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🗓️ 16 November 2025
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Guest host Richard Syrett and Soft Lights Foundation founder Mark Baker discuss the negative impacts of pervasive LED lighting.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:04.4 | Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.2 | Mark, let's talk about your wake-up call. |
| 0:11.6 | What happened to you with regards to LED lighting? |
| 0:16.7 | Oh, gosh, yes. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm not involved with the LED lighting because I chose it. It was something that happened to me, and I'm happy to share my story with your listeners. It was very dramatic or traumatic, I should say. So I was a middle school math teacher in Silicon Valley, California. And around 2015 at the end, 2016, |
| 0:42.2 | that's when I started to notice LED lights coming out. So car headlights and bloodlights on buildings |
| 0:51.7 | and the street lights on my street, they to change these lights and to me it was something i'd never experienced before a kind of emotional feeling that i can't it's somewhat indescribable alien and i associated the word evil with this, what I now term blue rich light. |
| 1:13.1 | I remember clearly driving to work to school and seeing Cadillac daytime running lights |
| 1:20.0 | and thinking, this can't be real. |
| 1:23.7 | This is, what is this evil light that's hitting me? |
| 1:28.0 | It was capturing my attention. |
| 1:30.6 | It was either forcing myself to pull away from not looking at the light or being |
| 1:35.6 | attracted to it like a moth and staring straight at it. |
| 1:39.2 | It was so bizarre. |
| 1:41.2 | In my town, they changed the beautiful high pressure sodiums, the orange lights, the street |
| 1:47.0 | lights. They changed them to 5,000 Kelvin LED, blue-rich street lights. I lived on the second floor, |
| 1:54.3 | and they were right at eye level. So I came home one night, and my living room and kitchen were |
| 2:00.3 | blasted with this this intense |
| 2:02.3 | light flooding my apartment so I had to close the blinds and it was just it was so |
| 2:07.6 | terrible and as I began to get struck I would call it being struck by this light |
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