Clancy Jurors Speak Out; Trump Pardon Request; New Ground Zero Revelations; Mom Convicted For Letting 5-Yr-Old Walk Alone

0:00Good morning and hey everybody it is Wednesday September 9th. This is the Mono's podcast and I think I'm still most one you knew. I'm still Jill Wagner I think this is the place where we bring you just the facts. You know it's a short and weak but feels like a lot. It's like a long week. No it's like the old meme from 30 Rock like it's Wednesday lemon. Yeah and so that's where we're at on this day. This is still the place where we read all the news and read between the lines so you don't have to do this in studio edition. Hey Jill. Hi Moch. Hi everybody. It is wonderful to be in the office here eating our Mono's cookies, hanging out with the team, the growing team. Yeah we have a lot of exciting plans for the rest of the 26 already planning for next year, 27. So look out for all of that especially you premium members. Thanks to all of you who joined took advantage of that Liberty promotion over the weekend to join our premium coverage. Got some exciting things happening there in the coming months and some fun stuff. Having stood at the

1:04podcast that we're still working out. So stay tuned. The keyword is live. Yes who does not want to watch motion. I live unedited but still scripted but some not scripted. Speak for yourself over there. All right. So let's get to some headlines here. We are just days away from the 25th anniversary of the attack on September 11th and a slew of new documents suggest that New Yorkers were misled about the air quality near ground zero. Yeah it comes as there's a number of controversies related to 9-11. We'll talk about what's happening here in New York and what's happening with President Trump. To the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, her ex-husband Patrick Clancy is now pushing back on influencers and other people online who claim that he was involved in the death of his young children. Yeah he quote from him, enough is enough and what he might be planning legally. Meanwhile, Lindsay Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington has a big ask for President Trump Reddington giving

2:05his first TV interview since the mistrial. Yeah he eventually likely has unconstitutional ask from the president. We'll explain what it is. And the jurors are speaking out. What they say about that one hold out juror. To the Middle East, oil prices are surging as the Houthis attack Saudi Arabia. How does he escalate into a larger regional war as Iran has lost its grip on the street of Ramuz. And some long time Israeli allies are now banning trade with settlements. We'll tell you why. Yeah UK France, Canada, among them. And a story sparking a ton of discussion. A mom has been found guilty of abuse for letting her five-year-old walk outside alone. She's speaking out. Yeah leading to a fascinating discussion about the law here and what parents should be allowed to do that was commonplace just a couple decades ago. And in health news turns out an extra thousand steps each day could significantly reduce your risk for heart disease. Jill I feel like there's these stories over a couple of months. You need

3:08this many thousand steps. This many thousand steps yet another study about those steps. Or it isn't the steps just get up every 10 minutes and do a squad. Well we have new advice for you today on the podcast. And motion is on the same history. This famous artist performed on television for the first time on this day leading sensors to say you can only show them above the waist next time they're on. It was an earlier version of the nip slip. All right just these before the 25th anniversary of September 11th we are still learning more about what took place in the aftermath of those attacks. Some new documents released show that officials knew that the air around ground zero was unsafe in the weeks and months after the attacks despite assuring the public otherwise on Tuesday New York City released more than 170,000 pages of never before seen documents including air quality reports contamination records and internal

4:11correspondence. They provide insight into what city officials knew about the toxic air near ground zero. The documents are being made public through an online portal. We'll link to that portal in the show notes because you can actually search for keywords if you're interested in taking a look at them. They had been stored in 68 boxes in a city office and were reportedly discovered only last year. Survivors and first responders had fought for years to obtain the records. The advocacy group 9-11 Health Watch sued the city after officials said that they couldn't locate documents responsive to its request. So records from 2001 show that officials were worried about potential lawsuits over chemical exposure while publicly describing conditions as safe, toxic dust from the towers collapse, including asbestos has since been linked to cancers and other illnesses among thousands of responders workers and survivors. We reported recently new documents show more people

