WEBVTT - Lab 044: Our 2021 Mixtape 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:02.960 All right, y'all is December thirtieth, and that means that 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:04.520 there are two days left in. 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:05.280 Twenty twenty one. 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:06.280 I can't believe it. 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:09.200 Twenty twenty one felt like it was a month long 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.280 and then at some point ten years long. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:13.440 Oh a lot of the ten years long part. 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:19.280 So much happened this year, and so we knew that 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:21.480 we have to bring back our end of the year 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:24.759 mixtape again. It was only right, Yes, we had to 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.080 bring it back just so that we can cover some 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:29.120 of the topics that we weren't able to cover this year. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:30.400 I mean, we just came back in Nova. 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:32.640 I just came back in November. We've got ten months 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:33.120 to get. 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:35.160 Through, and y'all have been asking where are y'all. So 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.680 we're going to recap everything that we weren't able to 0:00:37.680 --> 0:01:06.720 talk about while we were away. Welcome to Dope Labs, 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.399 a weekly podcast that mixes hardcore science, pop culture, and 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:11.720 a healthy dosa friendship. 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.119 Twenty twenty one is rapidly coming to a close. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.360 I can't believe we're at the end of twenty twenty 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:18.200 one already. 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.600 Yes, you know what time it is. Then it's time 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.600 to look back on all the biggest stories of the 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:26.160 Year Dope Lab style. 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.520 Yes, it is time for our annual end of the 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:30.679 year mixtape. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.240 Here's how it's going to work. We will cover the 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.640 biggest stories in five different categories, and then we're gonna 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.319 do a little mini dissection for each one of those. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:40.520 So here are the categories. 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:45.800 It's tech, health and wellness, Politics, sports. 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:45.480 And music. 0:01:47.800 --> 0:02:00.480 Let's jump into tech. I thought twenty was the year 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.040 for tech, but twenty twenty one, said hold my coke. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.000 Absolutely, with people working from home since the pandemic hit, 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.640 and then all of these new technological advances that have 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.640 been pushed to the forefront because of this new virtual 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.160 landscape that we're working in. Tech is on the tip 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:17.760 of everyone's tongue. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.000 And specifically the metaverse. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.040 At the end of October, Facebook announced that they will 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:24.799 now be referred to as meta. 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.000 Metaverse is just another term, and it feels foreign, just 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.240 like you. Remember when people were calling the Internet the 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:34.200 information Highway. I didn't know what that was. 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:38.280 Yes, and then I remember people calling it cyberspace. And 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.480 the first time anyone ever heard of that word was 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.640 in nineteen eighty two and a short story by William 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:48.600 Gibson titled Burning Chrome and then now we have metaverse 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.120 and here it is what twenty twenty one, But that 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.760 was coined by Neil Stevenson in his book snow Crash, and. 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.079 That came out in nineteen ninety two. 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.480 So it seems like the term metaverse has been around 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.000 way longer than we were member. You know, it's not 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.639 a new thing that Mark Zuckerberg just came up with. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.440 But I still have a lot of questions about what 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.680 is all going into it. But I think the key 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.640 distinguishing feature is that a metaverse is free forming. There's 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.880 no mayor of the town, so you have people controlling games, 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.240 and even though we're all working together in harvesting corn 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.840 or whatever and these farming games, you can only do 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.520 what's been decided by the creators of the game. And 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.640 I think that's the distinguishing feature of the metaverse, is 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.280 that eventually you get on there and you do whatever. 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.840 I think they just had the first metaverse marriage recently. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.880 It just seems like, like you said, there's a lot 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.760 more autonomy in the metaverse. You know, some of these games, 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.880 you'll be running and then you'll be running into an 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.600 invisible wall because no more game. Then you reached the 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.760 bounds of the game. The metaverse, there's no such thing. 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.520 You can do what you want. 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.600 I think we got to really give our props to 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.160 verse as the predicate because people have been using it 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.600 all around the Marvel Verse, you Verse, and the dccomic verse, 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:07.200 and so the idea of creating these universes or ecosystems, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:08.000 if you will. 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:08.400 Is not new. 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.560 Like you said, TT and Facebook isn't the first player here. 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.760 They're just a player with the most money, the player 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.960 that really needed a rebrand after being called out for 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:20.479 terrible practices. