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#2049 The Fertility Crisis - David Gillespie · The You Project

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  Speaker 1: Oh, Tiffany and Cook, David, Brian Kevin, Patrick Gillespie, Craig
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  Speaker 1: Anthew Harper. It's the project, that's you, it's us. What
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  Speaker 1: have you been up to today? Cook? Have you been
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  Speaker 1: talking to people? Have you been therapizing yourself or anyone else?
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  Speaker 1: Have you been punching shit?
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  Speaker 2: I have been.
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  Speaker 3: I've trained a couple of clients, made them punch them shit.
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  Speaker 3: I have had a bit of a chat to people.
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  Speaker 3: I've had a bit of therapy myself. That's always a joy.
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  Speaker 3: I've lifted heavy things and here I am. And I
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  Speaker 3: even had a nap today.
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  Speaker 1: What a great little nana nap. How's doctor Bill going?
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  Speaker 1: Are you? Are you making any progress? Are you still
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  Speaker 1: like whereabouts on the operational functional scale? Are you like
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  Speaker 1: your ten being like no issues, one being all the issues?
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  Speaker 1: What number are you probably?
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  Speaker 3: I've rocket it up to a good three and a
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  Speaker 3: three point five? I reckon, So I'm doing it.
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  Speaker 1: You're approaching, You're you're driving into Normalsville. You're just sitting
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  Speaker 1: on the almost normal highway, just cruising into town.
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  Speaker 3: Close.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's good things psychologies or bullshit, isn't it David?
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  Speaker 2: It is, yes, it is a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, expensive bullshit but now nonetheless bullshit.
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  Speaker 1: Spoken authorized by David Gillespie. Now you wrote something, well, firstly,
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  Speaker 1: how are you before I talk about the funny thing?
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  Speaker 1: Any news on planet you anything you need to tell
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  Speaker 1: any like, any breaking news on planet.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: There's no sound effects coming forward.
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  Speaker 2: Sound effects.
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  Speaker 1: We're saving up for a new bit of what do
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  Speaker 1: you call this stuff? Foam on the edge of my filter? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're saving up for one of those. I think Melissa
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  Speaker 1: has to sell a kidney, but I'll get one anytime, anytime.
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  Speaker 1: So you wrote a funny article which I started reading
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  Speaker 1: and I did. I wasn't really expecting for it to
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  Speaker 1: be a tongue in cheek kind of affair with you
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  Speaker 1: talking about the the impending inclusion of ozen pic or
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  Speaker 1: the like in the drinking water. Was it meant to
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  Speaker 1: be Australia or America that?
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  Speaker 4: But but the piece was, Yeah, the piece was was America.
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  Speaker 4: But I was, I guess kind of trying to make
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  Speaker 4: a point about mass medication. Is you read that piece
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  Speaker 4: and you see the way the politicians sell it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we put a zen pick into the drinking spy will
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  Speaker 4: solve the obesity crisis. We'll solve the affordability crisis because.
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  Speaker 2: You won't be able to afford to buy EU. You
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  Speaker 2: won't buy.
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  Speaker 4: As much food, so it will cost you less. And
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  Speaker 4: we'll even you know, solve the airline seat crisis. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you'll everyone will be able to fit into their airline seats.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone basically flying first clas So all good all around.
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  Speaker 4: What's the downside? You have to buy a bit of
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  Speaker 4: a zimpic and put it into the drinking supply, and
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  Speaker 4: I guess lose the will to live because it does
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  Speaker 4: have an an hedonic effect on people. But the point
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  Speaker 4: I guess I was trying to make is often that's
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  Speaker 4: how mass medication appeals. You could make exactly the same
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  Speaker 4: arguments for fluoridation. There's a hard way to fix the
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  Speaker 4: fact that we're wrecking everybody's teeth, which is we have
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  Speaker 4: to stop them consuming vast amounts of sugar. The only
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  Speaker 4: thing that destroys teeth is sugar. We know that that's
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  Speaker 4: not controversial science, And instead of doing something about that,
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  Speaker 4: our solution is to put a chemical in the water
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  Speaker 4: supply that does a little bit about it but doesn't
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  Speaker 4: fix the problem. And may have its own problems itself.
