November 5, 2025 • 22 mins
(November 05, 2025)
Transportation Department may close parts of airspace if government shutdown continues. Tom Brady’s dog is a clone of his dog that passed away in 2023. 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 the alarming surge in memory problems among young adults, key biological difference between psychopaths and normal, and taking melatonin for long periods being linked to heart problems.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey, why am six forty? Bill Handle here and welcome
back to the show. Right now, the justices Supreme Court
is hearing arguments over Trump's tariff power, and it looks
like even the most conservative of the justices are arguing
with the Solicitor General represents the United States saying, hey,
(00:29):
is there any limit to Trump's power to tariff? And
effectively what the government is saying, Nope. If the if
the President says that there's an emergency, there is an emergency,
are there any limits? And the Solicitor General is saying
effectively no. Wow, well we'll see. I would have a
(00:53):
hard time with the Supreme Court giving Trump a victory
on that one.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well know, in June. It's gonna be a while now.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
One of the things that is happening as a result
of the shutdown today is thirty day thirty six thirty
five was the record of the governmental shutdown, and that
was during Donald Trump's first term. So we're away into
it and we're still not even close to getting through this.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
A couple things about the shutdown is one of them.
There are I guess.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Millions of people at this point that work for the
government are getting their paycheck.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That doesn't affect you unless.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You work for the government, unless you have a family
member or you sell to the government. Really doesn't affect
It doesn't affect me except if.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I want to fly.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And that is a whole lot of people that fly
in this country, particularly during the holiday season coming up,
and in general, I mean an enormous number of people
fly in this country. I mean I just probably what
one hundred million people a third of the country flies.
Now the shutdown is really hitting Home and Transportation Secretary
(02:07):
Sean Duffy said yesterday that the US might be forced
to close parts of airspace, not just closing down airports
delaying flights because of the shortage of air traffic controller,
but shutting down airspace. No planes can fly in that area,
not cargo planes where there isn't a wait in line. Now, no,
(02:31):
we've never done that before. And the shutdown dragging into
second month has meant that essential workers, and I just
wanted to understand, including air traffic controllers, have been working
without pay. They're mandated to work, they have to work,
but they don't get paid, which I don't understand. Because
there are parts of the government and the workers that
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do get paid automatically by law, they get paid, and
the armed services which do not get paid. The government
has been able to find money to pay them, but
not air traffic controllers, which I don't understand because they
are so important and without them, the flying just shuts down.
(03:20):
And so there is a shortage of controllers, according to
Duffy from two three thousand controllers, and then he said,
so if you bring us to a week from today, Democrats,
you will see mass, mass chaos. You will see mass
flight delays, You'll see mass cancelations. You may see us
close certain parts of the airspace because we just can't
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manage it. We don't have the air traffic controllers. You
don't have the air traffic controllers, you can't fly. And
so the flight delays and cancellations has been piling up
like crazy. House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries has rebutted the
claims that it's the Democrats fault, and he's saying that
it's the Republican's fault, and that seems to be what's
(04:05):
going on right now because this has become a political football,
and this is where I think the Republicans are failing miserably.
And I'm not talking about the politics of this.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I'm really not. We know that the Democrats what they want.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Is to keep the additional funding of Medicaid and Medicaid
and parts of Medicare non thing. Medicare is okay, but
extensions of Obamacare after the pandemic. Congress voted extensions increase
of increase of money, increase of subsidies, and those end
(04:49):
at the end of this year. And the Democrats say,
we have to keep those going. We have to keep
those going, and the Republicans say, no, we're not. So
the actual underlying issue is the Obamacare increases, and that's
for the Democrats. The Republicans are saying in poy do
they have a point, saying, hey, we'll talk about this,
(05:10):
but you can't.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
You can't keep the government shut down. You can't.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well the Democrats saying, yes, we can. And the problem
with the politics here is the longer this way and
this goes on, the more we hurt. And the Republicans
are getting most of the blame. They're the ones that
are being blamed. Forget about your politics, or forget about
the underlying merits.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I don't care which side you're on.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
If you are a Republican, you're getting blamed, and if
you're a Democrat, Republicans are getting blamed. And at some
point when you come back, tell me that this is
not going to affect the down voting.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
What's going to happen. Now Here's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
If it keeps on going over another given length of time,
let's say goes on for weeks, come the midterms, and
the Republicans get the blame, it's gonna be tough for
a Republican candidate, whether a new candidate or someone trying
to be elected again. It's going to be tough when
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the accusation is you would not give us our insurance.
