Speaker 1: All right, the average American in for the great American
Speaker 1: on this New Year's Eve Day, twenty twenty five. And
Speaker 1: wherever you are, Happy New Year to you. People walk
Speaker 1: around they say Happy New Year all the time, Happy
Speaker 1: New Year. What was it to mean? Well for me
Speaker 1: when I say that, and I just don't say it
Speaker 1: just throwing it out everybody. I don't run into everybody
Speaker 1: and say Happy New Year. It means happy and healthy
Speaker 1: and safe. Because if you don't have your safety and
Speaker 1: you don't have your health, it doesn't matter a bit
Speaker 1: what else you have. You can have all the money
Speaker 1: in the world, but if you're not happy, and you're
Speaker 1: not healthy, and you're not safe, well then it doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter, doesn't So that's when I say Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: If I see you out on the street today or
Speaker 1: out someplace tonight, That's what I mean when I say
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, because I think those are the three
Speaker 1: things I think that we would wish anybody in life,
Speaker 1: and one of those three things is safety. Now, in
Speaker 1: the end, we are all responsible for our safety. We
Speaker 1: all should have our antenna up. It is just the
Speaker 1: time that we live in. Some things we need help
Speaker 1: in achieving safety. I mean we can't certainly be attuned
Speaker 1: to everything that's going on around us, let alone around
Speaker 1: the world. And that's where the authorities come in, whether
Speaker 1: they be local or state, or federal or whatever it
Speaker 1: may be, that's their job to charge their charge with
Speaker 1: keeping us safe. And so tonight would be one of
Speaker 1: those nights when if you're out reveling, or if you're
Speaker 1: out anywhere tomorrow reveling, it would be wise for you
Speaker 1: to walk around with the old antenna up. We know
Speaker 1: what happened in New Orleans last New Year's Eve, New
Speaker 1: Year's morning, when fourteen people were murdered as a driver
Speaker 1: who was compromised in his political beliefs by let's just say,
Speaker 1: some some far left thinking that occurs around the world,
Speaker 1: drove his pickup truck through the streets of New Orleans
Speaker 1: in the quarter, killing fourteen people, taking a gun out,
Speaker 1: and finishing off those who were not run over by
Speaker 1: his truck. Those things, unfortunately happened, They happen in our country,
Speaker 1: they happen all over. But as we look around the world,
Speaker 1: we find that there are some cities that are just saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, We're just not going to hold New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve celebrations anymore, And to me, that's sad. It's
Speaker 1: sad on a number of different levels. It's sad for
Speaker 1: those that can't revel. But it's also said that that's
Speaker 1: what we've become as a society. But here we are.
Speaker 1: And so as cities prepare for New Year's Eve events tonight,
Speaker 1: fear of terror attacks run high. How fearful should we be?
Speaker 1: What should we do to keep our saves as safe
Speaker 1: as possible? Standing by to join me is a guy
Speaker 1: who's been a good guest of my program good guests
Speaker 1: here on seven hundred WLW for many many years. Doctor
Speaker 1: Alex Dale Carmen is a criminologist. He taught criminology at
Speaker 1: the collegiate level, consulting with over twenty five years of
Speaker 1: experience working with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.
Speaker 1: And it's great he can spend some time with us
Speaker 1: now here on seven hundred WLWE. Doctor, how are you
Speaker 1: on this glorious New Year's Eve day?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great because I'm talking with you, ken.
Speaker 1: Ah, God bless you for saying that. And I meant it.
Speaker 1: When I say Happy New Year, I meant all three
Speaker 1: of those things. And to you in particular. Look, you
Speaker 1: can't stop everything bad that may happen. The bad guys
Speaker 1: only have to be right once. The good guys have
Speaker 1: got to be right one hundred percent of the time. Again,
Speaker 1: we saw that last year in New Orleans. But at
Speaker 1: what level do you think you, me, and anyone else
Speaker 1: that might be out there tonight or tomorrow, at what
Speaker 1: level do you think we have to be on alert
Speaker 1: on this particular New Year's Eve?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think that we always need to
Speaker 3: be on alert, right, whether there's New Year's Eve or
Speaker 3: you know, just regular day, you know, in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, I think that are there
Speaker 3: any specific threats No, are there specific areas that we
Speaker 3: are concerned about. No, But at the same time, given
Speaker 3: what happened last year, as you know that in New Orleans,
Speaker 3: given that you know, sometimes these individuals that want to
Speaker 3: cause harm on good people are people that have an imagination, unfortunately,
Speaker 3: and they try to circumvent the efforts that are made
Speaker 3: by law enforcement. I think we always need to be
Speaker 3: on alert, especially if you're going to be out tonight
Speaker 3: in a large crowd, you know, a condensed space. Always
Speaker 3: be situationally aware, always know where your exits, where your
Speaker 3: points of entry are, and have a plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that's true of anything, if not
Speaker 1: terror fear. Certainly you need to know how to get
Speaker 1: the hell out of a place where a case fire
Speaker 1: breaks out or a brawl breaks out, where's the exit
Speaker 1: do or how do I get out? We saw already
Speaker 1: this year that the FEDS had had foiled a New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve plot, a bombing plot that was in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles about ten days ago. I sense, and I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't mean this from anything other than just a
Speaker 1: since that this particular group at the FBI that's been
Speaker 1: in place for the last six seven months, I since
Speaker 1: they've got their eye on the proverbial ball more than
Speaker 1: what the group that was in there before them. Do
Speaker 1: Do you sense that as well?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: You know, Ken, I think that the FBI has been
Speaker 3: rerouted back to its original premise, right that he was
Speaker 3: fighting terrorism, and certainly after ninety eleven, you know, that
Speaker 3: was that was the mandate that the bureau you know, got,
Speaker 3: and and they have deviated from that in the past,
Speaker 3: as you know, and gone into other areas.
Speaker 2: And I think that what's happened.
Speaker 4: In the past six to eight months, is that they've.
Speaker 3: Just sort of you know, begin went back to what
Speaker 3: they were originally, you know, purpose for back, you know,
Speaker 3: after ninety of it. And so I'm not used to
Speaker 3: fight terrorism, and I think that there's a more significant
Speaker 3: focus of resources and as well as people that are
Speaker 3: devoted now to ensure that we're safe and ensure that
Speaker 3: these terrorist don't get away with a killing in US
Speaker 3: in Americans.
Speaker 1: As I sit, the FBI field office here in cincinnati's
Speaker 1: right next door to us, and it's a massive structure.
Speaker 1: It employees a lot of people. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of great people that work inside that building, not just
Speaker 1: the agents that work inside there, but other people that
Speaker 1: work inside there. What do you think cash Betel's message
Speaker 1: was or is maybe to these various field offices around
Speaker 1: the country on this particular night. Do you think that
Speaker 1: he needed to give these people to pev talk or
Speaker 1: tell them exactly what could or may not happen and
Speaker 1: where they need to be. I'm just just wondering how
Speaker 1: that works at the FBI level.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you that the bureau, you know,
Speaker 3: it's obviously hierarchical organization where the top rolls down the
Speaker 3: mission and it goes all the way to the last
Speaker 3: agent or civilian working at the Bureau. And you know,
Speaker 3: one of the things that I'm certain that's happened is
Speaker 3: that that back, you know, six months ago, is you
Speaker 3: know that you know, these these marching orders were given
Speaker 3: and they were given with absolutely no subject to interpretation,
Speaker 3: meaning that they're basically told you need to fight thereor
Speaker 3: do whatever you can to ensure that Americans are safe
Speaker 3: and to ensure that we are going to protect the homeland.
Speaker 3: And so what that means for tonight is that there
Speaker 3: is a strong likelihood that the Bureau has been working
Speaker 3: twenty four seven, and especially in places like New York, LA, Miami,
Speaker 3: Dallas at all, they have been working to make sure
Speaker 3: that they're behind the scenes, but that they're watching, that
Speaker 3: they're carefully monitoring, that they're sweeping social media resources just
Speaker 3: to make sure that people are going to be safe tonight.
Speaker 3: So you know, I would suggest to.
Speaker 2: You that there is a likelihood that many agents are.
Speaker 3: Not going to go to sleep tonight, or are not
Speaker 3: going to be celebrating New Years with their families. Instead
Speaker 3: are going to be monitoring something to make sure that
Speaker 3: people go back home safely tonight.
Speaker 1: It is. It is great, and it is in a
Speaker 1: lot of sense, in a lot, in a large sense,
Speaker 1: thankless work because you know, when you're protected from anything, doctor,
Speaker 1: you just kind of say, okay, good. When things don't
Speaker 1: go right, that's when everybody gets up in arms. But
Speaker 1: when when when things go right, these agents that are
Speaker 1: out there, I don't think at the respect or the
Speaker 1: admiration that they deserve. Do you find that too? I
Speaker 1: mean that's true in a lot of police work. Right
Speaker 1: when things go well, nobody walks up to a police
Speaker 1: officer and says, hey, things are going well tonight. Thanks,
Speaker 1: But if all hill breaks loose, you're yelling and screaming
Speaker 1: at the cop to come over here and do this.
Speaker 1: I think admiration for police work has greatly disintegrated here
Speaker 1: in the last several years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no question.
Speaker 3: As I often tell police officers, as you know, hundred
Speaker 3: thousand of them for the past twenty eight years. I've
Speaker 3: worked at the FBI Academy and Quantico Service and instructor there,
Speaker 3: you know, for three years.
Speaker 2: And I can tell you, as I often tell them.
Speaker 3: You know, triumph has many fathers, and defeat is an orphan.
Speaker 4: And what I mean by that.
Speaker 3: Is that many people just don't you know, these folks
Speaker 3: are working twenty four seven and they're successful. When nothing happens, right,
Speaker 3: and as you know, you know, people are just popasetic
Speaker 3: about it. The next day, they're going back to their business. Oh,
Speaker 3: nothing happened last night, and they don't even think about
Speaker 3: the thousands of hours and the sleepless nights that many
Speaker 3: of these young men and women in various entities in
Speaker 3: law enforcement have devoted in order to make sure that
Speaker 3: people go home that night safely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, doctor del Carmen, not that native born
Speaker 1: Americans aren't capable of carrying out heinous crimes, But I
Speaker 1: do worry about what's transpired here with regards to the
Speaker 1: invasion our country suffered under the last administration from the
Speaker 1: southern border on a number of differ levels. We just
Speaker 1: open the floodgates and let everybody in. And we let
Speaker 1: people in. We have absolutely no idea what their intentions are.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're good intentions, who knows, but maybe it's maybe
Speaker 1: it's ten percent of the up to eighteen to twenty
Speaker 1: million I've seen the estimates of people that have been
Speaker 1: let in here. Up to ten percent could be in
Speaker 1: here doing nothing but nefarious things. And even if it
Speaker 1: is that ten percent, that's a large number of people
Speaker 1: that are in this country illegally that may have come
Speaker 1: here to do some sort of harm. That's what I
Speaker 1: worry about more than anything else. I know the current
Speaker 1: administration is trying to get its arms around as many
Speaker 1: of these people as possible and get them the hell
Speaker 1: out of our country, but I think it will not
Speaker 1: be accomplished inside of the current admission administration's tenure, which
Speaker 1: is now another three years, and whether remnants of that
Speaker 1: administration those that follow in the footsteps of Donald Trump
Speaker 1: believe the same thing. Who knows. We don't know right here,
Speaker 1: But that's what worries me the most. We let so
Speaker 1: many people out of this country. We have no idea
Speaker 1: what the hell they're doing here, what they're up to.
Speaker 1: That's what bothers me the most here on this New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve twenty twenty five. Am I wrong in feeling
Speaker 1: that way?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: You know, I worry as a criminologist about many things, right,
Speaker 3: And one of the things that I'm concerned about, I
Speaker 3: think certainly no democracy can survive by simply opening the
Speaker 3: doors and letting people in without having an organized migration
Speaker 3: component into our country. And so I agree with you
Speaker 3: and sins that you know, we need to we need
Speaker 3: to get our act together. We need to make sure
Speaker 3: that we know who's coming in and who's getting out,
Speaker 3: and we understand the nature of what that person is doing.
Speaker 3: So I don't disagree with that, but I do worry
Speaker 3: about many many things in addition to the individuals that
Speaker 3: are here illegally right. And one of the things that
Speaker 3: I worry about is the fact that many of these
Speaker 3: attacks are done by individuals that are long wolfers. They're
Speaker 3: people that have been radicalized, you know, at home, They're
Speaker 3: you know, reading stuff from the Internet. They're making deals
Speaker 3: with who they think.
Speaker 2: Is ISIS or sympathizers with ISIS.
Speaker 3: And they turn around and they go inflict pain and
Speaker 3: harm on the American public. And so for me, as
Speaker 3: a criminologist, I go where the crime is because I
Speaker 3: want to make sure it doesn't happen, regardless of who's
Speaker 3: doing it.
Speaker 5: But what I am.