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  Speaker 4: And that's kind of what I was getting at with
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  Speaker 4: this article. And this isn't the first time that really
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  Speaker 4: odd things have been seriously suggested as being added to
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  Speaker 4: the water supply. There was a serious attempt to add
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  Speaker 4: statins into the water supply in Japan, the thinking being yeah,
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  Speaker 4: the thinking being, well, you know, let's prevent everybody's heart attack,
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  Speaker 4: you know, put.
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  Speaker 2: It into the water supply.
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  Speaker 4: And this is the way the thinking goes, is what's
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  Speaker 4: the harm? And we've talked about a few things where
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  Speaker 4: there've been mass medication.
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  Speaker 2: For very very good reasons, you know, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Such as preventing birth defects and so on, but without
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  Speaker 4: any real regard to the potential side effects of it,
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  Speaker 4: and without any real regard to is this really a
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  Speaker 4: good idea to give this to everybody in the population.
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  Speaker 2: And because we're in.
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  Speaker 4: A situation where that is the mindset for our public
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  Speaker 4: health people, which is the first thing they reach for,
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  Speaker 4: is the equivalent of fluoridation of the water supply. Me
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  Speaker 4: writing a piece something putting a zepic in the water
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  Speaker 4: supply to some people will sound like a suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Well, when I was reading that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's so ludicrous and ridiculous. It actually confused me because
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  Speaker 1: I never expected you and maybe you've done it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've done it before, but I hadn't read it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. I never expected you to write satire. I
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  Speaker 1: never expected and I'm reading it and I'm like, it's
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  Speaker 1: really well written, and it's written as though it's real.
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  Speaker 1: So there was this kind of this inner conflict and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, this cannot be possibly, like sure, like I
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  Speaker 1: knew it couldn't be real. And I'm like, surely Gillespo
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  Speaker 1: hasn't got this so wrong that he's actually writing this,
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  Speaker 1: because this is literally impossible that this would happen for
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  Speaker 1: a myriad of reasons. And then of course it's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's bullshit. It's tongue in cheek and you say essentially
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  Speaker 1: that at the end. But I'm amused that people actually
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  Speaker 1: well one that I saw anyway, a lady like she
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  Speaker 1: clearly didn't read it, and she's like, I hope this
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  Speaker 1: is not true, and I'm like, well, just keep reading.
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  Speaker 1: It's not true, but it's it is. It is indicative
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  Speaker 1: or it is kind of insightful of you know what,
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  Speaker 1: what can happen. I think RFK is anti fluoride, isn't
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  Speaker 1: he like? I think he's a big hat.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's yeah. I think that's one of the things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got a whole bloody shopping list
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  Speaker 1: of things he wants to get rid of.
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  Speaker 4: Hell, that's starting with the podole, of course, which apparently
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  Speaker 4: causes autism. No, it does turn you into a psychopath,
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  Speaker 4: but it doesn't cause autism.
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  Speaker 1: That is funny. That is I was about to say
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't it make you a doesn't what is it? Paracetamol?
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't it make you a temporary sociopath for a few
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  Speaker 1: hours or more? Lightheled down the sociopath scale. Yeah, tell
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  Speaker 1: me the mechanism. Tell me the mechanism again, I forget
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  Speaker 1: you explained to us.
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  Speaker 2: So it's.
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  Speaker 4: We've known for a long time that obviously it's a painkiller,
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  Speaker 4: but we don't. No one's ever really been certain about
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  Speaker 4: the mechanism for that, just they know that it works.
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  Speaker 4: And so there have been some studies done, you know,
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  Speaker 4: those sort of university psychology studies where they try all
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  Speaker 4: sorts of things, you know, just to keep themselves entertained.
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  Speaker 4: And one of the ones they did was one where
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  Speaker 4: they tested people's levels of empathy both when they were
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  Speaker 4: on paracetamol and when they weren't, and much to everyone's surprise,
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  Speaker 4: there were significant and measurable differences. Now, there is a
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  Speaker 4: biochemical reason for it, in that it impairs a certain
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  Speaker 4: circuit in the brain where essentially empathy lives in humans
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  Speaker 4: and in psychopaths, those neurons, which are called one economone neurons,
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  Speaker 4: very very less active, they have a lower density, and
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  Speaker 4: so they have no empathy. But what happens when you
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  Speaker 4: take paracetamol is that those the function of those neurons
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  Speaker 4: get suppressed by the paracetamol and essentially you turn yourself
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  Speaker 4: into a psychopath for the four or so hours that
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  Speaker 4: the thing works.
