There's talk of a possible debt-default - how might it affect you? Handel lists five ways it could. Then, a look at the next front in the GOP's War on Women: No-Fault Divorce. And Dr. Dung Trinh is the Chief Medical Officer at The Healthy Brain Clinic. He joins The Bill Handel Show to talk about Dementia, and how diagnoses have doubled in the last decade in Orange County. Additionally, Michael J. Fox talks about Parkinsons and mortality - Dr. Trinh contributes to Fox's message.
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You're list Saints KFI AM six fortyThe bill handles show on demand on the
iHeartRadio app KFI AM six forty handlehere it is live every We are live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app Wednesday morning, May third. And the big stories
that we are covering, I guessfairly good news. Francisco oto'pressa, the
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man who is accused of killing thosefive people, including that nine year old
in Texas, was found seventeen milesaway at his sister's house in under a
pile of laundry. And oh,we've got so much more. Here's a
horrible what a security guard or ateenager kills eight children and a security guard
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in a Serbia school. I meanthat is you talk about a mass shooting.
So it's not just here in theUnited States. Now coming up,
I think it is May eleventh.We've got the default coming and no June
first is going to be the default. I'm getting all of these dates.
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We had a lot of dates comingup anyway, So what happens June first?
We might not be able to payour bills starting on June first,
the official time that our debt ceilingor our inability to pay is May eleventh,
but it's going to continue on fora few weeks. What does that
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mean? We're going to go intodebt. We're not gonna be able to
borrow more money. The United StatesCongress has to pass the bill saying we
owe x number of dollars. Thereforewe don't have the money, and we
have to allow ourselves to borrow moremoney. And the only way that's done
is that this debt ceiling of ourshas to be increased. And we talk
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about our debt ceiling. I rememberwhen President Trump accused President Obama of bringing
the debt national debt to twenty billiondollars. He goes, how is that
possible? And I said, howis that possible? It's it's uncertain,
it's unsustainable. It's impossible for usto be that much in debt and still
survive as a country. Well,the debt is thirty one billion dollars now,
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and a huge amount is some ofit happened during the Trump administration.
Enormous amount of it happened during theBiden administration the first couple of years because
of COVID. And I thought,at thirty one billion dollars, I mean
it has to end sometime. It'snot going to end before my lifetime is
over. We're gonna owe one hundredbillion, quadzillion dollars and it doesn't matter.
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So I don't know in all ofthis ends. And why is the
dollars so strong? And why isour economy doing so well relative to other
countries Because they're worse off than weare. Their debt ceiling is worse.
They owe more money relative to theireconomy than we owe. Therefore we're the
safest out there. I mean,it is crazy making. And so what
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happens every year we have a debtceiling increase, and every year Congress has
to vote the United States stability tojust keep on borrowing more money. Now,
paying off the money is bills thatare already incurred. We're not talking
about anticipating an economy anticipating the billsthat have been incurred by the United States
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government. We are talking about billsthat need to be paid right now,
not in the future. It's notlike we're going to buy a box of
pencils. Is that we have boughta box of pencils and we owe the
money. And for the first timeever, Congress, and we're talking about
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Kevin McCarthy has said, we willnot allow this country to borrow any more
money unless we get a deal cuttingexpenses. The connection between those two has
never been made. And I thinkKevin McCarthy is perfectly comfortable playing chicken with
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Biden, and frankly, if Ihad to guess, he is prepared for
the United States to go into defaultand is Joe Biden prepared? Frankly,
I think McCarthy is more prepared.He's willing to take the hit. I
don't think Biden is. However,Biden is saying we've never number one gone
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into default when we've never had asituation where the lowering of expenditure was tied
to the debt ceiling. Just letus borrow the money to pay the bills
and then we'll talk. And KevinMcCarthy is saying absolutely not. Either we
get this deal to reduce expenditures orthis country is going into default. And
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let me tell you what default's goingto do. This is pretty serious stuff,
I mean, big time stuff.We're always in deficit every year and
it's a trillion dollars a year deficit. Now it's crazy making. I mean
I thought it was unsustainable, butit looks like it's going to go on
forever and we're going to be inso much We owe so much money,
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and the only way can borrow moneyit's the federal government and it allows itself
to borrow money. And this mayend. So as I told you,
Kevin McCarthy, who is the Speakerand controls the House, well, the
House has to vote to increase theability to borrow money, and the President
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then signs off on it. Andevery single year it's always happened, and
it's always clean. The House votes, President signs, Well, this year,
Kevin McCarthy is saying, oh,no, you're not going to get
We're not going to increase our abilityto borrow the money, not unless you
President, You Congress, you spendless money, We want less expenditure.
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And they're playing chicken. So thatmeans on May eleventh, officially, we
run out of money, can't borrowany more money. Now, this isn't
the national This isn't our deficit everyyear where we just keep on borrowing.
This is the ability to borrow anymore money. This is a much bigger
deal. So what happens, Well, it doesn't mean that all payments are
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going to stop and people aren't goingto be permanently lost or lose out on
the money they're owed. Treasury wouldstill be able to pay some money.
And of course this is not goingto go on forever because effectively, if
they keep on saying no, no, no, no, no, back
and forth, the country is effectivelybankrupt. We're done, So we're not
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going to go financially bankrupt. It'sgoing to see who blinks. But let
me tell you what's going to happen. Janet Yellen is worrying the Treasury Secretary.
Other major economic economic think tanks,professors, experts are saying tens of
millions of people across the country whoexpect payments from the FEDS will at least
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not get them on time. Sixtysix million retirees on Social Security delayed until
this thing is resolved. It's unbelievable. Even a short delay in the payment
of Social Security benefits. What aburden it is for millions and millions of
Americans who rely on Social Security.Social Security earned benefits they paid into the
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system their entire lives. About halfof Americans rely on Social Security. That
is that's a big, big deal. Other governmental programs are going to be
affected. Food stamps, not goingto get food stamp, cataforic because can't
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borrow money to pay for them.Federal grants the states and cities, Medicaid,
highways, education, other programs,Medicare payments to hospitals, doctors,
health insurance plans, which means Medicaredoes not reimburse So the hospitals don't have
money because they get so much oftheir money from the Feds in terms of
grants, in terms of just reimbursement. So guess what. Doctors don't get
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paid and hospital supplies can't be bought, so everybody goes into far more credit
and it it just changes everything.Federal employees don't get paid, Veterans benefits
don't get paid, Disability payments,pensions for veterans stops. But let me
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tell you what the big story ishere, and I'm talking about the macro
story. This was micro in thesense of this is going to affect your
Social Security payments will at least bedelayed. This will affect your veterans payments,
This will affect I believe the healthcareyou're going to receive anybody who's over
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sixty five or is it titled tomedicare if they're certain illnesses, certain if
you've been injured in certain ways.But let me tell you about the big,
big picture. The financial markets,our investments, all of our investments
would take a direct hit, directhit. The markets had their worst week
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ever since the financial crisis, sincethe twenty eleven debt ceiling standoff. And
this was after the Standard and poursdowngrade Standard and Poors and Moodies. These
are people that rate, that givecredit ratings. So you get an A
rating, or a business IBM orGeneral Motors gets a rating when it borrows
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money is either triple A, doublea B, which is horrible. Governments
get ratings. Did you know thatwe're going down? If this thing happens,
our rating drops, which means yourcredit, our credit is worse.
What happens when our credit is worseand you borrow money, It costs more
money to borrow the money. Theinterest rate is simply higher. You buy
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a car and you owe twenty thousanddollars and the interest rate is five point
nine versus four point zero. Howmuch more are you going to pay when
it's five point nine? A hellof a lot more. And that's the
same thing that will happen, thecredit rating of the entire country goes down,
Yields on US treasuries will rise tocompensate for the increased risk, and
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the bond holders won't receive the moneyor as much money. I mean,
it just goes on and on.So we've got on top of that,
there's inflation. Now, how aboutthe economy. We're not just talking about
the cost of credit, etc.Let's talk about the entire economy. That
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debt default, the inability to borrowmoney to pay our debts, that will
trigger an entire economic downturn. Putall of that together, and our economy
hits a I won't say a screechinghaul, but man, what a hit
it takes. And how much damagereal simple depends on how long the crisis
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continues. If the default lasts abouta week, the Treasury Secretary and other
financial experts say about a million jobsare going to be lost, most of
it in the financial sector. That'sgoing to be hit the hardest because stock
market is going to just tank.Unemployment will go to five percent now I
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think it's about three and a halfpercent. The economy is going to contract
by about half a percent. Halfa percent is a big big hit.
