What's going on guys got Kyle here with late in sports cars and we're doing a six-box NFL mixer 2022 select and chronicles got four chronicles and two Selects this is mixer number 11 random team style We did a randomized for the break had Josh K with the Eagles down to Corey G with the Cowboys Good luck here guys can always find these results on our website underneath the personals or the results tab very bottom Good luck here. We'll start with the chronicles Start with the chronicles down to 12 for impeccable team all guys We'll get that going here in probably about an hour or so now that we have the retail About an hour and a half probably So got some time to fill that one if anyone's interested 12 left on impeccable team all some nice rpa's in that product nice autos Did you really have that ice man? Oh my goodness That is a sick card Yeah, that's unfortunate, but I mean it's probably a good price at the time So that's been ridder. 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How do we bolster our brain's capacity?  Maybe we get bombarded with choices. I know a lot of my tiredness and exhaustion comes from having too many choices sometimes. How do we really get our brain humming in the most optimal way that we can? How do we have a peak mind, whether that's through mindfulness practices, maybe it's meditation, whether it's through diet and nutrition? How do we really make sure that our brain is functioning to its full capacity? That's what we're going to be talking about in today's episode. And to help you understand your brain and how you can exercise the brain. I've brought in a new friend of mine, a fellow by the name of Michael Trainor. He is the founder of a company called Peek Mind, which launched with his holiness, the Dalai Lama. So we're going to find out a little bit about Peek Mind today. He's also the co-creator of a festival called the Global Citizen Festival, which hosts about 70,000 people on the Great Lawn in Central Park annually. And Michael has a lot of experience with bolstering the brain and brain functionality. His father actually had dementia, and we're going to talk a little bit about that today. So if you're wanting to improve your brain functionality, listen up, because we're going to go through it. With that, it's a big welcome to Michael Trainor. How are you, Michael? Good, James. How are you? I'm very well, mate. Good to have you here. Tell us a little bit about your story and your interest and passion in things to do with the brain's capacity. Yeah, well, first of all, thank you for having me. Second of all, my interest in the brain really was catapulted when my father was diagnosed with dementia. So as you mentioned at the time, I was working with an incredible team to build something called the Global Citizen Festival, which was a concert and a movement to end extreme poverty. It's still going very strong with incredible guests every year and being leveraged to raise significant contributions on behalf of the world's poor. But when my father was diagnosed with dementia, I made the very hard choice to step away and focus on supporting him. And so it's been an incredible three-year journey, but it started off first with meditation. And that had been a long-standing interest. I lived actually with a traditional healer on a Fulbright scholarship in Sri Lanka when I was 19 and started a vipassana meditation then. But Harvard came out with a study several years back which actually demonstrated the ability for mindfulness and meditation to enhance neuroplasticity. And so that led me on a deep dive into meditation and the desire to popularize meditation, because which actually is obviously happening at the moment, especially within some of our circles, but really how can we have a mind and a vision towards seeing meditation become common practice in communities all around the world? And so at that point in time, I had a vision which included utilizing some of the leading meditators I knew and no one in my mind was the embodiment of that more than a loneliness to Dalai Lama. And we decided to host an event around his 80th birthday to bring about greater awareness around the virtues of meditation. And he very gracefully offered to come and share some of his teachings. So my interest in the brain really was catalyzed by my father's diagnosis. And since then, I've been delving deeply into sort of the nutritional lifestyle aspects that can enhance cognitive ability in neurogenesis. And your father was diagnosed with dementia a few years ago. Michael, is that right three years ago? Yeah, that's right. So he was diagnosed about three years ago. While I was working in building global citizen with the team, he actually had been diagnosed with cancer. Fortunately, that is knock on wood in remission. But about after he kind of had done two years of chemotherapy, it was discovered that he had dementia. Now, dementia actually onsets in the brain decades before the first symptoms. So his diagnosis came about three years ago, but it's likely that the onset was far earlier. Just for the uninitiated, can you just explain dementia, what it is, and how it shows up in people? Yeah, for sure. So the most common form of dementia that I think is most familiar to people is Alzheimer's, which right now in the United States alone there's over five million people with Alzheimer's. But there are a myriad of different dementias, if you will. My father has frontal lobe dementia.  It's an extraordinarily painful disease, not only for the person who has dementia, which often leads to confusion, but also for the families that love them because your identity obviously, the one organ we can't replace in our body is our brain. And our entire identity and the way that we filter through the world is all processed through our brain. So it's the center for our identity. So if you can think of in many ways, the most dreaded thing you can think of, oftentimes it would be the loss of that identity slowly over time. Knowing at least it was thought that the brain was, many people had this idea that the brain, once you're born with kind of a perfect brain and it slowly degrades over time and there's nothing you can do about it. What's been beautiful though in this search is that actually the leading kind of doctors in the functional medicine field are saying that actually you can enhance your neuroplasticity. In other words, your ability to bolster against dementias throughout your life. And actually the earlier you start, the better.  We are, as you mentioned, at the top end of the show encountering an increasing amount of toxins in our environment as well as our food supply and different things which actually, depending on your diet and lifestyle, can degrade your brain. But there is a diet and lifestyle that can actually enhance your cognitive abilities. And so in working to really serve my father and be of service to others as I share this message, I've been, I'm not a doctor myself, let me just qualify that. If you're going to seek medical treatment, I can recommend some wonderful doctors, Dr. Mark Hyman, David Perlmutter is an incredible doctor. But having spent time with them and done deep research through some of the findings I've come across and it's actually very exciting because on the flip side, the positive is we can actually have very, we can have, we can have life enhancing effects on the brain throughout our lives. And it's not a, it's not a fatal calling court, excuse me, calling card as we once thought it was. There's actually ways in which we can encourage neuroplasticity throughout our lives. So just before we get into a few things, like I'll get you to talk about, you know, what we're doing daily that's degrading our brain. And then we'll talk about some ways in which we can strengthen the brain, but just going back to your father, I mean, it must be, it must have been and it must continuously be, you know, a great source of frustration or pain for you to have to go through that process with your father, like for the listener who maybe isn't just aware of the level of care that maybe you have to give to a loved one, could you just clarify like some of those things and what your personal feelings are around your father and his dementia or maybe even things that he shared with you about his dementia. I think that would really help us get an insight into, you know, what the, I guess the patient and the loved ones of the patient, you know, experience. Yeah, I'd be happy to. So my dad, by way of context, is one of the most loving, gracious humans you could ever meet. He's the kind of guy where if I said, Dad, could you, you know, could you pick up my friend James from the airport at two in the morning on, you know, in the middle of the night? He wouldn't even ask who James is. He'd just be there at two in the morning. You know, he's that kind of a guy. If it's important to me, it's important to him.  