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Rose Bowl 2026 | Medical News w/ Dr. Jim Keany · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: six forty. Good Thursday Morning to you. Happy New Year,
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  Speaker 1: January first, twenty twenty six. Neil Savedra and the Morning
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  Speaker 1: crew with you today. Happy to be with you. Got
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  Speaker 1: Heather Brooker in for Amy King, We've got Matthew in
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  Speaker 1: for Ann and Trey Alexander in for Will. But Cono
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  Speaker 1: and I are here as well, bringing in the new
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  Speaker 1: year with you. Handle will be back on Monday. I'm
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  Speaker 1: with you tomorrow morning with Heather as well. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: hanging out. So I want to get into the New
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  Speaker 1: Year's Day and the ball times square ball drop in
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  Speaker 1: a minute. But the parade has started. The Rose Parade
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  Speaker 1: has started their breaking down with their performers. So they
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  Speaker 1: launch with Bishop Briggs with the opening performance. And already
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  Speaker 1: there's one thing and it's on like every channel in here.
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  Speaker 1: We've got seven eight televisions or whatever, and it's on
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  Speaker 1: all of them at different angles. The one thing that
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  Speaker 1: I see right off the bat because of the rain
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  Speaker 1: is rain drops on every lens.
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  Speaker 2: I was just thinking that exact same thing. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: wipe off your lenses.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So here's the deal coming from, you know, having
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  Speaker 1: family in the industry and the like. There is people go, well,
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  Speaker 1: how do you shoot in the rain, and the assumption
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  Speaker 1: as well, you're just going to put like a little
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  Speaker 1: cloak thing over the top of the camera and that's
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  Speaker 1: going to do it. No, they actually have special lenses
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  Speaker 1: that have the lens has a piece of glass on
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  Speaker 1: the front of it that spins, actually spins to knock
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  Speaker 1: the water droplets off, and the hope is that's how
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  Speaker 1: you get you know, clear shots in the like. So
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  Speaker 1: there is techniques for it, but man, is it distracting.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a shot right now completely blurred out
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  Speaker 1: as the marine corpse.
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  Speaker 2: CNN doesn't have it in their coverage, and I feel
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  Speaker 2: like that's probably because CNN is used to covering different
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  Speaker 2: types of weather conditions, so they may there may be
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  Speaker 2: their cameras were more prepared, but CNN doesn't have any
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  Speaker 2: drops on any of their angles of the camera.
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  Speaker 1: So looking it depends on which camera the camera. The
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  Speaker 1: two shots of the hosts are fine, yeah, but when
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  Speaker 1: they try and get in the middle of things, it's different.
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  Speaker 1: So that just noticing certain things and then watching Bishop
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  Speaker 1: Briggs perform with her team and they had these beanies
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  Speaker 1: on or something uh big. They had red beanies with
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  Speaker 1: their red.
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  Speaker 3: They were all dressed in red.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great performance, yes, but a very hard
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  Speaker 1: one to pull off in the cold, is my guess.
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  Speaker 1: Plus a couple of the dancers lost their grip on
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  Speaker 1: their well, not on their beanies. So I kept seeing
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  Speaker 1: these beanies, these red beanies on the on the parade
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  Speaker 1: route down on because they but I mean, they get it.
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  Speaker 1: They're all man, God bless her she. I couldn't hear
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  Speaker 1: her belting it out, but you could see that she was.
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  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be an interesting one as the different
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  Speaker 1: coverage through. You know, I see, I love the bands.
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  Speaker 3: What's your favorite part of the parades?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? I like floats, the creativity of the but I
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  Speaker 1: you know, bands are always great. You've got the Marine
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  Speaker 1: Corps band right now playing. I like anything orchestrated like
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  Speaker 1: that in Unison is very powerful sounding. But to me,
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  Speaker 1: the creativity and the animatronics and things like that that
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  Speaker 1: they put on these floats, it's always is that what's
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  Speaker 1: going on right now? Yeah, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: See, I love I love the bands. That's like one
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  Speaker 2: of my favorite parts of of the paride.
