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CSU Students Face Homelessness | ‘Medical News’ with Dr. Jim Keany · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: six forty. It's not a homeless night to me, it's
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  Speaker 1: just a homeless a time to.
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  Speaker 2: Be KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here, Taco Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's a humpday Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: I was about to make some kind of reference to
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  Speaker 2: yesterday being yesterday and then moving into today, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: basically not professional enough to pull that off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know. Don't even look at me, Neil, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: A story I want to do about cal State students
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  Speaker 2: facing homelessness. Homelessness is one big issue, especially here in California,
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  Speaker 2: and ten percent of students at cal State face homelessness. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's a program, and I believe this actually makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: This is where I believe the government should jump in.
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  Speaker 2: And California last year spend thirty one million dollars, a
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  Speaker 2: drop in the bucket relative to the budget, and it's
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  Speaker 2: helped students facing homelessness with emergency housing and other services
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  Speaker 2: through rapid Rehousing. That's what they call the program, and
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  Speaker 2: it's the most public university, is about a quarter of
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  Speaker 2: community colleges, and it's helping thousands of students who are
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  Speaker 2: either homeless or housing insecure, which is basically everybody who
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  Speaker 2: rents in southern California because the rents are so expensive. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the program was launched in twenty twenty and it has
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  Speaker 2: helped over nine thousand students facing insecurity or homelessness. And
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  Speaker 2: they partner with a local community based organization providing students
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  Speaker 2: with emergency housing rental subsidies, case management, advising all ten
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  Speaker 2: University of California campuses, twenty five community colleges, I said,
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  Speaker 2: eighteen cal State campuses. And if you look at the stats,
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  Speaker 2: students in the program reported higher GPAs improve mental health
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  Speaker 2: and nutrition.
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  Speaker 1: Right there there it is those are real numbers.
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  Speaker 2: So twenty twenty five California spend thirty one million dollars
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  Speaker 2: annually on this program.
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  Speaker 1: The government's proposed budget.
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  Speaker 2: For twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven, which was just released,
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  Speaker 2: includes thirty one million dollars the same amount of money.
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  Speaker 2: So if for example, you look what happened in twenty
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  Speaker 2: eighteen the campfire, Butt County lost a third of its
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  Speaker 2: housing stock, which you think that impacted students at Chico State,
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  Speaker 2: You bet so, they got nailed. But let me throw
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  Speaker 2: another stat at you students all over California are having
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  Speaker 2: a hard time finding affordable housing, particularly here in southern California.
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  Speaker 2: So in twenty eighteen, eleven percent of twenty seven thousand
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  Speaker 2: students surveyed across the cal State system reported they had
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  Speaker 2: experienced homelessness. This is a student Basic Needs survey commissioned
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  Speaker 2: by the Chancellor's office. So again, twenty eighteen, ten point
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  Speaker 2: nine percent, moving to last year nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Percent, virtually double what it was.
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  Speaker 2: And that is a problem as more and more students
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  Speaker 2: are facing housing in security, and if you look at
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  Speaker 2: off campus housing across the state, that increased by more
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  Speaker 2: than thirty percent between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: to the point where, well, where are students going to
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  Speaker 2: live when they don't have the money? So, as what
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  Speaker 2: happened in twenty eighteen, the state legislature included ten million
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  Speaker 2: dollars for a rapid housing pilot program in the Budget
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  Speaker 2: Act of twenty nineteen, and it has succeeded basically beyond expectations. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is a question of students who are not standing
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  Speaker 2: outside or on freeways off rams, going will work for food.
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  Speaker 2: These are people that instead of doing that and begging
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  Speaker 2: for food, are going to school, and that is something
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  Speaker 2: that I think we should help. You know that in
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  Speaker 2: most parts of the world, university is basically free. The
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  Speaker 2: tuition that we have to pay here is insane. Going
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  Speaker 2: to school in England it used to be absolutely free.
