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Can Dandelions Fight Cancer? Plus Flu Immunity, Wolves & AI Toilets | TMI Ep 438 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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What happened there? That was abrupt. That was
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a delay. That might have been too abrupt. I'm
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trying to still sort out. I got a new camera.
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I don't know if you guys can tell. You look like
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you've changed ethnicities. Do I look different?
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You look green. Green? I need to set. I can't
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tell on my monitors because I have like the...
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The blue light blocker. She came from planet
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Claire. Am I green? I knew she came from there.
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She drove a planet satellite. Here comes Robbie.
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Robbie, look at my green co -host. Look, hold
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on, hold on. She's from the land of green, people.
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I got a brand new camera, you guys. It's a 4K
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whatever. I mean, how do we go from like HD to...
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I would say it's worse. Right. That's why I'm
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like, I would return that sucker if it's returnable
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Yeah, I would is I might fire it into the Sun.
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No, I think But it the clarity I'll fix my color.
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He's worse. The clarity is worse Bobby. I think
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it was worse Yeah, it blows kidding. Yeah, ask
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ask the ask the ask the ask the for the Rumblers.
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Yeah Rumblers and yeah and the youtubers Alec
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Alec 49 says, the movements are smoother. Really?
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I guess that's maybe a little true, but how much
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movement are you really expecting in the TMI
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show? It's not like we're doing acrobatics here.
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Maybe it agrees with me and Ted, and she says
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it's worse. Really? I thought I was upgrading
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to 4K because everyone's doing 4K. Yeah, you're
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like... McHaddon says I look like I'm a filter
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on. Also, you look green. I mean, doesn't she
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look like, I mean, if I saw you come in, if you,
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if I saw you walk into a room looking like that,
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I would call 911. I'd be like, I don't know what's
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wrong with her, but she looks like she's a member
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of gang green. Oh wait, did you just do something?
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I changed the white balance. Yes, that helped.
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Yeah. Yeah. You don't look like Vulcan anymore.
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Do I look human? Yeah, you you look human now
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so that that's I need like I need live feedback
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because I'm I'm looking at it and I'm like Okay,
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well you look now you look sort of rose which
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is too rosy No, no, I hate to say it. I think
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you're no longer Asian. You look white now What
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way is this race changing? Yeah, I told you guys
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about the camera You're like Rachel Dolezal.
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I'm Rachel Dolezal. You're transracial Okay,
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I don't know what I don't know I need I need
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I need see this is why like when when you're
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in a TV studio Which I've had the luxury of you
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know being a part of for the better part of 20
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years, but You have professionals that can look
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on different monitors because different monitors
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read differently. And then you have five different
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people telling you, oh, the white balance. Oh,
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you got to bring this tint down. You got to reduce
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the blue light. You got to do all of this. I
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don't have that at home, right? I have these
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monitors and they are. Yeah, it's just you. Right.
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So who's going to be able to tell me what it
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actually looks like unless I have 50 people in
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the chat giving me feedback? Well, that's right.
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We crowdsource this stuff. It's fine. Yeah. So
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I, yeah, I have, I have 50 different producers
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in the chat. Yeah. Telling me. Yeah. Telling
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me what should be done. As Malcolm Gladwell would
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say, it's the wisdom of crowds, right? Yeah.
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So I, does this color look better? Do I look
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human now? It's not green tinted? Uh, no, you're,
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you, you definitely look, the color is a lot
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better. I mean, you look sort of, I mean, you
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don't look really like you did before, but that's
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not necessarily bad. You look Asian again, so
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that's a plus. Yeah. I mean, depending if that's
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how you want to roll. Now you have options now
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racially. By the way, oh my God, this technology
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could be made available to black people as motorists.
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Like when the cop pulls you over, you're like,
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switch to Caucasian mode. And then it's like...
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Oh, hello, sir. Oh, I'm sorry. Please be on your
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way. Drive safe. And they don't shoot you, right?
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Have you seen the window? It's like a tint. It's
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a film, really a window film that that makes
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it look like there's like an image of a old white
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lady or whoever you whatever you pick, an old
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white lady, an old white man driving on the driver's
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side. So it looks so when you look at it, it
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looks like you're looking through transparent
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window glass and that there's a an old white
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person driving. What's the purpose of this? So
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black people don't get shot by cops. Oh, okay.
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You know that more white people are shot by cops
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than black people, right? Yeah, but yeah, but
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that's because there's more white people in the
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country. I understand. But it's just a pro rata.
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It's more black people, right? Yeah, as a percentage,
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as a percentage. Now, it's sort of like how there's
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more white people who are on welfare than black
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people. Yeah. I've had that argument with an
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economist before on air. He tried to say that
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there's more black people on welfare. And I was
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like— Pro rata, that's true. Yeah, it is true.
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I was like, if we're on pure numbers, I said
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no, because he was talking about pure numbers.
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Yeah, not raw numbers. No. No, no, not in pure
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numbers. I said that's not possible because black
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people are only 12 percent of the population
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So I was like really if you're talking and the
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cops are working on making it 11 So yeah, well
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anyway, that's that's that i'll try to make one
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of you guys Stick around later and help me with
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this color because I can only see from my own
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monitor and it looked fine to me But see now
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to me, I look orange. I don't I look like donald
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trump I know you don't you don't look orange.
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I think the other camera was I think the other
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camera was clearer. I think I had clear. Yeah.
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Yeah, I agree with it. You had better res with
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the old one. It looked better. Listen, if you're
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Yeah, you don't look great right now. Yeah, I'm
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flabbergasted right now. This is like the you
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know, but you know what's funny is, you know,
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like how AOC who's back in the news for her eggs
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thing. AOC looks really different depending on
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what the photo is. Have you ever noticed that?
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I mean, it's kind of like, wait, is that the
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same person? She's like a xenomorph. She's constantly
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changing. That's what this camera is doing to
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you. I thought I knew what you looked like, and
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now I'm not sure I do. John Doe over on YouTube,
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Medela says, you look very hot. Me and Ted, though,
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not so much. Thank you. Well, maybe it's because
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I'm only hot only because the camera morphed
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me and I don't look like my real self. No, you're
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hotter before. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, you're
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less hot now. Yeah, it's true. I tried to record
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myself. Yeah, you're more like a closing time,
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like 2 45 a .m. last call girl right now. I tried
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to record myself a few times last night after
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the camera came. So just to avoid this. And I
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thought I thought I corrected the colors, but.
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Again, it's based on your own monitor and what
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you're looking at and you need people like people
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for feedback So this is not helping your only
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fans channel, you know back to my feet Robbie
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duh, dummy And your hair maybe well people want
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to see Asian looking feet not Vulcan feet. Well,
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maybe check Oh, by the way, Jamal might want
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to see the Vulcan feed. This is true. Yeah, so
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it's a viewer of one, audience of one there.
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All right. So this is obviously the weird ass
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TMI show. That's Ted Raul, the T, I'm the M,
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Manila. The I is information, but we have to
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figure out how we include Robbie in there. And
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we're live. Insolent. Eastern Time. Insolent,
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whitey. Somebody I showed you earlier, I think
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in in YouTube, they said the commie, the mommy
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and Robbie. Although I hate to say it, we over
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on the on D program, we did a political. What
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is that thing called? Political spectrum test
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or whatever? Political compass test. That's it.
