September 16, 2024 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Lakelyn Eichenberger, Ph.D., Gerontologist and Caregiving Advocate at Home Instead, an Honor Company about brain health.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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All Right, bright and early, Well it's afternoon. Never mind,
it's lunchtime on a Monday, Monday afternoon. Actually, no more bright,
no more, well, plenty of bright, no more, at least
as we move into this work week. All of us
who still work, some of you I know, some of
you I know are just you got your feet propped up.
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You're deciding what you want to do this afternoon because
all options are open, and there are so many. On
a beautiful day like this, it's gonna be a little
bit warm, It's okay. We're basically looking at the opening
act today of a five or six day production starring
a familiar player on this stage. Let's give a big
hand to the sun. Another week of summary heat day
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percent chance of rain next Sunday. So and that's it
for the whole week. Another week of summary heat day
after day, and then maybe just drawing the curtain on
summer run through. I don't know our two or three
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I'm just I'm just spicing them up a little bit
and giving you something to think about. One more sizzling week.
We can do that with eyes closed. Hit the bricks summer. Wow,
you're telling the summer to get out of here. Hit
the bricks baby, to be specific. And I was expecting,
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maybe just by the title alone, that it was going
to be a little bit more curtious. No, No, to summer,
to the summer. Why should I be courteous to summer?
Farewell to the summer. And then at the last minute
you're telling it, bam, hit the bricks, spam right, just
a a punch in the nose to summer. All right,
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that's I will give that a seven point six. Look
what I wrote down. No way, yes, I did seven
point six. That's what I wrote down. I anticipated, I
listened to your comments very closely, and then I wrote
that down and there it was all right. Off the
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Straight up, even if you if you've just got a
little couple of little flakes of gold laying around somewhere,
given the state of this economy and the price of everything,
you might want to consider selling it to Houston Gold Exchange.
Gold was north of twenty six one hundred dollars an
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ounce this morning. Even if it fell a little between
then and now, an ounce of gold could bankroll a
lot of groceries and gas right now. Well, not as
much gas as last week's back north of seventy bucks,
but a lot. Nonetheless, I think when I get home,
my wife said she's got a couple of pieces that
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she doesn't wear anymore, and what the heck, And this
may be the time to deal with that. I've got
a couple of things at the house I could stand
to get rid of as well. The market indicators were
two up, two down this morning, and we're all waiting
for the Fed to cut interest rates. I think they
said it's gonna happen on Wednesday. I may be wrong.
(04:28):
I don't pay that close attention to it. In any event,
quarter point half a point tough to balance doing something
that slows inflation without also kickstarting a recession. So we'll
just kind of see how that goes. I think nobody
should be surprised that there's going to be a change
coming into the election, and they may do it twice.
(04:50):
If this one doesn't coust too much of a ruckus,
they may hit it again. So anyway, into early week headlines,
let's move on away from all that early week headlines. First,
a second assassination attempt on former President Trump. Most of
you should know about that by now, and I'm sure do.
This time was a guy in the bushes on a
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Florida golf course, where President Trump was enjoying his round.
He on the fifth hole. A Secret Service agent moving
forward on the sixth hole and noticed a gun barrel
sticking out of the bushes. I've been on a lot
of golf courses, and I think, even if I don't know's,
it's kind of a it's a weird it's a weird situation.
(05:35):
On the plus side, there's already there's a good bit
known about this guy, and he's he's got a history
with law enforcement. But interestingly enough, very shortly after that incident,
by this morning, his Facebook and ex content had been withdrawn.
I don't know who told him to take it down,
and I'm not sure why that would be necessary. In
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any event, it's down, and we know he's a fifty
something year old guy, not a fan, not a fan
of our former president. Even his son said that I
believe in a couple of interviews at some point, at
some point, the left side of media, which is basically
ninety five percent of media, and the leaders of the
Democrat Party are going to have to stop the rhetoric
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about Donald Trump being a threat to democracy, being the
second coming of every dictator in history, all of this
inflammatory language that so far, has at least somewhat likely
contributed not to one, but to two attempts on that
man's life. It's one thing to have vastly different political views.
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It's one thing to want your candidate to win a
fair election over the other candidate. But it's another to
stir up so much hatred that already two people felt
somehow compelled to make attempts on the man life. This
is politics. This is politics, and the winner doesn't get
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elected forever. The winner gets four years at the helm.
That's it. That's the way it's always been in this country.
It's anybody's right to disagree with his policies, with Trump's
or Biden's, or Harris's or anybody's. You can disagree strongly
if that's how you feel. But the only same thing
you can do to keep that person out of office,
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the only right thing you can do. It's just to
cast a vote for his opponent, cast a vote for
her opponent, if you're on that side. Whatever. By the way,
if you've been doing your own research, you already know
that Harris is not exactly shining as a presidential candidate.
She took on yet another fake accent eighteen will is
that right, No, eighteen eighteen eighteen, yes, thirteen. I go
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Speaker 3 (09:37):
Two.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I don't know. There's no singing in this one? Is
there will not at all? Uh? Okay, that's fine. Let's
go back to where we were, and then once I
get through this, I will lighten it up a little
bit because there's some good stuff going on in the world,
as there always is, and I'm not gonna ignore it.
