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Speaker 2:And good morning, Juno. KINY ninety four point nine FM and always eight hundred. Problem Corner this Friday. I'm Justin Miller, and as always, we're joining the studio with Nano Brooks. Good morning.
Speaker 2:And it's been quite an eventful week, I feel like. A lot of it's Folk Fest, a lot of stuff happening in the community. I'm not going to hammer Folk Fest down too much. We had quite the conversation about it yesterday as well. But, yeah, a lot of festivities to be had this coming spring for sure.
Speaker 3:Definitely. And it's all just right around the corner. Think, what is it? There was the article published this morning about the first cruise ship passengers coming in next week,
Speaker 2:it sounds Yeah. Or summer season's upon, as I saw one of my friends that work at the hangar post a video of the seaplane landing right there by the hangar there. So it's like, oh, it's happening. We're in that time, it's summertime. But as always, guys, you could always call us in (907) 586-1800 or shoot us an email by going to kinyradio.com and just click on that Problem Corner tab.
Speaker 2:I did want to start off the program with we did have a call yesterday and I made a little to the stations a little bit, but I wanted to throw it out there here on Problem Corner. So some folks just arrived into town with a three month old goldendoodle. I believe I wanna pronounce the name right. I believe it's Vern or Vernee, and they've been missing for a little over twenty four hours. I have not heard an update if this dog was found yet.
Speaker 2:They ran into the woods around 2PM on April 9 between Glacier Trailer Park and Steelhead Street. So pretty brand new dog, doesn't know the area. So young dog. And they also said the dog doesn't really know its name Vern quite yet. So you could try to call the puppy by calling the dog puppy.
Speaker 2:So like, hey, puppy, puppy, come So if you have seen this goldendoodle, around thirty pounds, little spiky hair on his head, you could give these folks a call at 907502671, or you could shoot them a text at 09:07 seven eight nine seven one nine four. And I'll shout that out a couple more times
Speaker 4:after the Absolutely.
Speaker 3:Those dogs that breed, especially, are very smart. Yeah, they are.
Speaker 5:Big personalities, very smart. I can imagine it might be hard to corral up a McLendoodle,
Speaker 3:but maybe leaving some food out to attract it
Speaker 5:and stuff.
Speaker 2:So if those folks are listening to Provencorn right now, give us an update if you have found your dog or not or if anyone's found that dog. And it looks like we have a call. Hi. Welcome to Provencorn. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 6:Yeah. Hey. I've been trying to listen online to KJNO this morning, and I had about an hour of dead air. And I've been able to pick up other stations, but, I'm just wondering if they're ever gonna bring that back or if they're just gonna cancel KJNO, or what's the story?
Speaker 2:We are doing some technical stuff on KJNO. We're trying to make sure that's all straight. So we've been kinda not taking KJNO apart, but we've been definitely diagnosing some issues that we've been been having with KJ and O. So that station's not going away in particular.
Speaker 6:Okay. I guess I was kinda surprised that it wasn't even
Speaker 2:Yeah. I was I was messing around with the the connections with the stream a little bit with our engineer and we are, yeah, we're trying to make sure that is coming in strong especially online but we're also working on getting that frequency stronger across town. So, we got, yeah, our engineers gonna be arriving sometime this month. So hopefully, we'll get them up on the ridge, get that AM signal stronger, and then we'll be back up and running especially for this summer season. I know it's been quite a headache with that particular station with technical issues, but we are working the best we can to get that up and running as it was before.
Speaker 6:Yeah. It's pushing, like, four or five months now. No KJNO in the Valley.
Speaker 3:And, Justin, you're saying last week something about, you know, just as far as if they're trying to push that signal too hard, it would start taking away or interfering with some of the other channels.
Speaker 2:Yeah. We're we're not really we're using some of our equipment to help push that signal out. So, yeah, if we if we push that power up to get that signal stronger, we will get a light bleed from other frequencies onto that station. So that's why the frequency isn't as strong as it as it is in certain areas, but we are definitely cranking away trying to get KJNO back up and running how it was. It's it's been a headache.
Speaker 2:It's been a process. That's for sure.
Speaker 6:Okay. Well and that's true. I know I I get shadow stations on KJNO even online sometimes.
Speaker 7:Mhmm.
Speaker 6:And so it's like I'm hearing during the commercials, I can hear two different commercials talking over each other.
Speaker 2:Yeah. We we were working yeah. It's like at the top of the hour, sometimes it stacks. So I believe that issue should be resolved pretty soon as well. But, yeah, I know KJ and O has been a pain in the butt a little bit, but we definitely wanna keep that station alive and running, and I appreciate everyone's patience with that station.
