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Clean Water for All Act | ‘Medical News’ with Dr. Jim Keany · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: of podcasts, because of news stations. If you will, across
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  Speaker 1: the internet, you've got YouTube, you've got Facebook, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you've got all of it, Instagram, and that's where a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people get their news. Now, local radio stations
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  Speaker 1: actually make most of the money for or local news
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  Speaker 1: makes most of the money for local radio stations. It's
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  Speaker 1: those news items. It's those news programs five o'clock, six
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  Speaker 1: o'clock news, ten o'clock news, eleven o'clock news. That's what
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  Speaker 1: makes all the money. The problem is they're no longer
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  Speaker 1: making all of the money, which means that the big stations, well,
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  Speaker 1: because they're now big stations, these major groups that own
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  Speaker 1: these radio stations have to cut back and have to consolidate.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they have to cut expenses, which means longtime
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  Speaker 1: anchors have been there a long time in terms of
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  Speaker 1: people's hearts and minds, and people just grow old. With
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  Speaker 1: every day. Well, now you have people that are not
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  Speaker 1: doing that anymore. The other issue, since audio is right
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  Speaker 1: now that watch TV are getting older and young people
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  Speaker 1: are not replacing them. And you know what old people do.
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  Speaker 1: They die. Do you know how many dead people we
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  Speaker 1: many dead people listen to this show. Young people not
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  Speaker 1: so much. I run across people, and this is really
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  Speaker 1: depressing where we have people. I run across people in
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  Speaker 1: their twenties and someone will introduced me, Hey, you're Bill Handle, right,
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  Speaker 1: am Bill Handle. You're on in the morning, aren't there. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I am in the morning on KFI. My parents love you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. How about your grandparents? Oh, they love you
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  Speaker 1: even more. What does that tell you about radio listening?
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  Speaker 1: And so we're looking at a whole new world of
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  Speaker 1: people getting their information. Interestingly enough, music stations are doing okay,
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  Speaker 1: far better than news talk stations, which is exactly the
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  Speaker 1: opposite of what everyone thought. Because everybody listens to music
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  Speaker 1: literally on their devices, no commercials. I mean, that's a
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  Speaker 1: neat way to listen to music. Music stations are doing
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  Speaker 1: okay now Coast, for example, our sister station during the
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  Speaker 1: holiday season, it's Christmas music. I mean, their ratings are
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  Speaker 1: with the Christmas music on Coast, every Jew in southern
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  Speaker 1: Christmas music. I wish we could, but it's a different
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  Speaker 1: it's just a totally different world. And so you have
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  Speaker 1: our sincere thing for staying and listening, even though you
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  Speaker 1: are dead now and you can't really listen, but you
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  Speaker 1: you have my thanks. That's my if I have. But
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  Speaker 1: my next contract, I'm going to be offered forty two
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year and I will be thrilled. Thrilled
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  Speaker 1: yet that much? Okay, coming up? Still overpaid, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Oh the pay ain't the same, it really isn't. I
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  Speaker 1: mean there was a time when the pay was pretty healthy.
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  Speaker 1: That has gone down so dramatic per local.
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  Speaker 2: Anchors used to be million dollars, used to make a
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  Speaker 2: million dollars a year.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there were Yeah, virtually all the local TV
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  Speaker 1: anchors made a million dollars a year. Now, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if there are any out there that make a
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  Speaker 1: million dollars because anybody who signed a new contract the
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  Speaker 1: last three, four or five years that just dropped dramatically.
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  Speaker 1: I remember there was one anchor who was let go,
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  Speaker 1: and this was a few years ago, and we had
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  Speaker 1: down and had dinner and we talked about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how life is, and he literally told me that his
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  Speaker 1: pay had been cut seventy five percent. So if he
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  Speaker 1: were making a million dollars a year, if he was
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  Speaker 1: one of those anchors, and I have no idea if
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  Speaker 1: he was, he would go down to two fifty a year. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that's still a really healthy, great money. It's great money,
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  Speaker 1: but boy, it's very different than a million dollars a year.
