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Partners for Ableton on Air include the HOD of New York and New England where everyone belongs, the Orthodox Union, the Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired of Vermont, the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity, and Montpelier Sustainable Coalition, Montefiore Medical Center of the Bronx, Roosevelt Kennedy Center of Bronx, New York, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of the Bronx, Ableton on Air has been seen in the following publications, Park Chester Times, WWW, this is the Bronx.com, New York Powered Online Newspaper, Muslim Community Report, WWW.H.com, and the Montpelier Bridge. Ableton on Air is part of the following organizations, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England Chapter, and the Society of Professional Journalists. Hi, welcome to this edition of Ableton on Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns and achievements of the definitely able. I've always been your host, Lauren Siler, and on this television program today, we will talk about overdosing sports and steroids and many other things in regards to that. And also today, this month, Overdose Prevention Month, or Overdose Prevention Day. With me to discuss, with us, to discuss this important topic is Ron Rondon of Ron Rondon. It's most of a Ron Rondon. Road trip with Ron Rondon from Brooklyn Free Speech TV and Free Speech One. Welcome, Ron, to Ableton on Air. Let's get back to it anyway. Okay, so let's talk about the first thing we want to mention and talk about, there's a lot of things around overdosing and steroids and that kind of thing. The most recent case with the Women's National Basketball Association, WMBA, is with Brittany Yvette Griner from one of the best women's basketball teams in the league. She was caught in Russia with hemp oil and marijuana due to a medical doctor's card. If you have a medical doctor's card, you should be able to carry. But she's dealing with that and she's in prison at this point. She's an American, according to Wikipedia, she's an American professional basketball player with the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association. She's currently in prison in Russia and she plays college basketball. She played college basketball for the Baylor Lady Bears in Waco, Texas. She's the only NBA national NCAA basketball player to both score 2,000 points and block 500 shots. In 2012, the three-time All-American was named AP Player of the Year and the most outstanding player of the finals. Griner is one of 11 women to receive an Olympic gold medal and an NCAA championship and a FIBA, F-I-B-A, World Cup gold medal and a WNBA championship. In 2009, Griner was named the nation's number one high school women's basketball player by Rivals.com. She was selected in the 2009 Phoenix Mercury All-American basketball team and she received the Best Female Athlete SB Award by ESPN in 2013, 2012, 2013 and she also signed an endorsement deal with Nike and she stands 6 feet 9 inches and wears a US size 17 shoe. That's quite tall. Your thoughts on women's basketball, Ron. Go ahead. I've been following this before. Griner's problem was, I know the United States has illegal stuff but in Russia, I don't understand why... According to the internet here and sources, she was in Russian customs after cartridges containing less than a gram less than a gram of hashish oil was found in her luggage and later she was arrested on drug charges. She's been entering... She had entered Russia to play the Russian Premier League during the WNBA all season and her trial was July 1st. She pled guilty to charges on August 4th and you know... Ron, can you stop that rustling, please? Yeah. Yeah, boy, that is so much harsh. That is so much harsh. But this is what it says. According to... This is what it says. The defendant doesn't do... So they need to bring her home quickly instead of keeping her there nine years. And that is not the way they ought to do but they have to do it in crazier and crazier houses but this is going to be a tough challenge. Yeah, hold on. Stop tape for two seconds. Need your help? Technical problem, please. Hold on two seconds. Okay. Okay, thank you. Okay, great. Sorry about that. Can we continue? Yeah. All right, cool. Sorry about the technical difficulties here. That will be edited out. In terms of... and Arlene, if you want to jump in here... Now, let's... kind of look up what exactly... steroids, you know, because I think... I think it's not right. If you do have a doctor's... card... Ron, Ron, can you stop the rustling? To take what you... what the doctor has ordered. And they show who knows what's going to happen and they don't believe her. And I don't know what's in the problem here. But they have to meet doctor's orders in order to bring that to Russia. Now, according to professional sports... Ron, the speaker is picking up that. Yeah? What are you doing there? The speaker is picking up that. Okay, so... steroids is a man-made version. According to the definition. Steroids is a man-made version of hormones. Can you move away from that noise? Okay, so... all right, steroids is a man-made... version of hormones... normally produced by adrenal glands, which are two small glands found above the kidneys. When taken in dosage, higher than the amount your body normally produces, steroids also can reduce redness and inflammation. But according to sports, if you take... and a bottle of steroids, it is a problem when you're dealing with... trying to bulk