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Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from From Struggle To Resilience: Finding Joy in the Face of Dementia
"I absolutely believe that if we were able to lead more improvisational and playful lives as a whole, not when the moment where you're hit with possibly one of the most upsetting and frightening moments in your life, then I think our relationship to a lot of this would shift. Does it make everything okay? Of course not. But it certainly would, again, empower us to be able to do different kinds of things, to create support, to be able to do something more powerful, more joyful, just more positive, more giving. We're not victims. I mean, there's a lot of things, nuances in that, but that's really what we're very committed to doing. In this compelling conversation, Mary Friedli, co -founder of The Joy of Dementia and Re -imagining Dementia joins us to shed light on the unique opportunities for connection that have arisen since the pandemic and the widespread adoption of Zoom. She emphasized the power of creating communities of support for those living with dementia and their families and care partners, transforming the often isolating journey into a joyful and meaningful experience. Mary also shares the critical need to re -imagine the stigma and fear surrounding dementia, revealing the power of resources, tools, and collective efforts in empowering individuals and combating isolation. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress -free and effective communication strategies, management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice. You can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpasenhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
Fresh update on "dementia" discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"Look inside how we choose to express an unhappiness. I'm not getting into that for the moment. Hopefully we'll do it in, you know, in ways that are caring of our fellow human beings. But that's not even the point right now. I think it's more, how do we, it's gonna have to be a collective effort. It's gonna have to be something we do together with somebody because we're, right now we're, I think people walked around feeling enormously powerless. In the sense of not, we just don't have much of a say both in what currently happens in the world, but also we don't feel like we have what we need to create alternatives that would work for us. And that's what, for me, the Joy of Dementia and the coalition were efforts to do, which was to create kind of independent, if you will, communities within, again, various ways of support for people around the world. And I think it's been particularly helpful for folks, for example, who, like we work with a lot of teachers and being an educator these days is maddening. I mean, it's impossible. Or nurses or whatever you can. And, but we work and train a lot of people around the world who work in these various areas and really they want to be more clear. They wanna be more, they wanna try some new things. They don't think that how the training they've received is enough, but they can't do it within their own institution. They just can't. Those aren't, in a way they're not, institutions are not designed to be laboratories for innovation or creativity. If they were, we wouldn't have a problem. So we very selfish, we very self-consciously created, we're independent of traditional funding, government funding. We were independent of academia, although many of our founders were extraordinarily talent academic, but we said in the get go, we have to create a way for us to be as radically humanistic, as provocative or whatever we need to do to make an impact and to help people. We've got to have the freedom to do that. We're not going to, you can't do something because as you know with particularly relative to funding so often, you try these things, they're wonderful. And then the funding disappears and we're screwed. I mean, they really are. And people are hurt. I was talking to an academic the other day who actually said she's never again going to do a project that after the research is done, it disappears. Like she just thinks it's unethical. And I do too, because real people are being helped.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from From Struggle To Resilience: Finding Joy in the Face of Dementia
"I absolutely believe that if we were able to lead more improvisational and playful lives as a whole, not when the moment where you're hit with possibly one of the most upsetting and frightening moments in your life, then I think our relationship to a lot of this would shift. Does it make everything okay? Of course not. But it certainly would, again, empower us to be able to do different kinds of things, to create support, to be able to do something more powerful, more joyful, just more positive, more giving. We're not victims. I mean, there's a lot of things, nuances in that, but that's really what we're very committed to doing. In this compelling conversation, Mary Friedli, co -founder of The Joy of Dementia and Re -imagining Dementia joins us to shed light on the unique opportunities for connection that have arisen since the pandemic and the widespread adoption of Zoom. She emphasized the power of creating communities of support for those living with dementia and their families and care partners, transforming the often isolating journey into a joyful and meaningful experience. Mary also shares the critical need to re -imagine the stigma and fear surrounding dementia, revealing the power of resources, tools, and collective efforts in empowering individuals and combating isolation. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress -free and effective communication strategies, management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice. You can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpasenhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
Fresh update on "dementia" discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"My mom thought I was her best friend, which that could be worse, but we had a very formal-ish kind of relationship. It made it very hard to, when you think of behaving properly, you're gonna be different with your family or your partner versus the neighbors just because that's how we are. And so that's, we had a very, I hesitate to use the word uptight, but it was almost an uptight relationship. Both my parents were a little bit uptight my entire growing up. So that didn't help at all with her Halsheimers. So with somebody like me, where would you suggest I start to bring a little more joy into the caring that I had to do for my mom? Well, let me just have to take a couple of questions and then I can, again, I'll try to respond because I'd like to be able to respond to you rather than just these big generalizations. Although, I can do that too. I can be as big and as general as everybody. So when you say it was a, so how, so you had a kind of, how did you describe it? Kind of distant, more formal. Yeah, more. Yeah. Yeah, just more, it was friendly and positive, but people, my mom had a tendency to constantly wring her hands or rub her hands on her leg, or I mean, her hands were always in motion. And after a while it was like, you just wanted to reach over and just grab her hands and stop it. Cause it just, I don't have any anxiety or any of those things other than like the normal crap we all deal with. I don't have any diagnoses is what I'm trying to say, but it just, it wound me up to the point where it was like, like you just, boom, you're gritting your teeth. And it's like, that's obviously not a positive feeling. And then, so somebody had suggested once to put, give her a little hand massage, put some hand cream on her. So I put hand cream in my hands, rubbed into my hands. I swear they're always as dry as paper. And then I rubbed him in, you know, I'm like, oh, cause I think she was saying something about her hands being it's here. There was a, there was a catalyst for, oh, I can, I can, I can manage this without it being weird. And I put the hand cream, you know, on my hands and rubbed it into her hands. What a disaster, because then she just like wrung her hands. Oh, my hands are all sticky. And it was just- Exactly, I think if I were very concerned about my hands, I could see where that would not be the most. And again, I'm not saying this critically, but I can understand that. Well, I guess so, but let's, let's turn it back on you because I think that, for example, and I can tell me if I'm, I'm really not trying to be unduly philosophical, but I am gonna be philosophical because that's an integral part of what I've been trained to do. So one of the things that stands out for me is the suggestions were about her and how to help her not do the thing that was driving you crazy. And again, that's just, and I think that's very common. Almost immediately, and I think this is true of regular old carers, professional care, we're just, our understanding of caring almost is, okay, you gotta then, you gotta deal with the person. You got to take care of their needs and hopefully you do it as kindly as possible, but let's, that's fine. And I believe you would, I don't. And most of us, I think at least would like to be kind. However, I guess now let's pull the lens back because in the approach that we use, which again has been informed by many, many years practice, our focus isn't on the individual, not on the individual patient. We don't believe that everything, we don't even believe the disease simply rests inside the individual. That's a, I mean, dementia can do it. They're profoundly and socially shaped. I mean, our understanding of it. And I'm not saying, I don't know what dementia does to the brain. I'm fascinated by people who've studied it. It's all very interesting, but we're not reducible to our brain. It has a much more, it has an emotional impact. It has a social impact, it has a physical impact. I mean, it's all very complex. But I guess in pulling back the lens, where I would focus is the relationship. And how could we support you to find some new way to build the relationship rather than as opposed to perhaps managing your mother. And I'm saying that somewhat, you know. And so for example, I was thinking, and again, tell me if you just think this is too fricking weird and it's fine. But this has really happened and I've done this with people. So it's not like I'm making it up. But so for example, you said you, her rubbing her hands drives you crazy. Well, there's an infinitude of fun and creative ways that you could give expression to that. I don't think the issue is being driven crazy by things. Believe me, my mom could push my buttons unlike anyone I'd ever met. I mean, she just knew how to do it. So after the moment you walk in the door, it's like, ooh, boop, let me push that button. That's how my mom was. Exactly, and in a way, and again, that's why family dynamics are very difficult in this because it's got years of history, frustration, resentment, irritation. So, and none of that is going away. We're not trying to, we're not saying to you, Jennifer, oh, treat your mother nicer. You're gonna be irritated. What can you do? It's irritating or you find it irritating. But how, what else can you do? What can you do with the irritation that would kind of take it out of the realm of whether it's true or not? So for example, I was thinking about a woman. And she, it was one of the workshops that we did, Joy of Dementia workshops, and she and her mother did not have a closer relationship. And she was, but she came to it and she was very honest and she was saying her mother was dying, or was declining, and that she just didn't know how to be with her. And so we, but she said, but she would like to, she would like to find a way to be closer to her. So we just were playing around with some things and what she ended up doing was she had to sell her mother's jewelry, which is very important to her mother. And she was very worried about it. She didn't want it, she thought it would upset her. So we just came up with some ways, gave her some directions. And what she did was she wore the jewelry and she never wore jewelry. This is not someone who wore jewelry. Visited her mom, showed it off, and asked her mom for help in deciding how much to ask. And that, so immediately it shifted the relationship and including that it invited her mom into shaping what they were going to do together. Like it wasn't just, oh, what am I, like there's, this is a relationship. So, and you know, so I, and I've often said to people, okay, if you're upset or angry, then do an angry dance. Or really do a frustration dance. Like, do we really think, as a dear friend and mentor who taught me a lot about the, how to be a therapist said, you know, we really do live in a culture where we believe that there's only roughly four ways to express emotionality. When there's an infinitude of ways. Like, and I often, when I was a therapist, like people would come in and this is the wondrousness of improvisation, which I can say a little bit about, but when I was a therapist, you know, couples in particular, which were never my favorite, but somebody would come in and say, oh, and they were having the 55th same fight over the same thing. And I'm sure you never have done that, but for anyone in our listening audience who's ever had the same stupid fight with their partner, their children, their boss, whatever. So I just said, well, look, I don't, I mean, again, I never try to stop people from doing things that they're gonna, I'm not trying to, you know, marshal her life, but I said, well, at a minimum, you know, what you can do if you walk in and I don't know, your partner says, blah, blah, blah, blah. I didn't do the dishes and you know, it's gonna trigger the exact same. Then at a minimum say, wait, cut. This wasn't a very good play we're creating here. What, at least ask the question, how do we wanna do this? You could decide that we're gonna have the same old stupid fight, but your relationship to it has dramatically changed because rather than being this kind of victimized, oh, there's nothing else I can do when I'm angry, you become a choice creator and a choice maker. And to me, that already puts you in a more humanizing position because so much of the reactiveness is just that we feel either, and I don't mean that we're very passive about life. Like, and I really, and again, I always used to say to patients, hey, you know, this isn't a dress rehearsal for the real thing, but that's really what people came in to talk to that. It's like, okay, when am I gonna get, how do I get ready for the real thing? It's not a dress rehearsal. This interview is not a dress rehearsal for the real thing. We're creating it as we go along and it will be what it will be. Hopefully it's helpful to some folks, but it could be, and honestly, and I'm not saying this, but if it was horrible, we could recreate it. It's true, like we don't have that capacity. And I think, and I was thinking about this, also with something you said before, and I think it's also tapping into and helping people realize that we can perform, that we just aren't who we are in our identities and the ways that we insist that we have to be, which we do, and we're supported to do. I'm not, again, I'm not casting aspersions on anyone. And before you said something like, well, you're different with your family than you are with your friends, that you are if you go to church or temple or whatever. And although this isn't a way that we describe ourselves, but we're always creating new performances. Like I dressed differently for this Zoom session than I did for one with a friend. And there's also a way we know how to be. We know how to perform. We know the costume. We know the lines. We know how to be at church. And being at church is not how you're gonna be at a bar. That's true. Now, is it sometimes scripted? Yes. On the other hand, it at least opens the door to, okay, how do I wanna perform this? How do I wanna perform as my mother's daughter in this case? So maybe, and then, and in this case, it is a bit more improvisational. There's no scripts, believe me. If there were, I would have grabbed them. Me too. But you're also not powerless in that, including, but where I think what's critical, and this is where the communities of support come in, you can't do it alone. We don't perform alone. We don't play alone. None of this am I suggesting, oh, just go off and do a bit of an attitude shift. No, I think you would then need to create a community of support that can support you to go outside your comfort zone and try some things with your mom. Your mom isn't gonna be, I mean, she will be part of the ensemble and that's important. And I think she could probably do more than probably, and I think people living with dementia can do a heck of a lot more than we give them credit for because they're really invited in in any kind of serious, meaningful, belonging way. But for the moment, I'm talking to you or our listeners, we need, like I took very seriously that if I wanted to continue to be giving to my mom, and I did, even though she could drive me mad, I'd love her to death, I had to get the support I needed to deal with the emotional. I mean, it's extremely emotional to deal with the stress, to kind of find ways to keep, which didn't mean being honest with her. I mean, I remember one time she just, I think it was around the time that it was clear she was gonna stay in a nursing home and as it turned out, it wasn't that long a time, but that was, she wasn't going home again. And she just was deeply upset and it just broke my heart and I'm, and I, she was crying and I, and this sounds like a small thing, but I remember really wrestling with, I wanna cry. There's nothing else to do. It is, it just looks, it's not, and, but I was resting, God, should I show her that, should I remain strong there, there, there, there. And I remember just thinking, no, this is what I can give her right now. So I just started crying with her and we went on and that was that, but it wasn't, so not everything, I think again, one of the things that I would love to give people is I think we can also work to break free of how we've been taught what it means to care and to take care of people, because I think one, in fact, I was just reading an article by someone who did a lovely piece about her, what she learned about her dad having dementia and what she went through. But at some point she said, well, you know, if I had known more, I would have taken care of myself more. You hear that a lot? Exactly, but I think what I would add to that, I agree with her, but what I would add to that is, I think we make too much of a dichotomy. I don't think it's, well, I'll either take care of my dad or my mom, and again, still in dementia or any other kinds of things that we end up taking care of, or I'll take care of myself because it just, one, I think the false dichotomy, but two, I think taking care of myself was an important part of taking care of the relationship and taking care, and making sure that I was in the best possible position to give.
