November 13, 2024 • 35 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Pooja Shivshankar about inflammatory bowel disease.
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that's fine with me. I'm not in the mood for
another one of those. All right. So His and Lowe's
in Haiku starts right now, will Melbourne? Are you ready.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Hit me? Yeah?
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to be you need to be careful before you read
this rooky mistake. Oh no, just choking, of course. Well
I'm sure all right, here we go. Get out your sweaters.
Rest of the week is quite cool. Maybe rain Monday.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
M hmmm.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Sweaters for the rest of the week. So what are
you seeing in the forecast? What I'm seeing is a
Thursday night forecast of fifty one degrees? Really, yes, really,
fifty one five one? What about during the day? Think,
no load of mid seventies, just like I told you? Interesting, yeah,
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very and accurate. Accurate huh yeah. Whether somebody's already got that,
I had to come up with a new one. All right.
Well I'm feeling generous today, are you now? Yeah, benevolence,
just runneth over. I'll give that one a seven. Oh, okay,
I'll take that. I'll take that for the time it
took me to come up with it. That's a really
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good ROI right there. That's a return on investment. I
didn't have to put much into that one. It was
pretty easy. It was kind of a tomato can, as
the boxing industry used to call easy winds knocked over
a tomato can in that fight. Yeah, it was some.
I'm so glad to see this weather coming, and I
think you are too. I think that's part of your
generosity and just throwing throwing glitter up in the air.
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I'm all for it. And from the markets by way
of Houston Gold Exchange, word that prices continued to rise
across the board this past month, although I suspect there's
going to be a general trend in the other direction
fairly soon. Food not surprisingly, if you've ever been to
a grocery store in the past three years, food continues
(04:56):
to be one of the fastest climbers. Unfortunately, and why
not when it seems like half of what's on the
shelves now is being recalled like butter because the label
didn't explain that butter is made from milk. Nobody Nobody
who's lactose intolerant and is older than six doesn't know
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that butter is a dairy product, and in fact, is
the best of all the dairy products. Will what's better
butter or cheese? If you had to give up? Well,
let me rephrase that, if you had to give up
one for the rest of your life, which would you
give up? Butter or cheese? I feel like, I mean,
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that is hard.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I love them both, but I feel like butter would
be harder to give up just because it seems like
it's in more foods than cheeses.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Then again, will, let's hypothetically go into this a little bit.
Then again, what how would you make your nachos? What
would you put on a baloney sandwich to compliment the baloney?
What would you put on your ham and cheese sandwich?
What would you put inside your omelet and your tacos?
(06:12):
And you're all the cheese is everywhere? Man?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, but I mean, what about when you're cooking your meats,
you know, cheese, really really thin cheese will melt it
down on your steak?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Huh? You're gonna put a nice sharp cheddar on that?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Huh? I think that sounds more appealing than a baloney
in butter sandwich. I don't know. I don't know, Doug.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I'm gonna go with I would rather have butter, you know, cheese.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think we should just agree to not take either
of them away from ourselves, because my favorite grilled cheese
sandwich has butter on both sides, or on both slices
of bread on the outside of both slices. You got
butter there, then you got cheese in the middle. And
of course the way I like it, and you said
you would hate it is with that miracle whip in
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the middle. Just a little, man, it's a little tang,
a little sweet sour. Okay, it's not bad, it's really not. Man,
you're gonna make this audience hurled, Doug. Yeah, I used
to eat butter and apple butter sandwiches. Do you eat that? No, God,
that's good, Oh my word. Go buy a jar of
apple butter and then get the butter out of your
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refrigerator and just put put butter on one side of
the bread and apple butter on the other, and bite
into that and tell me if you and just close
your eyes and tell me if you don't think you've
heard angels sing and stepped across the threshold into heaven.
All right, it is so good, so so good and
borderline healthy.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I'm healthy with the two butter products.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Well, it's not apple. Butter is not really butter. It's
more apple than butter. Okay, And it's technically it's a fruit.
Maybe it's like saying grape jellyt SA is a vegetable?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Right?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Well, no meat, it's a full meal. You've got dairy,
you've got meat, and you've got bread, right, and sauce.
What does that count as tomato's vegetable? That's right, that's
the vegetable. What do you put on pizza? Will?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
We're so often I put sauce and I'll put some
cheese anything else?
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Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Hi, Welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you all for
the listen today. In this segment, we're going to talk
about a change that occurs within some of our immune
systems as we age and how that relates to something
called inflammatory bowel disease or if you've got that, you
know what it is. Affects about two and a half
to three million Americans, and to help I'm going to
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bring in doctor Pooja Shivshankar, Assistant Professor at the Center
for Immunology and Autoimmune Diseases at the Institute of MOLECUA
Medicine at ut Health Mcgovernment Medical School. Welcome to fifty
plus DOT.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Thank you, Doug. Thank you so much. It's such an
exciting time for me and being on your radio show
fifty plus is something that is really important for our
community as well.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I'm glad to have you a board because I know
virtually nothing about inflammatory bio disease. What give us a
basic definition of IBD?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Oh? Yeah, so it is as we say, it is
the inflammatory bubble disease. So we know that it is
specific to the gut. Right, So the digestive track basically
begins from your mouth to the rectum area. Okay, so
you can have information anywhere in these local areas, right
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from your mouth and source to your esawhage's inflammation, to
your gut inflammation. And the most important part of our
gut is the bubble, which is the large interest tine.
