July 2, 2025 • 21 mins
(July 02, 2025)
Elon Musk vows to start a new political party after Trump feud… could it actually happen? 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 the top-5 common medical emergencies on July 4th, children and home medication emergencies, and preventing at-home medication mistakes.
Elon Musk vows to start a new political party after Trump feud… could it actually happen? 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 the top-5 common medical emergencies on July 4th, children and home medication emergencies, and preventing at-home medication mistakes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're List Saints KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio f Bill Handle here
on a Wednesday morning, July two, just a little while ago,
we're talking about maybe an hour ago. The jury came
back in the Sean Combs trial, and for the most part,
(00:21):
they rendered verdicts of not guilty. Three out of the
five charges not guilty, the most serious charges not guilty.
So and that sort of took me for a loop.
I was thinking it was going to go the other way,
But so be it. That's what a jury's about. And
we are waiting for quote, the attorneys to come out
and give some statements in front of the press, in
(00:43):
front of all of us. I don't think the prosecution
is going to come out other than say we disagree
in the jury's the jury and welcome to America kind
of thing. I think the defense is going to come
out and talk about how did he comb Sean Diddy?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Combs was unfair.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Targeted and so it's so we're gonna go to that lie,
right Amy, Yep, that's what you want to do. It
had better be good, by the way, because if we're
interrupting the show for something you have called for and
it is not particularly entertaining you and I are going
to have words.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
About that, okay on the air. All right, I'm gonna
yell at you.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Okay, Okay, fair enough, bring it, hey, bring it on,
you bet.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It's that kind of a day.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Well, today's our last day together for a little while.
You're how long are you going to be gone?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Amy? A little over a week?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Okay, and so tomorrow I'm gone tomorrow on Friday, So
I'll talk about later on. Do I want to do
the LA Zoo's messy five fifty million dollars breakup over
the next three minutes? No, you know, and I'll save
that tomorrow. It's a good story, Neil, if you want
to do it tomorrow. It has to do with what's
going on with the La Zoo and the organization that
(01:57):
sort of funds it, and it's just a great lawsuit
LA and animals and how they're treated and how the
two elephants have been transported out of there, and how
horrible we're treating animals.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You want me to take your sloppy seconds.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, pretty much, gee, only because we're out of here
in three minutes with the segment, Because I spent all
my time talking about Sean Diddy Combs and what happened
with the verdicts or the verdict that the jury came
down with. So I'll leave that to you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So we have three minutes left for the segment and
I've got nothing, Oh my god, nothing worse than worse
than Amy vamping Neil what? Okay? Well, can we talk
about Oh okay, here's something I want to throw at you.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
By the way, a lot of that is just stick.
Actually it isn't.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yes, yeah, I'm completely stalling, except there is some big
news out there in the world, and that is that
the President has said there is going to be a
sixty day ceasefire in the Middle East in the Israeli
Kamas war. We don't know what the terms are yet,
but if it's true, and he has said that Israel
(03:14):
has agreed to it, and now it's in Hamas's court
and we will see what that is. I'm fascinated to
see what the terms are over the next sixty days.
If I had to guess, knowing the history of what's
going on, some of the hostages will be released. There'll
be some prisoners that are in Israeli jails that will
(03:37):
be released, not the way it used to be, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The last time around.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
If you remember the story of Gilatchchhalid, who was that
one Israeli soldier who was kidnapped by Hamas and held
for six years while the negotiations went went down, over
a thousand Palestinian.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Prisoners were released for that one Israeli soldier.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Over one thousand, and among them those convicted of murder, terrorism,
blowing up buses. And Yaya Sinwar, who headed the militant
arm of Hamas, came back to mastermind the attack on
October seventh.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
He came out of that prisoner exchange.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So you're going to see a lot of pressure saying,
oh no, we're not going to do that one again.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
That'll never happen.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So I can't wait for the terms and see what
exactly the Israelis.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And what Ramas is going to get.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
The other bit of history I want to share with
you is Ramas has this very interesting history of changing
the negotiations every two minutes, coming up and saying okay,
I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
To the table.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Oh no, you know, we've changed our mind. We want
to add this, we want to add that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's just that part of the world.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
You know, when I was doing surrogate parenting, I had
some very wealthy clients, very wealthy Arab clients. And when
we shake hands in the Western world, that's our deal.
