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Los Angeles Homelessness Agencies | ‘Medical News’ with Dr. Jim Keany · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 3: white House dot com. Okay, So what happened yesterday, Well,
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Speaker 3: there was a visit from two Cabinet members secretaries who
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Speaker 3: came to LA for the sole purpose of blasting la
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Speaker 3: HSA Los Angeles Housing Authority humans. And bottom line is
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Speaker 3: they came here to not only blast this organization, they
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Speaker 3: came to tell us why in't going to get any
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Speaker 3: more money from the feds? Two hundred and forty million dollars,
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Speaker 3: I might add, and there is a couple of federal
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Speaker 3: judgments that have come in from judges, which I'll talk
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Speaker 3: about in a few minutes. So HUDDS suspends two hundred
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Speaker 3: and forty million dollars do August twenty six from the
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Speaker 3: Housing Authority.
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Speaker 2: And does it go, does it disappear?
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Speaker 3: It really doesn't, because what it does is force the
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Speaker 3: providers of that service or those services that are controlled,
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Speaker 3: and they're accountable to the organization LA HSA, that department
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Speaker 3: and says, we're not going to give LAHA two hundred
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Speaker 3: and forty million dollars.
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Speaker 2: Do you want that money?
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Speaker 3: We're willing to give it to you, but you whatever
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Speaker 3: organization you are, have to apply directly to the federal government.
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Speaker 3: We want to see what you're doing at the organization level,
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Speaker 3: not this housing authority, which does a horrible job. And
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Speaker 3: the corruption in the mismanagement is astronomical. You know, is
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Speaker 3: there some truth of that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so.
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Speaker 3: So this was a press conference yesterday Department of Housing
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Speaker 3: and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner and then Health in
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Speaker 3: Human Services Secretary Crazy Robert Kennedy. I mean they ripped
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Speaker 3: into the LA Homeless Services Authority, and Turner said, our
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Speaker 3: aim is that LASA doesn't receive another dollar until it
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Speaker 3: has accountability. He was, Oh God, I love the way
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Speaker 3: this administration does this. He was framed by American flags
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Speaker 3: and there were jumbo TV screens behind him blaring the
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Speaker 3: words cancel corruption. Oh yeah. And as an example, the
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Speaker 3: money that was wasted by LASS a lack of controls,
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Speaker 3: financial controls. Turner sites the recent federal indictment alleging a
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Speaker 3: homeless services provider frees the system of twenty three million
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Speaker 3: dollars in fraudulent billings. I want you to know something
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Speaker 3: for it. To take a break and I'll come back
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Speaker 3: and finish. Step before doctor Keeney comes aboard is that
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Speaker 3: the organizations that are accused of mismanagement and fraud are
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Speaker 3: all in blue states. They're all run by what the
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Speaker 3: Trump administration considers liberal groups. You won't see accusation of
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Speaker 3: mismanagement and corruption in red states or in the military
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Speaker 3: eight hundred billion dollars and they're there is no corruption
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Speaker 3: in the military. It's only these agencies that are in
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Speaker 3: blue states. Does that mean that the administration is wrong. No,
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Speaker 3: there's all kinds of problems with agencies like this because
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Speaker 3: it's not their money, especially on the agency level. Now
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Speaker 3: the providers themselves, Yeah, it's their money because they want
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Speaker 3: to stay alive, because they provide services, and for the
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Speaker 3: most part, they're run by people who really care.
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Speaker 2: They're not in for the money.
