WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:05.480 It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm bas Boston's Radio. 2 00:00:06.759 --> 00:00:08.080 All right, welcome back everyone. 3 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:11.119 We're done with our conversation about market Basket, but I 4 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:14.240 suspect as that story evolves, we will continue to stay 5 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:17.480 on top of it and appreciate everyone who called in. 6 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:21.879 Beginning with well, Noel kind of got us going after 7 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:25.719 Gene from Boston called and again, folks call early and 8 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:29.079 give you more time, simple simple as that. I think 9 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:30.920 you know the rules here. I'd like to try to hear. 10 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:33.920 I like to talk with people. That's what this show 11 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:37.240 is all about. And we have a very interesting person. 12 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:39.479 He was with us a couple of weeks ago. Actually 13 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:42.960 on May fifteenth, he was called a futurist. His name 14 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:45.520 is Kevin Sirelli. Kevin, welcome back to Nightside. 15 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:46.000 How are you. 16 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:50.280 I'm doing well. I actually am in Washington, DC, and 17 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:55.000 I just less if anyone's familiar with Washington, DC. I 18 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:57.960 just left the Marine Barricks where a friend of mine 19 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:00.560 was honored tonight with a very nice record ignition, and 20 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:04.519 it was an honor to be in attendance to see 21 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:07.599 her receive this recognition. I do a lot of work 22 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:10.439 with Blue Star Families, which is the nation's largest nonprofit 23 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:13.840 serving military families, and I was really touched the chain 24 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:17.079 invited me tonight, Kathy Rotuk, their CEO, so a true honor. 25 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:18.040 Wells. 26 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:19.879 That is great, And I know I talked with you 27 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:22.000 briefly this afternoon. You were heading to a leple of 28 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:24.680 meetings and you told me that you would make sure 29 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:27.040 you would be out of that. Just tell us real 30 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:29.760 quickly a little bit about the organization Blue Star Families. 31 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:33.480 Absolutely, thank you so much for asking me that question. 32 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:38.840 Blue Star Families is the nation's largest nonprofit serving military families. Now, 33 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:41.560 I did not serve in the military. My grandfathers did. 34 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.480 Only one percent of Americans serve in the military currently, 35 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:48.680 and I believe that we've got to be a bridge 36 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:51.200 for the ninety nine percent of us who don't serve, 37 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:54.280 to have the backs of the family members of those 38 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:57.840 who do serve. And so Blue Star Families helps to 39 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:02.400 serve the family unit of the service members, so their spouses, 40 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:06.120 their kids when they're relocating or when their parent is 41 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:10.080 serving or stationed overseas. And so we partner with iconic 42 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:14.319 American brands, but also just local communities and small businesses 43 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:19.360 to really help have the backs of the military, and 44 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:22.919 Kathy is the CEO and co founder of the organization 45 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:26.080 and she's grown it since she started it sixteen years 46 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:30.520 ago into serving hundreds of thousands of military families. And 47 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:35.120 it is really just an incredible organization. So I would 48 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:38.759 encourage folks to go to Blue Star Families website at 49 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:42.080 blue starfam dot org and learn more about our big 50 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:45.159 slogan is do your part, So do your part to 51 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:49.680 support military families. This year, the military turns two hundred 52 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:53.280 and fifty years old. And I think sometimes, as Kathy 53 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.879 reminds us, we forget that there have been families serving 54 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:01.199 alongside the service member all the way back the Revolutionary War. 55 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:04.759 Uh and so now more than ever, that the threat 56 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.400 is still real, that the challenges are different and in 57 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:10.719 many ways even greater. So it's an amazing organization. I 58 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:12.240 could talk about it for the whole hour, but I know, 59 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:13.960 I know we're going to talk about the future. But 60 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:16.680 the folks securing our future, the brave men and women 61 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:19.400 serving our country and their families. 62 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:22.759 Very much, much, very much involved in that. I'm very 63 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:24.919 much involved with a group called Hope for the Warriors. 