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July 14, 2017 - Knowledge Fight - Bonus
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Fluoride

Dr. Gums joins hosts Dan Freezing and Marty DeRosa to debate water fluoridation, citing a Harvard study linking fluoride to lower IQs and noting that 20% of pharmaceuticals use it merely for stabilization. While the CDC claims ingestion offers no dental benefit compared to topical application, the discussion explores conspiracy theories about pineal gland calcification and population control. Ultimately, the hosts acknowledge the philosophical conflict between public health mandates and individual free will, concluding that while small amounts may prevent fractures, the evidence for systemic benefits remains unproven. [Automatically generated summary]

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Libelous Territory and Nixon 00:14:27
unidentified
All I do is smash heads, bro.
That's what they want you to think.
That's what they want you to think.
She's control the world.
What did you just say?
I didn't hear you.
It's no big deal.
marty derosa
They want you to think.
So you just go on with your life.
dan friesen
I'd like to apologize.
About what I said earlier.
marty derosa
People are weird and sometimes say things that don't make sense.
If you could have heard what we were talking about before we turned these mics on, you would definitely want us to do a Chris Benoit episode.
unidentified
That's what they want.
dan friesen
All right, that's enough of that.
Hey, I was about to go.
How's it going?
What was in my yabbity yabbity?
That's all.
How are you guys doing?
Welcome back to Freezing Point.
I'm Dan Freezing.
I'm sitting here in the studio.
With my main man, my Truth Seeker.
We got to come up with better nicknames because I don't like that.
Truth Seeker's kind of my brain battler.
Brain warrior.
My partner in the trenches of the brain battle, ladies and gentlemen, Marty DeRosa.
marty derosa
It's good to be here.
It's going to be woke.
dan friesen
Welcome back to woke studios.
marty derosa
We are back here in an undisclosed location.
dan friesen
We are recording in a bunker somewhere either east or west of the Rockies.
unidentified
One of the two.
marty derosa
We are definitely west of Lake Michigan.
You're on the air.
dan friesen
Did you ever listen to like Coast to Coast AM, right?
marty derosa
Dark Matter Radio.
dan friesen
Didn't you always love the, like, East of the Rockies?
You're on the air.
marty derosa
They still do it.
dan friesen
Yeah, I love it.
marty derosa
Uh, Brian Alvarez, who's a wrestling journalist, uh, with Dave Meltzer for Figure Four and Wrestling Observer, he's, he has a show on the Dark Matter Radio Network.
And, uh, it's a lifelong dream for him, and I like seeing people achieve their dreams.
unidentified
Sure.
marty derosa
And, uh, he's a big fan of East of the Rockies, West of the Rockies.
And when they can't, when they can't quite figure it out, they say parts unknown.
dan friesen
Parts unknown.
marty derosa
Ooh, I love it.
dan friesen
Did you hear, uh, uh, George Norrie was on Duncan Trussell's podcast recently.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
He did an interview and, uh, boy, it was weird.
marty derosa
Who's George Norrie?
dan friesen
He's the host of Coast to Coast.
marty derosa
Oh, the new Art Bell.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
And Art Bell left because he felt like, uh, he needed to get to an island or something like that.
I think we all need to get to an island.
dan friesen
I think he might have, uh, I feel like it was escaping something.
Okay.
That's the kind of feel I had.
marty derosa
Okay.
I heard the new guy.
Uh, I was on the road and I had access to a car and I was driving around after a show.
dan friesen
The guy who's newer than George Norrie.
marty derosa
Yeah, the new guy.
Whoever he is.
And man, those callers are awesome.
dan friesen
Yeah, they have stories.
marty derosa
Yeah, I have seen ghosts numerous occasions, but that's not why I'm calling it.
And then I'll go on this other.
I love just this idea of like, what do you got this week?
Bigfoot, I'm down.
dan friesen
Yeah, let's do it.
marty derosa
Let's do it.
Bigfoot's real.
Like, I love just this, like, across the board, I'm down with whatever you're throwing at me.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
I love that acceptance.
But anyway, he was on Duncan Drussell's podcast and he was asking him about who the elites are.
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
And stuff like that.
He's like, I can't talk about it.
marty derosa
The elites in podcasting, he mentioned us?
dan friesen
Yeah, he did.
He's like, Marty and Sarah love wrestling, top tier.
marty derosa
Freezing for us.
dan friesen
Number 33.
marty derosa
Wow, that was just an episode, Dan, but we're, we're, we're firmly in the top 100.
dan friesen
You're entrenched.
marty derosa
Entrenched in the top 100.
Uh, beating Vince Russo's podcast.
dan friesen
Suck it.
How's that for a swerve?
Is that, is, am I cool now?
unidentified
Am I cool?
marty derosa
You're awesome.
You're awesome.
dan friesen
Uh, yeah, but it was, it was insane to me listening to that.
And he's like, there are people and I can't talk about them because I don't want to die.
marty derosa
Let me ask you this question.
unidentified
Whoa.
marty derosa
Before we, before we really delve in, Before we jump into the water, to our today's business, what do I mean?
Is Alex Jones still saying if Trump gets elected, he'll get killed?
unidentified
Is he.
marty derosa
Oh, let's leave that for another.
dan friesen
I don't think I should answer that on the air just in case.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
I don't know who that number is.
marty derosa
Is that our mystery caller?
dan friesen
It is not.
marty derosa
So are the people, are the brain battlers, our fellow brain battlers out there?
dan friesen
Are you talking about like you and me?
marty derosa
No, I'm talking about like Alex Jones, our arch enemy.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
I don't know why he's arch enemy.
dan friesen
No, he's fine.
unidentified
But.
dan friesen
He's not fine.
marty derosa
I mean, what's the vibe?
Not just on him.
I hate to give him the mouthpiece of all the conspiracy theorists out there, but.
unidentified
Right.
marty derosa
What's the general vibe about the election right now?
Let's do an election update.
dan friesen
I think that the general vibe is as it's always been that this is all bullshit.
marty derosa
Yeah, we couldn't get our press passes to the RNC or the DNC.
unidentified
Do you believe that?
marty derosa
That would have been so fun, me and you.
dan friesen
We were trying to report live from Cleveland.
marty derosa
Just like, you know, what's up with Bohemian Grove?
Just a lot of Bohemian Grove questions.
dan friesen
Like me with one of those shoulder cameras, you with a terrible mic attached to the camera.
marty derosa
Like a long, thin, just like.
Excuse me, Congressman, what's up with the Bilderbergs?
dan friesen
I would love it if you and I could have been like a bad TV news team in like 1987.
marty derosa
That would have been great.
dan friesen
So they're like just running around trying to get a scoop.
marty derosa
Always with cassettes.
Just nothing but cassettes.
And Dan, change the cassette.
dan friesen
Did you white balance?
unidentified
Oh, man.
God damn it.
marty derosa
But I mean, really though, what is the vibe?
I mean, obviously business as usual, but are they like, here's what's going to happen?
Because I know.
dan friesen
Well, if you talk to Alex Jones, his whole thing was race war, Obama stays, right?
He's basically a.
Not Lee Greenwood.
Who's that other guy that I see a race war arising?
Johnny Rebel?
Is that who it was?
That racist country singer?
marty derosa
Johnny Paycheck?
unidentified
I don't know.
marty derosa
Take his job and shove it?
dan friesen
No, Okay.
He's basically that.
He's like, there's a race war coming.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
But he also, his whole thing was like, Trump is our only hope.
marty derosa
Let me hold it.
It's like, blue lives that matter more.
Race wars are coming.
dan friesen
To our shore.
To our shore.
He was all on the Trump as our only hope against the globalists, and now he's becoming more and more like, This might actually happen.
And I think the way he's changing his tone is like, I don't know.
I hope Trump's the real deal, but maybe he'll get bought out.
You know, that sort of thing.
marty derosa
Yeah, we're backtracking.
dan friesen
But yeah, I think anybody who has conspiracy theory leanings sees the presidential elections.
Every time it's just a dog and pony show.
We're just watching nonsense.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's all kabuki theater with all these people up here.
Marionettes, rich people, strings.
You know what I'm talking about.
marty derosa
I do, but I also.
dan friesen
Just yelling words at you.
marty derosa
Like, what do the Koch brothers think of Donald Trump?
Do we know that?
dan friesen
I don't know, but I bet they're not afraid.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
I bet they're not.
I mean, this is a great test.
dan friesen
Donald Trump is such a dick.
He can be bought so easily.
Sure.
marty derosa
This is a great test to see how well the powers that be's systems are truly set up.
dan friesen
Let me ask you an interesting question.
marty derosa
Fire away, Dan.
dan friesen
Do you think Donald Trump has murdered anybody?
marty derosa
Himself?
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
Physically with his hands?
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
marty derosa
Well, I mean, I don't.
dan friesen
I love that you have to take a second to think about it.
marty derosa
Of course, because you don't think, and I'm not saying it was recently.
dan friesen
Yeah, when he was a younger man.
marty derosa
You don't think in the 80s there was some fucking.
Oh, Donald.
You be Donald.
I'll be your friend.
dan friesen
I like role play.
marty derosa
All right, here we go.
unidentified
Donald.
Hey.
marty derosa
I'm back from my vacation.
dan friesen
I hope it was fantastic.
marty derosa
Donald.
dan friesen
The best vacation, the best place.
I don't do a good job.
marty derosa
Drop whatever you're doing.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
There is an island where they bring you.
You can hunt.
unidentified
Whoa.
marty derosa
They're homeless.
unidentified
Uh huh.
marty derosa
No one will miss them.
dan friesen
No trail.
unidentified
No trail.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
You haven't lived until you've hunted another man.
dan friesen
It's the most dangerous game.
marty derosa
It is the most dangerous game.
This one guy looked a lot like iced tea.
That's what I think.
If he ever killed anybody, allegedly, if he ever killed anybody, it was one of those deals.
dan friesen
One of those situations?
marty derosa
It was like, oh, all the rich guys are doing it.
You know, it was kind of like this very American psycho type of like, yeah, cocaine's great, but you know what's even better?
dan friesen
There's no greater high than watching life leave someone's eyes.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
I don't know if that's true, but I would assume.
marty derosa
Have you ever, Trump, Bohemian Grove, ever?
dan friesen
Oh, of course.
unidentified
Okay.
Of course.
marty derosa
You set the agenda.
It's nice.
It's wonderful.
The owl, Molokai, it's wonderful.
dan friesen
You guys have some gay sex.
Everybody has a good time.
It's the faggiest goddamn thing Nixon has ever seen.
marty derosa
That is one thing about Richard Nixon, it's like the gayest shit I've ever seen.
dan friesen
No.
marty derosa
I know, he said the F word.
dan friesen
The only reason I'm comfortable quoting that is because that's a crazy quote.
unidentified
Right.
Legit.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
Nixon.
Nixon.