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  Speaker 2: Now it is nothing. My daughter, Barbara, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if I've shared this with you before, but she's
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  Speaker 2: off to Scotland. She is going to go to a college,
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  Speaker 2: Abertay University, in a criminal justice program, working with women
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  Speaker 2: who have been assaulted.
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  Speaker 1: That's her thing.
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  Speaker 2: She really wants to work with women's empowerment and they
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  Speaker 2: have an incredibly good program. Local students pay twenty to
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  Speaker 2: twenty I think twenty three hundred dollars a year for
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  Speaker 2: going to school. Of course, since she's a foreigner, I
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  Speaker 2: get to fork up twenty thousand dollars a year, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe that's a semester. But I was lucky enough, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: or pressient enough that the day the girls were born,
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  Speaker 2: I set up a five to twenty nine plan to
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  Speaker 2: pay for their college education, which I'm suggesting that virtually
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  Speaker 2: everybody does when kids are born. But your kids are
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  Speaker 2: probably already born, because otherwise they're not born yet, and
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  Speaker 2: you set up five twenty nine plan for kids that
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  Speaker 2: are not born yet, you can't do it for embryos.
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  Speaker 2: I'll figure this out when we come back when you
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  Speaker 2: should start your five twenty nine plan. But the bottom line,
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  Speaker 2: rapid rehousing is in my opinion, a terrific program and
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  Speaker 2: helping students to just live. I'm a fan of because well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a fan of going to college. And why is that?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 2: Because I am Neil. Why am I such a fan
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  Speaker 2: of going to college? Why is college so important to me?
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  Speaker 2: Because I am Jewish? Yes, because I am Juish and.
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  Speaker 3: Judaism for five hundred Alex.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to college. You have to go to college.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's a given. I mean there's a college
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  Speaker 2: to my same thing with Asian families too. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: it's not just Jewish families, Asian families.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing.
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  Speaker 2: The kid is born, that kid is going to college,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what he or she wants to do, it's college.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, this is a terrific program. Okay, Now, good
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  Speaker 2: news on LA Unified school district. I make a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun of lust because I grew up going to
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  Speaker 2: Laus from kindergarten all the way up through high school
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  Speaker 2: and then went to a state college. So I am
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  Speaker 2: a product of the schools, the public schools here in California,
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  Speaker 2: in Southern California and Los Angeles Unified School District. When
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  Speaker 2: I was going to school, when I was in elementary school,
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  Speaker 2: they actually gave out crayons, crayons and rulers and little
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  Speaker 2: boxes and pencils. Yeah, those were the days. That doesn't
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  Speaker 2: happen anymore. I mean budget issues for sure. And I
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  Speaker 2: want to be fair to LAUSD because LAUSD probably has
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  Speaker 2: the hardest job of educating students of anywhere in the
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  Speaker 2: country or certainly as a major, major school district. And
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  Speaker 2: why is that. Because we had the influx of migrants,
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  Speaker 2: primarily Hispanic and they have kids, and they go to
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  Speaker 2: school as the Supreme Court ordered that, which I think
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  Speaker 2: is absolutely mandatory, and I agree, right up through high
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  Speaker 2: school they get everyone gets a free education. But you
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  Speaker 2: have kids that are coming into this country that come
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  Speaker 2: from families that don't speak English, that are starting school
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  Speaker 2: or entering school midterm, and it is not easy to
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  Speaker 2: teach those kids. Everybody that I went to school with
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  Speaker 2: spoke English.
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  Speaker 1: Today it's very different.
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  Speaker 2: And so the school has almost an insurmountable job to do,
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  Speaker 2: and so I think LA Unified is ungovernable only.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Beyond, it's not its fault, it's not the school board's fault.
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  Speaker 2: It is simply the circumstances of how and where and
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  Speaker 2: why you teach. So with that, some good news because
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  Speaker 2: LA Unified has shown strong gains in Advanced Placement course
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  Speaker 2: enrollment and about half the kids that entered past the
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  Speaker 2: test scores last year.
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  Speaker 1: And AP classes.
