December 4, 2024 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Junhyoung Kim about cognitive based training.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, Welcome
to Wednesday. Finally got a shot at some rain.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But I don't think we've had any over here by
the galleria so far earlier today, day, much earlier I
expected rain.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Have we had any rain around here? Will? Have you
been looking out?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
So?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We haven't even been out of this room in a
couple hours. Yes, we have had rain, have we now?
But not much? I mean, it wasn't hard. It was
a nice, consistent drizzled. Okay, I sit next to a
window and I didn't notice anything.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Of course, I pulled the blinds way down this morning.
I was the first one. I was here very early actually,
and it just okay, well.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Then.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I don't know that we're gonna get a whole lot
more today. I don't think we are. Anyway, we could
use it, certainly. All sorts of variables that play in
these forecasts, which makes it a little crazy for those
of us who've waited a year to hold the Saint
Jude Children's Research Hospital Golf Tournament, which goes off Monday
on both courses at Golf Club of Houston.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I saw one.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I saw one forecast this morning that showed for Monday.
Of course, this is half a week out Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
five days out, which to me means nothing really. One
forecast showed a nineteen percent chance of rain on Monday
with mostly sunny skies. The other one showed a seventy
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percent chance of rain. So big viewing area, lots of
opportunities for one rain drop to fall somewhere. Anytime there's
a cloud around, you might get a sprinkle. I actually
got seven or eight small rain drops on my windshield
yesterday driving around, and know there was nobody in front
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of me washing their window with their wipers. That happens
all the time on the free It'll happen to me
almost every time I get my car washed. First trip
I make down the freeway, somebody in front of me
flips on the washers on their windshield and hits those
windshield wipers on high and it all comes spraying back
onto my car.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It happens. It's okay. Moving into the highs and Lows
in High Kop.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
By the way, we're gonna be talking about that tournament tomorrow,
the first of two days of our annual radio thon
for Saint Jude's, and I'll actually have somebody in here.
I'm not sure who it'll be yet, maybe Rebecca, maybe Angela,
I don't know, But anyway, we'll talk more about that tomorrow.
Moving into the highs and Lows and High Coop. We
forgot that yesterday, didn't we will? Oh yeah, we did,
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totally did.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's on me.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I'd been out a week and it just slipped my mind.
I had so many other things I had to get to,
and I got to most of them. So highs and
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Speaker 3 (03:51):
Weather is wishes for cool when warm, warm when cool,
but rarely fulfilled. Weather is wishes.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, we wish for this, we wish for that wishes.
That's good. Well, I've had time to rest up. I
think the rest has done you good. That's an eight UG.
That's an eight well, well, well, weather is wishes is awesome. Yeah,
it is.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
You know, just you can use that feel free too.
I won't charge you, Oh, not a dime.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
This one's on me.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Will Thanks, You're welcome. You're a welcome. Fingers crossed for
a favorable Monday for that tournament. That's all I wish,
and I wish for it for those kids at Saint Jude.
I visited the hospital. I've talked about that before. But yeah,
this radiothon, we we did it. I think last year
we did the tournament first and then the radiothon that weekend.
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This time we're tightening it up even more, doing the
radiothon Tomorrow and Friday, and then doing the golf tournament
on Monday, and either way I'm gonna have. Like I said,
I'm gonna have somebody from Saint Jude on Tomorrow and
maybe Friday, maybe both days. Details aren't worked out yet,
but this is one hell of a cause. And after
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visiting that hospital gosh it's been six years ago maybe
and just seeing what goes on there, seeing how it worked.
We had a two full days of touring that hospital complex,
which is it's as big as any college campus in America,
I'm sure. And that the research building, I'm not gonna
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tell you all the stories about it. I'm sure i'll
say some things tomorrow, but that research building, I don't know.
It's ten twelve stories tall and just full of laboratories.
We got to see some of the things in there,
other things we couldn't get anywhere near because it's just
cutting edge cancer research, and some bungle by our tour group.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Would not have voted well.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But what's important about that building is that everything they
learn in there, everything they do discover in there that
goes toward curing and treating pediatric cancers, is shared at
no cost with any other caregiver in the entire world.
If it'll cure a kid, you can have it, not
gonna cost you a dime. So it's just fascinating checking
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on the markets. Thanks to Houston Goldexchange dot Com, all
four indicators in the green pretty solidly.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Nothing nothing to.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Warrant trumpets and fanfare, but nonetheless green and that's always good.
Gold up north of twenty six hundred dollars an ounce,
and oil, despite being up a couple of bucks early
just a little while ago, was actually trading about a
dime below yesterday's clothes, which means it was going in
the right direction moving ahead.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I'm gonna hold this one for a little while.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
And I'll come back to it, okay, because it's a
little longer story. Then I want to get to well,
do you know what today is? What official day it is?
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that I've tried to start eating better, and I don't
think I've had.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
A cookie in I've been in two months. I have
not had a cookie. I don't think.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Maybe maybe maybe some desserted at Thanksgiving, a little of this,
little of that, But no, I haven't brought cookies into
the house.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And it's not been easy for me to pass that aisle.
I tell you, if I'm at Tips Treats, it's chocolate chip.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Or oatmeal raising. I like them both equally, I think,
And I've.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Never met a cookie.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I just didn't like enough to pass it up back
when I was eating them, back when I could eat
all I wanted and not have any trouble with diet.