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Speaker 3: You don't see, Well, there's some people that milk these
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Speaker 3: organizations for money and are thieves and corruption rampant, but
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Speaker 3: for the most part, you know, they actually care and
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Speaker 3: that's what they're in it for. You've got two cabinet
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Speaker 3: members that came to town Department of Housing Urban Development Secretary
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Speaker 3: Scott Turner, Health and Human Services Secretary the insane Robert
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Speaker 3: Kennedy ripping into the Los Angeles Homelessness Service Authority or
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Speaker 3: Homeless Service Authority, saying that the agency is just ridden
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Speaker 3: with management and abuse and just straight corruption. And the
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Speaker 3: bottom line had to do with two hundred and forty
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Speaker 3: million dollars that loss was supposed to get August twenty six,
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Speaker 3: and Kennedy and Turner said, Nope, you're not getting it
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Speaker 3: because there's no accountability and we're going to send the
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Speaker 3: money directly if applied for by the agencies that supply
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Speaker 3: the services. The Homeless Authority doesn't actually supply the services.
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Speaker 3: They contract with providers.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 3: So with that, lawsuits were filed all over the place
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Speaker 3: and a couple of judges halted money not being paid.
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Speaker 3: Particularly it was Rhode Island. Here it hasn't happened yet
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Speaker 3: and when asked about the lawsuit, by the way, we're
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Speaker 3: talking about the Rhode Island lawsuit blocking their funding shift
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Speaker 3: during questioning. This is at a press for his Turner said,
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Speaker 3: we're working on that right now. All right, because there's
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Speaker 3: obviously a lot of controversies. I pointed out earlier the
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Speaker 3: organizations that are corrupt, mismanagement, that don't have accountability, or
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Speaker 3: only in blue states. As you know, there's no such
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Speaker 3: thing as corruption in red states doesn't exist, and certainly
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Speaker 3: in the military that doesn't exist. And so here is
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Speaker 3: the fun one, all right. Turner reaches down from behind
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Speaker 3: the lectern and he pulls out a bag, a brown
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Speaker 3: paper bag, and he said, I learned they're giving our
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Speaker 3: homeless neighbors. This is what they're giving our homeless neighbors
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Speaker 3: with American taxpayer dollars, which he's talking about the agency.
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Speaker 3: This is drug paraphernalia that's in this bag. This brown
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Speaker 3: bag is handed to people, homeless, people who are addicted
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Speaker 3: to drugs. And then he reaches into the bag and
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Speaker 3: takes out a sandwich. Oh, no, the wrong bag. That's
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Speaker 3: not what I wanted to give you, So instead he
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Speaker 3: takes out this drug paraphernalia, proof positive that the entire
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Speaker 3: agency is riddled with corruption.
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Speaker 2: God, I love that.
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Speaker 3: For example, a horrible killing takes place by an illegal
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Speaker 3: alien that crosses the border. Now how about American citizens
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Speaker 3: that don't have to cross the border that also commit
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Speaker 3: horrible crimes, Well, what can you do?
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Speaker 2: Deport them? No?
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Speaker 3: And so he's a drug paraphernalia discovered in a bag that.
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Speaker 2: Has been picked up by authorities.
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Speaker 3: By the way, how about money in brown bags that
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Speaker 3: are going to let's say, gain people from You've got
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Speaker 3: federal federal employees that are full of cash.
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Speaker 1: Are you really going to defend watza?
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Speaker 3: No, I'm what I'm doing is I'm ripping into what
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Speaker 3: the feds are using for examples. Uh.
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Speaker 2: There should be many more. There should be accountability. No. No, Uh.
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Speaker 3: And I agree with the the government is not shutting
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Speaker 3: off the money. The government is saying, I want we
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Speaker 3: want providers, specific providers to come up with a plan.
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Speaker 3: Oh no, loss, It's crazy. I mean, there's full of
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Speaker 3: full of corruption. I'm a good visit that. The other
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Speaker 3: thing that I have a problem with is that Turner
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Speaker 3: and Kennedy both endorse faith faith based recovery programs over
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Speaker 3: them alternatives preferred by the administration.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: And they had this press conference at La Dream Center,
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Speaker 3: a former hospital converted into a faith based residential treatment center,
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Speaker 3: and saying this is an example of the type of
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Speaker 3: program we want a much more effective solution. Now I
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Speaker 3: have a problem, and I'll tell you I have a problem.
