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he's a man of his word tracy g i said
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ian smith he said make it happen and
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dr ian smith from sway the morning give
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it up for the one and only dr ian smith
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hey hey yo what's up man how you been
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uh i'm good man a lot happening uh i was
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the other day um doing something with
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and it was good to be back in the city
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in fact i post on instagram
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you know the more i try to get out the
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more they drag me back into the streets
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yeah yeah but it was good to see the
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city again i missed the city
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i was thinking about you too because um
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i was out and about in the city uh last
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you know i was having a little anxiety
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dr ian smith i was having some anxiety
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being in social circles at the at the an
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abundance that i was in
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surrounded by so many people has been so
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long you know and and then all of these
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you know regulations are being lifted
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all of these you know rules have been
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i was in the bay this weekend and nobody
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are we clear no we're not clear for sure
1:32
that's the mistake that people are
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making we're not clear we're better
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we're way better than we were before
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there's no doubt about it but clear
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is a big word think about it we got all
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these variants that are still cropping
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up there's a new variant that's
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cropped up in india uh that for sure
1:46
make its way over here because of travel
1:49
so no we're not clear but we're
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we're in a really good situation and i
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got to tell you you know i've taken my
1:54
mask off around other vaccinated people
1:57
uh it's been great um but when i do go
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confined areas like a grocery store or
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something like that i definitely still
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but in the street walking around i don't
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we're better but i'm worried about
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people saying we're clear we're not
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we're not clear okay that's dr ian right
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here um by the fact i'm opening up the
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phone lines get this advice from dr ian
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anything you want to ask about if you
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you got a toe awake if you got a you
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know if you got a runny nose
2:25
whatever it is i'm gonna um open up
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these phone lines eight eight eight
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fiction where you wanna write a novel if
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you wanna write a novel that's you know
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cause this man does it all so eight
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eight eight seven four two three three
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five always ask you where do you find
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and is it why why is it important so
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important for you to continue to release
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yeah well first of all i love novels i
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most of what i watch on netflix are
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crime dramas mysteries like that it's
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it's just i love it wolf point which you
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you played earlier on my instagram me
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i get my first copies of my advanced
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copies of it wolfpoint is
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you know the second book in my ash kane
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series a brother who's a detective
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former detective from chicago police
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department but listen i write all hours
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three o'clock in the morning writing um
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you when you're a writer it's like an
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whenever you get moved to do something
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you do it and so many people by the way
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are so excited for the book too the
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first book was called the unspoken you
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so many people have have emailed me and
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or dm me on instagram asking me when is
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the next book coming out so i was
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excited to say wolf point will be here
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people can pre-order it now and i'm
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gonna do a lot of fun stuff helping
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people out lose weight for those who
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you know you just find you you make time
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to find the time you know what it is
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yeah man he mentioned the truth he said
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lose weight tracy go ahead
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i don't wanna it well i'm gonna stall
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i'm gonna stall on that question for a
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i think dr ian smith that there's two
3:52
types of writers or definitely writers
3:54
that you fall under the category of that
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are like yo i'm gonna get it done i'm
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gonna make sure i schedule
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my time when i moved i write and then
4:01
there are a lot of writers who hate
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and part of the process they have to
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embrace is that they're gonna
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procrastinate every time they sit down
4:10
they're gonna have imposter syndrome
4:12
it's always gonna feel like it's the
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that they're writing it down do you ever
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experience that at all
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i never but let me tell you what my tip
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is and you know it doesn't work for