When they shake hands, that begins the deal. And I
had clients where you know, we got the price and
here's what I cost, here's what I charge, here's what's
(05:19):
going on.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So we have a deal, we shake hands. We're fine. Now, Bill, let's.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Talk about a discount. I said, we just shook hands.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
We have a deal. He goes, of course, we have
a deal. Let's talk about the discount.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Now. That's just the way the thinking is in that
part of the world. So I wouldn't be some rise
if a Hamas comes. Yes, we have a deal. Now
let's start talking about the deal. But wait a second,
you just had a deal. That's correct, we have a deal.
Here are my new terms, and I think you're going
to see a lot of that. Okay, yesterday after the show,
(05:54):
the Senate did in fact pass the big, beautiful, more
gorgeous than were bill that it's a huge bill that
President Trump wanted pass. They put into place and a
dead and it was fifty to fifty fifty senators yay,
(06:15):
fifty no, and JD. Vance, the Vice President constitutionally then
was able to vote, and of course he voted for
the passage of the bill. Now go to the House.
And we've talked about that before. It's it is a mess,
fascinating stuff. Well, Elon Musk fought the bill like crazy,
saying that there weren't enough cuts that is going to
(06:35):
add to the deficit, add to the national debt. And
he and the President really got into it. I mean,
they were the best of friends and then they became
the worst of enemies. Back and forth and Musk and
by the way, it's just being reported that they're making
some kind of reconciliation.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
But here here's what must did is he said he's
going to launch a third party, the America Party, And
it was part of their nasty back and forth, and
he actually raised the idea again. So what he wrote
(07:22):
on Monday, if this insane spending bill passes, the America
Party will be formed the next day.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well it passed.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
We'll see what happens today is our country needs an
alternative to the Democratic, Democrat, Republican uniparty so that people
actually have a voice. So normally, of course you'd say
that's ridiculous. How do you form a new national party? Well,
if anybody can do it, to be in one Musk
not because of his political acumen. It's because he has
(07:50):
more money than anybody else in the world.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
That's why. So how does he do that well?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
With all the money in the world, Let me tell
you how complicated it is to form a party. Political
parties are creatures of every state. Each state has different
legal rules for recognizing which political parties can appear on
the ballot, and according to one experts, those hurdles range
from just high to extraordinarily difficult to almost impossible to overcome.
(08:26):
In some cases, a state party, in order to get
candidates onto the ballot, you have to submit large numbers
of signatures and, with others, a certain percentage of the
vote across election cycles, sometimes both. To gain recognition at
the national level, every state level political party would have
(08:48):
to get an advisory opinion from the federal Election Commission.
Fifty of them you have to get, and by the way,
expect tons of pushback from both the both parties, Republicans
and the Democrats. Trying to make it impossible for a
third party, a realistic third party.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
When you talk about third parties.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Getting national attention, do you know that third party candidates
never appear on all fifty state ballots. The only candidates
that appear on all fifty state ballots are the Republican
candidate the Democratic candidate. Now there are other parties that
are I'm not going to say legitimate, but are recognized
(09:34):
across the country, across most states, the Green Party.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You know what else?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
They call it the Independent Party, which really is it's
a party. So you call yourself independent, you're not.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You're part of this party. And it's just crazy to
do this. The hurdles and getting onto the ballot.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It can be done if you have endless amounts of money,
but it's a multi year project and it will cost
hundreds of millions of dollars. The hundreds of millions of
dollars aren't a problem. He's got that. As a matter
of fact, what Must did in this last election cycle
he spent two hundred and seventy seven million dollars to
(10:19):
get Trump elected by doing that get out the vote
business in the swing states and giving away Remember he
gave away a million dollars to people who switched or
registered to vote, and there was a whole legal issue
about that, and that was allowed by the courts. So
(10:40):
Musk has said, I'm getting out of the doge business
because of his fight with Trump and also his political
His political involvement.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
With Trump really hurt him in terms of Tesla.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
The value of Tesla stock dropped dramatically, the sales of
Tesla gone down dramatically, and it's it's a genuine fight
between the two of them.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
So we'll see what happens. Can he do it? He can.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Is it going to be anywhere near affecting the next
election cycle?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It will not. This is years in the making.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
If he's going to do it, and frankly, I think
he's going to lose all interest by the midterm all
this disappears.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Can't wait, Okay, since it is this time around on Wednesday,
Doctor Jim Keeney, Chief Medical Officers for Dignity Jeep Medical
Officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, Jim,
good morning, Okay, lot going on today, but let's talk
about July fourth. What's going to happen on Friday, and
(11:44):
the top five common medical emergencies because you've seen them
all and let's put to bed the immediate, the one
that's my favorite, and the ever entertaining kids getting their
hands blown off because the parents are lad and then
play with fireworks.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, that's always fun.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
The fourth of July is kind of the er super Bowl,
right where this is our big big day for the year,
where everybody's going to do all the crazy stuff and
they're going to do it with alcohol, and they're going
to be driving in cars, and they're going to be
in water that where they are not safe. So I
mean all of these things. Basically we have fireworks related injuries.