You have made sure that we will never have enough insurance,
so we are going to go broke. You are doubling
the amount of money we are paying for insurance, and
the Republicans are saying, we'll talk about it, we'll talk
about it, just make sure the government gets moving again. Well,
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the Democrats, legitimately enough, are saying, you guys are a
bunch of liars. You have no intention of expanding Obamacare
or allowing Obamacare to move at the same at the
same point that we have now. You want Obamacare to fail.
You want forty million people in this country or twenty
(07:05):
three million.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Forty million is food Span stamps.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You want twenty three million people in this country to
effectively not be able to afford insurance anymore. And the
Republicans can't refute that, but they're willing to talk about it.
And Schumer and Hakim Jeffrey say, you know what, you
can't believe them, they're liars. We're not going to let
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the government go on with the promise that we'll be talking,
because you know, the reality is we're not going to
be talking. And this is where the line is drawn.
The line in the sand has been drawn. I don't
know how long this is going to continue. I mean,
at some point we have to get the government moving again.
I mean it can't go on forever, that's impossible. But
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how long it lasts don't know. And if the Republicans
are being blamed for this, how long does that go on?
And what kind of hit do they take next election cycle?
Don't know either. All right, let's talk about cloning. In
an interview with People magazine, who else but Brady revealed
(08:18):
he has a new dog Juni, who is a clone
of Lua, a pitbull mix. He announced that the biotech
company Colossal Biosciences.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Colossal Biosciences created the clone right after Lua's death, and Brady,
by the way, is an investor in Colossal Biosciences. And
just before Lula died in twenty twenty three, a portion
of her blood was collected and with that the technology
enabled a clone of the dog to be created. Brady
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told People magazine, I love my animals. They the world
to me and my family, And he said, a few
years ago, I worked with Colossal and leveraged their non
invasive cloning technology, and there we are. I now have
my old dog with my new dog. So on the
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same day Brady of Tom Brady's announcement, Colossal Biosciences bought
viagin pets and equine pets and horses.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I guess, and I didn't even know this.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Do you remember when Dolly the sheep was cloned and
that was the first cloned animal ever, and then you
didn't hear much about it. No, there was some medical
issues with Dolly and that sort of disappeared.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Well, turns out this is a thing.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Barbara Streisand's dog Samantha was clone after Samantha died in
twenty seventeen. Paris Hilton's dog, diamond Baby went missing in
twenty twenty two, and so Viagin made two clones of of.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
A diamond Baby. Here you go.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
That's a Bogo Buy one, get one free. That was
the sale going on. Now, the partnership with Viagin will
allow Colossal to expand the current ext de extinction mission.
Now people cloning their animals, Okay, I mean, yeah, how
important is that?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And you know, and how does that work?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
By the way, it's people have twins, and effectively, one
twin is a clone of the other. You know, the
personalities are totally different. I mean literally, you're not going
to have the same personality. And so a clone of
an animal physically maybe the exact animal, but it's going
to be living in a different space.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
The folks that lives with are in a different space.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And when I talk about a different space, I'm talking
about psychologically. You're just different at different times in your life.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Clones are not the same, although they look the same. Now.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
In April, Colossal claim that it had brought back dire wolves,
an extinct species. Ah that's a different thing, because if
you can bring back dire wolves and then Jurassic Park,
you've seen that movie, everybody has where they're able to
take the genetic material from insects that have bitten the
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animals and sucked out their blood and they're caught up
in amber and they were able to take out the DNA,
and all of a sudden, you've got dinosaurs and you
have a wooly mammoth. Now that one's kind of neat.
