September 17, 2025 • 23 mins
(Sept 17,2025)
Neil Saaverda fills in for Bill while he is out on Vacation. Gov. Gavin Newsom launches California men’s service challenge aimed to help young boys and men. Retro movies are hitting big as the box office. Why cinephiles and theatres are going back in time. Dr. Jim Keany, Chief Medical Officer at Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Medical News'! Dr. Keany talks with Neil about
Neil Saaverda fills in for Bill while he is out on Vacation. Gov. Gavin Newsom launches California men’s service challenge aimed to help young boys and men. Retro movies are hitting big as the box office. Why cinephiles and theatres are going back in time. Dr. Jim Keany, Chief Medical Officer at Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Medical News'! Dr. Keany talks with Neil about
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
AM six forty. Here's nils A Adra. I know that
guy in the morning, Neil said, said a desert sor Rodera.
I got an You're not better than me, Kono isayam, Neil,
(00:22):
You're not better than me. Kono with your lame hat,
stupid face. Love you too. Call that a beard. I
don't know. I add nothing, man, I'm sorry, I had nothing.
You're good looking man. Okay, thank you. I apologize. Kf
I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Nil Savedra in the morning crew, Happy Wednesday to you.
(00:46):
I've talked about I'm a fair minded person. I'm a
rationalist at heart. I think life is logic. That doesn't
mean that I don't have, you know, a big heart,
and I don't love and I don't cry and anything
like that. That's not true. I can be a very
emotional person as well. But what I do believe is
as a person of faith, I believe God put my
(01:07):
brain above my heart for a reason and to keep
balance in things. As some guy called yesterday on the
talk back and he's like, Neil, I'm you got to
give up your man card. Pick a side already, and
it's like, no, I'm not going to because I don't
think either side has all the answers. I just don't.
(01:29):
I think I believe in two parent families for a reason.
Now those may look different than they did in the fifties,
but I think two people come together, it's better for
a child when possible. But I also salute those that
are single parents, a single mom or single dads. However,
I think in the best of all worlds, to have
(01:52):
a mind that looks towards the truth or reason in something,
rather than going I have a d behind his neighbor
has a dollar behind the dave, I gotta follow it.
I didn't like when the towers came down and there
were American Muslims that didn't condemn it, and there were
(02:13):
I don't like that there were black jurors who let
oj go free because he was black. I don't like
people who just say, well, this is what I'm a
part of, and I'm going to stand with it.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I don't like that. I don't look at every Christian.
I don't look at every Latino and say I'm going
to just back them because they have similar beliefs or
similar backgrounds. I don't, and I never will because I
have to get rid of my brain to do that.
The guy's like, there's two sides to every coin, but
you got to pick a side. I'm like, first of all,
(02:48):
there's not. There's no coin with one side. It's my point.
It makes my point. And two, do you know why
there's ridges on the sides of coins. There's ridges on
the sides of coin because when they were made out
of precious metal, people would scrape the sides of the
coin and take a little metal off each, So technically
(03:10):
there's three sides to a coin, and the people would
get to the people that only saw two sides, they
could cheat them by scraping a little so they started
putting ridges on there. So if you scrape the precious
metal off to take a little piece off that you'd notice.
So when people aren't smart enough to take things in
a case by case basis and they just go, well,
(03:31):
this is my belief, I don't like it. I say
all that because I'm not a fan of Governor Newsom.
I've said this many times. I thought, at the beginning
of the pandemic, I thought he was the only one.
I didn't think Trump came out strong. I didn't think
he was a good leader during that, but I did
think at the beginning Governor Newsom did. Then he lost
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me when he shut everything down, because I think that
we are going to be dealing with the garbage of
that for years and years, decades maybe to come. So
I wanted to come out and say that I agree
with something that he's doing. Yesterday, Governor Gav Newsom launched
(04:17):
the California Men's Service Challenge, and I dig this. He
wants to inspire the next generation of service and leadership
and community engagement among boys and young men, and I
think we need more of that now. I don't care
if it's a political thing. I still agree with this.
I think it's important. Strategy is to work with partners
(04:41):
that already have you know, local non and state nonprofits,
groups that we know and love, big Brothers and Sisters
Mentor California YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles. These are good
groups that already have mentoring and services in place, that
can develop, that can engage young men, and that can
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meet with him directly. And the goal is to reduce
unemployment rate and young men that feel lonely and ostracized
and unseen, and I think that that's important. I have
an eight year old boy, soon to be nine, and
I make sure that he knows he's seen that I
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see his and hear his thoughts. I want him to
understand how things work, how to make things, how to
fix things. I want him to understand that he's important.
