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Speaker 3: those who are afflicted are young, under the age of five.
Speaker 3: Cases of fever and headache and cough and difficulty breathing
Speaker 3: and anemia first reported October twenty fourth in a southwestern
Speaker 3: province of Quongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Speaker 2: That should be fun, That should be fun well, and
Speaker 2: then still should be okay.
Speaker 3: New artificial intelligence based weather model could deliver fifteen day
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Speaker 3: could potentially save lives. Gen Cast is what it's being called,
Speaker 3: showed better forecasting skill than the current world leading model.
Speaker 3: So the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts. By
Speaker 3: the way they throw a great holiday party, produces predictions
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Speaker 1: Pete is a winner, and there is nothing that can
Speaker 1: be done to change that. That is Trump on truth
Speaker 1: Social about his pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete haig Seth.
Speaker 4: It's where we kick off swampwatch.
Speaker 2: Swamp is horrible the government. We're gonna make it like
Speaker 2: a reality TV show.
Speaker 5: Was a bad boos.
Speaker 4: Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, DC.
Speaker 1: Hey, Joe after a town all too clearly built on
Speaker 1: a swamp and in so many ways still a swamp.
Speaker 2: I have a watch of Malwarkee Boy, he said, drained
Speaker 2: the swamp. I said, Oh, that's so hell keep happens,
Speaker 2: you know the thing?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know exactly how, but Trump says he
Speaker 3: still believes that peaks at Pete Hegseth has a chance
Speaker 3: to be confirmed as Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 4: This morning.
Speaker 1: He went on a truth Social said that hag Seth's
Speaker 1: support is strong and deep among Congress. He says he's
Speaker 1: doing very well, much more so than the fake news
Speaker 1: would have you believe. He was a great student Princeton,
Speaker 1: Harvard educated with a military state of mind. He will
Speaker 1: be fantastic, high energy secretary of Defense. Defense one. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but it did he write it twice? Yes,
Speaker 1: one who leads with charisma and skill. He is a winter.
Speaker 3: You've made this point multiple times, the things that he
Speaker 3: is accused of, whether it's having a couple of pops
Speaker 3: at a work event, which by the way, no one
Speaker 3: has put their name to. All these allegations that he's
Speaker 3: shown up drunk to work or was even on air
Speaker 3: at Fox drunk.
Speaker 4: They've been kind of watered down to. He was hungover
Speaker 4: a couple times, right.
Speaker 3: Allegations of sexual assault, which he says were consensual. Yes,
Speaker 3: he did pay a woman and no charges were brought
Speaker 3: in that case. Of course, the email where his mom
Speaker 3: ripped him a new one for the way that he
Speaker 3: was treating his wives and previous girlfriends. Does any of
Speaker 3: that matter when it comes to his job as Secretary
Speaker 3: of Defense.
Speaker 1: The drinking would, but he has said it's not an
Speaker 1: issue and that he would abstain completely for the entire
Speaker 1: duration of him having that job, but him running.
Speaker 4: Around on women, how does that.
Speaker 3: Well outside of like we said back when this all
Speaker 3: came up, you know, that does violate rules within the
Speaker 3: Uniform Code of Military Justice. But is he an active
Speaker 3: member of the military at the time, which I don't
Speaker 3: know the timeline specifically of his dalliances, and I you
Speaker 3: know it, would he be able to convince enough senators
Speaker 3: and not just Democratic senators because I don't think any
Speaker 3: of them are going to vote for him. Would he
Speaker 3: be able to convince the Republican senators that that type
Speaker 3: of history should not be taken into account or should
Speaker 3: not disqualify him from being confirmed as Secretary of State.
Speaker 3: According to The Hill, that least one Republican senator says
Speaker 3: there are seven or eight votes against him in the
Speaker 3: Republican Party right and that it's just a matter of
Speaker 3: time before hag Seth drops out or is.
Speaker 2: Asked to take to take his name out of consideration.
Speaker 1: He has yet to meet with Murkowski and Susan Collins.
