The Tiniest Pacemaker

Today, Doug Pike discusses the smallest pacemaker, an escalator up a mountain, and spending a billion dollars.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
you by the UT Health Houston Institute on Aging, Informed
Decisions for a healthier, happier life, and now fifty plus

(00:43):
with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, here we go. Two day edition of the
program starts now. Thank you all for listening and sharing
your lunch hour. Well, do you think it's more of
a lunch hour happy hour for this bunch or just
a glad to be a live hour? I mean, I
think it kind of depends, but if I had to guess,
it's probably a happy hour. Probably. So this bunch of

(01:07):
this bunch of mine is we've we've lived a lot
of years, and we're happy to be still getting more
of them. I think, for the most part, a lot
of a lot of people I know have aches and pains,
and who doesn't, honestly at this age, So we're just
darn glad to be kicking around and happy that the

(01:28):
day looks like it does. If you haven't been outside
yet today, do yourself a favor. Find a way out,
Find a way out. It's a beautiful day. The wind
has come down significantly after the past three or four days.
Oh my goodness, what a what a gusty condition it
was for several days. And we were spared when that
big front came through here, the one that pretty much

(01:49):
washed out everything that happened over at the Masters yesterday,
the the pre Masters celebrations and and fun and games
and whatnot. They got, they got pretty well hammered by
all that stuff. It's gone now, though, and I think
for the rest of the week they should be. Okay,
that's what we're gonna be. And I'm I'm happy to

(02:09):
report that I really am sad night yesterday for the
University of Houston's Cougars, who on it. They played one
hell of a game right down to the wire against
Florida for the n C Double a National championship. Will
when you refer to something like that, do you call
it the n C Double a National Championship or do

(02:29):
you call it the Natty? Oh well, I don't call
it the natty, thank goodness. I just call it the championship. Yeah, yeah,
the championship game. That's that's good. Or the well that
some of these kids abbreviated or shorten it also to
the ship. They just don't have time to say long
words anymore. The ship. Yeah, the ship. It's just the ship,

(02:52):
you know. I always the champe unship. I always thought
of the chip that would you win the chip that
would be kind of scrunching it in from both ends,
would it? I like that better than the ship. Yeah, yeah,
I like that. I could go with that before I'd
go with the natty. It seemed to me after the game,

(03:13):
the very young first time. I think he's either the
youngest or the second youngest person ever to win a
national collegiate athletic conference championship. Youngest guy out there and
he's calling it the natty. He's thirty, I want to say,
he's thirty nine years old, and he's out there hooting

(03:35):
and hollering with his team, acting like one of them.
I don't know. That was a little off putting to me. Now,
I don't fault the guy for being super excited. If
that's how he's gonna be gonna express himself. I'm not
gonna certainly not gonna challenge him on it. He earned that,
he earned it, But it just seemed a little seemed

(03:56):
a little off to me that the person who was there,
their coach, was that wrapped up in it. Man, it's
just maybe it's me. It doesn't bother me really, and
it didn't bother me at all, really. I just found
it when he shouted that out we won the Natty,
I thought, ah, you're older than that. A little bit

(04:18):
right or wrong? Will? I mean, I think it's negligible,
you know, Yeah, it's really not. I made more of
it than it was, I guess in fairness to him. Hey, man,
if i'd have won that thing, I don't know. I
don't know what I would have called it, but I
wouldn't have called it the Natty. I think that's that
would be age inappropriate for me certainly, and maybe for

(04:42):
what's it? God, I can't Kelvin what's his last name? Sampson? Sampson?
Thank you? Yes, he I would love to have seen
him win it, and I'm I bet you a dime
to a donut. He would not have called it the Natty.
They've been to the I mean, the Final four, shown
many times getting so close, knocking on the door. And

(05:03):
I'll tell you what, there is no question in my
mind that the two best teams in the country were
on the floor last night in San Antonio. There's no
question at all. Those both teams just fought and scrapped,
and Houston got a comfortable lead, it seemed like for
a little while. But the whole time they're sitting on

(05:24):
ten eleven, ten, twelve, ten, eight five. As it came back,
I thought, this one, this one is going to go
to the wire. And it did, and I'm I'm heartbroken
for U of h that it ended the way it
did on kind of a weird play, but everything leading

