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What old TV show do you miss?
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Right now, though, she is joining us from an undisclosed location somewhere in Wisconsin, I assume.
Civic media's Chief Morrell Officer, Dr. Kristen Lyrely is here.
Good morning, Dr. Lyrely.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Yeah.
We're talking about measles and the resurgence of measles in this country, which had essentially been eradicated.
And now it's back from CNN this morning.
The measles outbreak in West Texas is now linked with cases in New Mexico and new cases in Oklahoma.
This brings the total number of almost 300 cases of measles across the three states.
In Texas alone, over 200 measles cases reported and there have been two deaths.
This shouldn't be happening, Dr. Lierly.
I have never seen a measles case.
I started medical school in 2003.
I've never, ever seen a case of measles.
I have learned about it and I'm learning about it again because it is a thing.
And it is a thing because of misinformation and fear.
And it all goes back to the MMR vaccine and all of that crazy misinformation that spread about autism.
which has been debunked over and over and over again.
That was a small study of less than 30 people done by a gastroenterologist in England who was paid to do a study.
I did the whole thing was crooked and the guy has lost his license.
I mean this it just got completely blown out of proportion and here we are now Children are dying and this is just the tip of the iceberg Jane measles is
probably the most infectious disease out there.
And knowing that these little things are popping up all over the place, we're traveling all over the place.
People are moving around, not realizing that they're exposed to measles.
If you have been exposed to measles, odds are you're gonna get at least a mild version of it, and you're gonna pass it on to somebody else.
So if you have not been vaccinated, you are at risk.
Especially for small children, especially.
And if it doesn't kill you, it can impair you for the rest of your life.
It can cause brain inflammation, encephalitis, that can cause numerous other problems.
And if you get encephalitis when you're five,
you're going to be affected for the rest of your life.
Like it's a, it's a, it's a paralyzing event that is that another way of putting it is like, like measles can, like you might not, you might get, like you said, a mild case, but it can affect you for the rest of your life in ways you're not even sure that could come up later on and really make it hard to exist.
But actually the reason why I wanted to ask you, you gave all those criteria about the, you know, 30 less than 30 people studied.
It was over in England, paid to do it.
Why did it?
I mean, I don't want to point my finger at Jenny McCarthy, but it still has legs.
People still refer to it.
And when you say, well, sorry, my friend who is a doctor has said less than 30 people, paid to do it, rescinded, lost license.
Why do people still say, well, you don't know.
You don't know, you're not a doctor.
I've done my own research.
I think a son with autism and We're all looking for answers autism is multifactorial and it's complicated and it's devastating and we want answers We don't want this to happen to other people.
So I appreciate that activism streak but it's misplaced and what we're seeing in the United States when people can't get access to real health care to real information
We're seeking out natural solutions.
So we've been hearing a lot about vitamin A as a potential solution.
Vitamin A does not prevent you from contracting measles.
I want to be really, really clear about this.
Vitamin A is not the solution.
It might be in Africa.
where people have vitamin A deficiencies.
There we have studies that show that for people who are sick with measles, it does make a difference.
And we do use it in the United States for people who are like kids who are hospitalized with measles.
We do give them vitamin A because there is some evidence that it can make a difference, but it also can cause problems.
It can cause liver problems and it can give you that false sense of reassurance that you are protected from measles when in reality it does not.
at all protect you from measles.
The only thing that protects you is the vaccines.
If you're just joining us, Dr. Kristen Lyerle is here and we are talking about the resurgence of measles in this country, which was eradicated in 2000.
You said Dr. Lyerle left, right?
And now it's back.
And now our...
Head of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert Kennedy Jr.
says it would just be better if everybody got measles.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has suggested we have measles parties.
We should all just get vaccinated if we are not vaccinated.
And if you have been vaccinated, if you've received both of those doses, the risk that your vaccine has waned or that that immunity has worn off is very low, less than 1%.
So you are probably covered.
But if you're concerned, you can get a simple blood test called a titer that will tell you whether you have that immunity or not.
So that's one option or you can just get another vaccine as long as you can get safely get a live vaccine and you tolerate that well, then that is another option for you.
So to be clear, if you are concerned about measles and you want to make sure that you're protected, you can either get a blood test or you can just get another dose of the vaccine and you should be good.
I had measles when I was a sophomore in high school.