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  Speaker 1: It's bloody hilarious. It's like that. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to not feel like if you had to go
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  Speaker 1: into a situation where empathy was going to be a
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  Speaker 1: limitation for you temporarily, like in terms of having to
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  Speaker 1: do something, and that was going to so.
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  Speaker 2: Being an executioner for example.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if you had to chop someone's head off,
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  Speaker 1: take a couple of panadol, bibity bobbedy boot as long
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  Speaker 1: as you do it within that four hour window, you good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it'll certainly help. There actually have been some serious
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  Speaker 4: recommendations around people having to do things which require harming
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  Speaker 4: others and being given parasitmol for exactly a tempathy lowering effect. So,
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  Speaker 4: for example, surgeons and so on.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to Tiff I was explained to her,
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  Speaker 1: I heard this story about in the First World War
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  Speaker 1: when they were sending this was an American podcast I
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  Speaker 1: was listening to, but allegedly they were sending all these
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  Speaker 1: young you know, farm boys and you know city boys.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is what is at nineteen fourteen, the
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  Speaker 1: First World War pre television, pre movies essentially pre all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of that type of propaganda where all of
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  Speaker 1: these kids were just getting shipped off, here's a gun,
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  Speaker 1: here's seven minutes of training, go shoot that bloke in
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  Speaker 1: the head. And there were like allegedly thousands of them
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  Speaker 1: that didn't want to do it, like they didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to kill people. So they're shooting above their head or
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  Speaker 1: beside them. And one of the things that they did
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  Speaker 1: in an attempt to alleviate this lack of drive to
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  Speaker 1: kill people was they started creating all these kind of
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  Speaker 1: essentially these propaganda movies elevating the status of or promoting
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  Speaker 1: the alpha maleness and desirability of soldiers and war and
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  Speaker 1: all of this kind of stuff in an attempt to
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  Speaker 1: get these young guys more emotionally and psychologically prepared to
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  Speaker 1: go and kill the enemy. Like I never thought of that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the other thing they did was the other thing
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  Speaker 4: they did was give them masses of cocaine.
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  Speaker 2: So so it was a real problem.
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  Speaker 4: Around twenty percent of the population are so empathetic that
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  Speaker 4: they would struggle to kill another human no matter what
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  Speaker 4: the circumstances, which is a bit of a problem in
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  Speaker 4: the military, and so it's always I mean in the
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  Speaker 4: US military to this day works very very hard against that,
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  Speaker 4: using combat simulation, video games and so on to try
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  Speaker 4: and lower people's empathy about killing others. But yeah, it
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  Speaker 4: was a big problem in World War One, and one
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  Speaker 4: of the things they did to combat it, and also
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  Speaker 4: to combat the other thing which was PTSD as a
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  Speaker 4: result of killing people or seeing people be killed around you,
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  Speaker 4: was to give them large amounts of cocaine. So cocaine
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  Speaker 4: was dispensed liberally to the troops. Most of them were
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  Speaker 4: a significant proportion of them became serious cocaine addicts, and
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  Speaker 4: when they came back to Australia, they brought that addiction
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  Speaker 4: with them. Luckily it wasn't legal then, I guess, and
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  Speaker 4: so you could just love off to your local pharmacy
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  Speaker 4: and pick up some cocaine over the counter and no
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  Speaker 4: trouble whatsoever. And so the addictive state actually spread pretty
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  Speaker 4: significant amongst Australian population, and at one stage during the
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  Speaker 4: nineteen twenties, Australia was the highest per capita cocaine consumer
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  Speaker 4: in the world as a direct result of it being
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  Speaker 4: freely available.
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  Speaker 2: Well not free, but you know, it wasn't against the law.
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  Speaker 4: You could readily available to see, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 4: Us introducing it en mass into the population through the
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  Speaker 4: troops that were coming back from the war.
