June 25, 2025 • 22 mins
(June 25, 2025)
The global artificial intelligence divide. Trump administration to end protection for 58 million acres of national forests. Dr. Jim Keany, Chief Medical Officer at Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Medical News'! Dr. Keany talks with Bill about Ozempic penis, a chemical in acne medication regenerating limbs, Parkinsons diagnosis being wrong, and what blood test can say about your aging.
The global artificial intelligence divide. Trump administration to end protection for 58 million acres of national forests. Dr. Jim Keany, Chief Medical Officer at Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Medical News'! Dr. Keany talks with Bill about Ozempic penis, a chemical in acne medication regenerating limbs, Parkinsons diagnosis being wrong, and what blood test can say about your aging.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings KF I AM six forty the Bill Handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio f Saturday by handle here.
It is a Wednesday morning, June twenty five before. By
the way, it's not Jim keying until eight thirty, so
I saw a last track of time. So Jim is
going to be eight thirty with medical news and before
(00:23):
I get started into this story, and this one has
to be about the global AI divide. I'll tell you
what I mean by that in a minute. A quick
word about this Saturday Walt Disney Concert Hall Saturday night
at eight pm.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I am going to be m.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Seeing as I always do, the LA Lawyers, Philharmonic and
Legal Voices. These are These are legal people, judges and
lawyers and pair of legals, etc. Who are part of
this orchestra. And it is a world class orchestra and
it's going to be oh fan of the opera pieces
and some classical music, phenomenal stuff. It really is greatly entertaining.
(01:03):
Ticket start at just twenty bucks, So go to LA
lawyersfill dot org. LA Lawyers phil as In Philharmonic, LA
lawyersfill dot org and hope to see you there Saturday
night at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Okay, I want
to share with you a story that we pulled out
of the New York Times, and that has to do
(01:24):
with the global AI divide. It's the haves and the
have not nations, and we've talked about that for years now. Well,
when it comes to AI, that divide is now an
ocean wide. Last month, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI,
(01:47):
went to visit a construction site at the company's new
data center. The project in Texas. It is bigger than
New York Central Park. It is sixty billion dollars. It
has its own natural gas power plant. Because it uses
so much energy, it's going to be one of the
(02:08):
most powerful computing hubs ever created.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, at the.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Same time that he was doing that in Texas, Nicholas Wolovick,
who's a computer science professor at the National University of
Cordoba in Argentina, was running one of his country's most
advanced AI computing hubs and it was in a converted
(02:35):
classroom at the university that was.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Their AI or is there AI.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Center, And doctor Wollovick said, everything is becoming more split.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
We are losing.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
AI has created this massive digital divide, and it is
fracturing the world like in terms of technology like it's
never been before. This basically World War two in the
world of computing science.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
In this case the haves and the haves not.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And it's between nations with computing power and those without.
And as I said, the divide is an ocean wide.
It's influencing geopolitics, global economics, creating new dependencies, promising literally
a desperate rush not to be excluded from this technology race.
(03:31):
And we're talking about completely reordering economies, scientific discovery, the
way we live, the way we work.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
It is that influential, it is astounding.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And as you would guess, the biggest beneficiaries by far
in terms of AI technology the.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
United States by a long shot.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Then comes China, then comes the European Union, using more
than half of the world's most powerful data centers used
for developing the most complex AI systems out there. So
Oxford University researchers did a study and studied thirty two countries.
(04:18):
About sixteen percent of the nation is out there who
have facilities that have microchips and computers, and they have
some quote computer power. The United States and China as
you would guess, have more influence than any other country
in the world. American and Chinese companies operate more than
(04:40):
ninety percent of the data centers around the world, and
America and Chinese companies have ninety percent of the institutions
the companies that use AI for work. And this is
according to this according to Oxford, Now Africa and South
(05:02):
America have almost.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No computing hubs.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
India has all of five, Japan has all of four.
