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Memorial Day Edition: Best of the Bill Handel Show Part. 3 · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listenings KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles Show
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  Speaker 1: and whether you're heading down the five or just firing
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  Speaker 1: up the grill, we have your Memorial Day morning covered.
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  Speaker 1: Why how is the best of the bill Handle Show?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Moving into another topic I want to share with you,
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  Speaker 1: and that has to do with school cell phone bands. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when my girls were twelve thirteen years old, all the
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  Speaker 1: they said, all the kids have cell phones in the classroom,
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  Speaker 1: and I wouldn't let them have I would not let
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  Speaker 1: them have cell phones, wouldn't do it. And then one
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  Speaker 1: of my daughters said, but all the kids have cell phones.
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  Speaker 2: Dad.
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  Speaker 1: I said, okay. So I asked to go to school
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  Speaker 1: to ask the kids, and I said yes. I went
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  Speaker 1: into the classroom of one of my daughters and I said,
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  Speaker 1: how many of you have cell phones? Every single one
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  Speaker 1: of them had cell phones except my daughter. Okay, that
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  Speaker 1: conversation change now she has a cell phone. The argument
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  Speaker 1: has always been cell phones in the classroom are distraction.
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  Speaker 1: People still bully each other. Grades go down, harder to
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  Speaker 1: teach kids because they're looking at the cell phones.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a study just.
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  Speaker 1: Came out and it was published by the National Bureau
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  Speaker 1: of Economic Research. The University of Michigan and Stanford and
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  Speaker 1: Duke and University of Pennsylvania jumped into this, and we're
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  Speaker 1: talking forty thousand students were looked at. And here is
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  Speaker 1: the bottom line. Grade scores didn't change at all. It
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  Speaker 1: did nothing to change the grade scores allowing kids to
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  Speaker 1: have cell phones. So researchers compared schools that use the
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  Speaker 1: cell phone covers by Yonder. Yonder is a company that
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  Speaker 1: makes those pouches that cell phones go into and they
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  Speaker 1: can only be opened up. Now, I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: that works, because I am in favor of kids having
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  Speaker 1: cell phones. Not using them, mind you, but having cell phones. Why.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's so crazy out there. An active shooter comes
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  Speaker 1: in there, every kid is evacuated. Parents want to know. Man,
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  Speaker 1: The first thing parents want to know is my kid, okay?
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  Speaker 1: And if the kid isn't able to use that cell phone,
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  Speaker 1: everybody is panicked. You've got hundreds of parents that are panicked.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to know.
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  Speaker 3: There's never been a case where that's helped in any way,
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  Speaker 3: shape or form ever.
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  Speaker 2: Kid know, because kids are never helped.
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  Speaker 3: And God forbid, a parent tries to be a hero
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  Speaker 3: and go in and goes down there without law enforcement
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  Speaker 3: back up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even arguing that. I'm not arguing that.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm saying is, let's say there is a problem
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  Speaker 1: at school and the first thing kid does is call
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  Speaker 1: the parents.
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  Speaker 2: Mom, I'm okay, Mom, I'm not hurt.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's critical for parents to know that, as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to being compared to.
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  Speaker 3: Who's financing who's financing this study?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't even know. I think it's this company
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  Speaker 1: that makes these pouches. And there's a couple of ways
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  Speaker 1: of doing this. First of all, in some instances, cell
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  Speaker 1: phones are simply confiscated or held at the office until
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  Speaker 1: school is out. In other cases, you have these pouches
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  Speaker 1: that are locked and the kids can't get to them,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't understand how, and then they're unlocked if
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  Speaker 1: there's a problem. I don't understand how that works. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: technologically speaking, some schools allow kids to use cell phones
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  Speaker 1: between classes. Others do not allow cell phones to be
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  Speaker 1: used or even held by a kid. The bottom line,
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  Speaker 1: all of these protections did nothing in terms of grade scores.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Now do they help kids in terms of feeling better. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the study seems to do that. Also, cell phones and
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  Speaker 1: this one I don't even think about, tend to allow
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  Speaker 1: kids to self anesthetize, because that's what the study showed,
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  Speaker 1: is that kids need cell phones. The other situation is
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  Speaker 1: that every kid out there has a computer in school.
