Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. You got to know the rule
Speaker 1: to break the rules. Sometimes you do not need to
Speaker 1: be a rule follower. Okay, Sometimes you need to realize
Speaker 1: that your common sense is there for a reason, and
Speaker 1: your common sense is this cycle has gone through three times,
Speaker 1: it does not turn green. Let's go ahead and go
Speaker 1: with the other green traffic straight ahead when there's no
Speaker 1: cars coming in the opposite direction. We should be fine, folks.
Speaker 1: Let's let's be adults here.
Speaker 2: Didn't work out that way.
Speaker 1: It took a while, but then when the floodgates opened,
Speaker 1: there was no stopping that line of cars through the red.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What is the Oh? Thanks, I totually forgot my Wow.
Speaker 1: You have people bringing you your wife.
Speaker 2: He just brought you there.
Speaker 1: This is a cut sheet. That's like part of the job,
Speaker 1: not bringing you water. What do you handle?
Speaker 2: I just my big jug in the other room. I
Speaker 2: can jugs.
Speaker 1: We get some ham and cheese.
Speaker 3: What is the what is the allotted time for there
Speaker 3: to be a red light that doesn't turn green that
Speaker 3: you can finally go through.
Speaker 1: I'd say one cycle of knowing. I mean, because if
Speaker 1: you go this way to get to the two ten,
Speaker 1: you go every morning pretty much. These aren't new people,
Speaker 1: so you know when the cycle is supposed to hit green.
Speaker 1: You know how it works, you know, And so I
Speaker 1: think one missed green through one cycle.
Speaker 4: Yourself, Okay, something's wrong? And uh okay, I think this
Speaker 4: one three cycles.
Speaker 3: And I'm a generally, I'm a rule follower, so I
Speaker 3: would be the guy who would at least wait that one.
Speaker 2: But there's a star, I'd wait the.
Speaker 1: One because how do you know? Then you're just running
Speaker 1: the red light?
Speaker 2: Did you make it?
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you? Okay? I made it? Okay?
Speaker 1: By hairs on my chin?
Speaker 3: The irony of you wearing a red shirt while talking
Speaker 3: about red lights?
Speaker 2: Also, is it a lot? That's a lot? Okay? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I apologiz. Have you planned that?
Speaker 3: Universe planned it and you just fell prey to the
Speaker 3: universe's plan? The universe is powerful, Yeah, gave you a
Speaker 3: red light? What are the red things could happen today?
Speaker 3: I mean outside of like speaking of China's Chinese tariffs and.
Speaker 1: Stuff China, I mean, what more could you have?
Speaker 2: It seems like there's a lot of things going on here.
Speaker 1: Interesting, a flesh wound, I could get a flesh wound.
Speaker 2: Why would you do that?
Speaker 1: Bleed from it?
Speaker 2: Oh my blood is red when.
Speaker 1: It comes out, as opposed to blue when it stays in.
Speaker 3: People said, that's not really true. It's just darker red.
Speaker 3: Who cares? And why would you argue about that.
Speaker 1: Dark red is blue? I know, yes, but the.
Speaker 2: Idea that people will be like you guys are so lame.
Speaker 1: Oh we got oh my god, we got one of those.
Speaker 4: I think it was a Facebook message over the weekend
Speaker 4: and it was someone who was so pissed off with us.
Speaker 4: It's thing, Oh god, I don't know where it is now.
Speaker 1: But I was like, sir, you don't remember what it was.
Speaker 1: It was so silly.
Speaker 4: It was so silly, and it was like, great job, guys,
Speaker 4: we'd go like you said it was wonderbread when it
Speaker 4: was really weep bread.
Speaker 1: Good job, you idiots.
Speaker 2: It's a way to go. It's really donchic.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even that. I can understand somebody getting upset
Speaker 1: with scrawling up a pronunciation or something like that, but
Speaker 1: it was something so ridiculous and it's like, clearly it
Speaker 1: was not about the milk. Well, clearly there's something going
Speaker 1: on that person's life.
Speaker 3: Oh, cloudy this morning, this afternoon, it's going to be
Speaker 3: more cloudy. I think by late tonight is when we
Speaker 3: expect to see some rain here in southern California.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, when we were doing show prep, it was called
Speaker 1: an atmospheric river. Today it's called a Pineapple Express.
Speaker 4: I mean, if we could just get our fear click
Speaker 4: bait in order and be clear about what exactly it is,
Speaker 4: I would be great.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you can just throw everything at the wall.