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Speaker 3: It's not because I'm not a Christian. That doesn't bother me, obviously,
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Speaker 3: but the whole concept of what works are faith based
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Speaker 3: program and they do. But how about other programs that work?
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Speaker 3: I mean, are we working on the concept we are
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Speaker 3: a Christian nation and the reality is we're not. We're
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Speaker 3: a Jewish nation, We're a Muslim nation. We are a
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Speaker 3: nation of other religions behind That's what we are. And
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Speaker 3: I would love for them not to have put a
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Speaker 3: center in front of a faith based By the way,
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Speaker 3: faith based is Christian straight out, There's no question about it.
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Speaker 3: And this is where the government is getting involved. And
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Speaker 3: why would they do this in front of a religious
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Speaker 3: organization that's based in religion. That's like the govern announcing
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Speaker 3: programs from Brigham Young University about universities all over the country.
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Speaker 3: How about a state university?
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Speaker 1: You about a complaining Nor was anybody else when that
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Speaker 1: dreams that same dream center was at the pinnacle of
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Speaker 1: helping out during the film.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm not arguing.
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Speaker 3: I am not arguing, but I but it's The problem
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Speaker 3: is is that these are examples of success. And I
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Speaker 3: just I personally, well, I'm a big, big believer of
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Speaker 3: separation of church and state, huge believer that the state
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Speaker 3: has no business getting involved with religion under any circumstances
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Speaker 3: at all. And that's the problem that I have, I
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Speaker 3: always have, And I just want to point that out.
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Speaker 3: That was just an aside, just a personal just a
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Speaker 3: personal view. But as you successfully point out, Neil, as
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Speaker 3: you do point out, and you're right, is that LASA
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Speaker 3: is not a great organization. We just don't deal with
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Speaker 3: homeless particularly well. And by the way, if these agencies
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Speaker 3: are going to if they're going to request funds, if
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Speaker 3: they're going to apply for funds directly to the federal government,
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Speaker 3: what kind of oversight is that going to be? The
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Speaker 3: Feds are going to oversee, for example, a drug treatment
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Speaker 3: center that's out in Pacoima.
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Speaker 2: Who's going to do that? You know what bureaucracy is
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Speaker 2: going to do that?
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Speaker 3: Do you think that just increases exponentially the account of
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Speaker 3: the number of people and establishing new bureaucracy measures to
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Speaker 3: deal with this and deal with accountability. I mean, there's
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Speaker 3: no easy answer here. And am I coming up with
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Speaker 3: an answer. Well, yeah, give me the money. I'll come
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Speaker 3: up with something.
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Speaker 2: Why not.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Bill, Oh yeah, thank you so much.
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Speaker 3: Well yeah, Doctor Jim Keeney, chief medical officer for Dignity
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Speaker 3: Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach and also a
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Speaker 3: board certified er.
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Speaker 2: Doctor Jim, good morning and always thank you for being here.
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Speaker 4: Morning Bill.
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Speaker 3: Okay, see that's your turn. Good morning, and then you
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Speaker 3: say good morning back. I've always wondered about that, all right.
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Speaker 3: A couple days ago, I was it yesterday? A couple
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Speaker 3: days ago, the President came out with his new vaccine
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Speaker 3: guidance and what he said to me sounded absolutely stupid.
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Speaker 3: On a level, that is, we are the same or approaches.
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Speaker 3: His comments when COVID first came out and he suggested
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Speaker 3: using bleach, injecting bleach into your body to deal with COVID,
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Speaker 3: and I thought that was a brilliant idea. And now
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Speaker 3: the vaccine guidance and specifically splitting up the MMR vaccine
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Speaker 3: into three different shots at different times. And even Bill Cassidy,
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Speaker 3: who is the Senator for Kentucky, was a doctor who
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Speaker 3: just went out of his mind saying this is crazy.
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Speaker 2: Your thoughts, Yeah, I.
