January 14, 2026 • 23 mins
(January 14, 2025)
The new crash test dummy could keep women safer in car accidents. As Gen Z struggles to break into the job market, boomers stick around. 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 dental health can predict reduced lifespan, whether you should get a full body scan, and nasal spray: at some point you can breath without it.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
KF. I am a six forty bill handle here. It
is a Wednesday morning, January fourteenth. I gave you the
wrong time. Doctor Dean is on at eight thirty. I
don't know. I was looking at the wrong page, Doctor Dean.
I'm sorry, Doctor Dean. You know that's why I'm concluding
everything I know now I got the time right now
is doctor Jim. I don't think Dean is a doctor.
(00:23):
You know. He said doctor of Houses, doctor House, doctor House. Oh, which,
by the way, it was a Greatsion series. Yeah, it's
all right if.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You became a doctor instead of a lawyer. That's what Houses, Yeah, exact, Except.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The difference is House actually knew what he was talking about.
I don't. Hey, so what I want to do, and
by the way, Jim comes aboard at eight thirty. What
I want to do is talk about a new crash
test dummy. And you wonder how it took this long
to have this happen because these crash tests are based
(01:00):
on men men's physiology, not women's, and women are different
than men physiologically. You know, men have sponses and bell
ringers attached to them, women don't. Then you have the
muscle mass, which is different, and then a skeletal configuration
(01:25):
which is different. Also, it's argued that there's a different
cognitive ability and thinking ability. For example, August nineteenth, nineteen
twenty a day that will live in infamy. And you
know what happened on August eighteenth, nineteen twenty will get
(01:48):
any idea what happened that day? Don't get involved. It
was the nineteenth Amendment give women were given the right
to vote. It was one of the worst days in
the history of the United States. Listen to Neil.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Most people should.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
So anyway, what the government has come up with is experts.
This is a quantum leap. It's a decades long effort
to make cars safer for women. So what happened in
November the regulators unveiled the four zero five F What
(02:25):
the hell is that? Well, it is the test device
for human occupant restraint fifth percent female. You know, I
wonder if there's an entire division or a panel in
the federal government and the state government coming up with
these ridiculous acronyms. I mean there has to be. Some
(02:47):
of them were just ridiculous. So automakers regulators have been
testing for female crash impacts for twenty five years. The
problem is it really is just a lighter version of
the male test dummy, and so the four zero five fs. Wow.
(03:07):
I love this, more human like, more anatomically precise, triple
the number of body sensors. Think those Japanese blow up
dolls that are anatomically correct. I Neil is actually laughing
at that. Neil normally does not laugh. I do laugh.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
What is that passenger driver's side airbags?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It is weird that it's taken this line. I know,
I know.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Femmen have been screwed when it comes to medicine and
a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That's true because men control virtually everything. It's gonna change,
I mean, it is changing. But the Secretary of Transportation
Duffy expedited approval of this test dummy. Good for him
because he acknowledged there is a big biological difference. And
by the way, this can save lives. So in the
(04:04):
last decades we had airbag seat belts, which incidentally, the
manufacturers all fought like crazy. The safe steering wheel, collapsible
steering wheel. I don't know if they're still collapsible or not.
I have no idea, but the crush zones around the
passenger compartment. All of the manufacturers said, oh no, no,
(04:25):
too expensive, too expensive. And so what this is aiming
to do is leverage computer model simulations, which has already
occurred because they computer model everything. And it's supplementing with
physical testing, and it's developing a formal process for these
crash test dummies. And you're right, Neil Took, it's hard
(04:48):
to believe that it took this long for women crash
test dummies, because you think a woman or two drives.