Speaker 3: Sometimes have to name everything. Also, this is also just rain.
Speaker 3: It's February. But when they say atmospheric river or Pineapple Express,
Speaker 3: you start to think, well, it's gonna be several inches
Speaker 3: of rain.
Speaker 2: That's not the case.
Speaker 3: I mean, especially tonight's storm is you know, maybe you
Speaker 3: get a half an inch of rain in downtown LA.
Speaker 3: That's not a lot compared to by the way, Mount
Speaker 3: tamil Pious, Yeah, had ten and a half inches.
Speaker 2: Of rain over seventy two hours.
Speaker 1: It's got to be beautiful.
Speaker 3: That's up in northern California and Morin because they've they've
Speaker 3: been getting rain for a couple of days now. They've
Speaker 3: actually been doing pretty well storm wise. They have hit
Speaker 3: a lot more. They're more regular when it comes to
Speaker 3: the rainfall they've had so far this season compared to
Speaker 3: southern California, where we've had nothing.
Speaker 1: They haven't been to Mount Tamond forever.
Speaker 3: But tonight and Thursday nights when we expect to see
Speaker 3: some rain, we'll talk next hour, we'll talk about there's
Speaker 3: there's more to it, because they're concerned about obviously the
Speaker 3: burn scars and the potential that for mudslides and debris
Speaker 3: flow and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Before my husband and I were married, you know, he
Speaker 1: likes to hike, and he also does not care about
Speaker 1: hiking trails. He likes to just get out there and go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the old people did it, I mean the way
Speaker 3: they did it in the old days, right, not the
Speaker 3: old people, right.
Speaker 4: But old people do that too. That's why they get
Speaker 4: lost and we have silver alerts. But anyway, yeah, this
Speaker 4: was now.
Speaker 1: Of course I have hiking trails and maps coming out
Speaker 1: my ears when I go on a hike with him.
Speaker 1: But this was back when I was like, okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: and I would just follow him hiking. And there was
Speaker 1: a forty nine er game on that afternoon that we
Speaker 1: started hiking him out tam and let's just say, we
Speaker 1: just went, let's just go. I think we're the words.
Speaker 1: And the hike ended up being a much longer hike
Speaker 1: than one wanted because someone wanted to be home for
Speaker 1: kickoff and someone was not. And fact like.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of people in this story when there's
Speaker 3: really only two people, right, huh.
Speaker 1: Anyway, so let's just after that day, we know where
Speaker 1: the trail ends, we know how long it's going to take,
Speaker 1: and we don't go on Sunday.
Speaker 3: The tariffs were not imposed on Canada, as we kind
Speaker 3: of predicted yesterday during the show.
Speaker 2: There was a phone call.
Speaker 3: There was a discussion between Justin Trudeau and President Trump.
Speaker 3: So they've paused the tariffs against Canada for another thirty days,
Speaker 3: similar to what we saw with Mexico. But the ten
Speaker 3: percent additional tariffs were imposed on China, where we will
Speaker 3: start seeing those price increases.
Speaker 2: It was probably in our drug cabinet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like prescription drugs pretty much across the
Speaker 1: board when it comes to generics. I had no idea
Speaker 1: how many generic prescription drugs were made in China. We'll
Speaker 1: tell you which drugs specifically, could you see the changes
Speaker 1: in pretty much within the next couple months. I say
Speaker 1: that these drug companies have contracts that expire every six
Speaker 1: months or so, so it may take a couple month,
Speaker 1: but you will see hike in those generic prices. RFK
Speaker 1: Junior's nomination for head of the Department of the HHS
Speaker 1: is heading to the Senate floor. Vote was fourteen to
Speaker 1: thirteen at the Senate Committee, voting along party lines. Later today,
Speaker 1: Tulci Gabbert faces a critical committee vote as well.
Speaker 3: She actually got a couple of people, Todd Young I believe,
Speaker 3: out of Indiana and Maine Susan Collins, have said that
Speaker 3: they would vote to confirm her, So she may actually
Speaker 3: get out of committee, despite everybody saying that she wouldn't.
Speaker 6: What I have discussed is we'll have some good meetings
Speaker 6: with China. We have meetings planned and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 6: But that was just an opening salva. If we can't
Speaker 6: make a deal with China, then the tariffs will be very,
Speaker 6: very substantial.
Speaker 2: So Beijing fought back.
Speaker 3: We imposed ten percent terraffs on a bunch of different
Speaker 3: ten percent additional tariffs on a bunch of different products.
