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ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits | ‘Medical News’ with Dr. Jim Keany · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: I AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Someday Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: October twenty two, twenty two days into the government shutdown,
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to really start hurting. Well it's already started,
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  Speaker 1: but it is really going to hurt federal employees, some
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand of which have just been furlough just basically fired.
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  Speaker 1: And then the rest are rely suffering. For example, air
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  Speaker 1: traffic controllers who are absolutely critical certainly to flying in
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  Speaker 1: our air system. They have to work and they don't
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  Speaker 1: get paid. Now, will they get paid, Yeah, they will eventually,
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  Speaker 1: depending on how long this thing lasts. And at the
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  Speaker 1: end of it, yeah, Congress will fund their pay now.
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  Speaker 1: There was a video that I saw yesterday, and we
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  Speaker 1: get these every day of these ICE arrests and these raids,
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  Speaker 1: and one of the ICE agents that was there was
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  Speaker 1: this big fat guy who had to weigh three hundred pounds,
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  Speaker 1: and as he was arresting this immigrant, you could actually
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  Speaker 1: see his stomach jiggle and wiggle a whole lot and
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  Speaker 1: you go, now, what is going on with that? This
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  Speaker 1: is a police type agent. Yeah, basically a peace officer.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what's going on. President Trump's plan to double
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  Speaker 1: the size of the ICE workforce has really been halted,
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  Speaker 1: or not halted, been slowed down.
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  Speaker 2: And not by activist groups either.
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  Speaker 1: It's the training academy in Georgia and it's the ICE
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  Speaker 1: personal fitness tests. More than a third of applicants failed.
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  Speaker 1: And boy does that impede the plan to hire, train,
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  Speaker 1: and deploy ten thousand deportation officers by January. So here
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  Speaker 1: are the requirements just for the personal fitness tests. Fifteen
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  Speaker 1: pushups no chance, thirty two sit ups less of a chance,
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  Speaker 1: one point five miles in fourteen minutes. No way in hell,
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  Speaker 1: of course, I'm talking about me. And nope, I can't
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  Speaker 1: do it now. It's pathetic. One ICE official said that
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  Speaker 1: you have a typical loss of forty recruits before and
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  Speaker 1: a couple of the candidates would fail. Well, what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: The academy standards have already been eased. New parameters should
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  Speaker 1: be the minimum for any officer, one of the officials said.
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  Speaker 1: And agency veterans are concerned about the quality of new
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  Speaker 1: recruits and they're all being fast tracked.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And an email from ICE headquarters to one of the
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  Speaker 1: agency's top officials said, a considerable amount of athletically allergic candidates.
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  Speaker 2: I love this one. What a phrase.
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  Speaker 1: They misre represented their physical condition on application forms. That's
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  Speaker 1: like we can go on a dating app, you send
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  Speaker 1: off a picture of Tom Cruise and that's what you
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  Speaker 1: look like. And so what they're doing now is at
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  Speaker 1: the recruiting stations or areas, they're asking the candidates, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: do the pushups right now. I want to see sit ups,
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  Speaker 1: and a whole number of them a third are simply
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  Speaker 1: failing the academy itself. It's an academy. It's a peace
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  Speaker 1: officer academy. Well, training has gone from four months to
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  Speaker 1: two months. Some of those fresh hires dropped out after
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  Speaker 1: flunking exams on immigration law and Fourth Amendment limits on
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  Speaker 1: search authority, but fitness was the big one. ICE is
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  Speaker 1: tripled a number of people at arrest on US streets
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  Speaker 1: and more and more. Social media videos show that when
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  Speaker 1: you're a deportation officer, it involves chasing people through parking lots,
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  Speaker 1: wrestling them to the ground, and veteran officials typically want
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  Speaker 1: younger officers to be the ones that do that, do
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  Speaker 1: the chasing and do the tackling. So now moving over
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  Speaker 1: to how did the fat guy become an ICE agent?
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  Speaker 1: Now this is a guy who you don't get to
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  Speaker 1: three hundred pounds over the course of two weeks or
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  Speaker 1: three weeks. Well, he was one of two things, and
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  Speaker 1: we don't know. Either a former policeman who fitness is
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  Speaker 1: self certified.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, I'm in good shape.