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  Speaker 1: God bless those that will serve in the military on
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  Speaker 1: our behalf here in the United States. So God blessed
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  Speaker 1: those folks were braving the rain today too. As the
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  Speaker 1: road parade goes on, Charlie Worsham mid parade act of course,
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  Speaker 1: Bishop Briggs started things off, John Foster mid parade, and
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  Speaker 1: then Capital Cities is the grand finale, and Magic Johnson
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  Speaker 1: is heads it all as the Grand Marshal of today's parade.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, hearing Gary and Shannon talk about this yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: it's always been that kind of Chamber of Commerce day
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  Speaker 1: where everybody else in the country, if you know, get
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  Speaker 1: to look and go, oh my gosh, it's January one
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  Speaker 1: in southern California and it's gorgeous, and let's move there
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  Speaker 1: and have our company there right Well, today it's raining,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's a little weird. It hasn't happened for
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  Speaker 1: fifty years since last time rained during the Rose Paray.
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  Speaker 1: So we're looking at the Honda float right now going by,
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  Speaker 1: and some sports winners on there, you know, personified in
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  Speaker 1: as that life size are bigger than life size. Its
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  Speaker 1: kind of hard to tell some of their vehicles on there.
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  Speaker 1: As the parade kicks off today. Everybody's in ponchos people.
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  Speaker 3: Look how many people are there. There are quite a
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  Speaker 3: few people there.
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  Speaker 1: I am impressed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the grand stands are packed. There's a ton of
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  Speaker 2: people lining the streets. There's a Honda float. I saw
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  Speaker 2: them building that when I was at the Float Barn,
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  Speaker 2: the as Float Barn the other day.
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  Speaker 3: Very impressive.
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  Speaker 1: That is kind of cool.
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  Speaker 3: Huh, yeah, that's very cool.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what it costs to be in those
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  Speaker 1: stands instead of camping out?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Let me see if I can find out.
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine that it costs money to be in
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  Speaker 1: those stands, But to me, that is money well spent
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  Speaker 1: to get a seat like that. That's kind of prime location.
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  Speaker 2: And also between seventy five and one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 2: dollars per seat, varying depending on the location.
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  Speaker 1: It's not horrible. I mean, if you you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you're a couple of people, if you have a family
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  Speaker 1: of eight, that's gonna be kind of rough.
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  Speaker 3: There's Mickey Mouse.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look at that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the thing is like you could pay to be
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  Speaker 2: in the grand stands, which is great, but also can't
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  Speaker 2: you just go up the road like a mile or two,
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  Speaker 2: and because it's a five mile route, you just sit
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  Speaker 2: somewhere else along the.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can do all of that. It's just you know,
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  Speaker 1: the different type of humanity you're gonna get. That's the
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  Speaker 1: riff raff out there. No, I'm just saying just to
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  Speaker 1: have a seat that you don't have to drag. And
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  Speaker 1: I imagine they've got a play maybe that Does that
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  Speaker 1: come with parking?
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  Speaker 3: I doubt it. I doubt they'd be the.
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  Speaker 1: Deal maker right there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that would be certainly make that more attractive.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that they include parking in that. I
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  Speaker 2: can't imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the San Francisco Travel Association. What are they
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  Speaker 1: call those the painted Ladies, those houses that were.
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  Speaker 2: On a full house in San Francisco, that's what they
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  Speaker 2: call them, the painted Ladies, The paint Ladies. I was
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  Speaker 2: just there in April and got to see them in
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  Speaker 2: person for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: They're beautiful there right across from the park there. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I saw a photo of John Stamos once that was hilarious,
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  Speaker 1: his photo or video of him standing in front of
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  Speaker 1: them and near them. But at the park and there
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  Speaker 1: were a bunch of people out in front of it
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  Speaker 1: taking pictures of the painted ladies, probably because they watched
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  Speaker 1: them on Full House and they had no idea that
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  Speaker 1: John Stamos was taking a picture of them, taking a
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  Speaker 1: picture like a kind of meta.