One hundred and fifty countries around the world have zero
zero AI computing power. Man, does that change everything? And
today's AI data centers, I mean the size of these things,
(05:31):
the power of these things. They dwarf anything that's been
going before. They're vast, they're power hungry, and they're packed
with these insanely powerful chips that the hubs cost billions
and billions to build and require infrastructure that countries can't
(05:51):
even provide. So you've got ownership on top of that,
ownership is concentrated among a few tech giants. So you've
got a few tech giants controlling the AI world. In
a country that controls the AI world, and one hundred
and fifty countries have ZIP, they have absolutely no AI infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And to give you an idea.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Then we're gonna take a break and I'm gonna come
back and to give you an idea. The world's most
use AI systems which power open ai chat GP are
in English and in Chinese.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That's it. The rest of them not so much so.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
If you happen to speak Zulu, or you happen to
speak one of the African tribal languages, and when you
want somehow to go on to AI and you're asking
chat GP in those countries and you're asking a question, you.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Know the the language that they speak among certain tribes.
I don't know that that's the fact currently. Yeah, let
me say hello to you.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
All right, Back we go to the story I want
to finish it up and has to do with AI,
and it started with a story of Sam Altman, the
chief executive open AI. He went to visit a construction
site where open ai is building a new data center
in Texas, sixty billion dollars, its own national gas natural
(07:48):
gas plant. It's going to be one of the most
powerful computing hubs ever created. And at that moment, there
was a computer science professor in Argentina running one of
his country's most advanced AI computing hubs in a converted
classroom in Argentina. And the story is that as there
(08:11):
is a divide between the have and they have not
stations around the world, the biggest divide, and this is
the most important one, is AI and the rush for
AI because that's going to change everything, much like the
computer changed everything. But everybody has a computer, cell phones.
(08:32):
Everybody in the world has a cell phone.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
AI.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
These hubs ooh, that's very, very different. And it's all
about United States and China. To a smaller extent, it's
about Europe. But it's the United States and China and
we have it and the rest of the world doesn't.
For example, the US has I think sixty percent, China
(08:59):
has forty percent of the world's AI centers.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Africa and South America have zero zero percent. And AI
is so critical to the future of a country. The
Internet everybody uses.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Last year, sixty eight percent of the world's population used
the Internet. From twenty twelve that was thirty three percent.
Then here is a startup in Kenya. You know, they're
trying to get this golding. They're trying to build an
AI system known on a large language model based on
(09:40):
African languages, and that's when I made the joke about
the clucking. But has no computing power, rents from data
centers outside of Africa, and employees cram their work into
the morning because most American programmers are sleeping and they.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Get the speeds that they need.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And when you talk about the US being ahead of
the rest of the world, it's not the US globally
or within the confines of the United States. It's Amazon, Microsoft, Google,
Meta Open AI. They're the ones that have this AI
(10:24):
computing power. And they're going to spend more than three
hundred billion dollars this year on infrastructure, which, by the way,
that budget approaches Canada's national budget, and just these companies
putting together these centers, and Microsoft's president said, countries want
(10:45):
more computing infrastructure as a form of sovereignty, not as
a form of competition, as a form of their own sovereignty,
and closing the gap is going to be difficult, if
not impossible, particularly in Africa, and right now, the AI
era runs the risk of leaving Africa even farther behind,
(11:09):
where it's never going to catch up.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Never.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Unlike the Internet, unlike smartphones, unlike computer technology, and on
top of that, the gap has led to brain drains.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Let's go back to Argentina.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Where their AI computing center is in a classroom at
the university in Cordoba.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
You know what happens.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The top students leave for the United States or they
leave from Europe. So it's a double hit, and it's
going to be big, big news. So not only is
AI going to change everything, it's that critical. It's like
the computer era when we first started using computers.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
They changed the world. The Internet changed the world.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
AI is going to change the world unlike anything we know.
And you talk about these other countries being left so
far behind they may never catch up.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
The last half hour of our Wednesday show, and it's
doctor Jim Keeney with Medical News. Jim is chief medical
officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach
and an er doc.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Morning Jim, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
All right, I want to share with you either what
you wrote or what Anne wrote, and that's about ozempic.
And I looked at it and I said, oh, okay,
this is a misspelling because it really should say ozempic pens.
You know, the pens that you use to inject and
(12:48):
a misspelled because it says ozempic penis. There's an iron there,
And I went to and I go, come on, and
let's get a proper spelling.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
She goes, oh, no, no, no, it is the zempic penis.
Can't wait for this one, Jim.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, I saw this article. I knew you would love it.