Food Addiction, the Problem and the Solution
Dr. Robert Lustig Exposes Truth Behind Sugar and Obesity
"Dr. Robert Lustig is professor emeritus of pediatrics, division of endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. He specializes in the field of neuroendocrinology with an emphasis on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system. His research in clinical practice has focused on childhood obesity and diabetes. Dr. Lustig holds a bachelor's in science degree from MIT, a doctorate in medicine from Cornell Medical College and a master's of studies in law from UC Hastings College of Law. Dr. Lustig has fostered a global discussion of metabolic health and nutrition exposing some of the leading myths that underlie the current pandemic of diet -related disease. He believes the food business by pushing processed food loaded with sugar has hacked our bodies and minds to pursue pleasure instead of happiness, fostering today's epidemics of addiction and depression. By focusing on real food, we can beat the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity and disease. And you wrote a couple of books. One is Fat Chance and it's a New York Times and the bestsellers list and the latest one Metabolical, I have read and formed my questions and I have a lot of quotes for you and ask you to address them. Actually it's not really a... You might you might also mention the third book and the reason is because we're talking about addiction and I wrote a book that's pretty much all about addiction and depression and that is The Hacking of the American Mind which really is about diet and mental health and so this is a book that your audience may very much appreciate. Good, wonderful and I would love to have you back and maybe talk about that one and Fat Chance. So yeah we'd love to have you back. I know Esther would agree. You explain that the book Metabolic, it's not really a word Metabolical but but it's a combination of Metabolic and Diabolical and what is going on is Metabolical. Your YouTube video, Sugar the Bitter Truth, has gone viral with over 24 million views and this is the truth. This is, these are the studies that back it up. I'm a believer. We're gonna talk about big food, big pharma, medical industry and the government which are all contributing to this and I told Esther when we decided who to invite I said I want to invite Rob. I've followed you, I've listened to your your videos, you're brilliant and you're bold. You speak the truth and which is based on science and data. Yeah let's start by talking about your work and why you decided to write this book. First of all, you know I didn't come at this with an agenda. I'm a pediatric neuroendocrinologist. I started out taking care of kids with brain tumors and it turns out that a lot of kids with brain tumors become massively obese and I had to deal with the obesity. As I researched that phenomenon which is called hypothalamic obesity, I realized that the same physiology that was causing patients these obesity was actually important in general obesity not related to brain tumors. The hormone insulin, okay, is you know the diabetes hormone. Everybody knows that you know you have to take insulin if you have diabetes to lower your blood sugar. Well where does the blood sugar go with because of the insulin? The answer is it goes to your fat. Insulin is the energy storage hormone and we started realizing that pretty much everybody with obesity had an insulin problem and actually those with the highest insulin problems also had all of these other diseases like for instance polycystic ovarian disease, fatty liver disease, cancer, dementia, gout, hypertension. It turned out we realized that insulin was the bad guy in the story and so then the question was what makes insulin go up in people that don't have brain tumors and the answer was sugar and so you know that's how I got into this and you know basically I've been trying to explain you know the vicissitudes of the American diet you know to the public ever since and explaining that you know there is no pill for this. You know the only way to get insulin down is get rid of the refined carbohydrate and sugar.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
Fresh update on "dementia" discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"Now, on with our show. Welcome back, listeners. Always, you know how much I appreciate your time. I think you're gonna definitely enjoy this week's guest. With me is Mary Fridley, and we are going to be talking about reimagining dementia, finding more joy. And so I am going to let Mary introduce herself because she said she's got too much to say for me to remember. So thanks for joining me, Mary. Well, thank you, and thank you for having me. This is wonderful. And I'm thrilled to, if you will, meet your community. I'm a big fan of communities, building community. That's what I've spent the last 40 odd years of my life doing. So I love meeting communities. Just formally, I am the co-founder, together with a dear colleague of mine, the late Dr. Susan Massad. Together about seven or eight years ago, we founded a workshop and conversation series called The Joy of Dementia. You gotta be kidding. And then a little later on, but certainly coming out of that work and the people we were meeting, in 2020, we were the co-founders, and I continued to lead an international coalition called Reimagining Dementia, a creative coalition for justice that has about 825 members around the country, about 33 countries. And we're continuing to move forward. That sounds wonderful. International, it's definitely more of a global community these days than it was when my mom first had Alzheimer's and after my dad passed away in 2017, and I started the podcast in 2018. And that doesn't sound like that far away, like that long ago, but it kind of is. It was a different world. I was speaking with a new coalition member who's in Germany and he's very involved with music, which I think is wonderful, and bringing music to people living with dementia. And we were talking and he was asking me about the coalition and I said, well, really, I mean, you can come up with highfalutin reasons to do anything, depending on how grand you wanna make yourself seem. But really, I think in the sense, and I'm speaking in this moment in particular about the coalition, it really was the product of the pandemic, to your point, both because it was really sparked by just what we were seeing unfold and the impact and the disproportionate impact and the just awful impact that pandemic was having in nursing homes, care homes, amongst older adults, people living with dementia, and many of whom in my view, and I'm not asking everyone to agree with me, but in many instances, I believe they were being allowed to die during the pandemic. But nevertheless, regardless of whether that's your take on it, I think we've all been aware for a long time that the conditions in care homes are just not sufficient, period, for anybody. And though that's largely hidden away, like most of us who don't, I mean, my mom ended up being in a care home, so I'm very familiar with them, but not everyone is, and not everybody wants to know much about them. But nevertheless, I think the pandemic and the headlines and just the endless coverage just pulled back the curtain in a way that you had to see it. And people, even I know people in my life, we're just very upset, just on a human level. So that really both sparked our putting out a call to colleagues that we had met through the Joy of Dementia work and saying, hey, we got to respond. Now, we had a particular response in mind that I can speak more about, but nevertheless, in some ways, we just thought this is a moment we have to respond. It would just be unconscionable not to. And I think, so that's one pandemic-related, spark, but also honestly, it was also a summer of a lot of unrest, I mean, George Floyd. And so again, regardless of how we felt about that, it still was a moment where people were rising up, they were taking to the streets. So in some sense, that fervor was also very much in the air everywhere. And then finally, honestly, it's because everyone discovered Zoom. Like Zoom had been around for a long time, and I remember during the first couple of years, my brothers and sisters would have weekly Zoom calls, which I think a lot of people did. Now, we never talked to each other weekly ever. I mean, we love each other, but that was not part of our thing. And I remember at one point, my brother just saying, how come we've never done this before? So, I mean, like it just entered, there are just moments where you're introduced to something and it becomes on that, everybody was doing it. So really, there would not be a coalition if we weren't able to bring together people from the US and South America and Africa, and it just wouldn't happen. And I think it's been powerful also because, and you and I have spoken a little bit about community before, I think people, I mean, this is a bit of a cliche and I wanna be careful because I think there's always different ways of approaching this, but people were eager for community. They wanted to be part of something for obvious reasons. And while I think our return to in-person life has shifted that a bit, I don't think it's any less critical in our life. So that's really, as I said, that's what I've been doing is working with people. And this is a big part of the joy of dementia work. Is how do we create communities that support, because as you know, and many of our listeners will know, and I don't think it's just unique to dementia. I don't think, I wanna be careful because I don't think anything I'm saying, I think it could be applied to a lot of life situations, but we're talking about dementia. So, but that, where it just, it becomes almost immediately isolating. Like I've just spoken to so many people living with dementia, their families, their care plan, their friends, and they go from working, having a group of friends, whatever they're doing, whatever their interests were, one day they get the diagnosis, and all of a sudden a lot of that disappears. And that's a very difficult experience. I think we under appreciate, and I know I do, and I just, it's been really doing this work that I've began to appreciate. Wow, you're kind of, that's a lot to go through. I mean, particularly since it's not, and I'm saying this, I know people can come up with reasons why they disappear. I'm not, and I'm not casting any blame. People handle things the way they handle things. But it's not even clear why or that we have to do it that way. And that's where I think the joy of dementia was born. I think we're a bit over determined by this kind of prevailing narrative about dementia. And I think it's got us so scared and afraid and disoriented that we just kind of lose sight of, well, there are other, there are ways go about this that doesn't have to be as devastating and as stressful and that will be there. I mean, my mom died of late stage dementia. So I went through being with her and it was, I freely say it was the most emotional time of my life, period. And I've gone through a lot in my life. I'm old enough that I didn't say that. Been around the block a few times. Right, and she lost her capacity to speak, all those things. And so we really had to keep reforming our relationship. But at no point that I ever see it as a tragedy with either a small P or a large P, but particularly with a large P, which I think is what I mean when I say that the coalition and the joy of dementia in different ways, but I think share in a way of a deep, deep, deep, deep commitment to overthrowing that big P, tragedy of narrative, which I think has been so harmful. Oh, I agree. Do you think that the reason people kind of disappear and don't seek out or know to seek out a community of care helpers, I guess it might be a word, is because one, it's a terrifying diagnosis. It usually comes because of some emergency that I have a past guest that referred to it as that Tuesday afternoon phone call that upends your life. And then there's no, you don't get support from the beginning. It's like, well, your person's got Alzheimer's or Parkinson's or Lewy body or whatever, and you almost get a pat on the shoulder and a good luck and there's the door. I agree. And in many of the people that I've met, you're friends now who live with dementia, who I've spoken to, you know, you're told go home and get prepared to die. I mean, that's not an overstay. I wish I could say, oh, well, no, that really doesn't happen that much, but it does. And it does today. I guarantee you that hundreds, if not thousands, if not tens of thousands of people being diagnosed with dementia at this moment are hearing some variation of that message. And I agree with you because I think that, yes, it is in this, again, coming back to this big key tragedy narrative that honestly I think the biomedical system has helped perpetuate. I don't, you know, it didn't appear out of nowhere. It wasn't like, it's not like we got together one day and said, okay, how badly can we really treat people living with dementia? Let's scare folks to death and just condemn them to a non-existent life. So I didn't walk away. I'd like to think better of the human species, but, and again, I'm not even interested in pointing fingers if that blame isn't gonna help anything, but I do certainly think there's contributors. So, yeah, I mean, it's so surrounded by fear and shame and stigma and just everything that we actually, as a human, as human beings don't deal with well. I mean, shame is a fairly common, I actually think we live more and more in a shaming culture. We shame everyone. Yeah. But he's different than us, we shame him. We don't like what somebody, we think we're better than someone, we shame them. I mean, this is like breathing, sadly. And I'm not saying that lightly because I think it's a deeply corrosive phenomenon. On the other hand, it is, so, yeah, we don't handle shame well anyway. We don't handle, we tend to then get angry or withdrawal. I mean, I know what I do when I feel shame. I'm, you know, I, yeah, let me at him. Yeah, we're not very good at handling, we're not very good at handling the emotionality of it at all, and I'd say that with love. And I think, yeah, we are, in a way we're, I hope this is what this phrase, I've never used it in an interview before, but we're kind of hoisted on our own petard because on one hand, we live in a culture and in many cases, we deeply value being these kinds of rugged, self-reliant individuals. We do, I mean, that's our mantra. Now, leaving aside that actually it's largely a myth, but that's perhaps a conversation for another day, I could go into that. But even if you think, maybe, but even if you think, wow, individualism is the greatest thing since life spread, it doesn't serve you well when you're in need of a community and support. Now, and that doesn't have to be dementia at all. I know people, in fact, when Dr. Massad, my partner, was dying and she passed away about a year and a half ago and she was dying of multiple cancers, she had a team of support around her and in part, and actually over her 30-year practice as a physician and an enormously innovative and caring physician, she had created a model she called Health Team. And they were really designed initially primarily for health situations where the patient or the person diagnosed could call together a group. It could be friends, family, stranger, whoever they wanted around them, including medical professionals, care professionals. And it really was designed to not only be of support, which is important, but it also, the design of them is to try to kind of shift the balance between every decision and every feeling being just that of the individuals. So in a way, how can you kind of even modestly transform, oh, it's my health, to, oh, no, it's ours. This is a shared experience. No one living with somebody with cancer, for example, doesn't have that experience. I mean, you aren't suddenly walled off from having the feelings. Are you having the same experience? No, but that's true in life. Because you're not having the same experience doesn't mean you're not having emotional parts and that you're not part of this social, what's happening socially. So really that's been very helpful because in our, oh, I know, but the story was held to your point was, so she was interviewed by a reporter from a very well-known health newsletter. And we kind of got to know her and her us. And afterwards I was talking to her and she said, you know, my best friend, her best, best, best friend forever was diagnosed with cancer and she shut everybody out. And again, I think just let them sink in for a moment. But we both probably done this and then on the receiving end, that's an awful feeling. And it's also what there's and given the current setup, we can't even do much about it. Like you feel powerless, even as you also feel like, wait a minute, this is a woman person I love, I care for, she's been a part of my life and all of a sudden, but it happens. So again, we aren't very good at asking for help. And we're certainly not given the tools and resources and support to create those communities of support because, and in a way we're offering this as an alternative to, not instead of, but as an alternative to, yes, if you can find support, great, go to every place imaginable. However, as you well know in many communities and across the country, there's just not enough support no matter what. And that's tragic and we should change that. And if I had a magic wand, I would. However, given the current realities, we're saying, okay, but we don't have to be just passive bystanders in our own lives, any aspect of our life. We can also create them and we can be empowered to create the support even as we continue to try to find it. But we don't, it doesn't have to be an either or. Oh, well, I couldn't find anything. What, I guess that's it for me. And that often happens. I'm not saying that lightly. I think it leaves people in an awful position. So to the extent that we can in our workshops and our conversations say, okay, let's at least, we can give you some tools and support to do something a little different, to be able to bring people together. And in our case, we draw heavily on, and this is, it's an approach that both Susan and I have been familiar with for 40 some years. So this isn't new and it wasn't new. And we obviously have now brought it into the dementia field, but it's really an approach that's been informed by what we found to be just the incredible power of play, of performance and particularly of improvisation. It's obviously a kind of play. I am, I mean, I respect all the other things that are being done in the dementia world, but I absolutely believe that we, if we were able to lead more improvisational and playful lives as a whole, not when the moment where you're hit with possibly one of the most upsetting and frightening moments in your life. I think our relationship to a lot of this would shift. Does it make everything okay? Of course not. But it certainly would, again, empower us to be able to do different kinds of things, to create support, to be able to do something more powerful, more joyful, just more positive, more giving, we're not victims. And that makes sense. So that's really what, I mean, there's a lot of things nuances in that, but that's really what we're very committed to doing.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 290 - Avoiding Common Medicare Pitfalls in the Virtual Era
"Knowledge is the key, you know, so read up on the information that's available. Medicare does provide a standard booklet called I think Medicare on you. They send it out each year. And, but it's a really thick volume. And really, it's sometimes it's like a law book or something. So many words and things are really understandable. So that's why we made a book that's more user friendly. So that makes it easier to read and people understand about it. We have videos also they can check out. So this is something that you want to become as knowledgeable as possible. And don't, you know, leave it at the last moment, which a lot of people do they procrastinate, they just simply don't think about it. So that's a really costly mistake. Navigating Medicare requires vigilance, especially for dementia caregivers, because we face unique challenges. If you're a family caregiver, like me, who is not yet eligible for Medicare, you may be unaware of the ins and outs of navigating this health care system. That is why I am excited to bring you my guest today, Al Kushner, he has written an entire book in simple language that we can all understand on how to navigate the Medicare system in a virtual era and avoid costly mistakes. For example, did you know that if you do not sign up for Medicare at age 65, you will be assessed a penalty? I did not know that. This is just one of the many costly mistakes that I learned from Al that I will now be able to avoid when I am eligible for Medicare.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
Fresh update on "dementia" discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"I don't, you know, it didn't appear out of nowhere. It wasn't like, it's not like we got together one day and said, okay, how badly can we really treat people living with dementia? Let's scare folks to death and just condemn them to a non-existent life. So I didn't walk away. I'd like to think better of the human species, but, and again, I'm not even interested in pointing fingers if that blame isn't gonna help anything, but I do certainly think there's contributors. So, yeah, I mean, it's so surrounded by fear and shame and stigma and just everything that we actually, as a human, as human beings don't deal with well. I mean, shame is a fairly common, I actually think we live more and more in a shaming culture. We shame everyone. Yeah. But he's different than us, we shame him. We don't like what somebody, we think we're better than someone, we shame them. I mean, this is like breathing, sadly. And I'm not saying that lightly because I think it's a deeply corrosive phenomenon. On the other hand, it is, so, yeah, we don't handle shame well anyway. We don't handle, we tend to then get angry or withdrawal. I mean, I know what I do when I feel shame. I'm, you know, I, yeah, let me at him. Yeah, we're not very good at handling, we're not very good at handling the emotionality of it at all, and I'd say that with love. And I think, yeah, we are, in a way we're, I hope this is what this phrase, I've never used it in an interview before, but we're kind of hoisted on our own petard because on one hand, we live in a culture and in many cases, we deeply value being these kinds of rugged, self-reliant individuals. We do, I mean, that's our mantra. Now, leaving aside that actually it's largely a myth, but that's perhaps a conversation for another day, I could go into that. But even if you think, maybe, but even if you think, wow, individualism is the greatest thing since life spread, it doesn't serve you well when you're in need of a community and support. Now, and that doesn't have to be dementia at all. I know people, in fact, when Dr. Massad, my partner, was dying and she passed away about a year and a half ago and she was dying of multiple cancers, she had a team of support around her and in part, and actually over her 30-year practice as a physician and an enormously innovative and caring physician, she had created a model she called Health Team. And they were really designed initially primarily for health situations where the patient or the person diagnosed could call together a group. It could be friends, family, stranger, whoever they wanted around them, including medical professionals, care professionals.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 290 - Avoiding Common Medicare Pitfalls in the Virtual Era
"Knowledge is the key, you know, so read up on the information that's available. Medicare does provide a standard booklet called I think Medicare on you. They send it out each year. And, but it's a really thick volume. And really, it's sometimes it's like a law book or something. So many words and things are really understandable. So that's why we made a book that's more user friendly. So that makes it easier to read and people understand about it. We have videos also they can check out. So this is something that you want to become as knowledgeable as possible. And don't, you know, leave it at the last moment, which a lot of people do they procrastinate, they just simply don't think about it. So that's a really costly mistake. Navigating Medicare requires vigilance, especially for dementia caregivers, because we face unique challenges. If you're a family caregiver, like me, who is not yet eligible for Medicare, you may be unaware of the ins and outs of navigating this health care system. That is why I am excited to bring you my guest today, Al Kushner, he has written an entire book in simple language that we can all understand on how to navigate the Medicare system in a virtual era and avoid costly mistakes. For example, did you know that if you do not sign up for Medicare at age 65, you will be assessed a penalty? I did not know that. This is just one of the many costly mistakes that I learned from Al that I will now be able to avoid when I am eligible for Medicare.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
