Inventive Compassion for Alzheimer's, Oklahoma's Towering Ambition, and Hilarious Family Quirks: An Odyssey of Innovation and Oddities
Feb 06, 2024Season 2Episode 22
Matt and Jesse
Ever been moved by a story where passion meets purpose? That's exactly what you'll get with the tale of a young Indian inventor whose love for his grandmother spurred the creation of the Alpha Monitor, aimed to reshape Alzheimer's care. We share his inspiring journey, from the inception of this wearable device that alerts caregivers of wandering or fallen dementia patients, to the recognition and support from none other than India’s Prime Minister. But that's not all; we also take you through the buzz around Oklahoma City's potential new skyline jewel. Imagine a boardwalk leading up to the state's tallest building, a place where you might conquer your fear of heights with a cocktail in hand as you gaze out over the panoramic cityscape.
This episode isn't just about grand designs and heartfelt innovations; we've got a side of the unconventional served up with a chuckle. Join us as we chat about the lively dynamics of working alongside a co-host who brings the weird and wonderful to every show. And because everyone’s family has its own brand of quirky, we dive into some family stories that are sure to raise an eyebrow—or burst you into laughter. Strap in for a ride through the compelling, the awe-inspiring, and the downright peculiar, and remember, next week promises even more curiosities from our treasure trove of tales.
Ever been moved by a story where passion meets purpose? That's exactly what you'll get with the tale of a young Indian inventor whose love for his grandmother spurred the creation of the Alpha Monitor, aimed to reshape Alzheimer's care. We share his inspiring journey, from the inception of this wearable device that alerts caregivers of wandering or fallen dementia patients, to the recognition and support from none other than India’s Prime Minister. But that's not all; we also take you through the buzz around Oklahoma City's potential new skyline jewel. Imagine a boardwalk leading up to the state's tallest building, a place where you might conquer your fear of heights with a cocktail in hand as you gaze out over the panoramic cityscape.
This episode isn't just about grand designs and heartfelt innovations; we've got a side of the unconventional served up with a chuckle. Join us as we chat about the lively dynamics of working alongside a co-host who brings the weird and wonderful to every show. And because everyone’s family has its own brand of quirky, we dive into some family stories that are sure to raise an eyebrow—or burst you into laughter. Strap in for a ride through the compelling, the awe-inspiring, and the downright peculiar, and remember, next week promises even more curiosities from our treasure trove of tales.
Speaker 1:
What do you think about gadgets? You have any?
Speaker 2:
Like Inspector Gadget.
Speaker 1:
Inspector Gadget Spy.
Speaker 2:
Kids Spy, kids Spy Kids.
Speaker 1:
I would love to have that stuff. I mean, they're not that tiny, they're like boxes or something. I mean, they should have developed something by now that you could like emergency shelter, just boom, have your own workshop set up in the middle of the woods.
Speaker 2:
I'd be carrying that thing everywhere.
Speaker 1:
Or like that thing in fallout that you're placing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
It'd be like Fortnite in real life Just build yourself a fort.
Speaker 1:
Anyway, the theme here is gadget. I found an article that is titled Indian teen invents gadget to transform dementia care out of concern for his grandmother. This piqued my interest because I'm like what a teen invented a gadget. What's this about?
Speaker 2:
Right, and this is from the good news networkorg I. When you pulled this up, I was like that is pretty sick, the fact that this got developed. Usually you're trying to solve a problem and that's when the best inventions happen, right.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, and I need to find an Indian woman and have a kid with her. That way, I have a super smart kid, that's almost borderline bro. It's slightly off.
Speaker 2:
That's borderline, I mean borderline what? Anyway, moving on, moving on. What is this about?
Speaker 1:
Well, let's go down a little. Where's the beginning of it? Okay, an Indian teen who is a self-confessed nerd who loves robotics. Nerds are the best.
Speaker 2:
Don't get it wrong, ladies Nerds are the best.
Speaker 1:
Nerds are the best. Also loved his grandmother, jssree, dearly. Together they'll let him to create a new invention that could greatly improve care for Alzheimer's patients. Awesome, this is some. This should be some breaking news right here, dude, I know.
Speaker 2:
And of course they don't like saying anything about this Weird Mainstream news because the mainstream news wants bad news. But if you want your good, your weird and your funny news, you come to the WWE. Yeah, who knows, you come to the.
