WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:06.440 You're listenings KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio 2 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:14.480 app. Quick reminder that Sunday, I'm sorry, Sunday July fourteen Basteel Day, 3 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:21.000 where we all celebrate of the French July fourth Well, okay, but 4 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:26.160 Anaheim White House is doing exactly that and is having a Basteel Day event, 5 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:31.000 which Neil and I are going to. And it's French food all the way 6 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:35.359 down, very high end, ninety five bucks ahead, so it's not inexpensive, 7 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:40.240 but it's a real destination restaurant and the way the food there is phenomenal, 8 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:43.920 and Neil and I will be there so you can come by and watch 9 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:48.159 me stuff my face and talk to you with my mouth full and food spraying 10 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:52.039 out of my mouth. So go to Anaheim Whitehouse dot com. We only 11 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:57.200 have I think there are six tickets left, so that means twelve people the 12 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:02.719 first twelve callers. You have to be the first twelve callers. I think 13 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:06.879 you reversed that. It is probably twelve seats left. So oh yeah, 14 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:10.400 couples, yeah, yeah, very the one Yeah, it's all right, 15 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:14.239 okay, got it, Uh, never mind, all right, Joel larsguard 16 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:19.200 how to money, Joel, who has heard? Of course, I didn't 17 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.840 put that up Saturdays, Sunday Days, Sundays. I'm sorry it wasn't put 18 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:26.719 up. And if it's not put up, I always forget everybody. A 19 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:30.560 matter of fact, I wouldn't even know your name if it wasn't up there. 20 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:32.799 All right, Joel, let's get right into it, because we have 21 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:37.680 a few things to cover. California car insurance. Oh, we didn't know 22 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:41.760 that that those prices were going up, did we? I just got my 23 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:46.719 renewal. I couldn't believe it. You're not what's going on? Yeah? 24 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:49.840 Well, and you would think it's, oh, is this just a California 25 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:52.840 specific thing, but no, it's not. This is happening all across the 26 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:57.920 country. It feels really palpable for certain specific homeowners and drivers in the state 27 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:01.159 of California, though too so. The Wall Street Journal literally had an article 28 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:06.480 this morning and it says home insurance premiums are surging and states are allowing it, 29 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:10.199 and so like what they're hinting at is that these the insurance commissioners of 30 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:14.599 states around the country are just like taking it on the chin. They're allowing 31 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.680 these insurance companies to run amuck and to increase prices at record rates. And 32 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:23.520 that is true, but it's also interesting because these insurance companies, they've been 33 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:28.719 losing money, like they haven't been doing so hot. Inflation means that if 34 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:31.240 something happens to your home, something happens to your car, the fix costs 35 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:36.120 a lot more than it did a few years ago. There are more wildfires, 36 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:38.439 of course, in the state of California. When you're talking about places 37 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:42.199 like Florida, you're talking about hurricanes and storms, and so their prices of 38 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:46.199 skyrocketed, and yes, they are pushing back and those prices are rising, 39 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:49.639 and then all of us in the shakeout, we're paying a whole lot more 40 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:51.960 because of it, and we're shocked when we get that renewal. Notice. 41 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:58.000 Yeah, even within California, the insurance company is and rates are completely controlled 42 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:01.919 by the insurance Commissioner, who is an elected official. So he is a 43 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:07.960 lot more in tune with what we want than what the insurance companies want. 44 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:13.000 There's no question about that. And he is allowing all of that to happen, 45 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:17.400 I guess because he has no choice, exactly, because otherwise they're walking 46 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:21.120 out the door. Yes, exactly, that's what's happened with some of these 47 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:23.919 insurance companies, and so they've they said, listen, if you're not going 48 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:27.120 to allow us this rate increase, well we can't continue to write policies at 49 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:30.599 an extreme loss for forever. And so it's this dance that has to go 50 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:32.719 back and forth between the Commissioner and the insurance companies to say, well, 51 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:36.759 what are we going to allow, what how much are we going to allow 52 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.400 rate hikes? What sort of restrictions are going to are we going to allow 53 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:43.879 on writing policies. For instance, they've been able to get some concessions on 54 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:49.280 writing policies in more wild wildfire prone areas, but at the same time then 55 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:52.400 they have to say, well, you're going to be able to We're going 56 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:55.759 to allow you to increase your rates by twenty nine thirty two percent, and 57 00:03:55.800 --> 00:04:00.479 so yeah, it's it's a really tough position for consumers. And we just 58 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:04.840 got inflation numbers today. Inflation is ticking down slowly but surely. But one 59 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:10.520 thing that's not going away is the insurance price increases like that that's just going 60 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:14.680 to continue to frustrate people. But we need more competition, we need more 61 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:18.000 insurance carriers to be able to write policies in the state even if prices go 62 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:21.399 up, because that at least gives you more options and shopping around as paramount. 