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The compass. I can't remember that. Anyway, the
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point is we all did the political compass test.
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Manali, have you ever done that? Yeah. What did
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you turn out to be? Let me guess, left libertarian?
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Yeah, it was higher. Less authoritarian. Yeah,
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you're up. Less authoritarian. So guess who,
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which favorite producer of yours basically is
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ideologically identical to Kim Jong -un? That
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makes sense. It does? I don't know if sense is
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the word I would use. Authoritarian? Well, communist
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and authoritarian. That Robbie's a communist
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and authoritarian? Robbie's a commie and not
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like just any commie. He's like a fucking North
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Korean. That's some serious shit, man. Robbie
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wants to put fucking motes along the southern
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border and put alligators. Well, North Korea
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has very clearly defined borders. You can't just
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come and go. Do they have motes? They actually
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kind of do, right? Well, they have mountains.
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And they have a river like to China, right? Yeah,
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the Yalu River. Yeah, my dad was there. He was
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at the Yalu River and the Chinese was across
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the border. But yeah, I mean. And child says
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to ignore you guys. North Korea, like the United
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States, is a serious country. It's a real country.
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It's a nation that has defined borders, that
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has a government that actually just try to serve
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its people, which is more than I can say about
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ours. the rumble chat seems to agree you you're
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a commie they say you're comrade robbie that
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you you are a commie yeah that's just it's a
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statement of fact yeah ted's been saying that
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too i think you object to it based on like what
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a textbook definition of commie because you you
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like the idea of a small government whereas a
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communist government everything is owned by the
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government so you reject that idea Yeah. So I
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think that the government needs to be small,
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preferably small enough to drown in a toilet,
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but the free market doesn't work because that
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just means a small group of rich people can just
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rape the natural world and the population. So
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you got to have referees, you got to have rules.
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The government should prioritize its own people.
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Like, for example, why is it that we have hundreds
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of thousands of homeless people in this country
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when we have empty buildings? You can't help
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them, but you're able to fund the endless wars
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all over the world. It makes no sense to me.
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That's not a problem. So, I mean, if that makes
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me a communist, so be it. Because I think that
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we should take care of the home folks first.
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And that means that you close the borders. You
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have mass deportations. You bring jobs back.
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Like, no, the new... That was the original idea
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of MAGA. So... It's just like the new food poisoning
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thing is going on from jalapeno peppers and lettuce.
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Can someone explain to me why? I'm eating fresh
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grain right now. I'm so... annoyed. Well, can
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someone please explain to me, why does the United
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States import food from Mexico? We grow our own.
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Well, they import. OK, so here's the answer.
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Part of it we do need to import because there's
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foods that we can't grow here, right? Or foods
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that we can grow here. But not lettuce and jalapenos.
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Now, certainly we can grow those things here.
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And so the answer to the other question, that
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other question is there is no good answer to
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that question. We should not be importing foods
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that we can do ourselves. I mean, obviously,
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this is all just part of internationalization.
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It's meant to depress wages. That's all. You
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know why the cyclospora breakout happened? And
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this is JDC territory, but I was reading this
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weekend that it's because farmers are allowed
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To use and this is just this country who knows
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about Mexico But farmers are allowed to use out
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West where lettuce is grown is allowed to use
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treated sewer water sewage So shit water yum.
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Yeah, it's treated with likes whatever chemicals
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including chlorine When chlorine though doesn't
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address poop bacteria, which cyclospora There's
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a lot of poop bacteria in fields. We have a lot
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of poop in today's show. I think whoever pointed
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out that we talk a lot about our daily poop conversation
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is true. That's true. I think you guys are right.
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It's not untrue. I was like, wow, we do talk
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about poop a lot. Anyway, cyclospora causes you
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to have explosive poops, which I call asplosions.
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I've been trying to propagate that word since
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2008 when I went to Dubai. the Emiratis were
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not having asplosions. I like asplosions. I was
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trying, similarly, great minds, you know, do
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you remember that trend of like track suits,
14:06
like pink, that had like writing on the butt?
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Like juicy, on the booty. Like on the butt, on
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the booty, right? Juicy booty. And I was like,
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this should be called asfertizing. But again,
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it's not a go, but it should be. It never caught
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on. Asplosion never caught on. I really tried
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to take this with me internationally and back
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then I used to travel a lot as a journalist.
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So I tried every, I really, I mean that was like
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my own personal running joke. Every place I traveled
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to, I kept trying to weasel the word asplosion
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into conversation to see if like the British
14:37
people would catch on or like the Germans I was
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talking to, it would catch on. And it never caught
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on. Asplosion never caught on. It was my goal
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to get into the Merriam -Webster dictionary with
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my own word, like Bootylicious got in there and
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gave Beyonce the quote. Beyonce could get into
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the dictionary. I thought, well, why can't I?
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No reason. No reason. It's obviously discriminatory
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and racist. Obviously. Well, I've got good news.
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TMI only needs 11 unique chatters to close this
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metric for the month. Uh, pooping bot gave me
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needs some help. It needs 44. So it's only the
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10th. It's only the 10th. So yeah, a lot of,
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a lot of poop to talk about today. Let's, let's
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hop to it. We'll, we'll live with whatever color
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I am, whatever color, whatever race I am. I don't,
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I don't know. Nobody knows. It's up for discussion.
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Well, you look Asian again. So that's a plus.
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Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Okay. That's enough for me.
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That's enough. All right. With that, it'll have
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to be. It'll have to be enough because we we
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got shows got to go on. All right All right,
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so um, oh so dandelion roots You know the thing
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that like we use roundup to kill And roundup
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causes cancer. Here's this is the irony, right?
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Um, so dandelion root shows promise against cancer,
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but human trials are still needed for centuries.
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Yeah, because people people have long like vegans
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are really about dandelion salad. It's no I don't
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know about the salad. Yeah, I've had it. I've
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had it. It's actually not terrible. That's about
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the best I could say. In East Asian culture.
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I've we've drank dandelion tea for my whole life.
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I've always known about it. It's actually really
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yummy. Like if you go to the 99 Ranch Market,
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you can get bottled dandelion tea. It's really
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good. It's like their own store brand. But anyway,
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those who know, know. Anyway, for centuries,
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dandelion has been used in traditional medicine.
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They left out Chinese. traditional Chinese medicine
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for everything from digestive problems to inflammation.
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Now researchers are examining whether compounds
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in the common plant might also have anti -cancer
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properties. The early findings are promising,
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although scientists emphasize that most of the
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evidence still comes from labs and animal studies,
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namely the little squeaky mouse researchers at
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the University of Poor Mice. You know, I read
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all the details of what they were doing to the
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mice. I know they're just little, they're little
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mice. Little dudes, little dudes. And people
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have them as pets and stuff too, yeah. I know.
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They're kind of sweet, but all right. So researchers
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at the University of Windsor found that dandelion
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root extract, or DRE, Dray, triggered program.
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Like Dr. Dray. That's right. This is Dr. Dray.
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He would probably sue for that though, if you
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like came up with like a dandelion root tea and
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you called it Dr. Dray. Is he litigious? Yeah.
