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Best of Bill Handel 2025! | Garlic + Breastmilk = Happy Baby! · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: Here KFI AM sixty Today we're doing something a little different.
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  Speaker 2: It's the best of the bill Handle Show.
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  Speaker 1: No kidding, that's different, The best of the bill Handle Show.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a break from five now. The ig Nobel Prizes,
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  Speaker 1: this is fun. This is given to scientists who do
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  Speaker 1: studies a little weird maybe, but there are legitimate studies
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  Speaker 1: being done. The Physics Prize went to a group of
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  Speaker 1: Italians regarding pasta sauce.
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  Speaker 2: They study pasta sauce.
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  Speaker 1: So here's another one, and this is the Pediatrics Prize
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  Speaker 1: goes to Julie Manela and Gary Bouchamp. They were awarded
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  Speaker 1: the Pediatric Prize for studying what a nursing baby experience
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  Speaker 1: experiences when the baby's when they eats garlic.
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  Speaker 2: Basically vampire babies.
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  Speaker 1: Now, garlic has a history of warding off the undead,
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  Speaker 1: It produces flavors and cow's milk and does can affect
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  Speaker 1: body odors in humans. Sounds like a Zelman's commercial, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 1: In this study, they had mothers who ingested garlic capsules
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  Speaker 1: and then produced milk that had a more intense odor
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  Speaker 1: peaked at about two hours, and the infants whose mother
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  Speaker 1: ingested the garlic remained attached to the breasts for longer
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  Speaker 1: periods of time.
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  Speaker 2: So there is the study.
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  Speaker 1: If you think your baby is not feeding enough and
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  Speaker 1: you want your child to suckle on your breast a
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  Speaker 1: longer period of time, you suckle up garlic. Better understanding
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  Speaker 1: of how sensory experiences during breastfeedings. Okay, fair enough, Then
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  Speaker 1: you have the Literature Prize. This is a good one.
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  Speaker 1: This is the late doctor William Bean for persistently recording
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  Speaker 1: and analyzing the rate of growth of one of his
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  Speaker 1: fingernails over a period of thirty five years. There's an
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  Speaker 1: ignoble prize, and he kept very detailed records and were
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  Speaker 1: written in all kinds of flowery pros, referencing everything from
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  Speaker 1: Moby Dick to medieval astrology. And his final surt the
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  Speaker 1: Nail provides a slowly moving keratin chemograph that measures age
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  Speaker 1: on the inexorable obsesssa of time. In other words, you
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  Speaker 1: look at someone's nail over thirty five years, and it's
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  Speaker 1: like rings on a tree, you can tell how old
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  Speaker 1: someone is. This is a scientific, very scientific endeavor. Here
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorites. And this was given to a
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  Speaker 1: group of Japanese scientists and this is the Biology Prize,
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  Speaker 1: and it went to them for their experiments to learn
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  Speaker 1: whether cows painted with zebra like striping can afford can
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  Speaker 1: avoid being bitten by flies. Now, is there a method
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  Speaker 1: to this madness? Yes, because they noticed that zebras are
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  Speaker 1: surprisingly unfazed and unbothered by flies, unlike cows that are
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  Speaker 1: bothered by flies. They have to constantly swat the flies
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  Speaker 1: away with their tails shake around their ears. So the
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  Speaker 1: question is do zebra stripes have power over flies? So
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  Speaker 1: to find out, the team painted cows with black and
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  Speaker 1: white stripes like a zebra.
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  Speaker 2: That's a visual.
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  Speaker 1: The fake zebra stripes actually did decrease the.
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  Speaker 2: Number of biting flies.
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  Speaker 1: So to make cows feel better and not deal with flies,
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  Speaker 1: let's say dairy herds, and then that now the extrapolation
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  Speaker 1: is going to happen. Does that mean that you are
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  Speaker 1: going to get more milk cows that are less stressed
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  Speaker 1: because they're dealing with flies and all you have to
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  Speaker 1: do is paint zebra stripes on the cows. Okay, not bad? That,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, was the Peace prize? No, no, the
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  Speaker 1: Peace priz No, no, no, no, no, Well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what that prize was. I think it was in
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  Speaker 1: the Physics prize. Now, the Peace Prize went to Fritz
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  Speaker 1: Renner and a few other people for showing that drinking
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  Speaker 1: alcohol sometimes improves a person's ability to speak in a
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  Speaker 1: foreign language.
