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- 0:00Speaker 1: Your listen sings Can't Fly AM six forty the Bill
- 0:03Speaker 1: Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Okay, a story about Disneyland.
- 0:08Speaker 1: Yes, this is for Neil and this is for Amy,
- 0:13Speaker 1: and it's for me because I went on Monday and
- 0:17Speaker 1: actually had a great time.
- 0:19Speaker 2: All Right.
- 0:19Speaker 1: So Disneyland visitors who don't want to provide a face
- 0:23Speaker 1: print to access Main Street a little bit nervous about
- 0:28Speaker 1: entrusting Disney to keep their biometric data safe from cyber criminals,
- 0:33Speaker 1: well they can opt out of these security measures used
- 0:38Speaker 1: by Disneyland. They rolled out facial recognition software combined with
- 0:43Speaker 1: biometric technology this week at the front entrances of both.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Parks, following limited tests in recent months.
- 0:51Speaker 1: And I'm going to tell you about unintended consequences here
- 0:54Speaker 1: because that always happens, and that is, you can say
- 0:58Speaker 1: no to biometric recognition, got it, biometric technology? And so
- 1:05Speaker 1: you go into the park and they have a separate
- 1:08Speaker 1: lane for people who are opting out, and Amy, I'm
- 1:12Speaker 1: assuming there'll be plenty of people who are not thrilled
- 1:17Speaker 1: with their biometric information being used. Photos are taken to
- 1:21Speaker 1: compare with, for example, annual passes et cetera.
- 1:27Speaker 3: They've bets forever. When you walk into the park, they
- 1:30Speaker 3: take your picture, so it's connected to your ticket.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Now, this is biometric information, and they save.
- 1:38Speaker 3: It because at TSA they say we don't save it.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Though yeah, well Disney also says they're not saving it.
- 1:46Speaker 1: But here's the unintended consequence, and that is you have
- 1:50Speaker 1: lines going into the park and they can be very long,
- 1:56Speaker 1: and here's the lane for opting out. If the lane
- 2:01Speaker 1: for opting out, If the line for opting out is
- 2:03Speaker 1: way shorter, people who normally have no problem with biometric information,
- 2:09Speaker 1: I don't they're going to go into the line to
- 2:12Speaker 1: opt out. Why because it's shorter. It's the lightning lane
- 2:16Speaker 1: of biometric information. And Disney is saying, you don't like it,
- 2:22Speaker 1: will bail out. So it does give people choices. The
- 2:26Speaker 1: other possibility, and this is something that is not being
- 2:31Speaker 1: particularly advertised, is I don't know if you know that
- 2:35Speaker 1: your skin has variations in it where biometrically it's like
- 2:41Speaker 1: retinal it's like retinal or fingerprints where it's unique to everybody.
- 2:49Speaker 1: So there is a way of biometrically accessing and looking
- 2:56Speaker 1: at and comparing your skin patterns, which means is one
- 3:00Speaker 1: section where you can simply moon the camera and that works.
- 3:07Speaker 1: Amy you're looking at it like somehow you don't believe it.
- 3:12Speaker 3: Oh no, I believe everything that you say, Bill.
- 3:14Speaker 1: Okay, excellent, But it's something where people are genuinely frightened
- 3:20Speaker 1: of keeping biometric information.
- 3:23Speaker 3: I think they get our biometric information everywhere. They're just
- 3:26Speaker 3: they're introducing it in Europe now at the airports every Yeah.
- 3:31Speaker 1: No, it is, and which means that technology is going
- 3:34Speaker 1: to know more and more about you. And the fear
- 3:36Speaker 1: is not the corporations who go ahead and use biometric
- 3:41Speaker 1: or take photos or collect biometric information. It's the hackers.
- 3:47Speaker 1: It's the bad guys who can get involved. I mean, Disney,
- 3:50Speaker 1: of course would be super careful. After thirty days it's gone,
- 3:54Speaker 1: I believe that certainly, But what if hackers get involved
- 3:58Speaker 1: in the first thirty days in that information. The more
- 4:02Speaker 1: the bad guys have about your information, the easier it
- 4:06Speaker 1: is to hack into your life to where there is
- 4:10Speaker 1: no privacy whatsoever.
