WEBVTT - Mammograms, Weathermen, and a Jelly Roll 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.920 Welcome everyone to Amy and TJ. And TJ is already 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:12.680 laughing at me because I have my broadcasting voice. I 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:13.520 can't help it. 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:16.079 Why do you okay? Starting it? Okay, let's pretend like 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.119 we're starting all over and you like talking to me 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:19.840 at home. 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:27.600 Hey, welcome, I don't know, it feels weird. Welcome everyone. 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:31.240 It's so hard to be natural, isn't it? 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.080 When it when it comes to an intro, Yes, you're 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.600 usually punching it with some energy. I don't know, almost 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.320 thirty years of broadcasting experience. You go into broadcasting mode. 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:44.600 So yes, again, it's okay. Proof is in the pudding. 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.040 All you're doing is making sure that you start every podcast. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:50.720 You see how you just that just came out naturally? 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.080 Right? You have been I say this to you coaching me. 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.680 No, not coaching, but I say this to you all 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.400 the time. When we were on GM A three, sitting 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.480 on the set and before we start the show and 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.479 there's counting out five four three, and I'm talking to you, 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.600 I'm like poking. Just as soon as the show starts, 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.759 the cameras come on and our MIC's come up, we're 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:13.959 in the middle of conversation, and that's when you are 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.440 nailing because you're at your best. You ain't thinking about it. 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.039 You're not looking at a prompter. You just boom and 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.600 you just go boom. But we Andy was the one here, 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.880 our producer in the room. He said, you know what, Amy, 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:29.559 I think you got this today. You can do it. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:38.480 And I thank you Andy, thank you very much for 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:39.480 that encouragement. 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:42.680 I've ever heard a ringing endorsement. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:47.600 Andy, I thought you were good enough but not great, 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:52.800 but not terrible. You know who was great today? 0:01:54.120 --> 0:02:00.320 Homes Oh you all, yes, Beanie bean. Today was a 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:05.480 very big day. We are recording. We hustled here because Sabine, 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:10.520 eleven year old had her first ever track meet and 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:14.560 her first ever athletic competition in her young life. Was 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.320 today an official track meet that we have been working 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.200 on and training for for weeks, her for months, but 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.200 we've been going out really hard with her on the 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.600 track for the past couple of weeks and so. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.839 It was awesome. It was it was. There are those 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.919 moments you're coaching your kids. You're hoping that they're joways, 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.040 just going to give it their all. You're hoping that 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.160 you don't want necessarily a victory. You just want them 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:43.880 to give it their all. Right, that's what you're trying 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:44.080 to do. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:45.840 So we wanted to win though, don't get me wrong, yeah, 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:46.680 one hundred percent. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.040 But anyway, you're not telling them that, You're just saying 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:50.919 all I care about is that you give it your all. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.960 And so it's been really sweet to watch TJ getting 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.800 up really early with Sabine pretty much every morning for 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.240 the last several days, going to a track with was 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.400 not easy to find in New York City, by the way, 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.880 in Manhattan, and getting her out onto a real track 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:11.560 and training for the two hundred meter and timing her 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.520 and her splits and helping her with her form, and 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.000 she was such a good student. Not every kid takes 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.960 direction well from a parent, especially, But I watched it 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:26.640 all happen. And today was the track meet. She was 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:31.040 in the two hundred and TJ tell us what happened. 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:32.959 She won her heat. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:39.040 Yeah, I mean, she's got legs for miles, she's got 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.840 your body. You call her. Your nickname for her is 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.640 so cute, stix. She just got these She's all legs. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.240 I mean, she was built to be a runner. I 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.440 mean it's just it's and it's so sweet. To see 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.880 her just look at you and look for your direction. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.560 She knows her daddy knows how to run races now, 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.840 and so it's just it's so sweet to see it happen. 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:03.440 And how sweet is it that she actually won. That 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.760 is rare and cool and should be celebrated. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.120 Every parent can relate to that. You want you look, 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.240 you do want your kid to win, of course, but 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.880 oftentimes that's for you, right, that's for the parents. I 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:15.560 want my child to win. I could be proud, but 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:17.960 I just wanted her to be able to feel good 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.360 about the race that she ran. And the last thing 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.599 is to run your race. Do not worry about where 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.360 any other kid is. Run your race and you're gonna 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.040 be okay. And sure enough, she ran her race. There 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:29.560 was a kid and you saw this. There was a 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.680 day that we went out to practice with her. The 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.640 one day I went and she was like she was dying, 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.599 like she's just gonna throw up, and she was hurting. 