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.359 We all know things that are kind of like meta. 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.640 When we were growing up, it was SIMS, and then 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:32.159 there's things now like Roadblocks and Fortnite, where you're in 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.479 this world where everybody can create their own experiences but 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.480 then also interact with each other, where it will feel 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:43.000 like a hybrid of our online social experiences sometimes expanded 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.200 into the physical world. So imagine you're walking around and 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.680 then you can see something from the metaverse in front 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.960 of you and interact with it. So it creates this 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.680 immersive experience with other people even when you can't be together. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.760 And it feels like we've been leaning this way for 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.720 a long time before Sims. It was the time of 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.400 got something that continued to go on and on, whether 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:03.520 you were playing with it or not. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.479 Yes, I remember when my fifth grade teacher took my 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.440 nano baby from me and she held it in her 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.160 desk overnight because I was playing with it during class. 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.680 I got that nano baby back the next day and 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.360 I had to put them in the hospital for days. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.840 I cried, Oh my gosh, the own version of the 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.760 nick You the nano baby intensive care unit. But you 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.440 were able to rehab so your nano baby got out. 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:29.920 Yeah. But then my mother was like, enough of this. 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.600 Enough is enough. I know that's right, missus. Shodia get 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:39.200 t t together, but so tamagaji nano baby, Sims. You 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.560 remember when I was playing that farming game on my 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.120 iPod Touch, Yes, okay, and we were going out and 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:46.880 my mom and got Mama behind the house and I 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.040 was like, please harvest this corn while we're gone. Okay, 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:57.640 I need you to harvest these crops. 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.240 We've all been interacting with things that were meta adjacent 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.240 or really just the meta itself. But now Facebook is 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.760 trying to formalize it where everybody's going. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.960 To the same place. Do you think that people are 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.400 gonna be interacting with the. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:18.360 Metaverse absolutely, Listen. I've seen some articles where basically they're 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:22.200 already fumbling the ball. Okay, they're interacting, but why would 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.120 you create the exact same systems that exist here and 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:29.000 are terrible in a metaverse? Yeah, people are buying property, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.960 buying it up. That's fake scarcity. Don't we have enough 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.839 gigabytes to go around? Honestly, isn't there enough space for 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.520 everybody to have a plot of land and live? 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:39.960 Why recreate capitalism. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.200 And the drive for them to buy this land and 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.320 buying it so early in this whole metaverse is so 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:49.960 that they can establish themselves as the socioeconomic elite inside 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.159 of the metaverse. So when it comes time and more 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.280 people start to go to the metaverse, they already own 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.320 a lot of land, they own property, they've already established 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.000 businesses so that they can be wealthy within the metaverse. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.240 But I feel like, if the metaverse is digital, there 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:06.400 should be enough space. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.240 For all of us. Yeah, pan left make more room. 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:13.080 I have seen my niece and nephew play roadblocks and 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:17.240 interacting in this roadblocks world where there's a ton of 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:21.320 other people playing and interacting with each other, people are 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:25.320 building houses. It really makes me wonder about what our 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.360 futures look like. But I also have heard that some 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:32.119 people are speculating that Generation Alpha, so I'm not talking 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.320 about millennials like me and you are or gen Zer's. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:39.360 Generation Alpha is folks that are born between twenty ten 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.960 and twenty twenty four, so they're all children right now 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:47.360 that maybe when they get to be adults or nearing adulthood, 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:51.000 they'll start to push back on all of this technology 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.640 that is seemingly supposed to be connecting us more, but 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.000 not in a human one to one connection. They're going 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.400 to start to say, no, I am opting for more 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.600 human conde rather than virtual connection. 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:02.320 Ah. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.720 So it'll be really interesting to see what happens, because 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:07.800 to me, it feels like we're going warp speed towards 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.480 everybody never leaving their houses and having virtual reality goggles 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.240 on all the time. But maybe Generation Alpha will be 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.440 the ones to help swing the pendulum the other way. 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:25.440 Okay, let's jump into health. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.600 There's so much going on in the health and wellness front. 