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  Speaker 2: Now, how does that work? Here was a test.
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  Speaker 1: The idea was that alcohol improves language fluency.
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  Speaker 2: So the team recruits fifty.
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  Speaker 1: Native speaking German native German speaking undergrads in the Netherlands
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  Speaker 1: who were also fluent in Dutch. They were bilingual, and
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  Speaker 1: they divided into two groups. One group had vodka with lemon.
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  Speaker 1: The other one received playing water and then the group
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  Speaker 1: that had the vodka became drunk and then engage in
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  Speaker 1: conversation in Dutch, and then they were asked to rate
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  Speaker 1: how well they thought. It turns out that being drunk
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  Speaker 1: did not increase the inability to speak the other tongue.
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  Speaker 2: It made it easier.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to speak a foreign tongue, if
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  Speaker 1: you're learning to speak another language, get drunk.
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  Speaker 2: That's what that study shows.
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  Speaker 1: And then Aviation Prize went to a group studying whether
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  Speaker 1: alcohol can impair a bat's ability to fly and also
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  Speaker 1: their ability to echolocate. You know they use that sonar business. Now,
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  Speaker 1: alcohol in the animal kingdom happens all the time. Some mammals, birds, insects,
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  Speaker 1: they eat fruit full of ethanol and they get drunk.
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  Speaker 1: So in this study, the team looked at Egyptian fruit bats,
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  Speaker 1: a known to avoid fruits with ethanol, but they were
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  Speaker 1: given alcohol laden fruits and yes, the bats were slower.
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  Speaker 1: They echolocation faltered, much like human speech becomes slurred. And
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  Speaker 1: the bottom line is, don't drink and fly if you're
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  Speaker 1: a bat. It's pretty impressive stuff. The ig Nobel Prizes.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're going to do that on an annual basis.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we have to bring back the Darwin Prizes too.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't done that in years. The Darwin Awards, you've
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  Speaker 1: got honorable mentions where people don't die, and then you
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  Speaker 1: have finalists where people do die. One year, the best
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  Speaker 1: Darwin Prize came out of Egypt where a chicken fell
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  Speaker 1: into a well and then the kid who owned the
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  Speaker 1: chicken jumped into the well to save the chicken. And
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  Speaker 1: then the father saw her, his son thrashing about in
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  Speaker 1: the well. He dived. He dove in to save his son.
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  Speaker 1: Both of them died and the chicken survived. That was
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  Speaker 1: the Darwin winner the Darwin Award that year. To remove
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  Speaker 1: these folks from the gene pool. All right, KFI am
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  Speaker 1: six bill handle here today would take you back through
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  Speaker 1: the top stories and well not the top sort of
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  Speaker 1: the medium stories and moments of twenty twenty five. Now
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  Speaker 1: here's a question, medical question, and it is very simple.
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  Speaker 1: New York Times did an article on this. Why do
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  Speaker 1: women live longer than men? Considering that women aren't as strong,
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  Speaker 1: aren't as smart, they don't have the skill set.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm looking at science here. I'm looking at science
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  Speaker 2: that women aren't as smart.
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  Speaker 1: Well, okay, maybe I'm extrapolating here and maybe I have
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  Speaker 1: that wrong. Okay, but getting back to the actual facts,
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  Speaker 1: in the US, women have a life expectancy of about
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  Speaker 1: eighty eighty years. It's seventy five years for men. And
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  Speaker 1: this is regardless of where women live in the United States,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter geographically how much money they make.
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  Speaker 2: It's across the.
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  Speaker 1: Board, it's all of it. It's costs every demog demographic,
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  Speaker 1: every geographic area. Women simply live longer than men by
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  Speaker 1: statistically five years. And they're trying to figure out what happens.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that's during times of famines and epidemics,
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  Speaker 1: and even when the whole country is starving, women last longer.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a doctor Dina Duball, professor of neurology at.
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  Speaker 2: Uc San Francisco, that's one of the lead scientists looking at.
