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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from House toff works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.

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Speaker 1: This is William Shatner. You have the sound of a

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Speaker 1: man who sounds like he's leaving town. I do. It

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Speaker 1: is a weekend. Yeah, I'm leaving town too. Nice are

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Speaker 1: you going? I'm going to see my sister and my

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Speaker 1: two nieces. My brother in law is not there, but

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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Very nice at the U. S.

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Speaker 1: Marine Corps bas very nice. You're gonna go to the

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Speaker 1: p X Campbell of June. I think, uh, sure, I'll

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Speaker 1: go to the p X. Should get some stuff there.

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Speaker 1: It's all like in a military discount some TAMO and

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Speaker 1: m O. Just walk like you're supposed to be in there,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe make eye contact with everybody, try to

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Speaker 1: wither him and they'll be like, oh, he's a soldier.

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Speaker 1: I always stand out like a swart thomb on the

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Speaker 1: military basis. You're like, this is a fat, hairy guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: why is he here? And should I kill him, So

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Speaker 1: you're excited. Yeah, I haven't seen my sister in a while.

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Speaker 1: What about you? What you got going on? Uh? We

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Speaker 1: are going to New York, you me and I. Um

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Speaker 1: for friends wedding. Two friends wedding, two male friends wedding. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: awesome and it's official now. Congratulations to those guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Mitch and Patrick, who are friends on the Facebook page,

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Speaker 1: tried to help them out. They were like in a

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Speaker 1: contest for crighton barrel wedding two steaks. Yeah, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of people showed up and bumped them from like

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Speaker 1: while and then they just got crushed. So hats off

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Speaker 1: to everybody on our Facebook page who helped them out.

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Speaker 1: They are very grateful and to them. Yes me, best

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Speaker 1: wishes from stuff you should know from Mitch Patrick. Absolutely. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So Chuck, you want to get down to this, Yes,

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Speaker 1: how Jeane Simmons works Origen shall it Jene Cisco Gene

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Speaker 1: croupa well and with gene Gene pattents really is what

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Speaker 1: we're talking about, right, So it's interesting, I have I agree,

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Speaker 1: interesting and terrifying. Um. And by the way, I just

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Speaker 1: want to go ahead and say that there is a

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Speaker 1: documentary companion documentary that's required viewing for this one. It's

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Speaker 1: called The Corporation. Uh, if you have Netflix, it's streaming

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Speaker 1: on Netflix. You can also order the DVD or whatever.

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Speaker 1: But you could watch it literally right the second. It's

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Speaker 1: probably all over YouTube too. It's like one of those docs,

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Speaker 1: very well made, good stuff. It touches on a lot

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Speaker 1: So I say, check out The Corporation. It's a good

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Speaker 1: documentary either way. Um. But uh, let me let me

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Speaker 1: give you a little story here. There is a condition.

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Speaker 1: It can be congenital. It can actually be acquired strangely enough,

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Speaker 1: although I didn't find out how. But it's called UM

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Speaker 1: growth hormone deficiency, right, okay, And basically it just means

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Speaker 1: that you are short, you're smaller in stature UM then

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Speaker 1: and they said he can't fatten electromagnetism. No, why, silly boy,

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Speaker 1: Because it's a principle of nature. Right. It's like, uh,

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Speaker 1: It's nature, that's natural. You can't patent nature. And this

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Supreme Court said, I'm sorry, you cannot patent

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Speaker 1: it's natural. You can't patent it, But could you patent

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Speaker 1: Luther Burbank. It's pretty cool for a you know, early

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Speaker 1: like what effects that that has had? Yeah? Um. And

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Speaker 1: was that a Diamond v. Chakrabarty. Yes, Ananda Chakrabarty worked

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Speaker 1: some fact though, but composition matters the key three words there, Right,

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Speaker 1: the good work. Just make sure that you send all

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Speaker 1: of your cancer screening when it relates to these two

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Speaker 1: genes to us, and we'll do it, and we're going

424
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Speaker 1: to charge you for it. And throughout the world, people

425
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:04,439
Speaker 1: in laboratories through these letters up in the air and

426
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 1: and clucked their tongues and stroked their beards and anger

427
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,199
Speaker 1: and strutted about their flasks and and in Canada it

428
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 1: was just overtly ignored. The Canadian government itself stepped and

429
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 1: it was like, you don't need to listen to these crackpots. Um.

