WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:05.480 You're List Saints KFI AM six forty. The bill handles show on demand on 2 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:10.919 the iHeartRadio app. The Firearms Policy Coalition, in conjunction with the National Rifle 3 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:16.480 Association, the California Rifle and Pistol Association, and the Second Amendment Foundation have 4 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:22.760 filed a lawsuit against this new excise tax on guns, gun parts, and 5 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:28.359 ammunition. This took effect on Monday. This was Assembly Bill twenty eight. 6 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:33.200 The proponents of it said it would generate almost one hundred and sixty million dollars 7 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:37.799 in its first year, and that money can go to fund programs for gun 8 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:43.399 violence prevention, for gang intervention, and who knows what else. So the 9 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:47.240 lawsuit wants to block the new law, says it's a violation of the Second 10 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:52.840 Amendment because it is a special tax on gun owners, which it is for 11 00:00:52.880 --> 00:01:00.719 sure a special tax on gun owners. We have similar taxes in this society. 12 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:08.920 Alcohol has a special tax, tobacco has a special tax. And what 13 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:15.439 alcohol and tobacco and guns have in common, and I don't think anybody's gonna 14 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:19.879 want to argue with me about this, is that they are legal. These 15 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:27.760 are all legal things. In the hands of the wrong person or misused can 16 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:34.439 cause big problems for individual people or for society as a whole. So in 17 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:40.439 that sense, guns are just like alcohol and tobacco. We don't want to 18 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:45.560 completely make them illegal. Well now we can't even if you wanted to, 19 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:53.359 but there's some level of responsible ownership and use of these products. Here's where 20 00:01:53.400 --> 00:02:00.560 they're different, though, and that's what's behind this lawsuit. Only guns are 21 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:08.879 connected to a constitutional right. There's no constitutional right to have alcohol or tobacco. 22 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:15.520 There is a constitutional right to have a gun, with of course the 23 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:20.400 exceptions that exist and so forth, and regulations and requirements. But the core 24 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:27.680 bottom line is the Second Amendment is implicated. Just like, say, if 25 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:32.199 you wanted to put a special tax on printing presses. I know, I 26 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:36.120 know what you're saying. Oh my god, it's twenty twenty four. Nobody's 27 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:38.439 using printing presses anymore. Yes, I'm just trying to make the point. 28 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:45.520 A special tax on printing presses would be different than a special tax on booze 29 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:51.159 or tobacco because a printing press is to print material, which is a form 30 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:54.039 of communication, which has First Amendment protection. So it's the same idea. 31 00:02:54.080 --> 00:03:00.319 So in any event, here comes this lawsuit. Now we talk about this 32 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:02.960 with Bill on do they have a case all the time, this issue of 33 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.039 standing and you know, do you have the right to file a lawsuit? 34 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:10.800 And you can't file a lawsuit unless you've been hurt by this law. So 35 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:17.919 they had to find somebody who's been hurt by this new tax, and they 36 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:23.960 say that they have and her name is Danielle James. And the way that 37 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:28.479 she has been hurt by this tax on guns, according to the lawsuit, 38 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:35.400 is she was gonna buy a gun, specifically a six hour P three sixty 39 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:39.879 five ex Macro I guess, a little semi automatic pistol. She was going 40 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:46.039 to purchase this gun, as is her Second Amendment right, and she put 41 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:53.080 it off because this tax increased what it would cost to buy the gun. 42 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:57.879 So now she has to save up the money to get the gun. And 43 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:01.599 she says, I would buy this gun now, but because it's gonna cost 44 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:06.800 me eleven percent more, I'm not going to. Therefore, this tax has 45 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:14.080 infringed on my exercise of a Second Amendment right. Then there's a guy that 46 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:19.800 they found, Josh Gerkin, who is from Orange County who sometimes is a 47 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:25.160 firearms instructor at the local gun ranges and he purchases, you know, quite 48 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:29.639 a bit of ammunition, and he says, I'm gonna have to buy less 49 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:35.079 ammunition because it costs eleven percent more. So that's the basis. Now, 50 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:45.600 listen, I you know, I don't know how compelling these two examples are. 51 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:50.279 I'm not gonna lie to you. I can't believe that you have the 52 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:54.800 money for