our next speaker. He was a developer of free and open software. Until recently he was a journalist. He is a digital rights lawyer. I've been told that whenever there's anything about privacy digital rights in the news, he gets called to comment on this. And some might describe him a bit as a troublemaker for the government. He defends your digital rights and privacy online. But he's also our harbormaster here at Shah 27. He rescues your rights and privacy online and he even rescued five people from the border during this event already. So now he wants to tell us a bit about what would happen if we would actually treat data leaks as a disaster that they are as we do in all the other industries and all the other capacities and what we could actually learn from them. So please welcome Brenno de Winter. Thank you. Well the rescue bit of course therefore we have our medical team and they are volunteering as well by the way as a lot of people. Today we are going to talk about the Titanic. I'm going to explain to you why the Titanic is the finest moment in history. Maybe the people on the ship have a different opinion but for us it's a very nice moment and in our industry we should learn from that. I fell in love with boating just before the last CCC camp. For the simple reason my wife had a weeping cough and it was unknown if I was infected or not so I could not go to CCC camp. So out of boredom my wife and I started boating a bit. I thought it was so cool that I've been crazy about it ever since and then I discovered very cool things just like the undergoing Titanic in this digital seat of my last book and I will make the link between boating on one hand and IT on the other hand and indeed right here I'm the Sharper master because everybody should be at least in safe harbor and use their own privacy shield. This is the boat that I came with really cool you know it's the final spot in camp and you know you try to do a lot of fun things with kids and if you look at those this morning there's one thing that stands out they all wear a life vest and that they do that because we agreed to do so and it was kind of hard for us to get to this point and we saw a lot of disasters. Let me pick out a couple of them the skilly disasters over 1400 people died because a bad navigation in storm led to ships that broke down and people ended up in the water and got killed and when you look at those incidents there are two things that stand out for the UK people among us I'm sorry but in most disasters you've got two factors it's either a storm or the OK and let me show you a little bit of proof. White ship from England 300 people died and they had a conflict over the throne for over 20 years what happened they got up in the storm and bad navigation and they crashed. In the 13th century during two nights they had kamikazas or what they call a divine storms and more than 100 people died again 13th century just try to extrapolate that to today's times that's a significant amount of people even nowadays 100,000 deaths would be amazing and all of us we just sat there and said like okay and we just left it at that well Her Majesty Sussex in a storm 498 people and in 1703 in the English channel 1500 people died so when people say like we need a big disaster to change something the numbers here show that the Titanic in itself is not a special disaster. This was one set of incidents that occurred all the time then we had a different change of technology. We went from sailing ships to steam ships and all of a sudden ships were going faster than before and we got up in far more incidents than before and one of the things that was really complicated how do I enter a port on the left hand side or on the right hand side now if you don't have an agreement on that it gets kind of complicated because what do you do so what they did in 1889 is throw a big conference and try to change rules and set international rules for everybody so when you're at sea you stick to the same rules well if it's about the treaty one country said no the UK because there were a lot of ship owners and builders that said that it would be very hard to have common rules since if you have common rules there would not be a level playing field and especially the UK said we have our own rules for instance we have something to rescue people on each and every boat for each and every passenger so either a place on our rescue boat or a life vest so we have rules already so far so good you'd say you'd think then came the Titanic a beautiful ship impossible to sink nothing could possibly go wrong and on the first voyage we all know the story story something went terribly wrong they hit an iceberg and long story short the ship sank and one of the crazy things was the British rules did not work because they took away a couple of the life boats the life rafts for the reason that the ship looks nicer without them and people would be concerned if they were to see life boats so they had extra life vests but then when the ship started sinking there were people that would put it on a life vest and get in a boat and that was not agreed this is one of the important reasons why a lot of people died still this doesn't matter because they had a second rescue mean they could shout help by sending signals out they would they would basically shout help and that would end happily people would come to the rescue and fortunately there was a second ship called the SS Californian that would definitely come to rescue however the men controlling the radio room had gone to bed just before the disaster and since the radio was mainly used to get messages across to the shore nobody listened to the emergency signal so then they started to show off some fireworks and reports say that fireworks of the Titanic has been seen at the SS Californian people really enjoyed the fireworks and it took some time for them to realize that maybe this might be an emergency signal so the SS Californian turned around went back and saw nothing so they thought the ship had sailed on after that society said to each other okay this is enough stop we don't want this anymore what was the big difference it was the maiden voyage of a ship where there were a lot of important people on board and you know 100 people 100 thousand people dying in Mongolian is not really that bad but 1500 where a lot of prominence are among them that's a big deal so they came to a treaty called safety of life at sea and in safety of life at sea one of the rules was when you have escaped vessels on larger ships everybody gets a place period and if you complain about the bad looks bad luck for you everybody gets a place everybody has a right to a life vest later on we found out that what are around the ship is not enough and we have to have protection as well on the ship why do we know that because we investigate incidents now we look at it and we shout to the world what changed what needs to be changed so we fire protection now and when you have a radio you listen to it it's on it's not voluntarily it's on I have a feature of radio on my ship and my wife once asked me can't you can't you turn it off no why well titanic you stick to the rules and by doing that you can you can come to the rescue and so we learn a lot from ships who remembers this vessel what country is it off what what was it name again health of the enterprise what happened they didn't close the door it was there it was sorry yeah it's stupid if you don't close the door on the ferry I totally agree that's why we at safe harbor always close the door on our ferry but we learned that from this ship what we learned from the study was that it was the wrong ship at the wrong place and because of that it didn't fit the port totally properly so what they did they let water into the ship so sank a little bit and then the cars could go in and then the ship set off since it was late it used the maximum speed of 18 knots and there's one specific thing in say Brugge where this happened there's short waves it's a deep since it's a deep the short waves water went in and within 90 seconds the ship flipped over the we know this all because we investigated and we learn from it and we get people in the audience that say it's stupid not to close the doors do we know it works well one of the things we learned also from and the health of the enterprise was there was no mayday signal they had the radio on board because they had to because of solace but the captain knocked out when trying to grab the radio and basically for that reason there was no emergency signal so what we've learned since that is that we built a system AIS to follow ships and we know it works remember this ship yeah Costa Concordia the Costa Concordia the Italian cruise liner hit some rocks