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Too Good To Be True Health Fixes The Podcast From Dr John Whyte Health vs Hype · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration. Doctor, when you make yourself as visible
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  Speaker 1: as you have, how many emails are you getting from
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  Speaker 1: people that claim that they've got the miracle medicine? Because
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  Speaker 1: it just seems like the more and more open I am,
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  Speaker 1: it's like I can't quit these emails from coming in
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  Speaker 1: and nobody's got the miracle cure, but you open up
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  Speaker 1: a door for us.
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  Speaker 2: And you are right. I have a very full inbox
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  Speaker 2: that I try to address. But I love what you
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  Speaker 2: just said. There is no magic pill. There is no
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  Speaker 2: magic solution. And sometimes we have to use a little
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  Speaker 2: common sense. And that's what we're trying to do in
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  Speaker 2: this Health vs. Hype podcast. How do we help empower
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  Speaker 2: you with the best information? Because that's going to lead
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  Speaker 2: to better health. But how might I actually save you
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  Speaker 2: some money too? And protect your health. Some of these
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  Speaker 2: things are all just hype. And that's what we're sorting out.
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  Speaker 1: That is exactly where we need to be. And the
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  Speaker 1: thing about it is, doctor, is that why are you
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  Speaker 1: the only one that's talking about it? Because when I
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  Speaker 1: go to my own physical doctor, it's like, dude, this
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  Speaker 1: is what's going on. Dude, let me give you a pill. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want another pill. No, I don't want it.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, part of the challenge is because of the,
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  Speaker 2: you know, corporatization of the health system that As more
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  Speaker 2: and more doctors become employees of health systems, they're really
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  Speaker 2: cutting down the amount of time that we have with patients.
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  Speaker 2: It's like 10 minutes. And there's not a lot that
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  Speaker 2: you can get done during that time. So that's part
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  Speaker 2: of the challenge. At the same time, we also want
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  Speaker 2: to be able to address what are people searching for?
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  Speaker 2: You're right. They want to know, does a cold lunch work?
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  Speaker 2: How much protein do I need? What's this new fiber maxing?
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  Speaker 2: People still are talking to me about colon cleanses and detoxes.
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  Speaker 2: So here's where we're going to be able to give
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  Speaker 2: you good information that you can still and should talk
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  Speaker 2: to your physician about, but not try to do everything
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  Speaker 2: on your own. I like to say that the social
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  Speaker 2: media and internet are the only places where you can
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  Speaker 2: practice medicine without a license. And normally, you would not
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  Speaker 2: go to a physician or any type of doctor that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have a license. Think about that. But on social,
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  Speaker 2: you're like, eh, that seems pretty reasonable. Or they have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of followers. They must be good. Or you
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  Speaker 2: don't realize that they're hawking a product and getting paid
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  Speaker 2: for it. But I really would encourage listeners to think through,
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  Speaker 2: would you go to a doctor that's not licensed, but
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  Speaker 2: you're willing to take any advice off of an influencer
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of followers?
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  Speaker 1: It is so funny that you and I are talking
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  Speaker 1: today because up on iHeartRadio today, I do a show
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  Speaker 1: that's based on the traveling love salvation shows. These people
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  Speaker 1: that travel around claiming they've got the miracle medicine and
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, I want them to understand.
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  Speaker 1: You can go listen to that, but I want you
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  Speaker 1: to really study this podcast, Health Versus Hype. And the
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  Speaker 1: reason why is because at least you've got the courage
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  Speaker 1: to say, can we just talk here for a moment?
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  Speaker 1: Because let's break this down.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right. And we're not trying to provide a
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  Speaker 2: medical lecture to people or talk down to them. And
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  Speaker 2: physicians are only one part of the podcast. We're listening
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  Speaker 2: to patients. We're listening to what's on people's minds. We're
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  Speaker 2: having good communicators. And that's what's really key. And explaining
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  Speaker 2: it in ways that people can understand and what they're
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  Speaker 2: actually searching for.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I got to be honest with you with
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  Speaker 1: something that's going on at these different workout places. I
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  Speaker 1: know that where I go to Planet Fitness, not only
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  Speaker 1: do they have that polar plunge that you were talking about,
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  Speaker 1: which I have used, But they've also got the the
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  Speaker 1: red light. And it's like how it's like our body
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  Speaker 1: should be having a thunderstorm if we be between the
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  Speaker 1: two there.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. And you shouldn't be doing them on the
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  Speaker 2: same day.
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  Speaker 1: Please say that.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot. That's a big impact on your body.