Fresh update on "dementia" discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"I absolutely believe that if we were able to lead more improvisational and playful lives as a whole, not when the moment where you're hit with possibly one of the most upsetting and frightening moments in your life, then I think our relationship to a lot of this would shift. Does it make everything okay? Of course not. But it certainly would, again, empower us to be able to do different kinds of things, to create support, to be able to do something more powerful, more joyful, just more positive, more giving. We're not victims. I mean, there's a lot of things, nuances in that, but that's really what we're very committed to doing. In this compelling conversation, Mary Friedli, co-founder of The Joy of Dementia and Re-imagining Dementia joins us to shed light on the unique opportunities for connection that have arisen since the pandemic and the widespread adoption of Zoom. She emphasized the power of creating communities of support for those living with dementia and their families and care partners, transforming the often isolating journey into a joyful and meaningful experience. Mary also shares the critical need to re-imagine the stigma and fear surrounding dementia, revealing the power of resources, tools, and collective efforts in empowering individuals and combating isolation. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress-free and effective communication strategies, management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice. You can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber-only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10% of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100% of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www.joinimpasenhall.com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
Mark Levin
Biden Falsely Claims He Was at Ground Zero ‘The Next Day’ After 9/11
"I don't believe this is a issue of dementia there are issues related to that joe biden has been a liar a serial liar a shameless liar since he was a kid he lied to get through law school he to lied win the senate seat he's lied throughout his entire career he lied to try to become the nominee and of course is what appeals to democrats this is a sick man seriously medically sick this is a sick man in terms of a complete lack of class and a liar a psychopath and this is a corrupt man a crook and the democrats circle the wagon to support him the prov to media circle the wagon to to defend him and promote him because they don't see anybody in the wings willing to step up yet if they do they might grab on to they know Kamala is a sure deadpan loser so obviously there is this Sanders Obama polar
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 289 - An Outside the box Alzheimer's Treatment? How Biovie is Modulating Inflammation
"The brain health of our younger generation. We have a mental health crisis. We've had an isolation crisis. We've had a health crisis. And a light was shone on the fact that, yes, grandmom and granddad are alone. Well, you know what? They might have even been alone before the pandemic, but people may not have been paying as much of attention. And all of a sudden, you know, there really was a bright light because you couldn't see them. I mean, it was it was a true crisis. And so I think out of every, you know, major problem, there does come an opportunity. And I think we see it. I think there is a world right now focused on on the on the problem we have in front of us and on solving it. So I, for one, am extremely hopeful. I'm extremely proud of all of the other groups within the industry who are working on things. And I'm I'm really, really thrilled to be part of BioV and part of a, you know, a small, innovative team that I hope has a very promising piece of the of the puzzle. Stay tuned. The Alzheimer's Association is saying that, quote, we're in an era of treatments now, which is excellent. But these treatments aren't right for everyone with Alzheimer's, and it doesn't affect other forms of dementia. That's why I'm excited that just this summer I have been approached by many startups that are looking at treatments from a different angle. We've got immune bio targeting immune cells. And today I'm speaking with Sarah Holt of BioV, a clinical stage company developing a novel approach to treating Alzheimer's disease. BioV believes targeting neuroinflammation could be the key to finding an effective Alzheimer's therapy.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 289 - An Outside the box Alzheimer's Treatment? How Biovie is Modulating Inflammation
"The brain health of our younger generation. We have a mental health crisis. We've had an isolation crisis. We've had a health crisis. And a light was shone on the fact that, yes, grandmom and granddad are alone. Well, you know what? They might have even been alone before the pandemic, but people may not have been paying as much of attention. And all of a sudden, you know, there really was a bright light because you couldn't see them. I mean, it was it was a true crisis. And so I think out of every, you know, major problem, there does come an opportunity. And I think we see it. I think there is a world right now focused on on the on the problem we have in front of us and on solving it. So I, for one, am extremely hopeful. I'm extremely proud of all of the other groups within the industry who are working on things. And I'm I'm really, really thrilled to be part of BioV and part of a, you know, a small, innovative team that I hope has a very promising piece of the of the puzzle. Stay tuned. The Alzheimer's Association is saying that, quote, we're in an era of treatments now, which is excellent. But these treatments aren't right for everyone with Alzheimer's, and it doesn't affect other forms of dementia. That's why I'm excited that just this summer I have been approached by many startups that are looking at treatments from a different angle. We've got immune bio targeting immune cells. And today I'm speaking with Sarah Holt of BioV, a clinical stage company developing a novel approach to treating Alzheimer's disease. BioV believes targeting neuroinflammation could be the key to finding an effective Alzheimer's therapy.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Guest Host Carl Jackson On Our Two-Tiered Justice System In America
"We get it. You're busy. You don't have time to waste on the mainstream media. That's why Salem News Channel is here. We have hosts worth watching, actually discussing the topics that matter. Andrew Wilkow, Dinesh D 'Souza, Brandon Tatum, and more. Open debate and free speech you won't find anywhere else. We're not like the other guys. We're Salem News Channel. Watch any time on any screen for free 24 -7 at snc .tv and on local now channel 525. The Mike Gallagher Show. I built hundreds of miles of wall. If we didn't have it, it would be hard to believe it could be any worse. They're just letting people flow into our country. A country has to have borders. Some of the wall was up there and it would be laying on the ground rusted rotten steel, rusted rotten wood, and what the radical left crazy Democrats did. If there's a piece of wood laying down, they consider that a wall. I built because this is the game. They're a party of disinformation. In the ReliefFactor .com studios, here's Mike. Welcome back to the ReliefFactor .com studio. I'm your guest host Carl Jackson sitting in with the great Mike Gallagher and Joe in Kentucky, Louisville. I'll be going to you in just a second here. If you want to call into the program 1 -800 -655 -MIKE. 1 -800 -655 -MIKE. I just want to comment on that video, the last video that you saw on SalemNewsChannel .com with former President Donald Trump in that CNN town hall that he did with the lady that just got taken to school even though she tried to take him to school. That was so annoying. I could barely take that interview. Do you realize the Biden administration, a lot of that new material that we purchased, they've literally sold a lot of it off. They've sold it off. Even to try to rebuild and keep in mind when Trump says rebuild, a lot of the wall was being fortified. He didn't literally build hundreds of miles worth of wall, unfortunately. I wish he had the left and unfortunately some rhinos did everything they could to slow the border issue down. That's something that has to be started all over virtually again with the exception of the 40 plus miles that were added because the Biden administration literally are continuing to sell off some of the material. Some of the some of the material is just setting still not doing anything but they're selling it off. They did they did the same thing as a matter of fact with material from the Keystone XL pipeline. Just so you know how evil and disgusting and despicable the Biden administration and his leading up to this and this show. I'm going to show you how and thank you Tracy for reminding me the the woman was Robin from Hawaii from the state of Hawaii. I don't recall what island and and Derek you're right. I think more more people need to read the left so we understand what the left is doing so that we're not fighting so harshly against each other because I really do believe and I understand you want Trump to win. I got it. Fight for him like heck and you should and you should but there's a mistake I believe in sabotaging Adron DeSantis. I think there's a mistake in in in in saying nobody else should compete in the race and I'm not going to lie with you lie to you. I I don't want a lot of those people on the stage. The only people frankly that I care about and I know I'm going to offend some people out there are Trump DeSantis and Larry Elder and I'll tell you why and and I want to bring I want to bring I'll tie all this together. I promise you and Joe I promise you I'll get to Joe and Louisville, Kentucky. I'll be coming to you because you got an important call here that I that I want to take on but there's a reason why I I say Trump DeSantis and Larry Elder and I'm okay with those three. I'm okay with those three hashing it out. Now I do live in Realville you know Rush Limbaugh was the mayor of Realville. If I'm looking at the polls even though I I know that the polls are skewed I know that the polls are wrong I still know that Trump has a humongous lead over everyone. That is clear even in state polling that is very clear so it is more than likely that Trump will be the GOP nominee unless there's fewer people. I'm a selfish person. I like we the people. I realize that Trump if he gets in he gets four years and I'm sitting there thinking okay we need to win 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036, 2040. How do we do all this? How do how do we do all this? If if you think that it's going to be a four -year plan we're going to somehow turn America around in four years you're sadly mistaken. You're just you're you're sadly mistaken. The DOJ issue is the biggest issue in my opinion out there. The way that the DOJ the FBI how they've been utterly corrupted is the biggest issue but there's something I got to share with you. Unfortunately the DOJ and the FBI being corrupted just shows us that we're too late to the party so it is the biggest issue out there but unfortunately all of the other issues that preceded that in order to create a corrupt DOJ a corrupt FBI we're late to the party. I believe that Trump is better when it comes to that stuff right DOJ stuff and all that man he just I think he'll go in and just wreck shop. I love that. I think I think Trump is better instinctively with foreign policy. He's just honestly he changed my views on some foreign policy stuff and that I absolutely love and adore adore him for. I love his sheer tenacity force of will but I'll be straight with you when it comes to the stuff leading up to DOJ and Ron DeSantis is better and I don't care if you like that or not he's got an instinct for that. You don't have to you can whine like little girls on the left you can lie about it you can deny it you can do what some conservative columnists and and and influencers have been done uh doing that all of a sudden DeSantis is the worst but no I'm sorry he's our second best guy and I don't think it's even close and I think you're playing a seriously dumb game if you try to sabotage them. I think you're an idiot. I think you're a fake MAGA person and I don't think you're out for the country. I think you're out for yourself if you're trying to sabotage our second best guy. I just opinion for the betterment of America. You're an idiot. I want to make it completely and emphatically clear because this is not a one election game. We've come to the party way too late. Ron DeSantis' instincts on cultural Marxism and what led up to the DOJ corruption I'm sorry he's been better than Trump on that. When it comes to the issue of COVID I'm sorry I see all of the naysayers oh well Ron DeSantis is lying he did this he did these are the the whiners these these are the guys in the MAGA movement that need testosterone uh oh Ron DeSantis he's lying about you know he was he he was what are they saying oh he he locked down Florida and guys I live in Florida yes he followed orders just like everybody else but you had what's what's her name Kristi uh and I'm missing someone the lady in Iowa that were very strong on COVID but once DeSantis backed out of COVID he was better than anybody else by far by far it wasn't even close it showed me that he was instinctually getting stuff and he was strong enough to say whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa wait a minute here's what's going on now and he wasn't falling to the pressure so that's why I want to see Trump on stage because as much as I love Trump and we've got a video here saying don't comply with COVID well I'm sorry I love Trump I love Trump but I'm we the people first I want Trump to tell me what he learned so that he does about COVID uh and and the deep state so he never gets duped again when he's in office that's what I want to know I deserve that as a voter you may not want that that's up to you but I'm a we the people person I want that because you know what I don't have the resources to fight against the deep state I don't have them if they lock me up I'm gone away forever you're never going to hear me again so I'm pretty selfish I want to stay out of prison I don't want to be the proud boys guy that I'm gonna that I'm going to talk about uh later Larry Elder the reason why I want him is simple in my opinion Larry Elder is a better communicator than DeSantis he's a better communicator uh than than Trump and I think he can communicate those ideas better than them and even to minority voters I think he can communicate our ideas better to minority voters than DeSantis and Trump can so I figure let them fight it out I think Trump is going to win but let them fight it out because you know why with those three I think we the people win and the left is an isolated on Donald Trump where they can just aim all right so take everybody out of the race let let's take everybody out of the race and let's just let the DOJ the FBI the the mainstream media big tech every look at everything that has been unleashed on Trump now let's get everybody out of the way so they can just completely focus on him you know what Ron DeSantis is do you know what Larry Elder and I pray to God Larry Elder gets on the stage larryelder .com do you know what they are they are an insurance policy I'm sorry I love Tim Scott I love Tim Scott I think Larry Elder is a better candidate than Tim Scott so I hope to God that he gets on the stage all right because I want to hear them debate but they're an insurance policy you know why the left is scared to get rid of Biden those that are Kamala Harris I had somebody messaged me yesterday uh Carl I love you on the show but I disagree with you on this part the impeachment thing because Kamala Harris the left has no problem throwing black people under the bus even a black woman they will throw her under the bus quick fast and in a hurry she's an insurance policy for Biden you know who's an insurance policy because I read them all the time I'm just telling you the truth you don't have to believe it you don't have to agree with it I don't necessarily agree with it but when I read the left when I read the radical left the person who they fear the most is DeSantis whether you like it or not doesn't mean that it's true that is their perception because they believe that DeSantis is Trump not charismatic but will get crap done when he came in the office that's true I don't believe DeSantis at this point I mean unless he gets a one -on -one and there's a miracle that he's going to win the primary but I tell you the left yes they fear Trump but they also fear DeSantis why would you take the guy the second guy that they fear out and try to sabotage them the those of you that are doing that and and I'll say it maybe I'm sabotaging my career today you're complete and utter idiots and I don't believe you're MAGA I believe you're just you're I believe you're just what what's the word I just believe you're grifters I believe you just want to follow the crowd I don't believe you're for the betterment of America I don't believe you're for the empowerment of we the people I think you're full of crap to be frank with you this is Carl Jackson and for Mike Gallagher we'll be back unveil evil in nefarious the modern screw tape letters praised by Pastor Jack Hibbs my pillow is having their biggest sheet sale of the year you've helped my pillow become one of the most extraordinary success stories in America today well now Mike Lindell wants to give back exclusively to you a Mike Gallagher listener the percale and Giza dream bed sheet sets are available in a variety of colors and sizes and 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want to go to Tucker Tucker says I agree and I quote I agree 100 after guest says uh Trump and Biden are too old to be president here's audio clip number two I'm actually kind of surprised to hear this but let's roll it uh I think both Trump and Biden are too old I think there should I don't think you should be able to be that old and be president uh but I think Trump trying to be a hundred percent more aware I I think Biden has got some serious dementia issues I'm I'm actually surprised to hear that I I can't uh I did not know he said listen I I do believe that there should be an age limitation that we we talked about this yesterday I do think that there should be some type of cognitive test obviously if you look at uh Trump he's he's I think he's 77 or 78 years old the guy acts like he's probably 60 I mean it's it's absolutely insane and then you look at Biden and it's simply not the same but I I do believe there needs to be some cognitive test and perhaps there does need to be an age limit at some point uh but I'm wishy -washy on that I'll admit I'm not a term limit guy I know a lot of people want term limits listen I just think evil people do evil things they'll just figure out how to do evil things even more quickly I think we need to leave a move a lot of these people out of Washington D .C.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 288 - From Stress Relief to Joyful Moments: The Many Roles of Music in Caregiving
"The music is always changing so some songs are triggering a memory and others maybe they're just tapping along to and so it's probably the same you could experience this for yourself if you just played a a set list of songs from an era gone by songs you haven't heard in 10 or 20 years some of them are going to make you pick up and go oh this yeah i remember this one and some of them will make you sing along but others you might just kind of enjoy in the background and um and so that's kind of what's happening it's the amount of stimulation is completely personal and experiences like Roy's are unfortunately not that common they happen i'd say five to ten percent of the time um but for everybody we see lifts in mood improvements in sleep um and and those a reduction in those things like anxiety and aggravation and so on music can uniquely transport individuals with dementia to specific moments in their past eliciting reminiscence and triggering positive emotions it can reduce anxiety and agitation creating a calming and soothing environment caregivers often use personalized playlists incorporating songs from the individual's youth or culturally significant music to promote engagement and spark memories but what if you can't find the right music to connect with your loved one that was my situation which made me the ideal person to chat with steven hunt of vera an app that helps you find the specific pieces of music that will likely invoke all of the positive benefits that i just listed welcome to fading memories the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia i'm your host jennifer finke my mom had alzheimer's for 20 years and when i went looking for answers i had to start a podcast to find them join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving through personal stories expert interviews and practical advice we'll explore effective communication strategies stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey this podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment let's share our experiences find solace and discover the strength within us get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with fading memories if you're looking for additional advice be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter it's brief gives you great advice you can read it in less than five minutes and you know where to find the link in the website on the show notes we're working on subscriber only information and specials so you're not going to want to miss out unfortunately it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society with modern technology scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before americans over the age of 65 especially those living with alzheimer's and dementia are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week that's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones even worse nearly 10 of these calls have no caller id making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens you need imp imp offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams imp only allows wanted callers to ring through stopped our 100 of the spam scam political fundraising debt collection and survey calls before a single ring traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry don't wait until it's too late protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimp as in paul .com also the link is in the show notes now on with our show thanks for joining me again fading memories listeners you know i always appreciate your time in your ears i have today my first australian guest they are recording from the it's kind of exciting to talk to somebody on the whole other side of the world with me is stephen hunt he is the co -founder of music health it's an app that is designed for many mental health purposes but it's also got a connection for those of us taking care of a loved one with dementia so thanks for joining me stephen do you go by steve or stephen uh steve okay stick with that jennifer a little zoom box says steven so so tell me about yourself before we were before i hit record you were giving me the details on your family history of lovely diseases like mine so start wherever you'd like to start with yeah well i'd like to start with um so music health as a as a company we started it with a mission to reintegrate music into health care and the premise here is that if you look at any ancient human civilization whether it be the aztecs the incas or the indigenous people of australia they all use music to heal and so this has been going back over 40 000 years in fact the indigenous people of australia used one of these it's the oldest recorded form of music therapy which takes back 40 000 years and we've forgotten all about that because we invented pharmaceuticals and we just now prescribe a drug and hope that's going to fix the problem uh but we really see it out in our company that there's an opportunity to reintegrate music into health care very broadly and we're starting with dementia because in than any pharmaceutical and as we know most pharmaceuticals aren't really making any difference with dementia we're nowhere near a cure nothing's really cutting through we're kind of just treating little symptoms here and there and and often the people that we start to work with have this massive cocktail of drugs they're on that are trying to compensate for each other's side effects and it's just their brains are even more scrambled um so but we've seen with music that it can completely transform them and i guess what drew me to this is as you said a personal connection my grandfather experienced alzheimer's disease when i was in my teens and i was watched him go through that progression with my grandmother who was caring for him and as i'm sure everybody who listens to this would know that's really heartbreaking for anybody to experience and incredibly difficult um but i