tumbled over and they didn't start to call Mayday first the harbor detected there was something wrong on the AIS system so the ship turn over and they say like would you issue an emergency because the skipper is in charge and he on so if the skipper is in charge he needs to decide if it's an emergency and he refused it multiple times and then when he realized things were wrong he issued an emergency went off board as one of the first and 32 people died this is really a disaster where nobody had to die it was a bad judgment calls and what do we learn from all sorts of disasters when we investigate them there's always one common error we make it's company or corporate culture so far on the Titanic for now let's look at the digital sea let's first make one realization if you look at the digital sea systems are interconnected there is not a single system as soon as you're in the in on the internet you're basically part of the digital sea you're connected and that means that if I have a problem you might have the same problem too if you agree with me on that one you realize that we have got a similar issue as at sea if a different ship an another ship doesn't follow the rules I might have a bad day at the end of the day second thing in it is we write stunningly bad software rewrite crap this is a nice picture I took of myself when I was in the hospital and they decided to measure all sorts of things you have to sleep them for one night so you get a room where you can't close the curtains and then they see how you sleep the next morning I was on my bicycle home driving home and I got a call before I was home that they didn't register anything if I could come back the same night I said no of course but later on I asked okay what was the problem now and they said like well we did a software update and apparently the system didn't work so it went like well there were no indicators no lights how should you know it's working that's a very interesting question so I thank the person I said like okay fortunately you're not in a lifesaving industry so don't worry about it but this software update is similar to for instance sailing in a storm remember this one 37 seconds into the launch the onboard computers decided 501 was 90 degrees off course the onboard computers decided the vessel was off course and the interesting part of it is is what was the root cause of this incident reused software need bad software bad choices and of course these are just two examples you know a lot of examples where you do updates and things don't work so apparently we still have a culture where it's not okay to deliver proper software or to test it properly enough and then let's look at incidents I call it same shit different day we had a couple of big incidents and let's start with a wanna cry um outbreak we had a couple of weeks ago that hit a lot of systems one of the interesting things was that a lot of journalists asked themselves the question if weak leaks were to blame for this because they disclosed that this issue existed so that would be the issue well we hit a lot of um we hit we hit a lot of um systems and all of those systems could have been patched if people would have applied the patch they didn't the patch was found by the way before the disclosement by weak leaks so apparently somebody else found the same mistake the patch of the patch or the non-patch outbreak that came there after had a similar issue based on a similar update and still a lot of companies had not installed the updates if you look at a couple of years ago the big hacker did you know tar or the big hack um at kpn um the story was the same not installed updates old broken software and there are many more examples with a good friend present here um um we went looking where um if there were vnc systems that were online and did not have a password installed and at a certain point we came to a system um where the following screenshot it's a bit hard to read but first off on the left hand side windows xp xp standing for expired it's very hard to read here but it says your updates are ready for installation and behind that there's a screen that says like certification request um successfully completed so they were making certificates for their servers or for whatever whatever on the system that is not being maintained and even the updates that were present were not installed this is basically the industry we work in or we start to maintain our remote controllable uh house systems i just moved into a new house and one of the neighbors said i want to have this system so i went like oh sure when you go to bed i'll turn off the light and the thing is it's not a joke it's true you know you can and then if we look at the all these type of incidents and we're all a fan of owas but i'm showing you an old slide i have a very good reason for that um the 2010 and 2013 list because we are so damn proud that we make top 10 out of um the same mistakes we make over and over again and the real competition is can we find another mistake we keep making and replace number two and three and then if you look what owas states they state like it's nice work and one of the main courses for them is that um 80 percent is libraries and 20 percent is custom code or to put it in a different way and most of the incidents are created by bad shit we buy what do we know of icebergs what have we learned from icebergs we map them each and every day day since 1914 we map icebergs each and every day so back again to so let's sorry so less um we have basic rules we have learned from our mistakes and digitally and we have a hard time doing it so maybe we need to have the same mindset for data you know start to push of things like continuous delivery or continuous monitoring which is not normal by right now um but also have a look at the new rules when i hear people talk about the new general data protection regulation that is going to be introduced or sorry it's been introduced already but going into effect in may next year the most of the complaints i hear it's it's so much so hard to do it hinders the level playing field and basically you get all the pre titanic arguments and i want to remind you of something when people were against a treaty in the uk the ship owners that were complaining the loudest had a certain list on top of that list who were leading the um the actions against a common treaty was the ship owner that would later build the titanic and we've got a lot of standards and options already available where we don't say it's mandatory so maybe we should start to push it off well if we look at history and how we deal with incidents i remind you of this do you remember the hacking team hack of course you do and one of the interesting things was that they made all sorts of common mistakes click on links you shouldn't click on and and basically store data on places that shouldn't be stored so you could see all the offers and all the financial stuff etc including the emails i want to take point you to one email and that was an email where zero day was being sold to hacking team and why was why is it so interesting because we don't update we don't patch so it's worth a lot of money and um what does hacking team say of course when the russian guy says like you promised not to report the zero day to vendor or disclose it for before the patch obviously it is not in our interest so in the underworld it's clear that people are sharing information because it's worth a lot of money if you look at incidents it is not common practice okay we share information after an incident sometimes in the same industry but not publicly so apparently if you've got a blue ship and it seems you only um shared with the people who have a blue ship but if you've got a white ship you don't get the same information and hopefully you still agree with me there's one c and there's one infrastructure and one set of computers so we all have the same or similar problems and when something goes wrong we find it hard to help each other you know what happens on the water when something goes wrong so the captain asks if the competitions comes to the rescue I don't have to explain to you that the answer is always yes why don't we do that in IT how can it be that we try to keep it silent and not ask the competition have you had the same problem what should we do about it you know it's about safety it's about our information society and for some reason it's very hard to do so so this was the point I was I wanted you to take away today to start thinking the same way about IT and dealing with systems as we deal with with the on the water and it's kind of obvious if you look at all the parameters that there will be a day soon where we have a similar incident where something will go