Speaker 2:And I yeah. We're trying to get that up and running as soon as we can.
Speaker 6:Okay. Well, thanks.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Thanks for calling in. We'll definitely give everyone an update when we are fully up and running and strong on that station again.
Speaker 6:Well, I sure hope so because I'm just about ready to start taking all my radios out of the house and taking them to the recycle.
Speaker 2:Uh-oh. We
Speaker 3:don't know how do that.
Speaker 6:Thanks for your help. Bye.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Thanks for calling. Have a great weekend. Yeah. KJ, no.
Speaker 2:We need to keep our talk radio station allowed. Oh, yeah. Me me and our engineer, Scott, have been cranking away at that, and I know he's been working on the back end of that, trying to make sure all the we call them syndicated programs like Mark Levin, all those stuff, and that Yeah. Making sure that's all connected up correctly onto that station because we've been having some channeling issues where it'll tell the program to switch a channel and then it'll kinda turn another channel on. So, we're we've been working on getting that all technically sound.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. And, you know, it's a lot of people, you know, don't know all the aspects that go into radio transmission and it's it's some hardcore equipment.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I've I've been learning a lot just the past few months trying to get all that stuff rewired and working strong again and we do have couple calls. Let's get them on the show. Hi, welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 8:Hey, I just wanna let the public know that I was at West Coronado yesterday afternoon and seen my first Blackberry. It's big and and pretty shiny black. So people beware.
Speaker 3:Was he was he just trotting along in the meadows, or was he getting into something?
Speaker 8:Oh, no. He was hiding behind Grant's buildings right alongside that garbage dump there. Oh. He was out there in the parking lot walking around.
Speaker 3:That's how it began. It's Well,
Speaker 2:thanks for calling in and letting us know that bears are out. And, yeah, folks be aware when you're out with your animals and any wooded areas, they are they are awake and that, you know, they are a little hungry and a little temperamental. So please be aware, be safe, bust out your bear bells, bust out your bear spray, and just be aware that they're out and about.
Speaker 8:Oh, yeah. If you see them at Lemon Creek, they're out and about everywhere now. So, beware.
Speaker 2:Yep. Well, thanks for calling and letting us know.
Speaker 9:You betcha.
Speaker 2:Alright. You have a good day and a good weekend, mister.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Thank you for the call.
Speaker 8:Yep. You too. Alright. Bye bye.
Speaker 2:Yes. Bear season now. Cruise ship season and bears are our finest.
Speaker 3:I've seen a couple cans knocked over so far, but I haven't haven't seen the actual bears yet. But I was noticing, I'm like, oh, the signs are out. Oh, yeah. And we do have another call.
Speaker 2:Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 10:Hi. I'm just calling in for an update on
Speaker 5:the
Speaker 10:Goldendoodle announcement that you'd had. We have not found him yet.
Speaker 2:Okay. Thanks for calling in and give us an update on that. So
Speaker 10:And then the correction on the phone numbers are 500-2671, and then the landline is 789-7914.
Speaker 2:Oh, so I had that flip flopped. Okay. Yeah. Gotcha. So the text, you guys, 502671 and just the landline number 789-7194.
Speaker 10:7 9 1 4. Mhmm.
Speaker 3:Reached out via text with spottings or anything like that?
Speaker 10:No. We he hasn't been Wednesday,
Speaker 9:I think, around 02:30.
Speaker 3:Well, like I was saying when Justin made the first announcement on that, was like, they're very smart dogs and very resourceful. So I think you got plenty of time to keep looking before things get dire.
Speaker 10:I hope so. I appreciate your help. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Thanks for calling in and have a great weekend. Update.
Speaker 10:Thank you. Bye bye. Bye.
Speaker 3:Oh, that that's such a bummer.
Speaker 2:It's it's always rough when especially a brand new place too. The three month old dog, that's a that's a puppy. Mhmm. So, yeah, we definitely wanna make sure that dog is safe. So if you live around the Steelhead Glacier Trailer Park area, out there, like Montana Creek area, please keep an eye out and any sort of goldendoodle calling in.
Speaker 2:So again, the number to reach them is 789-7914. And then they also have the other landline 502671. So definitely reach out to them if you see or Puppy. So so try your best to get Vern wrangled in and, yeah, hope to get an update on that soon. Looking at some emails.
Speaker 2:Let's see what we got today. Ah, that 1995 f parts truck. The gentleman is saying wife needs it gone soon, so make them an offer. We'll need to be towed. So if you want this 1995F 1 50 for a parts truck, Please give this gentleman a call at (907) 209-6619.