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  Speaker 1: This, and what she says is, let's look at some
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons. Very complicated, and what we do have
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  Speaker 1: to look at is not just longevity, because women living
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  Speaker 1: longer than men doesn't necessarily mean they are living better. Women,
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  Speaker 1: even though they are living longer, tend to have shorter
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  Speaker 1: health spans the number of healthy years that women have.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking qual of life. I mean, we've often said,
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  Speaker 1: I've often said, the last thing I want to do
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  Speaker 1: is be a vegetable. My dad, before he died, he
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  Speaker 1: made me promise for twenty years, Bill, if I'm ever
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  Speaker 1: in a wheelchair or I ever cannot get out of
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  Speaker 1: a hospital bed, you have to kill me. You promise me,
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  Speaker 1: you'll kill me, give me your word. He was so
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  Speaker 1: frightened of not having any quality of life, and of
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  Speaker 1: course I promised him. And at the black my mind thinking,
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  Speaker 1: if you think I'm going to prison for twenty years
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  Speaker 1: to help you out, old man, you're out of your mind.
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  Speaker 1: So I had no intention, and he willed himself to
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  Speaker 1: die by the way he did. It's quality of life
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  Speaker 1: that women don't have as well as men do. Also,
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  Speaker 1: women are physically more frail than men in old age. Again,
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  Speaker 1: quality of life, more vulnerable, particularly after menopause, to develop
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  Speaker 1: cardiovascular disease Alzheimer's disease. Have a greater share of Alzheimer's
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  Speaker 1: disease for all of these reasons. So here's what we
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  Speaker 1: know so far. The studies have been done and we're
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  Speaker 1: just starting to really get the idea. There's a growing
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  Speaker 1: body of research that now we go to the molecular
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  Speaker 1: level that the double X set of female chromosomes women
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  Speaker 1: are double X men or x y that may impact
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  Speaker 1: longevity the very hormone itself, although they don't know exactly why.
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  Speaker 1: There's the twenty eighteen study doctor Dubal did looked at
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  Speaker 1: genetically manipulated mice with different combinations of sex chromosomes, reproductive organs,
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  Speaker 1: and real simple two X chromosomes. The ovaries lived the longest.
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  Speaker 1: Mice with mice with X Y chromosomes shorter lifespan. So
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to figure that out. Don't know exactly what's
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  Speaker 1: going on. There was something something about that second X
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  Speaker 1: chromosome that was protecting mice from dying earlier in life,
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  Speaker 1: even if they have scientifically what's known as testes vernacularly
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  Speaker 1: known as gonads, balls, nuts, uvas, cahones. Do you understand now, Neil,
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  Speaker 1: what I'm referring to.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, okay, thank you very much, clear picture, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And then there here's a word that's kind of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Epigenic factors. What the hell is an epigenic factor? Environment
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  Speaker 1: h how about that for a spelling bee Uh. Environmental
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  Speaker 1: or lifestyle elements, climate, uh, stress, chronic stress, all of
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  Speaker 1: that impacts genes. How it's done, we don't know. Does
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  Speaker 1: it affect a role in lifespan? Uh? We don't know,
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  Speaker 1: And there's a lot we don't know.
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  Speaker 2: And they're just trying to figure this out.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. And does it widen to shrink the disparities between
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  Speaker 1: men and women? What we do know is women live longer.
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  Speaker 2: It's that simple.
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  Speaker 1: It turns out out there's data just came out that
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  Speaker 1: at least before menopause, the female immune system tends to
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  Speaker 1: be better, more on it, responses are better. They're just
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out the difference between men and women,
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  Speaker 1: and not just the obvious ones. You know, we have
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  Speaker 1: different plumbing and men are I guess they're you know,
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  Speaker 1: Neil and I mean, well, there are some sort of givens.
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  Speaker 1: Are men more excitable than women? I think women are
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  Speaker 1: more excitable. I think as a general idea, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: certainly we know women are much worse drivers. As a
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  Speaker 1: matter of course, that's a matter of science. We know that,
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  Speaker 1: particularly if there's certain ethnic varieties of women who drive.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into that because I don't
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  Speaker 1: need the emails, but there are just some givens. Behavioral
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  Speaker 1: play plays a key role. Women are generally less likely
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  Speaker 1: than men to smoke or drink heavily, more men alcoholics,
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  Speaker 1: more men's smokers than women. Women also tend to be
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  Speaker 1: more health promoting, and they're more conscious of their own
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  Speaker 1: health than men do.
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  Speaker 2: They go to doctors more so, more regularly.
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  Speaker 1: It's just they just think of themselves and their bodies,
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  Speaker 1: and in a much greater way than men do. Now
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  Speaker 1: do men really care about their bodies very much? Neil?