Speaker 3: Telling you is is that among many things that I
Speaker 3: worry about is that we have these sort of cells,
Speaker 3: individual cells across our country that we really don't know
Speaker 3: who they are, and law enforcement doesn't have the capability
Speaker 3: right now of being able to identify these bad actors
Speaker 3: before they show their ugly face and go out there
Speaker 3: and commit harm against Ennis and Americans. That's what I'm
Speaker 3: concerned about, for our children and for our children's children.
Speaker 1: Doctor Alex Stalekhmon criminologists are guest. Yes, the lone Wolf. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I suppose if you're going to narrow it down to
Speaker 1: one thing, it's the lone wolf. Somebody that's sitting at home,
Speaker 1: maybe on the dark Web, maybe, as you say, conversing
Speaker 1: with someone they think is isis, or someone that's going
Speaker 1: to change them from some ideological standpoint and make their
Speaker 1: world better. Maybe they're gamers. They're sitting on the computer
Speaker 1: as well, and they're playing games where people can get
Speaker 1: shot indiscriminately, and so, in a sense, reality and fantasy
Speaker 1: really don't have a line separating them, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you've got somebody that decides I'm going to
Speaker 1: go out there and do exactly what I'm being told
Speaker 1: to do from a number of different things that are
Speaker 1: coming into my mind. I don't simply don't know how
Speaker 1: you stop the lone wolf. I get how the FBI
Speaker 1: foiled that plot about ten days ago, because you simply
Speaker 1: had a lot of people involved in it. And the
Speaker 1: more people you have involved with something, chances are somebody
Speaker 1: is going to say something that will help you foil
Speaker 1: that plot. But I don't know how you stop the
Speaker 1: lone wolf. I don't know how an FBI agent. I
Speaker 1: don't know how a cop in any town where you know,
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, doctor, we're not a big city where a
Speaker 1: city made up of individual communities in towns, each with
Speaker 1: their own police force. I simply don't know how anyone
Speaker 1: can stop a lone wolf. It has to be in
Speaker 1: my mind, it's got to be a lot of sheer
Speaker 1: luck that something or some sort of information falls into
Speaker 1: that particular police officer's lap, because lone wolves are the
Speaker 1: things that, at least for me, scare me the most.
Speaker 1: In addition to what we talked about from what occurred
Speaker 1: in the Southern Border, how do you stop a lone wolf?
Speaker 3: Well, I think that artificially intelligence is going to really
Speaker 3: help us, believe it or not. And I know if
Speaker 3: people see it as kind of like the evil, you know,
Speaker 3: creeping up behind the scenes, but artificial intelligence has has definitely,
Speaker 3: it definitely has a role in being able to identify
Speaker 3: individuals that have an ideological presence online. And what I
Speaker 3: mean by that is just imagine the human hours that
Speaker 3: you and I would have to spend in going over
Speaker 3: websites and various narratives that are written by people to
Speaker 3: see if certain words, if certain people are trying to
Speaker 3: say that, hey, this is my manifesto, I'm about to
Speaker 3: go out there and cause some harm on someone. But
Speaker 3: then imagine a computer that's able to do that in
Speaker 3: milliseconds and in a matter of say, ten minutes, would
Speaker 3: give you a read out as to what individuals online
Speaker 3: are close to making threats or making threats by using
Speaker 3: certain words, or have a certain profile based on IP addresses.
Speaker 3: Law enforcement will have those tools very soon. I mean
Speaker 3: they already do it in some ways, but they're actually
Speaker 3: going to have an institutionalized very soon to be able
Speaker 3: to identify those patterns in a matter of seconds. And
Speaker 3: so I do think that there is help coming in.
Speaker 3: Like you, I worry about what happens between now and then.
Speaker 3: And what I'm also concerned about is that, as you
Speaker 3: will know, some of these actors are overseas and where
Speaker 3: we have very limited jurisdiction and in some cases we
Speaker 3: have no jurisdiction at all, because you know, these are
Speaker 3: countries that harbor terrorism. And I'm concerned about what's going
Speaker 3: to happen, right, But one fight at a time, as
Speaker 3: we say in my field, and you know, we need
Speaker 3: to wait to see what AI is going to do
Speaker 3: in the coming years.
Speaker 1: Well, doctor del Carmen, I knew you from your days
Speaker 1: as an instructor, educating fertile young minds about how to
Speaker 1: solve some of the crimes that are committed inside this
Speaker 1: country and the best police work for it. Where are
Speaker 1: you now? What are you up to now, doctor del Carmen.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm actually retiring from the academic world, but I'm
Speaker 3: doing consulting work for the next ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 3: I'm going to devote the rest of my life to
Speaker 3: work with law enforcement and try to make our community
Speaker 3: safer and better. And so I am between Dallas and
Speaker 3: Connecticut and fartments in Connecticut. So I'm closer to my
Speaker 3: growing up children now and enjoying life.
Speaker 1: It's funny how that works, Doc. When I say Happy
Speaker 1: New Year, I hope you heard the intro. It means
Speaker 1: not just happiness, which is very important, but great health
Speaker 1: and good safety, and that's what I wish for you
Speaker 1: on this New Year's eeve. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your time. We appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Likewise, Ken, thank you.
Speaker 1: Combye so God that knows his business inside out, all right,
Speaker 1: it is coming up on twelve twenty six. It's the
Speaker 1: average American and for the great American News Radio seven
Speaker 1: hundred wl W, we welcome back, well love back. Three years,
Speaker 1: one year, twenty five. We have made it through yet
Speaker 1: another trip around the sun, or just about it. I
Speaker 1: don't want to get ahead of the curve here because
Speaker 1: we still have for a few hours to go less
Speaker 1: than twelve. But nevertheless we have arrived through yet another
Speaker 1: year and on into twenty twenty six. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of people out there making predictions about twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: how good it's going to be economically, and how the
Speaker 1: country is going to turn around, and how Main Street
Speaker 1: may eventually catch up to Wall Street. And like most predictions,
Speaker 1: you got to let them play out. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can't just sit there and pontificate about what ifs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the indicators are to be better for all of us,
Speaker 1: certainly some of us, but I think all of us
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. And you have to think that way,
Speaker 1: don't you, Because if you a don't, and what's the
Speaker 1: point of pressing on? You got to feel that it's
Speaker 1: going to be better for you financially, that it's not
Speaker 1: going to cost so much to buy a house if
Speaker 1: you're a first time homeowner, it's not going to cost
Speaker 1: so much to go to the grocery store. Prices are
Speaker 1: falling despite what the mainstream media, what have you believe?
Speaker 1: For them, it's a lot of Trump hate, and energy
Speaker 1: prices are down for you, for me at the pump,
Speaker 1: and in terms of diesel fuel, which powers interstate trucking,
Speaker 1: interstate trucking becomes cheaper, Prices for goods and services become cheaper.
Speaker 1: It's the standard of economics internationally, though that's a different deal.
Speaker 1: The hotspots are all over the world, one of which
Speaker 1: has just popped up in recent months, and that is Venezuela.
Speaker 1: And President Trump has been blown up drug boats from
Speaker 1: Venezuela for about the last two or three months, a
Speaker 1: blockade of Venezuela. He wants the oil that's in Venezuela.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the whole thing. I think the
Speaker 1: drug boats are just a precursor to what he really wants,
Speaker 1: and that he wants that stuff that's under the turf
Speaker 1: in Venezuela that once belonged to United States oil companies.
Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit of that and a
Speaker 1: little bit of the Monroe doctrine. President James Monroe eighteen
Speaker 1: twenty three issues the Monroe doctrine, basically telling Europe, look,
Speaker 1: you mess with our hemisphere and we're coming after you.
Speaker 1: The Western hemisphere, he said, was closed to European colonization. Well,
Speaker 1: that's because he didn't want Latin American nations being taken
Speaker 1: over by Europe. Though it's a little bit of that
Speaker 1: as well. But there's a deeper story here, and for
Speaker 1: that we turned to a guy who's been studying things
Speaker 1: in Venezuela for a very long time. In fact, Joshua
Speaker 1: Phillips is one of those who's uniquely qualified to talk
Speaker 1: about what's happening there and the consequences that are involved.
Speaker 1: He's an award winning journalist, senior investigative reporter at the
Speaker 1: Epic time hosts his own show Crossroads that he's here
Speaker 1: now to talk about Venezuela. Joshua Philip, how are you
Speaker 1: on this glorious.
Speaker 6: Day doing well. An interesting step to watch.
Speaker 1: I can say that absolutely more than interesting. What do
Speaker 1: you think Trump is up to in Venezuela.
Speaker 6: So I predicted it and then it came out the
Speaker 6: new National Security Plan and Secretary of warpetegs that have
Speaker 6: set it publicly. Now this is about the re establishment
Speaker 6: of the Monroe doctrine, and I think we saw the
Speaker 6: examples of this because you know it started off their
Speaker 6: blowing up the drug cartel boats. There's more context to
Speaker 6: that actually that actually ties into Venezuela having been on
Speaker 6: the cusp of invading Guyana just literally a couple months
Speaker 6: before they started bombing those boats. The latest one, though,
Speaker 6: is the intercept of this Iranian oil tanker that was
Speaker 6: violating sanctions and trading in oil and so I think
Speaker 6: I think what you're seeing now is they're not just
Speaker 6: going after like venezuel and drugs, They're going after the
Speaker 6: core parts of the Venezuelan unofficial economy and what really matters.
Speaker 6: In the new National Security Plan, they've announced that the
Speaker 6: Trump administration will once again be enforcing them in Roe
Speaker 6: doctor which means Latin America, no foreign countries involved. If
Speaker 6: you're not there so Europe, China, Russia, Iran no involvement
Speaker 6: in Latin America. And the interesting thing with Venezuela is
Speaker 6: that Venezuela under h sorry Hugo Java is and now
Speaker 6: Maduro being of course Javas's pick, he hand picked him.
Speaker 6: Chavas actually was the one, working with Thedel Castro on
Speaker 6: Cuba who pushed the United States out of the region.
Speaker 6: And the way they did it was they established regional
Speaker 6: pseudo powers like organizations of states that did not involve
Speaker 6: the United States or Canada. So really, toppling what Venezuela
Speaker 6: has come to represent in Latin America would be the
Speaker 6: very first step necessary to re establish the Monroe doctor.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: The Monroe doctrine has been around for over two hundred years,
Speaker 1: so named after President James Monroe, who basically told the
Speaker 1: rest of the world, look, if you're thinking about colonizing
Speaker 1: any of the Americas, forget about it. This is not
Speaker 1: your territory. Okay, got that. But I still don't know
Speaker 1: what Trump's endgame is with all of this. Is what
Speaker 1: is his endgame?
Speaker 6: The endgame, I think is power shift in power. And
Speaker 6: you know what's really interesting with Venezuela, and Maduro. Even
Speaker 6: the Biden administration had this policy and I should built
Speaker 6: the National Security Plan. I mean huge bipartisan support. It's
Speaker 6: probably going to get passed. In fact, Democrats and Repubpkins
Speaker 6: in the House joined pretty.
Speaker 4: Heavily to pass it.
Speaker 6: Even when Biden was president, they were talking about power
Speaker 6: change in Venezuela. They said publicly they did not recognize
Speaker 6: them as the official leader of the country. They said,
Speaker 6: he's the leader of the Cartel of the Suns, which
Speaker 6: is a terrorist organization, which means that they could justifiably
Speaker 6: do a target strike or navy seals rate or something
Speaker 6: kill him. And there's also a government in waiting for Venezuela,
Speaker 6: which both Trump and Biden have acknowledged. In fact, the
Speaker 6: transition government in waiting. The guy lives in Florida. It's
Speaker 6: Juan Glido. And you know, it wouldn't mean he'd be
Speaker 6: in power per se. But they have a process already
Speaker 6: established because of again the twenty eighteen elections in Venezuela
Speaker 6: mass protests, and they believe there's enough popular support for
Speaker 6: that that toppling Maduro would not be a difficult process.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Meduro is in power. The only people that
Speaker 1: want Maduro in power right now appear to be Meduro
Speaker 1: and his cronies. But Trump's got something to figure out here.
Speaker 1: I think eventually you run out of cigar boats carrying
Speaker 1: drugs to blow up, and eventually there are only so
Speaker 1: many tankers you can seize. So again, what's his endgame here?
Speaker 1: Is it boots on the ground in Venezuela. I don't
Speaker 1: think he has an appetite for that in Venezuela or anywhere.
Speaker 1: How does he get Maduro out of power? How does
Speaker 1: he stop these cartels who basically run Venezuela at the
Speaker 1: behesta Maduro. How does he get those cartels to stop
Speaker 1: transferring drugs up to the United States? I mean, there's
Speaker 1: got to be some sort of plan here. What's the endgame?
Speaker 4: I think?