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.840 We spent the early part of twenty twenty one talking 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.840 about vaccines and then variants, and then the omicron variant, 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.720 which we keep learning new things about every day. I 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.959 think it goes without saying nobody deserves to get sick, right, 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.720 I think illness is just part of nature. And everybody 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.240 can't afford to stay home unless you're independently wealthy, and 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.800 if you are, I will send my cash app. But 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.040 you know, people have to live and for some people 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.920 getting together with others that has its own benefits. And 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:01.280 so when everybody's making their own individuals assessments, it's really 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:05.280 hard because the transmissibility seems through the roof on omicron. 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.520 And I think we'll just keep learning more every day. 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:08.000 Yeah. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.200 The last thing that I heard, which I mean by 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.040 the time folks listening to this, it might be different, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.439 was that omicron is on pace to be the most 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:21.720 dominant variant in the UK by the top of twenty 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.840 twenty two, more than any delta cases, more than any 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.120 of the other cases that we've seen, which. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.320 Is mind boggling to me and a little bit scary. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.439 And right now there's a lot of conversations saying, oh, 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:37.760 it's milder, but it's like, hey, if transmissibility is high 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.839 and it's harder for it to infect tissues, and the 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:41.079 lung compared to the broncos. 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.000 Then there's just all these things. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.080 We haven't had enough time with it, and that's the 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.000 tricky part. We don't get to press the pause button 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.280 until we can get more data. So it's just really 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:54.160 tough and really changing daily by the hour, New update, 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.319 new update. But there was some good development and that 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.760 was with those COVID pills. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:01.360 Yes, I saw that. 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.280 It seems really interesting because I think with a lot 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.560 of these things, everybody's looking for if I get sick, 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.839 what do I do? And so it seems like there 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.160 are two new COVID pills that are going to be 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.480 hit in the market and are expected to work against 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.200 all versions, all the variants of the virus. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.160 It feels like there are some things that people are 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.240 missing when it comes to COVID in general, even though 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.600 we're in year three of it, especially when it comes 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:31.040 to omicron and one of those things is that this 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.679 is highly transmissible, and so it's not a matter of 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.800 whether or not you're going to get exposed, but how 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.160 prepared you're going to be when you get exposed. And 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.520 then because it's so highly transmissible, that means that denominator 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.760 number when we talk about oh it's mild, it's often mild. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.439 And so if we say, okay, let's say only ten 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.200 percent of cases are severe, ten percent of a really 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.040 big number is still a really big number, and that 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.000 has the potential to overwhelm our hospital systems. And so 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.200 that's not just folks who are dealing with COVID, but 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.680 folks who are having other health situations going on as well. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.079 And so that's why this pill is so important because 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.640 if we think about the moderate to severe cases, which 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.040 we know we will see more of those just by 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.520 the sheer denominator rising because of the transmissibility of omicron, 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.280 this has the potential to clear folks out of the 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.160 hospital much quicker, so we can continue to take care 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.040 of routine health things that need to be managed that 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.680 our health system just isn't equipped to handle alongside COVID 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.440 without intervention. So now we have a second lot of defense. 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.360 We have vaccines and we have COVID pills if you 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.120 do get COVID, and people who are vaccinated can still 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.520 get COVID. Right, And so it's not either or is. 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.200 We need all the tools we can right now and and. 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.600 Right And it's really exciting because even with just some 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.679 of the preliminary results, it's showing that one of these 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.400 drugs has been eighty five percent effective when taken within 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.760 five days of the start of symptoms. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:56.840 So that's really exciting. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.720 But something started to happen in the pandemic in twenty 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.080 two and it really bled over to twenty twenty one. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.079 A lot of people started to go the way of 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:05.960 Jessica Rabbit. 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:12.320 Yes, Brazilian butt lifts, or as it's colloquially called bbls. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.160 Yes, Buffy the Body really set the trend for y'all. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:16.360 Okay, if you. 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.760 Know Buffy the Body, get on Instagram and comment under 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:20.320 our posts. 