Speaker 1:
WWE Himesh. I'm probably going to butcher this, but I'll try my best. Chad Alavada was 12 years old when one summer evening in 2018, he observed his grandmother go to the kitchen to make tea for herself. When she exited the room, she had left the gas on. Oh boy, oh, doesn't sound good. It's, shocked Himesh, but also drove him to convert the hours spent on YouTube learning about robotics into a solution that would help ensure accidents like this would be detected If he weren't there. Good idea A question he found himself asking several times. Very good idea? His grandmother, jssree, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's the year before and, in 2023, passed away from the debilitating neurogenerative disease. Right, it's kind of sad. After, right after, or maybe right before. By then, himesh had invented the Alpha monitor, a badge like monitoring device that sends out alerts that the person wearing it wanders off or falls.
Speaker 2:
Man that's genius dude, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:
Kind of like life alert sort of.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I mean, and especially if you're dealing if you're dealing with somebody with any kind of dementia or Alzheimer's or any kind of, you are not going to be able to Like. You want to keep your eyes on them 24 seven, but you're not going to be able to. Now, there's no way, and so even if you're with them, the necessity for devices like these just to help when people aren't there. I I'd say it's very necessary. So props to this kid.
Speaker 1:
He used to get up at three or four in the morning and go outside thinking she was on a train. Himesh told the Guardian he developed the wearable with information gleaned from a visit to a care center run by Alzheimer's in related disorders, society of India Interesting. They told him that it it couldn't be a watch, because the patients often take them off if they're heavy or uncomfortable, and that it couldn't use Bluetooth, which has a very limited range. Even though still in high school, himesh was determined to get his wearable ready for manufacture.
Speaker 1:
Geez, here he is presenting alpha monitor alpha monitor wearable for monitoring Alzheimer's in patients. Okay, in 2022, he beat 18,000 entries to win a Samsung sponsored science fair called Samsung solve for tomorrow, from which he pocketed a $120,000 grant and the opportunity to mentor under some of Samsung's most experienced engineers which is awesome.
Speaker 2:
If you know anything about, uh, the eastern part of the world, or anything about that part, samsung is one is like the place you want to be like that's like one of the top names and phones too. Yeah, it's one of the top names of phones, and especially in India it's. It's one of the places you want to be. Heck yeah, um, either work for them in turn, whatever. So this kid doing this is incredible.
Speaker 1:
Um, let's see. His victory also won the admiration of his country's prime minister Can be, dat Narendra Modi, who posted on x that he really admired the young man. Geez Himesh's exams conclude in March, and it's then that he says he will throw his full weight of time and effort into getting the alpha monitor On the market by September. After that he wants to go ahead and continue studying robotics.
Speaker 2:
Bro, that's like putting it in perspective, that's like the king saying go ahead, man, go ahead.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I know like that's incredible.
Speaker 2:
Oh my gosh, that's pretty amazing. And you know, he turned something that was heartbreaking and made it into a solution. Yeah like that's. That takes a lot of guts and he, he did it. That's insane. Yeah, this kid's gonna like solve cancer. I totally want to meet and shake the hand of that kid, this kid's gonna do some great things, but even just the start of all timers and dementia.
Speaker 1:
Hey, who knows, we'll hear. Maybe we'll hear about him later.
Speaker 2:
I somewhat I agree with these kids man. Like greed has gotten too far. We should have been years ahead in our development for solving these diseases by now. So you know, it might be kids that might turn the world on its head. I have no doubt. I'm just telling you I'm. It's gonna be kids that change the world. Um well, they're gonna have to anyway, yeah we need somebody, we need somebody out here to change the world because uh yeah, it's getting crazy.
Speaker 2:
And the fact that he turned a bad situation that went from bad to worse and just decided you know what, I'm gonna do something about it. That takes guts and courage.
Speaker 1:
He's gonna be Rick's restless life, probably because of that.
Speaker 2:
I hope so, that's genius. Yeah, it's just, it's like uh, it's probably gonna be hospital like a notification bell for if you lose your way, like if you're a dementia patient and you just lose your way or you forget to turn something off like that, it's like a notification bell, that's. That's Crazy genius.
Speaker 1:
I bet all the hospitals or whatever's gonna be like, hey, we need one of these.
Speaker 2:
I hope so. I hope so.
Speaker 1:
That would be awesome or anybody that hasn't A family member, with just the traction with Alzheimer's and being endorsed by samsung Like just the traction from that project is gonna get enormous publicity out of it and press Well from great inventions To Very great buildings. Pinnacles, one might say. The pinnacle of inventions to the pinnacle of buildings. Oh yeah, why not?
Speaker 2:
Okay, so we know this world has a lot of technology and we know that a lot of very fascinating people have this dream of building skyscrapers. So they do, and we see it in cities all across the world. They just get higher and higher and like they're like they're trying to reach space eventually. I think, yeah, you like the Marvel movie we saw the Guardians of the Galaxy 3 where he's like like the elevator that goes up or no? No, the Marvel's. The Marvel's where the elevator goes up.
