Behind the Scenes: The Making of 'Bad Senator' During a Special Q&A

Behind the Scenes: The Making of 'Bad Senator' During a Special Q&A

In this episode of 'Open Forum in The Villages, Florida,' host Mike Roth introduces the podcast's mission to provide knowledge and inspiration about The Villages community. The episode features a special segment on the movie 'Bad Senator,' directed by Chad Richardson, including a Q&A session after its premiere at the Old Mill Playhouse. Richardson shares insights into the movie's production, character development, casting challenges, and the emotional depths actors reached. The episode includes raffle giveaways, audience interactions, and a call for listener support to keep the podcast thriving. It concludes with the promise of more engaging content in future episodes.

00:00 Introduction to the Open Forum Podcast
00:56 Support the Podcast
01:37 Special Episode: Movie Premiere
02:09 Q&A Session Begins
03:50 Behind the Scenes of 'Bad Senator'
11:23 Challenges in Filmmaking
17:26 Casting the Movie
18:06 Discovering Rob Moore and Vanessa's Talent
18:46 Billy Hunter Cole: The Humble Star
21:04 Filming Locations and Community Impact
22:08 Creating a Viral Launch Point
24:17 Technical Choices in Filmmaking
27:04 Exclusive Script Giveaway
30:54 Alzheimer's Disease Discussion with Dr. Craig Curtis
31:44 Show Support and Future Episodes

Transcript

Behind the Scenes: The Making of 'Bad Senator' During a Special Q&A

[00:00:00] Emily:      

Welcome to the Open Forum in The Villages, Florida. In this show, we talk to leaders of clubs and interesting folks who live here in The Villages to get perspectives of what is happening here in The Villages, Florida. We are a listener supported podcast. There will be shout outs for supporters in episodes.

[00:00:26] Mike Roth: This is Mike Roth. Thanks for listening. And listeners, I'm thrilled to share with you this podcast, which is my passion project for you. This podcast brings you knowledge, inspiration, and a lot of things that people need to know about The Villages and the people living here. Be sure to hit the follow button to get the newest episode each week.

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I hope everyone enjoys today's show. 

Today is a very special show. We had a movie premiere at the Old Mill Playhouse on March 7th, of the movie produced and directed by Chad Richardson, Bad Senator., After the movie was shown, there was a half hour Q& A session. Which is the bulk of this podcast. Hope you enjoy.

And if you get a chance, go out and see Bad Senator.

We're going to start right away. So we have about a 30 minute few questions from Mr. Mike Roth and then any questions you guys have about the movie. I'd be happy to talk to you about it. 

If you're staying, there will be a a little bit of a drawing and everyone will get a ticket. we're going to, we're going to be doing a question and answer session.

[00:02:25] Mike Roth: We're going to we're going to at the end of this podcast, I have some very special items. We're going to raffle off some mementos. that are very important to me and to everybody that made this movie. So my son, Finn, is passing out a raffle ticket for you. And that's what that's for. So we're gonna give out a few things that are important to us. 

Podcast here in The Villages called Open Forum in The Villages. And probably a year ago, I got a blind email from Chad Richardson announcing a screening of his movie that was shot up in Spruce Creek. And I didn't know anything about it. But I went up there to the screening to see it. It was a different, it was a very different movie than the one we just saw, and this one we just saw was a hell of a lot better.

[00:03:12] Mike Roth: What what we're gonna do here is take some questions and answer, and try to give you some answers about the movie, how it came to be and and what happened. And if you're really brave you can, you take the card that we gave you, the little square card for OpenForuminTheVillagesFlorida.Com and go back about a year in episodes and you'll find a video episode where I interview Chad. Anyone in the audience have a question? I know this gentleman, one of the gentlemen in the front said he had a question. Go ahead. Fellow in the hat. 

[00:03:43] Chad Richardson: Thank you very much. So and that's you just hit some sweet spots there. So thank you for commenting. The original title of the movie is called Silly Crane. And the reason it's called Silly Crane is my father was a career police officer. very strict, very no nonsense kind of guy. And we were sitting having a lunch at the golf course at Spruce Creek one day.

And at the time there was this little silly crane that used to be there that would like dance at the out and the golf course and stuff and made these very funky movements. And I don't, I never asked my dad. I never, I don't know why I didn't, but and here comes the silly crane while we're having lunch.