this gun. But if it's eleven percent more, not only do 53 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:57.399 you not have the money for the gun, but you're not gonna have the 54 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:04.000 extra eleven percent for all long time. And the other guy, I guess 55 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:11.360 observation there is he's saying, well, I might cut back. Okay, 56 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:14.680 have you cut back? Have you, for example, been unable to teach 57 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.920 a class because you could not afford the ammunition? I'm not sure here, 58 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:21.600 but I get the idea. I get the core idea behind the lawsuit, 59 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:27.720 which is there's a Second Amendment right in play, and if the government puts 60 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:35.600 a special tax on a constitutionally protected right, that's illegal. And that's the 61 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:40.120 theory. And I'm not saying they're right, and I'm not saying they're wrong. 62 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:44.000 I'm saying that's what's happening. And By the way, anyone who's surprised 63 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:48.240 by this lawsuit is kind of a dullard because you could have seen this coming 64 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:55.000 miles and miles away. And then I want to leave you with this because 65 00:05:55.040 --> 00:06:02.600 listen, one thing I really believe everybody can agree on is that you should 66 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:10.560 be at least minimally responsible with your firearm. You know, if you have 67 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:15.519 kids in the house, you got to keep that firearm locked up. A 68 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:23.720 guy in Pennsylvania now has been arrested and charged because a three year old child 69 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:31.240 in the house accidentally shot a lady in the back and there were apparently other 70 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:36.839 young children in proximity to this gun. Now where was this gun, because 71 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:41.959 sometimes you hear about a kid finds the gun in its hiding place or something 72 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:46.120 like that, where there's been some effort to hide the gun and it failed. 73 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:55.240 Well, apparently this gun was sitting on a table, already locked and 74 00:06:55.920 --> 00:07:00.959 cocked and loaded. He was the dude, this guy, Brian Zigfree, 75 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:04.360 who's forty one. He was like, you know, handling the gun, 76 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:09.519 puts it down right there on the table with all these kids around. So 77 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:13.240 all the three year old had to do was pick it up and by happenstance, 78 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:17.399 point it in the wrong direction, and get the trigger pulls. So 79 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:21.560 I guess I just want to leave, like on a note of solidarity with 80 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:28.839 everybody, which is everybody agrees this guy is a total jerk and should be 81 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:36.079 criminally punished for that. Right, don't disappoint me with angry tweets or whatever 82 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:40.480 you're gonna do. All right, we'll get some news from Heather Brooker in 83 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:46.079 the KFI newsroom and then some room room news. GM paying millions and millions 84 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:48.680 of dollars because of something going on with their cars, and it's not the 85 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:55.639 first time. Apparently you're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI Am six 86 00:07:55.759 --> 00:08:00.120 forty. We got some information in if you feel like the rent is it's 87 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:05.040 too damn high here in southern California, well here's some stats to prove it. 88 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:11.720 Although you might be surprised. Yes, California has some of the highest 89 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:18.160 per square foot rental costs in the country. But we're not number one or 90 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:22.879 number two, three, or four. We're number five average of two dollars 91 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:28.120 and ninety six cents per square foot. If you want to pay more on 92 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:35.200 average, you can go to Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York or Washington DC. 93 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:39.799 If you want to pay as little as possible, you can go to 94 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:43.919 North Dakota, where the average rental is only a dollar eight cents per square 95 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:50.559 foot. Also, we have the eleventh smallest average apartment size in the country. 96 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:54.919 The average California apartment is eight hundred and fifty one square feet, five 97 00:08:54.960 --> 00:09:00.440 percent below the national average. If you want the tiniest average apartment possible, 98 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:05.480 get on up to Alaska. And if you want the biggest, you got 99 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:09.279 to go to Georgia. Apparently the average apartment size in Georgia is over one 100 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:16.639 thousand square feet. Now let's talk about some car news. GM will pay 101 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:22.840 a little bit over one hundred and forty five million dollars in penalties because a 102 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:30.039 federal investigation found that about six million of their cars were spitting out more emissions 103 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:33.639 than they were saying. Not