That's another thing. When they let women drive, it all
went to hell a hand basket. I mean that. You know,
what can I tell you now? America's America. We've sometimes
we advance and sometimes we go backwards. All right, We're done.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
My wife's a way better driver than I am.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh I am a horrible driver. Lindsey is a really
good driver.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I have been in the car with you when you've
driven over people they let their feet.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You're like, what was that? Guys like, ah, I have, Actually,
actually that's true. I have. Okay, I am a baby boomer,
and I am hated by gen Z and millennials. My wife,
for example, she is not a boomer. And my kids
who certainly aren't boomers. And I'll tell you why, because
(05:48):
they don't have the jobs. Those of us who are older,
we have jobs, and if we're looking for work, we
have a better chance of getting a job. If you're
doing well, if you're writing up a resume and you
put things like I'm a hard worker, do you think
anybody cares or I have a great education. Now, I
(06:12):
don't think employers care. You know, what they want They
want experience, and they want people that are seasoned, who
understand the industry that can hit the ground running, and
new entrants new they just can't do it. And there
is really no bench that exists. And I think, you know,
(06:33):
we have the same situation here at KFI. You know,
for example, let's say they're going to bring in someone new, Well,
they're not going to bring in anybody new. They're going
to bring in people that have tons of experience, and
that's what employers want across the board. And so why,
well you put all of this together, and what do
(06:54):
you have. You've got the pandemic, which of course really
screwed things up, and a company just really shrunk in
terms of personnel. They did a lot more of a
lot less people are working harder for either the same
or less money. You know, in many cases, a raise
is considered staying on the job. I've said that to people.
(07:15):
Oh I am not a raised in the last two
three years. You're still working. That's your raise. Congratulations, there's
a big mazule tough. So you got the pandemic. AI
is killing entrance entry level jobs killing it Why because
entry level jobs you do a lot of scut work
as you learn what's going on. You know, for example,
(07:38):
you have lawyers who come out of these massive important
law schools Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and they get hired for
zillions of dollars, like one hundred and fifty one hundred
and eighty thousand dollars a year. Now that's the top
of the top. Okay, just to let you know, the vast,
vast majority of lawyers don't make anywhere near that. But
I'm making a point here. What happens the first two
(08:02):
three years that lawyer costs the law firm tons of money.
It is a loss beyond what you can believe. It
is such a loss because they have to learn the ropes. Well, today,
companies don't want to take the time. They don't want
to take the risk of someone learning the ropes because
you just don't know. So it's easier to have someone
(08:25):
with a lot of experience. And there are a couple
of stats that I want to share with you. There's
a company called Revellio Labs that's a research firm and
they are oh and also, you have an aging population,
by the way, that stays working. I'm already practicing my
people skills. So when I retire, I can go to
(08:46):
Walmart and say, welcome to Walmart. I want to be
a greeter and I have to work on well my
communication skills, which are not particularly good, or my people skills,
which are not particularly wonderful. But it's an aging population.
So people are working well into their sixties and seventies. Hey,
here we are labor market companies are calling roles and
(09:08):
it's just not the same as it was. So here
is a stat we're talking about going back three years,
the average new higher age. The average was forty two
years old in twenty twenty five. In twenty twenty two,
it was forty two years. In twenty twenty two it
was forty and a half. Now, that may not seem
(09:31):
like a lot, but that's an enormous number. In twenty
sixteen it was four or it was forty. It's going
downhill very quickly for people that are brand new into
the field, and so those of us who have been
around for a while that our season. Can I get
(09:52):
a job in another market if I move, for example,
to Philadelphia or Minneapolis or Miami, Yeah, yeah, I mean
I'll be hired before anybody new, because I have a
record of working, and I have experience, and I'm seasoned.
And you're not going to see anybody new coming out
(10:12):
into a new major market. As a matter of fact,
you're not going to even see in the radio, is
what we know. You're not going to see any entry
level jobs that are opening up. Certainly in news talk
you won't or DJs again because of technology, because of
the way they now that it's something called voice tracking,
(10:34):
in which one DJ is now on I don't know,
hundreds of stations, and those stations pretend that that DJ
is part of the local market. Technology has wiped out
so many jobs, and if you're young, you're screwed. You
(10:55):
might as well give it up right now. If you're
depressed and thinking suicide, jump off the building, take a
swan dive off the parking structure, you know. I mean,
it's it's just that time. So I tell my daughters
all the time, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Now?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
What are you doing? I mean they can go on
to chat GPT and be told by the algorithm to
kill themselves, but it's much easier for me to do it.
Quick word about Kono. We have started a go fund
me campaign for Kno. His car blew up. He has
no car and he comes in seventy two miles from
(11:31):
home every single day, both waves and so go to
and we're helping him buy a car because my Granma
right now, I'm borrowing. I'm on borrow time. I understand,
but we're gonna help. I didn't out here. No, we're
gonna help. So go to for those of you that
want to help out. And all of us did here
because this is a morning show thing. It's not Kfi,
it's not iHeart. It is just a just us chickens
(11:55):
doing this, and the only way to do this, because
you don't want to go to a generic go fund
me campaign because you'll see his name being thrown out
all over. Go to KFI am sixty dot com, slash
cono k O n O. That's KFI AM sixty dot
com slash Cono. Jim, let me ask you the medical
(12:16):
aspects of walking seventy two miles each way every day.
