Learning About Osteoporosis

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Nahid Rianon about osteoporosis.

Episode Transcript

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All right, Welcome back, asalways to fifty plus. Thanks for listening,
Thanks for sharing the show with friends. That's greatly helpful to me and
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I want to feel like, atsome point in any hour that we do
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think, oh, I didn't knowthat before. And I can almost guarantee
you there's a couple of things,even in the good news side here and
some in the other news, becausethere's a lot of it early in the
week that will be fresh and newto you, and so I hope you
appreciate hearing that, and we'll justtake it to heart and use it as

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you like. First day after MemorialDay, I'm confident that nearly everyone in
this audience understands the significance of thatday and knew better than to wish people
a happy Memorial Day, not muchhappy about the true reason most working people
got yesterday off. Lots of peoplelistening to fifty plus no people who died

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in Vietnam or even World War Two, who've given their lives more recently,
and since we air the best ofadditions on Mondays, I'll pay my respect
now for all those men and womenwho died in service to this country so
that I could be sitting here andyou could be doing whatever it is you're
doing right now. You are freeto do that in this country still so

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far, and I'm glad you havethat opportunity. I'm glad I have the
opportunity. I'm glad Will has theopportunity to become whatever he wants to become
as he gets a little older andwiser. And I don't know you're ever
gonna cut that beard. Nah,He's he's shaking his head. So the
market's open pretty flat this morning,despite what you just heard about it,

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the Dow being down one hundred andI think one hundred and twenty points.
That's a third of a point,basically a third of one percent. So
don't get worked up over everything youhear. Understanding how high these balances are,
how high these market figures are,will help you feel a little bit

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more comfortable when you hear that it'sdown a little and should not get you,
should keep you from becoming overly excitedwhen they're up a half a point.
But you hear, well, yeah, it's up one hundred and sixty
points the Dow, Well that wouldbe a half a half percent. So

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really not a lot of activity thismorning. What the bigger move actually was
gasoline or well oil. The priceof a barrel of oil was down more
than three dollars this morning, whichis pretty good. There's just I don't
know what I don't know what it'sgoing to do ultimately, and I'm not
sure why. Still a ton ofbickering in Washington over what to do about

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the death ceiling and inflation. Ifeel like we're living I feel like we're
living in an arcade game, theone where you keep putting in money to
watch a giant balloon get inflated littleby little and get bigger and bigger with
every puff of air you spend toput in it as it expands toward a

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giant pin. And at this pointI feel like the balloon is really really
close to the pin. Good news. At three dollars dropping oil, I
guess we'll equait probably maybe twelve fifteencents off a gallon of gas as we're
going through the holiday period. Soif you've got a road trip in the

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near future, you'll save enough tobuy I don't know, a Hamburger,
maybe on a tank fill up.I heard somebody on the radio a few
days ago, I think, onKTRH actually about being in California and seeing
gasoline going for as much as sixbucks a gallon. California very close to

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Michigan. I think in that mostat least, well, I don't want
to say most, because the figureon Michigan I heard, I believe it
was this morning, also was aboutforty six forty eight percent either definitely are
leaving that state soon as they can, or plan to leave the state.

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California unity different. Honestly, Ican't imagine living in either state. Really,
I just want to pack up,drive east or south until I run
out of full tank of gas,and then just live wherever that is,
because wherever that is would have tobe better than six dollars gasoline, which
also comes with higher fruit food pricesbecause it costs more to transport that stuff,

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hardware, pretty much everything that movesacross this country by road or by
rail, it all is tied tothe cost of oil, that commodity we
have underground under American soil, tothe tune of four hundred years worth.

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That we're not really pulling out ofthe ground nearly so quickly as we could.
And don't waste your time trying toconvince me that electric power is away
to go, not when it's stillMay. Okay, we haven't quite hit
June yet, and we're already beingwarned about rolling brownouts and blackouts all over

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the country all summer long. Solarpanels and windmills are still and always have
been inefficient and unreliable, both ofthem. All they're doing is making a
few people absolutely filthy rich. AndI'd bet a lot of money that those
folks are not driving electric cars orallowing windmills to be erected within eyesight of

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any of their two or three homes. Real quickly, New York Post story
today. I don't know how muchtime do you have left? Will one
minute? One minute? Thank you? I'll do this. I'll do the
shorter of the two. A studyin Israel concluded that zero healthy listened closely,

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zero healthy individuals younger than fifty inthat country died from COVID nineteen.
That's zero people eighteen to forty ninewith no comorbidities, according to Israel's Ministry
of Health, in response to aformal legal request for that information. There
is a footnote that says the numberonly applies to death where the Ministry of

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Health conducted an epidemiological investigation and receivedinformation about underlying diseases. The same study
noted that ninety four percent of thepeople who died from COVID in Israel were
sixty or older, and there wereno deaths among people with no underlying diseases.

