Le Show; May 04, 2025

From deep inside your audio device of choice. Ladies and gentlemen, if you know me, and I think you do, you know that I'm not a big football fan, but there's a football story, football related story that has made sizable news this week. Some TV hosts have even celebrated the fact that it has taken precious mind space away from the felon president. It concerns former head coach of the New England Patriots, now new head coach at the University of North Carolina. It's not about its football experience. It's about his life experience, specifically his new romance, apparently, with a woman who is roughly, I haven't counted the years, lately, 50 years is junior, and much talk about what, and not only 50 years is junior, but also

credited with being part of his football program now, and actually attending practice and giving notes to players, not post kind of notes, you know, corrective notes. And so there's a lot of speculation about what this is, and I have only four words to say to everybody about this subject. Read up on Groucho. Hello, yes, hello, welcome to the show. Perfect. Why

do they always bring it down? Why are all our heroes always perfect? The statue in the fog is lost, it's ground. Will you fall for drunk in the press? Both the fog are mean drunk in the press, and that guy seven years into back to doubt me and not see. Founding farmers all had slaves. The explorers, a lot of them raised. The Old Testament God could be so petty. Papa Carter jealous of drunk, even more so now that he's gone. Dylan was so mean to don him, but in that movie. Papa, the castle, cruel to his wife. My favorite parents took their own lives. Also, well, people twenty -five were gone before our eyes. And the soul of that one. Why are all our heroes so imperfect? Why do they always bring it

down? Her favorite was full of malice. The blue is Caroline shorted Alice. Played her when they came with those very young boys. T .S. Eliot hated the Jews. F .D .R. didn't save the Jews. All the French joined the resistance after the war. Raymond Chan, a drunk in the press. Tennessee, where you're drunk in the press. I think I'll just get From Santa Monica, California, the home

of the homeless. I'm Harry Scherer. Welcome you to this edition of La Show. And now, as is becoming more frequent these days on this program. News of the convicted felon's best friend. Europeans, you remember them? They used to be more like us. They're fleeing X. Not the letter. The platform. Amas, according to a new report from Elon Musk's social media platform itself. The latest figures from X published this week and according to Politico. The company was required to release those figures to comply with the European Union's flagship tech rulebook. They digital services act. They figure so a sharp decline in the number of users in Europe. Since August of last year, the platform has lost 11 million European users. The biggest exodus. Is that the

plural of exodus? Reported in France. Poland and Germany. Why weren't they... Well, yes, they were. Today, the platform has about 95 million users in Europe down from about 105 last year. It's a 10 % drop in six months. Elon can do math, can't he? Lithuania and Luxembourg both lost a quarter of their users. So don't sell stuff in countries beginning with the letter L. Musk acquired X, as you know. A few years ago, changed the platform's rules, encouraged right -wing political movements from the United States to Europe. That has sparked criticism about the website's amplification of disinformation and hate speech, like that's a bad thing. The city of Paris, palerie, quit the platform in January, joining a slew of other accounts that have fled from legendary horror writer Stephen King to the British newspaper The Guardian. The European

Commission has been investigating whether X adheres to the EU's requirements to act on illegal content and fake news ever since away back in 2023. And it accused the platform of breaking the rules and the law, just the law last July. It is yet to hand down a long -awaited punishment. Test love, of course, is an electric vehicle company. It's also taken a hit in Europe in recent months. Sales falling by more than 50 % across January and February this year. And it's the worst month to buy electric cars, apparently. The brand sales in Germany fell by nearly 60 % in the aforementioned January, compared to the same period last year. French registrations were down by 63%. The French beat the Germans in not buying Teslas. You got to take what you can get. The Trump -Blessed Doge unit, you've heard

of him, could help its boss, a certain Elon Musk, avoid more than 2 .37 billion dollars in potential legal liabilities by stripping power from the regulators who are tasked with supervising some of the billionaire's businesses. This is news for those who think he's doing this out of the goodness of his heart. He doesn't have to do this. That's from the registered British tech journal. According a new Senate report, Musk maintained full control over his sprawling empire, your SpaceX, your Tesla, your neural link, your XAI, and the boring company. Hey, where's my total? Even after the president tasked him to lead, they cost trimming data, scouring Doge effort. As head of that unit, Musk, as you know, has exercised sweeping influence over the very agencies tasked with regulating his businesses. The report notes Musk has done nothing. It's zero to separate himself from his companies since taking