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  Speaker 2: But I have to ask you what you think of
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  Speaker 2: the cold plunge.
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  Speaker 1: It makes my knees better. I'm a martial artist. They
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  Speaker 1: don't tell you when you first start out in martial
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  Speaker 1: arts that when you get older that you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be in a lot of pain because kicking bodies and
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  Speaker 1: kicking bags, it eventually catches up to you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, you should know that. I'm just going to
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  Speaker 2: say that. That would catch up. And I love your
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  Speaker 2: experience because that's what we want to hear. And there
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  Speaker 2: are some data that suggests that for cold plunges. And
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  Speaker 2: it's also going to reduce stress. But At the same time,
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  Speaker 2: you want to make sure that if you have some
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  Speaker 2: underlying health conditions, that very cold temperature can be a
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  Speaker 2: shock to your body, which can be a challenge. So
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  Speaker 2: that's what we try to sort out in all these things.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the other thing that you alluded to. There's
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  Speaker 2: no magic bullet. A lot of these things can provide
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  Speaker 2: some benefit, but they're not a cure-all for everything. So
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  Speaker 2: that's an important component as well.
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  Speaker 1: So then can I bring up liquid IV? Because I
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  Speaker 1: work at a grocery store, and I wish people would
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  Speaker 1: stop doing the liquid IV. It's not doing what you
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to do. If you really want to
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  Speaker 1: get over a hangover, don't drink. There's your answer right there.
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  Speaker 1: Just make the simple choice. Don't do it.
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  Speaker 2: When can you be on our podcast? Because this is
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  Speaker 2: exactly the kind of things that we're talking about. I
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  Speaker 2: agree with you. People are going and saying, hey, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to get these nutrients and this IV. And in theory,
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  Speaker 2: it sounds maybe like it could make sense, but I'll
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  Speaker 2: be honest with you, it's a waste of money.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I want to talk about the GLP-1s because we're
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  Speaker 1: having to deal with that because my wife has diabetes.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing that really kind of shocked my system
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  Speaker 1: more than a Beatles moment, and that is that there's
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  Speaker 1: advertisements now that say you can get it for $ 25
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  Speaker 1: a month. And I went, oh, my God, that's going
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  Speaker 1: to get people who don't need this on it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I'm glad you brought up the GLP-1s. And
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  Speaker 2: as you pointed out, I mean, they actually were discovered
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  Speaker 2: first for the management of diabetes. And now we see
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  Speaker 2: this significant weight loss for patients. And that can be
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  Speaker 2: a good thing. Now, what we sometimes forget is that
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  Speaker 2: there's still this component that's necessary for healthy living, that
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  Speaker 2: you still have to exercise. You still have to eat healthy.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to be honest. Sometimes people have the attitude, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I tried all these other things. They never worked.
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  Speaker 2: And now I'm just taking the medication and I'm losing
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  Speaker 2: weight without much effort. That's not a good thing because
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  Speaker 2: you still want to adopt these healthy behaviors. Otherwise, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to have to be on the medication for the
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  Speaker 2: rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you bring up.
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  Speaker 2: A good point about some of these advertisements where they're
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  Speaker 2: offering sharp discounts. As you probably know, Some of these
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  Speaker 2: then are compounded, which means the pharmacy will make the
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  Speaker 2: drug itself. Now, there was a period of time that
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  Speaker 2: they were allowed to do that because of shortages. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: there isn't. But it's still a concern because there's issues
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  Speaker 2: of purity. There's issues of how they've been manufactured. So
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  Speaker 2: people should always try to get prescription drugs through a
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  Speaker 2: regular pharmacy. And that can include a mail-order pharmacy. So
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  Speaker 2: it's just the age-old adage that if something is too
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  Speaker 2: good to be true, that's a real problem.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we're just getting started. We'll be right back with Dr.
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  Speaker 1: John White. The name of the podcast, Health vs. Hype,
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  Speaker 1: which you can pick up right now on iHeartRadio. We
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  Speaker 1: are back with Dr. John White. Here's a good example
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  Speaker 1: of something that's too good to be true. Sylvester Stallone
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  Speaker 1: with that big, beautiful body. And then he comes out
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  Speaker 1: last week and says, oh, I had an eating disorder.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't think that sucked the wind right out
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  Speaker 1: of my dreams come true.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, Sly has to remain relevant in
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  Speaker 2: some ways. You know, we all have challenges and Sly...
