October 22, 2025 • 23 mins
(October 22, 2025)
ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits could thwart the effort to double the workforce. Need to get some frustration out? Try a ‘Scream Club.’ Dr. Jim Keany, Chief Medical Officer at Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Medical News'! Dr. Keany talks with Bill about Doctors telling patients ‘cool it on the supplements,’ peanut allergies plummeting in children, RFK Jr advocating for MORE saturated fats, Nitrous Oxide use surging in CA among young people, and can Marijuana really help you sleep?
ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits could thwart the effort to double the workforce. Need to get some frustration out? Try a ‘Scream Club.’ Dr. Jim Keany, Chief Medical Officer at Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Medical News'! Dr. Keany talks with Bill about Doctors telling patients ‘cool it on the supplements,’ peanut allergies plummeting in children, RFK Jr advocating for MORE saturated fats, Nitrous Oxide use surging in CA among young people, and can Marijuana really help you sleep?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're List Saints k I AM six forty. The Bill
handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio f yours call
I You Willing to Sacrifice out Love.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Kf I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Bill Handle here on a Someday Wednesday, October twenty two,
twenty two days into the government shutdown, and it's going
to really start hurting. Well it's already started, but it
is really going to hurt federal employees, some ten thousand
of which have just been furlough just basically fired, and
then the rest are rely suffering. For example, air traffic
(00:43):
controllers who are absolutely critical certainly to flying in our
air system. They have to work and they don't get paid. Now,
will they get paid, Yeah, they will eventually, depending on
how long this thing lasts. And at the end of it, yeah,
Congress will fund their pay now. There was a video
that I saw yesterday, and we get these every day
(01:06):
of these ICE arrests and these raids, and one of
the ICE agents that was there was this big fat
guy who had to weigh three hundred pounds, and as
he was arresting this immigrant, you could actually see his
stomach jiggle and wiggle a whole lot and you go, Now,
(01:31):
what is going on with that? This is a police
type agent. Yeah, basically a peace officer. And here's what's
going on. President Trump's plan to double the size of
the ICE workforce has really been halted, or not halted,
been slowed down.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And not by activist groups either.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
It's the training academy in Georgia and it's the ICE
personal fitness test. More than a third of applicants it failed.
And boy does that impede the plan to hire, train,
and deploy ten thousand deportation officers by January. So here
are the requirements just for the personal fitness tests. Fifteen
(02:14):
pushups no chance, thirty two sit ups less of a chance,
one point five miles in fourteen minutes. No way in hell,
of course, I'm talking about me. And nope, I can't
do it now. It's pathetic. One ICE official said that
(02:37):
you have a typical loss of forty recruits before and
a couple of the candidates would fail. Well, what's going on.
The academy standards have already been eased. New parameters should
be the minimum for any officer, one of the officials said,
And agency veterans are concerned about the quality of new
recruits and they're all being fast tracked.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And an email from ICE headquarters to one of the
agency's top officials said, a considerable amount of athletically allergic candidates.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I love this one. What a phrase.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
They misre represented their physical condition on application forms. That's
like we can go on a dating app, you send
off a picture of Tom Cruise and that's what you
look like. And so what they're doing now is at
the recruiting stations or areas, they're asking the candidates, Okay,
do the push ups right now. I want to see
sit ups, and a whole number of them a third
(03:33):
are simply failing the academy itself. It's an academy. It's
a peace officer academy. Well, training has gone from four
months to two months. Some of those fresh hires dropped
out after flunking exams on immigration law and Fourth Amendment
limits on search authority, but fitness was the big one.
(03:58):
ICE has tripled a number of people at arrest on
US streets and more and more. Social media videos show
that when you're a deportation officer, it involves chasing people
through parking lots, wrestling them to the ground, and veteran
officials typically want younger officers to be the ones that
do that, do the chasing and do the tackling. So
(04:21):
now moving over to how did the fat guy become
an ICE agent? Now this is a guy who you
don't get to three hundred pounds over the course of
two weeks or three weeks. Well, he was one of
two things, and we don't know. Either a former policeman
(04:45):
who fitness is self certified yep, I'm in good shape.
I can do all of it, and the testing is
not required, or coming from the military where testing is
not required. The only people that have that fitness test
(05:06):
are new recruits.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
The rest of them.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Two thirds say nope, they self test and all you
have to do is say I'm fit, And there's no
test to determine that an ICE agent is not fit.