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  Speaker 1: There isn't a kid out there it doesn't have a
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  Speaker 1: computer in the classroom. And so the bottom line is
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  Speaker 1: do you let your kid have a cell phone? I
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  Speaker 1: do you lock it up? I think that a cell
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  Speaker 1: phone should be allowed by every kid at all times.
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  Speaker 1: And if you use it during the course of school,
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  Speaker 1: if you're caught during class, okay, off you go to
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  Speaker 1: the administration.
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  Speaker 2: Off you go to the vice principal. No, we're confiscating it.
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  Speaker 1: So the part that I've find absolutely fascinating here is
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  Speaker 1: that with all of the controls, all of the removal
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  Speaker 1: of cell phones in various different ways, didn't change a
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  Speaker 1: damn thing.
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  Speaker 2: I call bs.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's been long enough because.
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  Speaker 2: We barely did this. Every teacher I've ever.
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  Speaker 3: Talked to said they are a menace. You've got kids
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  Speaker 3: being bullied digitally. There is no way this is a
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  Speaker 3: balanced study. There's no way you can remove phones and
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  Speaker 3: not make it better, for that doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 2: No, there are issues where it does make it better.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, later, No, the study says said, and it
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  Speaker 4: said it is, there are distractions, there are some advantages.
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  Speaker 4: But the bottom line, and how do you test the
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  Speaker 4: way a kid learns is how do you know?
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  Speaker 2: You have to do testing?
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  Speaker 1: And the testing shows this forty thousand kids over a
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  Speaker 1: couple of three years. The testing shows that the that
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  Speaker 1: the increase or that the that theoretically the increase in
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  Speaker 1: testing scores should go up, and it doesn't. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: much for that, don't ever call the s on a
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  Speaker 1: position that I take okay excellent The old Rouseberry okay,
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  Speaker 1: okay article in the Washington Post. Also some inner some
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  Speaker 1: science here.
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  Speaker 2: Brain rot.
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  Speaker 1: It's it describes being very online and it's harming our brains.
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  Speaker 2: That's one brain rot.
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  Speaker 1: The feeling of coming up for air after spending too
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  Speaker 1: many hours scrolling through social media. That can be brain rot.
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  Speaker 1: Describing the content itself brain rot. It's a noun, it's
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  Speaker 1: a verb, it's an adjective, depending on how you look
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  Speaker 1: at it. So there's a woman who wrote a book
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  Speaker 1: how to Break up with your phone, Catherine Price, and
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  Speaker 1: she not only looked at the studies of people going
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  Speaker 1: through their phone in scrolling, etc.
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  Speaker 2: And there are studies out there.
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  Speaker 1: She has heard from thou this is anecdotally, has heard
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  Speaker 1: from thousands of people since her book was published.
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  Speaker 2: Struggling to focus.
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  Speaker 1: For example, people used to love reading in books are
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  Speaker 1: unable to finish a book the smartphones. What they've done
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  Speaker 1: is increase, exacerbate, exacerbated our inclination to be easily distracted.
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  Speaker 1: That's what this is about. So here's research shows that
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  Speaker 1: scrolling through short videos TikTok, Instagram, YouTube shorts is affecting
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  Speaker 1: our attention, our memory, our mental health. There is scientific
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  Speaker 1: literature out there that shows increase use the short form
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  Speaker 1: video is linked to poor cognition and increase anxiety. And
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  Speaker 1: here is the interesting part. Our brains are distractable naturally.
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  Speaker 1: For example, you're reading a book, or you hear a
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  Speaker 1: loud noise, You're wired to look up and go, well,
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  Speaker 1: was that a gun shot? Was that a car backfiring.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is with constant interruptions, whether it's phone notifications
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  Speaker 1: or switching from topic to topic as you scroll, It fragments
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  Speaker 1: our attention. Now, the question is are there long term
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  Speaker 1: implications if you look at the science again, Jason Chen,
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  Speaker 1: the professor of psychology and neuroscience at Temple University, says,
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  Speaker 1: we do know there are certain parts of the brain,
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  Speaker 1: certain connections between regions of the brain that look like
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  Speaker 1: they're differentiated.