I mean, do I care that Tom Brady's dog has
been cloned?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I mean, do I care that Lula has become it's
Lula has become Juni. But the idea of bringing back
extinct animals and species that is neat.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That is really neat. Okay, we're done with that.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Okay, it is time for medical news with doctor Jim Keeney,
chief medical officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in
Long Beach, And good morning, Jim, Good morning Bill. Okay,
here we start now. And I think I've shared this
with you before the last few years of my mom's life,
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she didn't even recognize me.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Now, in my case, that was a great thing. I
had no problem with her not recognizing me.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
But other people have a problem with that, and it's
not just old people that's the problem. It's moving into
young adults with memory problems.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Let's talk about that.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, So what you're referring to is there's an interesting
study because it was a big survey study of four
point five million people and they've conducted this from twenty
thirteen to twenty twenty three, so it's a ten year
study looking at self reported ability to remember things. And
so it's you know, you're asking people are you are
you how are you doing remembering things? And they're telling
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you from their own self reported perspective, oh, I'm remembering
more remembering less. And what they're showing is that that, yes,
young adults are the ones that are complaining most about this.
So this isn't really like the study is observational. It's
asking a question. It's not like looking at an actual diagnosis.
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This is self reported, So it's not really good for
saying the incidence of you know, cognitive dysfunction is going up.
But what it's it's giving us a signal that people
are not remembering as well as they as they used to,
and they feel like that's accelerating. So people eighteen to forty,
that's that's the age group that saw almost doubling of
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complaints of memory problems, and so we attribute it to age.
And there is certainly you know, Alzheimer's and other age
related dementia, but are there's other factors besides age that
go into memory, like sleep, you know, like your diet,
and are the medications you take, how much exercise you
get the needs may be a reduction in those or
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alteration and those maybe having an effect on the younger generation.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So we're not talking about changing treatment at all of
memory problems. It's just they're discovering a new group of
people that there is an increase or at least evidence
that there's an increase of these problems occurring.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I have that right, yeah, exactly. And the other group
besides the age group was socioeconomics, so people with an
income less than thirty five thousand a year, it went
up by about fifty percent compared to you know, people
who are college graduates. It went up very very minimally.
And then same thing with the race prevalence, that minorities
went up more and others. So there's definitely this is
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just a signal kind of study, and it's signaling that. Wow. Okay,
so in our lower socioeconomic work group, we may have
problems with memory, you know, with and we need to
look at that.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah, kno, under thirty five thousand dollars a year income
memory problems. Don't forget to come in tomorrow morning. Okay,
I already forgot. Oh he's already forgotten.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
He says.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
A key biological difference between psychopaths and normal people.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
That is a fun one. Please explain.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah, so, you know, so the ted Bundies of the world,
the Hannibal Lecters of the world, that type of thing.
And you've got to be careful with this kind of stuff, right,
because what we're showing is that there it isn't just
this isn't just choices. This also may have some physiologic
you know, basis for why people have a predisposition for psychopathy. Now,
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remember being a psychopath, it's not like a diagnosis. There's
not there's not one thing that you get a test
and it shows up. These people have a constellation of symptoms.
Some have more, some have less, and so you have
there's people that have degrees of psychopathy and uh and so,
but what we're showing here is that it's not just choices.
(16:24):
It may actually also be physiologic and that doesn't take
away accountability for people. And that's that's I think where
people go with this. Sometimes when you can show a
physical reason for something, for traits like this.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah, but showing a predisposition, I don't know what good
that does. But do you find this out? Would you
find this out in a simple blood test? And you
look at the various genes that combine together, and we
know a lot of combination of genes cause predispositions. You know,
for example, if we took a blood test of Jeffrey Dahmer,
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you know what, we know, what are you going to
have for breakfast?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
They can we do that yet?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
No, that's where we're not at that level for sure.
