They're hinner it now by Billy Cunningham, the great American. Of course,
Red Space Park kicks off about six o five to night. They look terrible
last night. In fact, the last four games, the pitching stats giving
up, giving up about ten runs a game, ten runs a game,
and obviously the Red's offense can't overcome that. We'll see what happens tonight with
ebit and more, But until then, Liz Bonus is, of course the
great medical reporter for Channel twelveh w KRCTV, doing stories about Taylor Swift,
about Red's mental health, about the new virus going around, about the Wardenburger,
and more. Liz Bonus, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show and
Liz. Let's kick it off first with the Wardenburger. I had on the
Sheriff about an hour ago talking about how nutritious it is and how you want
to avoid that. But you may have a little bit of a different take
on the wardenburger. Before we talk about being a swiftie. Give me your
give me your thoughts on the Sheriff serving the same meal three times a day,
which is it looks like a piece of meat loaf between two dry pieces
of white bread and all the water you can drink. As a medical reporter,
well, what is your sense of that? So I actually have this
seriph come on our health so this week you can see the burger at what's
happening in health dot com and we try those burgers. They taste an awful
lot like tomato paste. I will say that there's a lot of tomato paste
in there, so you know, I'm a dietition by trade. It is
a healthful meal. The ingredients are Turkey and it's like a little bit of
a you know, celery onion carrots mix. You know, that's like a
soft meatloaf, a little dry. But the problem I have is it's kind
of inhumane. You already have a person in isolation and then three meals today
you're giving them this, which will meet nutritional needs. But come on,
you know, at some point we all know that using food as punishment or
reward is not the best system. And so you know your parents did that
stuff, and that's how you end up. Like I don't know if you
grew up in a big family, but food was scarce, so we would
hoard food. Like I've done entire health segments on you know, they bring
in a bunch of stuff that you wanted, and so you know, in
our house, you weren't allowed to bring food to your room. So I
would take like a banana and right on it, you know, eat this
and die because I wanted it for breakfast and it wouldn't be there the next
day. You know, if you grew up in a big family, you
know what the whole food is reward of punishment thing is about. It's horrible
and you're always fighting over food and you're waiting for food, and you want
food, and I don't know that that's the best thing to do when someone's
already in solitary confinance. Well, you're an expert Dietitian. Medical reporter Richard
K. Jones began as a jailer himself and the LCI Levin Correctional Institution and
which William C. Dallman was the warden. He's dealing with the worst of
the worst. It's hard to get to jail today. And if you get
to jail, you got to behave, and if you don't behave, then
you go into isolation. It's a solitary confinement. You get out one hour
a day and you eat three meals a day of this wardenburger, and after
twenty one times eating out, you're probably tired of it. Do you think
it's like a form of punishment to eat the wardenburger when you shouldn't be there
in the first place. And the sheriff's point was, look, you know
what's coming. If you act up in jail. You're getting fights. Here,
kick, somebody steals some buddy stuff, you go to solitary confinement called
isolation control, and part of the punishment is not having good food. Of
course, the food in the jail is not too good anyway, This is
a step below. So what would you concede? He probably knows more about
confinement than you do, but you know more about dietitians than he does.
Maybe the twain could meet. Would you eat the wardenburger if you had too,
if you were hungry, wouldn't you eat it? Yes? And I
did try it, So I want you to know I am giving an informed
taste. I'm simply saying, Willie, all of us, like it or
not, have had friends and relatives in the prison system. You know that.
Well, the person who started the fight gets in solitary confinements. So
to the person who is often the victim of the fight. So I'm not
a real san of you know, They're only supposed to be in there seven
days, and lots of times they're in there much longer. And so I'm
just saying I have a new empathy for some of our justice system things as
I've gotten very humbled and I've seen what can happen in people's lives, and
I think there's a lot of people in prison that shouldn't be, in a
lot of people behaving that should be. And I'm just saying, I'm just
saying, hey, I really think right now that the food thing, you
know, I guess that it's not nutritious, but whether or not the only
thing you have to look forward to in solitary confinement of food, and you're
taking that away too. I'm just saying, a touch of humaneness, okay
with me? Possibly the inmate, knowing what's coming, will refrain from the
behavior that put him in jail in the first place. And if you go
to solitary confinement, you're like the worst or the worst, But I guess
you and the sheriff can agree to disagree. Secondly, I head you on
repeatedly with COVID nineteen. And there's a big flap going on in Washington which
has become politicized that the Republicans want to say it came from the lab Ruhan
Lab, and the Democrats want to say it came from a wet market.