I'm assuming there are some parameters because you don't usually
see guys that are that big. And let me tell you,
I saw this guy on the video. He was there,
(05:30):
I mean other agents were in front of him, of
course doing the actual tackling.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He was sort of just looking at it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I don't think he could tackle a guy or run
after a guy with one leg hopping down the Street.
That's how slow he was, and so that is an interesting,
interesting push. ICE is offering fifty thousand dollars hiring and
retention bonus, along with student loan forgiveness other enticements, but
(05:59):
those are big ones. Those are people who they really
want and are most.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Fit to be ICE agents.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
By the way, new hires being told that you come
to work in sneakers or you report in sneakers so
you can more easily drop and do crunches and pushups
when you're applying at the agency offices. And here's another
one that federal government. Okay, this is the federal government
at its best.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So someone applies and fail.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So ICE has to take those people and seek guidance
from ICE's legal department.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Do we just revoke job offers.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That have been made that the guy lied and they
have been okayed And then when they find out no,
you lied, well they can ask for administrative hearing and
say you revoked my application or my invitation to become
part of ICE, and you did it wrongly and I
am now appealing it. They are assigned to administrative tasks
(07:05):
to perform while waiting for ICE the human resources to
issue termination letters and say why they are being terminated.
One senior Ice officials said, it is a disaster. Quick
numbers one hundred and seventy five thousand applications from its
recruitment drives seventy five billion dollars in new money received
(07:26):
from the one big, Beautiful bill. Now the actual number
is in one hundred and seventy five is fifty thousand.
Because people apply for multiple positions, and as I said,
three pools of candidates, new recruits with no position, no
multiple no training, current law enforcement officers and recently retired
(07:47):
ice officials who come back. And the only ones that
have to be tested are the new recruits.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Everybody else self certifies.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I am in good shape, but you weigh three hundred
and ninety pounds. You have to ignore that because I
have self certified and I am a former cop.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
All right, where do you go with that? All right? Now,
moving on, and I want to share it.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
When I saw this story out the Washington Post, I said, Wow, Wow, Ow,
this is good. And it's all about scream clubs. Now,
this is not scream therapy, which was considered a legitimate
form of mental health therapy.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
These are scream clubs.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And I don't know one hundred years ago, a lawyer
friend of mine convinced me to take one of these courses,
the self help courses where screaming was part of it,
and God, I forgot the name of it, spring roll, Palm, springs,
(08:58):
just I just don't remember what it was happy screaming,
I don't remember. Maybe it was I don't remember. Spring
was in there someplace, and part of it was as
you were trying to make yourself a better person. Somewhere
in the middle of that. These were three ten hour days.
(09:19):
You paid for this, and you're supposed to make yourself
feel better. I came out feeling worse about myself. And
part of it is you're sitting there and you're yelling.
You're going back to your childhood and yelling at the
top of your lungs. Two things happened to me. I
never felt more stupid in my life coming out of that.
And number two, I had a sore throat for four days.
(09:43):
It just didn't work. I'm not a strong believer in screaming,
except when you're screaming at someone. This is a sort
of new way of dealing with their scream clubs where
people get together and it's almost like a yoga class
where you have a leader who then says, let's scream.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And everybody is screaming.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Now they tend to do it in areas that are
not particularly full of people because people get very loud.
And one of the co leaders of the DC chapter
of the Scream Club, just think about something. You really
want to release, something that's been bothering you. Now you
have to sign a waiver, which says, I acknowledge that
(10:31):
participation may carry certain risks, including, but not limited to,
emotional distress.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
In other words, you come in.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
In trouble emotionally, you walk out in more trouble emotionally.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, you have to waive that liability vocal.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Strain, Yeah, your vocal cords are going to pop or
accidental injury. And the other thing is you don't talk
about what brought you to Scream Club. It's almost as
if there's some kind of a privile in there where
you just don't share what you hear. It's almost like
an AA meeting. That's I think that's the analogy. And
(11:09):
so are these growing you bet. Now we go back
to the screaming therapeutic screaming goes back to the nineteen
sixty there was a psychologist author Jenov developed primal scream
therapy based on the notion that all your adult neuroses
(11:30):
came from childhood trauma and you go back through regression
and you start screaming because I'm going to quote here
a manifestation of that regression.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
John Lennon, Yoko Ono were among its big proponents screaming,
and frankly those techniques fell out of favor because there
was some studies and there's no long term therapeutic benefit.