Speaker 3: Those are losses, I mean, those are uphill battles for him. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 3: there is I guess there is a chance I don't
Speaker 3: think it's a good chance, but there is a chance
Speaker 3: that he is able to convince senators that's not who
Speaker 3: I am now. And at what point do we give
Speaker 3: somebody an opportunity to rebuild their reputation.
Speaker 4: I kind of think you are who you are at
Speaker 4: that point.
Speaker 3: Well, my question is, listen, if one of the things
Speaker 3: that but doesn't matter. I guess one of the things
Speaker 3: that Trump wants is a guy who was a boots
Speaker 3: on the ground guy. He doesn't want a military administrator.
Speaker 3: He doesn't want somebody who was promoted simply because of
Speaker 3: some immutable characteristic that they didn't have control. That's not
Speaker 3: who he wants as secretary of Defense. He wants somebody
Speaker 3: who knows what's going on at the ground level. But
Speaker 3: you're telling me there's no one else. There's no one
Speaker 3: in that circle that would be able to fit that
Speaker 3: qualification that does not have this baggage with him.
Speaker 1: At least one Pentagon official spoke to Politico says, the
Speaker 1: biggest thing I'm picking up is a level of discomfort
Speaker 1: and uncertainty at the Pentagon. People want to know who
Speaker 1: their leadership is going to be and what they're going
Speaker 1: to be asked to do. These are professionals who can
Speaker 1: put personal feelings aside. They say that Trump's team Trump
Speaker 1: Team's delay and signing an agreement with the White House
Speaker 1: means the Pentagon and other agencies are in a holding
Speaker 1: pattern until transition officials are in place.
Speaker 3: And you remember, remember that there has been some discrepancy
Speaker 3: as to whether or not the transition team was going
Speaker 3: to submit names to the FBI. They did submit Pete
Speaker 3: Hegseth's name to the FBI for a complete background check.
Speaker 3: They had announced earlier this week that the transition team
Speaker 3: was going to pave the way for it to get
Speaker 3: these background checks, announcing that had signed this memo of
Speaker 3: understanding with the Justice Department to do that. Heg Seth's
Speaker 3: attorney said he received the forums yesterday from the FBI.
Speaker 2: Were working on them right now.
Speaker 3: Trump told Pete Hegseth he wants to see him fight
Speaker 3: for votes in the Senate.
Speaker 2: He continued backing.
Speaker 3: His continued backing of his own nominee is part of
Speaker 3: the reason that Pete hag Seth has appeared more bullish
Speaker 3: this week and has not shied away. I mean, there's
Speaker 3: pictures right there of him standing in the hallways in
Speaker 3: the Capitol Building, saying that I am not the same
Speaker 3: guy that you think I am, and that this is
Speaker 3: a giant smear campaign where they're taking small, little incidents
Speaker 3: in my past and blowing them out of proportion.
Speaker 1: Biden's team is considering blanket pardons for people that they
Speaker 1: think Trump is going to go after once he swoops,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that. Also, Bill Clinton gives Democrats
Speaker 1: some blunt.
Speaker 3: Truths and RFK Junior has some unexpected support in the
Speaker 3: Senate to take over Health and Human Services.
Speaker 1: Massive manhunts still underway to find the person who's shut what.
Speaker 4: Transition, That's what we do here. That is what we
Speaker 4: do here. Transitions are nothing if not smooth.
Speaker 1: Smooth, smooth, shot and killed the CEO of United Healthcare,
Speaker 1: Brian Thompson on Wednesday. They're coming through surveillance video. There's
Speaker 1: reports that this was a guy who arrived on a
Speaker 1: bus from Atlanta ten days before the murder. There is
Speaker 1: surveillance photo with him nearly his whole face when he
Speaker 1: removed his mask that came out yesterday, so they're trying
Speaker 1: to run that through all their facial recognition software.
