October 15, 2025 • 24 mins
(October 15, 2025)
NRA sues California over alleged Glock ban aimed at illegal machine gun ‘switches.’ 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 kiwis for constipation, more L.A. deaths tied to Kratom, a liver disease breakthrough, and FDA clearing a bloodtest for Alzheimers.
NRA sues California over alleged Glock ban aimed at illegal machine gun ‘switches.’ 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 kiwis for constipation, more L.A. deaths tied to Kratom, a liver disease breakthrough, and FDA clearing a bloodtest for Alzheimers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Five am, six forty handle here on a Wednesday morning.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Oh man, we've got we still have plenty to do.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
By the way, some of the stories we're looking at
is the average price for a car has now topped
fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Isn't that special? Inflation isn't here, not at all?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And Kaiser permanity healthcare workers other than doctors are on strike.
The nurses, the nurse and ethetists, the pharmacists, they're on strike.
And on top of that, what's happening in the Middle East.
Hamas once again pulling a bonehead move, and that is
not releasing the bodies the remains of the dead hostages.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
They're supposed to release all of.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Them by midnight, Monday night, a long past and so
Israel is getting a little upset about it. Already cut
aid half the aid coming into Gaza.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
There is a federal lawsuit that has been filed. California.
Governor Newsom signed a bill on glock style pistols, which
feature and I'm going to read this from the La Times.
I'm sure I'm going to be corrected on this allowing
the attachment of what is being called by them a
machine gun conversion device. And it's a bill that was
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just signed and prohibits semi automatic pistols with these cruciform.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Trigger bars that enable.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Switches converting guns into rapid fire weapons. Now, the lawsuit,
of course claims, as always does, that the band violates
a Second Amendment. And there are a couple of very
interesting legal arguments here, and one in particular I want
to share with you John Cumberford, the executive director of
the NRA Institute for Legislative Action.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
No surprise here.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Quote Newsom and his gang of progressive of politicians in
California are continuing their crusade against constitutional rights. They are
attempting to violate landmarks, Supreme Court decisions, and disarmed law
abiding citizen by banning some of the most quote commonly
used or owned handguns in America. The word commonly owned
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is critical to this law, particularly the argument that the
NRA and gun have its advocates have so put that
in your mind commonly used. All Right, the lawsuit says,
of course, violates the Second Amendment. But then anything, anything,
any law that somehow limits any kind of weapon instantly
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gets a lawsuit from gun advocates.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You know, what becomes a ray slope.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
No matter what.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
What's weird about this, though, Bill that the Okay, so,
a glock doesn't have a traditional.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Safety system.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Most guns have a safety that you put on right
and that keeps the gun from triggering. This system is
part of the safe action system on a glock.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Glock does not have a traditional safety.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
This whole thing was created so that you couldn't drop
the gun and have it go off, so that the
striker would not engage.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
That's why glocks have this in the first place. Okay, Well,
let me ask you. I understand that, and I get
that part of it. I think I understand.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I just think it's weird that it was originally a
safety mechanism.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It could be, but can it be changed to fire
a rapid fire.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Any semi automatic?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Okay, modifications could become fully audit is it? However, you
wouldn't want a fully automatic handgun.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
You couldn't control it.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It doesn't matter. The Supreme or the NRA is arguing
that any limitation. You see, we got the slippery slope.
So I want to go on and talk about this
because This is a really interesting argument that I think
actually the gun folks are going to have Supreme Court
on their side. So going on with the lawsuit, a
law that bans as sale that prevents citizens from acquiring
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a weapon in common use violates a second Amendment. That's
the other issue. If it's in common use, therefore it
is constitutionally protected. They even agree that a gun that
is incredibly dangerous should not be used. I'm assuming machine
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fifty caliber machine guns are part of that. But if
there's a law banning machine guns, I'm sure they would
argue that. And I understand there's been a lawsuit filed
by the NRA that the prohibition against eighty eight howitzers.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
The automatic bazookas.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yes, yes, that those laws are unconstitutional, of course, but
here it is the argument is that they are, and
this is they are unquestionably in common use for lawful purposes.
In fact, they're among the most popular handguns in the nation.
And we're talking about glocks now. The guy who introduced
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Jesse Gabriel, who introduced the bill in California, and here
I'm gonna quote him, automatic weapons are exceptionally lethal. I'll
buy that capable of firing hundreds of rounds per minute.
Don't know about that, and they're illegal in California. That's correct. Unfortunately,
some semi automatic fire guns feature a dangerous design element
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allowing them to be converted to automatic weapons. And here,
I think is the issue, because any gun can be modified.