I would think.
dan friesen
What do you think the odds are?
Would you bet on him having murdered somebody?
We're getting into possibly libelous territory.
marty derosa
Allegedly.
Like I said, if something did happen like that, first of all, he's been at parties where someone's died.
For sure.
dan friesen
Or overdose or something.
marty derosa
Yeah, and just had to like, let's put them out the back door.
That's allegedly, probably 1,000%, allegedly, for sure, allegedly happened.
What I'm wondering about is the, you know, murder for sport, the murder island.
Murder island.
dan friesen
Mm hmm.
You know, in conspiracy circles, people are really big on what's called predictive programming.
marty derosa
Ooh, please tell me about this.
dan friesen
And that's the sort of thing where you put something in a movie and then it happens in real life and it's crazy.
And so people can just be like, hey, something's up here.
And they're like, yeah, here, wait.
It's like.
marty derosa
Or is it the opposite of something.
Because I know that sounds like dark waters.
unidentified
But.
dan friesen
It's almost exactly.
marty derosa
Could it be something like this also if something wild happened and then it's like, oh shit, we better make a movie about this?
So if anyone.
dan friesen
People don't look at it.
marty derosa
So if people are like, hey, I heard Dan and Marty.
Did this thing.
Now you're thinking of that movie, Stop It.
dan friesen
Well, it's like one of the bad examples of this is like people make the argument that in the Dark Knight, there's an area on a map that's shown called Sandy Hook.
And that happened right before the movie came out before the shooting.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
It's like, hey, look at this.
It's a clue.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That sort of thing.
That's a bad example.
But the real one's like, hey, we got all these millionaires who murder on this island for fun.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Your version is much more appealing.
Let's make a movie about this so it looks silly if anyone claims that we're doing it.
marty derosa
Absolutely.
Also, you don't think when that Ice T movie came out, there was some rich guy who's like.
dan friesen
Wait, that was an.
Oh, Surviving the Game?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Oh, okay.
That's not the movie I'm talking about.
There's one from like the 40s.
marty derosa
Oh, I'm talking about the fucking Ice T fucking awesome ass movie.
dan friesen
Oh, no.
marty derosa
Which is ripe for a remake.
That one will not ruin my childhood, and I am on board with that one.
dan friesen
Should we talk about that a tiny bit before we get into our topic?
unidentified
Sure.
Sure.
dan friesen
So last week, or maybe two weeks ago, me and Buds did a movie review of Ghostbusters.
You didn't like it.
marty derosa
I thought it was just.
dan friesen
I mean, not the episode.
I thought.
marty derosa
I stopped listening to the episode because I heard spoilers were coming.
And I didn't want to be spoiled.
Sure.
I liked what I heard so far of the podcast.
I don't know.
There were some really funny jokes at the beginning, I thought.
I thought the beginning was Joke City.
And then, I don't know.
I just was kind of like, this is fine.
It wasn't, you know, and I was kind of like, while it was happening, I was kind of wondering what some of the reviews were.
You guys gave it a glowing review.
dan friesen
I loved it.
I saw it twice.
unidentified
I loved it.
dan friesen
I saw it twice in theaters.
marty derosa
Twice?
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Yeah, see.
dan friesen
See, what happened with me was I saw it, I loved it, and then I read all these reviews, and I'm like, did I actually love it?
And I started to second guess myself.
marty derosa
What were some of the knocks on the movie?
Besides Fallout Boys, motherfucking horrendous version of that theme song.
dan friesen
Which I stand by, that it's bad.
unidentified
Oh my god.
dan friesen
I'm on your side.
marty derosa
That took me out of the movie.
I think that's when I really got out of it.
unidentified
I'm not afraid.
I'm not afraid.
marty derosa
I don't even know what, like.
dan friesen
Terrible.
marty derosa
How do those guys look each other in the eyes?
dan friesen
You're talking about Patrick Stump and his friend?
marty derosa
Pete Wentz?
dan friesen
Pete Wentz?
marty derosa
I don't even know how these guys look each other in the eyes after that.
unidentified
I don't know.
dan friesen
I think they feel pretty good about it.
marty derosa
I would be more comfortable looking you in the eyes after we hunted a homeless man on an island.
After we paid a million dollars each to do it versus us.
Getting paid millions of dollars to do this Ghostbusters theme song.
dan friesen
What was that quote, like that Michael Caine quote about doing Jaws 4?
It was like, I have not seen the movie.
I heard it's bad.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But I've seen the house before.
Sure.
And it's awesome.
marty derosa
My favorite is.
dan friesen
I bet Patrick Stump feels some of that.
Yeah, maybe the song sucks, but I got paid like a million dollars.
marty derosa
Also, too, it's like at this point, it's like, look, people who hate us are already going to hate us.
People who love us are already going to love us.
dan friesen
I'm not afraid, not afraid of these haters.
unidentified
I know.
marty derosa
And you know what?
Just, it wasn't like.
There were fun.
I mean, like, obviously, everyone in it's funny.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
You know what I mean?
And there were very funny parts.
The announcer for Fallon was so funny in it.
dan friesen
The middle finger guy?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And did you notice his name was Tom Shanks?
unidentified
No.
marty derosa
What's that a joke about?
dan friesen
Tom Hanks.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
And Shanks.
marty derosa
Also, too, it was like the previews weren't fun.
There were two Tom Hanks movies previews.
dan friesen
You're talking about the new Angels and Demons Da Vinci Code movie?
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
Come on.
marty derosa
Dante's Infer.
I've never been into those movies.
dan friesen
No, of course not.
unidentified
At all.
marty derosa
Give me a conspiracy theory movie I can sink my teeth into.
dan friesen
We went on vacation one time and my dad found a copy of the book.
Yeah.
The Da Vinci Code.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he's like, I hate this book.
Have you read it?
He's like, no.
He's like, I don't ever want to read this.
And then I guess he was left alone with his thoughts for a while and grabbed the book and started reading it.
marty derosa
Just devoured it.
dan friesen
The rest of the time he was furious at the book.
He was like, this is the stupidest shit.
marty derosa
Well, your dad's an intelligent man.
dan friesen
He wouldn't use that kind of language, but he was so mad at the book.
marty derosa
So there was the preview for that movie.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
Then there was a preview for the Miracle on the Hudson movie.
dan friesen
About Sully Sullenberg?
marty derosa
About Sully Sullenberg.
dan friesen
They're making a movie of that?
Previewing a Personality Driven Podcast 00:06:04
marty derosa
Yeah.
unidentified
What?
marty derosa
Can't wait to see how long you take one fucking little, not little, but like a one plink, whatever.
dan friesen
It's an inspiring tale of a man landing a plane.
marty derosa
Yeah, but it's like my character's under question, and they're asking if he was fucked up and all this stuff, whatever.
dan friesen
Remember back in the day when it was expected that pilots would be drunk?
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
A better time.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Anyway, what was the third one?
marty derosa
Uh, like a troll Pixar movie about the troll dolls.
dan friesen
The ones with the weird hair?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Come on.
marty derosa
Uh, and then they did my pet peeve where they showed, they said the name of the actor who was voicing, first of all, as a man who appreciates your voice, probably more than anybody in this Scottish.
dan friesen
Certainly more than my voiceover agent.
marty derosa
I think, and I remember Billy West talking about this on Howard Stern one time.
He's like, Why the fuck does Brad Pitt have to voice a cartoon?
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
marty derosa
He's Brad Pitt.
unidentified
Yep.
Why?
dan friesen
So 80% of that is just stunt casting because we need them at the red carpet.
marty derosa
So they're showing the troll, and then they're like, voiced by Justin Timberlake.
And then they show him in the sound booth.
dan friesen
Justin Timberlake did boo boo.
marty derosa
Acting all fucking.
Act, just.
Camera zombie?
Okay, here we go.
Let me stand up from this chair that I'm probably sitting in when I voice this.
And he's like, oh boy, we're going on an adventure.
That I fucking hate.
dan friesen
I think part of it, though, is.
Feel a little pity for Justin Timberlake because he probably can't get real roles.
marty derosa
He's always in movies.
unidentified
Is he?
Sure.
dan friesen
Like what?
marty derosa
That one with the.
dan friesen
Alpha Dog.
marty derosa
That one they did with the time thing on their wrists.
dan friesen
That was six years ago.
marty derosa
I love that movie.
dan friesen
Out of Time?
unidentified
Oh, I love that movie.
dan friesen
That was years ago.
marty derosa
Yeah, man, but it's fucking ripe for a remake.
That was a movie.
dan friesen
It's definitely riper than Troll Dolls.
marty derosa
And then there was this fucking, like, if you loved American Sniper but want to take your date to a movie, it's like about some soldier who comes back and he's like PTSD and he's at the Super Bowl halftime show and there's fireworks and he's having flashbacks and he falls in love with a cheerleader and it's called like Dan Friesen's Long Walk at Halftime or something.
I'm just like, all those movies sucked.
dan friesen
That sounds overwrought.
marty derosa
I couldn't get one cool new one where I'm like, Oh, I can't wait to see that one.
dan friesen
The flip side of that is when I went to see Tickled, uh, the previews for that.
marty derosa
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
Were, uh, there's that movie about, there's an autistic kid.
Mm hmm.
A documentary about, uh, his parents learning that they could speak to him.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Through Disney movies.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so they'd, like, play Disney characters to get him to come out of his shell.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, that sounds amazing.
marty derosa
That's how I speak to my, uh, friend from Japan who's over here wrestling.
unidentified
Oh, yeah?
marty derosa
Yeah.
Shigahiro, I read.
He does, he, I speak to him through Disney characters.
dan friesen
Just, uh, pretend to be Jafar.
marty derosa
Well, he's a huge, he's a huge, uh, Disney buff.
And I've done this on my podcast, but he loves Disney, and we're going to take him to the Disney store, and I have a Google translator.
dan friesen
This is just the intro to a pornography.
unidentified
Not at all.
marty derosa
That is, my friend Sarah is very excited to take you to the Disney store on Sunday.
She loves Disney.
dan friesen
That's it?
unidentified
That's it.
dan friesen
That was a long.
marty derosa
I know, right?
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
You know what they need to study over there in Japan?
unidentified
What?
dan friesen
Economy of language.
marty derosa
Yeah, word economy, as they have here justly.
dan friesen
So, Marty, I'm sorry you didn't enjoy the movie.
I thought it was good.
unidentified
I'll say this.
dan friesen
I don't want to rehash all the things I like about it, but I thought it was great.
I thought the characters were good, the plot was fun.
marty derosa
I was so curious, too, when you guys were gushing over the guy at the beginning from Parker Brown.
unidentified
Zach Woods?
dan friesen
My man, Zach Woods.
marty derosa
Did you mention that he's on Silicon Valley?
dan friesen
Yeah, I think we mentioned.
Yeah, Bud's talked about how he's his favorite part of Silicon Valley.
marty derosa
He's great.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
He's really great.
dan friesen
He's a genius.
unidentified
He's.
