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As well. And today today, today we begin the march to November twenty twenty four election day. It begins today with the Iowa caucuses. It's not a caucus. There are caucuses because all these people in these ninety nine counties, they caucus. They get together. If they can make their way through the snow, if they really have a lot of enthusiasm for the candidate, they're caucusing four. If they don't, they may just not leave their house.

Maybe they just took free food from that candidate for the last six to eight months as that candidate was barnstorming through Iowa. Donald Trump, vivek Remaswami from right here in Cincinnati, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and then a couple of other people that you're probably not going to hear of after this particular

day. But back to the matter is the Iowa caucuses are here. There are forty delegates to the Republican Convention up for grabs in the Iowa caucuses tonight, and everybody, it seems like, at least those doing the polling, they seem to think that it's Donald Trump, that Donald Trump is just going to steamroll everybody. Latest Polly came out was from the Trafalgar Group, which

is a Republican leaning if not controlled a polling system. Trump fifty two, Haley nineteen, Desantus nineteen that just dropped today, and various other polls have Trump well up in the mid thirties plus thirty three plus thirty four one in the forties. Fact in the matter is it appears that this is Donald Trump's to lose, But is it standing by? As a man who follows these things closely, Anthony Russo is a very smart man. Number One, He's

not in Iowa because he can't vote in Iowa, So that's smart. Number Two, it's one hundred and fifty degrees below zero in Iowa right now, and he's in the warmth of someplace else. But let's bring him in the host of the podcast The Truth Will Set You Free. It's our good buddy, Anthony russ So. Anthony, how are you on this glorious Monday. You know I'm a lot colder than you think. Texas right now is part

of this, you know, polar plunge. So we have horses here and I'm shipping out ice throughout the middle of the night where worried about zero degrees with windshills. So I'm feeling the same as Iowa and probably the same as Ohio. Yes, twelve degrees right now, and we haven't seen the worst of it yet. But okay, so everybody in this country is cold right now. We're all miserable. Everybody's miserable. Nobody can buy anything they want.

I mean, it's just it's just horrible. This is Trump's to lose tonight, right, I mean, Donald Trump, by everybody's account, should win this thing handily. And he seems to have in his support more enthusiasm than what, for example, Nicky Haley has. Would you agree? Absolutely? And I think, I mean he's he's going to win. I don't think that's a question, but I think it's by how much. And I think it's important to look at that. It's kind of like what happened to

Florida State in football. You need to win big in certain games, and this one's a win big because if you look at the last twenty four years of these Iowa caucuses back until Bush, Bush was the last winner of the presidency that actually won in Iowa. So Iowa doesn't mean a ton It's the

beginning of the cycle, per se. But somebody like Nikki Hayley could be if she's progressing, if she really gets close, that could actually scare the Trump campaign a little bit, and that momentum could carry her through the country. I don't think she will. I think it's still going to be a not even double digits. I think it'll be a twenty percent winner more. I actually think there's gonna be some people that will surprise, surprise us and

the caucases. But if people don't realize this. In twenty sixteen, Ted Cruz won Iowa, so it's you know, it's still anybody's match after this. This just gets a good temperature of the country and I think we maybe make a little bit too much out on this one, But I think it needs to be a big win by Trump in order to show where his direction is going for this candidacy. Well, if it's not that, and I'm not suggesting that you have not read this situation wrongly, but if it's not

that, you're going to get, you're going to get. And if it is Haley that either cuts into Trump's lead or for somehow some way overtakes him, which again I don't think has happened, then she gets the big MO, as George Bush forty one used today say she'll get the big MO. She's already got big donor money. Nicki Haley is kind of a Neocon. In fact, she is a Neocon, and there seems to be a lot of donor support to her. She raised more money in Iowa than any of

the other candidates. And I'm just wondering if that's never Trump money, or if it's Washington's swamp money, or if it's Neocon money. Where's her money and support coming from. Because the polling that's existing right now about enthusiasm for candidate, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot for her. Somebody is propping her up. Who is it? Absolutely so it's kind of a stew of all of what you just said. And there's some i'm gonna call it

dark money, And where is it coming from? We actually don't know, and I know that they have to disclose that, but we don't see it just yet. The fact is this is a she is a candidate that is everything. And I hate to say this because she's part of my party,

but everything wrong with our current governmental establishment. She is the establishment. She's getting money not just from the big money donors on the defense side, but there's money coming from places that were kind of confused how she's raising so much, and that's not necessarily a good thing in a country where we are trying to say and in a party where we're trying to say we want to push

back against these big money black rocks and all these different things. I can't be certain exactly where it's coming from, but I know it's a conglomeration of all three that you mentioned, and I think that that shows her danger. And I really do believe if she does like you said, what happens if she does really well here, I think Trump will start to go very very hard on those connections and he will dig it up. I think he's going to see how hard he has to go after this initial Iowa caucus. I

think that's what's going to be important to him. And I think one thing to look really look at is the fact that he has been avoiding the VEKE, avoiding the VEC and avoiding the VAC and then all of a sudden he went hard on him yesterday or two days ago. I think it was. I think that's gonna be a sign, because I think he's done very very well, barnstorming in Iowa. I think it's going to be very interesting to

see how well he does. I'm going to make a prediction, and I know this is a really bad time to do it, because tomorrow I'm gonna look like a moron if I'm wrong. I think the Veke is actually going to overtake the Santus in the third spot. And I'm curious to see how well Veke does, and I think that's gonna be something interesting to see. Vivike Ramaswami, of course from Cincinnati, went to high school here before I

went. Often found his fortune in the business world. Yeah, I Haley kind of reminds me of Mitt Romney and that whole thing in twenty twelve where it was holding your nose and vote for Romney if you were a Republican. If for some chance, she does overtake Trump, if Trump runs into I can't imagine how he would run into any more legal jeopardy that he's in right

now. But I just don't see the forty percent that supports Donald Trump all of a sudden saying well, Trump's not in the election, let's go ahead and support NICKI Haley. I think they sit home not going to happen. It's not going to happen, right, We'll have well, yeah, in the in the in the most likely voters, that's where they're seeing where Nicki Healy does really well against Biden. Problem is there won't be any passion.

We'll have the lowest voter turnout on the Republican side, and those numbers are skewed because most Poles think the whole country, based on math and science, is like fifteen hundred people is all they have to pull in order to get this full spectrum and I and they're not. That doesn't take into account people to show up at the polls. This is why Trump won in twenty sixteen

because it just doesn't quite measure the full temperature of the nation. So it's not going to work that way if Nicky ends up being the person and you brought up the legal troubles what's happening in Georgia right now, which is an underplayed story about Fanny Willis and her lover prosecutor that just got six hundred and fifty thousand dollars funneled through for the fact that he's never been a felony prosecutor.

That's a big deal. Because I think that that story alone, quietly will completely pave the way for Trump to not have to worry about legal troubles because it's the biggest place. Georgia was where he had the biggest amount of hiccups, people were pleading guilty. That could have been the only place where it's like, well, we voted for Trump, but we're going to have

to go with second place. I think that case is slowly falling apart right now, and I think that that's going to show that it's not about second place. You have to be Trump in order to be the Republican nominee. Bigger, bigger legal trouble then whatever Jack Smith is doing with the mar Alago documents in January six, do you think that was the bigger of the two.

Yeah, because there were so many and there were so many things that if you really look through those ninety one indictments, there's some stuff in there that anybody would be guilty of. And I think that he might he might have some issues facing these little tiny ones that really wouldn't disqualify him for the pregnan the presidency, but it's enough to go. He's he's literally been prosecuted, he's been convict, So I think that would be the biggest issue.

But the ones with Jack Smith mar Al Lagos a joke. I think that they're they're showing that right now with the whole you know, miss talking about what he was worth and all that stuff that one anybody, anybody in the legal side would would will throw that out. Jack Smith is just he's a bulldog, and he's doing it, you know, based on the direction of our current Department of Justice. So that one would be the second most biggest

worry. But I don't think there's any way to prove insurrection, any way to put nobody's been arrested. It's just it's stilly to me. So I really do think the biggest issue is Georgia, and I think we're gonna get He's going to get through that. We got an ABC News poll that came out yesterday and it has Biden underwater. It is Biden at thirty three percent approval. Uh. The only pole he seems to do well in is the

Rasmussen poll. And Rassmussen is again a conservative pollster, and I don't know if he's an outlier on this or not, but he's certainly not in line with what ABC, which is obviously a very liberal news organization, it's not in line with what ABC's pole says and ABC's poll says that Biden is at thirty three percent. We've seen polls that have had him at thirty six,

thirty eight percent. I'm just wondering when does he start campaigning because the only thing he's had so far is a lot of talk about Trump, Bad, Stop Trump, Trump, is this? Trump? Is that? Comparing him to some of the more despicable figures historically in this world. He's got to start at some point, regardless of what his record is. We're now what ten months about ten months away from election day. He's got to start at some point. When does that begin? In your opinion, Well, he

kind of started last week, whatever that was. It's one of those ones. The less he talks, the better chance he has. And if his camp needs to keep focusing on the fact that gas prices have lowered, they're going to focus on the to be playing and simple in the economy is not the worst part of his presidency, even though we want to complain about it. We want to complain about inflation, and I agree things are not as good as they were a few years back, but they're not as they're not