430
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: In Europe it was very controversial. I think it's largely ignored.

431
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: So it's upheld I think in the US because this

432
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 1: was the country that issued the patent, But elsewhere they're like,

433
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 1: we're not listening to you. And for a long time,

434
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Speaker 1: Myriad didn't do anything. There wasn't any lawsuits. Uh, and

435
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Speaker 1: then there was one, and in two thousand and ten

436
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Speaker 1: the company, um, yeah, Well the U. S. District Court said,

437
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Speaker 1: now we're not We're not going to support this. And

438
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Speaker 1: then in two thousand eleven Court of Appeal for the

439
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: Federal Circuit overturned that lower court's decision, so it went

440
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: up one step higher and Myriad got satisfaction. They got

441
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Speaker 1: Myriad satisfaction. Yeah, you know that means thirty tho. It's

442
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: an actual number, Myriad. Yeah, just like decimated as ten.

443
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: But this is one that I'm I'm on the side

444
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Speaker 1: of the people using it correctly because I can't stand

445
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: it when someone says like I had a myriad of yeah,

446
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: when it's supposed to be just myriad, I had thirty

447
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: thousand costs. See that's where I disagree with the thirty

448
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: thou part, Like, say it correctly, but come on, or

449
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: you could just say like I had a myriad of

450
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: costs and then wink afterywere like, I don't want to

451
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: talking about him, just pull my finger. So the Myriad

452
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 1: case continues. I did I did, like when it was

453
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,160
Speaker 1: initially ruled against the ruling judge. He sounded really like

454
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: a who was Andy Griffith's judge character or no lawyer character,

455
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 1: Matt Luck it's a that's a lawyer's trick. That's what

456
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: he called it. And then they Supreme Court said, no,

457
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,719
Speaker 1: it's not a trick. They modified it, your honor. I

458
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: don't know spit about lawyer, but do know the human heart.

459
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 1: I never saw that show. I didn't either, but there

460
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,120
Speaker 1: was a good Senenate live send up of it. Of course,

461
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 1: still Hartman did r I P. Phil Hartman. So ethical

462
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: social challenges and controversies, this is where it gets hot. Yeah,

463
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,360
Speaker 1: and I guess we should say, like we just kind

464
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: of left it, like myrroads up in the air. That's

465
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: the standard for what's going on in the US right

466
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: now as far as gene pattents go. And that was

467
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: just a few months ago. The Pattent Office is honoring

468
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 1: its obligations, and then the courts are people are suing people,

469
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 1: and the courts are just going all over the place.

470
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Speaker 1: So it's just totally up in the air whether or

471
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Speaker 1: not this is going to be allowed or what kind

472
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: of standards will eventually adopt the heat of this. Yeah,

473
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: we are so yeah, let's talk about ethical the ethics

474
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Speaker 1: of this, right yeah. I mean it's sort of along

475
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Speaker 1: the same lines in a way as the legal challenges,

476
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: because proponents are gonna say, you know this, this is

477
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Speaker 1: great for research. If you don't, if you don't allow this,

478
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: then companies aren't gonna be able to make a profit

479
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: from this. So there's going to be no incentive if

480
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: to to continue this kind of research. Reacharch is gonna stop.