(05:46):
up to that moment was for both teams a spectacular
display of basketball. It really was. I was thrilled with that. Also,
a tough loss yesterday for the Astros, now four and
six on the season, losing four to three to the Mariners.
That puts them well behind the eight and three Rangers,

(06:09):
but with about one hundred and fifty games left in
the schedule, I think it's still a little early to
pull the alarm, although I'm hearing more and more people say,
you know, we knew it, we knew it was coming,
We knew the Astros weren't going to be any good
this year. The sample size, first of all, is way
too small to make any kind of a generalization about

(06:31):
this team and what it's gonna do over the next
one hundred and fifty games. They're they're gonna get better,
There's no question about that. I have no doubt in
my mind that this team will contend for another at
least another division championship. And it's got potential if everybody
can stay healthy and get going. We've been through this

(06:54):
a lot of years. They get off to a slow start,
nobody can hit a lick and then and at some
point the switch flips and the tremendous void between us
in first place starts to get smaller and smaller until
we end up going out in front and gosh, to

(07:15):
make it, I mean, this team's just not scoring runs.
That's the bottom line. They've gotten very little offense so
far for a team that used to average six, seven
eight runs a game. Now we're scraping up one or
two even when we win. And to make it worse,
to pour salt in the wound, of the Astros, a
team that's having trouble getting out the gate, gets who

(07:36):
the league's players of the week were. Will do you
know who? Alex Bregman for the American League and Kyle
Tucker for the National League. We stay patient, Stay patient, everybody.
There's no cause for alarm. Nothing to see here. Okay,
we're gonna take a little break and try to stay
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Speaker 1 (09:35):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Hi, welcome back fifty plus. Was that too quick? Will? Yeah?
You didn't even wait for me, you know, you know,
it just slipped my mind. Seemed like you were running
down a dream. No. Yeah, maybe, So what do you know?
Will sorry about that? All right? Well, yeah, we'll we'll.
I'll get better for you, I really will, and you'll

(10:08):
get better for me too. There is where is this story?
By the way, this is something that's gonna come from
you moving forward. Let me find where I put it
in here from me? Well, yeah, in the future. Remember
I talked to you about doing something about what's coming
up at the end of the week. Now I'm gonna
just do this is how they're supposed to sound, Will,
and they don't have to be long. Just try and

(10:29):
find two events coming up, and I'm gonna I'm gonna
have and we're gonna do it. I think on Wednesday
would be the best day for that, right so tomorrow, well, yes, tomorrow,
Will is Wednesday, And yes, what I what I'm looking for?
And you can't repeat this one because it's already gonna
be out there, Okay, but I think we can just
call this cool things to do? Is that pretty much

(10:52):
sum up what I'm talking about. It sounds pretty cool, Okay.
So that's gonna be your charge to find two cool
things for this audience to do over the upcoming weekend
that aren't gonna cost them an arm and a leg.
You can't say fly to Europe. Okay, it's gotta be
gonna it's gotta be Houston centric. Houston centric. Yeah, And

(11:16):
there are so many festivals and whatnot around here and
and opportunities to expand one's horizons that you should have
no trouble whatsoever. For example, cool news. Three new members
are gonna be inducted into the lone Star Flight Museum's
Texas Aviation Hall of Fame on Friday. Okay, on Friday,

(11:41):
down at the museum, which happens to be south of town,
down at Ellington Field, which is less than an hour
for most of Houston. And I can assure you, if
you've never been there, will that once you walk into
that place and kind of see what it is, you'll
want to spend some time in there learning about the
kind of the history of aviation in Texas. Induction ceremony

(12:05):
and lunch and kick off at eleven thirty Friday afternoon
or Friday morning. Excuse me because it's not after twelve.
Info available at lone Starflight dot org. See how that works? Well, yeah,
got it? Yeah, kicking out. The challenge is to find
two more Okay, I've already found them. You got them? Yes,

(12:27):
have you written them up yet? No, that's okay. Are
you gonna use chat GPT? Why would I ever use
chat GPT because it would save you a couple of
steps I would have I would have no problem with
you doing that. I really I've dropped the top of
this pen. I don't know where it is. I'll find
it later. Yeah, I'm not a fan of it. Go

(12:47):
to the go to site and just type in, give
me one hundred words on whatever one of your things,
one hundred words to promote this event, and and put
the date in the time, and then just let it
go to work for you. I can't do shortcut, baby,
Yes I can't. I can't. By the way, I did

(13:08):
not use chat GPT for what I just wrote. It
kind of makes it sound like you did, Dove. No,
I didn't act. No, no, no. A couple of days ago,
I actually did just throw it, throw chat GPT an assignment,
just to see what it would spit out. And to
be honest, it was not bad. It really wasn't bad.

