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Mikkael A Sekeres

Oct 22, 2026

32:55
I'm just, I guess, from what's been made public, what is this cancer? And from kind of what we know, what kind of prognosis might Pope Leo be looking at?
33:05
Yeah, so good for Pope Leo.
33:08
And I really think he's a special guy.
33:11
I'm not Catholic, but everything I've seen from him, he seems to really be like real people.
33:15
And it's easy for us in the US to say that because he is, he lived in the US for a long time, even a Chicago White Sox fan.
33:24
And he was very upfront about his diagnosis and not everyone is for their own reasons.
33:32
But in being upfront about the diagnosis, he's probably spurred a lot of people to go out and get screened and to follow up on symptoms that they have in their own lungs.
38:20
health.
7:39
Can you tell me about those?
7:40
Yeah, PFAS.
7:41
So that's per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
7:46
These are chemicals used as oil and water repellents and coatings for cookware, food packaging, even carpets and textiles.
7:54
So in my little story about going biking, I mentioned lounging on the couch, right? Well, that's a, that's a textile.
7:59
They're known as forever chemicals 'cause once PFAS are created, they persist in the environment because they don't break down like some other chemicals.
8:07
They can be found in everything from dental floss to menstrual products as well.

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13:14
Hmm.

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