only do they have to pay the money as 104 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:37.960 a penalty, they have to give up about fifty million metric tons in carbon 105 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:43.240 allowances. These are their cars from the twenty twelve to twenty eighteen model years, 106 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:50.000 and they were spitting out about ten percent more carbon dioxide than the initial 107 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:54.799 compliance reports said. Now, this is not like the Volkswagen thing. You 108 00:09:54.840 --> 00:10:01.639 may remember the Volkswagen thing in twenty whatever it was fifty teen sixteen, where 109 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:09.720 Volkswagen was found to on purpose with a special device, cheat in the testing 110 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:13.399 of their emissions. They would put this thing on the car and then test 111 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:16.879 it and then go, oh, these are our emissions, ha ha. 112 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.799 So they got in big trouble. Now, GM is not accused of doing 113 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:22.840 anything like that. I don't believe that they did anything like that, but 114 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:28.399 they did. They screwed up and understated the amount of emissions. So they're 115 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:33.279 going to have to pay that money. The EPA is not making them recall 116 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:37.080 any of these cars that are spitting out a little more emissions than they're supposed 117 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:43.080 to. It's not the first time that GM has paid money for fuel and 118 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:48.840 emission related problems. Last year apparently they paid one hundred and twenty eight million 119 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:56.440 for fuel economy penalties because they didn't meet the requirements. Now, before that, 120 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:01.320 guess what, That fuel economy program has been in place for like forty 121 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:05.759 years, and before last year they had not paid any kind of fine for 122 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:11.480 forty years. So it's not like they're a nair Dwell company. But uh 123 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:16.159 yeah, I've been caught with a few problems. Now, oh man, 124 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:20.200 okay, street racing. We know street racing is a problem. We know 125 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:24.120 that law enforcement tries to do something about it, but it's almost impossible. 126 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:30.120 I think Bill even talked about this on the show very recently about the laws 127 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:35.759 that they passed just don't work. So there's another solution that somebody is trying. 128 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:39.519 And the idea is, well, what if you could give the experience 129 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:45.039 of street racing, but not on the streets. And that is what Leadfoot 130 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:50.679 City hopes to provide. It's the first ever automotive sports theme park. They'll 131 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:54.440 be a restaurant, they'll be a bar, there'll be an event space, 132 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:58.240 they'll have an amphitheater. I'm sure that they'll have concerts. They'll have a 133 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:05.519 burnout pit and and a mile long drag strip. And the way that they're 134 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:09.720 gonna do this is they want it to feel like not that you're on a 135 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:13.120 dragstrip at a racetrack. That's not what they want you to feel like. 136 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:20.039 They want you to feel like you're in the city, like you're on Sepulvida 137 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:28.360 and now you can go And they said this is designed for racing hobbyists or 138 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:31.960 those looking to put the hammer down on their personal vehicles and feel the adrenaline 139 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:39.000 rush. And the guy behind it, the creator of this attraction, whose 140 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:43.080 name is Achilles Thomas. I hope he's not a heel. I'm sorry, 141 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:46.039 I shouldn't have he said. Hey, even mom can come in her minivan 142 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.799 as long as the car is safe, meets our minimum safety criteria. She 143 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:54.159 can get on this dragstrip. She can send the kids over to the game 144 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:58.480 section at this park. She can get on the drag strip and put the 145 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:05.080 pedal to the metal. I know people will go and do it. I 146 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:09.399 don't think the people who are causing the problem with the street racing are gonna 147 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:13.519 do it because they're not gonna see it as an acceptable alternative. Because part 148 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:18.120 of the thrill for the street racing near Doells is that you're not supposed to 149 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:20.519 be doing it. So the second you say, well, you can do 150 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:22.960 the same thing. You can go really fast and race your buddy, but 151 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:28.600 it's allowed, they're like, no, thanks. The adrenaline rush comes because 152 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:35.120 it's forbidden. All right. Now, we're gonna get news from Heather Brooker, 153 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:41.039 and then for the next part of the show, we're gonna talk about 154 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.039 food. Yes, we're gonna do Foody Friday. Neil is off today, 155 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:50.480 but we're still gonna bring you Foody Friday and a possibly desperate attempt to make 156 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:56.879 a certain food seem healthy. You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI 157 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:01.720 AM six forty some of the stories following for you. Over in Britain, 158 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.919 they had a big snap election and the Conservative Party that has been controlling things 159 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:11.279 for fourteen years is not going to be controlling nothing anymore. The Labor Party 160 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:16.840 has won the crucial number of seats that secures them a majority in the Parliament. 