Let's say this goes on for sixweeks, more than seven million jobs are
going to be lost, the employmentunemployment rate goes to eight percent, the
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economy itself declines by more than fourpercent. That was a Moody's Moody's figure
this one out. This is theirfinancial thinking and the fact the effects would
still be felt a decade from now. Argentina did this. I think in
the eighties. It took them afull ten years to recover, ten full
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years after they defaulted. That's howbig a deal this is. And for
the first time in history, CongressKevin McCarthy, the speaker who controls Congress,
is saying, we're going into defaultif you, Joe Biden, don't
cut a deal about reducing expenditure.Never happened before. Wow, I mean,
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you know, this is polarity ona level that's just extraordinary. It's
polarity on the level that is Imean, just galacked. It's so big
on handle on the law. Everyweek I get a question about divorce,
someone calls up and goes Bill.It's usually a guy who calls up and
says no. Sometimes the woman Icaught my spouse having sex with my best
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friend having sex with my neighbor,and I want a divorce and I want
to bring that into court. AndI say, let me tell you something.
If you brought into court videos ofyou having sex with a goat,
it doesn't matter. We are ano fault state, which means that anybody
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at any time can get divorced.There's no fault here. All fifty states
have some kind of no fault Weare the first ones out, by the
way, in nineteen sixty nine,California came out with the first state to
come up with no fault divorce.That is, the grounds are irreconcilable differences.
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Is not cheating. You're pointing toyourself. Yeahs was nothing more than
that's because that's just because that's thelaw. I want to get a divorced.
I don't want to be married,Thank you very much. The law
lets you do that. You know, the goat sex doesn't matter. Well,
okay, uh, the sex withthe neighbor doesn't matter. It's like
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the joke guy comes in and hisbest friend is having sex with his wife
and he goes murray, I hadto do this, but you okay,
wow, I know very strong,isn't it. Yeah, yeah, I
know it's horrible. So anyway,they are now a group of people and
guess where they are, legislators,guess where they are Texas, No guessing
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where they are that wants to undono fault divorce Now they want divorce that
is at fault. In other words, one of the parties has to be
at fault, which means what it'sno longer reconcilable differences. You know,
what it is now is having sexwith someone other than your spouse. It
is abuse, either mental or physicalabuse like it used to be before no
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vault, no fault divorce. Heused to god, it even used to
be the point where both parties wanteddivorce. Ready for this, they manufactured
the husband going into a motel roomwith a friend, staying half an hour,
walking out and taking pictures, andthe wife goes in and says,
see adultery, which is one ofthe grounds for divorce. I mean,
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that's when both parties agree to havea divorce. So you got Republicans all
over the country reconsidering no fault divorce. And basically, like the fights against
abortion and contraception, what it's reallyabout is control. There's nothing more than
that. Last year, the RepublicanParty of Texas added language to its platform
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calling for an end to no faultdivorce. Quote. We urge the legislature
to resent and uniateral no fault divorcelaws to support the Covenant of marriage.
Okay, now, when you hearthe phrase the covenant of marriage, your
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hackles have to rise immediately. Whatthe hell does that mean. I'll tell
you what it means. Marriage issacrosanct Catholic Church. You can't get a
divorce. You're married, You're done. If you're a Mormon, right,
you get married. The next dayyour wife gets hit by a truck,
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and so you get married to someoneelse, and that marriage lasts for fifty
five years. You die. Bythe way, the second marriage doesn't count.
It's that first one where you're marriedfor a day. That's the way
it works in the Mormon religion.I mean, there's still religious parts of
it, but civilly civilly covenant marriageand past legislation extending period of time in
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which a divorce may occur. Inother words, you can't get divorced if
there is divorce for an extended periodof time. The Texas GOP the Republicans
are in favor of this. Keepin mind the Republicans have a grip on
both chambers of the state legislature,every single elected office. Similar proposal is
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going down in the Republican Party ofLouisiana, Nebraska. Even the Republican National
Convention in twenty sixteen, the delegatestalked about overhauling a their platform with this
declaration, and that is children aremade to be loved by both natural parents
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united in marriage. So I guessif you're not united in marriage, you
don't love your kids. Okay,that's fine, And a lal structures such
as no fault divorce I'm quoting now, which divides families and empowers the state,
should be replaced by fault based divorce. In other words, you stay
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married under the law. I willtell you out of experience that it takes
you four minutes to get freaking married, but it takes you four years right
now to get a divorce. Now, it really doesn't file. It will
take you basically a year. You'vegot six months for your interlocutory decree after
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filing, and then another six monthsbefore it is finalized. Okay, So
we officially filed on I think itwent to our attorney in September, it
didn't get filed until Halloween, whichI think is funny. That's just late
attorney being and then well, andthen we're still like it took forever to
get served. And I know thatI'm not the only one out there that
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this is happening too, because I'vegot friends going through divorces who are like,
what the hell is going on?System and we're the best. But
there's a lot of legal aspects ofit. Because you have this, you're
right the filing the service, askingfor the intellocutory decree in front of the
judge. You have to wait sixmonths asking for the final decree. And
if there is a dispute and you'regoing to trial over custody or over assets
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or support, that's going to takeyou a while. And let's not forget
the videos of the goat O goodpoint. I want to go to a
topic of social interest that I havea sort of a personal experience with this.
So a few women are going tobe surprised on this one, those
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of you that work, and mostwomen do work, even when wives earn
about the same as their husbands oreven more. There is a study that
just came out from the Pew ResearchCenter that says that those women remember make
as much as their husbands or morestill spend more time on housework and childcare,
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and husbands spend more time on paidwork and leisure. They just the
husbands have a good time with theirhobbies drinking beer and belching and having a
rip roaring good time in front ofthat football game than the wives who work
and make as much money. Okay, which is, by the way,
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it is as it should be.But that's just a personal view of this.
The PUG studies said twenty nine percentof heterosexual marriages today they didn't look
at gay marriages only a heterosexual marriages, twenty nine percent a third basically of
men and women in those marriages earnabout the same amount of money. We're
talking sixty thousand dollars each, soit's one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a
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year household. And husbands in egalitarianmarriages equal sort of equals even theirs,
you know, equal with that phrase. Yeah, wives in those egalitarian marriages
spend still three and a half hoursmore per week, where husbands spend three
and a half more hours per weekand leisure activity than the wives do.
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Wives in those marriages to spend roughlytwo hours more per week on caregiving than
the husbands do two and a halfhours more per week on housework. In
fifty five percent of straight marriages,opposite sex marriages where men are the primary
or soul breadwinners, actually those earna medium of ninety six thousand dollars to
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their wives thirty thousand dollars. Okay, so when the men are the big
breadwinners, I mean, obviously thatmakes sense, but that is the difference
ninety six thousand to the wives thirtythousand. And that has to do with
the gender gap, the gap,and it actually hasn't narrowed much in twenty
years. As much as we talkabout women's rights, as much as we
talk about the movement, remember thepay gap between men and women in this
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huge movement to equal it all out, it really isn't happening very much.
And in when the wives out earnedtheir husbands, I said about sixteen percent
of marriages or they're the sole breadwinner. That's only six percent of marriages.
Women earned eighty eight thousand dollars totheir husbands let's say thirty five thousand dollars,
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and almost none of those caregivers.Men spend more time caregiving than their
wives, even when the woman isthe sole breadwinner. I mean, it's
really kind of unfair. Now,how do I feel about this? Well,
first of all, in my marriage, I've been the sole breadwinner.
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Just so happens. That's the wayit works, because thank goodness, between
my law practice saying here, I'vealways earned enough money. So Marjorie didn't
have to work. Did she spendmore time with the children than I do?
Of course? If she were thesole breadwinner, would she spend more
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time with the children. Of course? Would I spend any time with the
children? Historically? Basically no.Now personal, a personal experience. My
mother and father who came to theUnited States from Brazil, and Brazil was
a very paternalistic country. Women forthe most part, didn't work. Very
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few women worked. The men didthe work, and women, of course
were the caregivers. My mother wasone of the few that worked. She
was a dentist and my dad wasan electrical engineer. So they both worked
and in an almost non existence mode, I mean, in a world that
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didn't exist down there. My motherand father both did all the housework.
They split the housework So when wecame here to this country, I saw
my mom dad the equal amount ofhousework. They both cooked equally. One
made dinner one night, the otherone made dinner the other night. My
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dad actually was a better cook thanmy mother. Now the good news that
was all equal, and they bothhated me equally. That now we're talking
about egalitarian relationship there. And here'sone that makes all the sense in the
world. Nearly half of Americans saidthe husbands prefer to earn more than their
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wives. Now, come on,of course, I'm surprised it's only half
of Americans. I always dreamed ofearning a terrific living and my wife earning
exactly five dollars less than I didper year. That is my dream relationship.
Why because men are men, andyou can't have women outdo men,
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And what do you do? AndI've known some people where the husbands were
the caregivers simply because of the skillset and simply because the wife had the
ability had a better job to earnmore money and care caretaking, taking care
of kids in general is so expensive, so expensive that someone had to be
home with the kids. That happensa lot. And of course these men
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had a much harder time because whysociety looks down on that. What you're
not working and your wife is working. What's wrong with you and men being
the caregivers? Also, I loveit. Some guys that I've known actually
reveled in it. Go to mommyand me classes, They go to all
of where the women go to bythemselves, little clubs, et cetera.