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  Speaker 1: I can do all of it, and the testing is
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  Speaker 1: not required, or coming from the military where testing is
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  Speaker 1: not required. The only people that have that fitness test
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  Speaker 1: are new recruits. The rest of them two thirds say nope,
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  Speaker 1: they self test and all you have to do is
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  Speaker 1: say I'm fit, And there's no test to determine that
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  Speaker 1: an ICE agent is not fit. I'm assuming there are
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  Speaker 1: some parameters because you don't usually see guys that are
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  Speaker 1: that big. And let me tell you, I saw this
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  Speaker 1: guy on the video. He was there, I mean other
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  Speaker 1: agents were in front of him, of course doing the
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  Speaker 1: actual tackling.
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  Speaker 2: He was sort of just looking at it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he could tackle a guy or run
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  Speaker 1: after a guy with one leg hopping down the street.
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  Speaker 1: That's how slow he was, and so that is an interesting,
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  Speaker 1: interesting push. ICE is offering fifty thousand dollars hiring and
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  Speaker 1: retention bonus, along with student loan forgiveness other enticements, but
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  Speaker 1: those are the big ones. Those are people who they
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  Speaker 1: really want and are most fit to.
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  Speaker 2: Be ICE agents.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, new hires being told that you come
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  Speaker 1: to work in sneakers, or you report in sneakers so
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  Speaker 1: you can more easily drop and do crunches and pushups
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  Speaker 1: when you're applying at the agency offices. And here's another
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  Speaker 1: one that federal government. Okay, this is the federal government
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  Speaker 1: at its best. So someone applies.
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  Speaker 2: And fail.
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  Speaker 1: So ICE has to take those people and seek guidance
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  Speaker 1: from ICE's legal department.
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  Speaker 2: Do we just revoke job offers.
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  Speaker 1: That have been made that the guy lied and they
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  Speaker 1: have been okayed and then when they find out no,
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  Speaker 1: you lied, well they can ask for administrative hearing and
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  Speaker 1: say you revoked my application or my invitation to become
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  Speaker 1: part of ICE, and you did it wrongly and I
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  Speaker 1: am now appealing it. They are assigned to administrative tasks
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  Speaker 1: to perform while waiting for ICE the human resources to
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  Speaker 1: issue termination letters and say why they are being terminated.
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  Speaker 2: One senior Ice official said it is a disaster.
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  Speaker 1: Quick numbers one hundred and seventy five thousand applications from
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  Speaker 1: its recruitment drives seventy five billion dollars in new money
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  Speaker 1: received from the one big, Beautiful bill. Now the actual
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  Speaker 1: number is in one hundred and seventy five is fifty thousand,
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  Speaker 1: because people apply for multiple positions, and as I said,
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  Speaker 1: three pools of candidates, new recruits with no position, no
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  Speaker 1: multiple no training, current law enforcement officers and recently retired
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  Speaker 1: ice officials who come back. And the only ones that
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  Speaker 1: have to be tested are the new recruits.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody else self certifies.
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  Speaker 1: I am in good shape, but you weigh three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ninety pounds. You have to ignore that because I
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  Speaker 1: have self certified and I am a former cop. All right,
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  Speaker 1: where do you go with that?
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  Speaker 2: All right? Now, moving on, and I want to share it.
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  Speaker 1: When I saw this story on a Washington Post, I said, wow, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: this is good. And it's all about scream clubs. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is not scream therapy, which was considered a legitimate
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  Speaker 1: form of mental health therapy.
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  Speaker 2: These are scream clubs.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know one hundred years ago, a lawyer
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  Speaker 1: friend of mine convinced me to take one of these courses,
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  Speaker 1: the self help courses where screaming was part of it,
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  Speaker 1: and God, I forgot the name of it, spring roll, Palm, springs,
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  Speaker 1: just I just don't remember what it was happy screaming,
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember. Maybe it was I don't remember. Spring
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  Speaker 1: was in there someplace, and part of it was as
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  Speaker 1: you were trying to make yourself a better person. Somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of that. These were three ten hour days.
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  Speaker 1: You paid for this, and you're supposed to make yourself
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  Speaker 1: feel better. I came out feeling worse about myself. And
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  Speaker 1: part of it is you're sitting there and you're yelling.
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  Speaker 1: You're going back to your childhood and yelling at the
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  Speaker 1: top of your lungs. Two things happened to me. I
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  Speaker 1: never felt more stupid in my life coming out of that.
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  Speaker 1: And number two, I had a sore throat for four days.
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  Speaker 1: It just didn't work.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a.
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  Speaker 1: Strong believer in screaming, except when you're screaming at someone.
