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Easy Money?, State Workers Strike and Jalen Hurts · 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 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: Less than two weeks to go to the midterms. We'll
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  Speaker 2: be talking a lot about politics. One of the things
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  Speaker 2: that is going on right now is the president's approval
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  Speaker 2: rate is plummeting by the day. And so I'll be
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  Speaker 2: discussing politics in general. what's going on with Republicans running
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  Speaker 2: for the Senate and the House. Those, of course, are
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  Speaker 2: the biggest races. And that's coming up. Also, my voter
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  Speaker 2: guide coming up next week. And I'll explain to you
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  Speaker 2: what I am voting for, why I am voting, and
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  Speaker 2: you cannot follow it. I shouldn't call it a voter
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  Speaker 2: guide because it's not a guide. It's simply, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 2: this is the way I'm voting. OK, now we're obviously
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  Speaker 2: we're in some weird economic times. And what normally is
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  Speaker 2: part of our life is sort of changing. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: everything's upside down. For example, going to college was an automatic, right?
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  Speaker 2: You go to college, you get a good job. And
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  Speaker 2: that was sort of a given. You stay in one
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  Speaker 2: job for a good part of your career. You get
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  Speaker 2: a pension. I mean, all of that, all that's out
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  Speaker 2: the window, as you know. College educations are ridiculously expensive,
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  Speaker 2: prohibitively expensive. Good jobs are not guaranteed. So people are
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  Speaker 2: going into the trades. That's one thing. And then people
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  Speaker 2: want to go into business because, wow, OK, I want
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  Speaker 2: to be my own business person. Everybody has that dream. Well,
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  Speaker 2: here is where we go to the Internet. Now, as
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  Speaker 2: we know, Internet has many, many scams. That Rich DeMuro,
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  Speaker 2: for example, talks about half the time when we talk
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  Speaker 2: about scams on the Tuesday segment. So somewhere between scams
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  Speaker 2: and legitimate businesses, there is an overlap there. And I
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  Speaker 2: want to do a story with you. And this was
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  Speaker 2: a Wall Street Journal story about you can own your
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  Speaker 2: own business. And this story was about a laundromat or laundromats. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's say you want to be your own business person.
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  Speaker 2: And so you're going to buy a franchise, a 7-Eleven franchise,
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  Speaker 2: or you're going to buy a McDonald's franchise or a
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  Speaker 2: Subway franchise. McDonald's being ridiculously expensive and you can do it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can borrow the money and go out
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  Speaker 2: and people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to start
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  Speaker 2: a business and they get it. However, everybody knows how
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  Speaker 2: much work that is. I mean, no one thinks that
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  Speaker 2: that's passive income. Nobody does. To own a fast food
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  Speaker 2: outlet is an incredible amount of work. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 2: open seven days a week. People, you've got staff. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: management is crazy. So what is the best way to
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  Speaker 2: have passive income? Where you just sit back and you
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  Speaker 2: collect the money. Well, enter the laundromat. And what the
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  Speaker 2: internet has done to not so much the business, because
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  Speaker 2: that's remained flat. They're still the same, give or take
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  Speaker 2: 30,000 laundromats across the United States. It's one of the
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  Speaker 2: few industries which is still mom and pop owned. There
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  Speaker 2: aren't huge chains that own laundromats. They're individual families, people
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  Speaker 2: that own them. And The perception is, why don't you
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  Speaker 2: sit back and collect these quarters and these dollar bills?
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  Speaker 2: Because that's about as passive as you can get. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: when did all this start? When this thinking really started? Well,
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  Speaker 2: about five years ago, there's a guy by the name
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  Speaker 2: of Carlos Ochoa. He's known for his two million TikTok
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  Speaker 2: followers as laundromat money. How you too can make money
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  Speaker 2: from your laundromat. Now, he doesn't sell them. He doesn't
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  Speaker 2: profit by this other than what he gets for two
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  Speaker 2: million followers. But what he did, he started his videos
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  Speaker 2: and he pulled money out of the machines and he
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  Speaker 2: counted his money, even the point where he had built
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  Speaker 2: one of those bill changer things, those machines that count money.
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  Speaker 2: And boy, that went crazy. Everybody went, whoa, what a
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  Speaker 2: great deal, laundromats. And that exploded the concept of why
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  Speaker 2: don't we earn some passive money? Well, there ain't no
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  Speaker 2: free lunches in this world, right? The only way you
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  Speaker 2: get passive money is to invest and get dividends. And
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  Speaker 2: the only way you can get dividends is to work
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  Speaker 2: your ass off and to obtain dividends.