was a musician as you can see i've got a few instruments behind me and um and i used to play music and it used to soothe him and kind of change and transform him and at the time i had no idea why i didn't know the science of it but but anyway but my grandmother also developed dementia but lived to the age of 100 so i think she was entitled to lose a few memories there um and um and yeah and i i was working in the music industry and a good friend of mine who was a who's now my co -founder nick um came to me one day with the film alive inside and i don't know have you ever seen it um i haven't seen it but i actually did an episode about it with a gentleman that was involved amazing so it's if you don't want to watch the whole thing which i do highly recommend bring the tissues um but if you don't have time even just going on youtube you can watch a few short clips and you'll get the idea um but that film was demonstrating the music and memory program which um which is incredible and that inspired us so what you what you see is this transformative effect of someone who is experiencing dementia is quite lost in space and time they don't know where they are um they don't know who their carers are they're probably feeling a little afraid and and that fear can manifest into either you know regretting regressing sorry into anxiety and depression or expressing in a much more aggressive and agitated manner and and neither of those are good um but both are very difficult to manage for carer and when they play music to these people that is from their past that's personally significant to them they become alive and hence the name of the movie it it quickens and they they seem to come back they seem to get a better use of their faculties they can move their body they can talk they can swallow and eat um and they can remember faces much more readily because what's happening is the music is stimulating their long -term memory and for some reason alzheimer's and dementia doesn't really affect the musical memory that they remain intact same with poetry it's kind of two really weird things like you'll find people who can't remember their wife and can't even remember their own name can just recount poems if they've learned them and sing along to songs and um and it's beautiful to watch and and when we get them into that stimulated state inviting them to maybe come and do hygiene care in the somebody who is much more aware of where they are in space and time they're much less likely to feel anxious and and scared and therefore you can actually engage and interact with them much more readily so so we created an app called vera and that's our first product which is designed for the carers of people living with dementia to be able to get this effect as easily as possible and do it as often as possible as well and and we see in a really advanced state that the carer is using the music when the person wakes up to help them get dressed and out of bed and get them moving they're using it to set the scene for for meals they're using it to to set the scene for washing and hygiene as i said um all these different things and even conversing and spending time with people because when these songs come up that they recognize they bring along beautiful memories and um and we can talk about those and relive them with the person and some of the most beautiful things i've seen in my work are when the family members are hearing memories for the first time that the songs have triggered and they're like oh we didn't even know about that you know and that's such a beautiful thing to get when you know your family member often at that stage can't even remember who you are um so so yeah that hopefully gives you a bit of a summary of the journey so far and what we're trying to do well and we're going to get into it a little bit more but i truly wish you guys had been around when my mom was still alive i had talked to a musician he was also a singer and we we talked about my struggle of finding music that my mom connected to i tried you know the era that she was in high school and maybe music that i remembered being played in the home when i was a kid although i think most of that was my dad and it just he suggested this one past guest he's like well you'll probably have to go through a hundred songs to find you know five to ten and i was like i can't even come up with a hundred songs that seem to be even close so that was the first struggle i did have a little success when i i thought back to my childhood and what my grandmother played when we were at her house i figured if i could remember it then maybe it would work with my mom and it it had it was better than the previous attempts but it was it was so frustrating and so i didn't get what you were talking about just a moment ago so i gave up but yeah you guys i think have solved that problem to some degree and the other challenges i know when she was living in the care home they didn't i don't think they played the right era of music now my mom was on the younger end they did have residents there that were probably 20 25 years older than my mom my mom died at 77 so you know it wasn't too terribly difficult to be 20 years older than her 15 years older and so i don't think she connected to any of that but in getting ready for this talk i was telling my husband i think that tomorrow's guest is from australia that'll be interesting and we were talking about the music and he's like well mom really loved big band and i'm like yeah she did but that's not necessarily from her era it's not the era that i would have picked yeah but then when he said that i was like why didn't i try that or did i try that so why don't you tell us how the app makes all of that easier absolutely i i think firstly i'd love to say that playing any music is great like music is absorbed by the brain it comes into our ears actually it has to cross the hemispheres and then there's about five or six different parts of the brain that have to work in concert to interpret what we perceive as music it's not just you know hearing a sound and making a quick response um it's so a bit of a brain workout and it's why we generally feel quite pleasurable when we're hearing something especially if we like it of course there's taste and we'll get get into that in a second but but first and foremost even if you don't know exactly what to play playing something is better than nothing generally and then um the second thing i wanted to sort of say first is that that's what music and memory started to do like decades ago so they've been going around with um volunteers and musicologists and trying to do exactly what you were doing them manually getting to know the person researching them working out where they lived and then what songs might have been big in that location at that time when their musical taste was forming and generally the the kind of key age you want to try to get back to is 15 through to 35 now the problem with 15 through to 35 for someone like yourself is you probably if you were alive you probably were for a little bit you weren't really old enough to remember much and most of your mom's music experience that you would have been um in knowledge of was when she was a parent and she'd been playing music probably for you and um and also that gets into a very different time where we started to get um moved away from records into cassettes and things like that if we go back into when your mom would have been 15 through to 35 there's a chance she might have had some records at home to play for herself but i would hazard a guess that most of what she did here came through the radio and either that or it was what she was exposed to in the town that she grew up and so what we do is we analyze some really simple bits of information so where was the person born where did they live when they grew up from 15 through 35 and you can put multiple countries multiple places because obviously not everyone stays in one place um what languages do they speak because that can be really interesting and um and then from there with that information we actually can build a pretty good starting point of looking at what was popular either on the charts we could look at what was popular from touring bands we could look at what was popular from radio plays and we've created a massive database that syncs up all of that information attached to every song from the universal music library which is the world's biggest music library um and it's got millions of songs so that's that's our secret sauce in the back background that has taken us um a huge amount of technology to build it actually takes AI to technology to listen to the song and to decide if it's going first of all if it's going to be relaxing or energizing or you know what what kind of emotional response will the song elicit that's the first thing we work out and then the AIs are also scraping the internet looking for that other information about popularity all the time and building up richer and richer strings so then when we get to those questions I asked um in the onboarding which are where was the person born when were they born and where did they grow up we can very quickly understand what were the popular songs around them in that place during those years and then if we know we ask do they have any favorite genres do they love classical or blues or reggae or rock and do they have any favorite artists sadly we don't often get that information if the family aren't involved and quite often in the residential aged care settings they're not and so that's a real shame but as I said as a starting point anyway we'll have a collection of songs which are separated into three stations one is to help that person relax another is to help that person get energized and motivated to get up and move and then a third one is to help that person reminisce and and find their own memories and they get presented from just those basic questions and then you've got a thumbs up and a thumbs down of course so that if a song creates a really great reaction the person knows the words and they're clapping along we hit like and if we want to we can also leave a little note and say oh they loved it they were clapping along it reminded them of their wedding day whatever it may be and we can save that song and every time we do that it gets pulled into the playlist so we can go back to those songs we know they know we know they love and we collect those over time but we're constantly trying to find more through the energize and relax playlists as well which are um pushing forward new songs so with that we tend to find that we we get about 50 to 75 percent hit rate um in the first go and then we're refining over time but but it really is simple it's just understanding the music that was really popular around that person in that stage of their life um but to do that because we've got customers who were born in china we've got customers who were born in japan in italy in france in yugoslavia you never all over the world so we've had to do this globally and look at this popularity metric across all genres all songs and all places and that's been really the hard part but now that we have that the the experience is simple and easy my mom might have been a little easier she was born in northern california lived her whole life in northern california not all the same town but the same region basically the san francis the greater san francisco bay area perfect i'm trying to remember yeah nope never lived anywhere else so but i'm i'm as you're talking i'm remembering stories so my maternal grandfather was an army chef during world war ii he had damaged his trigger finger with a um a saw i don't know what the it's not maybe it was a hacksaw um it didn't stop him from hunting but it stopped him from being shipped overseas my grandfather could open the fridge and most people would open the refrigerator and say oh there's nothing really much to eat in here and he could whip out the best sandwiches you'd be like i didn't see that tomato where'd you pull that tomato out of and i have inherited that so obviously he his family also owned a restaurant and a bakery so that that comes up through the genetics i'm assuming but when he was not home my mom would run up to other soldiers and and go daddy daddy so the as we were talking earlier you know my husband was like oh she your mom liked big band music which not wasn't necessarily her era um she graduated from high school in 1960 so 15 to 35 would have been um i should probably use the calculator for this math but she would so been 1960 like 1957 through i'm not sure when she was 35 she was born in 1943 i can't do math that fast in my head that's um 1958 should we start and then we're looking another 20 years so 58 to um 78.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 288 - From Stress Relief to Joyful Moments: The Many Roles of Music in Caregiving
"The music is always changing so some songs are triggering a memory and others maybe they're just tapping along to and so it's probably the same you could experience this for yourself if you just played a a set list of songs from an era gone by songs you haven't heard in 10 or 20 years some of them are going to make you pick up and go oh this yeah i remember this one and some of them will make you sing along but others you might just kind of enjoy in the background and um and so that's kind of what's happening it's the amount of stimulation is completely personal and experiences like Roy's are unfortunately not that common they happen i'd say five to ten percent of the time um but for everybody we see lifts in mood improvements in sleep um and and those a reduction in those things like anxiety and aggravation and so on music can uniquely transport individuals with dementia to specific moments in their past eliciting reminiscence and triggering positive emotions it can reduce anxiety and agitation creating a calming and soothing environment caregivers often use personalized playlists incorporating songs from the individual's youth or culturally significant music to promote engagement and spark memories but what if you can't find the right music to connect with your loved one that was my situation which made me the ideal person to chat with steven hunt of vera an app that helps you find the specific pieces of music that will likely invoke all of the positive benefits that i just listed welcome to fading memories the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia i'm your host jennifer finke my mom had alzheimer's for 20 years and when i went looking for answers i had to start a podcast to find them join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving through personal stories expert interviews and practical advice we'll explore effective communication strategies stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey this podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment let's share our experiences find solace and discover the strength within us get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with fading memories if you're looking for additional advice be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter it's brief gives you great advice you can read it in less than five minutes and you know where to find the link in the website on the show notes we're working on subscriber only information and specials so you're not going to want to miss out unfortunately it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society with modern technology scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before americans over the age of 65 especially those living with alzheimer's and dementia are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week that's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones even worse nearly 10 of these calls have no caller id making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens you need imp imp offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams imp only allows wanted callers to ring through stopped our 100 of the spam scam political fundraising debt collection and survey calls before a single ring traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry don't wait until it's too late protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimp as in paul .com also the link is in the show notes now on with our show thanks for joining me again fading memories listeners you know i always appreciate your time in your ears i have today my first australian guest they are recording from the it's kind of exciting to talk to somebody on the whole other side of the world with me is stephen hunt he is the co -founder of music health it's an app that is designed for many mental health purposes but it's also got a connection for those of us taking care of a loved one with dementia so thanks for joining me stephen do you go by steve or stephen uh steve okay stick with that jennifer a little zoom box says steven so so tell me about yourself before we were before i hit record you were giving me the details on your family history of lovely diseases like mine so start wherever you'd like to start with yeah well i'd like to start with um so music health as a as a company we started it with a mission to reintegrate music into health care and the premise here is that if you look at any ancient human civilization whether it be the aztecs the incas or the indigenous people of australia they all use music to heal and so this has been going back over 40 000 years in fact the indigenous people of australia used one of these it's the oldest recorded form of music therapy which takes back 40 000 years and we've forgotten all about that because we invented pharmaceuticals and we just now prescribe a drug and hope that's going to fix the problem uh but we really see it out in our company that there's an opportunity to reintegrate music into health care very broadly and we're starting with dementia because in than any pharmaceutical and as we know most pharmaceuticals aren't really making any difference with dementia we're nowhere near a cure nothing's really cutting through we're kind of just treating little symptoms here and there and and often the people that we start to work with have this massive cocktail of drugs they're on that are trying to compensate for each other's side effects and it's just their brains are even more scrambled um so but we've seen with music that it can completely transform them and i guess what drew me to this is as you said a personal connection my grandfather experienced alzheimer's disease when i was in my teens and i was watched him go through that progression with my grandmother who was caring for him and as i'm sure everybody who listens to this would know that's really heartbreaking for anybody to experience and incredibly difficult um but i was a musician as you can see i've got a few instruments behind me and um and i used to play music and it used to soothe him and kind of change and transform him and at the time i had no idea why i didn't know the science of it but but anyway but my grandmother also developed dementia but lived to the age of 100 so i think she was entitled to lose a few memories there um and um and yeah and i i was working in the music industry and a good friend of mine who was a who's now my co -founder nick um came to me one day with the film alive inside and i don't know have you ever seen it um i haven't seen it but i actually did an episode about it with a gentleman that was involved amazing so it's if you don't want to watch the whole thing which i do highly recommend bring the tissues um but if you don't have time even just going on youtube you can watch a few short clips and you'll get the idea um but that film was demonstrating the music and memory program which um which is incredible and that inspired us so what you what you see is this transformative effect of someone who is experiencing dementia is quite lost in space and time they don't know where they are um they don't know who their carers are they're probably feeling a little afraid and and that fear can manifest into either you know regretting regressing sorry into anxiety and depression or expressing in a much more aggressive and agitated manner and and neither of those are good um but both are very difficult to manage for carer and when they play music to these people that is from their past that's personally significant to them they become alive and hence the name of the movie it it quickens and they they seem to come back they seem to get a better use of their faculties they can move their body they can talk they can swallow and eat um and they can remember faces much more readily because what's happening is the music is stimulating their long -term memory and for some reason alzheimer's and dementia doesn't really affect the musical memory that they remain intact same with poetry it's kind of two really weird things like you'll find people who can't remember their wife and can't even remember their own name can just recount poems if they've learned them and sing along to songs and um and it's beautiful to watch and and when we get them into that stimulated state inviting them to maybe come and do hygiene care in the somebody who is much more aware of where they are in space and time they're much less likely to feel anxious and and scared and therefore you can actually engage and interact with them much more readily so so we created an app called vera and that's our first product which is designed for the carers of people living with dementia to be able to get this effect as easily as possible and do it as often as possible as well and and we see in a really advanced state that the carer is using the music when the person wakes up to help them get dressed and out of bed and get them moving they're using it to set the scene for for meals they're using it to to set the scene for washing and hygiene as i said um all these different things and even conversing and spending time with people because when these songs come up that they recognize they bring along beautiful memories and um and we can talk about those and relive them with the person and some of the most beautiful things i've seen in my work are when the family members are hearing memories for the first time that the songs have triggered and they're like oh we didn't even know about that you know and that's such a beautiful thing to get when you know your family member often at that stage can't even remember who you are um so so yeah that hopefully gives you a bit of a summary of the journey so far and what we're trying to do well and we're going to get into it a little bit more but i truly wish you guys had been around when my mom was still alive i had talked to a musician he was also a singer and we we talked about my struggle of finding music that my mom connected to i tried you know the era that she was in high school and maybe music that i remembered being played in the home when i was a kid although i think most of that was my dad and it just he suggested this one past guest he's like well you'll probably have to go through a hundred songs to find you know five to ten and i was like i can't even come up with a hundred songs that seem to be even close so that was the first struggle i did have a little success when i i thought back to my childhood and what my grandmother played when we were at her house i figured if i could remember it then maybe it would work with my mom and it it had it was better than the previous attempts but it was it was so frustrating and so i didn't get what you were talking about just a moment ago so i gave up but yeah you guys i think have solved that problem to some degree and the other challenges i know when she was living in the care home they didn't i don't think they played the right era of music now my mom was on the younger end they did have residents there that were probably 20 25 years older than my mom my mom died at 77 so you know it wasn't too terribly difficult to be 20 years older than her 15 years older and so i don't think she connected to any of that but in getting ready for this talk i was telling my husband i think that tomorrow's guest is from australia that'll be interesting and we were talking about the music and he's like well mom really loved big band and i'm like yeah she did but that's not necessarily from her era it's not the era that i would have picked yeah but then when he said that i was like why didn't i try that or did i try that so why don't you tell us how the app makes all of that easier absolutely i i think firstly i'd love to say that playing any music is great like music is absorbed by the brain it comes into our ears actually it has to cross the hemispheres and then there's about five or six different parts of the brain that have to work in concert to interpret what we perceive as music it's not just you know hearing a sound and making a quick response um it's so a bit of a brain workout and it's why we generally feel quite pleasurable when we're hearing something especially if we like it of course there's taste and we'll get get into that in a second but but first and foremost even if you don't know exactly what to play playing something is better than nothing generally and then um the second thing i wanted to sort of say first is that that's what music and memory started to do like decades ago so they've been going