(13:28):
It was pretty good stuff that would have taken me
longer to write as a as a professional writer. For gosh,
close to forty years now, write at it something like
that and more than I think it. Last time Joe
Doggett and I had this conversation was a long time ago.
But I'm around at this point about four million published words,

(13:51):
and I have never used any kind of any kind
of help, electronic help in any of that stuff. I
just I did my research. I wrote my stories, and
that's the same thing I do now with stories that
I write for saltwater sportsmen in Texas fishing game. I
sit down to a blank screen and I start and
I do research. Now, if I have to look up
facts and figures, I do that online, but not through

(14:14):
chat GPT. I just go to the source that I
trust and go from there. But it is, I'll concede,
it is a very legitimate tool for things that don't
require personal touch. I would not recommend that anybody in
high school or college use those sources to do their

(14:37):
essay papers. That's first of all, you're probably gonna get
busted because they're for every AI. Every AI site there is,
there's another one that searches for AI work. Would you
agree with that? Will? Does that make sense? Yeah? Cool?
Now they're out there, aren't they and college people, college professors,
high school teachers. They'll figure it out pretty much. They

(15:00):
have pretty good ideas, probably better than most students would
realize of what their students are capable of. And if
it just if if you are mister Magoo and you
write something that looks more like Hemingway, probably GPT probably
one of those, it makes sense. Well, yeah, like the

(15:21):
way I just worked that in there, that wasn't bad
at all? Was it? Magoo at the movable Feast? Huh?
All right? From the tariff desk comes word that somewhere
between fifty and seventy countries already have reached out to
our president to talk about reducing tariffs, the ones they
said on American goods coming into their countries. And the

(15:43):
only reason I can drum up that they'd be so
eager to do that to negotiate a deal is that
they know they from jump, they knew full well they
were taking advantage of our country and have been for
a long time. And now that we've got a president
who has this and who doesn't appreciate what they've been
doing to us for so long, those countries suddenly interested

(16:07):
in a phone call That kind of worked, you know,
to work things out. Let's just see if we can
come to a little bit better agreement for our two countries.
We didn't notice that we were ripping you off, but
now that you've pointed it out to us, Yeah, we'll talk.
We'll talk. Stock market seemed to like what it was
here in this morning too. It was up a bundle
early on tariff negotiation news. It pulled back a little

(16:29):
bout an hour or so ago, and may keep doing that.
As electronic trades based on algorithms more than hunches, they're
gonna take their money and run. They're making money for
institutions that bought on the bottom yesterday or at least
yesterday's bottom, and then let it come back up a
little bit and then sold. They sold a bunch of

(16:51):
stuff off, which brought it back down a little bit.
I haven't looked lately, but I bet you at least
three out of the four is still green. When those
numbers went up this morning. That was short term profit taking.
Even if you only make a think about this, Even
if you only make a half percent on a one
day trade and you only turn that money over once

(17:12):
a week, you're still making twenty six percent over the
year that's not bad. That's not bad. And remember this
about short market shift. Little market shifts too throughout history,
short analog shifts. What goes up eventually will come down,
and what goes down eventually will come up. Market makes
The last stat I heard was about eight percent a

(17:34):
year overall. So if you're looking for long term investment,
find something where at least one or two strategists say
it's a strong buye a goodbye right now and buy
a little bit of that and see how it goes
for you. Oh mercy, Well, we've got so much going on.
How much time do I have? One minute? Very quickly
out of thirty seconds, I can do this the fly

(17:56):
Fishing Festival. I'm leaving Friday to go down to Moody
Gardens and MC the fly fishing festival that's going on
down there, and I can't wait. Honestly, it's gonna be
a lot of fun. I hope a lot of you
will come down as you have been doing for the
past several years, and witness these incredible films, absolutely incredible
from all over the world. Even if you don't fly fish,