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So now what now what? Andyeah, I just I have to
really scratch my head and start wonderingexactly why we did what we did.
Took kids out of school forced vaccinationson people. It's just I'm I'm not
saying it was good or bad,right or wrong. I got the shots

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and I still haven't grown a tail. I'm feeling okay, But I know
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that's going to be learned in thenext ten or twenty years about what was
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as fifty plus continues. All right, welcome back to fifty plus and thanks

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for listening, certainly to appreciate it. On this pretty good looking Tuesday afternoon,
we will talk in this segment aboutour bones and how osteoporosis can weaken
them to the point they become quitebrittle, which none of us wants.
And with that setup, I willwelcome in doctor Nahedrihan and Professor of Geriatric

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Medicine with McGovern Medical School at utHealth and a proud card carrying member of
the Institute on Aging, Walkable boarddoctor. Thank you so much, Thank
you for having me. Of course, I'm guessing there aren't many people in
this audience who haven't heard of osteoporosis. But I'd also guess that only the
ones who actually have it truly understandit. So what's the short definition of

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osteoporosis? You're right, unless wehave it, sometimes we don't know it,
and that's that's why we need toknow about it. A short definition
would be when bone becomes, likehe said, very brittle, fragile,
it breaks with minimal effort. Forexample, if we fall from a chair

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or standing height, not with ahigh impact trauma. Sometimes I heard patients
turning the bed and heard a popand it was actually a broken Oh god.
So when the bone becomes so brittlethat it increases risk of fracture with
very minimal trauma is what we callosteo process. Yes, indeed, is
this condition something that's reserved for seniors? We make it all the way through

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life, think we're in good shapeand then all of a sudden this pops
up. Or is it something thatalso can arrive earlier? Yes, so
we actually keep acquiring or gaining boneuntil we're in our thirties, and then
we start losing around that time.It doesn't really show up because we have

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broken bones or factors in later life, later part of our life, So
it seems that it's a problem ofold age. But it starts early,
and it can start earlier if thereare other problems like nutrition or if someone
is not mobile anymore for other reasonsinability to move. Actually Weekend's bone because

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gravity is something helps us when wedo weight bearing as we walk, or
someone who has had other metabolic problemslike diabetes or hypertension, they start losing
bone faster. Is this is thiskind of like it losing something we also
lose as we age, is musclemass after a certain point? Is it?

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They're They're just gonna be this declinein bone mass no matter what.
Correct, So, no matter what, we started doing the bone mass,
bone density and as we measure witha scan called called bone density scan with
the machine called XA machine. Butwe can prevent it by doing good weight

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bearing exercise with good nutrition. Andof course I would recommend people to get
screened. When you go to yourdoctors, please ask them when is it
a good time to screen to seewhat's my risk of developing austeo Pross.
I think for most of this audiencethat that time would be probably now.
So you talked about nutrition being apart of it. What should be would

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we be eating more of and whatshould we push aside? So any have
diet that's considered healthy by your nutritionistor your doctor, but mostly vitamin D
level needs to be really good.UM And for patients or people who are
at risk of breaking a bone,their vitamin D level need to be about

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thirty in the blood level when youtest. So if it is lower,
talk to your physician and see whatkind of supplement you should be taking.
UM. In a good day,sunny day in Houston, please stay out
for about ten minutes of sunshine becausethat helps you develop or create vitamin D

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in your body. Well that's good, Yeah, that's good to know that
that little bit of exposure is enough. Right, Yes, Okay, I
know a lot of people are scaredof the heat. Yes, and I
will get to that because heat isanother thing we need to think about this
summer where where you know d hydration can actually make us make it difficult

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for us to keep our balance,and sometimes we can even fall from that,
and if you fall and your boneis brittle, then you can break
a bone. So we really needto be well hydrated in this heat if
we go outside. I just wantedto go back to the nutrition for calcium,
because calcium is something is a mineralthat's important for our bone. But

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we can get enough calcium from ourmeals with healthy meals, and usually people
about fifty needs about one thousand milligrumof calcium. As you get older,
you may need a little bit more. But if you get enough from your
meal, you do not need asupplement. You don't want to overdo because
you ask me what we should notbe doing, what we should be doing.