around with um volunteers and musicologists and trying to do exactly what you were doing them manually getting to know the person researching them working out where they lived and then what songs might have been big in that location at that time when their musical taste was forming and generally the the kind of key age you want to try to get back to is 15 through to 35 now the problem with 15 through to 35 for someone like yourself is you probably if you were alive you probably were for a little bit you weren't really old enough to remember much and most of your mom's music experience that you would have been um in knowledge of was when she was a parent and she'd been playing music probably for you and um and also that gets into a very different time where we started to get um moved away from records into cassettes and things like that if we go back into when your mom would have been 15 through to 35 there's a chance she might have had some records at home to play for herself but i would hazard a guess that most of what she did here came through the radio and either that or it was what she was exposed to in the town that she grew up and so what we do is we analyze some really simple bits of information so where was the person born where did they live when they grew up from 15 through 35 and you can put multiple countries multiple places because obviously not everyone stays in one place um what languages do they speak because that can be really interesting and um and then from there with that information we actually can build a pretty good starting point of looking at what was popular either on the charts we could look at what was popular from touring bands we could look at what was popular from radio plays and we've created a massive database that syncs up all of that information attached to every song from the universal music library which is the world's biggest music library um and it's got millions of songs so that's that's our secret sauce in the back background that has taken us um a huge amount of technology to build it actually takes AI to technology to listen to the song and to decide if it's going first of all if it's going to be relaxing or energizing or you know what what kind of emotional response will the song elicit that's the first thing we work out and then the AIs are also scraping the internet looking for that other information about popularity all the time and building up richer and richer strings so then when we get to those questions I asked um in the onboarding which are where was the person born when were they born and where did they grow up we can very quickly understand what were the popular songs around them in that place during those years and then if we know we ask do they have any favorite genres do they love classical or blues or reggae or rock and do they have any favorite artists sadly we don't often get that information if the family aren't involved and quite often in the residential aged care settings they're not and so that's a real shame but as I said as a starting point anyway we'll have a collection of songs which are separated into three stations one is to help that person relax another is to help that person get energized and motivated to get up and move and then a third one is to help that person reminisce and and find their own memories and they get presented from just those basic questions and then you've got a thumbs up and a thumbs down of course so that if a song creates a really great reaction the person knows the words and they're clapping along we hit like and if we want to we can also leave a little note and say oh they loved it they were clapping along it reminded them of their wedding day whatever it may be and we can save that song and every time we do that it gets pulled into the playlist so we can go back to those songs we know they know we know they love and we collect those over time but we're constantly trying to find more through the energize and relax playlists as well which are um pushing forward new songs so with that we tend to find that we we get about 50 to 75 percent hit rate um in the first go and then we're refining over time but but it really is simple it's just understanding the music that was really popular around that person in that stage of their life um but to do that because we've got customers who were born in china we've got customers who were born in japan in italy in france in yugoslavia you never all over the world so we've had to do this globally and look at this popularity metric across all genres all songs and all places and that's been really the hard part but now that we have that the the experience is simple and easy my mom might have been a little easier she was born in northern california lived her whole life in northern california not all the same town but the same region basically the san francis the greater san francisco bay area perfect i'm trying to remember yeah nope never lived anywhere else so but i'm i'm as you're talking i'm remembering stories so my maternal grandfather was an army chef during world war ii he had damaged his trigger finger with a um a saw i don't know what the it's not maybe it was a hacksaw um it didn't stop him from hunting but it stopped him from being shipped overseas my grandfather could open the fridge and most people would open the refrigerator and say oh there's nothing really much to eat in here and he could whip out the best sandwiches you'd be like i didn't see that tomato where'd you pull that tomato out of and i have inherited that so obviously he his family also owned a restaurant and a bakery so that that comes up through the genetics i'm assuming but when he was not home my mom would run up to other soldiers and and go daddy daddy so the as we were talking earlier you know my husband was like oh she your mom liked big band music which not wasn't necessarily her era um she graduated from high school in 1960 so 15 to 35 would have been um i should probably use the calculator for this math but she would so been 1960 like 1957 through i'm not sure when she was 35 she was born in 1943 i can't do math that fast in my head that's um 1958 should we start and then we're looking another 20 years so 58 to um 78.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from Freedom, Skepticism, and the Fight for Change
"But a lot of people don't have that, that ability. And that's what breaks my heart. These people continue to vote for the Joe Bidens of the world with the idea that yes, it will be better and I'll be able to work my way out of where I am. And it's actually going the other way. And welcome to another TFG podcast. I'm Mike Hayflick, along with my partner, Mike Speraza. Mike, how are you doing today? I am good. No complaints here. I can't elbow you. You're not, you're not like sitting right next to me. I can pretend I am, but it's not really working for me. We can figure it out. I don't know if you can see my arms over here, but we'll figure it out. Yeah, I see them. I see them. Yeah. Hey, so it's back. Not actually COVID, Mike, but mask mandates. Major movie studio Lionsgate reinstating the mask mandate. Effective immediately, Mike. It's serious. It's dangerous. Get those masks on. They will be required on certain floors in the Santa Monica offices until further notice. And, um, this is the official, uh, note here from let's see Summer McElroy, uh, is response the manager for Lionsgate slash stars. And, uh, she says employees must wear a medical grade face covering surgical mask, K on 95 or N 95. Geez. I forgot how much I, I hated those terms, Mike, until just now when indoors, except when alone in an office with the door closed, actively eating, actively drinking at their desk or workstation, or if they are the only individual present in a large open workspace. So there are some exceptions, Mike, but can you even imagine that they're thinking COVID COVID is back when a couple people, a couple people have, have gotten COVID again and have tested for COVID -19 amazing. Well, yeah, I'll tell you what's not actually back. It's COVID. Uh, COVID is not actually back. I know they're saying there's a new variance, Mike, that's the new thing, right? Whatever GB four, five, two, one dash four, whatever they're calling this new one. LGB, Q plus AI, 14, 17, and that we know isn't coming back, obviously. Um, you know, it's, this is another fear tactic gets to get people all juiced up. It's working, by the way. Um, you know, and Mike, what's coming in 2024? Hmm. What is happening in 2020? Oh, another election cycle. So we need to scare people and we need to get people worried about not going to the voting booth again. So we can do what we did in 2024. If it's not what we did in 2020, now in 2024, what we know is Mike, there's going to be a crisis. We just don't know what it is. Is it, is it more COVID? Is it going to be a climate change issue where we're afraid you can't walk in public or you're going to die. So they can't go wait in election lines. We don't know what it is. They're going to try COVID again. I'm interested to see how it works though, because I really will tell you, I don't think it's going to work the way they think it is. You know, obviously people like us aren't going to follow it just the way we did last time, but will they get all the people they scared last time based on vaccinations, Mike and booster schedules? I don't think it's going to work, but we'll see. Well, Hey, why not try it though? That's what they say. That's what they say. That's right. Yeah. Keep going. Double down, triple down, quadruple down. So, so the, there were several employees, Mike, testing positive for COVID -19. This was from Dr. Nicole Sapphire. She said, the reason you have an uptick in cases right now is not because you did something wrong. It's because for the last several years, we've seen an uptick in cases in the winter. And we also see one in the end of summer. This is just a normal cycle of this respiratory virus. Now to your point, Mike, I think this is just the normal cycle, the normal routine for liberals and Democrats. The normal cycle is to fear monger, make people anxious again, make them feel like they, they might peril from, from the COVID virus. So you, you've got to stay in and then eventually they're going to start saying, um, but don't worry, you'll be able to vote, but you're going to be able to do it by mailing in your ballots. You're going to be doing early voting, right? So to your point, this is just part of their playbook. And I swear in somebody's crazy laboratory, political laboratory on a whiteboard, this is there, I'm sure for mid to late August scare up people in, on COVID again, scare them up. And then are we going to hear about more boosters, Mike, do you think? Well, it'll be interesting to see what they do. Here's my thing. And I believe this, I think this could be a good thing for Republicans to be honest with you, Mike, because if you do this again and you, you fight this fight, like the way they did the last time, you actually may move more voters to Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, whoever the candidate is, because people are just not going to do it. And I'm going to tell you right now, they think they're going to start to push this stuff in September, October, when kids are back to school and they're going to say the kids need to come back and mask. We need to put up the penalty boxes again. Um, it's going to cause mayhem. I thank God, Mike, I don't have a kid in school yet. Obviously both your girls are way out of school now, so you don't have to worry about that. But a lot of parents are going to have to worry about, I'll tell you if my kid was in school, I'd be ripping them out in homeschooling them so fast. I would make it work whatever my wife and I had to do. My child is not going to school and face diapers. My child is not getting boosted and vaccinated. It's not happening. Um, we'll see what happens though. I mean, again, do I think people are going to get scared and go boost up? I'm sure they will. The same way that all these people think that Donald Trump, you know, created an insurrection on January 6th, anything they hear from CNN or MSNBC, they'll run with and you know, some people, but I think a lot of the middle voters are going to say, wait a minute, I'm not dealing with this bullshit again. No way. So to use some of their terminology, do you think that literally the conservatives, the more moderate thinkers, the common sense thinkers, those that actually look at facts and evidence, do you think this is going to trigger, uh, their microaggressions, which I would say, if you tell them that they can't go out again, if you tell them that they need masks, that they must get vaccines, these are macroaggressions. These are aggressions far, far worse than not calling someone by the right pronoun. And, and do you, you think that this could really sway the more moderate thinker, maybe even the moderate Democrats and hopefully a whole bunch of independence? Yeah, I do. I think it's the same thing that we're seeing with the four indictments on Donald Trump. I think a lot of people in the middle that don't actually like Trump by the way are kind of like, wait a minute, this isn't adding up anymore. We're going after this guy on crimes that for the most part, Mike, they really have no evidence of, they just keep saying he does these things, but when called to bring evidence, they really haven't been able to. I mean, some of the crimes in New York with Alvin Bragg, you look at them and you're like, well, many people have made payments to people or, you know, many people have used different accounts and you know, you look at the one in Georgia, they're going after Mark Meadows for making a phone call to an attorney in Pennsylvania. What is the crime for that? Right. I think that's the same type of thing that we're seeing here with COVID where people are going to say, okay, enough is enough. I don't maybe love Trump as a man. I don't love Trump for who he is. However, I need to vote for someone that actually cares about me and that's not going to make my family and myself go through hell. And I do think there's fear out there too, Mike, with the indictment thing. I know I'm going back to that, but at some point, you know, it's kind of nerve wracking, isn't it? When are they coming after me? When are they coming after Mike Hayflick or Lomas or Wiggle or the financial guys as a whole? When you do these things that they've done, it begins to make you wonder again, not a conspiracy theory guy, but man, it's kind of scary what's going on right now. And if you don't see that, you're either blinded or you have a serious, serious form of Trump derangement syndrome, which I've said this on the record, Mike, and I'll let you get back in. Trump derangement syndrome has impacted and affected more infected, more people than COVID ever did. I can assure you that. Mm hmm. Yeah. You wonder, um, we'll, we'll talk a little bit more about Trump a bit later. Um, and then I want to talk to, uh, to you about our president, our president Biden, who, who, who visited Maui recently, just, just to wrap this though, many mainstream media outlets have actually been running a lot of, uh, of, of their programming on again, masking. So MSNBC, they ran a segment on kids masking to prevent the spread of the virus at the beginning of the new school year. Of course, PBS had one about wearing masks in crowded areas to prevent the spread. CBS mornings warned about the summer COVID spike that may happen due to people letting their guard down, Mike, they're letting their guard down. They're not, they're not behaving as they're supposed to. They're not, they're not, they're not programmed well enough yet, Mike, to know that they should have just been putting masks on Mike because the end of the summer was nearing. So, um, but we got to move on. It's making me, one thing I want to vomit. Let me say one more thing on that. This is, this is yet another thing that they're going to say as an Alex Jones conspiracy theory, because he was the one that came out and said, this is coming. Uh, it'll be another truth. Just like the Babylon B is now the, the full source of actual truth. Every time they joke about something, it happens. Um, Alex Jones has been called a conspiracy theorist for years now, some things he's been wrong and I will say that, but this is another one to say, Oh, they're not going to do that. Don't worry. They're not coming down with COVID mandates again. Oh, but they are. And there's evidence of it too. Target has gone to, you can pick stuff up now. They're creating pickup lines again. You have stuff talking about voting and elections again. I mean, it's, it's coming and I'm waiting for it, Mike. I'll tell you what's going to piss me off is when they do it with sports games again. Oh, you're not fully boosted yet. You don't have a mask on. Yes. Or you can't come into the bills or savers games. That will be the end of it for me. I think if they go to that, that, that extreme. I think you're right. I think when you start messing with people's sports and their inclination to want to go and get together and have some fun at a sports event, you really are. You really are needle in people at that point. Um, all right, let's talk about our president, Joe Biden. He finally makes it over to Maui to check out the conditions there. And, and this is what he does, Mike and his, I mean, literally moderate to maybe severe dementia state that he's in. he uses a minor fire at his house to claim he knows what it's like to lose a home while visiting Maui. So this is essentially what he said. I don't want to compare difficulties, but you know, he's going to as soon as he says that right, Mike. Um, but we have a little sense Jill and I have what it was like to lose a home years ago. Now, 15 years, I was in Washington doing meet the press, like to actually look this up by the way, and do some fact checking on this because you know, many of the things he said never, never proved to be true. He says, um, lightning struck at home on a little lake outside the home, not a lake, a big pond. It hit the wire and came up underneath our home into the air conditioning ducts. To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my Corvette 67 and my cat. So this isn't the first time he's recalled this Mike. He, uh, he, this happened in 2021. He said that his house burned down and, uh, you know, here, here he goes, you know, this is what I think people who are ill do. Um, this, this actually says it started a small fire that was contained to the kitchen. So this was not almost losing his wife and his Corvette and his cat, Mike, by the way. So a little bit of extra, what we call that hyperbole, exaggeration, um, just telling a damn right lie. So, so he is so out of touch. There's another, another thing I want to mention then about his visit there, but he is so out of touch that even in the worst of tragedies, literally standing on charred ground, looking at probably miles worth of, of nothing, it's got to look like a war zone in Maui. And he can only think of himself, Mike. Well, first thing is Joe was your house fire. Was that climate change too? Or was that just a faulty wire? That would be my first question. Number two, Mike. Yeah. I mean, look at, this is politics. One -on -one you try and reason with voters. You try and reason with people, you know, in ways that you can, just like he does with the, the Bo Biden stuff. But there's a point in time where it's not, it's just not comparable. Right. And you have to see that moment that have a brain in your head. And I don't think he has it personally. Um, this as, you know, as like you said, there's charred remains, thousands of people still missing, by the way, your, your pitch is, Hey, I almost lost my cat. I don't care about your kid that might be under the rub. In my Corvette. Your cat, your Corvette, the same Corvette that Hunter was putting the documents in and bringing hookers to same Corvette. I'm not sure. But the, the, the thing like, again, at the end of the day, these people don't know where their loved ones are and you're making comments about a small house fire that was probably from an oven that you left bread in. And you're talking to people like, Hey yo, your kid's underneath the rubble. Don't worry about it. I lost my cat in my Corvette. I mean, I know how it feels. No, you don't Joe. And that's not how you talk to people that are going through the single worst thing in their life, especially ones that lost loved ones. You know, the ones that lost their house, Mike, that obviously stinks. And you know, I deal with a home insurance that's terrible, but it's when you don't know where your loved ones are, or you don't know where your family is or your friends are because in children are right. That's, that's the stuff that to me that like, come on, Joe, man, don't, don't, don't patronize people like that and don't make people feel like crap. And then tell a story about you and your family. It's unbelievable. Yeah. It never ends. Here's a, another, another thought that he had as he, as he was walking around Maui, he basically says, you know, he he's walking amongst these people and he shaking hands with officials, of course, probably not even sure where he is at that point. Um, he stops in front of a search and rescue dog. And while petting the dog, he joked the boots, the canine was wearing. He says, you guys catch the boots here. He smiled and said, that's some hot ground, man. So here he goes with his man comments, again, just with no common sense, whatever, no compassion at all joking that the dog's got to wear boots because the ground is so hot. I mean, I just like, this just makes me wonder who still supports this man. This man is ill. This man should not be, he should not be leaving his home anymore. I don't think he could leave his home unattended and not get lost or maybe die in a tragedy himself. And who on earth is still support in this man? Well, he's, he's the guy that you're, you know, your parent, let's say that you're afraid to leave at home, or they're going to leave the stove on and burn the house down. And I'm not trying to make a, a fire comparison. That is not, that is not, I totally agree. I'm being serious, right? I mean, this is the type of guy we're talking about here. We've all had that in our family, grandparents, parents, you know, maybe even children that are, that are handicapped or something, right? I mean, we, we have these fears and they're legitimate, right? And for a guy that can barely talk in public, you do worry, is he forgetting things that, you know, whatever it may be. Um, I'll say this to him. I don't know if you saw the video. It's came out today and it's been circulating today of him at some kind of, uh, event in Maui and he's falling asleep. Did you see that? He's falling asleep. No, I thought you were going to, I thought you were going to say the one where he was doing the press conference and the guy offered him a glass of water and he kind of looked like he didn't even know what that meant and he wandered off to his left. But no, I didn't even hear about this next one. I don't think we can possibly keep up, Mike. We can't possibly keep up. And to our point, Mike, you know, we make jokes and we smirk sometimes we talk about this guy, but, but it's really not funny. And it really is a problem that we have that as our leader, again, dealing with, uh, president G in China, dealing with Putin in Russia, um, even dealing with Zelensky in Ukraine, like this is not the guy you want doing that. And again, what scares me is and not to make light of it, but you wouldn't trust this guy dog sitting for you, let alone running the country. Right. And again, to my point, how many like you you've had family, I've had family that you, you fear for their safety. If you're not around, right. That is this guy through and through. It's scary.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 287 - Will The Chris Hemsworth News Advance Dementia Prevention Knowledge?
"Is unfortunately becoming a huge problem. This is 55 million people worldwide having a dementia diagnosis, but that's growing about 10 % every year. It's huge. And it was interesting what you were saying about, you know, the imbalance in the gender, because it's not the same in the US, but would you believe that in Australia, dementia is the leading cause of death for women? So it is like, it is our number one killer and it is the second highest overall when you track the men in as well. So it's a really huge challenge down here. And again, there's no real, you know, conclusive evidence as to exactly why. So that's the real hard part. How many of us know someone who does not want to know if they have some form of dementia? Despite all of the benefits of an early diagnosis, they either can't or refuse to be swayed. Getting an early diagnosis while still devastating is important. And today we're discussing how celebrities talking about their risks might help move more people into accepting the benefits of knowing sooner rather than later. When a celebrity openly discusses their risk of Alzheimer's disease, it can profoundly impact raising awareness and promoting dementia prevention knowledge.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 287 - Will The Chris Hemsworth News Advance Dementia Prevention Knowledge?