(18:16):
just take that part out. Just amazing fishing videos from
all around the world. And it'll explain to you why
you need to be there, and we're gonna have a blast,
gonna be a lot of people down there, a lot
of vendors to talk about fishing, to talk about conservation,
and I hope to see all of you there. On
the way out here, I'll tell you someplace else I'd
like to see, and that's Berry Hill out there in

(18:38):
sugar Land, Sugar Creek Boulevard in fifty nine, been there.
Berry Hill's been there for better part of twenty five
thirty years as long as I can remember, and I
can remember I've been living down there in sugar Land
at least that, well, a little bit longer than that. Actually,
my wife and I found Berry Hill pretty much shortly
after we moved in down there. And now it's your
turn go try this casual, very family friendly restaurant. Had

(19:02):
the same two cooks in the kitchen now by the
way for more than a decade, and they put out
a delicious variety of Mexican food favorites. If you are there,
they're big, they're big claim to fame really as they're
fish tacos. But so far and moving into I'm starting
to explore the menu and widen my horizons beyond just

(19:24):
the seafood enchi load as what you are to die
for with the cream sauce on them. I'm gonna go
straight through the menu and just start trying everything and
see if there's something I don't like, because so far
everything I've eaten out of berry Hill I've absolutely loved.
You will too. If you're new to sugar Land, go
down there all by yourself, if you want to just
walk in. There's a bunch of high tops in the

(19:44):
bar there, and then the bar itself and just sit
down somebody next to somebody, say hey, I'm new here.
Do you mind if I join you? Guys want I
want to learn more about this place. I want to
learn more about you. I'm just new here. I want
to make a friend. They'll probably well, if somebody's gonna
welcome you to their table, for sure, And if you're
not new, you already know about berry Hill, so I'll
probably see you there. I'm in there at least once

(20:05):
a week sometimes more. Berryhill dot com is the website.
Go check it out. Berryhill dot com. Aged is that
it did fall off the table? Will you said you
wanted to rush right in? I was joking. Scared, well,

(20:25):
I wanted to pull it down. If you're scared, say scared, Will,
I'm not scared of it. I don't know. I don't know, Will.
I don't think I've ever been scared my entire life. Dumb.
I'll let that just sit there. We got that taken
care of That's good, we got that taken care of.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
You.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
A little medical news, will, are you? I would love
some medical news, well will, we can do both of them.
But no, I don't have any bad medical news. I
never do that. Okay, like that at all. So one
story out of Florida. Actually it's not from some place
halfway around the world, which is comforting and exciting. Actually

(21:05):
comes the story seventy two year old man Orlando I'vendano
suffered for thirty plus years with tremors in his hands. Okay, bad,
really bad. Couldn't eat with a fork, couldn't write his name.
That's a hard way to go through life. And then
at the Delray Medical Center, using a targeted ultrasound procedure,

(21:30):
a neurosurgeon used this procedure to identify a very specific
sight in the brain where those tremors originated. And what
he did is create a small lesion in right up
in there in the brain. He just boom nails that
little teeny tiny spot and shuts off the tremors. Wow,

(21:55):
shuts them off, doesn't make them a little better, just
on today, off tomorrow procedure. This is even better news.
Already approved by Medicare and several Blue Cross Blue Shield plans,
and it's available in seventy nine centers medical centers around
the country. And I would think certainly worth a conversation

(22:17):
for anyone who's been dealing with tremors at all for
any amount of time if you can make that stop
and you don't have to pay an arm and a
leg for it, Which is the sad truth about so
many medical procedures these days. Until Medicare and Medicaid and
insurance companies get on board with some of these procedures,
it's very difficult for the average person to afford them,

(22:38):
no matter how much they need those procedures. And maybe
we can see some stirring at least of the medical
insurance and Medicare and Medicaid approval pots to make it
a little easier for people who really need help to
get the help they need. Fingers crossed and how about

(23:01):
some ancient history news? Will you know, I'll take some
ancient history. Yeah, who doesn't like some ancient history? Starts
out with a three year old? Though? All right, not
very ancient? However, how old is this three year old? Now? Three?
What still? Three? Will that is? So this is a
modern three year old? Yeah? Yeah, but that three year

