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Speaker 1: is an important one. Sure, I think so too. We're
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Speaker 1: talking about what the CDC classifies in the top ten
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Speaker 1: accomplishments of public health of the twentieth century. Indeed, and
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Speaker 1: also might be one of the most the faririest pots
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Speaker 1: that are perpetrated on the global public good stuff. Let's
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Speaker 1: do it. Let's do it, Chuck. We're talking about fluoride,
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Speaker 1: the seemingly innocuous stuff that is added to our water
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Speaker 1: supply and our toothpaste, and our pills, diet pills, mouthwash,
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Speaker 1: what else, um, soft drinks, Well, that stuff that we ingest.
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Speaker 1: It's also in rat poison and things like that. Antipsychotic medications,
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Speaker 1: paint are not pain killers, tranquilizers. Yeah, it's all over
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Speaker 1: the place. And actually it is exceedingly difficult to get
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Speaker 1: rid of or to get away from, anything that has
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Speaker 1: water in it. Uh, say, a soft drink is going
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Speaker 1: to have fluoride in it too, because pretty much all
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Speaker 1: of our water has fluoride in it, at least here
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Speaker 1: in the States of American cities fluoridate their own water
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Speaker 1: flooridate water that already has naturally occurring fluoride in it,
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Speaker 1: which is hinky. It is hinky. Let's let's talk about
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Speaker 1: fluoride first, right back in the nineteen forties here in
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Speaker 1: the States. We should also say, around the world, this
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Speaker 1: is not necessarily the case. There are some countries that
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Speaker 1: absolutely don't floridate water. Some used to. Yeah, Denmark and
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Speaker 1: Switzerland are among those that used to and don't anymore.
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Speaker 1: France never did. But in the States we've been hot
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Speaker 1: and heavy about floridating water for a long time since
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Speaker 1: when Grand Rapids Michigan became the first um city to floridate,
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Speaker 1: to add fluoride to it's already fluoridated water. Uh. And
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Speaker 1: Grand Rapids became the kind of model city for this.
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Speaker 1: It was studied extensively. Uh. And the whole reason we
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Speaker 1: started floridating water is and as Chuck likes to say,
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Speaker 1: I find the shinky. Uh. Scientists discovered that areas where
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Speaker 1: naturally occurring fluoridated water was being drunk by the citizens. UM.
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Speaker 1: They also there was also a correlation with a decline
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Speaker 1: and dental carries all about the teeth. Dental carries are
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Speaker 1: any kind of signs of decay, like a cavity or
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Speaker 1: something like that. It's an umbrella term form. Right. So
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Speaker 1: they decided, hey, we should add floride to the water
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Speaker 1: and put it in toothpaste, and uh, we'll we'll get
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Speaker 1: our teeth in shape here in this country. And since then,
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Speaker 1: everybody's fine with fluoride. It's totally cool. You know, if
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Speaker 1: you'll remember, toothpaste used to be touted with with fluoride.
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Speaker 1: It's actually a little more difficult to find that little
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Speaker 1: label these days. Right. The ad A American Dental Association
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Speaker 1: says it's great the organization. They came out in nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty nine and said it's good stuff. Big, big organizations
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Speaker 1: are behind it. And uh, there actually has been a
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Speaker 1: major decline in tooth decay since then. Back in the forties,
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Speaker 1: the early forties, I believe in the US, the average
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Speaker 1: kid had fifteen dental carries. Right, that's a lot. That
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Speaker 1: a lot, I mean, that makes me look good. Do
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Speaker 1: you have a lot of cavities or a lot of fillings?