that position as a special U .S. government employee. It refers, does the report to his decisions in his role heading up Doge as being marked by, quote, self -enrichment, and avoiding what he perceives as obstacles to advancing, his own interests, unquote. This is a report I think from Democratic senators, quoting here, fearing that Musk's conflict of interest could be unrivaled by the worst insider trading, unquote, and it argues it says a dangerous precedent that undermines government integrity. You've heard of that. They allege that pointing to the Department of Justice is sudden unexplained dismissal of a discrimination suit against SpaceX, and the resignation of the head of the FAA reportedly after pressure from, you know, that 2 .37 billion figure comes from Democratic staff on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, permanent subcommittee on

investigations. A group which doesn't have a long enough title, they tallied potential financial liabilities tied to 40 to 65 active or potential enforcement actions involving Musk's companies across 11 different federal agencies. Well, they don't exist. Those matters include neural -inx liability for alleged violation of the Animal Welfare Act surrounding its treatment of monkeys and pigs. Tesla's potentially falter misleading statements regarding the capability of autopilot, which we've talked about before, SpaceX's alleged failure to comply with FAA launch requirements, and more like, hey, boring company, where's my tunnel? The remaining 25 investigations include allegations of unlawful retaliation and interference with union organizing at SpaceX and Tesla, as well as multiple national highway traffic safety administration, probes into Tesla's self -driving technology

couldn't be quantified according to the report. Musk and his companies could gain millions or billions, not quite trillions, more simply by avoiding the time legal fees and risk of being ordered to undertake remediation efforts or change labor practices. Sounds like Musk love, and now. I ain't listening. Yes, are you? Micro -elastics. Think about it. What do you think about it? Yes, I will. Love said. Get a honey bee near a rose or a lavender. The insect will extend its straw -like tongue to search for nectar, thus pollinating the flower in the process. It's corny to the Washington Post. They, I guess, have watched honey bees do that, or at least they've heard about it. That's how it works in clean environments, but

experiments show that when bees are exposed to micro -plastic pollution, their memory gets so muddled, they may forget this sense associated with sugary rewards. You know that feeling? As a result, pollination may fail. That, of course, is bad news for flowers, and crops, and people who eat them, not the flowers, the crops. While honey bees, the most important pollinator of crops, seem particularly affected, other pollinators such as earbumble bees, suffer too. Such insects visit flowers, I think, on a 30 -day pass, to forage for nectar and pollen as food for themselves and their young. And then transfer the pollen from male parts of one flower to the female parts of another fertilizing in the process. Kids, don't listen to that part. How to micro -plastics in our environment, particularly and potentially harm pollination. Recent studies have shown the tiny pieces of plastics, which may originate from everyday products, your food packaging, your

disposable cutlery, or your plastic toys, can make bees more susceptible to bacteria and viruses. When a plastic water bottle, for example, ends up in a ditch or a river, it disintegrates with the help of the sun, water, and wind. Into ever smaller pieces, which float in the air, seep into soils, settle on vegetation. Other micro -plastics are made miniscule from the start, such as glitter, or microbeads in body scrubs. Then they get washed off from our skin into waste water, which is then used for the irrigation of crops. Once such micro -plastics are ingested or inhaled by bees, yes bees inhale. Tell your friends, they can damage the micro -plastic can, the bees guts, and get into their brains impacting memory and learning. Research has shown, they can outright kill them too. In addition, your flowers may get literally clogged

up with micro -plastics, so it's good for everything. Quote, if plastic is adding to all the stressors that pollinators are already facing, I think we really might be in a tricky position. Says Thomas Cherico -Wenger Guerrero, for name, sure. An agro -ecologist at Agroscope, that's Switzerland's Federal Research Center for Agriculture. According to the EPA, before it dies, or is killed, pesticides have it that changes in new emerging diseases have all been suggested, as causes of colony collapse in which bees disappear and hives die off. Only to make way for new, and no. And those tiny pieces of plastic are infiltrating the large arteries in the neck. We're now talking about humans that carry blood from the heart to the head. With the highest amounts found

in fatty buildup, he was great in the silent. In the arteries of stroke survivors, a small new study from the American Heart Association suggests, the concentration of so -called micro -nanoplastics in carotid arteries was 51 times higher in plaque from people who'd had a stroke. Many stroke are those cute. Or temporary blindness compared to amounts found in the walls of plaque -free carotid arteries, even with people with carotid artery plaque who had not experienced any of those conditions, still had 16 times more micro -plastics, micro -nanoplastics in their plaque, putting the plaque in plastics, not taking the plaque out of... Well, it's not just the diseased arteries have more plastics, said the studies lead researcher. That is clear, but those with diseased arteries causing symptoms have far more plastics. Unquote him. Results