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  Speaker 2: Between people who are online more.
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  Speaker 1: They can see it when they do cat scans. More
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  Speaker 1: people who spend more time on social media, who are
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  Speaker 1: more attached to their phones, show less ability to focus. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that causation is a correlation? Is causation
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  Speaker 1: for executive you don't know? Are people easily distracted go
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  Speaker 1: to phones? You know? For example, here's the example I give.
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  Speaker 1: There was a scandal, a little tiny bit of a
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  Speaker 1: scandal of Catholic priests dorking little boys.
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  Speaker 2: You remember that. Now, the argument is.
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  Speaker 1: The church responsible for the door kiosity or is the
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  Speaker 1: church just a safe place for people who do that?
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  Speaker 2: Not the church's fault. It's just it's the people's fault
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  Speaker 2: who then go to the church. You see the problems.
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  Speaker 2: So there isn't a real, real close connection.
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  Speaker 1: There was a twenty twenty five study that was published
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  Speaker 1: in the journal Translational psychiatry and researchers looked at data
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  Speaker 1: for more than seven thousand kids around the country. More
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  Speaker 1: screen use was associated with it's a little complicated cortical thickness,
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  Speaker 1: I mean just the way the brain works. And the
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  Speaker 1: science has said that this is important for controlling addictive behaviors.
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  Speaker 2: So the more use.
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  Speaker 1: The more scrolling you do, the more you pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to the phones, the more addictive you can be.
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  Speaker 2: And again, are addictive.
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  Speaker 1: People going to phones or are phones causing the addiction adhd?
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  Speaker 1: ADHD is a big, big problem and another important factor.
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  Speaker 1: Screen time usually means nighttime use. You're in bed scrolling.
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  Speaker 1: It happens a lot. You're just that's where you spend
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  Speaker 1: an enormous amount of time scrolling. And here is what
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  Speaker 1: some of the research says. The number one reason why
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  Speaker 1: kids are not getting the eight hours recommended eight hours
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  Speaker 1: is they're using the screens just too much.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And over time, not getting enough sweep sleep, especially in adolescents,
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  Speaker 1: reduces the white matter in the brain. And what does
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  Speaker 1: that mean. Well, white matter is what grows among teenagers.
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  Speaker 1: You've heard about adolescents, and you really don't have your
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  Speaker 1: full brain functioning, your full brain ability to look at
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  Speaker 1: factors and see what's dangerous, which is why teenagers and
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  Speaker 1: young people are crazy. They will do things. They're invulnerable.
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  Speaker 1: No one's going to kill us. Nothing's going to kill us. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that is a question of the brain not evolving, and
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't evolve till you're in your late twenties. So
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  Speaker 1: the bottom line is this ain't good for you. And
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  Speaker 1: here are some suggestions. No screens in the bedroom for anyone.
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  Speaker 1: Make conscious decisions when using chat bots. Our brains love shortcuts,
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  Speaker 1: but if you don't use a skill, you lose the skill,
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  Speaker 1: and the chat bots do all your thinking for you.
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  Speaker 2: You don't spend a lot of time analyzing. They do it.
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  Speaker 1: And the problem is, again, if you don't use it,
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  Speaker 1: you lose it. And that's a real problem. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to find some major, major problems with screening. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have that problem because I don't screen very much. I
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  Speaker 1: don't scroll very much. I don't I don't get my
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  Speaker 1: news from the internet. I don't get my news.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't. We would have never guess that by
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  Speaker 2: the term you just used. I don't scroll very much.
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  Speaker 1: I don't scroll my screen very much. I don't screen
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  Speaker 1: my scroll.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you have the attention span of a gnat already long.
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  Speaker 2: But it's true. But that has nothing to do.