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  Speaker 2: Give you or give a student the ability to earn
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  Speaker 2: college credits in twenty twenty four twenty twenty five school year.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, sixty thousand students enrolled in an AP class,
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  Speaker 2: which is a very rigorous, standardized college level course. Over
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  Speaker 2: a five year period, the district's AP class participation grew
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  Speaker 2: by fifty percent. That's an extraordinary figure. And the College
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  Speaker 2: Board the AP classes are it's a nationwide non for
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  Speaker 2: profit organization develops the SAT standardized tests for college admissions
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  Speaker 2: and develops curriculum and tests for forty two AP classes biology, Chemistry, Calculus, English, literature,
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  Speaker 2: and a bunch of others. And as I said, over
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  Speaker 2: half the students who took AP classes scored passing which
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  Speaker 2: means they were eligible for college tuition and helping to
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  Speaker 2: enroll in good colleges because the colleges do pay attention
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  Speaker 2: to that and all student subgroups. By the way, children
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  Speaker 2: of immigrants, racial minorities, those with parents without a higher
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  Speaker 2: education increase their passing rate in the last five years.
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  Speaker 2: Now over half past black and Latino students, who made
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  Speaker 2: up seventy three percent of total APE takers last year,
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  Speaker 2: had a thirty seven percent seventeen percent increase in passing,
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  Speaker 2: which in and of itself is pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Now it breaks down. While we're hearing that good news, we're.
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  Speaker 2: Also hearing and you have taken into account that the
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  Speaker 2: other part of the school of people that go to school,
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  Speaker 2: or the other demographic are students. In this case, LA
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  Speaker 2: Unified has the majority of I think over fifty percent
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  Speaker 2: or sixty percent of Latino students, and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: them don't have the wherewithal, don't have have the skill set,
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  Speaker 2: don't have the ability, not that they couldn't, but it's
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  Speaker 2: just circumstances beyond their control. You go to certain schools
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  Speaker 2: in Los Angeles and the majority of the students there
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  Speaker 2: don't know how to spell AP for ap classes. It
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  Speaker 2: is a tough row to hoe or is it a
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  Speaker 2: tough hoe to row? I always get confused with those two.
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  Speaker 2: But this is good news coming out of LA Unified,
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  Speaker 2: and I very rarely give you good news, and it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, coming out of this where as I say,
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  Speaker 2: I actually got a good education coming out of l
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  Speaker 2: A Unified, And I don't think you can hear that
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  Speaker 2: from a lot of people anymore. And again I want
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  Speaker 2: to point out that it becomes impossible teaching, for example,
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  Speaker 2: in the inner city.
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  Speaker 1: Those teachers are heroes.
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  Speaker 2: It is so difficult, and it can be dangerous too,
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  Speaker 2: and there's no such thing as corporal punishment anymore. I
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  Speaker 2: remember in junior high school, man, I got whacked like crazy,
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  Speaker 2: and I still have nightmares over mister Putnam. Mister Putnam
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  Speaker 2: who did the swatting. He was a former All Pro
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  Speaker 2: tackle for the l A Rams who became a pe
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  Speaker 2: teacher and the words handle assumed the position. I still
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  Speaker 2: shudder at those all these years later. And there's mister
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  Speaker 2: putnham with that that swat you know, with the board,
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  Speaker 2: and god, it.
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  Speaker 3: Was It's hard to imagine what you would have been
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  Speaker 3: like if you weren't swatted.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I mouthed off.
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  Speaker 2: I mouthed off like crazy, and they they punish you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you, you got it. And then later on,
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  Speaker 2: years later, I realized that mister Putnam did a very
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  Speaker 2: light swat relative to him being six foot eight and
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  Speaker 2: weighing three hundred pounds of solid muscle. Had he gone
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  Speaker 2: even a little bit, I was a frightened it. Today,
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  Speaker 2: if he swatted and gave any kind he can't swat.
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  Speaker 1: Because he's kind of dead. I think he may not be.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I have to look up, mister, look up,
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  Speaker 2: mister Putnam, Dwayne Putnam, if you want to look that up.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see if he's still alive. I'll do
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  Speaker 2: that during the break. Anyways, the swat is dead.