(12:26):
That's number one. Right, We're working with flames, we're working
with kids, we're working with explosives. So you know, somebody
doesn't know it yet, but today is there. You know,
this is their last week with ten fingers, and we're
hoping we can avoid that by putting the word out,
you know, And.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I'm sorry, go ahead, I'm just I'm surprised that parents
let their kids, either allowing them to or being so
negligent that the kid gets to access to fireworks. I mean,
how many times have you looked at parents and have said,
you know what, your kid's never going to hitchhike again.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Do you understand that? Yeah, you know it's and honestly,
more so kids. It's usually sparklers, right because people think
the sparklers are safe and the newer ones aren't as
hot as those old wire ones. But those wire ones
we get up to like three thousand degrees and cause
third degree burns in the hand that require surgical you know,
(13:22):
replacement of the skin. So you know it's those are
more common than younger kids. Honestly, it's the young males
who are drinking a lot of alcohol typically are the
ones that blow their hands off. And the most common
one is one person holds the explosive while the other
person holds the lighter and somehow the guy, you know,
(13:44):
the person just goes all the way to the end
of the fuse immediately and the thing just blows up
in their hands. So that's probably my most common hand
blown off version. But you know, again, fire make sure
you know, we get to play with fireworks here and
so California in some areas where the brush fires aren't dangerous,
but it's a lot more fun. I think just to
(14:05):
go to I mean maybe not as a kid. It
was a lot more fun to have real fireworks right
in front of you.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And yea, yeah, I don't know if you ever did
the safe insane firework business, because when I was a kid,
La County couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Ventura County you could. So you drove over the.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Line, and literally at the line of Ventura, La County,
there were all the fireworks stands across the street. There
were like thirty of them lined up right over the border.
And you'd come home and I always thought those fires.
I always thought that fireworks was really crappy. Yeah, I
mean it was just come on, guys.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah. And then you'd have to modify all the fireworks, right,
so you take the piccolo piets and you pinch the
bottom so that it explodes at the end. You know,
all those types of things. So it's u It was fun,
but very dangerous for sure.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, and then you have to I think you'll see
we're doing this.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So I'm going to let you go because I just
have another horrible story to share with you.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You were going to.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Say, I was just going to move on to, you know,
the other thermal injury that we get are grilling accidents
and burns. Everybody's grilling, so they're they're blowing you know,
lighter fluid onto an already lit fire and sometimes it
flares up right on them and don't you don't realize
it is literally a split second, right, those flames just
lick your hands and that's it. You have a you
(15:25):
have a second or third degree burn on your hands.
Isn't that because because of the level of heat, so
you know, be really careful around grills and open fires
and all that. Alcohol just amplifies all of this on
the fourth of July. It amplifies the car accidents, the
fireworks accidents, the grilling accidents, just falling over, you know
and breaking things, breaking bones. So and then of course
(15:48):
the water safety and drowning and using proper you know,
flotation devices if you're out in a lake or in
the ocean and a boat, those type of things.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Now, the other thing, talking about all the accidents in
the emergency room visits you see on July fourth, Hey,
before I get into the next topic, is July fourth
the day that you see the most accidents of any
day of the year.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I mean, yeah, definitely, when especially if you look at
the most preventable accidents. It sure seems like that to me.