But this is an easy to use device known as
a switch. You can simply buy it on the internet
and install it in minutes, and.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You have a gun that's quite honestly, but hardon.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Let me ask you this, A handgun in California can't
have more than I think eight rounds or something in
the magazine unders rounds, eight rounds.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
That's the same.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Though a fully automatic eight rounds is a second.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Right it does it just shoots. A matter of fact,
I would and I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Know that this is not a good automatic weapon. I
understand it's not a good automatic weapon.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's probably less lethal than a single shot because you
don't aim, you can't control it. You just press the
trigger and the bullets come flying out' spitting out shot.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
An automatic weapon, and I have a fully automatic weapon,
it is hard to control even as a rifle.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Okay, guy understood that is Actually there's an argument there
that when you combine the fact that you only have
eight bullets in a magazine and when you have a
gun that is fully automatic, that makes it actually safer
for someone.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Who's gonna get shot.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Then the other way that is, yeah, you're actually arguing
I'd rather have that if someone's gonna.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Shoot it, No one's going to be able to control it. Right.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
So the argument is, and here's the argument that I
use because it's a fun legal argument, we can order.
The technical part all the time is that the court
has said guns that are in usual usage, if they're
usually used by the population, then the Second Amendment applies.
And what the NRA is saying that most of the
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guns out there can easily be converted, which may very
well be true. And so what's going to end up
happening is the Court is going to rule on it.
Because when you think about the court ruling, it basically
is a Heller decision coming out of Detroit. You could
have a handgun to protect yourself in your house. That's
where it started with the laws against guns. So a gun,
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handgun to own or to modify the weapon.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, the problem is, yeah, it is legal.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And then the issue we can remember the what we
call it the gun modification that was used in a
demandal a.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
The with the modified bump stock.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, the bump stock. Yeah, but you can do.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
That without anything.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You could do that with your finger and your thumb
in your belt.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You can't make them that. Well, the argument was could
you do it that quickly?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
But here is the issue is here, and I look
at the constitutional arguments, I look at what the court
has said, and that is usual usage, and I guess,
no matter what is going to be constitutionally protected. Clarence
Thomas is the nutcase on this, and that is we
have to look at it historically, and historically everybody had
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a gun and use it during the Civil War when
not Civil War era, but during the revolutionary times when
we created a country. So let's look at gun ownership
in reference to back then. What It's a different world, guys,
certainly Clarence Thomas.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Anyway, I thought it was an interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Bit of legality or legal news regarding guns. Okay, let's
talk about another product that costs a whole lot more money,
and that is coffee. Oh yes, even before the US
imposed tariffs of fifty percent on Brazil and politics of
that is crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Twenty percent on Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
The two countries Brazil and Vietnam together produce more than
half of the world's coffee beans, and so you have
the tariffs in the way. Then you have climate change,
the related fires which really doesn't exist of course, flooding, droughts, droughts,
all of it affecting coffee prices up. Coffee in the
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US today is nearly forty percent more expensive than it
was a year ago. Now I buy coffee in bulk,
so actually Lindsay buys the coffee for me, so I
don't pay attention because frankly, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
If I don't have my coffee in the morning, I'm done.
I'm just done.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You know that. To me, it's desperation time if I
don't have coffee. So it's forty percent more, okay, If
it's twice more, if it's one hundred percent more, I'm okay.
I noticed Amy has her coffee cup with her right now.
I notice that Neil when he comes on, he has
his espresso. I have my coffee cup. I do two big,
(10:22):
big cups of coffee.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
A schedule, so it gets delivered all the time that
it won't break schedule.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
We always have my coffee here. Now it's a story
out of the Atlantic. Coffee has no nutritional value. You
can replace caffeine with almost anything out there. Walking to
a gas station. How many caffeine supplements you know, monster,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Do we you have?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So we definitely desperately not need it, but we want it.
It's fixed in our culture, our economy, our rituals, our
brain chemistry. It's the most consumed beverage outside of water,
and caffeine is by far the most popular drug on earth.
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And on any given day, an American is or likeli
or to drink coffee than they are to exercise. No kidding, pray.
How about praying while drinking coffee? Does that work? I
don't pray a lot or reading for pleasure. There are
more Starbucks than public libraries in America. And as a
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matter of fact, it's so crucial that most employers give
it away in the office. They just give it to you.
You go to the coffee station. We of course have coffee.
I've never worked in an office. A few times I've
worked in office, didn't have coffee available for everybody. You know,
iHeart produces of course this building produces coffee, not on Yeah,
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on our floor, we have coffee, that's a given. Upstairs
they give you free drinks too, and snacks, you know that.
But we're on the fourth floor, not on the fifth floor.