He, I'm just painting a little bit of a picture so you can appreciate it. His own father actually was never, came from a very stoked background, was a military, a captain in the military. Never once actually told my father that he loved him because it wasn't within his capacity. But my father, when he revealed himself fully to his dad to declare his love, the only way he knew that his dad, that it meant something to him was he took a napkin from the table and he folded it and he put it in his pocket.  But he, the degree to which he exemplifies love is truly profound for me. So to give you context, the challenge is that this human who has been there, who's had my back, who has been a source of perpetual support, I now have to watch slowly fade away. So it's, you know, I try to always keep in context the positives, right? So the positives are, some people unfortunately never get to say goodbye to their loved one. And if there's one thing that comes out of this podcast, I hope it's that, you know, your listeners will take a moment to write a letter to say the things that haven't been said to those they love the most. There's actually a study out of Stanford Medical School, which you can research or potentially link up in the show notes where they say there's four questions or four things really that you need to say to a loved one.  And he said, thank you, I love you, forgive me, I forgive you. And so I highly recommend writing a letter sitting down with your loved ones, because what I've discovered, the essence of your question is, you know, the people that we come to love, they're still there in their essence, you know, my dad, I know, I know he loves me. I know that he, the degree of our connection is profound. Yet at the same time, you know, a year ago at our farmhouse, he forgot my name for the first time. You know, at times he doesn't know who my mother is. At times he doesn't know who I am.  And that's not even taking into consideration, you know, the stress it puts on the family, who's going to take care of whom, the financial consequences, you know, end of life care causes more bankruptcies in the United States of America than anything else.  But, you know, you're looking at, there's no good answer, right? How do you care and demonstrate the love for those who you love the most when sort of the best case scenario is a scenario you wouldn't wish for, right? You know, how do you put someone in a potentially in a nursing home in a hospital bed where they're, you know, where they're left to decline? Fortunately, my mother and father are still together. They've been married 47 years and my dad's still in her care in the home that we've been, you know, born and raised in, which is really amazing. But I'm now confronting, you know, this week alone talking about things like power of attorney, power of health. How do you make those, the hardest of decisions with those you love the most? These are the consequences of a disease which impacts not just the 5 million people in the United States, but all of the family members that are left to care for them.  It becomes their full focus. So it's really, truly profound. And it takes us a little bit, just for a moment away from me personally, you know, they're now calling dementia type 3 diabetes. Really? Yeah. So if you look at the epidemic of type 2 diabetes, which is now very present, the likelihood of getting dementia if you have type 2 diabetes is exponentially more likely. And if you look at the research, and I've done this, it's insane. I mean, I used to focus on trying to bring about support for diseases affecting extreme poor like polio and malaria. And then I did the research and realized that actually dementia and diabetes are going to be a global pandemic. I mean, if you look right now, there's about 11% of both the population in China, as well as the United States that have dementia. Excuse me, that have diabetes for me. But if you look at pre-diabetes, right now 50% of the Chinese population alone, that's not taking into consideration India, Mexico, countries around the world that have adopted a Western lifestyle are dealing with the toxicities which are now in our environment. Let's talk about 500 million people, which if their lifestyle continues are more likely to have the onset of type 2 diabetes, which means that we could be facing a very significant crisis, both in the form of diet and life, which is diet and lifestyle born, right? Well around the world, right? So that we're talking about something that could affect hundreds of millions of people. First of all, I want to thank you for giving us a glimpse into your life and the life of your family as well. I know it sounds challenging. It sounds really challenging. I really appreciate you, like I said, giving us a glimpse into that. I think that the emotional side of that will certainly makes me feel a great level of support for you, you know? And then it helps me to understand what it is that we're facing here and the road that we might be headed down. So thank you for that. I want to ask you this question. Is your father's dementia, now with all the research that you have done, do you feel like it was something that he was just naturally born to have, naturally born to be afflicted with? Or do you think that it is a direct result of his diet and his lifestyle up until this point? Yeah, wonderful. That is one of the big questions, right? So what I will say is the science shows that there are genetic predispositions that make one more likely to have the onset of certain dementias and Alzheimer's. In those biomarkers you can actually get tests and I encourage that and I'm happy to share some great resources. Dr. Dale Bredesen actually is an incredible researcher and has actually reversed Alzheimer's in a small clinical study, incredible. But to your core question, yes, there are genetic predispositions and factors which make it more likely that you can have neurodegenerative disease. However, those genetic predispositions are not definitive one and two, if caught early enough with, which has been seen. And we're at the, this is the frontier of brain science. I mean, it's incredible. I mean, if you look at David Perlmutter's research, he's actually literally taken two, I don't know if he personally, but he quotes in his book, Grain Brain, which I highly recommend, and Brain Maker. He talks about two twins who are genetically basically identical, one profoundly unhealthy and the other healthy. And this may not be the most palatable, but one of the leading sciences now in terms of interventions is fecal implant. So, you know, our microbiome, our gut health, and the bacteria, the flora, are intricately linked to our brain cells in terms of production or transmitters like serotonin even, right? Like which enhances our happiness. So, I mean, the cascade down is significant. You want to talk about depression, all different kinds of neurological factors. But to the essence of your question, what we're seeing is that your diet and lifestyle can have profound implications on whether or not any preexisting biological markers actually lead to disease. So, what I would say is that, and aside from that, even if you have what I would argue, and again, I'm not speaking as a doctor, but based on my research, if you have no markers necessarily for Alzheimer's, that doesn't mean you won't get dementia.  