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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Chief Medical Officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center, Long
Beach joins US Now Medical News with doctor Keeney. So
you are avoiding the United States right now, and I
think that makes perfect sense, especially because we've decided to
give measles a try.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah. Yeah, so measles outbreak is still going on. I mean,
I know we've talked about it before, but I think
it's just this ongoing event at this point and probably
will be for the next year, to be honest, because
our vaccination rates, especially in Texas, have dropped so low
that we can expect, you know, outbreaks at this point.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Why why are we all of a sudden vaccine skeptical.
I have a little bit of understanding when it comes
to COVID because it was new. It's the mRNA vaccine,
a different delivery, and I understand that there's some skepticism
to new things, and I know that we'd like to
challenge authority all that kind of stuff. But when it
comes to the MMR, the measles up for bella vaccine
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for Pete's sake, that's been around forever. Why are we
are we hesitant about something that is shown It's fine.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, I mean it's it's a combination of things. There
are people who are vaccine hesitant because overall because of vaccines,
You're right, that's I think that might be the minority
at this point. So a lot of people that are
just government hesitant, and they don't want to be told
what to do, and they don't want to obey the government,
and so even if the government's right, they're going to say,
you can't tell me what to do. So, I mean
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that's there's a big group of people I run into,
at least at this point that are more like I want.
I'm for individual rights, individuality, individual choice, and I choose
not to get my kids vaccinated. And when you look
at these cases, the people that are getting measles aren't
the ones making the choice. It's their parents. They're making
the choice. And seventy eight percent of the cases or
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kids who didn't get to choose.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, doesn't it seem strange to you that that we
would choose self arm in order to take a stand
for individual choice. For instance, I believe in individual choice, too.
In many cases, there is at no point do I
say I'm going to tear out my fingernails just because
the government doesn't want me to. Why do we say,
let's make sure our kids get these diseases that have
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been otherwise eradicated for individual choice? Isn't this? I mean,
this feels like it's a real cognitive dissonance going on
within one's own mind. There has to be a psychological
component to this.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
There is, and I think, you know, overall, just people
are trying to deal with it. I know, and honestly,
as you talk to each individual person as you do
when you're a doctor, they you know, they really are
trying to do the best. They're trying to make the
best of their understanding of the world, and they're coming
to this conclusion you're wishing there was a way. You know,
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how do I not sound like I'm sold out to
pharmaceutical companies because I don't get a dime if you
get vaccinated or not. You know, how do I sound
like you know that I can be a legitimate source
when you know, because I know when I started this
in med school, there was we had Jenny McCarthy, who
you know, went from being a we'll call her a
reality star show to you know, on the view, to
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all of a sudden an authority on you know, vaccines
and autism, and I realized, Wow, I don't have that level,
you know, sitting at a patient's bedside, I don't have
that level of influence. I really can't combat that. So,
I mean, there's just people who choose they're they're easily
kind of taken in by you know, almost call them
medical myths, and they kind of if it aligns with
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their with their own thinking already, and we tend to
believe things that align with our own thinking. And I
think that's what's happening. Is you suspect the government, you
find out that there's something about vaccines that they're not
telling you, and then it aligns with your thinking. You say,
no way, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Where is the Where did this go wrong? I love
what you said, Doctor Jim Kinney, the chief medical officer
for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, as
our medical News at, doctor Kinney continues, I love what
you said about as you talk to individuals, you learned
that they really are trying to do the best for
themselves at some point. Their parents must not have taught
them that the best thing they can do for themselves
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is listen to doctors. So is this a condition of
Centerfolds having more influence than the doctor that we suddenly
the girl who's in the magazine under my mattress, I
believe her more than I believe the guy wearing the
lab coat. And ten years of schooling and twenty years
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of experience, at some point we decided that the credibility
of those doctors was not in our best interest. So
how do we reconcile. I'm going to do what's best
for myself, but I'm also going to ignore.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
The experts right now, You're absolutely right, but the you know,
and I'm going to take I'm going to take responsibility
for that. You know, doctors have kind of made their beds. Right.
It used to be people that you could sit and
talk to and have a relationship with and you really
trusted and understood. And now it's these fifteen minutes appointment
where you maybe get five minutes max of FaceTime, And
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how do you build a relationship? How do you build
trust in that much time? You know, the American health
systems somewhat broken, and doctors are not establishing that relationship
or trust. And now that's that's really unfair to put
across every doctor because I mean, my doctor sits there
and talks to me, and I know he does that
not just with me, but with his other patients. So
there's people out there that actually do that. But overall,
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as a specialty, we are you know, we have not
engendered the trust that we really need to. And you know,
and now that we drop so in the past, if
if you only had little pockets, right, and you have
what we everybody knows now is herd immunity, right, it's
that if if you don't find it in the herd,
then the people that are that are sensitive to it
won't be impacted. And that's what we've been seeing for years. Well,
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now we've dropped below that herd immunity and now those
small pockets are no longer protected. They are going to
be and really this if you have you know, this
is what I'm concerned about, is people are worried about
measles and they're coming to be concerned that they're going
to get it. If you've been vaccinated, if you were
born before nineteen fifty seven, you had measles you know
you are You're fine. You know you're not probably not
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going to get If you really want to know, you
can get a measles tighter that will prove whether you're
immune or not. This is really going to be a
disease of the unvaccinated. So if you're unvaccinated, you have
concerns and if you're not. If you are vaccinated, you're
going to be fine, all right.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Doctor Jim Kiney, our chief medical officer, will continue more
medical news with doctor Keeney, including something he said here
just a moment ago about the health system and spending
more time with patients. I want to know whose fault
that is that we're not doing it. I love that
he took accountability, but we'll find out. Is it all
on him? Doctor Jim? I don't think you are the
problem that And why is it that working mornings is hazardous? Hazardous?