So most of the time when we talk about inflammatory
bubble disease, it is very commonly associated creative with the
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colon or the large bubble. Oh my goodness, there is yeah,
and there is a portion of the small interestine which
is a little bit upstream of your large interestine, which
is also involved because when you have the inflammation in
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the large interestine, there is bacteria and the candida, which
is basically a healthy fungus that is there in your
large interestine gets its way to the small interestine, the
very upstreme portion of the small interestine called ilium, and
starts to develop inflammation there, which is called the Crohn's disease.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh my goodness, it's all all the way through the system.
And with respect to the lunch hour. Okay, how does
this manifest themselves itself and those who have.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Yeah, that's a very good question. Actually. So whenever we
eat our food, which is not a whole food, and
when we have this processed food that is our daily
routine nowadays in our very extremely busy culture. If you see,
we get exposed to a lot of these molecules which
are considered as foreign molecules in our system that we
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get ingested with, and our body does not recognize to
these molecules and your immune system as if there is
some foreign molecule just like a bacteria or any other
protogen that has invaded your system and it's touched to
trigger the surveillance mechanism in our body. And that surveillance
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mechanism is called compliment immune system. And once that gets triggered,
you have now an inflammatory response that is beyond control actually,
and yeah, that leads to you know, over a period
of time. In imagine, your large interestine is like almost
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five meters and you have your small interestine which is
almost three times of your height. For example, if you
are a six steet person, the small interestine is eighteen
feet and we are bound to damage everything within no
time of you know, at least as early as thirty
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years of our life. So in three decades we start
to damage as small interestine and large interestine, and by
sixty we have you know, you undergo colonic resection, small
interstinal resections, and many other complications that you start to
develop that impacts your mortality as well as your you know,
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your well being of your life.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Does this attack specific groups of people more than others,
It is.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Mostly the westernized culture that we have. Our food habits
have changed. If you are in tod Wall countries where
we still have a practice of cooking at home, eating
raw vegetables or you know, cooked hole foods, then you
are not prone to these diseases. As soon as we
change our gut microflora through these westernized you know, fast
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food culture, we start to make a dig biosis. That
means we start to impact the balance of good bacteria
and the bad bacteria in our system. Normally Candida, as
I said, it is fifteen percent in total microbiome of
our gut. Once we start to have these foreign molecules
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through these processed foods, we start to increase the increase
the you know, the content of candida more or compared
to the good bacteria is now going to frontif for
it in such a way that it starts to damage
your interest time and also it starts to lower the
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good bacteria that you have in your gut.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Oh boy, doctor Pujya Schefshankar on fifty plus, I've got
just a couple of minutes left. Is this something that
can be treated with meds? And how effective are they?
Speaker 6 (16:24):
There are some immune biologics that we can use just
to you know, decrease the symptoms and the flare ups
that we have. But if we really want to, you know,
get this cured. It's even now called the incurable disease.
But if you want to fix this, you have to
go through your very strict lifestyle changes so that you
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can incorporate healthy food and then you start your nervous
system activation. Relax because you need the parasynthethetic nervous system
that's going to work through your vegus love and stimulate
your gut motility, increase the healthy bacterial population in your gut.
And reduce the inflammatory consequences so that you can definitely
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cure it over a period of ten years. Actually it
will take ten years.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Wow. Well, yeah, I'm going to start today. Okay, you
got me scared. I'm not really interested in inflammatory consequences.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I get it, and I'm not.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I don't want that. I don't want any part of it.
And yeah, you succeeded in scaring me, Doc, I'm not.
I'm gonna start eating more whole vegetables right today.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, promise.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
So we think that we have to take pills and
you know, and we have to fix everything, It's not
like that. Sometimes you have to do clients in through
you know, basic procedures like anima. If you do anema,
you're going to remove excess of these inflammatory and the
bacterial overload, thecro biota you can remove instead of damaging
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your blood vessels that can lead to sectic shop and
then you know, spreading the candy day in your whole body.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I've got a big physical. I've got a physical coming
up in about two weeks, and that's going to be
on my list of questions and what can I do
to keep from having to deal with this? Doctor Pujia Schifshankar.
Thank you so very much for your time today.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
You're welcome. Thank you so much for having me here.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
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Speaker 1 (20:16):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
All right, Welcome back to fifty plus twelve thirty seven
in Houston and the central Fine Zone top to bottom.
I used to have fun. I went to school in Mobile, Alabama,
played baseball over there for a while, and Pensacola just
a little ways pass. Going east. You flipped time zones.
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You went to the Eastern time zone, and a buddy
man on eight guy who he was a senior when
I was a freshman. He and I were the only
two surfers on the baseball team, and we would go
over there and we would have have to scurry back home.
It would it would get dark, and then we could
just kind of race the sunset back over the mobile
and see if we could get back. We of course,
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we never outraced the sun, but it was it was
just something that motivated us. I don't even know how
it did, but we had a good time surfing Pensacola.
Not much surf, not much legitimate surf along the Alabama coast. Really,
Pensacola had a couple of pretty good breaks. So all right,
moving forward. In later news, there's been so much heavy,
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heavy stuff for the last six months. The National Toy
Museum has announced the year's three inductees into the Toy
Hall of Fame. There were actually twelve nominees, but the
three that earned their spots. And I already asked, well
if he knew of any of them. But since they
were they met their heyday, they were at their peaks
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of popularity long before he was born. I've excused him
from even hearing of any of them. Well, yeah you will.