I want him to see what a man looks like.
And you know, I'm always humored. Someone's like, you better
give up your man card. Listen, what a man is.
(05:47):
You can define however you want. But I've had great
men in my life. And trust me, there's plenty of
people out there that would gladly come to you and
tell you why they think I am a real man,
someone that got some that got taught that the hard way.
(06:08):
But anyways, I just wanted to tip my hat to
him because there's something I agree on, and I think
you should point that out when you agree. All right,
retro movies are coming back. Oh, and I want to
tell you about this really quick. The Dodgers take on
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(06:29):
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AM five seventy LA Sports Retro Movies. I was listening
to Mo Kelly last night as I one to do
and listening to them talk with Chris about movies. Chris,
(06:50):
I can't remember his last name, but he comes on.
He talks about movies and he was talking about movies
that are you know that you should seek out, that
are older movies that you should seek out on streaming.
And I love that. And they were going over these
different movies and some were classics, some were not think
thought to be great movies, like water World. He said,
(07:13):
go back and watch. And I've been wanting to go
back and watch. And I'll tell you for a strange reason,
I didn't like it the first time I saw it.
I wanted to so bad I wanted to. I agreed
with mos assessment, yeah, that it was in my mind
it was going to be like Mad Max on water right.
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But the reason why I want to go back is
because every time we have passes at Universal Studios, and
every time I go there, one of my favorite things
is the water World attraction, the stunt show. It's phenomenal.
It never never is boring every time I go. It's fantastic.
The work that that team puts into it, the special
effects team, everything, the props, the area, it just everything
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that sets everything. That's what makes me want to watch
it because I love that show so much that I go,
I want to watch it. And also some of the
characters are great, but I don't know, so apparently that's
the thing. Right now, We've got the fiftieth anniversary of
Jaws coming out, which is one of my all time
favorite movies and makes me, you know, always look back.
(08:21):
When I'm swimming in a pool, in a pool, on
a rare occasion, I will if my leg is hanging
off a bed, I'll bring it back on the bed.
Not because of El KAKUI or monsters or the Boogeyman
or whatever, the Boogeyman, the Latino Boogeyman, you know, Baba YadA.
(08:48):
It's not because of that. It's because Jaws. I don't
want Jaws to come out from underneath my bed. Yeah,
it is completely nonsensical, because Jaws isn't going to be
under my bed. It's too small under there. He needs
place to swim and be free. But it's but I
love it, and it's coming this month to AMC theaters
(09:11):
in the Century Cities. You know, you see these things
and you I don't know. It takes me back back
to the future. Fantastic film. I can watch it over
and over and over, the first one, over and over
and over and over again. I love it. And a
buddy of mine, Mike, makes replica movie cars. He has
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the time Machine DeLorean. He also has the Ecdo one
from the original Ghostbusters. And he builds them. I mean
he doesn't like buy them somewhere, he builds them. He's insane,
incredibly talented guy. And so these movies hit us. You know,
the Von Traamp family coming back in Sound of Music
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is in theaters. I think now, Apollo thirteen. I mean,
these were massive, massive films and they're coming back and
we have a thirst for them. And you know what,
that would probably get me to go to the movies
even more than a new film one, because it is
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once a movie leaves the theater, it doesn't always come back.
Now I've seen Star Wars releases again in theaters. It's fantastic.
I've seen old movies re released in theaters that it's like,
I can't believe I'm watching this.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Recently, we had a weird switch of events that where
a show that came out on Netflix went into the
theaters because it was so big on Netflix and it
wasn't designed to go in the theaters. It was K
pop Demon Hunters, which if you haven't seen it because
I have an eight year old, it's fantastic. The music
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is awesome, and they brought it into theaters as a
sing along, and so I think Amy, you asked someone
on your show if they were if it was going
to be a sing along for the sound of music. Yeah, yeah,
yes to me, and they said they didn't know, but
that was will Gans. Yeah, so it's probably going to
be whether they wanted to or not. How could you not?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I think you are probably correct.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Because how could the Hills be alive if you didn't
have the sound of music? Yeah, exactly right. So it
is a thing right now, and I'm all for it.
People are talking about bringing these movies back, and sometimes
they're making more than some of the newer films, So
(11:38):
I think that would be a great thing. I mean,
you don't have to do it in every theater necessarily,
but I think it'd be cool if a theater had
like Wednesday Nights or whatever, and you show an old
movie and maybe they have some giveaways or you know,
post your limited edition post or or limited edition something.
(11:58):
I would be down for that. I bet Amy would, right.