terribly wrong maybe not a big incident because you know you can't decide it doesn't say at all but that incident will ultimately be the cause for a change now the fortune thing you can do today there are many programs here there are a lot of people that make important decisions to start with a different mindset don't be afraid if something goes wrong shout for help and start sharing information you know we know that the other side does it already I end with this slide for a very simple reason because you see a lock opening and you see me violating the rules I'm leaving the lock before the doors fully open what I didn't show you is that I took for three and a half hours pictures looking at the lock that wouldn't open anymore because the window computer crashed because an update failed so as soon as the doors opened I thought like let's get the hell out of here but every lock every part of information society is basically running on systems that have bad software and bad infrastructure and most of the infrastructure on water is currently maintained from a large distance window systems being poorly maintained sometimes so that was my point I wanted to make today hello it works so I think there's one problem with the analogy and that is that there are at this time billions of sailors and it's not just the boats that are leaking it's the people that don't know how to sail yes but then again there's also the openness of the internet that we want to protect too I would suggest you to start boating because on the water there are a lot of people who don't know jack shit what they're doing that's that's one thing but if you go into a next category your boat goes faster is larger a charismatic people that type of stuff you are bound to different rules and you have to get certified and the funny thing is I have a boat that you can use without any license whatsoever but me choosing to get my phf license to get my ICC license etc is the the choice I made because I realize it's important to do so so it's still for for parts of it voluntarily that will remain the case but so I think the analogy does match more than for instance the the aviation industry but good point that I maybe should have been more explicit about I think basically it's the problem that we're facing it's that it's very and we want it to be very low level to to to get in on to the internet to use computers right I mean that's what we want at the same time it's that single user that can do a tremendous amount of damage and now the funny thing is the group of people here we are the go-to people if somebody has problems with their computer they will come to you you are the ones that can change mindsets you know if you look at for instance politics in the Netherlands there's a new cybercrime law and that cybercrime law now states that if an incident happens it will remain secret so it's very pre-titanic and this is the state we are currently at so it won't change if we wait for politics I think this is the group of people that has the power to do to make that change happen please line up at the microphones if you have more questions in the meantime I have one question so what's the first thing when I got back to work next week what would you say what should I take care of is my ship okay are my systems you know do we stick to the basic rules the basic mistakes that we all know and we all know that in most corporations this is not okay you know even with all our procedures and things we have thought of today we still have systems that we allow on our network that are unpatched that are unsafe that are not properly tested I know one company in the Netherlands that says like okay you're a supplier that's very nice um we will test your your software for free and then we give you one round to patch all the issues if you pass that round we'll buy your software now of course they don't they they are giving money away but they preventing disasters from happening and for some reason it doesn't resonate in our head that when an incident occurs it's a small disaster you know if I if we see at the safe harbor somebody swimming into the fairway and we see a big ship coming we get on the boat and we get that person out it's plain and simple logic digitally we don't do that so I would take away basically two things first back to the basic the thing we complain about to our parents look at our own system keep them up to date and the second part would you know I think most people here have the system pretty much in place and okay it's more or less the the corporate culture you know and if somebody is drunk gets in the car you say you don't drive for some reason digitally we're perfectly okay with that okay yeah okay let's you know yeah um in Germany there are also two new laws uh first uh gdpr so it's the same and also the it's security law which enforces all critical infrastructure to give information about security flaws they had they have but this goes in combination with the gdpr uh for their companies and also otherwise authorities can sue companies when they have data leakage uh beginning in the may next year uh with very huge um fees uh which leads to a very weak situation where at least a leak is a very expensive event for our company so yeah well two things um first of what you what you say is we have you have to report data leaks we've had that law already a couple of years in the Netherlands and we have got thousands of thousands of leaks um that have been reported very good now it's in a database somewhere at a government body and we have no clue what's in it we can't learn from that so um the only thing we know is so many percent is healthcare so many percent is um um government so many percent is industry it is not actionable what do i learn what are the common mistakes that we shouldn't make maybe they are sitting on the top of a pile of information that could really make systems better and now basically we have got no clue so that is the first thing um the gdpr in itself will not change that that's that's not enough second thing the fines uh i'm not that i'm not so sure that the fines will really make a difference one of the things is companies cannot say like okay i hire this company and they will take away all the risk so now what they say is they make contracts and they say like okay you're doing this and this for us if we get a fine i'm going to sue you and the company says oh that's fine and they walk to an insurance company and says and they ask like how much money will that cost per year so there are companies who have insured this risk even though it's not allowed but due to this through this loophole to insure this risk third thing because it's not so that's but it's only in europe um you see you see data um being manipulated in such a way it's not personal identifiable in anymore then it is taken out to for instance the us they will do run a big data process and make it personal identifiable again of course with mistakes but now it's in a different legal zone and there's little we can do okay so uh yeah please what what do you think are the right way to create incentives for good if you look at solace it wasn't we had this treaty and as a result of that everything's great it there's enforcement on that if you're if something happens and someone wasn't following the rules then they can lose their license all all of this sort of thing or so what are the incentives in your mind that need to be in place for the digital equivalent when you ask the question you all nearly give the answer um if your ship is lacking something you're not sailing today so when the other person was talking about the the gdpr uh i get nervous about fines that doesn't that doesn't work but if you say like okay you're not processing data anymore until this and this is fixed you know when we were building up um sha the fire the fire brigade comes and says like if you don't do this this and this this tent will not open period i think that's that's far more authority that would work for better than just say like there's a lot of money i can take from you because i'm going to ensure that and then the issuers away so be far more an authority in the sense that you know if you close me down on data you close me down on business and if you close down a ship or put it on a um on a how do you say it in in english um you know keep it to the dock it's not making money and it that's punishment enough you know and it stops as soon as the issuers fixed yep i agree with that yeah you're saying yeah you could you could go and get into a different um law zone and this is why i'm shouting for so that you know this is something that we should um universally arrange sooner or later and as soon as we as long as we don't do that we will get a