I haven't told him what they were, so uh quick, quickly,
will Have you heard of My Little Pony?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Okay, that one started? Where did it go? Somewhere yet
in nineteen ninety See My Little Pony launched in eighty three,
relaunched in two thousand and three, and right there in
the middle in nineteen ninety three, my Little Pony actually
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outsold what iconic girl's toy? Will Barbie? You got that right?
Barbie's still around. My Little Pony just kind of put
out the pasture, I guess you could say. Have you
ever heard of a rummy style card name? Card game
named Phase ten? You ever heard of?
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Now?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I haven't either, and it strikes me as odd because
I'm a fancier of card games. I play a lot
of them. Phase ten was new to me. It really was, though,
And it's the second best selling card game in the world.
It was introduced in eighty two, still sells about two
million decks a year into thirty countries and in twenty languages.
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So I don't know how I missed that one. I
really don't. And then the third one, the third inductee Transformers.
You've heard of them? I know transformants. Ah, then meets
the eye. Was that something that was on TV or something? Yeah,
that was the theme suck in your head of the
show or the commercials of the show. I never watched
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an episode of the Robots in disguise. If you've seen
one car turn into a robot, you've seen them all.
Will my little robot, my little transformer? They could maybe
they could do something with that. Will it'd be a
cool collab? Huh, he says, yeah, wouldn't it? Though? No,
not really In the eighties. These were all toys very
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popular in the nineteen eighties, which means most of us
would would remember most of people in this audience. Not
you will, but most of this audience would remember those toys,
if at all, as something our grandchildren wanted for Christmas.
That's somewhat frightening, chronologically speaking. Moving forward, a couple of
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items from the Keep America Divided desk. That's the other
side for me. First of all, Whoopy Goldberg Gonna View
crew talked about how people might want to avoid it.
They've done this all this this week, want to avoid
sharing the holidays with family members who voted for President
elect Trump?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Too soon?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
They said, just no no, you can't do that. No
sense creating friction. So instead of just encouraging Americans to
hate their neighbors, now they also want us to reject
our own families over the holidays, all because they're candidate lost,
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lost badly. I might add also saw a story about
how left wing activists currently are recruiting some pretty volatile groups.
Actually are recruiting mostly young people, but you can bet
some far left retirees are going to get on board.
They're gonna pay these people to show up for the
inauguration in January, and just cause of Ruckus, they won't
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get anywhere near the actual ceremony of out with the Old,
in with the New, but they're going to be out there.
This is the party that ran on a platform of
reunification of hope and joy and inclusivity, and now suddenly
they're going back to their roots and trying to rip
the country apart again. So they might have a chance
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at doing something next time four years from now. I
guess anybody who doesn't like this country is welcome to
buy a ticket and head out. They really are. Planes
and trains in private limos leave the United States every day,
and if they'll promise to never return, not for any
reason whatsoever, never come back. I'll help raise the money
to buy their tickets. They're poster children for hypocrisy, they
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really are. Every one of them who say they're gonna
leave talked about that yesterday. Will says, I gotta leave
right now. Well, metaphorically, UT Health Institute on Aging is
a group of medical providers, a very large group, more
than a thousand. I'm certain of it now. I'm not
gonna keep guessing. I'm certain it's more than a thousand
members of ut Health Institute on Aging, every one of
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whom has got gone back and gotten additional education to
whatever it took to get the diploma on the wall
in their office. And their expertise now is in applying
that knowledge it took to get them through school, specifically
to seniors and how our bodies tick and work and function.
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We're a whole lot different than young people. Will Melbourne's
body is a whole lot different from mine. And that's
just that's just the aging process. It's nothing. He's doing nothing,
I'm doing right or wrong. But our bodies as seniors
are much different than those of younger people. Just remember
back when you were in your twenties, you know a
lot different then, huh, Or even in remember back when
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you were in your sixties or your fifties, a lot
different then. The UT Health Institute on Aging Providers can
approach whatever issue you have from a perspective of someone
who knows how to make it work for you. Go
to the website. You'll find tons of resources available there
for starters, and then you can start looking for help
(27:42):
with a specific issue as well. UT dot edu slash aging,
uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike, Bhi, Welcome back fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Final seven is stars right now, Will I asked you
during the break, and I'll ask you to repeat your answer.
Then I'll ask you a question after you do. Have
you ever left a concert or sporting event early to
beat traffic? That answer was yes, And then I followed
with a question, what percentage of Americans do you believe
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said they did it in a big recent poll. Must asked,
I don't know how many people, maybe one hundred, maybe
ten thousand, maybe six, it doesn't matter. I hope it's
not six. Yeah, that would be a fairlea. That'd be
a very small samples.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Just basically asking your buddies and then posting it online.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Got six and we got six buddies. I'll say seventy. Okay,
now that's not the right answer, will that's not what
the survey said. I believe you and I'm counted in
the same bunch you are. I've done it more than once.
Would you say, would you believe now that the actual
percentage is higher or lower than seventy percent? Lower you
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had a chance, you you were not went the other way.
It's actually eighty percent, And I'm surprised it's not higher.