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  Speaker 1: You ever look at yourself in the mirror when you
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  Speaker 1: wake up in the morning. Do I ever look at
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  Speaker 1: myself in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: I look the other way. I try and avoid it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. Women are much more conscious about what
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  Speaker 1: they look like. And if you're less conscious about what
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  Speaker 1: you look like, I mean, it's sort of a given.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm talking about science here. Just that he's been done,
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  Speaker 1: then you let yourself go to pot. So the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: During COVID, men died at a higher rate. Why because
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  Speaker 1: they were more likely to hold jobs that expose them
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  Speaker 1: to the virus. Food preparation, construction, more likely to be homeless,
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  Speaker 1: more likely to be in prison where COVID spread. And
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  Speaker 1: when you look at, for example, the number of men
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  Speaker 1: who are in prison versus the number of women, we
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  Speaker 1: have the highest population in the world of our citizens,
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  Speaker 1: our residents in prison, not only in terms of sheer numbers,
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  Speaker 1: but also per capita, and prison does not do well.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have more men, let's say prison was
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  Speaker 1: the only factor, women would last a whole lot longer
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  Speaker 1: than men simply because of the number of men they're
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  Speaker 1: in prison. So they're trying to figure it out. How
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  Speaker 1: am I going to end? Let's go back to the
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  Speaker 1: nineteenth Amendment when women were given the right to vote. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's not because I don't need the grief from Amy
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  Speaker 1: or Ann on this one.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 3: six forty.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Handle here KFI AM six forty. Today we are
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  Speaker 1: rewinding the clock. No, we're not. Time continues on and
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  Speaker 1: we're pulling out some of your favorite moments, well my
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  Speaker 1: favorite moments. I don't care what your favorite moments are.
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  Speaker 1: From twenty twenty five. Okay, talking about kind of stupid
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  Speaker 1: Katy Perry is the topic of an op ed piece
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  Speaker 1: in the Atlantic, and usually I don't do these when
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  Speaker 1: a single person writes an op ed piece. But based
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  Speaker 1: on the fact that the response to Katy Perry going
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  Speaker 1: up in the Blue Origin rocket ship, what she did and.
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  Speaker 2: What followed immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Cause and uproar on social media, all of it making
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  Speaker 1: fun of her and everybody, all these astronauts. And they
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  Speaker 1: were up for eleven minutes, and I think wait lists
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  Speaker 1: for three minutes. And I'm just gonna and people pay
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  Speaker 1: fortal cost twenty million dollars something insane. She brought instead
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  Speaker 1: of a medal or a little token, she brought up
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  Speaker 1: a daisy because her daughter is named Daisy. And she
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  Speaker 1: was looking down on the earth and she started singing, Well,
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  Speaker 1: she's been singing since she was a kid at a
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  Speaker 1: Pentecostal church that her parents belonged to. And she talked
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  Speaker 1: about singing from her heart and what was before her
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  Speaker 1: eyes the world. Okay, I mean people do that, except
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  Speaker 1: she sang about the world. Right, it's a whole New
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  Speaker 1: World Disney song. She lands back on earth, kisses the
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  Speaker 1: ground much like the pope does.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she was the little drama. Yeah, she saying about
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  Speaker 4: she said I kissed the world, and I liked it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's and after being I asked by a reporter
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  Speaker 1: because she's now officially an astronaut, you know, you get
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  Speaker 1: your astronaut's wings when you go above whatever number of
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  Speaker 1: miles above the earth. She said that the experience showed
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  Speaker 1: her how much love you have to give and how
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  Speaker 1: loved you are.
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  Speaker 2: What by going up in space all of a sudden, you're.
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  Speaker 1: Loved eleven for eleven minutes, and people have been walking
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  Speaker 1: her like crazy. Also, she said that she was studying
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  Speaker 1: string theory to prepare for her trava peet.
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  Speaker 2: Really, that's what she's quoted as saying.
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  Speaker 1: One engineer said, as an engineer, I'm disgusted by the
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  Speaker 1: way string theory is probably not a prerequisite for going
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  Speaker 1: up into space and just sitting around.
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  Speaker 2: It's hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: Perry became famous twenty years ago, as you know, and
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  Speaker 1: this story is about what happened twenty years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: it's true. Twenty years ago. Pop music, well it was
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  Speaker 1: dumber back then, and it was the world got a
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  Speaker 1: lot more sophisticated.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't.