5:11have now died from cancer related to 9-11 than people who were killed on that day itself. Comedian John Stewart, who in the years following the attack has become a vocal advocate for first responders health. He was at Tuesday's news conference and he says the city has buried evidence for 25 years starting pretty much immediately after the attacks. The city began covering their ass. Three weeks in there was poison in the air and on the ground and in the window sills and in your air conditioners and covering your pets and your clothes and it stayed there for months. Everyone knew and now it's very clear that the city knew as well and rather than take the steps to emeliorate the damage that that would cause to its citizens and to the people that were down there they instead covered it up to get back to business as usual.

6:15The documents released Tuesday are pretty limited. They're only offering a fraction of the air quality reports that were taken around ground zero but they do include the so-called harding memo that was sent to then deputie mayor Robert Harding. It revealed city officials anticipated thousands of possible lawsuits because of the 9-11 air exposure and the lack of proper safety equipment. The memo also outlined legislative alternatives to limit the city's legal liability. So we've heard a bit of these revelations actually going back to the 15th anniversary of 9-11 going back to 2016. That is when Christy Todd Whitman, she was the head of the EPA under George W. Bush former governor of New Jersey. She drove the public 15 years ago that she apologized to those affected about saying the water was safe to drink, that the air was safe to breathe. Now she did say she never lied about the air quality or believed it was dangerous at the time saying we did the very best at that time with the knowledge we had. Now these documents,

7:15well they reveal more about what was known at the time, at least among city officials there in New York. Among the documents that have come out here is an audit of the air quality back in November of 2001. So this is about two months after 9-11 this was prepared by a private firm submitted to the EPA based on data collected by city and state agencies and it showed the concentration of the carcinogen benzene was still spiking near the tower's footprint. Jill, among the interviews were releasing this week related to 9-11 as a conversation you had with John Feehl. He was a responder who was injured at Cron-0 has since over the years worked to lobby Congress to pass and renew the 9-11 victims compensation fund and you asked them about what it was like down there in the days following the attacks. To start off it was the most real thing I've ever seen or done. I was in awe of the carnage and with destruction and the devastation that I witnessed. And when I got out of the hospital after 11 weeks I did therapy for two and a half years

8:16to clear my mind with that. But if I shut my eyes and close my eyes, the smell I will never get rid of and that won't want me for the rest of my life. That interview is currently available on the premium podcast. It will be out for everyone in the coming days. The emotion not only does he talk about really lobbying lawmakers for years and years and working with John Stewart who we heard to get legislation passed and also renewed. But one thing you'll find really interesting is he gives a lot of behind the scenes about what it was like to actually lobby lawmakers. And he talks about Nancy Pelosi who he had a little bit of a contentious relationship in the beginning but who actually became one of his biggest mentors. And as you know covering Nancy Pelosi for so many years he said she knew how to count. She knew exactly how many votes you needed and how to get things passed in Congress. So just a really fascinating. Yeah, even her biggest critics will say that she knew when she had 200 something members of Congress how to get all of them on board on various

9:22issues, especially issues that had some division within the party. So we have done multiple interviews here in the lead up to the anniversary of 9-11 in case you guys haven't heard yet. I had a conversation with the former acting CIA director Michael Morrell. We had that out on Monday. For all of you that's a lengthy conversation. Morrell happened to be with Bush on 9-11. He happened to be with Obama. On the day we got been law 10 years later a fascinating behind the scenes portrait into how intelligence goes to the president. What the US missed in the lead up to 9-11. How intelligence works. The war on terror and everything up until Iran. All part of that Morrell conversation. Then we have your John Feele conversation. And then we also have a conversation, a powerful conversation coming out later this week with the family member of someone who was killed on that day. That's right. And just backs that Mike Morrell interview moche. My father gave Moche, I think the ultimate compliment where he left me a voicemail saying the interview that Moche did with Mike Morrell was the best interview that he's ever heard. Mind you, his daughter is a

