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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
- 0:04Speaker 1: six forty, take this job and shoving work fine, Am
- 0:17Speaker 1: six forty Bill Handle here, Good morning everybody, on a Wednesday,
- 0:20Speaker 1: March eleventh. Obviously a lot going on with the war
- 0:23Speaker 1: in Iran. It keeps on going. The President says, we
- 0:29Speaker 1: basically have hit all the targets that are available, and
- 0:35Speaker 1: we basically decimated Iran. Maybe true, but that doesn't mean
- 0:39Speaker 1: Iran isn't firing back another barrage of missiles off to
- 0:43Speaker 1: Israel and also targets American bases have been targeted as
- 0:47Speaker 1: well as and I don't understand why Iran is doing this. Well,
- 0:50Speaker 1: there may be a reason that is attacking Gulf States,
- 0:52Speaker 1: and I think the only reason that makes any sense
- 0:55Speaker 1: that I have looked at is that if it becomes
- 0:58Speaker 1: untenable for the Golf States to withstand the attacks that
- 1:04Speaker 1: Iran is doing on them, the Iran is well firing missiles,
- 1:11Speaker 1: sending out drones, and this is to the Gulf States,
- 1:14Speaker 1: it's neighboring countries. It will be so untenable for everybody
- 1:18Speaker 1: that they'll just come to the table just in the war.
- 1:21Speaker 1: And that's the only chance that the regime has to survive.
- 1:26Speaker 1: That's the theory and I buy that. Now, moving over
- 1:29Speaker 1: to California teachers, there is a well strange enough of
- 1:33Speaker 1: studies that just been done. It's a teacher morale index,
- 1:39Speaker 1: and California teachers scored sixteen on the morale index. And
- 1:43Speaker 1: what does that mean. Well, it measures teacher morale from
- 1:48Speaker 1: minus one hundred to plus one hundred and the bottom
- 1:51Speaker 1: line is nearly half of California teachers plan to leave
- 1:55Speaker 1: education in ten years or less. One of the reasons
- 1:59Speaker 1: is California teachers want class sizes from twenty to twenty
- 2:05Speaker 1: four students. That seems to be sort of the sweet squad,
- 2:10Speaker 1: not a chance in public schools. And so teacher morale
- 2:14Speaker 1: only dip slightly across the country this year because there
- 2:17Speaker 1: have been some improvements, but in California it's hitting big time.
- 2:23Speaker 1: So California half the teacher surveyed plan on quitting or
- 2:27Speaker 1: retiring the next ten years. Nationwide, it's an estimated thirty
- 2:32Speaker 1: five percent, so California substantially substantially above that. This was
- 2:39Speaker 1: the California Teacher Associations specific survey and found that a
- 2:43Speaker 1: majority of the teachers are actually satisfied with their jobs,
- 2:47Speaker 1: but forty percent are considering leaving education in general within
- 2:51Speaker 1: the next four next few years, half of those for
- 2:55Speaker 1: financial reasons. There are teacher shortages across the county, especially
- 3:01Speaker 1: in hard to fill jobs like special ed science, technology, math, engineering,
- 3:06Speaker 1: bilingual education. They can't find enough teachers because well, even
- 3:12Speaker 1: though the pay is actually not bad, you know that teachers,
- 3:16Speaker 1: I think it's la unified. I'm looking at these figures here.