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  Speaker 1: At some point all of us started demanding, like, for example,
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  Speaker 1: who celebrities were voting for what their views were new
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  Speaker 1: crop of singers. Chappelle, Roan Rowan, You've got Sabrina Carpenter Chapel,
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  Speaker 1: Sorry about that, Billie Eilish. They're just sharper and they're
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  Speaker 1: just more in tune than the pop stars of twenty
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  Speaker 1: years ago. I mean, you go back way back when
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  Speaker 1: it was just you know, Moonspoon June kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Her most recent album is described as a bouncy, brain
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  Speaker 1: dead pan or pan to pleasure, an uncomplicated empowerment. I
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  Speaker 1: have to share this with you because I live with this,
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  Speaker 1: writer said. It's lead single. Woman's World has lyrics like
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  Speaker 1: an ad for panteliners and a beat like the preset
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  Speaker 1: on a child's electric keyboard.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta admit that'sasio. That's pretty out there.
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  Speaker 1: That really is. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't she announce what the song list was for her
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  Speaker 4: new album, There is just it wasn't just like a
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  Speaker 4: big pr thing for her.
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  Speaker 1: I don't and I don't pay attention. I just I
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  Speaker 1: was just looking at this article of this piece. Now
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about sophistication. Okay, a couple of things about
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  Speaker 1: what she has done. First of all, she showed up
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  Speaker 1: at a met gala dressed like a hamburger.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, not the end of the world.
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  Speaker 1: But during her act in Las Vegas, you talk about sophistication.
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  Speaker 1: Now keep in mind you've got Taylor Swift that has
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  Speaker 1: the production that is beyond insane, and you've got other
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  Speaker 1: rock stars in Law Vegas. Part of her act was
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  Speaker 1: she sat next to a sixteen foot toilet, talking to
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  Speaker 1: a turd, talking to a guy dressed like poop man.
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  Speaker 2: I just described my job.
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  Speaker 1: It does.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's very funny. Okay, where's your toilet?
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  Speaker 1: All right? See that's not charing.
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  Speaker 2: Not true. So you get the facts right.
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  Speaker 1: And now here's Heather with real news like right now
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  Speaker 1: news Bill handle here kfi am six forty. Today we
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  Speaker 1: take you back through the top stories and well not
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  Speaker 1: the top, sort of the medium stories and moments of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Now here's a story that is troubling
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  Speaker 1: and unfortunately growing, and it's about fake service dogs. One
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  Speaker 1: of the things about service dogs is they are extraordinarily
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  Speaker 1: well trained. My daughter Pamelet has a service dog, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you about that in a second, because it
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  Speaker 1: is just a terrific story. I think in any case,
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  Speaker 1: the difference between a fake service dog and A real
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  Speaker 1: service dog is maybe six hundred hours of training and
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  Speaker 1: an extraordinarily bright animal who maybe five percent of applicants
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  Speaker 1: make it through. It's very, very difficult to have become
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  Speaker 1: a real service dog, and people are coming out and
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  Speaker 1: there's no national requirement. By the way, in terms of licensing,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there are certifications, but you can get a
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  Speaker 1: certification from almost any place. Real organizations give certifications, and airlines,
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  Speaker 1: for example, recognize those. I mean, remember support animals, for
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  Speaker 1: God's sake, anybody, because they asked my support animals. So
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  Speaker 1: they were bringing ferrets on airplanes and birds and pigs.
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  Speaker 1: This is my emotional support animal.
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  Speaker 2: They stop that.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've got service animals, primarily dog. Now I know
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  Speaker 1: there's one organization that, for some reason, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how they do it, they train seeing eye chickens because
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  Speaker 1: they're not that expensive to yet.
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  Speaker 2: But as I said, a real service dog.
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  Speaker 1: Is almost impossible to train and to get a very
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  Speaker 1: very few make the grade. So people come up with
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  Speaker 1: their fake service dogs. They go into restaurants and the
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  Speaker 1: dogs pee on the legs of the chair or they
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  Speaker 1: grab food. Now, a real service dog would come into
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  Speaker 1: a restaurant, you sit outside right, sit right next to you,
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  Speaker 1: buy the chair, doesn't ask for food and just sits
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  Speaker 1: there and waits until his or her owner gets up
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  Speaker 1: and leaves and doesn't move. Same thing getting on an
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  Speaker 1: airplane with a real service dog. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you've ever been on a plane with a service dog.