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Speaker 1 (06:56):
App, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Chris Meryl KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk and
on demand anytime in the iHeartRadio App. Joining me is
doctor Jim Kenny, chief medical officer for Dignity Saint Mary
Medical Health Medical Center in Long Beach. It's Medical News
with doctor Keeney and Doctor Keeney. You were talking in
our last segment here about the health system and that
it's really changed. You used to be able to sit
down and have a conversation with doctors, and now doctors
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you've got fifteen minutes appointment fifteen minute appointments. You get
about five minutes FaceTime with the doctors. Is this because
we have a shortage of providers or is this a
is this a health insurance thing? Is this about quotas
and tracking results? What's what's the cause the root cause
of that.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, that's it's a great question. But the problem is
there's no sound bite answer to this one. It is.
It's a it's a breakdown across the board, right that
we do have a significant shortage of physicians. So I
mean you refer to somebody even in my area where
you know we have plenty, we have a lot of physicians,
but we're still a shortage of neurosurgeons and often neurology
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where it may take three months to get into CE one.
You know, there's there's shortages of all types of specialties.
So you know, there's definitely the shortage issue, and so
doctors are trying to get in as many patients as
they can. You're in a generation where doctors sell, you know,
it's one of the few areas where balleories have gone
down as medicine. That's why you see kind of this
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brain drain of you know, it used to be the
smart kids went to medical school. Now it seems like
the smart kids going to finance or computer science or AI. Right,
So the incomes have gone down rather than going up
over the years, and I think Dodgors have tried to
mitigate that by working harder and seeing more patients. It
plays into it in a lot of ways. I can
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maybe equalize out my income. I can also serve the
population who's saying, look, we don't have enough doctors and
I need to see more people. So, you know, and
then we have all the managed care is you know,
in term for an HMO for example, is managed care
and you get a per member, per month fee. Right.
So the geary is if I keep all my patients healthy,
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then they get to just keep that money. They don't
have to spend a lot of money in medical fees,
and so you're kind of at risk. But so what
people do is they take on quite a few patients
because you know, if you're going to get ten dollars
per member per month and you need to make you know,
you know, twenty thousand dollars a month, then you're going
to take on two thousand patients and at the end
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of the month, you know, you may have had to
see a good portion of those, maybe ten percent of those,
or maybe they don't have to see any of them.
But really people are getting you know, we have more
interventions in healthcare now, there's more things to check, there's
more things we can treat, and so it's really the
visits are going up, and the population is aging. You
know that people over sixty five see the doctor five
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times as much as someone under sixty five, so suddenly
we need more visits as well. Just so many factors
that we've pent a lost control. Doctors are now kind
of hourly employees for the most part, and it's hard
to really, you know, control your workflow in a lot
of settings. Some settings you can, and they're choosing to
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work the extra hours of other settings. It's just hard
to control it.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I could I literally talk to this topic for two
or three hours, but nobody would want to listen to it. So, uh,
doctor Kinnie, let me move on real quick. I want
to get to this. Working mornings sucks. I've done it before.
They asked what I do it for, Bill, I said no.
They said we will give you doctor pay for it.
I said, that's great, I'll do it. Then they told
me doctor pay was ten dollars, which I thought was crap. Right,
I didn't realize until talking to you that I am
(10:31):
getting doctor pay. So what's the I've got a sleep
tracker on my on my Apple Watch, and it tells
me I'm not getting enough sleep, especially this week, right
right is there? I mean I thought I find that
very useful because I'm somebody that subscribes to the whole
I got to get eight hours and I try to
go to bed with the with the the sun down
and get up when the sun comes up and not
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set an alarm clock. Am I doing stuff wrong?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah? I mean so a lot packed in there. Right.
Sleep trackers, they are asked to me sleep based on
things like your pulse and your pulse oxygen level and movement.
That's not what sleep labs do, and they never have.
Sleep labs are approximating sleep by catching electrodes to your
head and looking at actual brain waves. So your sleep
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tracker is telling you you're in rem sleep, but it
actually has no idea because it's not packing your brain waves.
And even when we talk about rem sleep and deep sleep,
what estimating with the brain waves is the neurochemical process
in the brain that we can't measure. So your three
spaces moved from measuring the correct thing when you're just
using a tracker. So there is ah, there's a condition
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now where people get so anxious over the fact that
their sleep tracker is telling them they're not getting enough
sleep that they actually have anxiety over it. They go
to a sleep study and they realize, no, you're actually
getting all the sleep you need, and they're just they
don't accept it because they really are bought into these trackers.
So they're interesting. They're good because what you can do
is modify certain things, right like you know, eat a
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late meal and go to bed and see what that
does to your sleep tracker. That that kind of change,
you can tell you, well, I am getting better sleep
or less, you know, not as good sleep. You can try,
you know, drink having a nightcap before you go to bed.
People think it helps them sleep, it actually hurts their
sleep for the most part. Same thing with like marijuana gummies.
People swear by those to sleep, but they disrupt your
rem sleep and your deep sleep cycles. So you know,
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that's kind of what's going on with those sleep trackers.
They're they're fun, but they also they have their downside
as well, and there's even people then going to the
doctor and getting mends that they don't need to help
them with a sleep problem that they don't have. So
you know, I think there is some danger there. But
if you have a sleep problem and you want to
see a sleep specialist, they can do a sleep study
and a sleep lab connected to the electra and then
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you'll really know the right answer.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Which is why I offset my nightcap with the gummy
because I figured that I just mix them and everything
works out. Doctor Jim Keiney, chief medical Officer for Dignity
Saint Mary Medical Center, Long Beach. It's Meta News with
doctor Kenney. Thank you so much for Carbon Daniel for us.