So Scream Club does not claim any therapeutic benefit. It
(12:07):
positions itself as a wellness community. It is in therapy.
It's just the way to let off some steam. I
was found in Chicago by a couple and they had
a tough week last December incided they were going to
scream about it.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It's almost like taking.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
One of those nerf balls or those foam bats and
batting each other. And now the club has expanded to
cities Atlanta, Austin, Phoenix, Washington, d C. As I said,
and people tend to look and see because this is
done out in the open, just a bunch of people
(12:46):
milling about and just watching. So let's start on the
count of three let out a collective no, no, make
it big. I want it big. One of them says,
my chest feels better. The anxiety kind of it goes
(13:10):
to my chest usually and it feels totally released.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Give me a break.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
My body is kind of like vibrating right now. One
of them said, what do you deal with that?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
The only screaming that's done are people listening to this show,
and when I get into my politics, they're screaming in
the car at me.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I experienced that a whole lot. All right.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Doctor Jim Keeney is the Chief Medical Officers for Dignity
a chief medical officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center
in Long Beach. Jim, good morning, it's Wednesday morning, Bill.
All right, I'm sorry, happy Wednesday to do.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I want to get right into this with Robert Kennedy
Robert RFK Junior, because he's one of my favorite cabinet secretaries,
and he is advocating for more saturated fats, not fewer
faturated saturated fats. But I thought saturated fats were not healthy.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And is he going to.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Say, don't weigh one hundred and eighty pounds, weigh two
hundred and eighty pounds because that's good for you.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Right, Yeah, I mean so again, I love how crazy.
The more time you give this guy, the more crazy
it sounds. So and he confuses things, right, he puts
things together that don't belong together, Like we should replace
simple carbohydrates with saturated fats. You know, that's not it
(14:38):
doesn't even make any sense. That's not what you replace
them with. It. There's plenty of of randomized controlled studies,
really good quality studies that show that when you replace
saturated fat with unsaturated fat, you know, polyontaturated, monounsaturated, you
actually improve every marker for heart disease and stroke and
(15:00):
everything else very significantly. And there's good sayings that show
that high diets and saturated fat increase your risk for
cardiovascular disease. So this makes no sense at all.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
For example, the vaccine connected to autism based on one
study by this doctor Wakefield who was later had his
license taken away, and what he was basing his study
on was just false. I mean literally, it was just
(15:33):
straight out false. But it's still there. Right, That's what
RFK is looking at.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah, I mean, he's got a pattern going where he
seems to put things together right. So it's almost like
there was a movie playing and he was falling asleep
intermittently through the movie, and then he tells you the
plot and it's all wrong because he's missing big chunks.
So you know, it's a good idea to reduce these
ultra processed foods and to reduce simple carbohydrates and the
(15:58):
kids diet. That makes sense. He had something going there,
and then he took a left turn with Yeah, we're
going to replace it with saturated fats.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So you know, yeah, have you ever you know, as
a doctor, I'm sure you've seen pregnant women. If you
ever said, do not take tile at all, your kid's
going to be autistic?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
No, I tell him take that?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, I got okay, got it, just kidd all right?
Something all right.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Something you have talked about, and that's peanut allergies and
that lots of pretty serious stuff. You've seen kids with
peanut or people with peanut allergies come in and you
could die. And so you also explained how it's being
reduced and we have more information on that, So tell
us in children particularly what's going on with that.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, so we're seeing a big drop in this in
peanut allergies specifically and overall in early childhood food allergies,
but specifically in peanut allergies because some guidance came out
I think it was twenty seventeen. Some guidance came out
that we talked about where you're supposed to introduce peanuts
early in life, and it was an eighty percent reduction
(17:11):
if you were able to introduce peanuts, you know, in
the first four to six months of life. So we're
not talking about actual peanuts because kids that age canny peanuts,
they'll choke on them. You don't want to give peanut butter.