I mean, I've never looked at a study. It's you know,
we also say that full moons are busier. The studies
show that it's not. I really think they are, but yeah,
it's a busy day.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Now, home medication emergencies and you know, you read about them,
kids are taking medication wrongly, and I remember my we
had done. I'm trying to get the story that we
in the house we used to live in years ago,
when my kids were very small. You at the backstairs,
and then you'd go through our utility room thing where
(16:54):
the washer and dryer was.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And into the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And then one day someone had left little cup of
laundry detergent that almost looked it was a tangerine color,
and she gulped it before anybody saw. My daughter, Barbara,
laundry detergent and a nice little cupful of it. And
I don't remember what we did. Maybe we give her
a bunch of water and just bubbles kept on coming
(17:18):
out of her throat. I don't even know. But in
terms of the number of accidents where home medication emergencies happen,
let's talk about that.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
For a moment.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Sure. I mean every eight minutes a child somewhere in
the US is experiencing medication, air, or exposure. So I
mean number one is, like you said, when you have
medications in their original bottles, so they have safety mechanisms
on them, they're easier to identify so you don't accidentally
do things like drink them or mistake them for skittles.
(17:51):
So that's one thing you can do for sure. The
other one is keeping medications, of course, and things like
detergent out of reach of children so they can't get
it if they are exposed to something.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Though.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
It really the easiest thing, and this could save you
a trip to the emergency room because not every medication
exposure requires an emergency room visit. You can call poison Control.
It's a free number. They're very responsive. These are super
trained people in just poisonings, and they have all the
(18:24):
latest data at their fingertips. They have a full database
of every exposure they have recorded from phone calls and
from outcomes and also all the research. So even better,
like when you come to the er, I call poison
Control to get advice from them. So then yeah, because
they really are the experts. So and the one centers
(18:44):
run out of USC and so when I'm calling, I'm
talking to a physician there who's giving me all this
the latest, greatest data. The number is easy. It's eight
hundred two two two one two two two, so really
really easy to remember. They used to give out stickers
to put on phones. Might be something you want to
put stick on your refrigerator, put next to the phone
just in case you ever need it.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
The number eight.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Hundred eight hundred two to two one two two.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Two, okay for poison control.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Real quick question. If I have a child and has
ingested some kind of poison, well, I think is poison,
I rush to your er. Uh does the waiting time
go from five hours to three hours because my kid's
been poisoned?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It depends, right, It depends on the poison Because even
in the triage area, if there's any delay getting to
a doctor, the first step our nurse does is call
poison control, which is why I say you should always
call them first. The poison control will advise the nurse
on how quickly you need to get them in front
of a doctor. And uh, and so that's really what
makes the difference. And so again calling in advance. You'll
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you'll walk in and say, I call poison control. This
is what they told me to do, and I'm here
to see a doctor, got it, you know? And that's
really you know. The other thing is is expired or
unlabeled medications. You should get rid of those and that
helps keep kids getting from getting into medications.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
All right, Jim, as always, thank you. We'll talk again
next Wednesday. I'll probably call you before then. Right, all right,
take care of doctor Jim Keeney, who is chief medical
officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
In Long Beach. I love to push that, and he's
also in ar doc. That's it. We're done. Guys. Coming
up is Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
In the meantime, I'm out tomorrow and Friday, July fourth weekend.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Amy also is out starting tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Shall be gone a week and the brooker will be
here and will your work?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Are you working tomorrow? Will's working tomorrow? Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
He's pretty low on the food chain, so that's not
a surprise. And then Cono, who is basically always here
because he is the lowest on the food chain, and
I think is off too. Next couple of days so
I think so, no, is ann working. I don't think
hands working.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I think she is. Is she?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I think she is?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Oh? All right, So and I announce you weren't going
to be her and got you all excited for no
reason whatsoever. All right, I will catch you guys to
well Monday. I'm back and Amy is back. What a
week from Monday?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Are you taking the entire week off? Where are you
off to? By the way, are you taking a trip.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Well, it's my mom's birthday, so I'm heading up to Oregon,
so and I'm going to see some friends. And oh,
you have friends.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I know it's hard for you to believe. I know,
I don't understand that at all. All right, Gary, is
Shannon up? Next? Catch on Monday? This is kfi A.