- 4:11Speaker 2: I believe we're already there.
- 4:13Speaker 1: People who talk about privacy, You guys are dreaming if
- 4:16Speaker 1: there's privacy in this world that doesn't exist. I like
- 4:19Speaker 1: the moon idea, the mooning idea, because on the one hand, it's,
- 4:25Speaker 1: you know, a little bit personal to people. On the
- 4:28Speaker 1: other hand, maybe it's a little embarrassing to pull down
- 4:31Speaker 1: your pants and moon the camera.
- 4:34Speaker 2: Boy. I should be involved in security, shouldn't I? You
- 4:39Speaker 2: bet you? Okay.
- 4:43Speaker 1: I want to switch gears a little bit today, and
- 4:48Speaker 1: instead of talking what I was going to talk about,
- 4:50Speaker 1: I want to deal with homeowners and facing something called
- 4:55Speaker 1: zone zero changes due to fires, because I think that's
- 5:01Speaker 1: a little closer to home than what's happening in England
- 5:04Speaker 1: or New Zealand. So we're a year after the wildfires
- 5:10Speaker 1: in southern California, and what California is looking to do
- 5:14Speaker 1: is implement rules that would require residents statewide to make
- 5:18Speaker 1: some modifications outside their home. Now, if you listen to
- 5:22Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, he gives some good advice about dealing with
- 5:27Speaker 1: homes and dealing with fires, regarding vents and embers, etc.
- 5:32Speaker 1: And they're already laws on the books dealing with the
- 5:36Speaker 1: kind of combustible materials you can have.
- 5:39Speaker 2: Well, this one goes a little further.
- 5:43Speaker 1: This zone zero new proposed rules refers to the first
- 5:47Speaker 1: five feet around your home or structure and in specific
- 5:54Speaker 1: areas across the state. Homeowners would be required to remove
- 5:59Speaker 1: combust materials outside the home bark, mulch, wood, chips follows
- 6:04Speaker 1: some maintenance requirements over plants and trees in this immediate area.
- 6:09Speaker 2: Now, previous drafts called.
- 6:11Speaker 1: For stricter requirements what would be permitted outside your home,
- 6:15Speaker 1: but not to this extent. A version earlier this year
- 6:20Speaker 1: didn't allow grass and ornamental or native plants within this
- 6:24Speaker 1: zone zero and were considered landscaping materials likely to be
- 6:29Speaker 1: ignited by embers. And that is the problem. There's nothing
- 6:35Speaker 1: you can do. If a roaring fire comes into your area.
- 6:38Speaker 1: The house is going to burn, come hell or high water.
- 6:40Speaker 1: But a lot of homes, a lot of structures burned
- 6:43Speaker 1: down because of embers. Embers can fly half a mile
- 6:46Speaker 1: or a mile away from a fire, and if your
- 6:49Speaker 1: home gets in the way of that, especially in the attic.
- 6:53Speaker 1: This is where Dean talks about embers coming in because
- 6:57Speaker 1: the attic is all wood, there's no stucco up there,
- 7:01Speaker 1: it ignites very easily. And so this science based approach
- 7:07Speaker 1: is being developed simply to meaningful reduce the risk. Okay,
- 7:13Speaker 1: now there's already zone one and two and that's for
- 7:18Speaker 1: larger stretches of the area surrounding the home, and these
- 7:22Speaker 1: zones one and two are considered defensible spaces. Fuels are
- 7:27Speaker 1: removed reduced to provide a buffer between your structure, your home,
- 7:33Speaker 1: and the surrounding area, and that's considered vital for protecting
- 7:36Speaker 1: homes and communities from the wildfire. And according to the
- 7:42Speaker 1: experts and the law, adequate defensible SpaceX as a barrier
- 7:47Speaker 1: to slower halt the.