So you know that a rumor is going around that
zempic causes something called zempic penis, which is an enlargement
of the organ. So you know, it's just creating a
lot of buzz and excitement around the world. But you
know it's the problem is the sad truth is it's
(13:27):
not really true.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh I thought Jews were going crazy to buy this thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
So you know, we've talked about this on the show
before because there are procedures people have, right, there's medications
people take to try and enlarge their penis, and we
talked about how weight loss actually will make it look larger, right,
because it's it gets more exposure. It's not that it's growing,
it's you know, you think about a turtle pulled back
(13:55):
in its shell, right, and as you melt away, that
shell's head looks bigger. So that's kind of what's happening here.
It's it's it's not growth, it's exposure.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
So when it's when it's cold and you have a
fair amount of shrinkage, your schwantz looks bigger. So this
is why a lot of us want to move to Buffalo,
New York.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Who live here in southern California. You sort of like, doctor,
if you mow the grass, the tree looks taller.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, that could be here.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Hey, well let me ask you on that on those lines,
as we're having a reasonably good time with this, which
we always do, and that is, is there anything that
does work? And I'm assuming a penis graft is not
the answer.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
No, I mean there is a ligament that kind of
holds the penis attached to the pelvic area, and I
understand that some people, especially with PCD as one of
the problems, will have that ligament cut allows it to
kind of free float forward a little bit and give
a little more again exposure, not creating necessarily more length.
(15:09):
And that's about it. And weight loss is a good one.
I mean, there are all these you know, supplements and
everything else that promised these things are you know, I've
never seen any papers anyway or any research that shows
that they actually work.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, I share with you.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
And you know that at one point I weighed three
hundred and ten pounds until about twenty years ago when
I had bariatric surgery and I and my stomach shrunk dramatically.
And one of the most dramatic moments of my life
is when I look down, I could actually see the
tippy tippy end and it was magnificent. So weight loss
(15:47):
does do.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Amy, don't laugh. It's absolutely true. By the way, I'm
not laughing, trust me. Do you know what it's like
to pee with a mirror in front of you? I
do not. Okay, well, I just want to point out
you do.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
So do these rumors start, Jim, they just start and
they get legs.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, I mean I think so because if you honestly,
if you if you lose weight, it looks bigger. So
I think people honestly believe that it's happening. But okay,
that's just one of one of the side effects of
weight loss, all.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Right, and that's h And I'm assuming and I'll make
an analogy here that when people die and all of
a sudden you say, oh, the hair is growing, they're
still growing hair.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
It's because of the skin shrinking. I'm assuming that I think.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Hair actually still can grow a little bit, you know,
really stay alive for a day or so, so you
could get you know, a little bit of razor stubble
kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Oh interesting, I didn't know that. Okay, now, I know,
all right, Jim. I know this wasn't a part in
of what we were going to talk about. But this
news broke yesterday, and this is something you do know about,
and we've talked about it. And that is the advisory
committee that determines or advise is the CDC specifically on
(17:03):
what kind of vaccinations or when vaccinations should be given,
or for example, the flu vaccination insurance companies rely on that,
as does basically the rest of the medical world. RFK
fired everybody, all seventeen members and put eight people now
seven because one had to resign, and among them are
(17:24):
vaccine skeptics. What do you think the fallout is going
to be here? And I'm particularly frightened by this. I
don't know what the medical community has.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
To say about it.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
No, I mean, it is a serious thing because this
advisory committee, really the FDA leans on pretty heavily and
all these recommendations are trickled down to every other organization
that looks at the vaccine recommendations. So you're right, I
mean the makeup is non traditional for sure. We've got
(17:58):
vaccine skeptics. We got people who are vocal opponents of
m RNA vaccine technology. You know, we have a nurse
who has run an anti vaccine group that's on it.
There's an er doctor on it. I mean no clear
vaccine credentials, but he's an er doctor, So I like
that one. And there is one pediatric infectious disease expert
(18:23):
who was an ASIP member before, so I mean there
might be a voice of reason on the panel. But yeah,
this is going to affect vaccine recommendations. It's going to
carry weight with state immunization schedules, with provider coverage. It's
going to erode public trust. Further, it's going to erode
(18:43):
physician trust in the recommendations, you know, where physicians are
now not going to know what to do.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, what's the worst case scenario here?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Can the Advisory Panel effectively say we're going to go
back to square one and we want double blind studies
of almost every vaccine that's out there. I remember that
in front of the Senate Committee and Bill Cassidy. It
was a doctor actually gave the final vote, the deciding
vote to put RFK into his cabinet position, and he
(19:16):
questioned it in RFK said, no, we need double blind studies. Effectively,
he said, vaccines are not what they're ramped up to be.
