Desi Lydic Investigates The Reaction to Kentucky's Extreme Laws | Long Story Short: The Dark Side of the Wellness Industry

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🗓️ 29 April 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Kentucky has passed some of the strictest anti-trans and anti-abortion bills in the country, but is that really what Kentuckians want? Desi Lydic returns to her home state to ask locals how they feel about their lawmakers and finds out how people are trying to make the state better. And in Long Story Short, Desi warns about the dangerous trappings of the "wellness" industry, from expensive snake oil products to dangerous medical alternative trends. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:03.0	Now.
0:05.0	Welcome back to The Daily Show.
0:08.0	I live here in New York City, but my heart and liver damage are from my home state of Kentucky.
0:14.0	Thanks to Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, Kentucky doesn't have the best reputation.
0:19.0	So I wanted to show that there's a lot more than you think.
0:22.0	Take a look.
0:24.0	Kentucky and I have both changed a lot since my youth.
0:27.0	But unfortunately, the changes to stay currently faces can't be resolved with Accutane and 150 hours of community service.
0:34.0	Kentucky legislators passed one of the strictest anti-trans laws in the nation.
0:39.0	House Bill 300 would allow prosecutors to charge a woman with criminal homicide if she gets an abortion.
0:44.0	Police can't enforce any kind of federal ban on guns.
0:47.0	And in gender affirming care, the name of drag shows stifles free speech.
0:51.0	A trigger law.
0:53.0	He can stop. He can stop.
0:55.0	These bills are getting shoved through like a fried chicken sandwich in McConnell's lifeless mouth.
1:01.0	But do Kentucky and really feel this way?
1:04.0	Absolutely not.
1:05.0	Kentucky and their suffer because of their decisions.
1:07.0	You can do things a lot better.
1:09.0	It's like reports of the following upon death years.
1:11.0	It's a lot of straight white men, a lot older men.
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