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  Speaker 1: TIF can you find out when it became a legal
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  Speaker 1: cocaine use became illegal in Australia. I'd like to know that.
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  Speaker 4: That must have I can tell you a little bit
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  Speaker 4: about it. So in the nineteen thirties, the government was
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  Speaker 4: starting to get a bit worried about the fact that
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  Speaker 4: everyone was a cocaine addict and felt that it might
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  Speaker 4: be impairing productivity, and so they did bring in regulations
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  Speaker 4: requiring pharmacists to only issue cocaine with a script. Pharmacists
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  Speaker 4: initially just completely ignored that and the governments did nothing
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  Speaker 4: to enforce it. By the time we got through the
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  Speaker 4: Great Depression, he was starting to be enforced pretty regularly,
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  Speaker 4: and you pretty much needed a script to get cocaine.
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  Speaker 1: M wow, did you find anything tip like an absolute
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  Speaker 1: illegal by date? You can get back to it.
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  Speaker 3: I have taught it to ramble on a lot before
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  Speaker 3: giving straight answer.
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  Speaker 1: There's a speak just we'll get onto another top.
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  Speaker 2: To give you a straight answer to you. Wow. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: There's a show on and I don't promote a Netflix
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  Speaker 1: really ever, but there's a show on Netflix at the
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  Speaker 1: moment called In Waves and More. It might be in
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  Speaker 1: War and Waves the other way around, but it's basically
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  Speaker 1: about all these Tier one operators that come back from
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  Speaker 1: More completely fucked up. It's and all the trauma, and
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  Speaker 1: there's a new drug that they're using. I'm only like
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  Speaker 1: a third of the way through so it so far,
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  Speaker 1: it's fascinating, So I can't say the whole thing, but
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  Speaker 1: I mean enjoying it. But there's a drug called iber
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  Speaker 1: Game that they're using now have you heard of that?
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  Speaker 2: David? Oh? What is it? Is it a synthetic something?
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  Speaker 1: Rather, it's a h it's not an opioid, it's a
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  Speaker 1: what do they call it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: God, everyone, We just had a little melt down there.
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  Speaker 1: We were trying to come up with a word, and
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  Speaker 1: David Gillespie, who knows all the words, couldn't fucking come
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  Speaker 1: up with the words. So I blame him. Too late
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  Speaker 1: in the day. For me, it's too late and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sixty two, So fucking keep your expectations low. Diff who's
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  Speaker 1: literally got one job and that's just define words, couldn't
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  Speaker 1: fucking find it with her fat little fingers on her
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  Speaker 1: keyboard over there? Could She couldn't. She couldn't do the
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  Speaker 1: one thing she got to do, one thing in half
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  Speaker 1: an hour, find a word? All right? Enough about getting
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  Speaker 1: high and avoiding shooting people in war and drugs that
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  Speaker 1: make you psychopathic. So you wrote an article today about
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  Speaker 1: microplastics and the relationship with those on sperm count and fertility.
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  Speaker 1: Do tell, Do tell? What's happening there?
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  Speaker 4: Interesting study came out about a month ago. Two hundred
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  Speaker 4: men in China having microplastics measured. This is so microplastics
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  Speaker 4: are really just particles of PBC or polystyrene.
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  Speaker 2: Mostly it's where most of it.
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  Speaker 4: Measuring how much of it was present in their sperm,
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  Speaker 4: And the reason for that was that though first of
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  Speaker 4: all wanting to know whether there was any they found
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  Speaker 4: rather disturbingly that fifty six percent of them had significant
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  Speaker 4: abortion or measurable amounts of microplastics in their sperm. But
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  Speaker 4: more disturbingly, they found that that wasn't just interesting fact,
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  Speaker 4: it was that there was a direct association between the
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  Speaker 4: amount of microplastic in sperm and your fertility. So now
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  Speaker 4: we've talked about fertility a bit over the time, because
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  Speaker 4: we really do have a world wide problem with fertility.
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  Speaker 4: It's male fertility has been dropping at one percent a
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  Speaker 4: year since nineteen thirty eight, so I don't know how
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  Speaker 4: many years that.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot. Eighty seven years, Yeah, so eighty seven
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  Speaker 2: percent drop.