Speaker 6: I think what they're going to do is they're going
Speaker 6: to either force Maduro to step down or they're going
Speaker 6: to kill him. What because he's again having designated the
Speaker 6: cartel the SUNS as both a terrorist organization and as
Speaker 6: again the you know, targeted cartel organization, right and with
Speaker 6: Maduro being designated the leader of it and basically head
Speaker 6: the heads of the state and military being deemed leaders
Speaker 6: of it. What you're going to be watching is Maduro
Speaker 6: is going to be treated like Bin Laden. He's the
Speaker 6: new bin Laden. And we don't have to engage in
Speaker 6: the full military to overthrow bin Laden. You just go
Speaker 6: in there, rate him at you know, midnight whatever, shoot
Speaker 6: him and throw him off and throw him into the
Speaker 6: ocean like you know that that could very likely happen.
Speaker 6: Trump has said publicly that he will not start a war.
Speaker 6: There is not going to be a full scale war.
Speaker 6: But Maduro's days are numbered, and it seems he has
Speaker 6: given him a will ultimatum. Step down, You're going to die.
Speaker 6: And you know, for better or for worse. People can
Speaker 6: agree with that or not. But but now that he
Speaker 6: has designated a terrorist leader, America does have the you know,
Speaker 6: the the clearance of say in terms of like war
Speaker 6: you know, laws and so on to do that.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just playing through the political ramifications of
Speaker 1: this scenario if it does come to pass. I mean,
Speaker 1: you've got the Democrats right now exactly where Trump wants them.
Speaker 1: They have sided with the Narco terrorist squad. They're you know,
Speaker 1: embracing MS thirteen gang members. I can't, for the life
Speaker 1: of me believe that that's what they want to do.
Speaker 1: But that's what they want to do. Now, if he
Speaker 1: goes into Venezuela and either the CIA or Navy seals
Speaker 1: take out Maduro, I can't imagine what the Democrats would
Speaker 1: react to there. You can't necessarily, if you're a Democrat,
Speaker 1: come out and say, hey, Maduro is our guy? You
Speaker 1: know this? Yeah, what is he doing now?
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 1: You can't blow up our guy? Right?
Speaker 6: You know, I wouldn't be Okay, this is where I
Speaker 6: think it's going to go. You're going to see the
Speaker 6: media make a stink about it, without a doubt they're
Speaker 6: gonna make you know, they're going to be indignant politically.
Speaker 6: But I think it's going to come out very quickly
Speaker 6: that this was also Biden's policy. Maybe not kill Maduro,
Speaker 6: but the Biden administration just before the twenty twenty four
Speaker 6: elections was basically saying they're going to do the same thing.
Speaker 6: They were talking openly about forcing a regime change in Venezuela.
Speaker 6: Now does that mean killing him, you know, killing Maduro?
Speaker 6: I don't know. But but under under the Biden administration
Speaker 6: that this was also the policy, and I think the
Speaker 6: Trump administration could easily drag that back out and make
Speaker 6: that case. But you know, the media these days, they
Speaker 6: just want to they want they want to scandal, regardless
Speaker 6: of history, and so they're going to make a big
Speaker 6: deal about it, of course, regardless, especially right before the midterms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the media these days, particularly those that
Speaker 1: cover Washington, d c. Are populated by people who think
Speaker 1: they are the next Carl Bernstein or Bob Woodward, when
Speaker 1: in essence they couldn't find Carl Bernstein or Bob Woodward
Speaker 1: on a map. But it does serve another purpose here.
Speaker 1: If indeed he does this, and he goes into Venezuela,
Speaker 1: it would be a warning shot across the bowl of
Speaker 1: any of these South American countries who are in essence
Speaker 1: run by drug cartels himself to let's the nonsense is over.
Speaker 1: Let's let's we're not playing that game anymore. So maybe
Speaker 1: therein is another aspect of this.
Speaker 6: I think he wants that. And so on that point,
Speaker 6: Trump as we speak is also threatening the president of Columbia,
Speaker 6: and he's even threatening Mexico. And I mean, I don't
Speaker 6: know if you'd go and you know, do targeted tricks
Speaker 6: president of Mexico, you know that'd be pretty shocking. But
Speaker 6: if you remember when Trump was on the campaign trial,
Speaker 6: he was saying he was going to do this. This
Speaker 6: was part of Trump's campaign promise. And what do you say.
Speaker 6: He did a very long video. I'm talking it was
Speaker 6: at least I think fifteen minutes, but it was very long,
Speaker 6: and he laid out his plan to use the entire
Speaker 6: US military, every power they had, intelligence networks, US Navy,
Speaker 6: targeted strikes, airstrikes, special forces, raids, all of this, he
Speaker 6: said to destroy the drug cartels. He said he was
Speaker 6: going to do everything we now see him being done.
Speaker 6: And in addition to that, he said that if any
Speaker 6: government tries to stop him, he will expose the ties
Speaker 6: of that government to the cartels, which you know, Maduro
Speaker 6: is the first example of and Trump right now has
Speaker 6: made that an open threat. And the unfortunate part for
Speaker 6: a lot of those government of Latin America is a
Speaker 6: lot of them are tied to the cartails in one
Speaker 6: way or another. And if Trump says, hey, you know,
Speaker 6: you know, he likes to tell the story where he's
Speaker 6: talking to this like terrorist guy and he shows him
Speaker 6: a picture of his house, you know, from the sky,
Speaker 6: and he's like, mister Trump why do you show me
Speaker 6: a picture of my house?
Speaker 2: And he says, well, you know, you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: put two and two.
Speaker 6: Together on that one, you know. But he's basically doing
Speaker 6: the same thing to most of the Latin American governments effectively.
Speaker 6: And on that point too, a lot of people say, well,
Speaker 6: didn't Trump just pardon you know the fore of the
Speaker 6: former presidents. I believe it was his Honduris I believe,
Speaker 6: who was also arrested on drug charges. That ties into
Speaker 6: what I said earlier. This is about the re establishment
Speaker 6: to the Monroe doctrine. Part of it is about drugs,
Speaker 6: but the bigger context of it is Trump is tried.
Speaker 6: He was trying to establish loyalist leaders to America within
Speaker 6: the Latin American region to begin again re establishing US
Speaker 6: presents throughout the whole region and then from there dismantling
Speaker 6: criminal networks. Is establishing kind an American answer to the
Speaker 6: Chinese belts and Roade initiative, meaning infrastructure projects, and begin
Speaker 6: changing the region effectively.
Speaker 1: When does all of this in Venezuela come to a head?
Speaker 1: When do we get either Maduro out or Trump puts
Speaker 1: his head on a platter. How quickly or how soon
Speaker 1: does all of this play out in your opinion?
Speaker 6: You know that that's a good question. The way Trump
Speaker 6: is talking, you could say any day now. There's also
Speaker 6: the chance if he believes it could harm the Republicans
Speaker 6: during the mid terms, there maybe he'll wait till afterwards,
Speaker 6: or maybe he'll think it'll be strategically valuable to do
Speaker 6: it before. I think, I actually think opinion polls in
Speaker 6: terms of the media hit pieces Trump blowing up. You know,
Speaker 6: fishing boats. Fishing boats, by the way, they're like semi
Speaker 6: submersibles or like four engine you know, you know, rocket jets.
Speaker 6: You know, of course big engines painted blue, so they
Speaker 6: blend into the ocean and they have no fishing equipment.
Speaker 6: But you know, beside the point, that's modern journalism. I
Speaker 6: think opinion polls left and form whether he thinks it's
Speaker 6: good to do it now or wait a bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the always unpredictable president Donald J. Trump, the predictable
Speaker 1: Joshua Philip and I will predict that he is working
Speaker 1: on his next documentary even as we speak. That's for
Speaker 1: the future. Joshua, for your time today, Thank you.
Speaker 4: We appreciate it always.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Drugs and oil, drugs and oil. It's all about drugs
Speaker 1: and oil when it comes to Latin American countries. We'll
Speaker 1: see exactly how this one plays out. But he's right,
Speaker 1: it could play out tonight, it could play out after
Speaker 1: the midterms. We're going to play it out here between
Speaker 1: now and three, coming up at one six. Why are
Speaker 1: women spending a fortune to have their ribs removed? Apparently
Speaker 1: this is a thing. Now I had no idea about it,
Speaker 1: but apparently this is a thing that looks slimmer. And
Speaker 1: then down the road Jimbernaesy, former congressman, on Somali fraud
Speaker 1: in Minnesota and how deep does it run in Ohio
Speaker 1: because currently it's a problem here according to several attorneys.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to him about all of that and much
Speaker 1: much more. It's the average American in for the Great
Speaker 1: American on this day before New Year's twenty twenty six
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Speaker 1: is what are seven on this New Year's Eve twenty
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Speaker 1: in for the Great American. As we count the final
Speaker 1: hours down to calendar year twenty twenty five, the highs
Speaker 1: and the lows and the rest of the show of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five will go in the books, and we
Speaker 1: begin a whole new chapter in twenty twenty six. And
Speaker 1: I think that's what all of us want, as a
Speaker 1: whole new chapter. It's not that the last chapter was
Speaker 1: bad or the chapter before that. I'm sure there were
Speaker 1: good chapters and bad chapters in twenty twenty five. But
Speaker 1: it's the future that we look at because the future
Speaker 1: is the only thing we have that well, actually it's today.
Speaker 1: It's the only thing we have to control. The future
Speaker 1: is not known in the past. Is the past? Carry
Speaker 1: that thought tonight? Is you're getting slob or notocked. This
Speaker 1: is unbelievable. You know, all of us want to look young.
Speaker 1: We want to look pretty. We want to do the
Speaker 1: things that we did at the age of fifty that
Speaker 1: we could do at the age of twenty. We want
Speaker 1: to look in the mirror and see our best self.
Speaker 1: Some people can do that. Some people have good genes,
Speaker 1: other people have good doctors. And in the world of
Speaker 1: plastic surgery, this is apparently one of the hot new things.
Speaker 1: Women having their ribs removed, Say ken, why would women
Speaker 1: want their wit ribs removed? Well for a thinner waistline.
Speaker 1: It ain't cheap, you'll get a thinner waistline. And man,
Speaker 1: does this sound painful? And when things sound painful, he
Speaker 1: turned to a doctor, and in this case the plastic
Speaker 1: surgeon to the stars, doctor Bruce Herman Ford certified plastic surgeon,
Speaker 1: performs a wide range of procedures and has his own
Speaker 1: weekly show called Nip Talk. Nip Talk right now, he's
Speaker 1: with us here on seven hundred wylwo Doctor Herman, Happy
Speaker 1: New Year, and how are you on this glorious day.
Speaker 4: I'm doing great.
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 4: Ken's good to hear from you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good to hear from you as well. Now,
Speaker 1: did you remove any ribs today?
Speaker 4: I not do that and I will not do that.
Speaker 4: I was pretty shocked.
Speaker 7: When that news article hit and I had to instantly
Speaker 7: go look it up because I was kind of surprised
Speaker 7: to hear that people were doing that these days. You know,
Speaker 7: that surgery has been around since the nineteen seventies, but
Speaker 7: never really caught on for the maybe obvious reasons of hey,
Speaker 7: it's kind of you know, risky to do that and
Speaker 7: also very painful. Actually dug into that article and it
Speaker 7: came from a girl who was posting on TikTok.
Speaker 4: Of course, right, and so I tried, yeah, of course.
Speaker 7: So I tried to figure out where she had it
Speaker 7: done because I would be surprised if she had it
Speaker 7: done in the United States.
Speaker 4: And she and I actually had.
Speaker 7: To do some resource so I was forced to watch
Speaker 7: like many minutes of TikTok.
Speaker 4: This is time I'll never get back in my life.
Speaker 2: But to be thorough, I wanted to make sure I
Speaker 2: got all the.
Speaker 7: Information, and she actually refused to say where she got
Speaker 7: it done. I'm pretty certain she had.
Speaker 4: It done out of the United States.
Speaker 7: Because this is the crazy part which wasn't in that article.
Speaker 4: I think that you.
Speaker 7: Guys saw she actually got her ribs in a plastic bag.
Speaker 4: They gave her the ribs and.
Speaker 7: She was showing them off on TikTok, which is the
Speaker 7: craziest thing.
Speaker 4: And they really looked legit, they look like the ribs
Speaker 4: would look.
Speaker 7: And I just don't think anyone in America would do that,
Speaker 7: Like that's kind of like a biohazard to give people,
Speaker 7: you know, their body part.
Speaker 4: In a plastic bag like that.
Speaker 7: So this sounds like an out of the country experience
Speaker 7: that this person.
Speaker 1: Had right, it's value added. I mean they could put
Speaker 1: that on the advertisement. You know, whatever we take out
Speaker 1: you get to take home, you can.
Speaker 2: Add it back.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 4: She was showing the bob. It was one video. She
Speaker 4: was holding them with her hand.
Speaker 7: I was like, oh my god, that's so insane, Like
Speaker 7: I kind of flabbergasted, but.
Speaker 4: Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I was going to say that the surgery ain't cheap.