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.080 It was just pain, like running hurts, right, it does. Today. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.960 I saw her as another kid was approaching in the 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.880 straightaway and that two hundred meter was catching up with 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:48.880 her and she was slowing down. You could tell she 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.520 was struggling, and she kicked into another gear when she 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.160 saw that other kid. And that was a great life 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.640 lesson for her to see that I can push through 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:58.680 something and to watch her do it. I didn't have 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.640 to encourage her or anything. She learned something about herself today. 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:03.640 That was That was the best part of the day. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:09.239 I also agree that teaching your kids, if you put 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.960 in the practice, you put in the work. It doesn't 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.479 mean you're gonna win, but you have a better shot 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.000 than most when you put the work in. So she 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.240 did it. She got up early, she went in all 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.480 kinds of weather, and it paid off. And that's an 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.960 also very important lesson for folks to learn. She did 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.120 just wake up and yeah, she's got long legs and 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.800 she ran faster than everybody. No, she worked at it. 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.960 She she wanted on her form, and she got up 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.719 and did the hard thing. So I love those types 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.200 of lessons. Win or lose, there are great lessons to have, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.560 but it's maybe even a little extra sweet when it's 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:43.960 a win. 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:45.560 It was fun to us and we were leaving here 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.240 immediately to go celebrate with her, to go party. She's 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.640 holding onto the champagne. She's not gonna pop it until 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.159 we get there. So that's Frue. You're standing by texting 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.279 as we speak. She's having a good time. But today, folks, 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.920 on this episode, we are gonna we're gonna quickly tick 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.040 through a few topics that have gotten us interested, worked up, sad, 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.280 even to a certain degree. But Robes has worked up 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:11.960 about new breast cancer screening guidelines. A former GMA colleague 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:17.080 of ours has now been fired. We have something in 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.359 common with Jelly Roll, and we want to give a 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:25.640 collective hug to Jlo Lopez. We're gonna hit those things 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.279 here in the next few minutes. So let's start at 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.560 the top here. Breast cancer screens. We've done a couple 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.440 of episodes. Everybody knows you're a breast cancer survivor and 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.040 you've talked about this for a long time. But now 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:42.440 this task force, they are the authority on breast cancer screenings. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.560 They have now gone back on guidelines that they gave 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.320 us what ten years ago, Please tell forty year old 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.599 women now should be getting breat cancers. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.240 They have flip flopped so many times, and that is 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.400 my biggest frustration because it is already confusing, and then 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.560 they just make it more confusing, and so when I 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.800 ended up getting my screening, my first mammogram at forty, 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.599 it was only because of my job Good Morning America. 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:08.919 They asked me to do that, just to show women 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:13.240 to start Breast Cancer Awareness Month that at forty you, 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.400 I mean, Robin Roberts was the big impetus for this. 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.760 You should get your baseline mammogram. But that went against 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.240 what the US Preventive Services Task Force suggested, which was 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.960 fifty if you had no family history, if you were 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:26.760 of average risk. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.480 And that's been the case for the past, that's been 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:29.040 in place with. 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.080 Ten years, yes, and there was a time where I 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.560 believe the American Cancer Society said forty five. So it 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.920 just you know, look, busy women, busy lives, and who 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:40.600 wants to go to the doctor and get a test 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.800 they might not need or probably don't need in their minds, right, 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.840 So if you tell me I can wait till I'm fifty, 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.320 I'm waiting till I'm fifty. If it hadn't been for 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.120 my job, I would have waited until I was fifty 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.760 or until I had symptoms, which is usually when it's 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:59.280 too late. So I credit just knowing other breast cancer 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.920 survivors and how having a work assignment. That is the 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.760 only reason I found my cancer at the age of forty. 