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  Speaker 4: Except it's worse than that because since two thousand it's
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  Speaker 4: been two and a half percent drop per year, so
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  Speaker 4: it's accelerating.
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  Speaker 2: It's accelerating.
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  Speaker 4: So we're in a position now where, you know, finding
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  Speaker 4: a fertile mail is starting to get almost impossible, and
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  Speaker 4: these guys, you know, there's a lot of people running
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  Speaker 4: aroun waving their hands and saying I've got the answer.
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  Speaker 4: I understand why this is so, but very few people
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  Speaker 4: have been able to nail anything down. Definitive sort of
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  Speaker 4: people a sort of saying, oh, modern life, plastics, radiation,
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  Speaker 4: you name it. Everyone's got a reason. These guys were
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  Speaker 4: trying to nail down one of the excuses that's often given,
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  Speaker 4: which is well, that is given frequently the microplastics. And
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  Speaker 4: what they found is yes, there is indeed an association
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  Speaker 4: between micropa microplastics, and in particular, if you are in
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  Speaker 4: the habit of regularly, and these guys were using them
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  Speaker 4: every day, using plastic cut aalry, then you're likely to
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  Speaker 4: be most at risk. I guess it's got to do
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  Speaker 4: with it. It's in direct contact with your food. Bits
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  Speaker 4: of plastic, tiny microscopic bits of plastic are being broken
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  Speaker 4: off the surfaces of that food, of those utensils every day.
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  Speaker 4: So using plastic cut rorery had the biggest effect, but
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  Speaker 4: there was a big effect in general from heating food
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  Speaker 4: in plastics to so on. The reason I thought this
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  Speaker 4: was study was interesting was not so much because of
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  Speaker 4: the newsworthy worthiness of that, and there have been news
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  Speaker 4: stories over the last few days about this, don't use
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  Speaker 4: a plastic knife and fork, It'll make you infertile, which
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  Speaker 4: I guess is where you could go from this study.
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  Speaker 4: The more interesting thing is what they did after they
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  Speaker 4: found that, which is that they went to look at
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  Speaker 4: what was the mechanism, So why would microplastics affect your
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  Speaker 4: ability to conceive? And what they found is that what
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  Speaker 4: it was doing was triggering, triggering a sort of a
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  Speaker 4: panic button, if you like, in in sperm cells, which
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  Speaker 4: is something triggered by oxidative stress. So when when cells
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  Speaker 4: are under oxidative stress, they usually are triggered to die,
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  Speaker 4: particularly where they're important cells carrying DNA that are being
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  Speaker 4: used to create the next generation. Then you don't want
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  Speaker 4: that DMA being damaged by something and then going on
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  Speaker 4: to make you know, a baby that may not be
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  Speaker 4: getting the correct DNA set, and you can have all
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  Speaker 4: sorts of introgen generational disease being caused then, so lots
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  Speaker 4: of things that are often blamed on those sorts of things,
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  Speaker 4: you know, such as autism and down syndrome and so on.