Doomsday. Doomsday is what's going on in the Middle East. Doomsday is what's going on with Ukraine. Doomsday is the potential for Taiwan. That's the doomsday stuff that we really really need to look at. And the people that I know that are in the know, that are in the dark shadows say, right now we are so unstable geopolitically we can't even talk about it. And with our debt raising. The debt is another thing I know that's kind of tied to the economy, but the debt raising, it needs to be a

focus against Biden. And Biden is going to do his best to stay quiet, and I will say we need to. We have to as Republican voters want Biden to stay above that thirty five thirty seven percent number because if it gets too low, the DNC will pull him, and they'll pull him last minute. We don't want and I still think it will be this way. But we don't want Governor Newsom to step up with six weeks to go where we don't have a chance to really show how bad he is to the whole

country. We want Biden to still be the candidate for the Democrats, because he is incredibly weak and beatable, whereas Newsom, although a terrible governor, completely flawed, has his bells and whistles tied up just in the right way. So we don't want that number to drop very far. So I think it's interesting you brought up that it is a leftist pole like ABC that's showing him at the lowest. I think that's setting up what I've been saying for

months now that he is not going to be the Democrat Kennedy. Well, the latest poll in California Trump v. Biden done by the La Times has Biden up about twenty and that pole just dropped today. So that's an interesting dynamic if it indeed would happen that way, if they would pull Biden and stick in Newsom, but they would lead Frog then the vice president, and I think you have all kinds of problems with the Democrat voter base if you do something like that. That to me is not as when they jump over

the as president, don't they They do? But I think that that's an easy solve for them. It's an easy to solve by saying, look, this is her popularity rating, this is her issues with independent voters. I don't think there's a single independent voter. I don't want to speak in absolutes, but there's very little independent voters that have any faith in her to lead a country. I think that they could simply point to some of her gaps

and her actual numbers and then polling groups. I don't think they'll have a problem leap frogging her say she's you know, she's done very well. It's certain things, she's been able to make good relationships, and she would make a great second to Gavin Newsom. I think that's what they're going to use. It's the same way because I mean, the biggest issue with them going we're going to pull the rug out under Joe Biden, essentially admitting everything that

the Conservatives have been saying for the last four years. So that is still a bigger issue for them to jump over, which I think they can with the right marketing, because they are they are the best step marketing. But I think leap frogging over or kamala Is is going to be the least of

their issues. Anthony Russo our guest political analyst The Truth Will Set You Free as his podcast, and we're talking about the Iowa caucuses that begin tonight ninety nine counties in Iowa, the first step on the road to election Day. November twenty twenty four, Trump said last week in a town hall, I think it was on Fox that he already knows who is vice president. Pick would be who do you think it's who? Do you think it would be?

Well? Two days ago, I would have said Viveke, But that all I mean that that whole commentary that he did that Vivike's not Maga a couple of days ago, threw all that kind of down the drain. I really don't know I would have. I was pretty confident about a week ago that it would be vivic, and I honestly think it still can be. Like, you know, he's good at like he was. He was just vicious to Ted Cruz, and he's become good, it seemingly good friends of

him. So I think that any of those relationships, besides maybe DeSantis can be uh can be can be. I guess healed by the time he has to pick a VP. But I honestly would have said Bay two days ago. Today, I've got absolutely no idea. I think it's gonna depend on the first couple of primaries and caucuses to see who's got a little bit of the It's gonna depend where voting goes, and I think he's going to be

smart and play it. Today's gonna be interesting also with the weather. It's going to see if the older voter, which I think leans a little bit more towards Donald Trump, if they're going to get out of their house with negative twenty eight degree temperature, or are they tougher some of the younger Republican voters and they're going to be the ones showing up better. I think it's

gonna be really interesting to watch what happens. But even though I don't think it means the end of the world for any candidate, Yeah it doesn't. And again you cited Ted Cruz in twenty sixteen and eighty it was Bush forty one that took it, and we all know what happened in eighty with Ronald

Reagan. So yeah, but it is it is a barometer. And we can get into a whole other conversation and we will at some point Anthony, about voting and how voting trends are and how the party that Donald Trump is affiliated with has got to figure out how to campaign and had a win in twenty twenty four. Because I don't think under current leadership they've figured it out yet. But that's a conversation for yet another day, Anthony Russo, when's

your next podcast, The Truth Will Set You Free? We have True Tuesdays every Tuesday night. And one of my good friends, Cashley Kelly, just got out of prison. He was from January's, one of the January six ers, so we're actually putting his story up on the channel too. So he was a very viral guy that was one of the people that unfortunately was locked up for two years in the gulag. So just go to Truth will Set You Free USA on all platforms Instagram, Facebook, and all the podcast

networks as well YouTube. You'll find us there. All right, Well, stay warm where you are. We'll try to do the same where we are. Anthony, thank you for your time. We appreciate it. Take it easy, you have a great day. So yeah, it's like, I don't know, it's like twelve below zero in some places in Iowa. I saw wind shills that are vastly lower than that. But it's here, it's happening, and it's now kind of like US. It's twelve twenty five.

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this startling. You know, they say you are what you eat. Well, apparently there is a new report out that found that hormone warping chemicals are in ninety nine percent of the food sold in American stores, which may raise the level of risk for cancer, autism, and infertility. And if you have anything that's in your diet that would approach some of the things we're going

to talk about, it could be flat out frightening. I mean, I mean you've got things on there like obviously carbonated beverages and gatorade, but things also like cheerios and grain meal like bread grain, bread, wheat and all that Jello is on this list, so too are various things like hunts and syrup. And it's just it was flat out frightening when I first saw it. So I wanted to get somebody on to talk about this, and now

I have someone. Her name is Maria Dello. She is a certified nutritionist and she is standing by the way in on all of this stuff that's in ninety nine percent of our foods. Maria, how are you on this glorious Monday? Hi? How are you very good? Thanks? How about yourself? I'm scared to death because I had a bull of cheerios this morning. Am I going to die? Well? Not just yet anyway, not just

yet. But yes, you said it, You said it perfectly. I mean, this is one scary study and they showed ninety six percent of Americans have these chemicals lurking in our bloodstream. So this is really really frightening. And what's amazing is that about ten years ago my practice, I did a tremendous campaign and most of us, you know, nutritionists and some doctors know

about this chemical. But I did a tremendous campaign to get everyone off of water bottles, plastic water bottles, and I gave away, believe it or not, a hundreds bottles and you know, I said get off the plastic basically on the bottle. But that was a big campaign. And you know, people still walk around with Gello nutritional bottles, so that was amazing. But yes, it's quite scary. And uh, you know, these these chemicals are lurking and they cause anything from obesity, diabetes, to lung issues,

liver issues. I mean the list goes on even infertility. So it's a tremendous problem. Yeah, it is. And and again this this watchdog group is Consumer Reports, which is I mean the room top of the line. They tested eighty five everyday items for the presence of fatal it's is that what they're called p f as. Is that how it's pronounced, Yes, p fas right right, known as like for aver chemicals, but and also

to the biggest offended too. I mean not the biggest, but some of these canned foods too, like uh, you know, I don't know if I want mentioned, but some of them are just horrible, you know, is being Papa, Yeah yeah, an He's cans organic cheevy ravioli came out terrible. A lot of these canned foods. It's in food containers, bottled water, like we said, even store receipts, it's on the top, even beer, even fung glasses. Right, So this is uh, you

know, a tremendous fine. I mean we've always kind of known it, but and we know now that we spent I think it was a trillion dollars last year over the year trying to clean this mess up. Uh. So it is you know, over the years, I've brought people to supermarkets, uh, and we go down the aisles and we look for labels like organic, We look for all different you know. We we trained them to read the labels, which is beautiful because you want people to eat healthier, right,

you know, sugar fructos. But now you know, we got to get on the wall to read labels for these chemicals and so they should be saying, you know, PBA free, because it's really lurking in all our food. Well, here's here's the deal. I'm looking at all of these foods here, Maria, and things like soft drinks they're in cancer bottles. Syrups and barbecue sauce and tomato pasts, they're in bottles with plastic bottles. It would seem to me that the number one thing you want to avoid is

anything that comes in a plastic bottle. If you start there, you're at least starting down the road to preventing what this report says could happen if you continue eating those kinds of things. Am I right? You know? I always when I heard you a story or a column or an interview, I always like to say, well, these are the downside effects of Look, there's no doubt about it. These are all poising cancer. And cancer is on the rise in America, and so what can we do about it?