AM is not the same as FM. That's inn aside
I just want to throw out there. But the bottom
line is that we are in trouble because of the
price of coffee, and it doesn't look like it's getting
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any cheaper anytime soon. Amy, have you noticed the price
of coffee? Has that occurred to you or you just
don't care and don't pay attention.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I pay attention, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't stop
me from drinking coffee.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But I do notice at the store that it costs
more and there are fewer sales.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Okay. Also, Maxwell House has come back. I mean, what
you know, freeze dried coffee?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I mean, what the hell is that about, Neil, Have
you noticed the cost of coffee has gone up?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Okayly, of course, that doesn't stop you from buying the
same amount of coffee.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Oh, we're very very specific on what we drink here
and what we like, and we'll pay whatever for it.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
See, that's the whole point.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Uh, we drink.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
We have an espresso and we drink cafe the Jave,
which is made from the Don Francisco folks.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
We love Don Francisco.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It's just excellent. Their espresso is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Also, I'm in an espresso person too, love that machine.
Kno drink coffee?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
No, thank you? Wow your unusual? Uh will you drink coffee?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Okay, have you noticed? Have you noticed the price has
gone up?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
You know, I haven't paid attention, but I did make
the switch, though I don't. I try not to do
the actual like Starbucks or pizza or anything I go.
I just buy it at the store and make it
at home. Oh absolutely, Starbucks. I hate Starbucks coffee. It's
too bitter for me. I just don't like it.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I'm not a fan either.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, I like. I like mine at home too. And
you're a coffee person, Yes, absolutely, but I make it
at home. We just buy the little we have a
cure egg and we just buy the little the box
of the margin Eric.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Notice absolutely, yeah, and doesn't stop you. I mean I
think that's the point.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
No, there's they're still selling all all the coffee that
they can grow. It doesn't stop, all right, Doctor Jim Keeney,
it's our medical segment, chief medical officer for Dignity Saint
Mary Medical Center in Long Beach.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I Jim, good morning, yep, good morning. Oh there you are,
all right? Uh okay.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
One of my favorite topics that we talk about, of course, constipation.
It's just one of those things. And uh, you know,
a lot of us deal with constipation. A lot of
us have successfully dealt with constapation, for example, going to
federal prison for a few months.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Uh now, uh see, I got you on that one,
didn't I.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Uh all right, uh a, I guess not a cure,
but certainly I help for constipation.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Kiwis like the kiwis that you put in the fruit.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, exactly, so like kiwi's. They're similar to I think
an American culture. You know, prof uns are more well known,
but you know they trigger, you know, increase volume of
water drawn into the gut because of the amount of
sugar that's in kiwi's and in prunes. And then that helps,
you know, helps things move along because it stays more hydrated.
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It actually triggers bowel contractions too, so and it makes
the stool more soft. So all you put all that
together and basically kiwis will help, and the studies show
that they're so effective kiwis and prunes that rather than
promoting like fiber supplements or other supplements or even probiotics
or medications, that doctors should use this. This is the
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British health system by the way, They said doctors should
use this as first line therapy rather than other things,
and I think that's a good idea, right because it's
a little bit more natural. They're even saying, you know,
mineral water. They call it in mineral water because compared
to electrolyte waters and things like that, electrolyte waters usually
are high on potassium and that replaces you know, what
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you lose when.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
You sweat a bit.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
But mineral water is usually rich in magnesium, and magnesium helps.
It has a mild lackstive effect, It helps your gut
move better, helps you sleep at night. So a lot
of good, you know, good effects from using a magnesium
supplement or drinking magnesium rich mineral water have there.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I'm assuming there are studies out there that compare prison
with kiwis and which would you suggest.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yeah, No, I don't think there's any studies out there
that compare.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Oh okay, here is a big story that's very serious,
which I think is groundbreaking. The FDA is clearing a
blood test for Alzheimer's. Prior to this that there was
nothing there other than the symptoms.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Right, No, we actually we talked about a blood test
just back in March that is a different type of
blood test, but also as here by the FDA, that
you know, to look for the products that are related
to Alzheimer's that you find in the blood. So what
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this is is it's not really a test to determine
you have Alzheimer's. It's a test to really rule out Alzheimer's, right,
if this test is negative, this especially this new one.
So what they're looking for we talked about Alzheimer's.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What it is.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
It's a combination of what we call amyloid plaques, which
is a bunch of gunk that gets in between the nerves,
and then there's TAUL proteins that tangle within the nerve
fibers themselves and cause bad conduction of nerves of electrical signals.
So the TAUL protein can be found in the blood
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in these people that are developing Alzheimer's disease, and the
steps are in that order. It's first the amyloid, then
the towel, and so once you find that in the blood,
you're concerned that they may have Alzheimer's. It's not diagnostic.
You then need to go on to the diagnostic tests.
But if this test is negative, if you have somebody
coming in, say that they have a strong family history
of Alzheimer's, they're getting memory loss early in life, and
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then they get a negative test. This test is said
to be ninety eight percent accurate in ruling out Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
When you talk about memory loss early in life, what
does early mean?