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This is a supplement that if youhave enough from your meal, you
don't want to take extra. Okay, yeah, that's a very good point
to It's not like you can justkeep on taking calcium and get great results
all the way down the line.You've got to stop at some point.
Is there is there a recognizable definitelystop if you're getting this much kind of
a dose. So if you calculatefrom the food that you take, or

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I'll just give you one example,there could be many like if we take
milk, for example, in aneight ounce cup of milk, you get
about three hundred milligram of calcium.And if you calculate and see if you
have one thousand milligram from your millsin a day, you do not need
any supplemental KOD. Yeah, that'sgood to know, doctor Nahedrihana On fifty

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plus, are patients with osteoporosis athigher risk for falling or higher risk of
breaking bones when they fall? Ithink I know the answer. But yeah,
so they maybe higher at high riskof falling for different reasons, but
they are at higher risk of breakinga bone when they fall if they have
osteoporosis. Let's let's go. We'veonly got about a minute and a half

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left. Talk about the things wecan do around the house to minimize fall
risk. So make sure that theenvironment is fall safe. No loose carpets,
any clutters that you have to goover when you are walking to your
kitchen to get a cup of water, or when you're walking to the bathroom,
especially at night, if you haveto get up and go to the

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bathroom, make sure you have anight lights so you can see where you're
walking and the pathway is again clutterfree, so you don't have to cheep
over. Sometimes people will come backhome at night and they wouldn't have the
porch light on. If you havesomething there that you can chrip over,
or even your pets waiting for you, you may chrip over. So make

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sure that you turn the lights onbefore you leave. If you're coming home
at night when it's dark. That'sa really good idea. And there are
a lot of remote control lights thatwe can get now for our homes,
or emotion sensitive lights where you don'thave to take a single step in the
dark. I'm afraid we are outof time. Thank you so much,
doctor Nahedrian, and for your informationabout osteoporosis. Thank you. You're quite

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welcome. I appreciate your time.Alrighty, then we've got to go,
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we wash him, check his fluids, and spread on a fresh cooto wax.
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, Welcome back to

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fifty plus and thanks for listening.I'm Dougie's Will, and we are I
don't know what are we midway alittle bit past the midway point in today's
program on this well, I'm presumingthe weather hasn't changed much. Wonderful Tuesday
afternoon. Hopefully we'll hopefully I'll geta little outdoors time. I've got to

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take my son somewhere this afternoon fora little while. But there may be
a window of opportunity just after that. Ah, where was I? A
New York Post story today cites astudy by a peer reviewed journal, the
peer reviewed journal Current Psychology. Imean, I'm just gonna read the links

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left leaning political extremism to psychopathy andnarcissism. People who have those conditions,
the report said, are drawn tocertain forms of political and social activism,
the study authors wrote, which theyuse to satisfy their ego focus needs,
with very little regard for the actualsocial justice or equality for which they bang

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a tambourine. The opportunity to displaymoral superior orety it dominate others engage in
other social conflicts helps them satisfy theirneed for thrilled seeking. And for the
record, the right leaning door swingstoward authoritarianism, which also isn't an especially
favorable characteristic in people. There ismiddle ground, there really is, and

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more and more of us need toreach for it and hang on to it
for dear life. I think it'svery frustrating in good news for humanity,
at least historical news. I'll callit that. A footprint will pop quiz
you're ready? How old is thisfootprint that's been discovered and believed to have

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been made by Homo sapiens, ourgenus and species? How old is it?
Found in South Africa? Believed tobe the oldest ever found of Homo
sapiens three point five million years Well, for heaven's sakes, will predating some

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of the dinosaurs? No, no, but it is one hundred and fifty
three thousand years old, which isconsiderably older than anything we've found before.
There are older footprints that look kindof like ours, but most of the
most a lot of them found inSpain, but they're questionable as to whether

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they were actually made by our specificspecies and not just Homo whatever. Some
there's a few of them in there. Even older. Was this headline,
right after having just eaten breakfast tacosfrom Rudy's barbecue. I found it kind

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of fascinating. Here's the headline,and you could just do with it whatever
you want. That's all I'm gonnaread, Just just a headline. Remains
of prehistoric barbecue suggest dinner was servedseven hundred and eighty thousand years ago,
comma six hundred thousand years earlier thanwe thought we are. We are dissecting

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this planet layer by layer and findingout that there's a lot more to it
than we ever realized, and thatall fascinates me. And concurrently, we're
digging deeper and deeper into outer space, and that also fascinates me. With
the the and bear in mind,all we're doing really is just looking through