Now in either case, when I have on congressmen and have on representatives of
the medical industry from Washington, they tell me that most likely the American taxpayer
paid for the creation of COVID nineteen, so that in a Wuhan lab you
could try chures for the variations of COVID nineteen. There you could do things
there you can't do the United States of America. So we've largely come through
the COVID nineteen since I guess February or March of twenty twenty. My gosh,
it's been three and a half years. It can Liz Bonus give one
or two lessons to learn from this pandemic as it relates to Greater Cincinnati.
You and I can recall the hospitals overrun cities are shut down, certain businesses
open, some not. Are there one or two lessons that come to your
mind as an expert in the medical field, this, Yeah, I think
that two things that just jump out at you right from the top are that
we knew that kids were at low risk of having real severe disease from this,
and now we're seeing the learning fallout and the mental health fallout. Yes,
and you are meant to be with your friends and go to graduation and
have your prom and you don't. You know, we're saying, well,
we had to save lives over livelihood, and we had to save them.
You know, learning wasn't that important. But now they're taking their own lives
with suicide because they lost three years of their lives. And we're seeing kids
with learning disabilities who've never had them, with dyslexia and they can't make their
grades. And you know, we learned that that pause in schools was probably
not the best thing emotionally, physically, or spiritually for kids. That's my
outstanding one, the mental health thing. They'll carry over into all of us.
Like you know, I've friends that are like man, I started drinking
more Sin's COVID and it's because I didn't have anything to look forward to all
day except you know, that glass of wine at the end of the day.
And now I'm still drinking more because I started drinking more cod and you
know, I think that we don't recognize the importance that we are social being
people the people, and man, if you want to talk about the two
mess ups, it was closing schools and it was like that we didn't get
let people do the social things that we need to be mentally well and those
Yeah, that's a great that's a great point. We now know that this
particular virus attacked the elderly and those compromise systems, and largely kids were unaffected.
In fact, I've seen questions ask of doctor Fauci before he left on
others how many children who were otherwise healthy died or contracted the disease that went
into intensive care with no underlying conditions, And the answers come out like under
fifty I mean fifty thousand. That a couple dozen out of seventy five million.
It basically didn't happen. So there was an overreaction. Secondly, about
the wine. People self medicated, That is, wine, beer, booze
can become a medicine, and for many adult Americans who were taken away from
their routines, it became there's more to it's going to take us a generation
twenty years to come out of this thing. And the testing is so bad
in many schools they don't want to test anymore because they know the results are
going to be awful. So those two things that we can't keep that in
mind. Now. Thirdly, you told me off the air that there's a
new virus coming to town that's not like RSV, which, by the way,
I contracted during the middle of that thing. I thought I had COVID.
I got a hold of caryocus at christ It got me in for testing.
I had an RSV that kicked my ass. I thought, my god,
this is what it feels like to die. Never smoked, never used
drugs. I thought I was in good shape. But I spent three or
four days horizon, and there's a new virus going around. Tell the American
people about that. So how many people have you heard it's in the last
few weeks, Say, man, some virus kick in my butt. I've
such a negative for COVID twice, but I have all the symptoms of COVID,
the cost, the breathing trouble, the fevers, whatever. And it's
called the human metaneuma virus HMPV human metaneuma virus and it does. It has
all the same symptoms just about of COVID nineteen. And we don't know why
it's sort of circulating now, except that we know for the last couple of
years, these common viruses were not going around because we weren't mixing and we
were wearing masks and all the rest of that. And usually is it impacts
the very young and those that are older, and everybody else just feels like
they get a cold. But for some reason, now the people in the
middle are getting a cold time ten. So you survive it, but you
just feel like, like I said a friend who got back on vacation.
He said, for eleven days, I was knocked out and I was on
vacation. How do I get sick now? And I set up that you
had human menimum of virus. It gets the voice. That's usually where people
start to notice it. They can't speak, you know, it sounds like
there their horse, and then it kind of just goes through the whole respiratory
system. So if I were you, I'd be on the lookout for that.