(23:24):
old he's in the news. Okay, you want to know
what by probably something related to ancient history. Ask me
what he found? What did this three year old child
he found while just hanging around with his family and
digging in the sand, in the dirt at a the
site of the the battle between David and Caliath about

(23:46):
thirty eight hundred years ago. What he found was an
Egyptian scarab seal. Wow, the kind that they would put
the hot wax on it and seal up something that
was really important, so everybody knew it was. It was
written and declared law or whatever by somebody very important. Yeah,
it's a cool piece too, that kind of stuff. It

(24:06):
does fascinate me, lucky three year old. I wonder if
he'll allowed, I wonder if he can keep it, and
if he can, I wonder if he can sell it? Wow?
And if he can sell that thing, that three year
old number work a day in his life, why doesn't
he just donate it? Because he's three, We're lucky he
didn't chew it up. I mean, I guess that's true,

(24:30):
but why not just give it to a museum or something.
You know, it all depends on whether or not will
that you care about that child's future. Well, I don't
really know this child, so you don't care. So you
don't care about children you don't know? Is that what
you're saying, your honor? Probably I don't know. No, I

(24:56):
get it, will I do? And I agree with you
that that's something that I would like to see shared
with the world as well. And it's kind of like
when you go to exhibitions of King Tut's tomb or
exhibitions from the Titanic. There's one of those. I think
it's still on up in Dallas, by the way, and
if it were, if it were any closer than Dallas,

(25:16):
I would probably go see that. I saw that exhibition
when it came through Houston years ago, but it's gotten
so many new additions that I would love to go
see it again. And I just don't see a shot
at it. I'm gonna be in Lufkin, though not too
long from now. Maybe I could just hop skip and
jump from there to Dallas. How far would that be?
You think? Do you want me to look it up? No?

(25:38):
I just guess. Oh, uh, Lufkin to Dallas. I think
it's like probably what five hours? Lufkin to Dallas? You
say five hours? I say two and a half. See
who's closest. All right, I'll look it up. All right, Yeah,
you got time too, So don't dawdle. You said five,
I say two and a half. I think I know

(25:59):
I'm going east more going try to go to Lufkin.
I'm not going up forty five. But I think that
Lufkin's far enough north that it's not too terribly far. Okay,
so what's the real answer, the real answer with a
light traffic, Well, of course I'm not. It's three hours.
Oh so both of us missed by Ruffly. I'll give

(26:22):
you the benefit of the doubt. He said, you said
two and a half. Though you got it. Nice to you, Yeah,
but you got it closest. I mean that's okay, fair enough. Yeah,
because it really doesn't matter. There was no money on
that one. By the way. That's true. I paid you
a dollar, by the way for a quarter bed I
lost last year, and it's it's a right, nice guy.
You still have it? Yeah, right here, I've got my

(26:45):
coins and I have my dollar bill right over here
when you got from me. Yes, you should invest that
will and in ten years it will be invested in
six dollars. Yeah, I doubt it. Well, you have to invest.
It will go back. And no, I don't want to.
I don't want to burn you with any more with

(27:06):
any more research today. I don't think we need to
a couple of a couple of minutes left, Let's go
to the fund page. Here will here we go. That's
nuts money to burn or better than I thought. Oh,
if we do money to burn, could we actually burn
this dollar bill? No, you cannot, that's illegal. Well, then

(27:27):
let's do the nuts one. Well, this is the shortest one.
This won't last two minutes. Then we'll do the money.
We'll do another one. Honey nut cheerios will contain no nuts. Yeah. Wait,
just be patient and there will be a class action
suits advertising you know you think so? Yeah, man, it's

(27:48):
happened before you think anybody cares that there's no nuts
in their honey nuts. Greedy attorney's care. Maybe you know somebody,
somebody's sitting behind a desk right now thinking, Man, that
old thing with me making money off the no ramps
at small businesses. That's that's over it. I'm not I'm
not getting that revenue stream anymore. Cheerio, there's no nuts

(28:12):
in honey nut cheerios. I'm on it. You think I
don't know. But if honey nut is just like a name, Yeah,
that's all it is, is the name, and I think
that's what protects it. I don't have them. There's no
nuts on the packaging. No, it's just a it's just
a bee drizzling honey over some cheeriot. Yeah. I think
I can think of a lot of foods that are

