July 23, 2023 • 30 mins
The FDA's newly approved treatment to slow Alzheimer's progression is exciting and Annemarie Barnett of the Alzheimer's Association of Greater Cincinnati and Miami Valley will discuss the medication and the questions about side-effects. https://www.alz.org/cincinnati
Then,
Alan Stouder, head of Operation Life Saver teaches railroad safety to school children, groups and anyone who wants to know how to navigate crossings and stay safe. He'll also answer the question, is it legal to walk on the railroad tracks.
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Then,
Alan Stouder, head of Operation Life Saver teaches railroad safety to school children, groups and anyone who wants to know how to navigate crossings and stay safe. He'll also answer the question, is it legal to walk on the railroad tracks.
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This week on iHeart Cincy. Theone thing I will tell you is,
if you've seen one person of Alzheimer'sdisease, you've seen one person with Alzheimer's
disease. A brain disease is devastatingfor people who get it and for the
ones who love them. The Alzheimer'sAssociation is leading the way to end Alzheimer's
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and all other dementia by funding globalresearch, pushing early detection and risk reduction,
and providing quality care and support.The Greater Cincinnati Chapters executive director is
Anne Marie Barnett. She's my guesttoday to talk about a new treatment for
early Alzheimer's just approved by the FDAand what the Alzheimer's Association's Greater Cincinnati and
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Miami Valley Chapters can do for youin the thirty seven counties in southern Ohio,
Northern Kentucky, and eastern Indiana andlater. We always tell everybody not
only our railroad tracks property, butthey're very dangerous. Cincinnati is unique in
so many ways, including owning therail lines, and it seems everywhere you
turn in Cincinnati and northern Kentucky thereare railroad crossings. My guest today is
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the director of Ohio's Operation Lifesaver,a nonprofit whose mission is to end rail
crossing injuries and deaths. I'll speakwith Alan Stouter, veteran railman for over
forty years, about the dangers andhow to keep yourself safe while traveling through
the tri State. Now on iHeartCincy with Sandy Collins. First, well,
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you begin with Anne Marie Barnett.She is the executive director of Greater
Cincinnati and Miami Valley chapters of theAlzheimer's Association. So, Anne Marie,
it is good to talk to youtoday. Welcome to iHeart Cincy. And
let's first start with some terms,because Alzheimer's is kind of like the word
that civilians use for dementia, andfrom what I've been taught in my personal
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life with my family, Alzheimer's isa specific disease of the brain, and
it's not necessarily the dementia that somepeople have. So let's look at the
terms. So dementia is the umbrellaterm, and under dementia airs Alzheimer's disease,
louis body dementia, vascular dementia,so all the dementia's fall underneath that
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umbrella term. It's kind of likecancer and then there's types of cancer.
Gotcha. So if that helps,you know, we hear all the time
people are like, oh, Iwalk in a room, I can't remember
what I'm doing it. I can'talways lose my car keys. You know.
It's not that you lose your carkeys can't remember where you put them.
But if you find your car keysand you don't know what to do
with them, that is when you'rehaving an issue. We have ten warning
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signs. We do a great educationprogram that has the ten warning signs that
we take all over you know,the city to people. And if there's
people that want us to come anddo that program, we're happy to do
that as well. I know peoplealways want to know warning signs. It's
so scary as you get older andyour brain doesn't work the way it used
to, and your legs don't workthe way they used to, and nothing
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seems to work. So yeah,it's it's definitely a scary time. And
the more information that we have isgoing to make it better. So for
the Alzheimer's Association, you deal withone particular part of dementia. If that's
what you're no, you're saying Okay, go ahead, we handle Yeah.
No, So the Alzheimer's Association,the name is deceiving. Our actual long
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name is Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. So we handle all dementias, doesn't
matter if it's Alzheimer's, lowing bodies, whatever it is. We handle the
dementia part in some Parkinson's patients becausethere's a big dimension part there, so
we run the gamut there. Sodon't let the word Alzheimer's fear you away
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from any of the other dimensions thatare what we have. I remember hearing
that Alzheimer's technically couldn't be diagnosed untilafter autopsy and they could see the brain,
and so this is in the backof my head. Now this might
be old information, but this isin the back of my head. So
as my mother started to decline,they told us that she had dementia,
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and we're, okay, we expectthat. But then one day I saw
Alzheimer's on her paperwork, and itfloored me because I know that that is
much worse than other dementia, likejust forgetfulness. So let's talk about Alzheimer's
itself. How is it diagnosed now? Not twenty years ago when it came
into my life, and how isit different from other types of dementia.
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Sure so interestingly that you say twentyyears ago, because twenty three years ago
I was working for the Alzheimer's Associationand that is exactly it. We could
not diagnose until the person passed andthere was an autopsy. Now, which
is so exciting, we have lotsof diagnostic tools. You know, there
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is a spinal tap that they cando too, and that shows you the
amount of amaloid in your brain.Pet scans show amaloid in the brain.
Now, pet scans are very expensive. Insurance doesn't usually cover those, but
the spinal tap is usually what peopledo. There's the cognitive testing with you
know, remember these three words,and then going into draw me a clock,
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and so there's different ways you canstart before you get to the spinal
tap. But excitingly, there's reallysome great diagnostic tools that are in trials.
We have a blood biomarker that couldcome out in the next year.
I mean, can you manage gointo your doctor for your yearly visit and
you get all your blood work andone of them is to test for amaloid
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in the brain. I mean,that would be amazing to be able to
do that. So there's another diagnostictest that they have in trials, looking
in the eyes, So there's somethingin the back of the eyes that are
telling them about the amaloid in thebrain as well. So we're coming a
long way, a long long waywith diagnosis. I'm Sandy Collins speaking with
Anne Marie Barnett of the Greater Cincinnatiand Miami Valley chapters of the Alzheimer's Association.
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She's their executive director. We're goingto talk about the newly approved FDA
treatment for Alzheimer's in just a fewmoments. We know, Amrie, that
early detection is important so you canstart treatment sooner. What difference does it
make in knowing what type of dementiasomeone has? Sure, So there's different
treatments. When we say, weuse the word treatment loosely. Right until
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last year, until early twenty oneMAYA, twenty twenty one, there was
no actual treatment that treated the underlyingbiology of Alzheimer's disease. Currently we have
two, which is amazing. Justlast week, the FDA gave traditional approval
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to LAKEMBI, and what LAKEMBI doesis essentially slows the progression of the disease
and by taking the amloid out ofthe brain and stopping the amloid from forming.