10:24journalist. Jill shared that. And I was like, oh my god, that's so sweet. And then Jill's like, yeah, but like, you know how I felt about that. But I actually second what my dad said, because I was riveted. I not only read the transcript like a lunatic, but then I went and I listened to the entire interview. And it was about 90 minutes. And I was like, more, more. I still, I wanted more information because the behind the scenes of what was going on is just so fascinating. So make sure you check all of them out. We did think very hard about how we wanted to cover this very sombre anniversary. Okay. Now to more fall up from the Lindsey Clancy Miss trial last week her former husband, Patrick Clancy is now speaking out amid claims and months of conspiracy theories that he was actually involved in the killing of their three children. He says, essentially enough is enough. His attorney says Patrick and his family have been subjected to a relentless defamation campaign that has only intensified around his former wife Lindsey's murder trial, which as we

11:28reported, has ended in a mistrial. The statement that he put out on Tuesday accuses influencers and conspiracy theorists of knowingly spreading false claims for attention, profits and views online. The statement says, quote, this campaign of misinformation has been launched and promoted by minor celebrities, so-called influencers and outright conspiracy theorists who appear intent on boosting their own social media profiles and potential profit by publishing what they know to be outright falsehoods that Patrick was somehow involved in the death of his young children and other vile claims. The legal team says that Patrick has faced real life threats to his reputation, livelihood and life as a result of the claims, notably Lindsey Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington last week didn't exactly shut down the speculation. Now, after that mistrial, he was asked about the online theories. Most of this was something that you and I talked about a few weeks ago, just because

12:28they were so prevalent online. Reddington said he does not dismiss people on the internet and actually praise their ability to figure out facts and conduct their own investigations. So, remember Lindsey Clancy admitted to the killings of the three children back in 2023. The defense was just arguing that she was having a psychotic break at the time and was going through post-partum psychosis. Prosecutors though said she knew what she was doing. So, that was what this trial was about. Patrick Clancy, while he did testify, at no time did anybody accuse him of killing the children. That was just something online. Right, going on a TikTok and on Instagram and on YouTube. And the noise has gotten so loud here. It appears that they are considering legal action against people, potential defamation cases here. Remember that Lindsey said she heard a voice commanding her to kill the children and then herself. And yet online, you saw a lot of support for her and you saw people coming up with various theories that well, no, it's actually the husband and the husband did it

13:32and then convinced her that she did it. And so, you have Patrick Clancy's team saying enough is enough here. You have Lindsey Clancy's attorney sort of not minding the speculation because remember, they're facing a potential second trial here. And so, in a really nefarious way, you could say that there's a jury pool out there. And so, the more that there are potential doubts or questions here could potentially benefit the client again because remember that just because the first time ended in a mistrial, there could be a conviction next time around. Now, the big question will be ultimately do prosecutors go for a second case here and if they do, will they go from murder one again or potentially take a different direction or frankly come to a plea deal here with Lindsey Clancy. That's something we're going to watch here. In the meantime, though, Patrick wanted to address this according to his attorneys to return attention to what matters, preserving the memory of the three children who were killed and supporting other women facing mental health challenges in the aftermath of childbirth. Now, Patrick has said that he is publicly forgiven his ex-wife. He took the stand,

14:35as you mentioned during that trial, leading that again to online chatter about his own culpability. Patrick telling the New Yorker back in October 2024 that he didn't actually contact Lindsey after the killings that they only briefly spoke when she called him in the following days. He said one of his quotes was, I wasn't married to a monster. I was married to someone who got sick. Some other quick developments. Lindsey Clancy's defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, on Tuesday, gave his first television interview since the judge declared that mistrial and he publicly urged President Trump to pardon his client. Here's a little bit of what he said on Good Morning America. Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady the type of person she is, what she's been through, and consider her pardon. Reddington's request, by the way, not possible. The president can only part in federal crimes, whereas Clancy was tried at the state level in Massachusetts. But Reddington did note that President Trump weighed in on the case.

