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YAK ABOUT TODAY

The Yak About Today broadcasts deliver on-air and online conversations, interviews and stories engaging the Baby Boomer Generation and beyond with discussions, tips and information.Hosted by an authentic conversationalist, intuitive listener and a boomer himself, David Yakir brings a genuine, down to earth and disarming personality that talks with his audience without talking at them. #David_Yakir shares #Engagement, #Education, #Enjoyment & #Empowerment on-air and online for the #BabyBoomer

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23:21

Yak About Today Season 3 Preview

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/09/25

The season III preview of Yak About Today with Tania Ortega-Cowan

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22:27

The Un-planned 20 Minute “Cost of Mobile” RANT!

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/07/25

On this episode of Yak About Today, we stopped our planned discussion and I went on a 20 minute mobile rant. It's just too damn expensive!

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25:11

Shooting the Shit with Wayne; Companies hiring 65+;...

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/07/09

Shooting the Shit with Wayne; Companies hiring 65+; Are Smart Phones making us Dumber? COMPANIES ARE HIRING THE OVER 70 CROWD. Of course, there are obvious downsides of the geriatric demographic: They may be luddites, fossilized in their ways, or burnt out or lethargic, and—it’s true—the clock is ticking. But researchers are discovering that some cognitive abilities don’t peak until later in life. A study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology last year measured mental abilities among

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22:11

Republican Healthcare Act 2017 for Seniors? Amazon...

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/07/03

Republican Healthcare Act 2017 for Seniors? Amazon Fashion! ATT Charges you to PROTECT YOU! The Senate bill that guts the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of uninsured Americans by 22 million by 2026, according to the analysis of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released Monday. Fifteen million more people would be uninsured next year, and the total number of uninsured would swell to 49 million in a decade, the CBO found. Some of the worst effects of the bill, the

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23:12

Aging Doesn’t Always come Naturally. Classes are...

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2017/06/14

There are classes now being developed around the country that are teaching the boomers how to age. Senior co-housing, and all its complications and rewards, was one of the bigger draws at what amounts to a college on how to age successfully. Its based on the fact that no-one is going to take care of you the way people will that know you.The four- to eight-week courses, presented by nonprofit organization Iona, were designed especially with baby boomers in mind. Since 2011, a generation that has

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22:59

Lies you tell your Doctor; Virtual Reality is Real;...

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2017/06/04

We'd heard that Major League Baseball had virtual reality streaming aspirations, and a partnership with Intel is making them a reality. The two have reached a three-year deal for the Intel True VR Game of the Week, a Tuesday broadcast (blacked out in local markets) that will live stream via Intel's True VR app. Currently only available via the Oculus store for Samsung Gear VR headsets, it will give fans a look at the game via a fully produced VR broadcast, or the ability to hop around through

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22:53

What Health Screenings Do We Really Need? Phone...

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/05/04

The World Wide Web (WWW, W3) is an information system of interlinked hypertext documents that are accessed via the Internet. It has also commonly become known simply as the Web. Individual document pages on the World Wide Web are called web pages and are accessed with a software application running on the user's computer, commonly called a web browser. Web pages may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia components, as well as web navigation features consisting of hyperlinks.

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22:59

Apple wants its Apple Watch to be a must for...

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2017/05/01

Apple is quietly developing a sensor that can monitor a person's blood sugar levels continuously and non-invasively. If successful, the technology will be integrated into a future version of the Apple Watch to help people with diabetes manage their condition. the project was set up by Steve Jobs before his death.According to the report, Apple has quietly hired engineers to work in secret. It's believed that the company has been so successful it is already running trials of the sensors at "clinical

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23:01

How Many Pills Are Too Many? How to Get Those Pills...

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/04/25

Popping PillsThe point of prescription drugs is to help us get or feel well. Yet Americans are taking so many medications that doctors are being encouraged to pause before prescribing and think about as well.Yet an increasing number of Americans — typically older ones with multiple chronic conditions — are taking drugs and supplements they don’t need, or so many of them that those substances are [interacting]Though many prescription drugs are highly valuable, taking them can also be dangerous,

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23:11

Is Cancer a matter of Bad Luck? Walk, Stretch or...

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/04/17

Is Cancer a matter of Bad Luck? Walk, Stretch or Dance? Which is Better for the Brain. We Yak About this and more. Without a cure in sight, cancer has become one of society’s biggest concerns. The fear of getting it is enough for many people to change their lifestyles in dramatic and meaningful ways, and even though it’s increasingly possible to beat the disease, it remains one of the biggest universal health worries. As it turns out, all that anxiety may be for nothing, as new research suggests

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23:07

Yak About Privacy! What was Congress Thinking?