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  Speaker 1: It's a new world. It is entirely a new world. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: A spent on abortion. Now there isn't a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of contra for controversy anymore about abortion.
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  Speaker 3: Roe v.
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  Speaker 1: Wade has gone. So the states are able to pass
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  Speaker 1: their own laws. Some are very liberal. California abortion literally
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  Speaker 1: defined as abortion is constitutionally protected the state constitution, and
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  Speaker 1: other states make it a Criminal Act. Well, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you about crazy. And there's a Congresswoman Mary Miller
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  Speaker 1: out of Illinois introduce the Clean Water for All Life Act. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds okay. The legislation seeks to crack down on
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  Speaker 1: the dangerous and unethical practices associated with chemical abortion pills
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  Speaker 1: and to protect both human dignity and America's water supply.
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  Speaker 1: Now that gets kind of interesting because I don't know
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  Speaker 1: quite how that connection is, but there is a connection.
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  Speaker 1: She was able to put it together. It amends Title
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  Speaker 1: eighteen of the US Code to prohibit chemical abortions conducted
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  Speaker 1: unless there's a whole series of safeguards without the physical
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  Speaker 1: presence of a health Come matter of fact, let me
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  Speaker 1: give you the safeguards. The Clean Water for All Life
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  Speaker 1: Act prohibit chemical abortions without the physical previsence of a
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  Speaker 1: healthcare provider, without a medical examination of the patient, patient
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  Speaker 1: without providing a medical waste catch kit, and a red
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  Speaker 1: bag disposal system, along with instructions for turning returning the
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  Speaker 1: waste to a healthcare provider for proper handling. Now do
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  Speaker 1: you know what that means? That if a woman loses
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  Speaker 1: a fetus, and usually when they start having uh, the
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  Speaker 1: initial UH miscarriage. Early on, women go to the toilet
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  Speaker 1: and that's what happens, and it's flushed down. And this
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  Speaker 1: bill and she says, UH that dead babies floating around
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  Speaker 1: in our water supply for the city is a health issue,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the problem. It's another way to stop abortion,
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  Speaker 1: of course, and it really has to do with metha
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  Speaker 1: fist prone, which is the abortion drug, and that's the
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  Speaker 1: one that's used the most. And so if you have
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  Speaker 1: if a woman has an abortion and does it on
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  Speaker 1: the toilet and fetal tissue UH is then flushed down
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  Speaker 1: to save people from being contaminated and getting sick, because
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  Speaker 1: these dead fetuses floating around in our water system is
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  Speaker 1: really destroying our health. Now, let's think this one through
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  Speaker 1: the human waste that goes down the toilet. That's fine
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  Speaker 1: for you in terms of your health system, in terms
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  Speaker 1: of your health and all the other fun stuff that
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  Speaker 1: goes down the toilet. So let me ask you if
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  Speaker 1: that can be filtered out and water is still safe.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the water that goes into the toilet
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  Speaker 1: does not go into our water system. It goes down
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  Speaker 1: the drain and then it's filtered out. And of course
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  Speaker 1: you have these waste treatment plants, like a hyperion plant.
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  Speaker 1: What she is saying is the dead fetuses floating around
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  Speaker 1: on the toilet, in the toilet as it's flush goes
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  Speaker 1: into our water supply and we're drinking. Okay, that is
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  Speaker 1: a tough one. I mean, that is a tough one.
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  Speaker 2: What about the homeless people sleeping in the sewer pipes?