I'm surprised it's not higher than that. Really have never
you've never left a game to beat traffic, you and
especially now that might be eighteen to twenty five or
thirty year olds, but folks my age, you got to
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get out of there. Man, you got to get out,
especially if it's a tight game. If it's a close game,
I'll stick around to the end for sure. I want
to see how it ends. My dad and I went
to I think it was like a seventeen inning baseball
game in the Astrodome one time, and bless his heart,
it was. It was a work and it may have
been a I don't know. It might have been a
Friday night. I don't know. But he was an early riser.
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He got up at four point fifteen every morning, made
himself coffee, made himself some breakfast, and then went on
to work before I even thought about getting up to
go to school. And anyway, he fell asleep at the
baseball game. He was just that tired. Anyway, moving forward,
for those of you who remember this, I really kind
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of like for those of you who remember Mutual of
Omahaw's Wild Kingdom. And yet there are a lot of
people in this audience, I'm sure nodding your heads. This
was very popular. It started all the way back in
nineteen sixty three when I was just a wee lad,
and its final episode aired in nineteen eighty five, right
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about the time of My Little Pony and Transformers and
what was it something ten not eight nine ten, I
don't know what it was. Anyway. Mutual of Omaha was
a conservation themed television program that sent its cruise and
including its original host Marlon Perkins, and then it was
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Jim somebody. I think I wrote it down in here somewhere, Jim, Jim,
where's Jim's a darn it? I don't see it right now.
I'll find it right before, right after we go off
the air. Probably bottom line was it was a conservation
related show, and they are actually bringing it back and
have several episodes already produced. What they're going to do
(31:31):
is is draw off of those original episodes where there
were conservation concerns on specific animals being aired all over
national television and rightfully so, and then they're going to
follow up and say, Okay, here's what's happened to that animal?
Since then I find that pretty cool. Oh what was Jim?
Jim Fowler? There it is, I found it in the story.
(31:54):
I had it higher up than I thought I did.
Marlon Perkins, then Jim Fowler, and now I can't remember.
There's a man and a woman who are hosting it,
co hosting it now and then we'll see I've got
a little time here. Okay, well, here we go shape shifters,
Where's my luggage? Or step aside, shorty, where's my luggage?
(32:15):
Apple adding a new feature that lets you share air
tag data directly with airlines to help them find lost luggage.
Currently no way for them to see that info in
real time. Why can't you just stand there at the core,
at the counter and say here it is right here,
it says my suitcase is in Paris, not Texas. Pardon me,
(32:40):
I had a little tickle in my throat there for
some reason. It's gone. Now all right, let's do it again.
Will we still have lots of time? This is awesome.
Step aside, shorty, shape up or shape shifters. Step up, shorty, No,
that's not what I say. Head will step aside, shorty.
(33:03):
There's a building proposal up in New York City for
a structure that will be called the Big Bend. Not
Big Bend that's already taken over in Europe. It looks,
they say, like a giant paper clip, But it's an
office building, a big, giant, monstrous office building that would
(33:27):
become if they can get it past all the permits.
Who knows. There's a lot, boy to build something in
New York. It takes a lot of government intervention and
government oversight and government forms to fill out, and all
kinds of things they have to all kinds of flaming
hoops they have to jump through to get started. But
(33:49):
if they pull it off, says it's going to look
like a giant paper clip, which that I think. It's
a cool building. They didn't even need to say that.
People could have figured that out in themselves. And at
two thousand feet tall, would become the tallest building in
the United States of America. Still seven hundred and twenty
two feet shorter than Burj Khalifa in Dubai, but hey,
(34:13):
two thousand feet it's about I want to say, it's
four or five hundred feet taller, taller than the one
one World Trade Center that's in New York. Now it
is the tallest. I want to say it's about sixteen
hundred maybe something like that. This one's gonna be two
(34:33):
thousand feet tall, and it's pretty fasting. The actual the elevators,
if they pull this off, are designed so that they
can go up and then cut across and now there's
there's a big gaping hole in the middle. It's just
this giant arch, this huge monstrous arch, and the elevators
would go up and then I guess slide sideways and
(34:53):
then retreat downward. For two thousand feet. However long that
takes pretty amazing. Honestly, we're down to a minute. Will
in Space News team of astronomer A team of astronomers,
them too, discovered a supersized black hole near the center
of an early galaxy. They say, just one point five
(35:16):
billion years after the Big Bang. That seems like a
long time, but in intergalactic universal time, I guess a
billion and a half years isn't very long anyway. That
black hole's gobbling up matter roughly forty times the theoretical
limit for matter gobbling. I don't know. I don't understand
(35:36):
a lot of this, but I just keep reading it
because that's the only way you're gonna learn. It's the
only way you're gonna learn any of this stuff. Will
Have you learned anything today?
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Will?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I wish? Oh God. We'll try again tomorrow. Thanks for listening.
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Three days look really nice and then some maybe possibly
potential scattered to light heavy sprinkle shower thunderstorms. That'll be Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday. And the tropics, where the off season
for storms is getting smaller and smaller, it seems every year.
And by the way, there's still nothing we can do
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about that. Anyway, the tropics starting to kind of do
some things. There's a storm that's almost certain to develop
into either tropical storm or potential hurricane. A couple of
the models I look at, most of them show it
as maybe a tropical storm, maybe a Cat one, potentially two.
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There are outlying models that show it going up to
a three and even a four or one of them.
But you've got to throw out the top and the
bottom of all these to find out where it's truly
gonna end up. And where that one is supposed to
end up is coming into the Gulf of Mexico and
then hanging a big left and just going dead south.