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  Speaker 4: So the body protects itself by self destructing the sperm
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  Speaker 4: that it detects have error and usually pretty good at it,
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  Speaker 4: and the ones that misses are also protected by a
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  Speaker 4: secondary and similar scene in the female which results in
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  Speaker 4: a miscarriage. So that's all well and good, and that's
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  Speaker 4: how the microplastics are doing it, and none of that
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  Speaker 4: is a particular surprise, except that exactly the same pathway
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  Speaker 4: is triggered, and we have known has been triggered for
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  Speaker 4: a long time by smoking, for example, So smoking we
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  Speaker 4: know does the same thing, and we also know that
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: the cure for that is to tell a man who's
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: thinking about having a baby to stop smoking if he
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: does three months beforehand, because it takes three months to
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: clear out the sperm, if you like, have them refreshed
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: with a brand new lot that aren't affected by whatever
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: it is you've been doing, consuming microplastics or smoking. And
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: the reason for that is that smoking introduces a whole
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: lot of aldehydes into the system.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: And we've talked about aldehydes before that.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Cause DNA disruption and destroy and damage the DNA in
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: sperm cells in particular, which are not very well protected
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: in the body because they make so many of them.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: So the body's going down the big pen route rather
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: than the long block pen, which is it's better to
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: have a thousand bad ones that you can throw out
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: if they don't work, then have one really really good one.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: So so that's why that advice has always been given
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: about smoking. At the start, when they were giving that advice,
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: it was just from observing that ten men tended to
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: have more luck getting women pregnant if they weren't smokers.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: And then later on the science caught up and we
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: figured out the aldehyde triggering that autooxidation pathway, which is
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: exactly the same thing that they're now picking up with
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: the microplastics. So smoking microplastics very very bad if you
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: want to have babies. The other one that's recently been
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: picked up is alcohol. Of course, we've always known heavy
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: drinking is bad for conception in males. Now we know
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: why once again, big big producer of aldehydes which have
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: that DNA destructive thing. Once again, cure is the same,
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: stop drinking ninety days before you intend to and eve
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: and everything should be fine. And then there's the really
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: really big and nasty one that we've talked about before,
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: but which is really really nasty because it's less easy
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: to fix and that is seed oils, so the canola, sunflower, soybean,
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: almond oil, pinut oil, all those sorts of things, the
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: seed oils that are now entrenched in our food supply
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: because they're cheap and theoretically healthy. That's what all the
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: health authorities tell us. But so they've replaced all the
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: animal fats and so on, and our foods fly. Everything's
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: full of the stuff that produces a particularly nasty aldehyde
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: called for HNE, and four HNE is just as destructive
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: as the alcohol, the ones from alcohol and smoking and microplastics.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: The problem with.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: It is that, unlike those other three, we don't hang
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: on to microplastics in our our bodies.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: We don't hang on too cigaret.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: We don't stash a few diurries away for later when
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: we're having a cigarette.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: It's a one and done kind of thing. And the
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: same goes for alcohol.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: We spend a considerable amount of time and energy getting
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: the alcohol out of our system because it's a poison.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: So we don't hang onto that either.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: The fats, however, because they are pretty handy for building
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: baby brains, get hung onto and we hang onto them
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: for as long as we possibly can. Because in our
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: natural environment, they're pretty rare. In fact, we hang onto
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: them were on average about six hundred days, so we
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: store them for about six hundred days, so two years.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: So the advice is the same if you want to conceive,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: you know, don't do this thing, except that they don't
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: do this thing is eat anything containing seed oils, which
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: is just about about anything, and don't do it for
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: two years. And when you know that, is it any
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: wonder that male fertility rate is plummeting. It's not just
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: because we use it because we're smoking, drinking. Smoking and
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: drinking have actually improved significantly, but we probably are using
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: more micro more plastic stuff. But nothing that would explain
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: two and a half percent a year. The thing that
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: explains that is the massive increase in seed oils in
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: our food.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Supply, bloody hell. I wonder like one percent a year
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: since nineteen thirty eight yep, thirty eight, you know, which
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: was whatever, eighty seven percent and now it's gone up.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: The rate has increased. I mean, if there's no intervention
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: or effective intervention, or there's no strategy or there's no
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I mean what we've spoken about this a little bit,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: or we haven't spoken about the thalatees or the plastics
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: or the you know whatever. But but like, this is
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: not something that's generally been discussed. It's something that affects everyone,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: men and women. Like this is a catastrophic health issue.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: And yeah, you think, well, I wonder in twenty and fifty,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: which ain't really that far away, you know, so twenty
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: five years from now, at the current rate of progression,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: what's happening, Like, what's the population of Australia, what's the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: how many babies are being born here, what's the infertility rate,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: what's you know, I wonder what the real world reality
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: will be.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Then increasingly we'll be relying on what we would describe
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: as third world countries where the seed oil conglomerates haven't
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: bothered destroying the food supply. Because this seed oil issue
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: is largely a Western problem, because it's it's in our
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: takeaway food, it's in all of our fried food, and
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: it's on it is much less of a problem in
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: countries that aren't exposed to the standard American diet.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: And so.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: The breeders, if you like that, the people who will
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: still be able to conceive reasonably easily are going to
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: be people who are not exposed to that diet in
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: any significant quantity, and so you will increasingly see countries
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: like Australia and the United States and the UK and
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Europe and someone relying on immigrants for children and less
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: on their own population growth. And you can already see
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: that in the population numbers. And there's lots of lovely
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: narratives about why that is. Oh, we're richer, you know,
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: women work more, et cetera, et cetera, and all those
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: things are true, but there's also this underlying thing going on,
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: which is biochemically, we're destroying our ability to reproduce, and
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: no one seems to be doing much about it because
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: everyone's running around looking for these far fetched explanations like
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: whether not you use plastic knives and forks, which do
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: explain a bit of it, but which are nowhere near
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: the real problem.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I wonder, is the impact on women the same, Like,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: is it a comparable impact physiological consequence for women and men?
