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Speaker 1:It helps with the algorithms joining in to the larger networks as I welcome in-studio guests talking about many subjects and in-between in-studio performances that I'm here every day To include. Today we'll be here for about 30 to 45 minutes with trying a really interesting experiment with a program that I've been taking since January Magnetic memory methods, authored and instructed by the creator, dr Anthony Mativier, who's been a guest on my podcast shows twice. I'm 10 months into the program Many archival shows, still shots, videos of how I try to utilize my shows, my blogs now in retirement and a self-enrichment program as a bucket list to include these memory methods, mostly to keep my very damaged brain focused as I continue to crime the chronology ladder. So today I'm going to attempt to do an exercise amongst the many that I learned with mnemonics and my characterization of my character of Mr McGill, the wonderful cartoon character of my childhood, narrated in the voice of the great. Rest in Peace, jim Backus, those of a certain age, thurston G Howell III, wabbe, on Gilligan's Island, a great character actor in his own right.
Speaker 1:Many years ago, and I always have been a Charles Dickens fan, a Christmas carol, one of my favorite poems, novels. I've referenced it in business and in life, dickens religious convictions and beliefs that led to authoring the book. Guests that I've had on are talking about that and fondly remembering loving the Christmas carol and using the adage in business and in life, jason Jacob Marley, because it was for my business life, very much retired Jason would. Childhood up at. The cartoon of the Christmas carol depiction of Mr Scrooge is still my all time favorite. All due respect to all the great actors that portrayed it on stage and screen. I enjoyed those too.
Speaker 1:So what I'm going to try to attempt to do is a mnemonic, with a couple of crazy things along the way. Mr Magoo, kind of sort of teaching me Mandarin, which is going to be myself, and gratifying venue here in the shows, and continuing in my quest to self-teach Mandarin, mr Magoo, is going to kind of sort of be my instructor. We're going to highlight my macular whole vision, cataracts and yadadidi, yadadidi da eye stuff, simply because that's the whole premise of Mr Gooyi, who is blind as a bat, and we'll talk about theme songs of the cartoons and having him pun intended and, with a sense of humor, being a caricature of my pneumatic, of Mr Magoo coming crashing down on my own eyeball and a couple of other things. Because I'm going to kind of do it on the fly and I'll elaborate on how. I just shared this over this past weekend via email with my instructor, dr Anthony, who will be coming back on my show. That was one of the reasons I contacted him. We're going to do it in the Confiser 2024 because it's embraced around his newest, newest book that he's still working on, about Frank Bruno, a subject we talked about books. For those of you that know the memory magic, that know Dr Anthony, etc. I have something that I can't tell you to the full extent he was gracious enough to share with me. It's our secret, but you're going to be excited by the book for sure, and he's working fervently on it and we want to try to embrace it his next appearance around that book. So when he gets here to do so in that interim period we'll get a chance to expand upon this experiment that I exchanged with him over the weekend and told him that I was going to embark on trying this. And he'll chuckle because the last time he was on my show I tried to introduce him in Mandarin and it was kind of funny. So we'll take a 10 second break and we'll be right back and I'm going to attempt to do this pneumatic word, mr McGo, the theme of today. Stay tuned, it should be fun. If nothing else, I hope you perceive it as such. Dopamine and endorphins, natural levity, or attempted so, is good medicine. We'll be right back. Okay, welcome back, and hi ho, here we go. Gonna do this on the fly.
Speaker 1:I really have never really done notes per se. I do bullet points and at this juncture, those of you that follow the show, you've all done your best. If you follow the show, you've often heard me reference the in the corral speech. I bounce off the corral. They go around the corral, but I've been able to stay in the corral, if you will, before I ultimately probably go out to pasture kidding around a bit, but we've talked about that and that's okay, I would say, if you visualize it as a rodeo or whatever the corral gate is, maybe strapping is off the handle Not sure if the door is the jar yet, but probably opening. So that's all well and good and that's all what I've been talking about for years and we'll get into those elements.