And here's my stoic dad who never shows any emotion, out of nowhere, gets up and starts dancing with the silly crane. So it was a moment I wish I, it's captured in my head, but that's the, was the original title. Now, the reality is when you're trying to sell a movie, silly crane just doesn't cut it. So it simply doesn't.

So the name Bad Senator. Everybody can relate to a Bad Senator. It doesn't matter what side you're on or what your knowledge is. We can all relate to a Bad Senator. And that's how the name came to be. Simply we're forced as that's the name. And what's interesting, sir, what you picked up on is, I'm 59 and I'm from the old school of I love a good, developed, rich character story.

And I tried to tell that, and the problem was when I finished the first edit, it was over three hours long. And you can't have a drama comedy in this day and age over three hours. So I had to make some major cuts, and the front end of the movie suffered the most in two ways. One it clipped off and made it harder to understand the front of the movie because we had to cut so much.

And then the other part was Hunter Cole, who played Billy, came in and just did this amazing supplemental story background about why Billy was the way he was. And it was a romance. It was just an amazing romance between Billy and Eliana. I ended up, I couldn't tell that story. And it hurts me to this day, but so that front end ended up choppier and I can tell you, I spent probably eight months trying to figure out how do I get it to where the audience can truly understand what's going on.

And then we get to the meat of the story. I just don't have the skill level to, to get that. I, our goal, we've said this is we get you around the 22, 24 minute mark. And then in our test audiences, we did some small screenings, people start locking in and then we start seeing their emotions come out.

And and I hope you guys felt some of that, for us, like the dinner scene with Bob Gallagher was the senator, we set that scene up. When I wrote that scene, I cried. And I didn't realize the impact of that scene, but Bob spent two months studying that scene with a professional coach.

And it was, we all felt the emotion of that moment. And and so I said, Bob, listen, for you to go there, what do you want me to do as your director? Do you want to go first and we'll do the coverage of you first? Or do you, when do you want to do this? And he's I want to do it last. And I'm like, are you sure?

So you want us to cover every other film angle and cover you last? And he said,

yes, I need to do this. And he nailed that every time. And you won't see most of that. You couldn't see most of the takes because we're all crying.

The crew is all crying. And and then somebody was like, and it was me and I ruined it.

The shot.

Cause he just puts so much heart and emotion into it. And the amazing thing is those three, Rob who played Jocko and Vanessa played Iris literally gave it their absolute all. And I have to point them out, Rob, the original story the Jocko lost his leg in combat and felt 

the government forgot about him after a lifetime career in the military, and we have many people that feel that way. I want to tell that story. Rob had a real life injury 

as you saw in the movie, and Rob said, I'm willing to do this

and I said, Rob, are you sure? Because obviously it's not just us. Whoever watches this movie is going to see you exposed. And he said, I want to do this. I want to do this. It's in my heart. And we had a tiny crew film that scene. There's only three of us and the two actors. And it was very emotional because of the vulnerability that he showed.

And and then of course Vanessa. in that hospital scene. And I told her , you have to go for it. We're all going to die. And it can be a very lonely process and a very scary thing.

I just wrote it and pray somebody can pull it off. And I think she did. I think we all felt her loneliness and her fear. Who this ever strong woman and and I hope you understand So but those three that's who led this story.

So every actor that came in Like Kaylee Amante our original actress was Carly Naff, was a professional singer, which you heard her voice is unbelievable, who wanted to turn into an actress. We hired her. She got COVID two weeks into the production. So we had already recorded, she'd already flown down and recorded all the songs, but we lost her

30 hours before the biggest scene in the movie, the Opry scene, which was like a two day shoot.

And we had no actress. to do that big opry scene. Sean Taylor, who is the cinematographer, said, I know this young actress out of Arizona that I've been trying to get for years and we could try to get her. And so I called her and I, and she said send me the script. I'm on set right now, but send me the script.

I'll take a look. And she called back and she said, I love this script. I love this story. I'll do it. And I said, you do understand you have to learn five songs, multiple lines, pull it off in front of a live, four or 500 people at the Opry. You have to pull it all off in 24 hours. And she said, I'll do it.

And I'm like, Oh my God. So I flew her out on the next flight. I drove myself to the airport and picked her up. And so we spent driving back from Orlando, me explaining to her all the elements and what she has to hit in these notes. So you saw somebody that had less than 24 hours to prepare for that scene.

 It was all infectious. Bob and Vanessa and Rob

just laid down the gauntlet. Let's give it our all and let's show everybody else that's what we want to do. 