Worst case scenario, does the Advisory Committee say get rid
of all vaccines until you've done double blind studies.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I mean, yeah, that seems extreme. I'd be shocked even
if they did that, But that's a possibility, and even
just that would suggest that we don't know what we're
doing yet, and it may lower vaccination rates, which we
know every time that happens, we have plenty of real
world experience with that. Every time it happens, it results
in another outbreak, and so we get increase in childhood
(19:57):
diseases like measles, Pretussa's, polio, those type of things. I
can come back. We have higher hospitalization mortality rates, We
lose credibility internationally because the shift here disrupts global vaccine confidence,
so it really affects the entire world.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Are you frightened of this personally?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I mean, it is extremely concerning because I've worked doing
it through a couple different outbreaks through a result of
low vaccination rates. So the last measles outbreak was in
nineteen ninety and I was a medical student at UCLA,
and I got to see all that during a low
vaccination period. And again here we are, you know, years later,
doing the same thing, and the only thing in common
(20:43):
is that vaccination rates have dropped. So, you know, I
think this will increase the burden on the healthcare community
and increased cost.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I thought we had virtually eradicated polio, and you've talked
about polio way too many times.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yeah, I mean there are now little outbreaks of polio
in certain parts of the world, but you know, for
the most part is controlled. So again, is it something
that we need to to start looking at again? And
and you know, it's just the fact that we have
to have that conversation is kind of shocking.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
All right, Jim, Thanks much. We'll talk again next Wednesday.
Always always do and as I always uh, you know,
lock out with you go ahead and kill somebody today,
would you please?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
We got to come up with a new lockout.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You think, so you really believe that, all right?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Jim?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Take care.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, I think that's great. Actually, that's we have to
do some kind of sound drop with that. Kno when
we end the segment. Don't know how we're going to
do it. Okay, we're done, guys, Gary and Shannon are
up next Tomorrow morning starts all over again with Amy
and Will and that's Wake Up All from five to
six and then Neil and I jump aboard at six
(22:03):
am to now and Cono and obviously part of the
show and part of the morning crew. This is KFI
AM six point forty. You've been listening to the Bill
Handle Show. Catch My Show Monday through Friday, six am
to nine am, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listenings KF I AM six forty the Bill Handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio f Saturday by handle here.
It is a Wednesday morning, June twenty five before. By
the way, it's not Jim keying until eight thirty, so
I saw a last track of time. So Jim is
going to be eight thirty with medical news and before
(00:23):
I get started into this story, and this one has
to be about the global AI divide. I'll tell you
what I mean by that in a minute. A quick
word about this Saturday Walt Disney Concert Hall Saturday night
at eight pm.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I am going to be m.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Seeing as I always do, the LA Lawyers, Philharmonic and
Legal Voices. These are These are legal people, judges and
lawyers and pair of legals, etc. Who are part of
this orchestra. And it is a world class orchestra and
it's going to be oh fan of the opera pieces
and some classical music, phenomenal stuff. It really is greatly entertaining.
(01:03):
Ticket start at just twenty bucks, So go to LA
lawyersfill dot org. LA Lawyers phil as In Philharmonic, LA
lawyersfill dot org and hope to see you there Saturday
night at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Okay, I want
to share with you a story that we pulled out
of the New York Times, and that has to do
(01:24):
with the global AI divide. It's the haves and the
have not nations, and we've talked about that for years now. Well,
when it comes to AI, that divide is now an
ocean wide. Last month, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI,
(01:47):
went to visit a construction site at the company's new
data center. The project in Texas. It is bigger than
New York Central Park. It is sixty billion dollars. It
has its own natural gas power plant. Because it uses
so much energy, it's going to be one of the
(02:08):
most powerful computing hubs ever created.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, at the.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Same time that he was doing that in Texas, Nicholas Wolovick,
who's a computer science professor at the National University of
Cordoba in Argentina, was running one of his country's most
advanced AI computing hubs and it was in a converted
(02:35):
classroom at the university that was.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Their AI or is there AI.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Center, And doctor Wollovick said, everything is becoming more split.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
We are losing.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
AI has created this massive digital divide, and it is
fracturing the world like in terms of technology like it's
never been before. This basically World War two in the
world of computing science.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
In this case the haves and the haves not.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And it's between nations with computing power and those without.
