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Speaker 2: John returns next week. Mark Thompson's sitting in. Always great

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Speaker 2: I'll get to the story that you're here to talk

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Speaker 2: about here. It's sort of this crim story, a tough

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Speaker 2: you did, and I literally stayed in the car. I

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Speaker 2: It was the special that you'd done about I guess

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Speaker 3: Is that the Yeah, it's hate colin modern anti semitism.

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Speaker 3: That was the special.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And you had all of these conversations that I

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Speaker 2: I saw you the other day yesterday because it was

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Speaker 3: That that was a special that I produced Jacob Gonzalez

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Speaker 2: So the most remarkable thing in that response was, oh

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Speaker 3: And that that's one of the reasons why our program director,

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Speaker 3: It's been exacerbated, and so with everything that's been going

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Speaker 3: Called hate modern anti Semitism. Great, check it out. I

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Speaker 2: Now, what a brutal horror, that is, And I just

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Speaker 4: That's all the thing.

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Speaker 2: I mean, who's cruising around a college campus with a

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Speaker 3: And well, here's the thing, then, reason that we bring

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry that we have to meet over such

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we went right from the from anti semitism.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, nice job. Bring in one of those

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Speaker 4: Do you want to talk about, maestro? We can talk

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the what did you think the movie?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so this is good. Yeah, stay over and

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Speaker 2: we'll just do a little maestrow when you come back.

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Speaker 2: Just breash it up a bit, all right. Yeah, we

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Speaker 2: Do you recognize this crescendo from It gives it chills,

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Speaker 2: that again a literal crescendo because it's the orchestra coming

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, also known as the Resurrection,

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Speaker 2: What did this is? I am six shorty by the

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Speaker 2: not a dinner plate in your dishwasher, he says. So indeed,

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Speaker 2: Deborah is right, Yeah, washing every day is not? I

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Speaker 2: drink alcohol is another question. I'm always drawn to the

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Speaker 2: alcoholic questions. What can I do about the damage it's caused.

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Speaker 2: Here's the answer. It's become clear and clear that even

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Speaker 2: a little alcohol is bad for you. It's what I

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Speaker 2: was saying before, with links to cancer, cardiovascular issues, and

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Speaker 2: liver disease. Wow, I feel I feel worse already. Well,

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Speaker 2: there's no magic antidote to erase the harmful effects of

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Speaker 2: a wild night out. There are some measures you can

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Speaker 2: take to boost your health if you enjoy the occasional cocktail,

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Speaker 2: So there is help for all of you. What's your

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Speaker 2: eat or drink when I have a cold is another

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Speaker 2: top question. They say they are for chicken noodle soup. Actually,

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Speaker 2: isn't that crazy? Uh, Vegan debor Mark?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I obviously I would do vegetable soup. Yes,

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't do chicken noodle, but or maybe vegetable with noodles.

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Speaker 5: As Eric is rolling his eyes, I saw that.

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Speaker 7: Well, this is the one time I'm actually outnumbered here. Yes, ye, yeah,

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Speaker 7: I'm vegan. That's right, he's.

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Speaker 5: Actually more hardcore than I am, because I am a

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Speaker 5: hypocritical vegan, meaning that I do wear leather, but I'm

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Speaker 5: one day I will get rid of that habit. No, yeah,

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Speaker 5: but from an eating stamp, but an eating standpoint.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, does going vegan actually lower your grocery bill? We

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Speaker 2: will answer that question next people. Are you always? That's

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Speaker 2: so usually what you hear? I really I admire you

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Speaker 2: for being vegan. I just can't affoid it. It's just

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Speaker 2: so expensive. I don't know about that. Well, maybe there's

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Speaker 2: some truth to it. We'll get to that and more

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Speaker 2: on the And you know co Belt, who gives me

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Speaker 2: a hard time about gives you. He gives you a

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Speaker 2: hard time about it. You know he has vegans in

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Speaker 2: his family. You know that right.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know he had a vegan in his family.

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Speaker 2: I believe he does. I think one of his sons

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Speaker 2: is vegan. Wait a second, I think that's true.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I can't wait time.

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Speaker 2: Eric.

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Speaker 7: Will you check that out? Deborah, you check out? I

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Speaker 7: have no I'm not taking any part in this. I'm

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Speaker 7: on john side in this argument.

