Let_Grandpa_Speak_09_13_25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
All right, all right, good morning everybody, nine fifteen twenty five.
We're in the ninth month. You know what, it's only
a few more months before the end of this year
and before Christmas and all the big holidays that we like.
But anyway, we're going to deal with what's happening right now.
Everybody want to welcome everybody to Let Grandpa speak. I'm

(00:40):
the voice of the fifty plus and all the rest
of us. I say a lot of things that everybody
can benefit from our young old and in between the
number one show on the Internet. Let Grandpa speak, and
I'm your host. I'm Grandpa, and I have a lot
to say. I have a lot to take you about.

(01:00):
I've lived a long time, so I've gathered a lot
of knowledge. Not only have I gathered a lot of knowledge,
I've I've studied and read a lot because I was
just interested. I had a quisitive, inquisitive mind, you know,
where you just really want to learn this and want
to learn that. And I've done that. And now that

(01:22):
I'm older, I think now I can spill out some
of the things that I've learned. And I'm speaking about
common sense. Everybody has common sense. I don't say anything
that you don't already know. I just remind you of it.
You probably forgot about it, so I'll be reminding you
of some thoughts that you've probably forgot. Like I said,

(01:44):
I've been living a long time. I'm getting close to
one hundred years old. For efforts, so we don't look
like it, I don't feel like it, and I'm doing fine.
I've gained wisdom like many seniors do a lot. I'm
not the only senior that's studied and gain room. I
meet them all the time, and a lot of them
are very intelligent. So when you listen to this show,

(02:08):
I'm going to try to make tell you things that
will be helping you to make your life much better.
Because there's a lot of people who are seniors. They're
not living their best life now and they should. And
if you're living your best life now, it's good to
hear what I have to say so you can continue
living your best life now. I went to a funeral

(02:29):
yesterday my son's mother in law, who was a friend
of our family. She was eighty seven years old. She
passed away. So I drove myself, I say, maybe one
hundred miles to the funeral, and I was going to
come back, and everybody's was telling me, oh, no, you
can't go back. It's too much driving for you. You know,

(02:49):
at your age, you probably won't just exist then, you know.
And I'm thinking, they don't even know who I am.
I can do what I want to do. You know,
I'm not gonna overdo it. I'm not stupid, I'm not
silly or whatever it is. You know, if I feel
like I'm having a problem, I'll just pull over. And
I've learned how to do that. Pull over stop at

(03:10):
the gas station or McDonald's or somewhere and refresh myself
and get back on the road and continue my trip.
But I didn't have to do that, so I slept
maybe three or four hours last night. So I'm doing
the show half sleep. I want you to see my
glasses on, but I'm half sleep what I'm doing. So

(03:33):
but anyway, I'm gonna do a great show for you to.
I do love myself. I drove myself there and I
wrote myself back, like I said, And I saw a
lot of old friends. Sometimes it's good to see a
lot of these old friends. Some of them didn't even
recognize I didn't know who they were, and they were
they knew me right away, and I understand I remember

(03:55):
them after a while. After a few minutes, then there
was my dear friend, Dump McLeod. His name is same
as mine. We don't know how we related, but we
figured that we were related somehow. And he's about six four
and I'm five four. So he came up to me
and I did not know him, and I finally realized, oh,

(04:17):
that's Duncan and my grandfather's name was Duncan McLeod, so
he had the same name as them. So I enjoy
seeing him. He lives in Denver, but he came here
for the funeral like it was a nice gathering of
nice people. I know it was a time when we
all need to start living, and we need to start
living right now because some of us are not doing that.