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Merril KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk and on
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the socials, there's a chance, while you may not navigate
the socials as well as your your teenager or young adult,
you are better at not falling for shenanigans, which is
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what we're seeing. We're seeing a bunch of the kids
these days that somehow are more savvy online than any
prior generation and also equally dumber than any prior generation.
This I pulled audio here, this from NBC in Washington
that was talking about the phishing scams that the kids
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these days are falling for.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
The numbers are alarming, more than one hundred and one
million dollars lost in online scams in twenty twenty one
by people under twenty years old. The study was done
by Social Catfish, a company dedicated to preventing online scams
through reverse search technology.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Essially are a people's search company.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
We help people verify people online and so you know,
our focus is online safety.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
The uptick might be because fifty four percent of the
households called don't monitor their kids' activities online.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh yeah, nobody likes spying on their kids. It is
harder to be a parent now than it ever has
in the past. It's harder to be a kid than
it's ever been in the past. It's harder to be
a parent. You hear stories from us fogies that we'll
talk about how our parents would say, go outside and
don't come back until it's dark, or don't come back
until the street lights come on. And there were times
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that we would I recall playing basketball with friends, and
I'm not talking about street games with anybody that was
good at basketball, but it was just a group of
guys somewhere between the ages of twelve and sixteen, and
we'd be out there playing basketball until we literally couldn't
see the basket any longer, and then everybody walked home
and we'll see again tomorrow. That's what we did, right.
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Parents didn't have to spy on us now. Occasionally to
have one of the kids, parents would drive by and
just wave and go, hey, I'm just headed home. Just
wanted to say hi. And you know, now, looking back
at it as a parent, I can look back and go, Okay,
they were just checking to make sure the kid was
there and then everything's safe. Cool, it's great. But now
you have to put keyloggers on your kid's computer. You
have to put spywear on your own kid's computer to
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make sure that they're not falling victim. And the kids
don't like it because they say, you're watching everything I'm doing.
Of course, teenagers do that because they want their independence. Yeah,
I'm watching what you're doing, because there's always some pervo
out there asking for you to send nude pictures. Truth
old days, there were still perbos, but you could identify
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them because they had really noisy vans with no windows. Nowadays,
you can't see them.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
When they're randomly contacted by somebody, whether it be through
social media, through email, or their phones. They don't have
their spider sense up like you or I where we
grew up in like that, don't talk to strangers.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Generation leaving over confident tech savvy teens to be exposed
to four common scams.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Ooo, what would they be?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
The first is sex stortion. The FBI published this warning
on sextortion plots against teenage boys. Often scammers will pose
as a female, send new photos and asked for the
same in.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Return was thank Goodness TV out of the sound effects
it's received.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
The victim is told if he does not send money,
a photo will be sent to all of his friends
and family and posted online.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
It's sad because last year there was a story of
a Florida teen that actually committed suicidally. Oh and what
he realizes with most sex soortion cases, though they're empty threats.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Before chatting with a stranger online, perform a reverse image
search to confirm the person is who they say they are,
and if you received a threat, contact local law enforcement
to report it.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Now here's where the team is going to be better
than you are at doing the reverse image search. Swear
to god, it would take me ten minutes to figure
out how to do that. I could figure it out,
but I don't have the reverse image search website handy
on my computer. It would take me a hot minute.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Another scam is student loan forgiveness. Most of the time,
the victim will get emails or texts asking for personal
information like their social Security number and payment information. To
avoid this, the Department of Education's official financial site studenta
dot gov should be the only site you give personal
information to.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Although that site may go down here very shortly because of.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Cuts, and there is no application fee to apply up. Next, Yeah,
talent scout scam users on Instagram and tics.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
All right, we got it, talent scouts blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
What else to avoid? Just never click on any links,
even if the link was sent from a friend.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
There you go. Don't click on links. You don't have
any talent. Nobody wants to see you naked. And what
was the other one? It was the other one we
just said. So why do people fall for it? Because
when you're a teenager, you're dumb. When you're a young adult,
you're dumb. You've got more hormones than brains, and you've
got what the kids call fomo. Now for many of you,
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you know what fomo means. But every time I say
the phrase fomo, my wife has to ask what does
that mean? And I just say, you just wouldn't understand.
You're getting up there, and that's when I get to
go sleep on the couch. But fomo is fear of
missing out. So we have so many young people that
have a fear of missing out that they're willing to
send nuties of themselves to randos. They're willing to click
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on links that say we'll pay off your student loan
town because I mean, what if there's a chance that
it's real, And they'll click on all kinds of different
links because I don't want to miss out on something. Oh,
this talent agent spotted my Instagram and says I'm hot
and could be a model. I better click on the
link and give them my photos and send them money
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to represent me, because I mean, what if they are real? Well,
jincidentally is not new. This happened when I was in college.
The Internet was still very young as far as it's ubiquity.