Speaker 2:And we do have another call. Let's get him on the show. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 5:Yeah. I just thought I'd call in from out of town. Yeah. I talked to my grandson this morning. He didn't have that new ID because he's going to college.
Speaker 11:Yeah.
Speaker 5:And it comes in effect on the May. How old are college students gonna get back home if they don't have the new ID?
Speaker 2:That's the, yeah, the real ID that they're having folks.
Speaker 5:Yeah. The one that has that star on it.
Speaker 3:And the deadline for getting those is the May. Right?
Speaker 5:No. They said that around the May, they're going to fix and they won't be able to all our college students are going they're going to college when they get back home.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I noticed that. I was at the DMV maybe a week or two ago, and it was absolutely packed in there. Wow. And about three hour wait to get done what you need, but everyone was in there for the real IDs.
Speaker 3:I as far as students, you know, I'm I'm gonna have to work out some sort of thing just like if the same scenario would be for anyone who's deployed right now or not their place, they're gonna have to have some sort of avenue for them to be able to still get it and not be constrained to that that deadline because, yeah, if someone's in college or serving overseas, how can you expect them to get it immediately?
Speaker 5:Yeah. I tried to tried that one number they had for Lisa Murkowski, and I tried to call it and make sure it
Speaker 12:ain't the right number. And I was
Speaker 5:gonna try to see if they could extend it until all our students get back home from college. Yeah. So that that would help them out, you know, regularly. Once they get home, they'd be able to go and get their new ID then.
Speaker 3:Right. Well, maybe
Speaker 5:So that
Speaker 3:calling the state capital and talking to our local representatives would be a a great avenue to try and get that on someone's radar. I know that Murkowski, Sullivan and Begich are a little more on the federal level. We have Andy Story, Jesse Kiel and Sarah Hannan that are doing all this stuff on the state level. So reaching out to them and they're pretty available for the public and letting them know your concerns, I'm sure they'd receive it very well.
Speaker 5:Yeah. They gave a number out for them before they talked to them, but I didn't have no pen and then I'm on the phone too, so I couldn't go near a radio to grab a pen to write their numbers on when it at our legislature.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Well, I'm sure that we could pull up those numbers here and say them out during the program. If you have a pen and paper ready, we could do that for you at some point during the hour.
Speaker 5:Oh, yeah. I'll leave my radio on and get a pen and paper ready so I could call them. Maybe they might get ahold of them to get ahold of Lisa McCallister them too to have an extension till all the kids come back from college. Yeah, because I talked to my grandson this morning, early this morning. He didn't have his new ID.
Speaker 5:And so that's why I said we have some going to college in Washington and Kansas. Yeah. That's little over 48. That's why I said I was wondering how are they gonna make it back home? You know, they get out of college to come back home and they won't wanna let them avoid the jet because they're trying to get back home from school.
Speaker 2:There's gotta be some sort of exception for college students because that's when I was going to college down south and I was still claiming residency. Well, it was before we were making the real ID thing, but I was still claiming residency for Alaska when I was going to college. So that's why I was still able to get my PFD, but, yeah, I feel like there's gotta be some sort of way for college students to be able to still travel back home as long as they claim the residency still is Alaska, but they're saying that they're a college student in a different state. There's got yeah. I got we gotta look into that a little bit more, but I'm I wonder if a caller later today could give us a good answer on that or unless you're looking that up right now, Nano.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I for our local representatives here in Juneau that you might have a easier time getting ahold of and talking with, we have representative Sarah Hannan, and the let's see here. Session contact number is (907) 465-4766. And you can reach her also via email at representative dot sarah, s a, dot hannan, h h a n n a n, a k leg dot gov.
Speaker 5:Okay. Thank you for your program. I'll try to get it written down when I go by my radio.
Speaker 2:Alright. We'll we'll announce that again probably a couple more times today.
Speaker 5:Yeah. So I could so I could find out what they could do for the college students that are gonna be coming back home. That's why I said I to my my grandson this morning, and he didn't have that new ID.
Speaker 3:I'm sure that other representatives would be able to give you some good information if they don't already have some sort of solution that's been worked on.
Speaker 5:Okay. Thank you for your program. And I'm glad you're gonna show numbers out there because I know there's some in the rural communities that their kids are going to college. Yeah. So I have I have one and then I have another niece going to college in Kansas.
Speaker 5:So I hope they're gonna get back home if they don't have that new ID because it costs so much to come home for Christmas, you know.