You know, first starter, as you're one hundred percent right, is avoid plastic bottles at all costs. I mean, you know, we used to get our milk delivered in glass bottles, right, so we have to go back to glass bottles, you know, And recycling, you know, definitely another big offender is uh these microwaving. You know, you ever see these foods that you're they're in the freezer and they throw them in the microwave. That is just deadly because all those microplastics, you know, seep right into

the food, just like the water. And by the way, when you go in the summertime and everyone's going in, you know, we're jogging and we're going out, we take that water bottle we put in the car, Well, guess what, just the heat alone affects the water because all those plastics are just leaching into the water. So definitely no doubt about is avoid

plastic at all. Courtse cloths and then the straws. You know, hopefully we're going to do away with straws and use a coffee mug instead of using a disposable cup, right, you know, the styrophone, hopefully we got rid of that. And detergents too is another big one. So use like

a refaill station for detergents. You know, it's it's good to uh just start recycling a little bit and look for those those labels right that it says, you know, chemical free, and I think with this study, though, I do believe that this will kind of bring awareness to the problem and hopefully people will be more alert. You know, I always people with my patients always say, yeah, now I have to spend more time reading labels.

Well, this is one more label that you have to read, and but it's worth it because this exposure to all these chemicals are so attached to obesity and asthma able Maria. I was always I was always told if it's got a label on it, it's probably not good for you. You want to buy food that don't have labels on it, which is another way of saying fresh. You want to go and buy things. You know, when you go to the grocery store, shop around the perimeter because that's where the

freshest things are. It's the interior the aisles is where you get into trouble with a lot of these foods that have preservatives or in this case, may have things inside them from cans or plastics that are going to get you in trouble. So how much of that is true? Uh, you know, shop for things that don't have labels on them. It's got a label on it, chances are it's got some things in it. That aren't good for you? Is that true one? You know? Actually I like that.

I take that very much. So I think I may start telling my patients that, you know, I always said use the aisles, but that's even a better shop without a label is even better. And guess what the way we cook things, these tetlon pans, you know, that's another thing, so don't forget. Let's say you make a scrambled eggs, for example, and then you're using a teflon hand and then you maybe use a fork or

to mix it around. All those fragments are getting into food. So it's really highly recommended to go back to you know, stainless steel glass pots crock pots. So the way we cook food too is instrumental in avoiding these chemicals. Yeah, how are you going to find water? See this? You say avoid plastic bottled water? Okay, I get that, But you go anywhere to buy water and it's going to be in a plastic bottle or in a plastic gallon jug. So if everybody needs water, so where do you

get your water from? Because I have yet to see anyone that has water in a in a glass a glass bottle, So where do I get my water from Yeah, the best tool is a tremendous filtration system on your on your water, on your tap water, and that's that's really the key. And there are companies that sell bottled water in glass jugs actually, and there are a few out there, but I would say, you know, definitely

get a filtration system on your top water. Plus you know, even your shower head, right, they have carbon filters now that we put right on there that avoid this too. So don't forget you're steaming that up and then you're breathing it in inhalation too. So there's a lot to think about. But I think just about being aware of this, you know, that's a start, you know, I think that's a start to people reading labels and looking for those of avoidance of those brands too. Glass and by buy things

in glass. Look at ketchup right, we have you go to the shelf. There's two bottles there, ones in plastic, ones in glass by the glass, one glass one. Don't microwave food and plastic, don't. Don't use plastic water bottles, don't use a plastic straw. And then the bottom of your list is get your milk delivered. Remember the milk man get your milk delivered, right. I would love to do that and see the milk. If I saw the milk man again, I would I'd be ecstatic.

I say, hey Dad, good to see you again, you know. Right, Well we could go a little bit above that, maybe get a cow instead. Yeah, yeah, But then you get in that whole you get in that whole methane thing, you know, and you don't want your backyard sticks. That's true. That in all sincerity, Marie. I'm looking at the foods that are on this It's like, literally like everything that we eat is on this list that has some sort of these hormone warping chemicals that

lead to things that nobody wants, such as as cancer. So I mean, you got to be smart. You just can't go in there and grab something, you know. I mean, if you just grab something and you think, Okay, this is good, this tastes good, I'll take this home. You can't do that. So, I mean that's almost as You've got to research this stuff, it seems like, because that's almost as important as not going to the grocery store when you're hungry, you know. I

mean, it's just right. You're a detriment, right, Oh absolutely. I mean, look, I mean you really want to get back to basics. I mean, these chemicals they are so detrimental to health. They look I mean they cause inflammation. Uh, they're bad for your immune system. They lower your immune system, you liver. So I mean, look,

look what's happening with our immune system the past few years. I mean maybe this is an effect of you know, all these chemicals, why people got so many cold Look at the cold and flu season now, right, So it's tremendous. So so that's something to look at. And it's always worth trying, right, It's always worth trying to make your health better every day. And just by avoiding, you know, someone will say, well that will be impossible. It's not impossible, you know, every week to avoid

plastic. Every week, try to do one good thing to avoid this, and little by little, you know, you'll see your body will start to change for the better, you know. And I think it's really just the awareness is important. But that TEP one really too, is a big one. That's a huge offender. Everybody wants everybody wants quick clean, get it cleaned up in a hurry, and all that, and you know, God knows what you're doing. You're a published author, you're a seasoned nutritionist,

and you're a friend of dogs. As a matter of fact, book out Theodore says dogs are people too, with ye yes, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone shs to get one. I'm all over the place. And guess what Theodore says, dogs are people too. That's on Amazon and Burns and Noble. But even the dog bowls, right, you know, even that we have to worry about and think about the health of the animal. You know, feeding your dog out of a glass bowl are a

stainless steel bull very important. Reading the labels of dog food too, because guess what if it's in the uman food, it's in the dog food. So important to go natural too with your animals. Read those labels, Maria. People I think are probably now they're listening to this and they're setting up because you know, dinner is coming up later on tonight. Maybe they got a bunch of plastic bottles with water in it. They're trying to dump all this stuff down. How do people find you, Maria, to get more

on this, because you know it sounds like you're totally into this. How do people find you? Where can they find you? Sure? My website is Dello nutritionals dot com. My phone number is five one six three six five twelve twenty two, and my email is Dello Nutritional at gmail dot com. All right, well, keep fighting the good fight. Thanks for the info and hopefully we got somebody's ears perked up on this on this end out here in God's country in the Midwest. Maria, thank you, I hope

so by you. Thank you so much for your time. All right, thank you, thank you. Okay, there she is Maria Dello. Yeah, she's got a book out. Theodore says dogs are people too. It's big animal lover. But she's right. I mean, if you go and and you shop the perimeter of a grocery store, that's where you're going to find the freshest stuff. I mean, there's been enough people that I've talked

to on this show that swear by that theory. The second thing is, plastic is probably not the best thing to be in casing your food in or what you drink. Now you got to work at it. I'm not sure, maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. I've yet to see a bottle of water in a glass, you know, like glass enclosed bottle of water or a jug of water in glass. Haven't seen that. Maybe it's there. I don't know, I haven't seen it. As far as getting your

milk delivered, I mean, do milkmen still exist? What do you think, show a hands they do well? Maybe then you go ahead and get your milk, your milk delivered and get it out of that plastic container. But this study done again by Consumer Reports, so it's not some fly by night thing. It's not like you know Fred's research. This is this is Consumer Reports. Ninety nine percent of the food we eat has this this stuff in it, and it's it's big time stuff. It's it's it's it's syrup,

it's ketchup, it's I had cheerios today. I'm shaking in my boots now because I had a bowl of cheerios this morning, and of course fast food. Don't get me started coming up on twelve fifty four. Great to have you with us. It's the average American in for the Great American on seven hundred wlw Wow twenty twenty three just flew by. Time gets away from us before I know it. It's time for my annual whole home cleaning from

Zeros. Call my friends and I'm like a good woman bab and I make a good woman steel, I'm make an old woman bless, and I'm like a young girls. Welcome back, seven hundred WLW. It's the average Americo in for the Great American. Hope you are staying warm on this Monday. Look at it this way. At least you're not in Iowa. Out there in Iowa, not only have they had to put up with all of that

political nonsense for the last six or eight months. Now, it's like one hundred and eighty below zero, So if you put it in perspective, it's not all that bad for us here, is it. I talk a lot about AI on this show, and I want to talk about it again in this segment today. A lot of AI is really really, really bad. I mean AI gets into things like plagiarism. AI gets into things like recreations.

In fact, I just saw George Carlin's daughter is up in arms because some guy used AI to generate her dead father in a comedy bit, which if you watch it for five or six minutes you know is just it's absolutely horrible. But some AI is really good. AI is a great tool to use if you're in business. You either embrace it or you spend the rest of your life chasing others who have AI is good in the service industry, going to help a lot of restaurant tours be more efficient in what they do.

