Podcasts about TGA

Most product businesses don't have a recall plan. Not because they've decided against it. Just because the moment hasn't arrived yet.Melanie Nolan built Naternal Vitamins to eight million dollars in four years without running a paid ad for the first two. She built it on trust. Then in April last year, a manufacturing error created iodine variability across fifteen thousand units of her prenatal supplement. The TGA required a full voluntary recall. She refunded nearly three hundred thousand dollars in a single month. And came out the other side still growing, with 95% of her customers still there.That outcome is not accidental. In this Playbook episode, Nathan unpacks three things every physical product business should do before a recall arrives, not during one.Today, we're discussing:Why recall infrastructure fails when you build it inside the crisis rather than before it [lesson one]The four systems Naternal built after the recall: recalls@ email, Google Drive docs, batch tracking, fillable forms [lesson one]Why going first on transparency is the commercial move, not just the ethical one [lesson two]How 95% of customers stayed after a $300K refund month because of how Mel communicated [lesson two]Why the brands that come through a crisis are the ones that move toward the problem [lesson three]The $22,000 recall insurance policy that was worth every cent [lesson one]Explore Naternal Vitamins | Connect with Melanie Nolan | Hear EP620Subscribe to the Add To Cart newsletter  SMS us to Suggest a Guest Connect with Nathan Bush Join the Add To Cart Community 

Thursday Headlines: Trump promises to hit Iran ‘hard again today’ Belfast stabbing accused faces court as victim’s family condemns unrest Pauline Hanson met with protests on Perth campaign trip TGA launches crackdown on unregulated peptides Bad Bunny meets the Pope Deep Dive: There’s a lot going on in Aussie politics at the moment. One Nation is polling ahead of Labor in surveys for the first time, abortion access is being debated, and one of the country's tougher states on drugs is carving out an exemption for medicinal cannabis users who drive. NSW Premier Chris Minns is at the centre of a lot of it. In part one of this two-part chat with Chris Spyrou, the Premier walks us through the state’s cannabis driving reforms, the push to outlaw sex-selective abortions and his reaction to the “ditch the witch” campaign targeting Jacinta Allan. Listen to part two here. Follow The Briefing: TikTok: @thebriefingpodInstagram: @thebriefingpodcast YouTube: @TheBriefingPodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lucas sits down with the co-founders Andrew Darmos and Johnnie Stavrou of Thrivix to discuss the anti-aging and wellness space in Australia. They also discuss why its so important to use trusted sources for compounding these drugs and peptides. GET ACCESS TO THRIVIX HERE: https://www.thrivix.co/ambassador/lucas-aoun/ The information provided in this podcast episode is for entertainment purposes and is NOT MEDICAL ADVICE. The products presented and discussed in this podcast are explicitly only relevant to those who reside in the US. The statements and discussions held within this episode, are NOT approved by the TGA. If you have any questions about your health, contact a medical professional. This content is strictly the opinions of Lucas Aoun and is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to provide medical advice or to take the place of medical advice or treatment from a personal physician. All viewers of this content are advised to consult with their doctors or qualified health professionals regarding specific health questions. Neither Lucas Aoun nor the publisher of this content takes responsibility for possible health consequences of any person or persons reading or following the information in this content. All consumers of this content especially taking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if the reason you're not getting better isn't about what you're putting in — but what you can't get out? In this episode I sit down with Tash Simons from INUSpheresis Perth — the first clinic in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere to offer this advanced blood filtration therapy. We go deep into how double filtration plasmapheresis works, the two specialised filters (TKM58 and INUS 30), and the science behind removing autoantibodies, inflammatory cytokines, heavy metals, microplastics, PCBs, and oxidised LDL directly from your blood — without involving your kidneys or liver. We cover the clinical research across long COVID, ME/CFS, autoimmune conditions, Lyme disease, Alzheimer's, and cardiovascular risk including Lp(a) — one of the hardest lipid markers to shift. Tash shares the personal story of how a family member's chronic fatigue led her and Dr Robbie Simons to discover this therapy in Vienna, and the journey to bring it to Perth — from TGA registration and insurance approvals to Swiss certification and over 100 treatments completed. If you're dealing with a chronic condition that won't budge, carrying a toxic load, or thinking about longevity from a subtractive medicine perspective — this one's for you. Book a consult or submit a new patient form at inuspheresisperth.com.au Check out my supplement store at shop.lisatamati.com Rejuvenate Pro at shop.lisatamati.com/pages/rejuvenate My books at shop.lisatamati.com/collections/books Sign up for my newsletter at www.lisatamati.com/lisa Listen to more episodes at www.lisatamati.com/ptl-podcast/ This episode is also brought to you by Rejuvenate Pro from Aevum Labs. If INUSpheresis is about taking the bad stuff out, Rejuvenate Pro is about protecting what stays behind. Featuring kawakawa, carnosic acid, Immunel colostrum extract and IDP (Immune Defense Protein), it targets the chronic systemic inflammation that silently drives aging. It's the first supplement in every protocol I build for my clients — and it should be in yours. Shop now at shop.lisatamati.com/pages/rejuvenate         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  

Ngoài các dược phẩm được cơ quan có thẩm quyền về y tế tại Úc là TGA kiểm soát chặt chẽ, còn có các loại thực phẩm chức năng với nhiều dạng khác nhau, mà người mua không cần toa bác sĩ. Tuy nhiên việc sử dụng cần nên cẩn thận và theo bác sĩ đa khoa Cung Đình Thanh Bình ở Sydney, thì quí bác cao niên nên tham vấn với bác sĩ gia đình của mình, trước khi sử dụng loại thực phẩm chức năng nào.

In this episode of Keeping Abreast, Dr. Jenn Simmons sits down with thyroid and hormone specialist Dr. Amie Hornaman to dismantle the standard of care that is leaving millions of women dismissed, misdiagnosed, and under treated. They cover what the full thyroid panel actually looks like, why T4-only therapy fails the vast majority of patients, and how the thyroid is connected to every other hormone system in a woman's body.What happens when a competitive athlete starts gaining weight, losing hair, and can't get a single doctor to take her seriously? Dr. Amie found out in her 20s with 40 pounds of unexplained weight gain, six doctors, six dismissals, and one mentor who finally ran the right tests and changed the course of her life and career. If you've ever been told your thyroid is fine while your body is telling you otherwise, this is the episode you've been waiting for.What You'll LearnWhy testing TSH alone is not a thyroid workup and what the five markers are that actually tell the full storyWhat free T3, free T4, and reverse T3 mean and why reverse T3 is the most dismissed marker in the panelWhat thyroid antibodies TPO and TGA reveal about Hashimoto's and why your doctor's normal range is meaninglessWhy 95% of hypothyroid cases are Hashimoto's and why your antibodies may already be elevated even if your doctor says they are notWhy your GLP-1 will stop working if your thyroid is not optimized firstHow estrogen dominance low progesterone high cortisol insulin resistance and low ferritin all interfere with thyroid functionWhy your insurance-based doctor cannot give you proper thyroid care even if they want toWhat the FDA's move against natural desiccated thyroid is really about and who benefitsWhy testosterone is protective against breast cancer and why women are being denied access to itWhat it actually feels like when your thyroid is optimized and how Dr. Amie gets patients thereEpisode Timeline:00:00 Show Intro01:08 How Dr. Amie Became Dr. Jenn's North Star05:02 Pain to Purpose: 40 Pounds and Six Dismissals08:37 Where Conventional Medicine Gets It Wrong16:58 Why Thyroid Disease Is at Epidemic Levels19:14 The Full Thyroid Panel You Actually Need36:43 Why T4-Only Therapy Fails Almost Everyone40:27 The Hormonal Web Nobody Is Addressing45:32 What Thyroid Optimization Actually Looks Like52:22 The FDA Threat to Natural Desiccated Thyroid59:42 Dr. Jenn's Testosterone Gatekeeping Story01:05:22 The Importance of Prevention in HealthcareFind Dr. Amie Hornaman Website: dramie.com | Book: thyroidfixbook.comTo talk to a member of Dr. Jenn's team and learn more about working privately with Dr. Jenn visit: https://calendly.com/stephanie-1031/clarity-callTo get your copy of Dr. Jenn's book, The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer, visit: https://tinyurl.com/SmartWomansBreastCancerGuideTo purchase the auria breast cancer screening test go here https://auria.care/ and use the code DRJENN20 for 20% Off.Connect with Dr. Jenn:Website: https://www.jennsimmonsmd.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJennSimmonsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennsimmons/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.jennsimmons