Wouldn't you go see older movies in the theater to
see the big screen?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah? I think some of them are fun. I mean
like seeing seeing a Star Wars type of movie on
the big screen.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Watching Jaws again on the big screen.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
No, oh my gosh, No, nope, never again. But that's
just me because I.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Know, have you seen the stuff that was cut? It
was much more horrific. No, there is a scene where
a kid actually gets bitten in half, like on a
biggie border and the blood shoots up. I've seen some
of the cuts that didn't make the film.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Well, I'm watching I'm rewatching Stranger Things, and I'm doubting
that it's more gory than that.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
But Stranger Things wasn't that gory. Oh, as it was.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Really, you gotta go watch it again. There are parts
of it that are extremely gory. Really, Yeah, I didn't
get that all right, I'm gonna all like super gory
I have.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I'm sorry, but I laugh. I have a very intent
when something's really gory, I go wow. But see, I
know the behind the scenes. I love special effects, I
love prosthetic makeup. I love all that stuff. So you know,
I look at that stuff and I see it completely different.
(13:20):
But anyways, okay, as handles on vacation, there's so much
to get to. We'll get to doctor Jim Keeney in
just a moment. Want to remind you, just invite you
if you feel moved in your heart. I know the
homeless issue is a tough one. It's a tough one
for me, and it makes it hard to want to give.
(13:41):
But Amy King and I are joining with the Union
Rescue Mission again this year, and you were so generous
last year. I'm going to ask for the same kind
of love. Why Because the Union Rescue Mission is the
real deal. They are a dry house, which means the
federal government will not give them money, which is bull
craft in my eyes. They won't give them money. They're
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faith based, and the fact that they don't let you
drink and use drugs. They want they want to get
you better and want to get you back home and
living a normal life, not on the streets. I respect
that I love. I asked them questions, so did Amy.
Last year they became a monthly charity of mine. So
(14:26):
I'm not asking you to do anything I don't. As
a matter of fact, I just put money on my
own donation team because I'm in there with you, not
looking for you to do anything I don't. So you
go to RM dot org slash ote and you'll see
Team KFI. Click on Team KFI please, and you can
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donate to your heart's desire. You want to donate for Amy, great,
you want to donate for me? I love you, Thank
you so much. You make me proud. But the reality
is money goes to the same place, and I'd love
to see that. We have twenty thousand dollars we're trying
to raise in the next couple weeks. September twenty sixth
(15:07):
is when we will be going over the edge. I
will be repelling as will Amy king down a twenty
five story two hundred and fifty feet or so story hotel,
The Hilton in Universal City. We'd love for you to
join us. It's a thousand dollars donation to join us
or you can give it it just any amount, and
that's the twenty sixth and twenty seventh. We'll tell you
(15:29):
more about it, but please go to RM dot org
slash ote, click on the KFI team. You can donate
to Amy, you can donate to me, but we thank
you in advance. It is a great cause and the
Union Rescue Ammission is the real deal. All right, see
(15:52):
you you ruin that? Okay, we'll go to break now
and then we'll talk to the doctor when we get back.
It's your attitude. You serve a beautiful meal. You serve
a beautiful meal on a dirty hub cap. I'm going
to reject it. Kno, there's a rundown for a reason. Neil,
(16:12):
you're a d.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I thought I thought you guys were going to be friends.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
What happened? How long did that last? Yesterday? He started it? Okay,
let's bring on doctor Keeney, Doctor Jim Keeney calling doctor Keeney,
Doctor Jim Keeney, come to the phone, please, Hello, good
morning meal. Is that all you hear all day? Your
name being called?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
No, just it's just my text message and phone going
off all day.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well, sorry, bro, you asked for it. You want. You
wanted to be Captain Sexy. Look at me, I'm handsome
and all fit and I'm a doctor, So suck it
alrighty doc. The flu flu season shot time. What do
we need to know?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well, I mean every year, this is the deal. You
got to get a new flu shot. You know, maybe
we go into why that is necessary, because you know,
there's two types of flu, right, There's influenza A. Influenza B.