[00:10:59] Audience Member: Let's take another question from the audience. 

I know you are an author and director , can you tell me a little bit about how you, the gatekeepers that are there in Hollywood and Amazon that stops independent films from getting wide distribution and books from getting wide distribution?

[00:11:17] Chad Richardson: Ooh. It's very hard to break into Hollywood. I've been out to LA I had an agent at one time. I've almost sold Some scripts and for whatever reason they got hung up and they just didn't sell

It's a very difficult place there See the thing is if indie filmmakers can make it then what do we need Hollywood for?

And that's what they're afraid of. And it's a bias system. Unfortunately, we took over two years to get this thing going. We filmed this 2. 5 years ago. We had some distribution issues. They, we still trying to figure out, but we feel like they thought it was a political movie and they buried the movie for almost a year.

And so that was very painful for us because we're all very proud of this movie. But speaking of the writing, I, what happened was in 2012 I was a police officer. I was on in the gym during lunch at four in the morning and I had a heart attack and and I'm sitting in a hospital bed and I said, what do I want the rest of my life to look like when I retire?

What do I want to accomplish? And I just love writing. And I love to tell you a few stories. Like I was at Al Pacino's house. which is where this screenplay I'm going to offer later. But I've loved writing since I was a kid. So I started writing and the first thing I wrote was, which was natural.

I wrote a couple of police thrillers and then I wrote a book called Iris Valley. I have four copies I want to raffle off today. Iris Valley is much in the same vein as Bad center. It's a very heartfelt personal story that centers on five people. In a little town of Iris Valley in the hills of Georgia.

And we want, we hope to develop that one next. So I want to give you guys a couple samples, see what you think. But as far as writing books, I sit up here, but I'm actually an introvert. And to sell books, you're competing against about 15 million other books on Amazon. So to sell them, you have to advertise yourself.

I like being behind the scenes. So I moved away from writing books. People really loved the book and the books, but I just couldn't be out in front. But I do want to share, I signed the copies and have you take a look. and see what you guys think about Iris Valley. But I really love the stories in 

[00:13:36] Mike Roth: Fellow in the green, if you want to come forward. Tony, can you give them a microphone? Tell everyone your name first. 

[00:13:42] Audience Member: Name's Ship. Fact that the narrative arc of the movie is leading, Your main character, the senator to redemption. The thing that bothered me in the end was, as they're, they come back, and they are with Iris through her death.

[00:14:01] Chad Richardson: Right.

[00:14:02] Audience Member: I think they're redeemed. 

[00:14:04] Chad Richardson: That's an awesome point . Question, some of the test audiences said the exact same thing. I just want to one more moment and Bobby Randall, who played that part.

And see, I don't know if you guys know this, but you have the Orange Blossom 

Opery is in Wearsdale.

It is the hidden gem of Central Florida. It has some most amazing and talented performers. So my mother's up in the audience right there. We've been going to the Orange Blossom Opery for over 25 years.

And this is another great story is. I reached out to Roger and Heather Byers to try to film there because it was a dream for me to film at that Opry. I love it so much. And it took a year before Roger, they would respond because he's very protective of that place. And he finally called me one day and he said, are you Chad Richardson?

I said, yes. He goes, can you stop calling me? Can you stop bothering me? I said, no, I can't. I can't. I go, give me five minutes to tell you what this story is about. And if you want to say no then fine. So that five minutes turned to 10, 20 turned into a meeting with Roger and Heather. And not only did they embrace the story, but they said, this place is yours. Whenever you want to film, whatever you want to do, we're there to support you. And along with that came Bobby Randall who joined in and this is what's, I tell you, this whole thing is so amazing. So Bobby came in and said. I love this story too. I love what you're trying to do. How can I help you? And in the process, him and Carly Naff got together during recording the songs for the movie and wrote that last song together before we film that girl's gonna go far.

That was Bobby and Carly being inspired by this movie and wrote that song for us, for this movie. I cried when they did that for us. I couldn't believe that, Bobby Randall founded Sawyer Brown. He is a legend in music circles, and here I have this legend felt so much about this movie and the story that he said, I'm gonna write a story from my heart, and they got together and did this.

It's magical. I love that song in the movie.