Wow.
dan friesen
He needs to be in tons more stuff.
He could play.
marty derosa
He will be.
dan friesen
So many.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
I think he will be.
dan friesen
God damn it, I love Zach Woods.
marty derosa
I thought the blonde lady from Saturday Night Live.
dan friesen
Kate McKinnon?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Amazing.
marty derosa
There were times where it was a little over the top, maybe.
dan friesen
Yeah, your character was wacky.
marty derosa
Took me out a little bit.
Not took me out, whatever.
I knew it was a movie.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
I wasn't like, whoa, shit.
For a second, I thought this was a documentary about ghost hunting.
dan friesen
Chris Hounsworth was awesome?
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
marty derosa
I like the idea that that dude who was the bad guy was just some nod gigantic star.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I mean, I was like, where have I seen him before?
marty derosa
Where have we seen him before?
dan friesen
I know that, I don't know, but I know he was on an episode of The League.
He's in that Rafi episode where they do Rafi's backstory.
He's one of the guys who's in the mental institution with him and Seth Rogen.
marty derosa
Oh, okay.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
Zoukas and Dirty Randy are in the mental hospital.
He was good, though.
unidentified
Sure.
Yeah.
Sure.
marty derosa
You know.
It was.
dan friesen
I'm not trying to talk you into liking it.
marty derosa
No, no.
It was just one of those where I was like, okay.
dan friesen
I was just kind of like, you know what's not okay.
unidentified
What?
dan friesen
The response I've been getting lately, we're 20 minutes in, by the way.
unidentified
It's okay.
It's fine.
Damn.
dan friesen
A lot of response.
marty derosa
This is a personality driven podcast.
I don't know if you realize that.
dan friesen
And we're desperately trying to not talk about what we decided to talk about today.
marty derosa
We're like two kids who don't want to go to bed.
Wait, One more thing.
One more thing.
dan friesen
What we're doing is like, we're basically.
This podcast, in some way, is like an oral report that we've got to give and we haven't studied.
marty derosa
Furthermore, before I delve into my topic, might I just say.
dan friesen
May I thank my illustrious teacher for the great introduction?
unidentified
Yes.
marty derosa
And I thoroughly appreciate your ears to talk to.
Okay, go ahead.
dan friesen
Been getting a lot of really positive feedback, though, about past episodes and a lot of new listeners, and I really appreciate it.
Want to welcome everybody in and thank you for specifically tweeting and texting me about how great that Alyssa Lamb episode is.
marty derosa
Welcome.
We really peaked.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Welcome to the brain battle.
We fucking peaked so hard.
Welcome to the Brain Battle 00:04:31
unidentified
But.
marty derosa
I think, and this is where we're, you know, when we're sitting around at the conference table with all the writers, all those Harvard grad writers, for that's what they want you to think.
dan friesen
We basically have the Simpsons writing staff from 97.
marty derosa
I mean, basically, we do.
We don't like to say this, but we're being funded by BuzzFeed and Vice.
dan friesen
And Al Jazeera.
marty derosa
And Al Jazeera.
We're really blowing up here.
And we've got all the writers around, and everyone's pitching true crime.
And they're saying, we've got our marketing people, they've got pie charts, they're like, they want you guys to talk about women getting murdered.
And that's all they want you to talk about.
dan friesen
It's really all anyone wants.
marty derosa
It's really all anyone wants us to talk about.
dan friesen
Which is not the idea of the show.
unidentified
I know.
marty derosa
But then we're just like, no, no, it's not all true crime.
Like, it's about, like, conspiracy theories and this and that weird stuff.
And they're just like, no, talk about women getting murdered.
dan friesen
So we'll get back to that soon.
unidentified
We will.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
But we will.
dan friesen
But today, let's get into it.
It's time for That's What They Want You to Think.
unidentified
That's why.
dan friesen
Don't drink the water.
unidentified
There's blood in the water.
marty derosa
Water fountains are your enemy.
It's free, but is it good for you?
I almost said, is it fun?
dan friesen
It's free, but at what cost?
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
God, do you think water is a human right?
dan friesen
That's a fascinating question.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
No.
marty derosa
Ooh, you are like that nasty man in Michigan I saw on the Vice Land show.
dan friesen
I should say, full disclosure, I'm a.
Majority owner in Nestle, and we're stealing water from everybody.
No, it's not a human right.
I don't think life is a human right.
Okay.
That's a controversial opinion, but I kind of don't believe that we all have the right to live.
marty derosa
Oh, damn.
dan friesen
Marty, I've got an island I want to tell you about.
marty derosa
Yeah, I think, listen, once you get past this idea that life isn't that precious, it's so easy to kill them.
dan friesen
No, I think life is incredibly precious, but I have a very.
I'm of two minds about it.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
One is an ideal version of how life should be.
And then I think everything is a human right.
A basic income is a human right.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
I believe that water, food, housing, all of the basic Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
unidentified
Yes.
The bottom left.
marty derosa
Well, you really nailed it there.
dan friesen
All of that is a human right.
marty derosa
You know which one he left off that a lot of people don't know about?
dan friesen
Pussy?
marty derosa
No, free hardcore pornography.
dan friesen
Sort of the same.
Replacement for pussy.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But I think the way that the world operates, and if we enter.
Our current world, I don't think any of that is promised to anybody.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't like the way the world is, but it appears that no, all this stuff isn't a right.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
I don't know.
If we had to name this Murder Island.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
You don't want to call it something evil.
dan friesen
No, no.
It's like Greenland is full of ice and Iceland is full of lush vegetation.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
The Vikings called it that to try and get people to not come to Iceland.
Because it's a gorgeous place and they keep people away and call it Iceland.
unidentified
Ooh, I love it.
dan friesen
So we call Murder Island.
Let's call it like really super happy fun island.
marty derosa
Fun game city?
dan friesen
No, not murdering.
marty derosa
Oh, I know what we're going to call it.
dan friesen
Safe island.
marty derosa
We had this growing up where I grew up in Indiana.
Celebration Station.
dan friesen
I like the rhyming.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Maybe poor people welcome.
marty derosa
Or maybe, let's see.
Yeah, because you don't want to call it like murder island.
dan friesen
It's really on the nose.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's tough to say.
Law and Order Island.
No.
Fuck this.
marty derosa
Who knows?
unidentified
Who knows?
marty derosa
Sorry I took us off on such a.
Tangent that paid off in zero.
dan friesen
Usually we're good at this improv stuff.
We're good at winging things.
marty derosa
I can see it.
I'm imagining me and you on a nice private plane.
unidentified
I got it.
marty derosa
About to land there.
dan friesen
Fantasy Island.
Let's just reclaim it.
We get Hornswoggle.
He just got fired.
marty derosa
He's available.
dan friesen
He's available.
We get him to be our Hervé Villaches.
We welcome people.
Smiles, everybody.
marty derosa
Oh, man.
dan friesen
We bring people in.
We tell them that they're going to live out of fantasy.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
We hunt them.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
marty derosa
Yeah, unfortunately, it's my fantasy.
And my fantasy is to hunt poor people.
dan friesen
It's deep in the fine print.
You give up your right to live.
I'm actually feeling really bad that I made that argument just a second ago.
marty derosa
Yeah, you're a bad person.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I mean, I.
Reclaiming Fantasy Island with Hornswoggle 00:15:58
marty derosa
Oh, got it.
dan friesen
I want to live in a more ideal world, but our world sucks, is what I'm saying.
marty derosa
Ready for this name?
unidentified
Yes.
marty derosa
Darwin's Island.
unidentified
Ooh.
marty derosa
I got chills.
dan friesen
Take out the trash.
marty derosa
Ooh, I got chills.
dan friesen
Take out the trash, Darwin's Island.
Speaking of trash, our.
Theory we're talking about today, our topic, is fluoridization in the water.
marty derosa
Fluoride is in the water.
unidentified
It is.
dan friesen
What do you know about fluoride, Marty?
marty derosa
I know that some may say we might as well have Prozac in the water.
dan friesen
Might as well.
marty derosa
Might as well.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
A little brain control.
unidentified
Uh huh.
marty derosa
And like the government loves to do, at first they say, this is to help you.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Take your fucking medicine, America.
dan friesen
Uh, you know, fluoride is used in toothpaste.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Uh, that's where I first heard about it.
And I'm thinking, oh, fluoride's great.
And then I heard someone one time say, well, there's fluoride in the water.
And I go, how nice is our government to put fluoride in the water for us?
They're looking out for us.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
And then I start hearing, hmm, maybe you don't want all that fluoride.
dan friesen
Maybe you don't.
Uh, yeah, I mean, the, uh, The argument that there is fluoride in Prozac is true.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Like it is an ingredient in there.
There's organofluorines in a lot of pharmaceuticals, many antidepressant drugs.
marty derosa
I will say this.
dan friesen
But I don't know if that means that they have the same effect.
marty derosa
Who knows?
And as a depressed man, I think, hey, it's free medication.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
I'll drink a bunch of water.
dan friesen
But that's where it comes down to.
marty derosa
That's what they want you to think.
That's what you were going to say, and then we'd be done with this episode.
Well, problem solved.
unidentified
Hit the button.
dan friesen
Sign off.
It comes down to informed consent when you put medication into public drinking water.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Should it be just because it is a medication that could help people, should they be forced to take it without knowing that they're taking it or without choosing to?
marty derosa
We're getting real big brother here.
Listen, dummy.
I know this is what's best for you.
I'm giving it to you.
Just take it.
dan friesen
Even if it doesn't do anything bad.
It seems weird that.
marty derosa
What was the pitch?
What's the marketing pitch for why this should happen?
What presidency was this?
dan friesen
This was like 1950.
Like early 1950s is when the fluoridization became prevalent.
marty derosa
Okay, so Ronald Reagan was the president.
I don't know.
dan friesen
Everything before 1980.
marty derosa
Not JFK.
dan friesen
I think it was Eisenhower.
marty derosa
Yes.
dan friesen
I don't know.
I don't know if that's correct.
Whenever you say president 1950s, I just go Eisenhower.
unidentified
I say, fuck it.
marty derosa
I know.
dan friesen
In the late 1950s.
marty derosa
I just imagine a president with a.
Oh, and I almost said bell bottoms.
That's the 70s.
unidentified
Never mind.
marty derosa
I'm a fucking.
dan friesen
Horn rimmed glasses?
marty derosa
Maybe.
Just a real thin tie.
And a lot of guys around him with thin ties and white dress shirts with short sleeves.
dan friesen
They took that look from Ska.
unidentified
Yeah, they did.
dan friesen
Thin tie, skinny tie.
Early 1940s, or late 1940s, excuse me, they tried some experimental programs limited to small communities.
One of the biggest ones is in Michigan.
And they tested what effects there would be of fluoridization of the water.