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bigger and bigger telescopes. And everytime we send a bigger telescope out there,
the web telescope webber Hubble, Yeah, Web, the one that's out
there most recently and biggest. Themirror on that thing is about the size
of a house. I read.I read just this past week. I

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talked about it, and it isso smooth and so flat that if it
were I want to say, severalacres large. I can't remember exactly how
many acres, maybe fifty sixty,one hundred acres, whatever, There would
not be a dent or a bumpin it larger than I think a half

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an inch or something like that.Just outrageously smooth. And that's why we're
getting the images we're getting from thatthing. Will, I'll let you drive
for a minute. What's wrong withkids these days? Hug it out?
Or but I'm more important than you, I'll get out. You always pick

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the shortest one. Are you lookingover my shoulder? A guy in California
stopped a bank rubber bank robber bydoing what will? Hugging him? You
read it. You must have knownthat is the actual right answer. Did
you have any prior knowledge of that? Honestly, you named it hug it

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out? Well, that's true,I didn't I so I just never mind.
Let's just skip that one, okay, one hundred and fifty five years
ago, going back to this pastweekend in general or in eighteen sixty eight,
General John Logan so inspired when hesaw women decorating the graves of Civil
War heroes that he suggested a nationalholiday called Decoration Day, which later became

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Memorial Day. And also along thatline, sixty five years ago. It
was in nineteen fifty eight that theremains of two unidentified American servicemen killed in
World War Two and the Korean War, respectively, were buried at the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington NationalCemetery. They joined the unknown soldier from

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World War One who was buried therein nineteen twenty one, and a soldier
from the Vietnam War received that samemonitor in nineteen and eighty four. What's
wrong with kids these days? I'lltell you some kids in North Carolina are
in deep trouble after they broke intotheir school at night and filled the toilets

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with cement, which is causing sofar at least four thousand dollars in damage.
They're not quite sure how much.And some malls in this country have
taken to requiring anyone eighteen or younger, or anyone younger than eighteen, because
they're adults after all, to beaccompanied by a chaperone on Fridays and Saturdays

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due to it, well, itsays due too, but that's wrong.
Due is like a financial term.It's because of unruly behavior. Imagine that
I actually witnessed in Dick Sporting Goods. I was in there buying something.
This has been six eight months agonow, and they're buying something. I
have no idea what. I'm standingthere at the checkout, and I see

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some people out of the corner ofmy eye. There's a main walkway that
goes right down the middle of thestore between there and the guts of First
Colony Mall. It opens onto thefood court actually, and these two people,
a young man and a young woman, were walking that aisle briskly with

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armloads of clothes in their hands,and when they got about thirty feet from
the door, both of them brokeinto a sprint and ran outside and jumped
into a car. I actually leftthe line and went out there and tried
to get a license number. AndI came back inside, and the employees

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who had walked out there came backinside, and I said, how often
does that happen? And they saidmore often than you'd think. And they
don't. They just you and Ipay for that, whatever they stole,
whatever they took, you and Ipay for it, apparently on a pretty

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regular basis, which is somewhat disturbing. It's very disturbing. Ashley Utalian,
let me start that again. UtHealth Science Centers. Institute on Aging is
where you and I can go andbe seen by doctors and therapists and trainers
and nurses and physicians, assistance andreceptionists. Everybody in the place is specially

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trained in senior medicine. They knowwhat we mean when we describe a condition
or a situation to them medically.Well, I got my head hurts a
little bit, and then my elbow, my left elbow hurts, my right
knees doing better, I get theseback pains sometimes I'm not sleeping. Whatever
you tell them, they've heard itbefore, they've studied it, they understand

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it, and they are happy tosit down and map out a plan to
make you feel better and live longer. And that's really most of us.
That's exactly what we're trying to do, just live a little longer and feel
a little better on a day,day to day basis. They've been doing
that for I want to say,eight ten years now, and they are
going to keep doing it, andthey're doing it better every year than the

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year prior. I've watched it myselfbecause I've been speaking for them for I
want to say seven or eight yearsnow. Ut dot Edu slash Aging go
to that website, look around andschedule a consultation. Go down there and
talk to somebody. Get a feelingfor what it's like to be seen by
somebody who understands you. Ut dotedu slash aging aged to perfection. This

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is fifty plus with Doug Pike.All right, welcome back to fifty plus.
Thanks for listening. Certainly, doit apreciate that on a Tuesday afternoon
here on KPRC, I'm gonna goto the Windy City right now to let