Now it's for people in the veryearly stages of Alzheimer's disease and the
stage before that called biod cognitive impairment. So early diagnosis is paramount because if
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you wait till you're really showing symptoms, you could be passed the point where
this drug is actually going to work. In twenty seven percent of the clinical
trial patients, they saw an averageof six months of lesser cognitive decline.
And you know, it doesn't soundlike a lot, But I don't know
about you, but I know ifI had six months with my mom's clear
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head, I'd be a mace.But also think about what happens in your
life in six months, like weddingsand holidays and birthdays, all the things
that are happening. This gives peoplein those earliest stages time that they can
make memories with their families and timeI'm for them to live independently and make
medical decisions about their future. Thatis huge for so many people. When
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you're facing someone that is looked atby their doctors as no longer being able
to take actions in their own medicalcare or make those decisions, and you're
sitting there saying, no, Iknow my mom, and I know she's
okay. Right now you're seeing thereal her, and they're looking at you
with like, we're not quite sure. That six months has got to just
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be a life changer for many peoplebecause you're making financial decisions, you're making
final plans, So that does seemto be significant. There's a University of
Cincinnati doctor that wasn't all on boardon this, and I've reached out to
him, doctor Espay, to findout what is it that he did not
think was worthwhile with this drug.Do you have any comment on that,
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what he was concerned about. Doyou know about his comments at all?
I know there are a few thereare a few docs within the city that
have said they're not prescribing it.That's their choice. But our issue with
it, honestly is you're making thechoice for the family by not offering it.
You're making the choice for the family. The family should be able to
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make their own decision. They shouldbe able to decide I'm going to take
a risk on a brain blead orbrain swelling. You know, I'm going
to take the risk. You know, what's your alternative? You know what
I mean? I mean so Ipersonally, I just want people to talk
to their doctors, and I justthink in the Alt Ciders Association, people
should have access and people should beable to make the choice. So let's
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get into the drug. Look canbe It is given through infusion, Is
that right? Correct? Monthly infusionsand any idea how long it takes to
take the infusion. I honestly donot know. It's so new, it's
so new. We'll find out.What are the side effects? You said,
brain bleed, swelling? What Iread some of these side effects and
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they were saying that they are mine, but they are there. So the
big ones that people usually are concernedwith, or you know, the brain
swelling which is aria we call that, and brain bleeds. Those were the
two most significant ones that came outof that study. Well, Kevy doesn't
cure the disease and it doesn't stopit, but it does slow it down.
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What kind of services do you providefor people here in the Tristate area
that are getting a new diagnosis orthey're dealing with someone that has had a
dementia for a while. So wehave a lot of families that come to
us even before diagnosis, when youknow they're seeing some changes in their spouse
or their mom and trying to figureout how how do I navigate through to
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get them tested? What do Ido? Where do I go? So
we have amazing nurses and social workersin Cincinnati that do care consultations, so
they will sit down with the family, usually not the person with the disease,
and kind of map out where theyare in the disease. Usually able
to guests some medical records, sowe can kind of help see that,
so we can tell you kind ofwhere you are in the disease and what
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might be next. You know,what resources might you need as you were
loved when progresses through this disease.But the one thing I will tell you
is if you see one person withAlzheimer's disease, you've seen one person with
Alzheimer's disease, because it affects peopledifferently. Like my mom, you know
her, You know, she hadno filter. She was the sweetest woman
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in the world, and the thingsthat were coming out of her mouth,
I was like, who are you? You've heard other people say, you
know they got mean. You know, so it does affect people, you
know, it does affect people differently, So we have to we have our
special workers are great to sit downand really, you know, give you
resources that you need and stay withyou and stay with the family. We
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have a twenty first seven helpline,you know. I mean, I remember
when I called that FAMI eleven thirtyat night because I just had something running
through my head that I wanted totalk to somebody about. And you're going
to give a license social worker twentyfour seven so you can talk through anything
that's happening at that time. That'sexactly what I did. I was desperate
and trying to get my mother intoa nursing home and she was not having
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it. And I called my bestfriend and he said, you know,
why don't you call the Alzheimer's Association. I'm sure they've got tips. Didn't
even occur to me, and soI said, Okay, that's a great
idea, because when you're in themiddle of a crisis, your brain stops
being creative and thinking. You juststart dealing with the here and now.
And when I called the Alzheimer's Association, it was like a lightbulb turned on.
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They were so helpful. They actuallyhelped me get my mindset proper,
so I knew what to expect.I knew that this wasn't willful disobedience on
my mother's part, that she wasafraid. And bottom line is, they
gave me great advice in order totravel through these different stages. And I
just couldn't thank the Alzheimer's Association enoughbecause it made it a much more bearable
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for me and probably for her too, because then I wasn't fighting back the
way a daughter would when you said, right, what's coming out of your
mouth? Mom? Because it's sosurprising. Let's give that twenty four seven
number right now for people that aresaying, what's the number? What's the
number? Sure? So it's eighthundred two seven two thirty nine hundred.
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It's eight hundred two seven to thirtynine hundred, and again twenty four seven.
And you can reach the local associationoffice from nine to five at five
one, three seven, two oneor two eight four as well. Okay,
is there anything else important that weneed to cover when it comes to
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what people should know right now aboutAlzheimer's and dealing with it and this new
FDA approved treatment. I think theone thing that I would like to say
is, first, thank you forhelping us raise awareness about this disease and
all of the dementias. And thankyou for saying what you said about the
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Alzheimer's Association. I know I'm alittle biased, but I believe all of
that too. I really want tothink also everybody out there who has helped
us raise awareness, helped us raisefunds. We would never have gotten to
this historical time with this disease ifit wasn't for the community and their support.
And that means the world to somany people. And see, I'm
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gonna cry because it means so muchto me personally. I know I don't
have my mom anymore, but Idon't want daughters to go through this either.