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  Speaker 1: Off the one? T free, that's the problem. Homeless people
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  Speaker 1: floating around is more difficult, that's true. And so that
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  Speaker 1: affects our cleaning water or clean water supply. Yep. And
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  Speaker 1: it's a group of students that put this together. Kristen Hawkins,
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  Speaker 1: who is with Students for Life of America, actually came
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  Speaker 1: up with this idea and Congresswoman Mary Miller picked it
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  Speaker 1: up immediately. And basically, the point is is to prohibit
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  Speaker 1: all of this, and you do that by making it
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  Speaker 1: almost impossible to have an abortion on the toilet. I
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  Speaker 1: guess I don't know how about the rest of it,
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  Speaker 1: because she okay, how about this a having an abortion
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  Speaker 1: on your or let's says, miscarrying in your bed, which
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  Speaker 1: also happens, and if you miscarry on the kitchen floor,
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  Speaker 1: linoleum is what happens and when that linoleum is then
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  Speaker 1: put into to a landfill or somehow it goes into
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  Speaker 1: a recycling center, that affects your health. We get the point.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, I want to keep on going with this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, this is so crazy. I just want
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  Speaker 1: to keep on going with this. And the problem is,
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  Speaker 1: and of course it's going to go no place. The
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  Speaker 1: point is is that can you imagine a congress person
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  Speaker 1: twenty years ago even attempting to introduce a bill like
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  Speaker 1: this would be laughed right off the floor of the house.
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  Speaker 1: Floating dead babies in our water supply? Can't have that
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  Speaker 1: coming up. I have to ask Jim this. I have
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  Speaker 1: to ask Jim if it really is a medical problem,
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  Speaker 1: those fetuses and fetal material flying around about?
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  Speaker 2: What about medical waste? What do they do to the
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  Speaker 2: incinn rate it?
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  Speaker 1: I think they do. Isn't that why they have those
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  Speaker 1: smoke stacks at hospitals?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I don't even want to talk about smoke stacks. That
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  Speaker 1: goes into a whole different world. But I don't know
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  Speaker 1: the answer to that. You know what, let me we'll
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  Speaker 1: ask Jim that question coming up. That's a very good question,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to ask him if he actually drinks
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  Speaker 1: city water. Okay, since it is Wednesday, eight thirty, we
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  Speaker 1: go to Jim Keeney as always, doctor jim My Kinney,
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  Speaker 1: chief medical officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in
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  Speaker 1: Long Beach, also a board certified member of the er
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  Speaker 1: World and killing people. But I always say that, Jim.
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  Speaker 1: We had a question before we are going through the topics,
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  Speaker 1: and that is, I don't know if you heard about
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  Speaker 1: this crazy ass congresswoman from Illinois about dead fetuses in
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  Speaker 1: our water supply when people have an abortion, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a self abortion with metafest for metaphest prone or whatever
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  Speaker 1: the hell that's called. Anyway, Uh, the question came up
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  Speaker 1: about medical waste and what happens in the hospital with
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  Speaker 1: the medical waste. You know, they put the stuff in
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  Speaker 1: those little red boxes. What do you do with all that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh boy, that is a complicated question. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's highly regulated. So what happens is, you know, regulatory
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  Speaker 3: bodies in the in the county or the city will
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  Speaker 3: come and actually follow a trash truck to the trash
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  Speaker 3: dump and check to see if there's anything inappropriate being
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  Speaker 3: sent to uh, to the dump, because all the all
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  Speaker 3: the special trash anything like with human waste or toxic
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  Speaker 3: materials or say chemotherapy, or even down to batteries. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you can't dispose of those in the public waste system.
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  Speaker 3: So uh that we have differential wastes for all those
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  Speaker 3: different things. When you throw something away in the hospital,
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  Speaker 3: you have to think about five different buckets that you
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  Speaker 3: may have to throw it in.
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  Speaker 1: So where does it go? I mean, yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: the needles that have been used, you know, the bandages,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the people that are really sick and have
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  Speaker 1: gotten chemo. Where's all that stuff go?
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of it goes to get incinerated. So
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  Speaker 3: there's companies that will take that away for us and
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  Speaker 3: then incinerate it so that it's no longer you know,
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  Speaker 3: toxic or no longer infectious.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And then for you know, things like needles and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that. You know that that we have a disposal
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  Speaker 3: company that takes care of all those sharps and you know,
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  Speaker 3: so there's specialties for every single type of trash, you know,
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  Speaker 3: including just like you're not supposed to throw away people
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  Speaker 3: aren't supposed to throw away batteries either in their normal
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  Speaker 3: trash supposed to dispose of them properly, but especially lithium batteries.