Speaker 5 (18:24):
So if your we typically look at this and this
test would be for people fifty five and over, and
so if you're having memory loss before fifty five, that's
very concerning and probably is not Alzheimer's. It could be
it could be a variant of Alzheimer's, but that's something
that needs to be looked into by a neurologist typically.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
All right, by the way, is Alzheimer's Is it increasing
or is just the diagnostics are improving?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
You know a good question. I think that that both
you know that it may be increasing slightly I don't
have the stats on that, but for sure are ability
to diagnose it as improving. And now, before we had
to make the diagnos diagnosis clinically right, people would come
in with certain features and we would attribute it to
Alzheimer's disease. Now we actually have the ability to measure
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things like MRIs and look for amyloid packs, neurofibullarity tangles,
and this can confirm that the person's developing Alzheimer's.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, it's pretty scary stuff. And like, uh, I have
memory issues. Uh, there's no question about it. And I'm
really concerned. And everybody I know telling me, Handle, you've
had these memory issues since you've been in your twenties
and nothing has changed. And frankly, I've forgotten that I
had it in my twenties, So you know at some point.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
You know, by the way, I'm not far off on
that one.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So now, next time we get together, you and I
will do a little test right there on dementia.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Wow, I'll do it.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Yeah, I'll bring a mini mental status exam and we'll
see how you do.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Uh. Liver disease, that's always fun to talk about. One
of my favorite diseases, liver disease, and there is a breakthrough,
and that's dealing with liver disease, not giving you a
lead liver disease.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Is that fair, say, yeah, so the breakthrough is, yeah,
how to address liver disease. You remember last week we
just talked about you know, drinks and sugary drinks and
even diet sodas as much as you know, one diet
soda a day can increase your risk for liver disease.
And this is what's called metabolic dysfunction associated dietotic liver
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disease or mass LD. And so that leads to a
worsening form of liver disease that can cause permanent damage, cirrhosis,
and even liver failure. And up to twenty percent of
those cases, and we're seeing a lot more of these.
We believe that you know, probably at least forty to
sixty percent of the population has the early forms because
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of all the diet soda as in regular sodas that
people are drinking. So this is kind of interesting. Now,
remember this was done not on humans, but on rats
and deeper fish way, so still not human studies, but
good markers that show that the fatty accumulation in the
rats liver reverses with these two drugs put together, and
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then so do all the other metabolic markers in a rat.
So I mean, I think it's a it's a good
start and potentially shows that there's some drugs out there
that are These are not FDA approved in the US,
by the way, just in other countries they're using these.
That one drug is an arb which is used for
blood pressure, and the other one is used for triglos
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rising cholesterol, and they're being used regularly in other countries.
We can repurpose those for something like this, which is
great news.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Jim, do pay attention to rat studies. This one is
a joke. I mean, you have studies that are done,
as you indicated in rats and you know whatever, excuse me,
So whatever you put into a rat causes this disease
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or that disease or cures this disease. I mean you
know what in terms of efficacy in humans, do you do?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
You buy this stuff?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Yeah? I mean this this is how research is done,
and this is often how we get the first signals
that something could be good. You know, for humans, a
lot of our metabolic processes really carry over. I mean,
rats make cholesterol and they have a liver, so a
lot of this is really connected to humans. And when
it shows promise in that population and there's a good
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kind of physiologic reason why this would work and we
have the same exact mechanism in our body, it's a
good first step. But of course nobody is going to
recommend that we across the board we start mixing these
two chemical rights. Yeah, but it's a really good first
step and it's really encouraging. So you love to know
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about cutting edge, and this is cutting edge, all right,
fair enough, but let me.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Let me throw something at you.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
This would be the last question, and that is as
a percentage if a certain drug or procedure works in
rats and then translating to humans after the additional testing,
what is the percentage of success at the rat level
that translates for us.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Yeah, that's a lot harder because we're talking about such
a wide variety. Again, something like this. I think it's
encouraging because there is a lot of conservation of processes
between humans and rats in this area, but in other
areas maybe not so much. Because I mean, I remember
one that was supposed to be a vaccine for ass infections.
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I thought, wow, this is going to change the world.
And it really worked well in rats. It did not
work at all in humans. So but they again, the
immune system is a totally different thing and may not
be as well conserved when you go from rats to humans.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Got it all right, Jim, thank you? Well this is
again next week. Always good stuff, greatly appreciated. All right,
geting care, I have a good one. All right, we're done, guys.