And that chronic inflammation can have a myriad of effects, including autoimmune diseases, but also dementious, right? So, basically, in the context of the brain, when you eat and have a certain lifestyle that enhances inflammation in the brain, the challenge is your brain doesn't have pain receptors, right? So, with the exception of maybe something analogous to a hangover, when you've drank too much alcohol the next day, you can tell the effects in an acute sense. When you're generally speaking, when you're eating grains, when you're eating breads, carbs, we know that that makes us feel better oftentimes, like it's a comfort food. Like, in my past, I loved pizza. Now I try to limit my consumption, but basically, if we have chronic inflammation throughout our lives, that has effects on our brain. So, to answer your question, specifically, there are genetic markers, but also, my friend James Maskler runs a functional forum said this way, even if you have a loaded gun, it doesn't mean that you have to pull the trigger, right?  I'll give an example. I was with last week, a woman who had progressive MS, Dr. Terry Walls. Now, she basically came up with a protocol and is now working to clinically prove that it works beyond herself. But in the context of her own personal health, and you can Google her TED Talk, it's amazing, she went from progressive MS. In other words, she was bound to a wheelchair with a degenerative disease that's theoretically incurable. She went into an aggressive protocol, which includes a dramatically revised, you know, diet and lifestyle.  You can look up the protocol. I won't go into all the details here. And she, one year later, was walking two years later, was riding a horse. And I was with her last week and you couldn't tell she had any symptoms whatsoever. So, it's actually, when I look at someone like my father, I feel like it's kind of the canary in the coal mine if I remove myself. In terms of saying that we're right now besieged by a type of environment and a whole delugia forces that are encouraging us to eat lots of sugar. It's very hard to actually take on a diet which is actually ideal for your brain based on what you can buy in everyday supermarkets. So, there are ways you can approach it and there's systems that you can, and doctors that are amazing. I'm happy to go into, but in essence to your question, it's not a death sentence. Okay, so let's do this now, Michael. We're talking to Michael Traynor who is the founder of Peek Mind which launched with his Holiness the Dalai Lama. So, let's do five things that we're doing in our everyday life that we know definitively is degrading our brains. So, what are the standard things that you see people doing that is degrading our brain increasing our chances of getting typed through diabetes or getting dementia later on in life? Well, there's a few things and hopefully I'll turn this around with things that you can do to also step up your chances for resilience. But one thing is, and actually I'll start with some of the broader based lifestyle tenants. So, we'll start broad. But I know a lot of your work James, you like to focus on sleep.  So, having a deep quality REM sleep, which I can go into detail but I know this is your specialty so I probably won't in this instance. But turning your bedroom into a sleep sanctuary and getting deep quality rest is hugely influential. So, the epidemic of, and by the way, I'm all for hustling and creating big results, but the epidemic of crush it at all expenses, all nighters, a lot of what is encouraged in our entrepreneurial culture, and I'm an entrepreneur, is antithetical to brain health. That doesn't mean you can't hustle and crush it. But it does mean you should be smart about the foundations you're laying to do so. So, one would be sleep. Another would be diet. So, our diets right now are unfortunately full of processed foods for those really basic, you know, processed foods are generally speaking things that you'll find in a box, you know, that have been, that are not the way sort of, they're not closest to their natural source, right? So, generally speaking, in a supermarket, the outer aisles, oftentimes are like the produce, vegetables, etc. You know, eating, so another thing that's having an effect is based on the interfunctional medicine conference I was just at is pesticides. So, pesticides are unfortunately being sprayed most significantly on conventional produce, but pesticides are now being genetically embedded into many different kinds of products, right? So, you have an almost, you know, you have a widespread use of things like glycophate, which otherwise known as Roundup, which is a pesticide. These kinds of things, you know, let's just say ideally, you're focusing on organic fruits and vegetables and free range, if you do eat meat, free range meats, so as to avoid exposure to environmental toxins like pesticides. The other thing is environment, right? So, one of the things, and I'll add to that more broadly stress, right? So, cortisol levels being in a state of acute stress decreases your immunity, you know? So, the degree to which we are in perpetual stress, and that's not to say stress is bad, actually stress can enhance your resilience. Kind of like, if you're going to the gym, you do, you put your muscles in stress to build them, right? I kind of look at things like meditation as going to the, you know, as my friend Light Watkins calls it, the inner gym, right? So, you're actually, you know, you can actually use stress to enhance and grow, but if you're in a state of acute stress perpetually, which many people are in our 24-7 lives these days in modern society, that's one of the things that also has long-term consequences. You know, diet, generally speaking pro-inflammatory foods, sugar, I'll just say that a few times, sugar, sugar, sugar. Anyone who hasn't watched, watch that sugar movie, really insightful resource. Sugar is in almost everything now, and, you know, it's not to say that I have been able to totally eliminate it from my life by any means, but being mindful of how much sugar you consume and also highly refined carbs, white sugars, white carbs lead to spikes in the glycemic index, and those have long-term consequences. So, and then as an aside, you know, to your point about my father, you know, my dad drank diet soda and took Tums every night. Shouldn't probably name the name brand. Let's just say he took antacids every night, and there is research that suggests the potentiality of things like antacid now given the new research into the gut-brain barrier and, you know, and some of the ingredients you'll find in things like sodas, aspartame and the like to have potentially, you know, potentially harmful consequences. So, and also, we now live in a, this just happened, we now live in a world where there's now more obese people on the planet than non-obese people. So, if you're carrying fat, that's the kind of storehouse where a lot of these toxins can live. And I don't say that in a way to make anyone feel guilty. I think there's far too much shame around weight. So, none of my messages intended to be shame inducing. And I'm, by the way, far from perfect. It's just to say that being cognizant of these factors is very important to taking your life and your health on. And I think one of the main things we need to do is start to take responsibility. I mean, you know, a lot of us take more agency when we take our car into the mechanic or what type of fuel we put into our car, more so even than the degree to which we take our health or even our research when we go into the doctor into, you know, what we put into our own bodies or our own health markers. So, it's just a very important call. Okay, so some of the things here that we're doing to degrade our brain is poor sleep, eating, having a poor diet, so processed foods, like anything in a box, we're eating too much sugar. You talked about grains and breads and carbs and pizza. So, just as a little caveat here, I just completed the whole 30, which is a program where you have to eat kind of flawlessly for 30 days.  