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Got it. Okay.
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You are tuned in to What's the Matter
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with Me podcast
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of John.
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Super old. I'm
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I'm 46
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My god.
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it's hard that I
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that I started off with my age like
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that. It's kinda
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it's kinda shocking.
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It's like
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when you're driving
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in the car and you go past
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an accident
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with like foam and they're putting out a
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fire. And you're just like, oh look at
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that, you know. And when you say your
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age, you're like, woah.
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Like there could be a YouTube
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supercut
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of senior citizens
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or anyone 30
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saying their age.
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Just supercut.
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I'm
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this many years old.
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Do that. That's a vibe. A drone.
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A vibe.
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It's What's the Matter With Me podcast.
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My name is John. I'm 46
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years
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old.
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That is rough.
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It blanks
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the mind when you say your age and
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it's like a really high number.
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It like obliterates
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everything else. It's like
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your your brain says back to you when
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you say your age. Your brain is like
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getting you back. It blanks on you because
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it's like, how dare you
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say how old I am.
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I'm your brain. I've been here the the
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whole time.
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I haven't taken a second
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off. I'm your brain.
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I've been through
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everything
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you've been through.
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I'm stuck in your head. You you like
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to get out of your head,
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but I there's I have no such luck.
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It would be interesting to have a conversation
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with your brain.
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I wonder how it would feel.
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I hope not resentful.
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Why resentful?
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It's like,
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what have you done with your brain?
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What have you done with your, what did
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they call that? Like your bodily
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husk?
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mortal,
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your mortal husk.
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Okay, I'll settle for that because
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I can't remember what they call,
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a bodily
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is it called the mortal husk? I don't
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know. That doesn't sound right. Hold on.
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So in Dante's
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Inferno,
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the mortal husk
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refers to the human body
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that the souls of the suicides
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cast off
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when they took their own lives.
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for rejecting
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the body,
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into gnarled,
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thorny trees and bushes
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in the wood of the suicides.
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This appears
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in the second ring of the seventh
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circle of hell
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in canto eight of the Divine Comedy
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by Dante.
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The trees can only speak and weep blood
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when one of their branches
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is broken.
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They are tormented by the harpies,
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monstrous
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birds with the faces of women
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who tear their leaves.
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reunited
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with their body, the suicide's
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bodies
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will be hung from their own
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branches,
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eternally
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separated,
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but also a constant
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reminder of their sin.
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Kinda horror sounds dramatic.
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It's with Dante.
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That's an AI overview of Dante,
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so
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I'm not even diving deeper there. But that's
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a mortal husk in the divine comedy, the
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inferno.
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I I fell,
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on my butt
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in
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the laundry room right outside
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my room
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at night
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again,
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and I, like,
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broke my rib again.
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It's, like, really sucks.
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So it like, a lot's going down. My
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at that in that area, the laundry room,
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it used to actually
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the garage
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was one house, and then
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the the house the bedroom,
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the where you live was like another house.
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in the eighty's, I think they combined them
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into one house. That's where we live now.
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But the laundry room used to be like
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the breezeway
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between the two houses.
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it's like exterior
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walls.
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So I fell and it hit my back
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against the corner,
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the wall, but it was like the corner
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of the old house.
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It was very solid and
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it hurt. And it still,
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you know, it definitely
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kinda hurts. I'm past the stage where
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it like hurts to cough or
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any of that, but it's like achy.
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I took an Ibuprofen
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this morning and a Tylenol
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at lunch.
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So I'm getting over it. I'm living. It's
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not bad.
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But I fell and broke my rib again.
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So I'm just trying to get it together
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man and string these rehabs
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together
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and try and get back into one piece.
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I wanted to give some shout outs real
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quick.
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Wanna give a shout out to Rocky,
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shout outs to Matt,
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shout outs to my empress, Nami, the one
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called John John Little Coco. I see that
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word.
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Shout out to
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The Sandman.
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Been checking that out on the radio. Feeling
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I've been The Sandman is good. He's on
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KFJC
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from Saturday
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six to 9AM.
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They call him Jeremiah
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Johnson,
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goes by the name.
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So we listen to that. Sometimes he gives
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me a shout out on the air, so
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I gotta return the favor.
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Shoutouts
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to Jersey
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Girl. She wrote in
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Jersey Girl, she's a KFJCDJ.
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She sent me,
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a couple weeks ago, she sent me an
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article,
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that they
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which is a TV station and
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the NPR
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So it's headlined,
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it's by Sydney Johnson,
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date 08/25/2025,
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a place for us by us,
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San Francisco's
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Cultural Center breaks new ground.
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Nearly
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five decades ago, frustration
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over the government's
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lack of urgency
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to make public
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buildings more accessible
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reached a flashpoint.
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and more than a 100 disabled
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protesters
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staged a nearly
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month long sit in at a federal building
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in San Francisco's
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UN Plaza.
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After a twenty six days
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support from groups like Black Panthers
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and allies like George Moscone,
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the activist
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successfully
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convinced the country's secretary
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of health,
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education, and welfare
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to implement
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the long delayed section
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five zero four
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of the Rehabilitation
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that had been passed in 1973.