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It's like when my partner, Karen, one of my best friends, got
married, I was I was hermatron of honor for real, and uh,
you know, with all of thesepeople, I was going to wear
a dress by the way, withall the other girls, the women,
but I didn't because I don't wantto. You know, nobody needs to
see those legs. Uh, nobodynot gonna worn a long dress, cocktail
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dress. But I seriously, wewas gonna wear that. And then I
said, nah, you know what, I don't want to take all the
attention away from Karen. Now.I want to talk two subjects. I
want to talk about both having todeal with your brains on our as our
guests who's been here before with us, Doctor Dung Trenn, Chief medical Officer
the Healthy Brain Clinic, Good morning, Doctor Trinn thank you for joining us.
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Okay, morning Bill. Yeah,oh, it's always good because you're
a brainy kind of guy. Iguess I don't know who wrote that,
but that's kind of stupid. Sothere's two subjects I want to talk about
in two different segments, one rightthere in your neck of the woods,
the Healthy Brain Clinic, Orange County, and the other one just in general.
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So let's start with Parkinson's and MichaelJ. Fox. Michael J.
Fox has a new documentary coming outMay twelfth, actually just another week week
and have to promote his new documentary. Still, and Michael J. Fox,
just as an aside, I thinkis an extraordinary person. I mean,
the guy has just balls for doingwhat he is doing. He's a
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very public figure. He has latestage dementia. He is you can see
the jerking and the moving around,and he has brought to the forefront the
issue of Parkinson's. So and there'sno cure, I understand. So Doctor
Tren tell us about Parkinson's, howprevalent, what we can do about it,
what anybody can do about it?Yeah, Parkinson's is just right behind
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Alzheimer's as the number two neural degenerativedisease. Of the brain with that so
off, Alzheimer's is number one,Parkinson's right behind there, and as with
most neural degenerative disease, and whatthat means really is that brain cells are
dying, right, and it dependson which group of brain cells that gets
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damaged and associate which which you know, neural transmitters and things of that sort,
determines whether you have conditions such asParkinson's versus Alzheimer's versus a different condition
of the brain. Alzheimer's, ofcourse, we have the Alzheimer's plaque.
We call it the amyloid plaque,and the TAE tangles with parkinson specifically,
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it's the lack of dopamine. Haveyou ever heard of dopamine? It's a
it's a common north transfer that's neededfor the brain. And it's a lack
of nopemine starting at an air ofthe brain called the substantial nigra. And
that lack of nopemine leads to problems. That starts with tremors and UH and
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so initially your hands are trembling andthen you start to feel stiff and stiffness
over time. It's a progressive diseasewithout a cure very similar to Alzheimer's with
these these brain conditions. Yeah,here's the question, it is without a
cure. I'm assuming that medical sciencehas to know how it starts, why
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it starts, Is it genetic?Is it inherited? The other thing?
But with so many people having it, and it's enormous numbers of people,
are why hasn't real progress been madeor has real progress been made? So
so there's three treatment options when itcomes to Parkinson's. The first medications and
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the most popular medications called Leva dopa, and it helps with tremors, but
it treats the symptoms. It doesn'ttreat the underlying cause of parking sense,
which we're all still trying to figureout. So medication is one option.
The second option is what we callthe a deep brain stimulation device, where
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we implant a device in your brainactually that delivers electrical stimulations to your brain
to specific errors to your brain.That helps again with controlling your tremors or
the rigidity that you feel. Andthen the third option is therapy. It's
physical therapy, occupational therapy, speechtherapy to help you with your balance,
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to help you not fall down,and flexibility and things of that sort.
But I can tell you a littlebit about the research that's being done right
now because that's really where the gistof this needs to be done. We
need to deep diver, do adeeper dive into research. There are genetic
links that we're studying. Researchers areinvestigating the role of genetics in the sense
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that they're looking to see which genesmay activate or promote Parkinson's, and then
there are genes that perhaps may protectyou against Parkinson's. So looking at the
gene pathway is where research is beingdone. Looking at what we call bio
markers. Bio markers are measurable substancesin a body that will indicate perhaps early
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detection for Parkinson's, where we canimprove our diagnosis, and where we can
track the disease progression. So that'sanother area of research. But more importantly,
how do you protect your brain right? How do you protect your brain
from losing dopamine or losing brain cells? How do you protect your brain from
inflammation, which is part of bothAlzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. That needs to
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be looked at in ways that wecould protect our brains, not just not
with just a pill, but reallywith lifestyle and nutrition and diet as well,
well, that's certainly not me.So there you go, all right,
I have real really quickly because wehave less than a minute here before
we're going on our next segment.Has any real progress been made with Parkinson's
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disease? Yeah, some progress hasbeen made. I wouldn't say that we
have found that magic pill. Weimprove it. Some plugress has been made,
but not significant, not progress,not enough progress that we would like
to see the story I wanted tocover with you. This just came out
in the Orange County Register and theorganization Alzheimer's Orange County, which I guess
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is the big one over there,has reported that since twenty fourteen, the
number of suffers from ali Alzheimer's hasdoubled from eighty four one hundred and sixty
four thousand people. That's five percentof the total population. I mean,
that seems completely insane. And wetalked about Parkinson's in the previous segment.
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Not too many people are afraid ofgetting Parkinson's. That's sort of somewhere else.
All of us I know, arefrightened of dementia, and it is
it seems to be the big Kahunaand where are we going with that?
It is a breathtaking number. Specifically, I think over one hundred and sixty
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seventy thousand folks are are predicted tohave some form of memory loss in Orange
County. And I'll tell you howwe got to this number. This number
is extrapolated from data that we havethat was published from Columbia University last year.
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And Columbia University did a study wherethey looked and termine that in the
United States, if you're above theage of sixty five, right, For
everyone above the age of sixty fivein the US, one out of ten
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if you took ten, If youtook ten folks above the age of sixty
five, one out of ten havethe diagnosis of dementia, and two out
of ten have the diagnosis of whatwe call MCI. MCI stands for a
mile cognitive impairment. It's the predementia stage, kind of like the stage
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right before you get that diagnosis ofAlzheimer's. Right. So if you add
that up, Bill, that's threeout of ten Americans that have some form
of memory problems, whether it's MCIor dementia. That's three out of ten
above the age of sixty five.Yeah, that has that and yeah,
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so we took that data and weextrapolated to Orange County. Knowing the Orange
County census, right, we're knowinghow many folks over the age of sixty
five in Orange County. We cameup with that member at Alzheimer's Orange County
that is doubled. Yeah, Imean that that's completely insane numbers because everybody
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I know, as a matter offact, I know members of my family
friends. I have never known anybodyclose to me that has or has died
of Parkinson's. There are plenty ofpeople that I know. Both my mother
and father as they were ending theirlives were in some form of dementia and
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was zoning out, not there,only remembering way back in their long term
memory. My father, just beforehe died, he grew up in Yugoslavia,
then Yugoslavia. All he spoke withSerbo Croatian as he died, that's
it. He wouldn't remember anything else. And my mother was talking about growing
up in Brazil and was speaking Portugueseand her memories of that, I mean
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clearly demented state. I would guess, yes, And you know what the
call to actionists with this information,the call to action is that we should
be out there evaluating and checking ourmemories early, rather than waiting until our
memory's gone to do something about it. So back to the same question,
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and that is do we know whereit comes from? Dementia? Do we
know how it's caused? Do weknow is is there any real good work
or at least successful work being done. Is it genetic? Is it inherited?
Absolutely? All the above? Allthe above. So at our office
at the Healthy Brain Clinic, right, I'm actually in Long Beach by the
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way, so count of the borderI'll will see. But I'm on the
board for Alzheimer's Orange County. Weare teaching patients what they need to do
with their brains without taking a pill, without taking a pill to reduce the
risk of Alzheimer's, in addition tothe clinical trials that we do trying to
advance right medications to treat dementia,specifically Alzheimer's. But there are twelve actionable
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things you can do. In theJournal of Lancet in twenty twenty, in
the midst of the pandemic, whenwe're all thinking about COVID, the Lancet
Commission came out and said, thereare twelve modifiable activities, twelve modifiable conditions
that you can do to reduce thetotal risk of Alzheimer's by forty percent.
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Forty percent of all Alzheimer's is contributedby these twelve actionable things one other things.
What are they? Of course,we're all waiting with bated breath.
Here, I'll tell you what Iremember. I'll tell you what I remember.
That is a bad line. Ohyeah, yeah, So here you
go. Number one physical exercise right, physical exercise at least half an hour
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a day of doing something right toactivate your body to keep moving. Data
has shown that exercise consistently will helpwith brain health to reduce the risk of
Alzheimer's. Number two brain exercise right, doing things to activate your brains,
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whether it's playing chess, playing checkers, suduco, whatever it is, right,
keeping our brains active. Studies haveshown that those with a higher level
of education bill have a lower riskof Alzheimer's than those with a lower level
of education. And it's not becausethey're smarter, it's because they spent more
years exercising their brain. Number threenutrition really huge. Do a Google search
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on the mind diet m IMD doa Google search on the mind diet.
