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Societal Loss of Humanity | ‘Medical News’ with Dr. Jim Keany · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 2: CAMPI am six forty Bill Handle Here, good morning on Aday, Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: April twenty nine. Bottom of the hour, It'll be Jim
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  Speaker 2: Keeney as we do every Wednesday. A couple of stories.
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  Speaker 2: We're looking at the FCC. Brendan Carr is now going
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, why not?
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  Speaker 2: tentative piece that's happening between US and Iran. But it
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  Speaker 2: all means that the straight up horror movies is just
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  Speaker 2: shut down both sides in both ways, the US and Iran. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Now I want to move into a you don't have
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  Speaker 2: a life do you?
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  Speaker 3: Segment?
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  Speaker 2: And this happens to be with AI. There is a
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  Speaker 2: mega influencer and actually it's an algorithm run by some
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  Speaker 2: guy in India dot India, not Feather India, and she
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  Speaker 2: is one of a group of bots that is flooding
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  Speaker 2: social media with these racy fake pictures and who looks
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  Speaker 2: at them?
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  Speaker 4: Men?
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  Speaker 2: Of course they do, but maasically mostly older men and
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  Speaker 2: the falling for them like crazy, and experts are warning
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  Speaker 2: that this is a sign of a pandemic of loneliness
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  Speaker 2: and a societal loss of humanity. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: go on for a few minutes because even gets worse
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  Speaker 2: as this story goes on. Emily Hart, this blonde moda
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  Speaker 2: maga model wracked up millions of followers. Is her patriotic themed,
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  Speaker 2: very scantily black clad picture and was put up by
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  Speaker 2: through a guy who's going through medical school. Okay, and
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  Speaker 2: it's not just the Indian guy doing this, there are
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  Speaker 2: plenty of people. There's a nonexistent heart throb and a
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  Speaker 2: Zelu brunette gorgeous Instagram. Her feed showcases a dream like
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  Speaker 2: jet set lifestyle, you know, at the Australian Open court
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  Speaker 2: side at the US Open, sippy coffee in Europe, and
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  Speaker 2: the Zelu, which is fake, has over three hundred thousand
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  Speaker 2: followers on the platform.
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  Speaker 3: Even her bio though admits she's play fake.
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  Speaker 2: It's right there on the bio. And the problem is
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  Speaker 2: the men go to it not because they're just interested.
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  Speaker 2: If I were going to go through it, or Neil
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  Speaker 2: was going to go through it, well, mainly I would
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  Speaker 2: go through it for being lonely. But the point is
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  Speaker 2: in a psychologist saying this is just indicates how lonely
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  Speaker 2: men are. Even when they know or are told that
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  Speaker 2: these are bots and these are fake women. They're Sophia
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  Speaker 2: who's a virtual pop singer, and fans are still having
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  Speaker 2: real experiences with her emotionally. And here is the bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: And this is what the psychologist a couple of psychologists
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  Speaker 2: that were interviewed by CNN.
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  Speaker 3: It's a CNN story.
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  Speaker 2: It's clear that people don't actually need something to be
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  Speaker 2: real in order to feel connected to it. They just
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  Speaker 2: need it to feel responsive. And that's it's a shame
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  Speaker 2: that we've reached that point. One psychologist calls it a
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  Speaker 2: pandemic of loneliness. Even when we know that a media
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  Speaker 2: user's persona is AI generated, we still engage because it's.
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  Speaker 3: Better than nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we go into denial and convince ourselves that it
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  Speaker 2: is or could be a real person. So when I
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  Speaker 2: go on one of these and I ask what are
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  Speaker 2: you wearing baby, I get an answer and I get
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  Speaker 2: a picture. Wow, I don't give a damn if this
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  Speaker 2: is AI. Let's go for a date. I'm not real.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care. So I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 2: Let me take you into the other room and you
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  Speaker 2: and I will have a conversation by myself with you
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  Speaker 2: with the door locked, trying to be as quiet as
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  Speaker 2: I possibly can, and then getting very religious, finding God
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  Speaker 2: because I'm screaming, Oh God, Okay, I'm done.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I want to give you a weird one. You go
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  Speaker 2: on an airplane and you know what you see. You
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  Speaker 2: go into the bathroom and you know what you.
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  Speaker 3: Actually see there?
