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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is a clip from the After Dark Show with
Don Rogers. You can access the entire episode now on
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Sported led lights, particularly intense or late night blue light,
can disrupt circadian rhythms and sleep, cause eyes strain, headache,
and potentially increase the risk of retinal damage and age
related macular degeneration over time. However, the overall helfex depend
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on factors like light spectrum and intensity, the duration of exposure,
the individual's sensitivity. Children and elderly are more vulnerable, more vulnerable,
and using worm tone, low color temperature bulbs, and taking
screen breaks can help reduce potential harm.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Absolutely. I completely agree. In fact, I actually so what
I'll do is, after I get done saying this, I'll
go grab them real quick. I'll run upstairs and grab them. So, no,
I completely agree with what it just said. But one
of the best things you can do for yourself to
kind of help yourself with this at this point in
time is get They're called red light glasses, right, So
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what they do is they block out the red, the yellow,
and the blue spectrums of light all at once, and
they block all of those out. So what this will
do actually is it will reset your circadian rhythm. It
will reset you, It'll reset your body's own natural molotonin production,
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and it actually kind of counteracts the harmful effects of
LED lights. I'm gonna let I'm gonna go get them
real quick. I'm gonna toss it over to lead and
I'll show you guys. I'll be right back right.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, So just let me bring that back up.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I lost everything. So what do you think about that
last one? I just lost a year old on I'm
trying to write it back up.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
But yeah, I totally agree with him that, Yeah, this
light is so it's so different now, Like it's not
like he's right about the office buildings and keeping them
keeping them at such a high blue and they also
keep the temperature just a little bit cool, just a
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little bit cool, nuts because they don't want you comfortable, right, No,
And that's right. It's all goes hand in hand, and
it's to keep you stressed out. That's the way humans,
I don't know, for some uncanny reason, when you're stressed out,
they seem to do their best work.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I do agree with that.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I think they're you know, I've noticed my placement employment,
we use a particular driving happen. Sometimes some of the
management will change the time on the routes, and I
know what's to stress me out and make me work harder.
And it's like, no, I fucking see you, and I
know what you're trying to do. I'll work as hard
as I can for you, but you're not gonna make
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me your bitch.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Well, so I wanted to show you guys this real quick.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So these are these.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Are red light glasses. Okay, and so they're actually they're
specially these. These you can get them, you can get
them cheaper. These are a little bit. These are kind
of the higher end. These are called tree darks. But
these actually will help combat a lot of the negative
effects really from the different light. And yes, yes, so
I wear these, especially if I was in a room
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with a lot of led lighting. I bring these to
work with me. I actually wear them before sleep too.
They like really help. Yeah, yeah, I'll put them. I'll
put them on like after I've been in a h
in a room with a lot of heavy lighting, and
it helps.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
It helps.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
The what it does is because you're blocking these wavelengths
of life, these certain frequencies of light, your body starts
to calm down. It starts to kind of counteract that
stress response. I knew Jason would say something about that,
but yeah, dude, you can shoe laser beams out of
these if you start working hard enough, you can't. Now
(04:27):
I'm just kidding, but uh, but no, these these will
help counteract that. I wanted to show everybody this too,
so they know that, you know, if you have no
choice but to be in this kind of lighting, you
can get yourself a pair of these and you can
help combat the harmful effects from that lighting.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I totally agree that that that's actually makes to held
a lot of sense. You know, I'll tell you it's
the truth. If you if you think back when I
feel all shitty when you going to a bright one
of those new office building, like you go down to
even the hospitals, you go into the hospitals, I feel
like shit.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Like as soon as you go into that light.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
That LED light, And even when I'm growing with it,
it's the same thing. I feel like shit. You don't
normally you feel good in you're grower, but you get
into those LEDs like you're going right underneath them. I mean,
what do you get? I'll tell you a lot of damage.
I think to the eyeballs for sure, you.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Know, oh absolutely, man, absolutely, it does, it does. It's
it's it's crazy. And I've been saying stuff about this
for a while, you know, especially in my field, being
an electrician for sixteen years now, I've said a lot
about this. I was like, dude, like these lights are
there's something up with them? And usually I just get
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looks and they're like, oh, well, they're efficient. That's always
the response. They're efficient and they save you more on
your power bill. Like that's that's that's the only response
I ever get out of anybody when I talk about these. Man,
And if you get an led, especially with a driver
that's not like a great driver for it, the flickering
is gonna be even worse.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah, I had one like that. I had one like that,
and it was you could see it, you can actually
see it, you know, and yeah it did bother me
tell you the truth. And it's only it wasn't that big.
It was a well I don't know the thing about
that big, but it had like.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Sixty the bigger l eds and I mean it, that
one little square lived up that eight by ten room,
like just I'm through it.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Like white. I couldn't believe it, but it makes you
But if it makes you feel like crap.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It does do well well what it comes from. I
don't know if Don CROs I saw him up there. Yeah,
he's he's up he's up there right now. But uh,
but no, man. And this is what I mean, guys.
It's it's it's the lights, it's the it's everything. It's
it's quite literally everything at this point. And it's it's
been done on such a subtle level, you know, because
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a lot of people they don't they don't take into
account these environmental factors and how they could be affecting them. So,
you know, and that's the thing, because everybody's in a
survival mindset, uh, you know, everybody's constantly in being a
byproduct of creation as opposed to actually being a creator
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in creation. You know, you couple all of these environmental
factors and all you got to tell them is, hey,
this will help you save money, and then people are
going to be on board with it. Doesn't matter if
it's harmful to them or not.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
People are going to be on board with it.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
That's why people were on board with GMOs, you know,
because GMOs are cheaper than the non GMOs, and it's
always going to save me money. It doesn't matter if
my body is absorbing this genetically modified DNA when I
eat these food, it's uh, you know, it saves me money.
And it cased my family full. You know, this is
because people are stuck in uh you know, they they're
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something's going on, spine. I would completely agree. They don't
like this conversation. Don's connection got really really warped over
there for a second. But yeah, but it's it's it's
and that's the same man. They keep people in this
state of survival anxiety, mesmerized terror, and you just tell him, Hey,
here's this new type of light we're making. It's gonna
save you a lot of money. Yeah, nobody's kinda fucking
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a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, they they are definitely not caring for this conversation.
And some of the assets that I had uploaded for
this episode are missing.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
That's why there was an extra one of me.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I was trying to put them back, but apparently they're
not even on my I couldn't get them to download.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
But yeah, I am.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I had a specific video for later. But yeah, they're
they're having some fun. So everybody at the college.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Walk off.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
My phone.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
My phone was gonna squirw do so. Potential health effects
sleep disruption.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Blue light from LEDs, especially in the evening, can suppress
me latonin production, negatively impacting sleep quality and duration. This
is a conversation Lee and I have actually had because
we were just talking about this blue light.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
And how it fucks with your circadian and sleep.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So I do believe, and I know I'm terrible for it,
and they hit you with it every time, Like, think
about it even now. When you turn on your television,
what color is the screen if you don't have it
hooked up the cable, it's blue. When you go to
shoot it off right before better the movie clicks off,
it's blue.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
They're blasting you with that damn blue spectrum every.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Time they possibly can.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Like, if you think about the old TVs that we
grew up with, Lee, they didn't have a blue screen.