EECP Therapy and Stroke Recovery: Can a Cardiac Treatment Help Grow New Blood Vessels? When I first heard about EECP therapy in the context of stroke recovery, I was skeptical. It’s a cardiac device approved in Australia for stable angina and congestive heart failure. Stroke is not on the label. So why are we talking about it on a stroke recovery podcast? Because the mechanism is fascinating. And the research, while still emerging, is pointing somewhere worth paying attention to. In this episode, I sat down with Jack Clifford, a heart disease patient who discovered EECP therapy and began exploring its potential beyond its approved indications. What started as a cardiac conversation quickly became one of the most scientifically interesting discussions I’ve had on the show. What Is EECP Therapy? EECP stands for Enhanced External Counterpulsation. The treatment involves a set of pneumatic cuffs fitted around the calves, thighs, and buttocks. These cuffs inflate and deflate in precise synchrony with the heartbeat, inflating during the heart’s resting phase (diastole) to push blood back toward the heart, and deflating just before the heart contracts. The result is an increase in blood flow and a specific type of fluid shear stress on blood vessel walls. It’s that shear stress that makes things interesting. The Biology: Arteriogenesis and Angiogenesis To understand why EECP therapy might be relevant to stroke survivors, you need to understand two terms: angiogenesis and arteriogenesis. Angiogenesis is the sprouting of entirely new capillary vessels — the body builds small blood channels where none existed before. Arteriogenesis is different: it’s the remodelling of pre-existing, dormant collateral vessels into functional bypass channels. Think of it like upgrading a dirt track into a highway. The track was always there; the body just wasn’t using it. When blood flow is obstructed, whether by a blocked coronary artery or a stroke, the body can, under the right conditions, activate these collateral pathways. The shear stress produced by EECP therapy appears to be one of the triggers that stimulate arteriogenesis. By generating repeated waves of increased blood flow, the treatment creates the mechanical signal that tells blood vessel walls to grow and remodel. This is why cardiac researchers originally developed EECP for heart patients. But it raises a legitimate scientific question: could the same mechanism support blood flow recovery in the brain after stroke? What Does the Research Say? A 2026 meta-analysis published in the QJM: An International Journal of Medicine examined 15 randomized controlled trials involving 506 participants, looking specifically at EECP’s effects on functional outcomes in stroke patients. The results showed statistically significant improvements, with EECP outperforming control conditions on standard functional recovery measures. This is preliminary evidence, not a settled clinical consensus. The studies are relatively small, the methodology varies across trials, and EECP remains off-label for stroke in Australia. But for a therapy with a well-understood safety profile and an existing approval framework, 15 studies and 506 participants is not nothing. It’s enough to warrant serious discussion. What I Discussed with Jack Clifford Jack came to EECP as a patient, not a researcher. His experience with heart disease led him to explore the therapy, and he’s spent considerable time understanding the evidence base and connecting with practitioners. He’s not a clinician, and neither am I, but what we can do together is examine what the research actually says, what the mechanism actually is, and what questions remain unanswered. In our conversation, we discussed: How Jack first encountered EECP therapy and what led him to investigate it further The difference between approved and off-label use, and why that distinction matters What the shear stress mechanism actually looks like in practice The existing network of EECP practitioners and how stroke survivors might access the therapy The questions both of us still have about where the research needs to go Important Disclaimers   EECP therapy is approved in Australia by the TGA for stable angina pectoris and congestive heart failure (ARTG Entry 376470). Stroke is NOT an approved indication. This article and podcast episode are not medical advice. Speak with your treating physician before pursuing any treatment. This episode is not medical advice. It is a conversation about an area of emerging research that I find scientifically credible and worth understanding. The goal is to help you ask better questions, not to tell you what treatment to pursue. Where to Learn More ecplocator.com a directory of EECP therapy providers eecpbook.com is a dedicated resource on the treatment and its evidence base recoveryafterstroke.com for stroke survivors looking for a broader community Research cited: Zhao et al. (2026). Enhanced external counterpulsation for ischaemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis. QJM: An International Journal of Medicine. DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcag010. Therapy and Stroke Recovery: Can a Cardiac Treatment Help Grow New Blood Vessels? Bill Gasiamis sits down with Jack Clifford to explore EECP therapy, a TGA-approved cardiac treatment that may stimulate the growth of new blood vessels. Together, they examine the emerging research on angiogenesis, arteriogenesis, and whether this off-label approach holds promise for stroke survivors seeking to improve blood flow to the brain. Highlights: 00:00 Introduction – EECP Therapy06:06 Recognizing Health Issues and Seeking Help09:50 Hospital Experience and Heart Health12:12 Decisions Against Medical Advice16:28 Exploring Alternative Treatments18:06 Understanding Enhanced External Counter Pulsation (EECP)21:58 The Mechanism of EECP27:03 Personal Transformation Through EECP30:29 Lifestyle Changes and Holistic Health34:35 The Impact of Stress on Health38:30 The Journey of Writing a Book43:29 The Role of EECP in Heart Health48:21 Raising Awareness for EECP Therapy56:05 Exploring the Future of EECP Therapy Transcript: Introduction – EECP Therapy Jack Clifford (00:00)Mine was really severe. 100 % blocked in my widow maker, the left anterior descending. I’m 95 in my left coronary artery and in my right main, I am 80%. And I’m still that way today, but I can run a sub seven mile. Bill Gasiamis (00:16)Welcome to the Recovery After Stroke podcast. I am your host, Bill Gassiamus. Before we get into today’s interview, I need to share something important. The topic we’re exploring today involves a medical device called an EACP, Enhanced External Counterpulsation Machine. In Australia, EACP is registered with the Therapeutic Goods Administration for the treatment of stable angina and congestive heart failure. It is not approved for stroke. What we are discussing today is emerging off-label research, not a treatment recommendation. Everything in this episode is for informational purposes only. This is not medical advice. Please speak with your treating physician before pursuing any treatment, therapy or intervention discussed here. With that said, let’s talk about something that genuinely fascinated me when I started reading the research. Your body has the capacity to grow new blood vessels, not just small capillaries, but to remodel dormant pre-existing channels into functional bypass routes. Scientists call this arteriogenesis. There’s also angiogenesis, the sprouting of entirely new Both processes matter deeply for stroke because stroke is fundamentally a blood flow problem. Now here’s where it gets interesting. A cardiac therapy developed for heart patients, not stroke patients, trigger exactly this kind of vascular remodeling. And in 2026, a meta-analysis published in the QJM across 15 randomized controlled trials and 506 participants found that EECP produced statistically significant improvements in functional outcomes for ischemic stroke patients. Now, that’s not proof. That’s not a green light to go and get an EECP, but it is worth a serious conversation. My guest today is Jack Clifford. Jack is a heart disease patient who discovered EECP therapy while managing his own cardiac condition and who has since spent considerable time investigating its potential. beyond cardiac care. I should tell you, I was skeptical going into this conversation, but I’ve learned that skepticism without curiosity isn’t really skepticism. It’s just closed mindedness. So I read the research and then I sat down with Jack. So if you find this episode valuable, I’d love for you to grab a copy of my book, The unexpected way that a stroke became the best thing that happened at recoveryafterstroke.com/book. And if you want to support the show, you can join Patreon at patreon.com/recoveryafterstroke. And I want to thank everyone who is supporting me on Patreon, especially the people that have been around for a long time and the people who have just recently signed up. I very much appreciate it. And now here’s my conversation with Jack Clifford. Bill Gasiamis (03:19)Welcome to the podcast. Jack Clifford (03:22)Thanks, Bill. Great to be here. Bill Gasiamis (03:24)Let’s give the listeners a bit of a background understanding of why you’re on the podcast. You’re not a stroke survivor, but we have something in common as ⁓ somebody who has been unwell before myself and you in the past. Tell me a little bit about your journey to the podcast So we just kind of give people an understanding as to how it is that somebody who’s not a stroke survivor. Jack Clifford (03:34)We do. Bill Gasiamis (03:51)how we ended up chatting together? Jack Clifford (03:54)Yeah, absolutely. So the quick version here is ⁓ I was on the brink five years ago of having ⁓ unsentable emergency triple bypass surgery. And ⁓ I chose a different path, which we’ll get to. ⁓ But you you have some level of placking if you have a stroke, typically, depends on the stroke, but that’s typically the case. And in my case, I had placking in my coronary arteries. So it resulted in heart disease. Mine was really severe. 100 % blocked in my widow maker, the left anterior descending. ⁓ I’m 95 in my ⁓ left coronary artery and in my right main, I am 80%. And I’m still that way today, but I can run a sub seven mile. I can do some things that a guy that’s as blocked up as that should not theoretically be able to do. ⁓ Bill Gasiamis (04:49)All right. Tell me about life before the injury. What kind of work did you do? How did you go about life? What was generally a day like for you? Jack Clifford (04:59)Yeah. So I’m retired military guy. Um, so, you know, been in the military most of my life, um, retired about 10 years ago, a little over that. And, um, so I’ve always been a pretty fit guy. It wasn’t, you know, it wasn’t a fitness issue per se. Um, and, uh, I, I, I had kind of lost some of my self care because my wife had been going through some real significant medical issues that really required my full attention for quite a while. And because of that, really stopped taking care of myself in the ways I had in the past for about 10 years. And when we had just moved to Florida, I started trying to take care of myself again. And that’s when I discovered all these problems. Bill Gasiamis (05:44)So what does not taking care of yourself look like though? Jack Clifford (05:47)Gotta be in a couch potato and being on my computer way too much research and for ⁓ trying to help my wife get better and hold down a job at the same time and raise a family and all these other things that took the priority off of me in that sense that one should be taking care of themselves, meaning exercising, meaning eating the right foods, so on and Recognizing Health Issues and Seeking Help Bill Gasiamis (06:09)You know, caregivers tend to die before the person they’re caring for much more often. And it’s cause of that reason, right? Because time is really taken up by especially full-time caregiving with somebody’s in the house and they need caregiving. need care. The caregiver tends to neglect themselves in every way, shape and form and tends to ⁓ make it about the other person. And then the other person. Jack Clifford (06:14)I’ve seen that and heard about it. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (06:39)seems to be doing okay, but the caregiver is struggling and doesn’t ask for help and doesn’t go and doesn’t go and get looked after. And then things tend to catch up with them and they become the ⁓ sickest person in that relationship. Jack Clifford (06:55)It’s like that whole put your oxygen mask on first on the airplane type thing, right? Like, you know, we can’t we can’t give what we don’t have to give Bill Gasiamis (07:01)Uh-huh. Yeah. So you, did you notice, did you notice the steady decline in your health? Did you kind of go, I’m not feeling right. I’m a feel a bit sluggish like 10 years down the track, or did it just creep up on you? then you got to this point. Jack Clifford (07:15)It really crept, it really crept. I, you know, like I had initially exercise induced angina, but it wasn’t much exercise that induced the angina. And then it very quickly progressed to trying to walk and getting out of breath and, know, at very basic walking speeds, just moderately paced, you know, anything anybody would do out in your neighborhood. ⁓ Bill Gasiamis (07:39)Did you know that you had an angina? Jack Clifford (07:41)I did, yeah. I didn’t have a big heart attack episode like some people have. I’m 100 % blocked. There’s no heart attack to happen, right? Because the stuff is, I’m so blocked that it’s just a pure blood flow issue. A lot of people don’t understand that that 50 % blockage is a huge risk for a heart attack because you’re gonna burst a plaque and then go from 50 % to 100 % like that. But you know about collaterals. And if you have collaterals in place, the blood’s not getting flowing this way, you’re gonna recruit some lead oval collaterals to be able to just get by with your activities of day living. But if you don’t push yourself, you don’t know that you don’t have enough blood flow to do these other things. Bill Gasiamis (08:22)Okay, so you got to the point where you were so unwell as far as the blood vessels around your heart were so unwell, they were so blocked that angina led to another escalation or something happened that got you to the point where you realized, okay, things are not good. Now, tell me what angina is exactly and what it’s like to have it. How do you experience it? Jack Clifford (08:39)Yeah. yeah, yeah. I’d love to talk about that. Bill. at its most basic, it’s a supply demand mismatch. So, you know, the blood flow that’s supplying your heart ⁓ is adequate for X, Y, or Z activities of daily living. You know, walking around the house, doing the dishes, you might have enough blood flow for that, but you don’t have enough blood flow to go run a mile or even walk potentially, you know, or Hospital Experience and Heart Health but it’s all about supply demand mismatch. And that’s about just the size of the pipes, you know, if they’re clogged up, how clogged up are they? And, know, ⁓ that’s, really it. So, and what it feels like is it’s scary because it feels like a heart attack. all like, what does a heart attack feel like? Well, there’s a thousand different sort of, ⁓ descriptions of it. ⁓ you know, radiating down your arm or nausea or something in your back, but. you know, if it’s right over your heart, it’s unmistakable. And that’s at least my presentation of angina. And I think it was a pretty typical one is, you know, I have this weird kind of deep pain. initially, when I, when I started, you know, run, trying to run and got it, I thought, ⁓ you know, I just pulled a chest muscle weirdly over my heart. You know, I’ll stop and let’s see if it goes away. I come back, you know, no, same thing. Okay. Still not better. Let’s do it again. Another couple of days later, so on and so forth. I was just kidding myself, but I didn’t know anything about the horror at that point. hadn’t had to research all this stuff and do all the deep dive. Bill Gasiamis (10:16)That’s the same crazy logic that stroke survivors put to, I’m feeling weird. I’m dizzy. I’m going to go and lie down. I’m going to rest. It’ll be better later. ⁓ I’m too busy. I’ve got to go to work. ⁓ I’ve even had stroke survivors where somebody’s telling them you maybe you’re having a stroke, you know, just tongue in cheek and they’re like, yeah, no, probably not. ⁓ it’s the same crazy logic that we say about things that are unfamiliar to us that we cannot potentially. Jack Clifford (10:25)Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (10:46)link to something so serious because we have no knowledge, we’re ignorant, right? Jack Clifford (10:47)Yeah. Well, yeah, I think that’s really part of the key there is like most times with something as sudden as what you’re talking about or what I’m talking about in my instance, because it was pretty, pretty sudden, you know, weeks and months. ⁓ We went from being these, you know, healthy people that felt like we were on top of the world to all of a sudden not. you you didn’t have a frame for what not looked like. ⁓ Bill Gasiamis (11:14)Exactly. Yeah. That’s such an important comment. We don’t have the frame for what not healthy looks like and therefore you don’t know what you don’t know. So you don’t take any action. You just brush it off. Okay. I hear you. All right. We got to the bottom of the stupidity behind a lot of my decisions as well to avoid going to hospital for a week, et cetera, the first time. ⁓ So you end up Jack Clifford (11:24)Exactly. That’s it. Bill Gasiamis (11:43)being really unwell on this particular date. Kind of what is that day like? Explain us. Jack Clifford (11:46)Yeah. Yeah. Decisions Against Medical Advice So I got tight. I, I, I’ve been a biohacker for a while. So that’s probably the only reason I’m here talking to you because I went off the beaten path really far off the beaten path to get to the place where I know what I know and I have to share what I have to share. ⁓ because I’ve been trying to help my wife get better for some significant issues, including a really bad traumatic brain injury. And some other things and doctors didn’t have the answers for those so we had to we had to kind of biohack our way out of some things I was comfortable back. I’m saying that to say my wife got me a Chili pad for my bed because you know been trying to biohack sleep for a while and the colder environments to sleep are you know better to some degree at least in theory ⁓ and so Yeah, correct Bill Gasiamis (12:32)Chili meaning cold, not spicy. Jack Clifford (12:37)Yeah, correct. A chili pad as in the cold. So it’s a device that just, you know, cools your bed off. And so I crank that down to 55. She got it for me for Christmas. So Christmas day Eve, I’m like hopping into bed, like I’m going to sleep really well tonight, you know, and I woke up at four AM like, Oh, you know, I thought that was the big one because it felt that way. I a dead sleep woke me up with, with intense chest pain. And I knew something was going on, you but I was kidding myself. I hadn’t talked to family about it. You know, I hadn’t shared anything about what was going on with anybody. So at this point I’m like, oh my goodness, you know, and I could be dying and have not had, you know, just been an idiot the whole time. So I rushed to the hospital and I didn’t have a heart attack. I just made it so cold that I made my heart work and that supply demand mismatch was happening all night long in my sleep. Bill Gasiamis (13:15)Mm-hmm. Jack Clifford (13:31)And so it got to this, you know, a giant, creeps up, you know, it’s like, can feel it. And then if you push it, you’re like, can really feel it. Well, you know, I woke up out of a dead sleep going from not feeling it when I went to sleep to, to feeling it to the extreme when I woke up. Um, but that’s when they gave me the, uh, the, uh, nuclear stress test with a treadmill test, right in the hospital. And it was, it was really bad. They can’t quantify your blockages with that, but they can tell you that, you know, you’re You’re kind of screwed. And I was like really screwed. Like it was 47, but they said I was one of the worst I’d ever seen. ⁓ yeah. So I had all weekend to think about it, you know, cause I was a Friday, fortunately, and they could, they weren’t going to do the heart catheterization until Monday and the doc, you know, I was signing consent forms for them to do bypass surgery and it was pretty clear that the odds of it getting stented was not really good, but that’s what you hope for. Right. And most people are like, we’ll just get a step. once then in you’re fine. And ⁓ in my case, it wasn’t looking likely. And my mother had had bypass surgery five years before that. And I watched her cognition after the bypass surgery just declined to the point where she’s in memory care now. And she had gone from being this vibrant book author of multiple books and you know, she was a hypnotherapist and she’s helped a lot of people in her life, done a lot of amazing things, but ⁓ she never. she never really came out of the bypass surgery as her whole self and pretty quickly was just completely not herself at all. ⁓ So I wasn’t ready to come back. Now she’s 76. Bill Gasiamis (15:03)How old? How old’s your mom? Yeah. I know with people that are older, ⁓ heart surgery can lead to cognitive decline and there is a link there. There is a number of it’s well researched. It’s a risk. ⁓ not one that you’re probably aware of and that they talk about much, but it definitely is a thing. so, okay. You’re, you’re you go to the hospital. They realize, ⁓ the Jack Clifford (15:15)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (15:37)charts are not looking good. ⁓ They do the tests. They suggest that what they can offer you is bypass surgery. your, and you’ve got a weekend, think about it and you, and you go home, do they go, do you go home with medication and joining the medications to keep the blood flowing with anything? What do they do? Jack Clifford (15:51)Mm-hmm. Where’d you go? Yeah, such a blessing. No, no, because I was leaving against medical advice so they weren’t going to help me, right? And I actually said to the doc, said, you hey, I’m new here because I just moved a couple of months ago to Florida. And I said, can I come see you? And I didn’t have a cardiologist. I didn’t need one before this. And he says, if you live that long, just walks out. So I was on my own at that point. There was no resources of institutional medicine. I had to go find resources myself. Exploring Alternative Treatments Bill Gasiamis (16:28)Wow. Things are pretty wild in Florida. If you live that long and he walked out. Jack Clifford (16:30)Yeah. Yep. That’s exactly what we said. It’s a very sobering moment for me. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (16:35)And you walked out. Yeah, and you walked out. Far out, man. So what’s the thinking behind walking out of that? Because I understand ⁓ that there are very few things that, like my situation was different, right? But I’ll give you kind of my thinking behind the, I’m gonna walk out routine. It’s like, there is a part of me that sort of says, I don’t need to subscribe to all that medical stuff, all the nonsense. I wanna try and avoid the medications. I wanna do all of that. Jack Clifford (16:41)Yeah. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (17:07)That means I’ve got to do some work to get to that point, right? I’ve got to make sure that I’m eating well. I’m sleeping well. ⁓ I’m exercising. ⁓ I’m not overweight. I’m not smoking. I’m not drinking. Like there’s a responsibility that goes with, don’t want to take that medication. Right. And one of the other things is that, ⁓ if it wasn’t for the medical industry, I would not be here recording this, ⁓ podcast. Yeah. So there’s this big thing, which is. Jack Clifford (17:31)Yeah. Double-head sword, right? Yeah. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (17:37)They’re not fixed. My brain is not getting fixed unless they go in and take out the faulty blood vessel and potentially risk all the complications that, that I got the ones I got, but also the ones I didn’t get, which many people get, which is far worse deficits than what I visible on me. So, ⁓ I’m, you know, I’ve never met anyone in my time who hasn’t Understanding Enhanced External Counter Pulsation (EECP) who has been through the medical ⁓ system, who hasn’t benefited from it in a way that’s sort of sustained their life, supported their life, lengthened their life. Like everyone that I’ve interviewed has always gone through the medical system and has saved them, supported them, helped them, right? And you’re going to, the first place to get help you’re going to is a hospital, right? You ring up and you go, I’ve got to go. Jack Clifford (18:22)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (18:31)to the hospital because I’m feeling like I’m having heart attack. You get there, they confirm it, and then the place that you go to for help is the place you walk out of. What’s the thinking? Yeah, yeah. You have the angina, the blockages. Yeah, you got all of that. Jack Clifford (18:41)Well, I didn’t have a heart attack. That’s a really important nuance point. you know, I’m sitting in the hospital all weekend. there was nothing at risk in an emergent moment for me. My heart wasn’t, you know, I wasn’t going to lose heart muscle if they didn’t do something. Like my mother’s instance was different. She had a heart attack. She probably needed the bypass surgery. It was really hard on her, obviously, like we talked about, but in my case, I had time, but they didn’t treat it like I had time, right? Bill Gasiamis (18:54)Okay. Okay. Jack Clifford (19:10)They treated it like, we’re gonna go in and take care of this thing for you rather than you have time to explore other options when I knew in fact I did. So it might be that getting bypass surgery is the right move for some folks, but it also might be the right move for you and me. We’ve already discussed that you take care of yourself so you never get in that situation. And yeah. Bill Gasiamis (19:32)Yeah. And this is not a interview about do as I say, this is not that interview, right? What this interview is like one person’s experience and what they did. That’s it. We’re not giving medical advice here. We’re not telling you what decisions to make. We’re not telling you any of that stuff. This has got nothing to do with advising anyone to do anything, but what it has got to do with is what either you discovered Jack Clifford (19:45)Yeah. Right. Bill Gasiamis (19:58)or you knew before and put into action or what you discovered after you left the hospital that weekend. So take us through the next sort of phase of I’m taking responsibility for this and I’m going to take advantage of something that is documented scientifically and proven. Jack Clifford (20:03)Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. And you know, like, so I’ll go into that phase, but, but I just want to share this thing because, know, you, you pretty much already told me when you first heard EECP, you like EECP what? Right. And most doctors are EECP what? Basically every patient is EECP what? And it’s, it’s just, it’s really not going to lie. really bothers me because this, this, this therapy is, is so well-documented. It’s, it’s, it’s FDA approved. It’s not controversial. Bill Gasiamis (20:25)Mm-hmm. Jack Clifford (20:43)⁓ it just anyways, okay. So, so, so yeah, so I leave the hospital and the only reason I knew about a EECP was because when my mom had her heart attack, I listened to a podcast by Ben Greenfield. He’s a pretty, you know, pretty high-level guy, right? And that had been, that was like 2015. And I just heard mention of it. was like, it was maybe like two minutes of the, of a 60-minute podcast at most, but I was like noted. So I looked into it from my mom. The closest provider was two hours away and you got to go 35 times and my mom isn’t going to drive. 35 times, you four hours round trip. It wasn’t gonna happen, so we moved on, but I just sort of knew about it. And when I say knew about it, I didn’t know, Bill, like what it actually did or how it worked. I didn’t look into it at that level. just, you know, like assessed the situation. I was like, okay, there’s something out there. That’s it. Okay, yeah. It stands for enhanced external counter pulsation. And you want me to go into a little bit about how it works? Yeah, okay, so. Bill Gasiamis (21:27)Hmm. And what is a ⁓ CP stamp? What does it stand for? Yeah, yeah, let’s do that, yeah. Jack Clifford (21:42)So EECP involves lying on a bed. From the patient experience, you’re lying on a bed. You have ⁓ cuffs wrapped around your calves, your thighs, and your hips. And inside those cuffs, there are little air bladders. Bill Gasiamis (21:55)those cuffs, are they like blood pressure cuffs? The Mechanism of EECP Jack Clifford (21:58)Yeah, like big giant Velcro blood pressure cuffs. Yes. Bill Gasiamis (22:02)Okay, so like they’re much bigger than a regular cuff, which is just over the bicep. Okay. All right. Jack Clifford (22:04)Yes. Yes. Correct. yeah, just that’s the right way to think about it. you you cinch them up, you’re getting really snug in this thing, but it looks like a giant pantsuit, you know? ⁓ And you lie on the bed and then you get a three lead EKG on you. It’s here, here, in here. And then in between heartbeats, the machine… inflates compressed air into those bladders at 1.3 psi to start with, which feels like kind of a gentle massage. And then the pressure can be increased in increments of 0.1 psi all the way up to six, which feels like the exact opposite of a gentle massage. However, if you go slowly, your body accommodates to that pressure and that pressure feels different, both over one session and over multiple sessions, meaning you might not get to six your first session, that’s unlikely, but as you do repeated sessions, you’ll increasingly get closer to six earlier in the treatment and be cumulatively more hours at those higher pressures. And what’s happening is all the blood, not all the blood, a significant amount of blood from your lower body is being pushed up in between heartbeats and it’s causing this phenomenon called sheer stress in your vascular systemically. And wherever there’s pressure differentials in the body, it’s giving a stimulus to grow. It’s saying the pipes are not big enough, you gotta grow. We’re trying to put through more than is gonna fit. The body’s like, wait a second, it’s not big enough. But growing things in the body takes time. And so you need those repeated sessions. Like I mentioned, T.R., before we started recording, it works just like cardiovascular exercise, but at levels humans can’t do on their own. ⁓ And so, yeah. Bill Gasiamis (23:52)That’s important to talk about. so just for a moment, we’ll talk about that. Like it works like cardiovascular exercise. So the idea with cardiovascular exercise is that what, does cardiovascular exercise do that’s similar to EECP? Jack Clifford (24:04)Sure. If you’re out running, when you hit that stride on your feet, you’re doing that same thing, right? You’re ⁓ sending blood up, right? And then your circulation, your heart’s beating twice as fast maybe than it normally is, or substantially more than you’re just sitting here heartbeat is. And that’s because the heart is responding to the environment around it and saying, I gotta get… a lot more blood, a lot more places. So I gotta work a lot harder. you know, is maintenance. So collateral blood flow. have alternate routes that we can use that lie dormant throughout our body. And those collaterals, if they never get used, they honestly, they get weaker and they close off, but they also can be reopened, you know? And then you can grow more of them. And… Bill Gasiamis (24:38)And what’s the result of that? Uh-huh. Okay, so there’s blood vessels that get less ⁓ blood flow because people are sedentary or people aren’t doing the type of exercise that would activate those blood vessels, for example. And then what in theory, not in theory, and then what happens in cardiovascular exercise, the body goes, we need more blood flow, let’s open up. Jack Clifford (25:12)Exactly. Bill Gasiamis (25:26)other areas where normally blood flow wouldn’t be required or doesn’t go. And EECP kind of mimics that mechanism. Jack Clifford (25:27)Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, but not kind of, it’s really important just to note, cause I don’t want, I don’t want any of your listeners thinking, well I’m just going to go run more. Right? I mean, by all means do that safely. You know, the dose always makes the poison with everything, but, but don’t think that you can, you can just go do this. You can do it to a limited degree with exercise, but you’re not going to grow, you know. that I didn’t have that before. And I like it because it shows you like the world of the possibly or it might be a little unsightly, but it’s feeding my brain. EECP has changed my cognition in addition to my heart, you know, my pelvis and my kidneys and my liver. you know, like it’s, it’s optimized blood flow systemically. Um, yeah. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (26:19)Okay, so let’s go back to the cuff, the cuff that we put on and then what happens. Jack Clifford (26:24)Yeah. Yeah. So, so you just lie on the machine. Typically you do 35 hours on a machine for a course of treatment and one hour a day is a typical, you know, five days a week. That’s just typically you’re going to the doctor. There’s lots of other variations of that, but that’s the typical course. And that’s the most well-researched course. And, ⁓ you know, over time, usually about halfway through those 35 sessions, if you had angina, you’re going to notice a difference, but Personal Transformation Through EECP you know, they use this to treat dementia. It’s a well studied in dementia. There’s a recent study in the US that was profound, a year-long study, a hundred demented patients, roughly a hundred non-demented or a hundred treated patients. Everybody had dementia and a hundred CHAM patients, placebo. The demented patients that got an EECP, they all got better when we know dementia, people get worse in a year, right? They all got better, all of them. And yeah, so that’s like, you know, similar phenomenon erectile dysfunction, similar phenomenon kidney disease, similar phenomenon stroke recovery. So, you know, these are studies. I’m not making it up. It’s just literally like really well documented. It’s not. Bill Gasiamis (27:33)studies that we can get a hold of and put in the show notes, link to the show notes. Jack Clifford (27:36)Yeah, go to to EECPLocator.com and all these studies are there. ⁓ Yeah. So what I did is in the U.S., I, you know, it’s really hard to find. so I couldn’t find it. I had to, I had to call around and like, I could find a few doctors, none of them near me, but a few of them that would had machines, but they would only use them after everyone had failed stints and failed bypass and they had nothing else to offer them, which makes no sense. But that’s how the insurance reimbursements work. Bill Gasiamis (27:41)Okay. Jack Clifford (28:04)That’s the only time they’ll actually pay for it. So that’s what they say it’s good for, but that’s not what it’s good for. That’s just what they can get money for, I guess. but, so I had to drive three hours and take a chance on a doctor and stay in a hotel to get my treatments. And it was really difficult. I mean, I ended up buying one of these machines and got it at my house and I’ve just been using it for the last five years. So, you know, 35 hours was great, but I was pretty bad off. Now I got about 700 hours and, uh, you know, more hours is just greater stimulus to the body to grow vasculature, right? And I mean, I… Bill Gasiamis (28:38)how do you know that you’ve grown? I know there’s this ⁓ feeling or this change that happens in the person. ⁓ Like you said, dementia, ⁓ people who experienced dementia have a better outcome later or a change in the way that they’re brain working, et cetera. can you see the, is there a way to see the difference between the blood vessels and Jack Clifford (29:02)You can’t, you can’t image, could image on a, on a cardiac pet would be like the only imaging or I guess, you know, if I went back and did a stress test again, you would, you would be able to see, cause it’s not quantifying specific arteries. It’s, quantifying the total volume, but I tried that they were, actually wouldn’t let me, they said it’s not safe because you have it at a stent or a bypass. So I went back to the same place that I got it, you know, and I was like, literally they put me through the imaging machine. gave me the dye and then they got Lifestyle Changes and Holistic Health I went to go on the stress test and the same doctor was there and he refused to tell me to go. So I like, wanted to say, hey doc, let’s go for a run. Cause like, you’re not going to keep up with me, but you know, so I, I didn’t bother with that, but I’ve got my own, you know, I did my own little stress, stress test with a treadmill, right? I started, I was getting chest pain. I found out where I can induce angina and I try and say just below it, you know, so I know where it is, right? I was 2.2 miles an hour. That’s not a fast walk. And then after the first 19 sessions where I was staying in the hotel, I got up to 2.7. That’s a really big difference even if it doesn’t sound like a lot. And then I got my machine and I kept going. And then within a couple of months, I was starting to do a running stride. And I could keep that up, no angina. I know where angina would come in. I had time calculations and everything. And then eventually, now I can run. comfortably 6.5 mile an hour pace for quite a while, know, push it up to 14 miles an hour for 30 second sprints and you know, like all kinds of stuff. So, ⁓ Bill Gasiamis (30:38)How long before you break the two hour barrier for the marathon? Like was recently done. Maybe, maybe the more blood vessels, the more blood flow. Maybe you can get there. Jack Clifford (30:42)⁓ I got zero interest in that. Yeah. I think so though, I think those Kenyans should be ⁓ hopping on these EECP machines and they’re I mean, they’re already amazing but. Bill Gasiamis (30:58)Well, you want the Kenyans to just completely own marathon running for the rest of eternity. It’s unbelievable what they did. Right. Like I imagine that there is something else going on there, but I imagine blood flow, oxygenation, more blood vessels. Like it’s got to potentially be a thing. reckon if you do a check between the last guy, me, who’s going to like 50 hours before you get to the other side and those dudes, there would Jack Clifford (31:03)Yeah, yeah, it’ll just be a Kenyan Yeah. ⁓ Bill Gasiamis (31:27)definitely be a difference because they’re exercising all the time, right? Jack Clifford (31:31)Sure, yeah, they’re pushing the collaterals as wide open as, know, whatever, whatever a human can do on their own, they’re doing it to the max to, know, the same phenomenon that EECP is doing for folks lying down. You know, they’re doing it to whatever the max you can without the machine, I would say. Bill Gasiamis (31:48)So this is a bog standard human body task. Like it just does that all the time. I have heard the blood vessels can reroute in the brain when somebody experiences a blockage and then, and it’s not useful at the time of the blockage, obviously, and it causes potential cell death when somebody has a stroke. But then later on. Jack Clifford (32:11)If there’s too much blood, the revascularization, yeah. Bill Gasiamis (32:14)Yeah, so EECP can kind of occur naturally and then it can support as much of the surrounding tissue as possible so that it doesn’t all die off. ⁓ So what you’re talking about is just encouraging EECP ⁓ to happen more than it would normally happen by ⁓ inducing it through this device where people ⁓ get sort of strapped in and then Jack Clifford (32:23)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (32:43)the machine runs, what does it run like a program? Explain how that works. Jack Clifford (32:47)Literally, it’s just air pressure. got different pumps to pump the calves, the thighs and the hips up. And then it’s really just about the timing, right? It’s got to hit it at the right interval of your heartbeat. So it’s at the right place in diastole where your heart is at rest. that timing is very, crucial. And that’s really… Yeah, it’s not, it’s very old technology. The machine I have was built in 2009. You know, they have new machines that are portable now that I’m working with some of the manufacturers to actually, you know, make these available in the U S because there aren’t any in the U S but they do have portable machines that don’t require a bed. You could get treated on your couch. You could get treated, you know, on your own bed, uh, lying on the floor, I suppose. Um, so, you know, we’ve, we’ve really like technology hasn’t Bill Gasiamis (33:19)Wow. Jack Clifford (33:42)slowed down. just China’s like taking this thing and you know, have a basically every Chinese hospital has several of these machines and they treat patients in the, in the room with us. It’s, part of their standard of care for all kinds of different, different diseases that they’re treating. You know, and it’s adjunctive to just about everything. There’s nothing that you couldn’t do EECP with, right? ⁓ yeah. Bill Gasiamis (34:03)Okay, okay, so. How do you experience your body differently now? And actually, let’s go back actually, how long has it been since you came across this, decided to get the first treatment, implemented yourself ⁓ at home and then how do you feel different now? Jack Clifford (34:08)Oof. Yeah, it’s been five years and four months now. And every since like, this is this is a little hard part to quantify, because there’s been a lot of brain changes to from this, right? So so I don’t even like feel like my 47 year old self who was in the hospital, that feels really like somebody else to me. You know, it’s a version of me, I suppose, but I can’t really relate to that person. Because I like a small example. The Impact of Stress on Health I used to sleep eight to nine hours a night. That was my normal, my whole life. I was generally like the guy that would come in the latest. You could come to work. was the guy that came in the latest. You And now I get up at two 30 most mornings and I’m like, like rare to go with energy. I’m, you know, I’m working out doing resistance training. I’m reading, you know, I wrote a book, I’m writing another book. I’m writing a book on rectal dysfunction as it relates to this phenomenon, because that’s a whole other, you know, case study. and I work a full-time job and I just have an incredible amount of energy basically all the time. My mood is way better. My sense of touch is really different now. I give a lot more hugs because it feels really good. ⁓ My sense of smell and taste and… You know, hearing, you know, I used to like have to go to the bathroom at night sometimes, you know, wake me up to go to the bathroom. Long gone. Bill Gasiamis (35:47)So at the same time though, it sounds like also you might have changed other things as well though, right? So what else have you changed in the meantime? Jack Clifford (35:55)sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It hasn’t just been EECP. Absolutely. you know, really good supplement routine. ⁓ Pretty extensive, but, you know, managing my lipids, for example, I take a thousand milligrams of niacin twice a day. I’ve been able to bring my triglyceride to HDL ratio to kind of an optimal one-to-one, using fish oil and some other things. ⁓ And, you know, I… I really stay away from carbs for the most part. I like to eat keto, but I like it to be what I call clean keto. So I’m not like pounding keto ice cream or all these things that are, you know, they taste good and yeah, they’re keto, but they got all kinds of oils in them that aren’t really good for your body. ⁓ And, ⁓ you know, I’m big into moving and being active and, you know, having an engaged social life as much as possible as well. I mean, I think that’s a very underrated thing. That’s actually an area I struggle in because I’m working so much, but you even this helps just, you know, getting to know people even online. But, ⁓ Bill Gasiamis (37:04)It sounds like you haven’t re it doesn’t sound like you’ve reinvented the wheel. Like everything that you say is things that people take for granted that if they implemented would improve their life before EECP. We’re talking about EECP today, right? But just those things alone would make a massive difference to somebody’s experience. And that’s kind of the message that I’m trying to kind of get into the Jack Clifford (37:17)Totally agree. I thought it a good Sure. Bill Gasiamis (37:30)⁓ minds and hearts of the stroke survivors who I interview and who listened to the podcast. My book, I’m going to, we’re going to talk about your book in a sec, but I’m going to talk about my book. My book, when I wrote it, I thought I discovered all these things that people, should know about that no one knows about, but it’s not true in here is mindset. ⁓ there’s a chapter about emotional intelligence. There’s a chapter about nutrition. There’s a chapter about sleep. There’s a chapter about community. Jack Clifford (37:32)Yeah. Yeah. No, please. Bill Gasiamis (38:00)⁓ that’s just the five that I can just rattle off the top of my head right now. And you’ve already mentioned that in the last few minutes, that’s exactly the things that you mentioned. And people take it for granted how much that improves your overall health. Right. The Journey of Writing a Book Jack Clifford (38:13)That’s so true. And also what’s wrapped up in the wrapper of all of those things that are threaded together is stress, right? ⁓ If you do all of those things, right, you’re lowering stress. How did I get heart disease at 47 when it happened to my grandfather in his late 60s and my mom in her mid 60s and it happened to me at 47? And we know it didn’t happen at 47. It was years earlier and I realized it at 47. Stress, you know? Like I was the guy that took on a lot. Bill Gasiamis (38:38)Hiding earlier. Jack Clifford (38:44)and had some traumatic things happen in my life and whatever, and I don’t need to go into that. But I always felt like it was all rolling off my back. Like, you know, I’m fine. know, like I didn’t, and there are reasons why I felt that way. ⁓ However, at the end of the day, I know that I wasn’t processing. There was so much I did not process. And I didn’t learn how to like have really good boundaries and that, you know, begot more stress because of those lack of boundaries and, but stress, right? You know, like, but if you have good good social life and healthy people in your lives, that takes stress off. Eating the right food takes oxidative stress off your body. You could go on and on, but I think stress is gonna kill you before anything else. Bill Gasiamis (39:17)you Yeah. I love that you said that. I love what I love that. That was the answer that you gave when I said, what else did you do? Because it’s not just, you know, it’s like, I’m going to eat well, but smoke, you know, I’m going to eat well, but drink excessive amounts of alcohol. Like, no, it doesn’t work. You know, you can’t do that. Yeah. can’t do. Yeah. Small. Jack Clifford (39:42)No, you gotta do it all in concert. It’s the layers, right? Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (39:49)numbers, know, the percentages they add up, you know, 1 % here, 1 % there all adds up and you get a result at the end of it. Okay. So, so you’re you’ve gone, I’m going to see if I can grow new blood vessels to support my heart. And what you’re found between the time that you went to hospital around five years ago to now is that the angina has Jack Clifford (39:55)Yeah. Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (40:17)⁓ improved, they’ve gone away. The heart has improved, I beg your pardon, the blood flow. And have you had a medical examination since then to do other comparison? Jack Clifford (40:28)Yeah, I have. Yeah, I’ve got a cardiologist. I haven’t seen him and I’ve talked to him the other day because I talked about the book, but I haven’t gone to see him because he’s a plane flight away. But I’ve been worked up for the crowded intermediate thickness. You might be familiar with that as it relates to stroke. okay, well, they just measure your crowded arteries and look at the placking in your crowded arteries as a proxy for your systemic plaque burden. And flow mediated deletation, is they totally occlude the… the arm with a blood pressure cuff and then see how quickly you can refill it after, you know, like, it’s like five minutes of this, your hand is completely numb. And those all, you know, workups were good and that was after a couple of years of treatment. You know, I tried to have that stress test, like I mentioned, but you know, now I just see my primary care, you know, he’s a good guy and he runs on my lipid panels and, ⁓ you know, so I’m definitely monitored, but. What I haven’t done is gotten re-imaged because I don’t want to put extra dye in my system. Sure, somebody wants the images because they don’t believe me, but I’m not trying to sell anybody anything here. I’m just trying to spread the word on something. If somebody doubts my honesty, they can, it’s fine. Bill Gasiamis (41:38)I know what you mean, Jack. I know what you mean. I and I asked you because yeah, I would love to see that before and after. would love to see the blood flow. What’s happening, watch change. would be amazing. story to tell, but I also went out of my way if I could to avoid having more dyes and all that kind of stuff injected into my body. I totally get it. It’s okay. Yeah. ⁓ Jack Clifford (41:49)Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (42:01)Okay. So you wrote a book about it. Like, what was the idea behind the book? What were you thinking? Show us the one that you got there with the old book cover. And then I’ll include the new book cover in this image as we chat. Jack Clifford (42:06)yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. So I started writing this book, in, know, ⁓ November timeframe, ⁓ after I mentioned to you, so my, my friend came down, ⁓ and stayed with me for 13 days and he had had some stroke damage five years before that was, you know, his whole right side, he just had like numbness and then pain. And then, you know, it this weird cascade of symptoms so bad, you know, sometimes he couldn’t sleep from it. And so All the time he took off work he could he came and he used the machine three times a day and then he left pain free and like nothing else had worked and then this worked and I didn’t per se expect that I but I was like, you I know it does stuff. It’s helpful. But anyways, when I saw that, you know, I really started digging even more because before that I was like, well, Jesus is amazing. But maybe it’s just me, you know, and and anyways, so, ⁓ so then I, you know, I just started writing the book one day and The Role of EECP in Heart Health You know, my mom was a book author and I always wanted to write a book. didn’t really have anything particular to write about and all of sudden I do. So I’m like, you know, let’s see what happens. And, uh, and you dig into the research more and more, and you’re just like, increasingly frustrated by how everyone has known about this. And yet, you know, they don’t promote it. They don’t talk about it because it’s inconvenient. You know, and I’m going to get a little, try not to get like soapboxy here, but Bill Gasiamis (43:36)Do it, do it, go for it man. Jack Clifford (43:37)Okay, okay, because, you know, cardiologists will say it, some of them, the ones that are honest, they’ll be like, like mine. He says, I was making obscene amounts of money, giving people bypass surgeries instance. And then I was given the same people bypass surgeries instance, a couple years later. And, you know, and then he stumbled upon some answers and EECP is one of them that helps his patients stay well. And, you know, he makes a lot less money. because of it, because he doesn’t go in and do these interventional approaches. And, you know, EECP, the most you could pay somebody is like $100 an hour, and you’re going to tie up a patient room for 35 hours with a tech, it doesn’t make any sense. I go pop a stint and you make 10 grand in two hours and never see you again. You know, like it just, I get it from, you know, I want to own a portion of Ferrari and have a lake house and a winter house, but You know, like, I don’t know how you live with yourself. You said go for it, man. I’m going to go for it. you know, and my son’s about to graduate. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Fair enough. I’m good with it. Yeah. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (44:38)But come on, come on, Jack. Yeah, you go for it. I’m going to push back. I’m going to push back as well. You go for it. I’ll push back. There’s yeah. Which is cool. Right? That’s what I want. I want to have a conversation and I don’t want to control the narrative, but the guy that goes in needs a stint today has a blockage. Like that’s life saving. That does work. What I am afraid of that happens sometimes when people go in and they’ve got a blockage and then they get ⁓ even even a stroke blockage. Right. in carotid or a vertebral artery. What happens is sometimes people go in and they get told you need a stent. Fair enough. You’re about to have a heart attack. You’re about to have a major stroke. If we don’t put one in, you’ll have a, that’s necessary. The challenge is, that that person sometimes doesn’t learn the lesson of what got them into the situation where they need a stent. Jack Clifford (45:22)Good. Exactly. sure. Yeah, by all means. Like emergency medicine is great. And we’ll put that in the emergency medicine category of cardiology, right? Why aren’t they offering you, why aren’t they saying, Hey, you’re at risk for a whole lot of other things just by this happening. Why don’t you come 35 times to this EECP machine and you know, like, or why don’t we have centers Bill Gasiamis (45:36)Yeah. Yes, and then later… Jack Clifford (45:55)all over. I found exactly one place in Australia so far that I’m not focusing on Australia right now. I do plan to take EECP Locator International, but right now the access points in the US are abysmal. 70, 80 % of the people in the United States could not get to a center. There’s no access point that’s at all realistic for them to get to. And yet these machines are not that expensive. They’re the price of a Decent not that great car. ⁓ Bill Gasiamis (46:24)we’re starting to see them in, I don’t know, health spas or something like that, where people will go, they’ll get yoga, they’ll get this, they’ll get that, they’ll get infusions perhaps and all sorts of other things. And there’ll be a machine or there’ll be a suit that people can put on and they can go through one hour. Jack Clifford (46:29)Yeah, that’s good. That’s great. Yeah, although I do want to say that the Normatech, like the compression boots that they have and some of those things, when they don’t use the pressures that EECP uses up to 6 PSI and they’re not sinking it in between heartbeats, it’s helpful, but we’re not talking about things that can do the same thing in the body. It’s on the right path and I’m not digging it as being worthless because it’s not, but it’s just not the right thing. Bill Gasiamis (46:47)Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that’s kind of what we’re seeing. And to go back to your point is because the medical profession does medical profession stuff. this is not, it’s not that it’s not medically kind of aligned. It definitely is. But when you’re told that the way you solve a problem is through putting a stent in and then never talking to that patient again, to tell them how to avoid to get a stent in that’s Jack Clifford (47:31)Yeah, that’s your job. Bill Gasiamis (47:34)what they do, like they’ve been trained to do that forever. And that’s what they do. And that works and it saves the life. But what it doesn’t do, which I also have a challenge with this, it doesn’t teach the lesson. What it reinforces is that if I have something wrong with me and I go to a doctor, they’ll fix it. So next time it goes wrong, I’ll just go to the doctor and they’ll fix it again. And I didn’t have to change my life. Like this even bloody advertisements that do that. They Jack Clifford (47:51)just I’ll go and he’ll fix it. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Bill Gasiamis (48:03)They hijack that part of the person’s brain and they say, you know, have you got reflux, heartburn, that kind of stuff? Don’t let reflux and heartburn get in the way of eating the foods that you love. Just take a tablet. You know, that’s the same kind of thing, right? And that’s why the medical profession doesn’t do that because they’re not trained to do anything other than sell their thing. And their thing is what they went to work, to school for. Raising Awareness for EECP Therapy Jack Clifford (48:17)Yes. Bill Gasiamis (48:30)20 years to be able to administer. But every so often you come across an amazing doctor, surgeon, et cetera, who says, I can’t do anything more for you, but maybe somebody else can. Those guys are better than the doctor who says, we can’t do anything else for you and then send you off their way. That next sentence, but maybe somebody else can, I don’t know who they are. That is. Jack Clifford (48:43)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (48:57)I think a great thing to say this is where I think EACP kind of fits in that now that I’m here and things are not good. Jack Clifford (49:05)I totally agree. I totally agree. And yeah. And you, so you, you mentioned like the wellness spas and whatnot. And here’s the thing in 2015. So, you know, somewhat recently the FDA approved EECP for a brand new indication, general circulation, right? In healthy people. Like it’s right on the FDA indication. And also in one case in increase in VO2 max, but rough, that’s roughly saying the same thing. ⁓ yeah. Bill Gasiamis (49:32)for healthy people, was that part of it? Jack Clifford (49:35)Yeah, it said unhealthy patients and healthy people didn’t call patients. So, so, ⁓ but, but, know, the litmus test for that is, is your doctor say you’re healthy enough to undergo circulation enhancement? If the answer is yes, you know, it doesn’t matter if you got all that other stuff or not, you know, we’re just not treating you for it. We’re not saying ECPs is fix for this, your erectile dysfunction. It might help it. You know, what’s not saying it’s, it’s the fix for your stroke, but it might really help your stroke, recovery, but. Bill Gasiamis (49:47)which Jack Clifford (50:03)Anyhow, so like you can, you know, I don’t know about in Australia, but in the United States, you could get an EECP machine and create a viable business model off of helping people as soon as people actually know about it and what it does, right? I’m trying to solve the access issue in the United States by aggregating demand, right, as one of the solutions. So I have a website, eecplocator.com. And if people… ⁓ tell me that they like EECP to be available in their area, when I get like five to 10 patients in one area, we’re gonna find a way to get it to them. ⁓ The how is, you there’s a bunch of different possible ways we can get EECP to them, but at the end of the day, you know, like people need this treatment. They really, really do. Bill Gasiamis (50:50)Yeah. We’re not talking about anything ⁓ out there. Like this is not an out there thing. This is definitely common. Now I, I don’t know how I haven’t come across it. I’ve all these years after all these years now I’ve just because of our conversation right now, I just did a Google search and I typed in EECP machine Australia. And the first thing that came up was an Australian government department of health, disability and aging. Jack Clifford (50:57)No, it’s that. Bill Gasiamis (51:20)document from the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which talks about a mid-trade Australia EECP system model, external counter pulsation system stationary. So it seems like they have a… Jack Clifford (51:36)Like they’ve approved it, sounds like they have some approved devices. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (51:38)Something like they’re at least looking at it. Let me see what that says. The inclusion of the kind of device in the AI community is subject to compliance with conditions placed in post. Yeah, it sounds like it’s been through some regulated body in 2021. Jack Clifford (51:52)Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yep. There you go. Bill Gasiamis (51:57)This device is intended to provide external counter pulsation therapy and is indicated for use in the treatment of stable angina. Jack Clifford (52:06)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (52:08)pectoris and congestive heart failure. There you go, my friend. Jack Clifford (52:10)Yeah, it works great for people with art failure. It really does. Bill Gasiamis (52:14)Dude, father-in-law had heart failure. He passed away from heart failure just a few, about a year and a half ago. ⁓ Now, I don’t know, I’m not saying anything, but we’ve never heard of this before. Today’s my first time where I’m really going to deep dive about this thing with you. ⁓ So what are the challenges that you face? what are the, what is it? ⁓ The barriers that you face? Jack Clifford (52:20)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (52:44)when you’re speaking to people about this or how people finding out about it, how do you help people like Jack Clifford (52:50)It’s just an awareness piece. It’s an EECP what? And then, you you get in with some physicians and then you got to duke it out a little bit. Not with all of them. There’s plenty of physicians, you know, I’ve talked to the physicians that have machines and are doing the right thing for society and still making plenty of money. ⁓ They’ll just tell you, you know, I’ve talked to some cardiologists and just they kno