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Speaker 1: I'm like a crackhead over here. Yeah, my my. I
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Speaker 1: remember when I was a kid and I kept getting
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Speaker 1: fillings every time. I rather sardonic, Lee told my dentist
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Speaker 1: one time, why don't you just go ahead and fill
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Speaker 1: them all? Right now? Just get it over with. You
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Speaker 1: were sardonic way back then, said I keep coming back
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Speaker 1: in here, and you do a couple every time, So
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Speaker 1: once you just go ahead and do them all. And
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Speaker 1: he said, well, that's no kind of attitude, really, right,
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Speaker 1: And I went yeah, And all of a sudden, you
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Speaker 1: forgot what you were talking about exactly. Yeah. So UM
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Speaker 1: again Floride endorsed across the board almost by almost every
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Speaker 1: major UM dental association, public Health Association, the c d C,
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Speaker 1: as we said, the World Health Organization, and they all
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Speaker 1: point to studies that show that floride is perfectly fine
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Speaker 1: even though it's an insecticides and rat poisons and tranquilizers. Right. Um,
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Speaker 1: The problem is there are also plenty of studies that
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Speaker 1: have surfaced or been conducted over the years that show
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Speaker 1: fluoride is not necessarily fine. Now are we gonna get
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Speaker 1: into the dark side? Now? Is it time? I don't
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Speaker 1: see any reason to hold off any longer. I mean,
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Speaker 1: what have we we talked about? How you know there's
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Speaker 1: been a decrease in dental carries since fluoride was introduced
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Speaker 1: or right? The thing is, the impression I have is
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Speaker 1: everybody seems to be okay with adding fluoride to toothpaste,
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Speaker 1: But it's the water supply that really gets people's ire up, right, right,
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Speaker 1: I think, because it's already in there, not just that.
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Speaker 1: And also we should say that the optimal, as far
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Speaker 1: as the e p A Is concerned, the optimal amount
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Speaker 1: of fluoride added to drinking water is four parts per million, right, yes, indeed,
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Speaker 1: and and anything over that up to fourteen parts per
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Speaker 1: million is considered dangerous. Right And way back in nineteen
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Speaker 1: any to the National Academy of Sciences estimated that more
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Speaker 1: than two hundred thousand people in the US we're drinking
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Speaker 1: water with fluoride levels above four parts per million. And
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Speaker 1: what are some of the dangers. Well, some of the
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Speaker 1: dangers are discoloration and corrosion of your teeth, which is
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Speaker 1: called dental fluorosis. Yeah, which is ironic that it's something.
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Speaker 1: The whole point of fluoride is to prevent dental decay,
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Speaker 1: and over exposure or prolonged exposures, say, oh, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: over the course of a lifetime. Um, it can actually
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Speaker 1: degrade your teeth's health. It can actually accelerate decay, and
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Speaker 1: not just teeth but bones as well, which is skeletal fluorosis.
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Speaker 1: It can also cause seizures. It can also cause a
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Speaker 1: severe gastro intestinal upset, can lower your i Q supposedly allegedly,
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Speaker 1: well that's not necessarily allegedly. There's a bunch of studies,
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Speaker 1: um that have been shown that there is at least
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Speaker 1: a correlation between high fluoride exposure and low i Q. Right,
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Speaker 1: China is big on that. Actually, there's been a slew
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Speaker 1: of studies to come out of China that show that
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Speaker 1: UM and the Chinese have also conducted other studies outside
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Speaker 1: of China, so it's not just China that's got heavily
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Speaker 1: fluoridated dummies, you know. Um, So Chuck, I guess now,
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Speaker 1: let's let's pull the trigger. Let's get into the whole
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Speaker 1: conspiracy aspect of this. Yes, there's something called the florid conspiracy,
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Speaker 1: which we've found quite disturbing. We did speak for you, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: please do. And Um, should we go back to and
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Speaker 1: kind of set up how this happened. Yes, let's go
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Speaker 1: back in time, Josh, like we'd love to do to.
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Speaker 1: So are years from the release of Ghostbusters. Uh. The I. G.