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  Speaker 3: But you know a lot of people I think, do
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  Speaker 3: just throw them in the trash.
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  Speaker 1: Okay because and the reason I bring that up because
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  Speaker 1: Amy had that question, what do you do with the wasta?
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  Speaker 1: And so are there special places where for example, needles,
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  Speaker 1: those aren't incinerated? That's hard to do and they go
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  Speaker 1: wearing special dumps special locations.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they probably, you know, you do something
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  Speaker 3: look like melted down or crush it or whatever. Actually
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  Speaker 3: I don't you're a good question. I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: happens after they take it away. I just know so
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  Speaker 3: we can't throw it in the trash and we have
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  Speaker 3: to give it to somebody that does something special with it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, you know what I want to take conin.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take an early break here, okay, because
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  Speaker 1: we're going to come back and there's something very special
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  Speaker 1: around the world, and that is Tuberculosis Day, as we
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  Speaker 1: celebrate TB Day all over the world. And I have
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  Speaker 1: a couple of questions to ask Jim about that. Neil,
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  Speaker 1: you're giving me the.
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  Speaker 2: Weird quick Amy sent me information that said they autoclave
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  Speaker 2: that stuff so it would be similar to sanitize. So
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  Speaker 2: the needles and the sharps and stuff looks like they
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  Speaker 2: autoclave it before they deconstruct or just dispose of it.
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  Speaker 1: That makes sense. So under a fat.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting I'm going to go to work today and look
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  Speaker 3: that up and find out what happens after the needles
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  Speaker 3: leave the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: So autoclave is just heat and pressure, right, Jim, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think, yeah, that's what it is. But you know that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't it doesn't make sense because we don't reuse the needles,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, to auto autoclaving is kind of a fussy,
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  Speaker 3: detailed process that we do for things that we're going
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  Speaker 3: to use in surgery for example, or stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: But we use tattooing as well. When I used to tattoo, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: autoclave to sanitize everything, all right.
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  Speaker 1: A World TB Day. And the reason that I am
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  Speaker 1: so interested in that is my mother was a lab
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  Speaker 1: tech at All of you Medical Center in the fifties
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  Speaker 1: and when it was a TB sanitarium and very few
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  Speaker 1: people know that. Well, of course now it's the general hospital,
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  Speaker 1: but it was a sanitarium for tuberculosis and it ended
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  Speaker 1: up having three patients when it switched over. And the
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  Speaker 1: other reason I'm interested in the World TV Day is
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  Speaker 1: much like many hospitals around the country, yours also, the
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  Speaker 1: first hundred people that show up get a free TB infection.
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  Speaker 1: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Not true, Bill, not true, But it is true that
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  Speaker 3: a lot of hospitals started as TV sanitariums. The same
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  Speaker 3: thing with uc Irvine. It was a TV sanitarium initially.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, yesterday was World TV Day. It was March
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  Speaker 3: twenty fourth, because that's the day in eighteen eighty two
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  Speaker 3: that Robert Koch announced that he discovered microbacterium tuberculosis, which
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  Speaker 3: was the cause of tuberculosis, and it's still to this
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  Speaker 3: day a massive disease. We're talking about two billion people
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  Speaker 3: in the world affected. Every four people in the world
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  Speaker 3: have tuberculosis. They're infected with it, but most are in
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  Speaker 3: what we call latent stage. So the bacteria is just
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  Speaker 3: laying dormant in your body and at some point it
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  Speaker 3: becomes activated. That's how most TB cases occur, as a
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  Speaker 3: latent TB turns into active TB. So why are there
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  Speaker 3: some place where it belongs?