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  Speaker 1: That's true because I don't have the patience to actually
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  Speaker 1: screen my scroll. Okay, when someone gets lung cancer or
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  Speaker 1: dies of lung cancer, what's the first thing we ask?
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  Speaker 2: First thing?
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  Speaker 3: Were they a smoker?
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  Speaker 2: Were they a smoker?
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  Speaker 1: And when you talk about people who have died of
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  Speaker 1: lung cancer, big names, Walt Disney comes to mind. He
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  Speaker 1: was sixty six years old and died of lung cancer.
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  Speaker 1: John Wayne died of lung cancer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And were they smokers?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, Walt Disney smoked three packs of cigarettes a day.
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  Speaker 1: He constantly had a cigarette in his hands.
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  Speaker 3: You know an interesting fact, by the way, about that
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  Speaker 3: Bill is at the parks, no one ever points with
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  Speaker 3: one finger one because it's rude. They point with two fingers.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of that stems back to the photographs
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  Speaker 3: of Walt himself pointing with two fingers. But it was
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  Speaker 3: him holding a cigarette, and they would they would clean
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  Speaker 3: it photo well back then they would do it with
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  Speaker 3: pencils and stuff. So that's why he's always pointing with
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  Speaker 3: two fingers.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm. I didn't know that. That is an interesting point.
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  Speaker 1: Remember no mustache is the only person in the entire
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  Speaker 1: Disney system who could have a mustache was Walt Disney,
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  Speaker 1: and that came as a result of theirs. There just
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  Speaker 1: were too many Armenian employees, women particularly, that were wearing mustaches.
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  Speaker 1: We Okay, you knew I was going to go there.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't you.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I should have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you certainly should have.
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  Speaker 1: So we know now if you look at statistically how
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  Speaker 1: dangerous cigarette smoking is and it kills you. Half a
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  Speaker 1: million people in the United States die as a result
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  Speaker 1: of complications of smoking. That's what the experts are telling
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  Speaker 1: us this, whether the both on a federal level and
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  Speaker 1: certainly pullmonoplogists, and we just now know this, and that
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  Speaker 1: bodes or that goes to a very interesting question, and
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  Speaker 1: that is what can government do to stop smoking? Up
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  Speaker 1: to this point, the government, Well, let's go back to
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  Speaker 1: the fifties and you would see ads and the one
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  Speaker 1: I remember probably the most clearly was an ad was
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  Speaker 1: a magazine of Look magazine or whatever magazine that was around,
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  Speaker 1: and there would be an actor in a lab coat
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  Speaker 1: with a stethoscope around his neck. So clearly he looked
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  Speaker 1: like a doctor a cigarette in his hand and said
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  Speaker 1: Chesterfields are good for you. They will make you calmer,
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  Speaker 1: they are good for your health.
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  Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan even did a couple of advertisements for smokes
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  Speaker 3: at one point.
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  Speaker 1: And what got the industry in so much trouble is
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  Speaker 1: that internally they knew the connection between smoking and lung
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  Speaker 1: cancer and heart disease. They knew it and covered it
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  Speaker 1: up for decades and decades, and so government said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to do something about this, because you can't
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  Speaker 1: lie to people. You can't commit open fraud where you
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  Speaker 1: know that A is not b's, you can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: And so laws started to be passed, and it really
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  Speaker 1: took the Surgeon General to issue a report saying this is.
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  Speaker 2: Bad stuff for you. And then it got more and more.