4:22
everybody but this is my tip for people
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i write my books in my head first so i
4:28
a long time thinking about the plot the
4:31
characters the location from very visual
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so i think about all these things
4:35
i almost see it like a movie in my head
4:38
when i get that kind of visualization
4:40
and i feel like it's pretty complete
4:42
then i sit down and basically transcribe
4:45
what's already in my head
4:47
and so i never have writer's block i
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never sit down and worry
4:51
nothing's gonna come out because i got
4:52
so much stuff already in my head and
4:54
something i developed i know for some
4:56
other people they like to outline their
4:58
books i don't outline my books
4:59
some people need to do that but i don't
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do that to me if i outline a book
5:03
then when i sit down to write it's not
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as creative it's like just kind of like
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templated situation for me it's like all
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then i sit down to a blank computer
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screen and i just let it go
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um you're very one of a kind doctor ian
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smith's your many blessings sir
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we got a lot of people online right now
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that want to ask you some questions
5:26
and also i want to encourage y'all to
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hit them up directly tell them how they
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can reach you you don't have to
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hear him just here he's he's available
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on instagram is at dr ian smith spell
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all right now g is on the line from
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connecticut i was just talking about
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this issue he has with a friend of mine
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uh g grand rises g how are you doing hey
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good evening good how you doing tracy g
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just right quick i just want to say um i
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met you guys at that comedy show a
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couple years ago in new york got
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pictures with you enough
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it was much love man i appreciate you
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absolutely man good to get to hear your
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like what like what hi dr ian um i just
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i'm i'm 50 but um i've been had uh i
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broke my leg when i was younger so my
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my right leg is maybe like maybe like a
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centimeter shorter than my left leg and
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i'm getting up like a bulging disc in my
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back i don't had went to therapy then
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had you know went to see my doctor and
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they say at my age that the surgery
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wouldn't be helpful so i just want to
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know your advice on that or anything
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because it kind of you know bothers me
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at night when i'm sleeping and so just
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if you haven't wait how old are you
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um i just turned 50 last year so
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they said to you you have a bulging disc
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is it actually touching
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one of your nerves the disc itself
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um no i don't think it is that just the
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pain because they did when i went to
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to my doctor to see about it they said
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you know they sent me to uh
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my massage therapist and then they just
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gave me little works to do you know
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the ball the rubber band and i asked
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them about surgery and they were just
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if you've been living like this at this
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stage my advice is not to do the surgery
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because it could make it worse so i just
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they do an mri uh yes they did yes they
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did uh-huh okay listen
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listen let me explain something to you
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first of all i'm very confused by
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someone saying that 50 is too old to do
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my golf partner who's 53
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had a similar situation and just had a
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very minimally invasive
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procedure it feels great pain is gone
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what you need to these are things you
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need to know i mean it's hard to do this
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such a short period of time number one
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you need to know exactly what the mri
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say you need to know whether or not that
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the if it's one or more discs
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that's in your back that's bulging and
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then you need to find out
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whether or not the disc is actually
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because that is what causes the pain
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your disc is inside of your spinal
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we get older or we do a we tweak our
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back a little bit we twist it the wrong
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that disc uh can slide out and touch a
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nerve that's running along the spinal
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column and that causes the pain
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it can cause numbness it can cause loss
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of sensation i mean all kinds of
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so you need more information about
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the disc is protruding you call it
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bulging also and if it's touching a
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nerve if that's the case
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and your function is being compromised
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then you need to go to an orthopedic
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surgeon have an orthopedic surgeon
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look at the mri and advise you as to