That diet has been published in severaldifferent journals, several different studies showing consistently
reduces the risk of Alzheimer's. Inone study, it reduced the risk of
Alzheimer's by fifty four percent, cuttingin and half. I mean imagine that
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there isn't a pillof there that cando that. Bill, That's another thing
you can do. Number four arevery important. Hearing loss. Hearing loss.
It's a simple fix. It's calleda hearing aid. So those with
hearing loss have a higher risk ofAlzheimer's than those who can hear well.
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That's surprising. Yeah, the firstgroup I go makes sense, but that
one's surprising. We only have acouple of minutes. Can we go through
them a little bit quicker because Iwant to go through all twelve? Absolutely
so. Hearing losses on their Obesityis a risk factor. Those who are
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overweight have a higher risk of Alzheimer'sthan those who are at the normal rate
is a huge risk factor. Headtrauma traumatic brain injury, believe it or
not, is a risk factor,right, You're inflammation that occurs from that
another risk factor. Is tobacco,smoking, which is basically talks into your
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brain. Another risk factor. Bestif alcohol huge issue with that a risk
factor. I don't know if thisone's on the list or not, but
sleeping, getting enough sleep is reallyimportant for brain health. The lack of
sleep, the lack of sleep whengood sleep leads to Alzheimer's, it is
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a risk factor for it. Andthat's something we all sacrifice in our life
right by doing everything else that Socializationvery important. Those who socialize, who
are out engage, spending time withothers, have a lower risk of Alzheimer's
than those who are home alone allday. So it has something to do
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with engaging your brain cells right,doing things that are active to socialize.
Another risk factor is Another risk factoris basically making sure that your blood pressure
is under control. High blood pressureis a risk factor for Alzheimer's because it
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messes up your circulation. Diabetes isa risk factor for Alzheimer's. If you
have diabetes, your risk of Alzheimer'sis double those without diabetes. Pretty crazy
when you think about that, andmost of us don't realize it. Because
two Americans are either diabetic or prediabetic, right, and so those are
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the big highlights. Okay, weare out of time, unfortunately, as
we went through it, and it'spretty important stuff, some surprising, some
stuff surprising, some stuff not sosurprising. The fact that I'm overweight,
never exercise, hate people with apassion. I'm in trouble. I understand
that. Doctor Dung Trent, chiefmedical officer of the Healthy Brain Clinic,
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Doctor Trent, thank you so much, great information. All right, bye
bye. Now all right, interestingstuff. Some of it I diabetes,
hearing loss. The rest of itmade a lot of sense. Now I
have a great First Amendment story toshare with you. I mean, this
does not get better. And thishas to do with a school district and
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a high school. And there isa club that is called the Satanic Club,
sponsored by the Satanic Temple. Andit had its permit, or it
had its ability to meet on schoolgrounds yanked by the school district. So
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who jumps in the a CLU.The ACELU of Pennsylvania, a law firm,
of course, it's all pro bono, sued the district on behalf of
the Satanic Temple, and the judge, federal judge wrote here, although the
Satanic Temples objectors may challenge the sanctityof this controversial named organization. The sanctity
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of the First Amendment must prevail.However, the judge did acknowledge that the
superintendent had an unviable position when hewas faced with a shooting threat in response
to what happened with the club.So the district has to allow the after
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school Satan club to meet on thethree days. Actually, this is a
middle school at Salcone Valley Middle School, and the ACLU jumps right in.
I mean, the ACLU is avery interesting corporate is a very interesting organization,
and people have said of the aCLU in many many cases, I
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find the ACLU insane. But thestatement that was once said about the ACLU
which resonated when I went, ohyeah, ninety five percent of the time,
the ACLU is this ridiculous left wing, insane organization. Five percent of
the time it is priceless to America. Yep, that makes sense. Do
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you remember the Nazi march in Skokie, Illinois. Skokie, Illinois was a
town is a town in Illinois thatis made up a huge number of Holocaust
survivors, and one of the Naziorganizations had asked for a permit to march
down the street, and of coursethe city father said, you're dreaming.
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The ACLU went in ensued and oneon first Amendment, the ACLU. The
number of Jews who created and arepart of the ACLU is astronomical. And
the a cl you fought for theability, the ability of Nazis to march
down the streets in a neighborhood,even in the neighborhood, not just the
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city that was primarily occupied by Holocaustsurvivors. So the so when it comes
to Satanism, oh, you're fiftya cl you was going to jump in
there. It is pretty impressive asto what happened. I'm looking at the
club. I think we should putthis up. This is the Satanic Club's
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logo, and it's this a devilsort of a character, and it's actually
very funny. It's pretty benign,and it says the Satanic Temple. On
the top it's a seal, it'saround seal, and on the bottom it
says the after school Satan Club.It is very funny and would you make
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sure this goes up on the websitebecause this is hilarious. So that segues
right into the next story, andI'm sure you've heard of comic Con,
which is well, now it's becomethis enormous convention show where new movies are
released, where people walk around incostume, they do role playing, cause
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play, and it's been fortunes oncostumes. Things sells out. Well,
I'll tell you what else sold outthis year, and that's satan Con twenty
twenty three sold out. Thousands ofpeople showed up. It's in Boston and
it started with the two leaders openingit up with a formal ceremony renouncing symbols
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of oppression and ripping up a Bibleand also a thin blue line flag that
represents a police so they're not particularlypro police. And the female leader,
we don't have her name, openedit up with we stand here today and
define, define of their siege,and destroy their symbols of oppression. Okay,
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anti cop, you can see that, anti Bible. That is more
interesting and it gets a lot ofpeople a little bit more exercise if you
think about that. So then themale leader joins it and tears up the
flag into the thin blue line,tosses it on the floor while the crowd
cheers, and he says, wemust build true community outside of the virtual
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rebellion comes in many forms to eachand their own, within their own capabilities,
in their own situation, and go, wait a minute, this is
sounding way too political. Now,where the hell is Satan? How come
Satan isn't here? I mean,this is about the Devil. The devil
made me, do it? Rememberthat? So why is number one?
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It's sold out so much, soquickly, and so many people attended,
And I would be disappointed if I'mgoing to Satan con. I want the
Devil. I want Satan. Imean, I want the real deal.
I want the emiss and I'm notgetting it. And so it was officially
called the Satan Khan and the peopleattending were called Hail Satan Fans. Three
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day event has been described as thelargest Satanic gathering in history. I don't
know, you know, during theInquisition there were some, and Salem there
were some, but no, notreally, this is far, far bigger
the Boston Mayor. This was dedicatedto the Democratic Boston Mayor, Michelle Wou
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after the group was not allowed todelivery Satanic invocation at a city council meeting
in twenty twenty one. They said, hey, you have Catholic, you
have Muslim you have Jews, youall allowed to do this, but we're
not. So it turns out thatit really is just very left wing.
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It's not really satanic, it's notreally the fun stuff that we thought it
would be. So it turns outto be a totally leftist political organization.
I guess they did this for thepublicity. However, there were some really
interesting lectures, one of them Sinsof the Flesh, Satanism and Self Pleasure.
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Okay, I'll buy that, taughtby a sexuality studies professor at Minnesota
State University. Another one reclaiming thetrans Body a theistic Strategy for self determination
Empowerment, that was by a transgenderwoman University of South Carolina, and one
of my favorites included Hell Billies.Not Hellbillies, but Hell Billies Visible Satanism
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in Rural America. Wow, I'mbig fan of that one. You know
what, I would go to thatin a heartbeat. That But if I
if I, if I thought itwas real satan, if I thought this
was the devil, I would besorely disappointed. But going to a lecture
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on Sins of the Flesh, Satanismand self pleasure, how do you miss
that? One research for the show. It is research for the show,
Shannon, Yes, does that soundlike one of the most exciting venues you've
ever heard of? Yesterday I googledpopular adult video titles for research for the
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show. Research. The titles thatI came across were Missionary, Impossible and
Indiana What was it? Indiana?Something in the Temple of Boobs, which
I thought was clever. Those Ilove show research. It's just get away
with anything. And the best partis, like I asked it, guys,
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because they know everything we're looking at, right, And I say,
so, how bad am I?Because I google the worst stuff, I
really bottom of the basement stuff,and they say, you aren't even in
the top ten in the building.Lettle on the floor. Yeah that is
because you're all depraved. Yeah,there was one that I actually saw.
It was a parody of a psyche. No, No, I don't want
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to hear anything you've seen in thatconversation. Ever, I'm gonna tell you,
no, you're not. It wasI'm pulling, I'm the cord,
I'm lead rin goobye all right,flesh Gordon, Okay, come on back,
I'm done. I'm done. Sheleft, She was are you ready
for this. No, oh no, no, I want to put this
on the record. Shannon Farren,offended by me. All right, this
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is for the record. Calendar today. Please welcome to my world. Shannon.
Okay, we are we are donenow coming up it will be Shannon
Gary and Shannon uh for the nextfour hours. I'll catch you everybody tomorrow.