And it's even now something that every single medical practice should be using. Yes, the AI doctor is in chat GPT has paved a new way for self diagnosis. Get away from Google, get to AI, and it might help you figure out what's going on with your body if something doesn't feel right before you have to go to a doctor. And you can have information at your fingertips, legitimate, bona fide information at your fingertips that can help you

when you have to go see a doctor. Standing by somebody who knows all about this. In fact, Chris Matthew has been in the AI and medical business for a very long time. He's Chief Growth Officer with Sniffle, the world's first AI driven virtual care echosystem, and I wanted to get him on today to talk a little bit about this AI and medicine. Chris Matthew, how are you on this glorious Monday, ken I am wonderful. Thank you

so much for asking how are you. I'm well and at this time of the year, at this area of the country, no small trick, but yeah, hanging in there. So I look at chat GPT, I look at AI, and I'm fascinated on one hand, scared on the other. But when it comes to medicine, I'm so encouraged because I think this could be a wonderful tool, not the only tool somebody should rely on, but a tool that may help get doctors to where the problem is a lot quicker

than if they did not have it at their disposal. Would that be fair to say, Ken? I think that is more than fair to say. I think you are spot on in your assessment there. It is absolutely a tool to help physicians and clinicians do more with less. They are burdened with

so much administrative criteria to run their practice. You know, the last time you went to see a doctor, I would tell you that probably maybe not you, but probably most physician visits, probably nearly fifty percent of the time that you're in the room, they're doing administrative work as opposed to being able to be focused on just healing and hearing what you need at that given point

in time. And I think AI and advanced tech is going to help them free a lot more time so they can be more focused on you and delivering really phenomenal patient care. Yeah, spot on with doctors. In fact, I was just having this conversation earlier. Today. Oftentimes you go in there and more often than not, they're conversing with you while looking at a computer.

I have some doctors that will dictate into one of those old nineteen nineties era tape recorders and then at the end of their day, whenever their appointments are done, they have to sit there and enter that stuff in manually. It's whatever works for the doctor. Either way, either the patient is getting short changed and the doctor is getting overworked. In either case, not good for the patient. The thing I worry about though here, and maybe it's

a false worry, Chris, is a lot of AI. If it's garbage in, it's garbage out. It depends on where the information is coming from. So it sounds like the rules of people that are trying to work their way around having to do a lot of research for a term paper in high school don't apply here, because this is actual information, at least in the medical profession that's based in medicine, that it is coming from people in the medical field. Is that filter? Here is that filter in play here when

looking at chat, GPT and healthcare. What I'll say, and this is true of all AI, it's early. It's really early. This is still all very new stuff. So when you think about think about the first steposcope that came out, think about the first lab test and the first imaging machine. There were a lot of skepticism and a lot of skeptics around that. And now, like you alluded to earlier, these are tools practitioner uses every day in delivering great care. That's what I think AI is going to be

able to do for physicians moving forward. It is going to learn, it is going to get better, it is going to become more accurate. At Sniffle, we have an AI machine learning language protocol that will is built on over fourteen million patient visits. So this isn't just you know, I took a couple hundred patient visits and I've kind of made some predictions based on that. When you take over fourteen million encounters, the law of large numbers allows

you to start to really predict what things can happen. And then through the Sniffle for patients app, can you put your family medical history, You put in your lifestyle, and then you put in your chief complaint or your first symptom. The AI is going to lead you through a medical interview and the returning set of differentials for AKA the diagnosis. That return has a ninety five

percent accuracy rating. Now, at that point he gives you the idea can to really understand what's going on in your healthcare journey and then to take the appropriate step. Do you need to book a virtual appointment to see your doctor? Or is that stomach ache? Is that something more severe like an appendicitis and you need to safely and quickly get to the emergency room. Yeah.

I also read and I can't remember where, but it was recently. It was in a magazine or maybe uh one of those online web MD websites that oftentimes if you go to see a doctor and the doctor diagnoses you god forbid with cancer, sometimes it's it's a cancer that is not really uh specific to where it's manifesting itself, that the root of that cancer may be someplace else, and that with with AI years ago, you might you might go in

there and it might take weeks, maybe a month before the doctor realized through a series of tests that Okay, it's it's breast cancer, but it really is manifest itself in the stomach. With AI, it cuts down that process dramatically. In fact, in twenty percent of the cases that were studied, in twenty percent it was an instant diagnosis. Okay, it's here, but it's really here. And of course that differentiates between the treatment you would get,

for example, stomach cancer as opposed to breast cancer. I've seen a lot of reports like that. So the physician, regardless of what the individual patient is, the physician has all of that now or is beginning to accumulate that information to be used at his or her disposal for a whole wealth of people, not just that person. Here it is here in this case, well it could be here in that case too. Am I wrong or I'm

not hallucinating that I read that? No, you're right, Ken, Although hallucination is something that comes up when chance ept from time to time, where it just kind of creates its own facts. But what you're talking about, I want to give you a comparison. You're a smart guy, and if I asked you to do a thousand math problems, I have no doubt that you could get to it and you would get through it at some point, or I could put it in a spreadsheet and hit two buttons and I have

all my answers. That's the same thing that's happening here. When it comes to recalling data, AI is going to be able to be an incredible tool to take and synthesize large and huge amounts of data to then bring us closer ideas of assessment and then to take action on that assessment. And the more

data that we have, the more accurate the data can become. And so I think you're absolutely spot on that we are going to see things coming that are going to help positions and help patients in ways that we can't even imagine. And ultimately, the real hope that we have at least stiffle is can we use AI to help return joy back to the practice of medicine, because

that's a real priority. It should be a priority. Physicians should be able to love what it is they do because right now, if you survey out there, you've definitely heard this term position burnout. Clinical burnout is a very real thing. So we can help clinical providers and physicians find joy back in their practice, and we can help patients navigate this process and not feel so overwhelmed, but give them tools to help them really understand where they are in

their health journey. This is a win win for all of us. At the point of inception, at the beginning of all of this, when the patient is feeling some sort of I'm not right, I've got this particular ach, this particular pain, and you go on now and you have the ability to go on chat GPT and get all of this. It's just an advanced form I guess of what Google or any other search engine used to be. But I suppose the disconnect could come from false assurance. Okay, I've got

this. I've got this ache here on the side of my head. I'm typing in my symptoms, my family history, and it pops back, Oh well, you know it could only be a toothache, or you know, it might be some sort of migrain or something like that. It's a first step, right, I mean, you just can't go on right now and chat GPT and all of a sudden you can figure out what's wrong with you. Go take a couple of extra strainth tile and all and everything will be

all right. It doesn't necessarily supersede a virtual doctor visit or an impatient or an in person doctor visit. Right. I completely agree with you, Ken, at least you know, I think about for my family a web md search or a doctor Google search, or just a chanceyp search. That's not going to be enough because it's just reaching out for medical recall. I need curted, medically purposed AI. That's what I want, That's what I expect from my family. That's what we've built here at Sniffle. But I think

that you're absolutely right. It is the first step. It's just the first step. It shouldn't just be the only step, but it's one of many. But in the reality that we face where we have a a growing physician shortage across the country, we have growing physician burnout and positions and clinicians leaving the medical community, we have to find tools that can help people start this process, and I think that AI can be a great solution for that.

Chris Matthew, our guest expert on the future of healthcare, is with the company Sniffle. By the way, what does Sniffle mean? What does it stand for? So Sniffle, our organization is here to focus on better care and a bigger picture. Better care means better care for both physicians, clinicians and patients. And the bigger picture, it's something we really believe here is relationship of medicine really matters, Continuity of care really matters you. Having a

relationship with your provider is important. And in our perspective, tell in medicine and telehealth is random doctors treating random patients. That's not good for doctors. That's not good for patients. What they need continuity of care so that when your doctor sees you and can you say, my head hurts this time of year every year, your head hurts because your allergies are terrible, versus can that's unusual And I don't like what you're telling me, and I need you

to get in here so that we can have a proper afortment. Or can I need you to go get lab work done? But only when that person has a relationship with you can they do that. That's what we're trying to do here at Sniffle is the bigger picture is to reinforce the relationship between providers and their patients, get patients out of these bad business models of seeing random doctors at retail health centers, and get them back into the position community and

the medical community to strengthen that bond. And that's what Snipple's doing today and across the country. And it just as it sounds at sniffle dot com. Where is this going, Chris, I mean, it sounds to me like where it's going is that it will rapidly. It will accelerate the health process having all of this information so that number one, you won't have to wait

two weeks, three weeks to get in to see a doctor. And then when and if you do, hopefully sooner than later, with that that all of that information will be at his or her disposal so that treatment can begin immediately, as opposed to where we are right now, and you know where we are right now. Unfortunately, in a lot of places, you go see a doctor, doctor will say here's a pill, go take a test. Then you take a test, you wait to see the doctor to interpret

it. That might be two weeks. Then he says or she says, go take another test, and then we'll interpret that. And at the worst they'll kick it down the road. And now all of a sudden, you don't see the doctor you want to see. You're seeing somebody else. That you don't even know. Sounds to me like this is an acceleration process to get people back on the road to recovery again. Is that fair to say?

