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Handle. Here it is a HomepdayWednesday, May first, May Day,
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and May Day is dancing around themaypole for us. It's International Workers Day
around the world where it's a verybig deal, especially in the communist world,
the a workers red flag, theInternacional. Oh, actually we should
do that, Cono. You maywant to pull up the Internacional, which
is sort of the star spangled bannerof the communist parties all over the world,
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their national international anthem. Marjorie TaylorGreen. I'd love talking about Marjorie
Taylor Green because she completely nuts,and I mean nuts on a level that
sometimes defies credulity, credulity. AndI've, as you know or you don't
know by now, as I'm startinga podcast because i want to play with
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that, because that seems to bethe future of the world here, and
I'm going to do her story andhow crazy she is, as well as
other major legislators around the world,and our history of crazy ass senators and
congress people literally from the founding ofthis country is a great story. And
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I'm going to probably do that ona podcast and I'll announce that it looks
like about mid may. Don't holdme to it, but that sort of
right now looks like when we're launchingit. So let me tell you the
latest of Marjorie Taylor Green. Sheis trying to oust Mike Johnson, who
is the Speaker of the House.Remember there was no speaker twenty two days
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after Kevin McCarthy was thrown out.Actually, and she was in favor of
Kevin McCarthy, interestingly enough, becausehe backed her up and they had a
good political relationship. Well, MikeJohnson has agreed with the Democrats and he,
according to Marjorie Taylor Green, hascaved and meaning that he allowed and
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put on the floor, voted forand in favor of hell pass the funding
bill for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, as well as other bills that went
through. And she wants to vacatethe seat because he actually cooperated with the
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Democrats. And if any Republican cooperateswith Democrats on anything, that is treason
and that can't happen. And here'sMike Johnson who basically said, hey,
listen, if it cost me thespeakership, so be it. I'm gonna
put the country first. And soshe's going to make a motion to vacate.
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Now, it worked with Kevin McCarthy, but it was a disaster twenty
two days and they ended up withMike Johnson, who was a compromised candidate
among compromised candidates and known as avery weak week speaker. Although I don't
know how any speaker can deal withthe far right, these fundamentalist right wing
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Republicans, because the majority of theDemocrats of the Republicans is five votes,
so you get three or four orfive crazy people. Stops everything, stops
everything, and so Mike Johnson isin trouble. Right, No, Marjorie
Taylor Green is putting an emotion tovacate, and she can put it on
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the floor. She hasn't yet becauseshe is going to lose so miserably.
She doesn't have a lot of influenceexcept who she is an a poster child
of MAGA Republicans. As far asher influence in the House, it's sort
of nonexistent, and she has becomeirrelevant other than Republicans going after MAGA voters.
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There she has influence, but interms of what happens in the House,
she can't get anything passed. Itjust doesn't work. Why Because she's
nuts, That's why. And atthis point Democrats are going to line up
to keep Johnson in power as speaker, and Johnson's gonna get a huge number
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of them. Republicans are going toline up to keep Johnson as speaker.
They don't want to do what happenedagain. We don't need another month of
no speaker. And when there isno speaker, I might add, the
House stops cold. No bills canbe passed. It comes to a grinding
halt. There is no Congress without a speaker. And so are they
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willing to do that again? No, they've had it, been there,
done that, and she has yetintroduced that motion. Now The Wall Street
Journal reported that she is going toalthough at this point we don't know all
the very right wing Republicans other thanthe crazy ones that are part of her
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cabal or she is part of theircabal, are saying, no, we're
not going to do this. Wedon't need this over again. No way,
We've got an election coming up.The big bills have already been passed,
and now are we going to reallypiss off our constituents who just say,
hey, just get to work.I mean, we've reached the point
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where there is so much dissension andhatred across the aisle and polarization that you
have, in this case Republicans whoare who believe they'd rather stop the country
cold than vote in favor of anythingthe Democrats want. It's that nuts.