63 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:26.639 Right now, this last November, November eleventh, not only did I 64 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:30.839 celebrate Armis's Day, the end of World War One, but I celebrated the 65 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:36.639 day that my home policy expired and I couldn't get another one. Yeah, 66 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:41.759 my insurance company just said nope, not going to do it anymore. And 67 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:45.319 so I finally found a company. I have insurance broker because I wasn't going 68 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:47.879 to go scrambling, and he was able to find me a policy. Two 69 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:51.519 and a half weeks later, I was bere for two and a half weeks. 70 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:55.720 Yeah, no home insurance. Tell me how I slept every night for 71 00:04:55.720 --> 00:05:00.279 two and a half weeks and it came down as double what I was paying, 72 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:03.600 Absolutely double. Hey, thank you very much. A lot of people 73 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:08.680 can't stomach that sort of increase. And you bring up a good point too, 74 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:11.839 is you should talk to an insurance broker. You should talk to an 75 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:15.240 independent insurance agent who can help you shop around. There's a website called Trusted 76 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:18.399 choice dot com that you can check out. An independent insurance agent in your 77 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:23.600 area, and they instead of going directly to each company individually and trying to 78 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:26.480 get a price quote, they can do all that for you in one fell 79 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:29.560 swoop. And you don't pay for it, do you? The insurance companies 80 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:32.040 pay them. That's exactly right. And then yeah, so that's really what 81 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:35.279 you need to do. If you get a bill that's astronomical that you're just 82 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:39.519 like, how am I even gonna be able to drive anymore? If my 83 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:44.040 homeowner, if my auto insurance rate goes up, if it becomes that steep, 84 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:46.600 well then you need to shop around. And you can do that by 85 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:48.279 yourself, but it's easier if you get somebody else to do that for you. 86 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:50.399 All right, now, let's take a break. We'll come back and 87 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:56.959 finish it up with Joel Larsguard. How the money heard every Sunday? Right 88 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:00.160 here, it's two o'clock, right Joel, nine noon to two? Okay, 89 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:03.199 yeah, okay, I got the to listen, Michelle, you didn't 90 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:08.560 write it down, and you have to write my name down otherwise I go 91 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:12.839 Hi. This is, by the way, I'm not kidding Joel. Ask 92 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:17.319 Neil how many times I have mis mispronounced my name? Don't don't pull me 93 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:25.000 into this just a lot, a lot. You're listening to Bill Handle on 94 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:32.560 demand from kf I am six forty quick reminder that Sunday, I'm sorry, 95 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:40.720 Sunday July fourteen Basteel Day, where we all celebrate sort of the French July 96 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:45.680 fourth. Well, okay, but Anaheim White House is doing exactly that and 97 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:49.240 is having a Basteel Day event which Neil and I are going to. And 98 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:55.399 it's French food all the way down, very high end, ninety five bucks 99 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:59.920 ahead, so it's not inexpensive, but it's a real destination restaurant in the 100 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:02.959 way the food there is phenomenal, and Neil and I will be there so 101 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:06.439 you can come by and watch me stuff my face and talk to you with 102 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:12.120 my mouth full and food spraying out of my mouth. So go to Anaheim 103 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:15.839 Whitehouse dot com. We only have I think there are six tickets left, 104 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:20.800 so that means twelve people the first twelve callers. You have to be the 105 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:27.199 first twelve callers. I think you reversed that. It is probably twelve seats 106 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:30.759 left. So oh yeah, couples, yeah, yeah, Gary, the 107 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.279 one Yeah, it's all right, okay, got it? Never mind, 108 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:38.360 all right, Joel Larsgard how to money, Joel, who has heard? 109 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:44.800 Of course, I didn't put that up Saturdays, Sunday days, Sunday. 110 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:46.759 I'm sorry it wasn't put up. And if it's not put up, I 111 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:50.079 always forget everybody. A matter of fact, I wouldn't even know your name 112 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:54.000 if it wasn't up there. All right, Joel, let's get right into 113 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:57.680 it, because we have a few things to cover. California car insurance. 