And so if you want to getinvolved with the Alzheimer's Association, you
know we have our largest fundraising aboutcoming up on October seventh. It's slaw
your point. It's the Walk toEnd Alzheimer's. There's no registration fee,
but we obviously want you to raisefunds for that, but we call it
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the world's largest support group. Soif you're going through it now, believe
you me. There's four thousand peoplesurrounding you and you feel all of that.
You know, we have resources downthere, we have other companies down
there, and it's fun. Wehave a lot of fun with it too.
But we have a promise garden ceremonythat is so so so moving,
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and you know, at the endof the promise garden ceremony, we always
pull out a white flower, whichis what is a symbol of the first
survivor, and that is the onlyone we have because there is not one.
And so while we're at a historictime in this disease that we're able
to slow progression, our job isfar from over. We have got to
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keep fighting and keep fighting, keepfighting till we can cure this disease.
And that's my goal. My goalis to work myself out of a job.
That's really what I want to do. But we're you know, we
can't do it alone. We needboots on the ground. We need people
to give education programs, you know, we need people to volunteer, and
we need to be able to startwalk teams. So if you want to
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get involved with us, please youcan call eight hundred number or you can
call us locally too. That's completelyfine whichever way you want to get involved
with us. We have ways AndMarie, thank you so much for your
time. You probably changed some livestoday by talking about this, and we
appreciate everything that you're doing. Oh, thank you so much, But honestly,
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thank you for giving us the platformto do this, because that's what's
going to make a difference. Thankyou very much. And Marie Barnett of
the Greater Cincinnati and Miami Valley chaptersthe Alzheimer's Association. Look them up online
or call this number. Have yougot a pin? Here we go eight
hundred two seven two thirty nine hundred. I'll have more information on the Walk
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to end Alzheimer's again at the endof this program, Just ahead. Technology
has improved for good and for bad. When it comes to trains, you
can't judge the speed of the trainby that big bright light coming at you.
They are faster and quieter than youthink. Stay right there. Part
two of this week's I Heard Cincyis coming up fifty five KARC Cincinnati available
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it from all angles. Listen toIdea Generations All Angles on the iHeartRadio app
or wherever you get your podcasts.This is I Heard since I'm Sandy Collins,
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your host, and today I'm speakingwith a retired train worker who runs
State of Ohio's Operation Lifesaver program.It's geared at teaching residents the three ease,
education, engineering and enforcement to reducethe number of crashes, injuries,
and fatalities at highway rail crossings.Andy Stouter, Welcome to iHeart Sinse.
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You worked for Norfolk Southern for longtime and you've been with the Operation Lifesaver
for years as a volunteer. Tellme a little bit about Operation Lifesaver,
how it came to being and howyou came to the nonprofit itself. All
right, well, thank you forhaving me here today. Operation Lifesaver is
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a national, not for profit railsafety organization whose goal is to eliminate all
rail incidents. It started in nineteenseventy two. Last year was our fiftieth
anniversary, and it started out inIdaho by an engineer on the Union Pacific
who frankly was tired of vehicle traincollisions. So the railroad, the engineer,
and the safety council put together aprogram and in the first year they
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were amazed by a drop in vehicletrain incidents by over twenty percent. So
they took it to Nebraska and wehad the same success there. So now
we have forty seven states. TheDistrict of Columbia, Canada, Mexico,
and Estonia all have Operation life Saverprograms. As for Ohio. We joined
in nineteen seventy eight and this isour forty fifth year of doing rail safety
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education. So these are education programs. Basically you're reaching out and teaching people
how to interact with the railways.That is correct. We are just total
rail safety education. Not only dowe talk to our younger ones at safety
towns and preschools. But we haveour programs for everybody to senior citizens.
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We have special formats for our firstresponders of law enforcement because when the unfortunate
happens, we have to make sureour first responders are safe and they come
home, so we have specialized classesjust for them. We also report about
people being on the tracks and unfortunatelyoften their fatal interactions. Today was the
first time when I was looking overyour information, I saw the word trespasser
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used, and in fact, that'swhat they are, but I just have
never seen that word used in thatcontext. You know, it's kind of
a romantic image, you know,people walking on the tracks and ruminating and
talking and kicking the rocks, andsometimes it's even a shortcut through you know,
densely populated forested areas, but it'sapparently, you know, not permitted.
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So tell me about the problem withtrespassers and what you do to try
to stop that. Well, youbring up a very good point. You
know, railroad tracks, the romanceof the rails and all that, and
everybody thinks they're going to see orhear the train, which is a misconception
with today's trains. But we'll goback to people forget that railway tracks are
private property. It's like any otherindustry you go to. And we always
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tell people, you know, youdon't walk down the middle of ice seventy
five or anything like that, becausethey know better. Well, railroad tracks
are the same way. It's privateproperty and if you're on it, it
is trust passing. The problem is, back when Grandpa was a kid and
we had the clickity clackity track wecalled joint at rail, you could hear
a train, you could feel thevibration of those big steam trains coming.
Well today that's not true anymore.They have what they call continuous welded rail.
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There are no joints in it,so it's seamless and the train just
glide. You can hardly hear it. And today's trains are as quiet a
sewing machine, so they can sneakup on you people wearing headphones or not
paying attention, and the next thingyou know, there's a train on them.
So we always tell everybody not onlyour railroad tracks private property, but
they're very dangerous. The train crew, which has very little opportunity to really
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control the train. When they seeyou, they try to apply the brakes
they blow the horn and hope youget out of the way, but the
train is a control at that time. It's going to take a long time
for a train to stop without theclickity clackity track trains are very quiet.
I work for the rail industry overforty years, and we would get out
of the way for a train,obviously, and we would be talking in
a safe distance away, and itwould go buy and still scarce. Just
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they sneak up on you there.It's that optical illusion, almost like an
air plane coming in for a landing. You look at it, it looks
like it's just floating so nice andsoft through the air. Where it's going
three hundred miles an hour. Youcan't judge the speed of the train by
that big bright light coming at you. They are faster and quieter than you
think. Your operation Lifesaver has reallydrastically reduced the number of injuries and depths.