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Speaker 5: I can't wait to ask.

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Speaker 2: This is a blast to his image. You really did

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Speaker 2: just open up a whole ky worms. Marking, I'll be

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Speaker 2: starting the show with this O.

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Speaker 5: God, yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Will never be invited back, all right. Mark Thompson for

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Speaker 2: John Cobelt. This is kf I Am six Party. We're

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Speaker 2: live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 6: six forty.

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Speaker 2: We're just talking about different stuff that goes on toward

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Speaker 2: the end of the year where you look back health

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Speaker 2: trends and this kind of thing. And Richie found this story.

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Speaker 2: You know, Deborah Marx a vegan, but it's almost a

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Speaker 2: dirty word.

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Speaker 5: Oh it is, especially on this show.

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Speaker 2: It's like the last minority group you can make fun

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Speaker 2: of without having to worry about anybody giving you a

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Speaker 2: hard time about it, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 5: The k and you know what, Mark, I don't know

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Speaker 5: if if if you have encountered this. But people think

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Speaker 5: they know me just because I'm a vegan, so they

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Speaker 5: they kind of have me in this little box and

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Speaker 5: they think I must be this way right because I'm

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Speaker 5: a vegan, and you know what, They're wrong.

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Speaker 2: No, it's true. There are there right wing vegans, there

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Speaker 2: are activists, lefty vegans there. I mean, you know, it

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Speaker 2: really isn't.

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Speaker 5: Really not making assumptions about me, you don't know me.

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Speaker 2: I was amazed by the way on this big cruise

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Speaker 2: that I just got off of to Central and South

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Speaker 2: America twenty days, they had vegan menus at all of

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Speaker 2: the restaurants on board that.

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Speaker 5: Big ship, as they should.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's just always interesting to me to monitor

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Speaker 2: that trend because I never really know, you know, it

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Speaker 2: was It's definitely easier now to be a plant based

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Speaker 2: eater than it was, let's say, ten years ago. Even

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Speaker 2: you know, now all these alternatives. I mean, you can

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Speaker 2: go across the street from where we are at our

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Speaker 2: heart and this gets to me to the story we're

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Speaker 2: getting to, and you go to the Whole Foods there,

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Speaker 2: and there essentially is an analog for everything that you

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Speaker 2: can find in the world of baking. You know, there

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00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 2: are vegan costs, songs, vegan scones. You know, it's yep,

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Speaker 2: vegan chocolate chip cookies. That was not the case at

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Speaker 2: least in the sort of numbers that we're seeing ten

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Speaker 2: years ago.

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Speaker 5: Even so true, and it's so it's so nice even restaurants.

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Speaker 5: I am amazed there are still some restaurants, though, that

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Speaker 5: don't have a single vegan option, And when I go

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Speaker 5: they look at me like, I'm I'm I'm crazy.

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Speaker 4: What about crazy?

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Speaker 5: What about you don't eat eggs?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 5: Wait, no, no butter, no a fish, No, I'm a vegan.

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Speaker 5: No animal products? Yeah sorry, Yeah, we can make you

533
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Speaker 5: some steamed vegetables.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there is, and there's some high end. You'd think

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Speaker 2: high end restaurants would pretty well try to accommodate, but

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Speaker 2: sometimes you just get the eye roll, like every waiter

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Speaker 2: is eric.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: Plenty of meat eaters can't imagine saying goodbye to their

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Speaker 2: beloved burgers and steaks, they say, But the price of

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Speaker 2: groceries keeps going up. Some may come over, they say,

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Speaker 2: just because the cost. Scientists say adopting a diet that

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Speaker 2: shuns all meat, dairy, and any other animal products can

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Speaker 2: decrease food costs. That's right, decrease them by sixteen percent

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Speaker 2: on an annual basis. Study authors estimate a vegan approach

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Speaker 2: to eating can save shoppers more than five hundred dollars. Quote.