(04:40):
We're not living our best life. And the reason why
I do this show, I want to teach people and
to help people to live their best life. Because I'm
living my best life. I'm having a great time. I'm healthy,
I do most of the things that I need to
do I want to do. I can travel, I can bowl,

(05:02):
I played golf, I do a lot of things. I
saw some people who were very able to walk. They
were just stuffling around and just couldn't do nothing, and
they'd had somebody holding that they had to hold on
to all the time. Well, my grandson was with that
with me, and he was very helpful. Brandon, I really

(05:23):
appreciate it. He's a very handsome young man. He lives in.
He lives in I think Dallas, somewhere in Dallas, Texas.
I think that's where he lived. He flew in, he
flew out last night. He was there to help me
if I needed anything. But you know, I'm I'm all right.
I'm good. I'm in good shape, you know, even though

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I'm getting older, but I'm getting old, I'm in good
shape because I know and understand what I should be
doing to keep myself in good shape. And that's what
I like to teach people. And that's what we're gonna
talk about today. I'm gonna later on to talk about
the five common myths that people have about aging. And

(06:05):
people do have a lot of ideas about aging. Now,
first of all, they want to throw you on the
curve like you've done you can us put you out
with the garbage, because it's all over for you. But
that's not right and that's not true. That's why I
do the show now. Once we retire, it's time for
us to change. We need to learn. You can't retire

(06:27):
and keep thinking the same thing. You've got to do
something different, and we've got to change our way of thinking.
It's what I'm trying to tell you. You have to
change it. You have to get it. You've lived the
first part of your life doing a certain thing and
think in a certain way. This will be the second
half of your life, and in the second half of

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your life, it's a time for us to learn to
live better. We have time, we have time to do things,
we have time to seek answers. It's not a time
for us to just to roll over and sleep for
the next two or three years until we passed away.
It's time for us to live the life to the fullest.
You've been working on most of your life, Like especially

(07:13):
I know, I was. I I worked more on I
stayed at home. I had a job where it took
a lot of time. I worked for the for ABC
Television in the wild world of sports. I met a
lot of people who they used to I used to
work with and so it was a pleasure of being there.
But anyway, we have to live whatever we desire in

(07:35):
the second half of our life. Now, a lot of
people have failed and they didn't do good in the
first half. But I'm here to tell you you can
do better in the second half. You can do the
things that you didn't have time to do because you
were raising a family and doing whatever you were doing.
You were just busy because it working takes a lot

(07:55):
out of your time, out of your life. You know,
we work eight eight hours a day, probably two hours
a day traveling. When you get home, you know, you
sit down and have your dinner. Next thing, you know,
you're sleeping, get up the next day, do the same
thing five days a week. You know, maybe on the
weekend you'll have time to spend with your family whatever

(08:16):
maybe you want. But a lot of us have realized
by when we got older, we should have spent more
time with our families. But we didn't know because we
were trying to take care of them. We were trying
to make make their life a lot better, and so
we're sacrificed that. So now is the time. Now is
the time that you are free. Now is the time

(08:37):
for you to start thinking good. Think good. If you
can think good, you will make good. You'll be attracted
to good. You like be creating good. If you notice
the light in life. If you look back at your life,
most of the stuff that you were thinking, most of
the things that went across your mind came true. You've

(08:59):
lived them. Just stop and think about it. When I
think about I was a kid, I always wanted to
go to college. I did. I went to college. I
wanted to have a family, I did. I did that.
Most of the things that I thought that I wanted
my youth, it actually happened. Even as I've gotten older.

(09:20):
There're things that I wanted to do. I wanted to
be At eighty five years old, I went to the
University of San Bernardino and acquired a teaching credential. So
that's something that I always wanted to do. So all
these things we do, but we need to realize it's
coming from ourself. We don't live outside. We don't have

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nothing to do with anything ten feet away from you.
We live inside. That's where we are. That's where our
mind is, that's where our power is, and that's where
our intelligence is. And we're conscious human beings, and we
need to realize these things. People don't tell us this
in early in our life about none of these things.
You know, so we we I'm telling you now, and

(10:05):
somebody should have told us these things when we were younger,
so we could have taken better advantage of some of
the things. A lot of us did. A lot of
us took advantage of things, and they did what had
a wonderful life and did a wonderful thing. You know.
But when you're young and you have a strong power there,
you can do better. Now when you're younger, you do

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have some things that you don't have as you get older.
So and you don't You still have it, I think,
but you don't have as much of it as as
you do, but you still have it. You still have
your strength, you still have your knowledge, you still have
your wisdom. Don't waste it. Don't sit there and say
I can't this and I can't that. Get the can