And found, like, let's go ahead and just do this Florida.
marty derosa
I like when you get, I have to say that when you keep saying Floridization, I imagine.
dan friesen
Turned Jeans into Florida?
marty derosa
Just turning everything into Florida.
And it's like you get an amusement park and a bunch of white trash people and some very fun episodes of cops and a very pornographic themed rap group.
dan friesen
Floride is as nasty as it wants to be.
marty derosa
Do you guys know that Dan once opened for Floride and he doesn't really talk about it as much as he should?
dan friesen
I met Fresh Kid Floride.
Uh, Yeah, I mean, this is a complicated issue.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because it does come into medical stuff.
marty derosa
Medical ethics?
dan friesen
Sure.
This is a topic that is not easy for someone like you or I to research.
marty derosa
To swallow, no pun intended.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
I mean, we can go to blogs and we can read reports and we can see, like.
marty derosa
I mean, what's.
dan friesen
We can see one argument, we can see the other argument, but we don't know what the truth is.
Like, much like we can see that there is organofluorines in Prozac, but we don't know what that means.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
We have no idea.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Thankfully, do have an expert.
unidentified
Oh, fuck.
marty derosa
Thank God.
dan friesen
We have an expert on call.
Gentleman who's been on the podcast before.
What podcast favorite?
marty derosa
President Ska?
What did President Ska say to the country that attacked another country?
dan friesen
Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up?
unidentified
Nope.
marty derosa
Stop your fooling around.
dan friesen
Okay, sorry.
I feel like almost every Ska joke is basically the punchline pick it up.
What did the Ska band say when the phone was ringing?
Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have to find his phone number.
This is not good.
marty derosa
Don't worry, I'll make a song for him.
dan friesen
I'm going to get him on the phone now.
This is a gentleman I've known since.
2000-ish high school days.
This gentleman and I have known each other for years and years.
He is now a literal doctor.
marty derosa
I that you know what in Step Brothers, which I I'm that's a movie.
unidentified
Yikes.
marty derosa
I love that movie so much.
Yikes is a strange show.
Uh, in the deleted scene or in the in the audio commentary, which is as equally as funny as the movie, they do so many bits in it.
It's awesome.
Uh, the dad was his big catchphrase was supposed to be like.
I'm a medical doctor.
And then I'm literally a doctor.
It was numerous times he was going to say, so I'm a big fan of people who are literally doctors.
dan friesen
He is literally a medical doctor, not a doctor of philosophy, not a doctor of thugonomics.
Not a doctor of thugonomics.
He doesn't have an MD in thugonomics.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to give him a call.
This is Dr. Gums going to be on the line here.
unidentified
Does he have a PhD, play a hating degree?
dan friesen
He definitely does have that.
Let's hope he actually answers.
I really don't plan these things very well.
marty derosa
Man, if Dr. Gums doesn't answer, we are fucked.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Look.
dan friesen
Dr. Gums.
unidentified
Hey, man, how's it going?
dan friesen
Great, how are you?
You're on the show with me and Marty DeRosa sitting around trying to find truth.
dr gums
Truth about the world.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
Can you please say the doctor is in and then we'll get started?
dr gums
Marty, how's it going?
marty derosa
It's great.
Good to meet you.
I'm good.
It's great to actually talk to a real doctor.
I haven't talked to one in years since I haven't had decent health insurance, so this is great.
My poop's fine, by the way.
Don't worry about me.
dr gums
My poop's fine.
I can barely hear Marty, by the way.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
dan friesen
This is a disaster in terms of my technology.
I'm going to try and fiddle with.
marty derosa
What I was trying to say.
Doctor?
Do you hear me now, Doctor?
East of the Rockies, do you hear me?
Doctor.
dr gums
I don't, I'm sorry.
I can barely hear you, Marty, but I'm sure Dan can translate.
dan friesen
I can try.
marty derosa
Basically, just tell him that my poop is okay and he has nothing to worry about.
dan friesen
I'm trying to fiddle with some knobs and see if we can adjust this.
Any better now?
marty derosa
Testing, testing.
Should I try the other mic?
dr gums
Not really.
marty derosa
Try this mic.
Testing, testing.
Doctor, can you hear me?
unidentified
Doctor?
dr gums
Marty, I can hear you now.
unidentified
Doctor?
dan friesen
Alright, awesome.
We just had to switch mics.
unidentified
Doctor.
marty derosa
Alright, let's cut that part out.
dan friesen
Yeah, post.
No, I'm not going to do that.
I love authenticity.
marty derosa
Doctor, first of all, I wanted to tell you my poop is fine.
You have nothing to worry about on that end.
I'm not one of these alcoholic comedians who are going to try to get free health care from you.
I am fine.
I've been in the best shape of my life.
And that's it.
Maybe get a script for some of this.
unidentified
What?
What?
dr gums
Last time I was on the podcast with Dan, I talked to someone that was peeing and pissing blood.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dr gums
And I was going to ask if that was you.
No, that wasn't Marty, right?
dan friesen
That was Joe McMahon, and a follow-up on that, probably still pissing blood.
He's a mess.
So, Gummy, I talked to you yesterday.
I told you the topic that we were going to be discussing: the fluoride in the water.
And much to my delight, you said that this is a topic that you deal with a little bit.
dr gums
A little bit.
You know, I live in Portland, Oregon, and it's a hot topic around here.
It's a big deal.
marty derosa
Do you have a hot topic in Portland?
unidentified
Do we have.
dr gums
I don't know if we have a hot topic in Portland, to be honest.
dan friesen
I gotta be honest.
dr gums
But I do know that.
dan friesen
I think the timing on jokes is gonna be real difficult.
marty derosa
I'm done joking.
I'm so sorry.
Let's get into it.
dr gums
No, it's a pretty big deal here.
Portland's one of the few cities in America that does not have fluoridated water.
dan friesen
Is that correct?
dr gums
So, that's true.
It's true.
And in full disclosure, when you did text me about this yesterday, I meant to read a lot more than I did.
So, you are, I mean, but go ahead.
dan friesen
You're a perfect cast member here at That's What They Want You to Think, then, because me and Marty always plan on reading more than we do.
marty derosa
It's about intentions, not follow through on this podcast.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
unidentified
Sure.
Sure.
dr gums
I've listened to a couple of you guys' podcasts.
I think I caught one on Marilyn Monroe.
unidentified
Is that right?
dan friesen
Sure, yeah.
dr gums
Was that part of your series?
dan friesen
We mostly do things about young women dying.
marty derosa
Thank God you did.
Thank God you didn't just say Alyssa Lamb is the only one I listen to.
You'd be like everybody.
dan friesen
That's the one everyone loves.
dr gums
I was going to say, it sounded like you guys did quite a bit of research, so don't put yourself down too much.
dan friesen
Don't lump Martian with my research.
marty derosa
Yeah, I bring zero to the table.
I like to pretend I'm the voice of the listener, which is a fun way of getting me out of doing any research.
dan friesen
You're the everyman.
marty derosa
I'm the everyman.
dan friesen
The dusty roads of the podcast.
marty derosa
I'm Joe Lunchbox on this podcast.
unidentified
Yeah.
dr gums
Oh, man.
unidentified
All right.
dr gums
Fair enough.
But as I was saying, you know, yeah, we do get a lot of questions about fluoride.
dan friesen
So let's pretend I'm you.
You play the role of someone coming into your office asking about fluoride.
Like, what kind of questions do they ask?
unidentified
Sure.
dr gums
I mean, we get a lot of.
Should I be eating fluoride?
Should I be concerned that there isn't any fluoride in the water?
unidentified
Wait, eating fluoride?
Are we doing.
Are we doing.
dr gums
Are you, you know, ingesting fluoride in any other form?
There isn't any fluoride put in the water here in Portland.
dan friesen
Oh, okay.
So, like, should I be eating toothpaste?
dr gums
Well, not necessarily toothpaste, but I've never gotten that specific question.
dan friesen
That'd be a dumb question.
dr gums
But people are just concerned that there aren't getting enough fluoride.
marty derosa
Their FDA required amount of fluoride?
dr gums
Yeah, exactly.
We get a lot of that.
We get a lot of patients asking that.
And then we get the other question, too, on the other extreme of whether fluoride is damaging to the body.
You know, I think, you know, I, I have to look back and, and I apologize.
I didn't look back to see when the exact votes here in Portland were.
But it comes up, I think, every two to four years.
The city council, you know, there's a big movement, uh, of people, mostly in the scientific community, mostly doctors, dentists, uh, et cetera, that, uh, advocate for putting fluoride in the water.
But, uh, I think every time that vote has come up in Portland, I think it's been dissuaded.
I think there are a lot of anti-fluorination people out here.
dan friesen
So you're saying every two to four years, you guys waste a bunch of money and time arguing about this?
dr gums
Well, I think the proponents of fluorination would argue otherwise that, you know, we're actually wasting a lot of money not preventing dental caries.
You know, I think it's an incredibly prevalent disease.
And yeah, it's something that should be talked about.
unidentified
This seems.
dr gums
I think last.
marty derosa
This seems ripe for parody in.
unidentified
I think.
dr gums
Oh, sorry to interrupt, Marty.
unidentified
Go ahead.
marty derosa
I was going to say, this seems ripe for parody in Portlandia.
I haven't seen that episode yet.
dr gums
Yeah, I haven't either.
I haven't seen all the episodes there.
unidentified
I've.
dr gums
I have to admit I've only seen like five or six episodes probably, but yea, that'd be a great time.
I don't know if they've ever done it on there.
dan friesen
The show probably hits too close to home, literally.
dr gums
So, man, it's a big deal around here.
unidentified
That's weird.
dan friesen
That's really weird.
dr gums
Why is that weird?
dan friesen
Because it's not a big deal.
Like, I would argue that almost nobody outside of Portland thinks about it.
Even, really.
Except for weirdos.
dr gums
That's what I was going to say.
I mean, the little bit of reading I did do and the few news clips I watched on YouTube last night before I went to bed are mostly, yeah, I agree, from people that seem a little off.
marty derosa
You know, they feel like they're.
Any questions?
Yes, you in the hoodie with the, uh, aviator shades on.
dan friesen
I want to take a step back and propose an alternate explanation for this.
You're saying that these anti fluorination people are a little bit off.
Is it possible that that's because they've drank too much fluoride in the water?
marty derosa
Or not had enough fluoride in the water?
dan friesen
How say you, doctor?
dr gums
That's funny.
No, first off, I didn't call any anti fluorination people, uh, wacky.
I just said a few clips that I've seen.
They seem not the norm of society.
dan friesen
Listen, you can speak freely.
Listen, you're anonymous here.
marty derosa
Who would you play?
Who's a bigger nut job?
The anti vaccinators or the anti Floridians?
dr gums
Right.
So, you know, I was going to bring that up.
And I think, you know, I think the argument is very similar to vaccination.