B causes epidemics, little local, you know, grouping of infections,
especially in younger kids. But A causes pandemics. And that's
(17:21):
because that little thugger has two proteins on it, at
H and an N protein that can kind of change
and morph, and that's what allows it to bypass your
immune system. So every year we need to kind of
update the flu shot to include the predominant H and
M type A flues. And in this case this year,
(17:43):
the A flu really haven't changed from last year. It's
still H one N one that's been pretty steady for
a while. And then the H three N two one
is is changing this year, and that's why we need
to change the vaccine and why you need to get
an update. And that's what they're seeing. What they do
is look in the other hemisphere where they have a
winter during our summer, and they see what's circulating there,
(18:05):
and typically that's what we'll move over to the northern
hemisphere in our winter. So kind of that, that's how
it works, and then vice versa for the people in
the southern hemisphere, they're going to watch if anything changes
for us over the winter.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
It Does getting a shot flu shot make you sick?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, that's a common thing, right, People say they get
sick after the flu. I mean, we typically we get
it during the cold and flu season, and it is
true that you're likely to get like some type of
viral infection during that time. But you don't typically get
influenza from the flu shot. You really can't. I mean,
it's an attenuated nowadays, it's the virus is taken apart basically,
(18:42):
and it just can't infect you. There's a recombinant flu
vaccine that really is only pieces of the flu virus,
the parts that will actually kind of stoke up your
immune system to.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Be ready to go.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
So no, you can't get influenza from the flu shot,
but a lot of people do get sick. Also, the
side to the flu shot is your body's mounting an
immune response to influenza if it's effective, especially, and so
you may feel some of the symptoms, you know, just
mild body ache, of fatigue, those type of things, muscle soreness,
and that'll typically go away in a day or two,
(19:15):
as opposed to the flu that can last, you know,
seven to ten days and get so bad that you
skip work because of it.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, I just ask. I'm not going to say the
person's name, but it rhymes with Phil Bandle and he
he left the show last week or something because he
wasn't feeling well, and a couple of days later hit
him that he had gotten the flu shot the day before,
And so I guess does it? Yeah, make you feel
(19:42):
a little sit So when people have.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
That experience, right, it's hard to talk him out of it, right,
They the experience is I got a kneel in my arm,
and then a couple of days later I got taken
down by some virus. But yeah, you know, I think
around that same time that Handle got sick, I got
taken down by a little virus too. And I haven't
had my flu shot yet this year, So are they
the same?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I don't know, well, I had sneezed before he got it,
and I assumed it was my sneeze, even though I
didn't see him, because I did it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, you gave it you, I think people right, he
does tend to blame you every time day.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Everything blames everything, all right, Moving on to the diabetes,
the diabetes, the sugars, the sweets. How can people have diabetes?
I know they call it the silent killer, but how
can they have diabetes and have no idea that they
have it?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, because early diabetes doesn't necessarily have all the full
blown symptoms, and it will silently that high blood sugar
will silently damage your organs. You know, to the effect
that it's one of the number one causes of kidney failure,
that of hypertension. It's one of the top three or
four causes of blindness in younger age groups. So early
blindness later blindness is cataracts. But you know, for younger
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people who go blind, this is a serious issue. So
you know the reason is okay, So number one, for
the naysayers out there, it's not really increasing. You know,
they're just changing how they measure it. That is is
true that we did change the definition so in nineteen
ninety seven lowered the blood sugar threshold from one forty
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to one twenty six to be called diabetic. We also
included in twenty ten hemoglobe in A one C, which
we've been using for decades. Hemoglobe in A one C
is a chemical on your blood, on your blood cell
that once it's exposed to a lot of blood sugar,
it will alter it, and then we can measure that.
So now if you just happen to have a low
(21:37):
blood sugar because you're fasting, we can detect that you
have diabetes because your blood sugar is going up high enough.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
To alter your red blood cell.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's having the same effect on your eyesight and your kidneys.
So we want to know that, and we're calling that diabetes.
So the definitions have changed, but you won't be able
to sense it. The only way to know is to
get tested. And you know, the people that have do
a lot of healthcare are they're getting tested so often
that it's true they've probably already been tested. But for
people out there that really aren't getting annual physical exams,
(22:07):
that aren't being checked regularly, it's probably a good idea
to get checked for diabetes probably the number one thing.
If you're going to get a blood test, this is
the most important blood test you're going to get.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
You know. I also noticed, and I don't know if
it's a change in insurance availability or something, but I've
also noticed that I've been asked a lot to get
the eye test. I guess to check is it for
pressure or something dealing with diabetes. But it wasn't something
that I'd been asked about before. Now it seems to
be coming up in doctors going do you want to
(22:39):
do this? And I always get to being here anyways.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
That's different but similar. That's clau coma and also a
silent way to lose your eyesight, So you know, that's
that's great that people are We're starting to realize what
are the beneficial tests that absolutely must be done and
are what are kind of ones that they just got
by tradition in the past, and we can we can
take those off often save you the money of spending
(23:02):
it on those things, or save your insurance company. And
that's one of them as well, is being checked for
the glaucoma.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Awesome, thanks, doc, I appreciate you as always. Doctor Jim
Keeney coming in and adding some sensibility to the craziness
of this program. Thanks Doc, take care, Catch you next time,
my friend, doctor Jim Keeney. All right, that's enough for
us today. Stick around for Gary and Shannon, and we'll
catch you tomorrow morning at six right after Amy King
(23:30):
and wake up call. So go know where. This is
KFI and KOSTHD to Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
AM six forty. Here's nils A Adra. I know that
guy in the morning, Neil said, said a desert sor Rodera.
