The Connection Between Dementia and Heart Disease

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Jing Kai Wei about the connection between dementia and heart disease.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
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(00:41):
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you covered? And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Thursday starts now. Well, Thursday started twelve hours ago actually,
but for us it starts now. For you who are
kind enough to allow Will and me into your into
your lunch hour. Thank you very much for doing that.
I really appreciate it. Finally getting a taste of Southeast
Texas winter, and we'll have that taste for the next

(01:14):
several days. Around here, warm is nice, but honestly, when
you get into the middle of December, there's no reason
for temperatures to be in the eighties except that we're here.
I've lived here nearly all of my life, and I've
been through a whole lot of summers and a whole
lot of winters, and honestly, every one of them is

(01:35):
just as unique as a fingerprint. There's not that big
a change going on. If you look back far enough,
you can find matches for any atmospheric, any climate condition,
and so you just have to wake up. And actually,
I could probably live better without heat than without AC.

(01:56):
Would you agree with that? Will live if you had
to give up your heater or your air conditioner, which
would you give up?

Speaker 3 (02:07):
I guess I would probably give up the heater absolutely,
because it's mainly warm here.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, well, even even when it's super cold, you can
you can find enough blankets in your house. You can
find enough, and in an emergency, you could wrap yourself
in all kinds of things, every article of clothing you own.
Just pile yourself in there, a little igloo of clothing
over you, and your body heat could keep you warm
and get you through the night. But ma'am, when it's

(02:39):
one hundred and five outside, I don't know if you've
ever had the the thrill ride of having your AC
go out in the middle of August, Doug, do you
remember Oh, that's right.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
My house was ninety plus degrees for two weeks.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I do all that. I don't know how you guys
made it through there. I really know. We didn't stay there. Well,
there you go, most of our homes. Yeah, in fairness,
back when we had that horrible ice storm, what did
they call that? You're urie, you're a what you're a
cool guys, easy there, fella. In any event, ury my

(03:25):
family just huddled around the gas fireplace, and we're darned
grateful to have that kept us all warm. It really did.
And I have a neighbor down the street who's from Minnesota,
and she was the genius of the whole neighborhood. We
all in our dens and most of these floor plans
out there where I am, pretty high ceiling and pretty

(03:47):
big family area around the fireplace. And there we were,
my wife and my son and I huddled around the
fire because we couldn't get warm ten feet away from it.
He was in the high thirties in the house, and
we talked to her, We talked to Chris, her friend Chris,
and Chris said that, oh she remembered this from living

(04:09):
up north when stuff like that happens and what she
did was get some plastic tarp. Her husband and some
were out of town somewhere at a hockey tournament, I think,
And she got this plastic tarp and either taped it
or thumb tacked it or whatever to the ceiling, dropped
it all the way to the ground, just in about
a twelve or fourteen foot square around the fireplace. So

(04:33):
she built a room essentially, the couch was in it,
there was room for the cats, all that stuff right
there in that cozy little a little bit bigger space
than this studio and just toasty warm the whole time.
Walk outside of that thing. Kind of chili but otherwise, yeah, genius.
And I remembered that to this day. And I have

(04:56):
the plastic if I need it, plastic and painter's tape.
And if push comes to shove all staple that stuff
to the ceiling, yes I will will. That's old school
warming right there, buddy. So anyway, onto the highs and
lows and high coup Courtesy of Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists.
Go to Texas IAQ dot net to learn more about

(05:16):
how they clean ductwork and how clean the air and
your home will be afterward for years you ready, will
hit me forget the forecast, Christmas only days away? Fill
your hearts with joy? Get the forecast. Who cares what

(05:36):
the weather is? The high it's almost Christmas. There are
exceptions to every rule. So what it's six days away?
I will.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
I'm not appreciative. Yeah, I'm not happy with this one. Doug,
you were on a roll this week. You were on
a roll and then you said, I think gone with
the wind. That's gone with the wind?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
What it needed? I would have needed one more syllable
to use that, so I didn't. How about gone with
your score? You no the reason for this, mister Scrooge.
It's go ahead, go go for it, grinch, come on,
just hit me with your best shot. I could take
it to two. There's nothing about the forecast and there

(06:31):
filling your hearts with joy because it's the Christmas season
that's worth three on its own. Joy doesn't keep me warm.
Joy didn't win the election either. Now I did it,
I guess, so okay, I'll take it too on that.
I'll take it. I'll take it like a man. This
is you know it's your score. You gave me the score,
your score. Accept it, it's your score. You scored me

(06:52):
a two, and I accept that because that's how the
game is played. It's your score. Am I happy with it?

