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The Fate of 20,000 Ballots and Daylight Savings Is Back with Dr. Jim Keany · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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Speaker 2: A quick word about a new podcast that I'm doing
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Speaker 3: As you know, I enjoy traveling.
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Speaker 2: That's where my disposable income goes. And so Linz and
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Speaker 2: I are having a travel podcast called Excessive Baggage.
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Speaker 3: It says everything about our relationship, too.
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Speaker 2: fun videos up. I don't know what else Lindsay put up,
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Speaker 2: but there's one with my very special, special relationship with
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Speaker 2: Eddie the giraffe and using the restroom facilities out in
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Speaker 2: the African bush. So, yeah, we'll have a good time
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Speaker 2: with that for sure. OK, a story I want to
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Speaker 2: share with you, and we've sort of done this before,
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Speaker 2: kind of, sort of. And that is about falling birth
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Speaker 2: rates in certainly the Western world, the country's first world countries.
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Speaker 2: And this has to do with schools across the country.
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Speaker 2: And it's about U.S. public school enrollment, falling birth rates,
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Speaker 2: not enough kids. which means the schools don't get enough
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Speaker 2: money because they still have the buildings. They still have
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Speaker 2: to maintain them. They still have, for the most part,
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Speaker 2: the same teachers, and the money coming in is not happening.
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Speaker 3: Now, the money coming in, and.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to use LAUSD because that's where I went
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Speaker 2: to school, and I know the most about it. The
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Speaker 2: money that pays for the school, and it's like $ 10, 000
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Speaker 2: or $ 13, 000 a kid per year now, for the most
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Speaker 2: part comes from Washington. And it's based on attendance. That's
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Speaker 2: why when we went to school, attendance was really, really important.
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Speaker 2: In junior high, there was homeroom. In high school, there
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Speaker 2: was homeroom where they checked off who was there. And
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Speaker 2: then that record went into the school and then it
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Speaker 2: was submitted to the governmental authorities. And based on that,
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Speaker 2: money would come in. Well, and now you look at homeroom,
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Speaker 2: who's here? Not that many as before, which means money
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Speaker 2: is way down. And the schools are scrambling for money.
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Speaker 2: For example, there's a town in Massachusetts. And Massachusetts has
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Speaker 2: probably the best education system, K through 12, in the country. But,
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Speaker 2: you know, programs like middle school band, elementary school science classes,
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Speaker 2: all on the chopping block. And when I went to school, Well,
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Speaker 2: when I went to elementary school, they used to hand
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Speaker 2: out crayons and little boxes with pencils in them and rulers.
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Speaker 2: When's the last time you think a student got a ruler? Well,
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Speaker 2: some students in certain districts get a computer. The problem
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Speaker 2: is those don't do well because a lot of these
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Speaker 2: kids sell their computers, break the computers. Free stuff is, well,
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Speaker 2: it's really hard to control that. Because when you don't
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Speaker 2: pay for it and it's free, you don't take care
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Speaker 2: of it. And by the way, schools can't afford those anymore.
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Speaker 2: And without grants, major computer companies giving 50,000 computers to
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Speaker 2: a school district, for example, it ain't going to happen.
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Speaker 3: So when I went to.
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Speaker 2: Elementary school, it was these rulers and crayons and all
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Speaker 2: kinds of stuff. uh different things to make uh to
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Speaker 2: make it easier to learn you.
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Speaker 3: Got stuff you got swag to make.
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Speaker 2: It easier to learn uh come junior high uh i
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Speaker 2: was uh in band uh if i couldn't afford an
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Speaker 2: instrument we got an instrument the vast majority of us
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Speaker 2: use school instruments that were paid for now were they
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Speaker 2: the best instruments out there no but they were pretty
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Speaker 2: good And those of us who were serious would go
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Speaker 2: out and buy their own instruments. And I remember I
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Speaker 2: played trumpet, and my parents went out and bought me
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Speaker 2: a trumpet. And let me tell you how badly I played.
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Speaker 3: I was horrific.
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Speaker 2: And there I was in junior high school in the band.
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Speaker 2: And they had an orchestra as well as a band.
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Speaker 2: And the same thing in high school. I was in
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Speaker 2: marching band. Now, those of us who were in marching band,
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Speaker 2: that was actually a lot of fun. I was in
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Speaker 2: Birmingham High School, the marching band. We were the Braves
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Speaker 2: at that time. And now they're the Patriots because, of course,
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Speaker 2: if you're the Braves, that's racist. And incidentally, there wasn't
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Speaker 2: one complaint in the district about using the name the Braves.