And as I said, the divide is an ocean wide.
It's influencing geopolitics, global economics, creating new dependencies, promising literally
a desperate rush not to be excluded from this technology race.
(03:31):
And we're talking about completely reordering economies, scientific discovery, the
way we live, the way we work.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
It is that influential, it is astounding.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And as you would guess, the biggest beneficiaries by far
in terms of AI technology the.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
United States by a long shot.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Then comes China, then comes the European Union, using more
than half of the world's most powerful data centers used
for developing the most complex AI systems out there. So
Oxford University researchers did a study and studied thirty two countries.
(04:18):
About sixteen percent of the nation is out there who
have facilities that have microchips and computers, and they have
some quote computer power. The United States and China as
you would guess, have more influence than any other country
in the world. American and Chinese companies operate more than
(04:40):
ninety percent of the data centers around the world, and
America and Chinese companies have ninety percent of the institutions
the companies that use AI for work. And this is
according to this according to Oxford, Now Africa and South
(05:02):
America have almost.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No computing hubs.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
India has all of five, Japan has all of four.
One hundred and fifty countries around the world have zero
zero AI computing power. Man, does that change everything? And
today's AI data centers, I mean the size of these things,
(05:31):
the power of these things. They dwarf anything that's been
going before. They're vast, they're power hungry, and they're packed
with these insanely powerful chips that the hubs cost billions
and billions to build and require infrastructure that countries can't
(05:51):
even provide. So you've got ownership on top of that,
ownership is concentrated among a few tech giants. So you've
got a few tech giants controlling the AI world. In
a country that controls the AI world, and one hundred
and fifty countries have ZIP, they have absolutely no AI infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And to give you an idea.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Then we're gonna take a break and I'm gonna come
back and to give you an idea. The world's most
use AI systems which power open ai chat GP are
in English and in Chinese.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That's it. The rest of them not so much so.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
If you happen to speak Zulu, or you happen to
speak one of the African tribal languages, and when you
want somehow to go on to AI and you're asking
chat GP in those countries and you're asking a question, you.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Know the the language that they speak among certain tribes.
I don't know that that's the fact currently. Yeah, let
me say hello to you.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
All right, Back we go to the story I want
to finish it up and has to do with AI,
and it started with a story of Sam Altman, the
chief executive open AI. He went to visit a construction
site where open ai is building a new data center
in Texas, sixty billion dollars, its own national gas natural
(07:48):
gas plant. It's going to be one of the most
powerful computing hubs ever created. And at that moment, there
was a computer science professor in Argentina running one of
his country's most advanced AI computing hubs in a converted
classroom in Argentina. And the story is that as there
(08:11):
is a divide between the have and they have not
stations around the world, the biggest divide, and this is
the most important one, is AI and the rush for
AI because that's going to change everything, much like the
computer changed everything. But everybody has a computer, cell phones.
(08:32):
Everybody in the world has a cell phone.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
AI.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
These hubs ooh, that's very, very different. And it's all
about United States and China. To a smaller extent, it's
about Europe. But it's the United States and China and
we have it and the rest of the world doesn't.
For example, the US has I think sixty percent, China
(08:59):
has forty percent of the world's AI centers.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Africa and South America have zero zero percent. And AI
is so critical to the future of a country. The
Internet everybody uses.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Last year, sixty eight percent of the world's population used
the Internet. From twenty twelve that was thirty three percent.