Now, does that mean I am protected forever or is it because I'm going to Texas next week to see a friend of mine and she is, she's outside of Austin, which is relatively close to where this outbreak is in Texas.
Should I be getting another booster or because I had measles when I was in high school?
Am I protected now forever?
Jane, you are golden.
So for you, because you've had measles, you are likely to be better covered than somebody who has actually had the vaccine.
Now,
Getting the illness puts you at a much greater risk of the complications of the illness.
So the vaccine is safer, which is why we recommend the vaccine.
But for you at this point in your life, you should be totally fine.
If you want the reassurance that you're covered, getting a titer, just looking at that number might make you feel better.
And I don't understand because this was something that was already eradicated in this country, why it's not a big deal that we have.
So one is okay, 23 is okay.
Now we're up to almost 300.
So that's okay.
We had gotten rid of this disease and thanks to
Jenny McCarthy of all people.
Thank you for reminding me of her.
Sorry about that.
One of the original influencers.
Why anyone would take medical advice from that person is stunning to me.
Well, and when we have a functional CDC, which it's becoming less and less functional because of government interference, what happens when we have an outbreak is we send a team to this place and they put a big shield around that place and they investigate it and they do everything they can to quash these outbreaks.
An outbreak is three or more people.
So when you hear RFK talk about all of these outbreaks that we've seen, we have, but we've had an effective surveillance system to fight it.
That's something we don't have anymore and that increases the danger.
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Dr. Kristin Lierly is here.
She is our Chief Morrell Officer.
What?
I love you.
Thank you.
Me too.
I'm working on some new stuff.
I'm just working
But we're talking about the resurgence of measles in this country, largely because many people are now vaccine skeptics.
OK.
Let's talk about Dr. Lirely, the link between nutrition and measles.
This apparently is something that our new Head of Health and Human Services, Robert Kennedy Jr., who, by the way, worked with a company offering alternatives to vaccines for measles, right?
Wasn't that group the one pushing the vitamin A thing?
Yeah.
This is the thing.
So, yes, great nutrition is important for
Everyone we all should get enough sleep.
We should get regular exercise We should eat healthy foods including fruits and vegetables and whole grains and drink plenty of water We know these things.
Yes, but it's just not that easy, right?
Healthy nutrition is not going to protect you specifically from measles and you know the irony here is so ridiculous I was watching a Fox News interview between Sean Hannity and RFK and it led off with
Here we are at Steak and Shake in Atlanta.
Or did you see this?
Yes.
First of all, Steak and Shake is a fast food restaurant.
They're sitting there with a hamburger and the fries are almost gone.
In our case, chewing on the fries.
And I'm thinking, that's not healthy.
French fries are not healthy.
I love French fries.
I eat French fries.
French fries are not good for you.
And they're there sitting talking about how important nutrition is and how it's more important than getting a vaccine.
Clearly, this was a sponsored spot for steak and shake.
which is the whole thing behind RFK.
He's selling the supplements.
He's doing the bit for steak and shake.
He's got a book.
No, this is why we need the government to provide this foundation of health for us, because the government does not have a financial incentive to sell you supplements, to sell you something that they want to trick you into buying, thinking that it's going to make you healthier.
I prefer to get my medical advice from people I don't know who have studied medicine as opposed to someone who was on an MTV show and then offers her opinion on whether or not you should get vaccinated.
I know I'm an outlier that way, Dr. Lierly, but I just find comfort in the fact that there are people who have spent their lives.
researching these things, and then they published papers that were peer reviewed, which means you open yourself up to criticism of the results of your findings, correct?
There is a process for these things.
There is a huge process and this is the problem with doctors talking about stuff like this on the news because you get like a doctor Oz who eventually because it becomes profit driven starts selling supplements and going down that capitalism pathway.
Most doctors are so steeped in well it could be this or it could be that it's all of that gray area.
Even if you see a study that is a headline that like NBC News is reporting, they're boiling it down for you.
What they teach us in medical school is to
look at the study.
Who did they study?
Where did they live?
What were the other medical complex things happening with these people?
How similar were the groups that were being studied?
There's so much more information that goes into these studies.
So when you see the headline, those are the broad strokes.
But all of the details and the complexities are things that we really need to understand in order to advise you.
So when you come to us and say, I saw this thing on the news,
And you think that it applies to you because that is what the headline says.
We can help you dig through the weeds and figure out specifically how it applies to you.