I got an You're not better than me, Kono isayam, Neil,
(00:22):
You're not better than me. Kono with your lame hat,
stupid face. Love you too. Call that a beard. I
don't know. I add nothing, man, I'm sorry, I had nothing.
You're good looking man. Okay, thank you. I apologize. Kf
I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Nil Savedra in the morning crew, Happy Wednesday to you.
(00:46):
I've talked about I'm a fair minded person. I'm a
rationalist at heart. I think life is logic. That doesn't
mean that I don't have, you know, a big heart,
and I don't love and I don't cry and anything
like that. That's not true. I can be a very
emotional person as well. But what I do believe is
as a person of faith, I believe God put my
(01:07):
brain above my heart for a reason and to keep
balance in things. As some guy called yesterday on the
talk back and he's like, Neil, I'm you got to
give up your man card. Pick a side already, and
it's like, no, I'm not going to because I don't
think either side has all the answers. I just don't.
(01:29):
I think I believe in two parent families for a reason.
Now those may look different than they did in the fifties,
but I think two people come together, it's better for
a child when possible. But I also salute those that
are single parents, a single mom or single dads. However,
I think in the best of all worlds, to have
(01:52):
a mind that looks towards the truth or reason in something,
rather than going I have a d behind his neighbor
has a dollar behind the dave, I gotta follow it.
I didn't like when the towers came down and there
were American Muslims that didn't condemn it, and there were
(02:13):
I don't like that there were black jurors who let
oj go free because he was black. I don't like
people who just say, well, this is what I'm a
part of, and I'm going to stand with it.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I don't like that. I don't look at every Christian.
I don't look at every Latino and say I'm going
to just back them because they have similar beliefs or
similar backgrounds. I don't, and I never will because I
have to get rid of my brain to do that.
The guy's like, there's two sides to every coin, but
you got to pick a side. I'm like, first of all,
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there's not. There's no coin with one side. It's my point.
It makes my point. And two, do you know why
there's ridges on the sides of coins. There's ridges on
the sides of coin because when they were made out
of precious metal, people would scrape the sides of the
coin and take a little metal off each, So technically
(03:10):
there's three sides to a coin, and the people would
get to the people that only saw two sides, they
could cheat them by scraping a little so they started
putting ridges on there. So if you scrape the precious
metal off to take a little piece off that you'd notice.
So when people aren't smart enough to take things in
a case by case basis and they just go, well,
(03:31):
this is my belief, I don't like it. I say
all that because I'm not a fan of Governor Newsom.
I've said this many times. I thought, at the beginning
of the pandemic, I thought he was the only one.
I didn't think Trump came out strong. I didn't think
he was a good leader during that, but I did
think at the beginning Governor Newsom did. Then he lost
(03:54):
me when he shut everything down, because I think that
we are going to be dealing with the garbage of
that for years and years, decades maybe to come. So
I wanted to come out and say that I agree
with something that he's doing. Yesterday, Governor Gav Newsom launched
(04:17):
the California Men's Service Challenge, and I dig this. He
wants to inspire the next generation of service and leadership
and community engagement among boys and young men, and I
think we need more of that now. I don't care
if it's a political thing. I still agree with this.
I think it's important. Strategy is to work with partners
(04:41):
that already have you know, local non and state nonprofits,
groups that we know and love, big Brothers and Sisters
Mentor California YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles. These are good
groups that already have mentoring and services in place, that
can develop, that can engage young men, and that can
(05:02):
meet with him directly. And the goal is to reduce
unemployment rate and young men that feel lonely and ostracized
and unseen, and I think that that's important. I have
an eight year old boy, soon to be nine, and
I make sure that he knows he's seen that I
(05:23):
see his and hear his thoughts. I want him to
understand how things work, how to make things, how to
fix things. I want him to understand that he's important.
I want him to see what a man looks like.
And you know, I'm always humored. Someone's like, you better
give up your man card. Listen, what a man is.
(05:47):
You can define however you want. But I've had great
men in my life. And trust me, there's plenty of
people out there that would gladly come to you and
tell you why they think I am a real man,
someone that got some that got taught that the hard way.
(06:08):
But anyways, I just wanted to tip my hat to
him because there's something I agree on, and I think
you should point that out when you agree. All right,
retro movies are coming back. Oh, and I want to
tell you about this really quick. The Dodgers take on
the Phillies at Dodger Stadium with the first pitch at seven.