15:38But motion fairness, he was asked about it. It wasn't one of his true social posts. He was asked at a press conference what he thought. But at this point, the prosecution has not said if they are going to retry the case. So it was interesting here. Many of you were asking, why would he do this if Trump doesn't have that power? Reminder since it's a state case, only the governor of Massachusetts would have the power to pardon Lindsey Clancy. That's not in the often care. But certainly, I would imagine Reddington knew this would create buzz, create headlines. And he knows that Trump, if somehow he was remotely thinking about this, he knows that it put pressure on people. He could put pressure on various state authorities to sort of move in this direction. That said, Trump has condemned the killings here. He said she did a horrible, horrible thing. It can't be worse. You'll find out what the price is to pay here. It's got to be a mental institution or jail or something. So it doesn't seem in the offing here like Trump will pardon Lindsey Clancy. But certainly, Reddington knew that it would create a headline here. And one more item that we saw across on Tuesday afternoon, three jurors from the Clancy trial are breaking their silence.

16:41After that case ended in a mistrial last week. And they're criticizing that lone hold out juror. Remember, we were talking about 111 divide in the jury. It appeared 11 jurors were ready to side with the arguments made by the defense team here saying that she should not be crumly liable for the desk because of her mental state at the time. But there was one juror who was not on board with that. Now, we have learned since then that it was one of the male jurors. The jury was nine women and three men. Three of the female jurors sat down with NBC 10 Boston. In recent days, it was their first interview. They said they believe Clancy was not crumly responsible for killing her children. They praised the defense attorney with one of the jurors saying they would hire Reddington as their attorney if they were ever in trouble. They were pretty critical of the prosecution saying the prosecutor showed no compassion to Clancy. Now, that's criticism you heard from outside analysts. So very interestingly here, this from jurors. In the final days of the trial, you did finally see some sympathy from the prosecution and they're closing arguments,

17:46which were widely praising, you know, if this was the argument prosecutors and made all along, they might have had a better case. But that's a bit of what we heard from the jurors that spoke out to NBC Boston. They described the prosecutor as arrogant and willing to listen dismissive of information during the deliberations. Remember that jurors noticed everything that's going on inside that courtroom. And then they spoke to ultimately the the beat within the jury. And they kept saying that this one hold out juror. They kept reading him the definition of reasonable doubt and said that they believe he misunderstood the idea of reasonable doubt. And that's why that juror held out time and time again. Things apparently got so heated that the alternate jurors could hear the arguing from another room, according to the jurors here. And one of the jurors that spoke out, her name is Ronnie. She's a retired fifth grade teacher. She joked that managing deliberations was harder than managing her fifth grade classroom. So among the highlights there, we'll have some clips up on our monos YouTube and Instagram pages. Yeah, sounds a little tense in that jury room.

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21:55the global economy. So the Houthis have been targeting an alternative shipping route that Saudi Arabia has been using to transport oil to world markets while the straight of Hormuz has essentially been shut down because of the US around war. The Bob El Mendeb is a strategic waterway off the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula it connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. Goldman Sachs is now warning in a new forecast that Brent crude oil prices could hit $120 a barrel. Most we know that the crude oil price is a big part of what makes up the price that we pay at the gas pump. Yeah it appears what's happening here is that as Iran loses its grip on the straight of Hormuz which we've been talking about in recent weeks as more and more ships have been getting through there they still have a mission the Iranian regime of achieving global economic chaos driving up the price of oil to get the US out of the region. So you got to go with plan B here or whatever plan we're on for the Islamic regime which is let's get the Houthis which