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I don't know, you know, obviously his
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  Speaker 2: medical history. You know, I don't know if he was
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  Speaker 2: also taking some other things at different points in time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That might not have been healthy. But, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: also shouldn't try to compare ourselves to other people. That
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  Speaker 2: we are who we are and we have our own
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  Speaker 2: unique challenges and advantages. And that's really what I encourage people.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what are your goals? In terms of your health,
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  Speaker 2: especially as we start to get older, you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: the whole concept of longevity, which isn't really even defined
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  Speaker 2: in terms of what's a longevity expert. It's sure we
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  Speaker 2: want to live longer, but we also want to live
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  Speaker 2: longer in a way where we're able to maintain our activities.
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  Speaker 2: and be happy and have a productive life. So that's
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  Speaker 2: the other key component as well.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it took me 63 years of life to realize, dude,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing trying to lift all that weight?
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  Speaker 1: Why aren't you stretching? So every day now for over
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  Speaker 1: one year, every single day, I have a stretching routine
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  Speaker 1: that I do while going out on a walk through
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful forest. I mean, stretching is so important, but
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  Speaker 1: people just don't want to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. you're bringing that up. And I see
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  Speaker 2: that with a lot of patients and for myself as well.
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  Speaker 2: We definitely have to focus on stretching. We have to
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  Speaker 2: focus on core exercises. Nobody wants to do that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be honest. I think there's probably some
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  Speaker 2: differences between men and women on this, right? You're probably,
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  Speaker 2: you know, historically spending time on the chest press and
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  Speaker 2: doing bicep. That's what guys mostly, you know, are interested in.
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  Speaker 2: And we kind of forget, like, you know, as we're,
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  Speaker 2: you know, approaching our 40s or 50s or 60s, we're
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  Speaker 2: automatically losing some muscle mass. So we're not going to
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  Speaker 2: be able to lift as much. And that doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: as much. What you really care about as you get older,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm glad you're stretching. I have to do more stretching.
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  Speaker 2: It's about flexibility. Yes. How do we make sure that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we don't fall down the stairs? How do
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  Speaker 2: we make sure that, you know, we can continue to
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  Speaker 2: go on a hike? You know, another good test that
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you, and you probably know this, is grip strength.
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  Speaker 2: And there's these different little devices called dynamometers. And your
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  Speaker 2: grip strength is a good measure of frailty. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what's important as we get older or a great test
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  Speaker 2: to do. is can you get off from the floor
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  Speaker 2: from a sitting position without having to use your hands?
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  Speaker 2: These are the kinds of things that guys need to
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  Speaker 2: start thinking about and less so about how much can
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  Speaker 2: they lift. So it's a little bit of a mindset
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  Speaker 2: that we have to go through.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I can't wait to go through Planet Fitness and say,
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  Speaker 1: can you pick your booty up off the floor without
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  Speaker 1: using your hands? Then you ain't junk, man.
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  Speaker 2: You ain't junk.
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  Speaker 1: Don't even show me those muscles.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You need to film that for me so I
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  Speaker 2: can see what the response is.
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  Speaker 1: See, I personally believe inside my heart that one of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons why we keep running into this term, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not feeling well, I'm under the weather. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: because we have called in sick when we're not sick
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  Speaker 1: and fate is biting us in the ass.
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  Speaker 2: And... There's a lot to unpack there. I'll say, certainly
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  Speaker 2: if people are sick, they should come into work because
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  Speaker 2: we don't want other people to get infected. But part
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  Speaker 2: of it is that we do see increases in people
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  Speaker 2: that describe loneliness and people that are depressed. And there
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  Speaker 2: is no health without mental health. We haven't always acknowledged that.
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  Speaker 2: But that's also a key component of our overall health.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what's really concerning is as we get older,
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  Speaker 2: the number of friends that people say they have often
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  Speaker 2: dwindles at times. One to two people. And that can
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  Speaker 2: be a real challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. You would hate hanging out with me
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  Speaker 1: because I am that person where people say, why can't
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  Speaker 1: we hang a little bit more together? And I go...