Then here is a startup in Kenya. You know, they're
trying to get this golding. They're trying to build an
AI system known on a large language model based on
(09:40):
African languages, and that's when I made the joke about
the clucking. But has no computing power, rents from data
centers outside of Africa, and employees cram their work into
the morning because most American programmers are sleeping and they.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Get the speeds that they need.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And when you talk about the US being ahead of
the rest of the world, it's not the US globally
or within the confines of the United States. It's Amazon, Microsoft, Google,
Meta Open AI. They're the ones that have this AI
(10:24):
computing power. And they're going to spend more than three
hundred billion dollars this year on infrastructure, which, by the way,
that budget approaches Canada's national budget, and just these companies
putting together these centers, and Microsoft's president said, countries want
(10:45):
more computing infrastructure as a form of sovereignty, not as
a form of competition, as a form of their own sovereignty,
and closing the gap is going to be difficult, if
not impossible, particularly in Africa, and right now, the AI
era runs the risk of leaving Africa even farther behind,
(11:09):
where it's never going to catch up.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Never.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Unlike the Internet, unlike smartphones, unlike computer technology, and on
top of that, the gap has led to brain drains.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Let's go back to Argentina.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Where their AI computing center is in a classroom at
the university in Cordoba.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
You know what happens.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The top students leave for the United States or they
leave from Europe. So it's a double hit, and it's
going to be big, big news. So not only is
AI going to change everything, it's that critical. It's like
the computer era when we first started using computers.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
They changed the world. The Internet changed the world.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
AI is going to change the world unlike anything we know.
And you talk about these other countries being left so
far behind they may never catch up.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
The last half hour of our Wednesday show, and it's
doctor Jim Keeney with Medical News. Jim is chief medical
officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach
and an er doc.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Morning Jim, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
All right, I want to share with you either what
you wrote or what Anne wrote, and that's about ozempic.
And I looked at it and I said, oh, okay,
this is a misspelling because it really should say ozempic pens.
You know, the pens that you use to inject and
(12:48):
a misspelled because it says ozempic penis. There's an iron there,
And I went to and I go, come on, and
let's get a proper spelling.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
She goes, oh, no, no, no, it is the zempic penis.
Can't wait for this one, Jim.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, I saw this article. I knew you would love it.
So you know that a rumor is going around that
zempic causes something called zempic penis, which is an enlargement
of the organ. So you know, it's just creating a
lot of buzz and excitement around the world. But you
know it's the problem is the sad truth is it's
(13:27):
not really true.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh I thought Jews were going crazy to buy this thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
So you know, we've talked about this on the show
before because there are procedures people have, right, there's medications
people take to try and enlarge their penis, and we
talked about how weight loss actually will make it look larger, right,
because it's it gets more exposure. It's not that it's growing,
it's you know, you think about a turtle pulled back
(13:55):
in its shell, right, and as you melt away, that
shell's head looks bigger. So that's kind of what's happening here.
It's it's it's not growth, it's exposure.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
So when it's when it's cold and you have a
fair amount of shrinkage, your schwantz looks bigger. So this
is why a lot of us want to move to Buffalo,
New York.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Who live here in southern California. You sort of like, doctor,
if you mow the grass, the tree looks taller.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, that could be here.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Hey, well let me ask you on that on those lines,
as we're having a reasonably good time with this, which
we always do, and that is, is there anything that
does work? And I'm assuming a penis graft is not
the answer.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
No, I mean there is a ligament that kind of
holds the penis attached to the pelvic area, and I
understand that some people, especially with PCD as one of
the problems, will have that ligament cut allows it to
kind of free float forward a little bit and give
a little more again exposure, not creating necessarily more length.
(15:09):
And that's about it. And weight loss is a good one.
I mean, there are all these you know, supplements and
everything else that promised these things are you know, I've
never seen any papers anyway or any research that shows
that they actually work.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, I share with you.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
And you know that at one point I weighed three
hundred and ten pounds until about twenty years ago when
I had bariatric surgery and I and my stomach shrunk dramatically.