And when I was in college, we used to get
those chain letter emails. Forward this to six people, you know,
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because Bill Gates is giving every one a thousand dollars
that's on this chain. We got those constantly, constantly, and
we always forwarded them because I mean, we're ninety nine
point nine percent sure this is garbage, but just in case,
maybe Bill Gates is trying to figure out who he
can give money to. Okay, and we forward it same
thing fear of missing out. Fomo, there it is, k
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If you are looking for good news about the economy,
it is this. A fetanyl use may be dropping. We
know this because the Border Patrol is now finding more
poultry related products than they are fetanyl. Egg interceptions are
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up thirty six percent nationwide in the year starting in
October compared to the previous year. A hotspot for egg
smuggling is Texas. Cazars and Texas have gone up fifty
four percent, according to the Customs of Border Protection in
San Diego, They've more than doubled. According to the CBP,
it's the price difference. So a lot, they say a
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price is like a third of what it is in
the US if you are over the borders. So agents
have foiled. Ninety would be egg smugglers trying to ferry
the breakfast staples across the border in El Paso. And
they say it's all because you can get eggs a
lot cheaper in Mexico. So forget fentanyl. The new cartel
chickens and they're coming. Egg prices are dropping. They're still
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way up, but they are slowly coming down. We like
to hear that wholesale egg prices drifting lower. Bird flu
issues may be easing. Even as President Trump claiming victory,
his administration is acknowledging that the upcoming Easter holiday could
cause prices to jump again. This from Axios the highly
pathogenic avian influenza leading to tens of millions of chickens
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being culled, which means and that to trigger shortages and
price spikes. I still have yet to see any reports
on what they do with the with the chickens after
they call them. Is there just like a mass chicken
grave somewhere that we're unaware of because you can't use
the chickens for things like nuggets, right, They've got bird flu,
(22:11):
so you can't do that. So there's just I guess
mass chicken graves out there somewhere. Many stores limiting how
many eggs shoppers can buy. Some restaurants have added temporary
egg search charges as well. They say egg prices should
potentially start coming down. They dropped by a dollar twenty
a dozen wholesale cord to the US Department of Agriculture,
down to six eighty five a dozen Department, noting that
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flew out breaks slowed over the last couple of weeks.
They've been localized have been able to try to get
ahead of those. Price of Midwest Larget large eggs was
five twenty three a dozen. It's down thirty nine percent
from its peak a couple of weeks earlier. The price
that consumers are actually paying is still up. However, from
January to February, wholesale prices are dropping, retail prices are rising.
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So if we were to ask you, our egg price
is getting cheaper as far as you know, no, And
if you read the article, or if you're a whole saler,
you might say, yeah, they're starting to come down. But
if it's you buying things at the store, you head
on into Ralphs and you look for eggs, they're not
going to be any cheaper, which is leading some people
to believe that there may be something larger at play. Indeed,
(23:15):
is there a conspiracy of foot from Fox Business. It
sounds like the Department of Justice is looking into that
very claim.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
You know, farmers have been dealing with this bird flu
since twenty twenty two, but recently prices have gotten out
of control.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Take a look back.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
In December, a dozen eggs, it's going to cost you
around four dollars. Now it's closer to seven dollars. And
in February, a dozen eggs cost around eight dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
That's wholesale.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
This is why the Justice Department is opening an investigation.
They're looking into if major producers are violating antitrust laws
by sharing information about supply and pricing, conspiring to keep
prices higher. But the American Egg Board says, this is
a story of supply and demand. Farmers have been battling
bird flu and losing.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Okay, all right, good. We have not ever seen anything
like this play out before. We've never had an American
company take advantage of a news story or a prevailing sentiment.
We've never had any oil companies, for instance, that have
continued to tell us that this is a simple supplying
demand issue while they rake in record profits. We've never
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seen that happen in any other aspect, especially during the
pandemic and then the subsequent supply chain shortage that happened afterward.
Companies don't use news in order to boost their bottom line,
to hose you in order to line their own pockets.
It doesn't happen. So when you hear this nonsense that
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says that these major egg producers are somehow gouging you,
that's just a total lie. Believe their story. Instead that
says it's a simple supply and demand issue. For instance,
as I pointed out, wholesale prices are down a dollar
twenty even though you're paying more. The difference, of course
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goes into the pockets of the egg producers. But that's
pure coincidence and in no way, shape or form indicative
of some sort of an underlying conspiracy that they're working
against you in order to make a ton of money
and profit off the news, all at your expense. That
doesn't happen. It's simply supply and demand. And while demand
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remains the same and supply is up, and you would
think prices would come down, and they're not. That's it's
just a lot of market factors that you wouldn't understand.
It's very it's very complicated. You wouldn't understand. It's just
let me simplify supply and demand and all the other
stuff with record profits and that that's just you wouldn't
understand it. It's too complicated.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Since January of twenty twenty five the start of this year,
we've lost more than thirty million birds and counting. Last
week was actually the first week we went afoot week
without a new farm having an outbreak of the Avian flu.
So those this impact has been devastating on our industry.
It's been devastating on our farmers. And like I said,
our farmers are in the fight of their lives.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, absolutely, especially the largest commercial farms. The small farmers
are losing money. They're in the fight of their lives.
The very large farms that are raking in record profit
that must be an even bigger fight. That's just massive,
you know.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
But the other people that are losing are the businesses
and the consumers. We're here at rocos where every egg
dish is now a dollar fifty more expensive because of
the cost of eggs.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah. I just saw an ad out for I don't know,
Dunnies or billage In or somebody. They've got some six
or seven dollars deal and that included the big omelet too,
and I thought, how are they doing that. They're not
making any money on that. In fact, I was seeing
that waffle house is always the butt of a lot
of jokes, not a lot of waffle houses nearby. See
(26:54):
waffle house is getting hit hard. However, if you are
loving breakfast I Hop, I Hop is getting hammered by
the egg prices. I Hop prices have increased by eighty
two percent over the last five years. Texas Roadhouse up
forty six percent, TGI Friday's up forty five percent. And
this is all in large part because of the rising
(27:19):
food costs, but especially when it comes to places like
I Hop, it's eggs, comes out eggs. It's all eggs.
It's anay issue. Who else is pulling back? Forget it?
If you're like me, you stopped eating eggs a while
ago because you said, I'm not going to pay those
ridiculous prices for eggs. You'll just wait for the bird
flu to be done, and in the meantime you'll find
(27:39):
something else to eat for breakfast. Take a check on
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Chief Medical Officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center, Long
Beach joins US Now Medical News with doctor Keeney. So
you are avoiding the United States right now, and I
think that makes perfect sense, especially because we've decided to
give measles a try.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah. Yeah, so measles outbreak is still going on. I mean,
I know we've talked about it before, but I think
it's just this ongoing event at this point and probably
will be for the next year, to be honest, because
our vaccination rates, especially in Texas, have dropped so low
that we can expect, you know, outbreaks at this point.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Why why are we all of a sudden vaccine skeptical.