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You want to talk about what itis that you teach people about railroad
tracks safety and how to operate aroundthem. We just tell everybody to use
their brain to make good safe judgmentswhen they're around tracks and trains. We
tell them what trains can and cannotdo and what they should and should not
do at a highway rail crossing orwhen they are near the tracks out in
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the middle of nowhere that we tellthem, you know that it is private
property, that trains are quiet.They run twenty four hours a day,
three hundred and sixty five days ayear. We tell drivers, you know,
when the gates are down, atrain is coming when the gates are
down, a lot of people don'trealize that the minimum amount of time that
the train has when the gates aredown to go over the tracks is twenty
seconds notice. So in my careerwe'd see people going around the gates all
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the time, and unfortunately that clock'sticking and when they go around the gates,
there are collisions. So we tellthem to stop and wait. Everybody's
got an extra five minutes to wait. We remind him that those gates aren't
there to stop them from getting somewhere, but to help him get there safely.
I guess as Alan Stouter, heis the state director for Operation Life
Saver, training Ohioans how to staysafe around trains. I was interested in
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this statistic that twenty five percent ofall vehicle train collisions the vehicle runs into
the side of the train. Distracteddriving has always been a problem. When
we have our rural crossings, mostlythat we call passive, they have no
lights or gates. People sometimes overdrivetheir headlights or like you said, they're
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not paying attention or even with lightsand gates, they're in a hurry.
And if a train gets hitting it'seighty or ninetieth car, the locomotive engineer
doesn't even know you hit them,and they're going to continue under their destination
or until they're notified that you know, something's a dragging behind their train.
So you know, every three hours, still in twenty twenty three, every
three hours a person or a vehicleis getting struck by a train. Ohio
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has had quite a few vehicle traincollisions. Was it last year you said
they were numbered the ninth worst inthe nation. And of course with all
of these train tracks down here inCincinnati, we have the light rail which
is in downtown Cincinnati, and thenall of the freight that coast through this
area. And then every once ina while we'll see an Amtrak train and
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they're talking about building even more.What kind of issues do you know about
here in the Tri State and whatdo you suggest people do to learn more
about their own safety and how tonavigate around these things that are on every
corner. Well, and you bringup a lot of good points, and
you know what makes me shake myhead. Also, as people when they
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have a table or we're at anevent, they go, well, I
don't live by any railroad tracks,but you know, Ohio is one of
the busiest rail states in the nation. We have over five three hundred miles
of track in our state alone.People don't believe this, but over forty
seven different rail companies operate in ourstate. So with that being said,
we have over eight thousand rail crossingsin our state. So if you drive
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anywhere in Ohio, chances are you'regoing to drive over a set of railroad
tracks. Ohio is very proactive becauseseventy percent of our crossings in Ohio are
active crossings, and that means theyhave lights or lights and or gates.
But we always remind people active crossingsare warnings. They warn you that a
train is coming. They are notprotective devices. As it shows nationwide,
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sixty percent of all vehicle train collisionshappen at active crossings. Unfortunately, we're
a little worse than that. InOhio. We've been averaging seventy five percent
of all vehicle train collisions in ourstate happen at crossings with lights and or
gates. They're working properly. Peoplesee us coming and they still think they
can beat the train, but unfortunatelythey made a bad decision. I lived
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in Salt Lake City for a fewyears and was witnessed to a crash.
I didn't see it. I sawthe video. You know, we'd like
to think that if a train's coming, we're going to see the lights and
the gates go down. Sometimes thingscan malfunction, and that was exactly the
case at this winter time. Whateverthe warning system is to trigger the gates
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to go down malfunctioned, and abig semi truck was crossing over the thing,
and here comes this big train passengertrain just plowed into the side of
the sky because it was a itwas a malfunction. I mean, nothing
is perfect. So even if youdon't have the crossing bars, it would
make sense to look anyway and makesure that there's nothing coming in that event.
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Well, we remind everybody yes toslow down and be prepared to stop
at every highway rail crossing because asyou mentioned. Anything being by man can
and will malfunction. Thank goodness thatin the rail industry it is very rare.
Ninety nine point nine percent of thetime the crossing gates are working properly
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as intended, but there is alwaysthat chance that something can go wrong.
You have vandalism, you have youknow, just mother nature, So there
are things that can happen. Sowe always remind people, whether there's lights
and gates or a passive crossing,it's always good to slow down and just
make sure that the way is clearbefore you proceed, and stay off the
tracks private property, stay off thetracks because I like to tell people if
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you get hit by a train,a band aid's not going to fix it.
Well, Allen, is there anythingelse you want to pass along today?
I would just like to say that, you know, Ohio would love
to get out of the top tenstates for collisions and pedestrian trust passers.
We get out all over the place. We are actually targeting your area.
This year, I had a couplegrants that I was awarded for the Hamilton
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Butler area because unfortunately, for thelast five years, the Hamilton Butler County
have been some of the worst countiesin the state, and obviously a lot
of things are data driven, sowhen I presented my grant, I've used
those stats. We actually have CincinnatiBengals Logan Wilson doing streaming PSAs for us,
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and before every Cincinnati Reds home gamebetween July and September, we have
Bill Cunningham voicing our PSAs during theInside Pitch Show on WLW. So we're
trying to get the word out justto educate people that it just takes a
second for them to remember, Hey, if I see tracks, I need
to think about trains. We arealways looking for volunteers as a not profit
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to be honest in the Cincinnati area, I am a little aid on volunteer,
so I'd be more than happy toget more people trained down there to
give our presentations. Everything we dois free of charge, the training,
the material that we give you togo out and to talk to people.
And all they have to do isgo to OLI dot org and look on
their website and there's an application tobecome a volunteer, and we would love
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to have you help join our realsafety mission. That's OLI dot org.
Yes, Oli dot org perfect.Well, thank you for having us and
helping spread our safety message and I'msure you know it's going to get to
some people. And if we evensave one more live today, it's been
time well spent. Well that's whatI like to hear. Thank you very
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much, Andy Stouter, hope youfound this show helpful. Let's go back
now to the walk to n Alzheimer'sfrom our first segment coming up October seventh
at Sawyer Point along the banks ofthe Ohio. Just go to their website
alz dot org slash Cincinnati for details. Also their twenty four seven helpline.
You can get it for help foranything that you need navigating dementia and Alzheimer's.