Listen to all Dodger games on AM five seventy LA
(06:29):
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AM five seventy LA Sports Retro Movies. I was listening
to Mo Kelly last night as I one to do
and listening to them talk with Chris about movies. Chris,
(06:50):
I can't remember his last name, but he comes on.
He talks about movies and he was talking about movies
that are you know that you should seek out, that
are older movies that you should seek out on streaming.
And I love that. And they were going over these
different movies and some were classics, some were not think
thought to be great movies, like water World. He said,
(07:13):
go back and watch. And I've been wanting to go
back and watch. And I'll tell you for a strange reason,
I didn't like it the first time I saw it.
I wanted to so bad I wanted to. I agreed
with mos assessment, yeah, that it was in my mind
it was going to be like Mad Max on water right.
(07:33):
But the reason why I want to go back is
because every time we have passes at Universal Studios, and
every time I go there, one of my favorite things
is the water World attraction, the stunt show. It's phenomenal.
It never never is boring every time I go. It's fantastic.
The work that that team puts into it, the special
effects team, everything, the props, the area, it just everything
(07:57):
that sets everything. That's what makes me want to watch
it because I love that show so much that I go,
I want to watch it. And also some of the
characters are great, but I don't know, so apparently that's
the thing. Right now, We've got the fiftieth anniversary of
Jaws coming out, which is one of my all time
favorite movies and makes me, you know, always look back.
(08:21):
When I'm swimming in a pool, in a pool, on
a rare occasion, I will if my leg is hanging
off a bed, I'll bring it back on the bed.
Not because of El KAKUI or monsters or the Boogeyman
or whatever, the Boogeyman, the Latino Boogeyman, you know, Baba YadA.
(08:48):
It's not because of that. It's because Jaws. I don't
want Jaws to come out from underneath my bed. Yeah,
it is completely nonsensical, because Jaws isn't going to be
under my bed. It's too small under there. He needs
place to swim and be free. But it's but I
love it, and it's coming this month to AMC theaters
(09:11):
in the Century Cities. You know, you see these things
and you I don't know. It takes me back back
to the future. Fantastic film. I can watch it over
and over and over, the first one, over and over
and over and over again. I love it. And a
buddy of mine, Mike, makes replica movie cars. He has
(09:31):
the time Machine DeLorean. He also has the Ecdo one
from the original Ghostbusters. And he builds them. I mean
he doesn't like buy them somewhere, he builds them. He's insane,
incredibly talented guy. And so these movies hit us. You know,
the Von Traamp family coming back in Sound of Music
(09:55):
is in theaters. I think now, Apollo thirteen. I mean,
these were massive, massive films and they're coming back and
we have a thirst for them. And you know what,
that would probably get me to go to the movies
even more than a new film one, because it is
(10:17):
once a movie leaves the theater, it doesn't always come back.
Now I've seen Star Wars releases again in theaters. It's fantastic.
I've seen old movies re released in theaters that it's like,
I can't believe I'm watching this.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Recently, we had a weird switch of events that where
a show that came out on Netflix went into the
theaters because it was so big on Netflix and it
wasn't designed to go in the theaters. It was K
pop Demon Hunters, which if you haven't seen it because
I have an eight year old, it's fantastic. The music
(10:54):
is awesome, and they brought it into theaters as a
sing along, and so I think Amy, you asked someone
on your show if they were if it was going
to be a sing along for the sound of music. Yeah, yeah,
yes to me, and they said they didn't know, but
that was will Gans. Yeah, so it's probably going to
be whether they wanted to or not. How could you not?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I think you are probably correct.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Because how could the Hills be alive if you didn't
have the sound of music? Yeah, exactly right. So it
is a thing right now, and I'm all for it.
People are talking about bringing these movies back, and sometimes
they're making more than some of the newer films, So
(11:38):
I think that would be a great thing. I mean,
you don't have to do it in every theater necessarily,
but I think it'd be cool if a theater had
like Wednesday Nights or whatever, and you show an old
movie and maybe they have some giveaways or you know,
post your limited edition post or or limited edition something.
(11:58):
I would be down for that. I bet Amy would, right.