64 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:28.479 But organization, yeah, buddy of mind. 65 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:31.360 Jack Marin who is a great NBA player for many 66 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:35.319 years is the is retired attorney and a pal of mine. 67 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:36.840 I knew when he played in the NBA. 68 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:40.759 And uh and Jack is the chairman of that group 69 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:45.000 these days and uh uh they we get involved in 70 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:48.360 and I've Robin kellaher as the CEO if you if 71 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:50.879 you know the group. So there's a lot of great 72 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:54.240 military groups out there who are serving various and uh 73 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:58.039 and and different needs and uh uh, my hat's off 74 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:00.280 to you for what you're doing. 75 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:01.479 And I'm. 76 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:06.000 Just a help honored to be affiliated. 77 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:09.400 I'm glad that when I would mention hope for the Warriors, 78 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:10.919 you would know what I'm talking about that it's a 79 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.199 it's a great organization as well. So we're going to 80 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:17.560 talk about the future, and this hour we want to 81 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:23.040 talk about the future of medicine. And there have been 82 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:28.480 some developments just in the last few weeks which frankly 83 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:33.480 boggle my mind. There's now, I guess, amongst other things, 84 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:38.920 a blood test for people who might be predisposed to 85 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.959 it ultimately if they were to live long enough contracting Alzheimer's. 86 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:45.879 Let's take a few of these, because I know you 87 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:49.639 know a lot more about them, uh and and I 88 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:53.040 want to just have you hit some of those. I 89 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:58.120 know that there was some work done on an infant recently, 90 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:03.560 all of which amazes me. Amazes me. Let's talk about 91 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:06.720 the Alzheimer's test. Where is that at this point? That's 92 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:09.720 something that people are more and more aware. 93 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:12.879 Of, So, you know, I would take a step back 94 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:15.560 when I founded Meet the Future, and you can subscribe 95 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:18.480 to it on our subtac daily newsletters Sunday through Thursday, 96 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:21.279 one of the most read futuristic newsletters in the nation, 97 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:24.720 and our website MTF dot tv, which we're excited to 98 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:28.319 relaunch in the coming weeks. But I really took a 99 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:31.879 hard look at health because so much of the story 100 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:35.600 right now, as artificial intelligence is coming and it's gonna 101 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.360 take everyone's shops. I don't buy that for a second, 102 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:41.560 by the way, but I actually wanted to report out 103 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:46.319 what is the science doing and the technology doing, and 104 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.920 it's happening so quickly that a couple of years ago 105 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:53.160 this would be the lead story on the nightly news 106 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:57.160 or in the Boston Globe. And the fact of the 107 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:00.480 matter is everything that we're going to talk about tonight 108 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:04.279 happened in the span of the last month you mentioned Alzheimer's. 109 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:08.399 So it used to be really hard in order to 110 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:11.680 find out. It used to take months if you had 111 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:16.839 Alzheimer's or where Alzheimer's was. And everyone listening can know 112 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:21.439 someone who suffered from Alzheimer's or dementia, or Parkinson's or 113 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:25.519 Huntington's disease. We can all think of watching that horror 114 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:27.160 and it really is a horror. 115 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:29.800 And by the way, correct me if I'm wrong, Kevin, 116 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:33.079 I don't mean to interrupt, but I believe that. 117 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:39.759 Twenty twenty five years ago, they couldn't even diagnose Alzheimer's 118 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:43.560 when the person was alive. It could only be diagnosed 119 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:47.040 definitively through an autopsy exactly. 120 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:51.399 And so now we're living at a time to your 121 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:55.839 point where we no longer have to think is it 122 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:59.319 a crapshoot if we end up like that? And so 123 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:01.519 what science is did a couple of weeks ago and 124 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:05.360 the FDA just cleared it as they're able to detect 125 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:08.759 early Alzheimer's in a blood test. So why is that important? 