So that's the point is that in this we can
see that in this particular study, what they saw was
in MRIs, an area of the brain called a stratum,
was much larger than the average person. And that's one area.
There have been other studies that show other brain areas.
They're also more adapted or developed to be a psychopath
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in these cases. So when you have again, when you're
scoring someone on a scale of psychopath The people that
score higher have larger areas like this. So maybe in
the future you could say you could scan someone and say, look,
this person is showing some of these traits, they have
some of the risk factors. They also have these findings
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on MRI. We probably should intervene early and see what
we can do as far as you know, counseling or
other things to correct this condition.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, looking at it practically, because you know, if you're
looking at whatever insert name of disease or syndrome here
that we know exists, there isn't a or several blood
tests on the planet that would go across the board
and show you exactly what the problem is.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Do I have that right?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah, you're right. I mean we tend to be we're
kind of a reductionist scientist and reductionist society. We want
to know. You know that you can get a test.
You know, there's certain diseases, you know, Huntington's Korea. You
get one test and it shows that you boy, you
probably have that right. There's but things like diabetes are multifactorial.
There's not one test one thing. Now, of course, we
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diagnose it with one test of elevated blood sugar. But
that's the result, right, that's the end point. The things
that lead to that have multiple different factors involved.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Hm, okay, finishing up with a new antibiotic. That was
and I'm quoting. You gave me the quote hiding and
plane site. Okay, what's for decades? So what are you
talking about?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Yeah, So this is interesting because what we do. So
first of all, bacteria make antibiotics, and they do it
so that they can wipe out other bacteria and control
the environment. Right, it's it's a survival thing. So they're
resistant to it, but other bacteria may not be. So
that's a source for us to get antibiotics. We look
at bacteria and we see what antibiotics they're using, and
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then we combat bacteria with those antibiotics. So what we
usually though, look at is that final antibiotic that they produce.
In this case, this was This is like making the
antibiotic is kind of like you know, baking a cake.
There's there's there's levels too as you develop the chemical
within the organism, and we always look at the final product.
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But imagine if you like whip the eggs and whip
the whip the sugar together and then you stop there
and now analyzed does that kill bacteria before we get
to the actual finished product of the cake? Right, And
that's what they've done in this situation is they took
an intermediate and said, hey, wait a second, let's see
if this kills bacteria, and it kills it one hundred
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times more powerfully than the final product did.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
So this is almost a whole new area of research.
We can now look at intermediates.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That that sounds terrific.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And are we talking about a bacteria that is across
the board, because I know certain bacteria or certain antibiotics
are limited to whatever disease.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Is out there, right, Yeah, there, these are bacteria that
are called Gram positive bacteria, which is a whole category
of serious bacteria that caused serious infections and do have
resistance at times to bacteria. And in this particular intermediate,
they exposed bacteria to it over over a month and
it still did not seem to produce resistance at that point.
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So that's a good sign, and you know, it just
points to a potential future source for new antibiotics.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
All right, Jim, thank you. It's always great news.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Actually, sometimes you bring horrible news, which I really like
We will catch you next week at A thirty with
Medical News. Take care all right, Take care all right,
Doctor Jim Keeney, you happens to be the chief medical
officers for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach
and an er certified diplomat of the World of e Ours.
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And that's it. We're done, guys, that's finished. Wednesday is done.
Tomorrow morning, it starts all over again. Right a few minutes,
it's Gary and Shannon and they're going to be talking
about with the Supreme Court is doing right now, they're
still in the middle of arguments regarding the tariffs. Boy,
this is about as long as I've ever seen a
Supreme Court case go. And tomorrow we start all over again.