bunch of i um iot devices being thrown on the market from from regions where we know that they lose lanes kernel versions that i can't even remember anymore that yes you're you're saying um it would um mean that um the government would um uh determine what we were uh are allowed or not allowed to do on the internet we've seen in the shipping industry that basically um that's uh that's not how it ends up it means it means that we need safeguards just like constitutions but it's a difficult one but the current situation will lead to disaster that is um the system now is broken beyond repair if if we don't do anything fundamentally sorry uh oh mr the winter first like real pleasure to see you live on stage after so many years of hearing you're on the radio um so you know big data leaks it's all bad but in my daily life i just have zero problems with that i mean my credit card gets hacked about once a year um because you know i use it everywhere on the bloody internet um but you know i might i never get cleaned out my just not really big and at the end of the day it's all get solved by basically an insurance model like i pay percentages of fees on like everything and that is used to cover the losses of most of these things and i would say that the reason that people as a whole are not we are very interested in that but people as a whole are not interested in that because we don't have like big disasters that help sort of like focus people's minds like people are very bad at comparing the aggregate of like random low probability events versus a very big even lower probability event so what i'm saying is shouldn't we just continue to write shitty software until like a nuclear power plant explodes or something uh and use that event as our titanic this no it doesn't have never seen a nuclear power plant explode like in my lifetime near me actually or like a plane fall out of the sky or like all Mercedes benzes crash at the same time that shit just doesn't happen shouldn't we just wait until that happens and then make a point of this and just not talk about it in the meantime i have a little anecdote for that this is already 20 years old but i went to a computing congress and was talking to an insurer there about testing software and he said oh yeah i ensure nuclear plants we test the software within the normal parameters whenever it goes outside the parameters is not tested it's allowed to blow up and insurance pays it's that simple yeah it's only too bad if you're living in the near vicinity of such power plant and what was the facility again 300 or 400 kilometers ultimately so that's more than the Netherlands so i think it's it's kind of a risk retake well it's not about personal data alone anymore you know go to the italian village and join the tesla hacking on monday and tuesday i've organized a fire truck that we can hack and the mayor of the city of lochem realizes that when his fire trucks get hacked they have no building plan anymore so they don't know who to rescue or they have no communications that's also very interesting in in rescue so you know it's so so part of everything we do and where should be the we should be the people that realize that more that there is yeah of course you can ignore it but it's basically in every part of technology and then to answer your question should we just wait until the digital titanic happens of course that's that's an option but i choose i rather chose choose not to and you know stand out and try try to make us realize before but maybe you're right maybe it needs to go wrong first but what we also have learned from a lot of disasters is we make the same mistakes over and over again there as well until somebody steps up so one disaster is not enough and after the hack on yahoo after the hack on with with one billion or maybe even more personal identifiers sony the multiple times and there's this long long list we see the ships go down all around us and nothing happens so if you have to wait for politics we'll probably all be dead before we start to realize that it's it's not going to do the trick i'm afraid any more questions please step up to the microphones and educate people so and if there are no more questions every day there are free sailing lessons to educate people on sailing at the safe harbor thank you very much


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presenting neuro radiology case 8. This was a 21 years old female who presented with sudden loss of vision in left eye and right-sided weakness. So an MRI of the brain was done which showed that there was a large oval lesion within the periventricular white matter on left side. It classically showed irregular concentric areas of alternating hyper and iso intense signal on flare and T2W images which correspondingly appear iso to hypo intense on T1 weighted images. In addition to this lesion there were few other discrete hyper intense foci within the periventricular and subcortical white matter bilaterally on flare and T2W images. This large periventricular white matter lesion did not show any significant perilegional edema or any significant mass effect. On diffusion weighted images patchy areas of restricted diffusion were seen within it predominantly within the outer ring appearing bright on DW images and turning subtly dark on corresponding ADC maps. No blooming was seen on GR images to suggest hemorrhage or calcification. This is a flare sagittal image which classically shows the concentric irregular alternating signal intensity lesion within the periventricular white matter. In addition few periventricular white matter and posterior foci hyper intense foci were also seen. These are the flare and T2W images which show additional oval hyper intense foci on the left side. This is a post contrast study which shows a classical open ring enhancement within the lesion. A peripheral ring of enhancement is seen which is open inferiorly. Rest of the lesions did not show any post contrast enhancement. Because the patient had vision loss in the left eye MRI of the orbit was also done and these are coronal stir images which show that there is hyper intense signal within the left optic nerve in its intra orbital portion. On post contrast study no significant enhancement was seen within the optic nerve. Also the entire spinal cord was screened which did not show any T2 hyper intense foci within the cord. So to summarize there is an incomplete ring enhancing lesion with a classical onion bulb appearance in the left parieted periventricular white matter. Considering the large size of the lesion no significant mass effect is seen. Also there are few discrete small left periventricular white matter and posterior foci T2 hyper intensities and left optic neuritis. So these classical imaging features are suggestive of bellows concentric sclerosis with probably associated multiple sclerosis. So bellows concentric sclerosis is a demyelinating inflammatory disease and it is considered as a variant of multiple sclerosis. Sometimes you can get other features of multiple sclerosis associated with it as were seen in our case. So in this condition you get round to oval lesion with alternating rings of hyper and hypo attenuation giving it a characteristic bull's eye or onion bulb appearance due to alternating layers of demyelination and preserved myelin. On MRI on a T1 weighted images you get concentric areas of ISO and low signal. On T2 weighted images these areas appear ISO to hypo and hyper intense. On post contrast study peripheral or ring enhancement is seen in the area of active demyelination. Also if there is active demyelination you could get restricted diffusion predominantly in the outer ring. This condition is treated with steroids as was done in our patient. After starting steroids the patient clinically improved and follow up imaging also showed resolution of few of the lesions. So in this case the differential diagnosis which could be considered a balanced tumor factor demyelination considering the large size of the lesion or ADEM or sometimes rarely neoplasms such as a glioma. However, all of these conditions would lack the classical concentric appearance which is seen in this condition. Thank you.