considered preliminary until full findings are published in a peer -reviewed journal. We're presented in April at the Heart Association's Vascular Discovery Scientific Sessions Conference in Baltimore. There's an event with five names. Microplastics and nanoplastics mainly result from larger plastic consumer products, as you know. We've discussed this before, and here we are discussing it again. Microplastics are omnipresent in the environment, as we've discussed, and of the human body when people inhale or ingest them. Previous studies have shown their present in the lungs, liver, placenta, breast milk, urine, and blood. The new research comes in the heels of a study published in January in the Journal Nature Medicine, revealing microplastic presence in brain

tissue. I think in the 2024 study in the New England Journal of Medicine that found people whose carotid artery plaque contained microplastics had a higher likelihood of having a stroke, heart attack, or dying within three years. Just one word. Microplastics. And now let's take a break, a momentary break from the bad news. For some worse news, the side effects of the week. Caplighta can cause serious side effects. Call your doctor about sudden mood changes, behaviors, or suicidal thoughts right away. Anti -depressants may increase these risks in young adults. Elderly dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke. Caplighta is not approved for dementia -related psychosis. Report fever, confusion, or stiff muscles which may be life -threatening, or uncontrolled muscle movements which may be permanent. Common side effects include sleepiness, dizziness, nausea, and dry mouth. These aren't all the side effects. Oh, you mean to know the rest

of the side effects you have to watch another commercial? Thanks! And near the

ground beneath the lake, stay down too long, dreaming about you. And who did this box? Close the lid and tie the knot. Who did this box? And who did this box? Who did this box? I take such good care of you like brush your hair, tie your shoes. There's

nothing in the world I wouldn't do. And who did this box? Seal the lid and tie the knot. And who did this box? Who The box sits on the bridge. The crowd's still waiting. From Santa Monica, this is Lucio, and here's Ralph. The

words written by the chatbot Claude. Instead of depressing wages or taking jobs, generative AI chatbots like Claude, chat GPT and Gemini, have had almost no significant wage or labor impact so far. The finding that calls into question, huge money expenditures required to create and run AM models, this from the British Tech Journal of Register. In a working paper released earlier this month, two economists looked at the labor market impact of AI chatbots on 11 occupations, covering 25 ,000 workers and 7 ,000 workplaces and Denmark in 2023 and 2024. Many of these occupations have been described as being vulnerable to AI, your accountants, your customer support specialist, your financial advisors, your HR professionals, IT support specialist, journalist, legal professionals, marketing professionals,

office clerk, software developers and teachers. Yet after one of the contributors to the study analyzed the data, he and his colleagues found the labor and wage impact of chatbots to be minimal. Quote AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation. This is what the author's state report should concern the tech industry, you think? It has hyped AI's economic potential while plowing billions, maybe trillions in infrastructure meant to support it. Earlier this year, open AI admitted that it loses money per query, so ask it more, even on the most expensive enterprise units. Well, companies like Microsoft and Amazon are starting to pull back on their AI's infrastructure spending

in light of low business adoption the last few months. The problem is that workers are avoiding AI chatbots quite the contrary, but they simply aren't yet equating to actual economic benefits. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg and Metta are pitching a vision of AI chatbots as an extension of your friend network and a potential solution to the quote, loneliness epidemic unquote. Does that exist? Facebook's parent company this week to build a new mobile app that transforms the meta AI chatbot into a more social experience, including the ability to share AI generated creations with friends and family. I thought they didn't have friends. Oh, we'll get to that Zuckerberg sees the AI

bot itself as your next friend quote the average American has, I think, it's fewer than three friends Zuckerberg said during a podcast this week. Quote in the average person has demand for meaningfully more. Unquote, he should know the more time you spend chatting with an AI friend, the more of your personal information you're giving away says the senior director of AI programs at common sense media. Quote, it's about who owns and controls and can use your intimate thoughts and expressions after you share them. And under Metta's privacy policy, the AI chatbot can use what the company knows about you in its interactions. Metta can also use your conversations and any media you upload for further

training of its models. You might want to sue for copyright infringement right there. You can choose to have met a AI not remember specific details, but there is no way for US users to opt out more broadly. Zuckerberg's bot friendship vision is arriving in a moment when AI companions face criticism and controversy, particularly as younger users in count of them. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that its testing showed earlier versions of Metta's chatbots, including those based on celebrity personas, hey, I did are willing to engage in sexual banter, even with users who identified themselves as teens. Metta says it is since implemented controls to prevent this from happening. Why was it and open AI unrelated matter has hurriedly rolled back its latest chat GPT model days after it was released