(28:35):
they don't really describe what's in them.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
I have.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
I have absolutely no problem with that. By the way,
So it's like, does steak tartar have any tartar in it?
It just has tar twice two scoops of tar. I'm
happy that steak tartar doesn't have any tar in it.
You know, got probably be disgusting. This is just a
fun fact to know and tell in eight seconds. Uh,

(28:59):
the workers at the Texas Department of Transportation don't have
enough parking at the office, so you know where they
park will illegally in the fire lanes. That's what this
little story said. I don't know why. All right, we're
gonna take a little break here. When we get back,
we will wrap up today's program. I will give you
a little information about becoming part of this growing and
legitimately growing family of people who listen to fifty plus.

(29:22):
I'm so thrilled. It was so difficult back in the
election year to go against some of the other programming
on at this time of the day, but I thank
you all who have come over to the lighter side
a little bit. I don't dwell on stories, and I'm
gonna make it a determined effort moving forward to just

(29:42):
give you just enough to make you curious and want
to go do your own research. I'm not going to
try to tell you what to think. I'm just going
to offer information in a fairly brief form and then
send you out into the world to find out for
yourself and draw your own conclusions. Because I know that
this audience is smart enough and it doesn't matter which

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way you decide. In the end. Just make sure you
have all the information. All I'm doing is priming the pump.
It's up to you to go get everything you need
to make a good informed decision. We'll take a little
break here, we'll come right back. Fifty plus on AM
nine to fifty KPRC. What's life without a nap? I
suggest to go to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, train wreck, I made a mistake. Train wreck. I
made a mistake. That's okay. I make it all the time.
I've picked a song that I was like, Oh, I
actually I really liked this song, gonna I'm gonna put
it on. I didn't know that it had this tag
at the beginning. You know, you gotta check your stuff.
I guess I do normally. I'm just pulling from classic rock.

(30:52):
So I don't so confident that that will never happen again.
I'm not worried about it. Wow, I'm so confident You're
so much better than that. It was just an honest mistake.
I have no problem with that. Man, I make them
all the time. If I had a nickel for every mistake,
i'd made my life, Will, I'd probably have two bucks. Wow,
two dollars? Huh, So you get that yesterday? Okay, okay, okay,

(31:15):
money to burn will better than I thought or nobody's perfect.
All right, let's do money to burn. Okay. This is
just something to think about. If you had a billion
dollars and you spent one thousand dollars a day, according
to this math, it would take you more than twenty
seven hundred years to run out of money. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, well,

(31:36):
I mean have you ever you know? One million seconds
is eleven days? Yeah? A billion seconds is thirty two years. Wow. Will,
I'm just saying that my head just exploded. It's mass
so mathematically wild, Will, it's big, dog, it's massive. Wake

(32:00):
me up when you're done. I swear, I swear. Oh mercy. Uh,
let me see if I will light this dollar bill
on fire. Uh. From a disturbing desk yet to be named,
Alex Marlow said on his show recently, the Colorado Democrat
actually argued that abortion is cheaper than birth, So so

(32:22):
what really? Since when his childbirth an economic issue? And
to deepen the depravity of that statement, he called abortions
averted births. Who thinks like that? Honestly? Who thinks like that?
Let me see if I have I got time for
one more from this? Oh? Here's yeah, I like this.

(32:45):
This is more medical good news. Will. I like this
a lot. I want to make sure I don't miss
it from the how do they do that desk? Do
you see the theme that's developing for this show by
the way, that everything's gonna come from a little specific desk. Yeah?
Do you like it? Yeah? I do like that. He
comes from a desk? Yeah, I like that because after
all the big network shows do that? Why they talk

(33:07):
about that a lot? Not really? I just I'm just
I'm gonna make it big time, will Okay, it's gonna
come from some desk almost every time. This one comes
from Northwestern University and it is news of the world's
smallest pacemaker. Have you seen that story yet? Will? I
have not seen this story. So how big do you
think the smallest pacemaker is? The smallest pacemaker? Yeah, I'm

(33:33):
gonna go with with one one centimeter. That's too big.
That's too big. Yeah, it's smaller. There's a photograph of
it on a fingertip next to a grain of rice
and the grain of rice is bigger. Wow, saves lives.
They're primarily dealing with it with newborns who have congenital