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  Speaker 3: I bet somebody knew. I would know right away.
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  Speaker 1: But what wouldn't you say something? Yeah, would like, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: John Stamos, I'd want to take a photo of John Stamos.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, you can get packages for VIP options
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  Speaker 2: for the Rose Parade that includes indoor seating and brunch
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  Speaker 2: experiences about four hundred bucks a pop.
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  Speaker 1: Is there one like a brunch with John Stamos. That'd
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  Speaker 1: be great, would be great. I'd pay for that.
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  Speaker 3: But he was in the Beach Boys still.
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  Speaker 1: Is Yeah, still plays with him. He's actually a friend
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  Speaker 1: of my brother and his husband.
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  Speaker 3: That's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they know this the most the stay, This stay
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  Speaker 1: most happens to be a huge Disney fan. Owns the
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  Speaker 1: d from the Disneyland sign when they tore down one
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  Speaker 1: of them.
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  Speaker 3: I think I've seen videos of him going quite often.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look at that. Twenty twenty six is here and
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  Speaker 1: Heather Brooker Kno, We've got Trey Alexander and Matthew here.
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  Speaker 1: Happy to be with you today, bringing in the new
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  Speaker 1: year with you as we watch the Rose Parade. The
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  Speaker 1: rain's not too bad. It's cleared up quite a bit
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  Speaker 1: right now. They were looking at rain until probably, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ten am noon something like that. It looks like it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be thinning out, but it's not going anywhere. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have rain through Saturday and then it might we
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  Speaker 1: might get some more next week. It looks like two
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  Speaker 1: depending on where you are. Of course, there's nothing better
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  Speaker 1: than when we say that it's gonna rain and people
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  Speaker 1: are like, it's not raining where I am. Well, here's
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  Speaker 1: how geography works. Sometimes rain will come in in the
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  Speaker 1: Southland in parts that you don't live in. That's just
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  Speaker 1: the way it works. But it doesn't mean there won't
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  Speaker 1: be rain. H Yeah. So it looks like in some
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  Speaker 1: areas it goes into next week as well. Something to
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind, are we gonna get any snow? Have
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  Speaker 1: you heard? Heather? Is there gonna be what the snow
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  Speaker 1: level is? By any chance, we're gonna be Hell Heather,
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  Speaker 1: you in there, Hi? How you doing? You're watching the parade?
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  Speaker 3: I was watching the parade.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you had on watching the parade? Face, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're watching the parade.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I listening to see what this particular flow.
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  Speaker 1: Was, the one with the eyeballs with the robot, the
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  Speaker 1: robot eyes.
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  Speaker 2: With a Yeah, I thought maybe it was a wild
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  Speaker 2: robot once. So I was just listening because we were
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  Speaker 2: just talking about that. Yeah, So I was listening to
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  Speaker 2: see if that's what it was, so I could call
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  Speaker 2: it out to you.
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  Speaker 3: And then I totally miss what you said.
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  Speaker 1: No, I was saying was the Have we heard anything
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  Speaker 1: about the snow levels? Oh? No, I haven't. They usually
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  Speaker 1: you know, that usually comes up. We got doctor Jim
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  Speaker 1: Keeney going to join us at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: hour in just a few minutes, so stick around for that.
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  Speaker 1: Boredom is the latest trend online. This is interesting because
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  Speaker 1: I think everything runs its course to a certain degree
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  Speaker 1: and then it has to reinvent itself. And oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: no joke. John Stamos is on TV right now, stop it.
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  Speaker 1: How did that happen? Did we manifest that we manifested?
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  Speaker 1: That we manifested? Stamosi?
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  Speaker 2: The snowpack is sixty nine percent of normal for this date,
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  Speaker 2: and that is wow.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay.