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Now that's the same track that Raphael originally was expected
to take, but The bottom line is we've got these
coal fronts that are helping push these things away from
Texas and away from the northwestern Gulf Coast. And that's
that's fine with me. I'm not in the mood for
another one of those. All right. So His and Lowe's
in Haiku starts right now, will Melbourne? Are you ready.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Hit me? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Try it again with the little button pushed. You need
to be you need to be careful before you read
this rooky mistake. Oh no, just choking, of course. Well
I'm sure all right, here we go. Get out your sweaters.
Rest of the week is quite cool. Maybe rain Monday.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
M hmmm.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Sweaters for the rest of the week. So what are
you seeing in the forecast? What I'm seeing is a
Thursday night forecast of fifty one degrees? Really, yes, really,
fifty one five one? What about during the day? Think,
no load of mid seventies, just like I told you? Interesting, yeah,
(03:49):
very and accurate. Accurate huh yeah. Whether somebody's already got that,
I had to come up with a new one. All right.
Well I'm feeling generous today, are you now? Yeah, benevolence,
just runneth over. I'll give that one a seven. Oh, okay,
I'll take that. I'll take that for the time it
took me to come up with it. That's a really
(04:10):
good ROI right there. That's a return on investment. I
didn't have to put much into that one. It was
pretty easy. It was kind of a tomato can, as
the boxing industry used to call easy winds knocked over
a tomato can in that fight. Yeah, it was some.
I'm so glad to see this weather coming, and I
think you are too. I think that's part of your
generosity and just throwing throwing glitter up in the air.
(04:35):
I'm all for it. And from the markets by way
of Houston Gold Exchange, word that prices continued to rise
across the board this past month, although I suspect there's
going to be a general trend in the other direction
fairly soon. Food not surprisingly, if you've ever been to
a grocery store in the past three years, food continues
(04:56):
to be one of the fastest climbers. Unfortunately, and why
not when it seems like half of what's on the
shelves now is being recalled like butter because the label
didn't explain that butter is made from milk. Nobody Nobody
who's lactose intolerant and is older than six doesn't know
(05:16):
that butter is a dairy product, and in fact, is
the best of all the dairy products. Will what's better
butter or cheese? If you had to give up? Well,
let me rephrase that, if you had to give up
one for the rest of your life, which would you
give up? Butter or cheese? I feel like, I mean,
(05:37):
that is hard.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I love them both, but I feel like butter would
be harder to give up just because it seems like
it's in more foods than cheeses.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Then again, will, let's hypothetically go into this a little bit.
Then again, what how would you make your nachos? What
would you put on a baloney sandwich to compliment the baloney?
What would you put on your ham and cheese sandwich?
What would you put inside your omelet and your tacos?
(06:12):
And you're all the cheese is everywhere? Man?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, but I mean, what about when you're cooking your meats,
you know, cheese, really really thin cheese will melt it
down on your steak?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Huh? You're gonna put a nice sharp cheddar on that?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Huh? I think that sounds more appealing than a baloney
in butter sandwich. I don't know. I don't know, Doug.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I'm gonna go with I would rather have butter, you know, cheese.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think we should just agree to not take either
of them away from ourselves, because my favorite grilled cheese
sandwich has butter on both sides, or on both slices
of bread on the outside of both slices. You got
butter there, then you got cheese in the middle. And
of course the way I like it, and you said
you would hate it is with that miracle whip in
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the middle. Just a little, man, it's a little tang,
a little sweet sour. Okay, it's not bad, it's really not. Man,
you're gonna make this audience hurled, Doug. Yeah, I used
to eat butter and apple butter sandwiches. Do you eat that? No, God,
that's good, Oh my word. Go buy a jar of
apple butter and then get the butter out of your
(07:30):
refrigerator and just put put butter on one side of
the bread and apple butter on the other, and bite
into that and tell me if you and just close
your eyes and tell me if you don't think you've
heard angels sing and stepped across the threshold into heaven.
All right, it is so good, so so good and
borderline healthy.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I'm healthy with the two butter products.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Well, it's not apple. Butter is not really butter. It's
more apple than butter. Okay, And it's technically it's a fruit.
Maybe it's like saying grape jellyt SA is a vegetable?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Right?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Well, no meat, it's a full meal. You've got dairy,
you've got meat, and you've got bread, right, and sauce.
What does that count as tomato's vegetable? That's right, that's
the vegetable. What do you put on pizza? Will?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
We're so often I put sauce and I'll put some
cheese anything else?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Ye oh no really seriously, Yeah, you may have to
leave the room. That's just grounds for dismissing. All right,
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Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Hi, Welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you all for
the listen today. In this segment, we're going to talk
about a change that occurs within some of our immune
systems as we age and how that relates to something
called inflammatory bowel disease or if you've got that, you
know what it is. Affects about two and a half
to three million Americans, and to help I'm going to
(10:39):
bring in doctor Pooja Shivshankar, Assistant Professor at the Center
for Immunology and Autoimmune Diseases at the Institute of MOLECUA
Medicine at ut Health Mcgovernment Medical School. Welcome to fifty
plus DOT.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Thank you, Doug. Thank you so much. It's such an
exciting time for me and being on your radio show
fifty plus is something that is really important for our
community as well.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I'm glad to have you a board because I know
virtually nothing about inflammatory bio disease. What give us a
basic definition of IBD?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Oh? Yeah, so it is as we say, it is
the inflammatory bubble disease. So we know that it is
specific to the gut. Right, So the digestive track basically
begins from your mouth to the rectum area. Okay, so
you can have information anywhere in these local areas, right
(11:39):
from your mouth and source to your esawhage's inflammation, to
your gut inflammation. And the most important part of our
gut is the bubble, which is the large interest tine.