(10:01):
By the way, in the in the upcoming segment, the
one at the bottom of the hour, we're gonna be
talking to a woman named Lakeland Eikenberger, and she is
gonna tell us about brain health and kind of doing
what you need to do to stay sharp, because if
everything goes well, almost all of us are going to
live longer than we might have ten twenty thirty forty
(10:24):
years ago, uh, from this same age. And so we
got we gotta stay sharp so we can make it
through and enjoy the time. We get back to the
Vice president aka Democrat nominee for president. She she did
this comic comic cameleon impression again in an in a
(10:47):
speech she gave over the weekend, I think it was,
and took on yet another fake accent, trying to make
her point, trying to relate to the people to whom
she was speaking, and then when asked in I think
it may be the only one on one interview she's
done since her nomination, and probably in a long time
(11:09):
before that, even she was asked to offer up specifics
on how two things she would do if elected president
to lower prices. And first of all, she could be
doing any of these things now to lower prices, because
she is pretty much the acting president. Only her handlers
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won't let her do anything because they're smarter than that.
In any event, when asked to outline, there's a very
specific question, a very simple question, can you give us
two things you'd do as president that would lower prices,
And she sat there and whipped up the biggest bowl
of words salad about how she grew up in a
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neighborhood where everybody took care of their lawns and loved
their lawns. How do you get from two things that
will lower prices to oh, we like our Saint Augustine. Seriously,
she didn't know how to fix anything. That's the problem
because for four years all she's done is break things
or ignore things. She's broken things and she's ignored things,
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but she hadn't fixed Diddley do. And back to the
debate briefly, Harris told a straight up lie and it
bothers me. And I'm bringing this up because President Trump
was fact checked five I think it was five times,
maybe four, maybe six during the event during the event,
and Harris not once. And by the way, I saw
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something this morning about some CNN whistleblowers who have just
had enough of what's going on at their network and
are saying, and this is I can't corroborate this or
make I'm not saying it's absolutely accurate, just yet. That's
why I want to put that little disclaimer in front.
But what they're saying as whistleblowers is that pretty much
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that whole entire debate was was set up to benefit Harris,
which if you watched it you kind of know, but
she may have known a lot more going in about
how it was going to go than President Trump did.
And that's until I can find out more about that,
I'm not going to say anymore. Anyway, back to that debate,
Harris told a straight up lie when she said there
were no active military personnel in war zones now, and
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Massachusetts Governor mar Healey actually wouldn't even respond. During a
recent interview when she was questioned about what Harris had said,
Healey dismissed it. Here's what she said. Quote that was
a comment in a debate. End quote. That's what Healey
said about what Harris had said. Trump's fact checked what
I say four or five six times. But when Harris
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lied through her teeth that, oh, that's just a comment
and the debate. So it's okay now to lie if
you're debating and addressing the American people on how you
would act as president, So it's okay lie, then I no,
it's not. But major media wouldn't dare open their mouths
about something she said. I actually saw a video yesterday
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that showed some soldiers in the Middle East deployed there
in a war zone listening to her speech or listening
to the debate, and when Harris said what she said,
one of the soldiers turned right to the camera and said, so,
where the blank are we? Good question? Good question. Let's
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lighten it up a little bit, will what do you say?
All right? Three choices as usual? Did you know, keep digging?
Or only one in three? Only one in three? Okay,
we'll go with that. One one in three workers admit
to what's called poductivity. You know what that is? Will, No,
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it's kind of like making it look like you're more
productive than you really are. Okay, poductivity. It's a good
word to have in your pocket, you know that.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Go with there?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
He is really productive. I'm sorry what he's productive? He
exercises productivity. That's a what do you so? What are
the odds will that by the next time Miriam Webster
adds words, will productivity be in there or not? I
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doubt it. Yeah, I'm kind of If you'd have said yes,
I'd have said an emphatic no. But you're just right
down the middle, and I'm hesitant to actually now I'm
hesitant to go either way. That's one of those ones
because there are so many weird words in the dictionary. Now,
that's one of those ones that just might have a
chance because it's so really weird. Okay, we have time
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for basically nothing. Huh well, we got two minutes. Yeah, Okay,
I'm sorry, I'm just I'm just thrilled at the clock's
up there. Okay, I'm gonna give you two to pick
from this time, and two totally different ones. Slowly but surely,
or make better choices, make a better choice. Okay, here
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Speaker 1 (16:43):
No.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
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The cheeseburger and fries, and you kind of let you
have to shake your head and go, yeah, that makes this, nod, Yeah,
that makes sense. You know what. The other one was
the chicken sandwich at five Guys. Now, that one kinda
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that one caught me off guard because chicken. Oh that's healthy,
that's health food, right, But I guess when you stack
it up and cover it up and gobbledy goog it up,
maybe not so much so sorry, five guys, And it's
just a survey. If you love that place, knock yourself out.
I'll be honest, I've not I've never been a fan
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All right, welcome back to fifty plus, home of the
I don't know generation's gonna live a really long time
thanks to modern medicine. So that kind of means we
need to do everything we can to make that extra
time productive. And a lot of that's gonna start with
brain health and to offer up some expert advice in
that field, I will introduce Lakeland Eichenberger, gerontologist and caregiver
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advocate at Home instead an honor company. Welcome to fifty plus, Lakeland.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Hi, Doug, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I appreciate that. So what's your short answer to why
it's important to keep our brains active? And engaged. As
we lean a little bit farther into seniority.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Well, you know, it goes a long way in our
brain health as we get older. So many of us
want to avoid as much as possible any sort of
cognitive decline that could come with age. And we know
the greatest risk factor for cognitive decline is age. So
as we get older, our risk goes up, so as
much as we can do to reduce that risk as possible.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
We want to be doing.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
So that's things like keeping your brain active and engaged.