126 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:12.000 Because now when you go to the doctor very soon 127 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.519 in the coming months, if you're above the age of 128 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:17.439 fifty five, you can get blood drawn and they'll be 129 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:20.000 able to look at your blood work and say, hey, 130 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:23.759 you are pretty disposed to this. Now, this question in 131 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:27.000 science fiction is not reality of why would you want 132 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:29.600 to know? Or if it's early on set, if there's 133 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:34.399 no cure, well, folks, it doesn't work like an action movie. Okay. Really, 134 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:38.519 there are treatments that can help augment some of the effects, 135 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:41.720 and the science is moving so quickly that you might 136 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.120 want to know. You might want to be able to 137 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:47.720 plan for your family, your future, your loved ones, and 138 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.000 you might actually be even open to getting other different 139 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:55.000 types of treatments. So knowledge is power, and the fact 140 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:57.600 of the matter is if we can take Alzheimer's out 141 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:59.639 of it for a second, if they're able to figure 142 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:02.199 it out with a blood test for Alzheimer's, it's a 143 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:05.560 really good sign, based on my reporting from Meet the Future, 144 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:10.120 that other illnesses and diseases might soon be able to 145 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:13.360 be identified through a blood test as well. 146 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.399 My guest is Kevin Sirelli. We're going to drill down 147 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:20.160 on this Alzheimer's story a little bit. We're also going 148 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:22.000 to talk about some of the other things that have 149 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:25.959 happened in the last just the last couple of months, 150 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:30.519 which it just seems as if the pace is moving 151 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:34.519 so quickly. We'll we'll open up phone lines. If you 152 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:38.320 want to ask a question, make a comment, feel free 153 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:41.320 six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty six seven 154 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:44.759 nine three one ten thirty. Often with guests like Kevin, 155 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:47.720 people all wait until the end to ask their question 156 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:50.240 and we run out of time. So please don't let 157 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:53.039 that happen to you tonight. Feel free to join the conversation. 158 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:54.080 UH. 159 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:57.399 We will have Kevin with us for the entire hour, 160 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:03.039 but the hour is already fifty minutes gone, so advice 161 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:05.120 to the wy style of early six one seven, two, 162 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:07.879 five four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one 163 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:12.480 ten thirty. My guess Kevin Sorelli, Meet the Future. We 164 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:14.879 will get back to Kevin and to your phone calls 165 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:17.600 and a more conversation. Right after these messages. 166 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:22.919 You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WZ Boston's 167 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:23.600 news radio. 168 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.159 I guess this is Kevin Sirelli. He is a futurist. 169 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:32.720 He writes on substack. He also has a website MTF 170 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:38.320 for Meetthefuture dot TV. We'll talk about that, uh, and 171 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:40.559 we'll give you all sorts of ways in which you 172 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:42.720 can get in touch with him and follow him. But 173 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:46.440 I want to go back to this Alzheimer's test. It 174 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:50.759 is a simple blood test which the FBA FDA has 175 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:55.840 now approved. How long had that been in the approval process? 176 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:58.720 I mean again, it's this is important to know that 177 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:01.759 this has just happened and there have been efforts made 178 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:04.200 on this. This is not something that someone an idea, 179 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:05.639 someone came up with yesterday. 180 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:07.039 Yeah. 181 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:10.279 Now, it takes years to be blunt and from and 182 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:12.519 then as it goes to the FDA, that's. 183 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:14.200 That's at least a year. 184 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:20.919 But when you look even for what it means for 185 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:26.120 when it will actually start trickling down, it's and the 186 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:28.799 way that they were able to get this through is 187 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:32.360 because of technology. And that's really what met the future 188 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:36.799 focuses in on. Are those those collisions between the science, 189 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:40.840 the technology, and the human experience. And to be able 190 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:46.559 to have American innovation be able to identify something of 191 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:51.200 this nature and for now, the everyday person in our country, 192 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:54.600 when they're older than the age of fifty five, to 193 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:57.279 be able to again go to their doctor draw blood 194 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:01.919 and then be able to almost immediately look at their 195 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:05.960 blood results and you know, see if their lives or 196 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:07.960 their loved ones lives are going to change, you know, 197 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:10.879 on how what they want to do with that information 198 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:12.600 is really quite remarkable. 