Speaker 1: This woman, I think it's the same woman. She said
Speaker 1: she spent about fourteen thousand dollars. They took out six ribs,
Speaker 1: three on each side, and it's to shrink her waist
Speaker 1: from a from a thirty two inch waist to a
Speaker 1: twenty four inch waist. And she said it was very painful,
Speaker 1: very painful. And my question to you is doctor, you
Speaker 1: know you all go to every doctor before he specializes
Speaker 1: and correct me if I'm wrong. You you go to
Speaker 1: the university, you go to the universal entrance to the
Speaker 1: world of medicine. Am I right about that?
Speaker 7: I mean, well, yeah, it's plastic surgeons. We go and
Speaker 7: we get general training and then a lot of people specialize.
Speaker 4: So I specialize in breast and body. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you're correct.
Speaker 1: Ok Okay, So you're a doctor before you're I guess
Speaker 1: a specialist. A doctor would look at this and think,
Speaker 1: all right, there's a reason why you would have ribs
Speaker 1: on each side of your body. They're obviously protecting something.
Speaker 1: So what do you yes when you take out when
Speaker 1: you take out three ribs on each side. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: most wondering what are you exposing at that.
Speaker 7: Point as you're exposing like your spleen on your left side,
Speaker 7: which is not good because the spleen is very vulnerable
Speaker 7: to injury. In fact, in car crashes, a lot of
Speaker 7: people get splinnic injuries and have to have them removed.
Speaker 7: And even more importantly, on the right side, you're protecting
Speaker 7: your liver, which that's not easy to think if it
Speaker 7: gets injured. So, yeah, there is that side of it,
Speaker 7: you know. You know, you're removing basically your body's natural armor,
Speaker 7: which is there for a reason. Like if this lady
Speaker 7: goes and gets in a car crash, like she's much
Speaker 7: more vulnerable to like potentially life threatening injuries. I mean,
Speaker 7: there's just a multitude of reasons why I wouldn't do
Speaker 7: the surgery.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's definitely one of them.
Speaker 7: You know, the pain, the risk, I mean, the one
Speaker 7: thing I will say, and this is not any way
Speaker 7: an advertisement for doing this, that I am against this,
Speaker 7: but it does work. I looked at this girl's photos
Speaker 7: and I was like, wow, okay, that did make a difference.
Speaker 7: But to me, it's just too risky, Like there's just
Speaker 7: too many short term and long term risks to recommend
Speaker 7: doing this. But I will tell you I want.
Speaker 4: Your listeners to have full information.
Speaker 7: There is a newer technique out there, which I will
Speaker 7: not do because I still think it's too risky. But
Speaker 7: there are some plastic surgeons within the United States. They're
Speaker 7: doing a procedure called rib x CAR and what they
Speaker 7: do is they don't take out the ribs, but they
Speaker 7: make a very very tiny incision. They drill a couple
Speaker 7: holes in the rib which allows it to basically infracture
Speaker 7: and you get the same result.
Speaker 4: But without taking out the rib. Now I would not
Speaker 4: do this.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't necessarily recommend anyone doing this, but like, if
Speaker 7: somebody had their heart set on doing something of that nature,
Speaker 7: I would definitely do the lesser invasive procedure than removing
Speaker 7: the ribs.
Speaker 4: Like removing the ribs entirely, to me, is a bad idea, Like.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't why wouldn't somebody opt for liposuction if there's
Speaker 1: if there's if there if you want to do that
Speaker 1: now I know, and I understand maybe you get skin
Speaker 1: flab or that flappy skin or whatever it is. I
Speaker 1: understand all that, but you could probably get that fixed too.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just wondering, why wouldn't somebody opt for
Speaker 1: that as opposed to you know, going to you know,
Speaker 1: having a rib dinner serve to somebody?
Speaker 7: Right, Well, the reason for it, there is a reason,
Speaker 7: There is an answer to that question is because you know,
Speaker 7: liposuction removes the subcutaneous fat. But the concern and these
Speaker 7: people have is the actual structural skeletal component, which liposuction
Speaker 7: won't alter that. You know, if somebody has like a big,
Speaker 7: you know, barrel chest or wide hips naturally because of
Speaker 7: their skeletal structure, Like LiPo is not going to really
Speaker 7: change that entirely.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can, you.
Speaker 7: Can alter what's above the bones, but liposuction doesn't alter
Speaker 7: the structure. This this surgery alters the structure. And again
Speaker 7: I'm not saying that is the reason that people should
Speaker 7: go out and do this, because I I don't think
Speaker 7: this is a good thing, and I would never do it,
Speaker 7: but that that is the answer, is it's it's changing
Speaker 7: something more structurally deep than just the overlying fat.
Speaker 1: So you're taking somebody is taking ribs out to get
Speaker 1: a smaller waist. That's the idea. Okay, if that's the
Speaker 1: woman I'm ringing, is she is she she wanted to
Speaker 1: feel prettier. Well, okay, I suppose maybe she has other
Speaker 1: issues with self esteem and then that's one way to
Speaker 1: fix that. I think she. I think she's got a
Speaker 1: few things going on. But but the.
Speaker 7: Fact that man, she's had like tons of surgery done,
Speaker 7: Like her whole feed was, Like all these surgeries she's had,
Speaker 7: it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Remember that there was one one woman that was out there,
Speaker 1: like when the Barbie movie came out, she wanted she
Speaker 1: had all that plastic surgery done to look like Barbie
Speaker 1: and like like why you know, because most guys get
Speaker 1: turned on on that could get they could get an
Speaker 1: inflatable Bardie Barbie doll and be happy. But but my point,
Speaker 1: my point in all this is no surgery is is
Speaker 1: all surgeries come with some sort of discomfort, if not pain.
Speaker 1: If you're taking bodily structure out. If you're taking ribs out,
Speaker 1: good lord, the pain level on that has to be
Speaker 1: through the roof.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, And I will add, which is one thing that's
Speaker 7: important to know. This girl did come back like three
Speaker 7: months after a surgery and said, I made a mistake.
Speaker 4: I would not do this surgery.
Speaker 1: Over my ribs back. Can you put them back in?
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 1: Are my ribs? Can you put them back in? No?
Speaker 7: Sorry one way, but yeah, she came back and said,
Speaker 7: I do not recommend the surgery for anyone. So I
Speaker 7: mean that's a I guess a good thing for people
Speaker 7: to hear. Is this This person that this whole article
Speaker 7: spawned up from came back and said I made a mistake.
Speaker 4: I would not do this again.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you guys man, you guys in the in
Speaker 1: the plastic surgery biz. From what I can tell, you
Speaker 1: work with what God gave you. In other words, if
Speaker 1: I came into you and I said, you know, I'd
Speaker 1: really like to look like George Clooney in my aging years,
Speaker 1: you'd be said, look, I can't. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: a magician. I'm a doctor. You kind of work with
Speaker 1: what you got when you start messing around with structure.
Speaker 1: I mean that's like taking that's like taking afford focus
Speaker 1: into a garage and saying, Okay, I'm going to remove this,
Speaker 1: and you got a ferrari Now, I mean you could
Speaker 1: only work with what you got. I think once you
Speaker 1: start messing around with that stuff, I think you're full
Speaker 1: of your you're you're, you're, you're just with the primal
Speaker 1: forces of nature you're messing with those things. I don't
Speaker 1: think the doctor really of any note in this country
Speaker 1: would ever do something like that, do you.
Speaker 7: I agree with you one hundred percent. That's why I
Speaker 7: was really trying to dig to see where this happened. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean it all comes down to, you know, risk
Speaker 7: and reward, right, I mean I I mean there's certain
Speaker 7: surgeries that are sort of calmon that I won't do
Speaker 7: because of the risks, like the Brazilian butt lift.
Speaker 4: And I think we talked about this one of the
Speaker 4: other times we chatted, like.
Speaker 2: I won't do Brazilian butt lists.
Speaker 4: Because they're risky.
Speaker 7: And it's like to me, it's like, you know, doing
Speaker 7: something esthetic is fine if the risks are minable, but
Speaker 7: when those risks start to climb where it includes things
Speaker 7: like death, I'm out, like I'm not in for my
Speaker 7: patients dying like I'm out. And so you know, unfortunately,
Speaker 7: I don't know if every surgeon you know, adheres to
Speaker 7: that kind of you know, strict safety regiment that I do.
Speaker 7: And so that's why you you know, you hear these
Speaker 7: stories in the news, the people who go and you know,
Speaker 7: try to change something their body and end up, you know,
Speaker 7: maimed or dead, and yeah, I just didn't. I'm not
Speaker 7: like that, man. I'll do like the easy stuff and
Speaker 7: the stuff that is you know, accepted as being safe.
Speaker 4: But man, when he gets into stuff like taking.
Speaker 7: Out ribs or wrists of bam with Brazilian butt lit,
Speaker 7: I'm out, man, I'm just not going to do it.
Speaker 1: Doctor Bruce Herman, our guest board certified plastic surgeon. We're
Speaker 1: talking about how some women are now spending a fortune
Speaker 1: to have ribs removed to give them a a slimmer waistline.
Speaker 1: There's all kinds. There are all kinds of Charlatans out there,
Speaker 1: as you know, in in in your business that'll you know,
Speaker 1: you go. The Brazilian butt lift is a great thing.
Speaker 1: I think maybe you and I did a segment on
Speaker 1: how people were going to Mexico to get a Brazilian
Speaker 1: butt lift and not coming back. They were they were
Speaker 1: apprehended by the cartels down there or whatever. I just did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did a segment last week with a guy who
Speaker 1: is allegedly the number one hair transplant surgeon in America.
Speaker 1: He lives in Fort Lauderdale, and we were talking about
Speaker 1: how people are getting on planes. Bald guys are getting
Speaker 1: on planes and flying to Turkey to get these plug
Speaker 1: treatments done. Where you know this guy is a legit
Speaker 1: doctor doing it. The guy the people do it in Turkey.
Speaker 1: They may have like an operating room that's right next
Speaker 1: to a hair salon, that's like next to a rail pollard,
Speaker 1: that's next to a quick trip where you can get
Speaker 1: a salami sandwich. It's just I mean, you got to
Speaker 1: know what you're getting and if you have, if you
Speaker 1: see something that's advertised out there, yeah, come down here.
Speaker 1: It's a fraction of the cost. Well, okay, you may
Speaker 1: come back a fraction of the person that you went
Speaker 1: down there as. So I mean, you've got to be
Speaker 1: careful with these things, don't you.
Speaker 7: Oh one hundred percent, Like I'm really against medical tourism
Speaker 7: where people go out of the country because you know,
Speaker 7: I mean.
Speaker 4: You kind of hit the nail on the head. You know,
Speaker 4: you don't know who's doing it.
Speaker 7: I mean, it can be hard in the United States
Speaker 7: to know who's legit and who's not when you go
Speaker 7: out of the country. I mean, you just have no idea.
Speaker 7: You don't know if the training they had is proper.
Speaker 7: You don't know what the sort of occasions they have
Speaker 7: are legitimate. I mean, anyone can make a great web page, right,
Speaker 7: I mean, a person off the street can make a
Speaker 7: web page that look like the best, you know, plastic
Speaker 7: surgeon in the world. And it's easy to deceive people.
Speaker 7: And so you know, when you go outside of the country,
Speaker 7: you just don't know what you're getting. Plus, you know,
Speaker 7: one of the biggest problems of going out of the
Speaker 7: country is, you know, if you have complications. Number One,
Speaker 7: you typically have them after you come back. I mean
Speaker 7: you're not even the same country as your surgeon. And
Speaker 7: then two, there's no recourse. You know, recent in the
Speaker 7: United States, if you go and you have surgery somebody
Speaker 7: and you get botched, you have the ability to get
Speaker 7: legal renumeration, right, you can sue them. You can't sue
Speaker 7: someone in Turkey, like that's impossible. And so yeah, I've
Speaker 7: been talking about medical tourism and like the dangers of it,
Speaker 7: and now you have even you know, the UK has
Speaker 7: issued a bunch of warnings because it's mostly the UK
Speaker 7: and europe people going to Turkey. We here in the
Speaker 7: United States people tend to go to South America or wherever.
Speaker 7: But now you got the U k issuing warnings because
Speaker 7: what's happening is all these people are having complications and
Speaker 7: then they get into the NHS or the National Health
Speaker 7: Services and it's costing the government a bunch of money
Speaker 7: to like to fix these people. And so like the
Speaker 7: government now is like stepping in. So yeah, it's it's
Speaker 7: crazy out there. I mean, at the end of the day,
Speaker 7: you know, saving money is good, but it's not you know,
Speaker 7: worth your life to save you know, a thousand bucks
Speaker 7: or whatever.
Speaker 1: So, doctor Bruce Herman, if a woman walked into your
Speaker 1: office today and said, you know what, I want to
Speaker 1: have some ribs removed, you would tell her what.
Speaker 4: I would tell her. Please Number one, I'm not going
Speaker 4: to do it, and two please don't do it. You know,
Speaker 4: I guess if.
Speaker 7: Like she was insistent on doing something. I might refer
Speaker 7: her to the one of the handful of actual legit
Speaker 7: plastic surgeons that are doing the minimally invasive not removal,
Speaker 7: but like you know, contouring or fracturing of the ribs.