And there's a lot that we can do, starting really
at any age, to go a long ways towards our
brain health across our life.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I think one of the most important things I saw
it in the notes that I got, and I've talked
about it before on this program, is you just got
to stay connected somehow. Just staying socially connected, whether it's
in any regard, really, is that just kind of a
good first step.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Absolutely, Yeah. Those social connections go such a long way
for our brain health.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
It helps us, you know, keep our brains sharp because
when you're talking with people, you're remembering things, you're recalling information,
you're learning new things. So lots of great benefits to
staying socially engaged.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
And there's a lot of ways people can be socially engaged.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It's not always about the quantity, you know, but it's
really more about the quality.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And it doesn't really I guess phone call, text message,
zoom call, team call, in person, they're all important almost equally, really,
aren't they?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Absolutely? And I think it really is individual.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
You know, whatever is meaningful for you in staying socially engaged,
really lean into that. So if you have a lot
of long distance relatives and FaceTime and phone calls and
texts that helps you feel socially connected, that's awesome. Or
if you're more of an in person kind of individual,
you know.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Getting engaged maybe in.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Local clubs, book clubs, social clubs, or you know, team activities,
those can be great ways to connect.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
But also we don't always have to be interacting with humans.
Our pets can also be another great way just to
engage socially as well.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
That are good listeners, aren't they?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Oh? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I'm guessing there are gonna be people in this audience,
Lakelan who are who they feel isolated and because they've
been isolated for a while, maybe they're hesitant to get
out and join some sort of group or activity. What
can they do to gain little confidence at least enough
to put a toe in that water.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You know, that's a good question.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I think you have to start in a way that's
comfortable to you, so, you know, just getting out and
trying it, or maybe asking someone that you know to
go with you. Sometimes that kind of helps reduce a
little anxiety that you might have is having no making
sure you know some at least one person there.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
But again, maybe it's checking out.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
A group on Facebook or Instagram to get familiar with
what they're about before maybe going to an in person
meetup might help you feel a little more comfortable.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I like having I like the idea of having a
wingman for something exact so and something else. I've heard
from people's Oh I don't want to do that because
I might not be good at chess or pickleball, or painting,
or or learning a language. I'm guessing that in most
group settings for seniors, it's way more about just doing
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the activity and meeting people than it is becoming an
expert in anything.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Right, Well, I would think so, yes, I think that
you know learning something new also is really great for
your brain. So if you think about it from that
perspective and not go and try to be an expert,
I think that will help kind of make your expectations
a little more maybe manageable, or help you have more
of an open mind. And I think, you know, along
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the lines of learning something new, you can learn from
multiple generations too. I think that's a really neat thing
about learning something new, whether it's learning a technology, maybe
you engage with your grandkids or younger members of your
family to help kind of teach you. So really just
being open to the learning, being open to interact with
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people of all ages, I think can be really really beneficial.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Is there any cap Lakelan and Iikeenburger from home instead
with us here on fifty plus? Is there any cap
on how much we can improve our brain health by
doing all of this?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
You know, I wouldn't necessarily say there's a cap. I
don't think you can ever do too much.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I think, you know, the thing to keep in mind is,
you know, keeping your social interaction and the things that
you're learning just part of your kind of.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
The way you live your life.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
So kind of adapting that lifelong learning mindset or adapting
the mindset of I just want to stay engaged socially
over my lifetime. I think that's maybe a better approach
than trying to, you know, make sure you hit a
certain threshold of interaction or learning. That way, you just
you know, continue to stay curious and continue to stay connected.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Talk about the relationship between brain health and physical health too.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Oh, that is a great connection because so much of
what we do from our physical health perspective does impact
our brain health. So if you think about movement, not
necessarily exercise. I think there's sometimes people hear the word
exercise and they're like, no, that's not for me. But really,
it's getting up and moving throughout the day. It's so
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good for our brain health. It can help improve the
blood flow in our brain, help produce inflammation, help low
our stress because we know stress hormones can negatively impact
our brain. So really just getting moving and choosing an
activity that you enjoy. So it could be dancing, it
could be walking, could be swimming, it could be just
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you know, making sure you're getting up throughout the day.
I know a lot of us work from home, so
we're at a desk job. So just getting up and
moving throughout the day. It's going to go a long
way in terms of your brain health.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I got a great idea, like, and what we're gonna
do is, we're going to put the phone on the
other side of the house, and then when we need exercise,
we're gonna get up and we're going to walk over
there and we're going to phone a friend and have
a conversation and we'll just be the smartest old people
in the whole world.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yes, integrate multiple of these concepts together. Socialization movement. I
love it.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
The safer pickleball that tears up seniors, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Well, you know, I've actually never played pickleball. It's on
my to do, but.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Don't fall into that trap. Oh my word. Thank you
so much, Lakeland Eikenberger from home instead and honor company
in It's been an honor for me to speak with you,
it really has. And maybe we'll cross paths again sometime
on this telephone.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I sure houpe so doug things for having me.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
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Fifty plus continues.