Oh and Neil's filling in for me.
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on a Wednesday morning, July two, just a little while ago,
we're talking about maybe an hour ago. The jury came
back in the Sean Combs trial, and for the most part,
(00:21):
they rendered verdicts of not guilty. Three out of the
five charges not guilty, the most serious charges not guilty.
So and that sort of took me for a loop.
I was thinking it was going to go the other way,
But so be it. That's what a jury's about. And
we are waiting for quote, the attorneys to come out
and give some statements in front of the press, in
(00:43):
front of all of us. I don't think the prosecution
is going to come out other than say we disagree
in the jury's the jury and welcome to America kind
of thing. I think the defense is going to come
out and talk about how did he comb Sean Diddy?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Combs was unfair.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Targeted and so it's so we're gonna go to that lie,
right Amy, Yep, that's what you want to do. It
had better be good, by the way, because if we're
interrupting the show for something you have called for and
it is not particularly entertaining you and I are going
to have words.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
About that, okay on the air. All right, I'm gonna
yell at you.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Okay, Okay, fair enough, bring it, hey, bring it on,
you bet.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It's that kind of a day.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Well, today's our last day together for a little while.
You're how long are you going to be gone?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Amy? A little over a week?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Okay, and so tomorrow I'm gone tomorrow on Friday, So
I'll talk about later on. Do I want to do
the LA Zoo's messy five fifty million dollars breakup over
the next three minutes? No, you know, and I'll save
that tomorrow. It's a good story, Neil, if you want
to do it tomorrow. It has to do with what's
going on with the La Zoo and the organization that
(01:57):
sort of funds it, and it's just a great lawsuit
LA and animals and how they're treated and how the
two elephants have been transported out of there, and how
horrible we're treating animals.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You want me to take your sloppy seconds.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, pretty much, gee, only because we're out of here
in three minutes with the segment, Because I spent all
my time talking about Sean Diddy Combs and what happened
with the verdicts or the verdict that the jury came
down with. So I'll leave that to you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So we have three minutes left for the segment and
I've got nothing, Oh my god, nothing worse than worse
than Amy vamping Neil what? Okay? Well, can we talk
about Oh okay, here's something I want to throw at you.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
By the way, a lot of that is just stick.
Actually it isn't.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yes, yeah, I'm completely stalling, except there is some big
news out there in the world, and that is that
the President has said there is going to be a
sixty day ceasefire in the Middle East in the Israeli
Kamas war. We don't know what the terms are yet,
but if it's true, and he has said that Israel
(03:14):
has agreed to it, and now it's in Hamas's court
and we will see what that is. I'm fascinated to
see what the terms are over the next sixty days.
If I had to guess, knowing the history of what's
going on, some of the hostages will be released. There'll
be some prisoners that are in Israeli jails that will
(03:37):
be released, not the way it used to be, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The last time around.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
If you remember the story of Gilatchchhalid, who was that
one Israeli soldier who was kidnapped by Hamas and held
for six years while the negotiations went went down, over
a thousand Palestinian.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Prisoners were released for that one Israeli soldier.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Over one thousand, and among them those convicted of murder, terrorism,
blowing up buses. And Yaya Sinwar, who headed the militant
arm of Hamas, came back to mastermind the attack on
October seventh.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
He came out of that prisoner exchange.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So you're going to see a lot of pressure saying,
oh no, we're not going to do that one again.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
That'll never happen.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So I can't wait for the terms and see what
exactly the Israelis.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And what Ramas is going to get.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
The other bit of history I want to share with
you is Ramas has this very interesting history of changing
the negotiations every two minutes, coming up and saying okay,
I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
To the table.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Oh no, you know, we've changed our mind. We want
to add this, we want to add that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's just that part of the world.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
You know, when I was doing surrogate parenting, I had
some very wealthy clients, very wealthy Arab clients. And when
we shake hands in the Western world, that's our deal.