Speaker 3 (06:57):
No?

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Do I agree with it? Hell no? How could you
not agree with that? There's nothing about the forecast in there.
Once in a while, will you have to step outside
the box. You have to get a little breath of
fresh air, otherwise it all becomes stale and repetitive and predictable. Now,
that was unpredictable.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
That was unpredictable, and it was a swing and a miss,
a strikeout.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't know about that. What do you know about baseball?

Speaker 3 (07:28):
I played baseball for a long time home until what
age will until I was thirteen years Oh, okay, you know.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
The game inside now, of course? All right, fair enough?
You can't. You grew up in the metal bat era, too,
didn't you. I was hitting dingers every time you found
one off of course, hit one end of the dugout.
Damn that metal bat thing. I had to get used
to when I was a kid very quickly. And I

(07:59):
know we're late.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Well.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
When I was a kid, we used wooden bats that
were hand me downs from the high school team. Every
time they would crack one of their bats, they'd give
it to the little league coaches, who would then put
finishing nails in there and wrap them with electrical tape
to make them kind of sort of solid enough for
pee wee hitters to and little leaguers to use them.
We didn't have a whole lot of fresh, clean, unnailed bats,

(08:26):
but we made it. We managed to get through it
all right. UT's Institute on Aging comes up first in
this program today, and I'm happy to continue speaking for
them as long as they'll have me. I really am.
They are and by day I mean more than a
thousand medical providers of different Every aspect of medicine is

(08:46):
covered by the membership of the Institute on Aging. And
each of those people has of course gotten all the
credentials they needed to become what they are by title.
But then they've gone back and what doesn't show up
in their title is they have learned how to apply
all of that knowledge, specifically to seniors, which are a
little different than juniors and middlers and whatever they are.

(09:10):
Most of these people spend most of their time, I
would fairly say, around the med center. However, many, if
not most of them also spend time in outlying communities,
and hospitals and clinics all around the greater metropolitan Houston area.
Go to the website, absorb yourself. Just just dive into

(09:30):
all the different resources you'll find there that you'll find
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You'll find out where to go meet them and how
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exuberant life than you're living now, even if you're already exuberant.

(09:52):
Utch dot edu slash aging, that's some of that joy
stuff will that you just don't understand ut dot edu aging.
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to
bed and sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Just wait until this show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
All right, welcome back, thanks for listening to the program
today on this Thursday, A pretty day, a pretty cool day.
Another couple of those to come, and then we'll get
back to the Christmas season, which mister humbug over there
just doesn't want to recognize at all. That's it, Well,
it's just the way it goes. Man. You're just gonna

(10:39):
have to live with your decisions. In this segment, we
are going to talk with doctor jink Why about the
connection between dementia and heart disease, and there is a connection.
He's an assistant professor an epidemiologist in the Department of
Family and Community Medicine at ut Health Houston. Welcome to
fifty plus.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
Doctor, Hi, doc, thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
No, it's my pleasure. So, just generally speaking, how are
dementia and heart disease linked in people in this age
category fifty plus?

Speaker 4 (11:13):
So I would like to say that people who are
over fifty and having heart disease, they are more likely
to have dementia because we know that heart disease share
a lot of risk factors with dementia, like some chronic
conditions like hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and some poor lifestyle factors

(11:37):
like smoking, sedentary behaviors, and some psychosocial factors such as depression.
These are all like risk factors for dementia, and we
know that people who are over fifties like this, these
respectors are pretty prevalent. So we can imagine that people

(11:58):
with heart disease and over fifty, they are more likely
to have dementia. And also we know that there is
a subtype of demensia called vascular dementia, which is highly
attribute to like vascular risk factors.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Well, there's a definite tie. Does the heart disease increase
the risk of dementia or does dementia have an impactful
change in the risk of heart disease or is it
a little bit of both ways?

Speaker 4 (12:29):
So by mechanisms, I would like to say that people
with heart disease may have a higher risk for dementia,
right because for example, people with hot disease, they are
likely to have a higher risk of stroke, and we
know that stroke as an important respectful dementia. And in

(12:51):
some epidemiologic studies, researchers have also found that like newly
occurred cardiovascular disease as associated with a greater subsequent cognitive decline,
but their cognition was pretty normal ap prior to having
a heart disease. So this is really consistent with what

(13:14):
we understand.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
So before before we all get scared, let's talk about
some of the things we can do to maybe protect
both our heart and our brain health. What kind of
changes can we make that will help us?