- 3:19Speaker 1: The average teacher, this is California. The average teacher makes
- 3:24Speaker 1: starts at about fifty thousand dollars a year, which is
- 3:28Speaker 1: not wonderful. But oh, the average starting salary was fifty
- 3:34Speaker 1: eight thousand dollars a year in California, and the average
- 3:38Speaker 1: salary is one hundred and one thousand dollars. Now most
- 3:42Speaker 1: people would think that's a tremendous amount of money, which
- 3:46Speaker 1: is in certain cases. And if you look at, for example,
- 3:51Speaker 1: shop teachers. I remember taking wood shop when I was
- 3:56Speaker 1: in middle school. By the way, you do know that
- 3:59Speaker 1: there is a law in California that said that a
- 4:02Speaker 1: woodshop teacher must be missing at least one finger. You
- 4:06Speaker 1: cannot be a woodstop teacher having all ten digits on
- 4:09Speaker 1: your hands just impossible. And so did I have a
- 4:12Speaker 1: teacher with one finger gone? I did, as everybody else
- 4:15Speaker 1: I know did, Amy You're oh, oh, you're waving your
- 4:25Speaker 1: missing finger. Got it? And if you the wrong finger missing,
- 4:28Speaker 1: you know, then you're not able to express yourself in
- 4:32Speaker 1: ways you really want to. But with the kidding aside,
- 4:35Speaker 1: not that that was funny or anything, is the fact
- 4:38Speaker 1: that teachers have it very very rough. Here is a
- 4:41Speaker 1: story I want to share with you, and that is
- 4:45Speaker 1: there is I guess a friend of mine, an acquaintance
- 4:48Speaker 1: that I've known for several years, and he was a
- 4:51Speaker 1: teacher and he didn't last very long. Why because well,
- 4:57Speaker 1: his building was his constume, was the second story of
- 5:02Speaker 1: the school building and he got into it with one
- 5:05Speaker 1: of the students. This was high school and the student
- 5:07Speaker 1: threw him out a window and he broke his back
- 5:11Speaker 1: and was a student punished? No, because the world today
- 5:15Speaker 1: is uh, teachers cannot punish students. And that's another reason
- 5:19Speaker 1: morale is so crappy, because it's just the philosophy we have,
- 5:23Speaker 1: students can do no wrong. Parents come in and file lawsuits,
- 5:26Speaker 1: and the morale is very very tough. I mean, when
- 5:28Speaker 1: I was in high school. I mean it was. I've
- 5:31Speaker 1: told the story dozens of times. You know. If I
- 5:35Speaker 1: acted out, I got swatted. There was corporal punishment. Try
- 5:39Speaker 1: doing that today. Try talking to a teacher who would
- 5:43Speaker 1: love to swat a kid, you know, with the old
- 5:45Speaker 1: paddle And what is the phrase? Neil you because you
- 5:51Speaker 1: know that? What do I still have nightmares about? What phrase?
- 5:54Speaker 1: Zoom the position? Assume the position handle? Yep, bend down
- 6:01Speaker 1: and grab your ankles. And I couldn't bend down and
- 6:04Speaker 1: grab my ankles today. If my life depended on it,
- 6:07Speaker 1: I would have a hard time bending down and grabbing
- 6:09Speaker 1: my knees. But that is a lot more to do
- 6:13Speaker 1: with my fine physical shape. All right, Enough of that,
- 6:17Speaker 1: California teachers, I can see that. All right. I want
- 6:21Speaker 1: to talk about pet ownership. I'm a big pet fan
- 6:24Speaker 1: and Joe my dogs very much. And this is a
- 6:30Speaker 1: story in the La Times and it's from the Human
- 6:35Speaker 1: Animal Bond Research Institute. And they came up with the
- 6:40Speaker 1: story that just a report was issued, no surprise, it
- 6:43Speaker 1: is nothing new, and that is examining the health benefits
- 6:47Speaker 1: of pet ownership and human health together. Well here's what
- 6:51Speaker 1: we know, okay, And this is science. Pet ownership can
- 6:56Speaker 1: extend life expectancy, improve mental physical health, reduce stress, better
- 7:01Speaker 1: heart health, increased physical activity, and they don't. I guess
- 7:07Speaker 1: it's the politics. You can't mention this in these reports,
- 7:12Speaker 1: leaving out one of the absolute best reasons for having
- 7:15Speaker 1: a pet terrific source of protein, and they just don't
- 7:20Speaker 1: mention that. It's a shame because they are in any case,
- 7:25Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into that because I can
- 7:27Speaker 1: get I get in trouble for saying stuff like that,
- 7:29Speaker 1: don't I kneel. Certain organizations get really pissed off at
- 7:32Speaker 1: me when I joke about pet ownership and eating them.
- 7:37Speaker 1: But it does make a lot of sense because think
- 7:41Speaker 1: about it, how much joy do you get from your pets?