You know, it's, you know, forced treatment, if you will.
And I think that's where people get angry.
You know, people claim that fluoride is a drug that's being.
unfairly pushed upon him by incorporating it into the public water supply.
dan friesen
Do you disagree?
dr gums
Having said that, well, I was going to back up a minute and say, you know, I'm glad I started reading about this.
It's really interesting to me.
And after kind of reading all the data that I have so far, you know, I'm split, to be honest with you.
unidentified
Whoa.
dr gums
Whoa.
And, well, hold on.
dan friesen
I didn't expect that at all.
dr gums
Well, I think there are a lot of variables that go into this.
I mean, I think, you know, the variables of the prevalence of dental caries around the world, the, you know, mostly secondary, so a lot of things.
dan friesen
I'm sorry, I wanted to interrupt you there because you said, did you say dental caries?
dr gums
Dental caries, yeah.
Sooth decay.
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
I was not familiar with that term.
unidentified
Got it, got it.
dr gums
Yeah, so, you know, I think there are a lot of variables at play.
I mean, the prevalence of dental caries, I think, has to do with, you know, obviously dental health and dental hygiene.
So if you go to a population where, you know, dental hygiene isn't as prevalent, maybe secondary to poverty and the inability to afford toothbrushes and toothpaste, you're talking about the comedy world.
marty derosa
Dental caries is probably not the top priority.
dan friesen
Do you believe that the Giggle Barn doesn't offer dental coverage?
It does not.
dr gums
Well, studies have shown there are much, much higher.
marty derosa
Doc, can I ask you a question, Doc?
Do you think if tomorrow there was a cure for cancer and the government was like, we're going to put it in the water, that way no one gets cancer, there'd be people who would be opposed to that?
Fluoride, IQ Points, and Free Will 00:15:09
marty derosa
There'd be just that knee jerk, like, oh, I don't know about this.
unidentified
I agree.
dr gums
I totally agree, especially considering vaccinations, right?
I mean, Scientifically proven to prevent disease, and there's still people that are opposed to vaccination.
So, sure, absolutely.
If it was an anti cancer treatment and it was forced on people, I'm sure they'll be in opposition to it.
dan friesen
I want to take a step back and disconnect the anti vaccination and the anti fluoride stuff because with the vaccination things, you're posing a risk to other people.
With the fluoride stuff, if you don't want to take the fluoride, all you're doing is hurting your own mouth.
You're not going to get other people sick.
It's the difference between drunk driving and riding a bike without a helmet.
If you're riding a bike without a helmet, you're posing a risk to yourself.
If you're driving drunk, you're going to hurt other people.
dr gums
I think that's a very legitimate argument, except the indirect cost of tooth disease.
I mean, you could argue that by not putting fluoride in, you're going to cost the taxpayers a lot more money.
marty derosa
Is this like a let's take care of poor people, they don't know any better type of thing?
unidentified
Well, hold on.
dr gums
I mean, let's outlaw candy.
I mean, Dan, people have proposed that we not put those in.
marty derosa
Little Mayor Bloomberg.
With the big sodas.
dan friesen
Well, I would argue that you probably shouldn't have sodas in schools.
I think that's kind of fair.
marty derosa
Have you seen that sugar documentary?
unidentified
Sure.
dr gums
But again, I do think that the arguments are related, right?
I mean, it is something that's forced upon people, and it's free will versus being forced to take a vaccine or have fluoride in your water.
dan friesen
In that sense, on a philosophical level, the idea that something is given to you and you don't really control whether it is or not, the mandatory.
Medication aspect of it?
Yes, I do agree.
But I think that because of the consequences of not using it, I think that they're so different that it branches off into different.
Like, it's easy to make an argument for one that doesn't apply to the other, I think.
dr gums
Sure, sure.
I agree.
And your point is well taken.
But, you know, going back to what I was saying, I think there are a lot of variables at play here.
I mean, the incidence of dental caries, I mean, probably, you know, differs with if somebody can afford a toothbrush and toothpaste, and that population probably has a lot more.
Tooth disease, and they probably deserve to have fluorine in their water.
Whereas, you know, go ahead, I'm sorry.
marty derosa
What are some of the wilder reasons why people are opposed to having fluoride in the water?
dr gums
Yeah, so the things that I've read, I mean, there's a condition called bone fluorosis, and you can also get tooth fluorosis.
This is when you have too much fluoride in your system, in your body, and it contributes to skeletal deformation.
dan friesen
It causes calcification, right?
dr gums
Right, exactly.
A form of calcification and deposition of fluoride in your bones, and it discolors your teeth a little bit.
And I don't know enough about fluorosis to say that it causes more disease or anything like that, but I do know that bone fluorosis is not good and it causes more fracture.
Having said that, yeah, go ahead.
I was going to say, we have to address the other extreme of the treatment spectrum, where a little bit of fluoride is also, like I said, Uh, been shown to prevent dental disease and a little bit of fluoride, the data suggests that it actually prevents bone fracture.
So a little bit of fluoride or the right amount seems to protect teeth and protects bone, whereas too much causes dental fluorosis and bone fluorosis.
And, you know, in toxic amounts and high doses, yeah, fluoride itself is toxic to the human.
I mean, you can get fluoride toxicity and get kidney disease, kidney damage.
dan friesen
Same is kind of true.
Or even aspirin, though.
Or almost anything.
marty derosa
Or cocaine.
unidentified
Sure.
dr gums
Sure.
Absolutely.
But we don't put those things in water.
But I mean, I would argue that a little bit of cocaine probably doesn't have any physiological benefit.
dan friesen
How dare you?
dr gums
You know, but it's like a lot of things, I think.
And I think the right amount is where we draw the line.
I think there are two big things.
unidentified
Go ahead.
dan friesen
I was just going to say, I've got a couple of things I wanted to run by you because we were talking about this before we got you on the line.
There's organofluorines in Prozac and other antidepressants, but we don't know what that means.
unidentified
Sure.
dr gums
I mean, so what I've read is that fluorine is actually present in about, or some kind of fluoride compound is present in about 20% of pharmaceuticals.
So anytime, you know, I write for an antibiotic or Prozac or whatever it may be, these are all compounded formulations, you know, compounded by a pharmacy, and they put a lot of stuff in there.
I honestly didn't realize that 20% of pharmaceuticals had fluorine in it.
dan friesen
It's pretty healthy.
dr gums
So they put a lot of other stuff in it.
Yeah, I do agree.
But, you know, looking at the compounds themselves and looking at the amount of fluoride that's used, it's minuscule.
It's a tiny amount, mostly used to stabilize the compound so it has a longer shelf life or to bind properly once adjusted, etc.
dan friesen
In that way, it's almost like a preservative that exists in, uh.
unidentified
Correct.
Correct.
Yes.
dan friesen
Weird.
It's like the drug dealer cutting their product with something.
marty derosa
Again, going back to cocaine.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
But it doesn't, in that sense, it doesn't have, Like, uh, an active presence in those drugs as much as it does a functional molecular purpose.
Is that right?
unidentified
Correct.
Correct.
dr gums
That's absolutely right.
And I think we should delineate something else too.
You know, all these, uh, uh, benefits that are bestowed upon fluoride in terms of, uh, teeth or tooth health, uh, it's only been shown that it works when it's topical.
unidentified
When it's in your mouth.
dan friesen
That was my next point I was going to get to.
The CDC said that there's no benefit that can be gained by ingesting fluoride, only topical application.
unidentified
Correct.
dr gums
So, again, the one study that showed that bone health was improved, I believe, was in measurement of serum fluoride levels.
So, I don't know if that was, I haven't read that study, I have to say.
So, I should go back and look at it.
But, yeah, you're right.
The only fluoride that's shown to work in the mouth in terms of preventing cavities and such is topical or, yeah, fluoride that's in your mouth.
dan friesen
It's like when the dentists would give you that mouth guard with the fake bubble gum shit.
marty derosa
Oh, disgusting.
dr gums
I honestly am not familiar with that.
dan friesen
Like the fluoride treatments they give you as a kid.
They'd have that weird thing you'd bite down on.
They would have the pumice, the weird, like, sort of grainy.
marty derosa
Yeah, I know.
You'd have the straw, the straw to suck it out.
dan friesen
Yeah.
dr gums
I do remember that.
I didn't realize that was a fluoride treatment.
dan friesen
That's what I remember them being called.
unidentified
Okay.
dr gums
All right.
Fair enough.
I mean, yeah, man, I don't know.
I'm kind of split on the issue.
And the other things that I was going to bring up real quickly are the few cases that I've read of, you know, Problems in terms of like bone fluorosis and peach fluorosis are, were, it was in Alaska, I think sometime in the 1990s or so.
Uh, there were two towns that, um, had some kind of chemical spill or something and they spilled a bunch of fluoride in the water.
And I think those, uh, kids got affected.
And in India, I think, uh, back in the 1950s, that's right.
dan friesen
Was it in the Punjab?
dr gums
You're slowly, slowly giving away my identity.
Telling you, you know, everybody knows I live in Portland.
marty derosa
Dan gives me all these rules like, listen, don't say this, don't say that, call him this, don't call him that.
And then he's just blowing up your whole spot here.
dan friesen
Oh, my God.
The rarest thing in the world an Indian doctor.
Oh, my God.
You dick.
dr gums
Right, right.
I'm going to get death threats from all of these anti fluorinators here in Portland.
Thanks a lot, Dick.
But I'm sorry.
A couple other points I was going to make.
Yeah, so in India, I think in the 1960s or so, there was another big contamination and kids got it there.
And then to follow up on Marty's question in terms of adverse effects, I think it's also fair to point out that.
I think 2012 or 2014, something like that.
There's a big study from Harvard that showed kids with higher fluoride levels presented with lower IQs throughout the development, also.
dan friesen
Yeah, they were showing that I think it was like I can't remember the exact parts per million, but every parts per million, every like 0.5 parts per million that it would go up in fluoride content, you'd lose one IQ point essentially.
They found like a pretty steady relationship between.
Overfloridization and steeply decreased IQ and impaired visual spatial organization.
marty derosa
Yeah, these are dumb kids who swallow a toothpaste.
unidentified
I mean, maybe.
This could be a chicken or the eggs.
Right.
dr gums
The one other thing I was going to point out with any studies like this, too, though, I mean, you have to give credit to the variables that you can't control.
I mean, how do you control every other variable in these kids, especially their nurture?
You know, what if their parents?
What if they come from a good socioeconomic background and thereby have a better IQ?
So, a lot of uncontrolled variables in these studies.
dan friesen
And IQ is such a culturally biased standard of intelligence.
It's not like we can't use IQ as the end all be all of actual intelligence.
dr gums
Sure, agreed.
So, your end point, yeah, you're a good question also.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
I had one other fact I wanted to bring up and see what you thought of.
I stumbled upon a report from the World Health Organization.