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  Speaker 3: So you're working like crazy. Oh, but a laundromat.
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  Speaker 2: I just found this fascinating. And here is the reality
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  Speaker 2: with the Wall Street Journal. And just and this is
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  Speaker 2: only because the Internet kicked this off. Otherwise, no one
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  Speaker 2: will be thinking about it. Laundromats are hideous amounts of
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  Speaker 2: work and no one thinks that. It's one of those
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  Speaker 2: things that you're going to see. And the lesson here
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  Speaker 2: is as the economy goes south and as the economy
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  Speaker 2: goes sideways, you're going to see more stuff on the
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  Speaker 2: Internet and not necessarily scammers. I'm not talking about scammers
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  Speaker 2: because that's a whole different the fraudsters are a whole
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  Speaker 2: different topic. but just a neat way for you to
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  Speaker 2: make money. And if it's too good to be true,
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  Speaker 2: it's too good to be true. It ain't true.
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  Speaker 3: So we're going to see this.
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  Speaker 2: I'll talk to Rich about this, certainly over the next
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  Speaker 2: several months as to, because the economy is doing what
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  Speaker 2: it's doing, how is the internet affecting us, which is
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  Speaker 2: across the board. And I think we're going to start
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  Speaker 2: with this business, the laundromat business, right? where you think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be passive income. You think it's just
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  Speaker 2: collecting quarters. Well, I ain't quarters anymore. I've been in
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  Speaker 2: a laundromat in a whole bunch of years. So what
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  Speaker 2: is it, a buck now to do, or $ 2 to
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  Speaker 2: do a load at a laundromat?
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know. Yeah, I have no idea. So
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  Speaker 3: much I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Is that me being an elitist that I don't go
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  Speaker 2: to a laundromat? Neil, you go to laundromats every day.
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  Speaker 2: So am I being an elitist or?
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  Speaker 4: I wish.
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  Speaker 3: I love laundromats. That's where all the colorful people are. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the crazy people. But I haven't gone to.
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  Speaker 4: A laundromat in a bazillion years, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's now bills. I don't think it's quarters anymore.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're done with that. It's just the start
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  Speaker 2: of a... I think the start of a whole series
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  Speaker 2: of subjects, internet businesses that you too, it's, you remember
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  Speaker 2: matchbooks where you, we go back years ago because there's
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  Speaker 2: very few matchbooks left, but you could pick up skills.
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  Speaker 2: You too, you too can learn to drive the big rigs,
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  Speaker 2: for example.
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  Speaker 3: I love those.
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  Speaker 2: And my favorite one is you too can learn to
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  Speaker 2: fly the big rigs and you can take lessons. For example,
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  Speaker 2: you get in your car and you go up a
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  Speaker 2: hill and you pull back on your steering wheel. Now
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't move, but you pretend you're, nevermind. That's a visual. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're done with that. Hey, California state workers, you know
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  Speaker 2: what's going to happen? Come, I think tomorrow, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to go on strike. They're looking at going on strike.
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  Speaker 2: And how does that affect us? Well, these are California
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  Speaker 2: workers and almost virtually, well, virtually every agency out there
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  Speaker 2: is going to be affected.
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  Speaker 3: And we are, too. I'll be right back. This is KFI.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: All next week, it's going to be one segment per
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  Speaker 2: day of, as Amy suggested, handle on the ballot, where
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go through and take a fairly deep
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  Speaker 2: dive into each of the ballot measures. And the reason
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing that is, number one, that's my voter guide,
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  Speaker 2: which you cannot listen to or pay attention to. But
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  Speaker 2: try to analyze a little bit about what the propositions
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  Speaker 2: are about, because here's the problem. is you can't pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to the commercials because they basically lie.
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  Speaker 3: Each side lies through its teeth.