Speaker 3: As of midnight Eastern time, and they announced a broad
Speaker 3: package of economic measures to target the UNIS United States
Speaker 3: to hit back at those terriffs.
Speaker 1: They say this will likely drive up the cost of
Speaker 1: generic drugs and the US. About half of generic drugs
Speaker 1: we take here in the United States, including cancer drugs, antibiotics,
Speaker 1: blood thinners, are made entirely overseas. Obviously, manufacturing is cheaper there,
Speaker 1: and even greater share of active pharmaceutical ingredients are called
Speaker 1: APIs used in these drugs comes from abroad eighty percent
Speaker 1: up to eighty percent. Now, China is obviously at the
Speaker 1: forefront of making these materials.
Speaker 2: How do we not look at those numbers and think
Speaker 2: to ourselves.
Speaker 3: We've got a problems based on our relationship currently with
Speaker 3: China that that's not a national security issue. What happens
Speaker 3: in the event that China says we're not going to
Speaker 3: send any of these drugs or the precursors for these
Speaker 3: drugs pharmaceuticals specifically, we're not going to send you prescription
Speaker 3: drugs or the precursors for these prescription drugs anymore.
Speaker 1: Do you have any idea Did you know that that
Speaker 1: that high of a percentage of drugs I knew.
Speaker 3: It was significance, okay, but until this, until this issue
Speaker 3: came up about the tariffs, I didn't.
Speaker 2: Realize that it was mean too.
Speaker 1: I had a feeling that that's what was happening, but
Speaker 1: I didn't know it was that high. That would be
Speaker 1: the number one, by and large, head and shoulders above
Speaker 1: anything else that would piss people off in this country.
Speaker 1: If you mess with people's drugs, people's pills, holy health.
Speaker 3: And I mean, yes, it's anger inducing, but also then
Speaker 3: what happens to people's health?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: I mean, if these drugs are life saving, many of
Speaker 3: them are. They're not all, but many of them are
Speaker 3: life saving, and we cut off that supply immediately. There's
Speaker 3: no way that we can replicate that quickly. There's no
Speaker 3: way you can stand up an entire pharmaceutical industry quickly
Speaker 3: to keep the people healthy.
Speaker 1: The only thing I can think of in terms of
Speaker 1: the how does this happen? How do we let this happen? Question,
Speaker 1: is that China needs us as much as we need them.
Speaker 1: We need them to make the pills cheaper, They need
Speaker 1: us for a variety of Financially.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have us to buy it exactly.
Speaker 3: I just I feel like My wife and I have
Speaker 3: this conversation all the time because we have scintillating conversations
Speaker 3: like this, isn't it possible that China is just trying
Speaker 3: to drug us into lethargic?
Speaker 1: I had the exact same thought. The processed foods, yes,
Speaker 1: the screens, the AI, the drugs, I mean, all the
Speaker 1: things that make us sheep and thoughtless brainstems are coming
Speaker 1: from China.
Speaker 2: And the plastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's I think that's sexy conversation.
Speaker 3: I mean plastic in the in the idea of go
Speaker 3: to a go to a store and I'm not going
Speaker 3: to name names, but go to a discount store where
Speaker 3: you could buy things four oh slightly under a dollar
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 2: The majority of the things.
Speaker 3: That you're buying are made in China and are all
Speaker 3: we're doing is then shoving it into a garage or
Speaker 3: a storage facility so that the tanks come rolling off
Speaker 3: of the amphibious vehicles at Oxnard and we're tripping over
Speaker 3: plastic and we can't defend ourselves.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of plastics, we're going to get into it.
Speaker 1: There was an article in the Washington Post that found
Speaker 1: that we have at least a spoonful of plastics in
Speaker 1: our brain. Because of how common these plastics are. I
Speaker 1: don't even know why we're calling the microplastics anymore.
Speaker 2: Because they're any bitty If.
Speaker 1: They're a spoonful in our brain. How many spoonfuls do
Speaker 1: you think you've got up there?
Speaker 2: Couple couples. I had a lot of.
Speaker 1: Well you've got the lead in there too, process.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: The lead from the paint? Yes, ah, I think there
Speaker 3: was a lot of leaded paint around. I letted fuel maybe,
Speaker 3: but not leaded paint when I was here.
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, you don't think you've been expected. I mean,
Speaker 1: do you went to public school in the eighties. We
Speaker 1: were all exposed to leaded that's all it was.