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, No, that would be really healthy. I mean you'd
get a good workout.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
In Okay, no car.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Fine.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
What I said before about helping Cono out now done.
I take it back, Jim, I want to do this story.
You suggested that dental health can predict reduce lifespan. Now
we know that dental health has a lot to do
with heart disease, we know that's connected, but predicting lifespan,
(12:51):
let's talk about that.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah. I liked it because it's a pretty cool study.
You know. It was done in Japan and in Osaka, Japan,
one hundred and ninety thousand adults over age seventy five,
so a lot of people there. And what they did
is they just counted functional teeth, which is a little
different than what we've looked at before, and that is
counting the number of actual sound teeth that you have
(13:14):
that don't have any problems, plus the actual filled teeth
that are doing just fine, and then looking at mortality
and better than just looking at the sound teeth alone,
when you add it in all of that information, you
could better predict whether somebody's going to survive longer or not.
So I mean, what does that tell us?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, but I have a question. You talk about sound teeth,
I mean, who does not have cavities? And so are
you saying that, Well, let me extrapolate that one. The
more cavities you have that are filled.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Phil the appropriately taken care of, then you're okay or
that and you're okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Okay, So it is just right.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
That's what I'm saying. That's what this means is that
tooth decay itself is the problem, not that necessarily you
had tooth decay and you have you know, a lot
of fillings in your mouth. It's really a matter of
taking care of your teeth. So when you have problems
a dress and then once you address them, it's actually
it's good for your health. And of course we think
a lot of this is because of the inflammatory response
(14:19):
that you get when you have decaying, nasty teeth, but
there's probably some other things as well, right, Like people
who take good care of their teeth probably take care
of their body as well.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Okay, I take great care of my teeth. I'm fanatic
about it. I floss my water pick, I brush my
teeth for two minutes, and my body is falling apart.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Jim, So, yeah, you're gonna live forever.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, and you and you know, you and I people
that eat healthy. You and I have had lunch. Have
you ever ever seen me eat a healthy lunch?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah? You kind of do sometimes. I mean I think
maybe I make you feel guilty.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
No, I well, okay, so I'll have a bite of
sala or I'll have two bites of the broccoli they
serve up with my steak.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
You don't have vegetables, and you avoid the You do
avoid bread though, to counteract the fact that you don't
eat any vegetables.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I guess, Oh my god, do I eat bread? This morning?
I had a bagel plus the ham and cheese on
Hawaiian bread. So yeah, that goes it's people. The other
thing I want to point out because my mom was
a dentist. I know if you knew that, and I
met her, Yeah, as both my after she died or before, okay,
(15:32):
because she was a lot more fun after she died.
But she was a dentist, as were my grandparents. Both
my grandfather and my grandmother on my mom's side were dennis,
So I come from a long line of dentists. And
one of the things about the k teeth, which you
did not bring up, is that the kay teeth also
(15:53):
means that gums are not in good shape. Gindividis forms,
and it's just you know, you're right. The mouth becomes
a pretty nasty place to go. So you're better off
getting bitten by a rabid dog than you are getting
bitten by someone who has rotten teeth. Is that fair? Okay?
(16:14):
All right, all right, Jim, we've talked before. Well let's
go right in a nasal spray. And I'm a huge
fan of nasal spray for a couple of reasons. First
of all, when I was a cocaine addict, my nose
was constantly plugged up, and I was constantly using nasal spray,
and of course it became addicted to it. My body did,
which means I had the rebound factor. Of course you
(16:35):
know all about that. But breathing without it last night,
I could have used it and I didn't. And now
you know, I'm asleep and all of a sudden I
wake up and one of my nostrils is completely plugged up. So, okay,
I just threw that at you. You take it from there.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, so's a couple different issues here, right, So your
nose plugged up because it's kind of been try lately,
and I think you probably just got a little drier
than you're used to. But nasal sprays, you know that
we use these very cautiously, and they're over the counter,
so people can just grab them anytime they want. But
when I tell a patient to use them, I'll say, look,
(17:14):
use it one to three days max. Because once you
use it more than that, you get this rebound stuffiness
where your blood vessels get used to having, you know,
that cocaine like constriction in your nose to keep everything open,
and all of a sudden the blood vessels now get
really engorged, and all of a sudden you have problems
(17:34):
with nasal congestion. Then you get addicted. Then when you
start using it every day for years, you can actually
this can actually wear a hole through your nose. I've
seen people where the septum, the middle part of their nose,
has a hole through it because they've used so much
nasal spray. It constricts the blood vessels, and over time
the tissue thins out till it has a hole in it.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah. I use it for four years virtually every day.