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Speaker 1: President Biden's staff debating whether he should issue blanket pardons
Speaker 1: for a bunch of Trump's perceived enemies to protect them
Speaker 1: from retribution when Trump takes office. For you to shift
Speaker 1: fauci names that are coming to mind, Liz Cheney, Cheney.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They said that this was previewed by the way he
Speaker 3: pardoned Hunter wiped away not just those criminal counts that
Speaker 3: he was convicted of, but any crime that he may
Speaker 3: have committed or taken part in over the course of
Speaker 3: the last eleven years. This presumably means that Donald Trump
Speaker 3: can't do anything to Hunter Biden or any allegations that
Speaker 3: he didn't merit that did not merit charges. But this
Speaker 3: act of clemency, they said, even theoretical crimes over the
Speaker 3: course of a decade, went beyond any scope of any
Speaker 3: pardon we've ever seen. The closest you can come to
Speaker 3: that would be the Watergate era, when President Ford pardon
Speaker 3: Nixon for any crimes even though he was not charged.
Speaker 1: Trump has said on social media that Cheney should be
Speaker 1: prosecuted for what she's done, that the whole January sixth
Speaker 1: Committee should be prosecuted for their lives and treason, that
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris should be impeached and prosecuted. He promised to
Speaker 1: appoint a real special prosecutor to go after Biden and
Speaker 1: his family. He said, Letitia James, the Agy of New
Speaker 1: York who won that judgment against him for business fraud,
Speaker 1: and the Justice Arthur Engern, who presided over the trial,
Speaker 1: should be arrested and punished accordingly, the police officers on
Speaker 1: January six should be charged.
Speaker 3: But none of that had I mean, yes, in his mind,
Speaker 3: that's what he believes, and that's he likes to say
Speaker 3: it that way. I don't see any of those people
Speaker 3: ever actually facing any sort of criminal investigation at all.
Speaker 3: It just sounds like this is the bluster that people
Speaker 3: are get very afraid of, and we saw that going
Speaker 3: into his first term that a lot of stuff never materialized.
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton has been giving Democrats some blunt truths. He
Speaker 1: went after Biden for the Hunter pardon handling. He said,
Speaker 1: I wish he hadn't said he was going to do it.
Speaker 1: It weakens his case because Biden repeatedly pledged not to
Speaker 1: pardon his son. He did an interview at the New
Speaker 1: York Times deal Book event. This is the first time
Speaker 1: he's been interviewed since Biden's move. He said, we had
Speaker 1: a lot better record than the Republicans, but what good
Speaker 1: did it do to us? No one believes in anybody anymore.
Speaker 3: There was a Bernie Sanders cut that was making its
Speaker 3: way around yesterday that I found pretty interesting. He actually recently,
Speaker 3: within the last day or two, tweeted that he supports
Speaker 3: Robert F. Kennedy as or I should say, at least
Speaker 3: he's praised RFK Junior's message on food issues.
Speaker 4: And Elon Musk and getting rid of governments.
Speaker 3: Yeah, government waste, Bernie Sanders said, He hasn't really made
Speaker 3: up his mind yet on whether or not he's going
Speaker 3: to oppose Kennedy to head Health and Human Services, but
Speaker 3: he did say that there are things that they agree
Speaker 3: on when it comes to the criticisms of the influence
Speaker 3: of the food industry in Washington, DC. Right now, Bernie
Speaker 3: Sanders is the chair of the Senate Health Committee, and
Speaker 3: when he sat down in front of FDA officials this week,
Speaker 3: this was one of the exchanges that he had.
Speaker 6: What is the reason that our kids are unhealthy? What
Speaker 6: role do this industry play? Even now you're getting out
Speaker 6: of wolpus, are you prepared to tell us that this committee,
Speaker 6: this Congress needs to take on the food and beverage industry.
Speaker 6: Who's green is destroying the health of millions of people. Well,
Speaker 6: I'm not going to castigade the people that work in
Speaker 6: the food and beverage.
Speaker 2: And I love that. I love that.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to castigate the people in the food industry.
Speaker 2: And Bertie Sanders.
Speaker 3: Says, you're the head of the FDA, You moron, That's
Speaker 3: exactly what you're supposed to do when they produce food
Speaker 3: that is bad for us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that guy's in bed naked with the food industry.