That is the advantage to having a partner in health care who is focused specifically on you and your health and well-being.
This is a live vaccine where you actually can potentially get the disease from this vaccine.
And that is one of the precautions that we share when we vaccinate someone with this particular vaccine.
And one of the reasons why if you do have a condition or you're taking a medication that causes immunosuppression, we have to be really careful when we use this vaccine.
Okay, first of all, there's an old internet meme that you might be interested in.
A little girl says to her mom, hey, mommy, what's that round scar on your shoulder, mommy?
That's a smallpox vaccination scar.
And a little girl says, mommy, what's smallpox?
There you go.
later,
Hopefully not.
Yeah, exactly.
The other thing I want to mention is this.
I've spent some time in Africa and they do not have a really good polio vaccination program in a lot of places.
I saw.
So many kids, just way too many kids who had severe disabilities caught by that.
We don't see that in this country.
For a reason, right,
Yeah, we don't see that in this country for a reason.
Thank you so much, Jack.
Really appreciate it.
We are right up against the news.
Dr. Kristen Lierly, really appreciate your time, my friend.
It's good to see you.
I saw you were in Washington yesterday.
We'll have to do a little follow-up.
I'd love to know how that meeting went.
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So our question for you today.
What old TV show do you miss and wish would come back?
And I thought of this this morning when I was driving in and I was listening to you and Pat Crichtlow on Up North News Radio.
Today in 1966 was the premiere of the Batman TV show with Adam West and Bert Ward.
I loved that show.
I
It
And that was going to be my show.
Laughin.
I loved Laughin.
Like when I was, so I, so I come from a very interesting generation, especially within Gen X, which is.
I didn't grow up with just three channels, but I also didn't have 150 channels.
I had about 20.
We had a clicker box on top of the TV.
We had cable.
And none of those channels shut off at midnight, like the old days where it was the-
And then snow for 12 hours.
They had to fill it with programming.
So all the shows I grew up watching had been canceled for a good 15 years.
black and white shows, comedies.
And one that my mom showed me that I fell in love with when I was really, really young was laughing.
That show was a groovy.
There was nothing like it.
But laughing was like chaos in a bottle.
and it worked every single time.
And it was almost like, and when you think about the format of the show, fit who we are today.
Quick cuts, there's no like really long sketches.
Camera going back and forth and back and forth.
It was all quick.
Yeah, and I just, I mean, and you wanna see a Goldie Han before she got into movies?
I mean.
That's where she got her start.
It was an amazing show.
I can still name all the actors on the show.
I would love.
I would love to have a version of laughing today that was tongue-in-cheek, political, but not so politically serious that you were not having fun.
But we don't live in those times anymore.
Like you could, you could, you could funnel, in 1969, you could poke fun at a tricky dick and he'd come on the show.
You can't do that nowadays, but laughing would be my vote.
Which
Which old TV show do you miss?
Doesn't have to be that old.
No.
But today is the
Anniversary of the premiere of the original Batman series from 1966.
855-752-4842.
855-75 Civic, what old TV show do you miss and wish would come back?
We got some good texts coming in.
Brian Famillewacky, Mission Impossible with Peter Graves.
That
That was a great show and the disguise guy.
I can see him and I can't remember his name.
He always did all the disguises.
Unmission impossible.
Somebody can text that in for me.
I've forgotten what his name is.
Thank you for that.
Brian from Milwaukee.
Liz from Sockville.
I miss Mesh and the love boat.
With a deep Corinthian leather.
She's you on the live stream says, old cartoons.
I would love to see come back.
The world of Donald the Gnome.
and Pirates of Dark Water.
I would love to see Fractured Fairy Tales come back.
What was that?
That was part of Looney Tunes, and it was always a very short segment of the Looney Tunes on Saturday mornings.
But Fractured Fairy Tales is just what it sounds like.
They would take an old fairy tale and screw it up.
Okay.
And it was hilarious.
It was absolutely hilarious.
What old TV show do you miss and wish would come back?
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Mike from West Bend is on the line.
Good morning, Mike.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Well, good morning.
Yeah, I started as a police officer in the 70s.
And you want to see a real police show, Barney Miller.
I love that show.
That was- That's what the real quad room was like, and I'll tell you, it showed that the cops had a lot of heart.
That's fabulous, Mike.
Thank you so much.