(21:45):
Wake up, call Amy and Will Neil and I come
aboard and they're in the background lurking.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Is Amy or is Ann and Kno good bye everybody,
See you tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey, why am six forty? Bill Handle here and welcome
back to the show. Right now, the justices Supreme Court
is hearing arguments over Trump's tariff power, and it looks
like even the most conservative of the justices are arguing
with the Solicitor General represents the United States saying, hey,
(00:29):
is there any limit to Trump's power to tariff? And
effectively what the government is saying, Nope. If the if
the President says that there's an emergency, there is an emergency,
are there any limits? And the Solicitor General is saying
effectively no. Wow, well we'll see. I would have a
(00:53):
hard time with the Supreme Court giving Trump a victory
on that one.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well know, in June. It's gonna be a while now.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
One of the things that is happening as a result
of the shutdown today is thirty day thirty six thirty
five was the record of the governmental shutdown, and that
was during Donald Trump's first term. So we're away into
it and we're still not even close to getting through this.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
A couple things about the shutdown is one of them.
There are I guess.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Millions of people at this point that work for the
government are getting their paycheck.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That doesn't affect you unless.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You work for the government, unless you have a family
member or you sell to the government. Really doesn't affect
It doesn't affect me except if.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I want to fly.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And that is a whole lot of people that fly
in this country, particularly during the holiday season coming up,
and in general, I mean an enormous number of people
fly in this country. I mean I just probably what
one hundred million people a third of the country flies.
Now the shutdown is really hitting Home and Transportation Secretary
(02:07):
Sean Duffy said yesterday that the US might be forced
to close parts of airspace, not just closing down airports
delaying flights because of the shortage of air traffic controller,
but shutting down airspace. No planes can fly in that area,
not cargo planes where there isn't a wait in line. Now, no,
(02:31):
we've never done that before. And the shutdown dragging into
second month has meant that essential workers, and I just
wanted to understand, including air traffic controllers, have been working
without pay. They're mandated to work, they have to work,
but they don't get paid, which I don't understand. Because
there are parts of the government and the workers that
(02:55):
do get paid automatically by law, they get paid, and
the armed services which do not get paid. The government
has been able to find money to pay them, but
not air traffic controllers, which I don't understand because they
are so important and without them, the flying just shuts down.
(03:20):
And so there is a shortage of controllers, according to
Duffy from two three thousand controllers, and then he said,
so if you bring us to a week from today, Democrats,
you will see mass, mass chaos. You will see mass
flight delays, You'll see mass cancelations. You may see us
close certain parts of the airspace because we just can't
(03:43):
manage it. We don't have the air traffic controllers. You
don't have the air traffic controllers, you can't fly. And
so the flight delays and cancellations has been piling up
like crazy. House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries has rebutted the
claims that it's the Democrats fault, and he's saying that
it's the Republican's fault, and that seems to be what's
(04:05):
going on right now because this has become a political football,
and this is where I think the Republicans are failing miserably.
And I'm not talking about the politics of this.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I'm really not. We know that the Democrats what they want.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Is to keep the additional funding of Medicaid and Medicaid
and parts of Medicare non thing. Medicare is okay, but
extensions of Obamacare after the pandemic. Congress voted extensions increase
of increase of money, increase of subsidies, and those end
(04:49):
at the end of this year. And the Democrats say,
we have to keep those going. We have to keep
those going, and the Republicans say, no, we're not. So
the actual underlying issue is the Obamacare increases, and that's
for the Democrats. The Republicans are saying in poy do
they have a point, saying, hey, we'll talk about this,
(05:10):
but you can't.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
You can't keep the government shut down. You can't.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well the Democrats saying, yes, we can. And the problem
with the politics here is the longer this way and
this goes on, the more we hurt. And the Republicans
are getting most of the blame. They're the ones that
are being blamed. Forget about your politics, or forget about
the underlying merits.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I don't care which side you're on.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
If you are a Republican, you're getting blamed, and if
you're a Democrat, Republicans are getting blamed. And at some
point when you come back, tell me that this is
not going to affect the down voting.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
What's going to happen. Now Here's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
If it keeps on going over another given length of time,
let's say goes on for weeks, come the midterms, and
the Republicans get the blame, it's gonna be tough for
a Republican candidate, whether a new candidate or someone trying
to be elected again. It's going to be tough when
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the accusation is you would not give us our insurance.