You know. I don't have a hole in my step them,
but what I do have is a reduced smell factor. Uh.
And it was uh and I oh, my Cillia became
silly and I got rid of him. Although I have
to tell you, uh, for those I had, champion boogers
(18:18):
is what you get when you start cocaine. I like,
unbelievable boogers. I's just WoT I throw that at you.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
That's the kind of stuff people tell me.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah. I mean, yeah, you had booger conversations with patients,
haven't you.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Absolutely? Yeah. They love to talk about anything. Anything comes
out of your body. That's part of the conversation.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah. As a matter of fact, I can actually remember
specific boogers. I there was, I'm serious.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Famous people.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
There was Pete and Jerry. No, No, it was I'll explain.
I'll do it. It's some other time because it was.
It's a fun story. Okay. The full body scan and
this Marjorie had one of these, and basically she credits
had saved her life because they found they found some
(19:15):
carcinoids in her lungs and they remove part of her
lungs and never would have found them but for the
body scan. And you know, I know there's some issues
the body scans and a lot of there's false positives.
But you know, when you get a positive positive, tell
me that doesn't save your life. How do you feel
about body scans?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, I mean again, looking at overall, if you want
to get a body scan, I don't you know, I
don't have a problem with that, But you've got to
understand the limitations of the body scan. Right, this is
not a head scan and a chest scan and an
abdomen scan and an extremity scan. That's the scan. That's
not what they do. It's a body scan. So it's
a different protocol and people don't realize MR eyes it's
(19:57):
a it's a different technology than X and it has
different physics and you can manipulate those physics in different
ways to get different images. So all protocols of an
MRI scan are not identical, not the same. You do
a different scan when you're looking at the arteries of
the brain. You use different physics than what you would
(20:18):
do when you're doing, say it along for example, or
are you looking for a solid tumor somewhere? So and
you add that fact. So number one, the physics are different,
the images are different. Then you look at the fact
that normally I'm asking the radiologists to look at maybe
a five inch by five inch area of your body
where we have a concern at the most right, we
(20:40):
usually limit it pretty low, and he's looking at very
detailed images of that small area. So when you all
of a sudden expand that across the entire body, how
much information are they trying to look at? Right? It's
like the difference of you know, you throw a basketball
in your backyard and you say to somebody go find it,
versus you throw the basketball on a mountain and you
(21:02):
say go find it. You know it's it's going to
be very difficult.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Also, they do them prophylactically. I mean, you can't get
insurance to pay for them, can you. You're just having
someone look at your body without any symptoms. Do I
have that right?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Correct? So the symptoms don't localize what you're looking at,
So suddenly you know everything is possible as opposed to
somebody as a stroke. We can usually identify exactly what
area of the brain we're thinking the stroke.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Is it? Okay? By the way, just to let you know,
I want to share this with everybody. I am scheduled
for a colonoscopy. I am, I'm due for it, and
I'm going to do it in a couple of weeks.
I probably will broadcast it. And Jim, would you do
a would you do a play by play on that
while that's happening?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Pardon absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, So Jim is going to join me on. I'm serious.
I'd like to have you in the room. You're a doctor,
you can probably get in there. We're never going to
remove your head. Uh no, I've yeah, very funny. We're done, guys,
We are finished. Jim, thank you. I'm sure we'll talk
before next Wednesday. Jim Keeney always with US, Chief Medical
(22:15):
Officers for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach. Okay,
we're done, guys. Coming up, it's Shannon and I completely
forgot the name of whoever's filling in Andy, Andy, Andy
Ricemier Reesmeier, Rice Meier. Yeah, he's and here at Kila
(22:36):
and here, so it's Shannon and Andy. And then we're
back again tomorrow, as we always are. Cono hopefully with
enough money to buy his car. And there's Neil, and
there's Amy, and there's Will and I don't know where
the hell Anne is. She bails out pretty early at
eight thirty. She's had enough of this show. Now she's
in talking to Andy. Oh is she?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
That's sweet? Okay. I have no idea who he is,
by the way, have absolutely no idea this. Yeah, you're welcome.