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And as I said, uh,what I'm going to do is expand on
this in the podcast, because notonly am I going to talk about Marjorie
Taylor Green's conspiracy theories, and they'rebeyond the pale. I mean, we're
not talking about conspiracy theories, regularconspiracy theories. You know Elvis, you
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know the child of Elvis and analien was spotted at Walmart, you know,
regular conspiracy theories. This is nuts. Before we get to Jim McKinney
down to the bottom of the hour, something has just come up, and
that is Biden. And this justcame out of USA today and it also
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become became major news sort of thePalestinian the protests have sort of over run
and everything, but this has todo with marijuana, and this is something
that it makes no sense as towhat's going on around the country, and
that is marijuana is still a schedulewondrug which means no medical properties, has
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no benefit whatsoever, and it's inthe same category as PCP and heroin,
and it makes no sense, especiallysince our view I talk about Americans view
of marijuana has changed completely for thelegalization polls that were recently done, the
least number of people who are infavor of marijuana Red States Republicans, who
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you would think would be the mostanti marijuana people, fifty five percent of
them believe in the legalization of marijuana, both medical and recreational. And then
you have states like California it whereit's like eighty percent. And on a
personal level, how do I feelabout marijuana? Well, obviously I believe
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in the legalization. I mean youwould not, yes, But let me
ask around the table, neil uhyou smoke pot before, of course,
and are you a pot smoker?I have. I am not a pot
smoker. I have smoked pot aboutthree times. Oh God, and you
didn't inhale. That's enough our conversations. I wasn't crazy about it, but
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all before I was seventeen, Okay, Cono pot in your life. Not
anymore, not anyway. I heara lot of that amy pot smoker,
no, liar, no, forlike twenty years, thirty years, Okay,
So with that, I have asmoke pot since nineteen eighty three because
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I had left a drug rehab.I had a little sojourn with cocaine for
four years studying for the bar iswhere it started, and I became somewhat
addicted. So in nineteen eighty threeI went into reh and I'm done with
drugs, and that included pot,because I just included pot. But my
first introduction to pot I was sixteenyears old and I went in high school
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and I went to my best friend'shouse on the weekend and he came up
with pot and he goes, here, try this, and I smoke my
first joint and for me, itwas the munchies. What a surprise,
almost immediately, so I'll never forgetthis. For some reason, vividly this
is in my mind. I putan English muffin in the toaster and I
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burnt it horribly, but it didn'tmatter. I was so hungry. I
spread some butter on it and itwas one of the best tasting things I
have ever eaten in my life aburnt English muffin. And when I went
back the next week and we didit again, can you imagine how a
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properly he toasted English muffin hit me. It was just amazing. And then
a few weeks later, my dadfound out that I was smoking pot.
And now, how does this connectwith people who used to think about pot
as quote the gateway? My dadlegitimately thought that as I put down the
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joint after taking a puff or two, I picked up the syringe full of
heroin and injected it directly into myeyeballs. It was an automatic gateway.
Well, the reality is, ofcourse, it's not that I'm sorry you
did go to cocaine. I did, but that was studying for the bar.
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But it was a gateway bill fromsixteen, and I started studying at
twenty eight. It was a rustygate but a gateway. Twelve years later
I started by cocaine. But youknow what, where did it get so
demonized? I mean, it hasso many benefit benefits to it. I
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legitimately yes, but it wasn't.It was introduced and now I'm speculating it
was actually introduced by the black community. The music black communities or of the
jazz community for my understanding in thetwenties where it became part and parcel of
what the United States did and therewas such a fear of marijuana. Do
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you see the movies? You eversee the movie The Madness? Yes,
they play it every now and againout here. It's something you have to
see if you have never seen it. It is extraordinary. Refer Madness.
I don't know if it's on YouTubeor Netflix or whatever. It has to
be out there, it has tobe. It is spectacular. Bottom line
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is, even with states that arestill criminalizing marijuana, there are plenty of
them, and you have the superconservative legislature legislators, even with the population
within those states either handily or overwhelminglyin favor of the legalization of marijuana.
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Now it breaks sometimes down to onlymedical marijuana and inclusive of recreational marijuana,
like we have here in California.And you know the first date that passed
recreational marijuana. By the way,you wouldn't guess this Colorado, Colorado.
I'm sorry they beat Oregon. Ithink they did. I can know.
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Okay, here we go again.Hey, siri, what state was the
first to adopt No hold on,hey, Siri, what was the first
state to adopt recreational marijuana? Comeon, come on, come on.
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That doesn't help Colorado. Whow allright, it's according to Siri, the
expert of all time. I lovethat you surprise yourself in knowing things.
I know. It's crazy, isn'tit. I was right. I didn't
even think I was right. Iknow because I have no self esteem.
Right, I'm always questioning myself abouteverything, all right, as we always
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do on Wednesday, now regular featureis with doctor Jim Keeney, who is
our e er specialists in all thingsmedical? Do we no longer do his
drop? By the way, Idon't think we do. Uh, cono,
it's up to you. I don'tknow, Jim, do you want
your drop or not? Let's justget to it. Okay, let's get
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to it, all right? Fairenough. We got a lot going on,
Jim, Doctor Jim O'Neil's out ofcontrol today, completely out of control.