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  Speaker 2: If you take a look, you'll see ashtrays in the bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: I mean ash trays, but there are smoke detectors. You're
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  Speaker 2: told if you smoke, it's a violation of federal law.
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  Speaker 2: You've ever been on an airplane where that alarm has
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  Speaker 2: gone off where someone has lit up something? Actually it
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  Speaker 2: was pot probably? Yeah, it is loud, I mean it
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  Speaker 2: is loud. Why would they have ash trays? The FAA
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  Speaker 2: continues to require them, and we're told that it's a
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  Speaker 2: critical fire safety precaution, and the ashtrays are very.
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  Speaker 3: Specific and expensive.
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  Speaker 2: They have to be self contained, fire resistant, removable, and
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  Speaker 2: if an ashtray is missing or doesn't work, the FAA
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  Speaker 2: said the airline is required to promptly replace it. I
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  Speaker 2: thought when I first started reading this, I thought they
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  Speaker 2: were going to ground the entire fleet if one ashtray
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  Speaker 2: is missing from one airplane.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it is crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: It has been illegal since the sixties to smoke, and
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  Speaker 2: in the nineties it is turned well, actually at international
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  Speaker 2: flights in twenty twenty six years ago.
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  Speaker 3: And here's what they say.
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  Speaker 2: The FAA lavatory ash trays addressed the potential that a
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  Speaker 2: passenger may violate the law and smoke on board in
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  Speaker 2: a lavatory to avoid discovery. And what this ashtray does
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  Speaker 2: is provide a designated fireproof location to safely extinguish a cigarette,
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  Speaker 2: dissuading a passenger from discarding it in the lavatory trash bin.
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  Speaker 2: That could be that the papers could be caught on fire. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: how's that for logic. So you have an ashtray that
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  Speaker 2: is specially built, that's super secure, that's fire resistant, that
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  Speaker 2: I guess tells you that someone is smoking in there.
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  Speaker 2: It makes no sense at all. Do cars have ashtrays anymore?
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think whether my car has an ashtray.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't think about it. And no one.
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  Speaker 2: Smokes, does anybody, Okay, well, twelve percent of American smoke.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't even think it comes to the lighter anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That jacks used to charge things. Yeah, really weird.
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  Speaker 2: And according to the FAA, I love this plane, passengers
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  Speaker 2: who violate those federal smoking laws fake face fines of
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  Speaker 2: up to one thousand, seven hundred and seventy one dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Now not one thousand, seven hundred and seventy dollars or
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  Speaker 2: one thousand, seven hundred and seventy two dollars, it's seventeen
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  Speaker 2: seventy one. And the reason you because ashtrays are so
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  Speaker 2: important that they have to be super duper triple safe
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  Speaker 2: ass trays. Because there was a flight from Brazil to
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  Speaker 2: France on a very Brazilian carrier which I used to fly,
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  Speaker 2: after a fire started in a lavatory and the plane
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  Speaker 2: crash landed at Orley and everybody died, and the report
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  Speaker 2: said it was either by an electrical problem or a
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  Speaker 2: passenger with a cigarette. That was nineteen seventy three was
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  Speaker 2: when that happened. This reminds me of Richard Reid. Do
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  Speaker 2: you remember who Richard Reid was? This was the guy
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  Speaker 2: who went aboard a plane and had explosives in his shoes.
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  Speaker 2: And what he did is there were matches sticking out
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  Speaker 2: all over the shoe, sticking out, if you can imagine,
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  Speaker 2: almost like a crown of matches sticking out, and he
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  Speaker 2: tried to light one of those matches to ignite the explosives,
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  Speaker 2: which couldn't happen. It was impossible. It happened, Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was a road runner cartoon, is what it was.
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  Speaker 2: But because of that, we have to take our shoes off.
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  Speaker 2: That's where that came from. That one incident where Wiley
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  Speaker 2: Coyote was going to put matches on his feet and
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  Speaker 2: light them on fire to ignite the explosive.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing that was missing is it wasn't a bomb.
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  Speaker 2: That looked like a bowling ball with a fuse sticking out.