They don't test for it. I talked to Steve Beagan's the Timilton County
Public Health director about it. They don't usually test for it until you're in
the hospital, and that's how they know that this virus is on the rise,
because you don't usually, like COVID, have to go in the hospital
unless you're immunocompromise or you're you know, an older adult with lung problems.
So we know it's climbing. It's up about you know what it was at
this time last year, and we only know that from the hospital test.
So again, it's like COVID nineteen, it's not over. It's out there.
But if you've got like the lingering aftermath of a cold, and it's
like staying and you can't get rid of it, and you know, your
doctor tells you you don't have a bacterial infection, so anibios are going to
help it. You've got to ride this storm, but you're gonna feel awful
for as much as a couple of weeks. I know. Lastly, way
is a problem for almost all Americans. You're skinny, you could use a
change burger here and there. But nonetheless, I'm looking at these miracle drugs
that are coming out, one involving diabetes, and this is going to be
if somehow some person could take a pill, or take a drug or inhiler
of one type and the pounds is fall off. You describe what's happening at
the cutting edge of medicine when it comes to these new diet drugs. So
this is very interesting. Ozempics, it's known or there's a stemaglutide as the
generic name, started as a diabetes drug and people were able to control that
average blood sugar humicle at a one C. But then they noticed they were
seriously losing weight. So the company started testing it as a weight loss product
and they said, hey, this works. So the average person can go
on it and lose if you're in the BMI range of obesity, lose twenty
thirty forty pounds. And what it does is it changes the way it's absorbed
in the got and that messes a little bit with your hunger signals and your
fullness signals, so you feel full and so you stop eating. But keep
in mind, you're still losing weight because you're eating less. You know,
like that's what you're doing. You're eating less because you don't have the desire.
But I will say the idea of a daily obesity pill has been you
know, in the obesity as a disease field for a very long time.
The problem is that there's this thing called like ozempic rebound, and if you
go off it lots of times you gain the weight back. So what we
don't know is we know that a few years out these are safety take we
don't know if five years out, ten years out, you know what the
other complications are yet. Remember, you know, we had a horrible problem
when everybody went on fen fen as an off label use, and we didn't
know it till later. So I think they're being cautiously optimistic that we may
be able to take this injectable and put it in a pill and you would
take a daily obesity pill, which again if you are that's in your family,
and even in especial if you have diabetes, they can make a big
difference overall. But we just don't know yet if it's going to be the
magic pill. Again, you're losing weight because you're consuming less food. You
have a desire to consume less and you feel full and that's good, but
keep in mind, you still got to eat less. It's kind of hard.
It's kind of hard to eat when you're not hungry. If I'm not
hungry, I don't eat, so something that would suppress your desire to eat
would be important. But all I remember stan Chesley and fen Fen, and
I'm thinking, before I take anything, I'm going to consult with the best
doctors I can because I could stand to lose five to ten pounds. You
probably could stand. I could give you five to ten pounds and you'd be
better off. But in my case, I could I could to lose five
or ten. I mean, ten pounds would be great, and if it's
easy to do, but I also find out if I don't eat certain foods,
I don't put weight on anyway. Well, once again, Liz Bonus,
thank you for coming on, but the warden Burger is not going to
be in your diet anytime soon. You could have the warden Burger and takeo
Zempek, in which case you would never gain any weight. Infect you'd have
to lose weight because nobody wants to eat those things anyway. But that's a
difference. So I'm just telling you it's you think it's gonna be like the
magic pill and all that, but never we got a lot to find out
before we just go and do that. And by the way, it's not
for your five or ten pounds. It's still you need to meet obesity criteria,
which is a BMI above thirty five. You wouldn't qualify unless you were
taking it like you know, on the on the illegal market, which I
want to do. And all I think about this fenfin. All I think
about is fen fan, which case I'm not taking it. But nonetheless,
let's bonus. Lastly, we have twenty seconds. Are you as swift?
E um? I love Taylor's music. I am not going to be anywhere
near down no between between Taylor Swift, the Reds and FC. This is
a tim nightmare this weekend. I'm staying Ken would enjoy myself in Chase sing
a little white Ball. That's what I'll be doing. Oh good for you,
That's what I'm doing. Liz bone As, You're the best. And
once again, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham. Sure, thank
you, Liz. All right, thank you. Let's continue with more.
All I can think about the diet drugs is finfin and that's a bad imagery.
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