I have a little bit of understanding when it comes
to COVID because it was new. It's the mRNA vaccine,
a different delivery, and I understand that there's some skepticism
to new things, and I know that we'd like to
challenge authority all that kind of stuff. But when it
comes to the MMR, the measles up for bella vaccine
(01:01):
for Pete's sake, that's been around forever. Why are we
are we hesitant about something that is shown It's fine.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, I mean it's it's a combination of things. There
are people who are vaccine hesitant because overall because of vaccines,
You're right, that's I think that might be the minority
at this point. So a lot of people that are
just government hesitant, and they don't want to be told
what to do, and they don't want to obey the government,
and so even if the government's right, they're going to say,
you can't tell me what to do. So, I mean
(01:32):
that's there's a big group of people I run into,
at least at this point that are more like I want.
I'm for individual rights, individuality, individual choice, and I choose
not to get my kids vaccinated. And when you look
at these cases, the people that are getting measles aren't
the ones making the choice. It's their parents. They're making
the choice. And seventy eight percent of the cases or
(01:53):
kids who didn't get to choose.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, doesn't it seem strange to you that that we
would choose self arm in order to take a stand
for individual choice. For instance, I believe in individual choice, too.
In many cases, there is at no point do I
say I'm going to tear out my fingernails just because
the government doesn't want me to. Why do we say,
let's make sure our kids get these diseases that have
(02:17):
been otherwise eradicated for individual choice? Isn't this? I mean,
this feels like it's a real cognitive dissonance going on
within one's own mind. There has to be a psychological
component to this.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
There is, and I think, you know, overall, just people
are trying to deal with it. I know, and honestly,
as you talk to each individual person as you do
when you're a doctor, they you know, they really are
trying to do the best. They're trying to make the
best of their understanding of the world, and they're coming
to this conclusion you're wishing there was a way. You know,
(02:50):
how do I not sound like I'm sold out to
pharmaceutical companies because I don't get a dime if you
get vaccinated or not. You know, how do I sound
like you know that I can be a legitimate source
when you know, because I know when I started this
in med school, there was we had Jenny McCarthy, who
you know, went from being a we'll call her a
reality star show to you know, on the view, to
(03:13):
all of a sudden an authority on you know, vaccines
and autism, and I realized, Wow, I don't have that level,
you know, sitting at a patient's bedside, I don't have
that level of influence. I really can't combat that. So,
I mean, there's just people who choose they're they're easily
kind of taken in by you know, almost call them
medical myths, and they kind of if it aligns with
(03:34):
their with their own thinking already, and we tend to
believe things that align with our own thinking. And I
think that's what's happening. Is you suspect the government, you
find out that there's something about vaccines that they're not
telling you, and then it aligns with your thinking. You say,
no way, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Where is the Where did this go wrong? I love
what you said, Doctor Jim Kinney, the chief medical officer
for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, as
our medical News at, doctor Kinney continues, I love what
you said about as you talk to individuals, you learned
that they really are trying to do the best for
themselves at some point. Their parents must not have taught
them that the best thing they can do for themselves
(04:13):
is listen to doctors. So is this a condition of
Centerfolds having more influence than the doctor that we suddenly
the girl who's in the magazine under my mattress, I
believe her more than I believe the guy wearing the
lab coat. And ten years of schooling and twenty years
(04:34):
of experience, at some point we decided that the credibility
of those doctors was not in our best interest. So
how do we reconcile. I'm going to do what's best
for myself, but I'm also going to ignore.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
The experts right now, You're absolutely right, but the you know,
and I'm going to take I'm going to take responsibility
for that. You know, doctors have kind of made their beds. Right.
It used to be people that you could sit and
talk to and have a relationship with and you really
trusted and understood. And now it's these fifteen minutes appointment
where you maybe get five minutes max of FaceTime, And
(05:07):
how do you build a relationship? How do you build
trust in that much time? You know, the American health
systems somewhat broken, and doctors are not establishing that relationship
or trust. And now that's that's really unfair to put
across every doctor because I mean, my doctor sits there
and talks to me, and I know he does that
not just with me, but with his other patients. So
there's people out there that actually do that. But overall,
(05:30):
as a specialty, we are you know, we have not
engendered the trust that we really need to. And you know,
and now that we drop so in the past, if
if you only had little pockets, right, and you have
what we everybody knows now is herd immunity, right, it's
that if if you don't find it in the herd,
then the people that are that are sensitive to it
won't be impacted. And that's what we've been seeing for years. Well,
(05:52):
now we've dropped below that herd immunity and now those
small pockets are no longer protected. They are going to
be and really this if you have you know, this
is what I'm concerned about, is people are worried about
measles and they're coming to be concerned that they're going
to get it. If you've been vaccinated, if you were
born before nineteen fifty seven, you had measles you know
you are You're fine. You know you're not probably not
(06:13):
going to get If you really want to know, you
can get a measles tighter that will prove whether you're
immune or not. This is really going to be a
disease of the unvaccinated. So if you're unvaccinated, you have
concerns and if you're not. If you are vaccinated, you're
going to be fine, all right.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Doctor Jim Kiney, our chief medical officer, will continue more
medical news with doctor Keeney, including something he said here
just a moment ago about the health system and spending
more time with patients. I want to know whose fault
that is that we're not doing it. I love that
he took accountability, but we'll find out. Is it all
on him? Doctor Jim? I don't think you are the
problem that And why is it that working mornings is hazardous? Hazardous?