I am sixty must watch Chen seven five. You've been
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KF. I am a six forty bill handle here. It
is a Wednesday morning, January fourteenth. I gave you the
wrong time. Doctor Dean is on at eight thirty. I
don't know. I was looking at the wrong page, Doctor Dean.
I'm sorry, Doctor Dean. You know that's why I'm concluding
everything I know now I got the time right now
is doctor Jim. I don't think Dean is a doctor.
(00:23):
You know. He said doctor of Houses, doctor House, doctor House. Oh, which,
by the way, it was a Greatsion series. Yeah, it's
all right if.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You became a doctor instead of a lawyer. That's what Houses, Yeah, exact, Except.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The difference is House actually knew what he was talking about.
I don't. Hey, so what I want to do, and
by the way, Jim comes aboard at eight thirty. What
I want to do is talk about a new crash
test dummy. And you wonder how it took this long
to have this happen because these crash tests are based
(01:00):
on men men's physiology, not women's, and women are different
than men physiologically. You know, men have sponses and bell
ringers attached to them, women don't. Then you have the
muscle mass, which is different, and then a skeletal configuration
(01:25):
which is different. Also, it's argued that there's a different
cognitive ability and thinking ability. For example, August nineteenth, nineteen
twenty a day that will live in infamy. And you
know what happened on August eighteenth, nineteen twenty will get
(01:48):
any idea what happened that day? Don't get involved. It
was the nineteenth Amendment give women were given the right
to vote. It was one of the worst days in
the history of the United States. Listen to Neil.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Most people should.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
So anyway, what the government has come up with is experts.
This is a quantum leap. It's a decades long effort
to make cars safer for women. So what happened in
November the regulators unveiled the four zero five F What
(02:25):
the hell is that? Well, it is the test device
for human occupant restraint fifth percent female. You know, I
wonder if there's an entire division or a panel in
the federal government and the state government coming up with
these ridiculous acronyms. I mean there has to be. Some
(02:47):
of them were just ridiculous. So automakers regulators have been
testing for female crash impacts for twenty five years. The
problem is it really is just a lighter version of
the male test dummy, and so the four zero five fs. Wow.
(03:07):
I love this, more human like, more anatomically precise, triple
the number of body sensors. Think those Japanese blow up
dolls that are anatomically correct. I Neil is actually laughing
at that. Neil normally does not laugh. I do laugh.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
What is that passenger driver's side airbags?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It is weird that it's taken this line. I know,
I know.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Femmen have been screwed when it comes to medicine and
a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That's true because men control virtually everything. It's gonna change,
I mean, it is changing. But the Secretary of Transportation
Duffy expedited approval of this test dummy. Good for him
because he acknowledged there is a big biological difference. And
by the way, this can save lives. So in the
(04:04):
last decades we had airbag seat belts, which incidentally, the
manufacturers all fought like crazy. The safe steering wheel, collapsible
steering wheel. I don't know if they're still collapsible or not.
I have no idea, but the crush zones around the
passenger compartment. All of the manufacturers said, oh no, no,
(04:25):
too expensive, too expensive. And so what this is aiming
to do is leverage computer model simulations, which has already
occurred because they computer model everything. And it's supplementing with
physical testing, and it's developing a formal process for these
crash test dummies. And you're right, Neil Took, it's hard
(04:48):
to believe that it took this long for women crash
test dummies, because you think a woman or two drives.
That's another thing. When they let women drive, it all
went to hell a hand basket. I mean that. You know,
what can I tell you now? America's America. We've sometimes
we advance and sometimes we go backwards. All right, We're done.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
My wife's a way better driver than I am.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh I am a horrible driver. Lindsey is a really
good driver.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I have been in the car with you when you've
driven over people they let their feet.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You're like, what was that? Guys like, ah, I have, Actually,
actually that's true. I have. Okay, I am a baby boomer,
and I am hated by gen Z and millennials. My wife,
for example, she is not a boomer. And my kids
who certainly aren't boomers. And I'll tell you why, because
(05:48):
they don't have the jobs. Those of us who are older,
we have jobs, and if we're looking for work, we
have a better chance of getting a job. If you're
doing well, if you're writing up a resume and you
put things like I'm a hard worker, do you think
anybody cares or I have a great education. Now, I
(06:12):
don't think employers care. You know, what they want They
want experience, and they want people that are seasoned, who
understand the industry that can hit the ground running, and
new entrants new they just can't do it. And there
is really no bench that exists. And I think, you know,
(06:33):
we have the same situation here at KFI. You know,
for example, let's say they're going to bring in someone new, Well,
they're not going to bring in anybody new. They're going
to bring in people that have tons of experience, and
that's what employers want across the board. And so why,
well you put all of this together, and what do
(06:54):
you have. You've got the pandemic, which of course really
screwed things up, and a company just really shrunk in
terms of personnel. They did a lot more of a
lot less people are working harder for either the same
or less money. You know, in many cases, a raise
is considered staying on the job. I've said that to people.