Handle in the morning. Crew KFIused to be ashamed of yourself,
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Shannon KF. I am six fortylive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You've
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everywhere on the iHeartRadio app Wednesday morning, May third. And the big stories
that we are covering, I guessfairly good news. Francisco oto'pressa, the
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man who is accused of killing thosefive people, including that nine year old
in Texas, was found seventeen milesaway at his sister's house in under a
pile of laundry. And oh,we've got so much more. Here's a
horrible what a security guard or ateenager kills eight children and a security guard
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in a Serbia school. I meanthat is you talk about a mass shooting.
So it's not just here in theUnited States. Now coming up,
I think it is May eleventh.We've got the default coming and no June
first is going to be the default. I'm getting all of these dates.
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We had a lot of dates comingup anyway, So what happens June first?
We might not be able to payour bills starting on June first,
the official time that our debt ceilingor our inability to pay is May eleventh,
but it's going to continue on fora few weeks. What does that
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mean? We're going to go intodebt. We're not gonna be able to
borrow more money. The United StatesCongress has to pass the bill saying we
owe x number of dollars. Thereforewe don't have the money, and we
have to allow ourselves to borrow moremoney. And the only way that's done
is that this debt ceiling of ourshas to be increased. And we talk
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about our debt ceiling. I rememberwhen President Trump accused President Obama of bringing
the debt national debt to twenty billiondollars. He goes, how is that
possible? And I said, howis that possible? It's it's uncertain,
it's unsustainable. It's impossible for usto be that much in debt and still
survive as a country. Well,the debt is thirty one billion dollars now,
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and a huge amount is some ofit happened during the Trump administration.
Enormous amount of it happened during theBiden administration the first couple of years because
of COVID. And I thought,at thirty one billion dollars, I mean
it has to end sometime. It'snot going to end before my lifetime is
over. We're gonna owe one hundredbillion, quadzillion dollars and it doesn't matter.
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So I don't know in all ofthis ends. And why is the
dollars so strong? And why isour economy doing so well relative to other
countries Because they're worse off than weare. Their debt ceiling is worse.
They owe more money relative to theireconomy than we owe. Therefore we're the
safest out there. I mean,it is crazy making. And so what
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happens every year we have a debtceiling increase, and every year Congress has
to vote the United States stability tojust keep on borrowing more money. Now,
paying off the money is bills thatare already incurred. We're not talking
about anticipating an economy anticipating the billsthat have been incurred by the United States
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government. We are talking about billsthat need to be paid right now,
not in the future. It's notlike we're going to buy a box of
pencils. Is that we have boughta box of pencils and we owe the
money. And for the first timeever, Congress, and we're talking about
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Kevin McCarthy has said, we willnot allow this country to borrow any more
money unless we get a deal cuttingexpenses. The connection between those two has
never been made. And I thinkKevin McCarthy is perfectly comfortable playing chicken with
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Biden, and frankly, if Ihad to guess, he is prepared for
the United States to go into defaultand is Joe Biden prepared? Frankly,
I think McCarthy is more prepared.He's willing to take the hit. I
don't think Biden is. However,Biden is saying we've never number one gone
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into default when we've never had asituation where the lowering of expenditure was tied
to the debt ceiling. Just letus borrow the money to pay the bills
and then we'll talk. And KevinMcCarthy is saying absolutely not. Either we
get this deal to reduce expenditures orthis country is going into default. And
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let me tell you what default's goingto do. This is pretty serious stuff,
I mean, big time stuff.We're always in deficit every year and
it's a trillion dollars a year deficit. Now it's crazy making. I mean
I thought it was unsustainable, butit looks like it's going to go on
forever and we're going to be inso much We owe so much money,
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and the only way can borrow moneyit's the federal government and it allows itself
to borrow money. And this mayend. So as I told you,
Kevin McCarthy, who is the Speakerand controls the House, well, the
House has to vote to increase theability to borrow money, and the President
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then signs off on it. Andevery single year it's always happened, and
it's always clean. The House votes, President signs, Well, this year,
Kevin McCarthy is saying, oh,no, you're not going to get
We're not going to increase our abilityto borrow the money, not unless you
President, You Congress, you spendless money, We want less expenditure.
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And they're playing chicken. So thatmeans on May eleventh, officially, we
run out of money, can't borrowany more money. Now, this isn't
the national This isn't our deficit everyyear where we just keep on borrowing.
This is the ability to borrow anymore money. This is a much bigger
deal. So what happens, Well, it doesn't mean that all payments are
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going to stop and people aren't goingto be permanently lost or lose out on
the money they're owed. Treasury wouldstill be able to pay some money.
And of course this is not goingto go on forever because effectively, if
they keep on saying no, no, no, no, no, back
and forth, the country is effectivelybankrupt. We're done, So we're not
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going to go financially bankrupt. It'sgoing to see who blinks. But let
me tell you what's going to happen. Janet Yellen is worrying the Treasury Secretary.
Other major economic economic think tanks,professors, experts are saying tens of
millions of people across the country whoexpect payments from the FEDS will at least
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not get them on time. Sixtysix million retirees on Social Security delayed until
this thing is resolved. It's unbelievable. Even a short delay in the payment
of Social Security benefits. What aburden it is for millions and millions of
Americans who rely on Social Security.Social Security earned benefits they paid into the
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system their entire lives. About halfof Americans rely on Social Security. That
is that's a big, big deal. Other governmental programs are going to be
affected. Food stamps, not goingto get food stamp, cataforic because can't
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borrow money to pay for them.Federal grants the states and cities, Medicaid,
highways, education, other programs,Medicare payments to hospitals, doctors,
health insurance plans, which means Medicaredoes not reimburse So the hospitals don't have
money because they get so much oftheir money from the Feds in terms of
grants, in terms of just reimbursement. So guess what. Doctors don't get
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paid and hospital supplies can't be bought, so everybody goes into far more credit
and it it just changes everything.Federal employees don't get paid, Veterans benefits
don't get paid, Disability payments,pensions for veterans stops. But let me
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tell you what the big story ishere, and I'm talking about the macro
story. This was micro in thesense of this is going to affect your
Social Security payments will at least bedelayed. This will affect your veterans payments,
This will affect I believe the healthcareyou're going to receive anybody who's over
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sixty five or is it titled tomedicare if they're certain illnesses, certain if
you've been injured in certain ways.But let me tell you about the big,
big picture. The financial markets,our investments, all of our investments
would take a direct hit, directhit. The markets had their worst week
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ever since the financial crisis, sincethe twenty eleven debt ceiling standoff. And
this was after the Standard and poursdowngrade Standard and Poors and Moodies. These
are people that rate, that givecredit ratings. So you get an A
rating, or a business IBM orGeneral Motors gets a rating when it borrows
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money is either triple A, doublea B, which is horrible. Governments
get ratings. Did you know thatwe're going down? If this thing happens,
our rating drops, which means yourcredit, our credit is worse.
What happens when our credit is worseand you borrow money, It costs more
money to borrow the money. Theinterest rate is simply higher. You buy
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a car and you owe twenty thousanddollars and the interest rate is five point
nine versus four point zero. Howmuch more are you going to pay when
it's five point nine? A hellof a lot more. And that's the
same thing that will happen, thecredit rating of the entire country goes down,
Yields on US treasuries will rise tocompensate for the increased risk, and
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the bond holders won't receive the moneyor as much money. I mean,
it just goes on and on.So we've got on top of that,
there's inflation. Now, how aboutthe economy. We're not just talking about
the cost of credit, etc.Let's talk about the entire economy. That
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debt default, the inability to borrowmoney to pay our debts, that will
trigger an entire economic downturn. Putall of that together, and our economy
hits a I won't say a screechinghaul, but man, what a hit
it takes. And how much damagereal simple depends on how long the crisis
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continues. If the default lasts abouta week, the Treasury Secretary and other
financial experts say about a million jobsare going to be lost, most of
it in the financial sector. That'sgoing to be hit the hardest because stock
market is going to just tank.Unemployment will go to five percent now I
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think it's about three and a halfpercent. The economy is going to contract
by about half a percent. Halfa percent is a big big hit.
Let's say this goes on for sixweeks, more than seven million jobs are
going to be lost, the employmentunemployment rate goes to eight percent, the
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economy itself declines by more than fourpercent. That was a Moody's Moody's figure
this one out. This is theirfinancial thinking and the fact the effects would
still be felt a decade from now. Argentina did this. I think in
the eighties. It took them afull ten years to recover, ten full
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years after they defaulted. That's howbig a deal this is. And for
the first time in history, CongressKevin McCarthy, the speaker who controls Congress,
is saying, we're going into defaultif you, Joe Biden, don't
cut a deal about reducing expenditure.Never happened before. Wow, I mean,
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you know, this is polarity ona level that's just extraordinary. It's
polarity on the level that is Imean, just galacked. It's so big
on handle on the law. Everyweek I get a question about divorce,
someone calls up and goes Bill.It's usually a guy who calls up and
says no. Sometimes the woman Icaught my spouse having sex with my best
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friend having sex with my neighbor,and I want a divorce and I want
to bring that into court. AndI say, let me tell you something.