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  Speaker 2: You can't really pay attention to the title of the
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  Speaker 2: various propositions. You can't really pay attention much about those
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  Speaker 2: that are advocating one way or the other because they're
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  Speaker 2: skewing the whole thing. It is really hard to get
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  Speaker 2: the truth because the entire system is skewed towards, well, Uh, obfuscation, uh, outright, uh,
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  Speaker 2: lying to you to get, make a point, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for example, uh, is, uh, they're, uh, one of the propositions, uh, and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I'll talk more about that next week. Uh, but you
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  Speaker 2: see the ads, uh, and we've seen this before. I
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  Speaker 2: think prop 10 did this. where the advertising is you
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  Speaker 2: will not pay one more cent for taxes if you
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  Speaker 2: pass this measure. It will not cost you any more
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  Speaker 2: money than it is now. You don't pay anything more. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't tell you that this was a tax that
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  Speaker 2: was a temporary tax that is about to sunset. It's
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  Speaker 2: an emergency tax measure that was to take care of
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  Speaker 2: a specific problem That was only going to go for
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  Speaker 2: three years, for example. And then the ads come and
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  Speaker 2: you go vote for this proposition. You're not going to
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  Speaker 2: pay any more tax than you do now. It's not
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  Speaker 2: going to add one more dime to your tax bill.
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  Speaker 2: It changes it from a temporary tax to a permanent tax.
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  Speaker 2: That's the kind of thing that happens. So one of the,
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  Speaker 2: one of the stories I'm going to tell you and
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  Speaker 2: what we're going to dive into it is whenever you
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  Speaker 2: see the word temporary emergency tax, Don't for a second
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  Speaker 2: believe it, because there's no such thing as a temporary
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  Speaker 2: tax that exists.
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  Speaker 3: They all, even though there's.
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  Speaker 2: A sunset clause to them, believe me, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: see whatever interest group is involved is saying no. that, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to cost you any more money. And
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  Speaker 2: that's just typical. And by the way, that's the best
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  Speaker 2: of it. And then the worst of it is outright lies,
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  Speaker 2: which don't stop. And when you look at the ads
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  Speaker 2: that are going on, for example, there is a, God,
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  Speaker 2: I don't get the name, but there's one of the
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  Speaker 2: Senate races along the East Coast. And it's a woman
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  Speaker 2: who is running, her name is Alcott, and I'll dive
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  Speaker 2: into it a little bit more in the news.
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  Speaker 3: And somehow the opposition, oh.
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  Speaker 2: There's El-Sayed who's running against her. Or no, Ramazwavi is
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  Speaker 2: running against her.
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  Speaker 3: That's the Ohio governor's race.
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  Speaker 2: There it is, Ohio governor. Thank you for pointing that out.
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  Speaker 2: I was paying more attention to the ad than I
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  Speaker 2: was to the race that was going on. And there
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  Speaker 2: was an ad that Ramazwavi Vivek produced, he admitted producing,
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  Speaker 2: where they got hold of this woman's body. mother who
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  Speaker 2: goes on TV, looks at the camera and says, don't
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  Speaker 2: vote for my daughter. She is a liar. It is
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  Speaker 2: not someone you can trust. And the reality is, is
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  Speaker 2: that the candidate hasn't talked to her in 50 years.
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  Speaker 2: The mom, her husband, the stepdad was accused and convicted
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  Speaker 2: of raping Alcott, went to prison for it.
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  Speaker 3: All that is left out.
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  Speaker 2: And yet at the same time, don't vote for my
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  Speaker 2: daughter because she is a liar and you do not
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  Speaker 2: want her to be the governor.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what's going on these days. Typical.
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  Speaker 2: Now, there's a lot of backlash on that one. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get a little bit more into who
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  Speaker 2: is running. I always get confused as to who's running
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  Speaker 2: for governor, who's running for the Senate across the country.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit better off in California because I pay
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  Speaker 2: a lot more attention to that. Also, the governor's races,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how important they really are relative to
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  Speaker 2: The races for the Senate and for the House that
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  Speaker 2: affects us.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, boy, does that affect us individually? The governor's race,
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  Speaker 3: you know, governor in Pennsylvania. All right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's it's politically interesting to us, but
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  Speaker 2: not affecting us so deeply. Because if the House does flip,
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  Speaker 2: if the Senate flips, and now you have President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: a Republican, and he's dealing with a Democratic House and
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  Speaker 2: a Democratic.
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  Speaker 3: Senate, it's a very different government. It really is.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, you have the Senate and the House doing
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  Speaker 2: anything the president wants.
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  Speaker 3: Anything.
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  Speaker 2: They rubber stamp whatever the president wants. And that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a very, very different animal when the House flips.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be Hakeem.