161 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:24.000 There, all right, let's get into this. We're gonna do some 162 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:30.919 Foody Friday. I know that Neil is off, but I like Foody Friday 163 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:35.360 on a Friday, and I like food, and I like the first subject 164 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:43.240 of today's Foody Friday? Ice cream. Is there anybody on this show who 165 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:48.919 doesn't like ice cream? To me, this is a very yeah. I 166 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:50.519 didn't think anybody would speak up. There might be one of you that doesn't 167 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:54.120 like ice cream, but I'm guessing you're too afraid. I mean, I 168 00:14:54.200 --> 00:15:01.919 like non dairy ice cream, Okay, all right, that counts. I 169 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:07.399 like the real stuff. Can't have the real stuff. I'm sorry. Oh 170 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.159 my well, all right, So everybody who loves ice cream, right, 171 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:16.840 yes, So here's the thing. We all love ice cream in some form 172 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:24.480 or another. Nobody says ice cream is healthy. Nobody walks around and says, 173 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:28.440 hey, you know, I'm trying to eat more healthy, so I've 174 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:35.440 started eating more ice cream. But there are some dietitians who are trying to 175 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:41.960 make ice cream sound healthy. For example, and I will name them. 176 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:48.080 There's a dietitian named Shelley. Oh, don't giggle when I say her name. 177 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:54.559 I swear to God her name is Shelly Balls. And she said in 178 00:15:54.600 --> 00:16:00.000 an interview with Yahoo that, well, one of the benefits of icecream nutritionally 179 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:04.480 is that a serving of ice cream has about twelve percent of your daily requirement 180 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:12.759 for calcium. And calcium is a nutrient that we most of us, don't 181 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:17.960 get enough of. It's under consumed in our normal eating pattern. So how 182 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:23.399 about that when you have that ice cream cone, you're getting some calcium also, 183 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:29.759 she says six grams of protein preserving plus or minus a little bit, 184 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:33.120 depending on the brand, And that's the same amount of protein in a hard 185 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:41.879 boiled egg or an ounce of almonds. Okay, fine, there are obviously 186 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:47.679 sources of calcium that are healthier than ice cream and protein. But fine. 187 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:53.279 Now Here comes Stephanie Vanta Zelfton, another dietitian who was talking to Yahoo, 188 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:59.879 and she said, and I want to believe that whoever wrote this is mischaracterizing 189 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:04.480 what she said, but it says she often recommends ice cream as a dessert 190 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:14.680 option for her diabetic clients. Now the thinking is this, Okay, ice 191 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:18.640 cream has sugar, yes, but it also has fat and protein. So 192 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:22.720 if you combine the fat and the protein with the sugar, it actually reduces 193 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:27.680 the spike that you might see if you ate something that was more sugary. 194 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:32.359 I mean, this makes I guess I could see this that it would be 195 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:37.039 better if you're diabetic, it would be better to eat ice cream than to 196 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:41.880 eat cotton candy. But I also I would think, and I don't want 197 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:45.079 to bum anybody out, but if you're diabetic, maybe the best dessert option 198 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:51.720 is not dessert. So now, of course, if you follow anything on 199 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:57.000 social media, you see this new trend which is to really try to make 200 00:17:57.079 --> 00:18:03.680 ice cream healthier. And it's all these people who are basically making ah I 201 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:07.559 want to say fake ice cream. It's all these fitness people. I'm sure 202 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:12.160 you've seen them on your TikTok, your Instagram reels, whatever where they're taking 203 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:15.920 Like, take some cottage cheese. This is true. If you haven't seen 204 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:21.960 this, I'm about to make you go yuck. Maybe take some cottage cheese 205 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:30.799 and some protein powder and maybe some I like stevia, and put it in 206 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:33.920 