(10:49):
out of your mind. You know what he used to
tell us as kids, don't tell me about what you
can't do. Tell me about what you can do. You know,
our parents would tell us that, you know, tell us
about what you can do, and things like that. So
that's what we are now. Some people get older and
think all kinds of wrong stuff about a lot of

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wrong ideas about aging, about being aged, about their life
going a certain way, and they get stuck in that mindset.
Some of them don't even want to change. So but
I'm telling you you should change. Everything should change life.
They even wrote a song about everything must change. You know,

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everything changes, it keeps rolling. We live in a life
that's going. It's evolution. It just keeps evolution over and
over and over. So it's changing. We're all changing, and
that's what it is. And we can't go back. If
we could. You know, if we could go back, I'd
go back to thirty two when I was thirty two

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years old. That was my best life that I lived
was at that age. So you can't go back. You
got to keep going, and to keep going, you need
to know how to keep going, and so you don't
be lost out there and confused about what you should
do and what you need to do. So that's what
the show is going to be about. Today. I'm going

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to tell you some of the things that you need
to do. The things are very simple there. I always say,
like this as a common sense is very it's not
a scientific thing. What we do to use scientific to
reach our conclusions. But the things that you can do,
anybody can do it. Anybody can do the things to

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make themselves to have a better life, and we should
have a better life. Some people say, well I don't
have this and I don't have that. A lot of
times we don't need those things. We just think we
need them to do whatever we have to do. So
we don't need them. We just need to have the
wisdom and the knowledge. Because every problem there is a solution.

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Now the solution problems. If you want to look at
it like this problem cok is a bad thing your solution.
You don't want another bad thing as your solution. You
want something good. You want something opposite then what your
problem is. So if your problem is this or whatever
it is, you want to remember that I don't want

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this problem no more. I want the solution for it,
and usually the solution is something good. That's why I say,
thank good. Well, I'm here to tell you that all
the false thinking that you have, stop thinking it and
think good. That's just common sense. Thank good. We're living

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the best time of your life, and the best time
is right now. These are your best years, and I
would like to see everybody live and enjoying it. I'm
doing it, and I have friends I know who are
doing it. They're living wonderful lives right now, and anybody
can do it. And it don't because I don't have
a million dollars or whatever it is. You know, I've

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never even thought about it. You know, I guess I
have a million dollars. As far as I know, I'm
living good and I don't even deal with it like that.
But that's what we need to stop doing and think about.
It's in you. It's in you to do these things.
Whether you have a million dollars or not, you have
time to do all the things that you fail to do.

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I'm gonna say that one more time, the things that
you fail to do in your life. Now is the
time to do those things in this side of life.
Make sure you remember this is my time to do
everything I can I need to do, and that's just
common sense. I'm gonna be right back and I'm gonna
give you some some of the ideas that people the

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myths of aging, and I'm gonna clear those up for you.
So make sure you stay tuned you will little enjoy
what I have to say.

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Speaker 1 (18:41):
All right, all right, all right, we're back here now,
I don't I'm going to talk about common myths about aging,
and they are myths because well, that's what we have
been thinking. I know things happen right now. I would
imagine a lot of men young, old, and in between,

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or dealing with practicide kitus. I think it's where your
prostrate gland causes the problem with urination. So people will
think that because you have that, but everybody has it.
Young men have it, old, all people have it. So
but what we're going to talk about aging is something

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that we all experience, at least we all want to
experience it. That we can live long enough. Yet there
are so many negative connotations about it. There's so many
negative stereotypes about it, and they persisted in our culture
and make us think about that's what's happening shaping how
we older people think and what we expect if you

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live long. Some people have reading articles some people say
they wonder about living past eighty or even seventy years old.
They think they did their life is going to be
so miserable with pain and aches and all of the
kind of things that they don't really realize that they

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don't have to be there. And we're going to clear
up some of those nets about aging. Of course, aging
isn't a one size fit all experience. I know that
it's influenced by our choices, what we've done with our life,
what our opportunities have been, what our attitude is about,
and how we can care for ourselves, as well as

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our perspective on the aging process. We need to think
about that we need players are all. These players are
huge part in our health our well being as we
grow older. It's just the problems and the things that
we do, that's what we need to realize. By breaking
these misconceptions down, we can encourage society and the values

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of old people who are getting old, to support people
of all ages, and we need that can help anyone
thrive through each of these life stages that we go through.
Are here some of the common mass about aging, which
have been debunked and they offer more empowering thoughts of you.