Speaker 4: But I wouldn't even do that. I mean, I just
Speaker 4: I just think it's too risky.
Speaker 7: I mean personally, so, I mean I guess maybe like
Speaker 7: those those handfuls of certain the United States, I think
Speaker 7: they're having pretty good results with it, but I don't know.
Speaker 7: For this guy, it's too risky. I'm not looking to
Speaker 7: like hurting my patients. I want everybody to like have
Speaker 7: a good experience and come out okay.
Speaker 1: On the other end, yeah, you're a guy that sticks
Speaker 1: to the breast, the butt, and the nose, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: you just you got you know, your menu is very short.
Speaker 4: Bread and butter.
Speaker 5: Man, the easy stuff, the stuff that's been shown.
Speaker 4: To be safe. You know, I'm not here to take risks.
Speaker 7: I mean, I just you know, again, I just want
Speaker 7: people to have a good experience and.
Speaker 4: Not hav any bad outcomes. So I'm sticking to the
Speaker 4: stuff that works.
Speaker 1: And nip talk. Where can we find nip talk? Your
Speaker 1: weekly show. Where is that?
Speaker 7: So it's a video podcast that airs mostly on YouTube.
Speaker 7: You can find us at NIP talk Show. It does
Speaker 7: air on Facebook as well, and then the audio goes
Speaker 7: out to the various audio podcast streaming services.
Speaker 4: So up some of your listeners to come by.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you talking about this week?
Speaker 7: Well, actually I'm off this week because the studio is
Speaker 7: closed because of the new year.
Speaker 1: So well, last week, what did you do last week?
Speaker 4: I'm sure it's a bad week.
Speaker 7: Is we had Christmas bell on a bad day, so
Speaker 7: our studio was closed book So I just I gave
Speaker 7: my people a couple of weeks off. Last thing we
Speaker 7: were talking about we were talking about Kate Winslet. She
Speaker 7: was slamming anyone who wanted to get plastic surgery.
Speaker 4: And I love Kate Winslet.
Speaker 7: I saw Titanic three times in the in the theaters
Speaker 7: when I was a young person.
Speaker 4: But I had a little beef.
Speaker 7: With her because she was like, she's kind of dogging
Speaker 7: on people that wanted to get botox and.
Speaker 5: Like simple stuff, and so.
Speaker 4: We had to break that down.
Speaker 7: But yeah, we talked about a lot of interesting topics,
Speaker 7: including things like I actually we'll do a segment on
Speaker 7: this rib rib reception thing, and that'll be what I'm
Speaker 7: going to talk about for sure on the next episode.
Speaker 1: Well, good gad, we gave you the idea, and Kate
Speaker 1: winslet her boat always sink, so I wouldn't worry about
Speaker 1: you about her.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Doc, thanks for your time. Doctor Bruce Herman always
Speaker 1: great having you on. You can find him at Breast
Speaker 1: and Plasticsurgery dot com Breast and Plastic Surgery dot com.
Speaker 1: All right, Happy New Year, Docs, stay.
Speaker 4: Well, happen to you. Thank a lot. Take care.
Speaker 1: You couldn't pay me enough money to have my ribs removed.
Speaker 1: You know, people should just love people for the way
Speaker 1: they are. Wouldn't that be a nice thing to happen
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six? Here I am, this is look
Speaker 1: take care of myself the best way I can all.
Speaker 1: What a world that would be? One twenty five it's
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Speaker 1: The average American in for the great American. On this
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. We have Xavier basketball later on this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Connect ticket is at Xavier that will be at the
Speaker 1: Sintas Center, and that particular game we'll see a major
Speaker 1: task for the Musketeers as the number four Huskies are
Speaker 1: twelve and one. Savior comes into this game nine and four,
Speaker 1: and we will have that game for you right here
Speaker 1: on seven hundred WLW Byron Larkin and Joe Sunderman with
Speaker 1: the call. There are other bowl games going on today,
Speaker 1: and there are things I guess that if you're a
Speaker 1: fan of college football and you don't mind seeing the
Speaker 1: teams that might not necessarily be all that good, well
Speaker 1: what the hell why not? And then, of course you've
Speaker 1: got the college football Playoff that begins our I guess
Speaker 1: in the case of the playoff itself continues. But tonight
Speaker 1: at the Cotton Bowl, it's Miami against the Ohio State
Speaker 1: buck Guys. Last we heard from the buck Eyes, they
Speaker 1: had just been slapped upside the head by Indiana in
Speaker 1: the Big Ten championship game. They've had a lot of
Speaker 1: time off to think about this game. Tonight against Miami.
Speaker 1: And if you were listening yesterday or heard a young
Speaker 1: man by the name of Dan Hope from eleven Warriors
Speaker 1: dot com, he was one of my guests yesterday and
Speaker 1: was asking him about that time off. That's a long
Speaker 1: time to think about a loss. It's a good time,
Speaker 1: I suppose if you're trying to heal and get players
Speaker 1: who have had nagging injuries throughout the season healthy. But
Speaker 1: it is a long time and I'm wondering, as I
Speaker 1: wondered yesterday with Hope, exactly how the buck Eyes deal
Speaker 1: with this.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 4: The good thing is for Ohio State, they've done this before.
Speaker 8: We saw it last year where they lose that game
Speaker 8: to Michigan, they have to sew on it for a
Speaker 8: month and then they go and have a fantastic four
Speaker 8: game run in the College football playoffs. So there's a
Speaker 8: lot of play on this year's team who were part
Speaker 8: of last year's team, who have been there.
Speaker 4: They know what it takes to bounce.
Speaker 8: Back from a loss, and they know what it takes
Speaker 8: to play their best football in the College Football playoffs.
Speaker 8: So I think that that's something that can really kind
Speaker 8: of guide them into this game and help them in
Speaker 8: terms of knowing what it takes to play their best
Speaker 8: football of.
Speaker 4: The season in the biggest games of the year now.
Speaker 8: At the same time, just because they did it last
Speaker 8: year doesn't if they're going to do it again and
Speaker 8: players are talking about that, you know, they have to
Speaker 8: work just as hard going into this game as they
Speaker 8: did going into those CFT games a year ago if
Speaker 8: they want to have the same results.
Speaker 4: But I think the fact that you know.
Speaker 8: Ryan Day and so many of these players have didn't
Speaker 8: prove out already last year, they have that experience of
Speaker 8: playing in a college ball playoff in winning a national championship.
Speaker 8: I think that's really valuable. It's something they can drop
Speaker 8: from going into this game.
Speaker 1: Day is going to take over the play calling on offense,
Speaker 1: largely because Brian Hartline has got one foot out the
Speaker 1: door to South Florida to become the next head coach,
Speaker 1: and although he's still coaching obviously on the staff, he's
Speaker 1: going to concentrate on wide receivers. They took over the
Speaker 1: play calling. Why is it because Heartline is literally moving
Speaker 1: on And was it a strategic thing on Dave's part?
Speaker 1: Did he not like the way the players are being
Speaker 1: college just fill in the blanks there a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he pretty much covered it.
Speaker 8: I think it's the fact that Brian Hartline is juggling
Speaker 8: two jobs right now, and I think that Ryan Day
Speaker 8: came to realize over the last couple of weeks that
Speaker 8: having an offensive coordinator, having someone leading the offensive game
Speaker 8: plan who is not a one hundred percent invested in
Speaker 8: Ohio State right now, was not the best move for
Speaker 8: Ohio State. And I don't say that to criticize Brian Hartline.
Speaker 8: It's just the reality of the situation that you know,
Speaker 8: he's going to be a head coach somewhere else. He
Speaker 8: has certain things he has to do for that job. Unfortunately,
Speaker 8: the way of a college football calendar is right now.
Speaker 8: I mean, I know I've read something and I think
Speaker 8: it's like eight of the teams in a college ball
Speaker 8: playoffs or something like that have a coordinator moving on.
Speaker 8: So it's just the reality of a situation these days
Speaker 8: that you know, with the timing of signing day and
Speaker 8: a transfer portal and all that, you know, coaching hires
Speaker 8: get made before the college football playoff and so you
Speaker 8: have a lot of coaches who are finishing up a
Speaker 8: job with one team while preparing to start a job
Speaker 8: with a new team. And that's certainly the case of
Speaker 8: Brian Hartline. But I think Ryan Day just kind of
Speaker 8: came to realize, well, you know, because of what happened
Speaker 8: in the Big Ten championship game, where you know, the
Speaker 8: offense clearly had its worst performance of the year, coming
Speaker 8: just three days after Brian Hartline was hired at USF.
Speaker 4: I don't think that was a coincidence.
Speaker 8: And then I think, you know, realizing is they started
Speaker 8: game planning for the cotton ball over the last couple
Speaker 8: of weeks that you know, having someone who's splitting time
Speaker 8: between two places lead the offensive game plan is probably
Speaker 8: not the best way to go about it. And so
Speaker 8: you know, and they ultimately decided that the best move
Speaker 8: was for him to do it himself.
Speaker 1: Stay at Hope. Who was with me yesterday on seven
Speaker 1: hundred WW from eleven Warriors dot com. We got bowl
Speaker 1: games tonight. Of course that's the big one today. It's
Speaker 1: the Reliaquest Bowl Iowa against Vanderbilt. Oh my be still
Speaker 1: my beating heart on this one. This game is now
Speaker 1: at the half, Iowa fourteen Vanderbilt three. Still to come.
Speaker 1: The Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl. Yeah, out there and
Speaker 1: they'll passo Texas, Arizona State against Duke, and then the
Speaker 1: cheese at Citrus Bowl, three o'clock kick, Michigan against Texas,
Speaker 1: the unbattled Michigan football team against Texas, and then tonight,
Speaker 1: of course it's Miami and Ohio State. What's up with
Speaker 1: the Bengals. Bengals are counting down to the end of
Speaker 1: the season, but do they have full focus on the
Speaker 1: task at hand? With the Browns? Talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about that next no Stooge report today, segs Off. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to fill in the blanks. Seven hundred w
Speaker 1: WELW one fifty News Radio, seven hundred WLW, The average
Speaker 1: American in for the Great American. Do you think there's
Speaker 1: this Somali fraud problem up in Minnesota? How about the
Speaker 1: Buckeye State. We may be on the verge of one
Speaker 1: as well. We're going to get into that at two
Speaker 1: oh six. Then down the road. How chocolate and coffee
Speaker 1: can help your aging process? I don't mean accelerated, I
Speaker 1: mean pushing off the aging process. New Year's Eve twenty
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Speaker 1: getting ready to take on the Browns, and of course
Speaker 1: at pay Corpse Stadium one o'clock kick season finale for
Speaker 1: the Bengals. Our coverage begins at nine a m. From
Speaker 1: the Holy Grail this particular Sunday morning. And does Zach
Speaker 1: Taylor just finished his news conference up here a few
Speaker 1: minutes ago, and he says he is absolutely no questions, none,
Speaker 1: no questions about his team's energy.
Speaker 9: All you spend great energy from our guys. Helpful that
Speaker 9: we've won the last two. I think to keep the
Speaker 9: energy up at this point of year. But everybody's been great.
Speaker 1: Got to deal with Shudor Sanders, who is not great
Speaker 1: but is playing better as the Browns have just played
Speaker 1: Merry Grounds with quarterbacks since they came back into the league.
Speaker 1: But Sanders is their guy now, is at least through
Speaker 1: the end of this year, and then we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: And Taylor claims that he knew all about him when
Speaker 1: he played at college. Well, who didn't. He played for
Speaker 1: his dad and everybody was kind of eyeing his dad, Dion,
Speaker 1: But Taylor at least knew who the guy was coming
Speaker 1: out of college.
Speaker 9: You know, I'm never going to call myself a Colorado fan,
Speaker 9: and I was watching their games, you know, as a
Speaker 9: Nebraska guy, So you know, I thought that he did
Speaker 9: a great job, you know, and collaboration with a lot
Speaker 9: of other people that really did a great job at Colorado.
Speaker 9: So then for him to come in the league and
Speaker 9: as a rookie have success things really impressive. And so
Speaker 9: again we've got a tough task in front of us,
Speaker 9: and he's done a real good job, and he's got confidence,
Speaker 9: he's he's obviously got a lot of reps in his
Speaker 9: belt now and he's been a lot of plays for
Speaker 9: these guys.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: I had on Brian Diardo from CBS Sports last week
Speaker 1: on my show and we were talking about the Bengals
Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty five and how much of a
Speaker 1: bummer it was. And I asked him, is it too
Speaker 1: is it too easy to say that this all fell
Speaker 1: apart when Joe Burrow went down, because there were great
Speaker 1: numbers put up by Joe Flacco in several games in
Speaker 1: his absence. Here's the Ardo's thoughts on that. I think
Speaker 1: it's somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 10: I think I think going in and I think what
Speaker 10: you're alluding to is this was a fly team with
Speaker 10: or without Burrow, and I wholeheartedly agree. I think for me,
Speaker 10: the season was went downhill when Brown and Cake Brin
Speaker 10: came in and he didn't provide them the adequate play
Speaker 10: at backup quarterback that they needed, and you know one
Speaker 10: and three and those starts that it was so bad
Speaker 10: that they had to figure out a way to get
Speaker 10: another quarterback and um announced everybody went and got Joe
Speaker 10: flat though, and kind of a shocking, you know, mid
Speaker 10: season trade, and to me, him not being ready to
Speaker 10: come in and go. I think it was a surprise
Speaker 10: to everybody. And he was four and three, as you
Speaker 10: know and your listeners know, as a starter a few
Speaker 10: years ago. When Burrow got hurt and there was no
Speaker 10: reason to believe that he wouldn't be as effective this time.