(07:15):
Oh I am not a raised in the last two
three years. You're still working. That's your raise. Congratulations, there's
a big mazule tough. So you got the pandemic. AI
is killing entrance entry level jobs killing it Why because
entry level jobs you do a lot of scut work
as you learn what's going on. You know, for example,
(07:38):
you have lawyers who come out of these massive important
law schools Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and they get hired for
zillions of dollars, like one hundred and fifty one hundred
and eighty thousand dollars a year. Now that's the top
of the top. Okay, just to let you know, the vast,
vast majority of lawyers don't make anywhere near that. But
I'm making a point here. What happens the first two
(08:02):
three years that lawyer costs the law firm tons of money.
It is a loss beyond what you can believe. It
is such a loss because they have to learn the ropes. Well, today,
companies don't want to take the time. They don't want
to take the risk of someone learning the ropes because
you just don't know. So it's easier to have someone
(08:25):
with a lot of experience. And there are a couple
of stats that I want to share with you. There's
a company called Revellio Labs that's a research firm and
they are oh and also, you have an aging population,
by the way, that stays working. I'm already practicing my
people skills. So when I retire, I can go to
(08:46):
Walmart and say, welcome to Walmart. I want to be
a greeter and I have to work on well my
communication skills, which are not particularly good, or my people skills,
which are not particularly wonderful. But it's an aging population.
So people are working well into their sixties and seventies. Hey,
here we are labor market companies are calling roles and
(09:08):
it's just not the same as it was. So here
is a stat we're talking about going back three years,
the average new higher age. The average was forty two
years old in twenty twenty five. In twenty twenty two,
it was forty two years. In twenty twenty two it
was forty and a half. Now, that may not seem
(09:31):
like a lot, but that's an enormous number. In twenty
sixteen it was four or it was forty. It's going
downhill very quickly for people that are brand new into
the field, and so those of us who have been
around for a while that our season. Can I get
(09:52):
a job in another market if I move, for example,
to Philadelphia or Minneapolis or Miami, Yeah, yeah, I mean
I'll be hired before anybody new, because I have a
record of working, and I have experience, and I'm seasoned.
And you're not going to see anybody new coming out
(10:12):
into a new major market. As a matter of fact,
you're not going to even see in the radio, is
what we know. You're not going to see any entry
level jobs that are opening up. Certainly in news talk
you won't or DJs again because of technology, because of
the way they now that it's something called voice tracking,
(10:34):
in which one DJ is now on I don't know,
hundreds of stations, and those stations pretend that that DJ
is part of the local market. Technology has wiped out
so many jobs, and if you're young, you're screwed. You
(10:55):
might as well give it up right now. If you're
depressed and thinking suicide, jump off the building, take a
swan dive off the parking structure, you know. I mean,
it's it's just that time. So I tell my daughters
all the time, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Now?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
What are you doing? I mean they can go on
to chat GPT and be told by the algorithm to
kill themselves, but it's much easier for me to do it.
Quick word about Kono. We have started a go fund
me campaign for Kno. His car blew up. He has
no car and he comes in seventy two miles from
(11:31):
home every single day, both waves and so go to
and we're helping him buy a car because my Granma
right now, I'm borrowing. I'm on borrow time. I understand,
but we're gonna help. I didn't out here. No, we're
gonna help. So go to for those of you that
want to help out. And all of us did here
because this is a morning show thing. It's not Kfi,
it's not iHeart. It is just a just us chickens
(11:55):
doing this, and the only way to do this, because
you don't want to go to a generic go fund
me campaign because you'll see his name being thrown out
all over. Go to KFI am sixty dot com, slash
cono k O n O. That's KFI AM sixty dot
com slash Cono. Jim, let me ask you the medical
(12:16):
aspects of walking seventy two miles each way every day.