- 7:48Speaker 2: Progress of a fire.
- 7:50Speaker 1: Now, again, if you have a major fire coming through,
- 7:54Speaker 1: you're done. There's nothing you can do about it except
- 7:58Speaker 1: get the hell out. But as I said, the number
- 8:02Speaker 1: of fires caused by embers is high enough to where
- 8:06Speaker 1: if you do something about it, you know it's going
- 8:08Speaker 1: to help. And when I bought my house, one of
- 8:12Speaker 1: the first things I did is put lovers in my
- 8:17Speaker 1: attic space in the roof, especially to fight embers from
- 8:22Speaker 1: going in, or just keep embers from going in. So
- 8:24Speaker 1: now instead of zone one and two, we go into
- 8:27Speaker 1: zone zero, which goes to a further extent because of
- 8:34Speaker 1: the embers blowing around. It's just accepting the fact that
- 8:38Speaker 1: fires under the ember theory are easily defended against. So
- 8:49Speaker 1: under zone zero, we would have to make changes for
- 8:52Speaker 1: things like fences and sheds. If you have a wooden
- 8:56Speaker 1: gate attached to your home, which heretofore you could have
- 8:58Speaker 1: because that's not it are brush or trees, you may
- 9:03Speaker 1: have to replace it with a non combustible metal gate
- 9:06Speaker 1: or with a reson gate fiberglass gate, which are actually
- 9:11Speaker 1: pretty good. Those fences, they look great and their fire,
- 9:16Speaker 1: if not proof, certainly fire retardant. I guess they don't
- 9:19Speaker 1: burn no matter what, and they don't get old and
- 9:23Speaker 1: de cruptbit and crappy at all. So when does zone
- 9:26Speaker 1: zero go into effect. Well, new construction is going to
- 9:32Speaker 1: be required to comply with this regulation upon its adoption,
- 9:38Speaker 1: but existing homes and structures, all of that will be
- 9:42Speaker 1: phased in over several years, giving people a chance to
- 9:46Speaker 1: deal with it. And that's happened a few times where
- 9:50Speaker 1: there was plenty of time to deal with it. For example,
- 9:54Speaker 1: when businesses in the city of la had to switch
- 9:58Speaker 1: over with elevator panels. I don't know if you remember that,
- 10:02Speaker 1: but elevator panels in many cases were too high for
- 10:05Speaker 1: people in wheelchairs, and therefore the law said you have
- 10:11Speaker 1: to bring down the panel. So people in wheelchair have
- 10:16Speaker 1: access to it hideously expensive, took years, and the businesses
- 10:21Speaker 1: were given years to do this. I always thought there
- 10:24Speaker 1: was an easy answer, which is much cheaper, and that
- 10:28Speaker 1: is putting in a stick with a chain attached to
- 10:30Speaker 1: the wall, so someone in a wheelchair can just pick
- 10:33Speaker 1: up the stick and press the button. But no one
- 10:36Speaker 1: listens to me. The same thing happened with roofs. Shake roofs.
- 10:42Speaker 1: Wooden roofs are illegal and there you don't find them. Well,
- 10:48Speaker 1: it took thirty years because a roof has a thirty
- 10:51Speaker 1: year lifetime, and so once that law came into effect,
- 10:57Speaker 1: people who had wooden roofs could weigh until they replaced it.
- 11:01Speaker 2: Well, that took thirty years.
- 11:03Speaker 1: And now if you look at roofs in southern California,
- 11:06Speaker 1: it's either tile or concrete or asphalt. You're not going
- 11:11Speaker 1: to see wooden shake roofs. They don't exist. And the
- 11:14Speaker 1: same thing is going to happen with this. Now there
- 11:18Speaker 1: is something new and that new homes that are being
- 11:22Speaker 1: built have to have a solar system in place. If
- 11:27Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken on that, and I think that's the case,
- 11:29Speaker 1: if I'm not wrong, Where you have a development or
- 11:33Speaker 1: you're building a new house, there has to be a
- 11:36Speaker 1: solar system in place, because California, of course is at
- 11:40Speaker 1: the forefront of solar and alternative energy, and we theoretically
- 11:46Speaker 1: were going to be neutral energy alternative neutral in terms
- 11:52Speaker 1: of fossil fuels by twenty thirty five, although that's been
- 11:55Speaker 1: blown out of the water because restrictions, any federal restriction
- 12:00Speaker 1: has been removed, as you know, because we have an
- 12:04Speaker 1: administration that does not like alternative energy and.