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  Speaker 1: Restrictive, not in terms of buying cigarettes, but in terms
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  Speaker 1: of advertising cigarettes. Now smoking, as we know by now,
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  Speaker 1: unless you're a complete more on and don't believe it,
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  Speaker 1: about half a million people die every year as a
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  Speaker 1: result of smoking, direct result of smoking, heart disease, lung cancer,
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  Speaker 1: just all of it. And so what has the government
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  Speaker 1: done about it, Well, it sort of tolerates it, not comfortably,
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  Speaker 1: but our government is tolerated. For example, cigarettes used to
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  Speaker 1: be left alone and fraud was allowed. Cigarettes are good
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  Speaker 1: for you, they relax you.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to be healthier if you spoke cigarettes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, clearly that change is more and more information came
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  Speaker 1: out about the connection with lung cancer specifically, and then
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  Speaker 1: heart disease, and then other issues, other medical issues, and
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  Speaker 1: so we've gone from just allowing it to happen period
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  Speaker 1: to being more and more not so much restrictive, but
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  Speaker 1: warning labels. I went to, cigarettes may harm you. They
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  Speaker 1: cause lung cancer right on the cigarette boxes and then
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  Speaker 1: the skull and crossbones. I mean, all of it telling
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  Speaker 1: me people is going to kill you, is going to
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  Speaker 1: kill you. And it seems to have worked, because what
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  Speaker 1: is it. Twenty years ago, forty percent of Americans smoked
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  Speaker 1: forty percent.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's ten percent.
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  Speaker 1: So it hits home and the tobacco companies still make money,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't understand. I mean, they've lost eighty percent
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  Speaker 1: of their market, maybe because the cigarettes cost so much.
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  Speaker 1: The other day I was looking at the cost of cigarettes,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't pay attention to in the supermarket.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going, oh my god, how does anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Afford this even one pack a day at twelve bucks
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  Speaker 1: a pack, I mean that's twelve bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Holy, did you ever no? Yeah, I I never
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  Speaker 2: understood that you never smoke.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I smoked after sex, but that was more. You
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  Speaker 1: were doing it way too fast. Yeah, that's exactly true.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of friction there, all right, Amy, stopped shaking
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  Speaker 1: your head. In the meantime, here's what's happening. We are tolerant,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm talking about the government. The United States government
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  Speaker 1: is simply tolerant. Remember used to be do you mind
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  Speaker 1: if I smoke? And of course you'd say yes. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: no one said no. And then it was do you
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  Speaker 1: mind if I smoke? Do you mind if I fart?
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  Speaker 1: And it got to be a little bit more restrictive,
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  Speaker 1: and now no one says do you mind if I smoke?
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  Speaker 1: They just go outside and sir, repetitiously pick up a
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  Speaker 1: cigarette and smoke in the corner of the parking lot outside. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you what England is doing. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot more jurisdictions that are following suit. England has
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  Speaker 1: said that no one who is seventeen years or younger.
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  Speaker 1: On New Year's Day in twenty twenty seven, will ever
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  Speaker 1: be allowed to buy to buy tobacco. Not you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be twenty one, you could buy. You will never
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  Speaker 1: be allowed to buy tobacco if you were born after
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  Speaker 1: New Year's Day twenty twenty seven, which means that eventually,
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  Speaker 1: if the law continues, smoking is will be illegal. There'll
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  Speaker 1: be a straight out prohibition. And England is not alone
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  Speaker 1: them all Dives did it in November. New Zealand did it,
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  Speaker 1: but then it was the new Conservative government that undid that.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty two towns in Massachusetts have done it and this
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  Speaker 1: is called a generational ban to eliminate smoking. Now England
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  Speaker 1: it makes a little bit more sense because England has
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  Speaker 1: national health and if you're talking about half a million
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  Speaker 1: people dying of smoke related illness, guess what. They don't
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  Speaker 1: just die in two minutes. They die after a course
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  Speaker 1: of years of treatment, and that costs a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of money, to say the least. So you can see
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  Speaker 1: England moving in that direction, just financially. On our side,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a question of a health issue. I mean,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: do we want people to die of cancer? Although once
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: once you've become addicted, that's the other thing. The the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: tobacco company said, is nicotine is not addictive?