It's too thick and they can actually choke on that
as well. But when you take, you know, a teaspoon
or two of peanut butter and mix it in with
formula at that age, it significantly reduces the risk. So
(17:33):
it's something you want to talk about to your pediatrician
about because it depends on your level of risk. Like
a kid with severe egzema, you probably want to do
that kid in the office for the first time. He
needs peanuts so that you can be observed. But for
mild ezma or no risk factors definitely at home you
get safe to introduce peanut into the diet. And they
(17:55):
say about two grams of peanut protein, which is about
two teaspoons that you would put in and yeah, like
and mix it in with formula and thin it out
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Okay, So you don't take the peanut butter and rub
it on the gums like you do with your dog
just to enjoy looking at your dog dealing with it.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, no, And actually I'm glad you brought that up.
With skin exposure, Like when when you're exposed for the
first time through skin to any of these allergens, that
actually amps up. So if you did rub peanut butter
on the eggzema, for example, I don't know who would
do that. That would actually ramp up your peanut allergy
and make it worse. So it's the important part is
(18:35):
ingesting it. You have to ingest it and not just
have skin contact.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
And a story about nitrous oxide surging among young people
here in California. Now, I must tell you that nitrous
oxide is the one one thing I have not ingested
in my history of ingesting stuff like this, And I
don't know, Yeah, I don't know how I miss that
(19:02):
because I've done everything else, but nitrous has been around
for a long long time and all of a sudden
it's coming back.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So tell us about that one.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, so nitrous oxide is a cast that the kids inhale.
You can either do it by you know, they buy
the whipped cream and inhale a little bit of it
by inhaling without tipping the can over and then you
can get the nitros oxide off the can. Or they're
just buying actual canisters of nitrosoxide like what you use
(19:36):
in cooking. When you can you have a device that
you can plug that canister in to create whipped cream
and things like that. And then they even have large
like two to three liters tanks that you can buy
for food use, and kids are doing all of those.
So you know, when you see kids with these little
canisters or with balloons, because they'll fill a balloon with
it to inhale later, you know you should be asking
(19:58):
questions because that's not a they're not going to clown school.
They are actually probably huffing, is what it's called.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, so what are the questions? Hey, how does that
feel like? Is it better than for example, a high
with something else? Is it good stuff? Are those the questions?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I mean, essentially, yeah, No, it's not the questions. But
you know, I think a lot of parents are oblivious
to this, Like a lot of parents don't know about
this at all. And it's true that even doctors, it's
not something that's routinely asked in a doctor's office. We
might ask if you smoke or if you drink, but
we don't ask if you huff, you know. And and
so it's a it's a good question to add to
(20:36):
the list because it is going up significantly in number,
and it has bad effects. And when you do it chronically,
you know what happens is it it actually and activates
vitamin B twelve and also another chemical called methyl melonic acid.
And what that does is that the covering of your
(20:57):
nerves are maintained by these by vitamin B. Well, you
end up demiliating your nerves and having serious, chronic, lifelong
nerve problems.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Wow, it's no small deal, okay. And then lastly, marijuana.
That's one of the products that I have ingested.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Many, many, many, many times.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
No longer, by the way, it's been a bunch of
years since I've done that, And the question is can marijuana,
which of course is now legal, can marijuana really help
you sleep? I thought listening to this show really help
you sleep, but I guess not. So let's talk about
marijuana and sleep.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, so marijuana. A lot of people believe that marijuana
helps them sleep. There's even marijuana company sponsors studies this
show that marijuana helps you sleep. But the way they
do the study is they just ask the person, you know,
they give them some marijuana, They let them sleep, and
they how you sleep, and they wake up and they say,
I slept great. But when you do the actual studies
where you observe their sleep patterns, you look at those
(21:57):
stages of sleep, and you look at it over time,
you realize that marijuana is a massive sleep disruptor. So
it may make you feel like you're sleeping better, but
if you did that more than a few days in
a row, you would not feel rested because you're not
actually getting the rest stage of sleep. It completely trashes
REM sleep. So, and REM sleep is that rapid eye
(22:17):
movement sleep when you're dreaming, but it's also when your
brain clears out all the toxins and when it kind
of recuperates. That's the recuperative part of sleep, and you're
eliminating that part of sleep.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Wow, that sounds like fun. All right, Jim, thank you always,
great news. We will catch you next Wednesday. You have
a good win and as always, go kill somebody today please, Okay,