114 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:01.759 Oh we didn't know that that would those prices were going up, did we. 115 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:07.240 I just got my renewal. I couldn't believe it. You're not what's 116 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:09.439 going on? Yeah? Well, and you would think it's, oh, 117 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:13.360 is this just a California specific thing, but no, it's not. This 118 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:18.920 is happening all across the country. It feels really palpable for certain specific homeowners 119 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.199 and drivers in the state of California, though too so. The Wall Street 120 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:26.560 Journal literally had an article this morning and it says home insurance premiums are surging 121 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:30.639 and states are allowing it, and so like what they're hinting at is that 122 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:35.200 these the insurance commissioners of states around the country are just like taking it on 123 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:37.960 the chin. They're allowing these insurance companies to run amuck and to increase prices 124 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:43.519 at record rates. And that is true, but it's also interesting because these 125 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:46.879 insurance companies, they've been losing money, like they haven't been doing so hot. 126 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:52.679 Inflation means that if something happens to your home, something happens to your 127 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:54.639 car, the fix costs a lot more than it did a few years ago. 128 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.000 There are more wildfires, of course, in the state of California. 129 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.559 When you're talking about places like Florida, you're talking about hurricanes and storms, 130 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:05.399 and so they're prices of skyrocketed. And yes, they are pushing back in 131 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:09.720 there and those prices are rising, and then all of us in the shakeout, 132 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:11.480 we're paying a whole lot more because of it, and we're shocked when 133 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:16.519 we get that renewal notice. Yeah, even within California, the insurance company 134 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:22.440 is and rates are completely controlled by the insurance Commissioner, who is an elected 135 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:26.919 official. So he is a lot more in tune with what we want than 136 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.320 what the insurance companies want. There's no question about that. And he is 137 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:37.360 allowing all of that to happen, I guess because he has no choice exactly, 138 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.360 because otherwise they're walking out the door. That's exactly that's what's happened with 139 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:45.279 some of these insurance companies, and so they've they've said, listen, if 140 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.000 you're not going to allow us this rate increase, well we can't continue to 141 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.799 write policies at an extreme loss for forever. And so it's this dance that 142 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:54.039 has to go back and forth between the Commissioner and the insurance companies to say, 143 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:56.919 well, what are we going to allow, what how much are we 144 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:01.720 going to allow rate hikes, what sort of restrictions are going to we're going 145 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:03.840 to allow on writing policies. For instance, they've been able to get some 146 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:09.519 concessions on writing policies in more wild wildfire prone areas, But at the same 147 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:13.440 time then they have to say, well, you're going to be able to 148 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:16.480 we're going to allow you to increase your rates by twenty nine thirty two percent. 149 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.879 And so yeah, it's a really tough position for consumers to be And 150 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:26.559 we just got inflation numbers today. Inflation is ticking down slowly but surely. 151 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:31.840 But one thing that's not going away is the insurance price increases like that that's 152 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:35.159 just going to continue to frustrate people. But we need more competition we need 153 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:39.159 more insurance carriers to be able to write policies in the state, even if 154 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:43.480 prices go up, because that at least gives you more options and shopping around 155 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:46.960 as paramount. Right now, This last November, November eleventh, not only 156 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:52.720 did I celebrate Armis's Day, the end of World War One, but I 157 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:58.639 celebrated the day that my home policy expired and I couldn't get another one. 158 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.840 Yeah, my insurance company just said nope, not going to do it anymore. 159 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:05.879 And so I finally found a company, I've insurance broker because I wasn't 160 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:09.279 going to go scrambling, and he was able to find me a policy. 