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.040 And just for the record, at the age of forty, 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:10.880 a seemingly healthy young woman with no family history, I 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.400 had it. I had two malignant tumors, it had already 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.200 spread to my limp notes. So that's just the reality 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.480 that so many other women are facing. So if you're 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.560 told you can wait to your fifty, you've got ten 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:25.720 years now, where that's not time you can spare if 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.640 you're already if you already have breast cancer. And the 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.440 only way the best test we have right now is 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.920 a mammogram. So anyway, they've now said, hey, ladies, whoops, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.280 Now you should go at forty. And there is still 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.920 a sticking point that's angering a lot of medical professionals 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.760 who work with breast cancer patients. They're saying every other year, 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.439 not every year. And the problem is when this task 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:53.160 force makes these types of recommendations, it affects what doctors recommend, 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.760 it affects what insurance companies will cover, and it definitely 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.280 affects women living and dying. And they said, just by 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:05.320 this was some medical professional said, just by changing the 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.520 guidelines from fifty to forty. They believe that that could 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:13.000 have a significant impact on women surviving breast cancer. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.640 Okay, you've changed the guidelines from fifty to forty, but 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.959 you're saying every other year at forty versus every year 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:21.280 at forty. Yeah, I mean, I mean what it isn't 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.040 somebody going to argue? And so in five years, this 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:24.319 task force are going to come back you say, you 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.000 know what, we should do it every year starting exactly exactly. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.320 There was a doctor who was quoted saying, we can 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.400 save even more lives, up to nearly twenty percent more 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:36.200 lives with this updated strategy. There is no new information 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.760 out there. This is just a group of they're actually 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.880 a volunteer group of folks, most of whom do not 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.600 treat breast cancer patients at all, making these recommendations. And 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.160 it has a huge financial impact on the insurance companies, 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.440 on the doctors, on the medical professionals. So there's just 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.960 so much at play here, and the reality is the 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:54.840 most important thing that should be at play is a 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:59.120 woman's life. And that is what's frustrating to me that 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.360 the only only reason they claim, oh there's unnecessary testing, 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.120 there's unnecessary anxiety for younger women who have dense breast tissue. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.440 That's why we're only saying every other year, because they'll 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.800 be unnecessary tests and unnecessary worry. You know what, all 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.960 take being worried, All take getting a false positive to 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.199 find out I don't have preast cancer versus not getting 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.600 the test at all and not knowing I have breast cancer. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.280 Well, you're speaking again too, You're you're speaking from an 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:28.160 experience you have, and I understand obviously your passion, But 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.800 what do these folks again, I don't not familiar with 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.199 whose this group is, how they get on this task force? 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:38.520 But are they not to you talk about the money aspect. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.480 There's a financial aspect and there is like some influence 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.240 possibly on this group. So you're taking a lot of 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.960 people can't see what you did. But I am on 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.520 the outside to a certain degree and not as entrenched 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.400 as you are to where I think, well, surely these 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:55.120 people are trying to do what's best. Surely they only 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.720 have the interest of women's health and lives in them 0:10:59.040 --> 0:10:59.480 in their mind. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.720 They are saying that with the cost of it as well, 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.880 without a doubt, And I would just argue, you can't 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.000 put a price on a mother, on a sister, on 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.520 a daughter, And this is breast cancer affects men as well. 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.760 The mammogram issue, though, is what we're talking about, and 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.280 that is for women. And so when I speak to that, 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.080 I just say, I don't think you can put a 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:21.720 cost on a woman's life. And of course I am 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.880 coming at it from a very subjective point of view, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.480 knowing specifically that I would have waited until I was fifty, 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.000 and had I done that, I don't know that I 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:30.880 would be here today. 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:35.160 Okay, but that's from where you're your standpoint, and you 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:36.599 say it that way, you count it that way. But 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.199 it is a very good chance if you followed the 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.600 guidelines that were in place previously, you would not be 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:41.240 alive today. 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:41.679 Correct. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.640 Okay, so that's where the passion. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:49.560 It's understandable. Yes, So anyway, I applaud them finally making 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.000 it forty. I don't applaud the fact that they're saying 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.240 every other year. I think that is cost saving. And 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.480 they can say it's about unnecessary test, which again is 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.000 cost but they're also claiming that they're saving women from 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.400 undo anxiety from a false positive. I say, save me that, 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.679 I'll handle my own anxiety, give me the test. 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.480 Well, So, I mean we're not the ones in the business. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.000 We've had doctors on here, we had you're on colleges 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.040 on here, We've had doctor Coleman on here. Of course, 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.280 they are the ones the experts who can give you 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.400 the advice or whatever you should do with this, and 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.160 who you should We can't give that. All we can 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.000 do is tell you that they're now saying women, you 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.520 should go get mammograms starting at forty and you should 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:33.280 get it every other year. That's all we can do, 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:33.920 right tod. 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.959 And I would just say, as someone who's been through this, 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.079 I just want every woman out there to feel empowered 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.240 to push for the healthcare that they want to receive. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:47.680 And I think anyone, any doctor worth anything, is going 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:52.360 to support that and understand that allowing women to have 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:57.520 access to mammograms is in a very important part of 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:58.200 our health care. 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.679 You say that thing about like women to be empowered. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.920 This is I've didn't plan on doing this now, but 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.120 I will because you said that and it triggered it. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.840 Empower women. I have seen what's the name of the 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:24.440 medicine you need to live sinthroid, synthroid all right, you 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.880 have to have You have been trying to get your 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:29.280 prescription of synthroid for. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.000 How long it's been like two months? 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.400 Okay, And the reason you can't get it is because it's. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.240 Just a frustrating medical system. I think a lot of 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.920 people can understand this. You've got doctors who are overworked 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.120 and they've got a big caseload and they don't keep 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.120 track of their patients to an extent. And so, yes, 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:46.640 I was out of my synthroid. This is for a 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:51.880 thyroid condition I have. And I got the blood work, 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.120 I did everything I was supposed to, and there's just 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.760 all of there's just constant red tape, and there's just it. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.000 We're busy, and so if someone puts a hurdle in 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.240 front of me and says calls me back and says, hey, 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:02.960 you have to now have a physical and I said, well, 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.080 I just did my blood work. Well now she won't 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.319 renew the prescription because you have to come in again 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.800 for a physical when I just had one a few 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:11.600 months ago. It's just there's all this paperwork and all 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.880 this red tape, and then you think you get the 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:15.320 test you need and then they tell you we're not 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.040 giving you the prescription. Unless you come in and do that, 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:19.920 it's just it's just a non stop. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.760 You you had a synthroid. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.840 They wouldn't renew it again, even though I just got 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:26.800 my blood work last month. 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.440 Okay, what happens if you don't take synthroid? 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:33.200 Eventually? Yeah, my body would eventually shut down. It would 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:33.840 take a long time. 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:35.560 Well, but your brother was testing about it. 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:41.560 So during the pandemic, I yes, de point, this is 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.360 my only wake up call to it. So I've had 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.360 I've been taking synth rid since I was twenty nine. 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:51.040 After my first baby, my byroid completely depleted. So I 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.680 think it's called hashimotos or something like that, but anyway, 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:58.440 I have to have it, so I stopped taking it. No, 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.920 that's the name of the thyroid syndrome. My you're getting 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.560 nods from Emma and from Andy. I'm not making it up. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.160 I didn't just make up a word. So during the pandemic, 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.760 I was just it was hard to get a hold 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.400 of a doctor, and so I thought, what would happen 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.440 if I just stopped taking it? Really dumb idea. No 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:20.000 one ever do this. And it took I think two months, 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.920 and all of a sudden, I was like weak and 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.880 shaking and almost fainting. I could barely function, and I realized, 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.680 oh my god, I stopped taking the synthroid. I called 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.160 my brother, who's a physician. He's like, you're a moron, 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.120 And I said, could I die if I never take 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:37.200 in throat again? He was like, yes, you eventually would. 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.080 Your thyroid regulates your entire body. It would take a 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.400 while and it wouldn't be fun. I didn't ask him, well, 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:43.840 tell me that. 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.080 No, really, what are we talking months? We're talking years, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:46.800 talking decades? 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.360 No, not decades. I mean, I don't know how long 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.520 it would take. What I'm saying, end of the world, 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:52.280 I'd be in trouble. 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.800 But no, you you'll are saying this that you need 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.480 something to live, and you have doctors making it difficult 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.600 for you to get the thing you need to live. 