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Speaker 2: It was somebody at the district office that said, oh, no,
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Speaker 2: that's racist.
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Speaker 3: So it became the Patriots. So there I was.
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Speaker 2: As a brave marching around. I was so bad. I
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Speaker 2: was playing the baritone horn at the time. I was
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Speaker 2: so bad that the teacher wouldn't let me play for real.
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Speaker 2: And we used to march, you know, how they do
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Speaker 2: the marches with the letters and all of that. Ours
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Speaker 2: was so screwed up because everybody was high. We all
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Speaker 2: would smoke marijuana the night of the Friday nights when
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Speaker 2: the games were on the football game. So we were
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Speaker 2: all just, have you seen Stanford football? their marching band
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Speaker 2: that they just move around with absolutely no control and
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Speaker 2: no discipline that's what we did and I played the
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Speaker 2: baritone horn where'd I get the baritone horn I got
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Speaker 2: it from the school because there were programs to pay
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Speaker 2: for instruments and uniforms the school paid for uniforms and.
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Speaker 3: And I was, oh, I don't think I've ever shared
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Speaker 3: this with anybody.
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Speaker 2: Do you know I was actually asked to be, not
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Speaker 2: the mascot, the band leader, you know, the guy who's
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Speaker 2: in front and sort of, yes, with a baton and yes,
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Speaker 2: exactly right, making all the motions. And it was, I
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Speaker 2: remember we were the Braves, and it was a leather
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Speaker 2: outfit with tassels and a headdress. I mean, this costs
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Speaker 2: some real money. And the school produced it, and I
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Speaker 2: was asked to do it, and I had a little
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Speaker 2: bit of a tryout. And the dancing, you know, the
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Speaker 2: parading I was supposed to be, it was so bad
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Speaker 2: because I was tripping and I looked stupid. And so
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Speaker 2: they yanked that away from me. And you would go
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Speaker 2: for a week. It was somewhere back east, paid for
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Speaker 2: by the school to practice doing what they do, prancing around.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it was really impressive. You think those days
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Speaker 2: are there? I'd like to go back to Birmingham. Well,
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Speaker 2: it's not a high school anymore. It's now a magnet school,
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Speaker 2: and they don't have those things.
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Speaker 3: And it's adult.
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Speaker 2: It's some kind of an adult school also, English for
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Speaker 2: a second language or an immigrant school that teaches immigrants English.
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Speaker 2: you know, the language and how to deal with, you know,
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Speaker 2: job applications, that sort of thing, which, of course, did
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Speaker 2: not exist when I was in school. As a matter
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Speaker 2: of fact, English as a second language never existed. And now,
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Speaker 2: of course, they have these teachers and they pay for
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Speaker 2: the teachers with federal money, with state money, and I
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Speaker 2: came to the United States speaking not a word of English.
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Speaker 3: Not a word.
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Speaker 2: And I was thrown into school speaking only Portuguese, and
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Speaker 2: it was a baptism in fire. I was thrown into
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Speaker 2: the deep end of the school. And it took me
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Speaker 2: about three weeks to start learning some rudimentary words. And
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Speaker 2: within the first semester, I was already speaking English because
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Speaker 2: that's what happens. It's not because I'm smart. It's because
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Speaker 2: that's what happens. When you're forced to learn another language
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Speaker 2: and nobody speaks your language and it's basically it's an
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Speaker 2: immersion program because you have no choice. Today, what do
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Speaker 2: you think happens with kids who don't speak English? They
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Speaker 2: can go through school not speaking a word of English.
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Speaker 2: And what happens today, which never existed before? was someone
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Speaker 2: that speaks only Spanish, can go to school only in Spanish,
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Speaker 2: get a job only in Spanish, move into a Hispanic
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Speaker 2: neighborhood or stay in a Hispanic neighborhood, Spanish television, Spanish radio,
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Speaker 2: and literally spend 60 years here and not speak a
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Speaker 2: word of Spanish and die. Boy, those days don't exist anymore.
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Speaker 2: It's a different change. And we go back to this
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Speaker 2: baby bust. It is whatever programs that were out there.
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Speaker 2: Not only is the money not coming in, but the
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Speaker 2: money coming in on behalf of the number of students
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Speaker 2: is dropping like a rock.