- 12:08Speaker 2: Likes fossil fuels a bunch.
- 12:10Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, we have a president who
- 12:14Speaker 1: says outright and has never brought it back, that climate
- 12:17Speaker 1: change is a fraud, that it doesn't exist. It's the
- 12:22Speaker 1: biggest fraud that has ever been perpetrated in the history
- 12:25Speaker 1: of the world. There is no such thing as climate change.
- 12:30Speaker 1: I don't know where you go with that, but in
- 12:32Speaker 1: any case, we're going to have zone zero. So if
- 12:36Speaker 1: you happen to have a wooden fence, which most people do,
- 12:39Speaker 1: and it's close to the house, not going to happen.
- 12:42Speaker 2: It's going to have to be replaced.
- 12:44Speaker 1: And if you happen to have any kind of a
- 12:47Speaker 1: structure too near the house, for example, at my place.
- 12:53Speaker 2: I had a wooden structure.
- 12:56Speaker 1: Which is now a casita quota casita, and it was
- 13:00Speaker 1: as a structure where my outdoor dining area is, if
- 13:04Speaker 1: you call it a dining area, and I replaced it.
- 13:08Speaker 1: I replaced it with a stucco structure. Why well, because
- 13:13Speaker 1: of that exact reason. It was too close to the house.
- 13:17Speaker 1: All right, story we're looking at. A new report has
- 13:21Speaker 1: just come out and says one in five Americans may
- 13:23Speaker 1: be exposed to dangerous nitrate levels in their tap water.
- 13:30Speaker 2: So here's the bottom line.
- 13:32Speaker 1: You eat hot dogs and drink tap water at the
- 13:34Speaker 1: same time, you're going to die there you are, so
- 13:38Speaker 1: knock your socks off.
- 13:40Speaker 2: Okay.
- 13:41Speaker 1: Now, there is a bill that is going through England,
- 13:47Speaker 1: actually is passed and King Charles has to sign it,
- 13:51Speaker 1: which you will. And it aims to raise a smoke
- 13:54Speaker 1: free generation, permanently banning the sale or supply of tobacco
- 13:59Speaker 1: and bake products to anyone born in two thousand and
- 14:02Speaker 1: nine or after. It applies to people currently seventeen years
- 14:07Speaker 1: older younger, and the whole point is to try to
- 14:10Speaker 1: keep them from ever picking up the habit in their lifetime.
- 14:15Speaker 1: So the lawmakers say that in practice the measure means
- 14:19Speaker 1: the age of sale for tobacco products will rise over
- 14:23Speaker 1: time as this demographic.
- 14:26Speaker 2: Group grows older.
- 14:28Speaker 1: And we're looking to a smoke free society, and so
- 14:33Speaker 1: the people covered by this law will be part of
- 14:36Speaker 1: this is a quote, part of the first smoke free generation,
- 14:40Speaker 1: protected from a lifetime of addiction and harm. And this
- 14:45Speaker 1: was a quote from west streeting the Health the Secretary.
- 14:49Speaker 1: Prevention is better than cure, what he said. So it
- 14:53Speaker 1: includes new licensing, new registration requirements for retailers, retailers, product
- 15:00Speaker 1: information and mandates, and advertising and promotion controls way fer
- 15:06Speaker 1: than they are now, more restrictions on smoking and vaping
- 15:10Speaker 1: in public pace places. And what it does is at
- 15:14Speaker 1: hopes to block the use of tobacco products because tobacco
- 15:19Speaker 1: products are the main underlying drivers.