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The first one is aging definitely means declining health. That's
not true. While it's true that certain health challenges may
come up to people, that's come to all ages of
people may be coming with age and getting old. There's
something they're getting old automatically equate our poor health or

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whatever it is. In fact, many issues often blamed on
aging or actually influenced by our choices a lifestyle, maintaining
a balance due standing active, keep moving. I'll always tell
you that keep moving. Avoiding horble habits such as smoking

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too much, drinking too much alcohol is just not that
good for you, So is a it's not a good
It's not good for y'all. Just say that much and
can vote. It cannot promote good health. So you've got
to realize that it does not help your health either way.
Smoking or whatever it is, they'll not help you so

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well until your later years. Check up, get check ups,
get screenings, find out where your health is. Go to
your doctor, ask for him to check all the things
that you need to be checked. Your your blood vessels.
They got all kinds of tests now that they can
do look for all of so you can get preventative care.

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Some of these things you can catch before it gets
too old or gets stay in you so long it
begins to grow, and it begins to grow so and
then we'll claim, oh, that's because you're old or whatever
it is, that's because of this, and that's not true.
Your independence is very important for you to keep your independence,
especially as you it old, so you can do the things.

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So exercise. Exercise is really powerful and in supporting the
overall well being of your old life. Activities walking, you
can do, gardening, you can do it, You can do yoga,
you can play golf, you can do so many wonderful
things that you can do to keep yourself going. And

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and that and dealing with your bone dencity. You need
to deal with your bone decity and cardiovascular health. So
that's what you need to talk with your doctor. Whenever
you go get a chance, go and talk with him
about these chronic conditions, because that's what they are, the
chronic conditions that you can handle or that you can be.
Diabetes author writers you can deal with, you can got

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they've got solutions for those two. Some people think that,
oh I gotta do this and oh this is bothering me. Whatever.
Somebody's said my author, and I'll tell them that's not
your author. Disown it. Say that in that's not my author.
I don't care what author is. I don't need no author.
Even like consistent movement has the ability to improve your life.

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So you say, well, I can't do it. Exercises, yes
you can. They got chair exercises where people sit on.
They got other exercise you can do walking as I prefer,
and push walking or riding a bicycle. You know, if
you did the show, riding a bicycle improves your life
and your longevity. That's one way how you can keep going.

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So there are things that you can do. Aging process
can improve both physically and mental health can be changed
for you to feel much better and do much better
in your life. That was myth number one. Myth number
two is cognitive decline. Is it inevitable? A lot of

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people think they should expect a significant cognitive decline in
their later years. You don't have to I'm not. I'm
here right now showing you that I'm not. But that's
not always the case. Some people do it. That's why
we need to have people like me to tell them
that they do not have to be doing that. What's

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normal for some things. Since as processing your speed, we
slow down. I've slowed down too. I don't even run
as much as I used to. I don't run as
much as I used to do because sometimes they bother
my feet. But I'm walking, I'm moving, and I'm riding
a bicycle. And if you can't. If you can't do
those things, you can. Riding a bicycle is easy because

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all you do is sitting on it and pumping. Get
your bike. If you can get one for home, you
can give sometime about one hundred dollars bicycle you can
ride or say, now they got that thing for your feet,
you exercise those I don't know what that is, a
cycler or whatever it is. You just sit down and
it will exercise your feet. Many mental abilities stay strong,

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even prove when you're when you're aging, what you think
is cognitive wrong with you, it can improve. But you
need to know that can improve. You need to work
on things that will help it to improve older. Avenel
saw off. The shining areas included like problem solving when