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He probably is. I mean, he's Dr. Dre. He's not
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a billionaire for nothing. Dre triggered programmed
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cell death known as apoptosis in certain leukemia
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cells while having substantially less effect
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on healthy blood cells. A separate study found
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similar effects against drug resistant melanoma
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cells. Researchers have also investigated Dray,
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or DRE, and colorectal cancer. In lab experiments,
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the extract activated multiple pathways involved
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in cancer cell death. When researchers implanted
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human colorectal cancer cells into mice, treatment
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with DRE significantly reduced tumor growth compared
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with untreated animals. Scientists believe dandelion's
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effects may come from its unusually diverse mixture
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of biologically active compounds, including flavonoids,
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phenolic compounds, sesquiterpine lactones, and
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triterpenoids, such as teraxisterol. Research
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suggests that these compounds may affect several
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processes. cancer cells rely on, including mitochondrial
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function, oxidative stress, inflammation, and
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cell signaling pathways such as PI3KAKT and STAT3.
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That's important because cancer cells can sometimes
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evade treatments aimed at a singular, a single
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molecular pathway. Researchers are therefore
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interested in substances capable of influencing
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several mechanisms simultaneously. There have
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been individual reports So I've read a lot of
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anecdotal reports of cancer patients experiencing
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unexpected improvements while using dandelion
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root preparations, but such cases cannot establish
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cause and effect, and they are not substitutes
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for controlled clinical trials. Well, that never
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stopped like Moderna or like Pfizer. They got
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their stuff to market. Just saying. And that
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remains the major missing piece. There is currently
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no reliable clinical evidence showing that dandelion
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root can treat or cure cancer in humans. The
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National Cancer Institute cautions that no herbal
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supplement has been proven to cure cancer and
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some supplements can interfere with conventional
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treatments. Still, the laboratory findings are
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substantial enough to justify further research.
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For a plant most people can spend considerable
20:26
effort trying to remove from their lawns, the
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humble dandelion may have considerably more biological
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complexity. than its reputation suggests. So
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like I was saying at the top, I think the irony
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is that the dandelion people tend to kill in
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the US with Roundup, right? And ironically, Roundup
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causes cancer. And ironically, dandelion, from
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the anecdotal stuff I read, Dandelions might
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help at least tame cancer cells and cause them
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to die. Maybe not all of them, but it can cause
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cell death. And by the way, I need to, the new
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camera might have completely changed my microphone
21:16
setting. Can you guys hear me okay? You sound
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great. Is it clear? Yeah, you sound fine. Because
21:23
when I click the microphone thing, it doesn't
21:25
show that this microphone is clicked. Well, that's
21:29
maybe why you sound the same as usual, because
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you're probably going through the computer. Hold
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on. Can you guys tell me? Yeah, the little green
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dots on your microphone are not moving anymore.
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Move, move, move. Is it moving now? Nope. You
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sound fine, though. Does that sound better now?
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Yeah, you sound perfect. Yeah. You sound fantastic.
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Yeah. That's not the problem. The problem is
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that you have a very flat face more so than a
22:01
normal Asian does. But you're no longer green.
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Well, that's strange because in real life I have
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a very angular face. Well, you're in 2D. How
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can that be? I don't... I don't understand this
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camera. The camera sucks. You need to return
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it and go back to the old one. Oh, God. OK, I'm
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going to I'm going to try to figure this out.
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OK. But anyway, what do you guys have to say
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about this whole poor dandelion is I think it's
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pretty ironic that for thousands of years in
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in traditional Chinese medicine or even it's
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a cultural thing. I have ever since I was a kid,
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like my family is always not every day drank
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dandelion, but Dandelion tea like iced tea is
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really good and it's been available like in Asian
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supermarkets my whole life and I remember I I
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Took it to college or something before and people
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were like, are you drinking dandelion? That's
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a weed and I was like, I don't care what it is.
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It tastes good But here it's it seems promising
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that something that you can pick from your backyard
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if you pull it out by the root like you can make
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tea out of it and If you read some of the anecdotal
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stories of people that tried it with different
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kinds of, you know, they were undergoing treatment
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for different kinds of cancer, there were like
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some miraculous results with a lot of people.
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Why aren't we hearing more about this? Oh, I
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know. Because big pharma can't regulate all the
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dandelions. Oh, you think that might be why?
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Could be. I ate many a dandelion in my time and
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used to boil dandelion. I used to make dandelion
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and acorn soup. They're a little bitter, right?
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Oh yeah, but if you're hungry enough, it doesn't
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matter. That's true about anything. They're edible.
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Oh, they're totally edible. I went to some vegan
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restaurants that serve them. They're high in
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vitamin C. I mean, seriously, I mean, they are
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definitely good if you're living, if you're outside,
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if you're ever on that show, naked and afraid
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and you see dandelions, you got to grab those.
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Yeah, you can eat it. When we were kids, we used
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to pick the flowers itself and like and like
24:25
chew on the stem part and get the water out of
24:28
it. Just because we're we're kids in the 80s
24:32
and no one told us that we shouldn't. So I used
24:35
to walk up down the road picking dandelions and
24:37
honeysuckles. And just chew on them, right? What'd
24:41
you do? Wild onions? So that's one of the perks.
24:44
If you're going to be homeless, being homeless
24:45
in the South is a great place to do it because
24:47
a lot of stuff that you need just grows right
24:49
there on the side of the road. Like fruits and
24:54
stuff? Yeah, like fruits and wild onions and
24:56
dandelions. It's just all over the place. Everyone
24:58
in the Rumble chat is saying like a lot of things
25:01
you can do with dandelion. People are saying
25:02
wine. Oh, that's true. Yes, that's true. Mr.
25:07
Leeds too much too much dandelion can be toxic.
25:10
That's true. But too much anything can be yeah
25:12
even water toxic Yeah, yeah, you can get water
25:16
toxicity that happened at Brook Shields like
25:18
a year ago. I think what yeah She like drowned
25:22
herself internally from drinking too much water
25:24
and she almost became the Blue Lagoon Oh, yes.
25:28
I thought that too when it happened because she
25:31
drank so much water trying to stay hydrated that
25:34
she messed up her her sodium balance in her body
25:37
and it made her brain, she had a brain lapse
25:40
or something. Know what you can do with dandelions.
25:43
She still could have become a member of Congress,
25:45
so it wouldn't have been all lost. But what you
25:47
do with dandelions, and this is great, so what
25:49
you do is that you get your dandelions and then
25:51
you get yourself a cattail. Those are the tops
25:54
that grow on top of the swamp cabbage. Is that
25:58
the same as a pussy willow? Is that what that
25:59
is? No. Oh, it's a different thing? A cattails
26:04
is big. It looked like weenies. Just kind of
26:06
grown up on these dogs. You have Virginia. You've
26:09
seen them. When you go by a marsh, they're like,
26:13
it's a stick with like a hot dog on top. Oh,
26:17
then what's a pussy willow? No idea. No, Pussy
26:20
Willow is like little, it's like little, it's
26:22
a bush, it's a shrub with like, you know, sort
26:25
of fuzzy flowers that are small. Oh, I didn't
26:29
know that. It's not even close to being the same
26:31
thing. Okay, sorry Robbie. Yeah, go ahead. Okay,
26:32
so you take those two and do what? Well, which
26:34
is that you wrap the data line leaf around, around
26:36
the cattail and then you can roast them and then
26:39
just eat it. You can eat that brown thing that
26:43
looks like a hot dog? Oh, a hundred percent.