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Speaker 4: Mean, I don't know who goes to the President of
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Speaker 4: the United States for medical advice. It's just it's a
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Speaker 4: weird dynamic, right. We usually for the tried and true
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Speaker 4: way that healthcare has been done now for decades is
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Speaker 4: that we ask scientists questions, they do studies, we get answers.
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Speaker 4: Sometimes the answers are right, sometimes the answers are wrong,
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Speaker 4: but they're kind of the best possible source for you know,
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Speaker 4: how we're going to approach things. So the idea that
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Speaker 4: the President is just going to unilaterally make a new
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Speaker 4: plan for how we give vaccines, there's so many problems
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Speaker 4: with this. We can talk about it for hours, but
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Speaker 4: I mean timing for childhood vaccines is heavily researched. A
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Speaker 4: lot of times you're fighting against time, right, So whooping cough,
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Speaker 4: for example, it's it's very dangerous in the first few
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Speaker 4: months of life. That's where it's most critical. You know,
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Speaker 4: when you get If you get it when you're a teenager,
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Speaker 4: it's very annoying, it can take you out of school
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Speaker 4: for a long period of time. It lasts a while,
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Speaker 4: but it's probably not as life threatening as if you
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Speaker 4: get it in the first one or two months of life.
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Speaker 4: So when we give the vaccine, the timing is created
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Speaker 4: to try and reduce the highest risk. So that's why
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Speaker 4: we're giving it so early, and that's why it's there.
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Speaker 4: Same thing with homophlis influence that we've talked about that
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Speaker 4: one before. It's not fluid. This is a different, totally
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Speaker 4: different disease, and that's the HIV vaccine. And now on
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Speaker 4: the timing is important because of when kids get sick
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Speaker 4: and when they're more critically ill if they do get sick.
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Speaker 4: So just randomly saying we're going to spread these out,
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Speaker 4: we're going to divide them up, then there's the dividing
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Speaker 4: up issue that's a whole nother problem. You know, it's
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Speaker 4: hard to get parents and kids into the doctor's office,
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Speaker 4: creating multiple visits, are creating multiple failure points, you know,
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Speaker 4: where suddenly we forgot you know, Johnny has a soccer
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Speaker 4: game this afternoon, and so we'll reschedule that doctor's appointment,
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Speaker 4: and then it never gets rescheduled. So we do know,
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Speaker 4: and there's good data that the more you the more
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Speaker 4: inconvenient make it, the more you break up the vaccination schedule,
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Speaker 4: the less people can apply with it.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so it's Trump not just being Trump and giving
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Speaker 3: medical advice. This is straight out dangerous stuff. This is
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Speaker 3: certainly And where does he get this information?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: And then of course he brought up the old saw
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Speaker 3: autism vaccines means autism, and he came up with one
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Speaker 3: example I think of someone he had met where the
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Speaker 3: kid got vaccinated and somehow was connected to or got
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Speaker 3: also got autism. When does that stop? And that's not
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Speaker 3: a political question. Is there anybody out there in the
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Speaker 3: scientific world that does the connection, because I know there
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Speaker 3: was one and the doctor was he lost his medical
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Speaker 3: license and it was completely debunked. Are there others out
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Speaker 3: there that are promoting this connection autism and vaccines.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, doctors are like are a cross section
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Speaker 4: of society. So if there are people in society who
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Speaker 4: have more of a philosophical belief about this and they're
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Speaker 4: not basing it on science, then there's going to be
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Speaker 4: doctors like that as well. So you're going to find
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Speaker 4: doctors probably who who might still believe, but they're extremely rare,
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Speaker 4: you know, like when we talked about mandating the flu shot.
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Speaker 4: So you know, we get raided by a Center for
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Speaker 4: Medicare and Medicaid on what percentage of our doctors are
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Speaker 4: vaccinated against the flu, because they recognize that to protect
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Speaker 4: the American health system if there was an outbreak, we
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Speaker 4: need our doctors that work in hospitals to be vaccinated
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Speaker 4: against the flu so they don't get taken down by it.