- 7:45Speaker 1: I mean, I certainly do, except want to have to
- 7:47Speaker 1: clean up the poopa all over the place. But I
- 7:50Speaker 1: got a little smaller doggy, so it's not bad. But
- 7:54Speaker 1: we do know that it provides routine emotional support. Routine
- 7:59Speaker 1: in the sense taking care of the pets, taking for walks,
- 8:03Speaker 1: cuddling with them. I've got mine right under here, who
- 8:07Speaker 1: she falls asleep on me all the time, comes in
- 8:10Speaker 1: happy to see me, and then knocks off in the morning.
- 8:15Speaker 1: One of the most widely cited mental health benefits has
- 8:19Speaker 1: to do with routine and emotional support, and that is
- 8:22Speaker 1: taking care of the pets, not the other way around,
- 8:25Speaker 1: and that's not often talked about, but the kind of
- 8:28Speaker 1: benefits physical mental health taking care of the pets. Well,
- 8:32Speaker 1: for example, walking your dog is a kind of exercise
- 8:36Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't get amy. How often do you walk
- 8:39Speaker 1: your cats every day? It's a lot of fun to
- 8:42Speaker 1: take them for a good drag. Yeah, yes, exactly. I
- 8:46Speaker 1: love mine when, especially Tommy, when he doesn't want to walk,
- 8:53Speaker 1: that's what I have to do. There's the leash and
- 8:55Speaker 1: I'm dragging him and he's fighting me, and he's a
- 8:58Speaker 1: strong little dog. The least therapy dogs, you know, come
- 9:04Speaker 1: into clinical settings, nursing homes and they provide comfort and
- 9:08Speaker 1: companionship even for non pet owners. And when I was
- 9:11Speaker 1: in the hospital, I was in the hospital five years ago,
- 9:12Speaker 1: as you know, I was there for a week with
- 9:15Speaker 1: my surgeries, and they brought, you know, they had volunteers
- 9:20Speaker 1: with their pets and they come out, you know, friendly dogs.
- 9:23Speaker 1: Hey can we come in and you pet the dog
- 9:25Speaker 1: and feel good. I was in so much pain that
- 9:29Speaker 1: when the volunteer with the dog, Hey, can we come
- 9:33Speaker 1: in and spend some time? No, no, you can't go
- 9:36Speaker 1: someplace else. Leave me alone. I do not want you
- 9:40Speaker 1: and that mangy dog in my hospital room. And by
- 9:45Speaker 1: the way, I already got an infection in the hospital room.
- 9:47Speaker 1: That's why I had to do the open heart surgery.
- 9:49Speaker 1: I had the back. I had the back surgery, and
- 9:52Speaker 1: while I was in the hospital, I got an infection
- 9:54Speaker 1: that went directly into my heart surgery number two, so
- 9:58Speaker 1: five three, four weeks apart. So when I'm in this
- 10:01Speaker 1: for the second go round, can you imagine they bring
- 10:03Speaker 1: the scroungy, mangy dog into the bedroom into the hospital room.
- 10:09Speaker 1: That was not going to happen. But most people enjoy
- 10:13Speaker 1: having the emotional support dogs and they actually look beyond that.
- 10:18Speaker 1: And that is in these are studies improve cholesterol levels,
- 10:22Speaker 1: blood sugar regulation. I mean, that is something that at
- 10:27Speaker 1: first glance you would not you would not notice. Research
- 10:32Speaker 1: shows that pets reduce social isolation, ease, loneliness among adults,
- 10:38Speaker 1: older adults living alone, particularly adults with Alzheimer's disease or dementia.
- 10:45Speaker 1: The animals can afford familiarity, comfort, and opportunities. And that's
- 10:50Speaker 1: the other thing that people with dementia need, is they
- 10:52Speaker 1: need they what they need is they need familiarity more
- 10:57Speaker 1: important than anything else. They have to go to the
- 10:59Speaker 1: same place as same bed, same room, same house, and
- 11:04Speaker 1: what the animals do. It's part of the sameness because
- 11:06Speaker 1: they're always there. Because you know, animals are always there,
- 11:11Speaker 1: like my little one. As I said, I've got a
- 11:14Speaker 1: little Izzy, my female Doxy, and she's there and she's
- 11:18Speaker 1: always there. It doesn't matter how many times I kick her.
- 11:21Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how many times I throw her around
- 11:24Speaker 1: when she peas all over the furniture, And do you
- 11:29Speaker 1: know how far you can actually drop kick a little Doxy?