Ken? I think it is. I really do. I think that when we look at where can we put AI in advanced tech to remove the burdens that have been put into the process. There are things like prior authorization. You can't even mention the beating of you incorporating your healthcare insurance into this

whole process. Once you start adding all these elements to try to get a proper diagnosis, maybe it takes you six months, and that doesn't seem When I can get online and apply it for a home loan and buy a car with the click of just a few buttons on my phone, I should be able to maybe not cure cancer, but I should be able to have real understanding invisibility of what's happening in my healthcare. And that that I do believe is a reality that is coming. It's here right now in some capacities,

but it is going to get so much better. Everything I've read it, it's the way it's going. And if your doctor or your health group doesn't embrace AI, it might be time to go see another doctor. I mean, this is just this is where it's all heading. Chris again, Sniffle dot Com. When people go there, what will they find out about your company? Well, you're going to be able to learn if you're a physician or a clinic, you'll be able to learn how we build a set of

solutions for your clinic. If you're a patient, you'll be able to learn about the patient app. What I would tell you is for all your listeners now, Sniffle for Patients is available in the app store. Give it a test drive. There's two things that are really powerful in there that app. The first thing is it's going to have what we call an diagnosis tool our stance Again, we support the medical community. Only a medical provider should give

you a diagnosis, but an diagnosis is an AI derived diagnosis. Our diagnosis is free for you to use. In addition to that, we have a Sniffle RX card in there. It's four times more powerful than good RX. It'll save you up to eighty five percent on your prescriptions. That is also available for unlimited utilization, totally free for all your listeners. Snipple for Patients

is in the app store ready for all. Chris Matthew, good good stuff and good luck, and hopefully you and I get a chance to visit down the road, and when we do, this will be so widespread that everybody has a chance to understand it by great information there on the app. I'm going there right afterward. Done here, Chris, thank you so much for your time. We appreciate it. Thanks Ken, talk to you hopefully real soon. Yeah, this time of the year, everybody's got something going on

with them that's not good medically. So if you've got all that information at your fingertips, chances are your diagnosis is going to be a little bit better before we get to see the doctor and then he can or she can deliver the real diagnosis to you. This is fascinating. Sniffle dot com. Sniffle dot com. It's the average American in for the Great American. And no I don't have the sniffles. Thankfully, knock on for Mica seven hundred WLW.

What's for the Great American? We have more NFL playoff action today or thirty. That game that was supposed to be played yesterday in Buffalo will occur between the Steelers and the Buffalo Bills and from what I can tell there, I guess they've got most of the streets cleared as well as they can, and the parking lots are cleared as best they can. The ramps that lead to the seats in the stadium are relatively clear. They couldn't find enough people

to shovel snow up there. They were offering twenty dollars an hour to shovel snow, so they just cleared the rampways or the walkways to the stands, but the seats aren't cleared off. So this is going to be a mess one way or the other if you want to attend, and God knows why anybody would would want to attend. I mean, it's on TV with fifteen

different cameras, but apparently it will be played. But under those conditions, the Bills are prohibited favorites anywhere from nine to ten point favorites in much better weather conditions, though probably in rain. The Buccaneers host the dysfunctional Philadelphia Eagles tonight. The Eagles are falling apart. Big story on the Eagles today on ESPN on how Nick Sirianni's touch is wearing off. The Eagles are eleven and

six. The Bucks won the NFC South are nine and six, and Philip Helpie has got some injury problems too, got some players out, some key players out. They're still about a two point favorite. Nevertheless, there you go, and the only other news in the NFL is Mike McCarthy and Dallas still has a job, hasn't been fired yet, and the Chargers are meeting with Jim Harbaugh today about their head coach opening. So there you go.

We are beginning to realize now that the wisdom and I put that in quotations that we all were a part of or subjected to by the federal government during the COVID lockdowns might not have been so laden in wisdom at all. There was a lot of linear thinking and not enough integrative thinking between people like Fauci and Berks and the woman that ran the CDC at the time, what was her name, Rachelle. It might have been a president predecessor Redfield. Anyway,

there wasn't a lot of integrative thinking. It was all about stay here six feet apart, which we now know is put a mask on well, you know, surgical mass not much help during COVID and lock down the schools. Nobody went to school when they did, they put up these barriers so the kids couldn't actually look at each other, let alone breathe on each other. And what we're beginning to find out now is that it caused a lot of loneliness. And we see it in our teens, and we see it

with our elderly. The lockdowns created loneliness. Loneliness is an epidemic in the United States and particularly for aging adults. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that about a third of US adults aged forty five at olders suffer from loneliness. Other studies put that stat far higher, nearly eighty percent eighty percent

in young adults from eighteen to twenty four. Loneliness disconnected where one's life does not have any meaningful or close relationships or a sense of belonging to anything. So now now the Senate wants to get involved. In the last couple of months, the Senator from Connecticut, Democrat Chris Murphy introduced legislation to create a national policy to promote social connection and address soaring rates of loneliness. The National

Strategy for Social Connection Act. Congress which did not pass a damn bill, not one during twenty twenty three now wants to maneuver into this position. So the question becomes, the federal government, in a large way created this problem. Now it's trying to fix the problem. You know it was. You've got to create a problem, you got to try and fix it. But does the federal government belong in the loneliness fixing kind of position? Standing by

is somebody who knows all about this. She is a native just a terrific speaker. She's also a best selling author, and her policy, her passion, is to try and make everybody's lives better. Her latest release, Pulse, was co written with her husband. It is book one on the Vital Sign series and it's kind of a thriller in a lot of ways. Anyway, Judy Gammon is the author and she is standing by to join us right now. And Judy, how are you on this glorious day. I'm doing

great, Ken, and I'm so glad you're tackling this problem. It is a problem, but it's not one that DC should be fixing. I think DC created it in a lot of instances here when we went through the pandemic and social distancing, which we're now learning may not have been the best thing or the most effective thing to do when schools were shut down, all kinds of things like that. Do you think maybe they're trying to sweep up after

themselves here, I absolutely think they're trying to sweep up after themselves. But if you look at the statistics that released on loneliness, washing Washington, d C. Comes in second in the nation. So we're gonna we're going to see someone who lives in the second loneliest place or is part of the second loneliest place, and they're going to try and fix the problem they created with

so many of these lockdowns and rules that were really unnecessary. We can look at the statistics of depression and suicide and all the things that were related to this, and you know, if it was on a bell curve, they just kind of be going right next to each other. Oh we're locked down. Oh we see depression, suicide, everything else going up. They just mirror one another. I lived in Washington, d C. For four years back in the nineties, and I can tell you it is that way people

cloister inside their homes. First of all, is not a safe place to live in by any stretch of the imagination. Secondly, it's really lonely in August, because every single politician in DC clears out as to all the government workers. There's nobody in that town in August. So loneliness is a real thing. But loneliness is an issue you and I agree on that, Well, how do you tackle that? Because loneliness is a different thing to different

people. Some people can be alone but not lonely. Some people can be lonely and yet not alone. And some people have different interpersonal skills than other people. So I mean, if we're going to get to the root of it, where does it begin. It begins with relationships. We have to remember what a relationship is. It is not social media. It is not giving a thumbs up or heart or any of those other emojis. It's not about texting. It's about actually being in the same room with someone, sitting

down having conversations. We now know through all kinds of imaging and research that the brain is affected by real, in person, face to face interaction in different ways that it is when it's just virtual reaction. We need this. It stimulates a part of our brain that isn't stimulated otherwise. And if you look at the loneliness statistics, and you look at what happens when people get lonely and they're not having proper social interaction. It really has everything to do

with the lack of longevity. These people don't live as long. And I say these people, and I, you know, used to be talking about these people, and you're talking about shut ins and elderly. But this is affecting every demographic, both genders, every socioeconomic class. And it doesn't matter where you are. It seems to be you know, not just an American things. It's an international problem, but it's certainly a big problem right here

in the United States. And we've got to tackle it because we've got to get back to relationships. Yeah, you know, I attribute it in a large part and it sounds like you do too, to social media, but you have to. But you know as well as anyone judy, that there isn't necessarily used to make a phone call. It's used to respond to someone on a text message or on Instagram or on TikTok or whatever particular social medium

platform where you don't physically have to interact with people. You're talking about something that I think is a cultural epidemic, particularly with the under forty crowd, and I don't know how you fix that because you're not going to take a device out of their hands. And if you're thirty five or forty, your parents aren't going to be able to tell you anything that you're going to do. Maybe if you're eight or nine or ten, they will, But so

I'm not sure. I'm not sure how you fix this reliance on social media platforms as opposed to getting involved with what it was when I grew up, which is you wanted to talk to somebody, you picked up the phone, or you went to see them. I don't know how you. I don't know how you get the device out of people's hands and fix the culture that is so under those devices. We got to start calling in what it is,

and it is an addiction. We're all addicted to our phones. And when we start recognizing how much time we spend on our phones, and every one of your listeners can go on and they can set their settings so they can see how much screen time they've had in a week, it will be shocking to them when they start tracking it. And also, if we can say, all right, we're going to make some rules within our marriage, within our home, you know we're not going to go out to eat and

sit across the table and be on our phones. Don't invite the phones. Don't invite the phones into your dinner table, don't invite them on their dates. Keep them out of your hands when you have the time to spend with somebody. Nobody looks at a relationship, especially once somebody passes on and says, oh, I wish I would have sat next to them and put out my phone a little bit more like that doesn't happen, right, and with

our kids, put a curfew on those phones. You may say, oh, I don't want to do it. They're not going to like me as a parent. Sorry, your job is not for you to be like you're honest, for you to raise a responsible human being that knows how to interact in society. So we've got to set these rules. Yeah, I saw it again this week. I see this far too often, and maybe it's

the places I go to. But I was at dinner this week and it's a mother and a father, and I would put the kid at maybe seven or eight years old, and they're sitting at a table just across from us, and the mother and the father had their phones out and they're on their phones. And the kid had what looked like a kittie tablet and is on the kitty tablet. And I'm thinking you probably both work, the kid's probably in daycare. You don't see the kid until dinner, and everybody's on their