If you brought into court videos ofyou having sex with a goat,
it doesn't matter. We are ano fault state, which means that anybody
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at any time can get divorced.There's no fault here. All fifty states
have some kind of no fault Weare the first ones out, by the
way, in nineteen sixty nine,California came out with the first state to
come up with no fault divorce.That is, the grounds are irreconcilable differences.
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Is not cheating. You're pointing toyourself. Yeahs was nothing more than
that's because that's just because that's thelaw. I want to get a divorced.
I don't want to be married,Thank you very much. The law
lets you do that. You know, the goat sex doesn't matter. Well,
okay, uh, the sex withthe neighbor doesn't matter. It's like
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the joke guy comes in and hisbest friend is having sex with his wife
and he goes murray, I hadto do this, but you okay,
wow, I know very strong,isn't it. Yeah, yeah, I
know it's horrible. So anyway,they are now a group of people and
guess where they are, legislators,guess where they are Texas, No guessing
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where they are that wants to undono fault divorce Now they want divorce that
is at fault. In other words, one of the parties has to be
at fault, which means what it'sno longer reconcilable differences. You know,
what it is now is having sexwith someone other than your spouse. It
is abuse, either mental or physicalabuse like it used to be before no
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vault, no fault divorce. Heused to god, it even used to
be the point where both parties wanteddivorce. Ready for this, they manufactured
the husband going into a motel roomwith a friend, staying half an hour,
walking out and taking pictures, andthe wife goes in and says,
see adultery, which is one ofthe grounds for divorce. I mean,
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that's when both parties agree to havea divorce. So you got Republicans all
over the country reconsidering no fault divorce. And basically, like the fights against
abortion and contraception, what it's reallyabout is control. There's nothing more than
that. Last year, the RepublicanParty of Texas added language to its platform
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calling for an end to no faultdivorce. Quote. We urge the legislature
to resent and uniateral no fault divorcelaws to support the Covenant of marriage.
Okay, now, when you hearthe phrase the covenant of marriage, your
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hackles have to rise immediately. Whatthe hell does that mean. I'll tell
you what it means. Marriage issacrosanct Catholic Church. You can't get a
divorce. You're married, You're done. If you're a Mormon, right,
you get married. The next dayyour wife gets hit by a truck,
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and so you get married to someoneelse, and that marriage lasts for fifty
five years. You die. Bythe way, the second marriage doesn't count.
It's that first one where you're marriedfor a day. That's the way
it works in the Mormon religion.I mean, there's still religious parts of
it, but civilly civilly covenant marriageand past legislation extending period of time in
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which a divorce may occur. Inother words, you can't get divorced if
there is divorce for an extended periodof time. The Texas GOP the Republicans
are in favor of this. Keepin mind the Republicans have a grip on
both chambers of the state legislature,every single elected office. Similar proposal is
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going down in the Republican Party ofLouisiana, Nebraska. Even the Republican National
Convention in twenty sixteen, the delegatestalked about overhauling a their platform with this
declaration, and that is children aremade to be loved by both natural parents
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united in marriage. So I guessif you're not united in marriage, you
don't love your kids. Okay,that's fine, And a lal structures such
as no fault divorce I'm quoting now, which divides families and empowers the state,
should be replaced by fault based divorce. In other words, you stay
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married under the law. I willtell you out of experience that it takes
you four minutes to get freaking married, but it takes you four years right
now to get a divorce. Now, it really doesn't file. It will
take you basically a year. You'vegot six months for your interlocutory decree after
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filing, and then another six monthsbefore it is finalized. Okay, So
we officially filed on I think itwent to our attorney in September, it
didn't get filed until Halloween, whichI think is funny. That's just late
attorney being and then well, andthen we're still like it took forever to
get served. And I know thatI'm not the only one out there that
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this is happening too, because I'vegot friends going through divorces who are like,
what the hell is going on?System and we're the best. But
there's a lot of legal aspects ofit. Because you have this, you're
right the filing the service, askingfor the intellocutory decree in front of the
judge. You have to wait sixmonths asking for the final decree. And
if there is a dispute and you'regoing to trial over custody or over assets
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or support, that's going to takeyou a while. And let's not forget
the videos of the goat O goodpoint. I want to go to a
topic of social interest that I havea sort of a personal experience with this.
So a few women are going tobe surprised on this one, those
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of you that work, and mostwomen do work, even when wives earn
about the same as their husbands oreven more. There is a study that
just came out from the Pew ResearchCenter that says that those women remember make
as much as their husbands or morestill spend more time on housework and childcare,
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and husbands spend more time on paidwork and leisure. They just the
husbands have a good time with theirhobbies drinking beer and belching and having a
rip roaring good time in front ofthat football game than the wives who work
and make as much money. Okay, which is, by the way,
(20:30):
it is as it should be.But that's just a personal view of this.
The PUG studies said twenty nine percentof heterosexual marriages today they didn't look
at gay marriages only a heterosexual marriages, twenty nine percent a third basically of
men and women in those marriages earnabout the same amount of money. We're
talking sixty thousand dollars each, soit's one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a
(20:52):
year household. And husbands in egalitarianmarriages equal sort of equals even theirs,
you know, equal with that phrase. Yeah, wives in those egalitarian marriages
spend still three and a half hoursmore per week, where husbands spend three
and a half more hours per weekand leisure activity than the wives do.
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Wives in those marriages to spend roughlytwo hours more per week on caregiving than
the husbands do two and a halfhours more per week on housework. In
fifty five percent of straight marriages,opposite sex marriages where men are the primary
or soul breadwinners, actually those earna medium of ninety six thousand dollars to
(21:44):
their wives thirty thousand dollars. Okay, so when the men are the big
breadwinners, I mean, obviously thatmakes sense, but that is the difference
ninety six thousand to the wives thirtythousand. And that has to do with
the gender gap, the gap,and it actually hasn't narrowed much in twenty
years. As much as we talkabout women's rights, as much as we
talk about the movement, remember thepay gap between men and women in this
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huge movement to equal it all out, it really isn't happening very much.
And in when the wives out earnedtheir husbands, I said about sixteen percent
of marriages or they're the sole breadwinner. That's only six percent of marriages.
Women earned eighty eight thousand dollars totheir husbands let's say thirty five thousand dollars,
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and almost none of those caregivers.Men spend more time caregiving than their
wives, even when the woman isthe sole breadwinner. I mean, it's
really kind of unfair. Now,how do I feel about this? Well,
first of all, in my marriage, I've been the sole breadwinner.
(22:55):
Just so happens. That's the wayit works, because thank goodness, between
my law practice saying here, I'vealways earned enough money. So Marjorie didn't
have to work. Did she spendmore time with the children than I do?
Of course? If she were thesole breadwinner, would she spend more
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time with the children. Of course? Would I spend any time with the
children? Historically? Basically no.Now personal, a personal experience. My
mother and father who came to theUnited States from Brazil, and Brazil was
a very paternalistic country. Women forthe most part, didn't work. Very
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few women worked. The men didthe work, and women, of course
were the caregivers. My mother wasone of the few that worked. She
was a dentist and my dad wasan electrical engineer. So they both worked
and in an almost non existence mode, I mean, in a world that
(24:06):
didn't exist down there. My motherand father both did all the housework.
They split the housework So when wecame here to this country, I saw
my mom dad the equal amount ofhousework. They both cooked equally. One
made dinner one night, the otherone made dinner the other night. My
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dad actually was a better cook thanmy mother. Now the good news that
was all equal, and they bothhated me equally. That now we're talking
about egalitarian relationship there. And here'sone that makes all the sense in the
world. Nearly half of Americans saidthe husbands prefer to earn more than their
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wives. Now, come on,of course, I'm surprised it's only half
of Americans. I always dreamed ofearning a terrific living and my wife earning
exactly five dollars less than I didper year. That is my dream relationship.
Why because men are men, andyou can't have women outdo men,
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And what do you do? AndI've known some people where the husbands were
the caregivers simply because of the skillset and simply because the wife had the
ability had a better job to earnmore money and care caretaking, taking care
of kids in general is so expensive, so expensive that someone had to be
home with the kids. That happensa lot. And of course these men
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had a much harder time because whysociety looks down on that. What you're
not working and your wife is working. What's wrong with you and men being
the caregivers? Also, I loveit. Some guys that I've known actually
reveled in it. Go to mommyand me classes, They go to all
of where the women go to bythemselves, little clubs, et cetera.
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It's like when my partner, Karen, one of my best friends, got
married, I was I was hermatron of honor for real, and uh,
you know, with all of thesepeople, I was going to wear
a dress by the way, withall the other girls, the women,
but I didn't because I don't wantto. You know, nobody needs to
see those legs. Uh, nobodynot gonna worn a long dress, cocktail
(26:29):
dress. But I seriously, wewas gonna wear that. And then I
said, nah, you know what, I don't want to take all the
attention away from Karen. Now.I want to talk two subjects. I
want to talk about both having todeal with your brains on our as our
guests who's been here before with us, Doctor Dung Trenn, Chief medical Officer
the Healthy Brain Clinic, Good morning, Doctor Trinn thank you for joining us.