the blender and then pour it in a dish and then put it in the 207 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:38.559 freezer. And that's ice cream. And boy is it healthy. It might 208 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:44.319 be healthy, but it's not ice cream. Also, the people that are 209 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:45.480 talking about, oh, what you do is you take your ice cream and 210 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:48.640 then you put other stuff in it to make it healthier, like chia seeds 211 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:55.039 and hemp seeds and oats. Yeah, if I'm gonna give an ice cream 212 00:18:55.079 --> 00:19:00.039 cone to a horse, I might do that. Oh. I love ice 213 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.279 cream, don't get me wrong. I love it. I love it too 214 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:06.559 much. I really do love it too much. Remember when Nancy Pelosi was 215 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:11.319 in the news because she did some video from her house and she was showing 216 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:15.000 off her kitchen and she opened up this fancy refrigerator and like she had an 217 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:21.000 entire refrigerator that was nothing but pints of super premium ice cream. Remember that? 218 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:23.039 And people are like, what's wrong with you, lady? And I 219 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:26.920 was like, why do you only have one refrigerator that's entirely full of ice 220 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:34.640 cream? But I'm never gonna pretend the ice cream is healthy. Let's talk 221 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:40.119 about this now. The weekend is coming, It's a holiday weekend. There's 222 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:44.160 gonna be a ton of cooking out going on. And cooking out has a 223 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:48.519 long history in this country. And one thing I found out that was amazing 224 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:59.720 is how the charcoal briquette was invented and the people, the four people that 225 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:02.799 are involved in making it. So you can go to the grocery store and 226 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:07.799 get a bag of Kingsford charcoal burgett. And I'm not being preferential to the 227 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:15.640 Kingsford brand, except that Eg Kingsford, who was a real estate agent, 228 00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:22.799 is one of these four guys responsible for you having it. The other three 229 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:32.519 are Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and some guy named John Burrows who's probably 230 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:34.799 really mad that he's nowhere near his famous as these other people. But it 231 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:38.440 all started when, you know, Henry Ford was building cars and back in 232 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:41.680 the day the Model t's had wood. The running boards were wood, the 233 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:47.119 dashboards were wood, the spokes of the wheels were wood. You needed about 234 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:52.720 one hundred feet of hardwood for each car. So he got with this EG. 235 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:56.559 Kingsford was actually a real estate agent, and they worked together and they 236 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:02.119 bought this huge parcel of timberland up in Michigan, I think like three hundred 237 00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:06.640 thousand acres, and they built a saw mill there and a parts plant there, 238 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:11.640 and they actually founded a town called Kingsford for the workers to live in. 239 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:15.799 And they started making the stuff for the cars. And then Henry Ford 240 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:18.559 said, look at all this wasted wood, though, what a waste of 241 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:22.960 money, this wood that we that aren't going into the parts. What can 242 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:26.640 we do with it? And so one of the chemists that Ford, found 243 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:30.880 a way to take this wood scrap and mix it with some other stuff and 244 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:36.160 create these little lumps of fuel and they called them charcoal bricketes. Now, 245 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:41.599 what is Thomas Edison's role. His role is he helped design a factory to 246 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:48.880 make these charcoal brickets right next to the sawmill there. And eventually, long 247 00:21:48.920 --> 00:22:00.759 story short, Kingsford ended up getting the name on a charcoal bricket company in 248 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:06.599 the fifties. That's why the Kingsford brand is named after this guy. And 249 00:22:06.680 --> 00:22:10.160 once that happened in the fifties where you could just walk into a grocery store 250 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:15.960 and get him, that's when barbecues went crazy in this country. And the 251 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:22.960 other thing is that the reason we associate grilling with men is because that's how 252 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:27.279 it was marketed. All the advertising about grilling out in the fifties and the 253 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:33.119 sixties. Not only was it always a man, always at the grill in 254 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:38.039 the ad, but you had an aggressive message that grilling was for men and 255 00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:44.480 not for women. There was a food writer named Clementine Paddleford who wrote a 256 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:49.640 column in nineteen sixty where she said barbecue is fast becoming a national sport, 257 00:22:49.799 --> 00:22:56.160 one for men only. And then in that