So most of the time when we talk about inflammatory
bubble disease, it is very commonly associated creative with the
(12:01):
colon or the large bubble. Oh my goodness, there is yeah,
and there is a portion of the small interestine which
is a little bit upstream of your large interestine, which
is also involved because when you have the inflammation in
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the large interestine, there is bacteria and the candida, which
is basically a healthy fungus that is there in your
large interestine gets its way to the small interestine, the
very upstreme portion of the small interestine called ilium, and
starts to develop inflammation there, which is called the Crohn's disease.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh my goodness, it's all all the way through the system.
And with respect to the lunch hour. Okay, how does
this manifest themselves itself and those who have.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Yeah, that's a very good question. Actually. So whenever we
eat our food, which is not a whole food, and
when we have this processed food that is our daily
routine nowadays in our very extremely busy culture. If you see,
we get exposed to a lot of these molecules which
are considered as foreign molecules in our system that we
(13:18):
get ingested with, and our body does not recognize to
these molecules and your immune system as if there is
some foreign molecule just like a bacteria or any other
protogen that has invaded your system and it's touched to
trigger the surveillance mechanism in our body. And that surveillance
(13:39):
mechanism is called compliment immune system. And once that gets triggered,
you have now an inflammatory response that is beyond control actually,
and yeah, that leads to you know, over a period
of time. In imagine, your large interestine is like almost
(14:04):
five meters and you have your small interestine which is
almost three times of your height. For example, if you
are a six steet person, the small interestine is eighteen
feet and we are bound to damage everything within no
time of you know, at least as early as thirty
(14:26):
years of our life. So in three decades we start
to damage as small interestine and large interestine, and by
sixty we have you know, you undergo colonic resection, small
interstinal resections, and many other complications that you start to
develop that impacts your mortality as well as your you know,
(14:50):
your well being of your life.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Does this attack specific groups of people more than others,
It is.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Mostly the westernized culture that we have. Our food habits
have changed. If you are in tod Wall countries where
we still have a practice of cooking at home, eating
raw vegetables or you know, cooked hole foods, then you
are not prone to these diseases. As soon as we
change our gut microflora through these westernized you know, fast
(15:27):
food culture, we start to make a dig biosis. That
means we start to impact the balance of good bacteria
and the bad bacteria in our system. Normally Candida, as
I said, it is fifteen percent in total microbiome of
our gut. Once we start to have these foreign molecules
(15:49):
through these processed foods, we start to increase the increase
the you know, the content of candida more or compared
to the good bacteria is now going to frontif for
it in such a way that it starts to damage
your interest time and also it starts to lower the
(16:12):
good bacteria that you have in your gut.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Oh boy, doctor Pujya Schefshankar on fifty plus, I've got
just a couple of minutes left. Is this something that
can be treated with meds? And how effective are they?
Speaker 6 (16:24):
There are some immune biologics that we can use just
to you know, decrease the symptoms and the flare ups
that we have. But if we really want to, you know,
get this cured. It's even now called the incurable disease.
But if you want to fix this, you have to
go through your very strict lifestyle changes so that you
(16:48):
can incorporate healthy food and then you start your nervous
system activation. Relax because you need the parasynthethetic nervous system
that's going to work through your vegus love and stimulate
your gut motility, increase the healthy bacterial population in your gut.
And reduce the inflammatory consequences so that you can definitely
(17:14):
cure it over a period of ten years. Actually it
will take ten years.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Wow. Well, yeah, I'm going to start today. Okay, you
got me scared. I'm not really interested in inflammatory consequences.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I get it, and I'm not.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I don't want that. I don't want any part of it.
And yeah, you succeeded in scaring me, Doc, I'm not.
I'm gonna start eating more whole vegetables right today.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, promise.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
So we think that we have to take pills and
you know, and we have to fix everything, It's not
like that. Sometimes you have to do clients in through
you know, basic procedures like anima. If you do anema,
you're going to remove excess of these inflammatory and the
bacterial overload, thecro biota you can remove instead of damaging
(18:07):
your blood vessels that can lead to sectic shop and
then you know, spreading the candy day in your whole body.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I've got a big physical. I've got a physical coming
up in about two weeks, and that's going to be
on my list of questions and what can I do
to keep from having to deal with this? Doctor Pujia Schifshankar.
Thank you so very much for your time today.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
You're welcome. Thank you so much for having me here.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
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Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
All right, Welcome back to fifty plus twelve thirty seven
in Houston and the central Fine Zone top to bottom.
I used to have fun. I went to school in Mobile, Alabama,
played baseball over there for a while, and Pensacola just
a little ways pass. Going east. You flipped time zones.
(20:50):
You went to the Eastern time zone, and a buddy
man on eight guy who he was a senior when
I was a freshman. He and I were the only
two surfers on the baseball team, and we would go
over there and we would have have to scurry back home.
It would it would get dark, and then we could
just kind of race the sunset back over the mobile
and see if we could get back. We of course,
(21:12):
we never outraced the sun, but it was it was
just something that motivated us. I don't even know how
it did, but we had a good time surfing Pensacola.