social media device right now. What's what's what's wrong? But I I just I fear and it sounds like you you're not this way, and thank I just fear that it's becoming something where it's just going to be normalcy and it's just going to be that way, and that the mother and the father that does that do try to crack down on this, are going to get such backlash from their kids that they just don't want to put up with a headache. I agree, you shouldn't want your kid. You know, your kid

is not your friend. Your kid is your kid. The kid doesn't need a friend, it needs a parent. But I just I'm fearful that this thing is just going to be the acceptable method of practice going forward. Am I fearing too much? No, Ken, what you're saying is what we're

already seeing. And there's been so much research about this being on our phones and being connected electronically and if you look at even you know, going back to loneliness, if you look at those loneliness statistics, they're heavily tied to technology use. You can be three times more lonely and anxious based on how much time you're spending. So the more time you're on your devices, the more at risk you are for anxiety and depression, all of these things we're

trying to combat. And I'm glad you brought up kids with the tablets. This is just a big thing for me, and I think more people need to pay attention to the research because there's so much research out there now about how the developing brain is changed when they're on devices. It literally changes the brain, and it helps if you take those away, they learn real coping mechanisms. So to say, I don't want to take my child's tablet away

because I want to pacify them. I mean, this is no different than sticking a passifier in their mouth. You're just sticking tablet in front of them. They have to learn to cope, they have to learn to interact. I was speaking with a therapist. I have a lot of respect for over at seven therapy, and she said, right now they're dealing with children that are going back into the classroom that are having anxiety because they haven't been around

their friends all summer. They've only been texting them. How sad is that? That's just so sad. So this idea that Senator Chris Murphy came up with, I think it's stupid. I don't think it's going to I mean,

it just sounds like more Washington mumbo jumbo. And like most things in life, I think what we're talking about, the solution begins in the home, and it begins with good parenting and doing what we were talking about and the old but mom, everybody, you know, they all have these well you know if they all walked off the bridge and fell into the river, would you do the same thing too? You know, there's got to be

a little bit of guidance inside the home. And this just sounds like it's going to just add to more red tape in Washington, d c. And hiring about one hundred or one hundred and fifty more bureaucrats to make it to make it work. So I don't want to see this past. I want to see parents become more actively involved in their kids' lives and making sure they

do interact. And the next time, and you may or may not agree with this, Judy gammon, but the next time there's some crises that comes down the pike, whether it's health, or whether it's welfare, or whether it's anything that the government doesn't tell us to stay the hell away from each other, because that's a road that leads to nowhere except to where we are right now. Would you agree? I would agree one hundred percent. I like that. I could come work for you. Maybe, do you have

any openings? I could be your sir. Well, this is such a problem if you look at the act. I think this is really important for us to really dive into it. He wants five million dollars to research, to research lonely people. We know why we're lonely. We know how not to be lonely. This isn't a problem we were born with. We can watch the trends. We know what we need to do. We just have

to practice it a little bit more. Yeah. Yeah, this this, this sounds like some dude that's trying to do something to get himself re elected, which is not uncommon in Washington. All right, Judy, good stuff. Appreciate the insight, stay well, okay, always a pleasure yep, not a not a mystery at all. Not making light of Murphys of his intows Radio seven hundred w l W, the music we listen to all year, alarm anthems that we're out, the baby be blind through, I want

to be baby. I'm gonna ta alf that I'm bad of the bone, bad of the bone, the bowl, the average American and for the great American on this Monday, glad you are with us as well. And if you look outside, if you go outside, you know it's absolutely frigid. It's all that way, all across the country, all across the country. We are still in the thrusts of winter, but it will be spring before long, and after that summer and out we will go on the highways of

life. And how the highways of life now is new technology? Self drive cars. We've seen a little bit about it. It was part of a movie that was out about a month month and a half ago, Leave the World Behind, and was frightening some of the scenes we saw. But these cars that don't require any kind of human being to navigate the highways, at least for the most part, are apparently now about to overtake the highways as

we know them. Right now. Already we're seeing testing going on in some places in the United States, out in the desert, out in the southwest part of the country, but soon they may be coming to you and to me, to the greater Cincinnati area. So what does this mean? Standing by somebody who knows about driver technology, he's an expert in that field, and he holds a PhD in electrical engineering. His new book is Radar for Fully Autonomous Driving, and he is doctor Matt Markle, and he's kind enough

to join us here on seven hundred WLW. And doctor Markle, how are you on this glorious Monday, Ken? I am fantastic. How are you doing? I am somewhat south of that, but I've got plenty of time till midnight. I think I can get to fantastic. So we're hoping that now. First of all, realistically, how far away are we from autonomous vehicles, driverless if you will vehicles? Is it months? Is it years? Is it days? Where are we? So it's a that's a great

question. It's really a function of where you live. The as as you mentioned in your in the setup, there's places around the country right now, where there's a lot of testing going on, and it's transitioned actually from testing into a business where people are hailing these cars, paying a fee through an app, just like Uber or lyft, and then taking them to their destination.

But in other parts of the country, the parts of likely like we're seeing a lot of like really sketchy weather right now and so forth, they have yet to really make it there. So it really it's a function of like where you live. But you're going to see it more and more as the technology matures, as they can, as they roll things out and they explore and map and basically gain capability and confidence in new cities. So you'll see it increasing more and more. Okay, let's take just a step back.

We're seeing in some places of the country, other places like for example, the Midwest, I mean there's a lot of snow at this time of the year, not so much. But you mentioned it's like an app, so a drive a car without a driver shows up and what do you do. You get in the backseat and a way it goes. How does it

work? Right? Exactly? The way we had set it up when I was at Weymo was it's a very simple app and Waymos the Google self driving car company, the very simple app you downloaded you just like Uber, you typing where you want to go, and it takes you there and charges your credit card. Obviously, the app on your phone isn't doing the driving. That's a bunch of other computers and a bunch of other technology that goes into

that. But the but the way to Hail it is very very simple, and that's designed to make it as as approachable and easy to use as possible.

If you had to be coating something in you know, in Python or you know, C plus plus to get a car to come to you, well, let no one would ever do that, right, So so you want to make it very easy and actually even inside the vehicle as well, can the the technology to show you what's going on, to make to let you know that, hey, the passenger or another passenger, the pedestrian that you see walking to the to the driver left of the car, the car

sees that as well, because normally you would be able to just converse with the driver and you can't do that obviously there's no driver in this, so we have to use displays and and uh, you know, human machine interfaces HMI to basically communicate that so that the passenger feels comfortable in this as well, even though there's no one to talk to in the front seat. Well, I've been in a Tesla. They have that technology in Tesla right now?

To a degree, do they not? It's it's actually it seems similar, but it's it's actually quite a bit different in terms of the reliability and the trust that you can put in that. If you read the fine print on Tesla, they talk about, Okay, this is for basically an assist feature for you, but you need to be paying attention all the time the and that's obviously if there's no one in the driver's seat, if you're sitting in the back seat, you don't have to pay attention at all. The

car does everything for you. Well what that does? Yeah? Oh, go ahead, sir, say So the difference in technology then is it sounds like and I'm not trying to put words in your mouth, but I guess Tesla would be like elementary school and what you're talking about is somewhere in college, right. I mean, it's just it's it's that much farther advanced, right, Or is it is it something that isn't is an assistance to you the driver, or is it something that replaces you the driver? Yeah,

okay, well no, that that that does make sense. And it has all of the technology built into it so that you mentioned like a pedestrian coming up to the left side of a driver, if you know, a dog shut shoots out in front of a car, or if there's a red light that's turning from amber to red. It understands all of those things and will

stop. That's correct. That's correct. We did uh uh testing is uh, just as as you're driving around, you see a lot of things when you when you've driven millions and millions of miles, you see a lot of funny things. I remember looking at videos a while back where I think there were chickens crossing the road, which I think you can probably make a pretty good joke out of that about the chickens crossing the road put the self driving

car. But uh, you know, I don't exactly know why they were crossing the road, which I guess is the you know, the fundamental philosophical question there. But but but yeah, so a lot almost any type of of animal like that, it's going to stop for because the sensing technology that in those is really really exquisite. So why would somebody, and again I know this is kind of a philosophical question, why would somebody want to get

into a driverless car? Other than if it is an Uber type of situation, maybe that that company, for example, would save money and having to hire a driver. They're just making using their money that they make to invest in the maintenance on the vehicle. But you and me and somebody, why would I want a car that's autonomous and I wouldn't have control over what would

be the benefit to me. So the important to think about two models for that one is if you're if you're using this light like you would use Uber a lyft. I want to go to I want to go to downtown, I want to go to the airport and so forth, and I don't want to park, and I don't want to drive. I may may want to have a cocktail or something like that, and I don't want to be driving

at all. So in that case, then it's a whether you take a a person driven or a self driving car is really at that point a financial decision which one's cheaper, which gives you the best ride. But I think what that what you're hitting at is like, as we look towards putting this technology into cars that you and I can own, that opens up a whole lot of different doors. Now, now you can you could say, maybe, well maybe I can put this in a car that that you and I

will own. But it's not going to be full driving everywhere. It's only going to be uncertain areas. But when it's in those certain areas, then it's truly you can. You can close your eyes, you don't have to be your hands attend and too ready to take over at a moment's notice. And that to bring that level of technology to cars that you and I can own, that to me, I think is gonna be the real game changer.