When they shake hands, that begins the deal. And I
had clients where you know, we got the price and
here's what I cost, here's what I charge, here's what's
(05:19):
going on.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So we have a deal, we shake hands. We're fine. Now, Bill, let's.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Talk about a discount. I said, we just shook hands.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
We have a deal. He goes, of course, we have
a deal. Let's talk about the discount.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Now. That's just the way the thinking is in that
part of the world. So I wouldn't be some rise
if a Hamas comes. Yes, we have a deal. Now
let's start talking about the deal. But wait a second,
you just had a deal. That's correct, we have a deal.
Here are my new terms, and I think you're going
to see a lot of that. Okay, yesterday after the show,
(05:54):
the Senate did in fact pass the big, beautiful, more
gorgeous than were bill that it's a huge bill that
President Trump wanted pass. They put into place and a
dead and it was fifty to fifty fifty senators yay,
(06:15):
fifty no, and JD. Vance, the Vice President constitutionally then
was able to vote, and of course he voted for
the passage of the bill. Now go to the House.
And we've talked about that before. It's it is a mess,
fascinating stuff. Well, Elon Musk fought the bill like crazy,
saying that there weren't enough cuts that is going to
(06:35):
add to the deficit, add to the national debt. And
he and the President really got into it. I mean,
they were the best of friends and then they became
the worst of enemies. Back and forth and Musk and
by the way, it's just being reported that they're making
some kind of reconciliation.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
But here here's what must did is he said he's
going to launch a third party, the America Party, And
it was part of their nasty back and forth, and
he actually raised the idea again. So what he wrote
(07:22):
on Monday, if this insane spending bill passes, the America
Party will be formed the next day.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well it passed.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
We'll see what happens today is our country needs an
alternative to the Democratic, Democrat, Republican uniparty so that people
actually have a voice. So normally, of course you'd say
that's ridiculous. How do you form a new national party? Well,
if anybody can do it, to be in one Musk
not because of his political acumen. It's because he has
(07:50):
more money than anybody else in the world.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
That's why. So how does he do that well?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
With all the money in the world, Let me tell
you how complicated it is to form a party. Political
parties are creatures of every state. Each state has different
legal rules for recognizing which political parties can appear on
the ballot, and according to one experts, those hurdles range
from just high to extraordinarily difficult to almost impossible to overcome.
(08:26):
In some cases, a state party, in order to get
candidates onto the ballot, you have to submit large numbers
of signatures and, with others, a certain percentage of the
vote across election cycles, sometimes both. To gain recognition at
the national level, every state level political party would have
(08:48):
to get an advisory opinion from the federal Election Commission.
Fifty of them you have to get, and by the way,
expect tons of pushback from both the both parties, Republicans
and the Democrats. Trying to make it impossible for a
third party, a realistic third party.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
When you talk about third parties.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Getting national attention, do you know that third party candidates
never appear on all fifty state ballots. The only candidates
that appear on all fifty state ballots are the Republican
candidate the Democratic candidate. Now there are other parties that
are I'm not going to say legitimate, but are recognized
(09:34):
across the country, across most states, the Green Party.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You know what else?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
They call it the Independent Party, which really is it's
a party. So you call yourself independent, you're not.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You're part of this party. And it's just crazy to
do this. The hurdles and getting onto the ballot.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It can be done if you have endless amounts of money,
but it's a multi year project and it will cost
hundreds of millions of dollars. The hundreds of millions of
dollars aren't a problem. He's got that. As a matter
of fact, what Must did in this last election cycle
he spent two hundred and seventy seven million dollars to
(10:19):
get Trump elected by doing that get out the vote
business in the swing states and giving away Remember he
gave away a million dollars to people who switched or
registered to vote, and there was a whole legal issue
about that, and that was allowed by the courts. So
(10:40):
Musk has said, I'm getting out of the doge business
because of his fight with Trump and also his political
His political involvement.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
With Trump really hurt him in terms of Tesla.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
The value of Tesla stock dropped dramatically, the sales of
Tesla gone down dramatically, and it's it's a genuine fight
between the two of them.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
So we'll see what happens. Can he do it? He can.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Is it going to be anywhere near affecting the next
election cycle?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It will not. This is years in the making.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
If he's going to do it, and frankly, I think
he's going to lose all interest by the midterm all
this disappears.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Can't wait, Okay, since it is this time around on Wednesday,
Doctor Jim Keeney, Chief Medical Officers for Dignity Jeep Medical
Officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, Jim,
good morning, Okay, lot going on today, but let's talk
about July fourth. What's going to happen on Friday, and
(11:44):
the top five common medical emergencies because you've seen them
all and let's put to bed the immediate, the one
that's my favorite, and the ever entertaining kids getting their
hands blown off because the parents are lad and then
play with fireworks.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, that's always fun.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
The fourth of July is kind of the er super Bowl,
right where this is our big big day for the year,
where everybody's going to do all the crazy stuff and
they're going to do it with alcohol, and they're going
to be driving in cars, and they're going to be
in water that where they are not safe. So I
mean all of these things. Basically we have fireworks related injuries.
