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Speaker 1: Good morning, Peepsen. Welcome to will gae F Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: Today's conversation with our good, good friend, doctor Jonathan Mexel

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Speaker 1: is one that frankly, we need to be having that

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Speaker 1: the mainstream news is not having. And once again, I know,

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Speaker 1: Summer you may roll your eyes and say, Danielle, my god,

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Speaker 1: when can we stop talking about COVID when COVID is

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Speaker 1: I get into a really real honest conversation about sounding

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Speaker 1: the alarm with regard to where we are headed this winter.

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Speaker 1: You know, we just all came off of the holiday,

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Speaker 1: many of us mixing, mingling, holiday day parties, family gatherings,

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Speaker 1: that I have received and you will hear this in

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Speaker 1: the interview coming up next, multiple texts from friends in

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Speaker 1: different areas of the country who now have COVID. Some

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Speaker 1: of them it is mild, for others not so much.

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Speaker 1: Other people within my own family have been battling against

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Speaker 1: I have been taking zinc multiple times a day. I've

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Speaker 1: been taking theraflu pills because while I was home for

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Speaker 1: and you know, trying to remember that we do, in

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Speaker 1: fact have all of the tools to keep ourselves well,

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Speaker 1: one of them being wearing a fucking mask, which like

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Speaker 1: end of last week. So take this message with you

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Speaker 1: to your friends, take it to heart, take it to

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Speaker 1: your family. But the reality is that we are headed

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Speaker 1: into what Jonathan has said, and what I believe as well,

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Speaker 1: is going to be a really rough health season in

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Speaker 1: this first quarter of the new year. Why is that, Well,

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Speaker 1: we will go into specifics, but basically, China has relinquished

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Speaker 1: folks will say, well, now you see what's happened. Well,

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Speaker 1: meaning travel bands have been lifted, you know, people being

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Speaker 1: And we know again the world is not flat, you know,

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Speaker 1: with our dear dear friend, doctor Jonathan Metzo. Well Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year. It is officially twenty twenty three. We

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Speaker 1: So I want to start off today with you, Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: happy new year everybody. You know, I have to say

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Speaker 1: appreciate that, Jonathan. As always, we deeply appreciate you, your analysis,

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Speaker 1: your insights, your jokes, and thank you for ringing the

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Speaker 1: alarm for our first interview together for twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: and folks, as always, we will continue to keep our

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Speaker 1: eyes open and inform you as we get information so

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Speaker 1: that you can continue to keep yourselves healthy and safe.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you Jonathan hanging there. Everybody. That is it for

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Speaker 1: me today. Friends on Woke a f as always, Power

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Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, get

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Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.