Speaker 10: And he was so bad that it compelled Zach Taylor
Speaker 10: to bench him and try to save the season with
Speaker 10: getting a forty year old quarterback. So, you know, to me,
Speaker 10: him not being able to come in right away and
Speaker 10: get a couple of wins, I mean we're talking.
Speaker 4: If they have two more wins right now, they're still
Speaker 4: in it with the Steelers.
Speaker 10: Being where they are and the Ravens being where they are.
Speaker 10: To me, that way there was to me where the
Speaker 10: season ended.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, in a lot of ways it did. I
Speaker 1: mean you go back and you look, which I did.
Speaker 1: So Flacco's first game here was the game against Green
Speaker 1: Bay on October the twelfth, twenty nine to forty five,
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty eight total yards in that game,
Speaker 1: and it was obviously, you know, not a game that
Speaker 1: I would consider the Bengals to be competitive in, but
Speaker 1: at least showed that Flaco could come in here and
Speaker 1: you know, give this team a pulse. And then Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy total yards against the Steelers, four
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy yards against the Steelers right week seven,
Speaker 1: Ingles thirty three Steelers thirty one McPherson's fueld goal with
Speaker 1: seven seconds to go. The two games that just absolutely
Speaker 1: submarine this team were, of course, the home losses to
Speaker 1: the Jets and to the Bears. You give up two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four rushing yards to the Jets. The
Speaker 1: Jets haven't shown that kind of pulse at any game
Speaker 1: before that, and after five hundred and two total yards
Speaker 1: Chicago the next week, thirty seven rushes, two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty three on the ground, five hundred and seventy six
Speaker 1: total yards on the ground. You allow Caleb Williams to
Speaker 1: throw for four touchdown passes in both of those games,
Speaker 1: a grand total of two sacks from that Bengals defense. Now,
Speaker 1: the season really didn't go under when Burrow got hurt,
Speaker 1: but you had those Jets and a Chicago win. To
Speaker 1: what was at stake when Burrow came back. I mean,
Speaker 1: who knows what the story is. The defense is what
Speaker 1: submarine this team this year, and as well as it
Speaker 1: seemingly has played the last three weeks, it needs major work.
Speaker 1: That's the eyeball test. I've been watching this stuff for
Speaker 1: over forty years here for over forty years, almost fifty years.
Speaker 1: That's the eyeball tenp. They're not good enough. They don't
Speaker 1: tackle well enough, and they certainly don't cover well enough,
Speaker 1: and they certainly don't rush the quarterback well enough. That's
Speaker 1: job one in the off season. It is coming up
Speaker 1: on one to fifty seven news Radio seven hundred WLW
Speaker 1: Welcome back at happen in a year I grew the
Speaker 1: average American in for the great American here on seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW. Thank you for tuning us in today too.
Speaker 1: As you get ready to do whatever you do tonight.
Speaker 1: You know, I going out and getting crazy those days
Speaker 1: I have left in my wake, and I since most
Speaker 1: of you have done that too. We're just I think
Speaker 1: pot people just want to stick close to home anymore.
Speaker 1: You maybe go have dinner, maybe come home. You can
Speaker 1: stay up long enough, watch the ball drop and then
Speaker 1: hit the sack for sleep or whatever. Anyway, Happy New
Speaker 1: Year to you and your family. The fraud scheme that's
Speaker 1: going on in Minnesota, I think you should know about
Speaker 1: that by now. It is centering around a Somalian population
Speaker 1: that is the largest of any state in America. Right now.
Speaker 1: Eighty two of the ninety two defendants charged are Somalian Americans. Now,
Speaker 1: this center's around daycare centers or in one case, a
Speaker 1: leering center. How in the hell do you put up
Speaker 1: a sign over a daycare center that says leering center. Event,
Speaker 1: it's a scam to get federal money siphoned to Minnesota
Speaker 1: for alleged daycare centers. And right now that alleged money
Speaker 1: is somewhere around eighteen billion with a B dollars, the
Speaker 1: alleged money that's been scammed by the Somalian run daycare centers.
Speaker 1: In Ohio. We have the second largest Somalian population of
Speaker 1: any state in America. Most of the Somalis that are
Speaker 1: here in this country, legal and otherwise have settled in
Speaker 1: central Ohio. And someone, I guess it was the Columbus Dispatch.
Speaker 1: They're not really doing a very good job on this story.
Speaker 1: By the way, ask the governor about you know, well
Speaker 1: what about you know these daycare centers here in Ohio?
Speaker 1: Is is everything okay? And you know the governor said,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, no, this is this has been
Speaker 1: going on for a long time. We know that that
Speaker 1: this is going on. We're on it, and we crack
Speaker 1: down on it every time it pops it pops up,
Speaker 1: and I guess maybe the Dispatch was satisfied with that answer,
Speaker 1: but I'm not because it almost sounds dismissive on the
Speaker 1: part of the current governor of Ohio. So I wanted
Speaker 1: to find out exactly what's going on in the state
Speaker 1: of Ohio from a guy that I have on my
Speaker 1: show a lot who totally listen, totally up fun about this.
Speaker 1: Jim er Dacey ran against Mike DeWine and lost, tried
Speaker 1: to primary Diwine in the Republican primary, and REDEESI lost.
Speaker 1: I don't think he has any ill ill will towards
Speaker 1: the governor, but he does have a differing opinion on
Speaker 1: what's going on in Minnesota and how it relates to
Speaker 1: you and to me here in Ohio. So let's bring
Speaker 1: him on in. Jim er Dacy, how are you on
Speaker 1: this glorious New Year's Eve?
Speaker 5: I am doing great, Ken, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm doing well? And uh, look, fraud is fraud. Let's
Speaker 1: extract Somalia out of this just for a moment. Fraud
Speaker 1: is fraud. And if somebody is stealing tax dollars from
Speaker 1: people who pay into the tax system, that should be
Speaker 1: an absolute red flag for every single person in this country,
Speaker 1: but in particular the people that serve this country in Washington, DC.
Speaker 1: So why I have so many of your former Democrat
Speaker 1: colleagues not looked at this and said, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: this is fraud. They don't seem to be very interested
Speaker 1: in any of this, do they.
Speaker 5: Well, I got to tell you for your exactly right,
Speaker 5: fraud is fraud, and whether it's Democrats or Republicans, Americans
Speaker 5: should be looking at this across the board, across the states.
Speaker 5: I would never tell you that there's enough fraud to
Speaker 5: reduce the deficit, but I would tell you there's enough
Speaker 5: fraud out there that if it was extracted, we could
Speaker 5: be doing a lot better with our debts and deficits,
Speaker 5: especially when it comes to medicate fraud, because people have
Speaker 5: to realize that, for instance, in Ohio, whatever the state
Speaker 5: of Ohio spends, the federal government reimburses over ninety percent
Speaker 5: to the state. So there's a gimmick going around the
Speaker 5: entire country, which I did try and fight when I
Speaker 5: was in Washington, which there's no reason to cut medicaid spending,
Speaker 5: for instance in the state of Ohio when ninety percent
Speaker 5: of it and plus when some of the states are
Speaker 5: very similar get totally reimbursed by the federal government, which
Speaker 5: becomes a real problem when the federal governments just fishing
Speaker 5: out dollars and states are taking those dollars and not
Speaker 5: really being careful with them because they know that the
Speaker 5: majority of those dollars are reimbursed by the federal government.
Speaker 1: The majority of Somalians that have landed in the United States,
Speaker 1: legal or otherwise are in the state of Minnesota and
Speaker 1: in the Minneapolis metropolitan area. The second largest group are
Speaker 1: in Ohio. Some say thirty thousand, others say it might
Speaker 1: be twice that, but nevertheless, here they are. And you
Speaker 1: just mentioned you tried to fight this in Washington, DC,
Speaker 1: and I mean, here's your good buddy, Mike de Wine.
Speaker 1: His office said that the attempts to the fraud publicly
Speaker 1: funded daycare are not new and that the state has
Speaker 1: had safeguards up for a very long time. Do you
Speaker 1: believe that?
Speaker 5: Well, look, I ran against Mike DeWine because I don't
Speaker 5: believe a lot of things he says, and I'm willing
Speaker 5: to say that. But let's face it, over, I just
Speaker 5: saw a report today over forty daycare centers in Columbus
Speaker 5: Ohio all opened under the same defunct shell organizations from
Speaker 5: all the Educational Resource Center began operating the exact same
Speaker 5: day with combined earnings of fourteen million dollars in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty four a loan. So we have the same situation
Speaker 5: occurring here in Ohio, and we do have medicaid fraud
Speaker 5: throughout Ohio as well. That has been found by our
Speaker 5: honor has brought it to the attention of many people,
Speaker 5: and some people have been prosecuted, some haven't been. Let's
Speaker 5: face it, It's one of the reasons why I say
Speaker 5: be careful when you point the finger at Minnesota, because
Speaker 5: one of those fingers might be pointing right back at
Speaker 5: Ohio at the same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean again, it almost seemed like a brush
Speaker 1: off what his office told. I guess it was the
Speaker 1: Columbus Dispatch. And then the Dispatch shose the weakest form
Speaker 1: of journalism to look into this story. They went running
Speaker 1: to one of those alleged daycare centers in Columbus and said, oh, no,
Speaker 1: everything's good here. Everything's good here, so there must not
Speaker 1: be anything going on, rather than actually trying to dig
Speaker 1: into the story and see, well, okay, well what about
Speaker 1: this place or that place, or the overall medicaid fraud
Speaker 1: that may be going on here in the state of
Speaker 1: Ohio kind of you know, if somebody that spent their life,
Speaker 1: the majority of their life in television journalism, it just
Speaker 1: kind of hacks me off. The lack of journalistic curiosity
Speaker 1: here with this story.
Speaker 5: Well, kay, and here's what's really interesting. An individual up
Speaker 5: in Wadsworth, Ohio that actually has three or four daycare centers,
Speaker 5: got in the car and drove down because of his
Speaker 5: frustration of how difficult it was to operate his daycare centers.
Speaker 5: And he told me today that he visited five of
Speaker 5: these Somali daycare centers. Four of them were absolutely nobody there,
Speaker 5: totally dark, and the fifth one that he visited, he
Speaker 5: was actually afraid for his life because a guy came
Speaker 5: out and said what are you doing here? And he said,
Speaker 5: you know a what he goes, You're trespassing and he said, nope,
Speaker 5: I'm not trespassing because I'm leaving. But he felt very
Speaker 5: uncomfortable that after visiting just five locations in Ohio in
Speaker 5: these Somali daycares, but four of them were dark, and
Speaker 5: one of them, although it wasn't dark was not providing
Speaker 5: daycare was providing he said it. Look there was something
Speaker 5: else going on in the building. But that just shows
Speaker 5: you that you're exactly right. We need to have a
Speaker 5: thorough investigation of this, and I think we're going to
Speaker 5: find the same thing. It's just a lack of oversight
Speaker 5: from our government officials, which leads to deficit spending, medicaid
Speaker 5: waste and fraud and things that could be corrected if
Speaker 5: we just were a little bit more diligent on oversight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm reading right here. According to some estimates, Somali
Speaker 1: scammers have taken more money from taxpayers in the last
Speaker 1: few years than the entire gross domestic product of Somalia
Speaker 1: the country. I mean, it's staggering. It's roughly eighteen billion
Speaker 1: that's in play up in Minnesota, and half of that
Speaker 1: is a number that adds up to the total federal
Speaker 1: funds provided by that FEDS two Minnesota since twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: for all of federal run services in Minnesota. Look, I
Speaker 1: would never suggest this to any other politician than perhaps you,
Speaker 1: but it seems to me if you have in Minnesota
Speaker 1: a very large Somali population there and it's you're running
Speaker 1: for political offense, either for the mayor of Minnesota or
Speaker 1: for the seat that elon Omar has. If you start
Speaker 1: sticking your nose into something like this, it's going to
Speaker 1: cost you votes. And if that costs your votes, that
Speaker 1: cost you the election. How much of this do you
Speaker 1: think is just politically driven? That Tim Walls and the
Speaker 1: mayor Fry I believe his name is of Minneapolis, and
Speaker 1: certainly elon Omar, they don't want to stick their nose
Speaker 1: into something like this because if they do, that costs
Speaker 1: them votes and they're out of office. That couldn't possibly happen,
Speaker 1: could it?