Speaker 3: Right, that's the problem, which is why that's why he
Speaker 3: at least agrees with Kennedy that you've got to get
Speaker 3: those people out of that relationship.
Speaker 2: You've got to have got to.
Speaker 4: Put their clothes on, get them out of bed, and
Speaker 4: get them moving.
Speaker 2: Spray them with.
Speaker 3: Cold water, right, whatever they do.
Speaker 4: Do you want a good story?
Speaker 1: Waiting guy by the name of Speedy Weber wrote his
Speaker 1: wife three hundred letters in World War Two, and now
Speaker 1: the letters have been given anonymously to the USO, and
Speaker 1: we're learning what that correspondence was all about.
Speaker 4: A love that lasted fifty six years.
Speaker 2: It was beautiful. Do you ever find any letters when
Speaker 2: your parents?
Speaker 4: I don't want to read those.
Speaker 2: I just I don't mean that.
Speaker 3: I don't mean like, no, they never were apart ever,
Speaker 3: they never had to write letters back and forth.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe cards and stuff for anniversaries or whatever,
Speaker 1: but no letters.
Speaker 3: I found a couple. I found a handful in a
Speaker 3: shoe box in a closet in mom and dad's house.
Speaker 3: Dad was writing letters. He was at cal Poly writing
Speaker 3: letters to my mom. She was living in Bakersfield at
Speaker 3: the time. And so whatever, what twenty two twenty one
Speaker 3: years old something like that.
Speaker 4: Was there a sexy talking there, No, no, just.
Speaker 3: A matter of fact, I miss you and when we
Speaker 3: see each other, we'll go have to the sockhop or
Speaker 3: whatever they said. Oh, the side note to that story
Speaker 3: is my dad was complaining how hard his chemistry class was,
Speaker 3: and it was a specific physical chemistry class that he
Speaker 3: was taking at the exact time that my daughter was
Speaker 3: taking that exact class, and complaining about how difficult it.
Speaker 2: Was at cal Poly.
Speaker 4: It's wilde.
Speaker 3: Finding letters written by your parents or grandparents can be
Speaker 3: pretty eye opening for people, whether it's the racy kind,
Speaker 3: the love letters, or just letters just to kind of
Speaker 3: give you an idea of how people communicated before there
Speaker 3: were things like cell phones, even before there were phones
Speaker 3: in some cases well.
Speaker 1: And before you could send what we would consider now
Speaker 1: racy texts or what have you. It was a flowery
Speaker 1: it was people knew how to write.
Speaker 2: Back then.
Speaker 1: It was you could feel the anticipation of not being
Speaker 1: able to see somebody in the near future.
Speaker 4: Yes, I've told you that there's.
Speaker 1: An antique store near my house where they have boxes
Speaker 1: of these old letters, and I'll go in there and
Speaker 1: just be captivated reading the correspondence from you know, eighty
Speaker 1: years ago on those postcards. It's just fascinating to see
Speaker 1: what beautiful writers people once were, and now we just
Speaker 1: say things like lol duh.
Speaker 3: The USO a couple of years ago got a collection
Speaker 3: of letters, three hundred or so letters that Lewis Weber
Speaker 3: wrote to his wife Francis.
Speaker 2: He went by the name Speedy.
Speaker 1: The first letter, the first wartime letter to his wife,
Speaker 1: he wrote on June ninth, nineteen forty two.
Speaker 4: She was at home in the Bronx. He wasn't that
Speaker 4: far away.
Speaker 1: He had enlisted in the army that day, and he
Speaker 1: was actually eating an Italian restaurant nearby before leaving.
Speaker 3: Now this is something that would have been encapsulated in
Speaker 3: a text message these days. But he wrote to her
Speaker 3: while he's sitting at this restaurant, darling being shipped to
Speaker 3: Fort Dix. I'm writing this during my supper time. Excuse
Speaker 3: the card, love, Speedy, will write tomorrow.
Speaker 4: This was a time when restaurants had postcards.