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: No, not at all.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: So women are actually pretty well protected against this stuff.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: They have a fairly good redundant protection protection system. You
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: want to remember, it's a different They are using the
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: mont Blanc method. They get all the eggs they're going
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: to get right from the start.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: If I hope you take I hope you're taking notes
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: with yeah there.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: So they're going with the do it properly protected well method,
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: whereas sperm's going with NA make three hundred million of them.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: What happens if we lose a few hundred million doesn't matter.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Only one's got work.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: So, Tiff, are you a little bit?
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: That happens to the man, and this happens to the women.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Are you a little bit? What about me?
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Though? I haven't be on what what about the hybrids?
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: What about Tiff and her hybrid friends who have got
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: one foot in each camp?
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: I can't comment on the biology of tift friend.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, so I mean, yeah, wow. So I guess
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the or part of the solution is just education and
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: awareness and you getting out there with your little bloody
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: megaphone at every opportunity and just informing the masses. But
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: there's no there's no quick fix, is there, Because it's
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: not I mean, what you bring to our attention is
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: not something that's uh spoken about a lot or or
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: you know, in fact, it's you know, I'm sure there
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: are people who go David Gillespie doesn't know what he's
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: talking about. I believe you, I'm sure of I'm sure
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: of your research, and I tell people about seed oils
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: as well. But there are a lot of people who
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: are out there sharing a different idea or a different message.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's true.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: But if you take the chain of things that I
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: was talking about there, so the oxidation, the four HNE,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: the damage to DNA, all of those things. You take
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: that chain of things, so you will find really really
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: high quality science supporting every single one of those statements.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: There are very few people putting them together and saying, well,
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: if all of these things are true, then you have
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: an explanation.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: But it is the case.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: There's not one element of that where someone could seriously
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: come to you and say, now, what he said about
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: four HME is a load of rubbish.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: It's perfectly harmless.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Every scientist on the planet would agree, No, it is
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: extremely dangerous aldehyde, and it does just r upstan and
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: it is a bad thing to introduce a sperm. All
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: of those individual facts, you will find plenty of very
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: reputable scientists who will agree on. What you won't find
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: too many of is people who put all of those
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: things together in a line and saying, yeah, but what
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: does this add up to and is there a possibility
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: that explains why we're blowing away our ability to reproduce
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: at the rate of two and a half percent a year.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: By the way, it's slightly higher illustrate. It's about three
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: percent a year in Australia, but the world average is
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: two and a half.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: That is a staggering like three percent doesn't seem much,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: but every year is terrifying.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Particularly when we're approaching the floor.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: So the flaw of viable reproductive capacity is around the
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: ten million mark. And you know there are now average
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: readings in the Australian population that are between twenty and
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: thirty million, and readings from the nineteen forties were up
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: in the hundreds of millions, three and four hundred minute,
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: so you know we're already approaching the floor.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmmm. Well, so it's a good thing. I'm past
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: my use by dat. I don't need to worry. I'm
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: like fucking old cart and the milk just sitting on
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: the fucking shelf, just fucking next to it, next to
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: a wilted flour. Somebody just come along and fucking pop
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: me in the bin. If I was going to ask
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: you what oils you use to Do you cook with
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: oil or do you just put cold oil on salads?
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Or like, what's your go to?
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: I use olive oil and coconut oil.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, both good calls.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: But it's not so much the the oil you add yourself.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: It's the oil that's hidden in food you buy.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: So speak to the cookie shop lady and see what
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: she's using.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Usually the answer.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Usually the answer is the cheapest one they can get,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: because no one can taste the difference.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Hey, speaking of oils, do you know what phenoles are?