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  Speaker 1: This is a sort of new way of dealing with
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  Speaker 1: their scream clubs where people get together and it's almost
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  Speaker 1: like a yoga class where you have a leader who
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  Speaker 1: then says, let's scream, and everybody is screaming. Now, they
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  Speaker 1: tend to do it in areas that are not particularly
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  Speaker 1: full of people because people get very loud. And one
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  Speaker 1: of the co leaders of the DC chapter of the
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  Speaker 1: Scream Club, just think about something. You really want to release,
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  Speaker 1: something that's been bothering you. Now you have to sign
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  Speaker 1: a waiver, which says, I acknowledge that participation may carry
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  Speaker 1: certain risks, including, but not limited to, emotional distress. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, you come in in trouble emotionally, you walk
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  Speaker 1: out in more trouble emotionally. Well, you have to waive
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  Speaker 1: that liability vocal strain. Yeah, your vocal cords are going
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  Speaker 1: to pop or accidental injury. And the other thing is
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  Speaker 1: you don't talk about what brought you to Scream Club.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost as if there's some kind of a privile
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  Speaker 1: in there where you just don't share what you here.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like an AA meeting. That's I think that's
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  Speaker 1: the analogy. And so are these growing you bet? Now
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  Speaker 1: we go back to the screaming Therapeutic screaming goes back
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  Speaker 1: to the nineteen sixty There was a psychologist. Author Jenov
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  Speaker 1: developed primal scream therapy based on the notion that all
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  Speaker 1: your adult neuroses came from childhood trauma, and you go
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  Speaker 1: back through regression and you start screaming because I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to quote here a manifestation of that regression.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: John Lennon, Yoko Ono were among its big proponents screaming,
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  Speaker 1: and frankly those techniques fell out of favor because there
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  Speaker 1: was some studies and there's no long term therapeutic benefit.
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  Speaker 1: So Scream Club does not claim any therapeutic benefit. It
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  Speaker 1: positions itself as a wellness community.
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  Speaker 2: It is in therapy.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the way to let off some steam. I
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  Speaker 1: was found in Chicago by a couple and they had
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  Speaker 1: a tough week last December incided they were going to
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  Speaker 1: scream about it. It's almost like taking one of those
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  Speaker 1: nerf balls or those foam bats and batting each other.
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  Speaker 1: And now the club has expanded to cities Atlanta, Austin, Phoenix, Washington,
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  Speaker 1: d C.
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  Speaker 2: As I said, and.
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  Speaker 1: People tend to look and see because this is done
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  Speaker 1: out in the open, just a bunch of people milling
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  Speaker 1: about and just watching. So let's start on the count
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  Speaker 1: of three. Let out a collective no, no, make it big.
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  Speaker 1: I want it big. One of them says, my chest
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  Speaker 1: feels better. The anxiety kind of it goes to my
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  Speaker 1: chest usually and it feels totally released.
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  Speaker 2: Give me a break.
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  Speaker 1: My body is kind of like vibrating right now. One
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  Speaker 1: of them said, what do you deal with them?
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 1: The only screaming that's done are people listening to this show,
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  Speaker 1: and when I get into my politics, they're screaming in
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  Speaker 1: the car at me.
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  Speaker 2: I experienced that a whole lot. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Jim Keeney is the Chief Medical Officers for Dignity
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  Speaker 1: a chief medical officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center
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  Speaker 1: in Long Beach. Jim, good morning, it's Wednesday morning, Bill.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'm sorry, happy Wednesday to do.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get right into this with Robert Kennedy
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  Speaker 1: Robert RFK Junior, because he's one of my favorite cabinet secretaries,
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  Speaker 1: and he is advocating for more saturated fats, not fewer
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  Speaker 1: faturated saturated fats. But I thought saturated fats were not healthy.
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  Speaker 1: And is he going to say, don't weigh one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty pounds, weigh two hundred and eighty pounds because
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  Speaker 1: that's good for you.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean so again, I love how crazy. The
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  Speaker 3: more time you give this guy, the more crazy it sounds.
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  Speaker 3: So and he confuses things, right, he puts things together
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  Speaker 3: that don't belong together, Like we should replace simple carbohydrates
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  Speaker 3: with saturated fats. You know, that's not it doesn't even
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  Speaker 3: make any sense. That's not what you replace them with.
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  Speaker 1: It.