because it was deemed to be to quote sycophanty and annoying, open AI boss Sam Oldman continued, oh sorry, confirmed the release of the update for GPT 40 on end of April, claiming it had improved both intelligence and personality, unlike himself. It did not take long for users to start noticing issues with one commenting, quote, it's been feeling very yes man like lately. Oldman acknowledged that by saying, yeah, it glazes too much, unquote. Glaze is TikTok slang for showering a person with excessive praise. I think the new slang for that should be presidential cabinet, but back to chat GPT things began to go downhill rapidly and other user urged quote. Undo it please, the weird follow up questions, the cringy attempt at being relatable, the sycophantsy dialed up to 11, and the damn

emoji are all unbearable. Unquote, end of the month, last month, Oldman said the company was working on fixes, agreed that the updates had made the chat bots quote personality to sycophanty and ignoring. Unquote, sycophants are celebrating their elevation to adjective status quote as it turned out that fix us note quote as it turned out the fix became a rollback of the update users shared screenshots of the chat bot appearing to applaud and cheer on some decidedly dubious statements, including where one where a user's decision to stop their medication received a response beginning with quote. I am so proud of you unquote, the bot, the friendly bot was likely in attempt by open AI to make the experience more engaging for users as it faces mounting competition from alternative chat bots judging by the feedback and hasty backing out of the update. It might have gone too far spoke's person

for open AI pointed to the company's printed explanation for what happened quote we focused too much on short term feedback. The fix quote more guardrails and training refinements unquote meaning we're not going to stop. Just ask mark or to quote chat bot Claude hip hip array now turning to news of the convicted felon president you may have seen clips of or if you've been really lucky the whole thing another supposed cabinet meeting which is basically a public display of the cabinet members. Unbridled praise of the president during which he said I think the two words that might go down in history as the most damning self

description of a policy which may be the most damaging to the American economy since since the Indians it was during a discussion by the president. Of his tariff policy which so far seems to be resulting in shortages and higher prices well that's what he promised during the no it's not I checking myself here and here's what he said in that context. Somebody said all the shelves that can be up and well maybe the children will have two dollars instead of thirty dollars you know and maybe the two dollars will cost a couple of bucks more than they would. When or if the tariffs get started they'll still be a bit of pain.

Some shelves just might be empty your budget might feel some strain but that's when you must remember it's always darkest before sunrise calls. Maybe it's just a different Christmas you could still afford two dollars. Maybe you'll have to stand in line to get a new bar of soap but I declare the day of liberation that you give you some hope. You take your kids to the sports store when

parental duty calls you can't afford to buy them bats no more but you can still afford tea balls. There'll be a day when this all works out when those countries come to the table and even if prices don't come down at least they'll be almost stable. The meantime take your children anywhere but the malls and when they ask for food or clothing you can still afford two dollars. And now

news of the godly. Hello RTE in Ireland you probably already covered this story disgraced former Bishop Brendan Komiske has died aged 89. He previously served as the Bishop of Furns in Ireland yes to our Furns before resigning following the publication of the Furns report which outlined a catalog of child sex abuse in the diocese over a period of just four decades. There were claims that he did not report allegations that father Sean Fortune had abused a number of children while Komiske was bishop and that as a result he failed to protect children in the diocese. The most painful place to be protected. The monahan native died in Louth County hospital in Dundalk. Yes I'm this for announcing them Komiske was ordained a priest of the congregation of the sacred hearts of Jesus and Mary way back in

1961. He became auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Dublin in 1979 and was appointed the Bishop of Furns not art Furns just Furns in April 1984. In his resignation letter to in 2003 Komiske said he was never asked or forced to resign by the Catholic Church after the report came out. Colin O 'Gorman the survivor of clerical abuse in the diocese and a long time campaigner for justice said Komiske's governance was quote appalling continuing the quote. Brendan Komiske was not a good bishop and he did not behave in a way that could be considered to be moral or appropriate or decent continuing the quote. But it would be wrong and it would be false to suggest that this was about some unique individual failing or level of incompetence. There was no incompetence involved. He

did what he was mandated to by the church. Unquote. Can't wait for that conclave and now news of this smart world. Is a smart world after all is world. Google's oldest smart thermostats have an expiration date. This from ours technical the company's announced that the first and second generation nest learning thermostats will lose support this October. This abling most of its connected features. Google is offering some compensation for anyone still using these devices but there's no Google upgrade for European users. Google is also a discontinuing its only European model and it's not planning to release another.