22:57the Iranians have created funded supported and sent weapons to for years to approach this differently and the Saudis have found a way to get a lot of their oil out through their West Coast over there on the Red Sea. So the Houthis have launched an unprecedented attack here that we haven't seen for a number of years and so their goal in getting oil up to 120 bucks a barrel well you know that's paying to the pump here in the US and could put added pressure on the US to finally exit the region as the President has doubled down at least on getting this rate of Hormuz through. So we're watching this with a regional perspective here and fighting between the Saudis and Houthis is nothing new back in 2014 when the Houthis first sees the capital of Yemen you then saw a Saudi led coalition intervening to try to restore the previous Yemen government that led to an all-out war there between Saudis and the Houthis for a number of years as a war that killed more than 150,000 people and at times pushed the country to the brink of famine and into famine millions of people

24:00in Yemen including Yemeni children starving now the Saudis eventually couldn't win that war and you saw basically the two sides back away but never end their state of war but among you know the many humanitarian crises that we've been watching in the region for years here now we things could return there especially if the Houthis are successful in attacking a lot of these Saudi assets. In the meantime the US military continues to strike targets near Carg Island and other parts there near the street of Hormuz that includes Iranian oil tankers as the US tries to ratchet up the pressure on the Iranian economy and that's the larger strategy here which is who can exert more economic pain on the other side since it doesn't appear a military victory as possible and so the US continues its strikes and the Iranians using the Houthis here trying a different strategy. Staying in the Middle East from NBC News Canada France and the UK on Tuesday announcing a joint ban on imported goods from Israeli settlements and what they called a turning point in the efforts

25:05to reach a two-state solution in the region. The decision follows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to press forward with a controversial housing settlement in a disputed area of the West Bank just outside of Jerusalem called E1. The ban on trade will be in place in six to nine months. The UK says Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Poland, Portugal and Sweden have all pledged to support further action. The Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Spain and Norway have either banned goods from settlements or in the process of doing so. The UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband says that the UK will ban imports of all goods from the settlements and bar companies from providing services for the settlements including financing, construction, infrastructure, real estate and advertising. Miliband's parents came to the UK as refugees from the Nazis. He told lawmakers that he spoke as quote a proud British Jew and supporter of Israel. He says our argument is not with the people of Israel with whom the UK has unshakable bonds. Our argument is with the conduct of its government. In a joint

26:10statement, the British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the settlement expansion and settler violence in the West Bank pose a direct and urgent threat to the two-state solution. They said they decided to act before it is too late. The added that they support a safe and secure Israel living alongside a safe and secure Palestine effectively. They say if Israel keeps building and continues to build including this area E1, it makes impossible for a contiguous Palestinian state to exist. Now at the end of the day, that's sort of the goal here for the Israeli government to make it impossible for a Palestinian state to exist, especially post-September 7th. Many in the Israeli government, this includes even in the opposition. Many don't see a reality for a Palestinian state, a given one unfolded with a terror attacks there whether they could trust a Palestinian government. But nonetheless, you have a situation there in the West Bank, which Israelis refer to as the territories of Judea and Samaria with a biblical connection there, where you have 3 million plus Palestinians, 700,000 Israelis. It is a mess of a map. We've put it up on Instagram a few times of like, here's an

27:13Israeli settlement. Here's a Palestinian village. Here's an Israeli settlement. Here's a Palestinian village. And the access roads in between all of them, increasing complex. The Israelis maintain security control over the most of the West Bank, though a portion of the population there, Palestinian population, is ruled by a Palestinian government, Palestinian authority there. And you're talking about literally a couple square miles of territory every time you talk about the expansion here, because at the end of the day, it's probably a kidney bean shaped territory that's about the size of Delaware. So when we're talking about this E1 section that they're looking at potentially Israeli settlements on just outside Jerusalem, it's about a 4.5 square mile piece of land. Now Israel has considered building there for years. They got pushed back from Western allies for years. And so what we know now is the effect of you have put forth a bidding process for construction companies here that gives contractors up until October to make bids. But even that move, you know, no real construction, but a bidding process leading to this major reaction here from the UK,