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Speaker 4: And so we talked at one of my hospitals about
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Speaker 4: about mandating it for our doctors because it was never
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Speaker 4: mandated before, and there were on a medical staff of
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Speaker 4: nine hundred people, there were two that were adamant that
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Speaker 4: influenza vaccine is not helpful, but the other eight hundred
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Speaker 4: and ninety eight thought that, you know, science rules, so
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Speaker 4: you'll always find those people. I mean, there's just no
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Speaker 4: way around it. It's been proven. I mean it's it's
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Speaker 4: been as close to be proven as you know. Scientists
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Speaker 4: are very reluctant to say something's proven, but it's been
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Speaker 4: shown by extensive studies over decades.
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Speaker 2: Now, Okay, let's do this.
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Speaker 3: We'll take a final break, we'll come back, and I
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Speaker 3: have a story about Will, Will Colchstreiber and a medical issue.
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Speaker 3: I know you're looking at me Will strangely, but there
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Speaker 3: is a connection here. So we're going to bring you
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Speaker 3: to the forefront here. And as I segue into this
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Speaker 3: next segment is promised when I went into our break,
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Speaker 3: this is for you, Will, because there's going to be
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Speaker 3: medical advice here, Okay, and you so you are the
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Speaker 3: poster child of this, and here it is, Okay, abdominal
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Speaker 3: fat that's you, heart disease maybe maybe you, and determining
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Speaker 3: predicting risk for heart disease.
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Speaker 2: Jim, as you to point that out, tell us about it.
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Speaker 3: And point to Will, if you will point to Will.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I don't know how you get people to work on
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Speaker 4: the show.
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Speaker 3: Unt I don't get it either, And it's not like
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Speaker 3: they do it for the money either.
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Speaker 2: This is iHeart.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, so we've talked about this before that abdominal
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Speaker 4: fat is it's not the same as other fat in
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Speaker 4: your body. It's metabolically active, it's hormonally active, it's inflammatory.
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Speaker 4: So abdominal fat is more dangerous for your health than
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Speaker 4: overall you know, extra weight. And so the study though
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Speaker 4: is good because this was a two hundred and sixty
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Speaker 4: thousand patient study that's huge, followed them for twenty years,
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Speaker 4: so this is good data. It's still observational study, meaning
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Speaker 4: that we're just you know, seeing what happens. It's not
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Speaker 4: an intervention or you know, like a randomized control trial.
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Speaker 4: It's just observational. But what it shows is that more
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Speaker 4: important than your actual or your BMI is your waist
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Speaker 4: size and especially your waist to hip ratio. So good
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Speaker 4: news for you know, people with those big booties that
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Speaker 4: don't have a large stomach, right because what you're measuring
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Speaker 4: is your your stomach, your waste right above your hips,
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Speaker 4: and if that is a lot bigger than your hips
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Speaker 4: or right below you know, where your buttocks, the largest
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Speaker 4: area around your buttocks, then that's a problem. And that
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Speaker 4: means that you have some highly metabolically active inflammatory and
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Speaker 4: hormonally active fat in there at apose tissue. That's going
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Speaker 4: to put you out of much higher risk for heart disease.
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Speaker 4: And even when they look at either people with normal BMIs,
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Speaker 4: but this is abnormal, they're at higher risk. People that
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Speaker 4: have high BMIs, but this is in the safe range.
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Speaker 4: They're actually safer than we think. So this is a
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Speaker 4: better indicator. It costs like five cents for a tape measure.
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Speaker 4: It's you know, no fancy tests only.
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Speaker 3: Okay, here's a question. I'm going to get personal here.
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Speaker 3: I have reached normal weight. I've been losing weight, and
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Speaker 3: I'm one hundred and seventy pounds, which is basically normal
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Speaker 3: weight for someone my heighth although you know, I used
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Speaker 3: to be six to one. I'm now five to three.