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Speaker 1: Farben Company in Germany, they're a chemical manufacturing company. They
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Speaker 1: started getting loans from banks here in America. So what
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Speaker 1: that led to was Henry Ford and American Standard Oil
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Speaker 1: merged with I. G. Farban and in the early thirties,
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden there were more than a hundred
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Speaker 1: corporations who had cooperatives and subsidiaries in Germany. So, all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, we have a lot of a lot
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Speaker 1: of manufacturing and business going on in Germany. Early thirties.
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Speaker 1: Flash forward a little bit to thirty nine, under the
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Speaker 1: Altet agreement, and the American Aluminum Company, which is the
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Speaker 1: largest producer of sodium fluoride, and Dow everyone knows about
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Speaker 1: doll the chemical company. They transfer technology to Germany as well.
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Speaker 1: So all of a sudden you have what's known as
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Speaker 1: the fluoride mafia quote unquote, because that was the largest
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Speaker 1: producer of sodium fluoride in the world at the time, right, right,
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Speaker 1: And I guess we should say that here's the deal.
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Speaker 1: Fluoride is a byproduct of a lot of manufacturing processes.
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Speaker 1: Hydrofluoria solicic acid is exactly. Um. We should also say
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Speaker 1: at this point that the studies that are conducted on
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Speaker 1: the dangers of fluoride, which no one disputes, you can,
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Speaker 1: there is such a thing as fluoride toxicity. That's fact.
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Speaker 1: Sin dispute is number one, whether or not it will
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Speaker 1: actually affect intelligence, and number two, whether the risks of
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Speaker 1: Florida toxas city outweigh the benefits to dental health. Right, okay, right, right, okay,
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Speaker 1: So go ahead, Chuck. So now, uh flash forward a
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Speaker 1: little bit more into World War two. Uh, the U. S.
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Speaker 1: Government sends a guy named Charles Elliott Perkins and he's
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Speaker 1: a research a chemistry guy. Uh. They sent him to
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Speaker 1: Germany to work with the chemical plants over there with
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Speaker 1: the I. G. Farban Co Company, and a German chemissaire
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Speaker 1: told him of a scheme which was devised that the
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Speaker 1: German chemists were going to know they had been they
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Speaker 1: had been giving floride to prisoners of wars. That right,
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Speaker 1: they were fluoridating, heavily fluoridating from from how I take it,
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Speaker 1: at the water at the pow camps in Germany to quote,
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Speaker 1: make them stupid and docile. Yes, interesting, very interesting. So
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Speaker 1: apparently that that caught the attention of the Americans. It did. Indeed.
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Speaker 1: Nine Gerald Cox, who was a chemist employed by the
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Speaker 1: Aluminum company, Yeah, concludes in a study with lab rats
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Speaker 1: that floride reduces the cavities, dental cavities. And this is
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Speaker 1: where everything just kind of picks up from there, like
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, fluoride is associated with the reduction
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Speaker 1: in dental caries, and now we need to just start
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Speaker 1: adding it to our drinking water, right right. Seven Oscar Ewing,
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Speaker 1: who was a longtime attorney for the Aluminum company, is
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Speaker 1: appointed head of the Federal Security Agency, which places him
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Speaker 1: in charge of the public Health Service, and over the
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Speaker 1: next three years after that, seven American city started floridating
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Speaker 1: their water. Right. And this is just an early example
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Speaker 1: of the revolving door. You know about the revolving door, right,
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Speaker 1: we've talked about it before school me Um. It's like, uh, Paulson, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Paulson when he was head of the Treasury, he was
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Speaker 1: a Goldman Sacksman, and of course kush Kari he was
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Speaker 1: a Goldman Sacksman too. It's just it's the revolving door.
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Speaker 1: Is basically this this um interaction, this interplay between the
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Speaker 1: private sector and public office. So the private sector will
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Speaker 1: send some of their top people to serve in public office,
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Speaker 1: affect policy change that helps this private sector, and then
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Speaker 1: they come out and get huge bonuses in a Kush job. Exactly.