Speaker 3: Also that so he goes to Fort Dix in New
Speaker 3: Jersey that night. He writes her on the tenth the
Speaker 3: next day and says, I want you to get word
Speaker 3: from me every day. He wrote her again on June seventeenth,
Speaker 3: and again on June nineteenth.
Speaker 1: The letters kept coming from South Carolina, North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium, Germany.
Speaker 3: In all, more than three hundred letters written to his
Speaker 3: wife Francis at fifteen seventeen, jessup Avenue in the Bronx,
Speaker 3: and she saved every single one of those letters.
Speaker 1: Michael Case with the USO says, I've never seen anything
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 4: It's incredible.
Speaker 1: They're sorting and digitizing them to try to piece together
Speaker 1: the couple's story.
Speaker 3: What's fun is back in World War Two, if you
Speaker 3: were writing back to your family or whatever, the Army
Speaker 3: checked your letters. They wanted to make sure that you
Speaker 3: weren't divulging any secrets, either intentionally or accidentally. So army
Speaker 3: censors would go through and if they had to, they'd
Speaker 3: block out part of your letters.
Speaker 1: But he knew that, yes, but the personal life went uncensored.
Speaker 1: His handwriting excellent. He wrote in one letter, I always
Speaker 1: said that I didn't care if the world knew how
Speaker 1: much I love you. Well, now the whole damn army
Speaker 1: will know. Knowing that they were reading his letters, right.
Speaker 3: He wrote, just as sure as night must follow day,
Speaker 3: I'll keep missing you until I can come home and
Speaker 3: hold you in my arms once again.
Speaker 2: You are always in my heart.
Speaker 1: In another letter written from North Africa, he said, be good,
Speaker 1: and when this thing is over, we start where we
Speaker 1: left off by being so happy that people will envy us.
Speaker 3: They said that they knew that there was some you know,
Speaker 3: spicy parts, intimate romantic racie, if you want to call
Speaker 3: it that. And what they said was a lot of
Speaker 3: his writing actually echoed what she had been writing in
Speaker 3: her letters. Now at this point we don't have any
Speaker 3: of Francis's letters.
Speaker 2: We just have what Speedy wrote.
Speaker 1: She did joke that she might get pregnant just reading
Speaker 1: his letters, Okay, funny, lady weird.
Speaker 3: There are research specialists who look specifically at this kind
Speaker 3: of communication there, I mean, there's a there's such a
Speaker 3: rich value to handwritten letters like this, especially at a
Speaker 3: time that was so formative in our recent past of
Speaker 3: World War two. And they say that a lot of times,
Speaker 3: because you know, so many of our young men were
Speaker 3: overseas for very long tours, you know, years at a time.
Speaker 3: They had hundreds of letters, in some cases written by
Speaker 3: individual soldiers.
Speaker 1: It's wild these were delivered anonymously, so they don't really
Speaker 1: know what happened with their relationship.
Speaker 4: But we don't really know about their lives. They apparently
Speaker 4: had no Chill children.
Speaker 1: In nineteen fifty, the US Census lists them still on
Speaker 1: Jessup Avenue there living with her widowed mother. She was
Speaker 1: working at the post office, and he was described as
Speaker 1: a watchmaker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we know they died. They passed away.
Speaker 3: He died at the age of seventy eight back in
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2: She lived a few years more.
Speaker 3: She died at eighty seven in two thousand and five,
Speaker 3: and they're buried together in a cemetery there outside of
Speaker 3: Fort Lauderdale. But we don't know a whole lot else
Speaker 3: about them. But like you said, they didn't have any kids,
Speaker 3: So where who got these letters and where?
Speaker 1: It must have just been through their estate that was
Speaker 1: just kind of sold off or whatever. Right, if they
Speaker 1: have no living relatives. It's interesting that they died five
Speaker 1: days apart, different years. But he died on a February nineteenth,
Speaker 1: she died on a February twenty fourth. You notice that
Speaker 1: he was twenty three went off to war when he
Speaker 1: wrote that first postcard at that restaurant in the Bronx.