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Oh, sure, there's something we can do UH to like
promote health of the Holland brain. For example, we may
follow a healthier lifestyle. We can follow a healthy diet
such as Mediterranean dietary pattern and the Dach diet, the
Datch diet as the dietary approaches to stop hypertension. So UH,

(13:51):
they encourages they encourage having some healthier food food like
more food vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, fish, and olive oil,
and also like lean proteins and low fat dairy. And

(14:13):
they discouraged some unhealthy like sugar, salt or trans fat
so which are very commonly found in processed fruit. And
recently a new dictory pattern called mind has been created
to promote cognitive health which combines both meditrane DYET Mediterranean

(14:33):
dietary pattern and DASH diet. And this is also protected
for the heart. And so that's for DYET. And another
thing we can do is physical activity. The guideline told
us that okay, the adults should have at least one
fifteen minutes from moderate to vigos physical activity and at

(14:55):
least two days for muscle strengthening activity each week. But
some of people may say, okay, this is really challenging,
like it's hard to accomplish so much activities. But the
good thing is, uh, it's it's better to have at
least something. It's it's much better than nothing. Absolutely, at

(15:17):
least having something is uh is better. And we know
that physical activity is it's it's low cost. And even uh,
you say, like, oh, I have no money to purchase
membership for the gym, I can still work around my
house for about points of thirty minutes per day. So
that's really cost effective in preventing these conditions. And so

(15:43):
these are some deuce and some something like don'ts like, uh,
we should avoid smoking. Don't smoke, and if you need
to drink alcohol, you should limit it to a like
pretty modern levels. For example, for women is like one

(16:04):
drink per day. For men it's about like two drinks day.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
I saw something just this morning about using and I
don't even remember what the condition was that was being
discussed in this piece I read, but it said Mediterranean
diet and one bottle of red wine per week will
get you on the right track. Would you kind of
agree with that for this as well? Yes, I agree

(16:30):
with it. Okay, not a bottle of day, right, Yeah,
that might be a little excessive, I think, ye.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
But yeah, but also we need to be some level
of cautious because like alcohol is not good for tem right,
so we also need to be cautious.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, that everything affects everything. I used to talk to
doctor John Higgins quite a bit cardiologist over there on
your big team, and everything we talked about out was
benef It was beneficial to do more exercise than to
eat a healthy diet. And I couldn't agree more. If
all of us would start there with just some exercise

(17:10):
and some better diet, we would all be better, wouldn't we? Exactly?
Thank you, doctor, doctor jen Kai Way, we believe it
or not, we're already out of town that we're out
of time. That went very quickly. I greatly appreciate what
you've shared with us, and I'll make sure to start
practicing what I preach around here a little bit more.
I'm inspired now. Thank you, Yeah, thank you so much. Huh,

(17:32):
thank you doctor. All Right, we got to take a
little break here on the way out. I'm going to
remind you that, well, there's some things that diet and
exercise aren't going to help, and one of those things
is an enlarged prostate. If you are in that fifty
plus fifty five plus range and you're starting to experience
things that you didn't recognize as a guy a year, two, three,
five years ago, things that are uncomfortable, unpleasant, you just

(17:56):
really don't like the symptoms that you're seeing in your well,
then go to a late health and let them take
a look and see if they can't help with that enlarged,
non cancerous prostate. What they do, they're vascular clinics around town,
and what they do is go in and identify the
artery that's supplying blood to that prostate, and then plug
it up, shut it off, turn off the spigot, and

(18:20):
as that prostate shrivels up and goes away, so with
it go those ugly symptoms. They do the same for
several conditions, and if you go to the website you
can see all the different procedures they can do right
there in the office. Usually within a couple of hours,
you'll need somebody to drive you home, but then you
get to go home and recover there instead of spending

(18:42):
a day or two or three in a hospital where
you really really don't want to be unless you just
absolutely have to. Head pain in some cases can be
alleviated with vascular procedures. Ugly veins, that's a no brainer.
They do that all the time in there, even fibroids
in women, somewhat similar to the situation with the prostate issues,