There is show is done coming up Gary and Shannon
tomorrow morning. Amy and will start with wake up call
at five o'clock. Neil and I jump in at six
to right about now, and then of course we have
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a Cono and and that make the show run. And
if you notice the show many many times does not run,
well that's Cono and and you can blame them.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Well, we'll catch you in the morning.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
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Speaker 3 (24:45):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:12):
Oh man, we've got we still have plenty to do.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
By the way, some of the stories we're looking at
is the average price for a car has now topped
fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Isn't that special? Inflation isn't here, not at all?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And Kaiser permanity healthcare workers other than doctors are on strike.
The nurses, the nurse and ethetists, the pharmacists, they're on strike.
And on top of that, what's happening in the Middle East.
Hamas once again pulling a bonehead move, and that is
not releasing the bodies the remains of the dead hostages.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
They're supposed to release all of.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Them by midnight, Monday night, a long past and so
Israel is getting a little upset about it. Already cut
aid half the aid coming into Gaza.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
There is a federal lawsuit that has been filed. California.
Governor Newsom signed a bill on glock style pistols, which
feature and I'm going to read this from the La Times.
I'm sure I'm going to be corrected on this allowing
the attachment of what is being called by them a
machine gun conversion device. And it's a bill that was
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just signed and prohibits semi automatic pistols with these cruciform.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Trigger bars that enable.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Switches converting guns into rapid fire weapons. Now, the lawsuit,
of course claims, as always does, that the band violates
a Second Amendment. And there are a couple of very
interesting legal arguments here, and one in particular I want
to share with you John Cumberford, the executive director of
the NRA Institute for Legislative Action.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
No surprise here.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Quote Newsom and his gang of progressive of politicians in
California are continuing their crusade against constitutional rights. They are
attempting to violate landmarks, Supreme Court decisions, and disarmed law
abiding citizen by banning some of the most quote commonly
used or owned handguns in America. The word commonly owned
(02:20):
is critical to this law, particularly the argument that the
NRA and gun have its advocates have so put that
in your mind commonly used. All Right, the lawsuit says,
of course, violates the Second Amendment. But then anything, anything,
any law that somehow limits any kind of weapon instantly
(02:43):
gets a lawsuit from gun advocates.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You know, what becomes a ray slope.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
No matter what.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
What's weird about this, though, Bill that the Okay, so,
a glock doesn't have a traditional.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Safety system.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Most guns have a safety that you put on right
and that keeps the gun from triggering. This system is
part of the safe action system on a glock.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Glock does not have a traditional safety.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
This whole thing was created so that you couldn't drop
the gun and have it go off, so that the
striker would not engage.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
That's why glocks have this in the first place. Okay, Well,
let me ask you. I understand that, and I get
that part of it. I think I understand.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I just think it's weird that it was originally a
safety mechanism.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It could be, but can it be changed to fire
a rapid fire.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Any semi automatic?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Okay, modifications could become fully audit is it? However, you
wouldn't want a fully automatic handgun.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
You couldn't control it.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It doesn't matter. The Supreme or the NRA is arguing
that any limitation. You see, we got the slippery slope.
So I want to go on and talk about this
because This is a really interesting argument that I think
actually the gun folks are going to have Supreme Court
on their side. So going on with the lawsuit, a
law that bans as sale that prevents citizens from acquiring
(04:12):
a weapon in common use violates a second Amendment. That's
the other issue. If it's in common use, therefore it
is constitutionally protected. They even agree that a gun that
is incredibly dangerous should not be used. I'm assuming machine
(04:33):
fifty caliber machine guns are part of that. But if
there's a law banning machine guns, I'm sure they would
argue that. And I understand there's been a lawsuit filed
by the NRA that the prohibition against eighty eight howitzers.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
The automatic bazookas.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yes, yes, that those laws are unconstitutional, of course, but
here it is the argument is that they are, and
this is they are unquestionably in common use for lawful purposes.
In fact, they're among the most popular handguns in the nation.
And we're talking about glocks now. The guy who introduced
(05:10):
Jesse Gabriel, who introduced the bill in California, and here
I'm gonna quote him, automatic weapons are exceptionally lethal. I'll
buy that capable of firing hundreds of rounds per minute.
Don't know about that, and they're illegal in California. That's correct. Unfortunately,
some semi automatic fire guns feature a dangerous design element
(05:30):
allowing them to be converted to automatic weapons. And here,
I think is the issue, because any gun can be modified.