481
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,959
Speaker 1: And this research is important. Like you can say what

482
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: you will about Myriad, but they're screening test saves lives

483
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: and if they invented it, then this sort of breaks

484
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: down almost into private sector capitalism versus because if the

485
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: private sector dried up because they couldn't make any money

486
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: off this stuff, all the research would be left to

487
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: government funded laboratories. Right. It's it's very much divided among

488
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: capitalists socialist lines, and I think though that people who

489
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: normally wouldn't consider themselves socialists are falling into the critics

490
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: camp just from the just the idea of you know,

491
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Speaker 1: having gene patents out there. It's it is something that

492
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people think should just belong

493
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: to all humankind. But the the free market proponents do

494
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: may a pretty good case. You know, if that if

495
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 1: you don't reward innovation and invention and clever yeah the

496
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: techniques monetarily, then you have a problem. On the other side, though,

497
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: you can say, well, you're also issuing monopolies on things

498
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: that like our life saving that a company can charge

499
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: whatever they want, Like what will you pay to find

500
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: out you know whether you have cancer? Or what will

501
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: you pay for a drug that will get rid of

502
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: your cancer, Chuck Bryant, Because we know your genetic makeup

503
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: and we know that this will work perfectly with your

504
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: genetic makeup. How much will you pay for that? And

505
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: we're the only company you can get it from. I'd

506
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,959
Speaker 1: pay everything I had. Yes, you would know, and so

507
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: would you know every other person who had the same

508
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: similar genetic makeup as you, which is problematic. And also

509
00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: if it if it, here's your cancer, but the three

510
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: weeks later your head explodes, but it doesn't happen in everybody.

511
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: That company has zero incentive to make its product so

512
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: that it doesn't make you know, the thirty percent of

513
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: people's heads explode because it has a monopoly. What are

514
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: you gonna do? You're still gonna buy this thing. Right.

515
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: Another argument for is that at least what this process

516
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: does is creates transparency and research. It's all out there.

517
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: Everybody knows there's people might not be wasting their time

518
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: duplicating research a and be uh people can build on

519
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: your research and it will propel it further into the future.

520
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: Should pretty good argument there. Yeah, but you can understand

521
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: why this is not a cut and dried argument. Well,

522
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: the A m A says we know, like, yeah, the

523
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: A m A saying like that this won't help support

524
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: research for American Medical Association. It's saying that, um, it

525
00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: will inhibit uh research on genetic disease and basically, even

526
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: worse than that, it will inhibit access for the average person.

527
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: So I want to give an example of what is

528
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: at stake here. Okay, so we've kind of seen like,

529
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: you know, this kind of this kind of reward does

530
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: propel innovation and research. Right, But there's this UM with

531
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: the Plant Act of UM that allowed people to genetically

532
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: modify plants Luther Burbank, Yeah, um and then get patents

533
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: for those. There's a company called Monsanto and Montsano came

534
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: up with this idea called UM Genetic Use Restriction technology.

535
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: It's UM also known as terminator technology, where they have

536
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: figured out how to insert a gene basically a suicide

537
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: gene into its seeds. It's genetically modified seeds right for

538
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: second seeds, yes, so for the first generation seed you

539
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 1: your plant just grow like normal, like a normal genetically

540
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: modified organism. It will produce seeds, but those seeds it

541
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 1: produces are sterile because it has a gene in it

542
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: that that won't allow it to produce seeds that can

543
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: be used again. This means that you have to go

544
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: to Monsano to buy their seeds. You can't hoard their

545
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: seeds and replant next year. Every year you have to

546
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: go and buy their seeds. This is fine and dandy

547
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: for very wealthy farmers in the West, but no matter

548
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: where you are in the world, if you want to

549
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: grow this you know UM cricket resistant type of wheat

550
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: that Monsano owns a patent on, you got to buy

551
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: it from Monsano and you have to buy it every

552
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: year wheter what you can afford or can't. And basically

553
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: there's a really good argument that you should not be

554
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: allowed to to own a patent a license on a

555
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: process as natural as a plant producing offspring producing seeds.

556
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: So that's one example that a lot of people point

557
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: to is like cautionary tale. Well, they for against gene pattons.

558
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: They did not, Monsanto did not. They still hold this.

