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The Cyclospora Outbreak, Women Over 40 Are Out-Birthing Teens, and Who Really Took Boosie's $600K · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: A stomach parasite is spreading across the country and causing
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  Speaker 1: explosive diarrhea.
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  Speaker 2: Well as of this morning, we actually have over thirty
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  Speaker 2: three hundred cases in Michigan alone.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly seven thousand people are sick, and the CDC still
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  Speaker 1: cannot tell you what's causing it.
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  Speaker 2: And we know that a lot of the lettuce suppliers
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  Speaker 2: supply their produce regionally or even nationally.
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  Speaker 1: And for the first time in US history, women over
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  Speaker 1: forty are having more babies than teenagers.
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  Speaker 3: The age alone is the sole determinate factor.
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  Speaker 1: Family medicine and longevity expert doctor Noel Reed joins me
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  Speaker 1: to break it down, and an update on Bootsey's six
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars pardon fight. The lobbyists who took his money.
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  Speaker 1: We now know their names and their long history of fraud.
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  Speaker 1: It's Thursday, July sixteenth, from the Black Effects Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mimi Brown. This is front page, and here are
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  Speaker 1: the day's biggest stories. Stay with me. If you've been
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  Speaker 1: feeling sick, you may not be alone. The CDC is
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  Speaker 1: investigating a massive outbreak of cyclosphoria. That's a parasite infection
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  Speaker 1: that causes watery explosive diarrhea, severe stomach cramps, nausea, fatigue,
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  Speaker 1: and it can last for weeks. Nearly seven thousand cases
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  Speaker 1: have been reported in at least thirty four states. At
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  Speaker 1: least one hundred and forty people have been hospitalized. The
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  Speaker 1: CDC believes four hundred of those cases in Michigan, Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia, and Kentucky are all connected, but the source
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  Speaker 1: is still unknown.
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  Speaker 2: So we've done in depth food histories, looking at where
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  Speaker 2: they've eaten, what restaurants, fat food places, and where they
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  Speaker 2: grocery shops. And one of the things that has come
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  Speaker 2: up over and over again is lettuce. So lettuce does
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  Speaker 2: seem to be one of our early indicators as a
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  Speaker 2: possible source. Now that doesn't rule other things out, and
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  Speaker 2: we know that a lot of the lettuce suppliers supply
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  Speaker 2: their produce regionally or even nationally, so it's possible that
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  Speaker 2: some of these cases in other states are linked here
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  Speaker 2: to Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: Michigan alone has reported over thirty seven hundred cases since
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  Speaker 1: the end of June. That's sixty five times higher than
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  Speaker 1: the state's normal annual average. So how does this parasite
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  Speaker 1: spread Contaminated food and water for one, and in the
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  Speaker 1: US it's almost always linked to fresh produce. Past outbreaks
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  Speaker 1: have hit green salad, raspberries, basils, cilantro, green onions, and snowpeas.
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  Speaker 1: Michigan officials say early results point to lettuce or green salads,
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  Speaker 1: but they cannot rule anything out just yet. So here's
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  Speaker 1: what you need to know. Wash your produce under running water,
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  Speaker 1: do not use soap, Scrub firm vegetables with a produce brush,
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  Speaker 1: feel what you can, and wash your hands before and
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  Speaker 1: after you handle anything wrong. The good news this is
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  Speaker 1: usually not life threatening for healthy people. News it can
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  Speaker 1: knock you off your feet for weeks. More women are
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  Speaker 1: waiting until they're forties to have children, and for the
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  Speaker 1: first time ever, women over forty are having more babies
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  Speaker 1: than teenagers in the United States. So new research shows
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  Speaker 1: that births among women between the ages of forty and
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  Speaker 1: forty nine have jumped twenty four percent over the past decade,
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  Speaker 1: even as the country's overall birth rate continues to decline.