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, No, that would be really healthy. I mean you'd
get a good workout.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
In Okay, no car.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Fine.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
What I said before about helping Cono out now done.
I take it back, Jim, I want to do this story.
You suggested that dental health can predict reduce lifespan. Now
we know that dental health has a lot to do
with heart disease, we know that's connected, but predicting lifespan,
(12:51):
let's talk about that.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah. I liked it because it's a pretty cool study.
You know. It was done in Japan and in Osaka, Japan,
one hundred and ninety thousand adults over age seventy five,
so a lot of people there. And what they did
is they just counted functional teeth, which is a little
different than what we've looked at before, and that is
counting the number of actual sound teeth that you have
(13:14):
that don't have any problems, plus the actual filled teeth
that are doing just fine, and then looking at mortality
and better than just looking at the sound teeth alone,
when you add it in all of that information, you
could better predict whether somebody's going to survive longer or not.
So I mean, what does that tell us?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, but I have a question. You talk about sound teeth,
I mean, who does not have cavities? And so are
you saying that, Well, let me extrapolate that one. The
more cavities you have that are filled.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Phil the appropriately taken care of, then you're okay or
that and you're okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Okay, So it is just right.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
That's what I'm saying. That's what this means is that
tooth decay itself is the problem, not that necessarily you
had tooth decay and you have you know, a lot
of fillings in your mouth. It's really a matter of
taking care of your teeth. So when you have problems
a dress and then once you address them, it's actually
it's good for your health. And of course we think
a lot of this is because of the inflammatory response
(14:19):
that you get when you have decaying, nasty teeth, but
there's probably some other things as well, right, Like people
who take good care of their teeth probably take care
of their body as well.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Okay, I take great care of my teeth. I'm fanatic
about it. I floss my water pick, I brush my
teeth for two minutes, and my body is falling apart.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Jim, So, yeah, you're gonna live forever.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, and you and you know, you and I people
that eat healthy. You and I have had lunch. Have
you ever ever seen me eat a healthy lunch?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah? You kind of do sometimes. I mean I think
maybe I make you feel guilty.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
No, I well, okay, so I'll have a bite of
sala or I'll have two bites of the broccoli they
serve up with my steak.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
You don't have vegetables, and you avoid the You do
avoid bread though, to counteract the fact that you don't
eat any vegetables.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I guess, Oh my god, do I eat bread? This morning?
I had a bagel plus the ham and cheese on
Hawaiian bread. So yeah, that goes it's people. The other
thing I want to point out because my mom was
a dentist. I know if you knew that, and I
met her, Yeah, as both my after she died or before, okay,
(15:32):
because she was a lot more fun after she died.
But she was a dentist, as were my grandparents. Both
my grandfather and my grandmother on my mom's side were dennis,
So I come from a long line of dentists. And
one of the things about the k teeth, which you
did not bring up, is that the kay teeth also
(15:53):
means that gums are not in good shape. Gindividis forms,
and it's just you know, you're right. The mouth becomes
a pretty nasty place to go. So you're better off
getting bitten by a rabid dog than you are getting
bitten by someone who has rotten teeth. Is that fair? Okay?
(16:14):
All right, all right, Jim, we've talked before. Well let's
go right in a nasal spray. And I'm a huge
fan of nasal spray for a couple of reasons. First
of all, when I was a cocaine addict, my nose
was constantly plugged up, and I was constantly using nasal spray,
and of course it became addicted to it. My body did,
which means I had the rebound factor. Of course you
(16:35):
know all about that. But breathing without it last night,
I could have used it and I didn't. And now
you know, I'm asleep and all of a sudden I
wake up and one of my nostrils is completely plugged up. So, okay,
I just threw that at you. You take it from there.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, so's a couple different issues here, right, So your
nose plugged up because it's kind of been try lately,
and I think you probably just got a little drier
than you're used to. But nasal sprays, you know that
we use these very cautiously, and they're over the counter,
so people can just grab them anytime they want. But
when I tell a patient to use them, I'll say, look,
(17:14):
use it one to three days max. Because once you
use it more than that, you get this rebound stuffiness
where your blood vessels get used to having, you know,
that cocaine like constriction in your nose to keep everything open,
and all of a sudden the blood vessels now get
really engorged, and all of a sudden you have problems
(17:34):
with nasal congestion. Then you get addicted. Then when you
start using it every day for years, you can actually
this can actually wear a hole through your nose. I've
seen people where the septum, the middle part of their nose,
has a hole through it because they've used so much
nasal spray. It constricts the blood vessels, and over time
the tissue thins out till it has a hole in it.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah. I use it for four years virtually every day.