Speaker 1:
It's a friggin Earth to space elevator.
Speaker 2:
That's going to be, eventually, our skyscraper. That would be so scary dude.
Speaker 1:
Just swaying up there. Can you imagine just ascending from Earth and then, like you see yourself, going above the Earth in this elevator?
Speaker 2:
Can you imagine going from gravity to no gravity? How freaky that would be.
Speaker 1:
I don't know how that elevator actually functioned, honestly Well, there had to be some kind of that's why it was on tracks, right?
Speaker 2:
So the theory would be that if you have something on tracks connected to space, then you could force it to move even if there's no gravity, so it would just fall along that track.
Speaker 1:
So what is that? Stay back. Oh hi, it's freaking out. For a minute, I thought it was no.
Speaker 2:
No, but that's the theory that the elevator would keep moving on a track because you could force it. I don't know If it was possible. It would still be scary. Speaking of tall buildings, we have somebody who's very ambitious in the middle of nowhere doing something that I've thought about in my town that I think would be hilarious. They're going to try to build one of the tallest buildings in America in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1:
Sorry folks, Bug distracted me for a few seconds there. Anyway, yeah.
Speaker 2:
So they're going to build a building in Oklahoma and try to make it one of the tallest buildings in the world. Here's the story behind this. You may be surprised, as we were, to learn. The tallest building in America may soon reach the skies of Oklahoma City, the 20th most populated metropolis in the United States. Developers submitted plans for the legendary, for the legend tower. They call it the Legends Tower. Okay then Somebody's ego was involved with that one Legends, yeah, the Legends Tower, maybe For a proposed development project called the Boardwalk at Bricktown. The building, if approved, would arise in the southern state of Oklahoma and become the sixth tallest building in the world.
Speaker 1:
Maybe we should have looked up the other five. I mean, number six is pretty good. This is number six, but here are the other five Architecture company AO.
Speaker 2:
in real estate developer Madison Capital drew up plans that would make the structure the tallest in America, surpassing the one World Trade Center in New York City, currently the seventh highest in the world. Oh, there's one of them. The symbolic height of the 1907 foot tall honors the year 1907, when Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state of the United States.
Speaker 1:
Hey, well, it makes sense, I guess, yeah it might make sense.
Speaker 2:
Oklahoma City is experiencing a significant period of growth and transformation, making it well positioned to support large scale projects like one in vision for Bricktown, said Scott Madison, the CEO of Madison Capital. The development would feature the three smaller buildings. You see the three smaller buildings here.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Alongside the legends tower and will reach 581 meters and feature a public observatory at the top, along with a restaurant and bar where visitors can enjoy the sweeping views. So, in other words, it'll be open to the public up here.
Speaker 1:
I'm not eager to climb, I'd go up there. I go try the restaurant.
Speaker 2:
You know we went to the CN tower in Seattle. Was it Seattle? No, Toronto. We went to the. We went to the tower in Toronto. It looks like the Space Needle. Remember that one story we did with the yeah with the. It looks like that, but they they have a restaurant up top.
Speaker 2:
We ate up there. It was expensive but it was fun because the whole restaurant rotates, like the whole thing rotates while you're up there so you can see the whole city. So that was pretty cool. I know that for this, this picture is interesting because look at the area they want to put it in now. If you know Oklahoma and Oklahoma City people, there are not a lot of skyscrapers. In fact you could say there are positively none Around the Oklahoma City area like it's like a big, big red thumb like here, I can bring up a city literally, but picture of Oklahoma.
Speaker 2:
Real quick, I'm gonna show this to Jesse here. So wait, there's, the only closest thing that you can get out of Oklahoma would probably be this building here. See this taller building right here. Yeah, but look at everything else like this part looks like in the middle of Columbus, ohio. This part over here just looks like this. Looks like Offices in a hotel, maybe, but like see how there's. There's not really anything competing now.
Speaker 2:
Like so that's what makes it crazy, because if they built a skyscraper in the middle of Oklahoma City, you could see for miles on a clear day. No, no, this is. This is what's already there. The one that they're wanting to build Looks yeah, it doesn't look like that one. The one they're wanting to build looks like this it's gonna be leagues above the other buildings a One, something pulled right out of halo.
Speaker 2:
It really does really, you know what else it reminds me of. Like Tokyo and South Korea, they have buildings like this Seoul, south Korea and. Tokyo, japan, they have buildings like this that look crazy cool. So Maybe Oklahoma's just decided, you know what, since they're not wanting to move like they're not wanting to move our tech.