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Speaker 1 (09:58):
What's life without a I suggest to go to bed,
leave it off, just wait until this show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Welcome back to Wednesday on fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Thanks for listening, certainly do appreciate it, and sincere thanks
as always for sharing a few minutes of what for
most of us will be increasingly hectic days until the
new year. We'll talk in this segment about technology based
programs and cognitive training for those of us who are
north of fifty and need that. And with that, I'm
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going to bring in doctor Eun Young Kim, Associate professor
in the School of Public Health at Texas A and
M University, whose aim it is to improve the mental
health and cognitive function of people who live with dementia
and their caregivers.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Welcome aboard, doctor Kim, Thank you for having me there. Oh,
my pleasure.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
So it's only logical, I guess in today's world that
old school crossword magazines and Sudoku puzzles out of the
newspaper would be kind of swept aside by electronics. So
what are some of the newer technology based programs that
really do help seniors with cognitive health?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Well, technology is prevelant in many aspects of life, including
internet access, wull wire devices, social media, online education, digital
health technology. Especially technology programs such as mobile games, online puzzles,
virtual reality, brain frenous apps can help seniors continuously stimulate
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the brain and improve the ability member personal advanced activities,
increase concentration skills, potentially slowing qualit decline, and maintaining men
on shockingings as people age.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
How effective are these programs we're talking about? How effective
are these programs.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
That effects improve their chronic functionings and similar brain and
over fifty five years old populations, the act population improve
their cornic functions.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Excellent. For somebody who's new to all this, how, how
and where should they start?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
They try to find something fun elements of programs, activities
online virgin technology based programs, and then low the puzzling
online based pusitive activities and they can access here mobile games.
They can start with with the fun element activities. That
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is his first step to do these activities and then
just build up.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I guess for somebody who's on the edge of the
age rain, let's say somebody in their late forties, maybe
early fifties, and just showing no signs of cognitive impairment
yet at least it would it still be a good idea,
I would think, so to start using these types of
programs sort of kind of a preemptive strike against the decline.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Absolutely maintaining improving caring function, calling stimulation, engagement effectivities, depth events,
the risk of dementasire. You know a lot of studies
out there, increading my previous study, if you the more
engaging the type of activity is, the better you input
of the confunctions, and that results in reduce the risk
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of deminasire or any calling impairment. You know, when you
start all the forty fifties use you're really good stocking point.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It's an exercise program essentially, I mean it is for
the brain.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Just like I would do push ups if I wanted
to get my pecs going again, but I would rather
do a puzzle than push up.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So it's his point.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
With this technology, doctor cam, Are we talking about having
to invest in more gadgets and things than we already have?
Or well, like you said, I guess most of this
stuffs right on our phones, right, Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I mean so nowadays tabileting programs that include mobile you know,
piche acts programs out there, bring activities out there, and
then you can access nutrition and lifestyle programs online.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Version.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
You're not going to stick in our you know, se
cedential activities sit down, talking, texting, but also you do
a lot of different types of exercise programs through online
technology based programs.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Are most of these programs and apps going to cost
us money? Or are there some free ones out there?
They're also pretty good.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Some other programs require high costover programs, but other programs
really quot effective programs out there. And I suggest that
whoever working with care givers or forty or fifty ages,
they are able to easily online games activities that target
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specific brain functions. There'd be a great idea to start with.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Do you the million dollar question for you, doctor Kim,
Do you have any favorites among all those apps out there?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yes, I work with a couple of starting companies such
as Sylvia Program, Silvia Syldia Program. They offer forty version
of twelve weeks programs including relaxation, quality the training, physical
excise programs, and etc. So that is a monitor your
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progress of activity on a daily basis. There also there
are a lot of apps out there to monitor progress
all your activities and engage in variety of quality the
training programs out there too.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I mentioned in the intro that we were going to
talk a little bit about helping caregivers to the people
who are just critical to the care of anyone with
dementia or any other cognitive decline. What are some of
the ways? And I think I know one and I'll
tell you when I ask the question. After I ask
the question, well, what are some of the ways these
caregivers can become more efficient that don't really require investing
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more time or money. And I would think the answer
is just just challenge the patient, the person that's being
cared for, to interact with the games, kind of like
will and I play wordle every day.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It keeps both of us pretty sharp.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yes, in a chargiter's start in an absolutely need a
dress in many aspects, and caregivers can assist seniors by
selecting appropriate programs based on the individual needs of preferences
and educating housing bases programs and provide clear instructions and
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encouraging and positiveforcement is also necessary to the seniors to
engage in more of these types of activities.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
You're exactly right, and I hadn't even thought about it
really when I was writing these questions this morning. But
the person who is experiencing cognitive decline may not be
able to just jump on an app online and figure
out how to use it. That's where that caregiver really
becomes important, isn't it after right?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
So some seniors may let technology confidence in using technology.
Caregiver's role is so important to encourage them or educate them,
provide training them to use these technology apps.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
What's a good amount of time we should spend using
this tall technology in a day or a week to
get the most benefit from it?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
In our study, we said at at least three or
four times a week, at least one hour thirty to
one hour time consuming. Is we highly recommend to seniors
to do these activities.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's how long it takes Will to do the world sometimes.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, doctor Young, you and Kim, thank you so very much.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I really do.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
He's actually pretty good at it. By the way, thank
you very much for your time. I really I'm encouraged
by this because I do puzzles a lot, and I'm
hoping it helps.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Sure, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Yes, thank you so much for having me, Sir, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yes doark. Thank you, BOBBYE.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
All Right, we got to take a little break. Sorry, Will,
I didn't mean to throw you under the bus. I
know you're pretty good at it. I just couldn't resist.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
All right.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
UT Health Institute on Aging a fantastic place where you
can find a cornucopia, if you will, of resources specifically
for seniors and our medical needs. In addition to this
collaborative of providers, probably a thousand or more at this point,
all of whom have gone back and gott an additional
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education on top of what got them through med school
or therapy school or whatever it was. They've gone back
and learned how to apply their knowledge specifically to us.
Specifically to seniors, and that's what they do every day,
mostly in the med center, but there are plenty of
them who at least spend some time in outlying clinics
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and hospitals around this giant metropolitan area of ours so
that you can get access to that extra level of
care specific to us. Go to that website, look around.
I think you'll be very pleased with what you find.
Ut dot ed u slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You know, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat o wax. This is
fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Oh, I've got lots of stuff on the plate in here. Will.
Where am I gonna go? Where am I gonna go?