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  Speaker 2: They had a lot of a lot more snow than usual. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen much that one.
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  Speaker 3: The kaiser permanent that's.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty Yeah, that's Spanish for permanent kaiser.
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  Speaker 3: So thank you for that translation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm here to help. Boredom is something that they're
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  Speaker 1: looking at on social media, not the way you think,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a lot of these young users are using
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  Speaker 1: filming them actually video being themselves doing absolutely nothing, and
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  Speaker 1: not just for like fifteen seconds or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, sometimes several hours of
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  Speaker 1: them kind of just doing nothing. And the goal here
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  Speaker 1: is to rebuild attention spans that are, you know, constantly
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  Speaker 1: this influx of notifications bing bing bing, and so it
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  Speaker 1: looks lame. But a lot of social media stuff does
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  Speaker 1: looks lame because people like, well, why are you just
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  Speaker 1: doing this thing? But they're pushing it out there still,
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  Speaker 1: so it's content, but it's content of me doing nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how that helps. But there's no phone use,
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  Speaker 1: no food, no distractions, and there it's like a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: The new challenge is going on and pushing everybody to
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  Speaker 1: it is like, hey, uh, it's an endurance test. You
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  Speaker 1: remember what were they doing? What were they calling it
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  Speaker 1: bear Uh not bear backing. That seems that's something else.
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  Speaker 1: What different? No, it was, uh raw dogging. That's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing.
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  Speaker 3: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 3: I have to google bear backing and raw docking.
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  Speaker 1: Raw dogging, raw dogging. Yeah, a docking, I know what
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  Speaker 1: it is. That definitely is for sure. But like you
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  Speaker 1: remember when they're like, go on an air airplane and
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  Speaker 1: fly a long flight, but don't read a book, don't
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  Speaker 1: look at your phone, don't watch television, and that they
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  Speaker 1: were calling that raw dogging. Right, well, this is kind
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  Speaker 1: of the same thing. They're challenging each other to do nothing, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: do nothing and then record it this endurance test of
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  Speaker 1: doing nothing, and creators are saying that it's about this
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  Speaker 1: mental rest not just views. Oh, of course not. It's
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  Speaker 1: never about views. But the videos are just you know,
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  Speaker 1: someone sitting silently on a couch, a stool or floor,
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  Speaker 1: just staring at the camera or a wall. Wow, this
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  Speaker 1: is where we're at. Minimal background music or maybe some
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  Speaker 1: ambient noises back there. Sometimes time lapse at its can
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  Speaker 1: press these long stretches of time, but participates and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: they feel calmer and mentally refreshed at the end of
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  Speaker 1: all this, and they described this post boredom energy boost.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not really someone I don't get bored. I know
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  Speaker 1: that sounds weird, but there's always too much to do.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, really quick, please look at the shot of the
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  Speaker 2: Grand Marshal at the Roseberry.
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  Speaker 1: Wait which one where there is grand Oh my.
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, all you can see is his hand.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a second.
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  Speaker 2: They probably paid him so much money and you cannot
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  Speaker 2: see him at all, the Grand Marshal. It's magic Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Look. Oh, because they got the it was supposed to be.
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  Speaker 2: A convert So he's in a convertible and they've got
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  Speaker 2: the top down and you cannot.
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  Speaker 1: Covered it in flowers.
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  Speaker 3: You cannot see him at You don't.
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  Speaker 1: Think he you'd think you'd be leaning out or something.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, put on a poncho. Man.
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  Speaker 2: The people came to say, that's horror. That's a bummer.
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  Speaker 2: So sorry to interrupt your.
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  Speaker 1: I get that you don't want to get the inside
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  Speaker 1: of that car, that beautiful car. That you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to get the inside of that car wet sure, but.
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  Speaker 3: You could not see him at No.