Speaker 1: She was twenty four. They were of modest means, they
Speaker 1: were broke when they met, of course, children of immigrants.
Speaker 1: Her parents had come from Austria. Their late of Nay
Speaker 1: language was Hebrew.
Speaker 4: Hers was.
Speaker 1: Her father was a tailor. His parents were from what
Speaker 1: is now Ukraine, Biraktar.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that right.
Speaker 1: That wasn't had nothing to do with anything. His father
Speaker 1: was a longshoreman. And then in nineteen forty the families
Speaker 1: lived about five blocks apart on the same street.
Speaker 3: Which would explain why they knew each other. I mean,
Speaker 3: just that they were in the same neighborhood. Perhaps she
Speaker 3: would send him packages when he was overseas, Salami, Anchovy's gum, what.
Speaker 4: A wonderful n salami and ritz crackers is the move.
Speaker 3: So here's something also, this would be a great mystery
Speaker 3: to solve. In one of the messages, one of the
Speaker 3: letters he wrote, it apparently included a recording, what old
Speaker 3: fashioned primitive disc recording, and he wrote, if you want
Speaker 3: to hear what I've got to say, put it on
Speaker 3: the phonograph and listen.
Speaker 2: Now we don't know where that is.
Speaker 3: We don't know where the actual phonograph is, but that
Speaker 3: could you imagine what that would be. They talk about
Speaker 3: politics in these letters and the election in forty four.
Speaker 3: She was a huge Roosevelt person, and he wrote, the
Speaker 3: way you were rooting for Roosevelt, I wouldn't be afraid
Speaker 3: to bet that you would divorce me if I told
Speaker 3: you I voted for Dewey.
Speaker 1: How funny is that we thought this whole polarization thing
Speaker 1: and politics creeping into relationships was new. She called him
Speaker 1: the life of the party, and she would criticize his spelling,
Speaker 1: which bugs him. He call her meatball and the girl
Speaker 1: in my dreams.
Speaker 3: It's so funny that they can extrapolate from his writing
Speaker 3: what she would write in the letters back to him.
Speaker 3: They say, I mean because he references I got your letter,
Speaker 3: I got your letter, I got your left and so
Speaker 3: there's probably basically the same amount of letters that went
Speaker 3: the other direction from her to him.
Speaker 2: We just don't know what they are.
Speaker 3: But he would say he didn't like the fact that
Speaker 3: she would criticize his spelling.
Speaker 2: I'm so mad.
Speaker 3: This is a letter from Germany in nineteen forty four.
Speaker 3: I know very well that you didn't mean to hurt
Speaker 3: my feelings, but it so happens that you did. I'm
Speaker 3: not fortunate as you when it comes to brains. I
Speaker 3: guess I must have missed the boat.
Speaker 4: The next day he felt better.
Speaker 1: He said, yesterday I wrote you a pretty sarcastic letter,
Speaker 1: and today I'm back to normal again.
Speaker 4: It's funny.
Speaker 2: In June forty four, he was in France.
Speaker 3: It was a couple of days after the D Day invasion,
Speaker 3: and he said, there must have been plenty of turmoil
Speaker 3: June sixth I could just see everyone who has someone
Speaker 3: or somebody in the forces over in England start hoping
Speaker 3: and praying that their loved ones were all right. In
Speaker 3: January of forty five, he wrote to her about the
Speaker 3: Battle of the Bulge, the one where Nazi forces smashed
Speaker 3: through the American lines in Belgium and Luxembourg. One of
Speaker 3: the last wartime letters he wrote July fourth, nineteen forty five.
Speaker 3: It was written on Nazi stationary used by a Hitler
Speaker 3: school where Weber was staying. He said, the war had
Speaker 3: been over since May, they won't be using this particular
Speaker 3: type of letterhead, so I decided I'd use a little
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 1: Bye for now, baby, he wrote, Remember I love you
Speaker 1: and you only you are always in my heart, Speedy.
Speaker 3: It's also important to point out they had nicknames like
Speaker 3: meat Beady and meatball.