28:17from Canada, from France. And so we'll see what happens. Now the Israelis are responding to the UK saying they're going to close the British council in Jerusalem. They're pushing back here saying, this is our sovereignty. This is our jurisdiction to do what we want with it. Deal with your own problems. Now ultimately, one of the questions here is the economic impact of all of this saying they're not going to buy products from the West Bank. Well, the majority of products built in Israel and agricultural products in Israel are in the main part of Israel, not in the West Bank. There are only some settlements that produce a very small amount of largely agricultural exports there. But the larger goal here by the UK, France and Canada, among others, and we'll see other countries that you join this is a symbolic expression of displeasure with Israel from some of their longtime allies. Saying again, you know, as we noted that we support Israel, but ultimately we don't support this move and we want to exert some economic pressure on the Israeli government not to move forward with this development just outside Jerusalem. But this is one of the larger dilemmas of all of

29:22this, even if you get beyond the fighting, which is what is the long-term solution here, especially as the Israeli government doesn't see at least in the short term, allowing a Palestinian state to exist, as we know most states to exist. But at the same time, not wanting to continue to manage the situation for millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. And we have seen an increase in settler attacks in the Palestinian territories, which has been met with a lot of criticism, including from the U.S. administration. And the Trump administration has been very friendly to Israel, but even they are criticizing some of the conduct that's happening. There are some of the attacks that are happening with Israelis attacking Palestinians. There have, of course, been attacks by Palestinians and Israelis, but ultimately it is a very challenging situation there. And so we took note of this move by these countries, because it's probably one of the most significant moves we've seen from a number of Israeli allies in recent months. A Virginia mother is speaking out of the way she was convicted on a child abuse charge,

30:23stemming from her decision to let her five-year-old son walk outside alone to a pond near their home. So, most let's walk through this one here and explain exactly what happened from the Washington Post and CBS News. Over the summer, Karyan Parkinson let her five-year-old son Samuel walk half a mile to a local pond by himself to get goose feathers, which he collects. This community where they live is called Ford's Colony. It's in Virginia. It is a gated community. It has paid security guards. Parkinson, by the way, has a bachelor's degree in family science. She graduated from William and Mary Law School. So she let her son do the roughly half a mile walk by himself, because she and her husband believe it's important for children. She says to encounter reasonable risks to do anything they feel confident doing within safe parameters. And they say their son knew how to safely cross the street, get back home or ask a neighbor for help, because

31:24she taught him how to do that. So their son, Samuel, he's on his way. He's walking to the pond. When one of the guards in the area stopped him and then escorted him back home, here is how Parkinson describes that conversation with the guard. And the security guard said, well, we don't permit children to be out in the neighborhood alone. And I said, is that in an H.O.A. by-law? Because I really don't think that's against the rules. And he said, well, if it's not against the rules, then it's against the law. And I'm going to call the police. So the police and child protective services responded the day of the incident. Parkinson was charged two weeks later with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She says she expected the charge to go away as soon as the case made it in front of a prosecutor and a judge. But that did not happen. She was later convicted on that charge. She was given a six month suspended prison sentence. And she's also now going to be on Virginia's child abuse and neglect registry for seven years. So she's not going to serve any time in prison, but she cannot do things like volunteer for activities in her son's

32:28classroom until he is in sixth grade. So Virginia is one of 13 states with what they call a reasonable childhood independence law, which is supposed to prevent the state from second guessing every parental decision. You see this in a lot of red states across the country. Now she says she plans to appeal the conviction, which is expected to come in January. The Washington Post looked further into this story. They asked for comment from the neighborhood security office. No comment. The HOA, no comment. The child protective services in James City County declined to comment. The James City County police department declined to comment on the case here. So it is interesting given how aggressive they pursued this that none of them are willing to go on the record right now with a number of national media outlets. And the charge here and the conviction have sparked an online debate about her parenting Parkinson said she has gotten so many messages from mom saying something similar happened to them. You know, something Parkinson said to the Washington Post is she always loves letting her kids climb trees go exploring experiment in their surroundings feel confident