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discrimination
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based on disability
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in programs
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that receive
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became
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recognized as the five zero four
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sit in
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and paved the way for the Americans with
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more than a decade later.
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This summer,
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the city moved the legacy
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forward,
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opening the nation's first disability
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cultural center
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located directly
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City Hall.
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It took a while to start to see
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change but the ADA
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ushered in new building standards.
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in very specific
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ways,
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said Deborah Kaplan, Deputy
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Director at San Francisco's
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Office on Disability
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and accessibility.
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The five zero four sit in protest sprouted
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up in cities across the country in 1977
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in Washington,
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D. C. All of a sudden, I could
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not enough to scope it out in advance
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and worry there was no way in or
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worry that I couldn't use the bathroom for
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new places.
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Kaplan said a progress that have has followed
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in the decades since.
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Activists
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like Kaplan have pushed San Francisco
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and the nation
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to raise accessibility
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standards for decades.
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Having this space of belonging,
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celebrating
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disabled joy, and having the disability
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community
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seen
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right across from City Hall.
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It's so incredibly
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unique and powerful,
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said Eli Gellard,
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director
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of the city's
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office on disability
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and accessibility.
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And today it's bustling
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classes
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and film festivals,
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a cool article
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on the disability,
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the Disability
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Cultural Center in San Francisco.
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The center is on the Ground Floor of
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the Kelsey Civic Center
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in San Francisco.
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Thanks to Jersey Girl for sending that in
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massive
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shout outs. It's fundraiser
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right now on KFJC
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and often time in the month of October.
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And I've been hearing a lot of great
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production
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spots and they have a
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really good one.
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Jersey girl and max level, they kinda ad
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lib, and it's something to look forward to.
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Always
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enjoyable,
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always coming through.
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A sure shot. If you tune into KFJC
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right now,
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you probably hear it. It's all the good
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stuff. Kfjc.0rg.
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Donate .kfjc.0rg
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is how you donate.
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Now I'm not really trying to push you
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around, but I wear the shirts
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because,
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I I think it's polite to wear a
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shirt,
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and they're good for that. You put it
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on, no one's gonna bother you
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about not wearing a shirt. No one's gonna
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be like, hey. Put your shirt on. You're
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gonna be like, yeah. I got one. Hey.
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Put a shirt on. That makes it seem
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like it's more argumentative
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outside in my life than it needs to
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be. It's not like that.
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I usually have a shirt on. People don't
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yell. Even if I didn't though,
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they would be like,
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can I help you? Well, like that one
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time I went into
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the the breakfast spot and my underwear fell
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out
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of my pant leg and the guy was
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like, sir, your underwear.
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Yeah. Go back in time man. Something happened
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at Bill's Cafe.
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This was back in January
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2019.
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Something happened
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at Bill's Cafe.
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I ordered coffee and toast. John John got
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pancakes.
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Tap on my shoulder, he's like, excuse me,
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sir.
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Is that
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your underwear?
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And, you know, I never I was, like,
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thought he was gonna ask me if I
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wanted more coffee.
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January
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2019,
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it's good that I have this podcast to
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record the times
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that my underwear
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comes out in public.
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Whoops.
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Something happened.
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I had a meeting
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with my
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primary,
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MS doctor, not my primary care doctor, but
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my MS.
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He's like a neurologist.
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He's the MS guy.
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And he was telling me there's a lot
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of new
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advances
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in multiple
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sclerosis. Like, he was saying it's like a,
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a golden age. He was like, I think
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we'll look back on this time as like
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a golden
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age of MS
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research and discovery,
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and he was talking about all these new
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medications.
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And they're called I think they're, let me
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let me get the name right over
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here. BTK
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inhibitors,
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Bruton
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tyrosine
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kinase
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inhibitors
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are a class of drugs that target and
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inhibit the activity
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of the BTK
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pro protein.
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BTK is an enzyme that plays a crucial
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role
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in the development
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and function of b cells,
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which are white blood cells that produce antibodies.
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So
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there are new medications
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and I'm not sure if the BTK
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inhibitors
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are one but because they have FDA approval,
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but my doctor was talking to me about
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a class of medications
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for
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MS
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and they can do things like cross the
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blood brain
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barrier.
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Cross the brain
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blood barrier where
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your brain has, like, its own blood and
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it's hard to target.
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Like, in MS, the brain
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gets inflammation,
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I think, from these b cells.
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And
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they they can't target it the same way.
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Like you can't just take an anti inflammatory.
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It doesn't work in your brain
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because of this blood brain barrier.
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This is like we're 35,000,
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40,000,
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we're a 125,000
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feet
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cruising cruising
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at the edge of space.
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In terms of my scientific
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knowledge here. Like,
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this is beyond beyond.
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And but the what my neurologist
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was trying to tell me is that there's
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new stuff on the horizon
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like immediate.
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And he was talking about like I take
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my medication
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every six months
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and like I'm taking it later
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in a couple of weeks actually.
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And he was talking maybe
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six months from then, I could be on
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a new medication.
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And I could be dealing my nerve,
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my b cells are causing inflammation
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in my brain.