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you should try conservative therapy
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which probably won't work since you've
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or if you should look for something
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that's minimally invasive
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but for someone to say to you you're too
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old it's been too long to
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address this issue you know i
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categorically disagree with it
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um because i know of many cases where
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people at this age have this problem
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they get a minimally invasive surgery
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and they feel much better
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um hey dr ham would you recommend
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like in cases like this people get a
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always always get a second opinion and
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one doctor is better than the other it's
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that it's almost like art it's how you
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see art can be different
9:13
people to doctors who are very good can
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see the problem in a different way
9:18
and think of different solutions so so
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you should always look for a second
9:23
case in particular i would definitely
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get a second opinion because
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i don't have all the facts but it does
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they're not adding up for me
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okay hey hey make sure you follow dr ian
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too man follow him at dr
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ian smith all right hey this is
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this is an even barter he doesn't know
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about this this is just me suggesting it
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since he gave you that free advice make
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sure you pre-order his book
9:45
wolf point okay all right okay he had
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nothing to do with that
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all right okay you're a citizen
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yo dr ian man i was thinking about you
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because since you talked
10:02
since we talked last time i start
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changing my diet a little bit
10:06
i start eating a little less but
10:07
nothing's happening now i haven't
10:09
started exercising i'm supposed to start
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yo what about the times that you would
10:16
start the show saying i just got off my
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peloton i'm feeling great
10:21
i wasn't consistent enough tracy like i
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think peloton is something you got to do
10:26
consistently you can't do once a week
10:27
and expect results i realized that i was
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and so you know what i tell you what
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i can get three pounds off of you
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without exercising in five days
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say word i'll do it right now i'll start
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tomorrow okay it's on my instagram
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okay look for look it's called it says
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five day plateau buster it's on my
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okay it's five days there's a link in my
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bio five days i bet you can get three
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pounds off with no exercise
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okay okay is it okay i'm on youtube how
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he gonna keep it off though dr ian cause
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people could lose weight second part
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that's the second part let me get him in
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all right okay i gotta bring him in
11:06
first let me go to that part of it
11:08
okay i see you move he gonna trick me in
11:10
there and then let me ask you this
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what what foods because i was having
11:13
this conversation with a friend of mine
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um and it got real personal got kind of
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um in terms of you know sex and stuff
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growing getting older
11:22
you know he's in his mid 40s and he he
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was talking about how things have
11:25
changed he can't even eat the same food
11:28
at night and expect the same performance
11:32
yeah so what foods if somebody is
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the libido is probably getting slower
11:38
how do foods work what should you stay
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away from necessarily or
11:42
or or what what actually helps you
11:45
yeah it's interesting you say that by
11:49
people in general by the way you're
11:52
most people not everybody obviously but
11:54
in most people your libido goes down but
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there are some things
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that can help um aphrodisiac fruits can
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some chocolate there's a supplement
12:06
that can work people need to actually
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reduce the amount of
12:10
intake of alcohol that too much alcohol
12:12
can actually affect your libido
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um and so if people look at those things
12:17
and by the way the fruits i'm talking
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things like figs bananas
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avocados those are considered to be
12:25
foods that actually boost your libido uh
12:27
and even chocolate i mean chocolate's
12:29
good chocolate releases
12:31
these chemicals uh called
12:34
phenylethylamine and serotonin and um
12:38
when it does that that helps to lift
12:39
your mood and helps to lift your sex
12:42
they're definitely things you do but
12:42
people also need to make sure that they
12:45
don't suffer from ed as you know
12:46
erectile dysfunction uh which happens
12:49
for a lot of men because of
12:50
our vascular um circulation um you know
12:54
in our penis and around there so you got
12:55
to be careful that also but there's
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those are some things you can do and of
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course the pill you know we all know
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what the blue pill but
13:01
you know you want to try to do it
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without that as long as you can
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hmm okay ed i always thought ed was just
13:07
some branding term that was made up by
13:09
pharmaceutical companies to get men to
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no it's a real you know many men it
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um and basically can i say this can i
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yes can i yeah basically it's the
13:22
inability to either get or even keep an
13:25
um during intercourse um sometimes we
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call it impotence someone's impotent
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uh they can't get erector they can't
13:31
stay erect but it's it's very common