Not that one. I don't think I'll sit on that
one for a little while.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
From the hunger strike desk, we've never been there before, Will,
but we're going now. There was this cruise ship that
was forced to cut and these are all these are
conversation starters. I'm not gonna dig too deeply into politics anymore.
The election's over, we're moving on. But these are just
conversation starters and maybe conversation shifters if somebody does get
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too deep into politics and isn't on your team. Cruise
ship forced to cut short it's Antarctic itinerary by about
four four and a half days of a twenty one
day trip because of there was a propulsion malfunction that
means they couldn't get the thing going the way it should,
and the passengers, after they went and docked for repairs
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in Argentina were offered substantial discounts on future travel. That
just all kinds of things that they were Shore Excursions
Act says to everything on the ship, and a few
of them, and there's always that few on anything like this. Well,
they wanted more and more and more, and even on.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
A cruise ship. They decided to stage.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
A hunger strike, just like going to a concert and
getting mad over something nobody could have predicted or helped
and then refusing to listen to the music.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
That's just foolishness.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
And I don't know what they intended to achieve by that,
but I suspect that if the cruise ship line is
is smart, they'll just dig in their heels and say
take it or leave it. At that point, there's nothing
that could have been done, and those things are accounted
for in the fine print of every every cruise that
ever set sail.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh, there you have it.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
From the Patriotic Desk comes word that an attorney in
New Jersey was physically escorted by police out of a
town council meeting for holding a small American flag in
his hand. He was there to protest a new council
rule that prohibits the public from using props in their
remarks and residents in. The attorney argued that the rule
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is in violation of the First Amendment, and I would
frankly have to agree the rule itself actually doesn't go
so far as to specifically exclude the American flag, but
council President Nasif Patel said the disallowance of the US
flag was his call, and the attorney pretty much said
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on his way out when police officers were told to
get him out, that this isn't going to end well
for them.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I think that was a mistake on that man's part.
Just shows how far our country has leaned out over
the cliff in the last four years, and hopefully they'll
soar that out there should be no place in the
country where you can't display the American flag. There should
be no place in this country where you can't do that.
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Let's go back to the fun stuff. Will What's in
a name?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
From the Horrible idea Desk or recycled What's in the name?
Rover dot com? You have a dog? You have two dogs?
Still right? Yes, their names Luca and Juck. We came
close to one. Rover dot com release its annual list
of the most popular.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Pet names and for a trillion dollars, Will if you
don't already know what is? What name is trending most
for cats?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
For cats? Yeah, this is just so typical. I I
have no idea. Garfield, No, no, Taylor Swift, Taylor, Taylor Swift.
What about the dogs? The most trending name Travis Kelsey, yep, Kelsey,
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it is Kelsey. It is.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
People are just addicted to celebrity. They and they just
live vicariously. I guess through this woman who, this young
woman who, to her credit, has worked her behind off
to amass a tremendous fortune and a tremendous following. And
for that I applaud her. But for people to start
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naming and I'm sure there's more than one little baby
girl in the last five or six years been named Taylor.
And I don't know about the Kelsey thing though. For boys,
but yeah, that's cats and dogs names the other the
top actual the top name right now for dogs is
what let's go to plan B.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
The top name for dog dogs. I know a woman
who had a dog named this. The dog unfortunately passed
a while back, but she had him a long time.
I'll say Fido.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Oh my god, Well no, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie the dog.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
What about for cats?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Ah, say, there's no, Yeah, there's no Fido equivalent in Catley.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I know.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I can't just oh, we haven't got you put me
on the spot, Mila will Milo?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Now what what name? Is also pretty high up there?
For both dogs and cats. There's a hint Moon, that's
your hint. Luna, Yeah, there you go, and a boy
for both dogs and cats. You know anybody who has
a dog named any of those things?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yes? My uh, my aunt has a dog named Luna,
and my cousin has a dog named Charlie for real. Yes, well,
I guess these these things are somewhat accurate. Then I'll
give him that one more bad timing, where have you been?
Or bad parenting? Bad timing.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Thirty two year old guy in Virginia arrested after he
tried to steal fourteen hundred dollars worth of stuff from Walmart.
Guess what else was going on at that Walmart that day,
Black Friday? Oh no, no, no, no, shop with a cop,
shop with the cops. There were fifty police officers in
the store and forty police cars parked outside.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And he chose that day, in that place, in that.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Company to become a probably a felony level shoplifter. Very bad,
very bad timing on his part, all right. From the
octopus tentacle desk, what no, no, will I said tentacle anyway?
From Great Britain comes word that a group of dentist
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has three D printed denis that incorporate hundreds of tiny
suction cups, quite similar to what an octopus uses to
adhere itself to coral or to any other hard surface
on the seafloor. Well, those suction cups are proving far
more effective at keeping dentures attacked firmly to the wet
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interior of the mouth without having to use adhesives or
any other kind of sticky whatever, which can be messy.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
And I didn't even know.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
This, but they a lot of people who use that
stuff say it even changes the taste of the food
they're trying to eat. Anyway, these new dentures with the
little suction cups stick firmly where they belong, but not
so firmly that they're difficult to remove. What will they
think of next?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Who thought of that? Will?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I don't know that come about? You know, we need
something to keep these dentures in people's mouths.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
What could we possibly use?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Well, you know, that makes me think of an octopus,
and everybody in the room goes, what And then imagine
that the three D printer spits those out, People try
them and it's working.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
That's impressive, isn't it? It is?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I know, all right, I've got When we get back,
we might go to the left coast. We might go
to the alphabet, and we might go to the we
may even go to the short sighted Decisions desk. But
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Whatever, here we go, Welcome back, final segment of the program.
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Start try now. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
As always from the alphabet desk, which will kind of
kind of poo pooed when I told him I was
going to talk about the alphabet, but I found this.