So, that means very lean meats or farm-raised, eggs, pasture-raised eggs, and then fruits and vegetables, no rice, no pasta, no potatoes. You can have sweet potatoes, but kind of like doing like a pretty much like a paleo-ethic kind of diet. And I did it for 30 days, and at the end of 30 days, I felt terrific.  And I don't want to put anyone off here about what I'm about to explain, but there's no other way to do it. I woke up the next morning, and I'd been farting in the night.  It was awful. Just for 30 days, my farts were practically odourless, right? Odourless farts for 30 days, as I'm eating this food flawlessly. And then as soon as I had Oreos and Haagen-Dazs ice cream, which is jam-packed with sugar, something happened in my system where, when I woke up the next morning, my room just like stank to high hell. So that was a really good indication to me, like how bad eating like huge concentrations of sugar actually is. Something was going on in my system there that was kind of nasty, and it was very noticeable because I'd eaten pretty much fall asleep for 30 days, and then all of a sudden, suddenly, I'm eating crap food. So just a little side caveat there. Just, I'll say one thing about that. So I think what you did in the context of your diet, the 30 days, ostensibly is, and I know Dallas, and I think Kylie of the whole 30 diet, but what I would say is, what you're basically describing is you did an elimination diet, which I think is really wonderful. You know, there's no, I don't think there's any one pill fits all or one diet fits all in healthcare in my experience, right? So I think for people to take on whatever that 30 day is to eliminate the things that, when they find symptoms like that, right, where you don't feel right, you know, you maybe, you know, in your case, you know, you're describing, you saw a clear shift after you ate a certain food. You know, I think listening to your body is crucial to taking ownership of your own health. Yeah. Um, just on that, I don't want to get into a whole, like talking about, you know, paleo versus vegan and vegetarian and everything, but I think it's important to mention grains and breads there because bread is such part of our staple diet, right? And when you explain to people initially and say, you shouldn't be eating bread, or maybe I shouldn't be saying it like that. Maybe I should say, have you ever considered eliminating bread from your diet and seeing, you know, how you feel? People are always like, what? I don't understand, but I have toast for breakfast and I need a sandwich at lunch and what do you mean? I can't have rice. What are you talking about? Like rice is part of my diet. And then people point to like the Asian diet, which is filled with rice and they say that, well, their health seems okay.  It's a staple of their diet. So if they're, if everything's okay with them, why does this, why should I give up rice? So can you just maybe just briefly, because I want to move on to a couple of other things, clarify why grains and breads and certain calms can be so damaging to our brain? Yeah.  But basically, in essence, promotes inflammation and chronic inflammation is the source of many diseases, inclusive of which is dementia. So, so, you know, I'm not going to go into don't eat, right, you know, you know, I lived in Sri Lanka for a period where I ate extraordinarily fresh, clean food with rice and felt amazing. So I think, you know, I'm not going to be the guy to be prescriptive in terms of saying that, never do that, you know, do that. But what I will say is in terms of gluten, you know, there are a number of people that are highly sensitive to gluten and don't know it. For example, they think that about 1% of the population in the U.S. alone has celiac disease. Celiac is an extreme allergic reaction to wheat. The consequence of which could be the promotion of certain cancers as well as infertility. So I think, you know, one of the things I would argue is to either do an elimination diet and see how you feel when you remove things like wheat or rice is from your diet and or doing tests. There are now a battery of tests you can get for relatively cheap that actually will help you learn what are the ideal foods for your genetic makeup, for your type, you know. So I put that out there. If you want, I have a whole list of things that I recommend as kind of an anti-all-timers diet, which I'm happy to share. But I would say that to your point around. Now, you're talking about pesticides on produce. So if in doubt, try to go organic, I guess is the suggestion there. The other thing is the common bathroom is a chemical disaster in most households in my opinion. In fact, I've gone through an exercise recently where I almost eliminated every single chemical out of my out of my home. In fact, I had a cleaner come over to my home last week. And she criticized me or not criticize me, but she said she claimed that she couldn't clean my place effectively because I didn't have two products which were filled with chemicals because I basically replaced all of the chemical cleaning products with natural cleaning products. And her looking at this thing, she was like, oh, I can't, no puedo. She was speaking Spanish. She's like, I can't fix this. I can't use this. You need to go to the store and buy, I think it was Clorex and Titex or something. I can't remember what it was called. But in any case, it was astounding to me that someone didn't understand that I did not want chemicals in my home, that I wanted purely natural products. So as an example, in my shower, I only use a product called Dr. Bronner's which is all organic coconut oil and butter and things like that that you use to wash your head or wash your body. The hand cleaner that I use, I can't remember the name of it, but it's all natural products. There's a spray that you spray that makes the bathroom smell nice. It's all natural ingredients. There's no parabens. There's no chemicals. There's none of that nonsense. And I use Tom's deodorant. So when I'm putting deodorant underneath my armpits, I'm using Tom's which again is as close to as all natural products you can get. I think there might be something slightly in there, but I'm not using acts and Gillette and all that kind of crap which are filled with stuff.  And Ben Greenfield, who's a friend of mine, has a podcast called Ben Greenfield Fitness. He's one of the most knowledgeable health experts I know. He said to me once in a phrase and it really stuck with me.  So I don't use those mainstream moisturizing companies anymore, you know like Neutrogena and all this kind of stuff because they're filled with chemicals. Now I just put on extra virgin olive oil on my face or I'll use a company called Alatura which is run by a friend of mine, Andy Nylo who I've had on the show. And Alatura has all natural ingredients as well. So I use that as a face moisturizer. So yeah, I mean I guess that plays into what you were talking about. There is like your environment and I would encourage you if you're watching or listening just go and do a stock take of what's in your home. Look underneath the kitchen sink. Look under the bathroom sink. What's the soap that you're putting on your body? If you use dove soap, chances are you're putting chemicals and parabens on your thing. What's the deodorant you use? What's the toothpaste that you use? What are you putting on your body? What's the aftershave that you're putting on your body?  