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Speaker 3: OK, there I was. I don't think I never shared
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Speaker 3: that with you. The marching band story.
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Speaker 4: That I am.
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Speaker 3: That's the first time I heard it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And you hear, when you're with me, I mean, I've
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Speaker 2: been doing 20 hours a week on, basically, was it 20? No,
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Speaker 2: it's 15 hours a week on this show. And I've
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Speaker 2: been doing it, it'll be 34 years in July.
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Speaker 3: And I've only been with you for three years. So
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Speaker 3: I'm sure I'm going to hear lots of new stuff.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And you, no, you're not.
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Speaker 2: You've heard every single story I have dozens of times.
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Speaker 5: Dozens.
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Speaker 3: Dozens. occasionally every once in.
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Speaker 2: A while, I will remember the deep Reese's of my mind.
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Speaker 2: You know, when I talk about the deep Reese's of
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Speaker 2: my mind, that's a quick other story. And I've, I've
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Speaker 2: shared this with you. There are no Jewish alcoholics.
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Speaker 3: Do you know that? Very few.
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Speaker 2: You'll very rarely see a Jewish male alcoholic.
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Speaker 3: And why is that?
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Speaker 2: Because Jew Jewish boys are circumcised at the age of
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Speaker 2: eight days old.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 3: That's Jewish law.
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Speaker 2: And the way they get the kid drunk, they literally
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Speaker 2: get the infant drunk and they take a little piece
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Speaker 2: of cloth, dip it in wine, and the kid suckles
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Speaker 2: on it and.
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Speaker 3: Basically gets high, literally gets drunk. And so what happens? Well,
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Speaker 3: we never know.
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Speaker 2: Go into the deep recess of the mind and the
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Speaker 2: kid now, this is subconscious, equates alcohol, Schwantz being cut off, alcohol,
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Speaker 2: Schwantz being cut off. That's why there are no alcoholics.
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Speaker 2: That's why we don't drink.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 3: There you go.
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Speaker 2: All right, coming up, the judge denies the Fed's request
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Speaker 2: to block those 20,000 California ballots. No surprise there, but
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Speaker 2: I'm going to share with you what the judge, Judge
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Speaker 2: David O. Carter, wrote, blistering against the federal government. We'll
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Speaker 2: finish with that, and then we'll talk about medical news
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Speaker 2: at the bottom of the hour with Jim Keeney.
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Speaker 3: Alcohol, Schwantz being cut off. Alcohol equals Schwantz cut.
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Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 3: Think of that for a moment.
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Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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Speaker 2: Some polls just came out, basically a CNN poll. That's
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Speaker 2: all I'm looking at right now. But others are coming
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Speaker 2: out also. The Democrats across the country are actually moving
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Speaker 2: even further ahead. And it's well, it's tough for the
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Speaker 2: Republicans right now because they can't talk about the cost
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Speaker 2: of living. They can't talk about the cost of oil.
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Speaker 2: They can't talk about affordability. I mean, there's just no
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Speaker 2: You know, they can't pair it with the president said
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Speaker 2: costs are down. They can't talk about the war in Iran,
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Speaker 2: how great that is. So now it's a question of
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Speaker 2: simply attacking the Democrats more so than usual. And I
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Speaker 2: got to tell you, it doesn't look like it's working,
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Speaker 2: even with Musk throwing in over 400 million dollars into
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Speaker 2: Republican races.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: A little bit about politics, sort of a spin that
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Speaker 2: we know about. And this has to do with the
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Speaker 2: Trump administration's asking California to take 20,000 ballots, that the
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Speaker 2: administration says there is some doubt. They have evidence that
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Speaker 2: the citizenship of these 20,000 people is at question, and
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Speaker 2: therefore removing those ballots, not counting them. And they went
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Speaker 2: to court on it, and the lower court judge said—
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to make a decision here. Then they
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Speaker 2: went to the appeals court and the appeals court said,
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Speaker 2: we're not going to let you appeal when no decision
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Speaker 2: has been made. So go back to the lower court. Well,
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Speaker 2: the lower court, U.S. District Judge David O'Carter, man, issued
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Speaker 2: a scathing decision, of course, saying no to the feds
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Speaker 2: about blocking those votes. And he ruled that the administration's
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Speaker 2: allegations were were not credible. Basically, they're lying straight out.