But this is an easy to use device known as
a switch. You can simply buy it on the internet
and install it in minutes, and.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You have a gun that's quite honestly, but hardon.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Let me ask you this, A handgun in California can't
have more than I think eight rounds or something in
the magazine unders rounds, eight rounds.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
That's the same.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Though a fully automatic eight rounds is a second.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Right it does it just shoots. A matter of fact,
I would and I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Know that this is not a good automatic weapon. I
understand it's not a good automatic weapon.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's probably less lethal than a single shot because you
don't aim, you can't control it. You just press the
trigger and the bullets come flying out' spitting out shot.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
An automatic weapon, and I have a fully automatic weapon,
it is hard to control even as a rifle.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Okay, guy understood that is Actually there's an argument there
that when you combine the fact that you only have
eight bullets in a magazine and when you have a
gun that is fully automatic, that makes it actually safer
for someone.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Who's gonna get shot.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Then the other way that is, yeah, you're actually arguing
I'd rather have that if someone's gonna.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Shoot it, No one's going to be able to control it. Right.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
So the argument is, and here's the argument that I
use because it's a fun legal argument, we can order.
The technical part all the time is that the court
has said guns that are in usual usage, if they're
usually used by the population, then the Second Amendment applies.
And what the NRA is saying that most of the
(07:20):
guns out there can easily be converted, which may very
well be true. And so what's going to end up
happening is the Court is going to rule on it.
Because when you think about the court ruling, it basically
is a Heller decision coming out of Detroit. You could
have a handgun to protect yourself in your house. That's
where it started with the laws against guns. So a gun,
(07:43):
handgun to own or to modify the weapon.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, the problem is, yeah, it is legal.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And then the issue we can remember the what we
call it the gun modification that was used in a
demandal a.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
The with the modified bump stock.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, the bump stock. Yeah, but you can do.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
That without anything.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You could do that with your finger and your thumb
in your belt.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You can't make them that. Well, the argument was could
you do it that quickly?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
But here is the issue is here, and I look
at the constitutional arguments, I look at what the court
has said, and that is usual usage, and I guess,
no matter what is going to be constitutionally protected. Clarence
Thomas is the nutcase on this, and that is we
have to look at it historically, and historically everybody had
(08:38):
a gun and use it during the Civil War when
not Civil War era, but during the revolutionary times when
we created a country. So let's look at gun ownership
in reference to back then. What It's a different world, guys,
certainly Clarence Thomas.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Anyway, I thought it was an interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Bit of legality or legal news regarding guns. Okay, let's
talk about another product that costs a whole lot more money,
and that is coffee. Oh yes, even before the US
imposed tariffs of fifty percent on Brazil and politics of
that is crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Twenty percent on Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
The two countries Brazil and Vietnam together produce more than
half of the world's coffee beans, and so you have
the tariffs in the way. Then you have climate change,
the related fires which really doesn't exist of course, flooding, droughts, droughts,
all of it affecting coffee prices up. Coffee in the
(09:40):
US today is nearly forty percent more expensive than it
was a year ago. Now I buy coffee in bulk,
so actually Lindsay buys the coffee for me, so I
don't pay attention because frankly, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
If I don't have my coffee in the morning, I'm done.
I'm just done.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You know that. To me, it's desperation time if I
don't have coffee. So it's forty percent more, okay, If
it's twice more, if it's one hundred percent more, I'm okay.
I noticed Amy has her coffee cup with her right now.
I notice that Neil when he comes on, he has
his espresso. I have my coffee cup. I do two big,
(10:22):
big cups of coffee.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
A schedule, so it gets delivered all the time that
it won't break schedule.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
We always have my coffee here. Now it's a story
out of the Atlantic. Coffee has no nutritional value. You
can replace caffeine with almost anything out there. Walking to
a gas station. How many caffeine supplements you know, monster,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Do we you have?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So we definitely desperately not need it, but we want it.
It's fixed in our culture, our economy, our rituals, our
brain chemistry. It's the most consumed beverage outside of water,
and caffeine is by far the most popular drug on earth.
(11:11):
And on any given day, an American is or likeli
or to drink coffee than they are to exercise. No kidding, pray.
How about praying while drinking coffee? Does that work? I
don't pray a lot or reading for pleasure. There are
more Starbucks than public libraries in America. And as a
(11:32):
matter of fact, it's so crucial that most employers give
it away in the office. They just give it to you.
You go to the coffee station. We of course have coffee.
I've never worked in an office. A few times I've
worked in office, didn't have coffee available for everybody. You know,
iHeart produces of course this building produces coffee, not on Yeah,
(11:55):
on our floor, we have coffee, that's a given. Upstairs
they give you free drinks too, and snacks, you know that.
But we're on the fourth floor, not on the fifth floor.
AM is not the same as FM. That's inn aside
I just want to throw out there. But the bottom
line is that we are in trouble because of the
price of coffee, and it doesn't look like it's getting
(12:17):
any cheaper anytime soon. Amy, have you noticed the price
of coffee? Has that occurred to you or you just
don't care and don't pay attention.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I pay attention, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't stop
me from drinking coffee.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But I do notice at the store that it costs
more and there are fewer sales.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Okay. Also, Maxwell House has come back. I mean, what
you know, freeze dried coffee?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I mean, what the hell is that about, Neil, Have
you noticed the cost of coffee has gone up?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Okayly, of course, that doesn't stop you from buying the
same amount of coffee.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Oh, we're very very specific on what we drink here
and what we like, and we'll pay whatever for it.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
See, that's the whole point.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Uh, we drink.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
We have an espresso and we drink cafe the Jave,
which is made from the Don Francisco folks.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
We love Don Francisco.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It's just excellent. Their espresso is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Also, I'm in an espresso person too, love that machine.