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Speaker 1: This is exactly what you're talking about now with Oscar
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Speaker 1: ewing in right. We need to keep saying that word.
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Speaker 1: So basically, Josh, the eliminum manufacturing and fertilizer and weapons
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Speaker 1: industries start conducting this education and research for fluoride, saying
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Speaker 1: how great it is when it's one of their biggest byproducts,
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Speaker 1: and apparently the deal is it's very expensive byproduct to
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Speaker 1: get rid of it is, but it's also toxic waste.
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Speaker 1: So very conveniently, they have all these studies that come
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Speaker 1: out and say, hey, it's really good for you and
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Speaker 1: by these companies, and we just happen to have a bunch.
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Speaker 1: So let's start selling it to municipalities to put into
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Speaker 1: their water supply. Right, should we talk about Eddie Burne's
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Speaker 1: Edward Burne's Real Quick? Yeah? I and actually, Chuck, we
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Speaker 1: had we had a suggestion from one of our listeners
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Speaker 1: a while back, UM when we talked about I think
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Speaker 1: it was the Propaganda episode, Um, and he sent in
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Speaker 1: some stuff about Edward Burney's. I think Edward Burnet's actually
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Speaker 1: deserves his own podcast. This guy created PR and like
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Speaker 1: the kind of thank you for smoking PR the original
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Speaker 1: spin doctor, I'd like to I think we should do
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Speaker 1: one on him. I agree. So Barney's is um funded
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Speaker 1: by these industrialists to try and encourage this PR campaign
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Speaker 1: that it's good for you. You're gonna read the quote alright.
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Speaker 1: So Berne's is quoted as saying you can get practically
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Speaker 1: any idea accepted if doctors are in favor. The public
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Speaker 1: is willing to accept it because the doctor is an
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Speaker 1: authority to most people, regardless of how much he knows
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Speaker 1: or doesn't know how about that, which is true. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And actually, Chuck, I should say, um, you know my
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Speaker 1: cute little girlfriend, she's sharp as attack. Uh. She and
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Speaker 1: I were watching something about a like an elliptical machine
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Speaker 1: or something. It was an infomercial for it, and they
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Speaker 1: had this doctor on and he was touting the the
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Speaker 1: health benefits of this machine. But it said his name
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Speaker 1: and then new York cardiologist, and it just completely went
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Speaker 1: over my head. And she she stopped him, was like,
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Speaker 1: what is the fact that he's a New York cardiologist
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Speaker 1: had to do with anything? And I realized, like, New
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Speaker 1: York cardiologist had just buzzed into my brain and it
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Speaker 1: was an infomercial. So I took the guy with a
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Speaker 1: grain of salt to begin with. But I did not
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Speaker 1: notice at all that it was a New York cardiologist
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Speaker 1: I was listening to. But I'm sure that that still
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Speaker 1: had an effect the legitimacy that this guy had. In
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Speaker 1: my opinion, if it would have said de Moine pediatrician,
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Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't have Pian Detroit even work for eau
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Speaker 1: Claire was Canton was Canton. So, uh, basically, these doctors
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Speaker 1: weren't necessarily bad guys and ladies, but they never really
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Speaker 1: got these studies. A lot of these studies were allegedly suppressed,
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Speaker 1: and people that oppose it were, you know, called cranks
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Speaker 1: and quacks, and so all these doctors are seeing these
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Speaker 1: cooked studies, essentially cooking the books. Nice Chuck, allegedly get
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Speaker 1: him Chuck recently declassified documents about the Manhattan Project Josh,
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Speaker 1: where we made the atomic bomb, found out that floride
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Speaker 1: is a key chemical ingredient in the atomic bomb. Even
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Speaker 1: worse than that, though, there was a an A. D. A. M.
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Speaker 1: Study that apparently said that floride does pose a health risk,
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Speaker 1: and the Atomic Energy Agency actually redacted much of this study.