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Speaker 2: And the intervention would violate all kinds of federal laws
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Speaker 2: and would sow chaos in the ongoing midterm election and
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Speaker 2: would likely lead to the disenfranchisement of legitimate voters, among
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Speaker 2: them the 20,000 or many of them, and foster future
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Speaker 2: political meddling in elections. And this, I'm going to quote
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Speaker 2: him because, I mean, this is scathing. This request violates
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Speaker 2: longstanding constitutional principles mandating that states have control over their elections.
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Speaker 2: If the administration's last minute requests for relief were granted,
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Speaker 2: either party could create chaos for their own political purposes
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Speaker 2: and disrupt the election process. And Carter, who's an appointee
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Speaker 2: of President Clinton, considered a liberal. wrote that never in
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Speaker 2: American history has the federal government, on the eve of
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Speaker 2: an election, sought to coerce a state and local government
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Speaker 2: to abandon its own constitutional election procedures and bend to
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Speaker 2: the will of the executive branch. And that in bringing
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Speaker 2: this lawsuit, the Trump administration is asking the court to
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Speaker 2: believe that it reigns as the sole sovereign, the administration.
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Speaker 2: And he went, but California and its people are sovereign too.
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Speaker 2: And so the Trump administration, of course, has offered, has said,
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Speaker 2: we're going to appeal this instantly. And the appeals court's
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Speaker 2: going to say no, of course, because here is the
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Speaker 2: Trump administration saying, here's a list of 20,000 people that
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Speaker 2: were questioning whether they are citizens or not. So take
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Speaker 2: these votes and remove them and don't count them until
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Speaker 2: their citizenship is ascertained. Then you can count them. Well,
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Speaker 2: how long is that going to take? That's number one.
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Speaker 2: Number two, when the court said, where do you get
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Speaker 2: those names? Where do they come from?
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Speaker 3: No answer.
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Speaker 2: What did you use to say that these were 20,000?
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Speaker 2: No answer. Where did what method did you use? It
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Speaker 2: was a third party that was used to come up
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Speaker 2: with the $ 20, 000.
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Speaker 3: No answer. It's simply the administration.
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Speaker 2: This was the assistant, one of the high-end directors. administrators
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Speaker 2: and the attorney for the government said, here's their argument
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Speaker 2: in terms of disenfranchisement. They use the same argument. If
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Speaker 2: you allow these 20,000 votes, then the other voters are
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Speaker 2: disenfranchised because that dilutes their vote and you can't let
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Speaker 2: people who are illegal or non-citizens vote. So you have
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Speaker 2: to look at all 20,000 and not count them.
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Speaker 3: And the argument is, well, how many.
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Speaker 2: Illegal folks, non-citizens, illegal aliens has ICE picked up who
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Speaker 2: are citizens?
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Speaker 3: And that is also a real problem because let's say
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Speaker 3: it's a citizen. who is not able to vote.
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Speaker 2: Because somehow the citizenship is being questioned and there's no
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Speaker 2: proof whatsoever that that person is not a citizen. And
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Speaker 2: the lawsuit says the state has to look to see
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Speaker 2: how is the state going to check?
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Speaker 3: We don't know, but the state has to check. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you can see how crazy that is.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this this election cycle is nuts, completely nuts.
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Speaker 2: And as I've said, we have the Trump administration that
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Speaker 2: is stretching the envelope as to presidential power and the
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Speaker 2: allegation that, of course, every election where a Democrat wins
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Speaker 2: is rigged.
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Speaker 3: Now, in Alaska, it's probably rigged.
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Speaker 2: Because the Democrats put someone who has the same name
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Speaker 2: as the incumbent Republican. And the argument is they just
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Speaker 2: threw that person up there to confuse the voter.
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Speaker 3: Same name. Turns out that's probably true. That is rigged.
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Speaker 3: That is rigging the election. No question about it.
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Speaker 2: So all of a sudden, the argument of every election
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Speaker 2: being rigged and you have to question every election where
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Speaker 2: a Democrat wins is That all of a sudden has
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Speaker 2: a little bit, a tiny bit of legitimacy.
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Speaker 3: Okay. Dr. Jim Keeney joins us.
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Speaker 2: It's time for medical news, the medical segment on a Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: but we're doing it on Thursday because Jim couldn't do
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Speaker 2: it yesterday.
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Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Time for medical news. And Jim comes, uh, usually joins us, uh, Dr.