"Is unfortunately becoming a huge problem. This is 55 million people worldwide having a dementia diagnosis, but that's growing about 10 % every year. It's huge. And it was interesting what you were saying about, you know, the imbalance in the gender, because it's not the same in the US, but would you believe that in Australia, dementia is the leading cause of death for women? So it is like, it is our number one killer and it is the second highest overall when you track the men in as well. So it's a really huge challenge down here. And again, there's no real, you know, conclusive evidence as to exactly why. So that's the real hard part. How many of us know someone who does not want to know if they have some form of dementia? Despite all of the benefits of an early diagnosis, they either can't or refuse to be swayed. Getting an early diagnosis while still devastating is important. And today we're discussing how celebrities talking about their risks might help move more people into accepting the benefits of knowing sooner rather than later. When a celebrity openly discusses their risk of Alzheimer's disease, it can profoundly impact raising awareness and promoting dementia prevention knowledge.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from MASSIVE Crypto News To CRASH Prices?
"We are, uh, here in the Bahamas. We are going to make it right. If you became a millionaire, would you keep working? The commander is here. What's going on right now is California's trying to figure out if this is going to be something that will pop your butt. Yeah. Oh, I can. Welcome to BitBoy Crypto! We're just talking about the Joker movie, everybody. Today is August 16. It's 1130 a .m. because we always start on time. We're going to have an hour -long show talking about crypto. We're going to talk about Coinbase. We're going to talk about a secret ETH whale that is a former president. You're going to want to stick around for that one. Also, some CFTC stuff. Another crypto millionaire found dead and some Thor chain stuff. So all my Thor fans, Chris Hemsworth, not Liam. We don't like Liam, right? Because the whole thing he did, he cheated on his wife. Yeah. But we do like Thor. I'm down with Thor. We're down with Thor. And he's got a little bit of time left before dementia kicks in, so. Alright, alright. Well, let's get right to the show, guys. Make sure you follow us, you know, and make sure you go buy some merch at hitmerch .com. You can see this cool ATB hat I got on, the cool ATB hoodie. Let's look at the crypto markets, though. How are they faring? We're going to go ahead and hit refresh. Oh, I want to give a shout out to a BitSquad member. They threw away the piece of paper with your name, but he gave us a mouth. Where's the mouse? Uh -oh. The mouse moved. Yeah, we had a BitSquad member send us in a Logitech with a track wheel. It was here last night. Owen. It's Owen. I'm going to get to the bottom of it, and, yeah, well, they threw away your name, buddy, but we appreciate the mouse there for us trackpad challenge folks, though. But let's look at the crypto market. It looks like it's taking a little bit of a tumble down. We are now down 1 .6%. We've fallen below 1 .2 trillion. I feel like we've been above that for a hot minute. 24 -hour volumes coming up a little bit. It was in the 30s. Now, we're at 41, basically $42 billion. Bitcoin dominance risen a little bit. It was 46 .9. Now, we're at 47 .3. Gas coming in at 36 Gwei. Bitcoin is down 0 .8%, and Ethereum is down 0 .9%, but some of these alts are really bleeding, folks. So, the alts are taking a hit. BNB isn't really feeling too much pain at 2 .3%, but XRP is down about 5%. Dogecoin down about 6%. Cardano down about 5%. Solana was 7%. Now, it's down about 6 .5%. Polygon down about 6%. What was that 7 % I just saw? SHIBA in you. Should have sold it. Should have sold. The sell wasn't in me. That's also down as well. Is the money flowing to... How do you say this coin, Tim? Yeah, I was talking about it this morning. See or say has to be the two options here. So, let's go with say. I'm going with say. I say say. Yeah. I think a lot of money is flowing into say. You see the 24 -hour volume is $1 .2 billion. Now, that could be $1 changing hands a billion times. But volume significant right here. The market cap is coming in at $380. That's not most of the tokens being sold for that much, but, you know, the tokens that are circulating, it is up. Do you think some money flowed into say? Yeah, I mean, clearly. I don't know if you saw it there, but on CoinMarketCap, it's up over 2 ,000. It was 2 ,100 % in the last 7 days. So, a lot of money flowed in, but if you look at the tokenomics, a little more than 10 % of the max amount of tokens are actually operating. So, not necessarily something I'm rushing to buy in, especially after the last 7 days being up over 2 ,000 % and the fact that it's the tokenomics are all good. I'm not buying yet. We'll have to see more developed before I'd be willing to buy. I looked at CASPA an hour and a half ago. It hadn't moved up that much. Maybe it was just a dip about 24 hours ago. CASPA is one of the top gainers of the day along with say CASPA up 6 .1%. But other than that, largely flat and then into the negative, but alts are bleeding, folks. We have HBAR, had big news, bullish news, now down 12%. Terra Luna's down, of course. Apecoin, down 10%. IMX, down 10%. Uniswap, you know what I'm seeing here, Tim and Drew, I'm seeing a lot of the SEC listed coins and the 48 coins listed in the Binance .US and I think Coinbase suits there. So, a lot of those coins that were listed in that Coinbase suit, they're beaten down. Do insiders know something, you think? Maybe, I don't know. Is there, yeah, there's no news that would bring them down necessarily. I just thought the whole crypto market as a whole is taking a little bit of a bath. All right, Servanda Estrada comes here for the nonsense. I like Eric Estrada, Chip, California Highway Patrolman. Servanda Estrada is one of my favorite names to read when we read names on Investing Bros. So, shout out to Servanda. Good to see you here. All right, all right. We also have Crypto Brat. Okay. All right. They get bratty when it goes down, I guess. Any thoughts on the new Celsius disclosure statement? We're talking about it, I need to dive down into it. It's a lot of moving parts, so I don't want to just have a cursory glance of the facts when still a lot of things we might not know. All right, let's talk about Promethium here, folks. Wait a minute, first, yeah, yeah, Promethium. Looks like we have a little press release here. Republicans, press regulators regarding Promethium's special purpose broker dealer approval. Pat McHenry from North Carolina led the committee here in sending letters to FINRA President Robert Cook and SEC Chair Gary Gensler regarding Promethium's approval as the first and only special purpose broker dealer for digital assets. They came out of nowhere, got all these approvals, and no one ever heard of them before. We covered it months ago. What the heck is Promethium? Where's Promethium coming from? We discovered a lot of insiders. Well, some Republican senators, looks like they had some issues with it. Here we have a quote. I think this is McHenry here. The timing and circumstances surrounding the approval of Promethium as the first special purpose broker dealer here raises serious questions. The approval comes as the committee is considering addressing gaps in the regulation of digital assets. We held a joint hearing just seven days ago, prior to the approval of this asset or SBBD. In that hearing, members discussed their plan to propose legislation on digital asset market structure. While Promethium claims it is a silver bullet for digital asset offerings, it has not yet served a single customer. There's also refused to make public the digital asset securities that they would support on his platform. And since they're limited to digital asset securities, the SEC has refused to provide any biting guidance on what digital assets are securities. It is unclear what assets would even be eligible. Here, I wanna show this story as well. They respond. All right, so we got a response. So we got the Republicans. They're like, hey, this is fishy. Stinks, you know, they're ripping the mask off like it's Scooby -Doo. Something's not right here. What are your thoughts on the approval? Do you think there's any chance that there's no insiders? No, there's absolutely insiders. And the fact that Congress is noticing it is actually a breath of fresh air, but there's clearly fishiness. Ben made a video. We posted it, what, two weeks ago, three weeks ago maybe at this point, just on the sketchiness of this entire story. The coincidences just go too far to not have some weight to them. All right, we have Asmyr, F this ATL traffic. Hey, ATL in the house. Boomer Sooner, do this move. That's what I know. Actually, do that or you do the wafting move too. It's like a drowning man. All right, Promethium responds to Republican concerns on the FINRA and the SEC approval. So Promethium, they got a little response here. There's Pac McHenry. He's the one, you know, raising the questions. So the LLC, the response takes the spotlight amid growing concerns raised by members of the House Financial Services Committee. Here we have a friend of the channel, Eleanor Terrett, tweeting about it as well. In reactions, Promethium issued a statement. The purpose built its technology with the goal to develop a market infrastructure for digital asset securities that is compliant with federal securities laws. So they basically said nothing while saying a whole lot of something there. In separate letters from House Committee, Pat McHenry and 22 other members, they directed it to the CEO of FINRA and Gensler. And you know, we kind of covered this, just kind of covering their concerns regarding the timing of the approval.
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A highlight from The Indictment of Donald Trump: A Threat to All Americans
"And I'm going to say it just like that. It's bullshit. Why? Because you would never, ever, ever bring these charges against Hillary Clinton. You would never, ever, ever bring these charges against Stacey Abrams. It's political. It's targeting one person. And you know what? I'll say this to him, Mike. When Donald Trump says they're coming after you, I'm just in the way, he's 100 % right. Welcome to another Financial Guys podcast. I'm Mike Hayflick, along with Mike Speraza. Mike, I think mostly we're going to talk about Trump today, but we have to talk about another dredge of our Erie County community, Mark Poloncarz. But we'll save a little bit of that news about Mark for last. Another fearless leader in New York. Man, what's worse than fearless? He's fearful. He's fearful of his own reputation is all he's really fearful of. That's what I'd say, but we'll save that for last. You do not want to miss his response to the two rapes by migrants, I should say. You do not want to hear his exact ... We're going to read the exact Facebook post. I won't even summarize, I'm going to read you exactly what he has to say. You don't want to miss that at the end of the show. Filled with compassion, I'm sure. So Trump indicted for a fourth time. This is not unexpected. This was by Fulton County DA Fannie Willis. This is for election interference and Trump and many others actually must surrender by August 25th at noon, Mike. Your thoughts initially on Trump being indicted for a fourth time. Well, it's not shocking because they've been telling us for weeks that they were going to make a show of this. Atlanta or Fulton County, they have literally been talking about this for months. They've been talking about mug shots. They've been talking about the whole song and dance of an actual bringing Trump in and going through the fingerprinting, going through the photos. They've been doing this and telling us this for months. So it's not shocking. What is shocking them, Mike, is that you've seen the polls, right? Every time this happens, Trump's numbers skyrocket. His fundraising skyrockets every single time. And now they're doing it again. And this might be the most ridiculous of them all because of the charade and the show that it's going to be. If I was going to use an example, if I'm a Barack Obama and I'm the leader of the party, not saying he is, but maybe he is, I'm saying to myself, the last thing that I want the media and I want law enforcement and I want the legal system to do is prop this guy up anymore because every time we do it, it backfires at us. I'd be like, keep this guy out of your mouth. Keep him away from you. I don't want to hear Donald Trump. I don't want to see Donald Trump. But no, they do the opposite. And I think their hope is, Mike, they get him on one of these charges. I don't think it matters. The people that are voting for Donald Trump, myself included, I'm going to raise my hand. I am voting for Donald Trump no matter what happens. He could get convicted on all 75 indictments and 400 years in prison. I don't care I'm voting for him. Now, if something came out that he was like a child molester or an actual murderer or something, of course that would change. But based on these four indictments, no matter what happens in the courtroom, Donald Trump is not, it's not even a question. He is my vote. I am voting for Donald Trump. That is the president. Yeah. This, this once again, I think shows how self -serving, narcissistic and how deeply Trump derangement syndrome runs in a lot of these people's heads like Fannie Willis. This is the, the reading, I guess I'll, I'll use this out of an article off of Fox. Let's, uh, let's see this by, oh, this was seven hours ago, Houston, Keene of Fox news. This says a 97 page indictment. The charges include violating the Georgia RICO act RICO. If you don't know what that means, racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act often, I think you'd hear that it may be for mafia activity, drug activity, solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree conspiracy to commit false statements and writings conspiracy to commit filing false documents conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree filing false documents and solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer. Now former Trump white house chief of staff, Mark Meadows, attorneys, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesbrough, Jeff Clark, John Eastman, and others were also charged out of this years long investigation. Interesting Mike years long investigation. And here we are, August of 2023, just before presidential campaigns really heat up and debates begin. Let's talk about the timing of these indictments. I mean, we had Alvin Bragg start this whole parade off with falsifying business records, uh, you know, accusations against Donald Trump, which was total bullshit Manhattan DA, right? Alvin Bragg Bragg, next federal charges for holding classified records at Mar -a -Lago also bullshit. Go ahead. Justice department council, Jack Smith, then for the January 6th, uh, involvement, he says that Trump had basically instigating that whole event. And then further with, you know, just to layer on it, it was like icing on a cake. He had to hold Trump accountable for even more. And then finally Fulton County, DA Fannie Willis. So just the timing of this, it seems so orchestrated, um, I don't think there's any question in anybody's mind. I don't care who you are, that this has been an orchestrated attempt to take down Donald Trump. So in case nobody saw this yesterday, cause I'm sure you did, and I'm not saying you Mike, but people listening may not have, um, Sam bank from freed, uh, there was news that came out about him shelling out a hundred million dollars of stolen money, by the way, from his FTX funds to Democrat, uh, you know, nominees in the 2022 midterms. So the same day we see this crook, which we all knew were, was a crook by the way, you know, let's not forget that we all said this for a long time. This guy gave a hundred million dollars to democratic candidates across the country. That is on the same day. Also the whistleblower confirmed, um, some of the stuff in the Hunter Biden trial just yesterday. And then this comes out by the way, Mike, we forgot to mention this earlier, Fannie Willis, the genius that she is, ends up screwing up this indictment by the way, and putting it online for public knowledge before they even talk to the grand jury. Right, right. So they were working fast and they were working fast for a reason, right? This is just another show. And again, I'm here for it. I'm on the record. I'm here for it. Why? This is cementing. Donald Trump said he needed one more indictment. I'm going to say he needs one more thing. He needs the Fulton County mugshot and it's over. Once we get the mugshot, this race, not the primary is already over. The primary has been over. Once we get that mugshot, the, the 2024 race is over. It's over completely. That will set Donald Trump over the edge. His face will be on every t -shirt again, raising my hand, I'll buy 20 of them. The Donald Trump mugshot will take him through and carry him through the 2024 election. It's over. Yeah. And this, to your point about this leak, Fannie Willis essentially just simply said, I can't tell you anything. Of course you can't, right? So this was Monday. This is, this is official. The office of the Fulton County clerk or superior and magistrate courts has learned of a fictitious document that has been circulated online and reported by various media outlets to the Fulton County special purpose grand jury. While there have been no documents filed today regarding such, all members of the media should be reminded that documents that do not bear an official case number, filing date and the name of the clerk of courts in concert are not considered official filings and should not be treated as such. This was not a simple mistake is what, uh, let's see here. This was Trump attorneys, Drew Findling and Jennifer Little who slammed this. This was not a simple administrative mistake. A proposed indictment should only be in the hands of the DA's office, yet it somehow made its way to the clerk's office and was assigned a case number and a judge before the grand jury even deliberated. How could that be, Mike? Well, how can it be and how can this not just be thrown out? You know, if anyone believes in rule of law and equal justice, how can this just not be thrown out? I think to your point, Mike, like I totally agree. I think nobody who has supported Trump from the beginning has lost the feeling of support for him. I mean, if anything, it's grown and grown and grown. And then the other thing is you just wonder, will independents or any, any liberals at all liberals like Bill Maher, will any of them say, I cannot, I cannot in my right mind vote for anybody on the left anymore. They've taken this far, far too far. And I mean, it's like basically over the cliff and they're falling, waiting to see how hard it's going to, you know, how hard they're all going to hit. Here's the problem, too. In the last six years, we've had numerous people challenge elections. By the way, two of them were that I'm talking about right now were liberals. Hillary Clinton still doesn't believe she lost in 2016 and is on the record saying that. And Stacey Abrams has it, Mike. So if you really give a shit about, you know, hey, we need to bring people to justice, then do it, then go after those two. This is my problem with this whole thing. Like all these liberals, like Harry Sisson, Mr. Gen Z, oh, finally getting justice. That's bullshit. And I'm going to say it just like that. It's bullshit. Why? Because you would never, ever, ever bring these charges against Hillary Clinton. You would never, ever, ever bring these charges against Stacey Abrams there. It's political. It's targeting one person. And you know what? I'll say this, too, Mike. When Donald Trump says they're coming after you, I'm just in the way, he's 100 percent right. What does he mean by that? They don't give a shit about Trump. They do, but that's short term. They know that at most Trump's got four years left. They give a shit about all of us that can think clearly and that know they're all full of shit. That's what they're concerned about. The MAGA movement, they're petrified of it. And they need to take out its leader. And they're coming after us next. I promise you that. Well, let's talk about what can actually work in terms of Trump getting elected, in terms of stopping this crazy liberal freight train. Is it simply election? Is it actually GOP members stepping up and actually getting the balls to do something? Like do something. That would help. Stop threatening. Stop reporting. Like they're the town criers. Oh, have you seen what's going on there? Whoa, that's wrong. Oh, my gosh. What's this Fannie Willis thinking? Whoa. What was Alvin Bragg's thinking? This is this is unconstitutional. You just hear it. It's like it's like just it's like white noise now. You just hear all the Republicans, those that even want to say anything. How about the ones that never say anything? What are we paying you for? Like honestly, what are we paying you for? You're not passing any great legislation. So how about you just get a set of balls and say something? Say in something support or in not support. All you like to do is is sort of thread the needle. Stay on that tightrope. You don't want to go one side or another of the tightrope. You feel like, well, if I support Trump too much, that's not going to look good. But oh, if I if I don't support him, oh, my gosh, what are people going to think of me? Like stop thinking of what others will think of you. And how about you stand up? How about like a Vivek Ramaswamy type of statement where you actually you understand what's going on in this country and you actually take a side and you don't care who politically the person is. You stand up for what's right or what's wrong. I mean, I'm so tired of this. So do you think elections will make a difference? Do you think that some GOP members can actually make a difference? Do you think the the judicial system might make the difference? Do you think a lot of these things are just going to go basically down? I don't see them going down in many of these states. I mean, in Georgia and New York, D .C., D .C. I mean, I mean, really, like you look at this and you think, boy, these just have to be appealed and probably all the way headed right to the Supreme Court. My thoughts, honestly, are the Supreme Court right now can help. But at this point, forget Kevin McCarthy, forget Mitch McConnell, forget all the bursar artists that are in Congress, forget them all. If there's one thing that can change this and it's you, the people, you, the people are the only thing that can change this political weaponization, this