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Blue Zones' Dan Buettner Confirms Short People Live Longer & More Health Secrets · On Air with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: So you know, I've become friendly with the Blue Zone guy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about the Blue Zone books and
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  Speaker 1: the Blue Zone places and the documentary How to Live
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  Speaker 1: to Be one hundred, where you know, people do common
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  Speaker 1: things around the world and they've got great lives and
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of simple. And the founder of the whole
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  Speaker 1: concept who did the study is a professional continental biker,
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  Speaker 1: the guy. The guy is biked from Alaska to Argentina.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just to watch the match last year, No no
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  Speaker 1: arga far. His name is Dan Beuter's become a friend
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  Speaker 1: of mine. I invited him on this morning because last
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  Speaker 1: nineteen and I were having some male bonding in the gathering,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just talking about life, love and the pursuit
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  Speaker 1: of happiness. And he said, I said anything that you
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  Speaker 1: know I could share on the radio that maybe I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't know about from watching the doc and reading some
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  Speaker 1: of your books. And he talked about short people, and
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  Speaker 1: my ears perked up. Obviously, Dan, it's good to see
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  Speaker 1: you again, good to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I wasn't pandering, but but you know,
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  Speaker 2: in the Blue Zones up in these highlands, a startiny
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  Speaker 2: you would look like you're an NBA player.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, you are that you heard that? So what
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  Speaker 1: what is that? What did you discover about shorter people?
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  Speaker 3: So blue zones are the men tend to be shorter.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're five nine or shorter, it's worth about
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  Speaker 2: an extra five years of life expectancy over being say
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  Speaker 2: my height, which is six two or taller.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry for you, and it's gonna be great.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be great to live that much longer. Do
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  Speaker 1: you understand how many people in my family I called
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  Speaker 1: after he told me that last night.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, and what's the reason.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there may be three reasons.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, taller people have more cells, so there's
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  Speaker 2: a better chance that one of those cells go rogue
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  Speaker 2: and you get cancer. Secondly, tall people tend to have
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  Speaker 2: something called higher IGF one, which is a growth hormone,
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  Speaker 2: which is why they're tall, but later in life that
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  Speaker 2: actually causes mortality.
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  Speaker 3: It actually makes sure life. And also taller people.
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  Speaker 2: They have more load on their heart, on their cardiovascular system,
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  Speaker 2: so they're more likely to get a heart attack. So
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  Speaker 2: it's these three small things that add up to a
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  Speaker 2: handful more years and they're probably gonna be good.
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  Speaker 3: Years.
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  Speaker 4: It's so interesting, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you haven't seen the documentary he did
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  Speaker 1: on Netflix, you it's how to Lift to Be one hundred?
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  Speaker 4: Is that the title of it. It's Secret to the
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  Speaker 4: Blue Zone.
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  Speaker 1: Lift to one hundred, Secrets to the Blue Zones and
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  Speaker 1: check out the Blue Zones. Then you've got a new
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  Speaker 1: documentary you're working on two, which will be about.
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  Speaker 3: New blue zones.
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  Speaker 2: So we found areas in the world with the highest
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  Speaker 2: healthy life expectancy. In America, we can only expect sixty
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  Speaker 2: four good years before we have major disease or disability.
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  Speaker 2: I found places where people are living twelve more good
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  Speaker 2: years than we are in America. And it's a it's
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  Speaker 2: a constellation of a number of simple things we completely
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  Speaker 2: miss And that'll be on National Geographic books and documentary
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  Speaker 2: in January.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So, Lome Linda is a blue zone in southern California, Right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's one of them. So Hi, lomlind If you're listen,
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  Speaker 1: Dan Budner, the Blue Zone guy, we call him, stick around.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick break. A couple more things
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  Speaker 1: that he shared with me. I want to share with
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  Speaker 1: you that just made me feel good like you.
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  Speaker 4: It makes you feel good.
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  Speaker 1: It gives you sort of a navigation for how to
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  Speaker 1: live your life in simple ways.
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  Speaker 4: He also has food. Did you denie his food in
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  Speaker 4: the grocery store?
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  Speaker 1: His frozen foods without all the sodium and crud in
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  Speaker 1: him right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So if you want to know what a centenarian ate
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  Speaker 2: to live to be one hundred, you have to know
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  Speaker 2: what she ate as a little girl in middle age
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  Speaker 2: and then lately. And we found all the ingredients and
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  Speaker 2: we put them in a line of food called Blue
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  Speaker 2: Zones Kitchen. It's the number one best selling frozen whole
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  Speaker 2: plant based food, seven thousand ords likely to be in
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  Speaker 2: the frozen section of your grocery store.
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  Speaker 4: I'm amazing convenience and good for you.
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  Speaker 1: Coming back with Dan here in a second, and then
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to rattle off the short people that are
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  Speaker 1: going to live the longest on our staff.