This is another If you're around a bunch of archaeology
fascinated people like I am, if you're around somebody who
has interest in early early language, then this will come
(30:45):
in really hand. The archaeologists in Western Syria have discovered
evidence of the oldest known hard copy of an alphabet
in the world. The inscriptions they're on three clay cylinders
here to be a form of the Semitic alphabet, but
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they predate similar pieces. They go way back by something
like five hundred years, farther back than anything we've had before,
which puts them back to a timeline of about twenty
four hundred BC. That's a long time ago for little
kids to have to learn their ABC's And I don't know, boy,
(31:29):
I guess then you'd have to carry your well, no,
they would just have one set of clay tablets at
the school. You couldn't expect the kids to lug that
to school, right, Will.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I'm actually kind of guessing there wasn't school back then.
But there you go. There you go.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Okay, well you and me from the Horrible Idea Desk
or Creepy Times ten or who are these experts?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Creepy Times ten? This is kind of this is creepy.
It's creepy Times one hundred, But I'm gonna do it anyway.
Disney World's Haunted Mansion. Have you ever been there?
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Will?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I can't remember, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Temporarily shut down this past weekend after someone scattered a
loved one's ashes on the ride.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
That happens a lot, No World, No, that's actually true.
That is that is real. A lot of people go
to disney World or Disneyland and they try scattering the
ashes of a loved one there because maybe they love me. Yeah,
I'm sure. But what happens if you get caught. I
don't know, but just know when you're walking around there,
(32:41):
there are there are ashes of deceased ones. You see
a lot of dust on a certain area, you might
want to just yeah, back away, get a wet white,
say a prayer something.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Well, no, don't get a wet white, because then you're
gonna take it out of Disneyland and the person would
be just a RESTful for the rest of eternity.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Yeah, I think i'd be a lot. I think i'd
be a little unrestful if I was, you know, scattered
at a theme park. Theme park. That's not what you want. Yeah,
it's not my idea of a RESTful time.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
No, it doesn't sound like it to myself either. Let's
go back to the horrible idea desk. I want to
get your take on this. Well, from the horrible idea desk,
Miller High Life is selling a new cologne. Selling a
new cologne called barfume, not perfume, barfume that is supposed
(33:36):
to make you smell like a dive bar.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's cool. See anything wrong with that? I like that?
Do you really? Yeah? Oh my god, I think I
might get that. Well, now I know what to get
you for Christmas. Thank you, Doug, I appreciate.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
And just well, just we'll both slather it on and
just roll through the office and see if anybody picks
up on that.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I think it would be cool to walk into the
office smelling like a dive bar at you know, ten
in the morning. Yeah, oh lord, there was a time.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
There was a time, years ago, Will, many years ago,
with a couple of people who are no longer with
the company anyway, many many years ago, way back at
the old offices and all that stuff. Somebody somehow got
hold of a breathalyzer and brought it to the office
and at ten o'clock in the morning, two people, both
of whom are no longer around here. Two people blew
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drunk at ten o'clock in the morning, legally drunk over
the legal limits. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, not just
a little not just a little taste.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
And are they no longer here because they were promoted
up the corporate ladder? No, Will, No, i'd ever been
too cool at work.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Too cool for school anyway. No, no, no, no, that
doesn't happen. That doesn't happen at desk or that way. Boy,
I'm trying to decide where to go.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
How much time you have? Three minutes?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Two minutes, you have three mites? Okay, well this one
can guess what this is about. Will, from the peanuts desk,
what is this about?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Uh? Probably nuts of some sort. No, well, maybe the gallery.
Think think bigger, think bigger picture. Okay, okay, I think
we expect to get peanuts, probably the store, not buy them,
get them free, get them free. Yeah, a little packet
of peanuts. Oh on an airplane, Thank you lord.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Southwest Airlines is gonna begin shutting down cabin service a
little sooner, beginning at eighteen thousand feet instead of ten
thousand feet where they begin now, which is good because
maybe that'll give some of us older guys a chance
to hit the bathroom one last time before we're warned
that if we if we stand up again before landing,
we're gonna be tossed out of the plane. The reason,
(35:49):
they say is safety related, because low level turbulence increases
risk of injury to passengers.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
And crew when the plane's bouncing around.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Yeah, I guess it would. I guess it would. All right, Will,
let's go to bad parenting, shall we?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
A couple in Missouri arrested the day after Thanksgiving this
past Friday.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Imagine imagine this happening. Will.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
They were arrested because they took their son to the hospital,
where hospital employees found that they had at home attempted
to circumcise their son.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
You're a gasp, aren't you. That is a rough thing
to do at home.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
And they were caught and in the I guess it
was the dad maybe said and I'll quote here the
procedure did not go as plan.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Imagine that. Wow.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
The man told police he didn't have any medical training,
but that he did say a blessing beforehand. Oh well,
I mean, go right ahead, please. Well if that should
have handled it?
Speaker 4 (37:06):
That?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Wow? I know.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Social Services, by the way, has since removed their five children.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
What do you think of that? Will? Well, I'm glad.
I mean I kind of worry about what happened to
the other four children prior to the Yeah, who knows
what they've been up to up until then. Oh my god,
that's crazy. That reminds me of an old joke.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Will.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
But you're a young guy. Maybe you won't know the
answer to this. Okay, Okay, are you ready? Yeah, drum
roll over there? Anything Well, not enough time for you know,
what you find on the desk of a doctor who
does circumcisions. What are you ready? Yes, a tip.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Jar Okay will see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
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to Wednesday. Finally got a shot at some rain.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But I don't think we've had any over here by
the galleria so far earlier today, day, much earlier I
expected rain.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Have we had any rain around here? Will? Have you
been looking out?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
So?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We haven't even been out of this room in a
couple hours. Yes, we have had rain, have we now?
But not much? I mean, it wasn't hard. It was
a nice, consistent drizzled. Okay, I sit next to a
window and I didn't notice anything.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Of course, I pulled the blinds way down this morning.