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  Speaker 1: He is dead.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Now I have no problem getting a swat from
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  Speaker 2: mister Putnam. That wouldn't be a problem. Okay, we're waiting
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  Speaker 2: for doctor Jim because he has dropped. So we have
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  Speaker 2: to start telling some jokes, and all the jokes that
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  Speaker 2: I can think of are Let me put it this way,
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  Speaker 2: the FCC would look very askance on this is.
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  Speaker 1: Jim there, Jim, are you there?
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  Speaker 3: I'm here?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, good Jim McKinney, chief medical Officer for Dignity Saint
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  Speaker 2: Mary Medical Center, Long Beach.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Jim, let's get into it.
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  Speaker 2: Near sightedness has surged two near epidemic levels. Now before
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  Speaker 2: you explain it out you right now, near sightedness going
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  Speaker 2: to epidemic levels is directly connected to vaccines.
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  Speaker 1: Do I have that right?
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  Speaker 3: I knew you were going to go there. No, that's
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  Speaker 3: not right. So you know, so nearsightedness, it was like
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  Speaker 3: thirty percent, you know, a third of the population from
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  Speaker 3: like nineteen nineties. Then in the early two thousands it
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  Speaker 3: became like forty forty to forty five percent of the population.
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  Speaker 3: They're really thinking that by twenty fifty, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be more than half the population needing glasses. So it's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people are attributing it to screen time,
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  Speaker 3: the dramatic increase we've had in screen time over that
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  Speaker 3: period of time, and that probably is part of the story.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't tell the whole story, though. This research at
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  Speaker 3: Sunni New York Hospital showed that they believe it's related
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  Speaker 3: to when you're looking at things indoors at close vision.
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  Speaker 3: What happens is to make the image sharper your pupil constricts,
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  Speaker 3: and that reduces the light that goes back to the
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  Speaker 3: back of the eye. And now when you go outside,
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  Speaker 3: your pupils constrict, and that protects you from excessive light,
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  Speaker 3: but you're still getting plenty of light to the retina
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  Speaker 3: stimulates the dopamine and the retina and it allows it to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, continue working correctly. But when you spend a
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  Speaker 3: lot of time looking at near stuff with your peopils
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  Speaker 3: constricted under lower light situations, you're just you're actually straining
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  Speaker 3: your eyes to the point where you can create increase
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  Speaker 3: in myopia.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So yeah, let me.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go through that for a moment, because certain
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  Speaker 2: things don't change, Right, the amount of time people spend
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  Speaker 2: indoors versus outdoors, I don't know if that's changed. And
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  Speaker 2: certainly the way people read is much the same. And
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  Speaker 2: as you discussed what door, you describe what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing that I can think of that does
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  Speaker 2: have or would have an MPICK impact A big one
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  Speaker 2: would be the screen time. And I'm assuming that you're
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  Speaker 2: going to We're gonna see study after study on this one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this is a I know something that
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  Speaker 3: people are going to look at but I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like.
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  Speaker 3: People do spend less time outdoors, less time looking far away.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, even when they are outdoors, they're looking at
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  Speaker 3: their phone, you know, And that's part of it. Part
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  Speaker 3: of the protective things you can do is to go outdoors,
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  Speaker 3: get more light into your eye, which stimulates threatn a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more. And then of course, you know, not
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  Speaker 3: looking straight into the sun or anything crazy like that,
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  Speaker 3: but also looking far distances that relaxes the muscles of
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  Speaker 3: the of the eye a little bit more and allows
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  Speaker 3: them to recover a bit. So that's what they showed
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  Speaker 3: in the study that if you spent more time outdoors
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  Speaker 3: and looking further away, that actually improved your vision.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so now let's talk about skin cancer. When you're
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  Speaker 2: outside and you get those great melanillmas.
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  Speaker 3: Right right, it's not one thing, it's another.