- 15:21Speaker 2: Of ill health. We know that. What's the first thing
- 15:24Speaker 2: that's asked?
- 15:25Speaker 1: And I just had my physical a few maybe a
- 15:28Speaker 1: week ago, and I was asked, do you smoke? And
- 15:34Speaker 1: I said only after sex and that's because of friction. No,
- 15:40Speaker 1: that's not true at all. But smoking is the main cause.
- 15:45Speaker 1: You look at lung cancer, you look at heart disease,
- 15:49Speaker 1: you look at cholesterol and stroke, big, big risks with
- 15:54Speaker 1: additional smoking. And the bill was first proposed in twenty
- 15:57Speaker 1: twenty four and it's a general rational smoking ban and
- 16:01Speaker 1: it's gained traction around the world. Last year, the same
- 16:06Speaker 1: law was passed in the Mall Dives or the Maldives.
- 16:11Speaker 1: And New Zealand enacted the world's first generational smoking ban
- 16:16Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, lauded by health public officials, criticized
- 16:22Speaker 1: by retailers and the tobacco industry, and a new government
- 16:26Speaker 1: came in and.
- 16:27Speaker 2: The law was abolished.
- 16:31Speaker 1: Why because the tobacco industry has enormous power all over
- 16:35Speaker 1: the world, I might add, And so the New Zealand
- 16:38Speaker 1: legislation was killed as a result of the influence of
- 16:42Speaker 1: the tobacco industry, even in New Zealand, I mean all
- 16:44Speaker 1: over the world.
- 16:45Speaker 2: It's kind of crazy.
- 16:46Speaker 1: We probably have less smoking in the United States than
- 16:49Speaker 1: many parts of the world, and this may signal some
- 16:53Speaker 1: real struggles ahead for this effort. So in twenty twenty four,
- 16:58Speaker 1: Britain's Office for Nash Statistics reported that five point three
- 17:02Speaker 1: million people over eighteen, age eighteen or over were smokers,
- 17:07Speaker 1: and that's ten percent of all adults in the UK
- 17:12Speaker 1: and According to the Department of Health and Social Care,
- 17:15Speaker 1: which is their HHS, smoking is responsible for sixty four
- 17:21Speaker 1: thousand deaths every year. It's the leading preventable cause of
- 17:26Speaker 1: death and disability and ill health. So the bottom line
- 17:31Speaker 1: is if you stop people from smoking, if you make
- 17:36Speaker 1: it extraordinarily difficult for anybody seventeen or younger to smoke,
- 17:43Speaker 1: with legislation, with retailers that are stopped from selling advertising smoking,
- 17:52Speaker 1: it's not like smoking here in this country where everybody smoked.
- 17:55Speaker 2: Everybody. If you remember when everybody.
- 17:57Speaker 1: Smoked, what was the line, do you mind if I smoke?
- 18:02Speaker 1: And who said no to that? Who ever said no, well,
- 18:08Speaker 1: of course you can smoke. And then it morphed into
- 18:12Speaker 1: do you mind if I smoke? Well, do you mind
- 18:15Speaker 1: if I fart? And that turned out to be.
- 18:20Speaker 2: Helpful. But here you have the.
- 18:22Speaker 1: Tobacco industry which is insanely powerful. You have chambers of
- 18:27Speaker 1: commerce which very powerful, you have retailers which are very powerful.
- 18:33Speaker 2: And it's a fight. And it's a fight.
- 18:36Speaker 1: Now, was there a successful fight in terms of labeling
- 18:39Speaker 1: cigarette packages?
- 18:40Speaker 2: You bet? And if you remember what the it was crazy.
- 18:45Speaker 1: What the tobacco industry was able to do is convince
- 18:49Speaker 1: Americans that tobacco smoke, that smoking is healthy for you,
- 18:54Speaker 1: not just it does no harm. But the pitch was
- 18:58Speaker 1: it is healthy for you, and the ads had actors
- 19:03Speaker 1: put in lab coats and stethoscopes around their neck, their
- 19:08Speaker 1: necks saying smoking what it does is relieve stress.