26:45
In the woods? Yeah, I've eaten them. I've lived
26:46
off of them. Yeah, Boy Scouts eat them all the
26:49
time. Really? Are they fleshy? What are they
26:55
like? If they're raw, they're kind of chewy.
26:57
But if you roast them, it's better. But if you're
27:00
hungry enough, though, just eat them. You'll
27:01
get the shits. So I do recommend that you know.
27:04
I always thought they would be hard like like
27:07
a pine cone or something. I've never touched
27:09
one. No, they're not. They're bitter. So you
27:11
want to really recommend that you cook them.
27:13
Now, another thing you can do if you bake an
27:15
acorn soup, you just throw them in there and
27:17
that'll work, too. Acorns also are very bitter,
27:19
unless you boil the shit out of them. Oh, they
27:22
taste so bad. They're awful. But now here's the
27:26
thing though. That's right. American Indians
27:27
who ate a lot of them, they were, they were ornery.
27:30
Yeah. Like John Acorn on King of the Hill. But
27:34
pine cones, if you find the ones ain't open,
27:39
you can pry them open using a knife and you can
27:40
get the seeds out. Those are delicious. I've
27:45
really got to look I bet you I cuz I'm I'm of
27:48
the belief One that aliens are are underneath
27:51
the ocean way deep and to that and to that there
27:55
are those are called fish There are there are
27:59
cures for everything that ails us here on earth
28:03
that is non -pharmacological Well, not everything
28:07
I believe that we just haven't found it. That's
28:10
all I mean Look at all the shit in the Amazon
28:15
that we're just now discovering that have been
28:17
available to like native populations for thousands
28:19
of years But nobody bothers to pay attention
28:22
to what the native population say because big
28:24
pharma can't capitalize on it So I do believe
28:27
that that basically anything that ails us It
28:31
derives from nature. You can fix it with nature
28:34
if you can find the right thing and I'm sure
28:37
there's ancient texts in probably every culture
28:41
That says something about it and people just
28:44
haven't discovered those ancient scrolls or whatever
28:46
these ancient writings or people People haven't
28:49
have dismissed it never looked into it. I Bet
28:51
you there's there's some plant somewhere that
28:55
or plant concoction somewhere that people in
28:59
ancient India 4 ,000 years ago Could treat cancer
29:03
with I'm sure of it I'm sure so and it's just
29:07
it's that we are a captured society and big pharma
29:11
has purchased everything. So they tell you that
29:14
you must use their chemo. You must use their
29:17
whatever. This is the only way forward. And I
29:22
don't think all this anecdotal, not only conversations
29:27
you can find on YouTube, but things that you
29:29
can read, there's thousands upon thousands of
29:31
people all around the world that insist on non
29:36
-pharma ways that they treated their own cancer.
29:41
And they went into full remission. It's impossible
29:45
that that's false. Well, if you're cured, you're
29:47
no longer a patient. I mean, at the end of the
29:50
day, though, that is honestly where it comes
29:51
from. If you are cured, think about what I just
29:53
said. If you are cured, you are no longer a patient.
29:57
That's the issue. They make no money off of you
30:00
if you're healthy. As far as that goes, if you're
30:03
healthy, You can self -govern yourself, and if
30:06
you're able to self -govern yourself, you don't
30:08
need some oligarch in D .C. lording everything
30:10
over you because you're too sick and too stressed
30:13
out to make your own decisions. This is all my
30:16
design. JDC's like, call me crazy, but I don't
30:19
think there's a plant that will solve the problems
30:21
of severe cranial trauma. We're not talking about,
30:23
I don't mean a gunshot wound and some fucking
30:26
patch of dandelion. You did say everything. No,
30:30
ailment. Everything is a big word. ailment ailments
30:34
ailments we're talking about okay well a gunshot
30:37
wound is an ailment no that's that's trauma are
30:40
you talking about disease is that what you meant
30:42
something that's ailing your body like a headache
30:45
believe me a gunshot wound in your head ails
30:48
you so something that you that happens to your
30:53
you guys fucking know what i'm talking about
30:55
don't don't patronize me um so you guys know
30:58
what i mean you mean disease that's what you
31:00
mean Not just disease. A headache isn't a disease.
31:04
A headache is just something that happens. Yeah.
31:06
Well, that's right. So I'm sure that there's
31:09
tons. Like, for example, I'm a big user of Arnica
31:13
because I have like bad knees because of I've
31:18
just worn down the cartilage in my knees from
31:21
too much running and whatever over my lifetime.
31:25
And when the swell like I don't like taking ibuprofen
31:28
or whatever to bring that stuff down, I take
31:30
copious amounts of arnica when it starts kicking
31:33
in for a couple weeks and it kind of quells the
31:36
inflammation and it's good arnica is a plant
31:39
and it's been known it's it's been used by the
31:43
aztecs and the mexicans for thousands of years
31:46
so it's in tea i have it in tea sometimes i have
31:49
like in these little melt away pills um but arnica's
31:54
great And now doctor, like Western medicine doctors
31:57
are starting to prescribe or even give patients
32:01
after, like in your, like, like my post mastectomy
32:05
kit, the doctors gave me, there was like artica
32:09
pills in there. Just rub, just rub, just rub
32:13
dirt on the girls. It'll be fine. Just rub dirt
32:15
on it. Rub dirt? Yeah, that's great. All right.
32:19
So that's that. Let's, let's - Hey man, you grew
32:20
up similar. I mean, you know, you know what the
32:22
rule was? Have a skit and eat rubbed dirt on
32:24
it. If there's some tape over there, you'd be
32:26
fine. Some tape? Yeah. Stop the leaking. Uh -huh.
32:34
Now, my grandfather always said just throw some
32:37
salt on it and then just wrap it. That hurts.
32:43
Spicy. Yeah. Yeah, because, I mean, it cures
32:47
it, cures in the sense of not. like fixing it,
32:51
but it sanitizes it or pour vodka on something.
32:54
That's what he would do. So, you know, there
32:57
you go. All right then. California's gray wolf
33:05
population, which is recovering after years of
33:08
dropping, is creating an expensive problem for
33:11
ranchers in northern California. By the 1920s,
33:16
wolves were basically gone from California, having
33:19
been shot by ranchers, but began returning naturally
33:22
from neighboring states, meandering over the
33:25
border, moseying over the border in 2011. Today,
33:29
state wildlife officials estimate that there
33:31
are at least 50 wolves living in nine known packs.
33:36
Frankly, that's not a lot of wolves for a state
33:38
the size of California. As their numbers have
33:41
increased, so have attacks on livestock. According
33:44
to the Department of Fish and Wildlife of the
33:46
state, wolves killed or injured 198 livestock
33:50
animals last year, with Sierra, Plumas, Lassen,
33:55
and Siskiyou counties having the most attacks.
33:58
Those are rural areas. More than 400 confirmed
34:01
or probable livestock losses have been attributed
34:03
to wolves in the last 10 years. The problem appears
34:07
particularly acute during summer grazing season.
34:10
UC Davis study, that's like an ag school in the
34:14
UC system, examined wolf scat from, that's wolf
34:18
poo, from two north Two Northern California packs
34:22
of wolves found cattle DNA in 72 % of samples.