You have made sure that we will never have enough insurance,
so we are going to go broke. You are doubling
the amount of money we are paying for insurance, and
the Republicans are saying, we'll talk about it, we'll talk
about it, just make sure the government gets moving again. Well,
(06:42):
the Democrats, legitimately enough, are saying, you guys are a
bunch of liars. You have no intention of expanding Obamacare
or allowing Obamacare to move at the same at the
same point that we have now. You want Obamacare to fail.
You want forty million people in this country or twenty
(07:05):
three million.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Forty million is food Span stamps.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You want twenty three million people in this country to
effectively not be able to afford insurance anymore. And the
Republicans can't refute that, but they're willing to talk about it.
And Schumer and Hakim Jeffrey say, you know what, you
can't believe them, they're liars. We're not going to let
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the government go on with the promise that we'll be talking,
because you know, the reality is we're not going to
be talking. And this is where the line is drawn.
The line in the sand has been drawn. I don't
know how long this is going to continue. I mean,
at some point we have to get the government moving again.
I mean it can't go on forever, that's impossible. But
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how long it lasts don't know. And if the Republicans
are being blamed for this, how long does that go on?
And what kind of hit do they take next election cycle?
Don't know either. All right, let's talk about cloning. In
an interview with People magazine, who else but Brady revealed
(08:18):
he has a new dog Juni, who is a clone
of Lua, a pitbull mix. He announced that the biotech
company Colossal Biosciences.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Colossal Biosciences created the clone right after Lua's death, and Brady,
by the way, is an investor in Colossal Biosciences. And
just before Lula died in twenty twenty three, a portion
of her blood was collected and with that the technology
enabled a clone of the dog to be created. Brady
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told People magazine, I love my animals. They the world
to me and my family, And he said, a few
years ago, I worked with Colossal and leveraged their non
invasive cloning technology, and there we are. I now have
my old dog with my new dog. So on the
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same day Brady of Tom Brady's announcement, Colossal Biosciences bought
viagin pets and equine pets and horses.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I guess, and I didn't even know this.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Do you remember when Dolly the sheep was cloned and
that was the first cloned animal ever, and then you
didn't hear much about it. No, there was some medical
issues with Dolly and that sort of disappeared.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Well, turns out this is a thing.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Barbara Streisand's dog Samantha was clone after Samantha died in
twenty seventeen. Paris Hilton's dog, diamond Baby went missing in
twenty twenty two, and so Viagin made two clones of of.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
A diamond Baby. Here you go.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
That's a Bogo Buy one, get one free. That was
the sale going on. Now, the partnership with Viagin will
allow Colossal to expand the current ext de extinction mission.
Now people cloning their animals, Okay, I mean, yeah, how
important is that?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And you know, and how does that work?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
By the way, it's people have twins, and effectively, one
twin is a clone of the other. You know, the
personalities are totally different. I mean literally, you're not going
to have the same personality. And so a clone of
an animal physically maybe the exact animal, but it's going
to be living in a different space.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
The folks that lives with are in a different space.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And when I talk about a different space, I'm talking
about psychologically. You're just different at different times in your life.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Clones are not the same, although they look the same. Now.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
In April, Colossal claim that it had brought back dire wolves,
an extinct species. Ah that's a different thing, because if
you can bring back dire wolves and then Jurassic Park,
you've seen that movie, everybody has where they're able to
take the genetic material from insects that have bitten the
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animals and sucked out their blood and they're caught up
in amber and they were able to take out the DNA,
and all of a sudden, you've got dinosaurs and you
have a wooly mammoth. Now that one's kind of neat.