And they showed that tooth decay prevalence was on the decline in both countries that fluoridized the water and the ones that did not.
They showed similar graphs in terms of prevalence, and it seems like it's just a modernization thing.
Evolution?
There's dietary differences that have been happening, there's other hygienic differences that have been going on over time.
And this study also showed that tooth decay was on a steep decline before countries started fluoridizing the water, and that.
Possibly it was just a trend that was happening, and this is just sort of a correlation, not causation.
dr gums
Yeah, I read that too, and I agree with you.
I think the biggest thing is probably the increase in prevalence of dental hygiene and the access to toothpaste and toothbrushes and stuff like that.
I totally agree.
I think, as far as I've read, the whole movement behind fluoridating water started in the 50s.
I don't know if you guys talked about all this, by the way.
unidentified
Oh, tiny bit.
dan friesen
We didn't get too in there.
We were trying to avoid the topic.
marty derosa
Let me ask you one question, Doctor, and this goes back to what we were talking to before we spoke with you.
Do you think it's in the realm of possibility that at some point in his life, Donald Trump hunted a human as game, as sport?
dan friesen
The most dangerous game, still.
marty derosa
On an island?
Because Dan asked me the question do I think Donald Trump has ever murdered anyone?
And I said if he has, there was an exclusive island for very rich and powerful men where they hunted live.
Human game.
dan friesen
And follow up question what would you name this island?
marty derosa
What would you name this island?
And a follow up to that follow up, would you, if there would be no legal repercussions, would you partake in this?
unidentified
Go.
Wow.
dr gums
What does this have to do with fluorination, by the way?
marty derosa
That I'm in fact next to him.
That's why we're fighting the brain battle, okay?
Leave that to us.
dr gums
Fair enough.
I guess I would call the island the island of Dr. Gum.
unidentified
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
marty derosa
That took a dark turn.
dan friesen
Hold on.
You're in charge of the island now?
dr gums
Yeah, why not?
Why not?
And, you know, we could run crazy experiments, especially with fluorine and stuff.
unidentified
Further.
dr gums
The island, give half the people fluorine.
dan friesen
Further, this also implies that you're going to be trying to create animal human hybrids on this island.
marty derosa
Yeah.
And Marlon Brando's there for some odd reason.
dan friesen
And he's phoning it the fuck in.
He's not even trying.
dr gums
I just, I bring that up because of two things.
I guess I remember watching that movie with you, Dan.
unidentified
I don't know.
dr gums
Way, way back in the day.
dan friesen
I was probably high as hell.
I don't remember that at all.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
You have to see the documentary about the making of the island of Dr. Murray.
I don't know the name of it, but it is fucking awesome.
dan friesen
Was that back when we worked at the theater together?
unidentified
That's what I was going to say.
dr gums
I think this was back in our Form 8 days.
dan friesen
Now you're giving away so much identifying information.
I just said a theater.
unidentified
Right.
dr gums
You haven't talked about Form 8 specifically on your podcast?
dan friesen
Maybe, but I've worked at like four theaters in my life.
So there's plausible deniability.
dr gums
This is only a problem if you have mentioned all the terrible crimes you committed when we worked there, too.
marty derosa
Did you guys hunt people at this movie theater?
dan friesen
Maybe.
dr gums
Did we do what?
I'm sorry you cut out, Marty.
marty derosa
Hunting people.
Would you hunt people in this theater?
dr gums
No, that's something we didn't do.
We didn't get there.
dan friesen
It was mostly just booze and petty theft.
That was mostly what we did.
marty derosa
And Dan playing Big Brother telling people not to smoke outside.
unidentified
Yeah, kids.
Oh, God.
What a.
Bad day.
dr gums
I got out of there before things got too wild.
I think I got out of there before he became.
dan friesen
The funniest fucking day was when Dr. Gums brought in his letter of resignation to a movie theater where we got paid $5.15 an hour.
He brought in a printed letter of resignation.
He was like, hey, do you think I should give this to the managers?
I'm like, just tell them you quit.
unidentified
Who cares?
marty derosa
Dr. Gums, I did the same thing at Costco, so I appreciate that.
unidentified
Yeah, you know what?
dr gums
In my defense, Dan, that was my first job.
I remember that.
And I remember our manager.
I don't want to say his name on the podcast.
marty derosa
Oh, Dan doesn't care.
He'll say it.
dan friesen
Was it Rick?
marty derosa
Dan doesn't give a shit.
dr gums
No, no, it was Joe.
dan friesen
Joe, yeah.
Joe was the general manager.
He was awesome.
dr gums
Yeah, he was such a nice guy, and he gave me my first job.
I thought it was appropriate to bring a lot of resignation.
dan friesen
To be fair, we gave you your first job.
Resignations at Costco and Thrift Shops 00:15:07
dan friesen
We got you.
I don't know if that's true at all.
unidentified
We did, too.
dan friesen
Joe was this.
unidentified
I don't know.
dan friesen
This awesome, salty dude who was the general manager of the theater.
And, like, he wasn't in on a lot of the shenanigans that were going on.
But we'd get drunk at the theater and we were all underage.
And one day we were drinking that, uh, that malt liquor cocktail, uh, Sublime.
You remember that?
That, uh, that, uh, lemonade booze or whatever.
And someone accidentally left, uh, one of the bottle caps in the manager's office.
unidentified
Uh oh.
dan friesen
And so the next day when they come in to open, the manager, uh, who, I won't say her name because she doesn't deserve to be involved in any of this.
But, uh, she comes in and she's like, hey Joe, how you doing?
And he's like, I'm doing sublime.
marty derosa
I thought he was going to play some sublime.
dan friesen
No, just very obviously being like, I know what's going on, but I want you to know, but I'm not going to bust your game.
marty derosa
Or he would just drop sublime lyrics like, How are you doing?
Well, I don't practice Santeria.
I ain't got no crystal ball.
dan friesen
How were sales last night?
I ain't got no crystal ball.
marty derosa
Doctor, may I ask you a question?
If, again, this goes back to this whole big brother idea.
If I were president tomorrow, and I said, which, by the way, is entirely possible.
And I said, Dr. Gums, the water supply is yours.
What's one thing you would put in the water supply?
dan friesen
Mustard.
marty derosa
Come on.
dr gums
I think this idea has been floated before.
I was talking to a friend about this recently, but I think, you know, why not put.
Put oral contraception in the water.
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
Now you're talking about sterilization.
marty derosa
You're just going to ruin our.
unidentified
Hold on, hold on.
dr gums
I'm not done.
unidentified
Okay.
dr gums
I mean, and then you could.
marty derosa
First, I thought you said oral stimulation.
unidentified
I thought, what?
marty derosa
You drink water and it feels like you're getting head?
dr gums
No, no, contraception.
And then, you know, why not prescribe an antidote that you could take if you want to get pregnant?
It'd be a lot easier, would prevent a lot of teenage pregnancies, I feel like.
marty derosa
Well, but would STDs go crazy, though?
dan friesen
It's possible.
marty derosa
Then maybe STDs go on the rise.
dan friesen
Still have condoms around.
But, uh, Gummy.
Gummy.
dr gums
Yeah, you still have to put a condom on, sure.
dan friesen
Gummy, first of all, this is retarded.
Here's the reason.
One, what about the effect it would have on children?
Because wouldn't it have to have some sort of testosterone or estrogen basis in order to.
dr gums
Dan, I don't have a mechanism of action for this hypothetical drug.
marty derosa
Listen, I put you in charge.
dr gums
Damn it, Dr. Gums.
Damn it, Gums.
marty derosa
I put you in charge of the water supply and you've ruined our kids.
unidentified
I would.
dan friesen
Also, the secondary thing is, like, it wouldn't be able to affect men and women simultaneously.
You'd only be targeting women, right?
dr gums
Well, I mean, we could go both ways, and then, you know, the party or the couple would both have to take the antidote to make a baby.
marty derosa
Now you're talking about men's drinking fountains and women's drinking fountains.
dan friesen
Basically, you'd have to separate the water supply for men and for women because you'd need a different chemical.
marty derosa
I like the idea of how in idiocracy they became mountain babies.
dr gums
This is a wonder drug, Dan.
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
Here's what I would do, and I'd like to pitch this to you, Gummy.
unidentified
Uh,.
dan friesen
Since you're now in charge of the water supply, mild hallucinogen.
dr gums
No, I'm out.
unidentified
I'm out.
dr gums
No, no go.
dan friesen
Haven't you read those studies, though, about some people who do microdoses of acid in the morning?
It has an effect that's similar to coffee, and productivity is raised, and mushrooms for PTSD.
dr gums
Honestly, I've heard of that, and I think recently it was a subject on the Adam Corella Dr. Drew show, and I meant to listen to that, but I don't know much about microdosing at all.
It doesn't sound like a good idea to me at all, but I have to admit, I don't know anything about microdosing.
marty derosa
Put a little in the mangrea.
You can get some over there at adamcarola.com.
Put a little acid in the mangrea, baby doll.
I have a little bit.
Terrible impression.
Done my mark.
dan friesen
Did you see the stuff he was saying about how black dads need to stay around and it'll save society?
It's like, damn, dude.
marty derosa
Hot take.
Hot take, Ace.
dan friesen
Yeah, Ace Man.
Stick to talking about street fights when you were 19.
dr gums
I haven't listened to an episode in a long time.
I just saw it as a topic on one of the podcasts that said microdosing.
marty derosa
I really want to.
And now Black Dad's jumping on trampolines.
dan friesen
I loved Loveline back when we were younger men, but these days.
marty derosa
Dr. Gums, who would you say is the main reason why you got into this?
dr gums
Ben, do you have the recordings of Loveline that we saved on our hard drives?
Do you still have that collection?
dan friesen
I don't because they're all like, Pretty much available on YouTube and like various sites online.
There's no reason to have hard copies anymore.
It's all out there.
marty derosa
Was Dr. Drew an influence getting you into medicine, Dr. Gums?
dan friesen
No, come on.
Let me answer this for you.
It was your parents.
marty derosa
Dan, now I know his parents were doctors.
dr gums
Oh my god.
Dan, that's really true, but how dare you?
dan friesen
That's fair, but I can't count the number of times we had conversations about you possibly going into something other than medicine and being like, my parents would not be happy about this.
I mean, not that you don't like medicine.
dr gums
Do you remember the alternatives that you suggested or what?
dan friesen
I think I wanted you to be a trip hop DJ for a while.
unidentified
Ha ha ha.
Sure.
dr gums
I did like more Chiba a lot.
dan friesen
You loved more Chiba?
You wanted to start a spearhead cover band?
dr gums
Dude, I was never into spearhead, bro.
unidentified
Come on.
dr gums
I don't think I was, but that's fine.
Be that as it may.
Yeah, I love my job.
I'm glad I'm in medicine.
dan friesen
I love it.
But let me take back my answer.