Speaker 1:But here I have some bullet points to try to keep me focused, because I'm trying to literally use what I am gifted with is holograms and holographs and I close my eyes and I can envision these things pretty well, even through all the head trauma and stories for another time and other shows and have been archivally depicted and will be in the future. Here, as in the opening, it's my attempt. Wherever your degree of familiarity is or isn't on the meter of mnemonics I don't know what your degree of familiarity is or isn't you can intermingle and react and interact at the polls at the show and enlighten me. So here we go. I'm going to try to use examples in this whole show and some of it in this segment.
Speaker 1:About Mr Magoo, I talked about my macular mishaps. I'm not sure if he had macular holes or degeneration, degeneration but he was definitely blind and severely sight impaired. Those of you that are familiar with the character of the cartoon, you immediately can envision this yourself, I'm sure. So, with kind of going with his battle that he isn't really aware of and never owns up to, he never was really aware of how blind he was. I kind of am. So hopefully there's some humor there as well, because he's going to be my instructor, died whatever. Okay, so he's going to confer, consult, whatever, with a talking about my two completed cataract operations, my two completed macular hole repair operations, which, coincidentally, at the time of the statement, at the 23rd of October, tomorrow, when it becomes 10 o'clock, is my follow up appointment to see who goes next.
Speaker 1:And the funny part of all of this, I've been legally blind for a year and a half, all precipitated by my magic birthday here in Maine every five years, la de la, de da, knowing that I wouldn't pass the test, going to my optometrist trying to see if I could get bumped up to already corrective lenses that were at the maximum power. My sight was like I don't know, 40 over, like 2700. And the right lens of the said glasses when we were kids and whatever. They were a coke bottle thick. They were a coke bar. It was a coke bottle thick. Long story short, they've already got the right eye, providing that the macular thing is a 90% success ratio. All of that I find out tomorrow. Point being right, after the moment I'm definitely Mr Magoo out of my right eye.
Speaker 1:Okay, so the play on words and he's going to be my teacher somewhere in there. It is a funny story that I really truly am trying to craft here on the fly, envisioning it as such, most definitely attributed to Dr Anthony's wonderful program. Okay, so I'm literally closing my eyes. You can't see me. This is an audio version, but I am so for the macular mishaps he's kind of because he's blind, first of all in his let me look at it. I can't imitate Jim Bakus or Mr Magoo. I used to. Let's be able to. That's my best impression of his voice.
Speaker 1:Those of you that are familiar, I'll put a link into the cartoons to re-familiarize yourself Yaddi D Yaddi and vision him. You know an optometrist, especially back in the 60s, or flipping down the lead over his eye to look into your eye before machinery and turn dials, and all that in the advancement now and certainly before laser surgery. Okay, so he's looking into my eye. Right, I'm in his chair. Okay, he's blind as a bat and I'm probably pretty damn close, so he's the observer of my eye. So he's literally crashing down on my eye because he's banging into my eye with his little scope and whatever, because he's so blind he doesn't even know it. So I see him in my hologram holograph crashing down on what now is my bad right eye. Alright, so that's my first example of a mnemonic using Mr Magoo as my consultant on a macular hole in my eye, from himself being really severely blind.
Speaker 1:We'll take a second break and I'll come back in my next venture with the mnemonics, just to try Mr Magoo's magnetic memory method. Okay, mr Magoo now we're going to fictitiously say, is supposedly versed in Dr Anthony's methods. Okay, and he's going to use magnetic memory methods to improve my memory, even with vision problems. Well, we both have. And one more in the carnival of the show, hopefully, mr Magoo's mindful moments, him being the guru, if you will, in our talks about mindfulness and meditation for people, in this instance, with vision problems. And to take a 10-second break and, as you all know, I've told you this before, in reality there are a lot longer than 10 seconds. I have to try to figure where I'm going next, but only 10 seconds to yourself, and I bounce back and forth to my YouTube channel, which highlights all of this stuff on my daily show. So I'll be right back. Stay with the crazy old man. We'll be right back to highlight and try to walk through this Mr Magoo segment in Grandpa Bill. We'll be right back. Okay, welcome back and welcome to the circus.