I mean, do I care that Tom Brady's dog has
been cloned?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I mean, do I care that Lula has become it's
Lula has become Juni. But the idea of bringing back
extinct animals and species that is neat.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That is really neat. Okay, we're done with that.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Okay, it is time for medical news with doctor Jim Keeney,
chief medical officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in
Long Beach, And good morning, Jim, Good morning Bill. Okay,
here we start now. And I think I've shared this
with you before the last few years of my mom's life,
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she didn't even recognize me.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Now, in my case, that was a great thing. I
had no problem with her not recognizing me.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
But other people have a problem with that, and it's
not just old people that's the problem. It's moving into
young adults with memory problems.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Let's talk about that.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, So what you're referring to is there's an interesting
study because it was a big survey study of four
point five million people and they've conducted this from twenty
thirteen to twenty twenty three, so it's a ten year
study looking at self reported ability to remember things. And
so it's you know, you're asking people are you are
you how are you doing remembering things? And they're telling
(13:20):
you from their own self reported perspective, oh, I'm remembering
more remembering less. And what they're showing is that that, yes,
young adults are the ones that are complaining most about this.
So this isn't really like the study is observational. It's
asking a question. It's not like looking at an actual diagnosis.
(13:41):
This is self reported, So it's not really good for
saying the incidence of you know, cognitive dysfunction is going up.
But what it's it's giving us a signal that people
are not remembering as well as they as they used to,
and they feel like that's accelerating. So people eighteen to forty,
that's that's the age group that saw almost doubling of
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complaints of memory problems, and so we attribute it to age.
And there is certainly you know, Alzheimer's and other age
related dementia, but are there's other factors besides age that
go into memory, like sleep, you know, like your diet,
and are the medications you take, how much exercise you
get the needs may be a reduction in those or
(14:24):
alteration and those maybe having an effect on the younger generation.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So we're not talking about changing treatment at all of
memory problems. It's just they're discovering a new group of
people that there is an increase or at least evidence
that there's an increase of these problems occurring.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I have that right, yeah, exactly. And the other group
besides the age group was socioeconomics, so people with an
income less than thirty five thousand a year, it went
up by about fifty percent compared to you know, people
who are college graduates. It went up very very minimally.
And then same thing with the race prevalence, that minorities
went up more and others. So there's definitely this is
(15:03):
just a signal kind of study, and it's signaling that. Wow. Okay,
so in our lower socioeconomic work group, we may have
problems with memory, you know, with and we need to
look at that.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah, kno, under thirty five thousand dollars a year income
memory problems. Don't forget to come in tomorrow morning. Okay,
I already forgot. Oh he's already forgotten.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
He says.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
A key biological difference between psychopaths and normal people.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
That is a fun one. Please explain.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah, so, you know, so the ted Bundies of the world,
the Hannibal Lecters of the world, that type of thing.
And you've got to be careful with this kind of stuff, right,
because what we're showing is that there it isn't just
this isn't just choices. This also may have some physiologic
you know, basis for why people have a predisposition for psychopathy. Now,
(16:02):
remember being a psychopath, it's not like a diagnosis. There's
not there's not one thing that you get a test
and it shows up. These people have a constellation of symptoms.
Some have more, some have less, and so you have
there's people that have degrees of psychopathy and uh and so,
but what we're showing here is that it's not just choices.
(16:24):
It may actually also be physiologic and that doesn't take
away accountability for people. And that's that's I think where
people go with this. Sometimes when you can show a
physical reason for something, for traits like this.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah, but showing a predisposition, I don't know what good
that does. But do you find this out? Would you
find this out in a simple blood test? And you
look at the various genes that combine together, and we
know a lot of combination of genes cause predispositions. You know,
for example, if we took a blood test of Jeffrey Dahmer,
(16:59):
you know what, we know, what are you going to
have for breakfast?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
They can we do that yet?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
No, that's where we're not at that level for sure.