Speaker 5: Well? You know, and I know that votes are the
Speaker 5: main thing. It's one of the reasons why nobody wants
Speaker 5: to look at Medicare. Nobody wants to look at Medicaid,
Speaker 5: nobody wants to look at social security fraud. And you
Speaker 5: start looking at all these programs and benefits and you
Speaker 5: start digging into the fraud, you're going to find things.
Speaker 5: You know. I was on the Medicare Medicare Subscommittee. I
Speaker 5: was on the Social Security subcommittee. There was ongoing fraud
Speaker 5: investigations all around the country. And these are things that
Speaker 5: do cost people votes. There's no doubt about it. Just
Speaker 5: like you said, if it's your district and there's a
Speaker 5: lot of that population and you're worried about getting reelected,
Speaker 5: absolutely you're going to ignore it as long as you can. Sure.
Speaker 1: And the first thing they're going to say is you're
Speaker 1: a racist. You know you must be a racist if
Speaker 1: you're looking to the No, I'm looking for my money.
Speaker 1: You know, you write me a check and give me
Speaker 1: my money back. You can go about your business any
Speaker 1: way you want. But I you know, I think is
Speaker 1: this gets gets rolling and despite the best efforts of ABC, NBCCBS,
Speaker 1: and it will because I think you're going to finally
Speaker 1: get some action in Washington, d C. That may be
Speaker 1: a rallying point for the GOP in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: I think when you turn rocks over on all of
Speaker 1: these places, you're going to be surprised of what you
Speaker 1: find in terms of fraud. Now you might have served
Speaker 1: with this guy. I don't know, Jim. I didn't look
Speaker 1: at the lap over on your tenure there. But the
Speaker 1: House majority with Tom Emmer from Minnesota, now's yelling and
Speaker 1: screaming and calling for the denaturalization and deportation of Somali's
Speaker 1: in Minnesota who defrauded taxpayers. Well, okay, I think that's
Speaker 1: a step maybe after you actually get to who shepherd
Speaker 1: the fraud and who knew about it and didn't do
Speaker 1: anything about it. It's one thing to say that's what
Speaker 1: we're going to do, but I think you got to
Speaker 1: get to that first step, don't you.
Speaker 5: Well, absolutely, And I did serve with Tom Emmer. He's
Speaker 5: a good friend of mine. And you know, look those
Speaker 5: are such face. That's a political claim he's making. It's
Speaker 5: a great political claim and it's a great rally cry.
Speaker 5: But you're exactly right. We've got to start looking at
Speaker 5: these states. It's the same. And I use Ohio only
Speaker 5: because I know Ohio. If Ohio was not getting anything
Speaker 5: reimbursed from the federal government, zero reimbursement, they'd be very
Speaker 5: careful on how much they're spending in the medicaid program.
Speaker 5: And one of the things every state we should be
Speaker 5: looking at is how do we how do we make
Speaker 5: the states more accountable when it comes to Medicaid. The
Speaker 5: best way, of course, is to eliminate their federal match.
Speaker 5: And you know, you want to fix a state like Minnesota,
Speaker 5: just say okay, we're going to eliminate your federal match.
Speaker 5: But you got to remember, you just can't pick on Minnesota.
Speaker 5: And that's what I keep trying to tell people. You
Speaker 5: can look at Minnesota and as a Republican administration, the
Speaker 5: Republican president, we could say we're going to go after
Speaker 5: Minnesota until it becomes a problem in Ohio, whether it's
Speaker 5: a Republican administration. So if you're going to do this,
Speaker 5: you got to do it across the board.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to get you into a you know,
Speaker 1: another public urinating contest with the wine. But he doesn't
Speaker 1: seem interested in it. I mean just by his statement
Speaker 1: and the statement that came out of his office up there,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, yeah, this isn't now, We're on it.
Speaker 1: We've got our antenna. It doesn't seem like he has
Speaker 1: an appetite to take this thing on. Does it seem
Speaker 1: that way to you.
Speaker 5: Well, look, it's a controversial issue. He should be on
Speaker 5: top of it. No, he's not going to worry about it.
Speaker 5: And it's one of the reasons Iran against him. And
Speaker 5: again it's but I've said this time and time again,
Speaker 5: our state has not gotten any better in the six
Speaker 5: years he's been governor. In fact, we've fallen behind in
Speaker 5: a lot of places. And this is another issue. In fact,
Speaker 5: he's increased medicaid funding across the state. He has added
Speaker 5: to the medicaid debacle that we have in our state,
Speaker 5: which means, you know, if you assume that medicaid has five,
Speaker 5: ten percent, whatever the number is fraud. Governor Gwin has
Speaker 5: increase the amount that Ohio spends in Medicaid, which means
Speaker 5: he's probably in avertly increase the amount of fraud as well,
Speaker 5: just because whenever there's money rolling into the state, there's
Speaker 5: going to be a percentage that's fraudulent.
Speaker 1: Where do you see this thing going, Jim, Not just
Speaker 1: here in Ohio, but you know across the country. It's
Speaker 1: Minnesota right now, it's the holiday season. It probably isn't
Speaker 1: getting a lot of attention from the general public just yet,
Speaker 1: but you know January and the cold months of winter's
Speaker 1: still await when people are in front of television sets
Speaker 1: and whatnot. Where do you think this goes and how
Speaker 1: quickly do you think it goes? Knowing it's an election
Speaker 1: year coming up.
Speaker 5: Well, because it's Tim Walton, because it's a Democrat state,
Speaker 5: I think you're going to see President Trump and many
Speaker 5: in the administration going after Minnesota. At the same time,
Speaker 5: as I said all along, I think it's going to
Speaker 5: backside and hit Ohio as well. Because you said this
Speaker 5: and I agree. The second greatest population of Somolians is
Speaker 5: in Ohio. So we're going to get that backlash in Ohio.
Speaker 5: And I think in the end, it's just going to
Speaker 5: make people more unhappy with our political system and our
Speaker 5: politicians and our elected officials. And we've got a November
Speaker 5: election coming up. If you start to play the cards,
Speaker 5: eventually people are going to say, I just want to
Speaker 5: get everybody out of there that's in office. We saw
Speaker 5: that before. The sad thing is we have a majority
Speaker 5: of Republicans right now, but they will pay the price
Speaker 5: if that's the attitude of voters come November twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Jim, And what I say happy New Year,
Speaker 1: I mean happy and healthy and safe and you and
Speaker 1: I will visit in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: Thanks same to you and all your listeners. Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: So there's a conservative lawyer and a Republican strategist named
Speaker 1: mahet Cook, and Maheck Cook told Fox News earlier this
Speaker 1: month that Minnesota just the tip of the spear, and
Speaker 1: many Somalians in Columbus are great people, law abiding citizens
Speaker 1: who came here legally, he went on to say. She
Speaker 1: went on to say, the problem today is not the community,
Speaker 1: it's actually the criminals within the community. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: whether it's Somalians or pick another country, people from Ireland, Italy, Canada, Mexico, China, Ubekistan.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Fraud is fraud, and they're taking our money.
Speaker 1: And if that doesn't get you lit underneath the butt,
Speaker 1: I don't know what will tax money taken from US Congress.
Speaker 1: Better get quick on this seven hundred WLWT.
Speaker 4: Two thirty six.
Speaker 1: News Radio seven hundred at WLW welcome on it final
Speaker 1: half hour festivities. It will be Jason Williams and Dan
Speaker 1: Carroll after the news at the top of the hours.
Speaker 1: Take it straight straight till Xavier basketball Xavier and connect
Speaker 1: Ticket four thirty year Time five o'clock tip on seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLWT. To build off the Jim Ornacy interview. It's
Speaker 1: awfully interesting to me that the exposure of fraud by
Speaker 1: Somalians in Minnesota has happened by citizen journalists and independent journalists,
Speaker 1: and that those working for major media outlets have either
Speaker 1: completely ignored the story for whatever reasons, maybe political ideology
Speaker 1: or maybe because they were too stupid to find out
Speaker 1: that there was something going on. Who knows. Journalistic curiosity
Speaker 1: in this country is dead. But it was these citizens
Speaker 1: journalists and these independent journalists that have uncovered these things.
Speaker 1: And it's not just in Minnesota's it's apparently across major
Speaker 1: major cities in Maine, Pennsylvania, Washington State and right here
Speaker 1: as we just talked about with Reneesi in Ohio. So
Speaker 1: he's right in the sense that, Okay, make a campaign
Speaker 1: issue out of that. Bang on Tim Walls, and Tim
Speaker 1: Walls is Elmer Fudd with dancing hands. Bang on him
Speaker 1: all you want, but it may come home to haunt
Speaker 1: in some of these states that have Republican governors as well.
Speaker 1: We'll see where it goes. But it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: your money, and it's my money. It's federal money. That's
Speaker 1: what I would be screaming if I was on the
Speaker 1: radio in Minnesota. This is our money. This is why
Speaker 1: every April fifteenth we have to pay federal income tax.
Speaker 1: We work hard for the money. As the song once
Speaker 1: went ESPN reporting that there is yet another New England
Speaker 1: Patriots player that has been arrested on assault and battery charges.
Speaker 1: This time it is Christian Barmore. Now, apparently this incident
Speaker 1: stemmed from August the eighth, all the way back then,
Speaker 1: but it has only been since December sixteenth that it
Speaker 1: wound up in front of the police, and Christian Barmore
Speaker 1: is scheduled to be arraigned in a Massachusetts courtroom on
Speaker 1: February third. This on the heels of what Stephan Diggs
Speaker 1: has been accused of doing. So not so many fun
Speaker 1: and games off the field for the New England Patriots
Speaker 1: as they are going through an historically successful season on
Speaker 1: the field and in college football right now. And I
Speaker 1: want to make sure I get this right, because you know,
Speaker 1: these bowl games anymore, they're not just this is the
Speaker 1: Relyoquest Bowl. I'm sure that there was just a large
Speaker 1: appetite to see the Relioquest Bowl. End of the third quarter,
Speaker 1: Iowa twenty four Vanderbilt seventeen. Still to come tonight, A
Speaker 1: couple of more of these ballgames, Arizona State, Duke, Michigan, Texas,
Speaker 1: and then of course Ohio State Miami in the playoff
Speaker 1: seven thirty tonight in the cotton Bowl. Do you like
Speaker 1: dark chocolate and coffee? Well, those are two of my obsessions.
Speaker 1: And apparently this is a good obsession I have because
Speaker 1: dark chocolate and coffee not necessarily consumed together. But dark
Speaker 1: chocolate and coffee have been linked to a reduction in
Speaker 1: cell leader aging. Cell leader aging. Who doesn't want their
Speaker 1: cells to slow down a little bit, so we don't
Speaker 1: all get old Cragley and die. Well, we're all going
Speaker 1: to die, but I mean ahead a schedule. People with
Speaker 1: higher blood levels of something called theobromine seem to have
Speaker 1: slowed cell lead aging, and this is a result of
Speaker 1: a study that was done hon a significant group of
Speaker 1: people over in the UK. Healthy living, we know, may
Speaker 1: not make it a last longer, but it will make
Speaker 1: you last healthier. And you want to stay healthy, right.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be somebody that's just chair bound
Speaker 1: or bedbound or whatever it may be in the final
Speaker 1: five or ten years of your life. You want to
Speaker 1: be you want to be young, You want to be vibrant.
Speaker 1: At least that's what Paul Fulford tells me. He is
Speaker 1: a healthy living expert. He is with Sinoshore or maybe
Speaker 1: it's sino Shure. I'm not sure which way it is pronounced,
Speaker 1: but Sinoshure Sinoshore Electronics, which is a leader in the
Speaker 1: field of medical treatment systems. And he's another guy that says, look,
Speaker 1: there could be something to this chocolate coffee thing. And
Speaker 1: anybody that carves out time to be with us on
Speaker 1: this New Year's Eve we appreciate, and we appreciate. Paul Fulford,
Speaker 1: how are you on this New Year's Eve?
Speaker 4: I'm doing wonderful. How are you doing, Ken.
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Is it Sinoshure or Sinoshore?
Speaker 4: It is sino Shure Electronic.
Speaker 11: And I also have a podcast called Optimized Outcomes where
Speaker 11: we discuss all kinds of topics like this, healthy living,
Speaker 11: anti aging, biohacking, health wellness, mental, physical performance, all pushing
Speaker 11: the outcomes.
Speaker 1: Yes, wow, what is bio hacking?
Speaker 11: By the way, Basically, if you think about it in
Speaker 11: terms of like a computer, where you're hacking a computer software,
Speaker 11: the body has an operating system, right, And everything that
Speaker 11: we have when we look at our biomarkers is in essence,
Speaker 11: you know something that we can hack, and it's something
Speaker 11: that you know is signaling right, So and what we're
Speaker 11: talking about sort of in this topic is different signaling,
Speaker 11: like with with what coffee and dark chocolate can do,
Speaker 11: and if we can interrupt that signaling. You know, for
Speaker 11: some reason, sometimes our DNA as we get older decides
Speaker 11: not to repair itself as it did when we were
Speaker 11: in our twenties and thirties. Right, So if we can
Speaker 11: hack that and send the proper signaling to you, so
Speaker 11: then we can actually, you know, forty forty is now
Speaker 11: the new sixty.