Speaker 4: What's your wife's what name?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 4: Bettichini?
Speaker 2: No, I don't call her. I call her feel silly?
Speaker 4: You're silly? Yeah, Oh that's good because.
Speaker 2: She's a little squirrely. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Are you a chocolate per I don't think.
Speaker 2: I've seen you eat a lot of chocolate over the years.
Speaker 1: I do like chocolate. I'd like dark chocolate. Dark chocolate
Speaker 1: is your favorite, that's my favorite.
Speaker 3: Research obviously has gone gone to show that dark chocolate
Speaker 3: is I guess, the healthier of the chocolates, right, But
Speaker 3: there is something else about people who eat dark chocolate.
Speaker 3: It makes them less likely to develop diabetes. Now, it's
Speaker 3: not this is not a suggestion that you go eat
Speaker 3: dark chocolate just to avoid diabetes. That's not That's not
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. But if you are drawn to and
Speaker 3: prefer the dark of the chocolate, then you may be
Speaker 3: less likely to develop diabetes.
Speaker 1: In the mid eighties early nineties, researchers began studying three
Speaker 1: groups of predominantly white health professionals, and every four years,
Speaker 1: the participants completed detailed diet questionnaires ask them how often
Speaker 1: they consume chocolate. Beginning in two thousand and six and
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, the researchers tweak their questionnaires to
Speaker 1: ask how often they eat dark chocolate and milk chocolate,
Speaker 1: and then they followed the participant's health for up to
Speaker 1: thirty four years.
Speaker 3: They said about ten percent of the people of the
Speaker 3: participants developed type two diabetes, and they adjusted for everything.
Speaker 3: They adjusted for lifestyle, exercise, alcohol, smoking, overall healthfulness, age,
Speaker 3: family history, everything they after they adjusted for all of that,
Speaker 3: they found that those people who consumed at least five
Speaker 3: servings of any type of chocolate per week had a
Speaker 3: ten percent lower risk of developing type two diabetes compared
Speaker 3: to those who rarely or never ate chocolate. And then
Speaker 3: when they drilled down even further, they said those who
Speaker 3: consumed at least five servings of dark chocolate per week
Speaker 3: had a twenty one percent lower risk of developing the
Speaker 3: type two diabetes than those who ate the dark chocolate
Speaker 3: less than once per month.
Speaker 4: So we should eat more dark chocolate all of the time.
Speaker 3: I'm fine with that, okay, but I don't go to
Speaker 3: dark chocolate as my cre I have a craving for
Speaker 3: the that's not it. Never is that sentence finished with
Speaker 3: dark chocolate. You're more of a white chocolate guy. No,
Speaker 3: because it's white chocolate is just butter, which is you know,
Speaker 3: it has its has its qualities.
Speaker 4: I'd tell you that.
Speaker 1: I've seen you get into some white chocolate. There was
Speaker 1: a there was an article recently also about coffee. Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I did with it.
Speaker 3: And I said it out loud that I didn't have
Speaker 3: my cup of coffee or I didn't finish my cup
Speaker 3: of coffee this morning. So somewhere in this building there
Speaker 3: is about a three quarter cup full of coffee.
Speaker 2: You just leave your I guess I did.
Speaker 4: About you leave your tea bags everywhere too?
Speaker 1: What do you mean you just leave them on the counter,
Speaker 1: You leave them in the office. You just I usually
Speaker 1: can take them out with me, throw them around.
Speaker 2: Take them with me.
Speaker 3: There was a study that was published in BMJ Evidence
Speaker 3: Based Medicine about how your.
Speaker 4: Body responds to that cup of coffee.
Speaker 3: So let's let's just peg of time. We'll say eight
Speaker 3: o'clock is your first cup of coffee? Right, Usually the
Speaker 3: half life of caffeine in a human adult body somewhere
Speaker 3: between five and six hours if you're a healthy adult.
Speaker 2: That's how long it takes.