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That's eight hundred two seven to thirtynine hundred and as for information about
Operation Lifesaver and Andy Stouter, that'sthe nonprofit that teaches about train safety and
how to stay safe. Their websiteis easy. It's Oli dot org.
That's Oli dot org. For thisand the dozens of other podcasts concerning Cincinnati
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This week on iHeart Cincy. Theone thing I will tell you is,
if you've seen one person of Alzheimer'sdisease, you've seen one person with Alzheimer's
disease. A brain disease is devastatingfor people who get it and for the
ones who love them. The Alzheimer'sAssociation is leading the way to end Alzheimer's
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and all other dementia by funding globalresearch, pushing early detection and risk reduction,
and providing quality care and support.The Greater Cincinnati Chapters executive director is
Anne Marie Barnett. She's my guesttoday to talk about a new treatment for
early Alzheimer's just approved by the FDAand what the Alzheimer's Association's Greater Cincinnati and
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Miami Valley Chapters can do for youin the thirty seven counties in southern Ohio,
Northern Kentucky, and eastern Indiana andlater. We always tell everybody not
only our railroad tracks property, butthey're very dangerous. Cincinnati is unique in
so many ways, including owning therail lines, and it seems everywhere you
turn in Cincinnati and northern Kentucky thereare railroad crossings. My guest today is
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the director of Ohio's Operation Lifesaver,a nonprofit whose mission is to end rail
crossing injuries and deaths. I'll speakwith Alan Stouter, veteran railman for over
forty years, about the dangers andhow to keep yourself safe while traveling through
the tri State. Now on iHeartCincy with Sandy Collins. First, well,
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you begin with Anne Marie Barnett.She is the executive director of Greater
Cincinnati and Miami Valley chapters of theAlzheimer's Association. So, Anne Marie,
it is good to talk to youtoday. Welcome to iHeart Cincy. And
let's first start with some terms,because Alzheimer's is kind of like the word
that civilians use for dementia, andfrom what I've been taught in my personal
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life with my family, Alzheimer's isa specific disease of the brain, and
it's not necessarily the dementia that somepeople have. So let's look at the
terms. So dementia is the umbrellaterm, and under dementia airs Alzheimer's disease,
louis body dementia, vascular dementia,so all the dementia's fall underneath that
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umbrella term. It's kind of likecancer and then there's types of cancer.
Gotcha. So if that helps,you know, we hear all the time
people are like, oh, Iwalk in a room, I can't remember
what I'm doing it. I can'talways lose my car keys. You know.
It's not that you lose your carkeys can't remember where you put them.
But if you find your car keysand you don't know what to do
with them, that is when you'rehaving an issue. We have ten warning
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signs. We do a great educationprogram that has the ten warning signs that
we take all over you know,the city to people. And if there's
people that want us to come anddo that program, we're happy to do
that as well. I know peoplealways want to know warning signs. It's
so scary as you get older andyour brain doesn't work the way it used
to, and your legs don't workthe way they used to, and nothing
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seems to work. So yeah,it's it's definitely a scary time. And
the more information that we have isgoing to make it better. So for
the Alzheimer's Association, you deal withone particular part of dementia. If that's
what you're no, you're saying Okay, go ahead, we handle Yeah.
No, So the Alzheimer's Association,the name is deceiving. Our actual long
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name is Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. So we handle all dementias, doesn't
matter if it's Alzheimer's, lowing bodies, whatever it is. We handle the
dementia part in some Parkinson's patients becausethere's a big dimension part there, so
we run the gamut there. Sodon't let the word Alzheimer's fear you away
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from any of the other dimensions thatare what we have. I remember hearing
that Alzheimer's technically couldn't be diagnosed untilafter autopsy and they could see the brain,
and so this is in the backof my head. Now this might
be old information, but this isin the back of my head. So
as my mother started to decline,they told us that she had dementia,
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and we're, okay, we expectthat. But then one day I saw
Alzheimer's on her paperwork, and itfloored me because I know that that is
much worse than other dementia, likejust forgetfulness. So let's talk about Alzheimer's
itself. How is it diagnosed now? Not twenty years ago when it came
into my life, and how isit different from other types of dementia.
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Sure so interestingly that you say twentyyears ago, because twenty three years ago
I was working for the Alzheimer's Associationand that is exactly it. We could
not diagnose until the person passed andthere was an autopsy. Now, which
is so exciting, we have lotsof diagnostic tools. You know, there
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is a spinal tap that they cando too, and that shows you the
amount of amaloid in your brain.Pet scans show amaloid in the brain.
Now, pet scans are very expensive. Insurance doesn't usually cover those, but
the spinal tap is usually what peopledo. There's the cognitive testing with you
know, remember these three words,and then going into draw me a clock,
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and so there's different ways you canstart before you get to the spinal
tap. But excitingly, there's reallysome great diagnostic tools that are in trials.
We have a blood biomarker that couldcome out in the next year.
I mean, can you manage gointo your doctor for your yearly visit and
you get all your blood work andone of them is to test for amaloid
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in the brain. I mean,that would be amazing to be able to
do that. So there's another diagnostictest that they have in trials, looking
in the eyes, So there's somethingin the back of the eyes that are
telling them about the amaloid in thebrain as well. So we're coming a
long way, a long long waywith diagnosis. I'm Sandy Collins speaking with
Anne Marie Barnett of the Greater Cincinnatiand Miami Valley chapters of the Alzheimer's Association.
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She's their executive director. We're goingto talk about the newly approved FDA
treatment for Alzheimer's in just a fewmoments. We know, Amrie, that
early detection is important so you canstart treatment sooner. What difference does it
make in knowing what type of dementiasomeone has? Sure, So there's different
treatments. When we say, weuse the word treatment loosely. Right until
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last year, until early twenty oneMAYA, twenty twenty one, there was
no actual treatment that treated the underlyingbiology of Alzheimer's disease. Currently we have
two, which is amazing. Justlast week, the FDA gave traditional approval
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to LAKEMBI, and what LAKEMBI doesis essentially slows the progression of the disease
and by taking the amloid out ofthe brain and stopping the amloid from forming.
Now it's for people in the veryearly stages of Alzheimer's disease and the
stage before that called biod cognitive impairment. So early diagnosis is paramount because if
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you wait till you're really showing symptoms, you could be passed the point where
this drug is actually going to work. In twenty seven percent of the clinical
trial patients, they saw an averageof six months of lesser cognitive decline.