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Here's more with Doug. All right, welcome back. Fourth and
final segment of the program starts right now, and it'll
start with something I just saw come across the come
across the news feed a major pipeline fire. This is
from Houston Chronicle dot Com. Major pipeline fire in Laporte
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prompts closures, shelter in place warnings. Emergency responders rush to
put out a major pipeline fire Monday near Spencer Highway
in Summerton. Laporte's Office of Emergency Management said Gordon to
Harris County Precinct two officials Highway was closed in the area.
Officials at San Jacino College Central Campus also told students
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to shelter in place until the emergency has resolved. It
doesn't sound like it's terribly serious at this point, but
you never know. With a pipeline fire, that sounds like
something that could get a whole lot worse in a
really short period of time. So moving on to lighten
the load a little bit, six saplings of a pine
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tree species discovered not that long ago in Australia are
being auctioned in hopes of reintroducing that species around much
of that country for the first time since when will
the first time since when nineteen sixty Well you only
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missed by ninety one million years. This pine tree, the
walemy pine, evolved, actually it went extinct about two million
years ago, but it was. It's in fossils dating back
ninety one million years, all the way back to the
dinosaur dinosaurs, and supposedly it went extinct about two million
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years ago, like I said. And then in nineteen ninety four, botanists,
I don't know why they were out there looking for
I don't know what they were looking for, probably something new,
And somebody who'd read the book about Walemy pine said, hey,
wait a minute, isn't that one of those? And what
do you know? They stumbled in some remote high ground
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up on an isolated peak of Australia. They found ninety
of these trees. And since then the scientists had been
working kind of hush hush, top secret, and planting little
small plots of these things on their own around they
and now I guess to earn more research money so
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they can go find something else that everybody thought was gone.
They are auctioning that little half dozen of those pine trees. Saplings.
They're little, they're not just seeds in a in a
dixie cup. They're saplings, and hopefully somebody will buy them
and take them out there and grow some more all
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over that country. We ought to bring a few over here. No,
if you're thinking that, no, we don't do that because
we don't need any more non native species of anything
in Texas. We have plants, we have every kind of animal.
We have non native fish, and most of them typically
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displace some sort of native species and that just changes
the whole ecosystem. Go find the story. Look online. There's
a story about somebody dropping a bag of Cheetos in
Carlsbad caverns I believe it was, and those cheetos triggered
a just a really bad chain of events for the
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future of that amazing natural resource, that feature that cavern's
over there, because there's introduce introduction of fung guy and
little tiny animals come grab the stuff and run away
with it, and then things start growing on the walls,
and it's just a big old mess just because one
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lazy person, one ignorant person just said it's too heavy
to carry this half bag of cheetos all the way
to a trash can. I'll just toss it down there.
It's sad, really sad to think that people even would
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contemplate doing something like that in a place that is
truly a national treasure. But they did, and eye opening
new and I'll wink when I say that a new
gene therapy actually shows great promise in correcting a genetic
mutation that causes loss of sight or nearly complete loss
of sight, starting with people in their childhoods and then
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really not getting much better. Fifteen patients in a recent trial,
including three pediatric patients, all of them suffered from severe
vision loss at best twenty eighty on the standard charts,
and they they have real problems with lighting too. They
need a lot of light to be able to see.
Glasses helped but not much. But with therapy their vision
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improved often in the first month, and the results were
even far greater than expected for a lot of those patients.
So fingers crossed that research will continue, and if I
see anything else on it coming up soon or ever
while I'm still doing this show, I will certainly pass
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the There are so many conditions and diseases in this
world that this knowledge that we have now of genetics
and specific genes that can be turned on or turned
off to help alleviate situations like this, it's fascinating. I
don't think most of us will live long enough to
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really benefit greatly from the research that's being done now,
but it really, it really holds tremendous hope for people
who have been suffering through their childhoods and are maybe
going into young adulthood even now and just wishing there
was something could that could be done for them, Because
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that's something apparently is just right around the corner, just
right around the corner, and I hope so if I
miss it, I miss it. But if something that gets
cured today will help somebody else live a little bit longer,
I'm okay with that. Uh this one I put a
little headline of sing along on. I saw another one
about how singing to your plants makes them healthier or
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stronger or something silly. I'm not so sure. I'm gonna
give a ton of credence to singing to your plants.
But you be you if you think singing to your
plants helps them, go at it. I don't know whether
the song choice or even the genre of music matters.
I don't even know if you have to be a
good singer. I also wonder, hmmm, maybe so that the
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singing just helps us feel better, But the plants don't
really care. They just don't care a all right, Well,
back to you. How does this happen? Chip off the
old block. Nothing to see here, Nothing to see here.
Top phone habits that can hurt a relationship include not
sharing your password, keeping your phone face down, being defensive
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when they want to use it, and closing an app
when they walk by. Have you ever done that? No,
any of those. Nope. My wife picks up my phone
all the time, and she said, can I look at this?
Knock yourself out. I'm the most boring phone she's ever
looked at, she says, which which makes me want to
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ask her just what other phones has she looked at?
All Right, we're out of here. We'll see it tomorrow.