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  Speaker 3: But his name was Richard Reid.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was the that the the bomber, the
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  Speaker 1: Olympic bomber guy that they thought.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who was that. I don't know who
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  Speaker 2: that was. I think it's Richard Reid. Let me ask ky,
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  Speaker 2: sirih was Richard Reid the shoe bomber? Yeah, Richard Reid,
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  Speaker 2: the shoe Bomber two thousand and one, and Richard Jewell was.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Amy King.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, and I got it right. And then there's Harry.
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  Speaker 2: Reid who was the Senator from from Nevada, who they've
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  Speaker 2: changed the name of Harry Reid International Airport or the
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  Speaker 2: Nevada Airport there in Las Vegas because it turns out
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  Speaker 2: that Harry Reid was a an avowed committed racist straight out,
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  Speaker 2: and they go, maybe this isn't such a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know about this. Harry Reid was
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  Speaker 2: Kno's porno name. Yeah, that's not bad. That's not bad,
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  Speaker 2: all right. And before we go to Jim Neil.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Jim Kenney, who is chief medical officer for dignity
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  Speaker 2: certified board.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever titles you have, Jim, Yeah, he's certifiably bored.
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  Speaker 3: Now that's true. That's good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not bad. So Jim, who has killed many
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  Speaker 2: many people in his career. I once to ask you,
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  Speaker 2: I mean you were at it in the er, how
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  Speaker 2: many people died on your watch?
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  Speaker 3: You ever keep track?
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  Speaker 4: I know you don't q track, but you know, like
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  Speaker 4: we talked about it, it's probably on a week for
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  Speaker 4: thirty years. So fifty eight year times thirty fifteen hundred people.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, always fine, always fine.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's get into some of the topics, and one
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  Speaker 2: of them is silicosa's cases in countertop workers.
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  Speaker 3: I know what a countertop is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what a silicosa is.
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  Speaker 3: Is it some kind of animal, vegetable, mineral?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's you know, silicon, silicon, common element in the world. Right,
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  Speaker 4: And these countertops are they're sold as quartz, right, quartz
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  Speaker 4: or engineered sometimes they call it engineered stone countertops. And
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  Speaker 4: let's face it, but for in southern California homes, I
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  Speaker 4: think it may be even including yours, these are like
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  Speaker 4: what you know, this is the definition of Southern California
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  Speaker 4: remohuddled home. And so when you look at the cases,
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  Speaker 4: most of them are in Southern California when you look
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  Speaker 4: at the California reporting. But this is not enough. So
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  Speaker 4: the countertop itself is not dangerous. If you have one
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  Speaker 4: of these in your house, it's not dangerous, not going
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  Speaker 4: to cause this lung disease. But it's when you're cutting, grinding,
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  Speaker 4: and turning this into dust and then inhaling it that's
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  Speaker 4: causing a disease called silicosis, where it gets into your
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  Speaker 4: lungs causes the severe fibrotic lung disease where your lungs
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  Speaker 4: are restricted, you can't breathe very well. The average age
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  Speaker 4: is forty six and the average depth is forty eight.
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  Speaker 4: So this is affecting very young workers, mostly migrant workers
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  Speaker 4: from Mexico and Central America, and they're uninsured. They're getting
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  Speaker 4: diagnosed because they're migrants to a lot of times they're
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  Speaker 4: getting diagnosed with TV or chronic ammonia or these other
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  Speaker 4: things that aren't correct and they end up getting a
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  Speaker 4: delayed diagnosis because they're under insured.
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  Speaker 2: So it's that dangerous. That's serious. I mean people get
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  Speaker 2: it and they die. I mean forty eight years old
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  Speaker 2: the average dying of that. Yet's I mean that that
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  Speaker 2: seems really a very low figure. I mean, how about
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  Speaker 2: lung cancer. If you smoke, you're going to last a
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  Speaker 2: lot longer than at forty eight, aren't you.
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  Speaker 4: You may, yeah, depending on the treatment you get when
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  Speaker 4: you get it caught. But again, these people are just
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  Speaker 4: getting caught late. So I'm not sure if we looked
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  Speaker 4: at a you know, a more highly insured population, if
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  Speaker 4: it would look different. But yeah, that's what's happening here.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's pretty quick. And yeah, I mean and as
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  Speaker 4: far as numbers though, this is we're trying about four
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  Speaker 4: hundred cases in the last six years since California started
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  Speaker 4: started tracking this, you know, four hundred and thirty two cases,
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  Speaker 4: and it's resulted in twenty five deaths and forty eight
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  Speaker 4: lung transplants. So I'm serious. Let's get so. This is
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  Speaker 4: not an epidemic by any means, but this is you know,
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  Speaker 4: literally just to have a nice case kitchen. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they're the workers are dying to create a nice kitchen.