- 19:14Speaker 2: It makes you feel better, you're not as not.
- 19:19Speaker 1: As itchy, itchy, No, I don't think it was itchy,
- 19:23Speaker 1: but certainly not in a position where you got sick quicker.
- 19:29Speaker 1: It actually stopped you from getting sick, and so we
- 19:32Speaker 1: think that went out the window. Oh, by the way,
- 19:34Speaker 1: that's when the tobacco industry knew that smoking causes cancer.
- 19:39Speaker 1: And so at this point, I think what the industry
- 19:44Speaker 1: is doing. No one is arguing that it is healthy
- 19:46Speaker 1: for you, We're unhealthy. I think the argument now with
- 19:49Speaker 1: the tobacco industry is it's simply big business, and you
- 19:53Speaker 1: have to have a government that's pro business because this
- 19:56Speaker 1: is a capitalistic system. And you also are argue, but
- 20:00Speaker 1: the tobacco industry is arguing that all of those studies
- 20:03Speaker 1: are somehow either fraudulent or if not fraudulent, they're overstated,
- 20:12Speaker 1: that the stats just don't make a lot of sense okay,
- 20:17Speaker 1: And I want to end with an article in the
- 20:20Speaker 1: Atlantic and it is described the headline as a barbaric
- 20:26Speaker 1: problem in American hospitals is only getting bigger. And what
- 20:32Speaker 1: is the writer talking about, Well, she's talking about what
- 20:36Speaker 1: Jim Kinney says.
- 20:38Speaker 2: And if you.
- 20:40Speaker 1: Talk to Jim and ask him a medical problem, and
- 20:44Speaker 1: I do that all the time. I got a problem here,
- 20:47Speaker 1: or someone or a friend of his says I've got
- 20:50Speaker 1: an issue, and you know, I should go to the doctor.
- 20:54Speaker 1: The number one piece of device that Jim says is
- 20:56Speaker 1: do not go to the er. Stay out of the
- 21:01Speaker 1: because it is getting worse and worse. Jim had a
- 21:06Speaker 1: birthday party over the weekend and obviously a lot of
- 21:12Speaker 1: doctors were there and we were talking about the waiting rooms,
- 21:16Speaker 1: and I told the story of what happened with Lindsay
- 21:19Speaker 1: when we were the past few months and we were
- 21:22Speaker 1: on vacation in Palermo, Italy, and the doctor was telling me,
- 21:29Speaker 1: and it's an er doctor, about how you can wait
- 21:31Speaker 1: six eight hours in the emergency room and then trying
- 21:35Speaker 1: to get a bed in the hospital. You're going to
- 21:38Speaker 1: wait a hold that's just to see a doctor, and
- 21:41Speaker 1: then to try to get a bed if you need it.
- 21:45Speaker 2: That can literally take days. And there.
- 21:51Speaker 1: There is a term called boarding is what they do,
- 21:55Speaker 1: and boarding is keeping patients in the er on their
- 22:01Speaker 1: gurney waiting for a hospital bed to open up if
- 22:05Speaker 1: they need a hospital. And a lot of people go
- 22:07Speaker 1: in and need a bed.
- 22:08Speaker 2: They're in.
- 22:11Speaker 1: Not only in the those little cubicles, but they're also
- 22:15Speaker 1: in the hallways. And I'm asking Jim, how is that
- 22:18Speaker 1: possible you keep someone in the hallways and that's considered
- 22:21Speaker 1: an er. He says, that's considered part of the er
- 22:24Speaker 1: when people are parked in.
- 22:27Speaker 2: The hallway.
- 22:28Speaker 1: And this problem is getting worse and worse and worse.