I was the first one. I was here very early actually,
and it just okay, well.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Then.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I don't know that we're gonna get a whole lot
more today. I don't think we are. Anyway, we could
use it, certainly. All sorts of variables that play in
these forecasts, which makes it a little crazy for those
of us who've waited a year to hold the Saint
Jude Children's Research Hospital Golf Tournament, which goes off Monday
on both courses at Golf Club of Houston.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I saw one.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I saw one forecast this morning that showed for Monday.
Of course, this is half a week out Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
five days out, which to me means nothing really. One
forecast showed a nineteen percent chance of rain on Monday
with mostly sunny skies. The other one showed a seventy
(02:16):
percent chance of rain. So big viewing area, lots of
opportunities for one rain drop to fall somewhere. Anytime there's
a cloud around, you might get a sprinkle. I actually
got seven or eight small rain drops on my windshield
yesterday driving around, and know there was nobody in front
(02:38):
of me washing their window with their wipers. That happens
all the time on the free It'll happen to me
almost every time I get my car washed. First trip
I make down the freeway, somebody in front of me
flips on the washers on their windshield and hits those
windshield wipers on high and it all comes spraying back
onto my car.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It happens. It's okay. Moving into the highs and Lows
in High Kop.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
By the way, we're gonna be talking about that tournament tomorrow,
the first of two days of our annual radio thon
for Saint Jude's, and I'll actually have somebody in here.
I'm not sure who it'll be yet, maybe Rebecca, maybe Angela,
I don't know, But anyway, we'll talk more about that tomorrow.
Moving into the highs and Lows and High Coop. We
forgot that yesterday, didn't we will? Oh yeah, we did,
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totally did.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's on me.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I'd been out a week and it just slipped my mind.
I had so many other things I had to get to,
and I got to most of them. So highs and
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Weather is wishes for cool when warm, warm when cool,
but rarely fulfilled. Weather is wishes.
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Yeah, we wish for this, we wish for that wishes.
That's good. Well, I've had time to rest up. I
think the rest has done you good. That's an eight UG.
That's an eight well, well, well, weather is wishes is awesome. Yeah,
it is.
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This one's on me.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Will Thanks, You're welcome. You're a welcome. Fingers crossed for
a favorable Monday for that tournament. That's all I wish,
and I wish for it for those kids at Saint Jude.
I visited the hospital. I've talked about that before. But yeah,
this radiothon, we we did it. I think last year
we did the tournament first and then the radiothon that weekend.
(04:50):
This time we're tightening it up even more, doing the
radiothon Tomorrow and Friday, and then doing the golf tournament
on Monday, and either way I'm gonna have. Like I said,
I'm gonna have somebody from Saint Jude on Tomorrow and
maybe Friday, maybe both days. Details aren't worked out yet,
but this is one hell of a cause. And after
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visiting that hospital gosh it's been six years ago maybe
and just seeing what goes on there, seeing how it worked.
We had a two full days of touring that hospital complex,
which is it's as big as any college campus in America,
I'm sure. And that the research building, I'm not gonna
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tell you all the stories about it. I'm sure i'll
say some things tomorrow, but that research building, I don't know.
It's ten twelve stories tall and just full of laboratories.
We got to see some of the things in there,
other things we couldn't get anywhere near because it's just
cutting edge cancer research, and some bungle by our tour group.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Would not have voted well.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But what's important about that building is that everything they
learn in there, everything they do discover in there that
goes toward curing and treating pediatric cancers, is shared at
no cost with any other caregiver in the entire world.
If it'll cure a kid, you can have it, not
gonna cost you a dime. So it's just fascinating checking
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on the markets. Thanks to Houston Goldexchange dot Com, all
four indicators in the green pretty solidly.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Nothing nothing to.
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Warrant trumpets and fanfare, but nonetheless green and that's always good.
Gold up north of twenty six hundred dollars an ounce,
and oil, despite being up a couple of bucks early
just a little while ago, was actually trading about a
dime below yesterday's clothes, which means it was going in
the right direction moving ahead.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I'm gonna hold this one for a little while.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
And I'll come back to it, okay, because it's a
little longer story. Then I want to get to well,
do you know what today is? What official day it is?
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Let me see if it's on your Sprecember four, twenty four.
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National cookie Dad, your favorite my favorite cookie? You know
I am always I mean, I think I'm just kind
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of clashing the guy. Yeah, like a nice chocolate chip cookie.
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that I've tried to start eating better, and I don't
think I've had.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
A cookie in I've been in two months. I have
not had a cookie. I don't think.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Maybe maybe maybe some desserted at Thanksgiving, a little of this,
little of that, But no, I haven't brought cookies into
the house.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And it's not been easy for me to pass that aisle.
I tell you, if I'm at Tips Treats, it's chocolate chip.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Or oatmeal raising. I like them both equally, I think,
And I've.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Never met a cookie.
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I just didn't like enough to pass it up back
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What's life without a I suggest to go to bed,
leave it off, just wait until this show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Welcome back to Wednesday on fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Thanks for listening, certainly do appreciate it, and sincere thanks
as always for sharing a few minutes of what for
most of us will be increasingly hectic days until the
new year. We'll talk in this segment about technology based
programs and cognitive training for those of us who are
north of fifty and need that. And with that, I'm
(10:37):
going to bring in doctor Eun Young Kim, Associate professor
in the School of Public Health at Texas A and
M University, whose aim it is to improve the mental
health and cognitive function of people who live with dementia
and their caregivers.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Welcome aboard, doctor Kim, Thank you for having me there. Oh,
my pleasure.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
So it's only logical, I guess in today's world that
old school crossword magazines and Sudoku puzzles out of the
newspaper would be kind of swept aside by electronics. So
what are some of the newer technology based programs that
really do help seniors with cognitive health?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Well, technology is prevelant in many aspects of life, including
internet access, wull wire devices, social media, online education, digital
health technology. Especially technology programs such as mobile games, online puzzles,
virtual reality, brain frenous apps can help seniors continuously stimulate
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the brain and improve the ability member personal advanced activities,
increase concentration skills, potentially slowing qualit decline, and maintaining men
on shockingings as people age.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
How effective are these programs we're talking about? How effective
are these programs.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
That effects improve their chronic functionings and similar brain and
over fifty five years old populations, the act population improve
their cornic functions.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Excellent. For somebody who's new to all this, how, how
and where should they start?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
They try to find something fun elements of programs, activities
online virgin technology based programs, and then low the puzzling
online based pusitive activities and they can access here mobile games.