- 11:35Speaker 1: Is this where we're going this morning? Is there animal violence?
- 11:40Speaker 1: That's not violence, that's exercise. That's animals helping you exercise
- 11:46Speaker 1: more like ex sore sise. Yeah, but people are actually
- 11:53Speaker 1: more a pro This is interesting stuff, It really is,
- 11:56Speaker 1: because it goes beyond just animals are healthy for you.
- 12:00Speaker 1: They reduce stress. People are perceived more approachable with the
- 12:04Speaker 1: dog present. That's true. I mean I don't know if
- 12:08Speaker 1: I walk down the street and I'm looked at one way,
- 12:12Speaker 1: and when I have my little one. I'm taking the walk,
- 12:15Speaker 1: I am all of a sudden more approachable. People smile more,
- 12:19Speaker 1: and they don't even care that my dog is foaming
- 12:21Speaker 1: at the mouth and probably in the middle of a
- 12:23Speaker 1: rabi's attack. It doesn't matter. It's just dogs are just
- 12:28Speaker 1: great things. They really are. Pets are great things. I mean,
- 12:31Speaker 1: do you have a guinea pig? I had one once.
- 12:34Speaker 1: Walking a guinea pig is not easy, by the way,
- 12:37Speaker 1: getting that little collar around the guinea pig. Oh, what's
- 12:40Speaker 1: the weirdest animal you've ever had? And Neil, you're not
- 12:42Speaker 1: a pet person, are you.
- 12:44Speaker 2: I'm deathly allergic to animal dander. Okay, right, well that
- 12:49Speaker 2: I used to raise rats. Okay, that's nice little creatures.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Yes, they are, especially when they're spreading all those fun
- 12:58Speaker 1: diseases bubonic plague, etc. Amy, let me ask you, what
- 13:03Speaker 1: are the weirdest power were? What are the more fun
- 13:05Speaker 1: pets you've had? I mean, I've just had cats and dogs,
- 13:08Speaker 1: and then I think my I had a gerbil and
- 13:11Speaker 1: I had a mouse. That's so fascinating. Yeah, and how
- 13:17Speaker 1: about you have you had anything exotics? They're just going
- 13:20Speaker 1: around the room just for fun. Not really, okay, frog
- 13:24Speaker 1: a frog, nice rabbits, cats, dogs. All right, yeah, all right,
- 13:32Speaker 1: fair enough, all right, We're done. That was it. I
- 13:35Speaker 1: just wanted to know how everybody was doing. By the way,
- 13:37Speaker 1: I just want to point out if we look at
- 13:38Speaker 1: the ratings for the last a few minutes of this show,
- 13:41Speaker 1: I'm sure they've exploded, because that was not a boring
- 13:44Speaker 1: segment at all. Was it? A quick reminder? On Friday?
- 13:49Speaker 1: It's ask handle anything, we need you to do that
- 13:52Speaker 1: and it's all about embarrassing me. And Neil really enjoys that.
- 13:56Speaker 1: So during this show or any morning, you go to
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- 14:02Speaker 1: do is click on the microphone in the upper right
- 14:04Speaker 1: hand corner and you'll have ten fifteen seconds to record
- 14:07Speaker 1: a question. Neil chooses the questions, and Friday mornings at
- 14:11Speaker 1: eight thirty, we cono plays them and I answer them,
- 14:14Speaker 1: and it's all about the embarrassment factor. And boy, last
- 14:17Speaker 1: Friday was just And you can actually podcast last Friday's
- 14:21Speaker 1: eight thirty segment because it was abut to say the least.
- 14:24Speaker 1: Just can podcast anytime. Just go to the iHeartRadio app
- 14:28Speaker 1: and click on the podcasts and there we are. Yeah, Neil,
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- 15:21Speaker 1: It is time for doctor Jim Keeney. Jim is with
- 15:24Speaker 1: us every Wednesday. Jim, good morning, Good morning Bill. Okay, Oh,
- 15:29Speaker 1: this is a topic, and that is phone use on
- 15:35Speaker 1: the toilet causes hemorrhoids. Now, no shock. I usually do
- 15:40Speaker 1: and I have for many years sat on the toilet
- 15:43Speaker 1: reading which is what guys do. And I've had a
- 15:47Speaker 1: little problem, even to the point where, frankly, I've had
- 15:50Speaker 1: two hemorrhoids my entire life that actually have names, Pepe
- 15:54Speaker 1: and roy Mundo, and they come back occasionally and say hello,
- 15:58Speaker 1: that is completely discussed and we don't have to go
- 16:01Speaker 1: into that, but let's talk about the It doesn't seem
- 16:05Speaker 1: like that's a surprise at all. So where's the story
- 16:09Speaker 1: here or is this new information that we've gotten to
- 16:13Speaker 1: the extent of how dangerous this is.