And one of the most dramatic moments of my life
is when I look down, I could actually see the
tippy tippy end and it was magnificent. So weight loss
(15:47):
does do.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Amy, don't laugh. It's absolutely true. By the way, I'm
not laughing, trust me. Do you know what it's like
to pee with a mirror in front of you? I
do not. Okay, well, I just want to point out
you do.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
So do these rumors start, Jim, they just start and
they get legs.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, I mean I think so because if you honestly,
if you if you lose weight, it looks bigger. So
I think people honestly believe that it's happening. But okay,
that's just one of one of the side effects of
weight loss, all.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Right, and that's h And I'm assuming and I'll make
an analogy here that when people die and all of
a sudden you say, oh, the hair is growing, they're
still growing hair.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
It's because of the skin shrinking. I'm assuming that I think.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Hair actually still can grow a little bit, you know,
really stay alive for a day or so, so you
could get you know, a little bit of razor stubble
kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Oh interesting, I didn't know that. Okay, now, I know,
all right, Jim. I know this wasn't a part in
of what we were going to talk about. But this
news broke yesterday, and this is something you do know about,
and we've talked about it. And that is the advisory
committee that determines or advise is the CDC specifically on
(17:03):
what kind of vaccinations or when vaccinations should be given,
or for example, the flu vaccination insurance companies rely on that,
as does basically the rest of the medical world. RFK
fired everybody, all seventeen members and put eight people now
seven because one had to resign, and among them are
(17:24):
vaccine skeptics. What do you think the fallout is going
to be here? And I'm particularly frightened by this. I
don't know what the medical community has.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
To say about it.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
No, I mean, it is a serious thing because this
advisory committee, really the FDA leans on pretty heavily and
all these recommendations are trickled down to every other organization
that looks at the vaccine recommendations. So you're right, I
mean the makeup is non traditional for sure. We've got
(17:58):
vaccine skeptics. We got people who are vocal opponents of
m RNA vaccine technology. You know, we have a nurse
who has run an anti vaccine group that's on it.
There's an er doctor on it. I mean no clear
vaccine credentials, but he's an er doctor, So I like
that one. And there is one pediatric infectious disease expert
(18:23):
who was an ASIP member before, so I mean there
might be a voice of reason on the panel. But yeah,
this is going to affect vaccine recommendations. It's going to
carry weight with state immunization schedules, with provider coverage. It's
going to erode public trust. Further, it's going to erode
(18:43):
physician trust in the recommendations, you know, where physicians are
now not going to know what to do.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, what's the worst case scenario here?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Can the Advisory Panel effectively say we're going to go
back to square one and we want double blind studies
of almost every vaccine that's out there. I remember that
in front of the Senate Committee and Bill Cassidy. It
was a doctor actually gave the final vote, the deciding
vote to put RFK into his cabinet position, and he
(19:16):
questioned it in RFK said, no, we need double blind studies. Effectively,
he said, vaccines are not what they're ramped up to be.
Worst case scenario, does the Advisory Committee say get rid
of all vaccines until you've done double blind studies.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I mean, yeah, that seems extreme. I'd be shocked even
if they did that, But that's a possibility, and even
just that would suggest that we don't know what we're
doing yet, and it may lower vaccination rates, which we
know every time that happens, we have plenty of real
world experience with that. Every time it happens, it results
in another outbreak, and so we get increase in childhood
(19:57):
diseases like measles, Pretussa's, polio, those type of things. I
can come back. We have higher hospitalization mortality rates, We
lose credibility internationally because the shift here disrupts global vaccine confidence,
so it really affects the entire world.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Are you frightened of this personally?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I mean, it is extremely concerning because I've worked doing
it through a couple different outbreaks through a result of
low vaccination rates. So the last measles outbreak was in
nineteen ninety and I was a medical student at UCLA,
and I got to see all that during a low
vaccination period. And again here we are, you know, years later,
doing the same thing, and the only thing in common
(20:43):
is that vaccination rates have dropped. So, you know, I
think this will increase the burden on the healthcare community
and increased cost.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I thought we had virtually eradicated polio, and you've talked
about polio way too many times.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yeah, I mean there are now little outbreaks of polio
in certain parts of the world, but you know, for
the most part is controlled. So again, is it something
that we need to to start looking at again? And
and you know, it's just the fact that we have
to have that conversation is kind of shocking.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
All right, Jim, Thanks much. We'll talk again next Wednesday.
Always always do and as I always uh, you know,
lock out with you go ahead and kill somebody today,
would you please?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
We got to come up with a new lockout.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You think, so you really believe that, all right?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Jim?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Take care.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, I think that's great. Actually, that's we have to
do some kind of sound drop with that. Kno when
we end the segment. Don't know how we're going to
do it. Okay, we're done, guys, Gary and Shannon are
up next Tomorrow morning starts all over again with Amy
and Will and that's Wake Up All from five to
six and then Neil and I jump aboard at six
(22:03):
am to now and Cono and obviously part of the
show and part of the morning crew. This is KFI
AM six point forty. You've been listening to the Bill
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