[00:16:11] Mike Roth: Yeah. That last scene with Bobby coming down the Yeah, the truck. And you recognize that it's Bobby, you really are tying up the movie. Exactly. Front to the back. I, that was real good. We have time for another question. Doc Fellow in the orange, yellow shirt. Doc is one of our improvers. He's going to be here on this stage on the 5th of April. 

[00:16:30] Audience Member: I'm looking forward to it. Of course, I'm real shy.

[00:16:32] Mike Roth: really

[00:16:33] Chad Richardson: There you go. Yeah.

[00:16:34] Mike Roth: and crazy guy.

[00:16:35] Chad Richardson: the next senator.

[00:16:37] Audience Member: My question is, where did you get your actors?

[00:16:40] Chad Richardson: Oh my gosh. A long search. We had a couple of 1000 applicants and then I saw bob and it was immediate for bob Gallagher as soon as I saw his audition. Rob, I passed over there's about 800 people were trying to get the role of Jocko. I passed over Rob over and over again. And then I just go, you know what?

I'm not. I saw his picture. I'm gonna just check on this guy even though he's not the guy. And I clicked on some of his reels and I was like, who is this guy? He's completely different than what I thought. And then I called him and I said, Hey could I talk to Rob Moore? And he says, this is Rob Moore. And I go, no, it's not.

I just watch Rob Moore in these reels. And this sounds nothing like Rob Moore. And he goes, it is Rob Moore. And I go, oh my gosh. And I was blessed to find him. And then Vanessa, I searched for her for months. You had to have somebody, if you. Watch this movie again. She's about 30 or 40 different people.

She has this subtle difference. Like every scene, she's different. And you don't even pick up on it, unless you really focus on her. But she brings this nuance to every scene that was amazing. She's just, they're amazing. They really were they're amazing . 

[00:17:56] Audience Member: And basically a follow up to the actor's question. Where did you find Billy? And has he gone on or any of the other actors and actresses gone on to make any waves in the motion picture industry?

[00:18:12] Chad Richardson: Yeah, I don't think they have and I don't understand why. Billy Hunter Cole is out in New York. He never said anything to us, but he was actually a Korean pop star before he became an actor. He was in this pop star group in Korea and played at the Olympics and never said a word to us. And when I saw him I called him and he was the most humble, kind person.

And in the process of the audition, I said, can you send a few pictures of yourself? And he sent me a picture and I immediately sent back. Hey, can I get a picture without the chicken for legs in the picture and and he, he laughed about it and I go, this kid's got game. This kid is a really nice guy and he's so humble.

So sweet. Like we made meals at my mother's house and while other actors ate and laughed, I look over one day and Hunter's doing the dishes with my mom. That's how humble this guy is. And. he walks like wherever he went in the community. It's like there's an aura of this guy. We had 75 year old women making propositions to me for Hunter.

It was amazing. Even like you saw the, he's such a good guy that I took out the goat in the script. And the reason why It's because I want to surprise him and put a goat in the car with him. So when you see him jump out, that was a surprise. We set him up because I like to pull jokes on people and and it just went over great and he has such a great sport about a, a goat attacking him in the back of a car.

But yeah, that was awesome.

[00:19:52] Mike Roth: A great scene. That was a great scene.

[00:19:54] Chad Richardson: I enjoyed it.

[00:19:55] Mike Roth: Wait until the microphone gets to you. This is Rosalie. 

[00:19:58] Audience Member: I'm Rosalie. From The Villages. The story was phenomenal, and I cried. Touch, it touched our hearts, okay? 

[00:20:07] Mike Roth: Of hands, how many others

[00:20:09] Audience Member: Oh my God.

[00:20:10] Mike Roth: by the film? That's like almost 100 percent of the

[00:20:12] Audience Member: look at how many people Iris touched lives.

Phenomenal. First of all, okay, I want to ask, Was it strictly in Spruce Creek?

[00:20:24] Chad Richardson: No. We had scenes. It was mainly in Spruce Creek, but we had a couple of scenes in The Villages like we had a couple of scenes for the medical offices. So The Villages, we tried to film in The Villages and at the time we could not get the okay. And The Villages defense, the Morse family. It was made clear to me that a documentary filmmaker came in here and made a mockery of you 

[00:20:49] Audience Member: guys.

Of you

[00:20:50] Chad Richardson: And they were

[00:20:50] Audience Member: They were

[00:20:51] Chad Richardson: pretty scarred by that. But, here we are

[00:20:54] Audience Member: now. 