34:27
Hey, maybe they just went to Wendy's, collected
34:29
during the summers of 2022 and 2023. Preliminary
34:33
research on another pack of wolves suggests that
34:36
cattle may comprise an even larger portion of
34:40
summertime dining for wolves. Ranchers are very
34:44
frustrated because gray wolves are protected
34:47
under the Endangered Species Act of the state,
34:49
so they can't really do a lot if the wolves attack
34:53
their herds. State lawmakers are debating measures
34:57
that would expand the use of non -lethal deterrence
34:59
and clarify when people might be able to be allowed
35:04
to use force to protect themselves from wolves
35:06
or mountain lions. Meanwhile, California's dedicated
35:09
wolf livestock compensation program received
35:12
zero new funding in the state budget, increasing
35:15
concerns among ranchers already absorbing livestock
35:17
losses. The wolves, meanwhile, are just being
35:21
bitey because, you know, they be wolves. The
35:23
increasingly contentious question is whether
35:25
California's wildlife policy has kept pace with
35:29
their return. So Go ahead, Mila. So Gavin Newsom
35:38
found a way to not fund in the state budget.
35:42
Wait, how do you know that's a Gavin Newsom thing?
35:45
Well, I think from what I understand, he's a
35:49
micromanager of where all the money goes. And
35:53
if the state assembly passed it tacitly right
35:56
now because they're all in love with Gavin Newsom.
35:59
At the state assembly that the governor they've
36:03
already been in cahoots with the governor before
36:06
they even Bring a major bill to the floor. So
36:10
that means Gavin Newsom was not into funding
36:12
this thing So if you don't add more money to
36:18
that fund then that means the wolves are probably
36:23
likely to really Hump like bunnies, right and
36:29
Procreate. Is that what this fear is? I mean,
36:31
I don't know. I've only had an I had and I told
36:34
the story before I had an encounter with a pack
36:37
of wolves in 1998 up in Grass Valley and I was
36:42
staying at some cabin on a hill and I stepped
36:46
outside for a cigarette. It was it was it was
36:50
it got done. You heard a deep, gruff voice saying
36:53
no, no. Mind if I bum a smoke? I saw so I heard
36:59
rustling in the in the bushes and leaves at the
37:02
next hill, which is probably not far, maybe 30,
37:06
20, 30 yards. Right. And then I'm a city girl,
37:11
guys. So I step out, I'm having a cigarette and
37:13
I'm like, I am not alone out here. And I'm looking
37:17
around. Certainly not. And I'm like, and and
37:21
this is this is still the 90s. So there's not
37:23
cameras everywhere. There aren't lights everywhere.
37:25
Grass Valley was still. No, I thought you were
37:27
going to say the music was better. The music
37:29
was better. And so I'm up there in Humboldt County,
37:33
right? So I'm like smoking a cigarette, hear
37:35
more wrestling, more. And then I look and I see
37:40
a pair of bright yellow reflective eyes. And
37:43
then I see more eyes and then more eyes. And
37:46
I was like, we don't have wolves anymore in this
37:50
state, do we? I was like, could that be wolves?
37:53
And I'm just like... It's not registering in
37:56
my brain because they were endangered. And this
38:00
is the late 90s and I'm going like, do I have
38:03
time to finish this? I mean, my brain's thinking
38:05
all of these things. Like, can I finish my cigarette?
38:07
Do I have time? How fast can they run to this
38:09
hill? Can I get in the house faster than they
38:12
can get here? And when I started seeing them
38:15
move one by one, that's when I was like, oh shit,
38:18
cigarette out, inside. Like they were. those
38:22
were wolves like they were so when they approached
38:25
close enough to like where the the floodlights
38:27
of the property came on I went oh my god these
38:31
are like giant dogs like gigantic yeah they're
38:35
they're huge they're huge and they're bigger
38:37
than coyotes oh yeah oh for sure I think coyotes
38:41
are everywhere in southern California but this
38:43
is NorCal and this is the 90s so it wasn't as
38:47
developed as it is today up in Humboldt and and
38:51
right everyone like in the 90s were like hey
38:53
man you know like everyone's kind of a stoner
38:55
we're about to start college and and we're on
39:00
this trip and i don't think any of us could really
39:02
process i was like there's wolves outside does
39:06
not compute but anyway that must have marked
39:10
the comeback of when they started not being as
39:14
endangered and the state as usual um and i don't
39:18
mean just the state of california You know, like
39:21
Dianne Feinstein was on the technology committee
39:24
or whatever she was in the Senate, right? State
39:27
laws. Was she still alive at that point? Barely,
39:31
Ted. She had a pulse, if that's what you mean.
39:35
But laws always lag behind the reality on the
39:39
ground. Oh, yeah. No, that's seriously a big
39:44
problem. Yeah. That's my point is like, so now
39:47
if these gray wolves are no longer truly endangered,
39:51
which it sounds like... I mean, come on, what
39:53
are you talking about? There's 50 of them. Of
39:56
course, they're endangered. No, not just 50.
39:59
They're saying this is what's accounted for and
40:01
several packs. Well, yeah, they say that they
40:04
only know about 50. All right, let's just say
40:06
there's 100. Let's say they're 200. That's endangered.
40:11
Here in Montana, there's bumper stickers all
40:13
over the place that shows a picture of a wolf
40:16
with the no sign through it, the Ghostbusters.
40:18
They want to kill them all. It says, smoke a
40:20
pack a day. Kill them all. Well, it makes sense
40:24
that people would hate them, right? Well, I mean,
40:27
they're really second only to, well, to NAFTA
40:31
and immigration when it comes to economic hardship
40:34
on the ranchers here. A cow costs more than a
40:40
car. Yeah, yeah, that's and that's why these
40:42
these ranchers in California are pissed off because
40:45
the governor is not Doing anything to help them.
40:50
So That's their income. I Don't know what what
40:55
California I don't know. I don't know. I don't
40:57
know what to say about my great motherland beautiful
41:00
state it's just been run to the ground and That's
41:05
gonna be our next president. Yay No, no, no.
41:11
I just want to say, look, honestly, this is a
41:15
simple, it's a really simple issue. A, wolves
41:20
should be reintroduced. They're an important
41:22
apex predator in the ecosystem. They are, you
41:27
know, they prevent a lot of accidents. For example,
41:31
a lot of Americans are killed in California every
41:34
year by hitting deer. And the deer population
41:37
is completely out of control in a lot of places
41:39
because there's no predators to eat them anymore.
41:43
So wolves solve that problem. We got to live
41:47
side by side with these predators. It's okay.
41:51
I'm sympathetic to the plight of the ranchers.
41:55
With so few wolves at this point, I can't imagine
41:59
that it's a huge bite in California's state budget
42:02
to compensate them when they lose a head of cattle.
42:06
I mean, just literally all they should have to
42:08
do is take a picture of it, file an easy report
42:12
online, and get compensated by the state. And
42:15
I mean, look, if we get to the point where there's
42:17
tens of thousands of wolves running around, and
42:19
it's like there's no more steak in the grocery
42:24
stores. Okay, like that's a problem. But we're
42:27
not there. I mean, you've got like, you're literally
42:30
measuring your wolves in double digits. You can
42:33
live most of your life in the state of California,
42:36
even in a rural area and never see one. We just
42:39
put them on the border. I mean, that solved two
42:41
different problems. True. That's true. I mean,
42:44
I'm serious. It would be entertaining too. It
42:46
would be. I have alligators in the river. The
42:50
wolves patrolling the banks. I mean, it solves
42:53
it. Can you train them is the question. They
42:55
are back animals. Back animals are generally
42:58
trained animals. Listen, I would trust a wolf
43:01
more than I would an ice agent. and that's coming
43:02
from me. So if I had one or the other, I'd rather
43:05
have the wolf. Probably fair. Look, I... Well,
43:08
the wolf is more motivated. I offered a more
43:13
less lethal, less lethal idea for the border.