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  Speaker 1: What's in it for me? And I mean, I get
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  Speaker 1: so conceited, I guess, on that. But no, it's like, OK,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm going to invest my time in you, don't
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  Speaker 1: bring me the damn drama.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. And if it's after seven o'clock, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if we can hang. But you're right. We become
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  Speaker 2: less tolerant as we get older. You know, we focus
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  Speaker 2: more on our sleep, which is a good thing. But
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  Speaker 2: it's partly that relationships change. And when you look around
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  Speaker 2: the world of the number of centenarians, people that have
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  Speaker 2: lived to be 100 or older, relationships are a key
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  Speaker 2: component of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that relationship has to be the relationship with
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  Speaker 1: yourself as well. And that's the reason why I've been
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  Speaker 1: a daily writer for 34 years. In fact, Terry Bradshaw
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  Speaker 1: has a brand new book coming out that's all based
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  Speaker 1: on getting to know Terry. And I sat there reading
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  Speaker 1: it going, it's taking you this long, dude? You should
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  Speaker 1: have been asking when you were in your 20s. Who
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  Speaker 1: am I? What am I doing?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a gratitude journal?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Every day.
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  Speaker 2: I had a feeling you would. I had a feeling
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  Speaker 2: you would. That's important.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 2: People think that's just bunk or, you know, what's that
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  Speaker 2: going to do? But there's good data to show. And
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  Speaker 2: we've even seen this through MRI imaging of the brain,
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  Speaker 2: that people who have a gratitude journal, who express gratitude
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  Speaker 2: every day, have lighting up of those areas of the
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  Speaker 2: brain that are assigned with pleasure and actually have decreased
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  Speaker 2: in those areas of the brain that are assigned to stress.
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  Speaker 2: And when you think about it, you can just express
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  Speaker 2: gratitude for something simple every day. I believe it really
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  Speaker 2: does rewire your brain.
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  Speaker 1: Here's where I put in my gratitude journal today. These
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  Speaker 1: are physical words, doctor. Why aren't we waking up every
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  Speaker 1: morning grateful and filled with unbelievable amounts of joy? Is
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  Speaker 1: it really a choice? I mean, I was questioning, is
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  Speaker 1: it a choice to be grateful about life? That sun
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  Speaker 1: is going to come up no matter what. Be grateful.
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  Speaker 2: It is a choice. We don't realize that. And we
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  Speaker 2: focus on all the negative things in our lives. But
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  Speaker 2: you're right to be alive. to appreciate that sunset, to
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  Speaker 2: be able to breathe. That is a benefit that we
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  Speaker 2: often take for granted. I love the fact that you
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  Speaker 2: bring up journaling in a gratitude journal.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a heart attack survivor. And this is what my
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  Speaker 1: doctor told me, my cardiologist. This is what you were
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  Speaker 1: doing in your 20s and 30s. And I looked at
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  Speaker 1: him and I said, you're just trying to just get
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  Speaker 1: more money into your hospital. And he goes, call your
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  Speaker 1: mom up right now and tell her that. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the one thing that people need to understand is that
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  Speaker 1: heart disease is invisible until somebody gets it. And all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, it becomes visible to everybody else, and
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  Speaker 1: your family has got to be told the God's honest truth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know what I've been saying to people lately,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not sure if it's a good thing or
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  Speaker 2: a bad thing, so I'll try it out, is I
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  Speaker 2: say to people, typically, patients in their 40s and the 50s,
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  Speaker 2: do you want to do your cardiac rehab now? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Or do you want to do it now? Because once
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  Speaker 2: people have a heart attack, then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: they're looking in their pantry, they're changing their behavior, they're
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  Speaker 2: going on the elliptical. And what I want to say
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  Speaker 2: is adopt those behaviors now. That there is a genetic
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  Speaker 2: component to heart disease, but it's not as big as
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  Speaker 2: people think. And it's what you do in your 30s
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  Speaker 2: and your 40s and your 50s that are going to
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  Speaker 2: impact what happens in your 60s. and your 70s, and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully your 80s. But we're not wired to think like that.
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  Speaker 2: We don't, you know, focus on those things sometimes until
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  Speaker 2: it's too late. So that's an important message for listeners.
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  Speaker 2: You want to do your cardiac rehab now or later?
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  Speaker 2: I'd suggest you do it now and spend time eating healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Spend time, you know, three days a week getting physical
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  Speaker 2: exercise and activity. That's going to help you live longer
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  Speaker 2: and that's going to avoid having the health issues that
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  Speaker 2: plague so many people in their 60s and 70s.
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  Speaker 1: You got to come back to this show anytime in
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  Speaker 1: the future. I swear to God, we are speaking the
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  Speaker 1: same street here. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to. Excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you be brilliant today, doctor. And thank you for
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  Speaker 1: being open and honest, as well as transparent enough to
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  Speaker 1: share your reality with the real people who are sitting
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  Speaker 1: in their cars and offices going, I need to make
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  Speaker 1: a change.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks for having me.