161 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.799 Two and a half weeks later. I was bear for two and a half 162 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:16.279 weeks. Yeah, no home insurance. Tell me how I slept every night 163 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:20.559 for two and a half weeks and it came down as double what I was 164 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:24.960 paying, Absolutely double. Hey, thank you very much. A lot of 165 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:30.120 people can't stomach that sort of increase. And you bring up a good point 166 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.320 too, is you should talk to an insurance broker. You should talk to 167 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.519 an independent insurance agent who can help you shop around. There's a website called 168 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:41.080 Trusted choice dot com that you can check out an independent insurance agent in your 169 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:45.279 area, and they instead of going directly to each company individually and trying to 170 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.159 get a price quote, they can do all that for you in one fell 171 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:50.200 swoop. And you don't pay for it, do you? The insurance companies 172 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:54.720 pay them. That's exactly right. And then yeah, so that's really what 173 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:56.960 you need to do. If you get a bill that's astronomical that you're just 174 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:01.080 like, how am I even going to be able to drive anymore? If 175 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:05.279 my homeowner, if my auto insurance rate goes up, if it becomes that 176 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:07.120 steep, well then you need to shop around. And you can do that 177 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:09.840 by yourself, but it's easier if you get somebody else to do that for 178 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:13.559 you. All right, let's take a break. We'll come back and finish 179 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:18.919 it up with Joel Larsguard. How the money heard every Sunday? Right here? 180 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:22.840 It's two o'clock, right, Joel, No noon to two? Okay, 181 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:24.440 yeah, okay, I got the to it. Listen, Michelle, 182 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:28.159 you didn't write it down, and you have to write my name down otherwise 183 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:33.240 I go Hi. This is by the way, I'm not kidding Joel. 184 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:39.840 Ask Neil how many times I have mis mispronounced my name. Don't don't pull 185 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:45.759 me into this. Just a lot, a lot. You're listening to Bill 186 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:52.679 Handle on demand from KFI AM six forty. Okay. An article about wordle 187 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:56.120 and your brain, the wordle part. I don't play wordle amy. You 188 00:12:56.159 --> 00:13:01.759 play wordle quickly in thirty seconds, explain what we're You get to have five 189 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:07.240 or actually six chances to guess a five letter word, and you make your 190 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:11.240 first choice, and then it'll tell you what letters you have right in the 191 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:15.879 right place, what letters you have right in the wrong place, and then 192 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:18.519 you have to go to your next guests. Yeah, I just did it 193 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:22.799 Wheel of Fortune effectively, okay, kind of, but it's fun and you 194 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:24.519 can only play once a day, okay, so it's good. So you 195 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:28.600 can't get addicted. Okay, so no reruns of Wheel of Fortune. Now. 196 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:33.240 The reason I pick this up, I don't play wordle, but it's 197 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:37.399 part of this entire industry that gets your brain going. And if you play 198 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:43.440 these games, you do crossword puzzles, you play wordle. There's a brain 199 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:50.240 game industry out there, daily puzzles. Just people are addicted to it, 200 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:54.960 and it theoretically helps your brain cognitive ability, keeps you it slows down your 201 00:13:56.000 --> 00:14:00.639 decline. You know what, The research is really up in the air. 202 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:07.159 There's some reachers that says yes, most of the research out there says it 203 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:11.360 does help you. But and this is why I found it so fascinating, 204 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:15.759 not in the way you think. What it does is give you a sense 205 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:20.679 of accomplishment, which is hard to do every day in your everyday life. 206 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:26.240 And you get a hit of dopamine, and it is that is what makes 207 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:31.960 you cognitively better. That's what it is. That's the science, not this 208 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:35.240 long term or the game itself or any of that. It's just feeling accomplishment. 209 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:39.399 For example, let's say a puzzle puzzle, right, you have chaos 210 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:46.879 as you put figuring out what to do, and then chaos it comes all 211 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:50.720 together when you finish the puzzle and you go it's an aha moment. Uh, 212 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:54.000 look at this, I finished the puzzle off, I feel great, 213 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:58.759 Which is why the majority of puzzles have these scenes, these scenic pastorals, 214 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:03.799 scene you got trees, you have. When I started looking for crossword puzzles, 215 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:07.120 I was looking for puzzles at for example, I had holocaust themes or 216 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:11.639 crime scenes. You can't get them. They just don't sell them the way 217 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:18.759 I wanted him. So what do you do? I don't get particularly a 218 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:20.559 thrill to me. I got dopamine. I used to get dopamine. For 219 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:24.159 example, my kids acted out and I beat them up. There was a 220 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:31.639 sense of accomplishment there. There was this little hit of feeling good about what 221 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:37.440 you did. So the reality here is that it sort of does help you. 222 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:43.679 Who is that chef, famous chef who does the neural You know that 223 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:48.279 commercial where it's your brain the supplement for your brain. Oh, I know 224 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:52.480 who you're talking about, Alton Brown. I guess, yeah, yeah, 225 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:58.200 yeah. I had no idea. Alton and he has he brings out this 226 