up. And a lot of people don't want you to use steroids, especially in professional sports, because they're known as a drug and there have been... huh? Yeah, yeah. Ron, do you know any professional... I know there was a couple of professional sports people that have taken steroids in the past. Do you know of any? Steroids in 2005 were banned by the Major League Baseball Organization with HGH, and because of its usage in 2011. St. Vincent is actually on record stating that Congress has a list of illegal substances that include steroids and it must be obtained via a prescription. So it was banned in 2005. Now the difference... let's talk about doping, okay? Over the course of Major League Baseball history, steroids and steroid testing was not a major... was not a major issue, but in 1991, Commissioner Faye Vincent sent a memo to all teams stating that steroid use was against the rules and there was no official change. Vincent had sent a memo that was intended to be a moral statement that players... players that are rather than a legal one that was the only way of making a change and through collective bargaining. So steroids was banned from MLB in 2005 and in 2011 when Congress made it illegal. So... Yeah. So let's talk... since we're on the topic of Major League Baseball, go ahead if you want to mention and let's talk about the Yankees. Yankees and the Met, so far because they were getting close to the most important September because they will say... they were leading in first place, they were first place leading and then they've blown most of the losses of all baseball teams. But people are citizen. Before we get back to the issue at hand and overdosing in sports, coronavirus and sports, I know that in 2020 there was a big issue in reference to the stands. Are all games now allowed to be played in the stadiums like with baseball or football and everything? It was cardboard cutouts. Yeah. You know, cardboard cutouts or like one or two people in the stands. That was about it. Yeah. And another thing that's happened you know, when Fox Sports virtual reality crowd right there and they came back with a crowd after the last year, what this was going to be? Arlene, since we got you on the phone did you want to say anything in reference to drug overdosing or anything of that nature in sports? Go ahead. Yes, some of these... I'm with the athletes. Yeah. Yeah. They get all... between... They kind of do them all with those. Even spending people do it. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. They get all this money. Yeah. No, well, in terms of sports. They get all this money, guys. Mm-hmm. But they... They get all this money and they don't know what to do with it. This is... This is the problem. They ruin... They ruin sports. They ruin the game when the game is supposed to be played cleanly. Look, in November 2005, okay, MLB owners and players approved even tougher penalties for positive tests. Under new rules, under new rules, the first positive test would be... would result in a 50 game suspension. A second pot... Yeah. In... In... A second positive test, Ron, are you there? Yes, I'm still there. A second positive test of steroids or drugs would result in a 100 game suspension. And a third positive test would result in lifetime suspension from Major League Baseball. And in March 20... In March... On March 28, 2014, the players and owners announced that these were the penalties for a positive test and they would increase to an 80 game suspension for the first defense and then escalate to 162 game suspension for a second defense and lifetime ban from the sport for a third. So, and, you know, Barry Bond's trial was even worse. You know, but anyway, you know, the game is supposed to be played cleanly and, you know, let's give the public what they pay for. You know, they pay a lot of money for these seats and there's no reason for these players to mess up their lives because of overdosing on drugs, alcohol, doping, etc. You know, so, no, we don't want that. Any football things going on yet? Did they start practicing? You said Special Olympics New Jersey, right? Big shout out to Rutgers University for helping Special Olympics out and for all they do for the community. Okay, so why don't we talk about before we get back to the topic at hand, why don't we mention a little bit about Road Trip? Go ahead. Special thanks to Art Kurtz and his television program out in Brooklyn, which is the game show Black Party. And, you know, we thank Art for giving a lot to the community as he has for many, many years. You know, so it's... And also to his five... Oh, Happy 500 Shorts. Yep. Okay, so getting back to sports, go ahead, Ron. Basti, which will hold me for a never-seen-in, and already Glastier's Champion is the Los Angeles Grand, but I'm looking for a great season. Why don't we do this? We would like to promote Vermont's while we're in the interim because we only have a little while left and then we'll get back to Arlene. We are promoting the 34th annual Brain Injury Conference which will take... which will turn around and take place in Killington, Vermont which is... which is October 12th this year in Killington, Vermont. Let me get the information here. And and hold on one second. I'm gonna get the information. This is... Let me hold on a second. I'm getting it. One second. Let me just get all the information here so I can promote this. One second. Oh, here we go. We got it. It is the 34th annual... One second. Here we go. Excuse me. We're gonna have to re-edit this. October 12th, 2022 the 