33:31in the world because she wants her children to know this is her quote, the world's a good place and they can do things on their own. But they just sort of made this whole world sort of come crashing down on her. And so she has been accused of wrongdoing here. It reminded me, Jill, of the conversation had last year, which Jonathan Hyte, who wrote the best song book, Anxious Generation, among other books and articles that's come out. And one thing we talked about in that conversation in you guys can search for it in the monos podcast from last year is that it's actually a much safer place in the real world than in the digital world. And so she would not have been condemned for having the five-year-old go on an iPad on YouTube all day. And he said, you know, within 30 minutes, it's much easier for a pedophile to find your child online than it is at the playground in the reality that we live in today. Right. The big fear I think when we were growing up is that our parents had was that we were going to get kidnapped. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What were we told constantly like if someone offers you candy? What do you say? Like, like, there's going to be

34:31something bad dude in a truck being like, come get in the van. I have candy. Exactly. Rolling down the window saying, hey, you want some M&Ms or whatever it may be. But Jonathan Hight makes the point, of course, that it's a lot easier for unfortunately for predators to find your kids online. A very interesting case though. I look forward to seeing how it gets resolved now that there's some media attention on it. Yeah. And she's not alone. In Georgia, there was a case recently at a Fulton County where there was a claim of neglect and abuse against a couple who allowed their six-year-old to scoot her home from a playground about a quarter a mile away in Texas and mother spent a night in jail and resigned from her job after she was convicted in 2022 of endangering her child for making her eight-year-old at the time walk a half-mile home to calm down. And in Maryland, parents were recently cleared of neglect charges that followed their decision to allow their 10-year-old and their six-year-old to walk home from a park near their home. And that Maryland case sparked the public conversation about what they call free-range parenting, which has been a big movement,

35:35which is allowing your kids to get out there. It sort of reminds me, Jill, of when I was a kid, my brother and I would be probably biking around the neighborhood in elementary school. I don't even know if our parents were home. We were out for a while. And we'd eventually come home before it was dark or after it was dark. No cell phones back then. And I don't know that the world was necessarily that much more of a dangerous place than it is today. In some ways, maybe, in some ways, maybe not, maybe it depends on the neighborhood. But fascinating debate here unfolding after what's happening in Virginia. And back to that Virginia story, we were watching it in the newsroom and you couldn't have a more idyllic-looking neighborhood. These are like multi-million dollar homes, close community. It's not like me letting a five-year-old walk through like the streets of New York City. You know, that I should totally be like put in jail for that. If I was let my five-year-old walk down the street of Manhattan on their own.

36:36And finally, in some health news, it turns out you may only need to get an extra thousand steps a day to help your overall heart health from the Washington Post. Every extra one thousand steps is linked to a 17% drop in the risk of a major cardiac event, according to some new research published in the European Journal of Preventative Cardiology. Researchers followed more than 32,000 middle aged and older adults in the UK, all of whom had high blood pressure. They were activity trackers, which researchers used to monitor their heart health for about eight years. And what they found is that their risk for major heart problems fell by about 17%. They also had a 25% lower risk of stroke, 22% lower risk of heart failure, 9% lower risk of heart attack, about 1.28 billion people around the world are living with high blood pressure, and that alone raises your risk of heart disease by about 50%. What researchers didn't know until now is exactly how much more activity it takes to actually move those numbers. It turns out not much, and it also