(12:26):
That's number one. Right, We're working with flames, we're working
with kids, we're working with explosives. So you know, somebody
doesn't know it yet, but today is there. You know,
this is their last week with ten fingers, and we're
hoping we can avoid that by putting the word out,
you know, And.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I'm sorry, go ahead, I'm just I'm surprised that parents
let their kids, either allowing them to or being so
negligent that the kid gets to access to fireworks. I mean,
how many times have you looked at parents and have said,
you know what, your kid's never going to hitchhike again.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Do you understand that? Yeah, you know it's and honestly,
more so kids. It's usually sparklers, right because people think
the sparklers are safe and the newer ones aren't as
hot as those old wire ones. But those wire ones
we get up to like three thousand degrees and cause
third degree burns in the hand that require surgical you know,
(13:22):
replacement of the skin. So you know it's those are
more common than younger kids. Honestly, it's the young males
who are drinking a lot of alcohol typically are the
ones that blow their hands off. And the most common
one is one person holds the explosive while the other
person holds the lighter and somehow the guy, you know,
(13:44):
the person just goes all the way to the end
of the fuse immediately and the thing just blows up
in their hands. So that's probably my most common hand
blown off version. But you know, again, fire make sure
you know, we get to play with fireworks here and
so California in some areas where the brush fires aren't dangerous,
but it's a lot more fun. I think just to
(14:05):
go to I mean maybe not as a kid. It
was a lot more fun to have real fireworks right
in front of you.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And yea, yeah, I don't know if you ever did
the safe insane firework business, because when I was a kid,
La County couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Ventura County you could. So you drove over the.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Line, and literally at the line of Ventura, La County,
there were all the fireworks stands across the street. There
were like thirty of them lined up right over the border.
And you'd come home and I always thought those fires.
I always thought that fireworks was really crappy. Yeah, I
mean it was just come on, guys.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah. And then you'd have to modify all the fireworks, right,
so you take the piccolo piets and you pinch the
bottom so that it explodes at the end. You know,
all those types of things. So it's u It was fun,
but very dangerous for sure.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, and then you have to I think you'll see
we're doing this.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So I'm going to let you go because I just
have another horrible story to share with you.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You were going to.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Say, I was just going to move on to, you know,
the other thermal injury that we get are grilling accidents
and burns. Everybody's grilling, so they're they're blowing you know,
lighter fluid onto an already lit fire and sometimes it
flares up right on them and don't you don't realize
it is literally a split second, right, those flames just
lick your hands and that's it. You have a you
(15:25):
have a second or third degree burn on your hands.
Isn't that because because of the level of heat, so
you know, be really careful around grills and open fires
and all that. Alcohol just amplifies all of this on
the fourth of July. It amplifies the car accidents, the
fireworks accidents, the grilling accidents, just falling over, you know
and breaking things, breaking bones. So and then of course
(15:48):
the water safety and drowning and using proper you know,
flotation devices if you're out in a lake or in
the ocean and a boat, those type of things.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Now, the other thing, talking about all the accidents in
the emergency room visits you see on July fourth, Hey,
before I get into the next topic, is July fourth
the day that you see the most accidents of any
day of the year.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I mean, yeah, definitely, when especially if you look at
the most preventable accidents. It sure seems like that to me.