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Speaker 2: We knew that a vegan diet significantly reduces your risk

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Speaker 2: of conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Now we

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Speaker 2: have proof that opting for beans instead of beef will

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Speaker 2: also lead to significant savings on your grocery bill. So

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Speaker 2: this is a new study and it just tracks spending

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Speaker 2: in grocery stores. And it is true that you know,

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Speaker 2: it's thought of sort of this high end kind of life,

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Speaker 2: the vegan. The reality is apparently a vegan diet made

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Speaker 2: up of grains, legomes, fruits, veggies. I guess you can

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Speaker 2: save money good, absolutely, Yeah, So there is that meantime,

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Speaker 2: you have until January thirty first enroll in health coverage

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Speaker 2: through Covered California. That's the deadline to enroll in order

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Speaker 2: to get coverage through twenty twenty four. So you know,

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Speaker 2: Sunday is December thirty first. To remind you, they've seen

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Speaker 2: quite an increase in people signing up for health coverage

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four. There is an eighteen percent increase

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Speaker 2: over the same period last year, the highest increase and

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Speaker 2: enrollment in four years. Over one point six million Californians

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Speaker 2: have renewed coverage so far, probably because of changes in affordability.

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Speaker 2: There are new programs that make the whole thing more affordable,

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Speaker 2: and there are new programs, so in addition to the

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Speaker 2: assistance that had been available, the monthly premium is down

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Speaker 2: a bit. Six hundred and fifty thousand people or more

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Speaker 2: are currently covered with no deductibles if they get into

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Speaker 2: the enhanced Silver plan. All the plans I'm getting into

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Speaker 2: now are Silver plans. And you know, just had another birthday,

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Speaker 2: and it's everybody's working you into that vinyl chapter of

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Speaker 2: your life, the silver chapter. Isn't that nice? You can

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Speaker 2: learn more about Covered California at coveredca dot com. Meantime,

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Speaker 2: you're downing the ozempic because you're trying to lose weight

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Speaker 2: here for the start of the new year. Now, isn't

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Speaker 2: it a no ozempic you take through an injection, don't you? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so is anybody around here on it?

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Speaker 4: I know people that are on it that don't work here,

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Speaker 4: but some of my friends. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And are they having to like get into serious weight

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Speaker 2: management or was it more of like a little vanity thing.

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Speaker 4: No, it's complete vanity. I'm like, why the hell are

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Speaker 4: you guys doing this?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I think there's a lot of that. Like

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Speaker 2: it just where you're you really you're looking to lose

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Speaker 2: ten pounds or whatever. So I mean, and whether or

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Speaker 2: not there's clearly weight loss benefits.

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Speaker 7: When it absolutely does work, they say it severely suppresses

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Speaker 7: their appetite. Yeah, and I think it does also.

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Speaker 2: Suppress other addictive urges, is what I was reading. But

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Speaker 2: you know, if appetites the thing, it'll work. It's I

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Speaker 2: must say this. And it is getting like all of

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Speaker 2: these great reports and reviews from those using it, But

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Speaker 2: it's a little early in the game to start, you know.

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Speaker 2: I feel like this is one of those stories that

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Speaker 2: you know, five years and they're going to go, well,

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Speaker 2: new news for ozemphic users. It turns out, you know,

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Speaker 2: it turns you into a reptile over The nationwide number

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Speaker 2: of overdoses this year is more than double those of

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Speaker 2: last year. And that's the real problem. So let's assume

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Speaker 2: that it is safe. The problem is people are getting

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Speaker 2: two into it. California counted for about three hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty of the reports of overdoses associated with the Poison

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Speaker 2: Center report and the fifty five poison centers in the

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Speaker 2: United States. There were only three hundred and sixty four

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Speaker 2: of these overdoses in twenty twenty, so the popularity of

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Speaker 2: ozembic has created an overdose problem in America with this stuff.

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Speaker 2: So if you decide to get on it, go for it.

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Speaker 2: Standard dosage ranges involve weekly injections depending on the prescription.

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Speaker 2: But do be careful because there is a problem with

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Speaker 2: people who are overdosing. So like anything that is possibly toxic,

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know that is to say, if you

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Speaker 2: increase it to a certain level, there is toxicity. Be

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Speaker 2: careful and congratulations on looking so hot. When we come back.

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Speaker 2: Ed Begley Junior. His new book is terrific and it

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Speaker 2: involves all these different people. He grew up. He grew

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Speaker 2: up in Hollywood. He was the son of an Academy

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Speaker 2: Award winning actor and so the stories from that world

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Speaker 2: are something. And he was also slaying some demons. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: we'll get into Ed's story as we continue. It's the

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