34th annual Brain Injury Conference hosted by the Brain Injury Association of Vermont. The location and we'll put the flyer up. The location is Killington, Vermont which we will let you know and stay up to date and information. You can go to the following website. You can go to the following website at www. Give Guys, guys. The noise in the background. You can go to www. Classy.org That is www. Give Classy.org BIA VT Conference 2022. Save the day. October 12th, 2022 the 34th annual Brain Injury Conference hosted by the Brain Injury Association of Vermont with the help of Green Mountain Support Services. We will be there Abled and On Air will be there. It will be a recorded event for Abled and On Air and we thank this organization for letting us come and speak and this is October 12th, 2022 at the Killington Grand Resort in Vermont. You can register for the conference at www. Give Classy.org forward slash BIA VT Conference 2022 Brain Injury Association of Vermont. And we thank them for that. And also before we get to the people then on air, you can go to www.OrcaMedia.net Go ahead Arlene, did you want to say anything else about sports and steroids or anything? And who is that? I put that in the black woman. Ron, do you know who that was? I have no idea. Okay. Well Okay. Really quick again. We would like to thank Ron Rondon for joining us on Abled and On Air and please check out his show Road Trip with Ron Rondon at Brooklyn Free Speech One and they can be their website is www.Go ahead, Ron, if you want to mention the website. It's your plate before your party. Who knows? 1130. And the last time for this show today, I got the correct situation. The Brain Injury Association of Vermont, which is located at 1 Derby Lane in Waterbury, they are having again the 34th annual Brain Injury Conference on Wednesday October 12th at the Killington Grand Hotel in Vermont, the heart of the province. By the way, we're having a flower here. This day we'll have in-person vendors, speakers lunch and a silent auction. This year's keynote speaker is survivor and mental health blogger Ariel Johnson. Speakers include Barb Absin, director of caregiver support for the Central Vermont Council on Aging, and it also will have John Raphael who is a social worker with the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals and other professionals who live work and who have Brain Injury in the community right here in Vermont. They will have other speakers including myself, Lawrence Seiler of Ableton On Air and we will be there focusing on Ableton On Air and speaking about what is it like living with challenges and myself being a journalist for 30 years. For more information on that conference please visit the Brain Injury Association website at www.bivt.org or find the Brain Injury Association of Vermont on Facebook and support them at support at bivt.org that's bivt.org and if you want to sign up for the conference you can go to www.give.classy.org give.classy.org forward slash bivt conference 2022 that's give.classy.org forward slash bivt conference 2022 This show today was about overdose prevention and sports and steroids and also please watch tonight at 5pm orca media will be at I know this is going to be taped but orca media will be at the state house Vermont state house taping the overdose prevention day speeches at the state house so please come out and support people that have been affected by overdosing and drugs we here at Ableton wish everybody well and we wish everybody much recovery when it comes to overdosing on drugs especially the horrible drug of fentanyl and we want all of Vermonters to get the help that they need especially from agencies such as the brain injury association and other agencies that do support these causes Ableton on air is sponsored by Green Mountain support services Washington County mental health and many others including the partners of the brain injury association of Vermont and the Green Mountain support services and many others also including the association for the blind and visually impaired the division for the blind and visually impaired and thank you to the partners of road trip with Ron Rondon from Brooklyn free speech one for coming on today's Ableton on air thank you so much okay I'm Lauren Seiler see you next time major sponsors for Ableton on air include Green Mountain support services empowering people with disabilities to live home in the community Washington County mental health where hope and support come together media sponsors for Ableton on air include Park Chester Times Muslim community report www this is the Bronx dot info Associated Press media editors New York powered online newspaper U.S. press corps domestic and international anchor FM and Spotify partners for Ableton on air include Yachad of New York and New England where everyone belongs the orthodox union the division for the blind and visually impaired the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired Center Vermont Habitat for Humanity and Montpelier Sustainable Coalition Montefiore Medical Center of the Bronx Rose of Kennedy Center of Bronx New York Albert Einstein College of Medicine of the Bronx Ableton on air has been seen in the following publications Park Chester Times www this is the Bronx dot com New York powered online newspaper Muslim community report www dot H dot com and the Montpelier Bridge Ableton on air is part of the following organizations the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Boston, New England Chapter and the Society of Professional Journalists