But you know like then like the... It's really, I think what I hear you saying is it's not necessarily what the importance of the brand is more to say would you make a very important point. The skin is the largest organ on the human body. Correct. And unfortunately we don't pay enough attention to the kinds of inputs that we have in and around on or around our skin and our skin is permeable. So in essence what we put on or have around our skin winds up in our system. So for example around deodorants, there's some research that links aluminum to Alzheimer's as a potential causative. Many, many antiperspirants have that as an ingredient. People sometimes cook with aluminum foil. So it is important to me mindful to your point about what you have in your environment. And there's a whole another kind of load that this generation is subject to in terms of potential toxins. And I'm personally not uber extreme. I do think there's times in which if you have an acute bacteria or virus in the environment like bleach in an isolated area, it can make sense. However, there's fascinating research now which to our to our discussion around Alzheimer's, which actually is a graph I saw that was Dr. Perlmutter showed of the incidence of dimension Alzheimer's. And almost all of the highest incidence countries are the most developed countries. Countries like the United States, Iceland, Australia. Whereas the countries with the lowest incidence are often the developing countries like Sub-Saharan Africa, which isn't necessarily a country but regions, et cetera, certain parts of the Middle East. The lowest incidence of dementia. So there is now research being done on how, for example, our sanitization or oversanitization of our environments and the degree to which we use antibacterials and such and that they may kill a lot of the healthy bacteria and microbes which are fundamental to our overall health and the myriad of consequences that that can have on the body. Our gut, we have trillions of bacteria in our gut. If we were to surround ourselves and kill off all those bacteria, the consequences would be catastrophic. So the essence of what you're saying, which I would just piggyback off of this, we need to be very mindful of who's trying to influence what we put in or around our body and on our body because the skin is actually our largest organ. Yeah. Okay. So let's just move on just as we take this home. I kind of want to, well, actually I got one question to do with the gut. You were talking about the gut. So besides trying to eat organic fruits and vegetables, free-range meats, trying to lower our stress, being mindful of sugar, trying to get deep quality REM sleep, presumably you would also encourage the use of daily meditation, whether that's 10 or 15 minutes. Improving the gut. There's a lot of products on the market there, regarding probiotics, for example. Take probiotic supplements. I take a lot of sauerkraut because as I understand that that can improve your gut health. But given that you said earlier that the gut is super responsible for our brain health, what besides good eating can we do to make sure that our gut is operating the way it should, knowing that ultimately that affects our brain? Yeah, great question. So I would encourage every one of your listeners, if they haven't yet, read the book Brain Maker to read it. Dr. David Poromont is one of the leading doctors in this field. He talks quite a bit about the ways in which you can strengthen your gut health. So like what you mentioned, kimchi, fermented vegetables, kombucha, those are things that actually absolutely have positive effects on the gut. But I would also say that there's other things which were not widely known, which are showing huge consequences on the formation of your microbiota and the floor in your gut, for example. And I was a cesarean birth, but natural birth, for example, they believe effects on the formation of your microbiome as well as breast milk. So for the mothers out there, those, if you can, healthfully deliver, they're now doing swabbing, for example, vaginal swabbing in babies that are born. That actually sets the proper foundation. And then there are a lot of foods that we can consume throughout our lives to enhance the strength of the gut, such as the fermented foods you mentioned. Probiotics, I think it really comes down to absorption. I'm pro, I also take probiotics. I think not all probiotics or all supplements are created equal, but I think that they're very healthy. I put together, overall, I put together a list if you want of, which I'm happy to share with you, of some of the things you can do to really kind of bolster your brain against Alzheimer's. Okay, go for it. Yeah, rattle them through, and then I want to ask you one final question. All right, perfect.  Those especially sprayed with pesticides and fertilizer, try to keep as much to organic produce as possible. Read labels, basically, and toss out products that are treated with sodium nitrate. That's not something you want a whole lot of in your body.  In terms of supplements, I like fish oils, Omega-3s are huge for your brain, and getting good quality fish oils that don't have a ton of mercury. If you can do any heavy metal testing, a lot of us are exposed to molds and heavy metals like mercury. If you have those in your system, they can wreak havoc down the line, so highly encourage any form of heavy metal testing and chelation if necessary. Vitamin, high quality, high dose B complex vitamins, vitamin D, CoQ enzyme, Q10, magnesium, all really powerful for the brain. In terms of superfoods for the brain, blueberries are great, nuts, walnuts, high fat foods. Keep in mind, your brain is 70% fat, so you want to be giving really healthy, high burning quality fuel to your brain in the form of great fats. And then there's, you know, neurotropics, ginkgo, there's things like ginkgo below, but other things you can do for enhancing memory. And I'm happy if people want to come to peakmind.org. I can send out. I've got a whole list of things I've put together to augment brain health. But those are just a few recommendations in terms of a generalized approach to augmenting and strengthening the brain. Okay, thank you. Appreciate you sharing that. Now, what I want to read to you here is a quote, famous quote from the Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves. And I have interviewed Keanu Reeves on three occasions for when I was a film journalist. I got to interview him for when he was doing, promoting the Matrix movies. I can't remember what the other movies were. And then I sat next to him, oh, sorry, I sat behind him in Park City, Utah, recently at the Sundance Film Festival. I was at an event called Chef Dance and he was sitting right behind me. And there's a very famous quote, if you Google Keanu Reeves' message on living life to the fullest. And I want to read this to you. I don't know if you're aware of it, but it seems to be a somewhat counter argument to what you and other health experts are proposing here, which is living a life of being very particular about what foods you eat and what you don't eat. So let me read the quote here. This is from the Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves. And it's his message on living life to the fullest. My friend's mom has eaten healthy all her life, never ever consumed alcohol or any bad food, exercised every day, very limber, very active, took all supplements suggested by her doctor, never went in the sun without sunscreen. And when she did, it was for as short a period as possible. So pretty much she protected her health with the utmost that anyone could. She is now 76 and has skin cancer, bone marrow cancer, and extreme osteoporosis. My friend's father eats bacon on top of bacon, butter on top of butter, fat on top of fat, never, and I mean never exercised, was out in the sun, burnt to a crisp every summer. He basically took the approach to live life to his fullest and not as others suggest. He is 81 and the doctors say his health is that of a young person. People, you cannot hide from your poison. It's out there and it will find you. So in the words of my friend's still living mother quote, if I would have known my life would end this way, I would have lived it more to the fullest, enjoying everything I was told not to. None of us are getting out of here alive. So please stop treating yourself like an afterthought. Eat the delicious food, walk in the sunshine, jump in the ocean, say the truth that you're carrying in your heart like hidden treasure, like hidden treasure. Be silly, be kind, be weird. There's no time for anything else. End quote. So that's a quote from Keanu Reeves. What are your thoughts on that as you, as you heard that? I actually think it's a, I think it's a cool quote. I mean, I think, I think what she's saying at the very end is actually the tenants of health.  