199 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:15.200 And and by the way, with this, as I understand 200 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:17.360 that we're not we're talking about a simple blood test, 201 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:19.559 no spinal tap, no scan or anything like that. 202 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:24.000 No spinal tap exactly, I mean, or pet scan or 203 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:28.200 anything like that. And and I think that again, like 204 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.600 even the amount of time and effort and agony and 205 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:35.399 anxiety that that those type that that process and procedure, 206 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:38.000 which by the way, was another major medical advancement at 207 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:42.440 one time, but all of that goes away over the 208 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:45.279 next few years. And so it really is a remarkable, 209 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:47.480 remarkable thing. And again one of the things is i've 210 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:50.600 been reporting this, the conversation that comes up is, well, 211 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:55.480 why would you want to know if But I I 212 00:11:55.960 --> 00:11:59.639 call bluff on that. I think that knowledge is power 213 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:04.679 and information is key, and it's because science is moving 214 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:08.639 so rapidly. Things can change, you know, on the month, 215 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:13.159 and so if you're aware of what is happening to 216 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:17.000 your loved one's brain, and I'd love you know. I 217 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:21.240 did a piece on super agers, which scienceists are are 218 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:23.799 reporting on who are folks who are in their eighties 219 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:27.080 and nineties who have the brain cognitivity of someone in 220 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:29.879 their thirties and forties, and they're mapping the brain using 221 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:34.399 artificial intelligence at Northwestern University. And because of that, if 222 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:38.480 you're able to really study your own brain more, you're 223 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:41.759 able to treat yourself better and your loved one's better. 224 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:42.559 Yeah. 225 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.360 And the other thing, which again I want to just 226 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:53.759 touch on quickly here, scientists in Britain have been able 227 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:59.279 to shrink a brain tumor diagnos time from eight weeks 228 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:04.440 to two hours using real time DNA sequencing and surgery. 229 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:09.759 So they shrunk the brain tumor or does it does 230 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:16.919 it take uh? Does it take less time to basically diagnosis? 231 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:19.039 I'm a little confused about what I'm. 232 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:23.440 Reading here, Yeah, brains, It's confusing. So essentially, this is 233 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:25.840 another major wind that just happened in the last few 234 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:28.120 months that we reported on Meet the Future, which is 235 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:30.960 previously there is a certain type of brain cancer that 236 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:33.399 if anyone who has had to suffer with this, and 237 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:39.000 it's it's a horrible, horrible illness. If any of anyone's 238 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:42.840 folks have been impacted by this, and the diagnostic time 239 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:46.480 can sometimes take months, and so in this one particular case, 240 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:48.679 what they were able to do is to look at 241 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:52.080 the DNA sequencing and to be able to figure out 242 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:55.480 in the o R in two hours if an individual 243 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:59.600 has this type of cancer, and again to two hours 244 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:03.639 versus two months. When you're diagnosing something of that as 245 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:09.519 deadly as cancer in the brain, that can be really, 246 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:13.600 really horrific. And so the science and the technology had 247 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:17.960 been able to dramatically speed up the time that it 248 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:21.559 takes in order to make these diagnose it. So, whether 249 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:26.919 it's Alzheimer's, whether it's brain cancer, it's again the technology 250 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:29.240 has just come so so far. 251 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:31.720 Okay, let's get to some phone calls. Going to go. 252 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:33.519 Don't want people to have to wait. Let me go 253 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:35.720 to John in New York State. 254 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:39.679 John, you're on with Kevin SURRILLI meet the Future and 255 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:41.200 we're talking about the future of medicine. 256 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:47.000 Go ahead, John, Yes, thank you, Dan to taking my call. Hi, Kevin, 257 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:50.720 Can I start out asking a question about myself that 258 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:53.559 I wonder what your vife would be, what I should do? 259 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:55.720 Sure you try. I give it a shot. 260 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.279 He's not a doctor, but let's see what you give 261 00:14:58.320 --> 00:14:59.200 it a shot, go ahead. 