[00:20:54] Chad Richardson: Not only are we allowed here to do this, but, they own the Village's Daily Sun and they did an amazing article for us on Monday.

So I don't know how they heard about 

[00:21:04] Audience Member: this today. I'm glad

[00:21:05] Chad Richardson: want to thank, if I can find out who talked to them. But, I told them from the beginning, this isn't about politics. This is about family and love and friendship. And so I'm very appreciative and we'd love to come down here again. We have to prove to Hollywood that there's a market for you guys.

Before we pass things out, we have to create, and this is what I ask of you, we have to create a viral launch point. People in Hollywood are watching, our distributors watching. And if we're going to be successful, if you like movies and shows like this, then you, your voice has to be heard. We're an indie filmmaking company.

We don't have a Hollywood budget for

[00:21:44] Mike Roth: Chad why don't you tell them how they can make their voice heard.

[00:21:47] Chad Richardson: I'm not good at social media. I should bring my son Finnegan up for that. He

[00:21:50] Mike Roth: You know the email address that you wanted to send an email to?

[00:21:53] Chad Richardson: I just post Instagram, TikTok. Snickerdoodle, whatever, all those social media pro, but we need the word to get out that this is a good the best compliments I heard is I had some people see the movie said, I wish I would have watched this with a loved one.

And so I that's a great compliment. Yes, sure.

[00:22:13] Mike Roth: Wait for the microphone, Rosalie.

[00:22:14] Audience Member: Now, I did not know anything about the movie. But I do know red carpet here in The Villages is phenomenal. I've been to another one before and it was about a story in France. And that was excellent. Okay. This was very, and that was very touching also. And so was this. Today we had lunch at 21 of Us Women.

Had lunch at Glenview Country Club. And I shared with them this little thing. And I says, please take a picture of it. So you can share with them. And please go to the Red Carpet Show. 

[00:22:53] Chad Richardson: Thanks very much. But that's what I'm talking about is people getting ill like that. What time we have?

Four minutes. So what you can do today for us is I'm going to bring up these things I'd love to give you and, but my brother's going to be outside when you leave the theater. If you want to say anything about the movie, unless you're going to say it sucks and please don't say anything, but if you feel like you want to say something about it that we can use for marketing, put on Facebook or wherever, then we really appreciate it.

Cause now this is the drive to try to. So people can find out about the movie, but let me get these real quick.

Yes, sir.

[00:23:27] Audience Member: all day.

[00:23:28] Chad Richardson: Yes, sir. Yeah.

Okay. Right.

[00:23:31] Audience Member: instead of using hard cuts and dissolves, especially and the other with the transitions when people are coming to see iris, why used hard cuts instead of dissolves and the next and the other question I have is was there a significant reason why some of the scenes were orange. I don't know, because I know people use like colors for significant reasons or whatnot. 

[00:24:02] Chad Richardson: Those are great questions. A lot of it I went, so we, obviously, you, it sounds like you're an you've done filmmaking, editing, without question, by asking that question. A lot of it was just feel, is that I felt like some of the fade ins or fade outs. I wanted a moment. I wanted a moment to breathe, a moment to relax, a moment to think about what just happened.

I tried different things when I did a hard cut sometimes. I felt like I didn't, I wouldn't be giving the audience just a moment to reflect. Because very often what happens is when we see something, our minds go to some association to our own lives. I wanted to have these moments that, you have time to reflect.

And this again goes to, our dream is that, where there's this forgiveness that there's a moment where you go, you know what, I'm going to call my brother. I haven't talked to him in five years. I'm going to call my estranged daughter and I'm going to reach out. So it was mainly by feel.

And then the second question was

[00:25:05] Mike Roth: About color

[00:25:06] Chad Richardson: Oh, color grading. Man, that's, I wish I knew you back then. So I wanted the dinner scene to have a very soft overtone and undertone. And what's interesting, my brother, we're on the side there is so on my computer, which is a very good computer. The color was where I want it, but every single time I've shown this movie.

It comes out different and as in color grading, it's been very, it's frustrating because I spent months and months getting exactly the color I want. Like you may have noticed you would that some of the scenes had two or two darkest shadows in them and I was like, Oh man, that looks so perfect when I, on my computer and even on like my test TV that I use in my office.

And then, so you and I know, I'm like, that's not what I wanted. But you have to be proud of how it ended up turning out. You're gonna, there's many things that you'll go, I wish I did this or I wish that looked this way. But overall, I just wanted a warm feeling so that we knew it wasn't going to be a cold situation between Richard.