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no more, well, plenty of bright, no more, at least
as we move into this work week. All of us
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a beautiful day like this, it's gonna be a little
bit warm, It's okay. We're basically looking at the opening
act today of a five or six day production starring
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hand to the sun. Another week of summary heat day
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after day. Then maybe just maybe, well there's a ten
percent chance of rain next Sunday. So and that's it
for the whole week. Another week of summary heat day
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I'm just I'm just spicing them up a little bit
and giving you something to think about. One more sizzling week.
We can do that with eyes closed. Hit the bricks summer. Wow,
you're telling the summer to get out of here. Hit
the bricks baby, to be specific. And I was expecting,
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maybe just by the title alone, that it was going
to be a little bit more curtious. No, No, to summer,
to the summer. Why should I be courteous to summer?
Farewell to the summer. And then at the last minute
you're telling it, bam, hit the bricks, spam right, just
a a punch in the nose to summer. All right,
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that's I will give that a seven point six. Look
what I wrote down. No way, yes, I did seven
point six. That's what I wrote down. I anticipated, I
listened to your comments very closely, and then I wrote
that down and there it was all right. Off the
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market we go as well, courtesy of Houston Gold Exchange.
Straight up, even if you if you've just got a
little couple of little flakes of gold laying around somewhere,
given the state of this economy and the price of everything,
you might want to consider selling it to Houston Gold Exchange.
Gold was north of twenty six one hundred dollars an
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ounce this morning. Even if it fell a little between
then and now, an ounce of gold could bankroll a
lot of groceries and gas right now. Well, not as
much gas as last week's back north of seventy bucks,
but a lot. Nonetheless, I think when I get home,
my wife said she's got a couple of pieces that
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she doesn't wear anymore, and what the heck, And this
may be the time to deal with that. I've got
a couple of things at the house I could stand
to get rid of as well. The market indicators were
two up, two down this morning, and we're all waiting
for the Fed to cut interest rates. I think they
said it's gonna happen on Wednesday. I may be wrong.
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I don't pay that close attention to it. In any event,
quarter point half a point tough to balance doing something
that slows inflation without also kickstarting a recession. So we'll
just kind of see how that goes. I think nobody
should be surprised that there's going to be a change
coming into the election, and they may do it twice.
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If this one doesn't coust too much of a ruckus,
they may hit it again. So anyway, into early week headlines,
let's move on away from all that early week headlines. First,
a second assassination attempt on former President Trump. Most of
you should know about that by now, and I'm sure do.
This time was a guy in the bushes on a
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Florida golf course, where President Trump was enjoying his round.
He on the fifth hole. A Secret Service agent moving
forward on the sixth hole and noticed a gun barrel
sticking out of the bushes. I've been on a lot
of golf courses, and I think, even if I don't know's,
it's kind of a it's a weird it's a weird situation.
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On the plus side, there's already there's a good bit
known about this guy, and he's he's got a history
with law enforcement. But interestingly enough, very shortly after that incident,
by this morning, his Facebook and ex content had been withdrawn.
I don't know who told him to take it down,
and I'm not sure why that would be necessary. In
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any event, it's down, and we know he's a fifty
something year old guy, not a fan, not a fan
of our former president. Even his son said that I
believe in a couple of interviews at some point, at
some point, the left side of media, which is basically
ninety five percent of media, and the leaders of the
Democrat Party are going to have to stop the rhetoric
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about Donald Trump being a threat to democracy, being the
second coming of every dictator in history, all of this
inflammatory language that so far, has at least somewhat likely
contributed not to one, but to two attempts on that
man's life. It's one thing to have vastly different political views.
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It's one thing to want your candidate to win a
fair election over the other candidate. But it's another to
stir up so much hatred that already two people felt
somehow compelled to make attempts on the man life. This
is politics. This is politics, and the winner doesn't get
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elected forever. The winner gets four years at the helm.
That's it. That's the way it's always been in this country.
It's anybody's right to disagree with his policies, with Trump's
or Biden's, or Harris's or anybody's. You can disagree strongly
if that's how you feel. But the only same thing
you can do to keep that person out of office,
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the only right thing you can do. It's just to
cast a vote for his opponent, cast a vote for
her opponent, if you're on that side. Whatever. By the way,
if you've been doing your own research, you already know
that Harris is not exactly shining as a presidential candidate.
She took on yet another fake accent eighteen will is
that right, No, eighteen eighteen eighteen, yes, thirteen. I go
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all right, I'm gonna say this for a little bit later.
We got some good stuff coming up in this edition
of fifty plus. I appreciate all of you for listening.
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year came in the form of being named the twenty
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Speaker 3 (09:37):
Two.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I don't know. There's no singing in this one? Is
there will not at all? Uh? Okay, that's fine. Let's
go back to where we were, and then once I
get through this, I will lighten it up a little
bit because there's some good stuff going on in the world,
as there always is, and I'm not gonna ignore it.
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By the way, in the in the upcoming segment, the
one at the bottom of the hour, we're gonna be
talking to a woman named Lakeland Eikenberger, and she is
gonna tell us about brain health and kind of doing
what you need to do to stay sharp, because if
everything goes well, almost all of us are going to
live longer than we might have ten twenty thirty forty
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years ago, uh, from this same age. And so we
got we gotta stay sharp so we can make it
through and enjoy the time. We get back to the
Vice president aka Democrat nominee for president. She she did
this comic comic cameleon impression again in an in a
(10:47):
speech she gave over the weekend, I think it was,
and took on yet another fake accent, trying to make
her point, trying to relate to the people to whom
she was speaking, and then when asked in I think
it may be the only one on one interview she's
done since her nomination, and probably in a long time
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before that, even she was asked to offer up specifics
on how two things she would do if elected president
to lower prices. And first of all, she could be
doing any of these things now to lower prices, because
she is pretty much the acting president. Only her handlers
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won't let her do anything because they're smarter than that.