262 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:04.320 I had the situation at at times I don't remember 263 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:07.759 the names of people that I knew, and sometimes three 264 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:09.840 hours later and I come into my head, is there 265 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:12.399 something going on that I should have looked at? 266 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:15.960 Or what? How old are you? John? John? How old 267 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:16.279 are you? 268 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:18.039 I'm seventy. 269 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:19.200 Yeah, okay. 270 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:23.039 I don't think that's abnormal for people of a certain age. 271 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:26.240 Is these people who you should recall their name? I mean, 272 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:29.080 I have a situation where I can meet someone and 273 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:31.759 then three months later you bump into them again, and 274 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.120 you know, you know the face, but you haven't connected 275 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:38.759 the name of the face. I think that's fairly normal. 276 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:41.000 But we'll see what Kevin has to say. Kevin, go ahead. 277 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:44.120 You know again, I just want to reiterate I am 278 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:47.000 not a doctor at all, but I do appreciate your question. 279 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:50.559 And I did a story for Meet the Future earlier 280 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:55.279 this week on what scientists are are calling super agers. 281 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:59.600 And super agers are folks who are aging into their eighties. 282 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:03.519 They're not nineties, even above one hundred, and they're studying 283 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:07.360 but they have the same brain memory as folks in 284 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:11.039 their thirties and forties, and so scientists are studying these 285 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:15.080 super agers brains and their habits that they do every day, 286 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:20.360 and some of the trends are really quite remarkable. There's 287 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:23.279 a part of the brain when you get older, according 288 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:28.000 to these sciences, that typically shrinks or gets inflamed, and 289 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:33.519 that can sometimes have impacts on memory. But what I 290 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:37.440 found really powerful is that only thirty percent, according to 291 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:42.480 these sciences, of your brain is because of genetics, So 292 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:46.960 that means seventy percent of your brain you really can 293 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:51.600 help with help. So things like doing a daily ritual, 294 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:55.679 or getting some exercise, or drinking water, or reading a 295 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:59.080 book and finishing it and going on a walk and 296 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:04.400 talking to your friends, that actually can help to help 297 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:07.839 your brain stay fit. The same way that we go 298 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.640 to the gym to work on our muscles. The argument 299 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:13.920 is your brain is a muscle, and so to help 300 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:16.880 your brain to do all of those things can sometimes 301 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:18.279 improve your brain health. 302 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:24.240 You know, just a quick thing, though, Dan, there's a 303 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:27.599 gentleman by the name of Ricky C who used to 304 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:29.680 live in Franklin. He asked me to stay a low 305 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:31.400 to you because he knows who you are, but I 306 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:32.440 don't think you'd know him. 307 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:33.960 Okay, that's fine. 308 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.359 It's always good to meet old friends coming back to you. 309 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:42.119 Are the people who's who you're having difficulty recollecting their name? 310 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:45.799 John? Are they people who you know? Well? Are they 311 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:48.920 people who you have met only once or twice? 312 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:50.680 Well? 313 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.599 I mean this, gentleman, I just told you about Ricky C. 314 00:17:54.279 --> 00:17:56.400 I mean he works in the same building at General 315 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:59.440 Electric and Schenectady with me, and I mean I've dealt 316 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:02.039 with him many times. Yeah, and I'm asking him tonight 317 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:03.960 what his name is. And it's like I feel like 318 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:07.920 embarrassed and you know, guilty, like why the hell? And 319 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:11.119 you know that's that's an example of that. Of course, 320 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:13.599 I still remember what he told me, maybe just twenty 321 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:15.240 minutes ago. Yeah, Okay. 322 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:20.319 What my experience has been that when you're in a 323 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:22.519 particularly let us say, when you're in some sort of 324 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:25.119 a party situation and I don't know, maybe you know, 325 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:28.799 I will have Kevin comment on my comment if you want, uh, 326 00:18:28.839 --> 00:18:32.119 and you meet thirty people in thirty minutes, and it's 327 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:33.160 one of those high how. 328 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:36.079 Are you what's your name? For me? That oftentimes the 329 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:37.039 name blows. 330 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:41.440 Right by me unless someone I knew, and then you 331 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:45.640 might meet them in the hallway or in an elevator. 