Speaker 8:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5:Then some of them just stayed on there because they they'd have to make it back home once sold out.
Speaker 3:Well, we wanna make sure that if they do choose to come home for the holidays, they have no troubles getting back here.
Speaker 5:Yeah. So I'm glad I brought that on the line. So maybe, you know, probably get some more calls regularly. Somebody will know who to call.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely. Okay,
Speaker 5:thank you for your program.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thanks for calling in
Speaker 3:and chatting with us. Yeah, have a great weekend.
Speaker 5:You too. Okay, bye.
Speaker 2:All right, bye bye. Yeah, there's gotta be a solution for that Real ID deal, especially like you were saying, you're Well, I feel like military, you have your military ID, so that might be a workaround for that, but for a college student, yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, and like the other side of this is that, you know, I'm guilty of it as well, of being a procrastinator. And the talk of the real ID has been around for some years now, you But now that they're enacting something that could potentially hamper people's travel and stuff, now everyone seems to be rushing to get it done. When I was there at the DMV, was like, Hey, is mine a real idea? And they're like, Yeah, it has that little star in the corner. And I was like, But I don't remember when I got that done.
Speaker 2:Well, when I was traveling to Ketchikan A Week ago, yeah, they started they're like they had their scanners. Like, they're, like, legit checking your ID, making sure it was real. So but, like, I feel like there's gotta be a workaround, but we do have a couple calls. Let's get them on the show. Hi.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem and Coordinator live and on the air.
Speaker 5:Yes. I just wanna make
Speaker 9:an announcement there. As they know that we have native corporations, Yuma and Varan Strait Native corporations that are involved in these detention centers in Texas and New Mexico. And one of them is where that fellow that was legally in the country got deported to El Salvador and both of them got There were three people got in El Salvador. So why are native corporations involved with these detention centers when they're they're questioning the citizenship of native Americans. And I thought I'd just bring that to your attention to the to the native population here in Juneau.
Speaker 3:That was in in relation to that article that was published a few days ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I remember seeing that article. Yeah.
Speaker 9:My wife is is from Nana Corporation, and a lot of people are up in arms over it. They shouldn't be involved with that. And Baron Street is already getting sued Wow. From person that was illegally detained there. And and it's a bad omen.
Speaker 9:They They don't need to be involved in their shareholders' money and the detention. Jails are different, but these detention centers where people there's some innocent people being sent. We're not talking about the criminals now. We're talking about, you know, the one or 2% of people that have families and jobs and they're legally entitled to be in this country. We're all against illegal immigration but not people that are legally here because we all probably know some people that are here legally.
Speaker 9:So I just threw that out to our shareholders, not not our shareholders, but our native people in the in the state that know about this. And I enjoy your program. Thank you.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Thank you. Thanks for the call. You know, I've I saw that article too of that dad There's so many things that are just so alarming that you read left and right. And it's where I try and practice good research methods and things like that.
Speaker 3:For that specific article, I didn't dig any deeper into it, but seeing where the source is and the full context of the situation because it's real easy for people to highlight one very small portion of a scenario and then kind of run with it as far as like a lead or that's what So it sounds like something nefarious is going on there, but the full context of it didn't seem like it was covered in that article specifically.
Speaker 2:It's almost like, well, I was just with social media, with those all those little news clips, like, could be so many different sources. Someone could take the main source, trim it down and, like, have all the information and then post it on social media and then you're not getting the full story.
Speaker 3:Well, as far as like the news cycle goes, it's like it's engineered. People know that the average attention span is thirty seconds to a minute, and if it's not gonna be covered in that, and it's like a lot of people that are receiving it think that it's not pertinent information and stuff or think that that's all that's there to be had. Right. So, you know, making sure that you dig deep on these, follow the money, you know, do as much independent research as possible. Call people and ask them at these organizations too, you know?
Speaker 3:And you'd be surprised what kind of information you can get that a so called reporter might not have actually reported on. Yeah. Exactly.
Speaker 2:So I do see we have a couple calls, but sadly, we do have to take a quick commercial break if you guys wanna hang out there or just hang up and call us back after we return. But we are gonna be right back with more problem corner here on KINY.
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Speaker 1:Now back to problem corner where our community meets to talk, trade, and share.
Speaker 2:And we're back to more Problem Corner here on KINY on this Friday, April 11. Is it April 11? It the eleventh. It is the eleventh. Okay.
Speaker 2:Just double check out. Thought it was the twelfth already. Yeah. Lots of stuff to be talked about today. I just wanna throw that warning out that the gentleman called in about black bears being out and about.