They can start with with the fun element activities. That
(12:44):
is his first step to do these activities and then
just build up.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I guess for somebody who's on the edge of the
age rain, let's say somebody in their late forties, maybe
early fifties, and just showing no signs of cognitive impairment
yet at least it would it still be a good idea,
I would think, so to start using these types of
programs sort of kind of a preemptive strike against the decline.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Absolutely maintaining improving caring function, calling stimulation, engagement effectivities, depth events,
the risk of dementasire. You know a lot of studies
out there, increading my previous study, if you the more
engaging the type of activity is, the better you input
of the confunctions, and that results in reduce the risk
(13:31):
of deminasire or any calling impairment. You know, when you
start all the forty fifties use you're really good stocking point.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It's an exercise program essentially, I mean it is for
the brain.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Just like I would do push ups if I wanted
to get my pecs going again, but I would rather
do a puzzle than push up.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So it's his point.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
With this technology, doctor cam, Are we talking about having
to invest in more gadgets and things than we already have?
Or well, like you said, I guess most of this
stuffs right on our phones, right, Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I mean so nowadays tabileting programs that include mobile you know,
piche acts programs out there, bring activities out there, and
then you can access nutrition and lifestyle programs online.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Version.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
You're not going to stick in our you know, se
cedential activities sit down, talking, texting, but also you do
a lot of different types of exercise programs through online
technology based programs.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Are most of these programs and apps going to cost
us money? Or are there some free ones out there?
They're also pretty good.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Some other programs require high costover programs, but other programs
really quot effective programs out there. And I suggest that
whoever working with care givers or forty or fifty ages,
they are able to easily online games activities that target
(15:01):
specific brain functions. There'd be a great idea to start with.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Do you the million dollar question for you, doctor Kim,
Do you have any favorites among all those apps out there?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yes, I work with a couple of starting companies such
as Sylvia Program, Silvia Syldia Program. They offer forty version
of twelve weeks programs including relaxation, quality the training, physical
excise programs, and etc. So that is a monitor your
(15:32):
progress of activity on a daily basis. There also there
are a lot of apps out there to monitor progress
all your activities and engage in variety of quality the
training programs out there too.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I mentioned in the intro that we were going to
talk a little bit about helping caregivers to the people
who are just critical to the care of anyone with
dementia or any other cognitive decline. What are some of
the ways? And I think I know one and I'll
tell you when I ask the question. After I ask
the question, well, what are some of the ways these
caregivers can become more efficient that don't really require investing
(16:05):
more time or money. And I would think the answer
is just just challenge the patient, the person that's being
cared for, to interact with the games, kind of like
will and I play wordle every day.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It keeps both of us pretty sharp.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yes, in a chargiter's start in an absolutely need a
dress in many aspects, and caregivers can assist seniors by
selecting appropriate programs based on the individual needs of preferences
and educating housing bases programs and provide clear instructions and
(16:41):
encouraging and positiveforcement is also necessary to the seniors to
engage in more of these types of activities.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
You're exactly right, and I hadn't even thought about it
really when I was writing these questions this morning. But
the person who is experiencing cognitive decline may not be
able to just jump on an app online and figure
out how to use it. That's where that caregiver really
becomes important, isn't it after right?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
So some seniors may let technology confidence in using technology.
Caregiver's role is so important to encourage them or educate them,
provide training them to use these technology apps.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
What's a good amount of time we should spend using
this tall technology in a day or a week to
get the most benefit from it?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
In our study, we said at at least three or
four times a week, at least one hour thirty to
one hour time consuming. Is we highly recommend to seniors
to do these activities.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's how long it takes Will to do the world sometimes.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, doctor Young, you and Kim, thank you so very much.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I really do.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
He's actually pretty good at it. By the way, thank
you very much for your time. I really I'm encouraged
by this because I do puzzles a lot, and I'm
hoping it helps.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Sure, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Yes, thank you so much for having me, Sir, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yes doark. Thank you, BOBBYE.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
All Right, we got to take a little break. Sorry, Will,
I didn't mean to throw you under the bus. I
know you're pretty good at it. I just couldn't resist.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
All right.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
UT Health Institute on Aging a fantastic place where you
can find a cornucopia, if you will, of resources specifically
for seniors and our medical needs. In addition to this
collaborative of providers, probably a thousand or more at this point,
all of whom have gone back and gott an additional
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education on top of what got them through med school
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and learned how to apply their knowledge specifically to us.
Specifically to seniors, and that's what they do every day,
mostly in the med center, but there are plenty of
them who at least spend some time in outlying clinics
(19:01):
and hospitals around this giant metropolitan area of ours so
that you can get access to that extra level of
care specific to us. Go to that website, look around.
I think you'll be very pleased with what you find.
Ut dot ed u slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging.
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fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Oh, I've got lots of stuff on the plate in here. Will.
Where am I gonna go? Where am I gonna go?
Not that one. I don't think I'll sit on that
one for a little while.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
From the hunger strike desk, we've never been there before, Will,
but we're going now. There was this cruise ship that
was forced to cut and these are all these are
conversation starters. I'm not gonna dig too deeply into politics anymore.