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Infrastructure bill, $1.2 trillion, it's interesting, some of the media is reporting it as $550 billion, $1.2 trillion, about $550 billion in new spending, so the rest is kind of reallocating and shuffling things around. It was supposed to be revenue neutral, so initially Biden had proposed increasing corporate tax, but he couldn't get enough support around that, he couldn't get Republicans to vote for it. So he did away with that, instead they are, this is what they're doing basically. They're basically pretending that it's revenue neutral. That's it. It's just, they basically are fantasizing. They're creating an alternative universe in which it's revenue neutral, and they're moving ahead with it, and Republicans are fine with that because Republicans don't really care about deficits. You know, so it's just pretence.  We'll use it for this, but wait a minute. The COVID stimulus was not revenue neutral. It was deficit enhancing.   Anyway, let's talk about what's in this thing. We've got $110 billion for roads, bridges and major infrastructure projects. It's going to be interesting to see how many of those bridges go to nowhere. You remember the bridge to nowhere? Last time we built a lot of bridges, there was a bridge to nowhere. That was, I think, in Obama's stimulus package. Roads to, I don't know, do you really think this money is going to go to, like, building a tunnel between, I don't know, Orange County and LA so we can actually travel or actually be used to build roads that people use? I doubt it. A lot of roads to nowhere or roads to somewhere that nobody wants to go to. The states will be able to decide how to use this money. So we're basically going to shift the cronyism from the federal government to the state government. And the state will have everybody, everybody lobbying construction companies, asphalt companies, local governments. Everybody's going to be lobby to get a piece of this. I have a feeling that the cost of building a mile of road or a mile of highway is going to go up significantly. Oh, a bridge. A lot of this is going to bridge. $40 billion, $40 billion. Man, you could fix a lot of bridges with $40 billion. $40 billion are going to go to repairing, replacing and rehabilitating bridges. Now I read you a report from the civil engineers of America saying that, or I guess a critique of that report saying that, you know, the infrastructure in the United States is not that bad. Bridges are not falling apart. Yeah, there's some. And local government should take care of it. State government should take care of it. And the way to fund these things, well, it should be the way to fund these things. If the government was going to do it, what would be the way to fund it? Gasoline tax and tolls. You tax the people who are going to use it. It's the closest you get to fee for services. If you're going to fix this road, or you're going to fix roads in a particular state, raise the gasoline tax in the state. But no, the Democrats insisted that it not be a use tax because they don't believe in that personal responsibility thing. You pay for what you use. They don't believe in any of that stuff. They want us, people like me. Well, not me, but you who don't live in a state who don't use the bridge, who don't use the road to pay for whatever they want you to pay for. It's truly, it really gives you insight into the egalitarian nature, this idea that we don't have, we don't raise use taxes when we want to build something like roads. Best Fed Hank says, here's a taste just a five minute rant on Trump he wants. He put 50 bucks on that. All right, I mean, I still expect 100 when I do the rant. I'm trying to figure out where to fit it in, right? Maybe infrastructure is not a bad place to fit it in. We'll get to it. So $40 billion in budget repair. We've got $1 billion on reconnecting communities. That's where the communities have been divided by highways and other infrastructure. And I don't know you built tunnels under the highways bridges over the highways. So we connected God. It also going to fund planning design demolition and reconstruction of street grids parks and other infrastructure. Do you imagine the the the cronyism that this is going to entail? Can you imagine that the the push pull that the the other the Pope peddlers, they didn't go in there trying to grab a piece of 1.2 trillion. I mean, even just a tiny sliver of 1.2 trillion is a lot of money, more money than I'll ever have. They say 20% of the nation's highways and major roads are in poor condition and 45,000 bridges.  All excuses to get this money out there. All excuses. You know, where's this money going to go? It's going to go to contractors. It's going to go to unions. It's going to go to state coffers. It's going to go to job creation. It's going to go to high wages. I mean, I talked about that. It was stuck with your pool. A bill like this is just perfect for the Aristotle.  All right, we are past 400 bucks. So thank you all. You all stepped up. You all got that really nicely. We need to get to, you know, at least 600 at least 600 tonight to start catching up to where we need to be for the month of August. We don't want the month of August to be below the normal kind of average kind of. Revenue generating month on super chat. All right. $39 billion to modernize public transit. Right. Much of that is going to go to a significant portion of that is going to go to Amtrak. And by the way, Amtrak, they're going to change the purpose of Amtrak. So Amtrak used to have as its mission statement to try to make money. They've given up on Amtrak has never made money. So they're basically abandoning the idea of Amtrak making money. And now it's just going to serve you. The whole purpose now is going to be serve you because if they make money, they can't serve you or they won't serve you. It's not primarily a serve you kind of thing. It's 39 billion to modernize private transit. 40 39 49. No, wait a minute. 66 billion. Oh no, 66 billion. This is an addition. Another 66 billion in passenger freight train. Why does the US government need to invest in freight trains? Isn't it like under freight companies, pretty private? What is it about? I mean, talk about colonialism. The train companies are going to get a big chunk of 66 billion and they're going to get better lines. And they could get and then and then the left is going to say, see, see the only reason we have good trains in America is the government invested in them. We think we should get a share of the profits broadband. 65 billion. 65 billion to improve the nation's broadband infrastructure. I don't know. Isn't Elon Musk putting satellites into the sky to improve the global broadband infrastructure? Like I in Puerto Rico have great broadband. We're enjoying it right now. Yeah. Don't stop, please. But no, the government has to step in. 65 billion, by the way, Elon Musk is going to get some of those 65 billion. Because if he can show that some of the satellites he's putting up there to provide internet to poor people, to people generally, if poor people use it, the government will give him money. They will subsidize it. 65 billion dollars to provide internet to for bridges that go nowhere, highways that go, you know, for rural places. And this will allow people to work from home from anywhere they want. So it's good, right? This is how they're using your money. You know, broadband is a profitable business. Let me just say this. One aspect of this was defeated, which is so good. In the initial proposal of Biden made, they were going to start up publicly, not publicly, government owned businesses to provide broadband and compete with private businesses, compete with private businesses. Here, instead of doing that, and the left is furious that they're not doing this, they want public entities to compete with the private sector. Here what they're doing is they're just basically subsidizing the private sector. It's raining money, but not in my direction. I need to go, I should return to civil engineering, which is my profession from two, three lifetimes ago.  This sounds really lucrative. Airports, ports and waterways. Oh, wow. They were only getting like 17 billion for ports and 25 billion for airports. Like that's why I think they put a lot more money. Again, why privatize the airports? Let them make money. That would give them an incentive to be nice. And then 7.5 billion for low emission buses and ferries. That's good. That's good. I don't know where the electricity will come from. Another 7.5 billion to build a nationwide network of plug-in electric vehicle charges. Why isn't there profit motive to do that? If we're all going to be driving electric cars, you'd think that the private sector would want to build this plug-in electric vehicle charges. God, the amount of corruption that's going to be here, the amount of waste that is going to be here is just unimaginable, unimaginable. Oh, and then we haven't even reached power and water systems. 65 billion to rebuild the electric grid. 55 billion to upgrade water infrastructure. 