Speaker 2:So please be aware when you're out hiking or walking the trails that they are on about. So keep a close eye on your pets if they are off leash pets. I know my dog does not alert me to bears, but my family's dog does, so maybe I'll be taking double dogs with me this They are
Speaker 3:definitely hungry.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah. And we do have a couple calls. Thanks for waiting patiently. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 17:Yes. I am having a garage sale tomorrow morning from nine to one at 895 West Twelfth Street.
Speaker 2:8 9 5
Speaker 17:In a in a community room. What is That's across from the Harborview School, the Mountain View.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:What kind of, what kind of goods are consisting in the garage sale?
Speaker 17:It's a lot of antique cups and antique lot of, lot of purdies. Lot of purdies. I'm overcrowded with pretty stuff.
Speaker 3:Purdies and shinies?
Speaker 17:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And the address is 895 West West Twelfth Street. Correct? Yeah. Alright. Just wanna make sure I got that correct from nine to 1PM tomorrow.
Speaker 3:All sorts of good antiques there in the flats.
Speaker 17:Kinds of beautiful stuff.
Speaker 2:Alright. If you guys are antique hunters, definitely swing by 895 West Twelfth Street tomorrow between nine and 1PM. Oh, buster. I didn't get to say goodbye. Dang.
Speaker 2:But, yeah, garage sale season is upon us now. I was hoping that we would get a lot more in April, but as we are still getting into springtime weather, I'm sure there's gonna be a lot more, and we do have another call. Let's get them on. Hi. Welcome to Provincointer.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 11:Hey. Well, thank you. Good morning.
Speaker 3:Good morning.
Speaker 11:What I wanna yeah. What I wanna get across is, believe it still holds today. It's been we've been using our Clayton Heida cards being Alaska Native in Southeast Alaska to cross the Canadian border. What my understanding, I haven't tried it yet, but all we do is show our Clayton Heida card with our birth certificate. Homeland Security recognizes his ID.
Speaker 11:So that I know of. If you got that card, when you
Speaker 19:go to the airport or something, you
Speaker 11:can show them that and off you go.
Speaker 2:So this might be a workaround for some, like, earlier with that gentleman calling about the real IDs. If you are a clinking and hide a cardholder, you might be able to use that to travel back and forth maybe.
Speaker 3:Between Canada, though. Right?
Speaker 2:Oh, Canada.
Speaker 11:That is that is correct. It's recognized as federal ID.
Speaker 8:Hey. There you go. Okay.
Speaker 11:Yeah. So it's not state issued. It's basically federal ID. But I did send an email to Alicia. Hopefully, I can get a response back.
Speaker 11:I could probably email Ken Wide, you know, post it or something when it come if I do have to get it back. If not, maybe I'll see her Monday or Tuesday on an email, and I'll get back on the folks there and then not to what she says about it. But then I know we've been doing this for years with Canada. They just show them that ID. I guess with birth certificate and they'll say, have a nice day and see you later.
Speaker 2:Alright. Well, thanks for giving us that information.
Speaker 12:Okay. Have a good day.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah. You as well.
Speaker 2:You too.
Speaker 5:Bye.
Speaker 2:I'm glad you called. Yeah. A little good information about So if you are a Clicking and Haida cardholder that is recognized as a federal ID for Alaska Natives and Native Americans. So yeah, maybe that is a good avenue, but he was talking about for crossing the border through Canada. But I believe if you have your birth certificate, passport, and you have that card, might be able to get through without a real ID.
Speaker 2:But as we get more information about that with college students, we'll let you guys know that is an possible avenue to go through. And we do have another call. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 19:Hey. How are you? Hey. How are you?
Speaker 3:Good morning.
Speaker 2:How are you doing?
Speaker 19:Hey. How are you? Hey. I'm doing just peachy. Hey.
Speaker 19:I wanna talk about age and rusty sewer pipes. This coming eighteenth, I'm gonna be 63 e for years old, and oh my god. I can definitely feel it in my body. My body aches because years and years of ingesting this poison everybody eats every day, which Yes. So And right now, I got type two diabetes, and hopefully, youngsters are listening to this and cut out a lot of these sugars because I was pooped from leaking.
Speaker 19:Didn't take care of myself, and now I'm a suffering succotash because it sure attacks the nerves in your feet, this diabetes.
Speaker 3:You know, there's a lot of talk always about how can we reduce tobacco consumption, how can we reduce alcohol consumption, how can we reduce drug consumption in youth and other things? But you never hear much conversation of how can we reduce the sugar intake, ends up killing a lot more people and, causing diseases than a lot of those other things that get a lot of the main focus.