Speaker 1:My finger death punch, my asthma music while I do an intermittent water bath, moving around a little bit. So let's continue and see what we can do here with these ideas that go around my toys and the attic. How's Smith, great song? Lots of cobwebs and demons and whatever up in this attic, and I literally have to shake, rattle and roll sometimes to slide it to the gray matter. When I can do that, retain it, retain it. So far, so good.
Speaker 1:So, mr Magoo, little play on words, I can do this in his crotchety old voice, e-y-e, because it's about eyeballs. In my eye and him is the obituary of the optometrist. Blinders are bad, what happened? So I, in this crotchety voice that I can't imitate anymore, I used to say Ah, ah, magoo, you know, don't know that again. I can do this. So seeing, literally and figuratively, the definition of seeing beyond. A little bit of an underlying theme of how I'm going to try to make a more meditation leader guru suse you know what a spiritual guidance guy In this play, I guess and a new perspective, embracing my vision loss, finding new ways to live my life to the fullest, literally, and it's okay, but all under the eyes of in guys.
Speaker 1:Pun intended of mr Magoo. So subtitles within the title of the show to kind of encompass the subject matter, if you will. The Magoo mind about memory, mindfulness and vision loss, mine and his in all three categories, especially when he played the character Scrooge in the Christmas Carol, which I'll get to before the end of the show. Much mindfulness to the app. Pun intended seeing the world differently. Subtitle, subcategory, sub segments of this show. A unique perspective of people with vision problems. Overall for the holistic health. A theory or element of the show, food for the mind, body and the soul in a new way of seeing. Fun intended about embracing mine, yours, whatever applicable, vision loss to whatever degree.
Speaker 1:Kudos out to my friend Gary, cast in Minnesota fighting the onset of total macular degeneration and some other issues, the occasion we come through when we stay and communicate. God bless him. He's a veteran as well. Myself I'm not still, to this day, admire every one of them, have another us standing one coming up. Second appearance, jason Pike, later this week in studio buying time here filling in with those.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to visualize this in the whole about continuing. Mr McGoo, okay for this segment. Thanks for being with me. Let's maybe go to another 10 second break and what I'm gonna attempt to do is have you envision along with me mr McGoo singing in mr McGoo's voice, actually by the great miss Jim. Back this and sing along if you care to come up with some catchy phrases maybe that play into the theme of mr McGoo actually being the author of the pneumatics pneumonics. I'm sorry that I'm gonna try to re-cancer as myself, but as mr McGoo, in the duality of what I'm trying to do here as a lesson with magnetic memory method about myself, self-teaching Mandarin as well, which we'll get to. Thanks for being patient. Take a deep calming breath. I'm gonna do the same. We'll be back in 10 seconds and thanks for playing and as I'm negotiating the break, the studio buttons and cyberspace. Always, always, remember I've talked for years. Those are you.
Speaker 1:The following show my mom got ruster, so my granddaughter, who is still with us, thank God. They're the gifted writers in my heritage. I used to be able to double a tad in it long ago. Couldn't hold the candle to either of them. Continue to try to do so through blogs and blogs, journals, diaries, trying in earnest to keep focused and keep less cobwebs in the attic while I'm bouncing off the corrals. We'll be right back. 10 second break. Appreciate it and come back and see what we come up with. We'll be right back. Okay, welcome back and thanks for playing along and having some fun. Hopefully this will be the last segment for this show and let's see what I can do to try to put some finishing touches. And thanks for a great show.