(19:02):
where they can get that solved and resolved and you'll
feel much better and you'll get back to the life
you had before you went in there. Go to a
latehealth dot com. That's the website, and by the way,
a lot of what they do covered by Medicare and Medicaid,
and they're also doing regenerative medicine there as well. So
go to the website, look around, see if there's something

(19:24):
they can help you with that you really don't want
to have and can be solved with vascular procedures. Seven
one three, five eight, eight, thirty eight eighty eight. Seven one, three,
five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight. Yeah, they sure
don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Segment three starts right now twelve thirty five in the
afternoon around here according to our clock, not according to
my watch, I'm a minute in about minute and thirty
seconds fast. Will That's why I was confused right before
we started the show on how much time I had,
and it's it's irrelevant, it doesn't matter really. Let me

(20:26):
see where I want to go here. I have many
pages in front of me, and I know there's not
a snowballs chance I'm going to get to all of them.
But there are some that are more important than others,
and at present they are am I A. I'm trying
to Oh, here we go. This is what I'm looking
for right here. Ah. We are smack dab in the

(20:46):
middle of a holidays shopping season, and I feel like
this is a great time to address shop lifting in
this country. And I can pretty much promise that the
situation is far more die than you currently believe. From
pre pandemic to twenty twenty three, according to the National

(21:08):
Retail Federation, shoplifting incidents have increased by ninety three percent,
not nine point three percent, ninety three percent, nearly double.
And blame for this staggering spike falls into several buckets too,

(21:29):
not just one. Some of it stems from a very
small group, and I mean the tiny tiniest little group
of people who are truly desperate and trying to provide
something for their families. That's the the little bitty slice
of this crime tsunami that's being bankrolled by lawful shoppers,

(21:50):
by the way, who don't mind. Let's just pay for
what the thieves steal too. We'll pay retail plus thievery fees.
We do that every time we shop at a big
retail store too. Whether you know it or like it
or not, they don't absorb the cost of crime. They
pass it on to us billions and billions of dollars.

(22:10):
Very small group. Some more of it comes from huge
retailers just totally going soft on theft inside their own
stores and actually instructing employees not even to get involved
at all. Somebody's got an armload of clothes, like I
watched get run out by two people at Dick's sporting
goods store several years ago, now a couple of years ago,

(22:33):
at least they just the employees didn't just stood there
watched as these people ran outside, jumped in a car,
not a care in the world, just sped away, And
I thought, Wow, they're gonna have a nice Christmas. They're
gonna have plenty of new clothes. But what dawned on
me is what they're going to do is sell it.

(22:53):
I saw it there. I've seen similar incidents, although not
with clothing, at two different groceries stores, one at AGB
and one at Randall's over the past two years. And
once again at two of the three stores, the employees,
when I asked them, said that they were under strict order,
strict company policy. Just to ignore it. Just watch them

(23:16):
run out. I don't know why the thieves even run anymore.
They risk cripping and falling and cracking a tooth, so
they just they could just walk out and nobody's gonna stop.
And the crooks know that too. They know which stores care,
even just a little, and they know which ones have
a turn your back and make believe it didn't happen policy.

(23:37):
Another reason shoplifting through the roof and I bet they
even steal shingles too. Come to speaking of roofs. Liberal
laws and judges, aren't they great about just taking someone
it's a non violent crime. Let's just put him back
on the street so we don't have to bother the
court system for a while. If at all, they just
toss these cases for flimsy reasons, and in some set

(24:00):
bodies there is so much retail theft that court systems
are just overwhelmed. They can't handle the case loads. So
instead of hiring more lawyers than judges, a lot of
them just up the ante on what constitutes a prosecutable offense.
Shoplifting is not a crime in some especially some of
the Blue cities, until you steal seven hundred and fifty

(24:20):
nine hundred, one thousand dollars worth of stuff, which, as before,
the bad guys know in a nine hundred dollars city,
they'll grab eight hundred and seventy five dollars worth of
stuff and walk out the store because they know that
even if somebody does stop them, they won't have hit
the mark where the police leaving get called. Probably. And

(24:40):
if you're wondering what specifically people are stealing these days,
it's not so much perishables to fight hunger as it
is stuff that they can just easily sell, because there
are all sorts of places online where you can offer
an item for sale presented as brand new because it is,
and sell it with no questions asked. Cash tren actions.