Speaker 2: That and't as best as floors. Oh my god, he.
Speaker 3: Used to walk around, roll around on the floor, play
Speaker 3: with the little fibers.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'd lick that lead paint right off the walls.
Speaker 2: You went to a different school than I did.
Speaker 1: The jokes right themselves, don't they It's almost like we
Speaker 1: can't even make them because they're too easy.
Speaker 3: Well, I understand the idea of a former president and
Speaker 3: the speaking tour that would be expected, right, I mean
Speaker 3: Bill Clinton has made millions of dollars.
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton was the president in his early mid forties
Speaker 1: and was a great speaker from go. Joe Biden's never
Speaker 1: been a great speaker. It's not his thing. He's a
Speaker 1: guy who reaches across the aisle. Everyone loved Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: That's why he had such a long career in the Senate.
Speaker 1: But being a great orador is not his situation.
Speaker 2: Would heyst what if.
Speaker 3: He does a whole corn pop movie, like sells the
Speaker 3: rights to a corn Pops.
Speaker 1: These are the jokes I was speaking of, although I
Speaker 1: did not get that far in my creativity process. I'm
Speaker 1: in like a corn pop like maybe Dennis Quaid's in
Speaker 1: it as Joe Biden kind of made for TV Hallmark situation.
Speaker 1: He plays a lot of those religious made for TV
Speaker 1: movie type le okay, So I see him as maybe
Speaker 1: the middle aged Joe Biden looking back at the young
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Maybe there's a pool in the valley somewhere,
Speaker 1: a public pool in the valley that still has a
Speaker 1: diving board, because I believe a diving board was prominent
Speaker 1: in the corn Pop story.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because he talked about he was yelling at him, Hey, there,
Speaker 3: get off of that board up there.
Speaker 2: You can't do that, right, I don't remember.
Speaker 7: There's got to be a public pool in the valley
Speaker 7: with a diving board. Yeah, and like a ledge where
Speaker 7: he could put his legs, legs. Yeah, kids, gangs. Wasn't
Speaker 7: corn pop in a gang.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was an organized gang, but yeah,
Speaker 3: it was a gang.
Speaker 2: Quick fire update.
Speaker 3: The donations are still coming in, but organizers of that
Speaker 3: fire aid benefit concert from last Thursday night said that
Speaker 3: they will probably end up raising more than one hundred million.
Speaker 2: Dollars for wildfire recovery.
Speaker 3: The first round of the fire a G grants should
Speaker 3: be awarded by mid February, and today a banner day
Speaker 3: for spaceflight. They're expecting five different rocket launches around the
Speaker 3: world in the next twenty four hours. SpaceX launched a
Speaker 3: batch of Starlink satellites this morning, Blue Origin that's Jeff
Speaker 3: Bezos's group helps to send up an uncrewed research capsule.
Speaker 3: A New Zealand space company has a rocket launch, the
Speaker 3: Russians have a rocket launch, and then SpaceX rounds out
Speaker 3: the day with a second launch from Kennedy Space Center
Speaker 3: over in Florida.
Speaker 1: Do we think do you think we could have your
Speaker 1: wife on to break down the Baldoni Blake Lively fight,
Speaker 1: because I keep seeing deep dives on it and I'm intrigued.
Speaker 1: But I want the cliff notes version, Like I don't
Speaker 1: want to put time and effort into reading through all
Speaker 1: the things. I just want someone to hit me at
Speaker 1: the highlights. Too much time, So just an idea, speaking
Speaker 1: of your wife.
Speaker 2: Or likely respond to your text in mine?
Speaker 1: Really she gets mine.
Speaker 2: All the time.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe you shouldn't send her superfluous messages.
Speaker 2: Like the word superfluous.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's speaking of your wife. It's a big day
Speaker 1: in the Hoffman household. Something for everybody on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1: You've got RFK and Tulsi Gabbart.
Speaker 2: Here was was fourteen eyes thirteen nays. The boat was
Speaker 2: fourteen thirteen. The nomination is reported.
Speaker 4: Are you guys just gonna throw on c SPAN and
Speaker 4: have dinner and watch that look together?
Speaker 2: Candle just romantic music in the background. I don't think.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, honey, Tulci's coming up.
Speaker 2: She speaks. Yeah, So Kennedy's out of the Finance Committee.
Speaker 3: It's likely that rfk's nomination to take over as HHS
Speaker 3: Secretary goes to the full Senate next week, and it
Speaker 3: was a surprise. Bill Cassidy, a doctor, this was the
Speaker 3: committee member that they were most concerned about voting no.