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:02.600 commercial for one of these supplements, and he has all of these tools, 227 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:04.519 and he said, look at all the tools you use, but you can 228 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:07.519 do it with one. I had no idea. Supplements are a kitchen tool 229 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:14.039 that can help you slice a pizza. But in the world of Alton Brown, 230 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:19.799 it is point is there's entire huge industry of that, the supplement industry, 231 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:26.120 the jigsaw, the puzzle in industry. So let me ask you, 232 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:29.000 Amy you play wordle I don't. I don't have a patience for any of 233 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:30.399 this stuff. I don't play cards. I just don't. I read. 234 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:33.559 I read, and I watch documentaries. That's what I do. Now. 235 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:38.279 I'm walking every day too. God, that's horrible and so amy. Does 236 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:42.600 that give you a tremendous hit of satisfaction when you get the word? Is 237 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:48.200 it an aha? I got the moment kind of yeah, and then you 238 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:51.639 share it with your friends and you yeah, it's like, oh, okay, 239 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:53.840 I got wordle for today, and every once in a while, doesn't 240 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:56.720 them. Very often I don't get it, and then you're like, oh, 241 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:00.440 I'm so stupid. So let me let me ask. Do you believe 242 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:06.240 that it helps you with your cognitive ability or slowing down or stopping your decline? 243 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:08.519 Do you think the two are connected? I think so. I mean 244 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:12.960 from everything that we've heard that you're supposed to keep your brain activated. So 245 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:21.640 I play wordle and qordal and connections. I play several a day. Yeah, 246 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:23.599 well, I got news for you. It's not helping. It doesn't 247 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:26.440 work that way, I know. But think how bad i'd be if I 248 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:29.400 didn't play on Well, that's the other side. Okay, how do you 249 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:36.519 prove a negative? But you know, some scientists say does nothing and the 250 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:41.440 ones that do say it is actually effective. Say it's because of the dopamine. 251 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:45.720 It's the aha moment, it's the success that you have. It's not 252 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:52.000 the process of figuring it out, thinking through put together a puzzle, looking 253 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:56.079 at his piece there and figuring out it goes connected to this piece. That 254 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.559 really doesn't do it? How could that not do something? Though you? 255 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:04.359 Because they're measured, because they measure cognitive abilities and they've been able to measure 256 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:08.720 the dopamine side of it, and they're just saying the research doesn't pan out. 257 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:15.319 It's a mantra. You use your brain and excuse me, and it's 258 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:22.200 going to slow down the aging process mentally. Eh. I don't know scientists. 259 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:25.759 A lot of scientists say no. And it's about fifty to fifty on 260 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:30.279 that one. Okay. I just wanted to tell you, Amy that you 261 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:34.119 playing wordle every day is a complete waste of time. I hope that makes 262 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:38.960 you fun, but you know you like puzzles. I mean, my daughter, 263 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:45.240 Pamela loves puzzles and she's a coder and it's all my god. Daughter 264 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:53.640 loves puzzles. And she graduated with a chemistry degree at University London and she 265 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:57.880 graduated it's chemistry is not easy. And I asked her, so you wanted 266 00:18:57.920 --> 00:19:00.720 to be a chemist. She goes, no, I have no desire to 267 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:03.599 use my chemistry degree at all. I goes, then why'd you do it? 268 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:07.079 Number one was the hardest course. I mean, she's that kind of 269 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:10.880 a person. And number two, it's all about solving puzzles. That's all 270 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:17.079 it is. Chemistry is about solving puzzles and that's the way her mind works. 271 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:21.759 And she is sharp as attack. Granted she's only thirty two, so 272 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:25.319 you know, you don't lose too much of your ability to think. Well, 273 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:27.880 some of us did when we were in our early early thirties. Coming 274 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:32.119 up, Moe Kelly is joining us earlier with Moe, which we do on 275 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:36.640 a Thursday. Shelley Duvall just died. We just got that news just a 276 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:41.799 few minutes ago, so we'll be back. You're listening to Bill Handle on 277 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:45.759 demand from KFI AM six forty one. Last reminder, Neil and I are 278 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:52.880 going to be at the Anaheim White House on Sunday seven pm celebrating Bastiele Day, 279 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:57.839 and they're putting together a whole Bastile Day celebration. That's Chef Bruno, 280 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:03.480 all French, and we're all going to be there for one happy event. 