Speaker 1:So mr Mughal is actually gonna sing a song. Try to envision Jim back us and try to familiarize yourself, whatever your degree is, with mr Mughal. Thank you, I'm gonna just read the lyrics, but put it in a singing tone yourselves. I'm mr Mughal and I'm here to say I'm the king of mnemonics, come what may, I can help you remember anything, even if your mind is baton. Can't say my recanter to him as he's singing that to myself, as he's trying to teach me mnemonics. And soon, in the second in Mandarin. We'll get to that. And he's already looked at my eyes, came crashing down as far as himself being demacular, or I go expert, if you will. Okay.
Speaker 1:So, mr Mughal, I'm gonna teach you a mnemonic for your eye surgeries. Him saying that to me, I'm actually closing my eyes in the heart, my hand on my granddaughter's head if she was here to do so, or vicariously, and it's part of my exercise, I would only be cheating myself. So I'm kind of sort of getting it with division. Thanks for being patient. So he's now trying to teach me a mnemonic and because he came crashing down on my eye and, unbeknownst to himself, he's supposedly you know in his mind an eye surgeon or whatever. So he's now going to teach me a mnemonic for the recap of his diagnosis of my condition, if you will. That's really impatient.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, now Mr Magoo and the cartoon, as I remember it the most, in the mid to late no, in the mid 60s, in the mid, probably around 1964, because it was post Jim Enduring Jim Bacchus's career, this continuation of his multi-talented career as a character actor, but in Gilgames Island, before, during, and you know, tapings of Mr Magoo. So I kind of remember the theme of Mr Magoo driving down the road in the car and you know, being crotchety that he was, and just avoiding himself and he may have a personal injury with all these crazy variables, driving off construction sites, but the crane would come with the beam at the right time and his car would keep going and he was blind, misreading the whole, you know like it was a construction site and he misread the sign oh, 100 feet to parking, I'm almost at the office, or whatever. And he was like Roadhog was part of the lyrics that I can remember from this damaged opening without looking it up. So, okay, I'm going to attempt to have my vision of him in that car when he was driving on the road and you know he's blind and passing the buck and it's everybody else's fault and he and dust is why it was brilliant when they had him be scrooge in the character of in the Christmas Carol, because he was crotchety and as the Mr Scrooge cartoon character it was brilliant. So, again, trying to fill time to kind of tune in on my hologram to envision this Okay, mr McGoo's now ready to start to teach me and he has a chalkboard because I'm flashing to the Christmas Carol because there's scenes when he was a student as Mr Scrooge in the character when he was a young Scrooge, when he got visited by the ghost of Christmas past, present and future.
Speaker 1:And then the ghost of Christmas past they flash back to when he was a brilliant student, a little bit more friendly guy, a whole different character before he went awry and got crotchety and turned into a miser. Okay, at that chalkboard I can see that as my mnemonic for a young Well, mr Scrooge, but in the Well, okay, time out, mr McGoo, as young Ebenezer Scrooge in the Christmas Carol at the chalkboard now being flashing that as my mnemonic for me. In reality, if you will stay with me, he's at a chalkboard now in this theme that I'm trying to create. Hang with me. So he's now going to be my mnemonic teacher, dr Anthony's magnetic memory method program, with him being the instructor to try to teach me his version of a mnemonic. Okay, wow, stay with me, folks, I'm trying to tune this all in. So, okay, mr McGoo.
Speaker 1:Mr McGoo, he's using his singing as another mnemonic, if you will, okay. So here's the lyrics. Jim Backus has the real voice as the character of Scrooge and visiting it, and I'm just going to read the words of the lyrics of the song. He's the king of mnemonics, it's true. He can help you remember anything, even if you're blind as a bat and can't sing. Thanks, mr McGoo. I think I've got it now, me to him, and I'm smiling at him because I know he's blind and can't see me smile, and it's my sarcasm and my sense of humor, if you will. Mr McGoo didn't even see it, so he looked great in his crotchet. You've now go forth and remember.