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I remember there.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Was a congressional hearing in which they brought the CEOs
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: of all of the major tobacco companies, American Tobacco, Reynolds,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I mean all of them. There must have been twelve
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: thirteen CEOs, and one of the congress people said, how
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: many of you believe that nicotine is not addictive? Every
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: single hand was raised, every single one. Well, cigarettes are
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: incredibly addictive, very difficult to stop. And I think the
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: only way you're going to stop this is exactly what
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: England is doing. Prohibition. Does that mean that it's going
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: to be black market? Yeah, yeah, it's going to be
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: black market, but again it's going to cut it way
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: way down. And alcohol doesn't kill that many people. Alcohol
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: per se is not going to kill you. Cigarettes per
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: se are going to kill you.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: And I want to end with an article in the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Atlantic and it is described the headline as a barbaric
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: problem in American hospitals is only getting bigger. And what
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: is the writer talking about, Well, she's talking about what
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Jim Kinney says. And if you talk to Jim and
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: ask him a medical problem, and I do that all
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the time I got a problem here, or someone or
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: friend of his says, I've got an issue, and you
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: know I should go to the doctor. The number one
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: piece of dice that Jim says is do not go
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: to the er. Stay out of the er, because it
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: is getting worse and worse. Jim had a birthday party
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: over the weekend and obviously a lot of doctors were
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: there and we were talking about the waiting rooms, and
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I told the story of what happened with Lindsay when
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: we were the past few months and we were on
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: vacation in Palermo, Italy, and the doctor was telling me,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and it's an er doctor about how you can wait
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: six eight hours in the emergency room and then trying
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: to get a bed in the hospital. You're going to
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: wait a hold that's just to see a doctor and
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: then to try to get a bed if you need it,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: that can literally take days.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: And there is.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: There is a term called boarding is what they do,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: and boarding is keeping patients in the er on their
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: gurney waiting for a hospital bed to open up if
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: they need a hospital. And a lot of people go
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: in and need a bed, they're in there, not only
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: in the those little cubicles, but they're also in the hallways.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And I'm asking Jim, how is that possible? You keep
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: someone in the hallways and that's considered an er. He says,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: that's considered part of the er when people are parked in.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: The hallway.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: And this problem is getting worse and worse and worse.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: And why is that? Because the fewer people that have insurance,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the more people go to the er, because the er
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: has become their general practitioner. The er has become their
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: internest and all of a sudden, real emergencies are very rare,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and then general medicine is what they spend ninety nine
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: percent of their time on. And it's getting worse. That's
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: the problem. As bad as it is, it is getting worse.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Going to the ER is at least a six to
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: seven hour wait for the doctor unless you've been unless
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: you're suffering from a gunshot wound, or you are, let's say,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: are having a heart attack or a stroke.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I've tried that and.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: They knew that I was lying when they did my vitals,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: and that screwed me up a lot because then they
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: kept me in the waiting room for even longer.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Just too does it just as a yuts to me.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: So what is the answer to all of this, Well,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: it's something that will never happen, and that is some
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: kind of a national health system the way everybody in
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the world has, or every country in the world has,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: every industrialized country has, except the United States.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: It's communistic.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: If we do that, it's socialist, and therefore we don't
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: want that. We do not want a national health system,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: single payer, where the government pays for medical care like
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: other every other country. So to give you an idea,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: what happened, and I shared this story before if you
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: haven't heard it. Lindsey has asthma and she was having
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: an asthma talk in attack in Palermo, Italy, and we
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: had to go to the er because she needed a nebulizer.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: She had to have medicine with oxygen. And we go
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: to the er and within thirty seconds she has an
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: IV in her arm. They put the nebulizer on. It
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: looks like an oxygen mass and there's medicine that comes
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: out of a little plastic container. And so she sees
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: the doctor who said, and we're talking, within a minute,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: you need an eent. You have to have an n
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: T take a look at what's going on with your lungs. Okay,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: give us an appointment. Where do we go? You go upstairs,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: You go upstairs. We walked up the stairs and there
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: is the department where the ear Nose and Throat doctor was.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: World class equipment. Now you know, the building itself was
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: kind of crappy. World class equipment.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: She was okay.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: He gave us a prescription for medication. We were in
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and out in one hour and fifteen minutes.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Waiting room.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: First doctor, second doctor, and treatment boy. Just like America,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: just like we do here. All right, guys, we are done.
• 26:37
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• 26:40
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• 26:45
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