Harvard just did the longest, large attitudinal study of its kind. And the single greatest determinant to long term happiness is the quality of your relationships, you know? So, you know, we chose to do a deep dive because you asked me to focus on that vis-a-vis the brain. But I, I think, I think two things. One, I think, I think what she's saying is, is very powerful. In terms of, I think quality of life, your joy, the amount you're laughing, your connection with other humans, that to me is the best medicine. Now that said, you know, some of the things you mentioned, the other gentleman ate, like butters, fats, et cetera. It's actually what you want to eat. And some of the things you put on their skin, like sunscreens, which were probably chemical sunscreen, probably weren't ideal. That said, look, this isn't, I'm not personally, this is me personally, I'm not personally Uber extremist. But at the same time, I've learned the hard way that I'm going to have as much joy, as much fun, connect to as many people as possible. And yeah, I'll occasionally eat some ice cream. If my dad wants to eat ice cream right now, because it brings him extreme joy, you better believe I'm going to take him for ice cream. Because I, do I think he should be eating ice cream every night? No, you know, so I think it's like, it's again, it's about taking your health on and like empowering yourself. And I feel like, in essence, there's kind of the things that you can do to bolster, to make sure you have as much time on the planet, to enjoy those fun expressive moments with people, with yourself, traveling, doing all the things to light you up. And I can say, and I'll bring you back with a quote, a Buddha said, of all wealth, health is greatest and best.  If they were diagnosed with cancer tomorrow, they would give it all up to have their health back. So what brings you health, what brings you wealth in terms of your experience? I'm for. Well said. Michael Traynor from peekmind.org. Is that the best way we can connect with you, Michael? Yeah, you can reach out on peekmind.org, michaeltrainer.com, and then I'm at Michael Traynor across all the social platforms. And Traynor is T-R-A-I-N-E-R. Correct. Michael, thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us. I'm sure I speak for all of our listeners, when we wish you and your father the best of luck in his dementia journey. And we appreciate you sharing your story with us and expressing vulnerability and talking about that. We really do appreciate it. Thank you, James. It was an honor.


The fiery horse with a speed of light, a clod of dust and a hearty hyo silver. The lone ranger. The daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. No where in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeaks of the great horse Silver. The lone ranger rides again. I am Silver! I am Silver! Pedro Camargo had quit Mexico, only a few jumps ahead of pursuing government soldiers. Eventually he made his way to Tombstone, reputed to be the most lawless town in the west. There one night as he lounged in a cafe contemplating his bleak future. He felt a hand pressed hard into his shoulder. Look who I find here of all the places in the world. Do not see my name so long. You mean to tell me you're running away up here too, Pedro? Senor, you make a mistake. You call me... Who do you think you're fooling, Pedro? You know me. Vinco, that's who I am. Vinco Shea. I have never seen you before, Senor. I've... He was not a lawman after all. Huh? What are you talking about? That hombre who stood there at the end of the bar. The way he keeps looking at me, I think truly he's a lawman. But now he is gone and I am released. Oh, Vinco, amigo. He's good to see you. Well, that's more like it. This is real luck, bubbing into you, Pedro. Luck for Pedro? Oh, Vinco, you are my amigo and always you have freed me good. Well, let me treat you now. What are you drinking? Right now I see a slow and a glass of wine because I cannot afford more. You want some red eye? Oh, Vinco, what do you think? To ask a man who loves red eye? Of course I will have to. The bar key. Pour me a pal here, double shot. Then, Pedro, when you get it, we'll sit over at the corner table and talk where we can't be heard. Vinco, this is a good tasting thing. Well, I'm going to give you something better. Here. A gold piece for you. It's not black. This is for me. Oh, come on. But of course, of course it is for me. What's the matter with you? What are you groaning about? Because, Vinco, whenever you give me money it is for something bad you want me to do. Then, always, trouble pursues me, like we lost. There'll be no trouble this time, Pedro. You're just the man I need to do a certain job for us. And do me go, are the people you call up? You ever hear of Coy Harper? Coy Harper? Who has not heard of that only? Tuffy is a great gambler, but more than that he is a smart one. Ever does he low catch up with him, no matter what he does. Yeah, that's Coy, all right. He plays his hand to get the full strength out of it. But he never makes an overplay. So you work for him now? Yeah, Duke and I are his right-hand men. We cut in on all the jobs we do for him. He's holding a big stake for us now. So that is why they called and read I run free. Yeah, and we have another job set up that we want you to help us on. A bank job. No, no, no, no, not for me a bank job. I steal a sheep, a cow, or maybe a horse. Sometimes I kill an hombre, I don't have any. Hold it, hold it. You don't like lawmen, do you? Lawmen in Mexico and this country do not like them at all. Good, because in this bank job Duke and I do the hold-up part. We just want you to get a certain lawman out of town while we work. And if I say I do not want to join in this job? Back you go to Sonora where they want you for murder. Where they'll hang you from a tree. I'll make sure you go back. Nothing, I work for you. But tell me first, where is this town you're talking about? It's west of here. A real-life town it is too. You've heard about it. It's Bovarado. The town of Bovarado half a day's ride west of Tombstone was fast becoming as lawless as Tombstone itself. A new kingdom of crime was in the making and it was for this reason that the lone ranger and tonto headed for Bovarado to help bring law there. It was evening when the two men set up camp in the hills outside the town. We were getting in touch with Sheriff Denton in the morning, tonto. We helped him once in the past. Perhaps he may be able to do so again. Him, good man. Not afraid of crook or outlaw. But he can get deputies, so he's doing a one-man job. That's too great a task for even the bravest man. Himasabe, you have ID who head outlaws in town? No, tonto. But Coy Harper set up hotels and cafes there. His reputation's the worst. I think he's the man we'll keep our eyes on. At that moment in his suite of rooms in a hotel he owned, Coy Harper met with outlaws Binko Shea and Duke Foster. No one saw you sneak up here, Mingu? We made sure of that, didn't we, Duke? Yeah. When they sure share of Denton was the other side of town. Denton, huh? He's been causing me a lot of trouble lately. I hope nothing goes wrong tomorrow morning. Don't worry, Coy. Duke and I will take over Higgs and the two people in the town. Duke and I will take over Higgs and the two people who work in his bank before he knows what happens. And he'll never recognize us in different clothes and wearing masks like we do. And