Speaker 1:Let's take the 10-second break really quickly so I can collect the thoughts, and I promise I'll wrap this up because I want to try to get to the Mandarin part of him being my teacher in self-teaching Mandarin, and we'll wrap this thing up for today. Thanks for ingratiating me and staying with me. Deep, calming breath for everybody, myself included. We'll be right back In 10 seconds to yourselves. We'll be right back. Music. Okay, welcome back, and thanks for doing so and let's cut right to it. I'm gonna try to do this in 10 minutes or less. We'll probably tap out at about the 40 minute mark. Here we go. Hello, mr Magoo, continuing in the voice of Jim Backus Roadhogs, roadhogs.
Speaker 1:What are the roadhogs from his cartoon? Part of the lyrics Roadhogs are those inconsiderate drivers who cut you off, tailgate you drive like they own the road. They're a menace to society and they're a danger to everyone else on the road. I know what you mean. I've had my share of encounters with roadhogs. That's why it's important to remember them. So he has a mnemonic to help you remember roadhogs. Him to me, scrooge to Grandpa Bill. Roadhogs are like Mr Magoo. Their blinders are bad and they can't see. They're a hazard to everyone, but they don't care. Grandpa Bill back to him Roadhogs are like Mr Magoo. I like it, mr Magoo, of course you do. It's a brilliant mnemonic.
Speaker 1:Now, whenever you see a roadhog, just think of Mr Magoo and then get it out of the way. Okay, mr Magoo, we'll do. And now for a little jingle Roadhogs, roadhogs. They're a danger to us all. Their blinders are bad and they can't see. So get out of their way and don't be a fool. Roadhogs, roadhogs, they're the worst of them all. Roadhogs, roadhogs, they're the worst of them all. That's right, grandpa Bill. Roadhogs are the worst of them all. But with the help of me, mr Magoo, and my mnemonic Mnemonic I'm sorry, memory magic, let's try that again. Mr Magoo's mnemonic, magnetic memory magic, you'll never forget them All right quickly.
Speaker 1:Ebenezer Scrooge In the famous, famous to me Christmas Carol, christmas Eve, one scene of Ebenezer Scrooge and Mr Magoo as Mr Magoo Okay, is Mr Magoo, but Mr Magoo as him Singing money, money. Oh, how I love the sound of money, jingle, jingle, coins as they mingle Make such a lovely sound. Hello, mr Scrooge, who's there? It's me. How much you said when the Christmas Carol. Who is it? Oh, it's just you, says Magoo, what do you want?
Speaker 1:I wanted to talk to you about money, money. What do you know about money? I know that it's very important to you. Of course, money is everything, but it's not everything, mr Scrooge. There are other things that are more important, like family and friends. Family and friends, bah, humbah.
Speaker 1:But, mr Scrooge, money can't buy happiness. Oh, but it can. It can buy me everything. I need One that will make you happy. I don't know. Well, I think you should find out. Try spending some of your money on others and see how it makes you feel. I don't know, not sure I can do that. Just try it, mr Scrooge, you might be surprised. It is my definite mnemonic of Mr Scrooge. He'd understand it if you know the pain he did it. No way. He gave up until he saw the three goats. All right, magoo, I'll try yet. All right, maybe Mr Magoo is right. Maybe money can't buy happiness. It's worth a try. Mr Magoo, singing Some of this is actually lyrics and parts of the Christmas Carol.
Speaker 1:Money, money, it's a funny thing. It can't buy happiness. It can buy a ring. Suspend it wisely, don't be a fool. Money is just a tool. Thank you, mr Magoo. I think I needed to hear that. Mr Magoo, you're welcome. Mr Scrooge, now go forth and be happy Changing the theme of the Christmas Carol. That's me doing that, playing pinpong with mnemonics, mr Scrooge, and yours too, mr Magoo, as Scrooge sings what he did sing as the Carol did.
Speaker 1:Ringle jingle coins as they mingle Make such a lovely sound. First verse I'm Ebenezer Scrooge, miser's through and through. I love my money more than anything, that's true. I count my coins all day and night. When I hear them jingle, my heart takes flight.