They Banned A Dictionary Definition. Here's Why.Dr. Bryan Ardis returns. 90 minutes of the stuff they really don't want you to see.This content is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before making any changes to your health regimen.Nine months ago I sat down with Dr. Bryan Ardis and we did an interview that generated somewhere north of 140 million views across my platforms.The Australian government's TGA (the equivalent of the FDA in the US) sued Meta to have a nine-minute clip removed from Facebook inside Australia. The clip wasn't about vaccines. It wasn't about COVID treatment protocols. It wasn't about anything you'd expect regulators to lose sleep over.It was about a dictionary definition.The word virus.That clip had an average watch time of two minutes and fifteen seconds on a three-minute video. People watched it almost all the way through. Over and over. Because it cracked something open in them that couldn't be shut again.So when Bryan reached out and said he had more to share, I cleared my calendar.What followed was 90 minutes that I believe will change the way you see your food, your medicine, your government, and your own body.Here's what we covered.Why That Clip Had To Come DownThe word virus is not an English word. It is Latin. For four centuries, from the 1600s through to the modern era, it has carried one definition.A poison. Especially of snakes. Venom.That is not conspiracy. That is etymology. You can look it up yourself in any pre-modern dictionary.Now here is why that single fact is so threatening to the pharmaceutical industry.From the moment you are born, you are told you need vaccines to protect you from viruses. In America, within 24 hours of birth, before your baby can leave the hospital, it receives a hepatitis B vaccine. Bryan points out that the medical profession's own explanation for how hepatitis B spreads is through unprotected sex with multiple partners or sharing syringes. He asks a reasonable question: how many newborns in a hospital nursery are doing either of those things?The deeper issue is this. If a virus is venom, and that is what the word has always meant, then the narrative that viruses spread between people falls apart completely. Venom doesn't transmit person to person through the air or through contact. It has to be introduced. Deliberately. Through a delivery mechanism.Once you know that, you stop asking "how do I avoid catching this?" and you start asking "how is this getting into me, and who benefits?"That is why the TGA made the call.The Paris Research Nobody Talked AboutIn April 2020, four months into the pandemic, two researchers in Paris ordered spike proteins of COVID from China and the UK. They wanted to understand a paradox being reported around the world by scientists and doctors. Smokers appeared to be largely immune to COVID symptoms.They ran the proteins through a DNA sequencing machine to find what they were identical to in nature.The result was what Bryan describes as an aha moment. The two spike proteins, S1 and S2, were found to be identical to venom proteins from two snakes. The King Cobra toxin and Bungarotoxin from the Bungarus snake in China. Both are classified as neurotoxins. Both specifically target the nerves that control breathing, which explains the respiratory symptoms. They also bind to nerves responsible for taste, smell, hearing, and memory. That explains every other major COVID symptom.The switches these venom proteins target on your cells are called alpha-7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. The N in that name stands for nicotine. Tobacco users already had nicotine occupying those receptors, keeping cells functioning. The venom proteins couldn't get a foothold. That's why smokers weren't getting sick.That's why four weeks after Bryan released this research in his Watch the Water documentary in 2021, Australia, New Zealand, America, and Canada held a meeting and announced a global health agenda to ban all nicotine and tobacco products by 2030.The 26-Year SetupBryan walks through what he believes is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle. It starts in 1994.In April of that year, the seven CEOs of America's largest tobacco companies were summoned before Congress. Under oath, under threat of perjury, every single one of them declared that nicotine is not addictive.Four months later, the FDA published a warning that nicotine is highly addictive and mandated warning labels on all tobacco products.In 1994, 56% of American adults used tobacco products. By 2020, that number was down to 11%. Bryan's argument is that this 26-year propaganda campaign was not accidental. It was a deliberate reduction in the population's natural protection against the biological event that was coming.By the time COVID arrived, 90% of the American population had no nicotine in their system. 90% of people were, in his words, ripe and ready.The Tobacco Panacea They BuriedHere is something the medical profession has known for centuries but does not advertise.From 1492 to 1860, the medical profession maintained what is called the Panacea Doctrine. A formal list of what was considered the single cure for all human diseases in any given era. For four hundred years, there was only one plant ever given the designation "panacea of all panaceas."The tobacco plant.Bryan has the medical textbooks. He has the case studies. Tobacco has been published by conventional medicine to be antibacterial, antifungal, anti-parasitic, antiviral, anti-Alzheimer's, antihypertensive, and powerfully anti-inflammatory. The cardiac glycosides in tobacco (the nutrients that keep arteries elastic and blood pressure stable) are the same compounds cardiologists now prescribe in synthetic form as prescription drugs.Ozempic, the second highest-revenue drug in the world last year, is Gila monster lizard venom. Bryan points out that tobacco has been published in medical journals for 400 years as a hunger regulator and obesity preventative. Every beta cell in your pancreas that produces insulin requires nicotine to activate it. No nicotine, no proper insulin release. That is not his theory. It is published.They cannot patent the tobacco plant. They can patent synthetic versions of what is inside it. That is why it had to be demonised.What's In Your Food That Nobody Told You AboutThis was the part that stopped me cold.Bryan shared a 2021 research study titled Applications of Venom Biodiversity in Agriculture. He pulled up a chart mapping five sources of venom being deliberately inserted into the seeds of genetically modified crops worldwide. Snake venom, spider venom, scorpion venom, bee venom, and wasp venom.The crops on the list: melons, cabbage, soybeans, lettuce, beans, celery, rice, stevia, potatoes, wheat, peppers, tomatoes, corn, watermelons, radishes, squash, cucumbers, canola oil, sunflower. The companies holding the patents are agricultural biotech giants. Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, holds the majority.The justification given in the research paper is that if venom is infused into every part of a plant from seed to fruit, insects that eat the plant die from the venom. No need to spray pesticides externally. The paper states that "agriculture, environment, and society are benefiting from this use of venom biodiversity."Bryan's question is simple. If this benefits society, why has no one been told?The number of patents for venom-laced crop seeds grew 490% between 2002 and 2004 alone. It has continued growing. There has been no independent research published on what those venoms do to humans consuming them long term.What does venom do in the human body? It depletes zinc and copper from every cell. Glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup, also owned by Monsanto) does the same thing to the soil. That means the plants you eat are already stripped of the minerals you need before the venom in the seed adds another layer of depletion. The result is a population that is both mineral-deficient and being low-dose poisoned daily through the food supply.Gusty's StoryI want to share this because it needs to be heard.A man named Gusty jumped onto one of my Facebook Lives in mid-January. Four hundred pounds. Stage four lung cancer. Six months to live. Forty-nine years old, six kids, nine grandchildren.He didn't want chemotherapy. We talked. I encouraged him to make a declaration. Not medical advice, just a commitment to his own healing. He got on soursop, ivermectin, nicotine patches, and the carnivore diet. He switched from 60 commercial cigarettes a day to 20 American Spirit organic cigarettes because he couldn't afford the full 60.Twelve weeks later he FaceTimed me from his oncologist's office. Sixty pounds down. Cancer free.Bryan's explanation: commercial tobacco contains 599 FDA-approved chemical additives including arsenic. That's what causes the harm, not the plant itself. Organic tobacco is antibacterial, antiparasitic, and antiviral. Nicotine occupies the same receptors that venom blocks, releasing the grip on cells and allowing the body to shed excess tissue. The carnivore diet stopped feeding whatever parasitic or cancerous mechanisms were running. The body did the rest.In 20 years of clinical practice, Bryan found 80% of cancers were actually parasitic infections. Since COVID, roughly half are parasitic and half appear to be driven by venom proteins, either from the virus itself or from components he identifies in the COVID...