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you know. This is a city, Chicago that has some of these strictest
gun laws in the United States.And over the weekend, over the holiday
weekend, granted it was three days, not two. Nine people killed thirty
nine wounded by guns over the pastthree days. The new mayor, Brandon
Johnson says, don't worry. Igot a new safety plan for the city

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that's already about two thousand police officersdown from what it needs. One of
the things the new mayor says he'sgonna do is hire two hundred more detectives.
But that seems more like something designedto solve crimes after they're committed,
rather than thwart crime before it's committed. By getting the bad guys off the

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streets by taking stolen and lawfully acquiredotherwise guns off the streets. I don't
know. Can't imagine being a policeofficer in that city and trying to clean
up that mess. I've seen interviewswith people who point out that Chicago has
had the same conversation year after yearwith the same results. This is just

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different mayor same problem. And untilthey ramp up law enforcement and provide the
people who do enforce the law therewith the tools they need to get it
done, I doubt that much ofanything's going to change. And some good
news from the world of medicine,an antibiotic that might help against one of

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the world's deadliest bacteria has been discoveredby a computer using AI. For all
the scares that AI has brought upwithin the world, and there are plenty
of them AI doing this and doingthat against humanity, basically, at least
this is on the plus side.This particular bug can survive on surfaces for

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long periods of time, and infor example, premature babies or maybe people
with compromised immune systems, it cancause sepsis, pneumonia, meningitis, all
of which are potentially lethal. Sofar, so good with tests on mice.
This one holds tremendous potential to savelives, and I'm glad that AI

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figured it out when we were havingtrouble getting there. It works, It
can work for good, it canwork for bad. In this case,
it worked for good. There ismore and more talk this week that California
Governor Gavin Newsom is going to replacefragile Senator Diane Feinstein with Michelle Obama to
kickstart the former First Lady's political careeron the way to a run for president.

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I honestly hope people of this countrywill look really closely at what was
and wasn't accomplished during her husband's timeas president, and take a close listen
to some of the things she saidabout our country over the years. This
is an all or nothing chess gamefor the left, and their goal is
to win at any cost. Ithink, up to and including the dismantling

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of this country's foundation. I'm notI would. I don't think she could
ever earn my vote, and that'swhat somebody's got to do to get my
vote every time has earned it.And I don't see myself leaning that way,
and I hope the country can seethrough what's going on there as well.
More good news. How much timedo I have? Will three?
Can you give me three? Atleast? Yeah? You got about three,

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all right, real quickly. Fiveninety two years ago, nineteen year
old Joan of Arc burned at thestake in France after being found guilty of
charges of sorcery. Spit it out, sorcery and a seat. That's what
happened then. And the eighty fivehundred recently completed in fantastic race all the

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way to the end. It wasincredible, stop and go, stop and
go right to the very end witha bunch of red flag incidents. The
first indy five hundred held in nineteeneleven, six hours before Ray Haroon won
with an average speed of seventy fourpoint six miles an hour. I get

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past every morning on the way towork by people who could have won that
race with their eyes closed, peoplegoing eighty ninety on Saturday mornings early,
sometimes a hundred. So there yougo, all right, two minutes whiler

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one, we have two minutes.That's tempting. I'm gonna do this.
Good news from the ocean and floor. An English expedition in the Pacific turned
up pop quiz will. These guysstudied a big chunk of the bottom of
the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii, about four million square miles in all.

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But they didn't study everything. Howmany totally new species did they uncover
during this expedition two hundred more thanfive thousand. You were close more than
five thousand new marine species. Theygot shellfish, They found carnivorous sponges,
c cucumbers, a host of tinylittle invertebrates. Not like they were all

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in one place. That search area, Like I said, nearly four million
square miles of ocean bottom. It'sjust about not quite as big as Australia
and said to be one of themost pristine wild areas on the planet.
Give it fifty years, somebody willopen a hotel down there. You watch

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and see. Five year old boyrecently swallowed forty pieces of gum in one
day. It obstructed his entire gitrack. He was rushed to the er
and doctors removed it so he wouldn'thave to wait about seven years for his
own digestive system to take care ofthat. I want to know who's got

(36:20):
forty pieces of gum in the housein a time. How many pieces of
gum or in your house right now? Will zero? Same in my house,
I think unless my son has alittle bit stashed upstairs somewhere. All
right, this is what I callbig wheels. Keep on turning and in
homage to teaing a turner, awoman won an annual cheese rolling race day
yesterday. Actually it was despite beingknocked unconscious on her way down the hill.

(36:44):
She learned that she won when shewoke up in the medical tent.
That's a nice way to wake up. That's it for us today. We'll
be back tomorrow. Thank you forlistening. Idios