- 16:16Speaker 3: No, it's just a reminder. I mean, you're right that
- 16:18Speaker 3: hemorrhoids are super common. In the study itself, they looked
- 16:22Speaker 3: at how many people had hemorrhoids, and about half the
- 16:26Speaker 3: people did have Forty three percent had hemorrhoids, and it
- 16:30Speaker 3: goes up by forty six percent when you use when
- 16:33Speaker 3: you sit on the toilet for you know, five minutes
- 16:35Speaker 3: or longer. And so these people, a lot of the
- 16:38Speaker 3: people are when they ask what their habits are, you're right,
- 16:41Speaker 3: reading the news fifty four percent, social media forty four percent.
- 16:44Speaker 3: This is what they were doing on their phone. So
- 16:47Speaker 3: it's just one of those I knew you know, I
- 16:49Speaker 3: know you like anything to do with toilet humor, so
- 16:51Speaker 3: I thought you love this, and it's just a reminder
- 16:55Speaker 3: that I phones don't cause hemorrhoids. Sitting on a toilet
- 16:58Speaker 3: for too long till your legs go numb causes hemorrhoids.
- 17:01Speaker 3: And and you probably shouldn't use the toilet as a chair.
- 17:04Speaker 3: He could, you know, read somewhere else?
- 17:07Speaker 1: Okay? And then I was told, now I just had
- 17:09Speaker 1: my colonoscopy, and and I didn't even know that you
- 17:12Speaker 1: could do this, but interior hemorrhoids, which are kind of interesting. Uh,
- 17:17Speaker 1: And I was just told to eat a lot of
- 17:20Speaker 1: a fiber. How common is that?
- 17:23Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean those are the more problematic ones. So
- 17:25Speaker 3: the ones you see on the outside that kind of
- 17:28Speaker 3: make like a little tag that hangs out, is that
- 17:31Speaker 3: those are external hemorrhoids. There's a line inside your rectum
- 17:36Speaker 3: that that divides the internal from the external. And so
- 17:40Speaker 3: the hemorrhoids that are up above that usually are fatter,
- 17:43Speaker 3: you know, they're they're bigger, they can cause more problems,
- 17:46Speaker 3: they're much more difficult to deal with. So you know,
- 17:49Speaker 3: that's that's why we look at those.
- 17:51Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough enough of that. We couldn't get enough
- 17:53Speaker 1: humor out of that. We tried, we tried let's take it. Yeah,
- 17:58Speaker 1: I know, we tried. Thank you for bringing to the
- 18:00Speaker 1: forefront because you know, I do enjoy toilet, mr humor.
- 18:03Speaker 1: You know, I'm six years old. You know that, don't you.
- 18:06Speaker 1: When it comes to this sort of stuff, absolutely, I
- 18:10Speaker 1: know nothing changes. But by the way, when Jim and
- 18:12Speaker 1: I have a meal together, we talk about this stuff
- 18:16Speaker 1: and it is even he gets disgusted when I talk
- 18:20Speaker 1: about hemorrhoids at lunch. Doctor Jim McKinney. As we finish
- 18:24Speaker 1: the show, listen to that Alzheimer's story because this is
- 18:28Speaker 1: absolutely fascinating. And the blood tests predicting Alzheimer's and women
- 18:33Speaker 1: years years in advance. I mean, that is a big concept.
- 18:37Speaker 1: So what's going on with that?
- 18:39Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I mean that's that's what's interesting about this
- 18:42Speaker 3: story is it's decades and we're talking twenty five years beforehand.