So. I don't know if yousaw the sixty minute piece Sunday night,
but I certainly did. And itwas doing a piece on n video
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which is this extraordinary Well, it'sthe hardware that it enables AI to function,
and it's one of four companies inthe world that is worth over two
trillion dollars. I mean the guywho started it, what an incredible guy.
In any case, AI is nowbeing used and it's going it's ubiquitous.
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There is no place where AI isnot being used. One of the
segments was this woman the scientist whois working on AI that can deal with
creating new proteins, new ways ofdealing with medicine. And now I'm talking,
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I'm referring to detecting cancer with adrop of blood. Let's explore that
for a moment. Yeah, Imean, well, whenever we do tests
on people, and there's a lotof different issues, right, there's the
cost of the test, the complexityof it, and so a blood drop,
you know, a dry blood droptest, it's about as easy as
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it can get. Right. Youcan prick somebody's finger, put it on
blotting paper, let it dry,and now you can send that little piece
of paper for almost no cost,you know, anywhere you need. It
doesn't need special handling, doesn't needspecial temperature control, and then you can
get a test. So that's numberone is for a lot of different things.
We would love to do a dryblood you know, one drop of
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blood tests. That would be great, But then you do this for cancer,
and what they're looking for is iswe've looked for in the past,
like the holy grail of one chemicalthat might tell us that you have cancer.
But AI can look at a patternof chemicals and see if those are
present and suddenly detect somebody at higherrisk for cancer. Again, you're looking
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for something that's not going to giveyou a bunch of false positives, right.
You don't want to do a lotof biopsies or X rays or additional
tests afterwards. You want something thatnails it the first time. And apparently
they're having some good success with theinitial trials here I can tell you I'm
working with an AI company too.It's the same thing we're applying it to
things like discovering sepsis figuring out who'sgoing to be readmitted to the hospital within
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the thirty days that Medicare won't payyou if the person comes back, won't
pay you for a second visit.So hospitals are losing a lot of money
if they can't predict who's going tocome back. And I mean the results
are at this point, they're unbelievable. They're so good. We're talking ninety
nine point nine percent accuracy. Soit's going to be exciting once we can
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get this into a hospital setting anddo it real life and see if it
works real life, because looking backat data, it's just insanely accurate.
Hey, let's let me analogize HIVto this, and that is the first
part of dealing with HIV was detectingit, dealing with looking for the virus
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and that they were able to dothat, and then that translated into creating
medicines that at least can deal withHIV and bring it to a chronic condition
how quickly or the next step I'massuming is taking that kind of technology and
using it to either cure cancer oragain bring it to a chronic condition.
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Right, I mean, you're exactlyright. And in HIV we had to
do bone marrow biopsies that required theperson to be sedated, had to put
a needle into the center of theirhip bone and extract bone marrow. That
was the only way we could reallyfigure this thing out initially until we got
better testing. So perct example ofsimplifying it down to something where it's easier
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to detect. And now, yeah, the AI in a separate manner can
be used to discover new ways toto combat the disease. So for cancer,
we can start looking at things throughAI and quickly narrow down what might
work, it might it might notwork. I mean, it's super exciting
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because it does seem to like Ididn't believe the results when I first saw
it, and I was frustrating thecomputer science and the data scientists because I
was like, these results are aretoo good, They're not really believable,
and they're looking at me like,well, what do you want me to
do? You want me to makeit perform worse, because we can do
that if you want, you know. But as we apply it to different
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problems, it does seem to bevery accurate. The scientists that I was
talking about, referring that was inthe sixty minute piece, she said the
same thing, by the way thatshe's looking at the results and she can't
believe it. And they are creatingwith AI new proteins that don't exist in
nature. I mean that is astoundingstuff. When a man kind or science
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can we eate new proteins, it'spretty scary stuff. And it's wonderful stuff
at the same time. All right, next topic, intermittent fasting. Is
it good or bad for you?Now? Religiously, you know, on
Yom kipor I have to fast,that's part of the religion. And it
starts at sunset and you have togo all day and fast until the next
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day sunset, and that's water andfood. And I do it modified.
I have a huge dinner and thenat sunset I fast right up until breakfast.
And so I'm highly religious. Let'stalk about fasting healthy not healthy,
because a lot of people do that. It's sort of a cleansing thing.