50 billion on top of that. I mean, the 50 billions are just being thrown here left and right. We'll go towards making the system more resilient, protecting it from drought, floods, cyber attacks. Again, how successful do you think they're going to be at that? 21 billion to clean up Superfund and Bondfield sites. Haven't they been investing tens of billion dollars to do that for decades, decades now? How this will be paid for, right? They're going to add 350 billion. The CBO said that this is going to add 350 billion to the deficit. Congress said, ah, we don't agree with the CBO. So how do they pretend they're going to raise money for this, right? COVID relief funds, I said that already. They're going to auction some spectrum, which they're going to use for this, but they're going to auction the spectrum anyway. So that's super cheating. Let's see. They're going to have Superfund fees that they're going to raise 50 billion from. And they're changing the tax reporting requirement for cryptocurrencies. Now they claim to be getting 20-something billion from the cryptocurrency tax reporting requirement. So here's the thing. The crypto community is going nuts over this. Basically what the bill says is if you're a cryptocurrency broker, it doesn't define broker. Indeed, its description of broker is very broad. You have to send into the tax authorities every transaction. Every client that transactions in more than $10,000 over crypto. Now, why would the authorities want this? To make sure all you crypto traders are paying your fair, so-called fair share of taxes. This idea is they're going to collect 20-plus billion dollars from all the taxes that they haven't collected because people are being not declaring they gained from crypto because now the brokers will have to declare it. The problem is that what this is going to do is it's going to load up the whole crypto system with bureaucracy. They're going to have to create accounting rules, reporting rules, reporting protocols for everything. Anonymity goes out the window because every transaction, $10,000 or more, has to have the names, addresses reported to the IRS. Crypto community is going nuts. They lobbied heavily to get this excluded. As a consequence, there was an amendment to the bill proposed to change it. That amendment failed. The bill is going to the House of Representatives as is. What this will mainly do is move most crypto currencies offshore. All it'll do is destroy jobs, take away business and move the whole thing offshore. So they're never going to see the $20 billion they think they are. They're dreaming. They're dreaming. So this is where we are. This is where we are. Oh, more savings are going to come from delaying a Trump administration rule about Medicare and Medicaid. How drugs are priced and paid for in Medicare and Medicaid. They're delaying it to 2026 and that counts as a saving. They also are predicting that the infrastructure bill itself will generate $56 billion in economic growth, which is taxable. And that'll generate revenue, right? 33% return on investment. They expect 33% return on investment. All right, now that is nuts. The return on investment in this is probably going to be negative, given the efficiency with which the money will be deployed, given the efficiency of choosing infrastructure projects, they're not going to be chosen based on production or productivity. If it gets any positive return on investment, if you can even calculate it, it will be very low, but it would much more likely to be negative. The whole thing is, it's just mythology and pretend and fantasy economics and fantasy politics that everybody buys it. And I don't know, 20 Republicans voted for this or 19 Republicans voted for this.  And of course, and here you go, best friend Hank, just for you. And of course, this has been a bipartisan issue from the beginning, right? Trump came up to office in 2016 advocating for an infrastructure bill. He wanted to spend two to three trillion dollars on infrastructure bill. Indeed, his major complaint about this bill is it's too small. It's not big enough. I mean, what Trump did to the Republican Party is it made it a leftist party when it comes to economics. It made it a party of central planning. It made it a party of industrial policy. Why is it the role of the national federal government to spend trillions of dollars on infrastructure? When that infrastructure is best spent by the people who actually use the infrastructure, ideally private, but if it's not private, then it should be the states. Why not use things like gasoline taxes to raise the revenue for it? But Trump made it so that it's completely acceptable for, and indeed required, I think, even though Trump was against this particular bill, for Republicans to rally around an infrastructure bill. Because if Trump wasn't against an infrastructure bill, then it must be, this must be good. And the Trump supporters all love this kind of stuff. This is the government doing good things. How? Where? It's how the American people, particularly the American people, used to be members of the Tea Party, who used to be limited government conservatives, who used to be physical hawks, cared about deficits. What Trump did is he basically eradicated that point of view from the Republican Party. He basically made it unacceptable to hold those views. To be a Trump Republican is to be a big government Republican. It's to be a Republican who believes in government intervention and economy. Government intervention and trade. Government intervention in infrastructure. Government intervention in drug placing. You remember all the bills about drug placing? They're just delaying right now. And of course, he committed. He committed in 2016. He committed time and time again not to touch entitlements. How are you going to cut deficits? How are you going to cut the deficits? How are you going to get government limited if you can't touch entitlements? He was going to save entitlements. So if you stand up today and say, no, we need to change entitlements, well, the pro-Trump is not going to support you. If you're going to say government shouldn't be spending $1.2 trillion when we're running massive deficits on infrastructure, for that matter, on anything else, you're not worth the program anymore. Government is the cure for problems. If you're worried about deficits, why? No, the public is worried about deficits since somebody remind me since Calvin Coolidge maybe, certainly not Bush or Trump. Where is this free market, right-wing free market support going to come from? Support for the free market going to come from. It's not going to come from Trump. It's not going to come from Trump supporters. It's not going to come from, yeah, Goldwater. Thank you, Tom. I was thinking of somebody, no, Reagan didn't care about deficits. Reagan supported massive deficit spending. Deficit grew dramatically under Reagan in spite of the fact that tax revenues grew under Reagan when he cut taxes. So the Laffer Cove actually worked. He managed to approve and to sign spending bills that were greater in their growth rate than the growth that he had generated in tax revenues. Yeah, I mean, a few Republicans voted against the infrastructure bill more because they're going to vote for anything against anything Democrats proposed. But a number of Trump loyalists like Lindsey Graham voted for it. The Republican Party has been emptied from its free market advocates. The free market advocates don't come anymore and don't appear on stage anymore at the conservative conferences. No free marketer will run for president. It's all about social issues and it's all about granting the left, granting the left, the high ground when it comes to economic policy. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think. 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But like you always kind of know where they are. Whereas like clear open water lakes, they might roam around a little bit and they just become harder to locate. They'll suspend. They kind of go up and down with the temperature. So I like grass lakes when it's cold. The first starting of the engine. There's the first little bit of pee right there. We know it's working. And the graph seems to be working. There's that grass down there. 51 degree water. That better come up. Yeah, she's rolling. What I'm going to do in this little lake that I'm in is try to find the deepest spots that have the grass lines on them. Because we don't have a sunny day. If it was a real sunny day and it was going to warm up the shallow grass flats, then I would go out there. But since it's overcast, we're in the afternoon, the weather's just not warming up. I want to stay close to deep water. The deepest spot out here is probably like 12, 16. So I'm going to be fishing on the edges of these grass lines. And actually even trying to keep my bait down here in this grass. Because these cold days, they just kind of bury up in it. And let's get into the box, baby! Yeah! I'm ready to get to fishing, y'all. We've got some good stuff in here for this time of year, these conditions.  