Not much surf, not much legitimate surf along the Alabama coast. Really,
Pensacola had a couple of pretty good breaks. So all right,
moving forward. In later news, there's been so much heavy,
(21:34):
heavy stuff for the last six months. The National Toy
Museum has announced the year's three inductees into the Toy
Hall of Fame. There were actually twelve nominees, but the
three that earned their spots. And I already asked, well
if he knew of any of them. But since they
were they met their heyday, they were at their peaks
(21:56):
of popularity long before he was born. I've excused him
from even hearing of any of them. Well, yeah you will.
I haven't told him what they were, so uh quick, quickly,
will Have you heard of My Little Pony?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Okay, that one started? Where did it go? Somewhere yet
in nineteen ninety See My Little Pony launched in eighty three,
relaunched in two thousand and three, and right there in
the middle in nineteen ninety three, my Little Pony actually
(22:32):
outsold what iconic girl's toy? Will Barbie? You got that right?
Barbie's still around. My Little Pony just kind of put
out the pasture, I guess you could say. Have you
ever heard of a rummy style card name? Card game
named Phase ten? You ever heard of?
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Now?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I haven't either, and it strikes me as odd because
I'm a fancier of card games. I play a lot
of them. Phase ten was new to me. It really was, though,
And it's the second best selling card game in the world.
It was introduced in eighty two, still sells about two
million decks a year into thirty countries and in twenty languages.
(23:21):
So I don't know how I missed that one. I
really don't. And then the third one, the third inductee Transformers.
You've heard of them? I know transformants. Ah, then meets
the eye. Was that something that was on TV or something? Yeah,
that was the theme suck in your head of the
show or the commercials of the show. I never watched
(23:43):
an episode of the Robots in disguise. If you've seen
one car turn into a robot, you've seen them all.
Will my little robot, my little transformer? They could maybe
they could do something with that. Will it'd be a
cool collab? Huh, he says, yeah, wouldn't it? Though? No,
not really In the eighties. These were all toys very
(24:05):
popular in the nineteen eighties, which means most of us
would would remember most of people in this audience. Not
you will, but most of this audience would remember those toys,
if at all, as something our grandchildren wanted for Christmas.
That's somewhat frightening, chronologically speaking. Moving forward, a couple of
(24:26):
items from the Keep America Divided desk. That's the other
side for me. First of all, Whoopy Goldberg Gonna View
crew talked about how people might want to avoid it.
They've done this all this this week, want to avoid
sharing the holidays with family members who voted for President
elect Trump?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Too soon?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
They said, just no no, you can't do that. No
sense creating friction. So instead of just encouraging Americans to
hate their neighbors, now they also want us to reject
our own families over the holidays, all because they're candidate lost,
(25:11):
lost badly. I might add also saw a story about
how left wing activists currently are recruiting some pretty volatile groups.
Actually are recruiting mostly young people, but you can bet
some far left retirees are going to get on board.
They're gonna pay these people to show up for the
inauguration in January, and just cause of Ruckus, they won't
(25:33):
get anywhere near the actual ceremony of out with the Old,
in with the New, but they're going to be out there.
This is the party that ran on a platform of
reunification of hope and joy and inclusivity, and now suddenly
they're going back to their roots and trying to rip
the country apart again. So they might have a chance
(25:55):
at doing something next time four years from now. I
guess anybody who doesn't like this country is welcome to
buy a ticket and head out. They really are. Planes
and trains in private limos leave the United States every day,
and if they'll promise to never return, not for any
reason whatsoever, never come back. I'll help raise the money
to buy their tickets. They're poster children for hypocrisy, they
(26:19):
really are. Every one of them who say they're gonna
leave talked about that yesterday. Will says, I gotta leave
right now. Well, metaphorically, UT Health Institute on Aging is
a group of medical providers, a very large group, more
than a thousand. I'm certain of it now. I'm not
gonna keep guessing. I'm certain it's more than a thousand
members of ut Health Institute on Aging, every one of
(26:40):
whom has got gone back and gotten additional education to
whatever it took to get the diploma on the wall
in their office. And their expertise now is in applying
that knowledge it took to get them through school, specifically
to seniors and how our bodies tick and work and function.
(27:01):
We're a whole lot different than young people. Will Melbourne's
body is a whole lot different from mine. And that's
just that's just the aging process. It's nothing. He's doing nothing,
I'm doing right or wrong. But our bodies as seniors
are much different than those of younger people. Just remember
back when you were in your twenties, you know a
lot different then, huh, Or even in remember back when
(27:22):
you were in your sixties or your fifties, a lot
different then. The UT Health Institute on Aging Providers can
approach whatever issue you have from a perspective of someone
who knows how to make it work for you. Go
to the website. You'll find tons of resources available there
for starters, and then you can start looking for help
(27:42):
with a specific issue as well. UT dot edu slash aging,
uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike, Bhi, Welcome back fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Final seven is stars right now, Will I asked you
during the break, and I'll ask you to repeat your answer.
Then I'll ask you a question after you do. Have
you ever left a concert or sporting event early to
beat traffic? That answer was yes, And then I followed
with a question, what percentage of Americans do you believe
(28:38):
said they did it in a big recent poll. Must asked,
I don't know how many people, maybe one hundred, maybe
ten thousand, maybe six, it doesn't matter. I hope it's
not six. Yeah, that would be a fairlea. That'd be
a very small samples.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Just basically asking your buddies and then posting it online.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Got six and we got six buddies. I'll say seventy. Okay,
now that's not the right answer, will that's not what
the survey said. I believe you and I'm counted in
the same bunch you are. I've done it more than once.