43:17
I said that we should just like at all, like
43:20
across much of the border, like build, like build
43:23
the wall. But in parts that we don't have the
43:26
wall up, we can do like... an American gladiators
43:30
type course, and if they can get through it,
43:34
that means they be strong, Ted. True. They deserve
43:38
to be here. If they can get through the gauntlet
43:41
of American gladiator style stuff, otherwise
43:44
they get sent packing. But if they can get through
43:47
with like the the the gladiator ice, like shooting
43:52
you like tennis ball guns, right? You get tagged
43:56
out. You could hit them harder with, I don't
43:58
know, help them with a softball gun. That would
44:00
fucking hurt. But if you can get through that.
44:05
We've got to gamify everything. It's the American
44:09
way. You can put it on TV and be like American
44:13
border gladiators. I'm staying. What a great
44:18
idea. They're not going to die. At least I'm
44:20
not killing them like Robbie's idea with fucking
44:22
gators and wolves. No, listen, only a couple
44:25
of them will die. The rest of them will get the
44:26
message. It's kind of like Yellowstone, right?
44:28
So you have people go up and they try to pet
44:30
the buffalo. It happens here in Montana and in
44:33
Wyoming, just all over the place. So you go up
44:35
if you pet a buffalo. If you pet a buffalo, you
44:37
get deported to the country of your choice, never
44:40
to return because you're too stupid to be here.
44:44
Migrants on the flip side, they'll be smart enough
44:46
to realize we cannot come across here because
44:49
the American landscape, much like Montana, will
44:53
kill you. Just stay where you are. I know. We
44:57
saw the bison gore, that tourist man taking pictures.
45:01
Montana killed a guy two weeks ago. He was driving,
45:03
he was on the going to the sun road, going up
45:06
to Logan pass and a rock fell, I think it was
45:11
in this lottery. Talk about gamify. A rock fell
45:15
off the mountain, went through the roof of his
45:17
car, smashed him in the head right there on the
45:19
road. So you have hundreds of thousands of people
45:22
every year. And then this one dude, this one
45:25
tourist. That was his time. That's all. That
45:28
was just God smiting him. That's an act of God.
45:32
You're done. At least a wolf is less random.
45:35
If you don't come across the border, you'll be
45:37
fine. Yeah, the boulder is not Montana trying
45:42
to kill the dude. That's an act of God. So Manila,
45:44
how did you escape the wolf? How come the wolf
45:46
did not eat you? Because I was just on the porch
45:49
having a cigarette. I just went inside. Just
45:53
like, oh, that's a cute little girl. It wasn't
45:55
so far. Yeah, it was, I would say, 30 yards,
46:00
including like a dip down to the next hill. But
46:03
when I saw the eyes start moving, I was like,
46:06
well, there goes my cigarette. Put it out and
46:07
went inside. Yeah, I've encountered a wolf in
46:11
Central Asia, and I was staying in the... Were
46:14
those man wolves? I was staying, a white wolf?
46:17
A Stan Wolf in one of the Stans? It was a Stan
46:19
Wolf, yeah. This was a Kyrgyz Wolf. Actually,
46:23
there were four. And I went out of the yurt in
46:26
the middle of the night in the mountains to go
46:28
pee. The headman had warned me not to do this,
46:31
but I was like, I had to pee. And I later realized
46:35
that the wisdom of the headman is not to be ignored
46:37
in the future. And so anyway, I went out there,
46:41
I'm peeing, and I, like you, I had this sense
46:43
that something was watching me and I saw these
46:46
very terrifying eyes and and then I really do
46:51
glow don't they they glow in the moonlight and
46:53
it was like and they were sort of like yes yes
46:57
I heard this very low rumble like rumble yeah
47:01
yeah not even a growl it was a rumble and then
47:04
you look around and you see them all and they're
47:06
and they're really like focused and still yes
47:10
I was gonna like good doggy good doggy and i
47:13
was like i went inside and that was it and i
47:17
told the headman the next day and he's like you
47:19
fucking idiot you never go out in kirkistan in
47:22
the mountains in the middle of the night because
47:24
they're tigers too so caspian tigers okay elks
47:31
elks and moose are mean as hell too they're another
47:34
critter i would put on the border because they
47:36
will charge you yeah they're very territorial
47:40
They're mean. They're mean. People are like,
47:42
oh, they're so cute. They're so pretty. They're
47:45
not cute. They're big and ginormous and terrifying.
47:48
They will kill you. Moose look like something
47:50
you'd see out of Star Wars. Yeah, that's true.
47:54
All right. Next story. All right, let's do it.
47:59
Alright, so some people seem to go through flu
48:03
season I'm telling you guys this because we're
48:04
about to start school and enter the fall, right?
48:06
Some people go through flu season year after
48:09
year without ever getting influenza me. I'm one
48:12
of those people Scientists may now have a biological
48:15
explanation. Yeah, you guys are you guys are
48:18
assholes who don't pay who? Get off get off the
48:21
hook for no reason researchers researchers studying
48:25
19 healthcare workers a whopping 19 people repeatedly
48:30
exposed to sick patients who reported never having
48:33
flu -like symptoms and had never received a flu
48:35
vaccine, me included, I've never had a flu vaccine,
48:38
at least that I know of in my adult life, found
48:41
unusually high levels of a protein called dermocidin
48:45
in their saliva and nasal passages. Dermocidin
48:49
was already known as part of the body's innate
48:52
immune system. It's normally found in sweat where
48:55
it helps protect the skin against bacteria and
48:58
fungi. But the new research suggests it also
49:02
has a previous underappreciated antiviral role.
49:06
The key finding was where dermocidin appears
49:08
to act. Before influenza enters human cells,
49:13
instead of waiting for infection to spread and
49:16
then relying on antibodies and other immune responses,
49:19
high levels of the protein in the nose and mouth
49:22
may help neutralize the virus at its point of
49:25
entry. Oh, so this is like Robbie's like border
49:29
thing. Yes, exactly. Dermacidin is... They're
49:34
like little wolves. Yeah. They are small cute
49:38
wolves. Researchers found that dermocidin blocked
49:42
multiple influenza strains, including one resistant
49:46
to existing antiviral drugs. It also showed activity
49:49
against measles virus and one virus associated
49:53
with the common cold. Scientists still do not
49:55
know why some people naturally have much higher
49:58
dermocidin levels than others, and the study
50:01
is quite small. So the findings do not prove
50:03
that dermocidin explains every case of apparent
50:05
flu resistance, but the potential applications
50:08
are significant. Second, researchers are investigating
50:11
whether dermicidin levels could help identify
50:13
people more vulnerable to severe influenza. They
50:17
are also exploring whether the protein itself
50:19
could eventually be developed into, of course,
50:22
can you develop this into a preventive antiviral
50:25
treatment? Oh, how do now how how can we sell
50:29
this potentially delivered through a nasal spray
50:32
or even eye drops? Maybe a mouthwash a gargle
50:34
right like derma side and gargle for now The
50:38
science is preliminary but it suggests that some
50:40
people's remarkable resistance to influenza may
50:43
be rooted not in luck But in a powerful molecular
50:46
defense already built into the body. So I'm one
50:49
of these annoying people Ted So 2024 outside
50:52
of that being like the one odd year Where obviously
50:55
everything hit me right with like the the breast
50:59
cancer the pleurisy the pneumonia like everything
51:02
Yeah, everything like not not 24, but like in
51:09
2020 end of 2021 But that was it and I think
51:14
I think I'm not sure I didn't get tested for
51:16
it I think I might have had the flu once in my
51:19
life, which was January 2008 Right before I moved
51:24
to right before I moved to Dubai and I think
51:29
I'm not I I never tested so I don't know but
51:33
I'm one of those annoying people that you like
51:35
I never if I start getting a little a little
51:38
horsiness in my throat like within a day or two
51:41
It's gone and like a little sniffle day or two.