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  Speaker 2: Jeffries who becomes the Speaker of And it's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be Mike Johnson who takes a phone call every
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  Speaker 2: day from the president who says, this is what I
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  Speaker 2: want you to do today, Mike.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then the president, whenever he brings Mike out in public,
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  Speaker 2: turns to him and goes, heel, heel. And immediately Mike
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  Speaker 2: Johnson sits on his haunches, looks up at the president
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  Speaker 2: and pants. It's a nice visual. And unfortunately, it's probably
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  Speaker 2: more true than not. OK, coming up, medical news with Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Jim Keeney.
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  Speaker 2: Chief Medical Officer for Dignity St. Mary Medical Center in
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  Speaker 2: Long Beach and an ER doc of 30 years experience.
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  Speaker 2: And we've got a couple of stories I want to
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  Speaker 2: share with you and some questions that I always have.
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  Speaker 2: This is KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel On Demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 3: Dr. Keeney, Paging Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Keeney.
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  Speaker 3: It's time for Medical News with Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Jim Keeney.
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  Speaker 3: Where the hell is this guy?
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  Speaker 2: On the Bill Handel Show.
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  Speaker 3: KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Handel on a Wednesday morning, October 21. It is, oh,
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  Speaker 2: is it going to be a week next week? Just
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  Speaker 2: prior to the midterms. And every day next week, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to be taking one of the propositions, diving into
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  Speaker 2: it a little bit deeper and talking about some of
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  Speaker 2: the local races, statewide races. And some it really doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter because it's sort of a given California being so
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  Speaker 2: left wing, being so blue. But certainly the races across
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  Speaker 2: the country for the Senate and the House, we have
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  Speaker 2: to pay attention to.
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  Speaker 3: But here in California. It's all about the props.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, advertising is about the props
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  Speaker 2: because national candidates don't advertise in California. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: it's way too expensive. Second of all, it's a given
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  Speaker 2: which way it's going to go. So we're not a
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  Speaker 2: swing state in any way. Okay, it is time for
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  Speaker 2: medical news with Dr. Jim Keeney, Chief Medical Officer for
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  Speaker 2: Dignity St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach. Jim, watching
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  Speaker 2: football and one of the big stories over the weekend
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  Speaker 2: was that Jalen Hurts, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, guaranteed Hall of Famer,
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  Speaker 2: MVP of the Super Bowl, developed thrombosis.
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  Speaker 3: And it was superficial thrombosis.
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  Speaker 2: And then it morphed into a diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
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  Speaker 2: So explain what all that's about and how dangerous it
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  Speaker 2: is and what he's looking at.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 6: So it turns out that what happened was he was cleated.
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  Speaker 6: You know, when you get hit in the calf by
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  Speaker 6: another player's cleat, cause.
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  Speaker 4: An injury there.
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  Speaker 6: So he thought, you know, it's just an injury he's
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  Speaker 6: recovering from. I think he took a couple of days
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  Speaker 6: even to report it. But when they ultrasounded it, they
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  Speaker 6: saw what we call superficial thrombosis. That's typically not very serious.
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  Speaker 4: That's the kind of thing. You know, when you get
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  Speaker 4: your blood drawn or you get.
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  Speaker 6: An IV started and sometimes you feel like the vein
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  Speaker 6: afterwards feels a little like a cord, like it's a
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  Speaker 6: little harder than normal, that's superficial thrombosis. Usually doesn't move, right?
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  Speaker 6: Usually is not as safe. But if it extends and
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  Speaker 6: it propagates up the vein into the large deep veins, well,
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  Speaker 6: now those can break off and travel. And that's when
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  Speaker 6: you get things like pulmonary embolism or a blood clot
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  Speaker 6: that blocks blood the arteries now in the lung because
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  Speaker 6: it'll go through the heart and then pump out the
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  Speaker 6: heart into the lung. And now we're talking about the
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  Speaker 6: high pressure arterial blood flow, pushing it into the lung tissue.
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  Speaker 6: And it can really shut down your lungs and be
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  Speaker 6: extremely life-threatening. It's a very common cause of death in
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  Speaker 6: otherwise healthy people.
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  Speaker 4: So you don't think, right?
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  Speaker 6: You don't think a super level athlete and blood clots
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  Speaker 6: go together, but they can't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never heard of this actually happening to an
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  Speaker 2: athlete like this. And the fact that he is in
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  Speaker 2: extraordinary shape, obviously one of the athletes, world-class athletes, that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't really affect it one way or the other, does it?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, being an athlete, probably the activity, the fact that
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  Speaker 6: you're more active than normal, you're going to eliminate some
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  Speaker 6: of the risk factors for blood. So here's the risk factors.