281 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:07.880 And it's ninety five dollars a person. It's not inexpensive, but the food 282 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:11.720 is insane and soneil and I will join us, will join you or you 283 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:15.279 join us in that. Sunday night, seven o'clock, go to Anaheim White 284 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:22.359 House dot com. Anaheim white House dot com. Mo Kelly who is with 285 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.880 us MOS heard every evening seven to ten pm. Moe. Shelley Duval just 286 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:30.680 died. We heard about that, and she is one of I loved her, 287 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:38.960 the quirkiest, most interesting actresses actress I guess actors out there. Let's 288 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:42.759 go a little bit with her background. Sure, you have someone who was 289 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:47.000 a supremely first let me say good morning, Bill, it's good to talk 290 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:48.160 to you, and oh yeah, I forgot to do that good morning. 291 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:51.680 Oh it's good to talk to you too. Okay, let's go on. 292 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:56.160 Now. When I got this news, it really saddened me because I will 293 00:20:56.200 --> 00:21:00.640 say, the breath and depth of her career was during my formative years growing 294 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:06.440 up. And she was super talented and she had a wide story as far 295 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:10.240 as her talents and how she applied them to the screen, and a lot 296 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:15.519 of the obituaries you'll see her stories talking about the difficulties of making The Shining 297 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:18.799 And I mentioned that movie because for me, I thought that was her best 298 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:22.880 performance ever of all time, even more so than her role at Annie Hall 299 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:27.880 and Others, or even Popeye. She was a magnificent act unfortunately was beset 300 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:34.079 with all sorts of physical health issues and emotional health issues later in her life, 301 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:38.680 but just a wonderful, wonderful talent. And I certainly didn't make it 302 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:44.079 on looks. Not that she was homely or anything. She was gangly, 303 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:48.480 she was tall, she was anything other than a leading lady, and yet 304 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:53.839 she had these wonderful parts. And that's fairly unique in the film business, 305 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:59.160 isn't it. Oh, it's very very unique. It wasn't that she was 306 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:03.279 She was not a classic beauty. I thought that she was attractive, but 307 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:07.599 when you think about the nineteen seventies and the nineteen eighties, that archetype she 308 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:12.160 was not that she was very very thin, She had very wide eyes. 309 00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:17.200 It was portrayed a saucer eyed in a lot of the reports. But she 310 00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:22.519 was someone who obviously was there for her acting ability, and she used every 311 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:27.000 moment that she had for her talent one of the things. And this is 312 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:33.440 personal with you, with me, with anybody who's a baby boomer or close 313 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:38.160 to it. Formative years and as I was growing up, she also was 314 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:42.920 this major player. And as these people are dying off mo for example, 315 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:47.960 she wasn't young, but their seventies, their eighties, and you think of 316 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:52.559 them in terms of what they were thirty forty years ago. Don't you want 317 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:56.039 to basically commit suicide. I don't know about commit suicide, but it does 318 00:22:56.160 --> 00:23:00.160 remind you and remind me of our own mortality, because after a certain point 319 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.599 you start to realize they're not that much older than us. Well, they're 320 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:10.319 very similar to us in age. Shelley Duval just celebrated her seventy fifth birthday, 321 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:14.240 So it's in seventy five. We know, in today's terms, it 322 00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:17.680 is not all that old. No, no, that's in your seventies. 323 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:23.079 You are not old in your eighties. As you approach middle eighties, now 324 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:29.079 you're getting old. And then when you're in your nineties, life well lived 325 00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:33.279 kind of thing, unless you're having to be a serial killer. Oh come 326 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:38.599 on, Neil, stop it all right, all right? So you know 327 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:41.000 that was the only thing I wanted to talk about. Mo. You have 328 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:44.720 another topic, right, and I don't know what it is. That's okay. 329 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:48.400 Now, I think Shelley Duval should stand on her own and the segment 330 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:52.279 should be devoted to her in her rich legacy and wonderful history. Have everyone 331 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:56.240 go out and watch the Shining Antie Hall or Popeye to best appreciate her. 332 00:23:56.519 --> 00:24:00.599 Yeah, incredible, All right, Moe, catch you tonight as always seven 333 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:06.720 to ten later with MO and here it's earlier with MO. Take care, 334 00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:11.319 Moe. We're done, guys another day another dollar or eighty cents because we 335 00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:19.000 work here at iHeart podcast has now dropped either on the iHeartRadio app or the 336 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:26.160 Bill Handleshow podcast dot com. And it's the first two of them that I'm 337 00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:30.240 doing. And I'm trying the podcast and take a listen and on Instagram. 338 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:36.400 I'd love your opinion. I would because I'm joining the world of podcasts due 339 00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:40.400 to popular demand. 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