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Аустралијска управа за терапијска средства (TGA) одобрила је лек Нефи који би могао да помогне хиљадама људи у ризику од анафилактичне реакције на алергије. Реч је о спреју за нос на бази адреналина, који омогућава брзо отварање дисајних путева и утиче на рад срца, чиме спречава потенцијалне компликације опасне по живот, изјавила је алерголог Кони Кателарис за Медијакаст.

Theo thông tin từ Cơ quan Quản lý Sản phẩm Trị liệu của Úc (TGA), CSL Seqirus, một phần của công ty công nghệ sinh học CSL của Úc, đã thông báo rằng thuốc xịt mũi neffy® adrenaline (epinephrine) hiện đã có mặt và được phê duyệt sử dụng tại Úc để điều trị khẩn cấp sốc phản vệ ở người lớn và trẻ em từ 15kg trở lên và từ bốn tuổi trở lên.

Hello, hello, hello! Thanks for looping back, just in time to see the part 2 with a cult legend of the scene, a man who bred some all time favourites from the TGA catalogue, including Double Purple Doja, Neon Superskunk, Black Cherry and so many more - a massive welcome to one of the newest members of the Arcana Collective - Suny Cheeba! We were lucky enough to have sunny drop by and talk about a range of different topics from breeding, concentrates, the future of the market and some plans for the future under the new Arcana Collective. Be sure to stay tuned for the next instalment which drops in a few days, this is a 2 parter! Be sure to check out Sunny's instagram and website at www.instagram.com/sunycheba/ Arcana collective - arcana.net/ Our patreon fans (www.patreon.com/thepotcast/) are the major lifeblood of the show and it COULDN'T happen without them. please consider subscribing if your interested in getting early access to content and unreleased episodes please check out www.patreon.com/thepotcast/ and sign up to support the show today. As usual a massive thank you to our incredible sponsors. Without them the show couldn't happen so please support the show by supporting them! Seeds Here Now - Best in the business, all the latest drops, the hottest breeders and the service in the game. They have the latest hype, land-race magic, to aussie genetics from yours truly. If you want the best, head on over now to - www.seedsherenow.com to score your seeds today! Koppert Biological Systems - Check out Koppert Biological Systems, they are based all over the place and have amazing beneficial predators that will help keep your gardens pests under control. They also stock a great range of microbial products designed to fight off those nasty soil borne diseases and more! www.koppert.ca/ Dynavap - Use code 'POTCAST' for a discount at checkout! - Dynavap have changed the game by producing one of the hardest hitting, terpiest and high quality vapes on the market. Their unique design allows you to replicate the hit of a water pipe or joint with all the terps and potency your looking for. The M series vape is what I used to transition from combustion to vaping and I cannot recommend it enough! Please check them out at - www.dynavap.com/ CANNA - Big thank you to our newest sponsors CANNA, a company you all know and love. Producing some of the best nutrients, mediums and products in the game. Whether your using coco, soil or hydro, grab some rhizotonic and boost to see incredible results, read more and check them out over at www.canna.com

Hi there gang, welcome back for another episode. On today we have a cult legend of the scene, a man who bred some all time favourites from the TGA catalogue, including Double Purple Doja, Neon Superskunk, Black Cherry and so many more - a massive welcome to one of the newest members of the Arcana Collective - Suny Cheeba! We were lucky enough to have sunny drop by and talk about a range of different topics from breeding, concentrates, the future of the market and some plans for the future under the new Arcana Collective. Be sure to stay tuned for the next instalment which drops in a few days, this is a 2 parter! Be sure to check out Sunny's instagram and website at https://www.instagram.com/sunycheba/ Arcana collective - https://arcana.net/ Our patreon fans (www.patreon.com/thepotcast/) are the major lifeblood of the show and it COULDN'T happen without them. please consider subscribing if your interested in getting early access to content and unreleased episodes please check out www.patreon.com/thepotcast/ and sign up to support the show today. As usual a massive thank you to our incredible sponsors. Without them the show couldn't happen so please support the show by supporting them! Seeds Here Now - Best in the business, all the latest drops, the hottest breeders and the service in the game. They have the latest hype, land-race magic, to aussie genetics from yours truly. If you want the best, head on over now to - www.seedsherenow.com to score your seeds today! Koppert Biological Systems - Check out Koppert Biological Systems, they are based all over the place and have amazing beneficial predators that will help keep your gardens pests under control. They also stock a great range of microbial products designed to fight off those nasty soil borne diseases and more! www.koppert.ca/ Dynavap - Use code 'POTCAST' for a discount at checkout! - Dynavap have changed the game by producing one of the hardest hitting, terpiest and high quality vapes on the market. Their unique design allows you to replicate the hit of a water pipe or joint with all the terps and potency your looking for. The M series vape is what I used to transition from combustion to vaping and I cannot recommend it enough! Please check them out at - www.dynavap.com/ CANNA - Big thank you to our newest sponsors CANNA, a company you all know and love. Producing some of the best nutrients, mediums and products in the game. Whether your using coco, soil or hydro, grab some rhizotonic and boost to see incredible results, read more and check them out over at www.canna.com Show less

Seja apoiador do X do ControleCompre seus jogos na Nuuvem! MARCAÇÕES DE TEMPO(0:00:00) - Abertura(0:04:58) - Merchan Alura (0:05:31) - Ranking dos games mais vendidos de 2025 nos EUA traz surpresas(0:15:44) - Xbox Developer Direct 2026: Forza Horizon 6, Fable e mais(0:33:47) - Lançamento de Highguard foi afetado por polêmica do TGA(0:43:14) - Rapidinhas(0:47:13) - EncerramentoCRÉDITOSApresentação: Guilherme Dias e PH Lutti LippeRoteiro: Guilherme DiasEdição: Gabriel SalesThumbnail: Lucas G. FerreiraSiga o XdC: YouTube⁠⁠⁠| Instagram | Bluesky | Threads | ⁠⁠⁠Tik Tok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nossas plataformas e redes⁠⁠⁠Contato: contato@xdocontrole.comContato para anunciantes e parcerias: comercialxdc@gmail.com

Welkom in 2026! Waar we vorige week vooruitkeken op de games die we dit jaar kunnen verwachten, gaan we deze keer week in speculatiemodus. Tijd voor wilde voorspellingen waar we later lachend op terug kunnen kijken… omdat alles natuurlijk compleet fout blijkt te zijn! Zo denkt Simon dat Fable gecanceld wordt, is Ron ervan overtuigd dat Half-Life 3 dit jaar eindelijk uitkomt en hoopt Jacco op een stortvloed aan Pokémon-ports. Benieuwd naar alle voorspellingen die absoluut zeker gaan uitkomen? Check dan snel de aflevering, baklap!00:00 Intro01:05 Ron zijn kerst- en podcastverhalen10:00 Simon zijn (feest?)dagen12:35 Gay Unlimited20:00 Uitleg van de voorspellingen21:40 Ron voorspelling 1: GTA 6 gaat positief zijn voor de industrie 28:45 Simon voorspelling 1: GTA komt niet uit dit jaar30:30 Jacco voorspelling 1: GTA 6 wordt 100 euro33:10 Simon voorspelling 2: Fable wordt gecanceld42:15 Jacco voorspelling 2: Het jaar van de Pokémon-classics!46:35 Ron voorspelling 2: Ubisoft brengt 3 remakes uit57:55 Simon voorspelling 3: Een onaangekondigde game wordt de TGA-verrassing01:02:35 Jacco voorspelling 3: Horizon Hunters komt dit jaar uit01:07:55 Ron voorspelling 3: Half-Life 3 komt dit jaar uit01:14:35 Laatste voorspellingen01:19:45 Simon zijn magazinemededeling01:24:45 Outro

Episode 197 – Special Conditions (Pokémon TCG) This week's Card of the Day is a full-on vibes pick: Mega Manectric EX full art—loud colors, chaotic Mega-era energy, and the kind of card you love because it rules, not because someone on the internet said it's “a smart buy.” That “collect what you like” energy keeps showing up all episode: Adam talks card shows, trades, and the kind of personal chase cards that hit harder than market comps—like the Ditto Charmander promo that instantly time-travels you back to your first big events. If your binder's been drifting into “what's hot right now,” consider this your reminder to steer it back to you. Build the collection you'd still love if prices didn't exist. 00:00:00 — Cold open: Delibird show survival + Whatnot glow-up? 00:01:15 — Episode start + what we're getting into 00:04:30 — Card of the Day: Mega Manectric EX (taste over value) 00:07:45 — Freeport, ME show recap (brewery vibes + room to browse) 00:11:15 — Ditto Charmander promo = core memory collecting 00:19:15 — Why is everyone hunting Mudkip? 00:24:30 — Danvers, MA show recap (New England Cardhouse energy) 00:29:00 — TGA slabs + trade talk 00:30:45 — Prismatic product reality check 00:35:30 — Anime Frontier finds (artist alley Pokémon heat) 00:40:45 — Whatnot learning curve: awkward starts, pacing, bids 00:42:45 — Giveaways + keeping viewers engaged 00:51:00 — Buyers, shipping, and stream momentum 00:58:00 — Holiday stream idea + time management panic

This summer we've curated your Help I Have A Teenager playlist with a healthy dose of culture-savvy conversation parents actually want - Parenting Out Loud. The school holidays are upon us and Monz, Amelia & Stacey are back to distract you with some Millennial core memories, a flashback to Shania Twain and a playlist that will lift your mood. On the show this week: Genius or completely unhinged? Do our kids need ‘Social Media Prep School’? We've got thoughts. And, are you holding onto a room full of stuff to hand down to your kids? How A$AP Rocky & Rihanna and Sarah Jessica Parker are rebranding your clutter or as we like to call it 'love junk'. Plus, the childcare conversation we need to have & one woman's controversial solution. And our recommendations:

Вас приветствует Завтракаст, лучший подкаст про игры, технологии, ИИ, медиа, кино, сериалы, интернет и прочие гиковские штуки. В последнем за 2025 год выпуске мы вспоминаем, что же показали крутого на The Game Awards 2025 в декабре, а также подводим итоги года – фильмы года, сериалы года, игры года, покупки года и многое другое. С вами опять ваши трое виртуальных друзей Дима, Тимур и Максим.

Aproveitando a época do ano e o aniversário do TGA, vamos debater sobre a importância e desafios das premiações de jogos. Nesse episódio analisamos a história do The Game Awards e seus GOTYs, falamos sobre as ideias por trás do GameFM Awards, além da natureza das premiações, escolha de candidatos, público vs. críticos, polêmicas, tretas e muito mais. Confira!