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So give me the ms here,give me the truth. So, yeah,
the fasting has a lot of promise. There's markers for heart disease for
you know, such as high bloodpressure, high cholester all, things like
that inflammation in your body that allseem to be reduced when you partake,
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at least in the short term inintermittent fasting. And you know, so
there's those things seem very promising.There are really no long term studies,
but things like insulin resistance, weknow that's a big problem and it can
lead to early early onset diabetes ordiabetes coming on when it didn't need to,
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and so doing the intermittent fasting allowsyou to to reset some of those
things and become more sensitive to insulin. Now, this recent paper shows in
the long term, in a morelong term study, that some people had
a higher risk of partiact death whenthey did internet fasting. That seems the
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opposite of what everybody believed would happen. So this is one smaller study.
I don't know if it's enough toturn me off to the idea yet,
because it has so many benefits.One of the big just reading the question,
Yeah, one of the big,big downsides I would think about fasting
is you can't eat. Come on, Jim, you and I had lunch
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a few days ago and we wentto sort of this barbecue place, and
let me tell you, you scarfdown a brisket sandwich like I have rarely
seen anybody do it so quickly,like Sherman through Georgia. So clearly that
was not a fast eight for you. Do you have you fasted? Oh?
Yeah, yeah. I really enjoydoing intermittent fasting because I get to
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do stuff like that. I getto to eat three thousand calorie lunch and
not even worry about it because youknow, I've paid for it in other
areas, So I feel like itmakes me healthier, It helps with inflammation,
it makes me feel better, Isleep better. I feel like my
intestines work better overall, you know. But I know that if you eat
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to each individual, it's hard toreally set one diet plan for a whole
population. There's going to be peoplethis really works for and it really helps,
and there's going to be other peoplethat need to use other methods.
When you talk about your intestines workingbetter or is that a euphemism now,
I mean, I really feel likemy gut health in general is better.
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I you know, my sneaking suspicionis that you know, cavemen didn't have
food passing through their intestines every youknow, six hours during the day,
where your your intestines are trying toprocess something in the stomach at the same
time as it's processing something in thecolon. Right, They probably you know,
had eat when they had food availableand then went long periods of time
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fasting with no food. Yeah,that makes sense. It gives your intestines
almost a chance to rest. Andthe other side of that is when they
did eat, and they caught themammoth or whatever they did, they ate
a lot, and I would thinkthat sort of overwhelms the intestines. I
have no idea either, and there'sthose studies to reprove any of this,
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But there are some studies, likeI said, that show improvement in markers
and markers for risk for high bloodpressure, for heart disease, and stroke.
So right now, I don't thinkthere's enough evidence to say this is
a bad thing, and for alot of people it works, all right.
One quick one before we go,and that is we're looking at bird
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flu's reported in cattle. A coupleof dolphins died of bird flu. Was
reported that some evidence of bird fluin milk. Any danger at all that
humans are going to contract bird flu, well, I mean no danger yet,
but very important to keep an eyeon because when bird flu was getting
transmitted back in the late nineteen ninetiesto humans only for birds, though for
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the most part, there was avery high death rate because it's you know,
we have those two proteins that Hand the N on in fluenza A
and this is H five and one, and humans have not really seen an
H significant H five influenza, andso that could bypass our immune system and
cause a very high death rate.If it went it was able to be
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past human to human, So Igot to keep an eye on it.
If that jump happens and we startseeing human to human transmission that's sustained,
because we have had some human thehuman transmission, but non sustained. If
it occurs, it could be abig problem, kind of like a COVID
level problem. But right now that'snot the issue. Right now, they're
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just it's surveillance. They've noticed it. It's in cow's milk. You can't
get it from the cow's milk,and right now people aren't getting it to
any great extent from animals either.All right, neim, thanks as always.
I'll catch you next Wednesday. Ohyou know what we have to do
is we have to have lunch againon a fat on one of your fast
days, so you can watch themand eat and spray food in your face
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while we're eating. Okay, soundsgood. Have a good one. We'll
see you next Wednesday. That's it, all right, we're done, guys.
Wednesday is gone. Tomorrow we startall over again. Amy with a
wake up call and Ton even earlier, didn't we change the name of Amy's
show to Wake and Bake? Oh, very strong. She's such a stoner?
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Can stop. It's a myth,it's it's I actually never even occurred
that Amy was a stoner. Youmaybe, yeah, you I can see
that. You think that you knowyour roomy eyes in the morning and you
know all of that. What doyou know what my eyes look like in
the morning? You freak all right, we'll catch it tomorrow, everybody,
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