You know. I don't have a hole in my step them,
but what I do have is a reduced smell factor. Uh.
And it was uh and I oh, my Cillia became
silly and I got rid of him. Although I have
to tell you, uh, for those I had, champion boogers
(18:18):
is what you get when you start cocaine. I like,
unbelievable boogers. I's just WoT I throw that at you.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
That's the kind of stuff people tell me.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah. I mean, yeah, you had booger conversations with patients,
haven't you.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Absolutely? Yeah. They love to talk about anything. Anything comes
out of your body. That's part of the conversation.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah. As a matter of fact, I can actually remember
specific boogers. I there was, I'm serious.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Famous people.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
There was Pete and Jerry. No, No, it was I'll explain.
I'll do it. It's some other time because it was.
It's a fun story. Okay. The full body scan and
this Marjorie had one of these, and basically she credits
had saved her life because they found they found some
(19:15):
carcinoids in her lungs and they remove part of her
lungs and never would have found them but for the
body scan. And you know, I know there's some issues
the body scans and a lot of there's false positives.
But you know, when you get a positive positive, tell
me that doesn't save your life. How do you feel
about body scans?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, I mean again, looking at overall, if you want
to get a body scan, I don't you know, I
don't have a problem with that, But you've got to
understand the limitations of the body scan. Right, this is
not a head scan and a chest scan and an
abdomen scan and an extremity scan. That's the scan. That's
not what they do. It's a body scan. So it's
a different protocol and people don't realize MR eyes it's
(19:57):
a it's a different technology than X and it has
different physics and you can manipulate those physics in different
ways to get different images. So all protocols of an
MRI scan are not identical, not the same. You do
a different scan when you're looking at the arteries of
the brain. You use different physics than what you would
(20:18):
do when you're doing, say it along for example, or
are you looking for a solid tumor somewhere? So and
you add that fact. So number one, the physics are different,
the images are different. Then you look at the fact
that normally I'm asking the radiologists to look at maybe
a five inch by five inch area of your body
where we have a concern at the most right, we
(20:40):
usually limit it pretty low, and he's looking at very
detailed images of that small area. So when you all
of a sudden expand that across the entire body, how
much information are they trying to look at? Right? It's
like the difference of you know, you throw a basketball
in your backyard and you say to somebody go find it,
versus you throw the basketball on a mountain and you
(21:02):
say go find it. You know it's it's going to
be very difficult.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Also, they do them prophylactically. I mean, you can't get
insurance to pay for them, can you. You're just having
someone look at your body without any symptoms. Do I
have that right?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Correct? So the symptoms don't localize what you're looking at,
So suddenly you know everything is possible as opposed to
somebody as a stroke. We can usually identify exactly what
area of the brain we're thinking the stroke.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Is it? Okay? By the way, just to let you know,
I want to share this with everybody. I am scheduled
for a colonoscopy. I am, I'm due for it, and
I'm going to do it in a couple of weeks.
I probably will broadcast it. And Jim, would you do
a would you do a play by play on that
while that's happening?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Pardon absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, So Jim is going to join me on. I'm serious.
I'd like to have you in the room. You're a doctor,
you can probably get in there. We're never going to
remove your head. Uh no, I've yeah, very funny. We're done, guys,
We are finished. Jim, thank you. I'm sure we'll talk
before next Wednesday. Jim Keeney always with US, Chief Medical
(22:15):
Officers for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach. Okay,
we're done, guys. Coming up, it's Shannon and I completely
forgot the name of whoever's filling in Andy, Andy, Andy
Ricemier Reesmeier, Rice Meier. Yeah, he's and here at Kila
(22:36):
and here, so it's Shannon and Andy. And then we're
back again tomorrow, as we always are. Cono hopefully with
enough money to buy his car. And there's Neil, and
there's Amy, and there's Will and I don't know where
the hell Anne is. She bails out pretty early at
eight thirty. She's had enough of this show. Now she's
in talking to Andy. Oh is she?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
That's sweet? Okay. I have no idea who he is,
by the way, have absolutely no idea this. Yeah, you're welcome.
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