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Speaker 1: So when the American Dental Association is being redacted by
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Speaker 1: the Atomic Energy Agency, that's that should raise some sort
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Speaker 1: of flag, you know. The reason they gave though? What
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Speaker 1: national security? Yeah, and apparently, Chuck, when whenever the government
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Speaker 1: pulls out national security, including lawsuits which are arch nemesis.
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Speaker 1: Ira Glass recently covered in a This American Life story
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Speaker 1: on the origins of things. Um, there's absolutely nothing you
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Speaker 1: can do, like that's that's it. The judges says, well,
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Speaker 1: this case can't be tried. Well, you know what else
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Speaker 1: happened in two thousand three? The Water Act. Yeah, the
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Speaker 1: Water Act was passed. And one of the little things
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Speaker 1: in the Water Act that you may not know about people,
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Speaker 1: is that it made it impossible for water companies to
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Speaker 1: undergo civil or criminal hearings as a result of adding
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Speaker 1: fluoride to public water. So they basically said, you can't
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Speaker 1: see him because we passed the Water Act. So if
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Speaker 1: someone finds out something awful, there's nothing you can do
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Speaker 1: about it to make money. So again we should go
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Speaker 1: back and say that if you ask the c d C,
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Speaker 1: the A d AH, the World Health Organization, if you
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Speaker 1: ask any of these agents the's is Florida dangerous? They
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Speaker 1: will conclusively say no. Or we should say it, does
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Speaker 1: Florida give you cancer? They will say no. Of course,
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Speaker 1: there are plenty of studies out there that link floride cancer. Again,
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Speaker 1: though these studies appear to be repressed. Have you heard
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Speaker 1: of Philos Melanax. Yeah, let's talk about her. She was
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Speaker 1: what a Harvard researcher, Yeah, toxicologists. She was a New
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Speaker 1: York cardiologist in the Yeah, and um, she was about
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Speaker 1: to publish a study um on the link between cancer
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Speaker 1: and floride. Was that right? Well, yeah, she she thought
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Speaker 1: that it might lead to lower i Q and and
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Speaker 1: a couple of Yeah, because some uh during her studies
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Speaker 1: of rodents, they were displaying um symptoms and signs of
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Speaker 1: a d h D. Uh. And we'd also are already
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Speaker 1: long known that fluoride exposure causes um osteo sarcomas, which
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Speaker 1: is bone cancer in rats. Um. But she okay, So
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Speaker 1: she was doing the link between a d h D,
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Speaker 1: lower i Q and fluoride and she was fired a
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Speaker 1: couple of days before her UM findings were published. So
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Speaker 1: she goes to the National Institutes of Health for research
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Speaker 1: grant to continuous studies, and they said floride does not
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Speaker 1: lower i Q, it does not affect intelligence and turned
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Speaker 1: her down and said sorry, we have no money for you.
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Speaker 1: And National Institutes of Health they're not supposed to write
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Speaker 1: the conclusions for researchers before their studies are published. And
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Speaker 1: you know what she was fired from. What her job was.
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Speaker 1: She was ahead of toxicology at the Forsyth Dental Center
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Speaker 1: in Boston. Yeah. Interesting, the plot is getting so thick.
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Speaker 1: I can barely put my hand in it. It is.
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Speaker 1: This is honestly, I'd never heard of this. And Ben Bowling,
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Speaker 1: they did UH on the soon to be released stuff
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Speaker 1: they don't want you to know a video podcast. They
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Speaker 1: did one on floride, so we kind of borrowed from them. Well,
17:50
Speaker 1: we actually asked Ben the Godfather for his blessing and
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Speaker 1: he very generously gave it to us. Right. Um, so
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Speaker 1: chuck the here's the biggest one to me. This is
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Speaker 1: this is the one that gets me the most. Okay. So,
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Speaker 1: the studies that show that fluoride poses little to no
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Speaker 1: health risk if it's delivered at four parts per million
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Speaker 1: or less in fluoridated water UM Number one or about
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Speaker 1: twenty years old, UH and number two were conducted using
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Speaker 1: pharmaceutical grade sodium fluoride. This is the stuff that actually
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Speaker 1: is in toothpaste, really high grade stuff. Um. And that's
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Speaker 1: why no one really has any problem with fluoride and toothpaste.