Kno drink coffee?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
No, thank you? Wow your unusual? Uh will you drink coffee?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Okay, have you noticed? Have you noticed the price has
gone up?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
You know, I haven't paid attention, but I did make
the switch, though I don't. I try not to do
the actual like Starbucks or pizza or anything I go.
I just buy it at the store and make it
at home. Oh absolutely, Starbucks. I hate Starbucks coffee. It's
too bitter for me. I just don't like it.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I'm not a fan either.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, I like. I like mine at home too. And
you're a coffee person, Yes, absolutely, but I make it
at home. We just buy the little we have a
cure egg and we just buy the little the box
of the margin Eric.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Notice absolutely, yeah, and doesn't stop you. I mean I
think that's the point.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
No, there's they're still selling all all the coffee that
they can grow. It doesn't stop, all right, Doctor Jim Keeney,
it's our medical segment, chief medical officer for Dignity Saint
Mary Medical Center in Long Beach.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I Jim, good morning, yep, good morning. Oh there you are,
all right? Uh okay.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
One of my favorite topics that we talk about, of course, constipation.
It's just one of those things. And uh, you know,
a lot of us deal with constipation. A lot of
us have successfully dealt with constapation, for example, going to
federal prison for a few months.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Uh now, uh see, I got you on that one,
didn't I.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Uh all right, uh a, I guess not a cure,
but certainly I help for constipation.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Kiwis like the kiwis that you put in the fruit.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, exactly, so like kiwi's. They're similar to I think
an American culture. You know, prof uns are more well known,
but you know they trigger, you know, increase volume of
water drawn into the gut because of the amount of
sugar that's in kiwi's and in prunes. And then that helps,
you know, helps things move along because it stays more hydrated.
(15:17):
It actually triggers bowel contractions too, so and it makes
the stool more soft. So all you put all that
together and basically kiwis will help, and the studies show
that they're so effective kiwis and prunes that rather than
promoting like fiber supplements or other supplements or even probiotics
or medications, that doctors should use this. This is the
(15:38):
British health system by the way, They said doctors should
use this as first line therapy rather than other things,
and I think that's a good idea, right because it's
a little bit more natural. They're even saying, you know,
mineral water. They call it in mineral water because compared
to electrolyte waters and things like that, electrolyte waters usually
are high on potassium and that replaces you know, what
(15:59):
you lose when.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
You sweat a bit.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
But mineral water is usually rich in magnesium, and magnesium helps.
It has a mild lackstive effect, It helps your gut
move better, helps you sleep at night. So a lot
of good, you know, good effects from using a magnesium
supplement or drinking magnesium rich mineral water have there.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I'm assuming there are studies out there that compare prison
with kiwis and which would you suggest.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yeah, No, I don't think there's any studies out there
that compare.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Oh okay, here is a big story that's very serious,
which I think is groundbreaking. The FDA is clearing a
blood test for Alzheimer's. Prior to this that there was
nothing there other than the symptoms.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Right, No, we actually we talked about a blood test
just back in March that is a different type of
blood test, but also as here by the FDA, that
you know, to look for the products that are related
to Alzheimer's that you find in the blood. So what
(17:09):
this is is it's not really a test to determine
you have Alzheimer's. It's a test to really rule out Alzheimer's, right,
if this test is negative, this especially this new one.
So what they're looking for we talked about Alzheimer's.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What it is.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
It's a combination of what we call amyloid plaques, which
is a bunch of gunk that gets in between the nerves,
and then there's TAUL proteins that tangle within the nerve
fibers themselves and cause bad conduction of nerves of electrical signals.
So the TAUL protein can be found in the blood
(17:45):
in these people that are developing Alzheimer's disease, and the
steps are in that order. It's first the amyloid, then
the towel, and so once you find that in the blood,
you're concerned that they may have Alzheimer's. It's not diagnostic.
You then need to go on to the diagnostic tests.
But if this test is negative, if you have somebody
coming in, say that they have a strong family history
of Alzheimer's, they're getting memory loss early in life, and
(18:08):
then they get a negative test. This test is said
to be ninety eight percent accurate in ruling out Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
When you talk about memory loss early in life, what
does early mean?
