The planet's popping masters on the shore and you have a plan. It's clearly maybe something

there beyond the realm of man. Until we've thoroughly tested every last close chest

and view and find the more you think you know what you really do. Where will we be without

THC? We know the lion too, it's just don't know what degree. Where will we be without

THC? I said check joy. Great car wouldn't come for me.

Here we go, Hireside Chatters. From the Sunshine State, I'm Greg Carlwood. And though there

is some stiff competition when it comes to the question of what truly is America's biggest

problem, I think there's a good case to be made that the processed food industry takes

the cake. Not only has its dominance eroded the market share of healthy natural organic

local whole food alternatives to the point that they're hard to even find, but our dependence

on it has willed away our knowledge of how to even provide a small amount of food for

ourselves setting us back even more. And one could even argue it plays a role in the aggressiveness

of the modern American work schedule because it's not uncommon to wake up tired to an energy

drink, trudge through a drive through for an inadequate 30 to 60 minute lunch break, snack

on boxed and bag, chips and crackers throughout the day and order dinner in after nine unfulfilling

hours of low wage work and a little traffic cherry on top. The demands on us create the

conditions for the mental gymnastics we do to justify what is an addiction to finely tuned

Franken food that is making us sick, fat, overdependent and unable to use our brains properly.

And few people know more about processed food and the brain than today's guest Dr. Russell

Blalock, a now retired lifelong neurosurgeon who has been studying and working in this space

most of his long career. He's not only been a co-author on over a dozen scientific papers and

contributed to medical textbooks, but he's written seven books of his own, including titles like

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