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  Speaker 1: Usually they get the bulkhead seat at the very front
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  Speaker 1: and the dog just sits at the feet of it
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  Speaker 1: owner and does not move, does not whimper, doesn't cry,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't move around, just sit there and they are totally socialized.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they're trained to do, and these fake ones
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  Speaker 1: are ruining it for the real ones. So now the
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  Speaker 1: story of my daughter who has a service dog. My
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  Speaker 1: daughter wanted a dog for years and years and my
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  Speaker 1: ex kept on saying nope, nope, nope, so my daughter
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  Speaker 1: didn't end around. Now she is on anti anxiety drugs
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  Speaker 1: because this is the my genes.
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  Speaker 2: So my two daughters are on anti anxiety drugs.
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  Speaker 1: And at Kaiser you need a psychiatrist to get those drugs.
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  Speaker 1: And I go once a year, for example, for fifteen
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  Speaker 1: minutes to have the psychiatrist go ahead and give me
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  Speaker 1: a prescription and ask questions, are you any changes are
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  Speaker 1: you okay? You know anything going on? I go no,
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  Speaker 1: but I have this incredible desire to run over kittens.
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  Speaker 1: That was last time, And the shrink said what what
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  Speaker 1: and started typing.
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  Speaker 2: Furiously. I said, I'm joking, stop it.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, Pamela got her shrink to prescribe a service dog.
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  Speaker 2: Okay for anxiety.
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  Speaker 1: She also has a medical condition with her heart beats
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  Speaker 1: fast and Kendall man can read it immediately and goes
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  Speaker 1: over there and calms her down.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Kendall is an amazing dog.
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  Speaker 1: So let me tell you how much it costs to
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  Speaker 1: get a service dog. Now, in many cases, the dogs
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  Speaker 1: are free because these are charities that run them, that
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  Speaker 1: train the dogs, and there's a waiting list. People that
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  Speaker 1: have the money just pay for the dog, the training
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  Speaker 1: and are you ready for this? That dog Kendall cost
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  Speaker 1: me twenty eight thousand dollars. That's how expensive it is
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  Speaker 1: to train a dog. And this is a nonprofit that
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  Speaker 1: trains the dogs, and it can take years. Matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: Pamela waited eighteen months to get Kendall because not only
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  Speaker 1: is the training extraordinary, but they actually matched the personality.
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  Speaker 1: When Pamela went to get Kendal. There were a group
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  Speaker 1: of dogs and a group of people that were there.
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  Speaker 1: Kendall literally ran out into the room Pamela was sitting.
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  Speaker 1: She was cross legged. Kendall jumped into her lap. Boom done.
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  Speaker 1: So she knew. So let me tell you about the
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  Speaker 1: end of this story. By the way, it was a
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  Speaker 1: nonprofit so I was at least able to deduct the money.
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  Speaker 1: And that is that these dogs are so highly trained
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  Speaker 1: that the owner has to keep on working with the dogs.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you have to practice over and over again
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  Speaker 1: and work with the dogs. And my daughter doesn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: So you know what I have. You know what she has.
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  Speaker 1: She has a twenty eight thousand dollars dog. It's a dog,
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  Speaker 1: the same kind of dog you go to a shelter
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  Speaker 1: and you pay two hundred bucks.
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  Speaker 2: For the shots. But it's a great dog. It is
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  Speaker 2: a great dog. Huh. But it's a real service dog,
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  Speaker 2: it really is.
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  Speaker 1: Well. The other thing about service dogs, and Kendall to
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  Speaker 1: a great extent does is obviously I'm exaggerating a bit,
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  Speaker 1: but not much, and that is service dogs, when they
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  Speaker 1: have their vests on, they go to work. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they do what they're supposed to do. Take that vest off,
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  Speaker 1: and they're just dogs. And they romp and they play
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  Speaker 1: and they have a good time. Put the vest back on,
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  Speaker 1: they go to work, and they're extraordinary.
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  Speaker 2: They really are extraords. I should have put a picture
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  Speaker 2: of Candle up there, romping around.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and now it's time for some news that's not recorded,
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  Speaker 1: because we're playing you a recording, but we're pretending I'm
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  Speaker 1: still here.
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