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Have you heard of that PhD in ols? That like
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the levels of phenols in oil and in olive oil
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: in that so, yeah, you can tell me about this.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is bullshit, but they say
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: that high. I think in olive oil, like in Australia
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: it's typically under three hundred whatever's per desoleta.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Or I have every now and then looked at this
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: phenol thing and never been able to find any convincing
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: science about it. I know that it comes in waves
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: of people worrying about it, but I honestly there's some
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: stuff there, but nothing that convinces me that it's even
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: worth writing a piece about.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I coach I won't say who, and obviously, but
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I coach someone who owns an olive grove and they
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: produce this and the all over it like they are
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: very high phenol. I think it's like six hundred and
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: fifty plus per whatever. Whatever the measurement is, the normal
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: measurements under two fifty. This is like three or four
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: x that, and they rave about it anyway.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: I'd much I'd be much more interested in an olive
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: oil in what percentage of the olive oil is a
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Mega six fat? So it varies quite a bit with
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: olive oil, and some of them can are not necessarily
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: better than the seed oils they're replacing, and some of
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: them are a lot better. So that varies between about
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: ten percent and up to around twenty percent. And I
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: wish people would focus on that rather than the phenoles.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: On the world famous David Gillespie fat scale, ten out
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: of ten being the healthiest yep on your scale the
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Gillespie scale, what do you give olive oil?
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: What numbers are it's on the borderline, like it's on
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: the it'll do right if if you if you must
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: have a liquid fat.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: There aren't a lot of choices. It'll do.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: It's on the arginly safe side of the borderline. So
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to against not going to say to
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: people they shouldn't have olive oil.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's also not something i'd rave about.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: So you'd give it a six maybe out of ten?
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, six, seven, something like that.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: And what would you give butter?
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Oh nine, that's ten. Nine depends what the cow eight?
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: But yeah, nine or ten?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: And what would you give lard.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Ten?
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: No, it depends what the pig eight Because pigs so
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: lard obviously it's pig fat.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: But and pigs are omnivores like us.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: So if the pig was raised on a grain diet,
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: was a grain fed pig like ninety seven percent of
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: pigs in Australia, then it's probably a three or a four.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: If the pig was raised, you know, on open forage,
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: then it's probably an eight or nine. Because they're omnivores
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: like us, they store all the amega six they eat,
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: and of their eat they're fed a lot of omega six.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: They've got a lot of omega six in their fat.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: And I'm guessing it's a similar story for tallow.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: So tallow is beef fat.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: It's always going to be a ten, simple because ruminants
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: like cows don't store any more than about three percent
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: of their body fat has polyunsaturate, so it doesn't really
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: matter what they're fed. I know, people get all up
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: and down about you know, he's a grass feed is
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: a grain fed. Yeah, there'll be slightly worse fat profile
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: in a grain fed beef, but not that much worse
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: because the absolute limit is three percent.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Anyway, what did you say you have tiff? Did you
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: say coconut oil? Did you say that? Or did you coconut?
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: What is a good nine or ten?
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Is there anyone that I've missed out that you want
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to give a tick?
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: There's that one to know the name of the name
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: escapes me. The one that's very very popular in India
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: that's basically rendered butter.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Note gee, that's the one. Yeah, yeah, very very very
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: high that one.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: But if you're going to cook, if you're going to
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: do frying in oil, the best one is to pop
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: down to the supermarket and get super fry, which is
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: sold in the little red cubes of foil and that's
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: just rendered beef fat.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Very good choice.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: There you go, There you go. I'm actually getting a
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: little bit hungry now, but we've got another podcast straight
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: after this, so that's kind of inconvenient. Yeah, perfect. Where
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: can people find you and follow you? And is there
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: anything you want to plug? You're pushing a book, you're pushing.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: We will be pushing a book next year, but at
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: the moment we're not pushing a book. But if you
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: want to read the articles that I've been talking about,
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: including the zempic one, then you can just go over
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: to David Gillespie dot org. So just my name dot
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: org and you'll be able to find all this stuff there,
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: including this interview.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Well you're perfect. Yes, I saw that. We've better wrap
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: this up so I can tell you tip secret.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm desperate.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Maybe she can