And you know, it doesn't soundlike a lot, But I don't know
about you, but I know ifI had six months with my mom's clear
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head, I'd be a mace.But also think about what happens in your
life in six months, like weddingsand holidays and birthdays, all the things
that are happening. This gives peoplein those earliest stages time that they can
make memories with their families and timeI'm for them to live independently and make
medical decisions about their future. Thatis huge for so many people. When
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you're facing someone that is looked atby their doctors as no longer being able
to take actions in their own medicalcare or make those decisions, and you're
sitting there saying, no, Iknow my mom, and I know she's
okay. Right now you're seeing thereal her, and they're looking at you
with like, we're not quite sure. That six months has got to just
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be a life changer for many peoplebecause you're making financial decisions, you're making
final plans, So that does seemto be significant. There's a University of
Cincinnati doctor that wasn't all on boardon this, and I've reached out to
him, doctor Espay, to findout what is it that he did not
think was worthwhile with this drug.Do you have any comment on that,
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what he was concerned about. Doyou know about his comments at all?
I know there are a few thereare a few docs within the city that
have said they're not prescribing it.That's their choice. But our issue with
it, honestly is you're making thechoice for the family by not offering it.
You're making the choice for the family. The family should be able to
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make their own decision. They shouldbe able to decide I'm going to take
a risk on a brain blead orbrain swelling. You know, I'm going
to take the risk. You know, what's your alternative? You know what
I mean? I mean so Ipersonally, I just want people to talk
to their doctors, and I justthink in the Alt Ciders Association, people
should have access and people should beable to make the choice. So let's
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get into the drug. Look canbe It is given through infusion, Is
that right? Correct? Monthly infusionsand any idea how long it takes to
take the infusion. I honestly donot know. It's so new, it's
so new. We'll find out.What are the side effects? You said,
brain bleed, swelling? What Iread some of these side effects and
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they were saying that they are mine, but they are there. So the
big ones that people usually are concernedwith, or you know, the brain
swelling which is aria we call that, and brain bleeds. Those were the
two most significant ones that came outof that study. Well, Kevy doesn't
cure the disease and it doesn't stopit, but it does slow it down.
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What kind of services do you providefor people here in the Tristate area
that are getting a new diagnosis orthey're dealing with someone that has had a
dementia for a while. So wehave a lot of families that come to
us even before diagnosis, when youknow they're seeing some changes in their spouse
or their mom and trying to figureout how how do I navigate through to
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get them tested? What do Ido? Where do I go? So
we have amazing nurses and social workersin Cincinnati that do care consultations, so
they will sit down with the family, usually not the person with the disease,
and kind of map out where theyare in the disease. Usually able
to guests some medical records, sowe can kind of help see that,
so we can tell you kind ofwhere you are in the disease and what
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might be next. You know,what resources might you need as you were
loved when progresses through this disease.But the one thing I will tell you
is if you see one person withAlzheimer's disease, you've seen one person with
Alzheimer's disease, because it affects peopledifferently. Like my mom, you know
her, You know, she hadno filter. She was the sweetest woman
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in the world, and the thingsthat were coming out of her mouth,
I was like, who are you? You've heard other people say, you
know they got mean. You know, so it does affect people, you
know, it does affect people differently, So we have to we have our
special workers are great to sit downand really, you know, give you
resources that you need and stay withyou and stay with the family. We
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have a twenty first seven helpline,you know. I mean, I remember
when I called that FAMI eleven thirtyat night because I just had something running
through my head that I wanted totalk to somebody about. And you're going
to give a license social worker twentyfour seven so you can talk through anything
that's happening at that time. That'sexactly what I did. I was desperate
and trying to get my mother intoa nursing home and she was not having
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it. And I called my bestfriend and he said, you know,
why don't you call the Alzheimer's Association. I'm sure they've got tips. Didn't
even occur to me, and soI said, Okay, that's a great
idea, because when you're in themiddle of a crisis, your brain stops
being creative and thinking. You juststart dealing with the here and now.
And when I called the Alzheimer's Association, it was like a lightbulb turned on.
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They were so helpful. They actuallyhelped me get my mindset proper,
so I knew what to expect.I knew that this wasn't willful disobedience on
my mother's part, that she wasafraid. And bottom line is, they
gave me great advice in order totravel through these different stages. And I
just couldn't thank the Alzheimer's Association enoughbecause it made it a much more bearable
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for me and probably for her too, because then I wasn't fighting back the
way a daughter would when you said, right, what's coming out of your
mouth? Mom? Because it's sosurprising. Let's give that twenty four seven
number right now for people that aresaying, what's the number? What's the
number? Sure? So it's eighthundred two seven two thirty nine hundred.
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It's eight hundred two seven to thirtynine hundred, and again twenty four seven.
And you can reach the local associationoffice from nine to five at five
one, three seven, two oneor two eight four as well. Okay,
is there anything else important that weneed to cover when it comes to
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what people should know right now aboutAlzheimer's and dealing with it and this new
FDA approved treatment. I think theone thing that I would like to say
is, first, thank you forhelping us raise awareness about this disease and
all of the dementias. And thankyou for saying what you said about the
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Alzheimer's Association. I know I'm alittle biased, but I believe all of
that too. I really want tothink also everybody out there who has helped
us raise awareness, helped us raisefunds. We would never have gotten to
this historical time with this disease ifit wasn't for the community and their support.
And that means the world to somany people. And see, I'm
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gonna cry because it means so muchto me personally. I know I don't
have my mom anymore, but Idon't want daughters to go through this either.
And so if you want to getinvolved with the Alzheimer's Association, you
know we have our largest fundraising aboutcoming up on October seventh. It's slaw
your point. It's the Walk toEnd Alzheimer's. There's no registration fee,
but we obviously want you to raisefunds for that, but we call it
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the world's largest support group. Soif you're going through it now, believe
you me. There's four thousand peoplesurrounding you and you feel all of that.
You know, we have resources downthere, we have other companies down
there, and it's fun. Wehave a lot of fun with it too.