51:44
It's gone. It never develops into like a full
51:47
-blown anything I like never miss work. I never
51:50
like I just never get sick. I never ever get
51:54
the flu. And I, you know, that can change. Obviously,
51:57
I'm just saying historically, for 40 some odd
51:59
years, I've never, I'm not something that gets
52:02
sick. So your theory is that you're one of these
52:03
people. I might be one of these, like now I'm
52:06
like, oh, do I have high dermocidin? Like, how
52:09
do I test this? Well, there must be a way. I
52:12
don't know what these, can I call up the researchers
52:14
and be like, hey, yo, swab my nostrils, swab
52:17
my cheek. I want to know if I'm one of these
52:19
people. Maybe, yeah. Or maybe you can just blow
52:22
into a snot rag and nail it to them. But one
52:26
thing I will say is - I think they're going to
52:27
be very appreciative. One thing I will say that
52:30
I don't know if this is true for these other
52:34
people that are high -dermacidin, but my nose
52:38
is always a little runny, and I've been to a
52:41
hundred different allergy specialists or whatever.
52:45
I don't even have allergies. That's not the issue.
52:47
It's like a constant drip, drip, drip. Throughout
52:51
the day and I had one doctor tell me the theory
52:54
was that my body is constantly flushing and That
52:58
might be why I never get sick, but that was a
53:01
theory and there was no and this was like the
53:02
early 2000s and he said It could be that your
53:06
your nose is constantly flushing out, you know
53:09
allergens and bad stuff And maybe this is what
53:12
these people are experiencing the nose nose But
53:16
derma side in something you John Doe says, I
53:20
call it body yogurt. Gross. What is what are
53:25
we talking about? Dermacidin? And oh, anti antiviral
53:31
in your sweat. That's disgusting. All right.
53:35
So there you go. OK, then. Last week, the startup
53:44
Throne Science raised 10 million bucks from investors
53:48
betting that the toilet will become the next
53:50
frontier of health tracking. The company, co
53:53
-founded by a WHOOP co -founder who has ulcerative
53:59
Kaleidos has a downward -facing camera, not to
54:02
be confused with downward -facing dog, that clips
54:05
onto the bowl, analyzes stool consistency and
54:09
urine color, and compiles the data into a shit
54:12
app. Users then can then get advice on improving
54:17
their results from an AI gut health coach. Scott
54:20
Hankle, Throne's CEO, I will give props to the
54:25
name of the app, it's great. Shared his own dashboard,
54:28
pointing to a stretch in early January when his
54:31
bowel habits became more erratic around the same
54:33
time he returned to work after Christmas to prepare
54:36
for the company's launch. Our whole thing is
54:39
let's establish your baseline and notice any
54:41
significant deviations, he said. Throne is just
54:44
one of many companies entering this space. In
54:48
the last 18 months, Toilet Tech has shifted from
54:50
heated seats and bidets into passive health monitoring.
54:55
Toto, the toilet seat company, launched stool
54:58
scan in Japan. Not the band. Not the bathroom.
55:02
Right, right, right, right, yeah. Vivu's smart
55:05
toilet uses light waves to analyze your pee for
55:08
hydration levels. And Kohler's Dakota, a clip
55:12
-on camera, screens your poo for blood. The idea
55:16
has appealed to gastroenterologists. Patients
55:18
are notoriously bad at remembering their bowel
55:21
movements. An objective record could help doctors
55:24
diagnose and treat your digestive disorders.
55:27
But the hype is a little bit beyond science at
55:29
this moment, as Kyle Stoller, a gastro at Mass
55:32
General and Harvard Medical School. While stool
55:35
consistency and bowel frequency can be useful,
55:38
they're not perfect proxies for overall gut health.
55:41
Stress, sleep, medications, travel, hormones,
55:44
infections, and diet, of course, can all influence
55:47
what happens in your tuchus. Even if AI can record
55:51
what's happening in the bull, interpreting the
55:54
cause is a little more challenging. So AI is
55:58
moving into our toilets and our buttholes is
56:01
what you're saying. They're moving into our buttholes
56:05
Yes, they are is there any part of life that
56:11
AI is not gonna be intruding no into nothing
56:15
into our toilets to like I Just thought our toilets
56:24
were like the the one the one special solemn
56:28
place, right? It ain't church, it's the toilet.
56:32
And I like, especially like, what about like
56:35
when you're, what about when you have to go and
56:37
you're like in a public place and like, we're
56:39
going to need a mobile app for that. Like probably
56:41
like take a picture or something. But then you
56:43
have those assholes that go talk on the phone
56:45
when they're, they go into the public toilets
56:48
and like they're next to you on the phone. I
56:50
hate that. I've seen people on FaceTime doing
56:52
that. So anyway, how, I just don't, I don't know.
56:58
Are you guys okay with this? Would you do it,
57:00
Ted? Would you get one of these drone cameras?
57:04
No, I'm a big believer that like your poo is
57:08
a major indicator of your health. And I think
57:12
that like, it could, I mean, would I, will I
57:16
get one? No, but like if one were offered to
57:18
me for free - If they sent you one? If they sent
57:20
you one and was like, Ted, can you review this?
57:22
Yeah, yeah, I would do it. Because I believe
57:25
in it. I think you can tell. I mean, when I have
57:27
like what looks like a good poo to me, I'm always
57:30
like, yeah. But if things are schmiery and like,
57:34
you know, like all over the place or like, God
57:37
help you if things get like, you know, really
57:40
loose. I don't really suffer from constipation
57:44
like ever. I go the other direction more likely.