It was a moment to apologize. 

[00:26:18] Mike Roth: I think we have to do the drawing now. Yeah, just about burned off the

[00:26:21] Chad Richardson: all right, so first,

[00:26:22] Mike Roth: Oh, someone didn't get some tickets.

[00:26:24] Chad Richardson: any, oh, anybody not get tickets?

[00:26:27] Mike Roth: Oh, if you went to the restroom you lost your chance. Luckily we have a fast young fellow out there who's gonna give you a ticket. It looks like we've got some movie posters here and some books.

And an original script. Original script.

[00:26:39] Chad Richardson: the book, Iris Valley, and Dale, can you grab that, pick out a number? The one through forty.

[00:26:45] Audience Member: 1 

[00:26:47] Chad Richardson: one through forty, Finn? Hey, okay. seven, 

[00:26:50] Mike Roth: as well show everyone the book. And read the number. Thirteen. Lucky thirteen. Hey, Janice. Okay. Okay Take all books. I'll pull out a number. Okay. On the green tickets. Okay. Number 27. Okay.

We have Vicki in the front row. Okay. I can see that. Whoa. That's number E. Okay. Hey,

we have 27 here too. One, the E is a winner. who have 27? Oh,

[00:27:19] Chad Richardson: Up top, to your right.

[00:27:21] Mike Roth: That's There's one extra.

One, one to the letter E.

And one to 27, the lady in blue.

Okay.

No, we didn't do number 16. Do we have number 16 in the audience?

It must be a Michael. Okay.

[00:27:35] Audience Member: get, 

[00:27:37] Mike Roth: No.

Okay.

Okay. Yep. Then seven. Okay. Rosalie. Okay. That looks like something really special. What is it? We're over time. 

[00:27:48] Chad Richardson: So this is the original script and not even all the actors and crew have this. This is the script that. On day one of shoot that we had, and it changed and evolved every day. But this is the original script, and I wrote behind the scenes notes and thoughts about what happened. And I don't have time to tell a story, but I was in Al Pacino's house when I was younger. And I was lucky enough to read, Al Pacino's copy of the Godfather script. And it had all of Al's notes and Robert De Niro's notes and it had an argument between Al Pacino and Coppola and it was one of the most magical moments of my life. I can't tell you the whole story you guys would go, you do not believe the story of being at Al Pacino's house.

But anyway,

I know my glasses I'm going to say.

Love this scene. So much fun. 

Yeah, there's lots of, I, I put it, nobody else knows what's in this book and

[00:28:49] Chad Richardson: If you're not into this type of things, please just have somebody raise their hand that would appreciate it. But if you're really into screenplays and history of cinema and filmmaking, this truly is one of a kind.

There is no other one like this and nobody else is going to ever see this copy. It's just that simple. It's gone now. So this is it one. I don't have a copy.

Yeah, my family knows. We want to be thankful to the people that help us. He's got pretty good life. He's doing all right, so it's signed.

Yeah, it's signed on the back

What's that?

Why I have six kids, so who do I give it to?

I'm trying to sell them and you're trying to get me to give them something to stay

All right, here we go right, here we go. Drumroll please. There you go. The lucky number is 33. My exact age. Oh my gosh, Dottie. Dottie you guys may recognize her. She's the the slut in the movie.

That's the one that we made do the big comment at the beginning of the movie. And she's such a great sport about it. She got a lot of teasing over it. So that worked out great.

So go ahead and get that done. All right. Great. Thank you. So much. And we'll be out. If you guys want any pictures, we'll be out there.   

[00:30:06] Mike Roth: This is Mike Roth and Dr. Craig Curtis. We're talking about Alzheimer's disease. 

[00:30:10] Dr. Craig Curtis: So even if you removed 100 percent of the amyloid, that would not cure Alzheimer's. That is true in patients with symptoms. You can remove all the amyloid, yet the symptoms will continue to progress. So what we're doing now in these prevention studies is we're trying to see if removing amyloid prior to symptoms beginning If removing all the amyloid out of your brain, whether or not that actually halts the progression into actual symptoms 

in Alzheimer's disease.

[00:30:42] Warren: With over 20 years of experience studying brain health, Dr. Curtis's goal is to educate the Villages community on how to live a longer, healthier life. To learn more, visit his website, CraigCurtisMD. com or call 352 500 5252 to attend a free seminar.

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