The election's over, we're moving on. But these are just
conversation starters and maybe conversation shifters if somebody does get
(20:26):
too deep into politics and isn't on your team. Cruise
ship forced to cut short it's Antarctic itinerary by about
four four and a half days of a twenty one
day trip because of there was a propulsion malfunction that
means they couldn't get the thing going the way it should,
and the passengers, after they went and docked for repairs
(20:48):
in Argentina were offered substantial discounts on future travel. That
just all kinds of things that they were Shore Excursions
Act says to everything on the ship, and a few
of them, and there's always that few on anything like this. Well,
they wanted more and more and more, and even on.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
A cruise ship. They decided to stage.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
A hunger strike, just like going to a concert and
getting mad over something nobody could have predicted or helped
and then refusing to listen to the music.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
That's just foolishness.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
And I don't know what they intended to achieve by that,
but I suspect that if the cruise ship line is
is smart, they'll just dig in their heels and say
take it or leave it. At that point, there's nothing
that could have been done, and those things are accounted
for in the fine print of every every cruise that
ever set sail.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh, there you have it.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
From the Patriotic Desk comes word that an attorney in
New Jersey was physically escorted by police out of a
town council meeting for holding a small American flag in
his hand. He was there to protest a new council
rule that prohibits the public from using props in their
remarks and residents in. The attorney argued that the rule
(22:18):
is in violation of the First Amendment, and I would
frankly have to agree the rule itself actually doesn't go
so far as to specifically exclude the American flag, but
council President Nasif Patel said the disallowance of the US
flag was his call, and the attorney pretty much said
(22:39):
on his way out when police officers were told to
get him out, that this isn't going to end well
for them.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I think that was a mistake on that man's part.
Just shows how far our country has leaned out over
the cliff in the last four years, and hopefully they'll
soar that out there should be no place in the
country where you can't display the American flag. There should
be no place in this country where you can't do that.
(23:13):
Let's go back to the fun stuff. Will What's in
a name?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
From the Horrible idea Desk or recycled What's in the name?
Rover dot com? You have a dog? You have two dogs?
Still right? Yes, their names Luca and Juck. We came
close to one. Rover dot com release its annual list
of the most popular.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Pet names and for a trillion dollars, Will if you
don't already know what is? What name is trending most
for cats?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
For cats? Yeah, this is just so typical. I I
have no idea. Garfield, No, no, Taylor Swift, Taylor, Taylor Swift.
What about the dogs? The most trending name Travis Kelsey, yep, Kelsey,
(24:10):
it is Kelsey. It is.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
People are just addicted to celebrity. They and they just
live vicariously. I guess through this woman who, this young
woman who, to her credit, has worked her behind off
to amass a tremendous fortune and a tremendous following. And
for that I applaud her. But for people to start
(24:33):
naming and I'm sure there's more than one little baby
girl in the last five or six years been named Taylor.
And I don't know about the Kelsey thing though. For boys,
but yeah, that's cats and dogs names the other the
top actual the top name right now for dogs is
what let's go to plan B.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
The top name for dog dogs. I know a woman
who had a dog named this. The dog unfortunately passed
a while back, but she had him a long time.
I'll say Fido.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Oh my god, Well no, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie the dog.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
What about for cats?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Ah, say, there's no, Yeah, there's no Fido equivalent in Catley.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I know.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I can't just oh, we haven't got you put me
on the spot, Mila will Milo?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Now what what name? Is also pretty high up there?
For both dogs and cats. There's a hint Moon, that's
your hint. Luna, Yeah, there you go, and a boy
for both dogs and cats. You know anybody who has
a dog named any of those things?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yes? My uh, my aunt has a dog named Luna,
and my cousin has a dog named Charlie for real. Yes, well,
I guess these these things are somewhat accurate. Then I'll
give him that one more bad timing, where have you been?
Or bad parenting? Bad timing.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Thirty two year old guy in Virginia arrested after he
tried to steal fourteen hundred dollars worth of stuff from Walmart.
Guess what else was going on at that Walmart that day,
Black Friday? Oh no, no, no, no, shop with a cop,
shop with the cops. There were fifty police officers in
the store and forty police cars parked outside.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And he chose that day, in that place, in that.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Company to become a probably a felony level shoplifter. Very bad,
very bad timing on his part, all right. From the
octopus tentacle desk, what no, no, will I said tentacle anyway?
From Great Britain comes word that a group of dentist
(26:58):
has three D printed denis that incorporate hundreds of tiny
suction cups, quite similar to what an octopus uses to
adhere itself to coral or to any other hard surface
on the seafloor. Well, those suction cups are proving far
more effective at keeping dentures attacked firmly to the wet
(27:18):
interior of the mouth without having to use adhesives or
any other kind of sticky whatever, which can be messy.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
And I didn't even know.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
This, but they a lot of people who use that
stuff say it even changes the taste of the food
they're trying to eat. Anyway, these new dentures with the
little suction cups stick firmly where they belong, but not
so firmly that they're difficult to remove. What will they
think of next?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Who thought of that? Will?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I don't know that come about? You know, we need
something to keep these dentures in people's mouths.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
What could we possibly use?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Well, you know, that makes me think of an octopus,
and everybody in the room goes, what And then imagine
that the three D printer spits those out, People try
them and it's working.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
That's impressive, isn't it? It is?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I know, all right, I've got When we get back,
we might go to the left coast. We might go
to the alphabet, and we might go to the we
may even go to the short sighted Decisions desk. But
on the way out, we're going to go to kirk Holmes,
the custom builder. I've been talking about for gosh, the
better part of ten years now, and I'm so proud
(28:31):
to do that, and they make it so easy because
every time I turn around, they're winning another award. This year,
twenty twenty four, it was the Southern Living Builder of
the Year award. And next year, who knows what it'll be,
but it'll be something, and I'll report that when it happens.
Kirk Holmes has been around for thirty plus years, three
generations of a family that is devoted to building your
(28:54):
dream home where you want it, pretty much anywhere from
northwest Houston all the way out through the Hill Country.