Would you consider Dr. Drew an influence back to Marty's question?
dr gums
Honestly, I don't think I listened to Loveline before I started thinking about medicine.
I think I was kind of on that path already.
And then I did listen to a lot of Loveline back in the day.
And I wouldn't say that he was an influence, but I respect him.
I think he's a good doctor, especially back in the Loveline days, man.
I don't know if he practices a ton of clinical medicine now, but looking back now that I know a lot more about clinical medicine, he's a smart dude.
He's really intelligent and knows his stuff really well.
dan friesen
And the fact that he was handling being an actual doctor and doing a radio show till midnight that kind of schedule is fucking bananas.
marty derosa
I find I still quote stuff I learned on Loveline.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Yeah, to this day.
dan friesen
I talk about pearly penile papules.
I don't even know what that is.
Yeah, sure.
unidentified
Sure, sure.
Yeah.
dr gums
Yeah, it's good stuff, man.
I really enjoyed listening to that and brings back memories of us listening to that shit a long time ago.
unidentified
Yeah.
dr gums
About what, 20 years ago or so?
Yeah.
I like that.
dan friesen
We've known each other too long.
unidentified
Long time.
Too long.
dr gums
Yeah, but sorry to interrupt and change the topic.
But the one thing I didn't read about in terms of fluorine was the whole conspiracy theory.
Have you guys gotten into that yet?
dan friesen
We have not.
We have not.
And actually, thanks for transitioning.
To that, you're a better host than I, apparently.
But one of the big things is, and it almost is, the hole is poked in it a little bit because of the idea of the organofluorines, which we talked about earlier, that they don't really have an active presence in these pharmaceuticals.
People, a lot of people believe that the fluoride in the water is to pacify the public and to sort of microdose them with antidepressants that make them sluggish and ineffectual and unable to get about their business.
marty derosa
But I say this to that, what if.
What if I need antidepressants?
dan friesen
Go to a doctor.
marty derosa
But I don't take it.
Then I drink the water, and now I'm right where I need to be.
unidentified
I don't know.
marty derosa
Now you've just made me woke.
I don't keep saying that.
You've made me.
unidentified
I'm big on woke today.
marty derosa
But now, American government, you've cured me of my depression.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
And now I'm motivated, and I'm out in the world, and I'm doing a podcast exposing you.
So your fucking tricks just backfired.
dan friesen
This is cyclical at this point.
marty derosa
And you just cured me of my depression.
And now I'm a fucking soldier in the brain battle.
See how that backfired on you, Uncle Sam?
dan friesen
I think that the only thing that I find slightly compelling, and I don't know if it's intentional, but we're talking about the calcification of bones and teeth and stuff.
Apparently, another function of fluoride has is the calcification of your pineal gland.
unidentified
Right.
Okay.
dr gums
I didn't read about this, but okay.
dan friesen
The pineal gland is.
dr gums
I mean, whenever I hear the pineal gland, I think.
You know, some far-fetched theory, but go ahead.
dan friesen
Yeah, you think, uh-oh, hippie coming.
unidentified
Uh-oh.
Right.
marty derosa
But I thought that's what Native Americans call penises.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
dr gums
That is true also, Marty.
marty derosa
Thank you, Doc.
Doc, I need you to do me a favor.
I have an ex-girlfriend who moved to Portland.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
Marty.
marty derosa
And I need you to just go into her thrift store that she owns and just go, God, you know who's great?
Is that Marty DeRosa?
I heard him on a podcast the other day.
Man, oh, man.
Oh, was that just something else?
Boy, I tell you what.
dr gums
Are you guys.
Are you guys going to plug her shop, or are you going to tell me offline?
marty derosa
I don't know what her shop is called.
dan friesen
Well, certainly you can find it because there aren't many thrift shops in Portland.
marty derosa
Yeah, right.
Just go find an attractive little girl with tattoos running a thrift shop.
dan friesen
Marty's got a type.
So, the thing with the pineal gland, I don't know a whole ton, but from what I understand, it's theoretically responsible for vividness of dreams, and it secretes the compound of DMT.
And apparently, when you die, your brain is flooded with DMT from the pineal gland.
And it's responsible largely for probably some of the near death experiences that people have.
The people who are super into the pineal gland would argue that it is your third eye and that it is what connects you with spirit and those sorts of things.
And so, the idea that fluoride calcifies that gland that is your higher self to some extent.
People see that as a conspiracy that the people in charge don't want you to know your potential.
They don't want you to be able to connect largely with the spiritual aspect of yourself.
And that follows from human history.
I mean, the early churches, they had the Holy of Holies.
They had the area of the church that only the priest could go to, and you would talk to the priest, and the priest would talk to God for you.
You weren't able to connect immediately with God.
There's a division from the divine that the power in place always seems to want to create.
dr gums
Sure.
And who are these people, by the way?
The American government?
dan friesen
No, man, it's the Illuminati.
They've been at this for a while.
unidentified
Right.
dr gums
I hear they have a big presence in the EPA, they have a big representation.
dan friesen
They have infiltrated the EPA.
unidentified
Right.
dr gums
20% of the CDC is made up of by the Illuminati, is what I read, too.
dan friesen
This 20% number keeps coming back.
marty derosa
Maybe now we'll call them the 20%ers.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
dr gums
I have to admit, I don't know much about the pineal gland, and I didn't really read much about it.
Penial gland calcification.
dan friesen
I don't know much about it, but I know I don't like your pronunciation.
unidentified
Yeah.
dr gums
Of the pineal gland?
dan friesen
Yeah, it sounds like penile, bro.
marty derosa
I'm getting a little titillated every time you say it.
dan friesen
Every time you say it, I'm going, Marty's a two on the hustler scale right now.
dr gums
How do you say it, Dan?
unidentified
Pineal gland?
dan friesen
Pineal.
dr gums
Pineal, okay, sure.
marty derosa
You say pineal.
I say pineal.
dan friesen
Let's call this off.
marty derosa
Let's pull this off.
dr gums
You know, all these conspiracies, too, I mean, This might be a dumb question, but have you followed the money?
Is there big money in fluoride?
dan friesen
Doc. Qui bono is the classic question.
Who benefits?
marty derosa
Follow the money.
dan friesen
I don't know.
I mean, there is a school of thought, and I don't know if this is still the case or if it ever really was the case, but fluoride is also an industrial waste product.
And the idea of trying to dispose of it is very difficult because you would cause a lot of pollution.
That sort of thing.
And so, if you want to talk about who benefits, back in the day it would have been people who have a surplus of industrial fluoride waste and need to get it somewhere.
They can then sell it to municipalities, put it in the water.
It doesn't really cause it.
Marty's laughing.
unidentified
I'm just thinking.
marty derosa
A Jack Black movie called School of Thought, where he teaches a bunch of young kids about conspiracy theories.
dan friesen
Don't say this on the air.
Write it down.
Write it down.
We got money in the bank right here.
So that's a possible someone benefiting.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Marty's losing it.
unidentified
You're right.
marty derosa
I can't think of anything besides School of Thought.
unidentified
All right.
Sorry.
dr gums
I also, uh, you know, read about how, you know, a lot of the fluoride that we do use for fluorination of water, you know, comes from byproducts of pesticides.
And, uh, and, uh, you know, we buy a lot of that off of, I, I, you know, this is another Chinese conspiracy, but apparently we get a lot of that fluoride from the Chinese.
So, so that's something else that I read in terms of, uh, big pharma, or a big, uh, business.
dan friesen
And we owe the Chinese a shit ton of money.
We gotta, you know, we gotta take their trash and put it in Feed it to the people.
marty derosa
I like that idea.
Follow the money.
Who's benefiting?
unidentified
Qui bono.
marty derosa
Population control.
I think that's going to be.
unidentified
I mean.
dan friesen
There are some tests on animals that they've done with fluoride that show a pretty real connection with sperm damage and increased infertility, too.
unidentified
There you go, Doc.
dan friesen
So it might already be halfway to your putting birth control in the water.
dr gums
There you go.
And you'll eventually have to get the antidote if you want to have a kid.
dan friesen
Man, you're just creating a children of men situation.
We're going to end up in a world where no one can reproduce.
That's a dark future you've advocated.
dr gums
Was that the theme of that movie where somebody put something in the water and nobody didn't have kids?
unidentified
No.
dr gums
I thought the reason was unknown.
dan friesen
No, it was pretty unknown.
I think it was maybe environmental or something like that.
But yeah, it wasn't water.
But I'm just saying that your proposal would lead to that, I think.
dr gums
You know what?
If that does come down to the end of time, Dan, then.
Then you're welcome to the island of Dr. Gum.
unidentified
Thank you.
dr gums
There's a utopian society out there.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Now, granted, it's a utopia, but you've got to run.
Prescribing Spices Against Environmental Fears 00:07:19
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You've got to always be on the move.
marty derosa
Yeah.
I also feel like Dr. Gum, you're going to invite us to the island, and then quickly we find out we're not hunting people.
We're the hunted.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's a classic ruse of the people who have murder islands.
unidentified
Always.
Yeah.
dan friesen
I would dare say 20% of the time.
marty derosa
Here's me the whole way going to a murder island.
This is me on a private jet the entire way to a murder island.
You sure I'm murdering someone?
I'm not the hunted.
Dude.
unidentified
Please.
dan friesen
Seriously, you're fine.
marty derosa
I'm going to ask you one more time, and I'm asking you as a friend.
unidentified
Uh huh.
marty derosa
Am I hunting, or am I the one being hunted?
dan friesen
Dude, you're so paranoid.
marty derosa
Shake my hand.
dan friesen
Here, here's my hand.
marty derosa
All right.
Swear on your children.
dan friesen
Look, I don't have any kids, but I swear.
It's fine.
Everything's fine.
I have three kids.
unidentified
Oh, no.
dan friesen
All right.
dr gums
Well, I hate to be rude, but I'm going to hang up and make a few phone calls that I need to.
unidentified
No, I understand.
dan friesen
I think we got to the bottom of this for the most part.
dr gums
Yeah, I was going to say, I don't mean to keep you guys from talking about the conspiracy more, and I'm glad I was somewhat able to contribute on the medical side.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's a delight to.
dr gums
If anything else comes up, I was going to say, I'll certainly text you or, you know, if I have any other thoughts and whatnot, too.
But, you know, you guys are more than welcome to come to Portland anytime and drink some non fluorinated water.
dan friesen
That'd be wonderful.
marty derosa
And stop talking about it.
dr gums
We do a live podcast from the banks of the Willamette River with Marty's potential new girlfriend, potential old girlfriend.
dan friesen
Hey, one question before you hang on.
unidentified
Oh, girlfriend.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, some people believe that you can undo the calcification that fluoride causes by taking turmeric.
Is there any possibility that that's true?
dr gums
I honestly didn't run across anything on my superficial readings on fluoride about turmeric and stuff.
And to be completely honest, I'm terrible when it comes to herbal medications.