(26:52):
Okay, morning Bill. Yeah,oh, it's always good because you're
a brainy kind of guy. Iguess I don't know who wrote that,
but that's kind of stupid. Sothere's two subjects I want to talk about
in two different segments, one rightthere in your neck of the woods,
the Healthy Brain Clinic, Orange County, and the other one just in general.
(27:14):
So let's start with Parkinson's and MichaelJ. Fox. Michael J.
Fox has a new documentary coming outMay twelfth, actually just another week week
and have to promote his new documentary. Still, and Michael J. Fox,
just as an aside, I thinkis an extraordinary person. I mean,
the guy has just balls for doingwhat he is doing. He's a
(27:38):
very public figure. He has latestage dementia. He is you can see
the jerking and the moving around,and he has brought to the forefront the
issue of Parkinson's. So and there'sno cure, I understand. So Doctor
Tren tell us about Parkinson's, howprevalent, what we can do about it,
what anybody can do about it?Yeah, Parkinson's is just right behind
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Alzheimer's as the number two neural degenerativedisease. Of the brain with that so
off, Alzheimer's is number one,Parkinson's right behind there, and as with
most neural degenerative disease, and whatthat means really is that brain cells are
dying, right, and it dependson which group of brain cells that gets
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damaged and associate which which you know, neural transmitters and things of that sort,
determines whether you have conditions such asParkinson's versus Alzheimer's versus a different condition
of the brain. Alzheimer's, ofcourse, we have the Alzheimer's plaque.
We call it the amyloid plaque,and the TAE tangles with parkinson specifically,
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it's the lack of dopamine. Haveyou ever heard of dopamine? It's a
it's a common north transfer that's neededfor the brain. And it's a lack
of nopemine starting at an air ofthe brain called the substantial nigra. And
that lack of nopemine leads to problems. That starts with tremors and UH and
(29:15):
so initially your hands are trembling andthen you start to feel stiff and stiffness
over time. It's a progressive diseasewithout a cure very similar to Alzheimer's with
these these brain conditions. Yeah,here's the question, it is without a
cure. I'm assuming that medical sciencehas to know how it starts, why
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it starts, Is it genetic?Is it inherited? The other thing?
But with so many people having it, and it's enormous numbers of people,
are why hasn't real progress been madeor has real progress been made? So
so there's three treatment options when itcomes to Parkinson's. The first medications and
(30:00):
the most popular medications called Leva dopa, and it helps with tremors, but
it treats the symptoms. It doesn'ttreat the underlying cause of parking sense,
which we're all still trying to figureout. So medication is one option.
The second option is what we callthe a deep brain stimulation device, where
(30:22):
we implant a device in your brainactually that delivers electrical stimulations to your brain
to specific errors to your brain.That helps again with controlling your tremors or
the rigidity that you feel. Andthen the third option is therapy. It's
physical therapy, occupational therapy, speechtherapy to help you with your balance,
(30:45):
to help you not fall down,and flexibility and things of that sort.
But I can tell you a littlebit about the research that's being done right
now because that's really where the gistof this needs to be done. We
need to deep diver, do adeeper dive into research. There are genetic
links that we're studying. Researchers areinvestigating the role of genetics in the sense
(31:11):
that they're looking to see which genesmay activate or promote Parkinson's, and then
there are genes that perhaps may protectyou against Parkinson's. So looking at the
gene pathway is where research is beingdone. Looking at what we call bio
markers. Bio markers are measurable substancesin a body that will indicate perhaps early
(31:33):
detection for Parkinson's, where we canimprove our diagnosis, and where we can
track the disease progression. So that'sanother area of research. But more importantly,
how do you protect your brain right? How do you protect your brain
from losing dopamine or losing brain cells? How do you protect your brain from
inflammation, which is part of bothAlzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. That needs to
(31:59):
be looked at in ways that wecould protect our brains, not just not
with just a pill, but reallywith lifestyle and nutrition and diet as well,
well, that's certainly not me.So there you go, all right,
I have real really quickly because wehave less than a minute here before
we're going on our next segment.Has any real progress been made with Parkinson's
(32:22):
disease? Yeah, some progress hasbeen made. I wouldn't say that we
have found that magic pill. Weimprove it. Some plugress has been made,
but not significant, not progress,not enough progress that we would like
to see the story I wanted tocover with you. This just came out
in the Orange County Register and theorganization Alzheimer's Orange County, which I guess
(32:45):
is the big one over there,has reported that since twenty fourteen, the
number of suffers from ali Alzheimer's hasdoubled from eighty four one hundred and sixty
four thousand people. That's five percentof the total population. I mean,
that seems completely insane. And wetalked about Parkinson's in the previous segment.
(33:07):
Not too many people are afraid ofgetting Parkinson's. That's sort of somewhere else.
All of us I know, arefrightened of dementia, and it is
it seems to be the big Kahunaand where are we going with that?
It is a breathtaking number. Specifically, I think over one hundred and sixty
(33:29):
seventy thousand folks are are predicted tohave some form of memory loss in Orange
County. And I'll tell you howwe got to this number. This number
is extrapolated from data that we havethat was published from Columbia University last year.
(33:52):
And Columbia University did a study wherethey looked and termine that in the
United States, if you're above theage of sixty five, right, For
everyone above the age of sixty fivein the US, one out of ten
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if you took ten, If youtook ten folks above the age of sixty
five, one out of ten havethe diagnosis of dementia, and two out
of ten have the diagnosis of whatwe call MCI. MCI stands for a
mile cognitive impairment. It's the predementia stage, kind of like the stage
(34:34):
right before you get that diagnosis ofAlzheimer's. Right. So if you add
that up, Bill, that's threeout of ten Americans that have some form
of memory problems, whether it's MCIor dementia. That's three out of ten
above the age of sixty five.Yeah, that has that and yeah,
(34:55):
so we took that data and weextrapolated to Orange County. Knowing the Orange
County census, right, we're knowinghow many folks over the age of sixty
five in Orange County. We cameup with that member at Alzheimer's Orange County
that is doubled. Yeah, Imean that that's completely insane numbers because everybody
(35:15):
I know, as a matter offact, I know members of my family
friends. I have never known anybodyclose to me that has or has died
of Parkinson's. There are plenty ofpeople that I know. Both my mother
and father as they were ending theirlives were in some form of dementia and
(35:36):
was zoning out, not there,only remembering way back in their long term
memory. My father, just beforehe died, he grew up in Yugoslavia,
then Yugoslavia. All he spoke withSerbo Croatian as he died, that's
it. He wouldn't remember anything else. And my mother was talking about growing
up in Brazil and was speaking Portugueseand her memories of that, I mean
(35:59):
clearly demented state. I would guess, yes, And you know what the
call to actionists with this information,the call to action is that we should
be out there evaluating and checking ourmemories early, rather than waiting until our
memory's gone to do something about it. So back to the same question,
(36:23):
and that is do we know whereit comes from? Dementia? Do we
know how it's caused? Do weknow is is there any real good work
or at least successful work being done. Is it genetic? Is it inherited?
Absolutely? All the above? Allthe above. So at our office
at the Healthy Brain Clinic, right, I'm actually in Long Beach by the
(36:45):
way, so count of the borderI'll will see. But I'm on the
board for Alzheimer's Orange County. Weare teaching patients what they need to do
with their brains without taking a pill, without taking a pill to reduce the
risk of Alzheimer's, in addition tothe clinical trials that we do trying to
advance right medications to treat dementia,specifically Alzheimer's. But there are twelve actionable
(37:13):
things you can do. In theJournal of Lancet in twenty twenty, in
the midst of the pandemic, whenwe're all thinking about COVID, the Lancet
Commission came out and said, thereare twelve modifiable activities, twelve modifiable conditions
that you can do to reduce thetotal risk of Alzheimer's by forty percent.
(37:35):
Forty percent of all Alzheimer's is contributedby these twelve actionable things one other things.
What are they? Of course,we're all waiting with bated breath.
Here, I'll tell you what Iremember. I'll tell you what I remember.
That is a bad line. Ohyeah, yeah, So here you
go. Number one physical exercise right, physical exercise at least half an hour
(37:59):
a day of doing something right toactivate your body to keep moving. Data
has shown that exercise consistently will helpwith brain health to reduce the risk of
Alzheimer's. Number two brain exercise right, doing things to activate your brains,
(38:19):
whether it's playing chess, playing checkers, suduco, whatever it is, right,
keeping our brains active. Studies haveshown that those with a higher level
of education bill have a lower riskof Alzheimer's than those with a lower level
of education. And it's not becausethey're smarter, it's because they spent more
years exercising their brain. Number threenutrition really huge. Do a Google search
(38:45):
on the mind diet m IMD doa Google search on the mind diet.
That diet has been published in severaldifferent journals, several different studies showing consistently
reduces the risk of Alzheimer's. Inone study, it reduced the risk of
Alzheimer's by fifty four percent, cuttingin and half. I mean imagine that
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there isn't a pillof there that cando that. Bill, That's another thing
you can do. Number four arevery important. Hearing loss. Hearing loss.
It's a simple fix. It's calleda hearing aid. So those with
hearing loss have a higher risk ofAlzheimer's than those who can hear well.