57:49
And but I mean, when things just come out like
57:52
Lincoln Lug, Nice and brown and solid. I'm always
57:56
like, yeah, that's right. No, I don't know I
57:59
think I'm I think I could be wrong that could
58:01
not be necessary I could be in bad shape, but
58:04
also I recently had my first and only Colonoscopy
58:10
and the doctors had I've had like five well that
58:14
I don't have it any You know colorectal cancer
58:17
in my family history at all. So anyway Yeah,
58:21
I had it done like, I guess it was about two
58:23
years ago. And by the way, like a really like
58:28
janky like, you know, Chinatown second floor
58:31
over the over the wet market kind of place. But
58:37
it was anyway, it was it was the doctor was great
58:40
anyway. And he said that I had the the he said
58:43
that I had the rectum and the bowels of a of
58:48
a much younger man. He said like, oh man, he's
58:50
like, he's like looking good. And I'm like, well,
58:53
it's not from clean living, but okay. Mean, a
58:58
lot of fast food, a lot of meat, you know. JDC
59:02
says, let's just cut out the middle man and let
59:04
robots fuck us in the ass. Tara Prettowild says,
59:09
Peter Thiel and Alex Karp are hungry for this
59:11
info. What do, it's to sell us stuff. That's
59:16
the only reason. Well, that's true. The only
59:18
reason and then but look here's what scares me
59:21
about why the throne Should be the one sacred
59:26
place is because look we are moving more and
59:29
more into this overly connected device World
59:33
right your fucking refrigerator talks to your
59:35
washing machine talks to your stove Whatever
59:37
and then it's sending it's sending Bluetooth
59:40
shit all over all over a web of Bluetooth that
59:42
you're swimming through all day and then Then
59:47
when you go sit on the John and you make a deposit
59:51
like rather than because people are dumb and
59:54
are they're like, yeah Just look at your damn
59:57
poop because so these once once this becomes
1:00:01
a norm where Toilets are scanning your poop for
1:00:06
you and storing it in the cloud somewhere or
1:00:08
whatever This is gonna go to insurance companies.
1:00:12
Well, that's true this and then one day they're
1:00:15
gonna say Ted, you're going to be denied coverage
1:00:18
because your poop had blood in it the other day.
1:00:22
You might have colorectal cancer. This is true.
1:00:25
This is all Big Brother shit, literally. And
1:00:28
I think the less information they have about
1:00:31
you, the better. This is like we have the flock
1:00:34
cameras going on. Now we're going to have butthole
1:00:37
cameras going on. Look, this is if we had socialized
1:00:39
medicine, right? I mean, just think about like
1:00:41
If you had a proper medical system, this kind
1:00:44
of thing should be distributed to all Americans
1:00:46
for free, gratis. This information could all
1:00:49
be collected en masse by a national health care
1:00:53
office that would not only be able to help individuals
1:00:59
with like, hey, we have an indication that you
1:01:01
might have a bowel problem, go see a gastro.
1:01:03
But on top of that, we'd be able to to monitor
1:01:06
potential outbreaks. I mean, one of the ways
1:01:08
right now that we can during COVID that we learned
1:01:11
that we know where things are originating and
1:01:14
where outbreaks are originating is they monitor
1:01:17
the sewage, right? To see like how much people
1:01:21
are pooing out their diseases. But that's in
1:01:23
the community. Right. But my point is, let's
1:01:26
say you had like everybody's poo being monitored
1:01:29
in real time for free. by the government, we
1:01:33
would be able to have a much more detailed way
1:01:38
to analyze public health in the United States.
1:01:42
The problem here is the profit motive. And the
1:01:44
profit motive is what makes, it's what corrupts
1:01:48
everything. But health shouldn't be based on
1:01:50
profit. It should be based, but it shouldn't
1:01:54
be. But yes, it is what it could have showed
1:01:56
us it currently is and that's why no question
1:01:59
against I would be it'd be one thing if I like
1:02:02
Reviewed it or something, but it I would not
1:02:05
support This becoming the norm is because before
1:02:08
you know it big insurance is gonna Deny you coverage
1:02:14
and they're gonna know things about you before
1:02:16
you know before you even Step up to apply and
1:02:19
then they all talk to each other when they go
1:02:21
to these conferences like where the you know,
1:02:24
Brian, Tom Thomas, whatever, what was his name?
1:02:28
The guy Luigi, Brian Thompson, Brian Thompson,
1:02:32
where, where he was killed. It was a, it was
1:02:34
a big shareholders meeting and they all talk
1:02:36
and they all talked about, you know, about how
1:02:38
to improve profits. And this will be one of those
1:02:41
things that, you know, I could see 20 years from
1:02:42
now where they're, they're like, I know how we
1:02:44
improve profits. We force, we force everybody
1:02:47
to use these butthole cameras on their toilet
1:02:50
because gut health is your health. And if you're
1:02:55
eating like shit, the shit will be shittier.
1:02:58
And that's how we're going to deny coverage.
1:03:01
Like, oh, I can see that you ate corn that day
1:03:04
and Doritos like that's what I'm saying. And
1:03:09
it goes and alerts your Brian Thompson guy. And
1:03:11
they're like, oh, you're you're eating, you know,
1:03:14
too much Mexican food. This is bad for your ulcerative
1:03:17
colitis. We're not going to cover that. You've
1:03:20
been told not to eat that. That's that's where
1:03:23
we're headed and and I don't I'm not down with
1:03:25
that. Thanks to Alex Q for the $10 donation,
1:03:28
by the way. Oh Thank you. And PW Walker. Thank
1:03:32
you for yours Alec is dancing banana. So I think
1:03:36
Alec is enjoying like where this is going. So
1:03:39
I'm gonna say like poo poo to the potty Cameras
1:03:44
like no what you did there. Okay. Yes and PW
1:03:48
Walker says that wasn't my poo not like dookies
1:03:50
have been licensed plates to identify whose ass
1:03:53
it came from This I mean if you're buying your
1:03:56
own personal ass cam in your toilet Then they
1:04:00
will most definitely if they assign it to you
1:04:02
I can imagine a future where yeah United house
1:04:05
or whoever or whatever carrier you have where
1:04:08
they assign it to you and that is your dedicated
1:04:11
ass cam That's true, and I'm not down with that
1:04:16
All for the analog. Let's go back to like 1992.
1:04:20
I think that was a good year. Do you think there's
1:04:22
going to be anal recognition software? Probably.
1:04:25
They were like, hey, you didn't have that anal
1:04:27
fissure three days ago, Ted. Yeah, what's going
1:04:31
on? What's with the fistula? Right, right. So
1:04:37
this is where we're headed. And I think your
1:04:39
toilet should be the last secret place. And you
1:04:43
should just look yourself. and have a poo log.
1:04:47
Old -fashioned way. Ha ha! Pun! Accidental. I
1:04:50
saw the pun. Accidental pun. Good pun. All right.
1:04:53
That does it for us. This is Monday. And yes,
1:04:56
we do do a lot of poop stories, but your gut
1:05:00
is very important. And your privacy to having
1:05:03
your gut be how you want. Truth. Oh, do we have
1:05:07
an ad we have to do? No? No, no. Nobody is offering
1:05:11
to give us a commercial after talking about poop
1:05:13
for 10 minutes. Shocking. Why? Well, I think
1:05:17
probably what this is, this is something that
1:05:19
the three of us should probably tune in for.
1:05:22
Rumble's earning call is going to be after the
1:05:24
stock market closes today. And so the changes
1:05:27
to the creator program might be a good idea to
1:05:30
tune in and listen to what Chris Pavlovsky has
1:05:33
got to say. Oh, interesting. He's just going
1:05:35
to tell us how he's fucking us over, right? I
1:05:38
mean, What's the point? Well, because one of
1:05:41
the things that we know they're going to be doing
1:05:42
is they're going to start trying to monetize
1:05:43
live streams by using them to train Rumble's
1:05:47
AI system that they're building called Quake
1:05:48
AI. Quake. Yeah. All right. Interesting. All
1:05:53
right. Well, we'll see what happens. That does
1:05:56
it for us on Monday. Yes, we will. Adios, amigos.
1:05:59
We'll see you tomorrow. Thank you so much. Ciao.