I mean, I know the ones that interact with, you know, quote unquote normal pharmaceuticals, and I watch out for that kind of stuff.
But honestly, then, I never prescribe turmeric for anything.
dan friesen
It's over the counter, though.
You need to prescribe a spice.
dr gums
I've never recommended, I should say, that somebody take turmeric for anything.
I mean, people in India use it for an antiseptic use, but I've never heard it for removing toxins or fluoride or anything like that, to be honest.
dan friesen
Good to know.
All right.
Well, thanks for calling in.
We've enjoyed this time together, and I'm sure we'll talk on the air again soon whenever we have another dumb medical question.
unidentified
Sounds good, man.
You guys have a good day.
marty derosa
Thanks, Dr. Gums.
dan friesen
Man, I'm so proud I didn't say his name.
marty derosa
Yeah, you really.
dan friesen
It's so hard.
marty derosa
You were revealing a lot of clues there, a lot of Easter eggs in that video.
dan friesen
Yeah, a lot of people could figure it out.
All right, so anyway, to sum up this, it's interesting that he wasn't negative.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
He wasn't like, this is stupid.
Because I thought a medical perspective would 100% be like, this is garbage, this is gobbledygook, this is a bunch of malarkey, flim flam, oompus boompus.
marty derosa
The odds that he lives in one of the only places where.
They're actively having a brain battle about this every couple years.
dan friesen
It's pretty nuts.
marty derosa
In their political system.
Very interesting.
dan friesen
Pretty weird.
So, what's your conclusion?
marty derosa
My conclusion.
I think this is one of those, though not as sexy as some theories, it's definitely one of those where you can let your mind wander and go, yeah, we all drink water.
If they did want to put something in there, what can stop them?
dan friesen
It would be the perfect thing to do to poison the water.
marty derosa
And who knows?
And again, it's not this idea of poisoning, but it might be this idea of subduing or putting something in us where one day, if it's mixed like the one Batman movie, where it's mixed with something else, then all of a sudden, uh oh, we got a problem.
So I think that anytime something is, I mean, here's the other thing too.
People could go, okay, you're freaked out that there might be fluoride, there's some fluoride in your water.
If I go to your freezer, And pull out a frozen pizza, which you famously have.
dan friesen
Maybe too many of them.
marty derosa
What are some of the things in that?
dan friesen
Probably a lot of garbage.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And I've been smoking while we record this.
marty derosa
You have been smoking nonstop.
dan friesen
I've had like two.
marty derosa
Three.
unidentified
I've been counting.
marty derosa
I've been counting.
And I'm just going, you know what?
I'm going home after this.
It's not a problem.
But I think that this is definitely one of those where I could see somebody who is a little more open to the idea of there being some shady things going on from our government.
I could definitely see.
dan friesen
You would say we would describe that as paranoid.
unidentified
Maybe.
Maybe.
Or awake.
Fine.
Woke.
Woke.
Slash paranoid.
marty derosa
I'm sorry I keep saying that.
I will not say it anymore on this podcast.
But I could see where this is one of those where it's like, I don't know.
This is kind of like one of those like, oh, you really slid under the door on this one.
dan friesen
Yeah, I kind of agree with that.
My position is that I do think that the powers that be don't want people to recognize what they're capable of.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Otherwise, they would be definitely advocating way more meditation.
They'd be recommending way more healthy behaviors as opposed to.
Like, it's insane that we have a culture where alcohol is widely advertised and available, and marijuana has been a decades long fight to become legalized.
marty derosa
Some may say that.
dan friesen
It's nonsense that I'm allowed to smoke.
marty derosa
Pokemon Go is the new fluoride in the water.
dan friesen
It's an insane distraction technique.
I think that there's maybe some credence to that.
Now, whether that's an intentional thing or not is a whole other question.
But I think that if the pineal gland being calcified is real, if that is a real thing, and the pineal gland is the third eye kind of thing, then yeah, it makes sense.
It follows a pattern of control that governments have had for millennia.
marty derosa
Yeah.
And it's also one of those where it's like, if this is what we do know about, there might be a thing like, let them know about the fluoride.
dan friesen
Like a limited hangout.
marty derosa
Yeah, give them that fluoride.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Crum.
dan friesen
I also drink bottled water most of the time just in case.
marty derosa
Oh, because you trust those companies.
dan friesen
Well, Ice Mountain is one that doesn't have fluoride in it.
marty derosa
But who knows what else is in it?
dan friesen
Natural spring water, my friend.
And there was a short period of time where I was taking turmeric just in case.
marty derosa
Just in case.
dan friesen
So I'm not the smartest guy in the world.
I don't think that this is total bullshit.
But I also don't think it's necessarily some sort of weird evil design.
So that's where I'm at, right in the middle.
marty derosa
Yeah, I think we're somewhere between guys, there's nothing to worry about, and guys, come to my island and hunt somebody.
dan friesen
The fact that it is like a byproduct that's waste and needs to get rid of is the sort of thing also that's like, well, we've got to do something with it.
We can't pollute.
Oh, there's this application for it.
So even if it's not evil, it is just the thing where it's like, eh, fucking put it there, put it in the water.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Which is crazy.
marty derosa
I think it would be real fun for.
Like with the presidential debates coming up, how there'll be like one on Fox, one on MSNBC, one on this.
If there would be also like one on like just some weird conspiracy theory website.
Polluting Water for Presidential Debates 00:03:40
dan friesen
I love it.
marty derosa
Where it's just like the questions are so off the wall.
dan friesen
One on AboveTopSecret.com.
marty derosa
Sure.
In regards to the airport in Colorado, and they're both just like.
dan friesen
What's up with that mural, Bernie?
marty derosa
Yeah.
How far down does that go, that airport?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You guys got weird tunnels down there.
You got homes for whenever the collapse comes.
unidentified
Hi.
marty derosa
Marty from whatsupwithbuilding7.com.
dan friesen
I've already asked my question.
marty derosa
Yes, yes.
Yeah, that's enough.
dan friesen
All right, so I guess, you know, whatever.
unidentified
We really did.
dan friesen
That's, that should be our slogan.
unidentified
We tried.
marty derosa
We really did.
We tried.
Dot, dot, dot.
We really did.
dan friesen
Well, with a topic like this especially, it's not, it's not that compelling.
unidentified
It's not.
dan friesen
It's hard to study.
marty derosa
It's not sexy.
I said this when we were in the, when we were in the writer's room.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
I said, guys, this is not sexy.
dan friesen
It's, uh, it's, the idea of social control is fairly sexy, but this is only, it only has a dangling chad of social control in it.
Uh, a lot of it is wrapped up in medical stuff we don't really understand.
I think Dr. Gums elucidated a good bit of that.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I think, uh, so.
marty derosa
Anyway, I told that Harvard writer Mordecai Goldenstein bomb.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
marty derosa
Listen, I don't think this is sexy.
And he was like, Drost me, it's great.
Salvage.
dan friesen
This episode will be a mitzvah.
marty derosa
It's going to be a good episode.
dan friesen
So people can follow you at Marty DeRosa.
marty derosa
They can, and they can follow you at Freezing Point.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
And please check out Marty and Sarah Shocky's podcast, Marty and Sarah Love Wrestling, over on the MLW network.
marty derosa
That's right.
We're going all solo, no longer on the feed next week.
So please rate, review, subscribe.
dan friesen
It's important that you guys help them establish their own individual presence.
marty derosa
So important.
Let's keep us in the 100s.
dan friesen
That you keep you firmly entrenched.
marty derosa
Firmly entrenched in beating Vince Russo's podcast.
dan friesen
And then, of course, wrestlingwithdepression.com.
unidentified
Yep.
marty derosa
Dan, you were the guest this past week.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
And man, are people excited when you're on.
dan friesen
It's super fun.
I really enjoy the couple of people who like me.
No, people like me, but I like the couple of people who seem to always tweet at you whenever I'm on.
I enjoy that.
That's very nice.
marty derosa
Drugs Delaney's a big fan.
dan friesen
Big shout out to Drugs.
I'm worried about you.
marty derosa
He's good.
He's doing all right.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
He's doing all right.
dan friesen
Also, of course, comediansyoushouldknow.com.
Show you have every Wednesday here in Chicago and around the country other days.
marty derosa
Yep.
dan friesen
Super great stuff.
marty derosa
And Freezing Point.
Yeah, that's our one stop destination for podcasts you can listen to.
dan friesen
Sure.
marty derosa
When you just need to listen to a podcast.
dan friesen
A big shout out to my boy Berger.
unidentified
Whew.
dan friesen
Old friend of mine.
He, Dr. Gums and I used to swing together in Missouri.
He just recently discovered the show, and I'm super excited about how often he keeps tweeting or texting at me.
marty derosa
You know what?
I was at The gathering of the Juggalos this past weekend, and there was a freestyle rap battle.
unidentified
Uh huh.
marty derosa
And I was like, God, why can't Far out be here and just fucking kill all these fucking pretenders to the throne?
dan friesen
Yeah, next year, uh, I'm gonna get my press passes in order, go to the gathering, bring Far out, bring Bobby Buds because it's like him going to Mecca.
Yeah, he's got to go make a pilgrimage.
Sure, uh, then we'll just make bedlam of that place, just have the best time.
marty derosa
Sure, I'll get you some press passes next time.
dan friesen
You son of a bitch, two weeks late.
For this year.
All right.
Well, Marty, this has been fun.
marty derosa
It's been great, Dan.
dan friesen
Guys, we'll catch you next time here in Boomtown.
But until then, I've been Bogle Jub, the White Mystery.
Now, please get out there, go do your job, which, of course, is loving someone.
Drones, Pilgrimages, and Press Passes 00:02:53
marty derosa
And not drinking the water.
dan friesen
Don't drink the water.
There's blood in the water.
Dave Matthews.
marty derosa
That's what they want you to think.
That's what they want you to think.
That's what they want you to think That's what they want you to think That is what they want you to think You to think and you to drink.
They put fluoride in the water to make you less interested in all the evil things that your government is doing.
We got drones.
dan friesen
Sorry about what I said earlier.
marty derosa
We got drones.
Dr. Gum's real name is.
We beat that out.
Cause we don't want.
You to know who the fuck he is.
dan friesen
We literally a doctor, we would lose his license if everyone knew the shit we used to do.
marty derosa
Just when you think it's over, I'm back with another line to this song about Hunting human life for game Because you are rich,
you can do whatever you want Human life is game When you've got more money than you know what to do Really thought you just said human life is game?
unidentified
I'm sorry.
marty derosa
I'm back for one more bar, cause I can't stop doing this.
I want to say one more thing.
I think the president will be Donald Trump.
But he will not retake it.
He will cite something.
unidentified
No, I don't know.
marty derosa
I think he's gonna win the popular vote.
But not the electoral college, and then it'll be a moral victory for him.
unidentified
Shout out to my fans.
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