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  Speaker 3: There's plenty of of randomized controlled studies, really good quality
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  Speaker 3: studies that show that when you replace saturated fat with
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  Speaker 3: unsaturated fat, you know, polyunsaturated, mono unsaturated, you actually improve
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  Speaker 3: every marker for heart disease and stroke and everything else
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  Speaker 3: very significantly. And there's good sayings that show that high
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  Speaker 3: diets and saturated fat increase your risk for cardiovascular disease.
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  Speaker 3: So this makes no sense at all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 1: For example, the vaccine connected to autism based on one
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  Speaker 1: study by this doctor Wakefield who was later had his
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  Speaker 1: license taken away, and what he was basing his study
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  Speaker 1: on was just false. I mean literally, it was just
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  Speaker 1: straight out false. But it's still there. Right, That's what RFK.
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  Speaker 2: Is looking at.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's got a pattern going where he
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  Speaker 3: seems to put things together right. So it's almost like
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  Speaker 3: there was a movie playing and he was falling asleep
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  Speaker 3: intermittently through the movie, and then he tells you the
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  Speaker 3: plot and it's all wrong because he's missing big chunks.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's a good idea to reduce these
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  Speaker 3: ultra processed foods and to reduce simple carbohydrates and the
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  Speaker 3: kids diet makes sense. He had something going there, and
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  Speaker 3: then he took a left turn with yeah, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to replace it with saturated fats. So you know, yeah, have.
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  Speaker 1: You ever you know, as a doctor, I'm sure you've
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  Speaker 1: seen pregnant women. If you ever said, do not take
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  Speaker 1: tile at all, your kids going to be autistic?
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  Speaker 3: No, I tell him take.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I got okay, got it? Just kidding, all right,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 1: Something you have talked about, and that's peanut allergies. And
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  Speaker 1: that's that's the pretty serious stuff. You've seen kids with
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  Speaker 1: peanut or people with peanut allergies come in and you
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  Speaker 1: could die. And so you also explained how it's being reduced,
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  Speaker 1: and we have more information on that, So tell us
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  Speaker 1: in children particularly what's going on with that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're seeing a big drop in this in
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  Speaker 3: peanut allergies specifically and overall in early childhood food allergies,
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  Speaker 3: but specifically in peanut allergies because some guidance came out
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  Speaker 3: I think it was twenty seventeen. Some guidance came out
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  Speaker 3: that we talked about where you're supposed to introduce peanuts
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  Speaker 3: early in life, and it was an eighty percent reduction
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  Speaker 3: if you were able to introduce peanuts, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: the first four to six months of life. So we're
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  Speaker 3: not talking about actual peanuts because kids that age can
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  Speaker 3: eat peanuts, they'll choke on them. You don't want to
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  Speaker 3: give peanut butter. It's too thick and they can actually
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  Speaker 3: choke on that as well. But when you take, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a teaspoon or two of peanut butter and mix it
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  Speaker 3: in with formula at that age, it significantly reduces the risk.
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  Speaker 3: So it's something you want to talk about to your
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  Speaker 3: pediatrician about because it depends on your level of risk.
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  Speaker 3: Like a kid with severe eggzemite, you probably want to
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  Speaker 3: do that kid in the office for the first time
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  Speaker 3: he eats peanuts so that you can can be observed.
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  Speaker 3: But for mild ezema or no risk factors, definitely at home,
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  Speaker 3: you get safe to introduce peanut into the diet, and
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  Speaker 3: they say about two grams of peanut protein, which is
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  Speaker 3: about two teaspoons that you would put in and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like and mix it in with formula and thin it
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  Speaker 3: out a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So you don't take the peanut butter and rub
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  Speaker 1: it on the gums like you do with your dog
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  Speaker 1: just to enjoy looking at your dog dealing with it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, And actually I'm glad you brought that up.
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  Speaker 3: With skin exposure, like when when you're exposed for the
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  Speaker 3: first time through skin to any of these allergens, that
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  Speaker 3: actually amps up. So if you did rub peanut butter
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  Speaker 3: on the eggzema, for example, I don't know who would
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  Speaker 3: do that, that would actually ramp up your peanut allergy
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  Speaker 3: and make it worse. So it's the important part is
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  Speaker 3: ingesting it. You have to ingest it and not just
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  Speaker 3: have skin contact.