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  Speaker 1: It's absolutely correct. Yeah, it's always great. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: You always go ahead and always talk about how exercise hurts people,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Oh yeah, exercising.
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  Speaker 1: It'll kill you every time. Yeah, absolutely, every single time.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: My favorite story is what is it? Jim Fix? If
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  Speaker 2: that name sounds familiar. Jim Fix basically brought running into
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  Speaker 2: our society, you know, a distance running because so many
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  Speaker 2: people run, and he was a runner, and he was
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  Speaker 2: fifty two years old when he was running and had
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  Speaker 2: a heart attack and died right there on the pavement.
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  Speaker 1: Running will kill you every single time. That jogging business
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  Speaker 1: is just so dangerous, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Jim Eric Dane, the actor who big national story died
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  Speaker 2: of ALS lou Gerrigg's disease.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: And it seemed to me that this was very rapid
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  Speaker 2: because all the stories I know about ALS is that
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  Speaker 2: it takes a long time for people to die and
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  Speaker 2: it is a horrific death in which the stays lucid
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  Speaker 2: and you're just you can't move your body towards the end.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's well. So the timing wise average person is
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  Speaker 3: two to five years is what they say is the
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  Speaker 3: life expectancy if someone diagnosed with Luke Garrett disease. So
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  Speaker 3: he was a little definitely off of that with I
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  Speaker 3: think he was only diagnosed about a year ago. And
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  Speaker 3: somebody like Stephen Hawkings though he seemed to have some
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  Speaker 3: other variant because he lived a long time with Luke
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  Speaker 3: Gerrig's that's very unusual. But you're right, and what it
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  Speaker 3: does is it affects the motor neurons, and so it
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  Speaker 3: only affects movement. You can still you still have full sensation,
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  Speaker 3: your brain works just fine, but you do start slurring
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  Speaker 3: your speech and other things that you need your voluntary
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  Speaker 3: muscles for. And so over time it's progressive and you
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  Speaker 3: kind of get locked in. So not very good treatments.
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  Speaker 3: The treatments, there are some treatments that slow down the progression.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why maybe getting diagnosed early is a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more helpful. But really it's the main treatment is
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  Speaker 3: to give people support through it and give them all
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  Speaker 3: the proper equipment and physical therapy and occupational therapy to
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  Speaker 3: be able to continue to use their muscles as long
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  Speaker 3: as possible.
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  Speaker 1: And you're you're trapped in your own body.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it sounds horrific that you can't move, you
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  Speaker 2: can't do anything. And I mean, I'm one of those
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  Speaker 2: people that if I were to get this legitimately, I
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  Speaker 2: would be jumping into the death the death with dignity
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  Speaker 2: acts so quickly and kill myself. And they can't do
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  Speaker 2: it right because they don't have the ability to say
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  Speaker 2: anything towards the very end.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's what you know, especially somebody like
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  Speaker 3: Stephen Hawking who learned with one cheek muscle how to
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  Speaker 3: completely communicate with everyone. You know, there are ways that
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  Speaker 3: you can work around that, but no, you know, communication
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  Speaker 3: is difficult, you know, and movement and yeah, already of
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  Speaker 3: life clearly is significantly reduced when you can't move, but
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  Speaker 3: yet you can still think and sense and process.
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  Speaker 4: It's a tough to do.
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  Speaker 2: How much studying is there in terms of finding a
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  Speaker 2: cure for this. It seems like it's common enough where
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  Speaker 2: piles of money would go into research.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. Sure, researchers are looking at this and trying to
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: solve this problem. And like I said, there's been over
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: the last couple decades, there's been treatments that have come out.
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  Speaker 3: There's one that looks very promising in the early stages,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: so stage one, stage two, and then all of a
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: sudden it got stage three and it just did not
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: show any significant efficacy. So it's pulled from the market. So,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, people are putting money into this, but it's tough.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: It's a tough one to solve because we really don't know.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Number one, it seems multifactorial that we don't know what
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: causes it. People are looking at toxins, but no one
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: toxin has been identified as a risk factor for Lugarrig's
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  Speaker 3: disease or als. They looked at genetics. About ten percent
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: of the cases have this sod one gene or this
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: gene attributed to lugar to als. So you know, it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't seem to be fully genetically transmitted, but partially so.