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Speaker 1: It's the fluoride in the drinking water supply. As we
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Speaker 1: said earlier, the people are worried about. One of the
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Speaker 1: reasons why is that while some cities do put sodium
18:44
Speaker 1: fluoride in their water supply. It's still not pharmaceutical grade,
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Speaker 1: and even worse, a lot of cities use hydrofluora solicic acid, which, Chuck,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned that it's a byproduct of fertilizer production, UM
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Speaker 1: munitions production, UM aluminum production, scrubbed from the smoke stacks.
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Speaker 1: Say it again, Chuck, scrubbed from the inside of smoke
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Speaker 1: stacks of fertilizer plants, fertilizer plants and put into our water,
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Speaker 1: put into truck, shipped to water um treatment plants where
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Speaker 1: it sold the cities and inserted into the water supply. Dude,
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Speaker 1: I'm not Mr. Conspiracy guy. I kind of its interests me,
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Speaker 1: but this is one of those where I was I
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Speaker 1: was blown away. Well, I think the gray irony of
19:26
Speaker 1: this podcast is that the um aluminum foil hats were
19:30
Speaker 1: wearing were actually produced by ALCA. I mean, come on,
19:34
Speaker 1: how's that for full circle? Yeah, but we're not getting
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Speaker 1: any it's bouncing off all the radio electric or radiomagnetic
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Speaker 1: electromagnetic waves. What am I saying? Do you? I know
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Speaker 1: what you're saying, buddy. So that's um, that's florid. Actually
19:47
Speaker 1: that's kind of just the tip of the iceberg. Really,
19:50
Speaker 1: one thing that I took hard in is that, Um,
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Speaker 1: it seems like more and more legitimate groups are undertaking
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Speaker 1: studies or reevaluations of some of the studies that were
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Speaker 1: conduct did on whether or not fluoride poses a health
20:03
Speaker 1: risk starting in the twenty one century. UM. And it
20:06
Speaker 1: looks like people are starting to take a slightly more
20:10
Speaker 1: scrutinizing view of it because they were Burns is long dead,
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Speaker 1: and so are all of the revolving door people who
20:17
Speaker 1: got this whole thing started. So we'll see, right. The
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Speaker 1: e p A is one of them. Actually, thank god
20:23
Speaker 1: I saw one of their scientists in their union chapter
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Speaker 1: two eighty it is taking a big stand against it,
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Speaker 1: Dr William Hersey, And he's the vice president of that
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Speaker 1: chapter of the e p A. And he says that
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Speaker 1: quote fluoride is a hazardous waste product for which there
20:39
Speaker 1: is substantial evidence of adverse health effects and contrary to
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Speaker 1: public perception, virtually no evidence of significant benefits. Boom right.