political persecution. And to be honest with you, this banana republic government we got, there's one thing you can do and it's vote and it's go vote for Donald Trump. That is the one thing that we can do, Mike. Forget the courts. Forget all that. Go vote for Donald Trump. That is the only thing that we as Americans can do. Your congressmen won't do it. Your congresswomen won't do it. There's less than I bet, Mike, two percent that actually know what the hell is going on or are not part of that uni -party. There's less than two percent. I'll say a Matt Gaetz is one of those, right? I'll say a Byron Donalds is probably one of those, right? Those types of guys are the people that we need. Now, again, even with them, there's not enough of them, Mike. We need us, the voter, to take care of this. Go vote for Donald Trump and get rid of the con men. Get rid of the B .S., the Bidens, the Clintons, the Obamas. Get rid of them all. Go vote and take care of it. So it's easy to become just sort of a witness or a spectator to all of this, right? We all sit back and then at your kitchen table or as you're having a beer, having some chicken wings here in Buffalo anyway, maybe across the country, just not as good. You start talking about these things. And then to your point, Mike, people at election time think they need to just distance themselves from these things. They need a mental health break. They need to just they need to just watch and see what happens. Let's just see how the cards fall. Well, this house of cards that Joe Biden's administration and he has built, it's coming down, guys. I mean, it's burning like Maui right now. And it's just it just hasn't come to your doorstep yet. That's the problem. Until it hits your doorstep, you're not evacuating, right? You're not jumping into the ocean like these people in Maui have had to do. It's just a terrible tragedy there, which, by the way, Joe Biden doesn't have any time to comment on. By the way, let's not forget that, you know, actual disaster going on in California and Hawaii right now. But Joe Biden, baby, he's got to go ride his bike. He's got a vacation. So don't don't interrupt that. He's actually headed, I think, this week to Texas or something to can't find his way to Hawaii, though. God forbid he does that or God forbid he sends his vice president. Can't do that. How vile is that team that he has around them around him? I mean, they're the ones running the show. We know that. So it's just a it's such a corrupt and vile group to not say we got to get Joe out in front of the microphone for this. I mean, we've got to at least talk about the lives being lost, the federal assistance that we're going to provide, just something. Not a thing. And that's not Joe Biden. I mean, Joe Biden can't can't make sense of anything. And we know that. Like, that's clear. We know that. I mean, there's so much evidence now to say that I can say it without really saying, well, you never know. No, we know. But his team. Yeah. I mean, Dr. Jill, what are you saying, Joe? Maui's burning like it'll likely be thousands of people will have died on Maui because of fires and extreme wind and spreading of the wildfires. And he doesn't set a word. And you, Jill, don't have a you know, at any like no respect at all, no, no decency to tell your husband, get in front of a microphone, for God's sake, and say something about the people on Maui. They're U .S. citizens. But to your point earlier about voting, that's the problem. People get what I call election dementia. They completely forget how we got to the extreme, horrible, horrible conditions that we end up getting to. And then at election time, Mike, right about now, somehow the Democrats are going to come out and say, wow, look what's happening. Climate change is destroying island, beautiful islands like Maui. Crime is it's just it's taking over American cities. We can change that. We will help you. We will give. Right. We're Santa Claus. We will give. And then everybody votes for these people again. Yeah. And by the way, you know, Mike, to point of we will give the we will give costs everybody that actually works money. Right. So it sounds great in theory. Yeah. I said this to my mom was text me the other day about I forgot what it was. And I'm like, oh, you didn't know that money just grows on trees. Yeah. You just go over there. I'll just pick off that leave. It's money like that. That's what government treats everything like. And like we talk about all the time, we're both business owners. If I say to a company that I'm doing advertising with, you know, just give me give me five million. I'll take five million dollars advertising. No, no worries. Then they say, Mike, you got to pay for it. Well, what? That's not to pay. I thought I only had to pay ten thousand dollars. What do you mean I'd pay five? That's not a good deal for me. Yeah. What? Well, Mike, you signed a contract to pay us five million advertising. No, no, I didn't. OK. You know what I'll do? I'll just go ask all my clients for an extra five thousand dollars apiece and I'll pay my advertising. You can't do that in business, right? It's the business owner, the government, that if you're going to make deals, you've got to live with those deals and pay for them, right? Not expect everybody else to. What they do, Mike, as you always say, is they'll make these things up, right? And then they'll say, we've solved the problem. Crime? Yeah, we can't believe it's so bad either, but we have the solution. No, Kathy Hochul, you are the problem. You are not the solution. Joe Biden, no, you are not the solution. You are the problem. But Mike, to your point, the way they market it is that this, you know, we're here to save you. The problem is the saving comes from our pockets and the listener's pockets and the people that work pockets, the people that are retired that work their asses off pockets. And even then, Mike, they take all that money from us and it doesn't do a damn thing because they don't know what to do with it. Contracts. I mean, contracts involve people that have an intellect, right? You got to understand what contract are you stepping into. You've got to have integrity to follow through on the contract, right? The two sides agree to something. And you've got to then trust that each other will actually abide by the contract. Those qualities don't exist in many of these liberal progressive minds, intellect, integrity, trust. It's all about them. It's all about them. And then the problem is they will actually sign contracts and then think that it doesn't apply to them, even though they signed it. Right. So I think it's out the window now, like the idea of compromise and, you know, let's let's make agreements and all that. It's out the window. It's out the window. These people don't care. We see it every day. We see crime in cities and then we're told, let's not hold these people accountable. Let's let's let's deflect from the true reasons for these things. Let's hold guys like Trump accountable for actions that we can't even prove. But you know what? He has he has all the right in the world, Mike, to prove he's innocent. Right. That, according to Nancy Pelosi, this is upside down. And it won't turn right side up unless we get a guy like Trump, maybe just maybe we get a guy like Vivek Ramaswamy either side by side with Trump or somehow integrated within a Trump administration. And then maybe I have some hope, maybe some more optimism. And lastly, before we get to our pal Mark Polancarz, I do just want to say I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. And I mean this right. I don't care if you're a liberal, if you're independent or if you're conservative. If you think that this is the right way to do business in the United States, I say do business, not actual business, but you get what I'm saying? If this is what you think the right way is, then you need to go do some history on the Stalin regime, on Hitler's regime, on Benito Mussolini's regime. Do me a favor and go read about that. In those days, there were no such thing, Mike, as opposition, right? If you opposed, you got killed, right? And we're not killing Donald Trump yet, by the way. I'm going to say yet because I think that's next when all these sham four indictments don't work. That's where they're going next, right? So I hope Donald Trump has his taste testers. I hope Donald Trump has the secret service because I fear for that man's life and I pray for that man because I'm seriously concerned about it. This is dangerous. And if you are an American and you think this is the right way, there is something seriously wrong with you, right? Something said, you know, people could say, oh, Donald Trump said lock her up about Hillary. Okay. He did say that. Did he put his whole Department of Justice against Hillary Clinton like this? Did he do any of this? Because I don't think he did. No. Right. And some people wish he had done that. Right. I mean, a lot of us. Looking back, he probably should have. A lot of us say that might have been the only place he went wrong. He had a couple of years in power and he could have really slammed the door on all these accusations about Hillary Clinton and the bleach bidding of documents and the slamming and the smashing of cell phones and all that. He didn't do it. And we wish he would have. Would it have changed, turned the tide? I don't know. You know, we won't know. But after two years as a president, he kind of lost his ability to do it. I mean, he started to focus on America, which I'm glad he did. But I don't know. Well, I mean, we'll have to see how this one more indictment changes, turns the tide. Again, I think stalwart Trump supporters are not swaying. It's a matter of getting others to say, what on earth will it take for you to say this is a liberal, far, far leftist government that doesn't care about justice for all? Are you going to continue to align yourself with them or not? And time will tell. Let's talk a little bit about Erie County executive Mark Polancarz. Mark Polancarz has often been there at the forefront of cleanup, is what I'd say. One that comes to mind, Mike, was the winter storm and not adequately preparing and actually declaring an emergency. So I remember it like this, and this is just my recollection. We knew, we knew from the Midwest there were nasty, massive storms coming across the country, right? Ice storms, devastating winds like 70, 80 mile per hour winds. They were on their way. So we knew that the night before, let's say 10 o 'clock at night, 9 o 'clock at night the night before. And all through the night, we hear nothing. We hear nothing. We hear nothing. People get on the roads at 7, 730, 8 o 'clock in the morning, and then all hell broke loose. The snow was flying, it was blizzard, blizzard conditions, somewhat like the 1977 blizzard of western New York, of Buffalo. And everybody that was out on the roads was at peril. Many of them got stuck in vehicles. They ended up trying to leave their vehicles, and many, many actually died. And what did we hear afterward? We heard Mark Polancarz say, wow, this was just a devastating storm. Wow, we're going to try and get out there and save as many people as possible, right? We need to do all the right things. He came out, but he made a grave error by not pronouncing closing the throughway at 11 p .m. the night before, right? Or 10 p .m. the night before. Get off the throughways. Get off the roads. You will not be able to report to work, right? Government officials and everybody, right? They all love to do mandates, Mike. Why wouldn't he make a mandate then? So anyway, he's always at the forefront of the cleanup efforts. And he does the apology tour or the, you know, I'm not that bad. Come on, this went wrong, but I'm not that bad. What did he say of late? So this was sent to me actually by Stefan Mihaylo. Here we go. This is a Facebook post, folks. Now this is, mind you, a week after two people were raped, right? One person has tuberculosis in the area. All legal, by the way, shouldn't be here, okay? This is what he says. While the last few days haven't been the best I've had in office, I think back to everything this community has gone through since 2020. The COVID pandemic, the mass shooting, terrible storms, and the Christmas blizzard, the Damar Hamlin incident, Jason Arno's tragic death, and so much more. And know that a few political hits and rough days against me are nothing in the grand scheme of things, especially compared to what others have had to face. My team and I will come out stronger as we continue to work to create a better future for all. So as you can tell, Mike and I are a little hot today between the Trump indictment and this. Let me just say one thing. I'll turn this over to you, Mike.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 286 - Taking Control of Your Brain Health: Assessing Your Risk of Alzheimer's
"Anybody from anywhere in the world can spend time with me or one of my board -certified colleagues. We can really discuss any aspect of dementia or any other neurological condition that is of concern. And if that individual wants to have access to that Geno score test, we can send it out to them because that test is only available through a doctor. Unfortunately, you can't go Walgreens or CVS or Walmart and buy the test. And it takes about four weeks to come back, the test results go to a laboratory and that laboratory does its sophisticated testing to identify and put together these 100 ,000 different gene products that contribute to the overall Alzheimer risk. And then we circle back with that individual and we discuss what that Geno score means and what we can do to intervene and mitigate the risk of dementia later on in life. You know how passionate I am about brain health. Taking control of your brain health is crucial, especially when it comes to assessing your risk of Alzheimer's disease. Understanding your individual risk factors empowers you to make informed decisions and take proactive steps to preserve your cognitive function. So I am pleased that on this episode, I am joined by neurologist Dr. Jeff Gelblom. He is dedicated to discussing risk factors and what we all can do to mitigate our risks of developing Alzheimer's disease.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 286 - Taking Control of Your Brain Health: Assessing Your Risk of Alzheimer's
"Anybody from anywhere in the world can spend time with me or one of my board -certified colleagues. We can really discuss any aspect of dementia or any other neurological condition that is of concern. And if that individual wants to have access to that Geno score test, we can send it out to them because that test is only available through a doctor. Unfortunately, you can't go Walgreens or CVS or Walmart and buy the test. And it takes about four weeks to come back, the test results go to a laboratory and that laboratory does its sophisticated testing to identify and put together these 100 ,000 different gene products that contribute to the overall Alzheimer risk. And then we circle back with that individual and we discuss what that Geno score means and what we can do to intervene and mitigate the risk of dementia later on in life. You know how passionate I am about brain health. Taking control of your brain health is crucial, especially when it comes to assessing your risk of Alzheimer's disease. Understanding your individual risk factors empowers you to make informed decisions and take proactive steps to preserve your cognitive function. So I am pleased that on this episode, I am joined by neurologist Dr. Jeff Gelblom. He is dedicated to discussing risk factors and what we all can do to mitigate our risks of developing Alzheimer's disease.
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"dementia" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"I think they're really important in the these elder care moments. Because it's just so easy to go to the negative so quickly. You know, dad, those people are dead. You can't call them. That's not the point of this. That's not the point of the conversation, actually. And you know, if I could do it all over again, I think I would say that I know you feel really strongly about the place not being as nice as you wanted it to be. That's really sweet of you. That's really important. I'm glad you shared that with me. Even that statement is positive, right? I'm glad you shared that with me. Because it's kind of a way of saying, you know, your effort at communication has been successful on that level, right? I get it. Wow, that's really a strong emotion you have. Thanks for sharing that. And you know, I'm not like this all the time, but I try to remind myself, you know, in these more vulnerable moments, go for the positive or go for the impact of it rather than picking out the truth value of it. But just to just to summarize what I was saying about the book, I called that first section entering into the world, the second second shut the second section of the book I called listening. That's the section in which this trip back to the cafe happens. Where I just say, okay, if I want to survive in this dementia based world, I'd better start listening. Because it's a new language. It's a new word. It's a new reality. I better just start becoming more of a listener than a responder right away. What can I learn? What can I learn from this new world? And then the third section I called connecting, which is mostly about experiences in the nursing home, where when I go to visit my mother, I would talk to some of the people,
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"I think they're really important in the these elder care moments. Because it's just so easy to go to the negative so quickly. You know, dad, those people are dead. You can't call them. That's not the point of this. That's not the point of the conversation, actually. And you know, if I could do it all over again, I think I would say that I know you feel really strongly about the place not being as nice as you wanted it to be. That's really sweet of you. That's really important. I'm glad you shared that with me. Even that statement is positive, right? I'm glad you shared that with me. Because it's kind of a way of saying, you know, your effort at communication has been successful on that level, right? I get it. Wow, that's really a strong emotion you have. Thanks for sharing that. And you know, I'm not like this all the time, but I try to remind myself, you know, in these more vulnerable moments, go for the positive or go for the impact of it rather than picking out the truth value of it. But just to just to summarize what I was saying about the book, I called that first section entering into the world, the second second shut the second section of the book I called listening. That's the section in which this trip back to the cafe happens. Where I just say, okay, if I want to survive in this dementia based world, I'd better start listening. Because it's a new language. It's a new word. It's a new reality. I better just start becoming more of a listener than a responder right away. What can I learn? What can I learn from this new world? And then the third section I called connecting, which is mostly about experiences in the nursing home, where when I go to visit my mother, I would talk to some of the people,
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"And the hand was dealt and she just said, I don't know how to play this game anymore. And they reflect that moment where you, as the dementia, recipient, or experience, or there is a point at which you know of something is wrong, that's beyond just all I'm sleepier, I'm tired or something. And she said, I can't play this game anymore. And from that point, you know, very rapidly over the next couple of months. You know, she couldn't remember how to cook. She couldn't remember how to fold laundry. She couldn't remember how to do things that were part of her muscle memory, her whole life. And my father, you know, they were living together just the two of them, my older sister was living nearby. And so she would stop by and do a lot of the things. But eventually, my father was at the end of his rope. I mean, he just didn't know how to take care of her anymore. And he had problems. He would call me frequently. You know, because he couldn't kind of, he had difficulty dealing with the accusations. Why did you not, why didn't you do this? Why didn't you and she was externalizing her own experiences onto him? Projecting, I guess they call that in psychology where, and as hard as he tried, it was getting to be a little too much for him. And one day my mother just couldn't get out of bed. She couldn't move her legs. And I think that's neurological more than muscular, right? It was just she could not coordinate the movements anymore. My understanding is the brain just forgets how to communicate those kind of things. To the lens, right? Yeah. They forget how to eat how to swallow how to bring the food. As a linguist, I've studied the brain and I've studied language and the brain is an organ. It's just like the stomach or the heart.
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"And the hand was dealt and she just said, I don't know how to play this game anymore. And they reflect that moment where you, as the dementia, recipient, or experience, or there is a point at which you know of something is wrong, that's beyond just all I'm sleepier, I'm tired or something. And she said, I can't play this game anymore. And from that point, you know, very rapidly over the next couple of months. You know, she couldn't remember how to cook. She couldn't remember how to fold laundry. She couldn't remember how to do things that were part of her muscle memory, her whole life. And my father, you know, they were living together just the two of them, my older sister was living nearby. And so she would stop by and do a lot of the things. But eventually, my father was at the end of his rope. I mean, he just didn't know how to take care of her anymore. And he had problems. He would call me frequently. You know, because he couldn't kind of, he had difficulty dealing with the accusations. Why did you not, why didn't you do this? Why didn't you and she was externalizing her own experiences onto him? Projecting, I guess they call that in psychology where, and as hard as he tried, it was getting to be a little too much for him. And one day my mother just couldn't get out of bed. She couldn't move her legs. And I think that's neurological more than muscular, right? It was just she could not coordinate the movements anymore. My understanding is the brain just forgets how to communicate those kind of things. To the lens, right? Yeah. They forget how to eat how to swallow how to bring the food. As a linguist, I've studied the brain and I've studied language and the brain is an organ. It's just like the stomach or the heart.