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  Speaker 1: You see a silhouette of his hand because of the lighting. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh that is horrible.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, barebacking and raw dogging are both slang
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  Speaker 2: terms described to do something without protection or power.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I said. I only knew. Rod dogging is
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  Speaker 1: the no phones on airplane, just staring at the back
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  Speaker 1: and just minding your p's and q's to your thumbs. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: look at Magic Johnson's hand. Prove it that man's hand.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody in there, it can be an.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, what a bummer.
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  Speaker 3: That's a massive bummer.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Jim Keeney is with us, per huge uh and
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  Speaker 1: we got some medical stuff to talk about with him.
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  Speaker 1: Happy New Year, sir. How are you doing it? How
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  Speaker 1: are you? Neil all Is? Well you did you know,
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  Speaker 1: as I get older doing the midnight thing, I felt
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  Speaker 1: the need to be with my boy and my wife
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  Speaker 1: in the twelve am hour and then wake up at four.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm thrilled. Wow, you know. I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: can do one of those, maybe one a year and
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  Speaker 1: then but it's like, oh, I can't do that all
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  Speaker 1: the time. That is not a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: But I gotta start doing New York in the years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. At nine, That's what everybody said, just do
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  Speaker 1: it at nine. But my kid's nine. He knows that's
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  Speaker 1: not He wants the experience of of staying you know,
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  Speaker 1: staying up late and doing things that he doesn't normally
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  Speaker 1: get to do. So I don't want to deprive him
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  Speaker 1: of that. Plus it's Bay Root in my neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: And the fire day start.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so nobody's going to bed.
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  Speaker 4: He wants to hear the gunshots in person.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm telling you, it just is. It just gets nuts.
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  Speaker 1: It gets absolutely not. So, you know, New Year. I
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  Speaker 1: know that there's stuff that we can talk about, and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get into that in just a moment.
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  Speaker 1: But I was wondering, is there anything that top of
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  Speaker 1: mind that as far as technology and medicine, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: in pill form or new procedures or anything that you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing that may come our way in twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: or that we're making We've made a lot of progress
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  Speaker 1: in and we might be seeing soon as part of
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  Speaker 1: the options for medicine.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's such a wide open question, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I just was wondering, Like it hit me, like, is
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  Speaker 1: there you know, something on the crest because things change
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  Speaker 1: so much that we're closer to I don't know, kidneys
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  Speaker 1: for instance, with me, you know, I was on dialysis.
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  Speaker 1: Small that and it seems about every five years or
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  Speaker 1: so they come up with something that moves that disease along.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if you kind of do an assessment
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  Speaker 1: at the end of each year as to what might
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  Speaker 1: be coming for the.
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  Speaker 4: Next Yeah, you know, I mean a few things that
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  Speaker 4: that come to mind, are you know, monoclonal antibodies in
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  Speaker 4: these in these focused you know, magic bullet cures where
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  Speaker 4: they are customized to the individual, and you know, we
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  Speaker 4: saw some of that with COVID being developed more heavily.