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  Speaker 4: And we do know that when they look at studies
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  Speaker 4: of people who if you if you don't you know
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  Speaker 4: the usual healthy things, you smoke less, you eat well,
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: you get more exercises, those people seem to have a
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: lower risk of getting Lugaer's disease.
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  Speaker 2: And one last one want to talk about is Catherine
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  Speaker 2: O'Hara who died way too young from a pulmonary embolism
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  Speaker 2: very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: If you would explain that and how common is that?
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: So in people like her it's extremely common because she
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: had cancer. Right, So, what a pulmonary embolism is is
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: typically a blood clot that starts in your legs and
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: then it breaks off. It moves through the bloodstream through
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: the heart and then returns to the lung like your
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: blood would return to the lungs for oxygenation. That blood
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: clot follows that path and then blocks the blood flow
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: through the lung. That's a pulmonary embolism as opposed to
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: extremity embolism, and it's life threatening. It's extremely common, you know,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: working in a hospital, I don't go more than a
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: day about without thinking about pulmonary embolisms and blood clots
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: and without discussing with somebody ways to reduce pulmonary ambulances
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: and blood clots. It's that common, but people are not
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: necessarily aware of them, and it's a big cause of
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: death underdiagnosed initially because people might blow off the symptoms.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: So the risk factors are if you've been mobilized and
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: blood flow has slowed, if you've had an injury to
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: a leg.
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  Speaker 4: Then you'll get a plea to get a blood clot
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: in there.
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  Speaker 3: So vascular damage and especially anything that makes you hyper coagulable,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: and that can be either you have a genetic predisposition,
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: so you're you're missing some blood clotting balancing factors, you
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: have cancer, you're taking hormone replacement therapy, you know estrogen,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: and you smoke. Those two together are pretty much a
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: guaranteed blood clot people who recently been pregnant and delivered
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: things like that. So people with those risk factors need
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: to be careful. When you get a blood clot, you'll
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: feel a sharp pain in your chest that usually gets
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: worse when you take a deep breath, so it's more
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: of a it's not that dull ache of a heart attack.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: It's sharp pain worse. When you take a deep breath,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: your pulse usually goes up pretty quickly because your heart's
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: trying to get more blood through the lungs and it can.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: It's working against a blockage, you know, and you start
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: breathing a little bit faster. You feel shorter breath. When
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: you see my symptoms, you got to go to the
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: r right away, especially if your legs swollen.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: All right, Jim, let's get together again, which we haven't
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: done in a couple of weeks.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: And whenever I'm with Jim on the air, of.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Course, I talk about death a whole lot, because that's
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite topics.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: But when Jim and I go have lunch, what do
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I talk about, Jim?
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Nothing but death and dying.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: That is correct, That is absolutely correct. Jim will catch
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: you next Wednesday. You have a good one. All right,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: here we go. Coming up right now is Gary and Shannon.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Today is Humpday. Wednesday, Friday is foody Friday. Tomorrow is Thursday.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Thursday we are start Thursday. Yeah, now I have to
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: come so we have to come up with some name
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: for Thursday. So I have yet to figure this out.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: All right, tomorrow morning we start Thursday Thursday with Amy
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: and Will at five am. Neil and I jump in
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: from six to just about now and Gary, not Gary.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Gary's up tomorrow is up next? And can you imagine
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I just conflated Anne and Gary? Did that?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know? Now is one?
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I don't even want to go there.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I really don't, although I did talk about Oh if
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: you missed it, I talked about mister Plutnam who used
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: to give me swats in junior high school. And that's
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: when corporal punishment and for football players go to be
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: pe teachers. Former women sports people go to be pe teachers,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: except they're all lesbians. Okay, we're done, guys. That's a
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: medical fact.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: You didn't know that.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, we're done.
• 25:25
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