Speaker 19:And it's and it's not it's not, a a fast death either. It's a slow, miserable, achy, breaky. You know? It's I I lay awake at night with my feet just it's my nerves and my feet are just aching, and it's kind of a you know, it's terrible because I didn't take care of watch what I ate and everything. And nowadays, I see all these parents feed their kids just just total garbage.
Speaker 19:And it's sad because what they don't realize is, you know, nowadays, you know, type two diabetes, they're now calling Alzheimer's and dementia type three diabetes because it's now directly linked with sugar.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're finding that, you know, newer research into Alzheimer's is finding that a lot of root causes can start in your immune system, which all starts from the gut and the stomach lining. And Yeah. None of us treat that very well.
Speaker 19:Yeah. It goes from your filters with your gut, you know, which is and then your liver, which is your oil filter, and your pancreas, which is your gas filter, you know, and
Speaker 3:I like that analogy.
Speaker 19:Change these suckers because if you don't take care of your engine, your engine's gonna break down.
Speaker 3:Well, in an over, an overreaching view of all this is that, even in a polluting aspect, you know, is like, in the environmental side of things, a lot of people focus on, what they call fossil fuels, but it's hydrocarbon fuel, you know, and that puts c o two and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Well, there's a human aspect of this too, and the things that we consume and put in and on our bodies are so synthetic and so highly processed. While our bodies don't retain that, we sweat it out instantly almost, a lot of
Speaker 2:those toxins. That
Speaker 19:calling your stomach, your mouth to your brain.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, this is like
Speaker 19:directly to your brain. They're saying that sugar, you know, causes brain fog because you have your receptacles and your transmitters, and the the crystals of the sugar stick to your receptacles, which causes brain fog, which eventually causes dementia.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 19:So it's it needs to be taken serious, you know, and and nowadays too, they're teaching you that, you know, whenever you squeeze a squirt or pinch of wolf, you know, just stand up before you flush, turn around, bend over, and take a gander, you know, because the color of your poop can tell you about your health
Speaker 5:and the color
Speaker 19:of your pee can tell you about your health.
Speaker 3:Oh, even, even, odors and stuff. So, like, the humans put out about 92,000,000 pounds of CO two into the atmosphere on a daily basis And it you know, it's a lot. But c CO two isn't CO two
Speaker 12:is still
Speaker 19:You know, I drive a caravan, you know, I help people who need help. When you're stuck in close proximity to someone, that CO two doesn't smoke great.
Speaker 3:Well, what I was saying is that the CO2 is an organic compound, but what is in our sweat is the synthetics that are reacting with bacteria that create these harsh gases. And while humans put 92,000,000 pounds of CO two into the atmosphere on a daily basis, we also sweat about 57,000,000 pounds out into the atmosphere on a daily basis. Only our sweat is not an organic compound and gets no filtration. So there's there's there's multiple parts of environmental issues, and some of them just don't get looked at because we'd have to be looking in at ourselves.
Speaker 19:Yeah. Yeah. And I guess my message is, people cut down your sugars and parents, please, please quit giving your children this poison because when they get to be our age, they're gonna be hurting for squirting.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. Thank you very much for that message. It's a very
Speaker 7:good one.
Speaker 19:Okay. Well, Have
Speaker 2:a good one, mister. Appreciate your call as always. Yeah. I'm actually glad that he called about that, but let's take a quick commercial break and maybe jump back and talk about sugar awareness. Alright.
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Speaker 1:You're listening to problem corner on KINY, bringing neighbors together for generations. From the days of Dennis Egan to today, we're proud to continue the tradition of lively debates, community insights, and local connections here on KINY.
Speaker 2:And welcome back to Problem Corner here on KINY on this Friday. I'm Justin Miller, and as always, we're joined by Nano Brooks here in the studio.
Speaker 3:Hello. Hello.
Speaker 2:And I did want to before we jump back into our conversation, I just want to go through our list of our calls today. So we had that call about black bears being out, so please be aware about that. And then we had that lady with the garage sale going on tomorrow from nine to one p. M. At 895 West Twelfth Street, and she's got some pretty shiny antique stuff going on.
Speaker 2:So if you guys wanna pop over there tomorrow between nine and one, definitely do so. And then that gentleman called about Klingon Haida cards. If you are a cardholder from Klingon and Haida, that could also work as a possible federal ID. But coming back before during the break, me were talking a little bit about that previous caller about sugar awareness. And I'd love to kind of maybe take this topic to the end of the program today because it is very important and a lot of folks not seem to forget it, but everyone goes in phases where we're like, Oh, I need to watch my sugar intake.