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  Speaker 4: We see it in cancer treatment. We're seeing in a
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: lot of autoimmune diseases. And we've known about this technology
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: for decades, it just never really panned out until recently.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: It seems like we've suddenly hit that part of the
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: curve where they understand how to develop these technologies and
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: what works what doesn't. So again, I mean, that's a
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: big area that I think is growing, and hopefully we'll
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: find some cures for some big cancers, you know, like
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: breast cancer or prostate cancer that are just low side
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: effect and high cure rates. That would be great.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's impressive, and you know, as much controversy that
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: has come with vaccines or things like that. My personal
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: opinion is much ado about nothing. Most of the time.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: It's our ignorance as lay people as to you know,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: what's in them and how they work and things like that.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: But with COVID, as annoying as some of the political
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: decisions might have been about shutting things down, we end
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: up learning more than just what we're tackling at hand,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Like COVID, we end up learning about kind of side
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: issues in science, like an off use of a medicine
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: or something. Don't We often find out something new whenever
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: we like have to tackle something like COVID.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, I mean, for sure, it's the first time
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: we really used in the mRNA approach for something like that.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: So mRNA had been you know, these m RNA vaccines
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: had been around for a while, but this is the
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: first time we actually used it in a broad area
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: like this and really learned quite a bit about mRNA vaccines.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: You know, another area I think of is it's the
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: crisper technology where you can modify genes and you know,
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: we did a story this year about how this was
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: the first time someone was treated with a child was
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: treated with gene therapy to cure a specific genetic disorder.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: So the idea now that we can just go in
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: potentially we're still not quite there yet across the board,
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: but to be able to go in and edit people's
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: genes and fix genetic problems that we know exist. I mean,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: we can do that now. In the case we've talked about,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: we did it. They did it in a child really
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: at the time of birth, or you know, they were
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: able to correct. I'm forgetting exactly what it was that
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: we treated, but the idea of coming in cutting, cutting DNA,
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: seeing it, and then the person walking away. You think
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: about diseases that are really broad spread, like sickle cell,
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: which is just a single genetic nucleotide, and if you
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: could change that, you know, in somebody's body, you could
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: cure the disease.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: And that particular disease has genetically been passed down and
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: attacked primarily the African American community correct or black folks,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: whether it's here in America or beyond.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's typically what we see in the United States,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: but anywhere. It's interesting because it gives you an advantage
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: when malaria is in the area. It gives you some
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: resistance to malaria. When you have sickle cell disease in
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: the regions where malaria is prevalent, that tends to be
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: where we see more sickle cell as a result.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's I didn't know that. It's fascinating. So it
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: might have it might have been simply a evolutionary combatant towards.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, advantage in some way some area.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that. I've never heard that. That actually is
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: insane to think about. And then also to go in
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: on the level of DNA and genetically. You know, personally,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: my family has polycystic renal disease, and so I got
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: my kidney transplant about six years ago, and you know,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: out of seven kids, five of us got it. My
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: father had it. I have nephews and nieces that have it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: And it's most likely that my grandfather, who died in
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Mexico had died of it because they didn't have dialysis
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: back and they didn't have kidney transplants until what the fifties,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: like fifties or something. So that may be something that
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: goes the way of the Dodo bird just by starting
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: to edit it out and splice it out of a
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: genetic gene pool.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, it's a possibility. It's a real possibility at
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: this point.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's insane because you know, everything the vast majority
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: of these things are genetic issues or genetic things that
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: are passed along.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Right, So yeah, I mean that again we can fix
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: we can fix genetic problems, but we can also now
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: program you know cells. That's what car te therapy is,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: right that you're you're taking it currently. It's autologous, right,
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: We take your own immune cells, we edit those and
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: then put them back in your body genetically modified so
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: that they can go after target tumor cells mostly or
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: treatments like that. So you know, again it's almost like
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: a three D printer for you know, Eurompean system. Now
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: we can just almost create whatever we need. That's where
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: that's where it's going. You know, it's not quite there yet. Again,
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: it's not. We have a lot of great cartith therapies
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: right now, but the area is still evolving.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but just the trajectory to be able to see
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: that as pretty exciting. So the flu activity is raising
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: sharply here in the United States. The new data coming
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Who is
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: this hitting and is this something we should be concerned
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: about what would cause this to be happening now.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, definitely, it's it's this is the time
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: of year, this is when we expect it to rise,