No último Vértice do ano, discutimos os vencedores (e os perdedores) do The Game Awards 2025, a limpa que Expedition 33 fez, Control Resonant, Mega Man Dual Override, Bradley the Badger, Divinity, Coven of the Chicken Foot e mais! Também tentamos descobrir seus jogos perdidos e decifrar sobre o que estávamos falando no Jogabiliquiznhentos!   Aproveite o NATAL na INSIDER Nosso cupom: JOGABILIDADE 00:19:49: Premiações The Game Awards 2025 00:55:56: Trailers e anúncios no TGA 2025 01:18:34: Novidades da Capcom no TGA 2025 01:39:29: Anúncio dos novos Tomb Raider 01:49:17: Trailer de CONTROL Resonant 01:55:13: Trailer de Gang of Dragon 01:58:21: Trailer de Ace Combat 8 02:01:37: Trailers menores no TGA 2025 02:20:45: Descobrindo jogos perdidos da comunidade 02:36:25: Jogabiliquiznhentos Contribua | Twitter | YouTube | Twitch | Contato

Contrary to our episode title, it’s not just Miss Piggy who got around. We got around Los Angeles to attend The Game Awards in person, plus onto the planet Viewros for early impressions of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. It’s an episode full of our thoughts on all the big TGA announcements, reveals, our in-person experience, and more. What did you think of The Game Awards? How about Metroid Prime 4? Leave a comment and let us know! If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. You can also follow us on Twitter @RandomNintendo. Enjoy! Topics [0:02] The Game Awards recap [1:12] Metroid Prime 4 impressions

Jeff returns to the Couch to help present the year's best games. Plus, Jon has a special announcement, and Tyler reveals his TGA bet assignments.CHAPTERS* (00:04:56) Kept You Waiting AwardThe best game we played for the first time that wasn't from this year.* (00:21:46) Damnit, Not Yet! AwardThe game we ran out of time to play, but liked what little we did.* (00:27:31) Keep the Party Going AwardThe best DLC, expansion, remaster, or remake.* (00:39:40) Can I Pet that Dog? AwardThe most huggable character.* (00:46:36) With the Boys AwardThe best multiplayer experience.* (00:53:50) A-to-B AwardThe best movement (walking, running, jumping, sliding, etc.).* **SPOILERS! (00:59:12) WTF?! AwardThe most confusing or perplexing scene in a game.* (01:08:19) Good Ol' Days AwardA nostalgic game or moment that makes you feel like a kid again.* (01:15:49) You Had Me at Hello AwardThe best voice acting or performance in a game.* (01:22:17) Downtime AwardThe best mini-game or side activity.* (01:33:10) Push It Real Good AwardThe best iteration, innovation, or complete creation of a genre.* (01:40:03) Found My Main AwardFavorite character, loadout, or class.* (01:53:15) What Killed Jon AwardThe best game to stream.* (02:02:00) White Knuckle AwardPart of a game that was beyond frustratingly tough.* (02:14:50) PLEASE STOP AwardThe trend or “feature” we hope to never see again.* (2:22:46) Everyone is High AwardThe game that critics loved but just didn't land with us. (Or vice versa.)* (02:35:31) How Do You Spell That? AwardThe game with the dumbest name.* (02:43:23) In the Privacy of My Own Home AwardA game or moment that you might be a little embarrassed by.* (02:50:45) Fine Ass AwardThe most attractive or best-dressed character.* (02:58:36) White Hat AwardThe best protagonist.* (03:02:22) Black Hat AwardThe best antagonist.* (03:08:38) Engine Calibrator AwardThe best side character.* (03:14:37) Book Cover Judge AwardThe game we thought we'd hate but ended up loving. (Or vice versa.)* (00:00:00) Total Rockstars AwardThe best studio or developer.* (03:25:39) Take that Zodiac AwardAwarded to the genre of the year.(03:30:47) Jon's Special Announcement!* (03:37:15) Well, That's Just Cool AwardThe best mechanic in a game.* (03:48:09) Once Upon a Time AwardThe game with the most captivating introduction.* **SPOILERS! (03:55:34) Knee Slapper AwardThe funniest moment.* **SPOILERS! (04:09:10) It's a Bad Day for Rain AwardThe scene that brought us to tears.* (04:18:34) Titan Slayer AwardThe most unforgettable, epic, intense, or unique boss fight.* **SPOILERS! (04:29:04) Happily Ever After AwardThe game with the most satisfying, best, complete, or enjoyable ending.* (04:49:05) Better Than a Blanket AwardBest game or experience that made you feel cozy.* (04:51:57) Shostakovich Would Be Proud AwardFor outstanding music, inclusive of score, original song, and/or licensed soundtrack.* (05:06:00) Single Repeat AwardThe best track on the album.* (05:10:27) Lost My Ear AwardFor outstanding creative and/or technical achievement in artistic design and animation.* (05:21:03) Home Away from Home AwardBest world or world-building.* (05:28:50) Faker, What Was That?! AwardThe best combat in a game.* (05:37:09) Seeing the Board AwardThinky good.* (05:49:16) I Need a Cigarette AwardThe most satisfying thing we did in a game.* (05:58:44) Diamond in the Rough AwardThe best hidden gem.* **SPOILERS! (06:05:23) I Need a Minute AwardThe most profound, emotional, or thought-provoking moment.* (06:16:22) That's a Jon-Ass Game AwardThe game that makes you think of Jon.* (06:25:44) That's a Tyler-Ass Game AwardThe game that makes you think of Tyler.* (6:32:38) That's a Jeff-Ass Game AwardThe game that makes you think of Jeff.(06:41:49) Tyler's TGA Bet Assignments(06:57:28) Personal Top 10 Lists(07:36:28) Top 5: Games of 2025* (07:45:56) NOT Grand Theft Auto VI AwardThe game we are most looking forward to next year that isn't GTA.Special Thanks to Jeff!Be sure to tune in to WhatKilledJeff on Twitch every weekday 2 PM–6 PM EST.SUBSCRIBEApple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket CastsMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/roger-gabalda/the-great-wonderLicense code: OFUZWJKDGLQATPRX This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.couchcompany.games

Nesse episódio, o último do ano, Bruno Carvalho, Edu Aurrai, Felipe Mesquita e Rodrigo Cunha falam sobre os anúncios de jogos e vencedores do The Game Awards 2025 (TGA 2025); e mais. Duração: 138 min Comentados: COMPRE O MARS 2120, METROIDVANIA BRASILEIRO: PC (STEAM) PLAYSTATION 4, PLAYSTATION 5 XBOX ONE, XBOX SERIES S|X NINTENDO SWITCH Vídeos: THE GAME AWARDS 2025: Official 4K60FPS Livestream Don’t Just Watch TV: The Secrets of Sega Channel Resident Evil (Gameboy Color) final build now recovered!

This week on The Nerd Chat:-TGA predictions and winner-Nerd Chat Game Awards... awards gameshow-Boomers react to the 2025 Game Awards-New controller impressionsPlus what we've been playing and the best food we had this week.0:00 Hello and welcome to the show7:20 News and TGA predictions, potential winners16:35 Nerd Chat Game Awards... awards gameshow37:00 Boomers react to the 2025 TGAs50:00 New controller impressions55:05 Shoutouts1:01:45 What have we been playing or watching?1:12:37 The best food we had this week1:23:00 Closing and end of showGaming. Food. The Good Old Days.Streaming Thursday nights. New episodes posted Fridays. #SeeYouOnlineFollow us everywhere: @TheNerdChatAll links: https://linktr.ee/thenerdchat#TheGameAwards #GamingPodcast #Controllers #SeeYouOnline

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This week on The Gaming Duo, we break down The Game Awards 2025 — the biggest reveals, hype moments, and whether this year's show actually delivered. From surprise announcements to standout trailers, we cover what worked, what didn't, and how this TGA stacks up against past years.We also look ahead to the games we're most excited for in 2026, including which announcements instantly jumped to the top of our hype lists.Plus, the gaming news you need to know, featuring major updates from Star Wars, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Pragmata, Diablo IV, and more.If you're enjoying the show, leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and join our Discord community, where friendships are built through gaming.Join The Gaming Duo Discord Server: https://discord.gg/B7YYMvZtZ2

The Game Awards have come and gone, leaving in its wake a whirlwind of game announcements, release date reveals, and fresh perspectives on our industry. Indeed, there's something for everyone, a draw for all comers. For starters, what's new? Two Star Wars offerings, Larian's secret Divinity project, Jonathan Blow's long-awaited Order of the Sinking Star, a sequel to Remedy's Control, Toshihiro Nagoshi's anticipated Yakuza rival Gang of Dragon, two Tomb Raider games in the form of a remake and something unseen, a Cyberpunk-like called NO LAW, and even Mega Man 12 -- well, Mega Man Dual Override, anyway -- to keep Colin fed, and more beyond that. And new looks, too, at PlayStation games like Saros and 4:LOOP, as well as Resident Evil Requiem, Pragmata, Exodus, and Phantom Blade 0. And then there are the awards themselves, and the pomp and circumstance, and... well... there's a lot to discuss! Plus, we have all of the non-TGA happenings from the past week, too. PlayStation Wrap-Up is live, Deviation's cancelled second party shooter has leaked, London Studio's cancelled multiplayer game has seemingly reemerged under a new team, Call of Duty might be in trouble, and so on. Then: Listener inquiries! Could MLB: The Show succeed on PC with a Football Manager-style experience? Does Netflix really see no value in WB's gaming assets? Is a rumored $1 million for three minutes of advertising at The Game Awards too much? Remember when Dustin called DW from Arthur Double D? Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:27:06 - Sacred Compliments0:33:32 - A happy write in for once0:45:45 - Double D0:48:04 - Slandering the English1:01:45 - Glass Snapple1:09:54 - The Game Awards overall thoughts1:25:51 - Pragmata1:30:02 - Tank Rat1:33:16 - Bradley the Badger1:37:49 - Stupid Never Dies1:42:15 - Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic1:50:40 - Divinity1:57:23 - 4LOOP2:04:34 - Coven of the Chickenfoot2:08:56 - Ontos2:13:45 - Resident Evil Requiem2:15:35 - Order of the Sinking Star2:24:09 - Exodus2:26:48 - Warlock: Dungeons and Dragons2:27:55 - Control Resonant2:35:28 - Gang of Dragon2:41:22 - Street Fighter movie2:45:11 - Lego Batman2:47:39 - Tomb Raider2:56:09 - Saros2:58:32 - NO LAW3:03:56 - DMC Season 23:04:20 - Ace Combat 83:06:40 - Star Wars: Galactic Racer3:07:37 - Out of Words3:10:33 - Phantom Blade 03:12:02 - Mega Man: Dual Override3:20:41 - Highguard3:34:27 - PlayStation Wrap-Up 20253:52:14 - PlayStation 20264:02:32 - Can we thank Flight Sim for Xbox on PlayStation4:09:26 - Deviation's cancelled game has leaked4:24:06 - Ex-London Studio's game reemerges4:35:37 - Maybe Call of Duty isn't doing so great?4:54:32 - Capcom wants to grow their smaller IPs4:58:08 - New PS+ games5:02:35 - What We've Been Playing (Metal Eden, Dying Light: The Beast, Skate Story, Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Metroid Prime 4, YARG)5:32:21 - Rise of actors in games5:42:19 - Would Chris and Dustin play sports games?5:50:22 - PlayStation making a Football Manager game5:56:27 - Is WB games "worthless”?6:04:28 - $1 Million for a Game Awards trailer6:09:14 - Refunding Game Pass Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sponsorem odcinka jest marka Bosch, producent lodówek Total No Frost.Sprawdź promocje na produkty Bosch:https://www.bosch-home.pl/promocje?cid=Promo_Dec25~coop~noend~fix~ins~~RockBorys~spon~~(00:00) Lodówka Bosch - Segment sponsora(05:23) YT wprowadza podsumowanie komentarzy(08:24) Wyjaśnienie DLC do Wiedźmina 3(11:41) Reklamy na TGA 2025(13:30) KUNA (15:00) Nowy Patch do POE 2(16:38) Żywy czy martwy: Film z serii "Na noże" - Nerflix(19:18) Aplikacja Freepik - AI do grafiki(21:50) Podcastowe plany na święta(24:14) Gala The Game Awards i nagrody(29:46) STAR WARS Fate of the Old Republic(34:18) Divinity(39:30) ONTOS(43:19) EXODUS(47:27) Control: Resonant(54:11) Gang of Dragon(56:53) Tomb Raider: Catalyst (01:01:29) Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis(01:04:36) No Law(01:10:01) Star Wars: Galactic Racer(01:12:49) Phantom Blade Zero(01:15:47) Forest 3(01:18:01) Street Fighter(01:21:23) Saros(01:25:06) 4:LOOP(01:28:20) HighguardSTAR WARS: Fate of the Old Republic Trailer (2026)https://youtu.be/ay25swjFGGg?si=XTxq-FsZVMygxkvVDivinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailerhttps://youtu.be/VxzyVeAG00w?si=t0KIE7VNzl0P51cgONTOS – Reveal Trailerhttps://youtu.be/ll4ZPxUzPhc?si=2NqIi0R8TCs_4In7EXODUS – The Rise of Jun Aslan | Official Trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c80LMt_UxsControl: Resonant Announcement Trailerhttps://youtu.be/xObZQARXLOc?si=BRCp6HlFuQrMInTJGang of Dragon Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2025https://youtu.be/CAuTGHQmimk?si=6-3U_7X0D5AuIXqbTomb Raider: Catalyst Teaser Trailerhttps://youtu.be/N2yLZQFPSLo?si=OLCx1enlV_jAdSStTomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis - Official Announcement Trailer | The Game Awards 2025https://youtu.be/jZj4vWjzGas?si=Sc4O9gF2LaVU9TU5No Law - Reveal Trailer | PS5 Gameshttps://youtu.be/LYO8M69d_iQ?si=Uj8i-C9OR6mjeE8GStar Wars: Galactic Racer™ - Official Reveal Trailerhttps://youtu.be/RiavNl4qxWY?si=iMGYJ775jNIy351dPhantom Blade Zero - Official Release Date Announcement Trailerhttps://youtu.be/Q89X4nOzxGw?si=gWWRTcuAnMDUFX3zForest 3 - Official Announcement Trailer | The Game Awards 2025https://youtu.be/NIcf1L0HNrU?si=RJa_eYjFDpGS4mGiSaros - Pre-Order Trailer | PS5 Gameshttps://youtu.be/xmsc_GokLPI?si=To1J-zfJnNupicZ64:LOOP - The Game Awards 2025 Announcement Trailer | PS5 & PC Gameshttps://youtu.be/6-5ieEtmgTc?si=vzv1aJrliQ4vPWAwHighguard - Official Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2025https://youtu.be/rh6Pi6h_css?si=GdfM0_RnS4mwJjXkGrupa Rock i Borys na FB - https://www.facebook.com/groups/805231679816756/Podcast Remigiusz "Pojęcia Nie Mam" Maciaszekhttps://tinyurl.com/yfx4s5zzShorty Rock i Boryshttps://www.facebook.com/rockiboryshttps://www.tiktok.com/@borysniespielakSerwer Discord podcastu Rock i Borys!https://discord.com/invite/AMUHt4JEvdSłuchaj nas na Lectonie: https://lectonapp.com/p/rckbrsSłuchaj nas na Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2WxzUqjSłuchaj nas na iTunes: https://apple.co/2Jz7MPSProgram LIVE w niedzielę od osiemnastej - https://jarock.pl/live/rockRock i Borys to program o grach, technologii i życiu