Speaker 3:We don't focus on it as regularly as we should, when it comes to other health related things too. It's too convenient, like we were saying. It's too convenient to throw the Pop Tart in the toaster or have a toaster strudel or eat an uncrustable peanut butter and jelly pocket, you know? It's just, it's so convenient, but, you know, like he was saying too, it's it's a it's a slow thing that happens over time, you know? You you put those things in your body and then it might not make you feel terrible immediately, but, know, ten, twenty years down the line, you start messing with the systems of your body that filter all that
Speaker 2:stuff and process it. Yeah, we're just flooding our bodies with day to day things. Like this morning, I was drinking a Rockstar Energy, freaking butt ton of sugar and caffeine in one of those. And it's like, sometimes I drink maybe once, one a day, but still, even then, I can still go down the drain.
Speaker 3:I almost don't want to tell you this statistic because it pertains specifically to Rockstar's. But I read that if you drink a rock star, if you wanted to 100% filter that back out of your body through your digestive system, you would need to drink a gallon of water a day for thirty days. Just to filter everything To filter out one rock star. Wow,
Speaker 2:and I'm screwed. But yeah, I definitely get it. I'm a convenience guy, I try to go for the healthier alternatives, but sometimes those healthy alternatives, you're trading sugar for sodium. So it's like almost a catch-twenty two. Or you
Speaker 3:get the sugarless alternative that has aspartame and they find that linked to all sorts of other health issues. But it goes back into our society as far as like, you know, it's too easy to prescribe away issues when it comes to the medical fields and, you know, the way doctors should be conducting themselves when it comes to all these unexplainable chronic pains and illnesses is be like, Hey, do you get enough sleep every night? Do you exercise for an hour a day? Do you drink enough water? Do you have a good diet?
Speaker 3:If those four things aren't covered first, it'd be like, no medication until you get those things. If you do those things and still have issues, then something else is going on.
Speaker 2:And I know they do that a lot with folks that deal with obesity if they're trying to do a procedure, get some of that liposuction or kind of along those lines. And doctors usually make those kind of patients go through a diet and exercise for a certain amount of time and make them reach a weight goal before they do any sort of procedures. And yeah, similar to like what you're saying, we can't prescribe you anything until you check all these boxes off for you. Your diet's changed, your fiber intake's better, your vitamins is better, your blood works better. So there's a lot of stuff that could be had, but I do see we have a call.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Let's see if someone has an opinion on it. Alright. Hi. Welcome Prime Corner.
Speaker 2:What's up? What's up?
Speaker 6:Let me turn up my radio here. Hey. That topic you guys are talking about?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Sugar.
Speaker 6:The good news on that is our president.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah? How so?
Speaker 6:Well, he's raising the prices on everything. We're having all these wars going on and everything with the food. The price the price of food is going up. So you know what that's gonna do?
Speaker 2:Make us think healthier.
Speaker 6:That's gonna bring us back to our native culture.
Speaker 19:That's gonna
Speaker 6:bring us back to
Speaker 8:our seared meat, gamboo, cockle, clam,
Speaker 6:dairy, everything. Everything that's good for us when we were growing up.
Speaker 3:Well, just also sustainability. People are looking at starting their own veggie gardens and looking at any way that they can source food locally because supply chains are uncertain.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah. Which was a big thing I saw during COVID.
Speaker 6:That that that that'll bring them. Hopefully, that'll bring everybody to think about what's going on with the sugar and stuff, and they'll bring them back because we didn't have that problem when we were growing up. I mean
Speaker 3:No. We were just talking about
Speaker 2:how It was it was
Speaker 3:You guys got the first generation of that.
Speaker 6:The land, and and that's the way it was.
Speaker 3:Yeah. You guys were the to really see, like, all the highly processed food products coming out into the market. And
Speaker 6:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3:You know, now as millennials and Gen Zers, it's a couple decades of consuming those products and the results of it are becoming apparent.
Speaker 6:Oh, yeah. Yeah. And there's a lot of things that they told us when we were younger not to do that we'll feel it when we get older. And we didn't listen then because we were tough. Right?
Speaker 12:We were tough.
Speaker 3:Like playing with mercury.
Speaker 6:But now it's pay now we're paying for it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And
Speaker 6:carry only one case of milk instead of two. You know? But now you're feeling it. Now your back is going out and you said, hey. I should've just carried that one like they said, but we don't listen back then.
Speaker 6:We're tough. You know?
Speaker 2:Are you hucking yourself off of cliffs into cliff diving or you're you're popping back flips off a mountain? Yeah.