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  Speaker 4: So in Australia they've they've banned this substance. There who
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  Speaker 4: ban these things.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, they have a nice kitchen. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's important to have a nice countertop.
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  Speaker 3: You know that, don't you? Of course?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that may be a small price to pay.
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  Speaker 2: When you talk about four hundred and thirty two workers
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  Speaker 2: over the last X number of years, that seems like
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  Speaker 2: a real small figure.
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  Speaker 3: And why is it that important.
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  Speaker 2: That's not to say it isn't important, certainly for those
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  Speaker 2: four hundred and thirty two people in their families.
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  Speaker 3: But with those numbers, is this considered a big deal? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's considered a big deal when four hundreds and
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  Speaker 4: something people die to make your kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, So where am I gonna put my ham
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  Speaker 1: and cheese sandwich stock?
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  Speaker 2: You know, Hey, guys, you should see my count You
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  Speaker 2: should see my countertop. It is gorgeous. Okay, or just
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  Speaker 2: so let's switch gears for a moment. Jim, talk about
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  Speaker 2: protein maxing. That's actually pretty interesting to me. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: what is it? And it seems like you load up
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  Speaker 2: on protein and then you don't for weeks or months afterwards.
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  Speaker 4: I have that right, Yeah, yeah, you know. So the
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  Speaker 4: history on this is, you know, in the gyms for
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  Speaker 4: decades now. Protein intake and is a topic of constant conversation,
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  Speaker 4: or you get enough protein. You're taking in protein because
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  Speaker 4: people believe that, you know, if you take in the
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  Speaker 4: building blocks of muscle, that you will build more muscle.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean, you look at a cow all at
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  Speaker 4: eath is grass and it ends up with a massive
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  Speaker 4: amount of meat on it, right, So that's not necessarily true.
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  Speaker 4: And then you have these influencers like Joe Rogan or
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  Speaker 4: Andrew Huberman who just talk about consuming huge amounts of
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  Speaker 4: protein and for the purpose of wellness or health or
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  Speaker 4: optimum performance. But you know, this is the issue is
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  Speaker 4: there is no you know, when you consume extra sugar,
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  Speaker 4: your body stores it as fat. It links together a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of sugars and creates a fat. When you eat
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  Speaker 4: extra protein, there is there's no battery for that. You
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  Speaker 4: can't store it anywhere, so you either use it immediately
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  Speaker 4: or your body takes off the ammonia group. That's the difference.
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  Speaker 4: As an amino acid has ammonia group on. It is
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  Speaker 4: a sugar with an ammonia group. But you take off
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  Speaker 4: that ammonia and you pee that out, and then now
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  Speaker 4: you just have sugar floating around your body. So any
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  Speaker 4: excess protein that you can't consume at the time is
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  Speaker 4: going to turn into a sugar and then can be
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  Speaker 4: stored as fat. So you know, there's only so much
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  Speaker 4: your body can take in, and people are kind of
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  Speaker 4: overdoing it mostly now the thing that exploded or the peplides,
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  Speaker 4: so you've got the glp ones where people are losing
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  Speaker 4: lean body mass, and the hope is if we do
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  Speaker 4: higher protein intake, then that may reduce the muscle mass loss,
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  Speaker 4: and there's probably some truth to that, but again, only
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  Speaker 4: only so much you can take in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jim, I'm just fascinating on a personal level because
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  Speaker 2: as you explain all of this scientifically, medically, when we
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  Speaker 2: talk about certain concepts, I mean, you really get into the.
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  Speaker 3: Minutia of this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know you you sound like you know
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  Speaker 2: this stuff forwards and backwards. Now, I usually think of
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  Speaker 2: you being in the r someone coming in after having
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  Speaker 2: been shot with a whole as big as a grapefruit
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  Speaker 2: through his back, and here you are talking about.
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  Speaker 3: All of this. Do you read up on this stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Do you do you have a life?