- 18:46Speaker 3: This can predict some level of risk. So it's about
- 18:50Speaker 3: seventy five eighty percent accurate. It's not perfect, but you
- 18:54Speaker 3: see San Diego study. They took a couple thousand women
- 18:58Speaker 3: from the Men's Health Initiative Memory Study that was conducted
- 19:02Speaker 3: between nineteen ninety six and nineteen eighty nine, had measured
- 19:07Speaker 3: this plasma tau measurement, and then they measured it later
- 19:13Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four, and they looked at the results
- 19:15Speaker 3: and it looked like if they were able to predict
- 19:19Speaker 3: twenty five years in advance, whether some of these women
- 19:21Speaker 3: were going to get we're going to get Alzheimer's disease.
- 19:25Speaker 3: This opens up a whole new world, right because there's
- 19:28Speaker 3: people that are worried about it, anxious about it. There's
- 19:31Speaker 3: not too much we can do right now who prevention
- 19:34Speaker 3: is mostly lifestyle and living a healthy lifestyle. But if
- 19:39Speaker 3: we can identify people earlier, there's definitely a lot of
- 19:42Speaker 3: opportunity there in those ensuing twenty five years to figure
- 19:45Speaker 3: out what we can do maybe to prevent Alzheimer's disease.
- 19:49Speaker 1: I noticed that the stories about women are men not
- 19:52Speaker 1: included to that, and is there a difference between women
- 19:55Speaker 1: and men in terms of Alzheimer's.
- 19:58Speaker 3: Well they are used a group that was in existence,
- 20:02Speaker 3: the Women's Health Initiative Memory Studies, So it was only
- 20:06Speaker 3: women included in this particular study. Is just how the
- 20:08Speaker 3: study was designed. It They didn't they didn't do that
- 20:11Speaker 3: because of the fact that they felt women were somehow different.
- 20:15Speaker 3: But I think it is important to look at the
- 20:17Speaker 3: sexes in studies individually because there are differences between the sexes.
- 20:22Speaker 1: Obviously, are women more apt to get Alzheimer's.
- 20:26Speaker 3: That's a good question. I don't actually know the numbers
- 20:29Speaker 3: on that.
- 20:31Speaker 1: Great, all right, don't We always only don't go there
- 20:35Speaker 1: because usually my questions are fairly moronic. And yeah, good one, yeah,
- 20:39Speaker 1: and that not bad? I got you. Let's let's call
- 20:43Speaker 1: that one, all right. Not only measles, mumps is on
- 20:47Speaker 1: the rise. That's a lot of grapefruit sized testicles running
- 20:52Speaker 1: around out there. It is it direct see there you go?
- 20:56Speaker 1: Is it directly attributable to the lack of vaccination?
- 21:00Speaker 3: Yeah? So, I mean that's the important thing about this
- 21:03Speaker 3: is when you see measles go up, this is a
- 21:06Speaker 3: public health crisis.
- 21:08Speaker 1: When you have that.
- 21:09Speaker 3: Mumps has always been around, It never got fully eradicated.
- 21:13Speaker 3: The vaccine itself is only about eighty percent effective. And
- 21:16Speaker 3: then people before nineteen fifty seven, they just have presumed
- 21:19Speaker 3: if you were born before nineteen fifty seven, A lot
- 21:21Speaker 3: of times we just presume that you are immune. It
- 21:23Speaker 3: was so common that you would have been exposed to
- 21:26Speaker 3: it and you're immune. So people before born before nineteen
- 21:28Speaker 3: fifty seven, probably should just get tested to look and
- 21:30Speaker 3: see if they have antibodies, because they can get a
- 21:33Speaker 3: booster or a shot if they if they don't have antibodies.
- 21:36Speaker 3: So yeah, it's basically it's important because it shows how
- 21:44Speaker 3: we're doing on vaccination and it's good surveillance to see,
- 21:48Speaker 3: like as vaccination levels drop, some of these levels are
- 21:50Speaker 3: going to go up. Is this some type of disaster, No,
- 21:53Speaker 3: it's not, but it's indicative of what's going on with
- 21:56Speaker 3: vaccinations by Jim.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Thanks, you know you always run ey to I should
- 22:00Speaker 1: you have you on for about two hours when we
- 22:02Speaker 1: do this because there's so many topics to cover. Jim,
- 22:06Speaker 1: take care, we'll catch you next week, and take care.
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