What a great reminder.
What TV show do you miss and wish would come back?
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John from Hubertus, WKRP.
Yep.
That was a bunch of... Was so brilliant.
Chai Chai Rocker was.
I swear to God, I thought turkeys could fly.
It's just one of those shows that is still
Cause they were heavily anti-war.
And one of the best jokes ever was that he said, uh, that, that joke where he says, president Nixon has said that we're going to, um, you know, want to make sure that all of our, our veterans are safe for the holidays.
And then Dick goes, come on, boys, you're fine now.
Come on home.
It's just, it's, Oh, Maryland for Columbus, the West wing.
That's top three.
It's mash.
the West Wing and then whatever show is like in that spot.
But Masch and the West Wing are always in the top.
Okay.
The Rocky and Bowwingle.
Yes, I remember watching those when I was a little kid.
Oh, come on.
The Carol Burnett Show.
So brilliant.
Oh, and The Avengers.
That's, folks, if you have streaming The Avengers, and this is for your kids listening, we're not talking about Marvel, we're talking about the TV show, the English spy show.
Yes.
That is on streaming.
Well, I don't.
None of them would be really considered old shows, especially to you guys.
That was not the compliment you thought it was.
I didn't mean it in any type of way.
I don't know.
I feel like.
Like community always had six seasons in the movie.
So I'm waiting for the movie community.
I think Jordan and Michael could do some interesting things with key and peel if they brought that I
I don't think they'll ever do a TV show again.
I think they'll I think they would sooner do a movie But they did their one movie they did their show they did their one movie and I mean Jordan Peele is just he's in a different I mean
Keegan-Michael Key is on a different level for TV and performing, whereas Jordan Peele is on a different level for what he is doing.
And Jordan Peele, every time I look at him, I'm like, you are a director.
He's
I prefer the British version myself.
Do you?
Yeah.
The American version is wonderful.
They're very, but I've got, you know, a soft spot in my heart for all of those British performers, especially Sandy Toxford, who is the, who is the host of QI, which is the greatest quiz show on the planet.
Okay.
But yeah, I, I just.
Whose line is that?
Is it anyways?
Love it.
show.
yeah.
Sorry.
Uh, I, and living color for me was, was appointment television as a kid.
That was great sketch comedy.
Uh, someone listening on WAUK Monty Python Monty Python's flying circus.
If Monty Python is the Beatles of sketch comedy, that's all there is to it.
And, um, I wouldn't mind having them back, but I'm glad we have what we have.
I'm with them.
I'm starting like oh, let's just leave that where it
That was good.
Yeah Thanks, everybody PJ says threes company are welcome back harder.
We're all so good ones Don't forget about Barney Miller, which was a nut and golden girls and taxi.
Oh my gosh.
We could go on forever.
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That would be bad.
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This
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As always if you find a thing you think should not be send it into Greg and me at Jane says at civicmedia.us this article from electric Fred Lambert with the byline headline reads Tesla's cyber trunk sank when launching a jet ski after Elon Musk said you could use the truck as a boat
Whoopsie doodles.
A cyber truck has sunk at a boat ramp in California after the driver attempted to use it to launch his jet ski.
Local fire crews worked with divers to pull the submerged vehicle from the water.
In 2022, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted, Cybertruck will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat.
So it can cross rivers, lakes and even seas that aren't too choppy.
Yes, more anchor, less flotation.
I am not the smartest tool in the shed.
I am not a graduate with honors, but I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as a brief ocean experience when it comes to boats.
They're pretty big.
They are pretty large.
They're known for being, I mean, like, we have the Great Lakes.
Those are big.
Oceans are, some would say bigger.
So I would like to see how long a Cybertruck would last as a brief boat.
On
About taking it into the water.
Yes, it seems that in order to do this, Tesla built in a wade mode
For the Cybertruck to go into the water this Allegedly increases the height to the maximum and pressurizes the battery pack.
However slight problem This gets activated through the off-roading mode, which is not covered under the Tesla warranty
Not a cyber boat.
It happened in Ventura, California.
And again, he was trying to launch a jet ski on the boat when he could not get his cyber truck back out of the water.
It became completely submerged.
Divers from the Coast Guard had to help the tow truck driver get it out.
There is not only audio, there are some video elements, so I encourage you to check out our show notes afterwards if you would like to appreciate the full scope and breadth of the story.
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