Speaker 3: And while he is a doctor and as a doctor,
Speaker 3: apparently had some issues with the vaccine thoughts of RFK Junior.
Speaker 3: He eventually decided that he was going to go with
Speaker 3: RFK Junior to vote to move him out of committee
Speaker 3: to the final full Senate floor. One of the reasons, potentially,
Speaker 3: I don't know much about his thinking because he didn't
Speaker 3: really speak much about it.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 3: He represents a state that went for Trump by twenty
Speaker 3: two points, and if Bill Cassidy's up for reelection anytime soon,
Speaker 3: that's going to be something that he's going to want
Speaker 3: to pay attention to. You do not go against the
Speaker 3: president when the president wins by twenty two points in
Speaker 3: your state. Tulsea Gabbard maybe a different issue. This was
Speaker 3: her from her confirmation hearing last week, is.
Speaker 5: Edward snowed In a trader to the United States of America.
Speaker 4: As someone who has to go on in combat, I
Speaker 4: understand how critical our national security.
Speaker 2: Farely you don't.
Speaker 3: She kept it calm, but didn't really answer the question
Speaker 3: about Edward Snowe.
Speaker 2: That's one of the things.
Speaker 3: But the Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to vote today
Speaker 3: and vote to pass her on to the floor session,
Speaker 3: to the floor of the Senate for Director of National Intelligence.
Speaker 3: There were two key Republicans who had come out and
Speaker 3: suggested that they would in fact vote to confirm her,
Speaker 3: Republican Senator Todd Young from Indiana and Senator Susan Collins
Speaker 3: out of Maine. She's probably the more Commons. She actually
Speaker 3: voted against Pete Hegseth, her Secretary of Defense. So it's
Speaker 3: not a guarantee that Tulca Gabbert or even RFK Junior
Speaker 3: do get confirmed, but it does make it more likely.
Speaker 3: It is also possible that somebody votes to get the
Speaker 3: nomination out of committee and then votes against that person
Speaker 3: once they make it to the full floor of the Center,
Speaker 3: so we'll see where that goes.
Speaker 2: But both of those final votes are.
Speaker 3: Expected if Gabbard is passed by the committee today.
Speaker 2: The full vote is expected sometime next week.
Speaker 1: A new study shows microplastics are making their way into brains,
Speaker 1: which means cognitive decline.
Speaker 3: Gary Shannon kfi AM six forty Live everywhere on the
Speaker 3: iHeart Radio of Top of the Hour, we'll talk about
Speaker 3: what we can expect when it comes to rain. Also
Speaker 3: sort of a fire round. Up State Farm is now
Speaker 3: complaining that those little sausage rolls. Do you see those
Speaker 3: little sausage roll about the puff paste? Don't say no,
Speaker 3: sweet and salty piggies in a blanket?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, those are those are on the list.
Speaker 1: Are they really on the list? Don't tell me they're
Speaker 1: on the list.
Speaker 2: If they're on the list, Wow, I've had the recipe already.
Speaker 2: She told me. She's the one who told me about it.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really excited.
Speaker 3: So we got to write that down State Farm. What
Speaker 3: they want a high insurance rates because they have to
Speaker 3: pay up. And then Rick Caruso is acting very responsible.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's starting this new foundation called Steadfast LA
Speaker 3: and he's doing things that the government can't do but
Speaker 3: should do. I'll actually hear from some of his interviews
Speaker 3: of the last couple of days.
Speaker 5: Hey, guys, adults are not supposed to drink milk after
Speaker 5: a certain point. It's not good for your digestive system.
Speaker 5: But anyways, there is all kinds of different almond milks
Speaker 5: and oat milks My favorite, and it's actually really healthy
Speaker 5: for it is the oat and almond milk combined. We've
Speaker 5: got good protein in there and none of these unhealthy
Speaker 5: stuff for adults.
Speaker 3: I just feel like those milks, almonds and oats and
Speaker 3: coconut and all that sort of stuff, it's just a
Speaker 3: lot of chemicals. That's That's an impression I get. And
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's true or not.
Speaker 8: Hey there does to say. Man, you guys just can't
Speaker 8: stop the fear mongering. I mean, it's incredible. You know,
Speaker 8: the amount of drugs we get from India is far
Speaker 8: greater than what we get from China. And yeah, we
Speaker 8: can actually gear up and make all that stuff pretty quick.
Speaker 8: Gear who wanted to maybe we're going to have.