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Speaker 2: Jim Keeney, Chief Medical Officer for Dignity St. Mary Medical
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Speaker 2: Center in Long Beach. Jim, you calendar this too on
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Speaker 2: the 14th, okay? We'll see you there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I love all the barbecue. I know.
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Speaker 2: It's just seriously, no kidding. And Jim loves barbecue. I
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Speaker 2: had a party here where Jim ate three pounds of barbecue.
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Speaker 2: And that was pretty impressive. And you're not that big
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Speaker 2: a guy.
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Speaker 3: Okay. Some news.
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Speaker 2: And here is kind of something interesting, that the brain
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Speaker 2: itself weeds out genetically flawed cells.
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Speaker 3: How come it didn't happen to me?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I mean, that's the point of this. This
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Speaker 7: could be kind of a window into neurologic conditions, neurologic illnesses,
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Speaker 7: mental illness, all of those things. It turns out that
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Speaker 7: we all have some cells that have gone awry, and
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Speaker 7: the brain.
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Speaker 4: Isn't an exception.
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Speaker 7: There are cells in the brain, even on a child
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Speaker 7: who's born, that are not normal.
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Speaker 4: The genetics aren't normal.
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Speaker 7: But the interesting thing is they tested, and they really
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Speaker 7: weren't specific on how they got this tissue. So I'm assuming, obviously, that.
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Speaker 4: It was a fetus that.
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Speaker 7: either was aborted or was a miscarriage. It was a
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Speaker 7: miscarriage that would seem to tip this to, wait, something
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Speaker 7: was already wrong anyway. So I do think they probably
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Speaker 7: used aborted tissue for this study. And what they looked
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Speaker 7: at was, if we look in the brain, a very
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Speaker 7: high percentage of brain cells are genetically abnormal pre-births. And
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Speaker 7: then we look at a child who's actually born, and
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Speaker 7: the genetics there are much more normal, much lower level
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Speaker 7: of abnormal genetics in the brain. So what they're saying is, look,
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Speaker 7: during development, it does seem like the brain edits out
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Speaker 7: prior to birth a lot of the troublesome cells.
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Speaker 2: Okay, with that in mind, am I right when I
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Speaker 2: say the body, this is the female body that's carrying
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Speaker 2: a child, Uh, it tends to, uh, basically discharge, uh, abort, uh,
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Speaker 2: have a miscarriage, uh, when there is some real flaws, uh, in, uh,
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to use the word and be politically correct,
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Speaker 2: in the fetus.
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Speaker 3: Can't say the word baby because, of course, I get
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Speaker 3: nailed for that.
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Speaker 2: In the fetus, the body itself self-regulates in terms of
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Speaker 2: anomaly and would get rid of a very anomalous kid
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Speaker 2: for the most part.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I guess the way you're saying it,
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Speaker 7: it kind of puts the emphasis on the woman's body.
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Speaker 7: I think that the fetus itself probably has some developmental
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Speaker 7: triggers that would cause it to not move forward in development.
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Speaker 5: Or to not survive.
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Speaker 4: So I don't think it's necessarily like the mother's body.
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Speaker 7: I think it is, though, that there are certain conditions
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Speaker 7: that are not survivable and the fetus then stops developing.
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Speaker 2: OK, fair enough. Another way of putting it. And you're
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Speaker 2: probably right and I'm probably wrong, although I hate to
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Speaker 2: admit that. Now, it's going to be we go back
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Speaker 2: to standard time, I think, coming up Saturday night or
20:16
Speaker 2: Sunday morning. And a lot of controversy about the clock
20:20
Speaker 2: falling back and going forward.
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Speaker 3: Twice a year.
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Speaker 2: Lindsay, for example, it's only one hour and she gets
20:27
Speaker 2: nailed for it and nailed by it. A lot of
20:30
Speaker 2: people do. So let's talk about the medical aspects of this.
20:33
Speaker 2: Does this make sense or does it really hurt?
20:36
Speaker 7: You know, so this one isn't as bad as springing forward, right?
20:39
Speaker 7: We're First, we've got to look at we're not adding
20:43
Speaker 7: hours of sunlight.
20:44
Speaker 5: To the day.
20:45
Speaker 7: The sun still comes up, sun still goes down, and
20:47
Speaker 7: the separation between those two isn't necessarily changing other than
20:52
Speaker 7: the normal variation where days get shorter as we move
20:55
Speaker 7: through the winter.