as for leading Sheriff Denton into the ambush you've set up, believe me, Pedro will do a perfect job. You'll see. I hope so. Because we'll build Denton gone, we'll not have to worry about law in this town anymore. We'll run things the way we like. The way I like. Shortly after dawn next morning, Sheriff Bill Denton heard a knock on his front door. He walked to the door and opened it. A Mexican, visibly upset, stood in the doorway, hat in hand. Oh, Senor Sheriff, he's good you are here. Please, you must give assistance, Queen. What are you talking about? Give whom assistance? Where? Oh, Senor Sheriff, it is the Banditos. And it's where? Ah, Senor Sheriff, up in the hills I have a cabin. In the cabin I have gold which I find in the earth. Come last night, the Banditos. They break into my cabin, Senor Sheriff. They eat my food and drink my wine. Next they say they will take my gold. And it's broken onion that didn't take your gold right away. I thought it's right, Senor Sheriff. Now they sleep. I sneak out here and come to you. Please, you must give assistance quick before they wake. Take my gold and escape. Well, that's my job. Wait till I get my guns. What's your name? Pedro. Pedro Manuel Comarco. My cabin she's to the west in the hills where I show you. Strings I never saw you around, Oberado. But, Senor Sheriff, I never come to town. This town is bad. I stay in my cabin always and search for gold. Now let's get out of here then. Look into this matter. Lead the way. I'll have my horse ready in a minute. A few minutes later as Pedro Comarco and Sheriff Denton galloped out of town, Coy Harper appearing from behind the window curtain of his hotel room chuckles. So long, Sheriff Denton. This is the last time I see you riding like that, eh? The lone ranger and tato finished breakfast and left their camp. The sun had been up for more than an hour as they brought their horses to the edge of a deep incline and gazed toward the east where the town of Oberado lay. Town look peaceful, Kimosabi. Proving how deceiving appearances are. Towns like Oberado go to sleep at dawn. Don't really wake them until... Look, down below behind big rock near road. Yes, I see them, tato. Five men, Kimosabi, on horses. Them act like hold up men. Wait till I look through my binoculars. Tato, they're bended as they cross their faces. They are bandits. Men, get ready to ride, Kimosabi. There are two horsemen coming along the road. The sun's causing something when his shirt front a gleam as if... Tato, the Sheriff Denton, is heading for an ambush. Let's get down there quick. Get him up south! Sheriff Bill Denton riding with Pedro Camargo felt uneasy and slightly suspicious of his companion. As they near the massive boulder called Bald Head Rock, Denton slowed his horse. Pedro followed suit. Senior Sheriff, something is the matter. That's what I was just wondering. Camargo, where exactly is this camp of yours? Well, not far, Senior Sheriff, in the hills away. We go around big rock and turn up on trail that go there. Senior, why you look like that? Two men riding down from the hills. Are they your bandits? Well, that may be, Senior, that I cannot tell from here. I do not think they are, Senior Sheriff. A white horse like that, I did not see one ride. Ho, ho, musty! The crooks waiting in ambush had seen the two horsemen riding down toward them. To avoid an encounter, the crooks galloped their horses onto the road and headed toward Denton and their pal Pedro. Musty, what a... Oh, the bandits, you knew they were coming. Pedro, this means a fight. Get your gun out. Over here, musty. Stop saying that!  The shots from the oncoming crooks whizzed by Sheriff Denton who was riding for cover. It was Pedro's shot that crashed into his shoulder and set him hurtling to the ground. Denton, as he fell, saw Pedro riding down on him, ready to fire again. I got you good now! But Denton's gun went off first. Pedro tumbled from his horse as his crook pals galloped out of the spot. The crooks fired as they approached and one of their bullets hit Sheriff Denton, but two found their target in Pedro. The long ranger and tutto shots were getting nearer and the fleeing crooks with no time to turn and fight fired wildly over their shoulders. Boys, we took care of the sheriff. Those numbers behind us, you two girls, go! You better meet him! Oh, I'm hit! They got me! The crooks separated and rode off the road into the brush as one of their men fell to the ground, hit by a shot from the long ranger. Seconds later, the long ranger and tutto rode up, stopping with a bandit lay. Oh, he's going to be killed. But other four are riding in different directions. It'll be useless to follow them now. He must look after the sheriff and his friend first. We'll make this crook tell us who his pals are if he doesn't have time to... Don't shoot me!  You shot me already! Otto, take care of this fellow. You know what to do. I mean, you know what to do, King of the Bugs. You need to take care of them good.  Subtle dismounted and walked toward the wounded crook who lay on the ground wide-eyed with fear at the thought of torturous death by an Indian. The long ranger rode back to where Sheriff Denton and Pedro Camargo lay, their shirts wet with blood. Sheriff, are you conscious? Yeah. You, the masked man. Don't try to talk yet. I'll bandage your wounds and do what I can for you and your friend. Kyle, it's no friend. You shot me. He led me... Never mind. Tell me later. I'll still look after him. But first, let me help you. The curtain falls on the first act of our lone ranger adventure. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. All to continue. The lone ranger stopped the flow of blood and treated Sheriff Denton's wounds as totaled it the same for the wounded crook. Pedro, who felt that life was having from him, began to plead. Oh, senority masked, do not let me die.  Please do not let me. Sheriff, you say this man shot you. He led me into the ambush with a fake plea for help. Then when we arrived this time... Say, Sheriff, I did not want to do this thing. They made me. They said that if I did not do what they tell me, I would die.  No, no, you don't say that. Senority masked, it seemed like you were a good one and a meagre to this sheriff. See, this sheriff is not dead. He's alive. That's not your doings that I'm alive. Save me, please. I'll tell you why I do this then. I'll tell you about the bank robbery that took place while you were here. Bank robbery? No, not banking. Proceed away. The blood flows. Help me. Can I tell you all? Start talking, Pedro. I'll help you all right. Sheriff, let me put you over here and listen to this. I think I may be able to stand out. Don't try. Let me get your arms. No. There. Pedro, you better tell us nothing but the truth. It was evident to the lone ranger that Pedro Camargo's wounds while painful were not too dangerous. The fear of death to act as oil for the tongue of the man and soon Pedro had told how he had been drawn into the plot. He ended. So, senors, you saw Mbrewin Koshay. Tell me if I do not do like you say, he sent me back to Sonora where they hanged me to a three-brestealing sheep. And so I do it because I am afraid. And he promised you that you would have a job for life at Coy Harper's ranch if you led Sheriff Denton to the ambush. That is what he say. But he's fear more than reward if he dealt the filthy snake you should hang. Coy Harper and Mbrewin Koshay. That culmination adds up. There is the other hombre they called Duke. He do tell me all of these. That would be Duke Foster. He and Shay were run out of the panhandle together. But the bank, if they hold up the bank... What time is it open? Pedro says that's the hour they'll enter the place and hold it up. It opens at ten o'clock. I swear I tell the truth. He is at that hour they say that the safe is open. It's not nine o'clock yet. My side hurts too much to ride.  