Speaker 1:Chorus ringle jingle coins as they mingle Make such a lovely sound. Some more like Al Jolts Ringle jingle coins as they mingle Fill my heart with glee all around. I don't care about Christmas or any other holiday, I'm just happy to have my money. Become more mad. I don't give to the poor or to the needy, I'm just a selfish old man. You see, chorus ringle jingle coins as they mingle. Make such a lovely sound.
Speaker 1:Ringle jingle coins as they mingle, fill my heart with glee all around the bridge of the song. But one day three ghosts came to visit me. They showed me the arrow of my waist, got the bills. Interjection of my mnemonic of Mr Magoo. Changing the theme in midstream. They showed me the arrow of my waist. You see, I learned that money can't buy everything and that's it. It's more than that. It's important to be kind and given. Chorus ringle jingle coins as they mingle. Make such a lovely sound.
Speaker 1:Ringle jingle coins as they mingle, fill my heart with glee all around. Outro. So now I'm a changed man. I'm generous in kind, I spread Christmas cheer and I'm still happy to hear of my coins jingle. But now I share my wealth with others and my heart sings. Ringle jingle coins as they mingle. Make such a lovely sound. Ringle jingle coins as they mingle, fill my heart with glee all around.
Speaker 1:Quickly, mr Magoo, my hologram, my mnemonic of Mr Magoo, asscrooge Be Singing that song. Being a pneumatic teacher now segueing in Singing that song, doing it in Mandarin. Trying to teach me Mandarin. The first tone is high and level. The second tone is rising. The third tone is falling and rising. The fourth tone is falling.
Speaker 1:Here is the breakdown of the tonal inflection High and level, rising, falling and rising. Falling, high and level is ding, falling and rising is ding. Falling is ding. Trying to practice my inflection Self-angraich eating in real, or my practicing of self-teaching Mandarin With Mr Magoo as my mnemonic, as the instructor of doing so. We're almost there, folks.
Speaker 1:I can practice the tonal inflections by saying the words slowly and carefully, emphasizing each tone. You can also try myself the word in different ways, such as high pitched voice or low pitched voice, and I can feel comfortable with the tonal inflections eventually. And I can translate the lyrics on the air out my podcast at some juncture to remember and speak slowly and carefully as I am basically ringing this. So English Ringo Jingle. Coins as they Mingle make such a lovely sound. My best opinion in my tonal is way off Mandarin.
Speaker 1:Ding-dang, ding-dang, yin-bi-jiao-z-z-ay, yee-hee, fa-shu-lu-si-yu-wur-sti-zhen-ging, mr Magoo singing. Mr Magoo, you're a poet. Of course I am Grandpa Bill, I'm Mr Magoo, that's right. You see you are Now that's. Let's translate that into Mandarin for the podcast. Okay, grandpa Bill. Yes, ringo Jingle Coins as they Mingle make such a lovely sound.
Speaker 1:Grandpa Bill repeating after Mr Magoo Ringo Jingle Coins as they Mingle make such a lovely sound. Mr Magoo, good, grandpa Bill. Now let's try it in Mandarin. Mr Magoo, speaking as slowly and possibly as carefully as he can, ready. Grandpa Bill repeating Mr Magoo, he wrote it out in the script. I can't read the script. Yeah, I'm practicing the actual script language. I'll get back to you in other shows For real, mr Magoo. Excellent, grandpa Bill, you're a natural Presupposing that he's going to say that in my future. Hold man. Thanks, mr Magoo. I'm glad I could help. Mr Magoo, now let's go and record our podcast Done deal, segway and out. Oh, singing the song, oh, the sound of coins clinking, the sound of coins clinking together, coins clinking together to make a sound so lovely sound. I hope this helps over and out. We all have enough. But bye for now, and may God bless little tiny tin. God bless everyone. I'll see you in the next episode. Thanks for playing along. Same time, same station, peace everybody.