Wouldn't you go see older movies in the theater to
see the big screen?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah? I think some of them are fun. I mean
like seeing seeing a Star Wars type of movie on
the big screen.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Watching Jaws again on the big screen.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
No, oh my gosh, No, nope, never again. But that's
just me because I.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Know, have you seen the stuff that was cut? It
was much more horrific. No, there is a scene where
a kid actually gets bitten in half, like on a
biggie border and the blood shoots up. I've seen some
of the cuts that didn't make the film.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Well, I'm watching I'm rewatching Stranger Things, and I'm doubting
that it's more gory than that.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
But Stranger Things wasn't that gory. Oh, as it was.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Really, you gotta go watch it again. There are parts
of it that are extremely gory. Really, Yeah, I didn't
get that all right, I'm gonna all like super gory
I have.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I'm sorry, but I laugh. I have a very intent
when something's really gory, I go wow. But see, I
know the behind the scenes. I love special effects, I
love prosthetic makeup. I love all that stuff. So you know,
I look at that stuff and I see it completely different.
(13:20):
But anyways, okay, as handles on vacation, there's so much
to get to. We'll get to doctor Jim Keeney in
just a moment. Want to remind you, just invite you
if you feel moved in your heart. I know the
homeless issue is a tough one. It's a tough one
for me, and it makes it hard to want to give.
(13:41):
But Amy King and I are joining with the Union
Rescue Mission again this year, and you were so generous
last year. I'm going to ask for the same kind
of love. Why Because the Union Rescue Mission is the
real deal. They are a dry house, which means the
federal government will not give them money, which is bull
craft in my eyes. They won't give them money. They're
(14:02):
faith based, and the fact that they don't let you
drink and use drugs. They want they want to get
you better and want to get you back home and
living a normal life, not on the streets. I respect
that I love. I asked them questions, so did Amy.
Last year they became a monthly charity of mine. So
(14:26):
I'm not asking you to do anything I don't. As
a matter of fact, I just put money on my
own donation team because I'm in there with you, not
looking for you to do anything I don't. So you
go to RM dot org slash ote and you'll see
Team KFI. Click on Team KFI please, and you can
(14:46):
donate to your heart's desire. You want to donate for Amy, great,
you want to donate for me? I love you, Thank
you so much. You make me proud. But the reality
is money goes to the same place, and I'd love
to see that. We have twenty thousand dollars we're trying
to raise in the next couple weeks. September twenty sixth
(15:07):
is when we will be going over the edge. I
will be repelling as will Amy king down a twenty
five story two hundred and fifty feet or so story hotel,
The Hilton in Universal City. We'd love for you to
join us. It's a thousand dollars donation to join us
or you can give it it just any amount, and
that's the twenty sixth and twenty seventh. We'll tell you
(15:29):
more about it, but please go to RM dot org
slash ote, click on the KFI team. You can donate
to Amy, you can donate to me, but we thank
you in advance. It is a great cause and the
Union Rescue Ammission is the real deal. All right, see
(15:52):
you you ruin that? Okay, we'll go to break now
and then we'll talk to the doctor when we get back.
It's your attitude. You serve a beautiful meal. You serve
a beautiful meal on a dirty hub cap. I'm going
to reject it. Kno, there's a rundown for a reason. Neil,
(16:12):
you're a d.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I thought I thought you guys were going to be friends.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
What happened? How long did that last? Yesterday? He started it? Okay,
let's bring on doctor Keeney, Doctor Jim Keeney calling doctor Keeney,
Doctor Jim Keeney, come to the phone, please, Hello, good
morning meal. Is that all you hear all day? Your
name being called?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
No, just it's just my text message and phone going
off all day.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well, sorry, bro, you asked for it. You want. You
wanted to be Captain Sexy. Look at me, I'm handsome
and all fit and I'm a doctor, So suck it
alrighty doc. The flu flu season shot time. What do
we need to know?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well, I mean every year, this is the deal. You
got to get a new flu shot. You know, maybe
we go into why that is necessary, because you know,
there's two types of flu, right, There's influenza A. Influenza B.