(25:01):
A lot of individuals do that. A lot of them
turn that that flip into just staggering piles of money
for themselves. And then there's organized shoplifting. That's the worst
and the biggest of the issues here, the pinnacle of
retail thiever, if you will. Organized gangs run organized attax
on high end retailers and pay low level crooks to

(25:24):
grab armloads of stuff and then sell it to mid
level people who warehouse the stuff and then, as before,
resell it through what amounts to a bottomless pit of
buyers who are left looking for deals because retail prices
are so high, and they're so high because of astronomical theft.
It's just a big old, big old circle, a big

(25:46):
old treadmill. So how do we get this lawless stuff stopped?
There's one way. You quit shopping at stores that don't
prosecute shoplifters, because you're just subsidizing the theft. That's all
you're doing, if you're paying inflated prices so that other
people can come in there and steal and profit from
their illegal act. If you look it up, you make

(26:09):
some phone calls, you'll find that very few retailers have
lost prevention. People actively watching their shelves with instruction to
actually stop thieves. It's just easier to jack up prices
and let us pay. And that bothers a heck out
of me, it really does. Let's flight it up, will
shall we? All right? Okay? Here we go. What you're watching?

(26:33):
Nary a drop or who knew? Who knew? This one's interesting?
What's the national bird of the United States of America?
Will the bald eagle? Actually, no, it's not. What is it?
It's not anything. The bald eagles about to become the
official national bird of the United States. Most of us,

(26:56):
just like you, thought that it already was, but RUNG
has never quite gotten around to passing an actual bill
until now President Biden has to sign off on it.
And I just, honestly, I just hope that nobody pranks
him into signing off on a Dodo bird instead, because
at this point I think just about anything's impossible, and

(27:20):
based on the commutations and pardons he's issued lately, I
think he'll sign anything somebody puts in front of him.
And again, I feel sympathy and empathy toward that man,
because the man himself is impaired and people are taking
advantage of that and he's still though he still are

(27:42):
acting president, and that's man with these drones flying around there.
Was the latest and one of the an equally plausible
story that came out of one of our members of
Congress just either today or yesterday, was that those drones
up there are especially the ones around the military facilities Chinese.

(28:05):
Chinese have been buying up property around our military base
is right under President Biden's nose for the whole time
he's been in office, and nobody stopped him. And what's
to say that they haven't quietly brought in drones, quietly
brought in the material to build drones, to put surveillance

(28:25):
equipment out there. And nobody can get a straight answer
out of our government on those things. That scares the
heck out of me. Let's take a break. We'll come
right back, and when we do, we will talk about
some more fun stuff. I've got a couple of other
kind of serious things we ought to look at, at
least briefly, and then we'll wind our way up to

(28:46):
the fifty eight market. Cut you all back, loose to
go enjoy the rest of your afternoon. On the way out,
nothing nothing at all except well wishes, for the holidays,
which will does not?

Speaker 3 (28:57):
You don't want to participate in any of that. No,
they have bad hauldays. Why did one of these things?

Speaker 2 (29:04):
They while they shocked me, they don't surprise me when
you drop little bombs like that. You really wish people
bad holidays?

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, I hope they have horrible holiday?

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Aren't you just a piece of just a just a
delicious sugary treat I've gotten every year. You have colon switches.
You just saw the blades. Maybe, Oh, that was a
pretty good one. Actually, will do that. I'll score that.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Two, We'll be right back aged. This is fifty plus
with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Fourth final segment starts now. Thank you' all for listening
to fifty us. Next one more day, man, I'm gonna
slide out for a little vaca if you don't, is
that okay with you?

Speaker 4 (30:16):
Will?

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Please? Can't wait to get rid of You'd give me
tomorrow off if I wanted it, wouldn't you? You can
take tomorrow off? No, I'm not just despite you. Now,
I'm coming back in. I'm gonna be here early. I'll
come just sit in here with you while you're doing
whatever it is you do before we go on there work.

(30:38):
It's hard to tell sometimes in news from the federal budget,
Congress just tried to slide some fast money, some big
old pork, more than a pig farm, fat old pork.
And this is it's a budget stop gap, if you will.