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  Speaker 6: We call it Virchow's triad. You have an injury to
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  Speaker 6: the blood vessel itself of some kind. Then you have
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  Speaker 6: an abnormal blood flow because you're not getting up and
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  Speaker 6: moving around for something. Maybe for people who injure their leg,
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  Speaker 6: now they're laying in bed or something like that. And
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  Speaker 6: then the third thing is hypercoagulability. That means that you're
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  Speaker 6: now predisposed to making blood clots. Conditions like cancer or
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  Speaker 6: having certain protein deficiencies, genetic protein deficiencies.
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  Speaker 4: Lead you to that.
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  Speaker 6: We don't think that's the case for him. But if
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  Speaker 6: you look at out of the three, he has two
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  Speaker 6: because he had the injury. They diagnosed the superficial clot
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  Speaker 6: and then he took a transatlantic flight. And that's going
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  Speaker 6: to be where your blood flow is abnormal. You're just
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  Speaker 6: sitting in a chair for an extended period of time.
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  Speaker 6: and not necessarily moving that blood, so it puts you
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  Speaker 6: at risk for propagating it.
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  Speaker 3: So why is he out for the whole season?
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  Speaker 4: Well, because it's a contact sport.
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  Speaker 6: And so the treatment for this is a blood thinner, right?
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  Speaker 6: And just like, you know, you're not allowed to do
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  Speaker 6: certain things because of being on blood thinners after the
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  Speaker 6: heart valve, that he is not allowed to take hits
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  Speaker 6: to the head or any trauma that's likely to cause bleeding. So,
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  Speaker 6: you know, professional football is definitely out of the question
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  Speaker 6: when you're on blood thinners. I would imagine he'll be
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  Speaker 6: on them for at least six months, right? And then
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  Speaker 6: what they'll do is they'll look for other predisposing factors
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  Speaker 6: like some of the ones I mentioned. And there's tests
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  Speaker 6: for the genetic predisposition.
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  Speaker 4: He'll get all of those.
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  Speaker 6: And if he isn't predisposed and we think it's just
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  Speaker 6: this cleating injury of his calf that causes it, followed
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  Speaker 6: by an airline flight. Well, then after six months, they
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  Speaker 6: will consider taking him off the blood thinner and then
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  Speaker 6: he could go back to playing.
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  Speaker 2: OK, so assuming that doesn't happen, because I know doctors
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  Speaker 2: are pretty conservative now in the world of especially NFL football.
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  Speaker 2: And if he has to stay on blood thinners simply
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  Speaker 2: because he's predisposition or whatever, is he done?
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  Speaker 4: You know, you can't play contact sports on blood thinners, period.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's just not.
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  Speaker 6: Optional because you'll hit your head, you'll bleed into your
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  Speaker 6: brain and you'll die.
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  Speaker 4: And nobody wants to see that.
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  Speaker 3: OK, let's take a break. We'll come back.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: And there is a new White House Women's Health Initiative.
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  Speaker 2: And assuming it has to do with the only way
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: you're going to get a federal job is to be
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  Speaker 2: blonde and in your 30s. Otherwise, you're not going to
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: be working. No, I don't think that's correct, is it? OK,
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  Speaker 2: we'll go through that. And then AI predicting cancer in
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: a really unusual way. We'll do all of that when
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  Speaker 2: we come back.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 4: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Jim Keeney has been with us, oh my God, almost
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: 30 years. Jim is chief medical officer for Dignity St.
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  Speaker 2: Mary Medical Center in Long Beach. All right, Jim, you know, here,
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  Speaker 2: let me do this one. The AI prediction of cancer survival.
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  Speaker 2: And as I read this, I'm going, come on, really?
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  Speaker 2: From a photograph of your face? Is that real? Is
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  Speaker 2: there a connection?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, this is Mass General at Brigham Hospital, so
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  Speaker 6: a well-known and well-respected hospital. They're using facial recognition software
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  Speaker 6: that looks at specific things related to biological age and
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  Speaker 6: cancer issues. You send it a selfie, and it basically
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  Speaker 6: can predict the future.
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  Speaker 4: Now, is this really going to be used?
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  Speaker 6: Because the questions you need to know for a screening
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: test is, number one, how often does it detect cancer
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  Speaker 6: when it's actually there? We have no idea with this yet.