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you get older, you can do that. You can do
that because you have the wisdom and the common sense
and you can do a lot of that. Managing your emotions.
You can help people with do that and drawing from
their deeps well being knowledge. This knowledge is in them,
They've had it for a long time. They are wisdom.
These are some great things to have that you can

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use and keep yourself going. The key aspects of what's
known as cognitive improvement. Studies show that stand mentally alive,
socially engaged, and physically healthy, can do wonders can make
your life wonderful. A study publicists found out that the

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greater social participation in midlife and life after a certain
time in your life associated with eighty or fifty percent
of lower your risk of developing dementia. Just by socializing,
being around, doing the things that you need to do,
such as picking up a new hobby, get a new hobby,

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find out something else you can do. I know a
lot of seniors go out and play cards. They join
car clubs, they pray, bridge they do you know, things
like that keeps you going. And I live in a
fifty five plus neighborhood and many of people are doing
that tacking word puzzles, do that math problem. I love
math anyway. That's always been something that I really enjoy doing.

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You'll enjoy that too. Somebody saill, I don't like them.
You have to do what was right for you. Don't
say what you don't like. What you like everything. That's
what we're supposed to be doing, not supposed to be
sitting around. I don't want to do this. That's just
your excuse to sit there and be doing what you're doing.
And what you're doing is not the best thing for

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you to do. So help keep your minds sharp. We
need to do so. We need to know how to
do these. We need to know that exercise, a balance, nide,
and good sleep, which I didn't get last night, but
I couldn't sleep. All proven the ways to support cognitive
function at any age. I didn't get much steve last

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night because that's how I drove therell everybody figured, well,
you can't drift back, you're too They thought I was
too easy. Oh, we weren't gonna let you, so I said, okay.
I didn't argue with him. I said okay, I said,
I got up to six thirty this morning, drove home.
I did. I drove home, no problem, feel good doing everything.

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I'm a little I'm a little bit light headed. You know,
if you say it well most of the night and
don't get a lot of steep, you're gonna feel something
I do. But I know I'm gonna do this show
because I won't cater to it, and I wanted to
do it, and I'm here to do it. I'm doing
to do this because it's important for me. It's important
for me to help other people. I feel good, I

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think good. I understand what common sense is. And I
learned common sense from a person that their mind was
never polluted. I learned common sense and from my grandmother.
She didn't know how to read or write, so she
didn't have anything in her mind that would contradict what
she was what her common sense was. Now a lot

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of people that have common don't believe or common sense,
so don't practice it because they have so many other
things in the way stopping it. So you can't learn
new things as you get old. That's not true. I
went and got a teacher's credential when I was eighty
five years old, and so you can do that. I

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passed this class, and I can I can teach, and
what I'm doing right now, I guess I'm teaching now everybody.
You know, you can't teach an old dog new tricks
is what people say that. That's another myth that seemed
to be thrown out. I couldn't be free anything further
from the truth that you can't teach an old dog
new tricks. You can teach it. We ain't talking about dogs.

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I'm talking about people, you know, from language learning to
master in a musical instrument. There are plenty of people.
I know. I have a guitar myself. I can play
a little bit. I don't know if I'm gonna ever
be a professional guitar player, but I enjoy it. I
enjoy playing. So get you something, get your old a
little piano. They got some beautiful classes now they can

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teach anybody how to play a piano, and it's done
through pictures. That's what they're doing, and they'll stick with
you all the way until you actually learn how to play.
So there's a lot of things you can do. I'm
not trying to say you're gonna get out there and
challenge some of the great pianists in the world. That's
not what it's about. It's about giving you what you

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need to do to make your life a lot better.
There's no limit to what older people can do or
what they can achieve. And that's how I see it.
Many people, you know, like I don't believe in sickness period,
and I don't many I don't. I don't get a
lot of sickness. I don't have a lot because I
think I reject it if anything happened to me. But

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many people find that they're better learners when they get older.
I've seen a lot of people graduating from college, graduating
from high school and they're older. I've seen one lady
and her daughter graduating from college at the same time.
They both got to be a degree. So you can
do it often because they have a clearer sense of purpose,