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Speaker 3: You tend to shrink a little bit.
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Speaker 2: And so I'm normal weight. I have a thirty four
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Speaker 2: inch waist.
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Speaker 3: I haven't had a thirty four inch waist, by the way,
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Speaker 3: since I was three years old. But I have fat
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Speaker 3: around my stomach even with a normal weight, and I'm
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Speaker 3: assuming that there are people like me that just can't
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Speaker 3: get rid of it. I mean, it's just part and parcel,
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Speaker 3: and I have no ass by the way, you know,
22:34
Speaker 3: when I lost all my weight, I lost all my
22:37
Speaker 3: weight in my ass as a matter of fact, flutters
22:39
Speaker 3: in a good win. You can put painted with American
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Speaker 3: flag colors and it.
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Speaker 1: Just body has assumed you you are one hundred ass now.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, So Jim, you know, so I know a
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Speaker 3: lot of people that have this problem, especially guys, where
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Speaker 3: they just can't get rid of fat even with a
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Speaker 3: normal weight. And so I go to you and say,
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Speaker 3: what do I do? Am I in trouble? And what
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Speaker 3: can I do?
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Speaker 4: Right? I mean, well, we all live in this lifestyle
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Speaker 4: where we go to work forty hours a week or
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Speaker 4: maybe more that you come home with a lack of
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Speaker 4: energy to really put a lot of effort into exercising,
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Speaker 4: working out, And then we eat this American diet that's
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Speaker 4: high and highly processed foods, and we expect that somehow
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Speaker 4: we're not going to have risk for heart disease and
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Speaker 4: it's just not true. So well, I admit it's extremely
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Speaker 4: hard to get for some people to get rid of that.
23:37
Speaker 4: The environment we live in just sets us up for failure.
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Speaker 4: So you know, you've got to change something if you
23:43
Speaker 4: want to be in the better category. Where you're going
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Speaker 4: to actually do this. Now, listen, A secondary measurement in
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Speaker 4: this study, which is kind of interesting, is your height
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Speaker 4: fifty percent of your height, and your waist should be
23:56
Speaker 4: smaller than that. Now above forty inches of a way
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Speaker 4: as high risk no matter what your height is, pretty much.
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Speaker 4: But you know, say you're six feet tall with us,
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Speaker 4: that's seventy two, right, so half of seventy two is
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Speaker 4: thirty six, so you should be you should be thirty
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Speaker 4: six inch waist if you're six feet tall.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's me.
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Speaker 3: But I still have fat around my stomach and it
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Speaker 3: still means I'm going to die of a heart attack
24:23
Speaker 3: next week, right, No.
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Speaker 4: Not necessarily, because like I said, this is a secondary marker,
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Speaker 4: and you seem to be in the safe zone for
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Speaker 4: that particular one now ideally the one that is closer
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Speaker 4: indicated to a risk for heart disease. And remember heart
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Speaker 4: disease is one of the number one killers. So we're
24:42
Speaker 4: all out of high risk for heart disease, so you're
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Speaker 4: not going to reduce it to zero. On the other hand,
24:47
Speaker 4: you know, you do the best you can to get
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Speaker 4: to that measurement, and we know that if you are
24:53
Speaker 4: in that time in that zone. Well, now we have
24:56
Speaker 4: to reduce, we have to really focus on doing whatever
24:59
Speaker 4: we can to redo your other heart risk, make sure
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Speaker 4: that your blood sugar is under control, that you're getting exercise,
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Speaker 4: all those types of things.
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Speaker 3: All right, Jim as always, Thank you, sir. We'll talk
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Speaker 3: again and we'll probably get together over the weekend. Jim
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Speaker 3: and I actually hang as hard to believe, and I
25:14
Speaker 3: know he generally ties it, tries to deny it, but
25:17
Speaker 3: it does happen.
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Speaker 2: Jim, you have a good one. Take care, Take care.
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Speaker 2: All right, We're done, guys. That's it.
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