Speaker 4: Basically you can you can fliplop it. Well, excuse me,
Speaker 4: sixty is the new forty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, ninety is the new seventy. It's just it's
Speaker 1: all about aging. It's all about cellular aging. And I'm
Speaker 1: reading here dark chocolate or coffee both can reduce celluator aging. Okay,
Speaker 1: so explain that I like chocolate, I like coffee. Do
Speaker 1: I eat more of those things and reduce my cellutor
Speaker 1: aging and therefore all live to be one hundred and forty.
Speaker 4: I love where your head is that ken? So the
Speaker 4: headlight is fun.
Speaker 11: You know, the science is interesting, but if you know,
Speaker 11: we've got to keep it honest here, right, there's a
Speaker 11: there's a new study that the doubts. That shows that
Speaker 11: there's an association, not proof that that chocolate is a
Speaker 11: thought of youth. And what it does suggest is people
Speaker 11: with higher levels of the compound called field bromine tend
Speaker 11: to show signs of slower biological age.
Speaker 4: I'm certain at the genetic clocks.
Speaker 1: Okay. So the study that was done, I guess research
Speaker 1: was done in the UK. They had participants in two groups.
Speaker 1: There were like five hundred women in one group and
Speaker 1: eleven hundred and fifty men and women in another group.
Speaker 1: Both had the average age of sixty. So they started
Speaker 1: with that baseline, and then of course they they jimmy
Speaker 1: the test so that one would get these I guess
Speaker 1: THEO one of the theobromines that would that would increase
Speaker 1: the likelihood of cellular aging being put on slow and
Speaker 1: others did not. What are we to make of that?
Speaker 1: Is it a big enough test to say, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: going to, you know, maybe increase my intake in chocolate,
Speaker 1: increase my incake and coffee, or at the very least
Speaker 1: make it part of what I do on a diet basis,
Speaker 1: on a weekly or monthly level, that I can continue
Speaker 1: getting those particular things into my bloodstream and into my body.
Speaker 1: What are we to make of this test?
Speaker 11: Well, I mean if you look at that one that
Speaker 11: we're talking about, and like, there's other ones we can
Speaker 11: point to. But there were two big groups of people
Speaker 11: right mostly around sixty one cool heart was the Twins
Speaker 11: UK with about five hundred and nine women, and the
Speaker 11: other one was the Cora cool Heart in Germany.
Speaker 4: That had eleven hundred and sixty men and women.
Speaker 11: And they measured the theobromine in the blood using different tests,
Speaker 11: and they looked at the DNA methylation patterns that ran
Speaker 11: the epigenetic clock models and so in playing English, they
Speaker 11: looked at chemical tags on DNA that shift when age
Speaker 11: can be used to estimate biological aging.
Speaker 1: This so I was just gonna say, but this this alkaloid,
Speaker 1: this theobromine, theobromine, I'm glad to believe that's more of
Speaker 1: something that's in chocolate then it is in coffee or tea.
Speaker 1: In other words, if somebody's listening to this and they're
Speaker 1: thinking at oh, chocolate, yeah, it's going to slow down
Speaker 1: the aging, or coffee it's going to slow down my aging.
Speaker 1: And you know, they start downing triple shot lattes four
Speaker 1: or five times a day. Their heart's going to explode.
Speaker 1: So I guess what are we talking about moderation here, Paul?
Speaker 4: So you know, you don't, You're You're exactly right.
Speaker 11: They don't need to start pounding expressos or eating bricks
Speaker 11: of dark chocolate tonight, right.
Speaker 4: You know, if you if you do that, you're.
Speaker 11: Gonna feel young for about forty five minutes.
Speaker 4: Then you're gonna die. Then your your heart rate at
Speaker 4: two am is going to be serious.
Speaker 11: Right, So the study does not tell us you know this,
Speaker 11: you know, in the studies don't tell us how much
Speaker 11: chocolate or coffee to consume. It didn't even really reliably
Speaker 11: track coffee intaking a peru tice way. It looked at
Speaker 11: the biomarker in the blood one point at a time.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 11: So that's the big limitation with this stuff. And again
Speaker 11: that's why in the in the beginning we were talking
Speaker 11: about them. It looks like something that you want to
Speaker 11: you know, implement, but it's there's not like a lot
Speaker 11: of clinical evidence showing there's there's associations not you know, basically,
Speaker 11: this is not a prescription for something, so to speak.
Speaker 1: Right, No, exactly exactly and I think with a lot
Speaker 1: of these things that pop up from time to time
Speaker 1: on poll pop culture, that's the way they should be
Speaker 1: taken as things that, look, this can do your body
Speaker 1: some good, but anything in excess can do your body harm.
Speaker 1: And so keep that in the back of your mind.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people tonight, right now, today,
Speaker 1: probably for the last few days, that have been thinking about, Okay,
Speaker 1: how can I live healthier in twenty twenty six? And
Speaker 1: you know, the normal things come to the top of
Speaker 1: the list. Get some sleep, go to the gym, even
Speaker 1: if you just go out for a walk every day
Speaker 1: is going to help you in some way, shape or
Speaker 1: form make you feel healthier. But what about eating? Because
Speaker 1: you can't run away from a bad diet. We can
Speaker 1: talk all we want about exercising, it's not going to
Speaker 1: be You're not going to be able to exercise your
Speaker 1: way out of a bad diet. What should people be
Speaker 1: thinking about tonight today, whatever it may be, about living
Speaker 1: healthier in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 11: Well, that's a great question, and it is you know,
Speaker 11: right on time as far as what time of year
Speaker 11: we're in, and it is it is.
Speaker 4: You know, I talk about this a lot.
Speaker 11: You know, like we talked about with the things that
Speaker 11: I do, and uh, there's a couple of different things
Speaker 11: I find myself going to run. You know, we were
Speaker 11: talking about biohacking earlier, and it's in the tech world.
Speaker 11: It's it's garbage and garbage out. If you have bad inputs,
Speaker 11: you're going to have bad outputs, right, So if you're
Speaker 11: if you're eating, you know, I don't care what side
Speaker 11: of the aisle somebody falls on. Make America Healthy Again
Speaker 11: as an importing initiative, and we're looking at a lot
Speaker 11: of the things with the food supply when it as
Speaker 11: it relates to how somebody should be eating. There's kind
Speaker 11: of like a rule of thumb where it's like ninety
Speaker 11: thirty fifty, where it's ninety grams of protein, thirty grams
Speaker 11: of healthy fats, and fifty grams of nutrient dent. You know,
Speaker 11: carbs are in your whole foods, right, and it's.
Speaker 4: Also calories in calories out right.
Speaker 11: You've got a lot of things out now with GLP
Speaker 11: ones and those are a big buzzword with people losing weight,
Speaker 11: which you've got to mitigate those. There's actually a lot
Speaker 11: there's been a study and it's now a Netflix show
Speaker 11: called Blue Zones, and they look into these centurions and
Speaker 11: in these different pockets of the world where people live
Speaker 11: the longest, and they have three basic things in common.
Speaker 5: One they have.
Speaker 11: They eat nutrient dense whole foods, right, no garbage, nutrient
Speaker 11: dense whole foods. They have regular levels of activity, and
Speaker 11: that can just mean not necessarily hardcore working out. It
Speaker 11: could be regularly walking, they're performing pasts on a regular basis,
Speaker 11: they're taking stairs, they're not taking elevators, They're doing all
Speaker 11: these regular things. And then the third thing is having
Speaker 11: a sense of community, having emotional connections. Those three things
Speaker 11: people that live the longest in the world have. And
Speaker 11: if there's two areas that people can look at and
Speaker 11: dial in for longevity, it's making sure that gut health
Speaker 11: is down in and that they have some muscle that
Speaker 11: they're working on building muscles. Those are your two biggest
Speaker 11: markers for identifying longevity.
Speaker 1: What are nutrient dense foods? You said nutrient dense foods.
Speaker 1: I think before when you were breaking it down, it
Speaker 1: was protein, and then I think you said something with
Speaker 1: regards to dense carbohydrates. If I'm not mistaken, what do
Speaker 1: you know about those things.
Speaker 11: So when I say that, I mean like if you
Speaker 11: think about like a Mediterranean diet, right, you look at
Speaker 11: eating the rainbow as far as the vegetables can be concerned, right,
Speaker 11: you want things that are Again, again, it's more expensive
Speaker 11: beat this way. And I think that's why the food
Speaker 11: supply piece is a great thing, because if we can
Speaker 11: find ways to make food better, healthier and more accessible,
Speaker 11: that's better.
Speaker 5: But you want to eat.
Speaker 11: Your complex carbs, right, you want to eat things that
Speaker 11: are You're better off eating a sweet potato versus a
Speaker 11: white potato.
Speaker 4: There's as far as nutrient dnse.
Speaker 11: Whole foods, there's a lot of things where like if
Speaker 11: you go to Costco, it's like practical examples. They have
Speaker 11: these jackfruit chips where they are something that you can
Speaker 11: have that's crunchy, something that has a lot of very
Speaker 11: minimal colork intake with a lot of nutrient dense aspects
Speaker 11: to it.
Speaker 4: So there's a wide range of nutrient dnse whole foods
Speaker 4: that we can eat. Right.
Speaker 11: That also, eating those things fills you up longer, Especially
Speaker 11: protein definitely fills you up longer.
Speaker 4: And when you're eating.
Speaker 11: Foods, it also requires you to consume energy and calorie
Speaker 11: is to process those foods, right. So nutrient dent is
Speaker 11: kind of a broad word that speaks to eating basically
Speaker 11: whole organic fruits and vegetables that are consuming and filling
Speaker 11: that will provide that either carb to carb the sugar conversion,
Speaker 11: and again, getting your sugar from fruits is a lot
Speaker 11: better way to get your sugars versus drinking sugar in
Speaker 11: your coffee, right, because that's what our body uses for energy.
Speaker 1: No, I mean all of that makes sense. The other
Speaker 1: thing that makes sense to me, and it was told
Speaker 1: to me many many years ago. And every time I
Speaker 1: walk into a Kroger, which is a major grocery chain
Speaker 1: here in Ohio and Kentucky, I walk in there and
Speaker 1: I was told shop the perimeter of the store because invaribly,
Speaker 1: that's where the healthiest foods are. And then as you
Speaker 1: get into the aisles, you get into the things that
Speaker 1: if you actually read the label, some of those things
Speaker 1: would absolutely shot as to what's in those foods. And
Speaker 1: if you don't understand what's on the label of something
Speaker 1: you're buying, it probably shouldn't buy it. But the is
Speaker 1: the store is where the healthiest foods.
Speaker 11: Are you know ken that's that did one hundred percent.
Speaker 11: I've said that same statement many times, right, And then
Speaker 11: when you are in the aisles, you one hundred percent
Speaker 11: have to look at the labeling because if it's something
Speaker 11: you can't pronounce, you shouldn't need it. Right, And there's
Speaker 11: a big push now with again because and it has
Speaker 11: to do like you look at the marketing for the
Speaker 11: companies and I'm not knocking their hustle.
Speaker 4: They have to move product, but they switch. Right. It
Speaker 4: was for the longest time it was low fat, no fat.
Speaker 4: Then now then there was the gluten free push. Now
Speaker 4: it's high protein.
Speaker 11: There's protein in everything because of the need for protein
Speaker 11: with people on these glp ones and everything else. So
Speaker 11: the sourcing of the materials and if you can't pronounce it,
Speaker 11: I mean, the fewer the ingredients, the better you one
Speaker 11: hundred sending me out it with shop the perimeter and
Speaker 11: when you go into the aisles, you've got to read
Speaker 11: the labels and have your phone so that you can
Speaker 11: look it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got Paul Fulford Sino shore Elutronics. Sino Shore
Speaker 1: Leutronic is where you can find him. And again the
Speaker 1: name of your podcast that has all that great stuff
Speaker 1: that you were talking about. Where do people what's the
Speaker 1: name of it, Where do people find it?
Speaker 11: It's called Optimized Outcomes and it's on Spotify, Apple Music,
Speaker 11: and YouTube.
Speaker 1: As they say, all platforms. Paul, good stuff. Happy new
Speaker 1: Year to you, Happy healthy new year to you. I
Speaker 1: sense I don't have to say that, but in any
Speaker 1: event I will. Happy healthy new year to you, and
Speaker 1: thank you for your time today. We appreciate it you
Speaker 1: as well. Thank you, Kenn you. Yeah. I'm going to
Speaker 1: run out tonight, have the biggest piece of chocolate cake
Speaker 1: I can find and wash it down with a I'll
Speaker 1: make it a decaf, you know. Got to get to
Speaker 1: sleep at some point two fifty four on this New
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