take care, Okay, bye.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Now let's say we're done. We're done with the show.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Gary and Shannon are up next, and we come back
again tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Amy will be here, Will will not. I am very
excited about that. What I will? Oh you will? Neil
may not be though right now? Neil should be back, right.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Okay, Will Will's coming back? Okay, Neil also coming back. Boy,
we're excited about that one too. So coming up at
six o'clock, I think Neil will be here and we
start all over again.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
This is kf I A M six point forty
You're List Saints k I AM six forty. The Bill
handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio f yours call
I You Willing to Sacrifice out Love.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Kf I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Bill Handle here on a Someday Wednesday, October twenty two,
twenty two days into the government shutdown, and it's going
to really start hurting. Well it's already started, but it
is really going to hurt federal employees, some ten thousand
of which have just been furlough just basically fired, and
then the rest are rely suffering. For example, air traffic
(00:43):
controllers who are absolutely critical certainly to flying in our
air system. They have to work and they don't get paid. Now,
will they get paid, Yeah, they will eventually, depending on
how long this thing lasts. And at the end of it, yeah,
Congress will fund their pay now. There was a video
that I saw yesterday, and we get these every day
(01:06):
of these ICE arrests and these raids, and one of
the ICE agents that was there was this big fat
guy who had to weigh three hundred pounds, and as
he was arresting this immigrant, you could actually see his
stomach jiggle and wiggle a whole lot and you go, Now,
(01:31):
what is going on with that? This is a police
type agent. Yeah, basically a peace officer. And here's what's
going on. President Trump's plan to double the size of
the ICE workforce has really been halted, or not halted,
been slowed down.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And not by activist groups either.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
It's the training academy in Georgia and it's the ICE
personal fitness test. More than a third of applicants it failed.
And boy does that impede the plan to hire, train,
and deploy ten thousand deportation officers by January. So here
are the requirements just for the personal fitness tests. Fifteen
(02:14):
pushups no chance, thirty two sit ups less of a chance,
one point five miles in fourteen minutes. No way in hell,
of course, I'm talking about me. And nope, I can't
do it now. It's pathetic. One ICE official said that
(02:37):
you have a typical loss of forty recruits before and
a couple of the candidates would fail. Well, what's going on.
The academy standards have already been eased. New parameters should
be the minimum for any officer, one of the officials said,
And agency veterans are concerned about the quality of new
recruits and they're all being fast tracked.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And an email from ICE headquarters to one of the
agency's top officials said, a considerable amount of athletically allergic candidates.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I love this one. What a phrase.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
They misre represented their physical condition on application forms. That's
like we can go on a dating app, you send
off a picture of Tom Cruise and that's what you
look like. And so what they're doing now is at
the recruiting stations or areas, they're asking the candidates, Okay,
do the push ups right now. I want to see
sit ups, and a whole number of them a third
(03:33):
are simply failing the academy itself. It's an academy. It's
a peace officer academy. Well, training has gone from four
months to two months. Some of those fresh hires dropped
out after flunking exams on immigration law and Fourth Amendment
limits on search authority, but fitness was the big one.
(03:58):
ICE has tripled a number of people at arrest on
US streets and more and more. Social media videos show
that when you're a deportation officer, it involves chasing people
through parking lots, wrestling them to the ground, and veteran
officials typically want younger officers to be the ones that
do that, do the chasing and do the tackling. So
(04:21):
now moving over to how did the fat guy become
an ICE agent? Now this is a guy who you
don't get to three hundred pounds over the course of
two weeks or three weeks. Well, he was one of
two things, and we don't know. Either a former policeman
(04:45):
who fitness is self certified yep, I'm in good shape.
I can do all of it, and the testing is
not required, or coming from the military where testing is
not required. The only people that have that fitness test
(05:06):
are new recruits.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
The rest of them.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Two thirds say nope, they self test and all you
have to do is say I'm fit, And there's no
test to determine that an ICE agent is not fit.
I'm assuming there are some parameters because you don't usually
see guys that are that big. And let me tell you,
I saw this guy on the video. He was there,
(05:30):
I mean other agents were in front of him, of
course doing the actual tackling.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He was sort of just looking at it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I don't think he could tackle a guy or run
after a guy with one leg hopping down the Street.