(31:00):
How long will there there's about one hundred billion dollars
in this bill that was laid out yesterday. How long
do you think that's gonna last? Federal government spending one
hundred billion dollars. I don't know, two and a half months,
two and a half, maybe about two and a half months. Yeah,

(31:22):
that's it. That's all. Not a minute longer either. And
here's the deal, the actual bill to spend that hundred
billion dollars and include all kinds of goodies, not the
least important of which was a pay raise for the
people who are passing the law if they get it done,
which I don't think they're going to. Fifteen hundred pages long,

(31:46):
and lawmakers were given less than twenty four hours to
read it before they had to vote on it. This
the last ten or twelve years, I don't know how
long it's been, there's been this, this trend toward piling
up all kinds of garbage in our federal expenses and

(32:10):
then not giving anyone time to read it. I think
it was Nancy Pelosi who actually said, you need to
sign the bill and then you can read it. And
that is not any way to govern, not any way
to represent the people. One clause in there by the way,
it's not all just handouts to big donors and whatnot.

(32:31):
There's a clause in this bill that says that nobody,
not even the courts, can get a look at congressional
emails because the people who are trying to pass this
through know that about half of them have incriminating skeletons
in those email closets. They know dog one well and
they're trying to make it impositive anybody else. If you

(32:53):
or I get subpoened, we have to turn over all
our emails. If we're asked for our emails, you just
got to handle phone, say dig around, knock yourself out.
But the way this thing reads, lawmakers in Congress would
be excluded from having to expose what they've been doing,
and they don't want that to happen. There's also a

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censorship program that's gonna pay to Essentially, it's going to
set up a way to stifle the First Amendment and
make certain types of speech unlawful, which is nothing that
belongs in the United States of America. Millions more dollars
to fund vaccination mandates just in case, you know, for

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the next for the next pandemic that comes along. And oh,
by the way, there's more money in there for gain
of function research, which is what caused the spread of
COVID to begin with. There's three million dollars. Get this
will Are you ready? Have you ever have you ever
noticed any issues and problems with your molasses, with my molasses? Yeah, well,

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this budget wants to spend three million dollars essentially to
inspect the inspectors who inspect molasses. That's kind of a
Belton suspenders for three million bucks. They want to they
want to look more closely at how the inspection process

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happens for molasses. There's fifteen million dollars in there for
more accessible recycling. How far do you have to walk
in a city park or on a on a city
street to see one of the little green barrels here?
Throw your recycling in here. And oh, by the way,

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much or most of what you think is going to
recycling facilities and actually being recycled winds up in the
dump anyway, there's no reason for that. There is one
hundred million dollars to be paid to migrant farm workers
because apparently migrant farm workers need more money. So do I,

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but I'm not included in this bill. Yeah, I don't
know why they they they come here, they work, they
earn a wage, and for some reason President Biden and
his crew want to give one hundred million dollars to them.
And in his efforts to go greener and just throw
us deeper into debt, they got seventy million dollars as
a loan to build solar panels on Native American reservations

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they're on. I heard this this morning. They're they're on
reservations and they don't have seventy million dollars to build
solar panels, so they're probably not going to repay this loan.
And it's not a loan anyway, it's just a handout.
One hundred and sixty million dollars. Get this, and this
is no lie will one hundred and sixty million dollars

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to monitor cow farts. Methane produced by cows would be
something on which this federal government of ours just in
this little bill here wants to drop one hundred and
sixty million dollars if I read that correctly, and I'm
pretty sure I did. Got some new DEI jobs coming
in too, twelve hundred of them high paying jobs, while

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the rest of the country is kind of bringing this
failed practice to an end. I don't know how that
could possibly be a good idea. And then all sorts
of military and federal jobs too, high paying jobs there too,
with automatic golden parachutes for any reason, you're terminated. They
if they kick you out of your job. Once you
get one of these, you get a big stack of

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money and a pat on the back for a job
not well done. I might add this just the whole
thing just shows how badly this current Congress is trying
to run our country, and how much money they're willing
to spend on anything and everything that ultimately will have
some benefit to them. I just can't help but believe
there's something more here, because none of this makes sense.

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Billions of dollars they just shove it in our faces
for the past four years, trillions of dollars, and right
now they're just pulling all the stops trying to with
their last breath in Washington to handcuff President Trump for
he takes office. A special page in the history books
for this bunch. I guarantee you all right, well, real quickly,
real quickly. The streets have eyes. Wishful thinking or shake

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that thing Ummle's do. Wishful thinking study found that getting
a thank you from your kid makes parenting feel less stressful,
and a thank you from a teenager actually can improve
your mental health. I don't know how they figured that out,
because I can't remember the last time. Not really, he's

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a pretty good kid. A very disturbing murder case in
Spain was salved because Google Street you caught the suspected
killer putting the body in the trunk of his car.
The eyes are on you, and I'm out of here
until tomorrow. Thanks for listening to audios.