Would you say, would you believe now that the actual
percentage is higher or lower than seventy percent? Lower you
(29:20):
had a chance, you you were not went the other way.
It's actually eighty percent, And I'm surprised it's not higher.
I'm surprised it's not higher than that. Really have never
you've never left a game to beat traffic, you and
especially now that might be eighteen to twenty five or
thirty year olds, but folks my age, you got to
(29:43):
get out of there. Man, you got to get out,
especially if it's a tight game. If it's a close game,
I'll stick around to the end for sure. I want
to see how it ends. My dad and I went
to I think it was like a seventeen inning baseball
game in the Astrodome one time, and bless his heart,
it was. It was a work and it may have
been a I don't know. It might have been a
Friday night. I don't know. But he was an early riser.
(30:05):
He got up at four point fifteen every morning, made
himself coffee, made himself some breakfast, and then went on
to work before I even thought about getting up to
go to school. And anyway, he fell asleep at the
baseball game. He was just that tired. Anyway, moving forward,
for those of you who remember this, I really kind
(30:25):
of like for those of you who remember Mutual of
Omahaw's Wild Kingdom. And yet there are a lot of
people in this audience, I'm sure nodding your heads. This
was very popular. It started all the way back in
nineteen sixty three when I was just a wee lad,
and its final episode aired in nineteen eighty five, right
(30:46):
about the time of My Little Pony and Transformers and
what was it something ten not eight nine ten, I
don't know what it was. Anyway. Mutual of Omaha was
a conservation themed television program that sent its cruise and
including its original host Marlon Perkins, and then it was
(31:10):
Jim somebody. I think I wrote it down in here somewhere, Jim, Jim,
where's Jim's a darn it? I don't see it right now.
I'll find it right before, right after we go off
the air. Probably bottom line was it was a conservation
related show, and they are actually bringing it back and
have several episodes already produced. What they're going to do
(31:31):
is is draw off of those original episodes where there
were conservation concerns on specific animals being aired all over
national television and rightfully so, and then they're going to
follow up and say, Okay, here's what's happened to that animal?
Since then I find that pretty cool. Oh what was Jim?
Jim Fowler? There it is, I found it in the story.
(31:54):
I had it higher up than I thought I did.
Marlon Perkins, then Jim Fowler, and now I can't remember.
There's a man and a woman who are hosting it,
co hosting it now and then we'll see I've got
a little time here. Okay, well, here we go shape shifters,
Where's my luggage? Or step aside, shorty, where's my luggage?
(32:15):
Apple adding a new feature that lets you share air
tag data directly with airlines to help them find lost luggage.
Currently no way for them to see that info in
real time. Why can't you just stand there at the core,
at the counter and say here it is right here,
it says my suitcase is in Paris, not Texas. Pardon me,
(32:40):
I had a little tickle in my throat there for
some reason. It's gone. Now all right, let's do it again.
Will we still have lots of time? This is awesome.
Step aside, shorty, shape up or shape shifters. Step up, shorty, No,
that's not what I say. Head will step aside, shorty.
(33:03):
There's a building proposal up in New York City for
a structure that will be called the Big Bend. Not
Big Bend that's already taken over in Europe. It looks,
they say, like a giant paper clip, But it's an
office building, a big, giant, monstrous office building that would
(33:27):
become if they can get it past all the permits.
Who knows. There's a lot, boy to build something in
New York. It takes a lot of government intervention and
government oversight and government forms to fill out, and all
kinds of things they have to all kinds of flaming
hoops they have to jump through to get started. But
(33:49):
if they pull it off, says it's going to look
like a giant paper clip, which that I think. It's
a cool building. They didn't even need to say that.
People could have figured that out in themselves. And at
two thousand feet tall, would become the tallest building in
the United States of America. Still seven hundred and twenty
two feet shorter than Burj Khalifa in Dubai, but hey,
(34:13):
two thousand feet it's about I want to say, it's
four or five hundred feet taller, taller than the one
one World Trade Center that's in New York. Now it
is the tallest. I want to say it's about sixteen
hundred maybe something like that. This one's gonna be two
(34:33):
thousand feet tall, and it's pretty fasting. The actual the elevators,
if they pull this off, are designed so that they
can go up and then cut across and now there's
there's a big gaping hole in the middle. It's just
this giant arch, this huge monstrous arch, and the elevators
would go up and then I guess slide sideways and
(34:53):
then retreat downward. For two thousand feet. However long that
takes pretty amazing. Honestly, we're down to a minute. Will
in Space News team of astronomer A team of astronomers,
them too, discovered a supersized black hole near the center
of an early galaxy. They say, just one point five
(35:16):
billion years after the Big Bang. That seems like a
long time, but in intergalactic universal time, I guess a
billion and a half years isn't very long anyway. That
black hole's gobbling up matter roughly forty times the theoretical
limit for matter gobbling. I don't know. I don't understand
(35:36):
a lot of this, but I just keep reading it
because that's the only way you're gonna learn. It's the
only way you're gonna learn any of this stuff. Will
Have you learned anything today?
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Will?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I wish? Oh God. We'll try again tomorrow. Thanks for listening.
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