right, how about five million times?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But the point being, yeah, what are we going to
do with that?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I was hoping he'd say, yeah, how about fifty million times? Huh.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And we're not even close to how fast it's going
to go as soon as AI and everything kicks in.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
So well, we're all doomed, doomed to insanity, misery, drug addiction,
public fornication.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Who knows, we might know, we.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Wish public fornication, maybe some babies would be born. So
if I was one percent of the population that didn't
talk to anybody over the weekend, that number will be
seventy five percent here in about ten years.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I think, and the survivors will write that history, but
not incursive because their brains have stopped working.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
That's something too funny not to end on.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I try and make crank calls on my landline phone,
but nobody talks on the fund anymore. So I just
rained the s and.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Rings and rings, nobody answered.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Nobody answers you refrigerator running?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
What? Well, I guess that's it.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
M
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