B causes epidemics, little local, you know, grouping of infections,
especially in younger kids. But A causes pandemics. And that's
(17:21):
because that little thugger has two proteins on it, at
H and an N protein that can kind of change
and morph, and that's what allows it to bypass your
immune system. So every year we need to kind of
update the flu shot to include the predominant H and
M type A flues. And in this case this year,
(17:43):
the A flu really haven't changed from last year. It's
still H one N one that's been pretty steady for
a while. And then the H three N two one
is is changing this year, and that's why we need
to change the vaccine and why you need to get
an update. And that's what they're seeing. What they do
is look in the other hemisphere where they have a
winter during our summer, and they see what's circulating there,
(18:05):
and typically that's what we'll move over to the northern
hemisphere in our winter. So kind of that, that's how
it works, and then vice versa for the people in
the southern hemisphere, they're going to watch if anything changes
for us over the winter.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
It Does getting a shot flu shot make you sick?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, that's a common thing, right, People say they get
sick after the flu. I mean, we typically we get
it during the cold and flu season, and it is
true that you're likely to get like some type of
viral infection during that time. But you don't typically get
influenza from the flu shot. You really can't. I mean,
it's an attenuated nowadays, it's the virus is taken apart basically,
(18:42):
and it just can't infect you. There's a recombinant flu
vaccine that really is only pieces of the flu virus,
the parts that will actually kind of stoke up your
immune system to.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Be ready to go.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
So no, you can't get influenza from the flu shot,
but a lot of people do get sick. Also, the
side to the flu shot is your body's mounting an
immune response to influenza if it's effective, especially, and so
you may feel some of the symptoms, you know, just
mild body ache, of fatigue, those type of things, muscle soreness,
and that'll typically go away in a day or two,
(19:15):
as opposed to the flu that can last, you know,
seven to ten days and get so bad that you
skip work because of it.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, I just ask. I'm not going to say the
person's name, but it rhymes with Phil Bandle and he
he left the show last week or something because he
wasn't feeling well, and a couple of days later hit
him that he had gotten the flu shot the day before,
And so I guess does it? Yeah, make you feel
(19:42):
a little sit So when people have.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
That experience, right, it's hard to talk him out of it, right,
They the experience is I got a kneel in my arm,
and then a couple of days later I got taken
down by some virus. But yeah, you know, I think
around that same time that Handle got sick, I got
taken down by a little virus too. And I haven't
had my flu shot yet this year, So are they
the same?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I don't know, well, I had sneezed before he got it,
and I assumed it was my sneeze, even though I
didn't see him, because I did it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, you gave it you, I think people right, he
does tend to blame you every time day.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Everything blames everything, all right, Moving on to the diabetes,
the diabetes, the sugars, the sweets. How can people have diabetes?
I know they call it the silent killer, but how
can they have diabetes and have no idea that they
have it?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, because early diabetes doesn't necessarily have all the full
blown symptoms, and it will silently that high blood sugar
will silently damage your organs. You know, to the effect
that it's one of the number one causes of kidney failure,
that of hypertension. It's one of the top three or
four causes of blindness in younger age groups. So early
blindness later blindness is cataracts. But you know, for younger
(20:56):
people who go blind, this is a serious issue. So
you know the reason is okay, So number one, for
the naysayers out there, it's not really increasing. You know,
they're just changing how they measure it. That is is
true that we did change the definition so in nineteen
ninety seven lowered the blood sugar threshold from one forty
(21:17):
to one twenty six to be called diabetic. We also
included in twenty ten hemoglobe in A one C, which
we've been using for decades. Hemoglobe in A one C
is a chemical on your blood, on your blood cell
that once it's exposed to a lot of blood sugar,
it will alter it, and then we can measure that.
So now if you just happen to have a low
(21:37):
blood sugar because you're fasting, we can detect that you
have diabetes because your blood sugar is going up high enough.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
To alter your red blood cell.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's having the same effect on your eyesight and your kidneys.
So we want to know that, and we're calling that diabetes.
So the definitions have changed, but you won't be able
to sense it. The only way to know is to
get tested. And you know, the people that have do
a lot of healthcare are they're getting tested so often
that it's true they've probably already been tested. But for
people out there that really aren't getting annual physical exams,
(22:07):
that aren't being checked regularly, it's probably a good idea
to get checked for diabetes probably the number one thing.
If you're going to get a blood test, this is
the most important blood test you're going to get.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
You know. I also noticed, and I don't know if
it's a change in insurance availability or something, but I've
also noticed that I've been asked a lot to get
the eye test. I guess to check is it for
pressure or something dealing with diabetes. But it wasn't something
that I'd been asked about before. Now it seems to
be coming up in doctors going do you want to
(22:39):
do this? And I always get to being here anyways.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
That's different but similar. That's clau coma and also a
silent way to lose your eyesight, So you know, that's
that's great that people are We're starting to realize what
are the beneficial tests that absolutely must be done and
are what are kind of ones that they just got
by tradition in the past, and we can we can
take those off often save you the money of spending
(23:02):
it on those things, or save your insurance company. And
that's one of them as well, is being checked for
the glaucoma.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Awesome, thanks, doc, I appreciate you as always. Doctor Jim
Keeney coming in and adding some sensibility to the craziness
of this program. Thanks Doc, take care, Catch you next time,
my friend, doctor Jim Keeney. All right, that's enough for
us today. Stick around for Gary and Shannon, and we'll
catch you tomorrow morning at six right after Amy King
(23:30):
and wake up call. So go know where. This is
KFI and KOSTHD to Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show. Catch my
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