Speaker 2: To now, Okay, well, if we could, that's great.
Speaker 3: China actually represents about twenty five percent of the pharmaceutical
Speaker 3: imports to the United States. Mexico is second at about
Speaker 3: nineteen percent. India is third at about fifteen percent. So
Speaker 3: we don't just make things up. It's not as I mean,
Speaker 3: some of it we do well.
Speaker 1: The dumb stuff.
Speaker 2: Dumb stuff is easier to make up. I can't fact
Speaker 2: check our dumb stuff.
Speaker 1: A paper published yesterday and Nature Medicine found that tiny
Speaker 1: fragments of plaids sticker passing the blood brain barrier and
Speaker 1: into our brains, and that the amount of microplastics in
Speaker 1: the brain appears to be increasing over time. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to be a fearmonger here, but the plastics
Speaker 1: are not always from India. The concentration of microplastics analyzed
Speaker 1: in our brains rose by about fifty percent from twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen to twenty twenty four, So you have to ask
Speaker 1: yourself what changed or have they just started monitoring microplastics
Speaker 1: of a brain that.
Speaker 2: Might be part of it.
Speaker 3: Scientists were examining the brains of twelve deceased patients who
Speaker 3: have been diagnosed with dementia and found that they those
Speaker 3: deceased patients with dementia they had three to five times
Speaker 3: as much microplastics as other brains. The reason they call
Speaker 3: them micro plastics they're less than five millimeters in size,
Speaker 3: smaller than a pencil eraser, and they said they're either
Speaker 3: manufactured or they actually slough off of plastic objects. Nano
Speaker 3: plastics are even smaller than that and can be a
Speaker 3: fraction of the width of a human hair. Most of
Speaker 3: the microplastics found in the brains were, in fact the
Speaker 3: smaller version on that nanoscale. And they said a lot
Speaker 3: of plastic items things that we don't necessarily think about,
Speaker 3: but they've become ubiquitous in our everyday life. Plastic bags,
Speaker 3: water bottles, tires, polyester, even synthetic clothing can actually shed
Speaker 3: small fragments or fibers that make their way into the air.
Speaker 3: You breathe them in the food, you eat them, the
Speaker 3: water you drink them. Many of those particles end up
Speaker 3: burrowing into the body. And it's not just the brain
Speaker 3: where they coagulate or where they gather. The microplastics have
Speaker 3: been identified in people's livers, in placentas, in blood, in testicles,
Speaker 3: and even in certain arteries that lead to the heart.
Speaker 1: Testicles. They burrow in testicles.
Speaker 3: They can I mean they end up there. That's not like,
Speaker 3: how do they end up there circulation. Have you ever
Speaker 3: seen a human body?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, oh, so it goes into But they're talking.
Speaker 3: About the smallest, smallest, little particles of plastics potentially due
Speaker 3: to your testicles. Probably nothing nothing good. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: a foreign object. I'm going to google that what do
Speaker 3: microplastics do to your Researchers looked at brain samples that
Speaker 3: went back to nineteen ninety seven and found that they
Speaker 3: followed the same trend. More recent samples had much higher
Speaker 3: volumes of microplastics. They found no correlation with how old
Speaker 3: the person was when they died.
Speaker 1: Do you want to hear about the effects on testicular health? Sure,
Speaker 1: studies show that there has been inflammation that microplastics trigger
Speaker 1: inflammation and stress in the testicles, which may damage testicular tissue,
Speaker 1: which may be one of the things that goes into
Speaker 1: the low birth rate, low sperm count, right, hormonal distribution.
Speaker 1: I'm not just bringing up balls because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: be cute or for the sake of bringing up balls.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about reproductively, like what happened future. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: if it's in the testicles, that means it's in your baby, right.
Speaker 2: Not necessarily, but well it's used to.
Speaker 1: Create your baby exactly. Yeah. They There have been numerous
Speaker 1: studies in animals that suggest that the microplastics do reduce
Speaker 1: sperm count and quality. So how do we eradicate the
Speaker 1: plastics from our lives.
Speaker 3: Well, for one thing, we stop building playgrounds with giant
Speaker 3: pressed plastic molds for our slides and go back to
Speaker 3: those hot metal ones that we used to do as kids.
Speaker 1: The hot metal ones were great because you were rolling
Speaker 1: the dice. Am I going to get a third degree burn? Maybe?
Speaker 1: But will I have fun doing it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, I leave a giant skid mark of raw skin
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