(39:30):
That's surprising. Yeah, the firstgroup I go makes sense, but that
one's surprising. We only have acouple of minutes. Can we go through
them a little bit quicker because Iwant to go through all twelve? Absolutely
so. Hearing losses on their Obesityis a risk factor. Those who are
(39:52):
overweight have a higher risk of Alzheimer'sthan those who are at the normal rate
is a huge risk factor. Headtrauma traumatic brain injury, believe it or
not, is a risk factor,right, You're inflammation that occurs from that
another risk factor. Is tobacco,smoking, which is basically talks into your
(40:15):
brain. Another risk factor. Bestif alcohol huge issue with that a risk
factor. I don't know if thisone's on the list or not, but
sleeping, getting enough sleep is reallyimportant for brain health. The lack of
sleep, the lack of sleep whengood sleep leads to Alzheimer's, it is
(40:36):
a risk factor for it. Andthat's something we all sacrifice in our life
right by doing everything else that Socializationvery important. Those who socialize, who
are out engage, spending time withothers, have a lower risk of Alzheimer's
than those who are home alone allday. So it has something to do
(41:00):
with engaging your brain cells right,doing things that are active to socialize.
Another risk factor is Another risk factoris basically making sure that your blood pressure
is under control. High blood pressureis a risk factor for Alzheimer's because it
(41:22):
messes up your circulation. Diabetes isa risk factor for Alzheimer's. If you
have diabetes, your risk of Alzheimer'sis double those without diabetes. Pretty crazy
when you think about that, andmost of us don't realize it. Because
two Americans are either diabetic or prediabetic, right, and so those are
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the big highlights. Okay, weare out of time, unfortunately, as
we went through it, and it'spretty important stuff, some surprising, some
stuff surprising, some stuff not sosurprising. The fact that I'm overweight,
never exercise, hate people with apassion. I'm in trouble. I understand
that. Doctor Dung Trent, chiefmedical officer of the Healthy Brain Clinic,
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Doctor Trent, thank you so much, great information. All right, bye
bye. Now all right, interestingstuff. Some of it I diabetes,
hearing loss. The rest of itmade a lot of sense. Now I
have a great First Amendment story toshare with you. I mean, this
does not get better. And thishas to do with a school district and
(42:30):
a high school. And there isa club that is called the Satanic Club,
sponsored by the Satanic Temple. Andit had its permit, or it
had its ability to meet on schoolgrounds yanked by the school district. So
(42:53):
who jumps in the a CLU.The ACELU of Pennsylvania, a law firm,
of course, it's all pro bono, sued the district on behalf of
the Satanic Temple, and the judge, federal judge wrote here, although the
Satanic Temples objectors may challenge the sanctityof this controversial named organization. The sanctity
(43:17):
of the First Amendment must prevail.However, the judge did acknowledge that the
superintendent had an unviable position when hewas faced with a shooting threat in response
to what happened with the club.So the district has to allow the after
(43:37):
school Satan club to meet on thethree days. Actually, this is a
middle school at Salcone Valley Middle School, and the ACLU jumps right in.
I mean, the ACLU is avery interesting corporate is a very interesting organization,
and people have said of the aCLU in many many cases, I
(43:58):
find the ACLU insane. But thestatement that was once said about the ACLU
which resonated when I went, ohyeah, ninety five percent of the time,
the ACLU is this ridiculous left wing, insane organization. Five percent of
the time it is priceless to America. Yep, that makes sense. Do
(44:24):
you remember the Nazi march in Skokie, Illinois. Skokie, Illinois was a
town is a town in Illinois thatis made up a huge number of Holocaust
survivors, and one of the Naziorganizations had asked for a permit to march
down the street, and of coursethe city father said, you're dreaming.
(44:45):
The ACLU went in ensued and oneon first Amendment, the ACLU. The
number of Jews who created and arepart of the ACLU is astronomical. And
the a cl you fought for theability, the ability of Nazis to march
down the streets in a neighborhood,even in the neighborhood, not just the
(45:07):
city that was primarily occupied by Holocaustsurvivors. So the so when it comes
to Satanism, oh, you're fiftya cl you was going to jump in
there. It is pretty impressive asto what happened. I'm looking at the
club. I think we should putthis up. This is the Satanic Club's
(45:31):
logo, and it's this a devilsort of a character, and it's actually
very funny. It's pretty benign,and it says the Satanic Temple. On
the top it's a seal, it'saround seal, and on the bottom it
says the after school Satan Club.It is very funny and would you make
(45:55):
sure this goes up on the websitebecause this is hilarious. So that segues
right into the next story, andI'm sure you've heard of comic Con,
which is well, now it's becomethis enormous convention show where new movies are
released, where people walk around incostume, they do role playing, cause
(46:16):
play, and it's been fortunes oncostumes. Things sells out. Well,
I'll tell you what else sold outthis year, and that's satan Con twenty
twenty three sold out. Thousands ofpeople showed up. It's in Boston and
it started with the two leaders openingit up with a formal ceremony renouncing symbols
(46:40):
of oppression and ripping up a Bibleand also a thin blue line flag that
represents a police so they're not particularlypro police. And the female leader,
we don't have her name, openedit up with we stand here today and
define, define of their siege,and destroy their symbols of oppression. Okay,
(47:04):
anti cop, you can see that, anti Bible. That is more
interesting and it gets a lot ofpeople a little bit more exercise if you
think about that. So then themale leader joins it and tears up the
flag into the thin blue line,tosses it on the floor while the crowd
cheers, and he says, wemust build true community outside of the virtual
(47:29):
rebellion comes in many forms to eachand their own, within their own capabilities,
in their own situation, and go, wait a minute, this is
sounding way too political. Now,where the hell is Satan? How come
Satan isn't here? I mean,this is about the Devil. The devil
made me, do it? Rememberthat? So why is number one?
(47:52):
It's sold out so much, soquickly, and so many people attended,
And I would be disappointed if I'mgoing to Satan con. I want the
Devil. I want Satan. Imean, I want the real deal.
I want the emiss and I'm notgetting it. And so it was officially
called the Satan Khan and the peopleattending were called Hail Satan Fans. Three
(48:19):
day event has been described as thelargest Satanic gathering in history. I don't
know, you know, during theInquisition there were some, and Salem there
were some, but no, notreally, this is far, far bigger
the Boston Mayor. This was dedicatedto the Democratic Boston Mayor, Michelle Wou
(48:40):
after the group was not allowed todelivery Satanic invocation at a city council meeting
in twenty twenty one. They said, hey, you have Catholic, you
have Muslim you have Jews, youall allowed to do this, but we're
not. So it turns out thatit really is just very left wing.
(49:00):
It's not really satanic, it's notreally the fun stuff that we thought it
would be. So it turns outto be a totally leftist political organization.
I guess they did this for thepublicity. However, there were some really
interesting lectures, one of them Sinsof the Flesh, Satanism and Self Pleasure.
(49:21):
Okay, I'll buy that, taughtby a sexuality studies professor at Minnesota
State University. Another one reclaiming thetrans Body a theistic Strategy for self determination
Empowerment, that was by a transgenderwoman University of South Carolina, and one
of my favorites included Hell Billies.Not Hellbillies, but Hell Billies Visible Satanism
(49:45):
in Rural America. Wow, I'mbig fan of that one. You know
what, I would go to thatin a heartbeat. That But if I
if I, if I thought itwas real satan, if I thought this
was the devil, I would besorely disappointed. But going to a lecture
(50:07):
on Sins of the Flesh, Satanismand self pleasure, how do you miss
that? One research for the show. It is research for the show,
Shannon, Yes, does that soundlike one of the most exciting venues you've
ever heard of? Yesterday I googledpopular adult video titles for research for the
(50:28):
show. Research. The titles thatI came across were Missionary, Impossible and
Indiana What was it? Indiana?Something in the Temple of Boobs, which
I thought was clever. Those Ilove show research. It's just get away
with anything. And the best partis, like I asked it, guys,
(50:50):
because they know everything we're looking at, right, And I say,
so, how bad am I?Because I google the worst stuff, I
really bottom of the basement stuff,and they say, you aren't even in
the top ten in the building.Lettle on the floor. Yeah that is
because you're all depraved. Yeah,there was one that I actually saw.
It was a parody of a psyche. No, No, I don't want
(51:10):
to hear anything you've seen in thatconversation. Ever, I'm gonna tell you,
no, you're not. It wasI'm pulling, I'm the cord,
I'm lead rin goobye all right,flesh Gordon, Okay, come on back,
I'm done. I'm done. Sheleft, She was are you ready
for this. No, oh no, no, I want to put this
on the record. Shannon Farren,offended by me. All right, this
(51:36):
is for the record. Calendar today. Please welcome to my world. Shannon.
Okay, we are we are donenow coming up it will be Shannon
Gary and Shannon uh for the nextfour hours. I'll catch you everybody tomorrow.
Handle in the morning. Crew KFIused to be ashamed of yourself,
(51:57):
Shannon KF. I am six fortylive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You've
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