But we have a promise garden ceremonythat is so so so moving,
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and you know, at the endof the promise garden ceremony, we always
pull out a white flower, whichis what is a symbol of the first
survivor, and that is the onlyone we have because there is not one.
And so while we're at a historictime in this disease that we're able
to slow progression, our job isfar from over. We have got to
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keep fighting and keep fighting, keepfighting till we can cure this disease.
And that's my goal. My goalis to work myself out of a job.
That's really what I want to do. But we're you know, we
can't do it alone. We needboots on the ground. We need people
to give education programs, you know, we need people to volunteer, and
we need to be able to startwalk teams. So if you want to
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get involved with us, please youcan call eight hundred number or you can
call us locally too. That's completelyfine whichever way you want to get involved
with us. We have ways AndMarie, thank you so much for your
time. You probably changed some livestoday by talking about this, and we
appreciate everything that you're doing. Oh, thank you so much, But honestly,
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thank you for giving us the platformto do this, because that's what's
going to make a difference. Thankyou very much. And Marie Barnett of
the Greater Cincinnati and Miami Valley chaptersthe Alzheimer's Association. Look them up online
or call this number. Have yougot a pin? Here we go eight
hundred two seven two thirty nine hundred. I'll have more information on the Walk
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to end Alzheimer's again at the endof this program, Just ahead. Technology
has improved for good and for bad. When it comes to trains, you
can't judge the speed of the trainby that big bright light coming at you.
They are faster and quieter than youthink. Stay right there. Part
two of this week's I Heard Cincyis coming up fifty five KARC Cincinnati available
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everywhere with the iHeartRadio app down numberone or more podcast thing. Fifty five
KARC an iHeartRadio station. These days, more often than not, the success
of a company is attributed to itsfounder, but that's only part of this
story. My name is Noah CallahanBever and I'm proud to present Idea Generations
All Angles, a Willpacker Media podcast. We'll be talking to all the key
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players from all your favorite brains likeLoud Records, Ghetto, Gastro and earn
your leisure. So join me eachweek as we dissect the most dynamic companies
in culture, because the only wayto truly understand success is to look at
it from all angles. Listen toIdea Generations All Angles on the iHeartRadio app
or wherever you get your podcasts.This is I Heard since I'm Sandy Collins,
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your host, and today I'm speakingwith a retired train worker who runs
State of Ohio's Operation Lifesaver program.It's geared at teaching residents the three ease,
education, engineering and enforcement to reducethe number of crashes, injuries,
and fatalities at highway rail crossings.Andy Stouter, Welcome to iHeart Sinse.
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You worked for Norfolk Southern for longtime and you've been with the Operation Lifesaver
for years as a volunteer. Tellme a little bit about Operation Lifesaver,
how it came to being and howyou came to the nonprofit itself. All
right, well, thank you forhaving me here today. Operation Lifesaver is
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a national, not for profit railsafety organization whose goal is to eliminate all
rail incidents. It started in nineteenseventy two. Last year was our fiftieth
anniversary, and it started out inIdaho by an engineer on the Union Pacific
who frankly was tired of vehicle traincollisions. So the railroad, the engineer,
and the safety council put together aprogram and in the first year they
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were amazed by a drop in vehicletrain incidents by over twenty percent. So
they took it to Nebraska and wehad the same success there. So now
we have forty seven states. TheDistrict of Columbia, Canada, Mexico,
and Estonia all have Operation life Saverprograms. As for Ohio. We joined
in nineteen seventy eight and this isour forty fifth year of doing rail safety
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education. So these are education programs. Basically you're reaching out and teaching people
how to interact with the railways.That is correct. We are just total
rail safety education. Not only dowe talk to our younger ones at safety
towns and preschools. But we haveour programs for everybody to senior citizens.
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We have special formats for our firstresponders of law enforcement because when the unfortunate
happens, we have to make sureour first responders are safe and they come
home, so we have specialized classesjust for them. We also report about
people being on the tracks and unfortunatelyoften their fatal interactions. Today was the
first time when I was looking overyour information, I saw the word trespasser
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used, and in fact, that'swhat they are, but I just have
never seen that word used in thatcontext. You know, it's kind of
a romantic image, you know,people walking on the tracks and ruminating and
talking and kicking the rocks, andsometimes it's even a shortcut through you know,
densely populated forested areas, but it'sapparently, you know, not permitted.
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So tell me about the problem withtrespassers and what you do to try
to stop that. Well, youbring up a very good point. You
know, railroad tracks, the romanceof the rails and all that, and
everybody thinks they're going to see orhear the train, which is a misconception
with today's trains. But we'll goback to people forget that railway tracks are
private property. It's like any otherindustry you go to. And we always
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tell people, you know, youdon't walk down the middle of ice seventy
five or anything like that, becausethey know better. Well, railroad tracks
are the same way. It's privateproperty and if you're on it, it
is trust passing. The problem is, back when Grandpa was a kid and
we had the clickity clackity track wecalled joint at rail, you could hear
a train, you could feel thevibration of those big steam trains coming.
Well today that's not true anymore.They have what they call continuous welded rail.
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There are no joints in it,so it's seamless and the train just
glide. You can hardly hear it. And today's trains are as quiet a
sewing machine, so they can sneakup on you people wearing headphones or not
paying attention, and the next thingyou know, there's a train on them.
So we always tell everybody not onlyour railroad tracks private property, but
they're very dangerous. The train crew, which has very little opportunity to really
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control the train. When they seeyou, they try to apply the brakes
they blow the horn and hope youget out of the way, but the
train is a control at that time. It's going to take a long time
for a train to stop without theclickity clackity track trains are very quiet.
I work for the rail industry overforty years, and we would get out
of the way for a train,obviously, and we would be talking in
a safe distance away, and itwould go buy and still scarce. Just
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they sneak up on you there.It's that optical illusion, almost like an
air plane coming in for a landing. You look at it, it looks
like it's just floating so nice andsoft through the air. Where it's going
three hundred miles an hour. Youcan't judge the speed of the train by
that big bright light coming at you. They are faster and quieter than you
think. Your operation Lifesaver has reallydrastically reduced the number of injuries and depths.