Because, yeah, the market penetration for uber and lift and so forth, it has been pretty good, but it's still outside of some key cities like San Francisco and New York, on and on and off again. It's that there's not a huge, huge penetration. But I think that the way to get that the technology to people and really take a bite out of the forty three thousand lives that are lost every year on the roads is to give us some cars that you and I can own. So the actual function of

making these cars work is it satellite technology? Is it ground technology? Again? Understanding all of the things that a driver has to be aware of when he or she is driving a car, then how does how does what? How does this technology work? The actual functioning of it? How does it work? A great question. So when you think about a self driving car, you can kind of look at the architecture for that in terms of uh three major parts. There's sensing, which is what things are are around me,

where am I? You know, kind of knowing the situational awareness of the of the scene. Then there's a whole decision making part, which is things like route planning. What are others going to be doing? Is that is that pedestrian going to cross the street? Is this car going to cut in front of me? Are they slowing down? What should I do? Should I stop? Should I go? Should I swerve out of the way? You know, the whole decision making process. And then there's the actual

part of driving it. You know, actuation of accelerators and brakes and steering reels and horns and lights and winsholl wippers and so forth. The real advancements that we're seeing are pushing in the sensing technology. That's where a lot of the work we do in radar, like my my company's Spartan Radar makes you know, radar technology that can help out automotive industries. And then the decision making lots of software, lots of machine learning there and so forth. So

those are the basically the three parts. It's not not like there's some master satellite guy controlling it or you know, or or some sims back in like the at an undisclosed location. And the reason for that is is you need those decisions to be made very very quickly, and the uplink and down link time and and reliability of those networks isn't something that you want to You want to put the reliability and safety the people in so so basically make those decisions

on the car to do those three functions again. And I mean you're the expert. I'm not. It sounds like this is this is all just elaborate computer technology, right. I mean, there are computer uh driven aspects of a car you can buy from many of the major manufacturers in this day and age. This it sounds like it's just a very elaborate offshoot of that am

I right or wrong? Or is that too simplistic? So the what you're seeing in the automobile industry today is they are pushing towards this concept of what we've done in the self driving industry. Right, so self driving industry almost everything is central computing, so all the decisions, all the sensors push their data to the to the to the computer in the middle of the car,

and then that computer sees everything it can make global decisions for things. The way cars have been for a long time is all the different sensors, the radars that you use for cruse control and so forth, the uh the ultrasonics, the the all those things were like very federated and there wasn't a global way to make decisions that are best for the vehicle and they're for best for

its passengers. But we're seeing that now with the push towards electrification, a lot of automobile manufacturers are looking to, you know, really look at how they architect the signal flow and how the data move around and where they do their computing and so forth. So that's one of the things that's enabling them. But the but the low level of capability in the software and the level of redundancy and trust is needed in that is quite a bit different between self

driving and just basically assisting you as a driver. We're chatting with that. Doctor Matt Markle served this country. He was chief engineer at the Air Force Research Lab at Eglin Air Force Base and at one point headed up the radar team at Waimo. He now is the CEO of Spartan Radar. You just

touched down something before all that where is the failsafe in this? Because like anybody who operates a computer at home knows that it crashes every now and again, and so so I guess it goes back to what we talked about a few moments ago, that these are autonomous cars. The drivers still would have control of it if indeed there was a driver. But you know, again, as you reverse engineer this, what happens if a component in all of

this somehow starts to go on the fritz. What happens at that point? That's that's a great question as well as we as we look to this the we know that sometimes hardware fails, and we know that sometimes software fails. So the key to designing the system is to number one, know when that's happening, and then number two to design the system such that you can react

to that and deal with that. So we do that with redundancy. We do that with having multiple computers where you can where basically one can be doing they could be splitting up functions, but if something goes wrong with one of them, the other one can take over everything or maybe take up everything that needs you to get the car safely to the side of the road while they either while they're car either reboots their first computer or you know, decides that

it's just not you know, we're just going to stay there on the side of the road because something's gone horribly wrong the the the so basically looking at it to make sure that we we sense when something's going bad and then can react to that. That's that's the key. It's it's the same way that we do things in lots of other you know, safety critical such races like

airplanes. Airplanes have a ton of redundancy in them as well as a lot of uh software and hardware that basically lets the pilots know that Okay, yeah, the this system is malfunctioning, so we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna uh work around that or or this system seems to be having trouble. So it's those those both both those access nobody thinks are going to be going bad and then having the redundancy to uh to have that not be a critical

error. And you would expect this kind of technology from vehicles that are manufactured by all the major car companies Ford, Chevy, Chrysler. You could see that. You could see that it's not going to be in other words, it's not going to be the you know, the autonomous car company, or could be I don't know, but it would. It's something that would be technology that would be available through the usual suspects in the car industry. Am

I right, yes, as you so. One of the things we're seeing right now in the industry is that the people that are making the full the robotaxis, the way moos and the cruises and so forth, those are continuing along. Yeah, Cruise had a little bit of a of a speed bump with some some poor decisions that they made about about releasing things to the to

the US government, but basically those are continuing on along their way. What we're seeing is with the major automobile manufacturers, the Fords, these et cetera.

Is is that they're they're continuing to look at things and continue to invest, but it's at a very slow pace and it's almost as if like they're they're waiting to see if someone else is really going to make this thing happen and which case, and then they're going to they're going to go all in, right, So the so I think that there's there's a little bit of reluctancer, just like I think if you rewind and looked at the news maybe eighteen months ago, by now, every caller should be electric, right,

but it's but they're not. And I think you've seen a real substantial slowdown in the in the in the transition towards electric vehicles. And then so I think people sometimes the automakers, because they have to make decisions, you know, looking far in the future, because they're investing, you know, significant amounts of money, they're trying to hedge their bets on what's actually going to

be coming. So I think they're kind of like slow rolling their own versus of autonomy while they're waiting to see is this really going to be a game changer. My prediction is like the first person to have it, then then everybody's gonna want that car, and then then the rest of them are going to be like you know, you know, scurrying to keep up. Yeah,

it's fascinating. It really is again doctor Matt Markle, and his book is Radar for Fully Autonomous Driving, which I am going to seize tonight because I am fascinated by this Radar for Fully Autonomous Driving. Doctor Markle, thank you so much for your time, really enlightening. Thank you again. We appreciate it absolutely Again. You have a wonderful day, Yes, sir, and I'm driving, still driving, so be careful if you're walking to twenty

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it, Thank you very much. So you're probably at some point today are going to eat and then after about an hour or so, you're gonna say to yourself self, what the hell did I just throw down my throat? A new survey is out, and this is a survey done by Daily Harvest, and it found that ninety three percent of us feel a quote unquote physical impact from what we eat, and many of us are left feel feeling tired

or frustrated, sad. And you know why, because it affects our brain because according to this thing by Daily Harvest, one in five Americans said they don't even have the slightest idea whether food comes from They're just throwing it down their throat. So do we need to put more thought into what we do when we go looking for the food that we eat. We did a segment here about two hours ago about how there's so much plastic contaminants in food these

days? What about the overall stuff that we eat? Standing by is someone to weigh in? She is a functional nutritional therapy practitioner and an integrative nutritional health coach. How about that? She's also a healthy living expert. Her name is Janet Johnson, and she has carved out time to spend with us today here on seven hundred wylw and Janet Johnson, how are you on this glorious Monday. I'm doing really good kids nights and cold here in Texas.

Well, imagine what it's like here in God's Country in Ohio because it's shiver me timbers up this part of the country. Yeah, what, By the way, is a functional nutritional therapy practitioner who also was an intricative nutritional health coach. How has that been on a business car our Jena. Well, you know what I have learned just to put holistic nutritious. That's basically what I am. And so helping people to fill their best from the inside out

and getting their gut health and check, that's what I do. You know, your gut health controls so much in your body, does it? Not not just your moods, but it also controls the rest of your health. If it ain't good going in, you know what ain't good going through, and God knows what it is coming out. I mean, it's just it just affects so many things, right, it really does. Eighty percent of our immune system isn't our gut. Most of our neurotransmitters are producing our gut.