I mean, I've never looked at a study. It's you know,
we also say that full moons are busier. The studies
show that it's not. I really think they are, but yeah,
it's a busy day.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Now, home medication emergencies and you know, you read about them,
kids are taking medication wrongly, and I remember my we
had done. I'm trying to get the story that we
in the house we used to live in years ago,
when my kids were very small. You at the backstairs,
and then you'd go through our utility room thing where
(16:54):
the washer and dryer was.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And into the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And then one day someone had left little cup of
laundry detergent that almost looked it was a tangerine color,
and she gulped it before anybody saw. My daughter, Barbara,
laundry detergent and a nice little cupful of it. And
I don't remember what we did. Maybe we give her
a bunch of water and just bubbles kept on coming
(17:18):
out of her throat. I don't even know. But in
terms of the number of accidents where home medication emergencies happen,
let's talk about that.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
For a moment.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Sure. I mean every eight minutes a child somewhere in
the US is experiencing medication, air, or exposure. So I
mean number one is, like you said, when you have
medications in their original bottles, so they have safety mechanisms
on them, they're easier to identify so you don't accidentally
do things like drink them or mistake them for skittles.
(17:51):
So that's one thing you can do for sure. The
other one is keeping medications, of course, and things like
detergent out of reach of children so they can't get
it if they are exposed to something.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Though.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
It really the easiest thing, and this could save you
a trip to the emergency room because not every medication
exposure requires an emergency room visit. You can call poison Control.
It's a free number. They're very responsive. These are super
trained people in just poisonings, and they have all the
(18:24):
latest data at their fingertips. They have a full database
of every exposure they have recorded from phone calls and
from outcomes and also all the research. So even better,
like when you come to the er, I call poison
Control to get advice from them. So then yeah, because
they really are the experts. So and the one centers
(18:44):
run out of USC and so when I'm calling, I'm
talking to a physician there who's giving me all this
the latest, greatest data. The number is easy. It's eight
hundred two two two one two two two, so really
really easy to remember. They used to give out stickers
to put on phones. Might be something you want to
put stick on your refrigerator, put next to the phone
just in case you ever need it.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
The number eight.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Hundred eight hundred two to two one two two.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Two, okay for poison control.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Real quick question. If I have a child and has
ingested some kind of poison, well, I think is poison,
I rush to your er. Uh does the waiting time
go from five hours to three hours because my kid's
been poisoned?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It depends, right, It depends on the poison Because even
in the triage area, if there's any delay getting to
a doctor, the first step our nurse does is call
poison control, which is why I say you should always
call them first. The poison control will advise the nurse
on how quickly you need to get them in front
of a doctor. And uh, and so that's really what
makes the difference. And so again calling in advance. You'll
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you'll walk in and say, I call poison control. This
is what they told me to do, and I'm here
to see a doctor, got it, you know? And that's
really you know. The other thing is is expired or
unlabeled medications. You should get rid of those and that
helps keep kids getting from getting into medications.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
All right, Jim, as always, thank you. We'll talk again
next Wednesday. I'll probably call you before then. Right, all right,
take care of doctor Jim Keeney, who is chief medical
officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
In Long Beach. I love to push that, and he's
also in ar doc. That's it. We're done. Guys. Coming
up is Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
In the meantime, I'm out tomorrow and Friday, July fourth weekend.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Amy also is out starting tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Shall be gone a week and the brooker will be
here and will your work?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Are you working tomorrow? Will's working tomorrow? Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
He's pretty low on the food chain, so that's not
a surprise. And then Cono, who is basically always here
because he is the lowest on the food chain, and
I think is off too. Next couple of days so
I think so, no, is ann working. I don't think
hands working.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I think she is. Is she?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I think she is?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Oh? All right, So and I announce you weren't going
to be her and got you all excited for no
reason whatsoever. All right, I will catch you guys to
well Monday. I'm back and Amy is back. What a
week from Monday?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Are you taking the entire week off? Where are you
off to? By the way, are you taking a trip.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Well, it's my mom's birthday, so I'm heading up to Oregon,
so and I'm going to see some friends. And oh,
you have friends.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I know it's hard for you to believe. I know,
I don't understand that at all. All right, Gary, is
Shannon up? Next? Catch on Monday? This is kfi A.
Oh and Neil's filling in for me.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
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