Speaker 2:
We're gonna move our tech, so we wanted to be. We believe that this development will be an iconic destination for the city, further driving the expansion and diversification Of the growing economy, drawing an investment, new business and jobs, says Madison. We hope to see the boardwalk at Bricktown stand as the pride of Oklahoma City, a catalyst for urban evolution. The boardwalk embodies the spirited essence of Oklahoma City, honoring its rich past, dynamic present and promising future.
Speaker 1:
Our lot boys Sound like that oh managing partner.
Speaker 2:
Rob, I think I was doing a speech there. I don't remember what happened. I kind of blacked out there for a second. You were one of the tallest buildings in the world are oh, hey, there they are? We got a list for you, dubai.
Speaker 1:
Of course Dubai.
Speaker 2:
Oh wait a burj Khalifa one 2717 feet, or that's the one that was in fast and furious. Yeah, I think so. In fact, they used a few of those buildings in the fast and the furious on purpose. It was kind of like a tourist number two koala Lumpak.
Speaker 2:
Malaysia. Malaysia Merdica, merdica 118. It is two thousand two hundred and twenty seven feet tall. Shanghai China coming in at number three with the Shanghai Tower, 2073 feet. You guys can all look at these two. If you want, just go up look up pictures of them. They are pretty impressive. I will tell you that myself.
Speaker 1:
Number four is Mecca, saudi Arabia. Hey, look, another one, not another one, sort of sort of close, I guess, in the neighborhood, in the neighborhood, big neighborhood, a barrage outbait clock tower clocking in at 1971 feet.
Speaker 2:
The next one, fifth one on the list, it would be China, shenzhen, china Ping on Finance Center, at 1965 feet. Their finance center is one of the tallest buildings in the world.
Speaker 1:
Oh hey, it's in proposed. Oklahoma City is legendary right under it.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, so that's if they, if they approve it and they build it, that's going to be in sixth place, right under China. It would beat out South Korea. So South Korea, seoul, south Korea, like we were just talking about the lot world tower at 18, 19 feet, so 1800, 19 feet. And then finally, number seven, the World Trade Center.
Speaker 2:
New York City 17700 or 1776 feet. There you go. So yeah, there's the list. So it would be on for number six and it would kick New York City down to number eight. Bummer, I mean, I really still in the top 10, still in the top 10.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it'd be a top 10 list there you go, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2:
If they build this I've been to Oklahoma and Oklahoma City I'd go visit. We could go down there and try the food and go up to the restaurant and try the food and then I'll record Jesse shaking on camera.
Speaker 1:
I totally would do. I'd be like hey, hey, shake me when we're up there.
Speaker 2:
You know what? We'll look out the window shaking together.
Speaker 1:
And then somebody else record it in a few hours when I go down the stairs.
Speaker 2:
No, he'll be like. He'll be like, uh, uh. I'll talk to you in a few hours, once I get the feeling of my legs back.
Speaker 1:
Once I'm all the way down the stairs, every biggest linkie with me. Everyone loves this link.
Speaker 2:
Somehow I feel like the food would be delicious. It better be. What did they say? They said an observatory and restaurant and a bar. So yeah, for the people that can't handle heights, they got a bar for you.
Speaker 1:
I might get a drink when I'm up there.
Speaker 2:
No, but it looks really interesting. The smaller buildings. I'm not sure what the smaller buildings are for, but it does look like to hold it up. No, no, I know from this picture it looks like it would be kind of a shopping center, a bunch of offices and maybe a park up here. Looks like it might be a metro park up on top.
Speaker 1:
It looks interesting.
Speaker 2:
That would be neat. Hey, I'm down. Have they want to break some records? I've always said that America is behind in tech and especially in buildings. We're really behind.
Speaker 1:
So I mean look, new York was number eight seven.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, we don't even come close to some of the craziest stuff in New York.
Speaker 1:
That's a little messed up.
Speaker 2:
Hey, you know I'm down for some new building inventions. If they want to start this, I am all for it, man, Because number one thing I want to do on my list is travel and find out that would be awesome and we encourage you guys to travel.
Speaker 2:
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Speaker 1:
We can talk weird about it.
Speaker 2:
We can talk weird about anything, we can make jokes.
Speaker 1:
I definitely do. True, true.
Speaker 2:
If you got a weird, no, I'm not going to go there.
Speaker 1:
You got the weirdest co-host possible.
Speaker 2:
If you got a weird family, you know sending them stories Not really, not really. All right, guys, we'll check you in next week and we'll see you next time on weird world variety. See you later, guys.