So that's the point is that in this we can
see that in this particular study, what they saw was
in MRIs, an area of the brain called a stratum,
was much larger than the average person. And that's one area.
There have been other studies that show other brain areas.
They're also more adapted or developed to be a psychopath
(17:30):
in these cases. So when you have again, when you're
scoring someone on a scale of psychopath The people that
score higher have larger areas like this. So maybe in
the future you could say you could scan someone and say, look,
this person is showing some of these traits, they have
some of the risk factors. They also have these findings
(17:51):
on MRI. We probably should intervene early and see what
we can do as far as you know, counseling or
other things to correct this condition.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, looking at it practically, because you know, if you're
looking at whatever insert name of disease or syndrome here
that we know exists, there isn't a or several blood
tests on the planet that would go across the board
and show you exactly what the problem is.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Do I have that right?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah, you're right. I mean we tend to be we're
kind of a reductionist scientist and reductionist society. We want
to know. You know that you can get a test.
You know, there's certain diseases, you know, Huntington's Korea. You
get one test and it shows that you boy, you
probably have that right. There's but things like diabetes are multifactorial.
There's not one test one thing. Now, of course, we
(18:39):
diagnose it with one test of elevated blood sugar. But
that's the result, right, that's the end point. The things
that lead to that have multiple different factors involved.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Hm, okay, finishing up with a new antibiotic. That was
and I'm quoting. You gave me the quote hiding and
plane site. Okay, what's for decades? So what are you
talking about?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Yeah, So this is interesting because what we do. So
first of all, bacteria make antibiotics, and they do it
so that they can wipe out other bacteria and control
the environment. Right, it's it's a survival thing. So they're
resistant to it, but other bacteria may not be. So
that's a source for us to get antibiotics. We look
at bacteria and we see what antibiotics they're using, and
(19:23):
then we combat bacteria with those antibiotics. So what we
usually though, look at is that final antibiotic that they produce.
In this case, this was This is like making the
antibiotic is kind of like you know, baking a cake.
There's there's there's levels too as you develop the chemical
within the organism, and we always look at the final product.
(19:45):
But imagine if you like whip the eggs and whip
the whip the sugar together and then you stop there
and now analyzed does that kill bacteria before we get
to the actual finished product of the cake? Right, And
that's what they've done in this situation is they took
an intermediate and said, hey, wait a second, let's see
if this kills bacteria, and it kills it one hundred
(20:07):
times more powerfully than the final product did.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
So this is almost a whole new area of research.
We can now look at intermediates.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That that sounds terrific.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And are we talking about a bacteria that is across
the board, because I know certain bacteria or certain antibiotics
are limited to whatever disease.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Is out there, right, Yeah, there, these are bacteria that
are called Gram positive bacteria, which is a whole category
of serious bacteria that caused serious infections and do have
resistance at times to bacteria. And in this particular intermediate,
they exposed bacteria to it over over a month and
it still did not seem to produce resistance at that point.
(20:51):
So that's a good sign, and you know, it just
points to a potential future source for new antibiotics.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
All right, Jim, thank you. It's always great news.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Actually, sometimes you bring horrible news, which I really like
We will catch you next week at A thirty with
Medical News. Take care all right, Take care all right,
Doctor Jim Keeney, you happens to be the chief medical
officers for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach
and an er certified diplomat of the World of e Ours.
(21:22):
And that's it. We're done, guys, that's finished. Wednesday is done.
Tomorrow morning, it starts all over again. Right a few minutes,
it's Gary and Shannon and they're going to be talking
about with the Supreme Court is doing right now, they're
still in the middle of arguments regarding the tariffs. Boy,
this is about as long as I've ever seen a
Supreme Court case go. And tomorrow we start all over again.
(21:45):
Wake up, call Amy and Will Neil and I come
aboard and they're in the background lurking.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Is Amy or is Ann and Kno good bye everybody,
See you tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
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