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/04/03

Yak About Privacy! What was Congress Thinking? Trying to alert my mostly Republican audience in the 8th Congressional district on the nature of internet privacy and how their delegates they just elected voted to allow all ISP providers to sell and share any information they gather to the highest bidders. The following article should give you a sense of what you voted for. Congress just gave ISPs the green light to sell your browsing history to strangers appy-geek.com March 28, 2017 04:23 PM In a

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23:23

David Yakir and Wayne Dillon Yak About Tech – Best...

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/03/28

David Yakir and Wayne Dillon Yak About Tech – Best Headphone Recommendations Since Wayne and I were going to get together in the studio, I thought we’d do some tech talk. Tried to answer some questions, but with the limits of time I only got as far as recommending Bluetooth headphones. Boy can we chit-chat. Next time we’ll be more focused. So here are the recommended headphones. Put a little focus on Chromebooks. I’m starting to recommend them to my wiser and more mature friends. Best Sport

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16:10

Interview with Rebecca Katz, Author of “Cancer...

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/03/22

Interview with Rebecca Katz, Author of “Cancer Fighting Kitchen” and “Clean Soups” Spouse Bill became so nuts about some of the recipes that I went back an found the interview that I did with Rebecca Katz, who is the one that introduced us to the concept of “Food as Medicine” Listen to the interview. I’m hoping to have her back on soon. I believe that today everyone has to have a basic understanding of the importance of food as the logical response to many of the

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23:04

Yak About Health Featuring “How to Talk to your...

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/03/03

Yak About Health Featuring “How to Talk to your Doctor” How To Talk To Your Doctor We thank We thank Amy Paturel, over at aarp.org If you’ve ever felt like your doctor isn’t listening to you, it may be true. Studies have found that doctors let patients speak for only 23 seconds on average before cutting them off; in one University of South Carolina study, primary care patients were interrupted just 12 seconds after the physician entered the exam room. When there’s less doctor-patient dialogue,

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23:35

Yak About Health and certainly the Healthiest Half...

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/02/10

Yak About Health and certainly the Healthiest Half Hour of Recommendations We’ve Done to Date! Today we yak about Health: Topic one: is timing your meals important Topic Two: Slowing Down the aging process and what are tellemeres? topic three: Can drinking coffee slow aging Topic four: 6 Memory Boosters for you and your mate And on our yak about tech segment the 7 best tech items from amazon basics

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23:22

Yak About Tech “Top 10 Best Smart Home Tech by...

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/02/04

Yak About Tech “Top 10 Best Smart Home Tech by app-geek.com and Yak n Chat with TaniaTop 10 Best Smart Home Tech – January 2017 appy-geek.comJanuary 17, 2017 08:19 AM. Best Home Tech The home keeps getting smarter and smarter. There are more and more appliances coming out with a brain these days, and it’s hard to determine which products are worth picking up. We’ve rounded out a list of ten great smart home tech that you can pick up and get your smart home started. Some of these products are small

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22:48

Yak About Broadway and The Best TV's to buy 2017

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/01/31

Yak About Broadway and The Best TV’s to buy 2017 So I had planned an all tech show. Then Sally tells me she is going to take the family to New York to see several Broadway shows. She was looking forward to Sunset Blvd the most with Glenn Close which I saw many years ago. We then realized that we has seen many productions with some of the great leading ladies; Glenn Close, Betty Buckly, Diahanne Carroll, Elaine Paige. Brought back memories of our Broadway days. Elaine Paige

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23:32

YAK n CHAT with Tania and David

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/01/24

YAK n CHAT with Tania and David We didn’t plan it, but it happened. The “Yak n Chat” segment with Tania and I took over the entire show. We chatted, had some fun. Tania tried out a few jingles for “Yak n Chat.” But then we got down to the reason we have these conversations – Tania’s very moving stories about her devotion to and chronicling of the exploits of our first responders. So listen in as we Yak About Hero’s

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23:04

Yak About Introduces “Yak n Chat” with Tania...

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/01/05

Yak About Introduces “Yak n Chat” with Tania Ortega-Cowan Well, we’ve been promising to play with the show for awhile. It seems as long as we deliver a broadcast to I Heart, we get to use all the other tools at our disposal. We will be broadcasting video live to both Facebook and Youtube. Other parts of the show will continue to be audio only. Be interesting to see where this all leads. In the meantime, please enjoy the great Tania as she brings both life, joy and interesting stories to the Yak

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22:30

The Albert Schweitzer 2016 Prize for Humanitarianism...

YAK ABOUT TODAY ·

2017/01/03

The Albert Schweitzer 2016 Prize for Humanitarianism Winner Ralph Fuccillo Yaks with David Ralph Fuccillo is the president of the Dentaquest Foundation. He is being honored for his role as a leader in public health. Early in his career he worked with vulnerable people as a substance abuse counselor. He later provided extraordinary leadership both locally and nationally in combatting AIDS. Today, he is bringing national attention to the need to improve the oral health of all. The depth and range of

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