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  Speaker 1: That experts say, rising housing costs, more women pursuing higher education,
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  Speaker 1: and people getting married later are all changing when Americans
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  Speaker 1: decide to start a family. So we need to break
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  Speaker 1: this down so I've called in a doctor, doctor Noel Read,
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  Speaker 1: family medicine and longevity expert. She has been doing this
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  Speaker 1: for a really long time, and I know that she
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  Speaker 1: is all the answers to all the questions that we have.
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  Speaker 1: So let's welcome her, doctor Noel Read. How are you great?
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me, MEMI, this is a great time.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Yes it is. I think you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's resonating with a lot of women, and so really
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  Speaker 1: what we wanted to talk about. So the headline, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it just really catches your attention. Women over forty are
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  Speaker 1: now having more babies than teenagers. Is this as surprising
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  Speaker 1: as it sounds? Or has this been happening for years?
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  Speaker 3: I would say that it's not surprising. You know, in
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  Speaker 3: my own practice, probably over the last ten plus tiers,
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  Speaker 3: I have seen somewhat of a shift in terms of
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  Speaker 3: women just purposely choosing to wait, you know, whether that
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  Speaker 3: be because of career. I also think the way that
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  Speaker 3: we're supporting women to have children later. You know a
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  Speaker 3: lot of employers are offering benefits for egg freezing perfertility treatments,
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  Speaker 3: which is beneficial. And then I would say, to circumstance,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so for a lot of women not being partnered,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and willing to wait until that special person
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  Speaker 3: shows up, and so you know, whenever he or she arises.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, you know, And a lot of women we all
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  Speaker 1: grew up hearing this that having a baby over thirty
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  Speaker 1: five is considered high risk. Now has the science changed
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  Speaker 1: or are we simply getting better at helping women have
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  Speaker 1: healthy pregnancies later in life?
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  Speaker 3: So I wouldn't say that the science has changed. I
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  Speaker 3: do think that the way that we're living perhaps has shifted.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we are a bit more intentional.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: There's something that we know as the chronological age versus
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  Speaker 3: the biological age, you know, chronological age meaning how many
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  Speaker 3: years we live versus biological age, how well we're living,
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  Speaker 3: how well we're aging, and for many of us, we're
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  Speaker 3: aging well, you know, and that makes a difference. And
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  Speaker 3: I would say that the age alone isn't the sole
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  Speaker 3: determinate factor, right, So the age doesn't the whole story,
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  Speaker 3: because if we're assessing a woman on her ability to
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  Speaker 3: be able to carry your pregnancy to term, we're looking
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  Speaker 3: at total body health, we're looking at reproductive health, right,
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  Speaker 3: and so not just the age alone. So I think
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  Speaker 3: that needs to you know, resonate that it's really the
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  Speaker 3: total body health and not just a number.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of not just a number, but for women who
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  Speaker 1: are in their late thirties early forties and are wondering
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  Speaker 1: though if it's too late, what would you want them
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  Speaker 1: to know?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's good to do a self assessment because
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  Speaker 3: the age does not tell everything, right, So we need
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  Speaker 3: to know what is happening hormonally, what is happening metabolically?
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  Speaker 3: Are there things that we need to be aware of
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  Speaker 3: prior to Are there structurally issues such as fibroids and
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  Speaker 3: demetriocious that could be a barrier or an issue for pregnancy.
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  Speaker 3: So I think just doing a full health assessment is
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  Speaker 3: what's helpful and not really holding on to that number,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I think oftentimes, even in you know, the
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  Speaker 3: medical world, we put all of these labels right on
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  Speaker 3: people and these limitations that don't need to necessarily exist,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, even using the terms like geriatric pregnancy,
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  Speaker 3: like how horrible is that because you're over thirty? As
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  Speaker 3: if you are unable right to be able to reproduce?
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  Speaker 3: So I think we just need to be more conscious
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  Speaker 3: and not put limitations when they're not necessary.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I agree. Do you think this is the new normal?
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  Speaker 1: Should we expect the average age of first time moms
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  Speaker 1: to keep rising over the next decade? What would you say?