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it's all about blood flow by the way
13:34
because remember you know an erection
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occurs because of blood flow into your
13:39
the blood flows into your penis and then
13:42
stays there your your blood vessels kind
13:45
of lock down and keep it there
13:47
so that you know you have the erection
13:50
orgasm then the valves open back up and
13:53
the blood comes out of the penis
13:55
and that's why you know you're long no
13:57
longer erect and people who have
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high blood pressure or
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blood vessel disease like
14:04
atherosclerosis where they have
14:05
plaque in their blood vessels your penis
14:07
has blood vessels and if those blood
14:09
blood vessels are are diseased then you
14:12
have problem holding or
14:13
establishing or holding an erection hmm
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okay yeah man you writing that down
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send me your notes you know what though
14:24
it just made me i guess veering into
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it made me think dr ian smith i'd love
14:30
opinion on alex rodriguez and he has
14:34
he um is doing a collaboration with that
14:37
and hers but you know being with the him
14:41
and he basically is now going to have a
14:45
concealer for men and you know a lot of
14:48
people ran with it and just said okay
14:50
now you're making makeup for men and we
14:52
pull the citizens to see who would be
14:55
and he and who wouldn't i feel like men
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some men would use this on the low they
15:00
just probably wouldn't become
15:03
but what are your thoughts on that do
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you feel like it's probably going to
15:07
take over on the low
15:08
well i'm a little different because i
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wear makeup you know i do tv i'm on tv
15:12
so i wear i can even do my own makeup i
15:14
wear foundation i wear concealers i do
15:16
all that myself because
15:18
you know with high def television i've
15:20
been a reporter for many years i'm out
15:22
in the field i got to do my own stuff
15:24
so i so i'm a little biased i think it's
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um but i think that on the low i think
15:29
men are going to do it i mean you can't
15:32
it looks great by the way and you know
15:35
thankfully we're in an age
15:36
where it's not about masculinity and
15:38
femininity it's about what works
15:40
right and if you want to look good and
15:42
look your best you know a little
15:44
you know that doesn't hurt it doesn't
15:46
define your masculinity
15:47
one way or another and i think that i'm
15:49
happy we're getting away from this
15:50
business about oh only women do stuff
15:54
that being said what's going on with
15:57
this guy's everywhere he just bounces
16:00
i can't figure this dude out i'm serious
16:02
i just don't i'm not against him doing
16:04
this by the way by all means you know do
16:07
but at a side topic a-rod just
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he's just everywhere i don't i don't who
16:15
i mean that should be the title of your
16:17
next book dr e smith
16:19
who is a-rod man like what are we
16:24
unauthorized biography come on we all up
16:27
in his personal life his breakups as you
16:30
i mean you know he was some of those
16:32
tuxedos he was wearing and
16:34
he's at the man i don't know i don't
16:36
know he's trying to buy the mats
16:39
dudes all over the place i don't know
16:40
man he's a serial entrepreneur yeah yeah
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hey ron's a go-getter you know he excels
16:46
at everything he's done
16:51
hey so we got a lot of folks on the line
16:54
maybe they could answer that question
16:57
we got janet on the line from tennessee
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janet graham rises how are you doing
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yo oh good morning good morning good
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morning i'm so glad that i got through i
17:05
really enjoyed this segment of your show
17:08
whenever it happened thank you um my
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my husband has been shot five times it
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in his youth he's now in his 50s one
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he was shot in the back he was paralyzed
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for a year was not supposed to ever walk
17:24
he was 17 at the time so it was during
17:27
so his left leg is about an inch shorter
17:32
leg we use a lift in the shoe
17:35
to try to help with the imbalance
17:38
but he has a lot of hip and back
17:42
pain because of that difference in
17:45
so i was wondering if anything can be
17:47
done about that and with that bullet
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it hit him in the back and it was kind
17:52
of lodged close to his heart
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so they couldn't remove it the last time
17:56
he had an x-ray which was about two
17:58
years ago it had migrated
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to the right hip so we keep a close eye
18:06
on that bullet to make sure that it
18:08
i guess bounce around and hit something
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but um should we have that taken out or
18:14
just keep a close eye on it
18:17
wow these are two great questions let me
18:18
go to the first part of the question
18:20
which is what can you do about the
18:24
you know if this is an old injury um
18:27
which is unfortunate because
18:28
a lot of the progress you can make is
18:32
uh you know right after the injury
18:34
happens and i'm not sure if he had
18:36
uh the proper time proper follow-up on
18:41
right away when someone has a leg length
18:43
discrepancy when they're younger
18:45
you want to try to fix it right away you
18:47
fix it through inserts
18:48
sometimes they're prosthetics you may
18:50
use i mean there are all kinds of things
18:53
to fix that imbalance because what
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happens is and this happens when people
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a knee problem you know like when
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someone has a right knee problem they
19:02
and they they affect their left hip
19:04
because they're not walking normally
19:07
and unfortunately in this case it sounds
19:08
like his leg length discrepancy was not
19:12
fixed right away or adequately enough
19:15
and therefore now he's developed all
19:19
uh changes in his his physical skeleton
19:23
and unfortunately there's not much you
19:27
but but that being said what you can do
19:31
is you can look at if it's a hip issue
19:33
that he's having right now
19:35
you can look at ways postural ways and
19:37
by the way this is why you need to go to
19:38
a physical therapist
19:40
a rehab doctor rehab doctors are the
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ones physiatrists are called
19:44
they're the ones that can actually help
19:46
with his his skeletal mechanics
19:48
this is all biomechanics right now by
19:50
the way what he's experiencing
19:52
and so yeah it's been a while um i'm not
19:56
relief he'll be able to get but he will
19:57
get some relief by seeing
19:59
a physiatrist not a psychiatrist a
20:02
physicist a rehab doctor
20:04
who can help with his mechanics okay
20:05
that's number one number two as far as
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that is still in there that sometimes
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shot and bullets are very close to major
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arteries or major organs
20:17
the going in to remove it is too much of
20:21
rather than just leaving it alone but
20:23
understand something ideally
20:25
you want to remove any foreign object
20:27
from the body which a bullet is
20:29
because it could become a source of
20:31
infection the body may start rejecting
20:34
and so if the bullet as you say has
20:37
migrated away from a major blood vessel
20:40
organ i'm always a fan of removing it
20:44
that's just i you know i'm old school
20:46
like that it doesn't belong in the body
20:48
take it out and i think if it's in an
20:50
area that's easily accessible
20:52
without hitting a nerve or an artery or
20:56
i i say remove it because it will in
20:59
some cases it will keep moving around
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and what you don't want is for it to