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.480 That is a problem. And look, I know you are 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.320 sitting We're sitting here in a very privileged situation with 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.680 the best doctors in the world and access and healthcare 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:13.960 and all these things. That's great, But for you, you need 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.600 something to live. And I have heard you on all 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.560 these phone calls. I'm like, what the hell? 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:20.400 Why is this hard? 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:21.280 Why is this hard. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.440 I don't know. I think so many people out there though, 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:29.600 who have to have medicine to actually yes, as you 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:33.440 point out, live understand it can be a frustrating, arduous task. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.320 Even if you do all the things you're supposed to do. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.920 They lost the paperwork, you have to come back in again, 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:39.920 you have to come into somewhere else to get blood work. 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:43.120 It's just it's it's exhausting. But yes, I would like 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.840 to live, so I will get I will get the synthroid. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.120 Trust me. It's just gonna take a few more steps. 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.920 Apparently, Yeah, apparently we're gonna have to plan a heist 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.560 to go get this stuff, all right, but any that's 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.520 one thing. But yes, the breastkinds of screening is if 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.680 you don't know, ladies, read up on it, look at it, 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.760 and please talk to your doctor. But because the guidelines 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.880 have changed once again. The other thing we mentioned want 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:08.880 to talk about today is it's getting around and making 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.480 some headlines. But it has to do with a former 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.280 colleague of ours who, according to the headlines at least, 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.879 has been let go from ABC News and Good Morning America, 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.520 where he worked as a meteorologist for the past ten years. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:28.240 Talking about Rob Marciano. Now, the details of it you 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.439 can go read for yourself. Not going to repeat a 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.399 lot of that stuff, but we know he's not working 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.399 that any there anymore. We were with somebody just had 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.320 a breakfast the other morning where somebody reminded us, hey, 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.919 nobody leaves ABC News in a pretty fashion. That's exactly 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:43.800 what they said. 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:48.520 Word for word. And yes, it's it's a tough situation. Yes, 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.000 we have walked down that road and it's not an 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.080 easy one. And I know he also has and I 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:54.959 think he might still be going through a divorce. So 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.440 we know what it's like to have your entire life 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:02.160 up ended, career and personal life. So and we both 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.239 have known Rob for a long time. You've known him 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:04.920 longer than I have. 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.640 We were at starting CNN in two thousand and six. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.119 He was there, and we spent all those years together 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.280 at CNN. A lot this his He could pull out 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.320 his phone now and his phone is flooded with messages 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:21.440 from me over the past decade of me complimenting him. 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.080 He is one of the best guys I've ever seen 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.719 in the field covering weather. He is just good. He 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.359 is good at it, and I've always marveled, and I 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.600 like people who can handle live like that too, So 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.399 we don't obviously we don't know all the details, and 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.240 some of them that are out there are a little 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:42.359 sketchy and sallacious and and tabloid type clickable headline stuff 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.520 that we are not going to get into. But whatever 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:51.399 it is, it's we hate to see somebody who's been 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.520 a friend and colleague for a long time end up 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.320 in this place's position to be talked about the way 0:18:56.440 --> 0:19:00.520 he's being talked about to some degree. But like I said, 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.800 that was a weird statement to get just yesterday. 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.879 Yeah, and it's you know, and you said it best. 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:09.199 It's not our place and we would never make it 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.760 our place to comment specifically on any of the details, 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:13.960 but we do know what it's like to have those 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:20.199 headlines to be the subject of clickbait, and that's a 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.640 tough position for anyone to be going through, especially someone 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.240 who is a father of two. I know how much 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.240 he loves his kids. He talks about them all the time, 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.320 so it's just tough to see those headlines almost for 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.800 the sake of his family, his kids, him, all of that, 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.359 So our heart goes out to him, and I agree 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.119 he is. There's no one, you know. I mean, he 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.840 can weather from a tornado to a hurricane to a snowstorm. 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:45.119 He's been through it all, Yes, and he happily jumps 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.119 on those planes and rolls up his sleeves and puts 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:52.560 on those rubber boots and reports on everything for so 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.040 many people at the expensive of time with his family. 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:59.240 So I do applaud all the work he has bravely 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:02.360 done over the last decade or so, and we wish 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:03.320