Speaker 5 (18:24):
So if your we typically look at this and this
test would be for people fifty five and over, and
so if you're having memory loss before fifty five, that's
very concerning and probably is not Alzheimer's. It could be
it could be a variant of Alzheimer's, but that's something
that needs to be looked into by a neurologist typically.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
All right, by the way, is Alzheimer's Is it increasing
or is just the diagnostics are improving?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
You know a good question. I think that that both
you know that it may be increasing slightly I don't
have the stats on that, but for sure are ability
to diagnose it as improving. And now, before we had
to make the diagnos diagnosis clinically right, people would come
in with certain features and we would attribute it to
Alzheimer's disease. Now we actually have the ability to measure
(19:13):
things like MRIs and look for amyloid packs, neurofibullarity tangles,
and this can confirm that the person's developing Alzheimer's.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, it's pretty scary stuff. And like, uh, I have
memory issues. Uh, there's no question about it. And I'm
really concerned. And everybody I know telling me, Handle, you've
had these memory issues since you've been in your twenties
and nothing has changed. And frankly, I've forgotten that I
had it in my twenties, So you know at some point.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
You know, by the way, I'm not far off on
that one.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So now, next time we get together, you and I
will do a little test right there on dementia.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Wow, I'll do it.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Yeah, I'll bring a mini mental status exam and we'll
see how you do.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Uh. Liver disease, that's always fun to talk about. One
of my favorite diseases, liver disease, and there is a breakthrough,
and that's dealing with liver disease, not giving you a
lead liver disease.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Is that fair, say, yeah, so the breakthrough is, yeah,
how to address liver disease. You remember last week we
just talked about you know, drinks and sugary drinks and
even diet sodas as much as you know, one diet
soda a day can increase your risk for liver disease.
And this is what's called metabolic dysfunction associated dietotic liver
(20:36):
disease or mass LD. And so that leads to a
worsening form of liver disease that can cause permanent damage, cirrhosis,
and even liver failure. And up to twenty percent of
those cases, and we're seeing a lot more of these.
We believe that you know, probably at least forty to
sixty percent of the population has the early forms because
(20:58):
of all the diet soda as in regular sodas that
people are drinking. So this is kind of interesting. Now,
remember this was done not on humans, but on rats
and deeper fish way, so still not human studies, but
good markers that show that the fatty accumulation in the
rats liver reverses with these two drugs put together, and
(21:21):
then so do all the other metabolic markers in a rat.
So I mean, I think it's a it's a good
start and potentially shows that there's some drugs out there
that are These are not FDA approved in the US,
by the way, just in other countries they're using these.
That one drug is an arb which is used for
blood pressure, and the other one is used for triglos
(21:44):
rising cholesterol, and they're being used regularly in other countries.
We can repurpose those for something like this, which is
great news.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Jim, do pay attention to rat studies. This one is
a joke. I mean, you have studies that are done,
as you indicated in rats and you know whatever, excuse me,
So whatever you put into a rat causes this disease
(22:13):
or that disease or cures this disease. I mean you
know what in terms of efficacy in humans, do you do?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
You buy this stuff?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Yeah? I mean this this is how research is done,
and this is often how we get the first signals
that something could be good. You know, for humans, a
lot of our metabolic processes really carry over. I mean,
rats make cholesterol and they have a liver, so a
lot of this is really connected to humans. And when
it shows promise in that population and there's a good
(22:46):
kind of physiologic reason why this would work and we
have the same exact mechanism in our body, it's a
good first step. But of course nobody is going to
recommend that we across the board we start mixing these
two chemical rights. Yeah, but it's a really good first
step and it's really encouraging. So you love to know
(23:06):
about cutting edge, and this is cutting edge, all right,
fair enough, but let me.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Let me throw something at you.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
This would be the last question, and that is as
a percentage if a certain drug or procedure works in
rats and then translating to humans after the additional testing,
what is the percentage of success at the rat level
that translates for us.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Yeah, that's a lot harder because we're talking about such
a wide variety. Again, something like this. I think it's
encouraging because there is a lot of conservation of processes
between humans and rats in this area, but in other
areas maybe not so much. Because I mean, I remember
one that was supposed to be a vaccine for ass infections.
(23:53):
I thought, wow, this is going to change the world.
And it really worked well in rats. It did not
work at all in humans. So but they again, the
immune system is a totally different thing and may not
be as well conserved when you go from rats to humans.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Got it all right, Jim, thank you? Well this is
again next week. Always good stuff, greatly appreciated. All right,
geting care, I have a good one. All right, we're done, guys.
There is show is done coming up Gary and Shannon
tomorrow morning. Amy and will start with wake up call
at five o'clock. Neil and I jump in at six
to right about now, and then of course we have
(24:28):
a Cono and and that make the show run. And
if you notice the show many many times does not run,
well that's Cono and and you can blame them.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Well, we'll catch you in the morning.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
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