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  Speaker 4: So stick around, kiss that fast. You're on air with
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  Speaker 4: Ryan Seacrest on two point seven.
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  Speaker 1: If you've ever heard about the Blue Zones, Dan Buttner
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  Speaker 1: is the founder, he's the author, he did all the research,
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  Speaker 1: he's the explorer. He's a biker. The guy's a biker.
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  Speaker 1: So we become friends and we went biking. Uh, just
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  Speaker 1: not too long ago, and he has biked from Alaska
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  Speaker 1: to Argentina. We biked like around the track at the
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  Speaker 1: high school. But it was still I still scratched myself.
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  Speaker 4: I got hurt. I ran into a bush. Yeah, look
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  Speaker 4: at this. Wow, that is quite the battle. You're lucky
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  Speaker 4: I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's been so hot lately, but you guys
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  Speaker 1: are biking in this heat. He went on from Alaska Argentina.
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  Speaker 1: No scratches, high school track scratches. So he's here now
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  Speaker 1: with us this morning. And he also is telling me
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  Speaker 1: something very interesting about where you get pain in your
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  Speaker 1: back and your neck and how that affects your life.
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  Speaker 3: I want to know because right now.
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  Speaker 1: Well and I moan all the time, but explain, explain
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  Speaker 1: what it means.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 2: So the current current project is to find the areas
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  Speaker 2: of the world who have the where people have the
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  Speaker 2: longest lives in full health. What does full health mean? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it means not having diabetes, or being overweight, or having cancer.
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  Speaker 2: But it turns out that it also means eluding disability.
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  Speaker 2: And the number one disability, the one that costs us
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  Speaker 2: the most, that that creates the most years of misery
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  Speaker 2: is simple back and neck pain.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're we we really weren't meant as a
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  Speaker 3: species to stand out. That was an evolutionary.
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  Speaker 4: Supposed to call it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we were on I mean the early humans, they
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  Speaker 2: were on all four fours, you know, and we learned
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  Speaker 2: how to stand up a few million years ago. But
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  Speaker 2: it turns out that's not good for our back in
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  Speaker 2: our neck.
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  Speaker 1: So as if you do have the back pain or
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  Speaker 1: the neck pain, what do you do to remedy?
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  Speaker 3: That's a few things.
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  Speaker 2: So the most powerful things kind of boring, not smoking
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  Speaker 2: oken is the number one driver of back and neck pain.
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  Speaker 3: People don't know that. But secondly, propylactic acupuncture works.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, going to the acupuncture every month or so,
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  Speaker 2: staying on top of it. And then of course you
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  Speaker 2: want to make sure your computer is at eye level
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  Speaker 2: so you're not bending down your neck is hanging down
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  Speaker 2: over time, Since we spend so much time on our device.
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  Speaker 1: How important are comfortable feet or shoes or insoles?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, if you're I think I told you
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  Speaker 3: the story.
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  Speaker 2: When we started Blue Zones, we brought one of the
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  Speaker 2: academics into a big, big store to show us what
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  Speaker 2: products in the pharmacy are going to most extend our life.
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  Speaker 3: And this professor went right.
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  Speaker 2: To the foot products, the doctor Shoal's foot products and said,
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  Speaker 2: if your feet hurt, you don't walk, and then everything
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  Speaker 2: cascades down from there. You know, the most powerful thing
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  Speaker 2: most Americans could do. They add three years of life expectancy.
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  Speaker 2: If you go from being a couch potato zero exercise,
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  Speaker 2: just twenty minutes to walk in, to go get your groceries,
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  Speaker 2: to walk into your friend. Twenty minutes a day will
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  Speaker 2: give you three years of life expectancy. And there's no pill,
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  Speaker 2: there's no supplement, there's no stem cell out there that's
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  Speaker 2: going to give you that. So these simple things are
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  Speaker 2: we miss them in the barrage of marketing messages. But
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  Speaker 2: there's so many powerful, small things we can do that
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  Speaker 2: can add up to twelve good years of life.
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  Speaker 1: And free, like you can walk for free, exactly. So
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  Speaker 1: I've always been fascinated by his research and by his projects.
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  Speaker 1: So check out looking up Blue Zone and see where
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  Speaker 1: they are the blue zones around the world. The new
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  Speaker 1: doc is coming out soon, and the foods in the
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  Speaker 1: grocery store, I didn't even know about that. But he's
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  Speaker 1: got a healthy line of frozen foods. Are called Blue
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  Speaker 1: Zone Kitchen. Yeah, Blue Zones Kitchen, Dan Butner my new
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  Speaker 1: bestI Yeah, obviously bestie is Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Next time we buke, he said, I can go in
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  Speaker 4: a sidecar though. Smart. Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: We almost had a pile up there and we almost
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  Speaker 1: ran into it. Exactly great to see a pout. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for coming in, all right, but oh yeah, I see it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm one hundred and ten. I don't know, all right,