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So you don't have to worry about I can't do
my homework because I got to be out here with
my friends, you know, resourceing the role here over there
you can do. You can come home in your peace
and quiet. You can pursue what you're learning, and you
can become a learn what you need to do, become
anything you want to be. Youe brain retains its ability

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to grow as long as you live. Adapt to things
throughout your life. You can do that. The brain's ability
to recognize and itself by forming new habits and neutral connections,
you can do that. This remarkable capacity allows older people
to learn new things, new drills, new skills, take up

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a hobby, do something that you like to do. But
don't just set them things. Because I'm old my life,
you're still breathing. You got something to do. If you're
still breathing, you've got a purpose to be here. I
believe that. I think you should do it. Learning new
things as you age, not only personally, it's personally rewarding

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for you. It gives you something to you be a
proud about. It makes you something to feel good about.
It helps your health, it helps you all around. Study
has already proven this thing. They find that old who
are quick in learning techniques and multiple things and new skills,
they experience significant cognitive improvement. And that's all you have

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to do. Now. Most of the things I'm telling you,
I know you know, I haven't given you anything hard
to do. I haven't given you no book to read
or whatever it is. Just listen. This is good training.
You listen, you learn all the things that you need
to do to be a better life and to live
a better life. To be a better person and live

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a better life. That's what it's all about. And that's
what you need to do, and that's what we all
need to do. We need to work on those issues
and things like that. It really is wonderful if you
can do it. And as you go older, make sure
you wake up, wake up, don't go to sleep, wake
up and start thinking about things. All the people need

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less sleep, well, it's possible. The belief that all the
people require less seat is wrong. That's a misconception. Everybody
needs at least seven eight dollars of sleep, and when
you're older, you definitely need that too. Agent cannot be
accompanied by changes in our sleep patterns, such a light

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of sleep, more frequent sleep. Sometimes we wake up during
the night, go into the bathroom and all that. There's
a lot of times, you know, we do different things
at different times. Actually were not actually getting sleep. So
you have to really go to sleeps. I had them.
I was waking up so many times in night going
to the bathroom. I had to get me some sleeping pills.

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So I got some sleeping pills. I slept real good,
feel real good. And then not have it for me.
I think there were treasure done or something like that.
I'm not trying to give it the right name, because
if you want to get some sleeping pills, go to
your doctor and get them from him. Then don't don't
listen to what I'm saying on that. You know that's
something you need to do. I need about they need

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about nine hours of sleep per night. Now that's a
lot of sleep. Some of you, that's all you do
is sleep, so you need for those who don't, who
don't do that, you need to find ways so you
can get a lot more sleep. Regardless of your age,
sufficient sleep is essential for physical health no matter what

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age you are, not just older or younger people, and
emotional well being. It's good for all that when older
adults consistently get less sleep that they need, they can
cause problems, a lot of problems in their life, concluding memory.
Their memory, we could their immune system go down and
increase risk of chronic condition such as heart disease and diabetes.

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So make sure you understand that you need to get
to sleep. I don't know if some people say, well,
I can't sleep no longer on five hours, okay, sleep
to five hours. Maybe you need to take a nap
in the daytime. Some people have to take a nap,
you know. Research show their sleep quality at any age

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is often linked to other other other factors in your life,
other biological necessities in your life, for example, health issues, medications,
and lifestyle habits all disrupt are sleep, and that's what
it is. I think medication might be a problem. I
don't know. I'm not taking any kind of medicine that

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would interrupt, but that's what That's what the experts is saying.
Maintain consistent bedtime, that is it's good to go to
get your circadian rhythm and work right. You need to
create a habit of sleeping, like ten o'clock. I say,
I go to bed at ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, don't

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go after eleven o'clock. Make sure, if you're a senior,
if you can, if you can go to bed before
eleven o'clock, okay, because that's where where you bring bring
in things your body get in harmony with rhythms of
the universe. So making a habit of going to sleep
at the same time, that's a good thing to do
as well, and maintaining consistent bedtime is very good. It

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limits caffeine or alcohol. Don't don't. Don't mess with that.
Some people say I gotta have a drink before I
go to sleep. Well, drink a little small glass of wine.
You can have that and phone. Stop using your phone
just before you be staying physically active help improve overall
sleep quality is what you need to do. Addressing your

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these conditions. They're often associated with aging. It is since
a sleep apneel you get, that's some age. I know
people to habit what is I can a neighbor when
I was a kid, he has sleep aveneon. So whenever
even laid down the steep, people snore even in the daytime.