In any event, when asked to outline, there's a very
specific question, a very simple question, can you give us
two things you'd do as president that would lower prices,
And she sat there and whipped up the biggest bowl
of words salad about how she grew up in a
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neighborhood where everybody took care of their lawns and loved
their lawns. How do you get from two things that
will lower prices to oh, we like our Saint Augustine. Seriously,
she didn't know how to fix anything. That's the problem
because for four years all she's done is break things
or ignore things. She's broken things and she's ignored things,
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but she hadn't fixed Diddley do. And back to the
debate briefly, Harris told a straight up lie and it
bothers me. And I'm bringing this up because President Trump
was fact checked five I think it was five times,
maybe four, maybe six during the event during the event,
and Harris not once. And by the way, I saw
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something this morning about some CNN whistleblowers who have just
had enough of what's going on at their network and
are saying, and this is I can't corroborate this or
make I'm not saying it's absolutely accurate, just yet. That's
why I want to put that little disclaimer in front.
But what they're saying as whistleblowers is that pretty much
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that whole entire debate was was set up to benefit Harris,
which if you watched it you kind of know, but
she may have known a lot more going in about
how it was going to go than President Trump did.
And that's until I can find out more about that,
I'm not going to say anymore. Anyway, back to that debate,
Harris told a straight up lie when she said there
were no active military personnel in war zones now, and
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Massachusetts Governor mar Healey actually wouldn't even respond. During a
recent interview when she was questioned about what Harris had said,
Healey dismissed it. Here's what she said. Quote that was
a comment in a debate. End quote. That's what Healey
said about what Harris had said. Trump's fact checked what
I say four or five six times. But when Harris
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lied through her teeth that, oh, that's just a comment
and the debate. So it's okay now to lie if
you're debating and addressing the American people on how you
would act as president, So it's okay lie, then I no,
it's not. But major media wouldn't dare open their mouths
about something she said. I actually saw a video yesterday
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that showed some soldiers in the Middle East deployed there
in a war zone listening to her speech or listening
to the debate, and when Harris said what she said,
one of the soldiers turned right to the camera and said, so,
where the blank are we? Good question? Good question. Let's
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lighten it up a little bit, will what do you say?
All right? Three choices as usual? Did you know, keep digging?
Or only one in three? Only one in three? Okay,
we'll go with that. One one in three workers admit
to what's called poductivity. You know what that is? Will, No,
(14:48):
it's kind of like making it look like you're more
productive than you really are. Okay, poductivity. It's a good
word to have in your pocket, you know that.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Go with there?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
He is really productive. I'm sorry what he's productive? He
exercises productivity. That's a what do you so? What are
the odds will that by the next time Miriam Webster
adds words, will productivity be in there or not? I
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doubt it. Yeah, I'm kind of If you'd have said yes,
I'd have said an emphatic no. But you're just right
down the middle, and I'm hesitant to actually now I'm
hesitant to go either way. That's one of those ones
because there are so many weird words in the dictionary. Now,
that's one of those ones that just might have a
chance because it's so really weird. Okay, we have time
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for basically nothing. Huh well, we got two minutes. Yeah, Okay,
I'm sorry, I'm just I'm just thrilled at the clock's
up there. Okay, I'm gonna give you two to pick
from this time, and two totally different ones. Slowly but surely,
or make better choices, make a better choice. Okay, here
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we go. There's a new analysis out on the least
healthy menu items at various fast food change some of
the worst things you can go into a fast food
joint and order, First of all, will for all the
money in the world and the camper. What do you
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think one of those well, what do you think was
the the there's one restaurant, fast food joint that has
not one, but two of the worst things you can
eat that way, Jack in the box. No, it really wasn't.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Two of the least healthy menu items came from five guys.
The cheeseburger and fries, and you kind of let you
have to shake your head and go, yeah, that makes this, nod, Yeah,
that makes sense. You know what. The other one was
the chicken sandwich at five Guys. Now, that one kinda
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that one caught me off guard because chicken. Oh that's healthy,
that's health food, right, But I guess when you stack
it up and cover it up and gobbledy goog it up,
maybe not so much so sorry, five guys, And it's
just a survey. If you love that place, knock yourself out.
I'll be honest, I've not I've never been a fan
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of Five Guys. I'm greasy. Yeah, it is that, and
I think that's the problem. I think that's part of
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All right, welcome back to fifty plus, home of the
I don't know generation's gonna live a really long time
thanks to modern medicine. So that kind of means we
need to do everything we can to make that extra
time productive. And a lot of that's gonna start with
brain health and to offer up some expert advice in
that field, I will introduce Lakeland Eichenberger, gerontologist and caregiver
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advocate at Home instead an honor company. Welcome to fifty plus, Lakeland.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Hi, Doug, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I appreciate that. So what's your short answer to why
it's important to keep our brains active? And engaged. As
we lean a little bit farther into seniority.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Well, you know, it goes a long way in our
brain health as we get older. So many of us
want to avoid as much as possible any sort of
cognitive decline that could come with age. And we know
the greatest risk factor for cognitive decline is age. So
as we get older, our risk goes up, so as
much as we can do to reduce that risk as possible.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
We want to be doing.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
So that's things like keeping your brain active and engaged.