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: and it is rising certain areas like New York. I mean,
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: they've seen they haven't seen a spike this high since
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: two thousand and four, so they're pretty high. San Diego
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Riverside County are seeing spikes, but kind of in line
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: with what we expect this time of year. So there's
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: still time to get the flu shot. The peak is
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: probably going to be in January or late January early February,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: so still plenty of time right now. During this time
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: of year, we usually have about a forty five percent
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: of taken the flu vaccine among the higher risk populations,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: especially and that's about what we're seeing right now. So surprisingly,
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: it doesn't seem like all the talk about vaccines and
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: everything has scared most people off from getting the flu shot,
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: which is good, but it's the flu this year is
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: a H three and two, which is the type a
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: flu that that affects older people more so we do
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: expect more er visits and more hospitalizations from an H
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: three and two flu, and especially in elderly, So if
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: you're over sixty five, be sure to get a back.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: What is I obviously, with kidney and the suppression of
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: my immune system, I'm very big and getting it and
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I've already done all that. But as far as the
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: elderly is, at what point do you have the flu
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and think I need to know go to the er.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I need to see my general practice doctor and figure
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: out what's going on.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so somebody, for example, like you, that has an
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: underlying medical condition that could make this worse, like you
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: have emphysem us at COPD, congestive heart failure, those type
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: of things, you probably want to see your doctor early
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: when you get sick, because if it is the flu,
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: if you get the flu test and then we can
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: treat it, but it has to be in the first
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: forty eight hours. We can give anti viral medicine that
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: shortens the course of the flu and shortens the intensity
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: of it. If you know, if you're just a relatively
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: healthy person, even if you are over sixty five, I
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: would say use the standard rules, which is, you know,
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: if it feels like you know, body aches, headache, fever,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: you can treat most of that at home with time
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: and all, if you need to to reduce the fever
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: or the body aches, I yourprofen those type of things. Fluids.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Make sure you're getting enough fluids in you. But you
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: don't really need to go to the hospital or to
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: the er unless you're having difficulty breathing, you know, then
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: that's a serious concern or altered mental status. Really, when
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: people die from the flu, they die from typically pneumonia,
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: or they die from more rarely encephalitis or swelling in
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: the brain. And then those people get very confused and disoriented.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: So you start seeing those symptoms, come to the emergency room.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Yikes. What causes the inflammation of the brain?
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Well, viruses in general can do that. So once they
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: infect the body, that inflammatory response can cause inflammation all
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: over your body. That's what gives you a headache, that's
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: what gives you, you know, the body aches and everything else.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: And in some people it gets so severe that you
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: inflame the brain so much that they become confused, disoriented,
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: and again that can result in seizures, it can result
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: in death. So get those flu that's very rare, but
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: it is one of the causes of death for flu.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: So confusion and how long does the flu last could
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: it last for decades because you just described handle.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: He's special and that's not the cause.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: And he usually causes headaches. It's not that he has
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: me and causes them for other people. So this is
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: for the you know, older people over sixty five as
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: it hit. You know, do children get affected with the
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: flu and is there ever a point where you should
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: be concerned about a child with the flu?
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, same, same concerns. I mean, children do get the flu,
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: they do get hospitalized, and in you know, I think
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: in San Diego County last year, there were about three
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: hundred thousand deaths. I remember seeing that somewhere. Recit's across
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: the country. They're about three hundred children's children deaths from
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: the flu, and there are a couple thousand hospitalizations. So
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: it does happen, and we want to try.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: And reduce that.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: So again, immunization works. But if they get if they
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: get sick, you treat it just like any other cold
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: or flu, which is if they're maintaining okay at home,
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: able to tolerate fluids, you know, acting normally, not having
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: any respiratory distress, then you can treat it at home,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: especially with kids, also with adults. If you're getting dehydrated
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: because you're just not able to hold down fluids or
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: you're not drinking enough, then you may need to come
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: to the hospital for hydration.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's the new year, today's the first twenty twenty six.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know about you, brother, but it was a
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: blink of an eye twenty twenty five. For whatever reason,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: it just seemed like, all of a sudden, it was
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: so and then I'm like in whenever summer it's I'm like, okay,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: it's going to be Christmas any minute now. What are
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: what are some I hate to call them resolutions, but
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the fact is we're not very smart creatures and we
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: always think, well, the first of the year, we got
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: to start something. Are there any you know, medical resolution
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: type things that you can do that actually do move
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the needle in life?