Speaker 3: That's how long the caffeine affects you immediately, within the
Speaker 3: first five minutes. Usually it's just a placebo effect, right,
Speaker 3: Your caffeine isn't actually doing anything in those first few minutes.
Speaker 1: But you have had experience with coffee to know that
Speaker 1: it is about to wake you up, about to go down,
Speaker 1: and so your body kind of releases those chemicals and
Speaker 1: responds to that knowledge, that knowledge that you have of
Speaker 1: what's going to happen when you have that cup of coffee.
Speaker 1: It's not till about twenty minutes later that you get
Speaker 1: the energy boost.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So again, if you had your first cup at eight,
Speaker 3: let's say, right about eight twenty is when you get
Speaker 3: that caffeine in your bloodstream. You start to start to
Speaker 3: feel the positive effects. But you also could overdo it.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you have a rhythmia, you may want
Speaker 2: to avoid caffeine, or.
Speaker 1: If you're just sensitive to caffeine and you have toxidrome
Speaker 1: a couple times a year because your body is.
Speaker 3: Broken, the flow of caffeine in the bloodstream causes adrenaline
Speaker 3: to be released. It can sharpen our vision, which explains
Speaker 3: why those morning spreadsheets might be easier to look at
Speaker 3: after a cup of coffee or two.
Speaker 1: Also, at the twenty minute mark comes the fleeting effect,
Speaker 1: a Russia euphoria.
Speaker 3: They say, that's why your coworkers probably think you're the
Speaker 3: happiest at about eight twenty in the morning, because of
Speaker 3: that fleeting euphoria that you feel interesting.
Speaker 4: I have that probably in the car.
Speaker 2: Oh, no one gets to see it.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: At about eight thirty, there may be a knock on
Speaker 3: the door boom. A small cup of coffee could go
Speaker 3: straight to your bladder and make you want to go pee.
Speaker 3: About an hour and a half in two, you are
Speaker 3: a cup of coffee, you may feel a knock on
Speaker 3: the back door, knock.
Speaker 2: Knock, Feel the rumblings in the old uh, in the
Speaker 2: old mid drift.
Speaker 1: Eleven am is when the crash comes. You've gotten through
Speaker 1: your emails, You've put together that spreadsheet. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: things that I think happen in real jobs, and that
Speaker 1: is when you get the slum.
Speaker 2: Your TPS report is due.
Speaker 3: Yes, sometimes a caffeine crash can include a headache, you'll see, tiredness,
Speaker 3: the inability to concentrate, someone's a little irritable.
Speaker 1: They say that the ninety minute coffee rule works, that
Speaker 1: the best time to drink your morning coffee for optimal
Speaker 1: productivity is ninety to one and twenty minutes.
Speaker 4: After you wake up.
Speaker 2: After you wake up. Yeah, interesting.
Speaker 3: And then about let's say four hours after the first cup,
Speaker 3: did you get a craving for another cup? A lot
Speaker 3: of people will have afternoon cups of coffee or tea,
Speaker 3: whatever it is. Coffee late in the day will blow
Speaker 3: you apart. And I don't mean in the back doorway,
Speaker 3: I mean the it will destroy whatever schedule you have planned.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I can't sleep if I have coffee afternoon?
Speaker 5: Is there?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 5: Noon?
Speaker 2: Is that the cutoff? Free?
Speaker 4: My cutoff? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But I mean the only times I've tried it, or
Speaker 1: probably I get two or four. When I first started
Speaker 1: working with John and Ken, I would sometimes get a
Speaker 1: coffee on the way in and then I would be
Speaker 1: up till eleven midnight, which is much later than I'd
Speaker 1: like to go to sleep.
Speaker 3: Which when you don't want to be up that late,
Speaker 3: it's frustrating.
Speaker 4: It is frustrating.
Speaker 3: It's another thing if you you know you're doing something
Speaker 3: that late and you want to be awake. But yeah,
Speaker 3: if you want to go to bed and you want
Speaker 3: to you know you have to get up early or
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 2: But you had your cup of coffee at two in
Speaker 2: the afternoon, you've been like listening to the Gary and
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