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  Speaker 1: All right, And a story about nitrous oxide surging among
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  Speaker 1: young people here in California. Now, I must tell you
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  Speaker 1: that nitrous oxide is the one one thing I have
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  Speaker 1: not ingested in my history of ingesting stuff like this,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know, yeah, I don't know how I
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  Speaker 1: miss that because I've done everything else, but nitrous has
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  Speaker 1: been around for a long long time and all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden is coming back, So tell us about that one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so nitrous oxide is a cast that the kids inhale.
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  Speaker 3: You can either do it by you know, they buy
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  Speaker 3: the whipped cream and inhale a little bit of it
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  Speaker 3: by inhaling without tipping the can over and then you
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  Speaker 3: can get the nitrous oxide off the can. Or they're
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  Speaker 3: just buying actual canisters of nitrosoxide, like what you use
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  Speaker 3: in cooking. When you can you have a device that
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  Speaker 3: you can plug that canister in to create whipped cream
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  Speaker 3: and things like that. And then they even have large
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  Speaker 3: like two to three liters tanks that you can buy
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  Speaker 3: for food use, and kids are doing all of those.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, when you see kids with these little
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  Speaker 3: canisters or with balloons, because they'll fill a balloon with
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  Speaker 3: it to inhale later, you know you should be asking
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  Speaker 3: questions because that's not a they're not going to clown school.
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  Speaker 3: They are actually probably huffing, is what it's called.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so what are the questions? Hey, how does that
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  Speaker 1: feel like? Is it better than for example, a high
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  Speaker 1: with something else? Is it good stuff. Are those the questions?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, essentially, yeah, no, that's not the question. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think a lot of parents are oblivious
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  Speaker 3: to this, Like a lot of parents don't know about
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  Speaker 3: this at all. And it's true that even doctors. It's
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  Speaker 3: not something that's routinely asked in a doctor's office. We
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  Speaker 3: might ask if you smoke or if you drink, but
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  Speaker 3: we don't ask if you huff, you know. And and
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  Speaker 3: so it's a it's a good question to add to
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  Speaker 3: the list because it is going up significantly in number,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: and it has bad effects. And when you do it chronically,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: you know what happens is it it actually and activates
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: vitamin B twelve and also another chemical called methyl melonic acid.
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  Speaker 3: And what that does is that the covering of your
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: nerves are maintained by these by vitamin B. Well, you
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: end up demilinating your nerves and having serious, chronic, lifelong
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: nerve problems.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, it's no small deal, okay. And then lastly, marijuana.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the products that I have ingested.
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  Speaker 2: Many, many, many, many times.
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  Speaker 1: No longer, by the way, it's been a bunch of
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: years since I've done that. And the question is can marijuana,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: which of course is now legal. Can marijuana really help
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: you sleep? I thought listening to this show really help
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: you sleep, But.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I guess not. So let's talk about marijuana and sleep.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so marijuana. A lot of people believe that marijuana
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: helps them sleep. There's even marijuana company sponsors studies that
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: show that marijuana helps you sleep. But the way they
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: do the study is they just ask the person, you know,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: they give them some marijuana, they let them sleep, and
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: they had you sleep, and they wake up and they say,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: I slept great. But when you do the actual studies
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: where you observe their sleep patterns, you look at those
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: stages of sleep, and you look at it over time,
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  Speaker 3: you realize that marijuana is a massive sleep disruptor. So
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: it may make you feel like you're sleeping better, but
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  Speaker 3: if you did that more than a few days in
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  Speaker 3: a row, you would not feel rested because you're not
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  Speaker 3: actually getting the rest stays of sleep. It completely trashes
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: REM sleep. So, and rem sleep is that rapid eye
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: movement sleep when you're dreaming, but it's also when your
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: brain clears out all the toxins and when it kind
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: of recuperates. That's the recuperative part of sleep, and you're
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: eliminating that part of sleep.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that sounds like fun. All right, Jim, thank you always,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: great news. We will catch you next Wednesday. You have
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: a good win, and as always, go kill somebody today please, Okay,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: take care, Okay, bye. Now let's say we're done. We're
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: done with the show. Gary and Shannon are up next,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and we come back again tomorrow morning. Amy will be here,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Will will not. I am very excited about that.
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  Speaker 3: What I will?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Oh you will? Neil may not be though right now?
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Neil should be.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Back, right, okay, Will Will's coming back? Okay, Neil also
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: coming back. Boy, we're excited about that one too. So
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: coming up at six o'clock, I think Neil will be
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: here and we start all over again.
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