559
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: They didn't release it and say this is what we're doing.

560
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: You know, they actually vowed to not do that. Yeah,

561
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: they said, we won't do it, but you've got to

562
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: sign this agreement if you do business with us, or

563
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: we'll start releasing this right, And the agreement says that

564
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: you won't reuse seeds that you get from their genetically

565
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: modified plants. And didn't they buy up the company that

566
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Speaker 1: was originally ah Delta and pine Land Company. They ended

567
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: up buying them up, didn't they? Yes, and they they

568
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: this company has said has vowed the opposite that they're

569
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:43,919
Speaker 1: going to start using that terminator gene commercially. Oh they have. Yeah.

570
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: So a lot of people are very nervous about whether

571
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: or not that genetic use restriction technology will come into play.

572
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,959
Speaker 1: But I mean it's already effectively in play. We should

573
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: do a Monsanto podcast that would be explosive, would be

574
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: very explosive. We will. So that's gene pattents. This is uh,

575
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,439
Speaker 1: we haven't done one of these in a while. I'm

576
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: quite sure we're gonna hear from people on both sides

577
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: of this issue, and we want to. Yeah, I think

578
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 1: we did a good job this time of keeping our

579
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: own dirty laundry out of it. Yes, we did. Kudos

580
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 1: to you, buddy. And um so if you we have

581
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff on Jeanes and Gene Pattents on

582
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,240
Speaker 1: how Stuff Works dot com, just type in Gene Pattents

583
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: that will bring up a lot of stuff, including a

584
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: quiz which you could say is maybe a compendium to this,

585
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 1: uh this episode. Who wrote this one? Uh, Michael Franco,

586
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: I don't Yeah, he does everything does um, But yeah,

587
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: it was a pretty good article. But just type in

588
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,879
Speaker 1: Gene Patton said the search bar how stuff works dot Com. Also,

589
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 1: don't forget check out the corporation. Uh, it's just a

590
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 1: really interesting documentary. Um. And I said search bar in

591
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: there somewhere. So that means it's time for listener mail.

592
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: And this is the winning listener mail, is it? It's

593
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Speaker 1: the first one? Really? Yeah, promised a book to the

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Speaker 1: the The author of this email will receive a free

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Speaker 1: copy hardcover copy of John Hodgman's incredible book about the

596
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Speaker 1: end of the world. The third in this trilogy of

597
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Speaker 1: knowledge World Knowledge called That Is All, which just came

598
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Speaker 1: out of November one hof and you really should buy it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: except for this person, John's a buddy and stuff. But

600
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Speaker 1: it's a very very fun book. Um all right, I

601
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: kind of forgot that when I picked this, but I

602
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: think this Turkish listener is is uh, he deserves it,

603
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,320
Speaker 1: so yeah, we'll go with him, The Lucky Turk, The

604
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: Lucky Turk. Hey, guys, listening to you from Turkey. I

605
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: guess I gave that away. I really love the podcast.

606
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for what you're doing. This might sound

607
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: a bit like complaining, thought wait, wait, wait, I'd prefer

608
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Speaker 1: that I don't come across this complaining. And I don't

609
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: know if you even have any more listeners from Turkey,

610
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Speaker 1: But in various episodes, every time you mentioned Turkey, like

611
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: when somebody was stuck in Turkey on the last episode

612
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: where you were wondering if people can surf on the

613
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 1: boss for us Phosphorus Bosporus, it always kind of sounds

614
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: like you look down on Turkey a bit, to be honest. Untrue.