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"As an important part of my journey, so I called this book the journey, the journey home, and I think it's as much about my journey as about my parents journey and I divide the book into really four parts. And I think there were like four phases of my journey. The first set of vignettes or chapters I call entering. And that's just like entering the world of dementia. And nothing in my life, I've got a PhD in linguistics and I study language and language acquisition and language loss. How languages are acquired and how they're lost as well. But nothing in my training prepared me for the world of dementia. And I think we all are at least in my family. We felt like victims like, why did this happen to us? And that's part of that entering phase. You're entering into this new world of perception, new world, new world of memory, for sure, do we're able to interpretation of the truth. What is true? That's actually a really good question because their reality is sometimes very different. So their truth and our truth are pretty well almost polar opposites sometimes. And which one is more valid, you know? You start to question which one is more valid. And I think this may sound a little too new agey, but whatever crosses your consciousness is real. I mean, it has some reality to it for you. And so I need to value consciousness in the dementia patient. And if it's in their world, of consciousness, it's real. It's got some reality to it. And I think we need to acknowledge that because I know I know I've heard you on some of your other podcast interviews. You know, talk about the struggles with the what do you call them the patient, the caregiving caregiving? Yeah, the caregiving that works. I just refer to them as like your loved one. I loved one. Yeah. I mean, you get into these challenges where they'll challenge your reality, you know, that they'll challenge you, they'll say, you said this, and you realize I didn't say that, but they think you said it. They imagine you saying that they imagine all kinds of slides and things going wrong. And I think just the strategy of not challenging the truth value of something helps. You're upset about the food or you're upset about the air conditioning, or you're upset about something. That's a real thing. And just work with the feeling of it or the perception of it rather than the truth of it.
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"And I always tell people the next time I'll let you be the host again. The next time you think about the statement persons with dementia can not learn, please remember this woman because definitely not true. It's just not true. Yeah, yeah. So this is, this is what we're about. This is about changing the way people think about dementia, changing what they see, enabling people to use capacities that they have giving people purpose and meaning and the ability to live well with dimension. We work with people literally on the day they die, engaging them and showing staff and families how to engage them using this approach, enabling people to be their best selves persons with dementia and those who are their care partners. It's about a way of living and we just applying it in this population here. So that is kind of sort of who we are and what we do, but I told people I don't have a job I have a mission. I can relate. There's a difference. And it's about trying to change the world. It's trying to change the very way we think. And view the world and the people around us and we have a montessori pledged that we ask people to consider taking when they work with us. I will work to create the kind of place I would want to live. I will remember I must earn the trust of others, they must learn to trust me. I will remember I'm a guest in the home of residence. I will try to be a good guest. If you have a bad guest in your home, you don't ask them back. And they take over the TV and the whole 9 yards and when I go to my room and I stay there. This is human stuff. It says I will use the montessori principles in everything that I do, things like always demonstrate, give choice, give meaning, move it their speed, give people something to hold. And I will treat everyone I meet with respect, dignity, and equality, the key roles, and then finally I will treat people the way I wish to be treated. Yep. We need a lot more of that nowadays. Yeah, and you see what happens is it spills over beyond like a job. We're beyond visits. It's about like giving children choice at home, which of these chores that we need to have done with you like to do. As opposed to clean.
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"Ability to feed yourself. But it all starts with the understanding of the person with dementia can still learn. The person with dementia is a normal person who has a disability. We need to look at dementia, not as a disease medicalized process, but as a disability. And what that means is that our job then is to enable a person to circumvent their deficits. And to be able to use the ability to stay have as opposed to focusing on what they can't do. So for example, we talk about cognitive ramps, okay? No, if you're driving down the street and you see a ramp that's built up in the front yard to somebody's house, you don't think anything of it. You say, you know, there's someone there who is, say, in a wheelchair, and this lets them get into the house without having to go up steps or be carried up the steps. So for a person with dementia, cognitive ramps are things that allow you to circumvent your deficits. So for example, I remember talking to a woman who said, you know, it's really sad, but when I come to visit my husband, he doesn't know me anymore. He calls me by his mother's name or his Antony. And what I told her was he knows he just can't name you. There's a real, that's not a random choice of names. So what if you wear a name tag in large print when you come to visit? And he can read that and call you by name. And that is a cognitive ramp. And I'll tell you the nature of a relationship changes when a person can call you by name or when they can't. We say it's a little thing that's a big thing. Another thing is, for example, I always talk to staff and I say, all right, so a person comes up to you and says, you know, my wife doesn't visit me anymore or my daughter. They don't know if I'm alive or dead. Please call them. And of course, the person left 45 minutes ago after their visit. And they might not be even home. They're on the way. They're on the way home, see. Why laugh because when my mom was in memory care the first year ish, oh my goodness, all the ladies there, they were demanding the phone in the yellow pages, which of course cracked me up because I'm not even sure they still print yellow pages anymore, but that's what they remember though. Yeah. So what we say is you need to, if this is a community, you need to have a visitor center. You need to have a place where people can go who are coming for a visit who can see what's coming up who can figure out how to get to places, but also how to have a good time. And so one of the things we talk about is what we call a visitor's book. This is a thing that I got actually an Oslo when I was giving the conference, but.
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"Is there anything else people should know about this tour or the data that you're gathering other than I'm endorsing it because it's definitely an eye opening experience. It's not scary. It might be a little frustrating, but it's short, short lived, and it really will help you if you thought you understood what they were going through. It'll affirm it or change your mind. It's well worth spending ten 15 minutes doing this tour. What else should people know from your side of the aisle here? I think one, it's nothing to be afraid of. It can feel frustrating in there, but that's part of the point. But we'll take care of folks afterwards and make sure people understand everything and why it's done and so we don't leave people hanging. Certainly, secondly, I think it really does help change change everyone. Makes life better for everyone. And I think the other thing to know about it is that the program itself, the virtual dementia tour was donated to our parent organization segment dreams. And second wind dreams mission is to change the perception of aging. And so we do that primarily through fulfilling dreams of elders who live usually the ones who live in long-term care elder care communities who don't have anybody. Because we want people to understand that we have dreams and hopes no matter what our age is. And we don't stop being people just because they're all we're still viable and important. So it's a way to create awareness. So all the funds when people buy the virtual dementia program or donate to it or whatever all of that goes back to helping fulfill dreams. So there's another good cause to add on to that as well as the effectiveness of taking the tour itself. So we've reached several million people so far, but there's still some people on the planet. We have to reach. So if you haven't taken the tour, definitely definitely would encourage you to do that. Of course, yes, I am biased, but I think it really is effective..
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"Is there anything else people should know about this tour or the data that you're gathering other than I'm endorsing it because it's definitely an eye opening experience. It's not scary. It might be a little frustrating, but it's short, short lived, and it really will help you if you thought you understood what they were going through. It'll affirm it or change your mind. It's well worth spending ten 15 minutes doing this tour. What else should people know from your side of the aisle here? I think one, it's nothing to be afraid of. It can feel frustrating in there, but that's part of the point. But we'll take care of folks afterwards and make sure people understand everything and why it's done and so we don't leave people hanging. Certainly, secondly, I think it really does help change change everyone. Makes life better for everyone. And I think the other thing to know about it is that the program itself, the virtual dementia tour was donated to our parent organization segment dreams. And second wind dreams mission is to change the perception of aging. And so we do that primarily through fulfilling dreams of elders who live usually the ones who live in long-term care elder care communities who don't have anybody. Because we want people to understand that we have dreams and hopes no matter what our age is. And we don't stop being people just because they're all we're still viable and important. So it's a way to create awareness. So all the funds when people buy the virtual dementia program or donate to it or whatever all of that goes back to helping fulfill dreams. So there's another good cause to add on to that as well as the effectiveness of taking the tour itself. So we've reached several million people so far, but there's still some people on the planet. We have to reach. So if you haven't taken the tour, definitely definitely would encourage you to do that. Of course, yes, I am biased, but I think it really is effective..
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"So we try to make sense of it all because it can be confusing. If you people are in the tour for a while, sometimes some of their behavior mimics the behavior of people with dementia. So it's interesting for people to be able to draw those parallels between how they behaved and how they thought and what the people with dementia are experiencing and how they behave and how it helps normalize what it's like to have dimension quite a bit. Well, I can confirm that because it feels like a lot longer than a few minutes. Trust me. So that's an interesting realization because I, you know, it's been what two or three years now? But I still remember at one point just feeling like, this is ridiculous. Why am I doing this? And just kind of that feeling of forget it. I'm just not going to do it, which would be a typical attitude for my mom. So that was very helpful. I've always, I frequently tell people I have weird vision, so I don't have depth perception, and I don't, you know, in low light, it's like really hard to tell what is where in relationship to me is like, is it close? Is it middle? Is it far and sometimes shadows? Like low contrast just it just messes with my brain. So I did have the benefit of that personal experience. I understood my mom's visual processing not being great pretty well, but the tour was like I said, it was definitely helpful, because I could feel some of the things she felt. And which is obviously the point. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. And I think too, you know, obviously not everybody's going to have those visual issues, but it will give other people a chance to experience the same things you're living with day to day..
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"So we try to make sense of it all because it can be confusing. If you people are in the tour for a while, sometimes some of their behavior mimics the behavior of people with dementia. So it's interesting for people to be able to draw those parallels between how they behaved and how they thought and what the people with dementia are experiencing and how they behave and how it helps normalize what it's like to have dimension quite a bit. Well, I can confirm that because it feels like a lot longer than a few minutes. Trust me. So that's an interesting realization because I, you know, it's been what two or three years now? But I still remember at one point just feeling like, this is ridiculous. Why am I doing this? And just kind of that feeling of forget it. I'm just not going to do it, which would be a typical attitude for my mom. So that was very helpful. I've always, I frequently tell people I have weird vision, so I don't have depth perception, and I don't, you know, in low light, it's like really hard to tell what is where in relationship to me is like, is it close? Is it middle? Is it far and sometimes shadows? Like low contrast just it just messes with my brain. So I did have the benefit of that personal experience. I understood my mom's visual processing not being great pretty well, but the tour was like I said, it was definitely helpful, because I could feel some of the things she felt. And which is obviously the point. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. And I think too, you know, obviously not everybody's going to have those visual issues, but it will give other people a chance to experience the same things you're living with day to day..
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"Find the link in our show notes and on our website. If you aren't familiar with a virtual dementia tour, you may think it's just another online resource. Not quite. Or all much more familiar with virtual worlds thanks to the pandemic, but a virtual dementia tour predates these times. A virtual dimension tour puts us the caregiver into the world of someone living with some form of dementia. I had the opportunity to participate in a dementia tour back in 2019 and it was definitely a learning opportunity. I don't know how many of the challenges I experienced, my mom had, but that didn't matter. Having as close to a firsthand experience into her world was transformative. Virtual.
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"Find the link in our show notes and on our website. If you aren't familiar with a virtual dementia tour, you may think it's just another online resource. Not quite. Or all much more familiar with virtual worlds thanks to the pandemic, but a virtual dementia tour predates these times. A virtual dimension tour puts us the caregiver into the world of someone living with some form of dementia. I had the opportunity to participate in a dementia tour back in 2019 and it was definitely a learning opportunity. I don't know how many of the challenges I experienced, my mom had, but that didn't matter. Having as close to a firsthand experience into her world was transformative. Virtual.
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"Protect their finances to make sure there's plenty of money available to pay for care and that they're also protected from a legal standpoint as well. And all the work that I do as a financial adviser in this situation is completely free to my clients. So that's a great first step. Okay, your website is linked in the show notes, so people can just scroll. Scroll down in the little podcast app, you'll find Courtney's website. It's financially bright dot com. Sure is. Okay. It's possible. Oh, unlike me, I've had the longest domain names forever because somebody else has what I want and I'm not real good with the dot something other than org and I'm not an organization. Oh yeah. But it's been a while since I wrote the show notes, so I'm like I'm surprised I can remember that with everything that's going on. So once you've met with a financial planner and or you've got an appointment with a financial planner and an elder law attorney, both who should specialize in dementia care. What kind of questions should people be asking? What should they be? What information should they be getting? I think I'm saying that all correctly. I want to make sure that when somebody sits down because you know, sometimes we get a little intimidated and we don't have to ask the questions we need to ask or we think we've got the answers and then we find out that we didn't get what we needed. Now we gotta go back and nobody's got time for that. So what questions? Let's start with what questions should they be asking? Sure, and we touched on this a little bit toward the beginning of our time together, but I would say the first question that I want to know the answer to is if long-term care is needed, where would you want to receive that care? And a lot of people immediately think long-term care is synonymous with the nursing facility. And yes, that is one of the places someone could receive long-term care, but it's not the only place. And the good news is when you plan ahead, you have far more options than if.
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"The link in our show notes and on our website. This week we're discussing dementia and your money. I talked to Courtney haydn, who has a very personal reason to focus on this topic. In 2015, her father was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's at the age of 58. Prior to knowing what was going on with him, his home ended up in foreclosure. With this in mind, Courtney launched a financial planning practice. She specializes in helping families find quality care for their loved ones without losing everything. Courtney's goal is to be a light and a voice filled with hope and confidence in the lives of those around her. I know you're gonna find this conversation hopeful and heartwarming and I'm sure you know people that have been in a similar situation. So be sure to share her information and this episode with all the caregivers and the families living with dementia that you know. With me today is Courtney haydn and we are going to be discussing dementia and your money. Courtney and I have had a huge challenge getting together because as caregivers all know, life is never predictable and it's we've had to rearrange and reschedule and we finally made it so thanks for joining me Courtney. Thank you so much for having me, Jennifer. I'm excited that we finally are able to have this conversation. I'm excited because it's one of the biggest challenges for families when we don't plan ahead, which, thankfully, my husband, I have, and, you know, it's hard to get a financial planner on the show because, you know, people that listen to this two years from now, the information may have changed and their compliance people don't want that. So I am so glad that you reached out and offered to talk to us. So, why don't you tell us a little bit about your background because I know one of the reasons we've had to juggle around caregiving or scheduling is because you're still caregiving for your dad, correct? That is correct. And as many of my followers know, my father was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's at the age of 58 back in 2016. So we're several years into his diagnosis. And he experienced a lot of symptoms much before he was diagnosed in some of the earliest symptoms of his dimension, majorly impacted my parents finances. And of course, 58 years old is an age where none of us see it coming. I know before my father was diagnosed, we oftentimes thought of Alzheimer's is something that impacted you and your 70s or your 80s. My grandmother passed away with Alzheimer's, but she was in her 80s when this happened. So unfortunately, when my dad was diagnosed, he could no longer work or drive. So of course, 58 is not an age where many of us plan to retire..
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"The book is also to help raise awareness of dementia and I'm assuming Alzheimer's. Tell me how you guys kind of came about the book because obviously that hasn't been out a year about now. And so this is the end of September when we're recording this. I'm not sure when it's coming out because I'm not awake yet. So anyway, how did the book come about? Okay, well I think it's important to say to begin with that it never I don't think it ever intended on being a book. I don't think depth thought, oh, here's the guy I can write a book, a book about it. I think what we try to educate people about dementia is that I don't know what it's like in your part of the world, but we have a lot of support groups here, but support is for older people. And we sort of got together as friends through cycling. And that is a type of support. Now dead supports me in certain ways and I support her. It's not a care package. It's just a friendship. And because my memory is quite poor, I was saying lots of things because I worked all around this area for all of my working life. So riding around here was just like really going through the corridors of my memory really. It opened all sorts of floodgates of memories. And because I was talking these memories out allowed. And debs thought that that would be great to record these because I was forgetting. And something that I suppose my wife and daughter and people could look at it later on. Now it's fair to say that prior to that I was doing weekly videos on YouTube, I did them for about two years. And I got so I couldn't do them. And I couldn't really record my own journey as it was with this condition. And then as time went on, they thought well, it's so much stuff. We ought to consider turning it into a book to help raise people or to help raise awareness and get people to understand dementia. Because we weren't doing many talks and things like that at that time. So it was really just another stage or another platform to stand and shout about dementia and to try and show people that life wasn't over. It was just quite a bit different. Is that a really good summary?.
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"App you survived a longer. Earlier lady will develop dementia was parkinson. Then have a temporal lobe dementia. There are many other dimension many other tax which accountable less than ten percents so alzheimer's dementia. Can you actually prevent it. Well the simple on say es no there are things. We can do that with me weekend. So the dementia the alzheimer's dementia which accounts for majority of dementia itself divided into early onset. Dementia before the age of sixty five usually and it is to do with certain mutations which are responsible for the alzheimer's disease and diaries not much. You can do to prevent that. If it's meant to be meant to be and then of course will have late onset. Dementia which is alzheimer's dementia. Which is often they. You're sixty five entities The travelers goes up his age all that exponentially day the older. You are the more your chance to get dementia. Good at his statistics. A frontal mia that The patients over the age of eighty five. Almost one in four us. Forget dementia was survived beyond eighty-five five. So now if we talk about the late onset dementia the right. Hugh things you can do. Maybe look quite prevented Postponement.