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press up against something
21:05
um and that has some kind of effect like
21:07
a nerve or a blood vessel so i
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i would say remove it if you can if it's
21:12
all right janet okay thank you so much
21:16
you're welcome and i mean i you know
21:19
you're a gift man i appreciate you
21:20
because you go into detail
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and and janet follow him okay because
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this information that he he
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he has is available for all of you
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follow him at dr ian smith you just
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spell out doctor and he got his book
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fast burned the power of negative energy
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balance that's out now
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you could pre-order the wolf point book
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with accept the release in october
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um and janet you can stay in tune with
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him since you met him through us he'll
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that's right i really really appreciate
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and your show and all these little
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topics and the experts that you bring
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on this is the best show going thank you
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thank you make sure you tub right right
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right see if they could pay us like the
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best show going all right janet you're a
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let's play in the morning love you
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who is a ride who else you curious about
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right now that's out there
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me yeah yeah oh come on this whole
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this whole j.lo and ben affleck thing
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seriously like first of all i like jlo
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so this is not for all the jlo fans i'm
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not hating on jlo at all i like j.lo
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she's had a great career she's she's
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i just don't get like you have this huge
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public thing with a-rod you guys are all
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over the world together
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you know you can't keep your hands off
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you guys break up after saying you're
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back together and then you go right to
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who's been with like 20 people over the
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last four months i just don't
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i don't i don't i don't understand i
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just don't understand that like
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well you don't want to know what i
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really well yeah i say it it it feels to
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like the best way to hurt the other
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like the best way to hurt a rod is to go
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old flame right like all the guys out
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there or girls whoever you want who's
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available to you and you go back to ben
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once again nothing gets bad either right
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but i don't i just don't get that i
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don't get it i don't get it
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let me let me offer this let me offer
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been there before she know what she
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i don't think it's a long-term
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investment i think she probably just
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good you know what i'm saying
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a lot of people i know a lot of guys
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real good wow doctor ian smith
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a lot of people be having a back-up plan
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she had her locker secured she knew
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she ain't got to worry about nobody you
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know copy and pasting her dms and
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no dude that's true that's honestly i'm
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not against seriously i'm not against
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jlo or ben affleck or ara i just
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you know you just make you you just
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think about things right i don't you
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to each his own they can do whatever
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they want to do is their business it's
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not my business i don't want
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people sending me dm something like you
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don't have a right no no i'm not
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i'm just i'm just observing that's i'm
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just observing that's all
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that's your personal observation i asked
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and so we got to answer man listen i
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you gonna come back next month come on
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why would you even ask that question
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come on man citizens uh jd from
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kevin in new york javon and maryland
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enoch and north carolina dr ian smith is
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hit him up uh give out your address once
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more time one more time yeah
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at dr ian smith spell the doctor out ian
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smith you can dm me and join my facebook
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group it's called fast burn
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challenge next time we do this we gotta
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agree we're gonna do at least five
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questions and i'll be shorter my answers
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because i want to get to at least five
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questions each each time okay okay great
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we'll work in progress and then i'm
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gonna go to instagram and let you know
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when i try the three pound challenge all
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right oh yeah the five day it's a
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five-day challenge a five-day
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plateau buster and i'm gonna lose three
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dr ian smith thank you sir we appreciate
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thank you man have a good day