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.600 Yes, let me know that you know. Okay, she's the og. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:24.160 She is. 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.000 That's who Jessica Rabbit could only hope to be. And 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.280 plastic surgery in general has been going up. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:30.880 Yes, So with. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.880 The BBL procedure, it's a two part procedure. First, the 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.840 doctor performs a liposection, so they're using a machine that 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.840 pulls out the fat from the patient from areas of 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:41.920 your body where you have fat where you don't really 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:42.280 want it. 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.040 And then the fat. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.360 Is put into a centrifuge, which in this case is 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.079 a device that's used to separate out the fat from 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.480 any other fluids like blood, so that they can take 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:55.200 that fat and then reinject it back into the patient 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:56.960 in their posterior. 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.720 Plastic surgery in general has been going up because people 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.839 are looking at our faces. You know, we're on Zoom, 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.080 We're looking at ourselves much more. We're not meant to 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.000 look at ourselves as much. And really there was some 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:11.160 foreshadowing because in Lab two Edge of Snatch, doctor Monty 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.720 Oyd Harris told us exactly. 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.120 That there's been no other time probably in the history 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:21.120 of human civilization, right, that folks are engaging and looking 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.640 at themselves as much as they are now. So I 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.640 started to see a growing and growing misalignment related to 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:31.480 this notion of self image and self fact, Right, who 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.560 are you really at your core? And then what's this 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.520 layer of image that's on this and is this misaligned? 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:38.040 Their aligned? 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.560 And so as the misalignment started to get bigger, particularly 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.880 with patients that were looking for the changing their nose 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.839 and changing their lips, you know, I was like, this 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.760 doesn't really add up anymore for me. 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.240 You know what, Also, crazy Zoom isn't helping because you 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.560 can put a filter on yourself in zoom. Right, I 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:56.360 was on a zoom call and I added eyelashes and lipstick. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.200 I looked fabulous. That's not how I looked in real life. 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.960 So once I got off Zoo, I was like, oh. 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.960 And I'm all about people looking the way they want 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.560 to look, looking in ways that make them feel good. 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:08.760 I think the bone I have to pick with the 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.760 BBL is the risk that's associated. Yeah, so it's really popular, 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.600 but it's also the deadliest. So roughly two in every 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.560 six thousand BBLS results in death. This procedure is dangerous 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.640 not just because you're moving fat around in the body, 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:23.720 but because it's being put in the butt, which has 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.680 a lot of vasculature. So what can happen is you 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.560 can easily get fat in a blood vessel and boom, 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:30.400 fats in your heart. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:30.640 Now. 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.760 Yeah, And I think that a part of the problem 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.720 is that a lot of these things are being done 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.360 in secrecy, and people are traveling outside of the country 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.320 to try and get these procedures done because there are 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.760 a lot of plastic surgeons who refuse to do bbls, 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.920 and so folks are traveling outside of the country to 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.680 find doctors who are willing to risk it so that 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.200 you can get the body that you want. And I 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.200 think a lot of it that makes it really tricky 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.760 is that there's a like you said, people going to 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.360 doctors trying to find something that affordable. B Fewer plastic 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.840 surgeons are doing these procedures because of the risk involved. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:06.320 So what you. 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.600 Get is doctors who may not be specialists that are 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.800 doing these procedures. So now you have something that's high 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.320 risk and somebody who's not specifically trained for it. That's 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:19.720 a nasty combination. And third, because people are traveling, they're 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.040 playing it kind of loosey goosey to me. With the 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:26.120 post operation care. There's a lot of post operation care 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.600 that has to be done after a BBL, so like 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.200 lymphatic draining and checking to make sure there's no infection. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.800 So if you've traveled, if you can't stay in that 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:37.880 same place or there's nowhere for you to stay to 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.400 get post oop care, you've got to travel back, which 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.000 makes you susceptible to infection. 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:47.160 Yeah, getting on a plane, your body is being battered 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.000 up there, okay, because the air pressure is different, you're 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.600 at a different altitude. Our bodies are really fighting while 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.560 we're up in planes, and so if you've undergone such 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.920 a major surgery, anything can happen. And yeah, because you 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:06.040 are putting your body in this distressed state. While you're 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:07.479 in a distressed state. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.560 And if you're flying commercial, you're sitting on that BBL, 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:10.920 which you probably shouldn't be doing. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.960 You're not supposed to You're supposed to be laying flat 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:13.640 on your stomach. 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:15.400 I believe in doing what makes you feel good. 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:16.960 If you like it, I love it. 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.000 But I also want you to know what your risks are. 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.000 And so I think it's really easy to see the 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.280 end product and be like, yes, that's what I want, 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:25.440 but I just want you to know the in between 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:27.040 stops as. 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.280 Well, and not to mention these procedures aren't covered by insurance. Yes, 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.160 so a lot of people are spending a lot of money. 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.080 It's so important to find a surgeon that you trust. 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:40.040 So do your googles, read the testimonials, ask somebody that 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.080 you know they got to BBL multiple forms of information. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:43.920 That's the way to go. 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.240 All right, let's take a break, but when we get back, 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.160 we'll dive into our last three categories for our twenty 0:16:49.200 --> 0:17:14.560 twenty one end of the year mixtape starting with politics. 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.760 We're back and before we dive into our twenty twenty 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.119 one mixtape, what are we dissecting on next week's lab tt. 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.760 Next week, we're starting a special series for the new 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:28.199 year that's focused on health, wellness, and setting yourself up 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.360 for success in twenty twenty two. 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.720 And our first episode is going to be all about sleep. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:34.840 I love sleeping. 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:36.800 We all know that again the good night's sleep has 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.600 major health benefits and most of us wish we could 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:41.800 get more of it. So we're talking to doctor Jarde 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.399 and Jean Luis all about how to get better sleep, 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:48.639 plus some really interesting insights on sleep disparities. Some folks 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.520 are more vulnerable to bad sleep than others. I think 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:53.040 that's me. Don't miss it. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:17:58.240 All. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.280 Right, back to our twenty twenty one end of the 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.240 year mixtape, and our next category is politics. Twenty twenty 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.800 one has been a political thriller in real life honesty, 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.159 like somebody just dropped us into multiple movies. 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:11.600 You can't write a better book. 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.760 We started the top of the year with insurrection. How 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:18.480 can we have a parade and overthrow the government all 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.960 in one A parade, a riot, and the collapse of democracy. 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.479 Yeah, and it seemingly the president was in on it, 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:26.720 the orchestrator. 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.520 It just really got wild. So there's that. So in 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.720 March the Derek Chauvin trial began and that went on 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.560 for a while up until June twenty fifth, when the 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.200 judge sentenced Choven to twenty two and a half years 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.879 in prison, and two thirds of that has to be 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.120 served before he's eligible for parole. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.960 In September we had the twentieth anniversary of nine to eleven, 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.959 which is really crazy. It feels I don't know, if 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:52.400 it feels like it was twenty years ago. 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:52.760 No. 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.560 And just before then, on August thirtieth of twenty twenty one, 0:18:55.720 --> 0:19:00.480 the US Armed Forces withdrew troops from Afghanistan. And also 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.320 in September, in Texas, they passed a law called the 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:07.399 Texas Heartbeat Act, and this is the most restrictive abortion 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:10.400 law in the nation for abortion access. This law bans 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:14.520 abortions at around six weeks, which is before most people 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:16.000 even know they're pregnant. 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:20.880 And the wild aspect of that law is that anybody, 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.480 whether they're related to you or not, if they think 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:27.560 you are performing or facilitating an illegal abortion, they can 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.960 sue you for a minimum of ten thousand dollars in damages. 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:32.879 What is happening? 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.439 You know, when you really look back on it, it 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:37.920 kind of feels like the political theme of twenty twenty 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:41.960 one is around civil rights. Yes, you know, because it 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:43.920 felt like maybe there was some progress when you think 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.359 back to the Derek Chauvin trial and the response to 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:50.400 you know, police violence and brutality. But then it felt 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.520 like we took a step back because in November, Kyle 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.760 Rittenhouse was found not guilty, even though it's factually known 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:58.920 that he shot three people and killed two of them 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:00.520 at a protest against police violence. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.160 And he went to this protest with an AR fifteen 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:07.320