That's how slow he was, and so that is an interesting,
interesting push. ICE is offering fifty thousand dollars hiring and
retention bonus, along with student loan forgiveness other enticements, but
(05:59):
those are big ones. Those are people who they really
want and are most.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Fit to be ICE agents.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
By the way, new hires being told that you come
to work in sneakers or you report in sneakers so
you can more easily drop and do crunches and pushups
when you're applying at the agency offices. And here's another
one that federal government. Okay, this is the federal government
at its best.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So someone applies and fail.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So ICE has to take those people and seek guidance
from ICE's legal department.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Do we just revoke job offers.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That have been made that the guy lied and they
have been okayed And then when they find out no,
you lied, well they can ask for administrative hearing and
say you revoked my application or my invitation to become
part of ICE, and you did it wrongly and I
am now appealing it. They are assigned to administrative tasks
(07:05):
to perform while waiting for ICE the human resources to
issue termination letters and say why they are being terminated.
One senior Ice officials said, it is a disaster. Quick
numbers one hundred and seventy five thousand applications from its
recruitment drives seventy five billion dollars in new money received
(07:26):
from the one big, Beautiful bill. Now the actual number
is in one hundred and seventy five is fifty thousand.
Because people apply for multiple positions, and as I said,
three pools of candidates, new recruits with no position, no
multiple no training, current law enforcement officers and recently retired
(07:47):
ice officials who come back. And the only ones that
have to be tested are the new recruits.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Everybody else self certifies.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I am in good shape, but you weigh three hundred
and ninety pounds. You have to ignore that because I
have self certified and I am a former cop.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
All right, where do you go with that? All right? Now,
moving on, and I want to share it.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
When I saw this story out the Washington Post, I said, Wow, Wow, Ow,
this is good. And it's all about scream clubs. Now,
this is not scream therapy, which was considered a legitimate
form of mental health therapy.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
These are scream clubs.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And I don't know one hundred years ago, a lawyer
friend of mine convinced me to take one of these courses,
the self help courses where screaming was part of it,
and God, I forgot the name of it, spring roll, Palm, springs,
(08:58):
just I just don't remember what it was happy screaming,
I don't remember. Maybe it was I don't remember. Spring
was in there someplace, and part of it was as
you were trying to make yourself a better person. Somewhere
in the middle of that. These were three ten hour days.
(09:19):
You paid for this, and you're supposed to make yourself
feel better. I came out feeling worse about myself. And
part of it is you're sitting there and you're yelling.
You're going back to your childhood and yelling at the
top of your lungs. Two things happened to me. I
never felt more stupid in my life coming out of that.
And number two, I had a sore throat for four days.
(09:43):
It just didn't work. I'm not a strong believer in screaming,
except when you're screaming at someone. This is a sort
of new way of dealing with their scream clubs where
people get together and it's almost like a yoga class
where you have a leader who then says, let's scream.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And everybody is screaming.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Now they tend to do it in areas that are
not particularly full of people because people get very loud.
And one of the co leaders of the DC chapter
of the Scream Club, just think about something. You really
want to release, something that's been bothering you. Now you
have to sign a waiver, which says, I acknowledge that
(10:31):
participation may carry certain risks, including, but not limited to,
emotional distress.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
In other words, you come in.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
In trouble emotionally, you walk out in more trouble emotionally.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, you have to waive that liability vocal.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Strain, Yeah, your vocal cords are going to pop or
accidental injury. And the other thing is you don't talk
about what brought you to Scream Club. It's almost as
if there's some kind of a privile in there where
you just don't share what you hear. It's almost like
an AA meeting. That's I think that's the analogy. And
(11:09):
so are these growing you bet. Now we go back
to the screaming therapeutic screaming goes back to the nineteen
sixty there was a psychologist author Jenov developed primal scream
therapy based on the notion that all your adult neuroses
(11:30):
came from childhood trauma and you go back through regression
and you start screaming because I'm going to quote here
a manifestation of that regression.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
John Lennon, Yoko Ono were among its big proponents screaming,
and frankly those techniques fell out of favor because there
was some studies and there's no long term therapeutic benefit.
So Scream Club does not claim any therapeutic benefit. It
(12:07):
positions itself as a wellness community. It is in therapy.