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  Speaker 1: Why are there so few TV cases reported? Because that's
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  Speaker 1: not a big deal here. We don't hear much about
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  Speaker 1: tuberculosis here in the States.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So it's a huge disease burden as far as
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  Speaker 3: how many people are infected, but how many people are symptomatic,
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  Speaker 3: and you're only contagious when you're symptomatic, it's only a
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  Speaker 3: small number, so ten percent of those people will convert
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  Speaker 3: to being active TB. So the point here is you
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  Speaker 3: can have a big impact on this disease and how
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  Speaker 3: it progresses by learning that you have latent TV early.
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  Speaker 3: And the only way to do that, because there's no
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  Speaker 3: symptoms at all, you have to get a test for tuberculosis.
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  Speaker 3: That little bubble like they inject into your skin is
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  Speaker 3: one way to do it. That's the cheap, easy way.
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  Speaker 3: And then a very expensive test called the Quantiferon test
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  Speaker 3: is a blood test that will tell you whether you
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  Speaker 3: have lightent TV or not. And then if you do
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  Speaker 3: get diagnosed, you can treat it. It's just one to
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  Speaker 3: two drugs for three to four months. That sounds like
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  Speaker 3: a lot, but compared to when it goes active. You're
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  Speaker 3: talking about minimum for drugs to start, minimum six months
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  Speaker 3: and as long as two years of treatment if it
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  Speaker 3: becomes active.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, the people that go to dry, hot places, which
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  Speaker 1: is traditionally before the antibiotics were kicking in. Does that help?
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything? Is there any truth to that?
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  Speaker 3: Not for tuberculosis, but what they send to tuberculosis for
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  Speaker 3: is up to high high altitude. So if you're at
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  Speaker 3: a high altitude and the oxygen levels lower, tuberculos is
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  Speaker 3: very sensitive to oxygen content, So you send people up
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  Speaker 3: to a high altitude place and and the bacteria had
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  Speaker 3: struggles to grow, struggles to stay alive in the lungs.
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  Speaker 1: How often did you see active TV cases in the er?
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  Speaker 3: You know, pretty rare that we see an active TV case,
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  Speaker 3: just like you're saying, But you know, as far as
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  Speaker 3: people testing positive and then having to be treated for it,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: that's pretty common.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: So the bottom line, if you test and there are
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: there are certain jobs where you have to test for TB,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: especially in the medical world. If you are positive, you
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: automatically go into the antibiotic phase where you have to
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: be treated.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Correct. So if you test positive, then the first thing
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: is you want to decide is this really latent TB
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: or do you have an early stage of active TV
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: and you didn't know it. So typically you'll get a
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: chest X ray. You know, we'll look and see if
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: you actually have active TB. If you do, then we
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: have to do the active TV treatment. If you don't,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: then yeah, we get the nice simple latent TB movement
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: for a few months. Again, not contagious at that stage,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: so you can keep working if you you know, work
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: in a hospital. You can keep you know, being exposed
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: to your family members, and you don't have to worry
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: about infecting them. And by treating it, you don't worry
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: now that you're going to become active and start infecting people.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: You know, a lot of times you're infectious before you
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: have significant symptoms because it's just a dry cough something.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: The early stages are very dry cough, so it doesn't
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: seem anything but annoying for a long time, and then
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: when it doesn't go away, you finally get a cheesticks
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: ray and realize, oh my gosh, I have active TV
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: and I've been doing it for months.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Hey, doc, is is TB what they used to call
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: the consumption?
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they used to call it galloping consumption. That's before
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: they knew what caused it, right, we didn't know what
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: caused it. It looked almost the patients look like cancer
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: patients because it drains so much energy out of the body.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: They lose it on a weight, they become really gaunt,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: and they just look like they're suffering from answer. So
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: it literally consumes your body from the inside out.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Doc Holiday, Okay, the okay, okay, corral had consumption, died
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: of it, and so you forget asked out on Jeopardy.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: You're going to have you have a winning answer, all right, Jim,
• 22:16
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• 22:19
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Take care as.
• 22:20
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• 22:23
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• 22:26
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