Yes, it's my left shoulder inside. I'll reload your gun. You can hold these two men prisoners. Tattoo and I are going to Bovarado. But that mask, they'll think you're one of the bank robbers when they see you. I'll take that chance. He must not be. We carry other crook over here. How is he, Tattoo? Him hit bad. Him must die. Is he conscious? No. It's two other crooks. Sheriff doesn't make your job of guarding them easier. It sure will. I'll take care of them all right. When Tattoo and I arrive in Bovarado, I'll have him send men out here at once. And have him send a wire to Tombstone, the United States Marshal. Thank robbery comes under his jurisdiction. I know you'll do whatever you plan. But you better hurry. Easy city, Silver. Don't worry, Sheriff. Silver and Scal will get us there before ten o'clock. You ready, Tattoo? Be ready, Camerati. Come on, Silver! Move over. Easy city, big clock. No problem. Well, here we are, Tattoo. There's at least 20 minutes to spare. Look down Main Street, Camerati. You see only one man? Yes. And he doesn't see us. I told you this is a town that doesn't wake up until noon. That bank built an opposite hotel. Yes, I see it. There's a path that runs along the rear of all the buildings there, including the bank. We'll ride that way. Come on, Silver. Come Scal, come on. The lone ranger and Tattoo walk their horses along the deserted back path until they were opposite the rear entrance to the bank. Who's in the rear of the building, Tattoo? Easy Scal, easy. There are windows in the rear of the building, Tattoo. There are no bars on them. Do you go there now? See how bank room looks. Yes. Meanwhile, you go to the telegraph office and send a message to Marshall Gray and Tombstone. Tell them, Sheriff, that has been shot that he needed to hear. And have her whoever's in charge of the telegraph office send a doctor and some men out to where we left Sheriff Denton's prisoners. The tell them, send men to help you, Kimus Abbey? No, not yet. Pedro may have lied. There may be no hold up plan at all. We're here only in case one does take place. And if it does, I think we'll be able to handle it. We'll return in the hurry, Tunnel. Could you send a message? Ah. And we have men get Doctor and Posse to join Sheriff. You see inside Kimus Abbey? Yes. There's only one room in the bank. The safe is in the rear. I was barely able to see it through the window. Almost time for bank to open Kimus Abbey. Yes, in about three minutes. I've already seen three persons in there by the side door. And we're there? Yes, I saw them getting books and records ready as I looked through the window.  Topple grabbed the masked man's arm and pulled him back into the underbrush where their horses were tied. Look, two men on horses, right between buildings. Yes, they're dismounting by the side door. Ah, now they've put bandanas on face. They have their guns out. And go slow upstairs to door. See? One of them knocked door. I wonder if... No. They're answering the knock. The door's opening. Come on, Tutto. It's a hole up there. All right. As the two crooks with guns drawn pushed into the bank, the lone ranger and Tutto ran alongside of the building. Then they ran up the steps and quietly made their way to the open door. Inside the bank building, Huey Hibbs, the flight-faced bank president, backed up against the wall with his two quaking employees. Vinko Shea did the talking for the gun-wielding bandits. You, mister, you take those money bags from the safe and totem over here. Move, Prado! Don't shoot. I'll get the money for you. We'll shoot the killer if the others make a sound and go near their front door. Stay closed until we finish here. Hurry along with that money, you. Here's one sack. What's in this one? Gold? What's in this one? Gold? Whatever it is, you'll have to use it. Who said they call a mess, man? Oh, my race! Oh, I'm shot!   Mr. Hibbs, have your men pick up those guns from the floor. You stand back. He's shooting at me. I'm standing back. I'm hurt. See? Don't do anything for you. Break the other arm. Now stand against the wall. You, Vinko. You do. Yes, yes. Here are the guns. Can't you hold up men, too? No, Mr. Hibbs. You're the president of this bank? Yes. Then go out and get all the citizens in town that you can trust. Have them bring their guns here in case some of the partners of those two try to start trouble. Vinko. Hey, how do you know who I am? I haven't removed my bandana yet. Neither have I. He called me by my name. I think someone double-crossed you. Oh, uh, Mr. Hibbs, before you go. Well, what is it? If you see Coy Harper around, time to come over here, will you? Coy Harper? Vinko, did you hear that? Yeah. Hibbs, wait a second. Mask Man, did Coy put you up to this? What do you think? See, Vinko? Boy, they're double-crossed and no good. This was a frame-up. Yeah, trying to get us out of the way. So we wouldn't get our cut on the other job that he put us up to. Coy Harper did? Yeah. Well, he's crazy if he thinks sending us to jail would make us keep quiet. But tell all the jobs we did. Tell where he keeps the loot hidden. You do that. Mr. Hibbs, you've heard all this? Yes. So have my employees. That's right. We'll testify to it. You bet. You're going to be in this hold of none of us. Was he the one who had Pedro lead Sheriff Deppin to ambush? I don't think so. You did that, Vinko. Yeah. Yeah, but it was Coy's idea. It was... But Mask Man, if you're in with Coy, why are you siding in with Hibbs and these people? You've done all the guessing so far, Vinko. Do some more about that. Go on, Mr. Hibbs. Tell your friends what's happened. And also the things you've heard. Tell them to get guns. That's just what I'm going to do. Get guns, and before we return here, we'll go first to Coy Harper's hotel. Today was the last straw. Harper's overplayed himself. A short time later, a vigilante committee headed by Huey Hibbs stood outside the hotel where Coy Harper lived. Shots were fired through his window and spent on the inside bang on his door in high temper. Harper! We know you're in there. We want you. If you don't want to be shot down, give up now. Your game has finished, Harper. Are you surrender? Oh, stop it! Stop it! Don't shoot! Don't shoot any more. I shouldn't have given up. All right, man. Hold the fire. If you don't tell Hibbs and his men to hold their fire, too. No, I don't do it. All right, Coy Harper. Open that door and come out with your hands up. That's all right, here I am. Don't shoot, though. We're not shoot. You'll be handed over to the law. What's this all about? You know how to start moving. Early that afternoon, when Sheriff Denton was brought back to town with his prisoners, he found Harper, Vinko, and Duke themselves. He talked with the Lone Ranger and Totto, then shortly after, propped in a chair. He talked to the men who had rallied around him. Men? Everything's under control. That's right. Hangers on and Harper's place are leaving town as if Old Nick were after him. As I saw that, I'm deputized men to go after the four crooks who escaped when they ambushed me. The crook who was shot told me where the hideout was. It seems to me they're all anxious to talk. Pedro, Vinko, Duke, and the other one. Trying to save their own hides, that's why.  Coy Harper's lost his road on his town now. He's lost more than that, including his freedom. He may end up losing his life on the gallows. We'll have a good town now, a clean town. Here we have to thank one man for it. The man who appeared just when I and the town needed him most. You mean that masked man? Yes, he's something. We know all about what he did. Yes, and after he did it and said everything right for us, he and his Indian friend disappeared. Sheriff, you seem to know him. Yes, I know him as well as any man in the West, but only for the good he does it. No man ever gets to know him personally. You see, he's the lone ranger. This is a feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated. Created by George W. Trenville. Produced by Crenville Campbell Mure Incorporated. Directed by Charles D. Livingston. And edited by Fran Stryker. The part of the Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beemer.