- 22:31Speaker 1: And why is that Because the fewer people that have insurance,
- 22:35Speaker 1: the more people go to the er, because the er
- 22:38Speaker 1: has become their general practitioner. The er has become their
- 22:44Speaker 1: internest and all of a sudden, real emergencies are very rare,
- 22:51Speaker 1: and then general medicine is what they spend ninety nine
- 22:55Speaker 1: percent of their time on. And it's getting worse. That's
- 23:00Speaker 1: the problem. As bad as it is, it is getting worse.
- 23:04Speaker 1: Going to the er is at least a six to
- 23:07Speaker 1: seven hour wait for the doctor unless you've been unless
- 23:11Speaker 1: you're suffering from a gunshot wound, or you are, let's say,
- 23:17Speaker 1: are having a heart attack or a stroke.
- 23:19Speaker 2: I've tried that and.
- 23:21Speaker 1: They knew that I was lying when they did my vitals,
- 23:24Speaker 1: and that screwed me up a lot because then it
- 23:26Speaker 1: kept me in the waiting room for even longer. Just
- 23:29Speaker 1: too does it? Just as a yuts to me. So
- 23:33Speaker 1: what is the answer to all of this. Well, it's
- 23:36Speaker 1: something that will never happen, and that is some kind
- 23:40Speaker 1: of a national health system the way everybody in the
- 23:43Speaker 1: world has, or every country in the world has, every
- 23:45Speaker 1: industrialized country has, except the United States.
- 23:48Speaker 2: It's communistic.
- 23:49Speaker 1: If we do that, it's socialist, and therefore we don't
- 23:54Speaker 1: want that. We do not want a national health system,
- 23:56Speaker 1: single payer, where the government pays for medical care like
- 24:01Speaker 1: other every other country. So to give you an idea,
- 24:05Speaker 1: what happened, and I shared this story before if you
- 24:07Speaker 1: haven't heard it. Lindsey has asthma, and she was having
- 24:12Speaker 1: an asthma talk in attack in Palermo, Italy, and we
- 24:17Speaker 1: had to go to the er because she needed a nebulizer.
- 24:20Speaker 1: She had to have medicine with oxygen. And we go
- 24:24Speaker 1: to the er and within thirty seconds, she has an
- 24:28Speaker 1: an IV in her arm. They put the nebulizer on.
- 24:32Speaker 1: It looks like an oxygen mass and there's medicine that
- 24:35Speaker 1: comes out of a little plastic container. And so she
- 24:39Speaker 1: sees the doctor who said, and we're talking within a minute,
- 24:43Speaker 1: you need an ent. You have to have an n T.
- 24:47Speaker 1: Take a look at what's going on with your lungs. Okay,
- 24:51Speaker 1: give us an appointment. Where do we go? You go upstairs,
- 24:55Speaker 1: You go upstairs. We walked up the stairs and there
- 25:00Speaker 1: is the department where the ear nose and throat doctor was.
- 25:04Speaker 1: World class equipment. Now you know, the building itself was
- 25:07Speaker 1: kind of crappy. World class equipment. She was okay. He
- 25:11Speaker 1: gave us a prescription for medication. We were in and
- 25:14Speaker 1: out in one hour and fifteen minutes. Waiting room, first doctor,
- 25:19Speaker 1: second doctor, and treatment boy, just like America, Just like
- 25:25Speaker 1: we do here. All right, guys, we are done. That's
- 25:27Speaker 1: ithow baby. Neil and I come aboard at six, wake
- 25:32Speaker 1: up call at five with Will and Amy, and then
- 25:37Speaker 1: you have Cono and Ann who are basically there together,
- 25:41Speaker 1: I mean me, they're there together making the show work.
- 25:45Speaker 1: Cono never goes home, by the way, just to let
- 25:47Speaker 1: you know. He has a couple of children and he
- 25:52Speaker 1: doesn't know how they were conceived because he.
- 25:55Speaker 2: Was right, that's not let's let's not let's not go there.
- 25:59Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, okay, okay. The truth hurts, doesn't it.
- 26:06Speaker 2: It really does hurt. This is kf I A M
- 26:11Speaker 2: six point forty