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'll give you my top five. You
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: could pick one or two. They're not hard, so, but
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: they're just a matter of sticking to it right. You're
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: not trying to do something big and hard. You're not
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: trying to do something consistent. So Number one is protecting
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: your sleep, like it's a medical prescription. So you want
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: to make sure that you get sleep. You set up
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: your environment for sleep, and you do that regularly because
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: that probably has the biggest effect on your health when
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: you're unable to sleep well. Number two would be, you know,
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: weight training. If you could actually just lift some weights,
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: you know, not you don't have to even go to
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: a gym. You can get some heavy items and do
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: some lifting and do that once or twice a week.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: If you do two sessions thirty minutes a week, that's
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: been shown to improve longevity. You're more likely to be
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: able to walk when you get older, which is a
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: critical thing.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Could use that and then bands or as resistance training.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: Or yeah, resistance training, any kind of resistance training, so
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: bands would work as well. And you want to just
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: make sure that you're you know that you're getting that exercise,
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: especially older people. We used to say, don't don't have
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: older people lift weights, but it's better for them to
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: lift weights because it gives them the ability to maintain
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: that strength. You start losing muscle cells as you get older.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: You see people starting to kind of wither away in
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: a bit, and we call it sarcopenia as the medical
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: word for it. But we want to reduce sarcopenia and
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: we want you to maintain that muscle mass.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Sounds like aeish horror movie. Yeah, I don't know. Well,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know why that came to me. That's sound
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: a weird. Okay, the next one.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: The next one is is just walk. Just walk every day,
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: see if you can get you know, everybody's aiming for
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: ten thousand steps. You really only need seven thousand according
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: to the studies. But the more you can walk the better,
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: especially if it's after meals, because meals tend to spike
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: your blood sugar sure, and that's not good, and it
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: requires more insulin, and then you can develop over time
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: insulin resistance. So if you can get up after a
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: meal and just say, hey, look, after dinner, we want
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: to go for an after dinner walk every day, you know,
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: just maybe you know, fifteen minute walk, twenty minute walk,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: that will significantly improve your blood sugar and your overall health.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: What blood sugar spike we talk about those things. What
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: does that do to your body? I can guess why
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: it's bad, but what does it do to your body
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: that becomes so problematic?
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, well, the biggest thing is it causes a
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: release of insulin, and insulin isn't the best thing to
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: have floating around in your blood. It's it's a hormone
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: that you need. It helps unlock the cells so that
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: that sugar can enter the cell. So it's absolutely necessary.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: And when it doesn't function right, you get diabetes, which
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: is someone who the cells are starving for glucose because
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: it won't unlock the cell. But there's a ton of
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: glucose floating around in your blood and that sugar. Just
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: imagine soaking something in sugar for a long period of time.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: It becomes almost like pickled or you know, like a
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: sugar coated candy. It just becomes hardened. That's what your
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: your blood vessels become like. So you know, we don't
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: want big spikes and blood sugar. And if you can
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: control that and you can control insulin, then you're just
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: better off in your health.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: So like let's say I'm I crashed with a soccer
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: team on top of a snowy mountain and I want
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: and I got a sweet tooth, I go for the
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: one with the diabetes. Yeah, I mean rare. It's probably
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: not gonna happen, but if it does, I want to know.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, they're dessert, They're.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Not don't have them first. Doc. Always good to talk
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: to you. Happy New Year, my friend. You always give
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: us great insights for ourselves and I love that list
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: of you know, resolutions medically that actually or for health
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: that actually moved the needle. Thanks for your time, buddy,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I go back to doing what you're doing.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: All right, Take care.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again soon. Doctor Jim Keeney. All right,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: that's our New Year's show for you. Thanks so much
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: for hanging out. I'll be with you again tomorrow and
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Handle and we'll be back on Monday. Thanks to Heather
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Brooker and KNO and Trey and Matthew and I think
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: they got everybody there, and especially thanks to you. I
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: appreciate you taking the time to hang out with us
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: on this day. I hope you get to relax. I'll
• 34:53
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