(06:52):
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Chris Meryl KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk and
on demand anytime in the iHeartRadio App. Joining me is
doctor Jim Kenny, chief medical officer for Dignity Saint Mary
Medical Health Medical Center in Long Beach. It's Medical News
with doctor Keeney and Doctor Keeney. You were talking in
our last segment here about the health system and that
it's really changed. You used to be able to sit
down and have a conversation with doctors, and now doctors
(07:23):
you've got fifteen minutes appointment fifteen minute appointments. You get
about five minutes FaceTime with the doctors. Is this because
we have a shortage of providers or is this a
is this a health insurance thing? Is this about quotas
and tracking results? What's what's the cause the root cause
of that.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, that's it's a great question. But the problem is
there's no sound bite answer to this one. It is.
It's a it's a breakdown across the board, right that
we do have a significant shortage of physicians. So I
mean you refer to somebody even in my area where
you know we have plenty, we have a lot of physicians,
but we're still a shortage of neurosurgeons and often neurology
(08:00):
where it may take three months to get into CE one.
You know, there's there's shortages of all types of specialties.
So you know, there's definitely the shortage issue, and so
doctors are trying to get in as many patients as
they can. You're in a generation where doctors sell, you know,
it's one of the few areas where balleories have gone
down as medicine. That's why you see kind of this
(08:20):
brain drain of you know, it used to be the
smart kids went to medical school. Now it seems like
the smart kids going to finance or computer science or AI. Right,
So the incomes have gone down rather than going up
over the years, and I think Dodgors have tried to
mitigate that by working harder and seeing more patients. It
plays into it in a lot of ways. I can
(08:41):
maybe equalize out my income. I can also serve the
population who's saying, look, we don't have enough doctors and
I need to see more people. So, you know, and
then we have all the managed care is you know,
in term for an HMO for example, is managed care
and you get a per member, per month fee. Right.
So the geary is if I keep all my patients healthy,
(09:04):
then they get to just keep that money. They don't
have to spend a lot of money in medical fees,
and so you're kind of at risk. But so what
people do is they take on quite a few patients
because you know, if you're going to get ten dollars
per member per month and you need to make you know,
you know, twenty thousand dollars a month, then you're going
to take on two thousand patients and at the end
(09:24):
of the month, you know, you may have had to
see a good portion of those, maybe ten percent of those,
or maybe they don't have to see any of them.
But really people are getting you know, we have more
interventions in healthcare now, there's more things to check, there's
more things we can treat, and so it's really the
visits are going up, and the population is aging. You
know that people over sixty five see the doctor five
(09:45):
times as much as someone under sixty five, so suddenly
we need more visits as well. Just so many factors
that we've pent a lost control. Doctors are now kind
of hourly employees for the most part, and it's hard
to really, you know, control your workflow in a lot
of settings. Some settings you can, and they're choosing to
(10:06):
work the extra hours of other settings. It's just hard
to control it.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I could I literally talk to this topic for two
or three hours, but nobody would want to listen to it. So, uh,
doctor Kinnie, let me move on real quick. I want
to get to this. Working mornings sucks. I've done it before.
They asked what I do it for, Bill, I said no.
They said we will give you doctor pay for it.
I said, that's great, I'll do it. Then they told
me doctor pay was ten dollars, which I thought was crap. Right,
I didn't realize until talking to you that I am
(10:31):
getting doctor pay. So what's the I've got a sleep
tracker on my on my Apple Watch, and it tells
me I'm not getting enough sleep, especially this week, right
right is there? I mean I thought I find that
very useful because I'm somebody that subscribes to the whole
I got to get eight hours and I try to
go to bed with the with the the sun down
and get up when the sun comes up and not
(10:52):
set an alarm clock. Am I doing stuff wrong?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah? I mean so a lot packed in there. Right.
Sleep trackers, they are asked to me sleep based on
things like your pulse and your pulse oxygen level and movement.
That's not what sleep labs do, and they never have.
Sleep labs are approximating sleep by catching electrodes to your
head and looking at actual brain waves. So your sleep
(11:15):
tracker is telling you you're in rem sleep, but it
actually has no idea because it's not packing your brain waves.
And even when we talk about rem sleep and deep sleep,
what estimating with the brain waves is the neurochemical process
in the brain that we can't measure. So your three
spaces moved from measuring the correct thing when you're just
using a tracker. So there is ah, there's a condition
(11:38):
now where people get so anxious over the fact that
their sleep tracker is telling them they're not getting enough
sleep that they actually have anxiety over it. They go
to a sleep study and they realize, no, you're actually
getting all the sleep you need, and they're just they
don't accept it because they really are bought into these trackers.
So they're interesting. They're good because what you can do
is modify certain things, right like you know, eat a
(12:00):
late meal and go to bed and see what that
does to your sleep tracker. That that kind of change,
you can tell you, well, I am getting better sleep
or less, you know, not as good sleep. You can try,
you know, drink having a nightcap before you go to bed.
People think it helps them sleep, it actually hurts their
sleep for the most part. Same thing with like marijuana gummies.
People swear by those to sleep, but they disrupt your
rem sleep and your deep sleep cycles. So you know,
(12:25):
that's kind of what's going on with those sleep trackers.
They're they're fun, but they also they have their downside
as well, and there's even people then going to the
doctor and getting mends that they don't need to help
them with a sleep problem that they don't have. So
you know, I think there is some danger there. But
if you have a sleep problem and you want to
see a sleep specialist, they can do a sleep study
and a sleep lab connected to the electra and then
(12:48):
you'll really know the right answer.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Which is why I offset my nightcap with the gummy
because I figured that I just mix them and everything
works out. Doctor Jim Keiney, chief medical Officer for Dignity
Saint Mary Medical Center, Long Beach. It's Meta News with
doctor Kenney. Thank you so much for Carbon Daniel for us.