Your gut health is the key to your brain health and your overall health. Neurotransmitters define that. If you could please for a layman, what are neurotransmitters, So all of you, all of your brain chemicals and hormones to serotonin and all of it, all those chemicals that make us feel good, think good, the ones that help us not be depressed, not have anxiety, get rid of brain falls, all of that stuff. Yeah, and

I would you know. I mean, I am as guilty of eating the wrong things at the wrong time as anybody try as I might, I slip, I'm human, it happens. But I'm not one really that reads labels and things that I buy. I tend to shop the perimeter of the grocery store because that's where I find the freshest stuff. But occasionally I got to go up and down the aisle, and I think, if you've got to do that, you better just take some time and not try to get out

of the store as quickly as possible. Read what a lot of this stuff is, and research what a lot of this stuff is that are in these foods, preservatives and otherwise. I mean, my goodness, we research everything else in life. Why not research what we do at least two maybe three times a day? Right, yes, one hundred percent. Most people do not read the labels, and then the main reason can if they don't understand

it. So what I do is I teach my clients how to read the label was for the car, look for the dyes, looks for the artificial sweeteners, the sugars, the things that make us not feel good. Just like you know, having a food intolerance you want to look for the wheat and the core and things like that. Yeah, I mean, I'm looking at this pole that was done by Daily Harvest for Daily Harvest. I think

it was one pole that actually did the actual mechanism of it. But two thousand adults, they find that fifty four percent of those two thousand are either tired or twenty two percent say they're frustrated, and seventeen percent say they are sad by the end of their day. Now, again, that goes back to those neurotransmitters, right, it really does. It's going back to the neurotransmitters, but it's going back to poor gut health and that affects your neurotransmitters.

It also affects the inflammation in your body, which when your gut gets in inflamed, then you also get an inflamed brain, which causes brain fog, depression, and anxiety. Wow. Wow, I mean yeah, if you just again we go back to our original topic, you know, it just stands to reason. It also says there that one in four women about twenty three percent, were especially concerned that their dying didn't meet their needs, compared to just thirteen percent of men who felt the same way. Well,

of course, men don't think about a lot of things. Thirteen percent. I mean I found that number even too high. I think most of us, ninety five percent of men just throw something down our throat and they say, hey, that tasted good. That must have been good for me. But it does seem to affect women more than men, does it not? It really does, And you're right in the sense that women do pay a

little more attention. But it also has to do with the fact that women seem to be more deficient and fat, and women believe that eating fats makes us fat. It is absolutely not true. Eating healthy fat helps you fight fat, and so too many women are fat deficient, which gives you a low deficiency in your omega. Those are your those are your the fats that are really healthy for your brain health. You know, most your brain's made of fat. Yeah, So when you're like, my brain is full of

fat, grains full of fat, it is it really is. Well that's my problem right there. How did you know this? Eating wealthy fats is just huge And women are typically don't they They They still earn the nineties fad diet as low fat, and that is not good for it yeah, yeah, but there I mean, I obviously you've got to think about Okay, I I got I've got to avoid these kinds of but I also have to think about what I will eat. Now, correct me if I'm wrong.

But breakfast is the most important meal of the day, or so I've been led to believe. I hope my mother hasn't lied to me all these many years. But but oatmeal apparently is very good because it takes a long time to digest and so you don't feel like you need to eat right after that, and are very good to eat, and go down the list of like lean protein foods, even chicken, and things that you might not even think about, like oysters. They're good. They're a low fat protein that really

gets your gut in the right shape. Am I going down the right road with some of these things I'm talking about? A lot of that is true? Can I will say? Though? The mistake that people do is they leave breakfast needs to be done firsting in the morning. People don't understand that breakfast. If you break the word down, it means breaking your fast. So that's the time between you had your last meal the day before and the

first time you take a bite the next day. The mistake that people make can is they wake up, they eat too much, too early, and they eat something that's way too high in carves and sugar. And what it does is that sets the tone for today for your blood sugar. When you have too many carves to eat sugars first thing in the morning, your blood sugar dips, and then the rest of the day it's a roller coaster ride. You're constantly having food cravings. It makes you tired, it makes you

grouchy, get angry, right, hungry and angry. And that's the mistake people make. Oatmeal is the only one you listed that truly is the one that doesn't need to be your first meal to day because it is high in garbs. Well, what about fresh fruit? I mean, I like, you know, bananas, berries like blueberries, raspberry, strawberries no good in the morning or good in the morning because they have sugar. Yeah, so so sugar. Our bodies can't different differentiate between a figars bar and a banana,

So don't eat high sugar fruits in the morning. This morning I broke my fast. My breakfast it was yogurt with nope with no sugar, and then I added in the blueberries and pecans, stay away from high sugar fruits in the morning, stick to the berries and let your let your body just kind of gradually get in to eating those and try to keep the carbs and higher sugar fruits at lunch time. Did you say that our bodies don't know the difference between berries and snicker bars? Is that? Which is why am

I constantly drawn to the snicker bar. I can't walk buy one of those things without grabbing it, So I guess I probably they should disguise snicker bars as berries. Maybe. No, no, no, don't do that, because here's the thing your body does. Your body does get the bad chemicals and the hypercoased corn dirt from the candy. I'm just referring to the effect that it had on your blood sugar. Oh okay, okay, you scared me there for a minute. Nois don't eat snickers, okay, No,

Snicker's bad, Snickers bad, don'ty snickers? Okay, I got you, Okay. Jennat Johnson is our guest. Did you see this? I think it was in the past week. It came out about how ninety nine percent of the food that we eat has some sort of hormone altering effect on the body that could lead to cancer, largely because these foods are contained inside plast The casings like a bottle, a bottle of water, a bottle of syrup, bottle of ketchup. And it was frightening. It seemed almost inescapable.

The food that people just eat, like a can of beans or a box a box of cheerios. It's a how do how do we? How do we not? How do we do? How do we eat right and not take all day to prepare a simple meal? How does that happen? Because we all want the quick thing, So how do you do it? That's true, And a lot of the issue is what you just said, Ken, is that we were eating on the go. We're eating fast, we don't have time, we're busy, and we just grab And what that means

is that we normally end up grabbing something without really looking at it. It's a matter of convenience, and as I'm normals three, I understand that. So I tried to reach for things that I know are just going to be better for me, which would be something more like a frozen food I can heat up because I know that I know it's healthy. For me, looking for organic, I think people kind of have gotten up the organic phase and we really need to get back on it because it means that the food has

a lot less chemicals. It's put into a container that doesn't isn't going to leach out those chemicals that mess up our into corine systems. Yeah, and I was always taught. I don't know if you feel this this way too, but if it's got a label on it, chances are it's not as good as something that does not have a label on it. And that would be like fresh fruits, vegetables, whatever you go buy, you invariably have

to get something that has a label on it. But take the time to take the time to read the damn label when you're shopping right one hundred percent read the label. You know that also, don't put don't put plastic in a microwave, don't put syrofoam in a microwave. When you do, when you heat it up, it leads those chemicals into your foods. That is that is a known fact, and that's something that would really help out people a lot, just if you could just take a few more seconds into the

preparation process and you're eating things up. Then you're really saving your body from these chemicals that are very very harmful. Right, And don't put a cell phone in a microwave either, because that's not going to work out very well either. If it's that wet, go get a new cell phone. You would agree with that, right, Jenna. I'm serious about this. I want to eat better. It sounds like you figured it out, You've known about this all your life or are you just coming to all of this lately

or how did you come to this epiphany? Well, that is I discussed this in my new book that just came out is a number one Amazon bestseller. And I actually was got very very sick with chronic grinds these about seven years ago. And in that journey, ken is is when I learned the power of food. It was either my medicine or my poison. And that is that is the moment where I learned all I could about food that led me on the journey to becoming a nutritionist and in a catalyst in writing this

book. Wow, yeah, it's just out, I see within the last couple of weeks, and I believe the title of it is on fire truck your mind? Is that what it is well, it's uns your mind and you know I'm bald. My book is bald, and people asking why line green and black on the book the lime green's referencing line disease and limeas aware. But yes, I discussed I discussed this in my book How I overcame a disease that almost took my life, And I did that by learning how

to heal my gut and the power of food. Yeah, I think gut health is it seems like everybody goes to a gi guy because there's some sort of problem when a lot of it could be done at home just by eating the right stuff. Not all of it, certainly, but a lot of it could. And you're right, you'll feel better about yourself. You won't feel tired, and you won't feel you won't feel like you're angry or angry or whatever it may be. It's just it just like anything else in life,

Jena. It just requires a little bit of thought, right, it really does. And you know the reason that people feel tired when they eat can is they're eating too much. They're eating too much, too late or too early. Thereing too many carves, doing too much sugar, and also a lot of the times they're eating foods that have food allergens that are giving them the inflammation, like the gluten, the wheat, the corn, and for some people it's even eggs. And that's why we're feeling tired. We're

just not eating right. Right. Well, listen, I think you've enlightened a lot of us here and that's what we were looking for. And again, correct me if I'm wrong, But the best place to find you is Revive by Jenna and that's what two ends revived by Jena dot com. Am I right, that is correct, And I'm really big on Instagram. That's where I post the most and you can find all the update from my book, podcast and all that I'm doing there. You go. You're not just

a functional nutritional therapy practitioner with an integrated nutritional health coach. You're a poster with the mostess, a post us with the mostess. That's correct. Jannet was great to having you on here today. Me let's not be strangers on this. I'd love to have you on again if you've got some time and

your podcast give me where can we find your podcast? Now? We talked about the book Worse Yeah, based on every major podcasting platform as well as YouTube, and it's actually revived with Jana I. You can come revive with me and I'll teach you all. I know. Beautiful. I love it. Jane. You stay well. We need to hear your voice and let's do this again. Thank you, absolutely can, Thank you, good bet, Revive, revive, it's all. That's exactly what we want to do.

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