Their homes start in the seven hundreds, go to the millions,
and each of them is as unique to its owners
as their fingerprints. You can start with basically nothing. You
can start with an idea and then sit down with
the design team, the architectural team and patiently work your
(29:16):
way through the process of turning that idea into a sketch,
and the sketch into blueprints, the blueprints into construction, and
ultimately you'll be handed the keys to your new dream home,
which by the way, will include a twenty year structural
warranty that's twice the standard and two by six exterior
(29:37):
walls for fifty percent more insulation than traditional construction. Kirkhomes
dot com. That's the website's k you are k because
at kirk Homes it's all about you.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Old guys rule and of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
It sounds like a good three.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Whatever, here we go, Welcome back, final segment of the program.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Start try now. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
As always from the alphabet desk, which will kind of
kind of poo pooed when I told him I was
going to talk about the alphabet, but I found this.
This is another If you're around a bunch of archaeology
fascinated people like I am, if you're around somebody who
has interest in early early language, then this will come
(30:45):
in really hand. The archaeologists in Western Syria have discovered
evidence of the oldest known hard copy of an alphabet
in the world. The inscriptions they're on three clay cylinders
here to be a form of the Semitic alphabet, but
(31:06):
they predate similar pieces. They go way back by something
like five hundred years, farther back than anything we've had before,
which puts them back to a timeline of about twenty
four hundred BC. That's a long time ago for little
kids to have to learn their ABC's And I don't know, boy,
(31:29):
I guess then you'd have to carry your well, no,
they would just have one set of clay tablets at
the school. You couldn't expect the kids to lug that
to school, right, Will.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I'm actually kind of guessing there wasn't school back then.
But there you go. There you go.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Okay, well you and me from the Horrible Idea Desk
or Creepy Times ten or who are these experts?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Creepy Times ten? This is kind of this is creepy.
It's creepy Times one hundred, But I'm gonna do it anyway.
Disney World's Haunted Mansion. Have you ever been there?
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Will?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I can't remember, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Temporarily shut down this past weekend after someone scattered a
loved one's ashes on the ride.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
That happens a lot, No World, No, that's actually true.
That is that is real. A lot of people go
to disney World or Disneyland and they try scattering the
ashes of a loved one there because maybe they love me. Yeah,
I'm sure. But what happens if you get caught. I
don't know, but just know when you're walking around there,
(32:41):
there are there are ashes of deceased ones. You see
a lot of dust on a certain area, you might
want to just yeah, back away, get a wet white,
say a prayer something.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Well, no, don't get a wet white, because then you're
gonna take it out of Disneyland and the person would
be just a RESTful for the rest of eternity.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Yeah, I think i'd be a lot. I think i'd
be a little unrestful if I was, you know, scattered
at a theme park. Theme park. That's not what you want. Yeah,
it's not my idea of a RESTful time.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
No, it doesn't sound like it to myself either. Let's
go back to the horrible idea desk. I want to
get your take on this. Well, from the horrible idea desk,
Miller High Life is selling a new cologne. Selling a
new cologne called barfume, not perfume, barfume that is supposed
(33:36):
to make you smell like a dive bar.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's cool. See anything wrong with that? I like that?
Do you really? Yeah? Oh my god, I think I
might get that. Well, now I know what to get
you for Christmas. Thank you, Doug, I appreciate.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
And just well, just we'll both slather it on and
just roll through the office and see if anybody picks
up on that.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I think it would be cool to walk into the
office smelling like a dive bar at you know, ten
in the morning. Yeah, oh lord, there was a time.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
There was a time, years ago, Will, many years ago,
with a couple of people who are no longer with
the company anyway, many many years ago, way back at
the old offices and all that stuff. Somebody somehow got
hold of a breathalyzer and brought it to the office
and at ten o'clock in the morning, two people, both
of whom are no longer around here. Two people blew
(34:31):
drunk at ten o'clock in the morning, legally drunk over
the legal limits. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, not just
a little not just a little taste.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
And are they no longer here because they were promoted
up the corporate ladder? No, Will, No, i'd ever been
too cool at work.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Too cool for school anyway. No, no, no, no, that
doesn't happen. That doesn't happen at desk or that way. Boy,
I'm trying to decide where to go.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
How much time you have? Three minutes?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Two minutes, you have three mites? Okay, well this one
can guess what this is about. Will, from the peanuts desk,
what is this about?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Uh? Probably nuts of some sort. No, well, maybe the gallery.
Think think bigger, think bigger picture. Okay, okay, I think
we expect to get peanuts, probably the store, not buy them,
get them free, get them free. Yeah, a little packet
of peanuts. Oh on an airplane, Thank you lord.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Southwest Airlines is gonna begin shutting down cabin service a
little sooner, beginning at eighteen thousand feet instead of ten
thousand feet where they begin now, which is good because
maybe that'll give some of us older guys a chance
to hit the bathroom one last time before we're warned
that if we if we stand up again before landing,
we're gonna be tossed out of the plane. The reason,
(35:49):
they say is safety related, because low level turbulence increases
risk of injury to passengers.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
And crew when the plane's bouncing around.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Yeah, I guess it would. I guess it would. All right, Will,
let's go to bad parenting, shall we?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
A couple in Missouri arrested the day after Thanksgiving this
past Friday.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Imagine imagine this happening. Will.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
They were arrested because they took their son to the hospital,
where hospital employees found that they had at home attempted
to circumcise their son.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
You're a gasp, aren't you. That is a rough thing
to do at home.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
And they were caught and in the I guess it
was the dad maybe said and I'll quote here the
procedure did not go as plan.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Imagine that. Wow.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
The man told police he didn't have any medical training,
but that he did say a blessing beforehand. Oh well,
I mean, go right ahead, please. Well if that should
have handled it?
Speaker 4 (37:06):
That?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Wow? I know.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Social Services, by the way, has since removed their five children.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
What do you think of that? Will? Well, I'm glad.
I mean I kind of worry about what happened to
the other four children prior to the Yeah, who knows
what they've been up to up until then. Oh my god,
that's crazy. That reminds me of an old joke.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Will.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
But you're a young guy. Maybe you won't know the
answer to this. Okay, Okay, are you ready? Yeah, drum
roll over there? Anything Well, not enough time for you know,
what you find on the desk of a doctor who
does circumcisions. What are you ready? Yes, a tip.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Jar Okay will see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Audios.
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