20:56
Speaker 5: But what we're.
20:57
Speaker 7: Doing is we're shifting more hours earlier in the day
20:59
Speaker 7: of sunlight and less at night. From a sleep perspective,
21:04
Speaker 7: that's actually beneficial. So, I mean, there are some positives
21:07
Speaker 7: to this side of the move, but this is why
21:10
Speaker 7: people say, well, we should shift to this and leave
21:13
Speaker 7: more hours.
21:14
Speaker 4: Of sunlight in the early morning.
21:16
Speaker 7: And then leave it that way forever and don't do
21:19
Speaker 7: the spring forward one because it's disruptive to people's sleep
21:24
Speaker 7: when they get too much light. Now, I don't know
21:26
Speaker 7: how much, though, if we move this thing and we
21:29
Speaker 7: change the light exposure, the sun is a big deal,
21:32
Speaker 7: but people are still staying up late at night until 2,
21:35
Speaker 7: 3 in the morning playing video games or scrolling on
21:38
Speaker 7: their phone or watching TV, and those are all very
21:41
Speaker 7: bright lights, bright enough to impact your sleep.
21:45
Speaker 5: Your levels of melatonin.
21:47
Speaker 7: It stops melatonin production when your eyes see light. And
21:50
Speaker 7: melatonin is the hormone that helps you get to sleep.
21:53
Speaker 7: So you are impacting your sleep whenever you expose your
21:56
Speaker 7: eyes to light.
21:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hate getting dark at five o'clock in the afternoon.
22:02
Speaker 2: It's just not fun. It really isn't.
22:05
Speaker 7: And I wish they would keep it on daylight savings
22:07
Speaker 7: time forever, because that's what's great is in the summertime
22:11
Speaker 7: when you can be out at the beach, you know,
22:13
Speaker 7: until nine o'clock at night and the sun's still out.
22:15
Speaker 5: It's amazing.
22:16
Speaker 6: Yeah.
22:16
Speaker 2: And you're a beachgoer. You're the surfer. You do the
22:21
Speaker 2: all that stuff and and sends me pictures because I'll
22:24
Speaker 2: never do it. Never, never in a million years. I
22:27
Speaker 2: won't even go to the beach to watch you do it.
22:29
Speaker 2: We'll be right back. Jim, we've got more to talk about.
22:33
Speaker 2: And don't go away.
22:36
Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
22:43
Speaker 3: We're coming back, Dr.
22:44
Speaker 2: Jim Keeney, as we finish our medical segment on Wednesday,
22:48
Speaker 2: except that it's Thursday because Jeb was not here yesterday
22:51
Speaker 2: and it's all very complicated.
22:52
Speaker 3: We've been talking about.
22:53
Speaker 2: Food allergies for a very long time. And usually the
22:57
Speaker 2: food allergy issue is with children and how to get
23:01
Speaker 2: rid of food allergy. And you've explained that. How about
23:04
Speaker 2: food allergies starting in adulthood? What's that about?
23:07
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, so that can come up and it
23:10
Speaker 7: just came up recently on social media. I guess Demi
23:12
Speaker 7: Lovato posted she was in the emergency room with an
23:16
Speaker 7: allergy and she posted that her thoughts were either it
23:19
Speaker 7: was sushi or passion fruit or something like that. But yeah,
23:25
Speaker 7: adults can definitely develop allergies over time. It's not unusual,
23:31
Speaker 7: especially to like shellfish and seafood. So what happens is,
23:35
Speaker 7: you know, your body gets sensitized. It's a little bit different.
23:38
Speaker 7: Sensitized is different than allergy.
23:39
Speaker 5: Your body gets sensitized to it.
23:41
Speaker 7: Your immune system then reacts and you develop an immune response.
23:47
Speaker 7: And all of a sudden, now you can get an
23:49
Speaker 7: over-response and you have an allergic reaction.
23:51
Speaker 4: So it happens.
23:53
Speaker 3: Huh.
23:53
Speaker 2: And so, yeah, I had an adult allergy came on.
23:57
Speaker 2: And as I'm allergic to getting married, as I found
24:00
Speaker 2: out that it was a little tough. I have someone
24:05
Speaker 2: here who is not laughing, strangely enough, as you are not, Jim.
24:08
Speaker 2: And usually you laugh at this stuff.
24:10
Speaker 5: Oh, I know.