Speaker 12:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6:Coming back with 200 brown deer.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah. Packing deer out and but honestly, think that's a better alternative. You're getting physical and you're Oh, yeah. You're hunting for yourself. So
Speaker 3:yeah. Yep. Well, and also helps
Speaker 6:that got me the worst was climbing ladders. Don't climb ladders if you don't have to because your back will go out quicker than anything.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 6:If you stand on a ladder for more than four or five hours, it it definitely will pay for it.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. Especially if your arms are over your head too.
Speaker 6:Okay. Well, that's my 2¢. I gotta get going here. You guys have a great weekend.
Speaker 3:You as well. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 8:Okay. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Alright. Bye bye. And we do have another call. This will be our last call of the program. Hi.
Speaker 2:Welcome. Oh, help. Welcome to problem corner. Bless you.
Speaker 3:Was that
Speaker 8:a sense? Hello.
Speaker 2:Hello. You're live and on the air. This is Mel. Hi, Mel. Hey.
Speaker 2:How's it going?
Speaker 12:Yeah. Okay. Last call. I was having a we're having a family dinner with traditional food, and we were talking about what the subject is now. And I was doing the every every other day besides eggs, I had oatmeal.
Speaker 12:So I I was talking about the packet of, like, Quaker. Mhmm. I like maple and brown sugar. Probably the sugar isn't good for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 12:But one of my sisters said that they use some process in the big farms that they have today to kill the weeds.
Speaker 6:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 12:And it's just contaminated the and they told me the best thing to do, Mel, is to to get the organic oatmeal. Yes. But so I had no idea. It's it's a good subject you're talking about today.
Speaker 3:No. And thanks And thanks for mentioning that with the oatmeal.
Speaker 12:Yeah. And and at eighty four, the other caller was talking about what what happens to you in your elderly years, and he's right. I I won't go into it. I I have talking about ATT. Mhmm.
Speaker 12:It's it's how you didn't really take care of yourself in your younger years is gonna catch up with you in your elderly years. So I I can attest to that. And I wanna thank you for the program. It it's good to bring all this up. Yeah.
Speaker 12:I'll catch you all later. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Thanks for calling in, Mel.
Speaker 3:And that's a great point that Mel brought up is that even something that you would think is, very healthy, like oatmeal, well Quaker is one of the biggest brands of it, and they have all those different flavors. All that stuff is highly processed, very highly processed, lots of added sugar. If you want a good, healthy oatmeal, you get like steel cut oats.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah,
Speaker 3:like Yeah, and do some real organic stuff, you know? That's where you get the healthy oatmeal. But just because it seems like a healthy food, you still need to look at the process of how it's made and packaged because that is where a lot of this bad stuff can be introduced.
Speaker 2:And even just finding different alternatives for your guilty snacks, it could help a lot. Like I know Juno Natural is such a great place to check out because they have plenty of different alternatives, they have nice healthier Well, I've been going the probiotic soda route for the past year or so, and I've been liking those a lot. Lower sugar, they have some of those prebiotics, which supposedly is not those poppies or olipops, they're not beneficial for your gut until you drink like maybe two of those a day, but still it's
Speaker 3:Well, something to keep in mind with the kombuchas and probiotics is that get ones that say not pasteurized. Once you pasteurize the cultures in there, it kills them. So you get something thinking that you're gonna get a bunch of good culture. If it's pasteurized, it's like you're not gonna get a whole bunch of it, but you're still paying that organic price, you know?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's a good note to kind of leave the program. 12:00 now, so that's been problem corner today. I
Speaker 3:could definitely upset a bunch of people on the tail end here. The best cheesecake I've ever had in my life was a vegan cheesecake. Oh, really? Yep. Oh, wow.
Speaker 3:There's no dairy or added sugar like that, and it was by far better than any real cheesecake I've had.
Speaker 2:Yeah. My mom's lactose intolerant, sometimes she makes those dairy free, gluten free desserts and you couldn't if she didn't say something, would never tell that it was gluten free and had different, like, coconut flours, different alternatives like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Cashew powder, things like that. So I think that's
Speaker 2:a good note to end on, be conscious, be aware of what you're taking in your body. Maybe this weekend, try to think about your sugar intake and all that stuff. So as always, Nano, appreciate you coming in and hanging out with me here on
Speaker 3:Yeah, my part Ending the week the right way. I know.
Speaker 2:Right? I think this is a good way to always end Problem Corner. Just nice open forum for everyone. But we'll see you next time, Nano, and this has been Problem Corner here on KINY.
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