332 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:47.839 A month later and it's like, you know, you know 333 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:50.400 you've met the person, you remember that. 334 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:56.000 But Kevin, that's that's what my experience is. 335 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:57.400 Yeah, yeah, you know. 336 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:02.079 And I jumped in here and I'd say this, you know, listen, 337 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:05.559 I'm Catholic. I'm not a perfect Catholic. Who's you know, 338 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:08.319 And I'm not I'm not a preacher. But you know, 339 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:11.400 I remember growing up and one of my Sunday school 340 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:14.680 teachers said to me, I think it was I want 341 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:18.839 to say this lady, this poet maya Angelou and but 342 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:21.359 but don't hold me to it. That was the lady 343 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:24.799 that my Sunday school teacher was quoting que and she said, 344 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:30.079 people people don't remember what you said, they remember how 345 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:34.240 you made them feel. And so to your point, then, 346 00:19:35.079 --> 00:19:37.279 I think, at the end of the day, it names 347 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:40.000 the name. But if you can remember what the individual, 348 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:44.000 if they're a good person, and how they made you feel, honestly, 349 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:45.160 isn't that more important? 350 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:45.960 Yeah? 351 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:48.640 I mean I think you know, look, John, if you 352 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:51.559 have trouble remembering the name of your next door neighbor 353 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:54.279 who's lived next door to you for thirty years, uh, 354 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:57.000 that's that's something you should be concerned about. 355 00:19:57.000 --> 00:19:58.519 And talking with the doctor about. 356 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:01.839 But again, and the other thing which I find John, 357 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:03.200 and I don't know if this is helpful to you 358 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:05.880 when you meet people in what I would call out 359 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:07.119 of context situation. 360 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:08.640 So let's assume. 361 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:14.680 You know somebody fairly well and you're in I don't know, 362 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:17.319 you're just in a totally different someone who you know 363 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:20.039 at the gym. You go to the gym and you 364 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:23.720 know their names, okay, and hey, you know right, Joe High, 365 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:26.440 Pete and all of that, and then I don't know, 366 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:30.400 you're at a ballpark or you're at a supermarket, and 367 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:33.680 it's a totally different context. I think that at that 368 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:35.680 point you're going to say, I know this person, but 369 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:39.200 where do I That's sort of my experience, and so 370 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:41.759 you try to keep a little sharper. The other thing 371 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:44.160 what you can do is Jerry Lucas, the great basketball 372 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:46.839 player who played at Ohio State and then with the 373 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:49.839 Cincinnati Royals, his teammate of Oscar Robertson back in the 374 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:52.400 sixties and seventies. He wrote a book many years ago 375 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:56.759 called The Memory Book. And I remember having Jerry Lucas 376 00:20:56.799 --> 00:20:59.559 on the show, and he had the ability to walk 377 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:03.480 into a room, uh be introduced to like a hundred people. 378 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:08.039 And he then, would you know, walk out of the room, 379 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:11.599 walk back in the room ten minutes later, having memorized 380 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:15.119 the name of every person in the room. And he 381 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:18.759 just had this tremendous instant recall which nobody else would have. 382 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:22.400 And he explained that he was able to associate some 383 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:26.480 physical feature with the person, either their height, or their 384 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:29.319 their hairdoo, or the shape of their ears, or their 385 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:33.359 you know, whether they wore glasses or not. And he 386 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:36.759 he would he this was almost like a stick that 387 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:39.240 he had, and he made quite a good living at 388 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:41.160 it going around. It's called the Memory Book. If you 389 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:43.039 can get out of the library, you might be interested 390 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:44.000 in reading it. 391 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:45.920 Can I tell you my issue? 392 00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:47.440 Yeah, go ahead, Kevin. 393 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:52.519 My issue is I got a dog. My dog's name 394 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:55.440 is Steo. So I take my dog Steo to the 395 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:57.680 dog park. I don't know if anyone who's listening has 396 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:01.160 pets or has a dog. I know my neighbors dogs 397 00:22:01.319 --> 00:22:04.160 names more than I know their names. 398 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:04.599 Yeah. 399 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:07.240 And then and I'll be talking to people at the 400 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:11.200 dog parker and I'm thinking, I don't know who the 401 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:13.640