Thanks bell appreciate it. Take a check on News KFI
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Merril KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk and on
demand anytime in the iHeartRadio app. If you are on
the socials, there's a chance, while you may not navigate
the socials as well as your your teenager or young adult,
you are better at not falling for shenanigans, which is
(13:35):
what we're seeing. We're seeing a bunch of the kids
these days that somehow are more savvy online than any
prior generation and also equally dumber than any prior generation.
This I pulled audio here, this from NBC in Washington
that was talking about the phishing scams that the kids
(13:59):
these days are falling for.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
The numbers are alarming, more than one hundred and one
million dollars lost in online scams in twenty twenty one
by people under twenty years old. The study was done
by Social Catfish, a company dedicated to preventing online scams
through reverse search technology.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Essially are a people's search company.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
We help people verify people online and so you know,
our focus is online safety.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
The uptick might be because fifty four percent of the
households called don't monitor their kids' activities online.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh yeah, nobody likes spying on their kids. It is
harder to be a parent now than it ever has
in the past. It's harder to be a kid than
it's ever been in the past. It's harder to be
a parent. You hear stories from us fogies that we'll
talk about how our parents would say, go outside and
don't come back until it's dark, or don't come back
until the street lights come on. And there were times
(14:54):
that we would I recall playing basketball with friends, and
I'm not talking about street games with anybody that was
good at basketball, but it was just a group of
guys somewhere between the ages of twelve and sixteen, and
we'd be out there playing basketball until we literally couldn't
see the basket any longer, and then everybody walked home
and we'll see again tomorrow. That's what we did, right.
(15:17):
Parents didn't have to spy on us now. Occasionally to
have one of the kids, parents would drive by and
just wave and go, hey, I'm just headed home. Just
wanted to say hi. And you know, now, looking back
at it as a parent, I can look back and go, Okay,
they were just checking to make sure the kid was
there and then everything's safe. Cool, it's great. But now
you have to put keyloggers on your kid's computer. You
have to put spywear on your own kid's computer to
(15:40):
make sure that they're not falling victim. And the kids
don't like it because they say, you're watching everything I'm doing.
Of course, teenagers do that because they want their independence. Yeah,
I'm watching what you're doing, because there's always some pervo
out there asking for you to send nude pictures. Truth
old days, there were still perbos, but you could identify
(16:03):
them because they had really noisy vans with no windows. Nowadays,
you can't see them.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
When they're randomly contacted by somebody, whether it be through
social media, through email, or their phones. They don't have
their spider sense up like you or I where we
grew up in like that, don't talk to strangers.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Generation leaving over confident tech savvy teens to be exposed
to four common scams.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Ooo, what would they be?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
The first is sex stortion. The FBI published this warning
on sextortion plots against teenage boys. Often scammers will pose
as a female, send new photos and asked for the
same in.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Return was thank Goodness TV out of the sound effects
it's received.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
The victim is told if he does not send money,
a photo will be sent to all of his friends
and family and posted online.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
It's sad because last year there was a story of
a Florida teen that actually committed suicidally. Oh and what
he realizes with most sex soortion cases, though they're empty threats.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Before chatting with a stranger online, perform a reverse image
search to confirm the person is who they say they are,
and if you received a threat, contact local law enforcement
to report it.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Now here's where the team is going to be better
than you are at doing the reverse image search. Swear
to god, it would take me ten minutes to figure
out how to do that. I could figure it out,
but I don't have the reverse image search website handy
on my computer. It would take me a hot minute.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Another scam is student loan forgiveness. Most of the time,
the victim will get emails or texts asking for personal
information like their social Security number and payment information. To
avoid this, the Department of Education's official financial site studenta
dot gov should be the only site you give personal
information to.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Although that site may go down here very shortly because of.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Cuts, and there is no application fee to apply up. Next, Yeah,
talent scout scam users on Instagram and tics.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
All right, we got it, talent scouts blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
What else to avoid? Just never click on any links,
even if the link was sent from a friend.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
There you go. Don't click on links. You don't have
any talent. Nobody wants to see you naked. And what
was the other one? It was the other one we
just said. So why do people fall for it? Because
when you're a teenager, you're dumb. When you're a young adult,
you're dumb. You've got more hormones than brains, and you've
got what the kids call fomo. Now for many of you,
(18:33):
you know what fomo means. But every time I say
the phrase fomo, my wife has to ask what does
that mean? And I just say, you just wouldn't understand.
You're getting up there, and that's when I get to
go sleep on the couch. But fomo is fear of
missing out. So we have so many young people that
have a fear of missing out that they're willing to
send nuties of themselves to randos. They're willing to click
(18:57):
on links that say we'll pay off your student loan
town because I mean, what if there's a chance that
it's real, And they'll click on all kinds of different
links because I don't want to miss out on something. Oh,
this talent agent spotted my Instagram and says I'm hot
and could be a model. I better click on the
link and give them my photos and send them money
(19:18):
to represent me, because I mean, what if they are real? Well,
jincidentally is not new. This happened when I was in college.
The Internet was still very young as far as it's ubiquity.