It's just the way to let off some steam. I
was found in Chicago by a couple and they had
a tough week last December incided they were going to
scream about it.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It's almost like taking.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
One of those nerf balls or those foam bats and
batting each other. And now the club has expanded to
cities Atlanta, Austin, Phoenix, Washington, d C. As I said,
and people tend to look and see because this is
done out in the open, just a bunch of people
(12:46):
milling about and just watching. So let's start on the
count of three let out a collective no, no, make
it big. I want it big. One of them says,
my chest feels better. The anxiety kind of it goes
(13:10):
to my chest usually and it feels totally released.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Give me a break.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
My body is kind of like vibrating right now. One
of them said, what do you deal with that?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
The only screaming that's done are people listening to this show,
and when I get into my politics, they're screaming in
the car at me.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I experienced that a whole lot. All right.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Doctor Jim Keeney is the Chief Medical Officers for Dignity
a chief medical officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center
in Long Beach. Jim, good morning, it's Wednesday morning, Bill.
All right, I'm sorry, happy Wednesday to do.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I want to get right into this with Robert Kennedy
Robert RFK Junior, because he's one of my favorite cabinet secretaries,
and he is advocating for more saturated fats, not fewer
faturated saturated fats. But I thought saturated fats were not healthy.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And is he going to.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Say, don't weigh one hundred and eighty pounds, weigh two
hundred and eighty pounds because that's good for you.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Right, Yeah, I mean so again, I love how crazy.
The more time you give this guy, the more crazy
it sounds. So and he confuses things, right, he puts
things together that don't belong together, Like we should replace
simple carbohydrates with saturated fats. You know, that's not it
(14:38):
doesn't even make any sense. That's not what you replace
them with. It. There's plenty of of randomized controlled studies,
really good quality studies that show that when you replace
saturated fat with unsaturated fat, you know, polyontaturated, monounsaturated, you
actually improve every marker for heart disease and stroke and
(15:00):
everything else very significantly. And there's good sayings that show
that high diets and saturated fat increase your risk for
cardiovascular disease. So this makes no sense at all.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
For example, the vaccine connected to autism based on one
study by this doctor Wakefield who was later had his
license taken away, and what he was basing his study
on was just false. I mean literally, it was just
(15:33):
straight out false. But it's still there. Right, That's what
RFK is looking at.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah, I mean, he's got a pattern going where he
seems to put things together right. So it's almost like
there was a movie playing and he was falling asleep
intermittently through the movie, and then he tells you the
plot and it's all wrong because he's missing big chunks.
So you know, it's a good idea to reduce these
ultra processed foods and to reduce simple carbohydrates and the
(15:58):
kids diet. That makes sense. He had something going there,
and then he took a left turn with Yeah, we're
going to replace it with saturated fats.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So you know, yeah, have you ever you know, as
a doctor, I'm sure you've seen pregnant women. If you
ever said, do not take tile at all, your kid's
going to be autistic?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
No, I tell him take that?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, I got okay, got it, just kidd all right?
Something all right.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Something you have talked about, and that's peanut allergies and
that lots of pretty serious stuff. You've seen kids with
peanut or people with peanut allergies come in and you
could die. And so you also explained how it's being
reduced and we have more information on that, So tell
us in children particularly what's going on with that.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, so we're seeing a big drop in this in
peanut allergies specifically and overall in early childhood food allergies,
but specifically in peanut allergies because some guidance came out
I think it was twenty seventeen. Some guidance came out
that we talked about where you're supposed to introduce peanuts
early in life, and it was an eighty percent reduction
(17:11):
if you were able to introduce peanuts, you know, in
the first four to six months of life. So we're
not talking about actual peanuts because kids that age canny peanuts,
they'll choke on them. You don't want to give peanut butter.
It's too thick and they can actually choke on that
as well. But when you take, you know, a teaspoon
or two of peanut butter and mix it in with
formula at that age, it significantly reduces the risk. So
(17:33):
it's something you want to talk about to your pediatrician
about because it depends on your level of risk. Like
a kid with severe egzema, you probably want to do
that kid in the office for the first time. He
needs peanuts so that you can be observed. But for
mild ezma or no risk factors definitely at home you
get safe to introduce peanut into the diet. And they
(17:55):
say about two grams of peanut protein, which is about
two teaspoons that you would put in and yeah, like
and mix it in with formula and thin it out
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Okay, So you don't take the peanut butter and rub
it on the gums like you do with your dog
just to enjoy looking at your dog dealing with it.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, no, And actually I'm glad you brought that up.