24:11
Speaker 4: I know what's going to happen next time we go
24:14
Speaker 4: to dinner. I'm not laughing at that.
24:16
Speaker 3: Exactly. Okay.
24:17
Speaker 2: The Eaton fire is causing a lot of grief, obviously,
24:23
Speaker 2: in terms of rebuilding and the permits and the insurance
24:26
Speaker 2: companies and the psychological hits that are taken, but the
24:33
Speaker 2: physical aspects, the medical aspects, we're finding out that it's
24:37
Speaker 2: even more dangerous, more involved, more detrimental than we knew before.
24:43
Speaker 3: So let's end with that one.
24:45
Speaker 7: Yes, a study just came out. The lead author was
24:48
Speaker 7: from Caltech. And it involved like four or five different universities.
24:51
Speaker 7: And they were looking at samples from around the Eaton fire.
24:55
Speaker 7: It turns out that.
24:57
Speaker 5: The smoke carried more than just soot.
24:59
Speaker 7: There was lead, arsenic, a lot of other toxic things
25:03
Speaker 7: in the soot itself. So, you know, the government cleaned
25:08
Speaker 7: up around homes that were burnt down. So all of
25:11
Speaker 7: that lead containing and arsenic containing soot had been carted away.
25:16
Speaker 7: But this stuff flowed downstream with smoke. And there is
25:21
Speaker 7: still a high, you know, lead measurement in different homes
25:26
Speaker 7: that are near the fire. So it's something to be
25:28
Speaker 7: aware of because, you know, obviously we don't want lead
25:31
Speaker 7: exposure to be ongoing. If you were exposed to lead
25:33
Speaker 7: two years ago on the Eaton fire, it's almost two
25:35
Speaker 7: years now. There's not much you can do about that
25:39
Speaker 7: at this point. You know, there's people that will offer
25:42
Speaker 7: chelation therapy. There's really not a lot of evidence that
25:45
Speaker 7: that actually helps once it's already kind of embedded in
25:49
Speaker 7: your tissues or has done its damage. But if you
25:53
Speaker 7: have an ongoing exposure because the stuff is still out there,
25:56
Speaker 7: that's important to know. So people who live kind of
26:00
Speaker 7: near or downwind from a home that was burnt to
26:03
Speaker 7: the ground and they didn't get this remediation, probably a
26:06
Speaker 7: good idea to be aware that the stuff contains and
26:11
Speaker 7: other toxins, possibly have it tested.
26:13
Speaker 5: You know, if you're having symptoms, you know, be tested yourself.
26:17
Speaker 4: And, you know, even the L.A.
26:18
Speaker 7: County offers, I believe they offer free lead testing still
26:23
Speaker 7: for people who have.
26:24
Speaker 3: But that's on the ground. That's in the ground.
26:26
Speaker 2: What can you do when lead enters your system, enters
26:30
Speaker 2: your body?
26:31
Speaker 3: Is it you just have it and you live with
26:33
Speaker 3: it and you're done? There's nothing you can do to
26:35
Speaker 3: get rid of it?
26:35
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, two-year-old lead exposure, you kind of have had
26:39
Speaker 7: it and you're having the effects from it. But ongoing
26:42
Speaker 7: lead exposure, yes, we would actually do something called chelation therapy,
26:45
Speaker 7: which is a chemical reaction that binds to the lead
26:48
Speaker 7: so that your body can extract it. And so if
26:51
Speaker 7: it's in your blood, we want to do that. And
26:54
Speaker 7: we want to also, even more importantly, identify the sources
26:58
Speaker 7: where you're being exposed over and over again and eliminate
27:01
Speaker 7: those sources. So we're carrying it in, like if it
27:05
Speaker 7: is in the soil, if it is in the dust,
27:07
Speaker 7: you know, you're carrying it in on your shoes. The
27:10
Speaker 7: wind blows it in with dust. That's why an awareness
27:13
Speaker 7: of this is important.
27:14
Speaker 3: Fair enough.
27:15
Speaker 2: All right, Jim, as always, thank you. We'll catch you
27:17
Speaker 2: next Wednesday probably with some more medical news.
27:20
Speaker 3: Have a good one. Go kill people today.
27:22
Speaker 5: Take care.
27:22
Speaker 6: All right.
27:23
Speaker 3: Goodbye. That's it, guys. We're done. We're finished.
27:27
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27:32
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27:37
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27:41
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27:45
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