37:40doesn't matter where you started. So adding a thousand steps to a usual daily total of 3,000, 7,000 or even 10,000 steps was linked to lower cardiac risks. Very interesting. So it's all about getting that extra thousand steps, at least until you get to 10,000 steps, because then apparently the benefits plateau after 10,000 steps. So don't go super nuts out there, unless of course you have time and you want to get to 20,000 steps, whatever your goal is. No, that's my takeaway. Stop it 10,000. Stop it 10,000, which is what we've discussed before, is sort of an arbitrary number that came out of Japan decades ago. We have reported on this podcast that you actually don't need 10,000, that like 5 to 7,000 is pretty good, but now this study is all about an extra thousand steps if you can get it. We also talked recently about how just getting up every hour or so to move about is super important, because remember, physical and inactivity is linked to a lot of chronic conditions, whether it's heart disease,

38:44stroke, heart failure, obesity, osteoporosis, depression, some cancers even, and globally it accounts for 6% of the disease burden from coronary heart disease. Effectively physical inactivity leads to that. Right now the World Health Organization recommends 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity a week or 75 minutes of vigorous activity plus strength training twice a week. There's a lot of recommendations. What we do know is physical activity beneficial, sitting under but all day, not beneficial, and any extra thousand steps or half a mile you can get, apparently it's going to be good for you long term. Right, what I take from this is even a 10-minute walk, additionally, could help. Which way? Which way? Which, by the way, I believe we've done that on the podcast too. I think we're done. We're going to retire these stories at this point, Jill. The more activity good for you. I think we've hammered that home over four years on this podcast. You've heard us guys, final word, physical activity good, not too much, not too little, but

39:45any you can get super good. Which brings us to on this day in history a year ago today when we reported that physical activity was good for the 14th time. Basically the next time we cover a story about health, it's going to have to be something so extreme or so counterintuitive. Experts say sitting down is actually great. It's going to make you live longer. And then we'll find out it's a study of mice and that relevant to humans and anyway we digress. It has been back to school in my house and back to juggling after school activities with work and everything else. But we still want to eat well. So having factor in the fridge means we could still sit down to a nutritious meal, even on the busiest days. Factors make chef-crafted dietitian designed ready to eat meals so you don't have to choose between real food and convenience. A healthy meal is ready in just two minutes with no prep and my favorite part, no cleanup. I also appreciate that with over 175 banned ingredients, every factor meal is designed around what supports a healthier lifestyle and nothing that doesn't. There are over 100 nutrient

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43:00of 2022 because oftentimes she'll like on vacation and that's when big things happen we're walking the streets of America as my wife and I at the time and got the alert Queen Elizabeth had died and had to take a little break from the touring to update all y'all on that if you're following us back then on Instagram notably this week Jill Prince George went to Eden first first day of school so there's a lot of pictures of his father Prince William on his first day of Eden versus Prince George the bear resemblance no surprise so you may have been following that along with all the Harry and Megan headlines as they've made the return to the UK we end of course with pop culture on this day the answer to your clue at the top it was Elvis Presley who censors say was banned from being shown below the waist because on this day in history 60 million people watched him shake his thing on the Ed Sullivan show on September 9th 1956 it led to the best ratings in two years 83 percent of people in America who had a TV at the time watched Elvis's performance on this day

44:0570 years ago on the Ed Sullivan show they got a lot of complaints of his vulgar hip jibrations and so ultimately when he appeared in an El Sullivan a year later they could only show him waist up CBS decades later would then make the mistake of only showing Janet Jackson waist up during that super bowl show so you know you can't win decades apart we end here with one more musical item turning 31 years old today can you believe it Ginksus Paradise by Kulio reaching number one of the billboard charts on the state in 1995 one of the best music videos of all time chill Michelle Fifer from Dangerous Minds great song great music video yeah and our IP Kulio we lost them at young age a couple years ago at age 59 all right everybody thank you for listening to the ammonia's podcast if you like what you hear please share this with your friends it will help us grow follow us subscribe so you do not miss an episode reviews kindly in the app store those reviews really do help

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