With skin exposure, Like when when you're exposed for the
first time through skin to any of these allergens, that
actually amps up. So if you did rub peanut butter
on the eggzema, for example, I don't know who would
do that. That would actually ramp up your peanut allergy
and make it worse. So it's the important part is
(18:35):
ingesting it. You have to ingest it and not just
have skin contact.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
And a story about nitrous oxide surging among young people
here in California. Now, I must tell you that nitrous
oxide is the one one thing I have not ingested
in my history of ingesting stuff like this, And I
don't know, Yeah, I don't know how I miss that
(19:02):
because I've done everything else, but nitrous has been around
for a long long time and all of a sudden
it's coming back.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So tell us about that one.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, so nitrous oxide is a cast that the kids inhale.
You can either do it by you know, they buy
the whipped cream and inhale a little bit of it
by inhaling without tipping the can over and then you
can get the nitros oxide off the can. Or they're
just buying actual canisters of nitrosoxide like what you use
(19:36):
in cooking. When you can you have a device that
you can plug that canister in to create whipped cream
and things like that. And then they even have large
like two to three liters tanks that you can buy
for food use, and kids are doing all of those.
So you know, when you see kids with these little
canisters or with balloons, because they'll fill a balloon with
it to inhale later, you know you should be asking
(19:58):
questions because that's not a they're not going to clown school.
They are actually probably huffing, is what it's called.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, so what are the questions? Hey, how does that
feel like? Is it better than for example, a high
with something else? Is it good stuff? Are those the questions?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I mean, essentially, yeah, No, it's not the questions. But
you know, I think a lot of parents are oblivious
to this, Like a lot of parents don't know about
this at all. And it's true that even doctors, it's
not something that's routinely asked in a doctor's office. We
might ask if you smoke or if you drink, but
we don't ask if you huff, you know. And and
so it's a it's a good question to add to
(20:36):
the list because it is going up significantly in number,
and it has bad effects. And when you do it chronically,
you know what happens is it it actually and activates
vitamin B twelve and also another chemical called methyl melonic acid.
And what that does is that the covering of your
(20:57):
nerves are maintained by these by vitamin B. Well, you
end up demiliating your nerves and having serious, chronic, lifelong
nerve problems.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Wow, it's no small deal, okay. And then lastly, marijuana.
That's one of the products that I have ingested.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Many, many, many, many times.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
No longer, by the way, it's been a bunch of
years since I've done that, And the question is can marijuana,
which of course is now legal, can marijuana really help
you sleep? I thought listening to this show really help
you sleep, but I guess not. So let's talk about
marijuana and sleep.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, so marijuana. A lot of people believe that marijuana
helps them sleep. There's even marijuana company sponsors studies this
show that marijuana helps you sleep. But the way they
do the study is they just ask the person, you know,
they give them some marijuana, They let them sleep, and
they how you sleep, and they wake up and they say,
I slept great. But when you do the actual studies
where you observe their sleep patterns, you look at those
(21:57):
stages of sleep, and you look at it over time,
you realize that marijuana is a massive sleep disruptor. So
it may make you feel like you're sleeping better, but
if you did that more than a few days in
a row, you would not feel rested because you're not
actually getting the rest stage of sleep. It completely trashes
REM sleep. So, and REM sleep is that rapid eye
(22:17):
movement sleep when you're dreaming, but it's also when your
brain clears out all the toxins and when it kind
of recuperates. That's the recuperative part of sleep, and you're
eliminating that part of sleep.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Wow, that sounds like fun. All right, Jim, thank you always,
great news. We will catch you next Wednesday. You have
a good win and as always, go kill somebody today please, Okay,
take care, Okay, bye.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Now let's say we're done. We're done with the show.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Gary and Shannon are up next, and we come back
again tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Amy will be here, Will will not. I am very
excited about that. What I will? Oh you will? Neil
may not be though right now? Neil should be back, right.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Okay, Will Will's coming back? Okay, Neil also coming back. Boy,
we're excited about that one too. So coming up at
six o'clock, I think Neil will be here and we
start all over again.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
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