And when I was in college, we used to get
those chain letter emails. Forward this to six people, you know,
(19:40):
because Bill Gates is giving every one a thousand dollars
that's on this chain. We got those constantly, constantly, and
we always forwarded them because I mean, we're ninety nine
point nine percent sure this is garbage, but just in case,
maybe Bill Gates is trying to figure out who he
can give money to. Okay, and we forward it same
thing fear of missing out. Fomo, there it is, k
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If you are looking for good news about the economy,
it is this. A fetanyl use may be dropping. We
know this because the Border Patrol is now finding more
poultry related products than they are fetanyl. Egg interceptions are
(20:36):
up thirty six percent nationwide in the year starting in
October compared to the previous year. A hotspot for egg
smuggling is Texas. Cazars and Texas have gone up fifty
four percent, according to the Customs of Border Protection in
San Diego, They've more than doubled. According to the CBP,
it's the price difference. So a lot, they say a
(21:00):
price is like a third of what it is in
the US if you are over the borders. So agents
have foiled. Ninety would be egg smugglers trying to ferry
the breakfast staples across the border in El Paso. And
they say it's all because you can get eggs a
lot cheaper in Mexico. So forget fentanyl. The new cartel
chickens and they're coming. Egg prices are dropping. They're still
(21:26):
way up, but they are slowly coming down. We like
to hear that wholesale egg prices drifting lower. Bird flu
issues may be easing. Even as President Trump claiming victory,
his administration is acknowledging that the upcoming Easter holiday could
cause prices to jump again. This from Axios the highly
pathogenic avian influenza leading to tens of millions of chickens
(21:47):
being culled, which means and that to trigger shortages and
price spikes. I still have yet to see any reports
on what they do with the with the chickens after
they call them. Is there just like a mass chicken
grave somewhere that we're unaware of because you can't use
the chickens for things like nuggets, right, They've got bird flu,
(22:11):
so you can't do that. So there's just I guess
mass chicken graves out there somewhere. Many stores limiting how
many eggs shoppers can buy. Some restaurants have added temporary
egg search charges as well. They say egg prices should
potentially start coming down. They dropped by a dollar twenty
a dozen wholesale cord to the US Department of Agriculture,
down to six eighty five a dozen Department, noting that
(22:33):
flew out breaks slowed over the last couple of weeks.
They've been localized have been able to try to get
ahead of those. Price of Midwest Larget large eggs was
five twenty three a dozen. It's down thirty nine percent
from its peak a couple of weeks earlier. The price
that consumers are actually paying is still up. However, from
January to February, wholesale prices are dropping, retail prices are rising.
(22:53):
So if we were to ask you, our egg price
is getting cheaper as far as you know, no, And
if you read the article, or if you're a whole saler,
you might say, yeah, they're starting to come down. But
if it's you buying things at the store, you head
on into Ralphs and you look for eggs, they're not
going to be any cheaper, which is leading some people
to believe that there may be something larger at play. Indeed,
(23:15):
is there a conspiracy of foot from Fox Business. It
sounds like the Department of Justice is looking into that
very claim.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
You know, farmers have been dealing with this bird flu
since twenty twenty two, but recently prices have gotten out
of control.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Take a look back.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
In December, a dozen eggs, it's going to cost you
around four dollars. Now it's closer to seven dollars. And
in February, a dozen eggs cost around eight dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
That's wholesale.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
This is why the Justice Department is opening an investigation.
They're looking into if major producers are violating antitrust laws
by sharing information about supply and pricing, conspiring to keep
prices higher. But the American Egg Board says, this is
a story of supply and demand. Farmers have been battling
bird flu and losing.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Okay, all right, good. We have not ever seen anything
like this play out before. We've never had an American
company take advantage of a news story or a prevailing sentiment.
We've never had any oil companies, for instance, that have
continued to tell us that this is a simple supplying
demand issue while they rake in record profits. We've never
(24:22):
seen that happen in any other aspect, especially during the
pandemic and then the subsequent supply chain shortage that happened afterward.
Companies don't use news in order to boost their bottom line,
to hose you in order to line their own pockets.
It doesn't happen. So when you hear this nonsense that
(24:43):
says that these major egg producers are somehow gouging you,
that's just a total lie. Believe their story. Instead that
says it's a simple supply and demand issue. For instance,
as I pointed out, wholesale prices are down a dollar
twenty even though you're paying more. The difference, of course
(25:06):
goes into the pockets of the egg producers. But that's
pure coincidence and in no way, shape or form indicative
of some sort of an underlying conspiracy that they're working
against you in order to make a ton of money
and profit off the news, all at your expense. That
doesn't happen. It's simply supply and demand. And while demand
(25:30):
remains the same and supply is up, and you would
think prices would come down, and they're not. That's it's
just a lot of market factors that you wouldn't understand.
It's very it's very complicated. You wouldn't understand. It's just
let me simplify supply and demand and all the other
stuff with record profits and that that's just you wouldn't
understand it. It's too complicated.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Since January of twenty twenty five the start of this year,
we've lost more than thirty million birds and counting. Last
week was actually the first week we went afoot week
without a new farm having an outbreak of the Avian flu.
So those this impact has been devastating on our industry.
It's been devastating on our farmers. And like I said,
our farmers are in the fight of their lives.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, absolutely, especially the largest commercial farms. The small farmers
are losing money. They're in the fight of their lives.
The very large farms that are raking in record profit
that must be an even bigger fight. That's just massive,
you know.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
But the other people that are losing are the businesses
and the consumers. We're here at rocos where every egg
dish is now a dollar fifty more expensive because of
the cost of eggs.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah. I just saw an ad out for I don't know,
Dunnies or billage In or somebody. They've got some six
or seven dollars deal and that included the big omelet too,
and I thought, how are they doing that. They're not
making any money on that. In fact, I was seeing
that waffle house is always the butt of a lot
of jokes, not a lot of waffle houses nearby. See
(26:54):
waffle house is getting hit hard. However, if you are
loving breakfast I Hop, I Hop is getting hammered by
the egg prices. I Hop prices have increased by eighty
two percent over the last five years. Texas Roadhouse up
forty six percent, TGI Friday's up forty five percent. And
this is all in large part because of the rising
(27:19):
food costs, but especially when it comes to places like
I Hop, it's eggs, comes out eggs. It's all eggs.
It's anay issue. Who else is pulling back? Forget it?
If you're like me, you stopped eating eggs a while
ago because you said, I'm not going to pay those
ridiculous prices for eggs. You'll just wait for the bird
flu to be done, and in the meantime you'll find
(27:39):
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