A excellent cold water bait. This is by StrikePro. It's the first one on the list that I grabbed. StrikePro Jumper 110. We've got a Chatterbait Bucktail, the E-Man Chatterbait Bucktail, which is like a cold water version of the Chatterbait. We've got a Boo-Yah One-Knocker. Excellent little wintertime and fall bait when they start chasing shad. That's a really good imitation there. We've got our fish sticker. We might as well break it in. First sticker to go on the new console. Crescent with the sweet guitar sounds of the bass. We have a Carolina Kit. Dang, that's cool. So you've got brass weights in here with brass knockers. They make sounds. You have beads and swivels. So everything is included right there.  This is Carl's Amazing Bait. So it's a finesse style worm there. We've got the StreakZ Curlytail, which we will put on this even Chatterbait there. And then we've got a... Dang, I think this is a rodent. I forget the name of these. The thing I really want to try is the old Bucktail Chatter. I really want to try this. Pick that up right there. That should be money juice. I don't think I'm going to fish any plastics to be honest with you all.  I'm going to tie on this One-Knocker. Interested to get the water readings. When the water is around the low 50s, low to mid 50s, these are great. I love fishing these in the spring as well at those water temps. All three of these things. This is good from 50s down into 30s. Those are really good. I mean, that's good at a lot of temps. Why don't we see if this trolling motor even works, y'all? No idea. That thing turned on, so that's a good sign. Let's deploy it. Let's see if it's going to work here. Oh yeah. Yeah, we're good. Hallelujah. We're good. Let's catch a fish, baby. I'm throwing this on a 7-3-1 gear ratio reel and I've got a 7-2 medium, a medium power fast action rod. It's good for throwing just all sorts of crankbaits. And what I'm trying to do with it is just kind of tick that grass. Just let that bait fall down there. Hit that grass. Almost like I wanted to get snagged in there a little bit. Oh, there's one there. Oh yeah, he knocked it good. It feels like a little one. I expect to catch some donks on the old quarter answer. Man, he looks cold. He looks cold. Couldn't resist that little shad offering. Oh, he actually barely got it. What happened on that fish is like my first crank, he hit it. My gosh, he is cold. He is cold. Hey, buddy. In the fall, sometimes you get a lot of small fish that group up in creeks and certain areas, but usually it's like in the backs of creeks.  In my experience, I usually catch my bigger fish in the fall like just close to deep water. I get out on ledges or just hang close to deep water so that if a big cold front comes in, they can easily just head out there to the deep water where they can maintain a good homeostasis. My favorite retrieve with lipless baits is a start and stop or almost like just a pull and stop. And I do this a lot in the spring, but I've started doing it just year round instead of a straight retrieve because even when it's cold like this, there's a fish right there. Oh, it's grass. No, I got one. Oh my gosh, I had a fish. He was so small. Couldn't even feel him on there. A lot of times what happens though, the fish will be following it, and if you just keep reeling, they never really get the opportunity or never triggered to eat, if you stop it and they just kind of run into it. They're swimming behind it and they run into it and they're just kind of forced to eat it. As soon as I stopped it, man, these fish are lethargic.   All right, that's two little ones on the little quarter ounce so far. If I just kind of like pump that rod tip, and a lot of times you'll just start to, oh, there he is again. Oh, he hit it on slack line that time. That was crazy. On the pause, hit it while I was dropping there. So closer to this deep water, I've gotten more bites for just little guys. They'll just get on there and then like your next pump, you'll just feel the bass and it'll get heavy. And I like fishing this medium power because just a lot of absorption and you just land a lot more fish with it. Plus you can cast it super easy. We're going to just slow roll this baby right here. Bumping up my rod to medium heavy, medium heavy power, fast action. It's a slower retrieve. I want it to get down close to that grass and four to six foot, maybe even eight foot, wherever it's making that contact. Just pull it out like that when I get hung in the grass. Got him right there. Little better fish. Oh, that bite was interesting. Sucked it in. Got you, buddy. Check our water tips. Your fish right there. Fish sitting right over the grass. 52. This vibrating jig bite. It is usually better when it's just a little bit warmer. Oh, okay. I'm going to fish this Guget Squad Scout real quick, just because I've already got it tied on.  It's a little bit smaller profile too.  You work this more like a top water than anything. You're twitching the bait and then just letting it sit there. That erratic action and then just pausing it. That's the key. They grab it on the pause every time. You're almost never hooked on why you're going through a series of twitches. Unless you're fishing for smallmouth that are super aggressive.  Switch back to the old lipless here. I think what might be better, just for the water that I'm in, if I have like a three-eighths or a half. Oh, there's one there. First cast after switching. Like, man, they really want... They really like this. They like it on the pause. But that is not the size that we want right there. I think what I may do is switch up this size. Go with our Guggen Squad clutch that's in a half ounce. And I can just get it out a little bit deeper. Fishing on those deeper grass lines. Just more effectively and try to get a bigger fish. There's one. Oh, that was better. That was better. I think he is. He might be fooling me. What do we got going on here? Oh, he's a little bit better. Oh, gosh, he came off right there. That was at least a two-pounder. Oh, there's another one. Oh, that's good. He hit a good. No, he's small, but he smoked it. Oh, a little better, actually. Sometimes I get on these, like, windy areas. Windy points, windy flats. Yeah, he got it. He got it.  It's a matter of time until I catch a good one. I tell you what, this is the bait. They want a lipless. Oh, gosh, smoked.  Oh, my. Talking hammered it. There's another one. We're sitting there. They're on this windy situation. I'm going to just spot lock it here. There we go. Gotcha, buddy. A little bit better. A little bit better, and you ate it. You ate it by the head. Yeah. The old bucktail toss here. Look at the skier. That's what you call a skier right there. Come on, man. Still got bulk on your lip. Out there, get a little bigger, son. Right under the boat. Smoked it. Absolutely choked it. I mean, it's gone. Ah, there we go. That's how we get the better ones. That's how we get those better ones right there. Down the mouth, that is. If you guys notice on the rod tip, it was just kind of like a pump. That last one choked it, but it was literally like, I'm doing what I'm doing right here. Like it's in the grass. I could feel it. It's in the grass, and I'm just lifting it out. Almost like a Texas rig. Like you would like a fast Texas rig move. Crawling it on the bottom. Action has been hot, y'all, but the size is not. So I'm going to actually switch up from this quarter, and I'm going to go with a half ounce. I'm going to go with clutch. Gookensquare clutch, y'all. This is, whee! I love this color, too, in grass. When there's crawfish around. Little orange on the belly. Little red. Almost got a 10-powder. One like this here. So anyway, I think the quarter's a little small. It's perfect for like fishing high up in the water column. Schoolers, but I want to get down there a little bit more, so I'm going to use this bait and try to catch a bigger one. Because at this point I've got a bunch of fish. I'm satisfied. I just want one good sniffer. Oh, gosh, smoked it under the boat on the paws. I don't know if you guys can see that. Just my line flinch. Literally like a long pause while I was sinking. And it's gone. That's why you use the medium rod. That's why you do those pauses right there. It is gone. I love it. Alright, now we're getting out here a little bit bigger. A little bit bigger water. This little heavier bait, I can get it down there. Some of these deeper grass lines, there's one. Oh, you're not big. You were attached to my line and I thank you for it. Oh, there we go. There's a good one. Hit it on the paws and he's loaded. He might be coming at me. Oh, he loaded up good at first.   