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Can these new medications
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restore functioning?
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Can they get me out of my wheelchair?
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Can they get me walking more?
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And it seems like they kinda can.
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There are some articles
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along with some videos I've seen of neuro
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rehab patients
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of people getting up and out of their
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wheelchairs.
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So there's like something going on
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with brain plasticity
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and remyelination
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and all the holy grails
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that
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MS people have been trying to get together
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for years and decades and
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and they're close to it, I think. So
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it's kinda giving me a new hope
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for the treatment. Like I'm gonna see we're
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all gonna see some kind of evolution
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in neurological
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treatment
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in the next five years.
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I mean, we've seen it in the last
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five years, but we'll see even more.
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And they figured out some key stuff, I
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think.
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Getting the
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medication,
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being able to target
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inflammation
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across this barrier
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and target
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inflammation
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in my brain
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and
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plasticity
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and remyelination
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and
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to even think of all that stuff is
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pretty wild.
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Meanwhile,
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it's like there's still
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pragmatic
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reality,
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right? I broke my rib a couple weeks
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ago
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and also
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as a result of that,
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I stopped using
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my cane
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to get around because
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I I hit my back.
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And when I was using my cane,
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I would push off of it and it
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would hurt a lot. So I stopped using
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my cane
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right after I had this injury.
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I've seen it's rehabilitated
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and
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it's wheelchair is not really even an option
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the same way.
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I've rehabilitated
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and
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so that I can walk with my cane.
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It's fine.
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But
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my wheelchair in the meantime,
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my wheelchair
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broke down.
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Something
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happened to be electrical.
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It was parked in my house, thankfully.
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I turned it off and then I could
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never turn it back on.
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I think it has something to do with
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the joystick
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or the wire. Maybe it got crimped.
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It's kinda zip tied and
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so I
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turned it off. I
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got into the nook
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and I was hanging out there for a
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bit ready to go. I could never get
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it on again.
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So the wheelchair tech, that was last week
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and I called
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the company
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that
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services
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the wheelchair and in a week they'll send
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someone.
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So that'll be in a couple days,
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but so I've
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I couldn't walk with my cane.
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Thankfully,
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the wheelchair works long enough so I could
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heal enough to walk with my cane.
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00:22:02,269
So that's where I'm at now. My wheelchair
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00:22:04,430
will be fixed in a couple days
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and
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00:22:08,910
I'm kinda up and about with the cane.
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00:22:13,615
Speaking of that, John had a resolution.
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00:22:16,095
He was talking to counselor
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at school.
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He had some kinda
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00:22:23,515
dust up after school with the other kid
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00:22:24,015
and
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00:22:25,934
they were having kinda
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00:22:27,750
negotiation
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00:22:29,429
to end it.
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And the counselor
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asked John,
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00:22:34,470
what is your perfect
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00:22:35,349
resolution?
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00:22:39,190
If we if this was a perfect world,
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00:22:41,375
what does the resolution
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look like for you? This is my son,
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00:22:44,894
John.
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00:22:48,095
And John answers. He goes,
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00:22:50,735
in a perfect world,
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00:22:53,055
there'd be a medicine
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00:22:54,059
that would
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00:22:55,759
cure my papa
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00:22:58,799
from MS. Like, he wasn't understanding
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00:23:00,400
the question.
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00:23:03,920
The lady was asking him
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00:23:08,400
was about the dispute he was embroiled in.
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00:23:11,524
But John took it bigger. He was like,
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00:23:12,264
what would
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00:23:13,065
resolution
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00:23:15,924
in a perfect world look like? And he
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00:23:16,664
was like,
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00:23:20,804
papa cured from MS. And then like a
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00:23:22,504
week, two weeks later,
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00:23:25,630
I had this meeting with my doctor
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00:23:29,230
and he was like, there is new medication.
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It's a big deal.
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00:23:35,690
And this is gonna be, like I said,
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00:23:36,430
the golden,
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00:23:39,404
this is gonna be something you look back
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00:23:43,005
on and you say, wow, man. That that
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00:23:43,964
was critical,
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00:23:44,345 -->
00:23:46,044
a corner turn there.
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00:23:49,005
So with that in mind, I hope that
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00:23:53,509
in a perfect world, I love that John
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00:23:55,990
dared to dream,
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00:23:56,869
you know.
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00:23:57,890
And,
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00:23:59,190
I kinda
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00:24:00,070
think
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00:24:03,730
that I'm with that. I'm with all of
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00:24:04,230
it.
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00:24:06,554
Let me take some selfie.
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00:24:09,974
You know, it's hardly you can't tell the
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00:24:11,595
players without a selfie.
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00:24:18,134
Alright. There we go, the selfie. Thanks for
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00:24:19,115
tuning in.
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00:24:21,910
There's good news on the horizon
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00:24:23,509
if you're a neurologist.
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00:24:27,330
Right? Or if you dare to dream like
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00:24:27,990
a child.
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00:24:32,049
So thank you for tuning in to the
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00:24:35,115
What's the Matter with Me podcast. Shout out
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00:24:36,015
to you. Check-in
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00:24:37,535
next time.