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  Speaker 6: Number two, how often does it falsely say you have
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  Speaker 6: cancer when you don't? Because if we're looking for a
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: cancer and suddenly you're getting this false positive over and
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  Speaker 6: over and over again, you can overwhelm the system and
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  Speaker 6: overwhelm patients as well. So we're not anywhere near this
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  Speaker 6: being used for like a screencast.
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  Speaker 4: Meaning for cancer.
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  Speaker 6: But I mean, what if your face eventually became like
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  Speaker 6: a medical vital sign where we scan your face? You know,
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  Speaker 6: it's based on things like changes in tissue, signs of frailty. So,
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  Speaker 6: you know, maybe the eyes, you know, you get you
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  Speaker 6: get more wrinkling because you've lost fat around the eyes.
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  Speaker 6: You know, that's usually if you're going to lose fat
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  Speaker 6: in your face, that's something serious going on or you're
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  Speaker 6: on Ozempic, right?
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  Speaker 4: It's one of the two. I'm wondering how Ozempic is
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  Speaker 4: going to impact this.
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  Speaker 3: Let me ask this.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you then need a comparison, a baseline where you
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  Speaker 2: can't just send a photo because the algorithm doesn't know
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  Speaker 2: what you look like? I mean, what if you're already
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  Speaker 2: predisposed to wrinkles?
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  Speaker 4: No, that's the great thing about AI. It's insane.
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  Speaker 6: When you feed it, they said it's 40 million facial images.
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  Speaker 6: So it knows what your face is supposed to look like,
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  Speaker 6: even if it's never seen you before.
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  Speaker 4: That's the incredible part about it.
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  Speaker 6: And so it knows, you know, to what level people
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  Speaker 6: should generally have, you know, fat around their eyes or
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  Speaker 6: musculature in their face, bone exposure, that type of thing.
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't need an old picture.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're running a medical center.
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  Speaker 3: You're the medical director.
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  Speaker 2: How much time do you spend talking about looking at digesting,
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  Speaker 2: trying to digest? figure out how AI is going to
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  Speaker 2: affect you and your hospital specifically?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah. My day is basically more practical, right? Just
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: trying to make sure patients are getting excellent care and
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: getting through the system and all that stuff, and doctors
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: are doing what they're supposed to do, and we have
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: a good connection with the nurses, right? That's my job,
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: but I spend a lot of time thinking about it,
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  Speaker 6: and we do talk about AI quite a bit because
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: something's got to change. Right now, healthcare is so flipping expensive,
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  Speaker 6: and it takes so long to get through the system.
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  Speaker 6: If there's ways that we can improve access for patients,
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: maybe by getting them through a system faster or by
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  Speaker 6: being able to eliminate certain people that don't need to
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: be admitted to the hospital just to check, all those
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  Speaker 6: kind of things, we're looking into that because I do
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  Speaker 6: think It's already significantly changed the practice of medicine, and
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  Speaker 6: it'll continue into the future. We just don't know exactly
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  Speaker 6: how yet. A lot of people have wasted a lot
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: of money trying things that just don't pan out. But
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  Speaker 6: in the future, this is definitely going to change how
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: we practice medicine.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Have you utilized an AI program in running your hospital up.
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  Speaker 3: To this point?
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  Speaker 4: I use it all the time.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I use it if I have a big
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: file of data that I need to present to the doctors,
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: I just give the AI the data and say, make
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: me a six slide PowerPoint presentation. And then I don't
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: have to do all that grunt work. And now I
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: can just edit it quickly. or change whatever I need
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  Speaker 6: to change, but it can compress all that data into understandable.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: So I'm no longer, I used to bore them to
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: death with data that was very important that they needed
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: to understand. And now the AI can actually create a
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  Speaker 6: very streamlined view of the data so that they can
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: better understand what's happening with our patients, what's going on,
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: how they could change their practice to improve patient care,
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: all of that.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: So that basically makes you less boring. So let me
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: do this. Next time we have lunch, bring it along,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: would you please?
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  Speaker 4: I will. And you'll find it much more fascinating than me.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: There you go. All right, we're done. We'll talk to
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Jim again next week. In the meantime, this is it
• 24:38
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• 24:43
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• 24:46
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• 24:50
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• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Am I even allowed to say gal? Is that considered sexist? Gal? Gal, yeah.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: I think you're okay with gal, aren't you? Old woman.
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  Speaker 3: Old broad. Yeah, chippy broad. That might be a little pushy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Bird. Oh, they do that in Australia and New Zealand.
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