That was a good one. That was a better one for sure. Oh, gosh, smoked it. Smoked it. Not as good. That last one, I wasn't sure how big it was going to be. Dang, they're freaking fired on these lipless cranks out here. Oh, gosh, latched onto it. There we go. There's a bend in that rod. There's a bend in that rod now. No, he's just side-hooked. God, that one latched it good. And hammered it. And it's fish are cold, large and like this. I mean, that is just what you know. That is what you know. They want a bait, y'all. Look at that. It's gone. It's choked. It's amazing. They're hitting it like a jig. Like a jig bite. When you just drop your rod tip, let that bait fall. God, look at that beautiful dark bass right there. Beautiful dark fish. And it's just on that pause. That's the key. Pause that bait. If I was just straight retrieving it, I wouldn't get near as many bites. I know you're in these little deeper cuts. Oh, gosh, hammered. Gosh, not Sally. Just another good fish. I absolutely smoke in these lips cranks, y'all. A clutch. I'm seeing a clutch right now. Woo! My goodness, y'all. This is like way better than what I thought it was going to be for this cold front that's here. All right, y'all. This rod action here. It's like a sweeping pump. Stop. Stop. And on that stop, that's when you get the bite. It's dang near like a jig bite. Feel it. Oh, that rod loaded up. Not hurt, though. It's not hurt. I always, like, on that first initial pull, I check my rod and I'm like, not good, but it's not the stopper that we're looking for. It's really typical of fall fishing, though, right here. Just a lot of, you know, 2-pounder and less than 2-pound fish. I'm looking for that one stud. Oh, gosh, there she is. Loaded up big time out in the neaps. I need to stop my rod. That's a good one. She stopped it. Oh, yeah, there you are.   Yeah, there we go. That's a nice fish. Just got that thing. Nice, thick, and healthy. That's a little better one. That's what we're looking for. Oh, yeah. Woo, darn. See you, honey. Oh, gosh. Oh, no. Oh, I got her. Got her. Came back. No. Oh, my gosh. What? All right, I've got a couple of good bites out here. I'm going to just make a few more casts in this deep zone where I think that little big mama is. Oh, gosh. Smoked it. I can't believe that fish didn't get on. Just a reactionary slap. Wow. There's definitely. Oh, there's another one right there. Good one. Oh, gosh. Came off. That was right in the same area I got yo-yo hit. There's like a hole right here. And there's some good ones. I'm just not getting them in the boat. There's like one little deep spot right here. Oh, gosh. Why am I losing them? They'll came back and got it. What? What in the heck? These are good ones. Oh, gosh, that's a big one. These are big ones in here. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh, choked. Oh, my gosh. This is like my fourth bite right there. I knew they were good fish. I just felt like they were smoking it. They're in a deep hole together. I finally got this one. Oh, yeah, baby. Come here. Oh, you're barely hooked. You're barely hooked. Don't do it. Be that face. Open that mouth. She's hooked on the outside of the mouth. She doesn't want to open. I'm going to have to two-hand it. Oh, yeah, baby. Now that's a fish right there, y'all. That's the one I wanted. Yeah. That is an absolutely gorgeous fish. And I don't know why they're just kind of slapping it. These big ones that are in this big hole. Out here, they're just slapping the bait. I've missed quite a few of them. But that one finally got it. Got it on the pause and it stopped my rod like I was talking about. You just know when they hit it. It's like, that's her. That's her. Godly, man. What a beautiful fish. Beautiful fish. Must add triple grips on that clutch. That, my friends, is the Game Ender for today. Let's give it a sniff, y'all. Return it back to the waters. What an awesome fish. See you, girl. And that is how we're going to end today. I would fish a little bit more, guys, because I know there's more in this hole that I found. But I have to go get my rifle ready for a deer hunt. I have to go side it in. I'm going to do some deer hunting. That's the next video that's coming up. But there's such a good bass lake on this place. I was like, I have to bring my new boat out here. I have to break it in right. And it looks like we just got our first 5-pound Mondo in the new Silver Blood. Thank you guys, as always, for tuning in for all the action right here on the channel. And make sure to subscribe if you want to see more. If you're into deer hunting, if you like big bucks, you want to stay tuned. I'm going hunting with manager Matt. It's going to be his first time deer hunting. I'm going to sit in a blind with him. And I'm going to get the opportunity to go after some bucks as well. Some big ones, y'all. Stay tuned. I love you guys. God bless you. And I'll see you on the next one.


Does an apple a day really keep the doctor away? That's a public health message that's been around since 1866. But is it true? You don't know until you put it to the test. The association between apple consumption and physician visits published in the AMA's internal medicine journal. Objective? To examine the relationship between eating an apple a day and keeping the doctor away. Promoted by the lay median, powerful special interest groups, including the U.S. Apple Association. So powerful that Big Apple recently spent a whopping $7,000 lobbying positions. The beneficial effects of apple consumption may include a facilitation of weight loss, protection of the brain, cancer suppression, or reduction in asthma symptoms, improved cardiovascular health. So apple consumers ought to require less medical care, right? Although some may just, considering the relatively low cost of apples, a prescription for apple consumption could potentially reduce national health care spending if the aphorism holds true. So they compared daily apple-eaters to non-apple-eaters and asked if they'd been to the doctor in the last year, been hospitalized, seen a shrink, or took a prescription medication in the last month. 8,000 individuals surveyed and only about 1 out of 10 reported eating an apple over the last 24 hours, and the evidence does not support that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. So maybe it takes more than an apple a day. Maybe we need to center our whole diet around plant foods. However, the small fraction of U.S. adults who eat an apple a day do appear to use fewer prescription medications. So maybe the pro-verb should be updated to clarify that if anything, apple-eating may help keep the pharmacist away. But hey, based on the average medical prescription cost, the difference in annual prescription medication costs per capita between apple-eaters and non-apple-eaters could be hundreds of dollars. So if all U.S. adults were apple-eaters, we could save nearly 50 billion. Of course, if you factor in the cost of the apples themselves, we'd only get a net savings of like 19 billion. This all seems a bit tongue-in-cheek apple-polishing. You'll note this was published suspiciously close to April Fool's Day, and indeed this was in the tradition of the British Medical Journal's annual Christmas issue that features scientifically rigorous, yet light-hearted research, which itself took on the apple issue. To model the effects on stroke and heart attack mortality of all older adults being prescribed either a cholesterol-lowering statin drug or an apple a day. Basically, they took studies like this, where you see this nice dose response, where the more fruit you eat, the lower your stroke risk appears to fall, and similar data for heart disease, compared to the known drug effects, and concluded that prescribing an apple a day is likely to have a similar effect on population stroke and heart attack mortality, as giving everyone statin drugs instead. And hey, apples only have good side effects. Choosing apples rather than statins may avoid more than 1,000 excess cases of muscle damage and more than 12,000 excess diabetes diagnoses, because statins increase the risk of diabetes. And this was in the U.K. Here in the U.S. one would expect five times those numbers, though ironically the cost of apples is likely to be greater than those of statin drugs.  So yes, with similar reductions in mortality, the 150-year-old health promotion message of an apple a day is able to match modern medicine, most likely to have fewer side effects, but apples are a few pennies a day more expensive, not to mention the increased time and difficulty associated with consuming apple compared to a statin. I mean, just one gulp with the drug compared to all that time-consuming chewing.