Tonight's questions: - What were some TGA highlights? - Was it wise to end TGA with a hero shooter? - Which is better: TGA or SGF? - Was Fate of the Old Republic announced prematurely? - Which IPs should Capcom resurrect? - Will Marvel Tokon have a small roster at launch? - Would you purchase a pre-built gaming PC? Thanks as always to Shawn Daley for our intro and outro music. Follow him on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/shawndaley Where to find Throwdown Show: Website: https://audioboom.com/channels/5030659 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/throwdownshow Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThrowdownShow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/throwdownshow Discord: https://discord.gg/fdBXWHT Twitter list: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1027719155800317953

It's that time of year again! The Game Awards aired on December 11, and we're closing out 2025 by talking about the various award winners and big announcements. Join us as we discuss some troubling reports, the big sweep you probably expected, and how Geoff's got it down bad for a certain Muppet.Note: The music track at the start of the episode is “Gestral Village - Fight for the Win (Uno Puncho),” composed by Lorien Testard for the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Nos vies en Lumière Bonus Edition album. We in no way have or claim ownership of this music."‘We were effectively props': young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars'" by Alyssa Mercante (via The Guardian): https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/nov/11/future-class-gamings-oscars-game-awards"Some Nominated Devs Can't Even Afford To Be A Part Of The Game Awards" by Alyssa Mercante (via Kotaku): https://kotaku.com/game-awards-geoff-keighley-tickets-trailers-clair-obscur-2000652243"The Expedition 33 & Dispatch Game Awards drama." by Charalanahzard (Alanah Pearce): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYFAlImQR74Email us at: dcellmedia@gmail.com

It's our annual TGA highlight show, where we talk about all of the winners, world premieres, and guest spotlights of this year's event. Did it live up? 

又是一年年关，超游也如期在TGA颁奖前后颁布了我们个人心中的“年度游戏”。欢迎大家在评论区写出您的年度游戏，也期盼获奖的游戏制作团队前来超游领奖（狗头）！本期主播：金花、野人、蛋挞、小朱、驰子01:20 最本土化奖：《魔兽世界 时光服》颁奖人：金花15:20 最佳持续运营奖：《赛博朋克2077》颁奖人：蛋挞16:50 最快退坑奖：《怪物猎人 荒野》颁奖人：蛋挞23:20 最传统文化奖：《我在地府打麻将》颁奖人：野人29:30 最扭转乾坤奖：《逸剑风云决》颁奖人：小朱42:10 最原汁原味回忆青春奖：《夜勤病栋》颁奖人：金花52:00 最放空大脑奖：《流放之路2》《逃离鸭科夫》颁奖人：驰子60:40 最佳MOD：《辐射：伦敦》颁奖人：蛋挞65:00 最生气奖：《十字军之王3》颁奖人：小朱《明日方舟：终末地》颁奖人：驰子75:40 最佳剪辑陪伴奖：《土豆兄弟》颁奖人：蛋挞《球比伦战记》颁奖人：野人如果您喜欢我们的节目，欢迎在各个平台上订阅“超级游文化”，第一时间看到我们的更新！公众号：超级游文化进群方式：xijunfo2021

Its that time of year again, The Game Awards has wrapped! The TWIG Crew sat down to discuss the winners, the celebrity appearances, musical performances, world premiere trailers, and ultimately what didn't show up that surprised us!Show Notes:Your Geekmasters:Mike "The Birdman" - https://bsky.app/profile/birdmanguelph.bsky.socialAlex "The Producer" - https://bsky.app/profile/dethphasetwig.bsky.socialKen Reels - https://bsky.app/profile/kenreels.comFeedback for the show?:Email: feedback@thisweekingeek.netTwitter: https://twitter.com/thisweekingeekBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thisweekingeek.bsky.socialSubscribe to our feed: https://www.spreaker.com/show/3571037/episodes/feediTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-geek/id215643675Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Lit2bzebJXMTIv7j7fkqqWebsite: https://www.thisweekingeek.netDecember 12, 2025

• Intro• Netflix Thinks WB Games Is Worthless• Dead Space Is Dead… Again• Backlog• Analogue 3D Now in Funtastic Colors• Metroid Prime 4 Hides Music Behind Amiibo• New Game Controller for Feet• Clair Obscur Cast Calls on TGA to Add Mo-Cap Category• Tomb Raider Update at TGA• Leon in Resident Evil Requiem• GameStop Leaks Second Playable Character in Resident Evil Requiem• Xbox Outsold by Kinect-Style Console for Kids• KOTOR 2 Remake Was in Development• Kojima Not Sure About OD• PlayStation Teams With Bad Robot• Capcom Wants to Grow Mega Man, DMC, Ace Attorney• Tweet of the Week• Q&AOriginally streamed on December 9, 2025

Dylan picks up the mic solo to talk about his impressions of a couple new Marvel games, Cosmic Invasion and Tokon Fighting Souls. He also breaks down the new Hitman Eminem DLC and casts his TGA votes.Ad-Free version: www.patreon.com/c/GeekVerse0:00:00 intro0:02:05 Hitman Eminem DLC0:10:30 Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls0:18:05 Marvel Cosmic Invasion0:31:40 Dylan casts his Game Awards votesLinksDylan on Twitter @DylanMussDylan on Backloggd backloggd.com/u/Rapatika/Dylan's games https://rapatika.itch.io/Taylor on Twitter @TaylorTheFieldKirklin on Twitter @kirklinpatzerTravis on Twitter @TravisBSnellBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/geekverse-podcast--4201268/support.

Vote in the community Dropped Frames GOTY here: https://dfgoty.com/ Sodapoppin joins us this week to chat about life after 15 years of streaming and how much streaming has changed in recent years. Then we go over the winners at The Streamer Awards, vote on the winners for The Game Awards happening this week. Then we go deep into Chinese World of Warcraft, running streamer guild OnlyFangs, handling streamer drama and much more! 0:00 - Intro2:20 - Sodapoppin is here5:30 - Growing up with streaming12:00 - The Streamer Awards37:00 - Going over TGA nominees2:03:40 - World of Warcraft China2:39:40 - OnlyFangs2:48:20 - Mana gems3:01:15 - ShoutoutsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join the PATREON for the bonus episode https://www.patreon.com/c/WULFFDENPodcast• Intro• December PS+ free games• Valve Bans Game from Steam for Unclear Reasons• Nintendo Acquired Original Metroid Prime 4 Studio• THE BACKLOG• Mod-Retro's Lanky-Ass Controller• New Dead Rising Game in Development• Is Remedy Going to Show a Control Sequel at TGA?• Kill Bill Sequel Coming to Fortnite• Splinter Cell Remake Director Returns to Finish the Game• Of Course There's Gonna Be a Hitman 4• Kojima Cast in Japanese Zootopia 2 Dub• MGS4 Would Be Hard to Remake• Tweet of the Week• Q&AOriginally streamed on December 2, 2025

Every day millions of Australians take vitamin supplements, hoping for a health boost. But there's been a sharp rise in people suffering numbness, nerve damage, even paralysis, after accidentally overdosing on vitamin B6. Many don't even realise B6 is in so many products at high concentrations and that the vitamin can build up in the body. Today, reporter for the ABC's 7.30 program Tom Hartley unpacks his year-long investigation into the surge in cases and the regulator's long-overdue crackdown. Featured: Tom Hartley, 7.30 reporter

This week we're wrapping up our TGA picks, giving thanks for some good things this year, and wishing you all the best! For our American listeners, have a Happy Thanksgiving!

本期嘉宾：十天、恺伦特邀嘉宾：森森本期节目的主要内容有：· Google 发布 Gemini 3· TGA 2025 游戏奖提名公布· 小米潜水表被曝潜水死机还有众多观众朋友的热心提问~每周五晚 8 点，爱否直播间，我们一起开心聊天

On this episode of Crazy Wisdom, Stewart Alsop sits down with Guillermo Schulte to explore how AI is reshaping up-skilling, re-skilling, and the future of education through play, from learning games and gamification to emotional intelligence, mental health, and the coming wave of abundance and chaos that technology is accelerating; they also get into synchronous vs. asynchronous learning, human–AI collaboration, and how organizations can use data-driven game experiences for cybersecurity, onboarding, and ongoing training. To learn more about Guillermo's work, check out TGAcompany.com, as well as TGA Entertainment on Instagram and LinkedIn.Check out this GPT we trained on the conversationTimestamps00:00 Stewart Alsop opens with Guillermo Schulte on up-skilling, re-skilling, and AI's accelerating impact on work.05:00 They explore play-based learning, video games as education, and early childhood engagement through game mechanics.10:00 Conversation shifts to the overload in modern schooling, why play disappeared, and the challenge of scalable game-based learning.15:00 Guillermo contrasts synchronous vs asynchronous learning and how mobile access democratizes education.20:00 They reflect on boredom, creativity, novelty addiction, and how AI reshapes attention and learning.25:00 Discussion moves to AGI speculation, human discernment, taste, and embodied decision-making.30:00 They explore unpredictable technological leaps, exponential improvement, and the future of knowledge.35:00 Abundance, poverty decline, and chaos—both from scarcity and prosperity—and how societies adapt.40:00 Mental health, emotional well-being, and organizational responsibility become central themes.45:00 Technical training through games emerges: cybersecurity, Excel, and onboarding with rich data insights.50:00 Guillermo explains the upcoming platform enabling anyone to create AI-powered learning games and personalized experiences.Key InsightsAI is accelerating the urgency of up-skilling and re-skilling. Guillermo highlights how rapid technological change is transforming every profession, making continuous learning essential for remaining employable and adding value in a world where machines increasingly handle routine tasks.Play is humanity's native learning tool—and video games unlock it for adults. He explains that humans are wired to learn through play, yet traditional education suppresses this instinct. Learning games reintroduce engagement, emotion, and curiosity, making education more intuitive and scalable.Gamified, asynchronous learning can democratize access. While synchronous interaction is powerful, Guillermo emphasizes that mobile-first, game-based learning allows millions—including those without resources—to gain skills anytime, closing gaps in opportunity and meritocracy.Emotional intelligence will matter more as AI takes over technical tasks. As AI becomes increasingly capable in logic-heavy fields, human strengths like empathy, leadership, creativity, and relationship-building become central to meaningful work and personal fulfillment.Novelty and boredom shape how we learn and think. They discuss how constant novelty can stunt creativity, while boredom creates the mental space for insight. Future learning systems will need to balance stimulation with reflection to avoid cognitive overload.Abundance will bring psychological challenges alongside material benefits. Stewart and Guillermo point out that while AI and robotics may create unprecedented prosperity, they may also destabilize identity and purpose, amplifying the already-growing mental health crisis.AI-powered game creation could redefine education entirely. Guillermo describes TGA's upcoming platform that lets anyone transform documents into personalized learning games, using player data to adapt difficulty and style—potentially making learning more effective, accessible, and enjoyable than traditional instruction.

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This week the gang talked about grocery runs, more ARC Raiders, Hudson Hawk, Dragon Quest 1 & II HD-2D Remake, Checkmage, The Quiet Zone, Highlander: The Series, and more!Follow us on Instagram Leave us a voicemail at (804) 286-0626 and consider supporting us through our Patreon Check out the Discord! The Quiet Zone News Links:Steam hardware Sony State of Play TGA nominees TGA will be on Prime AI in ARC Raiders Metroid Prime 4 Super Mario Galaxy trailer Pictures for Zelda movie drop ES6 is a long way away 

Brady joins from Bitcoin Amsterdam and reports extremely positive conference sentiment despite Bitcoin's price consolidating around $95–105KHosts discuss how price often disconnects from fundamentals and why Bitcoin's thesis remains intactReview of historical “conference dumps” showing that IRL Bitcoin community morale stays strong even during drawdownsDeep dive on inflation, the disappearance of the U.S. penny, and long-term fiat degradation compared to BitcoinMacro breakdown: surging U.S. interest expense now surpasses defense spending; government shutdown ends; TGA likely to release liquidityDiscussion of proposed stimulus checks, 50-year mortgages, and portable/assumable mortgages as evidence policymakers won't tolerate asset price deflationCzech National Bank allocates $1M to Bitcoin—first known central bank to do soU.S. regulatory update: Senate draft of the Clarity Act includes explicit protections for self-custody and P2P Bitcoin transactionsSoFi becomes the first national bank to offer Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana purchases directly inside its banking appMajor adoption milestone: Square enables Bitcoin/Lightning payments at 4 million merchants with optional Bitcoin settlementMarket note: Michael Burry closes his fund, citing inability to understand today's market—hosts contrast this with Bitcoin's clear macro trajectory Swan Private helps HNWI, companies, trusts, and other entities go beyond legacy finance with BItcoin. Learn more at swan.com/private. Put Bitcoin into your IRA and own your future. Check out swan.com/ira.Swan Vault makes advanced Bitcoin security simple. Learn more at swan.com/vault.

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