615
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: Now we we talked about being stuck in Turkey and

616
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: how awful that would be. That's I don't recall that

617
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: because I would love to go to Turkey sometimes. I

618
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: have a friend who played bass in the second most

619
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: popular Turkish rock band in the late nineties. Really yeah,

620
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Speaker 1: I don't remember the name of it, but PEPSI did

621
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Speaker 1: a poll of Turks and my friend's band came in

622
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: second and most popular was your friend Turkish. No, he

623
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: went to Turkey just for the heck of it and

624
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Speaker 1: ended up in the number two most popular rock band

625
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 1: in Turkey. That's probably not hard to do. See, that's

626
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 1: what this guy's talking about. It's you, Chuck, I'm getting

627
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: wrapped up in your problems, al right. Sorry to drag

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Speaker 1: you down. You guys seem to be a couple of

629
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Speaker 1: people who would like to know the facts. So I

630
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Speaker 1: just wanted to suggest you check out things like ohlu

631
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Speaker 1: Deniz Turkey, or maybe Fethaette Turkey or Bodrum Turkey in

632
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Speaker 1: Google images. I'm just saying, I don't think anyone wouldn't

633
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Speaker 1: mind being stuck in Turkey, really, if you really know

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Speaker 1: what Turkey was like, and I did look these places up, dude,

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Speaker 1: you know, gorgeous Turkey also arguably has the world's first city.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember what it's called, but it's just because

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Speaker 1: I felt like I have to say this since I'm

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Speaker 1: already writing an email. There is no surfing on the Bosphorus,

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Speaker 1: not even swimming on the Bosphorus. It's kind of dangerous.

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Speaker 1: Usually it's just bigger ships crossing country that use that,

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Speaker 1: and there are no beaches there. But Turkey is surrounded

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Speaker 1: on three sides by the sea, basically a peninsula, so

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Speaker 1: there's windsurfing, every kind of water sport you can think

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Speaker 1: of on the seaside cities. Uh. In the media, Turkey

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Speaker 1: comes across as if it was a dusty hut and

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Speaker 1: primitive country, which I think is what I had been saying,

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Speaker 1: and I should say. When I worked for my last company,

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Speaker 1: which was a chicken software company, one of our clients

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Speaker 1: was in Turkey and some of our guys would go

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Speaker 1: over there to the chicken farms and it was awful too.

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Speaker 1: They would come back saying, please God, don't ever send

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Speaker 1: me to Turkey again. They were in like the awful

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Speaker 1: part of Turkey. They were raising chickens and Turkey. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I have to say that, though only some small cities

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Speaker 1: on the eastern edges are like that, guys. The people

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Speaker 1: in different clothes are more interesting than people to look

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Speaker 1: at who look like most of us, who look like

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Speaker 1: every other European country. So the media only reflects the

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Speaker 1: different part, kind of like only showing rednecks grilling steak

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Speaker 1: on a shopping cart I've never seen. I guess I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna the rest of Turkeys pretty much like California, great climate, people,

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Speaker 1: social and cultural, culturally, even especially Istanbul, it resembles a

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Speaker 1: very crowded San Francisco, not Constantinople, what with all the

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Speaker 1: hills and the bridges and the hipsters. So that is

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Speaker 1: from goes to ge z d E And dude, you're

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Speaker 1: getting a book. And I am sorry for bad mouthing

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Speaker 1: Turkey because I did look at pictures and it's nothing

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Speaker 1: at all like I thought. I'm not sorry for bad

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Speaker 1: mouthing Turkey because I didn't. I didn't and if I did,

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Speaker 1: I was totally joking. Then I feel like I owe

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Speaker 1: this guy book. Yeah, the only place in the world

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Speaker 1: I would never go is Detroit. I totally go to Turkey.

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Speaker 1: Detroit's awesome. So what's the name goest you get a book?

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to write back in Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: need your mailing address, goest to, and we should probably

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Speaker 1: make them, you know, pay the difference for international shipping. Well,

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Speaker 1: and it's Turkey. It probably just says goes to Turkey.

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Speaker 1: That's his name, because we'll just put a bunch of

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Speaker 1: stamps on it and throw it in the water exactly. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Goest to send us an email with your mailing address, UM,

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Speaker 1: because we really think there probably are more than one

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Speaker 1: of you in Turkey. Uh and uh to all the

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Speaker 1: rest of you. If we send an emails, UM, thank you.

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