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You want to talk about what itis that you teach people about railroad
tracks safety and how to operate aroundthem. We just tell everybody to use
their brain to make good safe judgmentswhen they're around tracks and trains. We
tell them what trains can and cannotdo and what they should and should not
do at a highway rail crossing orwhen they are near the tracks out in
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the middle of nowhere that we tellthem, you know that it is private
property, that trains are quiet.They run twenty four hours a day,
three hundred and sixty five days ayear. We tell drivers, you know,
when the gates are down, atrain is coming when the gates are
down, a lot of people don'trealize that the minimum amount of time that
the train has when the gates aredown to go over the tracks is twenty
seconds notice. So in my careerwe'd see people going around the gates all
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the time, and unfortunately that clock'sticking and when they go around the gates,
there are collisions. So we tellthem to stop and wait. Everybody's
got an extra five minutes to wait. We remind him that those gates aren't
there to stop them from getting somewhere, but to help him get there safely.
I guess as Alan Stouter, heis the state director for Operation Life
Saver, training Ohioans how to staysafe around trains. I was interested in
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this statistic that twenty five percent ofall vehicle train collisions the vehicle runs into
the side of the train. Distracteddriving has always been a problem. When
we have our rural crossings, mostlythat we call passive, they have no
lights or gates. People sometimes overdrivetheir headlights or like you said, they're
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not paying attention or even with lightsand gates, they're in a hurry.
And if a train gets hitting it'seighty or ninetieth car, the locomotive engineer
doesn't even know you hit them,and they're going to continue under their destination
or until they're notified that you know, something's a dragging behind their train.
So you know, every three hours, still in twenty twenty three, every
three hours a person or a vehicleis getting struck by a train. Ohio
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has had quite a few vehicle traincollisions. Was it last year you said
they were numbered the ninth worst inthe nation. And of course with all
of these train tracks down here inCincinnati, we have the light rail which
is in downtown Cincinnati, and thenall of the freight that coast through this
area. And then every once ina while we'll see an Amtrak train and
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they're talking about building even more.What kind of issues do you know about
here in the Tri State and whatdo you suggest people do to learn more
about their own safety and how tonavigate around these things that are on every
corner. Well, and you bringup a lot of good points, and
you know what makes me shake myhead. Also, as people when they
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have a table or we're at anevent, they go, well, I
don't live by any railroad tracks,but you know, Ohio is one of
the busiest rail states in the nation. We have over five three hundred miles
of track in our state alone.People don't believe this, but over forty
seven different rail companies operate in ourstate. So with that being said,
we have over eight thousand rail crossingsin our state. So if you drive
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anywhere in Ohio, chances are you'regoing to drive over a set of railroad
tracks. Ohio is very proactive becauseseventy percent of our crossings in Ohio are
active crossings, and that means theyhave lights or lights and or gates.
But we always remind people active crossingsare warnings. They warn you that a
train is coming. They are notprotective devices. As it shows nationwide,
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sixty percent of all vehicle train collisionshappen at active crossings. Unfortunately, we're
a little worse than that. InOhio. We've been averaging seventy five percent
of all vehicle train collisions in ourstate happen at crossings with lights and or
gates. They're working properly. Peoplesee us coming and they still think they
can beat the train, but unfortunatelythey made a bad decision. I lived
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in Salt Lake City for a fewyears and was witnessed to a crash.
I didn't see it. I sawthe video. You know, we'd like
to think that if a train's coming, we're going to see the lights and
the gates go down. Sometimes thingscan malfunction, and that was exactly the
case at this winter time. Whateverthe warning system is to trigger the gates
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to go down malfunctioned, and abig semi truck was crossing over the thing,
and here comes this big train passengertrain just plowed into the side of
the sky because it was a itwas a malfunction. I mean, nothing
is perfect. So even if youdon't have the crossing bars, it would
make sense to look anyway and makesure that there's nothing coming in that event.
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Well, we remind everybody yes toslow down and be prepared to stop
at every highway rail crossing because asyou mentioned. Anything being by man can
and will malfunction. Thank goodness thatin the rail industry it is very rare.
Ninety nine point nine percent of thetime the crossing gates are working properly
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as intended, but there is alwaysthat chance that something can go wrong.
You have vandalism, you have youknow, just mother nature, So there
are things that can happen. Sowe always remind people, whether there's lights
and gates or a passive crossing,it's always good to slow down and just
make sure that the way is clearbefore you proceed, and stay off the
tracks private property, stay off thetracks because I like to tell people if
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you get hit by a train,a band aid's not going to fix it.
Well, Allen, is there anythingelse you want to pass along today?
I would just like to say that, you know, Ohio would love
to get out of the top tenstates for collisions and pedestrian trust passers.
We get out all over the place. We are actually targeting your area.
This year, I had a couplegrants that I was awarded for the Hamilton
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Butler area because unfortunately, for thelast five years, the Hamilton Butler County
have been some of the worst countiesin the state, and obviously a lot
of things are data driven, sowhen I presented my grant, I've used
those stats. We actually have CincinnatiBengals Logan Wilson doing streaming PSAs for us,
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and before every Cincinnati Reds home gamebetween July and September, we have
Bill Cunningham voicing our PSAs during theInside Pitch Show on WLW. So we're
trying to get the word out justto educate people that it just takes a
second for them to remember, Hey, if I see tracks, I need
to think about trains. We arealways looking for volunteers as a not profit
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to be honest in the Cincinnati area, I am a little aid on volunteer,
so I'd be more than happy toget more people trained down there to
give our presentations. Everything we dois free of charge, the training,
the material that we give you togo out and to talk to people.
And all they have to do isgo to OLI dot org and look on
their website and there's an application tobecome a volunteer, and we would love
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to have you help join our realsafety mission. That's OLI dot org.
Yes, Oli dot org perfect.Well, thank you for having us and
helping spread our safety message and I'msure you know it's going to get to
some people. And if we evensave one more live today, it's been
time well spent. Well that's whatI like to hear. Thank you very
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much, Andy Stouter, hope youfound this show helpful. Let's go back
now to the walk to n Alzheimer'sfrom our first segment coming up October seventh
at Sawyer Point along the banks ofthe Ohio. Just go to their website
alz dot org slash Cincinnati for details. Also their twenty four seven helpline.
You can get it for help foranything that you need navigating dementia and Alzheimer's.
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