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  Speaker 3: I think we are shifting in that way, because again,
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  Speaker 3: I think we're living longer. I think there has been
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  Speaker 3: a strong focus on wellness and longevity. You know, everyone
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  Speaker 3: is interested in, you know, how can I live longer,
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  Speaker 3: but not just live longer, how can I live well?
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  Speaker 3: And so I think that that's going to impact when
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  Speaker 3: we decide to start our families. And so maybe you know,
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  Speaker 3: waiting later so that we have time to focus on
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  Speaker 3: self and career and know that you know, we still
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  Speaker 3: have we still have time, we don't necessarily have to
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  Speaker 3: rush into procreation right away, that we can perhaps have
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  Speaker 3: these healthy pregnancies and are fourth and maybe even fifth
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  Speaker 3: decade of life.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, for anyone feeling pressure about when they're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: have children, what's the biggest misconception that you'd like to
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  Speaker 1: clear up?
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  Speaker 3: I would say the biggest misconception would be that age
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  Speaker 3: it determines everything, because it doesn't. You know, you can
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  Speaker 3: certainly be unhealthy at twenty five and be fabulously healthy
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  Speaker 3: at fifty five, you know, So it really just depends
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  Speaker 3: on how you were taking care of your body and
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  Speaker 3: when you were ready. You know, my body soul financed
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  Speaker 3: because children are not cheap, and hopefully when all of
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  Speaker 3: those things are in place, you know, moving forward and
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  Speaker 3: not being so heart bent on that number, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and for many of us, for women in general, I
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  Speaker 3: would say that thirty five, right is like, oh, that's
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  Speaker 3: a scary you know age, or that things could be
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  Speaker 3: over at that point, and that's not necessarily the case.
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  Speaker 3: So I wouldn't hold tight to that.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Do not hold tight to that number.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Noel Read thank you so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us how we can find you and where we
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  Speaker 1: can follow you.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, so you can follow me on socials. I'm on
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  Speaker 3: Instagram and TikTok. It's just my name, Noel Reid MD.
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  Speaker 3: Also on YouTube Noel Read MD. You can also go
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  Speaker 3: to my website Trinitymedgroup dot com.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, an update on the Bootsy pardon we brought
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  Speaker 1: you earlier this week, So quick recap. Bootsy, whose real
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  Speaker 1: name is Torrence Hatch, paid a Washington lobby firm six
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars to try and help him get a
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  Speaker 1: pardon from President Trump for his federal gun case. That
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  Speaker 1: pardon never came. Now, new reporting from Notice and Rolling
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  Speaker 1: Stone reveals exactly who these lobbyists are. Their names are
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Wall and Jack Berkman. They are quote notorious fraudsters.
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  Speaker 1: These are the same two men who tried to fake
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  Speaker 1: sexual harassment allegations against former Special Counsel Robert and later
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  Speaker 1: against Pete Boudajet. That is who Bootsy handed six hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars to. According to Bootsy's attorney, Wall and Berkman
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  Speaker 1: talked like they had Trump on speed dial. They drop names,
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  Speaker 1: Lord Lumer, Erica Kirk. They claimed at one point that
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  Speaker 1: Trump had already signed the pardon, and now we're hearing
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  Speaker 1: from Lumer, who posted on eck quote, you cannot pay
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  Speaker 1: for a pardon. That's not how it works. Bootsy replied,
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  Speaker 1: thanking her for her honesty, and a rep for Erica
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  Speaker 1: Kirk told Notice she does not even know who Bootsy is. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Waltz and Berkman claim they secured nine previous pardons. Federal
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  Speaker 1: lobbying disclosures only show one. A Notice is reporting they
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  Speaker 1: are now bankrupt so Bootsy's fight is in arbitration and
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  Speaker 1: his criminal defense attorney has now filed a separate pardon
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  Speaker 1: request directly to the White House. Six hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: likely gone. That's your front page, I Mimi Brown. This
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