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Speaker 1: And when a scientist union starts talking, it's bad because
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Speaker 1: You don't want to mess with that. A teams NERD
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Speaker 1: of Toronto. He's a vocal opponent of floridating water, and
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Speaker 1: he's got some great points. Yea Hardy Lineback, crime back,
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Speaker 1: cool stuff. Josh, Yeah, that's that's it. We should probably, uh,
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Speaker 1: we'll have to find another conspiracy one to do, because
21:37
Speaker 1: our conspiracy ones really get people going. People love that
21:41
Speaker 1: c I and LSD fake moon landing. Actually mk ultra
21:44
Speaker 1: was used in some of these experiments that was part
21:46
Speaker 1: of the under the mk ultra umbrella. This floor ideal. Well,
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Speaker 1: there's like two hundred forty nine or a hundred and
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Speaker 1: forty nine programs under mk ultra. So he's gonna get
21:55
Speaker 1: to floride sooner or later, especially if the Nazis are saying, dude,
21:58
Speaker 1: it totally makes your popular anatians docile. Yeah, and they're
22:02
Speaker 1: like you should try LSD. Yeah. There was a big
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Speaker 1: exchange was just wow, pretty cool? Is it? Time four
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Speaker 1: listener mail? All right, Josh, I'm gonna call this I've
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Speaker 1: got a couple here. I'm gonna call it an answer
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Speaker 1: to our query that we posed, which one when we
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Speaker 1: asked what the woman who had the lightning go through
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Speaker 1: a kitchen and we actually asked yea Paloma. So, Josh,
22:30
Speaker 1: if you remember, Paloma wrote in and said that she
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Speaker 1: had this lightning travel through her kitchen and allowed buzzing
22:35
Speaker 1: popping sound and put it right in front of her
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Speaker 1: face and passed from one wall to another, absolutely but
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Speaker 1: left her totally unharmed, totally unharmed, and it didn't even
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Speaker 1: leave a mark on any of the walls that it
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Speaker 1: passed through. It did not. And there was no thunder
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Speaker 1: in the area afterward, right or there was, but it
22:52
Speaker 1: was far away, Okay, no loud clap of thunder. So
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Speaker 1: this one is actually we had a few people right in.
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Speaker 1: But this is from Tyler. He's a grad student at
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Speaker 1: the Department of Chemical Engineering in Material Science at the
23:04
Speaker 1: University of Minnesota, class of oh He's a youngster, he is.
23:09
Speaker 1: He says, uh, I nearly lost it when I heard
23:12
Speaker 1: your quandary. Today. I've been listening to you guys for
23:14
Speaker 1: months and never felt had anything truly worthy to add.
23:17
Speaker 1: But now I'm thrilled. My older sister had gotten a
23:20
Speaker 1: series of time Life books, remember those containing a plethora
23:23
Speaker 1: of odd and amazing stories. I think, yeah, yeah, Well
23:28
Speaker 1: I had the Old West series that was the best.
23:29
Speaker 1: One shot a man for storing too loud um. When
23:33
Speaker 1: she moved, I took up the collection and let them
23:35
Speaker 1: gather dust. However, I recently started reading them, and uh,
23:39
Speaker 1: they're both entertaining and revealing. The story you read on
23:42
Speaker 1: the air sounds very close to ball lightning. The only
23:46
Speaker 1: major difference is that the writer didn't mention any damage
23:48
Speaker 1: to your house, and most ball lightning stories, UH do
23:52
Speaker 1: note some some damage. So I'm not a hundred percent sure,
23:54
Speaker 1: but it sounds like ball lightning. So we got that
23:56
Speaker 1: from Tyler, and we also got that from Kent and
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Speaker 1: Elgin Illinois, Brian and Montana who Sarah of unknown origins
24:05
Speaker 1: Kelsey and a story in New York and Finn again
24:09
Speaker 1: also said that, and he also requested that I do
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Speaker 1: my cheek thing and say Ponzi. But fin again, Josh
24:15
Speaker 1: and I are not dancing monkeys to perform trips for you.
24:18
Speaker 1: It's a bun sre. You're so easy. I am so easy. Yeah,
24:24
Speaker 1: so thanks to all of you for writing that in.
24:26
Speaker 1: I have to say, as far as I know, Ball
24:28
Speaker 1: Lightnings existence has never been conclusively proven. But again, you
24:32
Speaker 1: know me, that doesn't doesn't necessarily mean anything, Josh soft
24:37
Speaker 1: encounter Clark, Yeah, soft encounter with fact. Does that make sense? Yeah?
24:43
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24:58
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