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And he drink alcohol a lot. So when you get
halfway jokings and then you can go to steep and
and and snore. And we thought it was fun. Sometime
we'd taken a piece of paper and make a like
a cigar cigarette and stick it in his mouth and
he sleep it and we laugh as kids. Usually we

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wake him up by that time. But you know that
was just a joke time that kids do. But realize
you got to get the proper rest and you need
to get it, be consistent with it. You need to
go to sleep at certain times, wake up at a
certain time, and that's get your dife in rhythm. Once
your life is in rhythm with the universe, you do

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a lot better health wives, mentally wise, and every other way.
So make sure you should try that now. The next
mythod the best years are behind us. That's what some
people say, our best years are behind us. I I
don't mis think that's true. Our best years, I believe

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are before us. That's right, it's always before us. We
can't do nothing about the years that's behind us, but
we can do something about those years that are before us.
Society often riches or association youth with achievement. They do,

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they do. We know that fuel in the myth that
our best years are behind us as we age. I
just went through a trying to tell you that now
is the time for you to do the things that
you never had a chance to do. So your best
years have a goal. You need a goal. You need
to have something to think about, something that you would

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like to do. Everybody needs that, but passion and potential.
They don't have no exceptions on date, that's not true.
Alder out there so just as has much pass had
just much inspiration and not much focus as younger people do.
Proven that no age is buried is not a barrier
to success. It is not. Some of the most people

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that are successful are successful after fifty five. It's more
successful at that time because most of the things that
you do when you're younger, you don't have to do that,
and you can use that time to focus on one
thing that you would like to accomplish. So that's why
a lot of people who are over fifty five have
more success than a lot of people who are less

(40:35):
than that. Now, I know what the society gonna makes
you think that young people have more success. They don't.
I don't think they do. Maybe they do, But according
to what I've learned and what I've understood, older people
has as much success, and older people accomplish a lot.
They write books, they study harder, they come up with

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good plans, they can think clearly, they have wisdom, and
they have common sense, and that right there are the
keys to keep us going. Stand active is crucial to
physical and mental vitality. Many older adults, you know, they
define the expression I do. I'm defining the expectations, is all.

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I got. Somebody on the phone at sixty four become
the first person. They had a first person that's sixty
four to swim one hundred and ten miles. Now, I
don't know how many other people can do that, but
they were sixty four. And I think the person that
did that had tried it a lot of times when
she was younger. Three times. I think the last time

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she did it was when she became well she was
able to do it. She was sixty four years old.
Now she swam from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage.
You need a shark cage down there in that water.
And they ran. And what about the man who ran
his first marathon at eighty nine and continue to complete

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in races that are past his one hundredth birthday. He's
still running marathon. So it's what if you things you
want to do. I don't do that, But that's not
something that I want to do. I'm doing something else
that he may not want to do, like doing this
show and teaching people. Come and sin, I got a
call on the phone.

Speaker 8 (42:26):
Call her you there, take grandpa, how you doing.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
I'm doing good, having fun this morning, teaching singers about
all the abilities that they have and how they can
live their life wonderful and happy.

Speaker 8 (42:39):
Right now, Well, I know you were telling people about sleeping.
One of the things that people can do before they
go to sleep or when they're getting ready to do
settle in, because sometime when you go to bed, you
have to Some people fall asleep on their couch, so

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they don't sleep good, so they don't even take the
time to get into their bed and lay across their
bed and relax. So my recommendation is that when you
go to sleep or preparing for sleep, is put your

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TV or your radio or whatever electronic device it is
on a timer so it goes out so you don't
go to sleep with it. Because some people go to
sleep with the TV on and TV has a shootout
and they wake up to the shootout from me at

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three o'clock in the morning wondering where the hell the
bullets are coming from.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Yep, So watching TV TV watching them.