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  Speaker 4: You know? I love all this stuff, right, so all
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  Speaker 4: I do is in my free te when everybody else
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  Speaker 4: is scrolling Instagram for the latest joke, I'm scrolling the
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  Speaker 4: medical literature. Yeah, nerd, what can I say?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's obvious. Obvious. Okay, Now a pretty serious topic.
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  Speaker 2: And this one sort of stunned me on this one.
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  Speaker 2: Purdue Pharmacy who got nailed to the billions of dollars
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  Speaker 2: for the oxy cotton fiasco, and they are what, they
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  Speaker 2: just lied, straight out lied to the general public and
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  Speaker 2: the medical community about how safe it was and it
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  Speaker 2: was a miracle pain drug, and they had to say.
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  Speaker 2: The settlement was billions and billions of dollars and the
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  Speaker 2: Sackler family had to give up ownership of Purdue. They
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  Speaker 2: just got what is it, two billion dollars or something
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  Speaker 2: and the last couple of.
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  Speaker 4: Days yeah, yeah, no, So I think the settlement not settlement.
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  Speaker 4: This was a it's a criminal right, a criminal trial,
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  Speaker 4: and they were hit with five point five billion dollars
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  Speaker 4: and you know, the news articles called it a sentence.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if that's the right term or not legally,
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  Speaker 4: but but the justice permits saying they're only going to
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  Speaker 4: collect two hundred and twenty five million to that. So
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  Speaker 4: It's mostly symbolic because what they want the money to
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  Speaker 4: go more towards the victims and more towards using the
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  Speaker 4: newly formed company to produce, you know, more things that
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  Speaker 4: might reduce the risk of people having opioid addiction or
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  Speaker 4: to treat it or to protect people, like in the
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  Speaker 4: lock zone, you know, producing the locks on which reverses
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  Speaker 4: the opioid overdose.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's and this is the company that's been nailed companies.
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  Speaker 2: People don't realize that companies can be criminally charged and
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  Speaker 2: can be convicted. Of course, nobody goes to jail when
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  Speaker 2: a company is convicted unless an individual causes the crime.
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  Speaker 3: But Purdue Pharmacy and.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: And they're still I guess, is anybody actually producing opiates anymore?
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they're still producing opiates. But yeah, I mean,
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: but Purdue, they were they pled guilty. Remember six years ago,
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty, they had they too conspiracy to defraud the
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: US government to you know, to violate the anti kickback
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Statute because they were manipulating, you know, the way doctors
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: were being marketed to. They knew that some of a
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: lot of these drugs were getting diverted for illegal use,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: and they were still encouraging doctors to prescribe it. And
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: you know, and they were doctors themselves. All three brothers
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: were doctors. Who's kind of founded this company. So they
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: really changed the landscape for how pharmaceuticals were marketed to physicians.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the reason I bring up, are there still
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: companies that are manufacturing this? I mean to any extent.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I just stubbed my toe and I thought it was broken.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: So I went to urging Care and it hurt like hell,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: and I went and saw the doctors and now there's
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: not much you can do with a broken toe. And
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: I go, you know, I hurt, Can I get some
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: pain medication? And the doctors sort of laughed at me
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: and said, yeah, take some hyboprofen and some acid of metaphine.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Okay, nice talking.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: To because wait, you know at every meeting that I
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: you know, I have to attend a lot of the
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: hospital meetings in different departments, and I present our quality data.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: And one slide that I presented re meeting at every
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: quality data is our safe opioid prescribing record. And that's
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: a now Center for Medicaid Medicare standard what they call
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: electronic quality measures, the CQM, and we have to report
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: that to them regularly. So I reported to the medical
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: staff and explain to them, here's where we are, here's
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: how we're doing on this. So there's an awareness now
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: across the board that opioids have a downside. And yeah,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: they are powerfully tood medicines when you're in extreme pain
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: and you need help, but they also have a downside.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Right they give you exactly four and a half minutes
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: worth and then it's onward cyberprofen and a state of medaphin.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: It's just a different world. Okay, Jim, that's it. We're
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: done and we'll catch you next Wednesday. As we always do.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: I have a good one, as always, kill somebody for me,
• 22:52
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• 22:56
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• 22:59
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• 23:02
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• 23:05
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• 23:11
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