(33:56):
heart disease. And one of the big deals about it
is that it is activated by light. And don't ask
me how, I don't have that knowledge, okay, And it
can be placed under the skin where it needs to go,
just with a hypodermic needle, a large gauge needle. You

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don't even have to make an incision. You don't have
to do anything but just slide it up under the skin.
I'm sure those babies are going to screen when that happens.
But if they've got a bad heart and they need
that pacemaker, there it is. And by the way, it
will work just as well with hearts of any size.
So imagine then how fantastic this will be in the

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future when this thing is really dialed in one hundred
percent to instead of having to go in and have
a pretty significant surgery to insert a pacemaker, they just
stick a needle under your skin and there you go.
Flip on the lights. I wonder if it goes out,
if the power goes Do you think that they're doing
this in the dark? No, I don't know. That's kind

(35:00):
of a silly question. Will you can't do surgery in
the dark. Well, they're not doing surgery though, Yeah, all
you have to just just I guess, come close with
a needle in the dark. You could feel your way in.
I don't know. I don't know either, but I think
it's very cool that the smallest pacemaker and it again,
this thing is powerful enough to work on any size heart,
and it's smaller than a grain of rice. It'd be

(35:21):
worried about the Grinch's heart because his grew what three
times bigger? Why would you bother Will Grinch?

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (35:30):
But you know, all lives matter, you know it? Just yeah, maybe, yeah, maybe,
I guess the Grinch? Would you know? I couldn't. I
couldn't turn down anybody for a pacemaker if they needed one.
I really couldn't. I can't see that. I'm just I'm
too compassionate a person. When you watch the animated Grinch movie,

(35:53):
you know, the old school one were did you want
to eat that food? Because I no, I was a
little older and more mature when those things were going on.
Will I've got twenty five years on you? Maybe more? Yeah,
a lot more? Oh? Yeah, No, that'sn't. Come to think
about it. Yeah, I'm like a hundred years older. Do

(36:15):
you remember when you placed that resin scaab down in
the Yeah you lost it. Yeah, it fell out of
my pocket, in my toga pocket, That's what it fell
out of. Will the Battle of David and Glyon Yeah, nobody, nobody. Well,
there's no picture, so I can't really corroborate this story. However,
I did hand David that rock. Yeah, of course I

(36:40):
lost the scaup along the way. I went running over
to David to give him another rock, and I guess
it just flew out of my pocket. I don't know.
Hands off, will I've got yeah, a couple of minutes,
hands off, strong support or get with the times? Mm,

(37:00):
hands off. Twenty six year old guy in China almost
died will from a neck Now, this is kind of weird,
bad It could have been worse news. Listen, it's not
bad news because it has a happy ending. I've spoiled it.
But this guy almost died from a neck massage that
was a little too firm. It says here the masseuse

(37:20):
accidentally ripped an artery leading to this guy's brain and
right then, right there he had a stroke. Wow. However,
they got him to the er in time, and he
is expected to make a full recovery. That's kind of spooky,
isn't it. That is spooky, you know, that's one of
the I've heard. I don't know. I haven't been to

(37:41):
a chiropractor in a long time. I knew several of
them when I was much younger and just got kind
of regular adjustments anytime we were hanging out and we
just we had some outdoors activities in common, so we
ran into each other a lot. But now I don't know.
It's kind of spooky to me, even though I know
I could benefit from an adjustment. Maybe I just won't

(38:03):
let them work on my neck. Now that I've read
that story, have you seen the videos of the pet chiropractors.
They're like, oh, they crack your pets back great. Yeah,
that's yeah, it's terrifying. Yeah, ummm not. Nobody's perfect. That
one's Oh this is interesting. In thirty seconds in China,

(38:23):
will if you do you'd like the idea of seeing
a view from a mountaintop? Yeah? Or you are you
willing to climb the whole mountain to see it?

Speaker 1 (38:31):
No?

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Well you won't have to anymore in China because they're
sending escalators to the tops of the mountain, mostly for
handicapped people, for physically challenged people, but also for people
who are just too dog on lazy to walk up
the mountain. It's me, we gotta go, that's you. We'll
be back at the top of the mountain tomorrow. Thanks
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