Speaker 8 (43:57):
Right right, So you got to put either cut your
TV or radio off and sleep in the quiet, or
have it on a timer so it will go to
the TV will go to sleep when you go to sleep,

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instead of having a big old argument and you wake
up in the morning one and who you're fighting with.
So so that's that's the thing for rest. A lot
of people use their TV and radio as company, so

(44:38):
you gotta learn how to do that. And that's my
talk about everything you've been saying, and you've been saying
a lot of good things. I know I'm not gonna
go and swim eighty nine miles in the ocean.

Speaker 9 (44:56):
I know that, Nina, and I I'm just a liable
to give my tools at the at the sea, at
the shore.

Speaker 8 (45:10):
That'll be that'll be my record, right right, all.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Right, okay, then I appreciate your call. Thank god. Yeah,
all right, take care, well anyway, let me finish this, okay.
He uh he brought up some good points. Though, you know,
we're we're all not the same. We all do different things.
We're individuals. Some people have done great things, like the

(45:38):
lady uh Diana. She was sixty four years old. She
swam eighty nine miles, one hundred and ten miles. It
was she swim, so that was quite a bit. I
don't even I couldn't even swim a mile. Yeah, I
can swim a little bit, I'm not not a mile.
That that is quite a bit and that that takes
a lot of bit and stay in what you want

(45:58):
to do. But what I'm trying to get the point
or two it do you even though you're getting old,
when you have something that you want to do and
if you can do it, you can steal accomplish it,
which is what she proved that you can do that
just like the Mandarin It they're the Malothon Marathon. At
eighty nine years old. You can do it. You just

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have to get your mind on what you want to
do and things that you want to do, and not
sit there and think that there's nothing for you to do.
You can. Creativity and innovation continues. It flourishes at any
age thanks to our accumulator of life of experiences. You
have a lot of experiences, so you can use a
lot a lot of these things. So make sure you

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realize that people have to take you do have to study,
or you do have to work at it. In your
sixties and do whatever you want to do. If you've
been retiring at that time, and you have to work
on we can even be beautiful. There's many beautiful men
and women who in their sixties, seventies, and eighties. I

(47:05):
saw many of them last night and saw an old
friend eighty years old still looking pretty. Yeah, to me
it was. I mean, I don't think she would attract
some younger person, but to me, she still looked pretty
and she did face was smooth, nice looking, you know so,
and slim body doesn't gain any weight at all. So

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there's some things like that happen. We can accomplish a
lot of things as adults. Is all I'm trying to
do to prove to you that aging is not about
leaving your life behind. It's not about you setting that
sin by what you can't do. So if you start
doing those things, and we've learned a lot of things
that we can do, we can embrace new opportunities. We

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can continue to grow, and we can continue to prosper
in our life in ways that are very beautiful. Now,
there was a lady here named Christina, and I think
she drinks a lot of coffee to do it. But
she's a writer, and she's an older person, and she

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does a lot of writing, and she's very successful in it.
So a lot of people could write. If you can't say,
well I can't write, write one page. Do one page.
That's all you can do. If your life, I don't
know what kind of life you live, and sometimes one
page or just take one incident in your life and
write about that, relive it, and you'll be surprised by

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even talking about it. And children have a chance to
read it. They're so interested in things. I have many
of my grandkids that want to know so many questions.
I try to answer as many as I can remember.
And I'm sure you do the same thing too. But
that's my show for today. I want to let you
know that you're living your best life. Now, enjoy it,
get the pleasure of it, and keep listening to this

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show because you're going to learn a lot more things.
I talk about many wonderful things for you to learn
and to live your life, or talk about your health
and how to solve many of your problems. And that's
what it's all about. So use your common sense and
see you next week on Let Grandpa Speak, nine o'clock
on Saturday. Every Saturday. I'm here, love you, and may

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you be blessed,