And there's a lot that we can do, starting really
at any age, to go a long ways towards our
brain health across our life.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I think one of the most important things I saw
it in the notes that I got, and I've talked
about it before on this program, is you just got
to stay connected somehow. Just staying socially connected, whether it's
in any regard, really, is that just kind of a
good first step.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Absolutely, Yeah. Those social connections go such a long way
for our brain health.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
It helps us, you know, keep our brains sharp because
when you're talking with people, you're remembering things, you're recalling information,
you're learning new things. So lots of great benefits to
staying socially engaged.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
And there's a lot of ways people can be socially engaged.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It's not always about the quantity, you know, but it's
really more about the quality.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And it doesn't really I guess phone call, text message,
zoom call, team call, in person, they're all important almost equally, really,
aren't they?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Absolutely? And I think it really is individual.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
You know, whatever is meaningful for you in staying socially engaged,
really lean into that. So if you have a lot
of long distance relatives and FaceTime and phone calls and
texts that helps you feel socially connected, that's awesome. Or
if you're more of an in person kind of individual,
you know.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Getting engaged maybe in.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Local clubs, book clubs, social clubs, or you know, team activities,
those can be great ways to connect.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
But also we don't always have to be interacting with humans.
Our pets can also be another great way just to
engage socially as well.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
That are good listeners, aren't they?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Oh? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I'm guessing there are gonna be people in this audience,
Lakelan who are who they feel isolated and because they've
been isolated for a while, maybe they're hesitant to get
out and join some sort of group or activity. What
can they do to gain little confidence at least enough
to put a toe in that water.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You know, that's a good question.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I think you have to start in a way that's
comfortable to you, so, you know, just getting out and
trying it, or maybe asking someone that you know to
go with you. Sometimes that kind of helps reduce a
little anxiety that you might have is having no making
sure you know some at least one person there.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
But again, maybe it's checking out.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
A group on Facebook or Instagram to get familiar with
what they're about before maybe going to an in person
meetup might help you feel a little more comfortable.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I like having I like the idea of having a
wingman for something exact so and something else. I've heard
from people's Oh I don't want to do that because
I might not be good at chess or pickleball, or painting,
or or learning a language. I'm guessing that in most
group settings for seniors, it's way more about just doing
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the activity and meeting people than it is becoming an
expert in anything.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Right, Well, I would think so, yes, I think that
you know learning something new also is really great for
your brain. So if you think about it from that
perspective and not go and try to be an expert,
I think that will help kind of make your expectations
a little more maybe manageable, or help you have more
of an open mind. And I think, you know, along
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the lines of learning something new, you can learn from
multiple generations too. I think that's a really neat thing
about learning something new, whether it's learning a technology, maybe
you engage with your grandkids or younger members of your
family to help kind of teach you. So really just
being open to the learning, being open to interact with
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people of all ages, I think can be really really beneficial.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Is there any cap Lakelan and Iikeenburger from home instead
with us here on fifty plus? Is there any cap
on how much we can improve our brain health by
doing all of this?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
You know, I wouldn't necessarily say there's a cap. I
don't think you can ever do too much.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I think, you know, the thing to keep in mind is,
you know, keeping your social interaction and the things that
you're learning just part of your kind of.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
The way you live your life.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
So kind of adapting that lifelong learning mindset or adapting
the mindset of I just want to stay engaged socially
over my lifetime. I think that's maybe a better approach
than trying to, you know, make sure you hit a
certain threshold of interaction or learning. That way, you just
you know, continue to stay curious and continue to stay connected.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Talk about the relationship between brain health and physical health too.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Oh, that is a great connection because so much of
what we do from our physical health perspective does impact
our brain health. So if you think about movement, not
necessarily exercise. I think there's sometimes people hear the word
exercise and they're like, no, that's not for me. But really,
it's getting up and moving throughout the day. It's so
(25:53):
good for our brain health. It can help improve the
blood flow in our brain, help produce inflammation, help low
our stress because we know stress hormones can negatively impact
our brain. So really just getting moving and choosing an
activity that you enjoy. So it could be dancing, it
could be walking, could be swimming, it could be just
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you know, making sure you're getting up throughout the day.
I know a lot of us work from home, so
we're at a desk job. So just getting up and
moving throughout the day. It's going to go a long
way in terms of your brain health.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I got a great idea, like, and what we're gonna
do is, we're going to put the phone on the
other side of the house, and then when we need exercise,
we're gonna get up and we're going to walk over
there and we're going to phone a friend and have
a conversation and we'll just be the smartest old people
in the whole world.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yes, integrate multiple of these concepts together. Socialization movement. I
love it.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
The safer pickleball that tears up seniors, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Well, you know, I've actually never played pickleball. It's on
my to do, but.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Don't fall into that trap. Oh my word. Thank you
so much, Lakeland Eikenberger from home instead and honor company
in It's been an honor for me to speak with you,
it really has. And maybe we'll cross paths again sometime
on this telephone.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I sure houpe so doug things for having me.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Thank you, Leslan. All right, we got to take a
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Speaker 3 (29:20):
Okay, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Here's more with Doug. All right, welcome back. Fourth and
final segment of the program starts right now, and it'll
start with something I just saw come across the come
across the news feed a major pipeline fire. This is
from Houston Chronicle dot Com. Major pipeline fire in Laporte
(29:50):
prompts closures, shelter in place warnings. Emergency responders rush to
put out a major pipeline fire Monday near Spencer Highway
in Summerton. Laporte's Office of Emergency Management said Gordon to
Harris County Precinct two officials Highway was closed in the area.