Both affected North American thermostats predate Google's ownership of the company nest which had acquired in 2014 nest or released. The original learning thermostats almost universal praise in 2011. This week's sequel arrived a year later. Google's second generation euro units launched in 2014 since launch all these devices have been getting regular software updates and have migrated across multiple app redesigns. But now as Google points out these products have had a long life. 2011 ladies and gentlemen. And they're not being rendered totally inoperable. No. Come October these devices will no longer receive software updates or connect to Google's cloud services. You won't be able to control them from the Google Home app or via assistant.

The devices though will still work as a regular dumb thermostat. To control temperatures and scheduling will remain accessible from the thermostats screen. Google is going to be releasing via an email some deals to soften the blow. It's offering a discount on the fourth generation learning thermostats for those who are still using these soon to be unsupported models. The situation is a bit more frustrating for European users. Google doesn't have any newer units to sell. Heating and cooling systems in Europe have quirks. Quirks. That set them apart from North American systems. And consequently, it's been more than a decade since nest released a smart thermostat adapted to, you know, Europe. And it never will again. Says the company.

This comes just weeks after Google confirmed it had discontinued the nest protect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm as well as the nest. Yale lock. Google nest isn't making a replacement. Nest fans were directed to third party devices that will work with Google Home. So you can't get out of it yet. It's such a smart world. I used to have the stars in my pocket. Now I just watch them on TV. My friends, they all

run away. But they'll come back again. And we'll have a celebration. Getting back on my medication. We'll have a rainy day for you. Mr. Lippersong want to love me. But somehow they ran out of patience. Of regret those things I said. They were so uncomfortable. Can you see the weather is changing? The dark lights over my head. About to burst I've seen the worst. Let it pour all day. And I feel the good vibrations. I've got stannels and stations. We'll have a rainy day for

you. You're gonna want me back. I'm gonna lay you in the hallway. You're gonna want something the way. I'm gonna lay you in the hallway. We'll take a long vacation. We'll sweep across the nation. We'll have a rainy day for you. Getting back to that old sensation. Back on

my medication. We'll have a rainy day for you. And now, news of our friend, the Adam. Clean, safe, too cheap to meet. Safe, cheap, too cheap to meet. Safe, too safe Well, what would you expect to find in a nuclear waste storage container which was designed to never be reopened? How about a vacuum cleaner? The British former nuclear plant cellafield has a pile fuel cladding silo, a

locked vault since waste stop being sent there in the 1970s. So it's mellow. The nuclear site said it had solved the challenging puzzle of how to take waste from a building design never to be emptied with 18 10 -foot cubed stainless steel boxes already filled with waste. The Electrolux vacuum cleaner was believed to have been used to suck up radioactive dust during the facility's operational life in the 50s and 60s. The chief operating officer at cellafield said, quote, the vacuum cleaner is a great example of how challenging it is to clean or clear this silo. We don't know, for sure, what's in there? They didn't keep accurate records in those days. He said anything taken into the building by the workforce during that time was likely to be contaminated. Quote, there was no alternative disposal route for contaminated materials. So everything

just went into the silo. Unquote, a modern -day vacuum cleaner is also playing a part in the waste removal job, according to the BBC, sucking up dust created when waste is dropped into storage boxes. It will eventually be consigned as waste itself, joining its predecessor from the 1960s. Cellafield is also emptying another silo and two ponds which store used nuclear fuel underwater and were not designed to ever be emptied. Again, but they never. Mr. Miller said the cleanup operations represented an important milestone in the site's decommissioning. The commissioning is a bigger deal than we thought. News of our friend, the Adam, and speaking of things, simmering so they won't

explode. Yes, it's a crypto winner. Loop scale, a decentralized finance protocol, that's called DeFi in that world, became this year's latest hacking victim last week, losing over $5 .8 million, or at 12 % of its total value locked its TVL to an exploit affecting one of its markets. Quote, the root cause of the exploit has been identified as an isolated issue with loop scales, pricing of rate X -based collateral. Said the protocol, there's an ongoing investigation into how this happened, who did this, and how we can most effectively recover funds. Loop scale only launched mid last month, raised $4 .5 million in funding. In 2021, the protocol was known as bridge split at the time, and

originally proposed an NFT -based product. Remember those days, NFTs? Meanwhile, Ethereum -based fixed rate lending platform term finance has recovered $1 million of the $1 .6 million loss due to a misconfigured oracle that triggered erroneous liquidations in its treehouse market. Is this getting sillier or what? In a statement posted on X -term finance to sell the recovery efforts noting that $400 ,000, approximately, you know what was recaptured internally and additional $600 ,000 was secured through negotiations. The outstanding loss now stands at approximately $650 ,000, a significant reduction from the initial impact, addressing concerns raised by security analyst term finance, clarified that the incident was not the result of a hack, instead a bug in an

updated Ethernet oracle caused the liquidation error. They got oracles over there. Quote, no smart contracts were exploited. User funds were not directly targeted. The team emphasized. However, details regarding the negotiation process for the returned funds remained undisclosed. Term finance has no further comment. But the neologisms never stop. And neither do the thefts, apparently. $3 ,250 Bitcoin. That's equivalent to $330 million. It says here, we're apparently stolen from a Bitcoin holder and then quickly moved through multiple exchanges and swapped from the Monero privacy coin. Such a massive swap into Monero was enough, apparently, to cause the Monero price to spike from around $250. It was high as around

$330 before going back down. Ooh, it's a crypto winner. And now, the apologies of the week. It's so sorry. Nike's ad campaign, for this month's London marathon, led to some major faith -related pushback, according to the Deseret news from Salt Lake City. Spectators and social media users took issue with a billboard that said, quote, never again. Until next year, unquote, arguing that Nike should have avoided the phrase never again, which is often associated with the Holocaust. Quote, never again is as iconic a phrase as just do it. Nike should know better. That was the quote from Bill Ackman, a prominent hedge fund manager, writing on X. Who does that?

In a follow -up post, Ackman said it's hard to imagine why no one at Nike raised concerns about the ad. Quote, I presume this was unintentional, but it's hard to imagine there was no one at Nike on the marketing team at their advertising firm, banner manufacturer, et cetera, who didn't know, who didn't think to Google the words never again. He wrote, similarly, a human rights lawyer described the ad as in poor taste. Also, on X. Quote, seriously, Nike, you posted this massive billboard and landed for the marathon. I don't believe for a second there was any Yale malice, let's suppose to the good malice, but please understand the concern with using the words never again, what they represent, and why this was in poor taste, said Arson Ostrovsky, in a Monday statement to reporter Lewis Keen of the Forward, a Jewish newspaper. Nike apologized for any harm it caused with the billboards. The company noted in its statement that London Marathon ad campaign was built around

phrases commonly used by runners. What's wrong with the runners? A National Health Service in Britain located actually in Scotland, this particular branch of it in Lothian, has apologized to maternity care staff after an investigation found a toxic workplace culture across its women's services. The Health Board commissioned an independent review after a whistle blowing report revealed staff shortages and workplace relationships had compromised patient safety. They review, this morning the BBC found there was distrust between managers and staff in maternity care. Just over a third of frontline workers said they felt unable to report unethical behavior without fear of reprisal, or reprisal itself, or just fear itself. NHS Lothian said it quote, fully recognizes and apologizes for the poor experience

of some staff. It said it had made several improvements in recent months. And from down under, chronic pain, not necessarily down under, regular hospital visits and the feeling of helplessness became part of everyday life for thousands of South Australians after they received pelvic mesh implants. The implantations are used for conditions including pelvis organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence. Hey, we're eating here. Some implants were banned in 2017 and an Australian Senate inquiry the next year found that women who were suffering after having the devices inserted were ignored despite reporting several issues including pain, state government, and Western Australia, that is, South Australia. The state government this week apologized to those who had

the devices implanted. Almost 22 years after they first started being used in South Australia, way back in 2003. There were around 11 ,000 mesh procedures in South Australia between 2003 and 2018, according to the state government. Paramedic and Australian mesh support group member Kim Bliske, who had won implanted in March 2006, said the apology is a first step. The apologies of the week latest gentleman and copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Music Well, ladies and gentlemen,

we as a low -shot and a low -shot um lost a friend this week. The wonderful singer, songwriter Jill Sobiel, to whom we paid tribute musically on today's program. That's it for this week. The program returns next week at the same time over the same radio stations over the audio device of your choice or the choice of your loved one. If you got that kind of thing going, and I hope that you're back because I will be the email address for this program, a chance to get cars I talk t -shirts and um all sorts of stuff to read and watch ponder all at harryshirror .com and I'm a blue sky at harryshirror. Music Music

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