Officials at San Jacino College Central Campus also told students
(30:11):
to shelter in place until the emergency has resolved. It
doesn't sound like it's terribly serious at this point, but
you never know. With a pipeline fire, that sounds like
something that could get a whole lot worse in a
really short period of time. So moving on to lighten
the load a little bit, six saplings of a pine
(30:36):
tree species discovered not that long ago in Australia are
being auctioned in hopes of reintroducing that species around much
of that country for the first time since when will
the first time since when nineteen sixty Well you only
(30:57):
missed by ninety one million years. This pine tree, the
walemy pine, evolved, actually it went extinct about two million
years ago, but it was. It's in fossils dating back
ninety one million years, all the way back to the
dinosaur dinosaurs, and supposedly it went extinct about two million
(31:21):
years ago, like I said. And then in nineteen ninety four, botanists,
I don't know why they were out there looking for
I don't know what they were looking for, probably something new,
And somebody who'd read the book about Walemy pine said, hey,
wait a minute, isn't that one of those? And what
do you know? They stumbled in some remote high ground
(31:42):
up on an isolated peak of Australia. They found ninety
of these trees. And since then the scientists had been
working kind of hush hush, top secret, and planting little
small plots of these things on their own around they
and now I guess to earn more research money so
(32:04):
they can go find something else that everybody thought was gone.
They are auctioning that little half dozen of those pine trees. Saplings.
They're little, they're not just seeds in a in a
dixie cup. They're saplings, and hopefully somebody will buy them
and take them out there and grow some more all
(32:24):
over that country. We ought to bring a few over here. No,
if you're thinking that, no, we don't do that because
we don't need any more non native species of anything
in Texas. We have plants, we have every kind of animal.
We have non native fish, and most of them typically
(32:45):
displace some sort of native species and that just changes
the whole ecosystem. Go find the story. Look online. There's
a story about somebody dropping a bag of Cheetos in
Carlsbad caverns I believe it was, and those cheetos triggered
a just a really bad chain of events for the
(33:08):
future of that amazing natural resource, that feature that cavern's
over there, because there's introduce introduction of fung guy and
little tiny animals come grab the stuff and run away
with it, and then things start growing on the walls,
and it's just a big old mess just because one
(33:31):
lazy person, one ignorant person just said it's too heavy
to carry this half bag of cheetos all the way
to a trash can. I'll just toss it down there.
It's sad, really sad to think that people even would
(33:53):
contemplate doing something like that in a place that is
truly a national treasure. But they did, and eye opening
new and I'll wink when I say that a new
gene therapy actually shows great promise in correcting a genetic
mutation that causes loss of sight or nearly complete loss
of sight, starting with people in their childhoods and then
(34:16):
really not getting much better. Fifteen patients in a recent trial,
including three pediatric patients, all of them suffered from severe
vision loss at best twenty eighty on the standard charts,
and they they have real problems with lighting too. They
need a lot of light to be able to see.
Glasses helped but not much. But with therapy their vision
(34:39):
improved often in the first month, and the results were
even far greater than expected for a lot of those patients.
So fingers crossed that research will continue, and if I
see anything else on it coming up soon or ever
while I'm still doing this show, I will certainly pass
(34:59):
the There are so many conditions and diseases in this
world that this knowledge that we have now of genetics
and specific genes that can be turned on or turned
off to help alleviate situations like this, it's fascinating. I
don't think most of us will live long enough to
(35:22):
really benefit greatly from the research that's being done now,
but it really, it really holds tremendous hope for people
who have been suffering through their childhoods and are maybe
going into young adulthood even now and just wishing there
was something could that could be done for them, Because
(35:42):
that's something apparently is just right around the corner, just
right around the corner, and I hope so if I
miss it, I miss it. But if something that gets
cured today will help somebody else live a little bit longer,
I'm okay with that. Uh this one I put a
little headline of sing along on. I saw another one
about how singing to your plants makes them healthier or
(36:04):
stronger or something silly. I'm not so sure. I'm gonna
give a ton of credence to singing to your plants.
But you be you if you think singing to your
plants helps them, go at it. I don't know whether
the song choice or even the genre of music matters.
I don't even know if you have to be a
good singer. I also wonder, hmmm, maybe so that the
(36:27):
singing just helps us feel better, But the plants don't
really care. They just don't care a all right, Well,
back to you. How does this happen? Chip off the
old block. Nothing to see here, Nothing to see here.
Top phone habits that can hurt a relationship include not
sharing your password, keeping your phone face down, being defensive
(36:53):
when they want to use it, and closing an app
when they walk by. Have you ever done that? No,
any of those. Nope. My wife picks up my phone
all the time, and she said, can I look at this?
Knock yourself out. I'm the most boring phone she's ever
looked at, she says, which which makes me want to
(37:14):
ask her just what other phones has she looked at?
All Right, we're out of here. We'll see it tomorrow.
Thanks audios.
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