same newspaper they were doing a 258 00:22:56.200 --> 00:23:03.720 cookout competition and they put in the text they go the winners and their wives 259 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:08.119 could win these prizes, and you couldn't even enter if you were a lady. 260 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:12.799 Now that's going away, and now there's a lot of women who are 261 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:18.079 becoming grill masters, even like publicly so, and winning competitions and all of 262 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:22.359 that. But it did start out as a boys club. Hey, let's 263 00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:26.119 get some news from Heather Brooker and then we'll close out Foody Friday with a 264 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:36.480 lawsuit about sodas and the potato chip that will rule the world. You're listening 265 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:41.240 to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six forty. Now we're doing Foody 266 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:47.359 Friday, and there's a lawsuit now against the makers of this soft drink brand 267 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:51.000 called Poppy. None of you've seen it in the stores, but it is 268 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:56.599 all over the place, and it is a prebiotic soda. Just as we 269 00:23:56.599 --> 00:23:59.839 were talking about a move to try to take ice cream and do something with 270 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:06.599 it to make it healthier, well, the new trend is taking soda pop 271 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:11.119 another thing that nobody really is gonna say is healthy, and do something to 272 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:15.400 it so that you couldn't say it has health benefits. And so what's going 273 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:18.880 on with Poppy, and I think there's another brand called Allipop that's doing a 274 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:26.039 similar thing, is to put some fiber in it, prebiotic fiber, to 275 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:30.400 be exact. And then that is what Poppy touts and the other brands of 276 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:37.000 these pre biotic soda is tout that you get the soda taste, but you 277 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:41.640 also get pre biotic fiber and maybe there's less sugar than a regular soda, 278 00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:47.319 but there's still some sugar in it. And this is big business. When 279 00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:52.119 you take a drink and you do something to it like this, you're creating 280 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:56.279 a foot they call functional beverage. Right, there's this idea that like, 281 00:24:56.359 --> 00:24:59.319 you're not drinking it just because you want a nice drength, you're drinking it 282 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:04.599 for a health reason as well. And this is apparently a thirteen billion dollar 283 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:15.759 market now functional beverages. Wow. By contrast, you know kombucha, which 284 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:21.359 I guess you could say is a functional beverage, but it's also natural about 285 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:25.759 a billion, maybe maybe one point one one point two billion a year. 286 00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:30.519 Wellness shots, those little things that taste awful that you take about a billion. 287 00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:36.519 But these functional beverages have way more of a market share than that. 288 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:41.039 And so here comes a lawsuit saying, uh, first of all, you 289 00:25:41.079 --> 00:25:45.319 don't have enough. You may be putting this prebiotic fiber in his soda, 290 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:51.279 but you don't have enough of it to really do anything. There are scientists 291 00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:56.720 who are dedicated to figuring out how much prebiotic fiber in a can of soda 292 00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:00.640 do you need to have an effect? And there was a researcher out of 293 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:04.799 the University of Illinois who did the research and wrote a report and said, 294 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:11.920 if you put seven and a half grams of prebiotic fiber in a soda, 295 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:15.079 it might forgive me for this. I'm not trying to be gross, but 296 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:21.160 it might help soften your stools or increase the number of powel movements that you 297 00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:23.960 have every week. And the lawsuit is saying, oh, you know, 298 00:26:25.079 --> 00:26:29.200 seven and a half grams might do something, but you have like two grams 299 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:33.920 and that's not nearly enough to be making these claims. And so I don't 300 00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:37.279 know what's going to happen with this kind of a lawsuit. I would imagine 301 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.400 the FDA, which does have all kinds of rules about making health claims and 302 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:47.279 how to label your products, may refine the requirements for what you can put 303 00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:49.559 on a can of this soda. I will tell you that I did try. 304 00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:52.920 I'm not going to say which one. I did try. One of 305 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:56.200 these brands of SODA's not so much because I thought, oh, that's the 306 00:26:56.240 --> 00:27:00.839 only way I'm going to get any prebiotic fiber, but because was on big 307 00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:03.599 sale that week. It was on a super duper sale, and I love 308 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:08.079 a bargain. Uh, And I'm not gonna lie. They're weird. They 309 00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:12.960 taste to me, they taste just weird, not bad, but weird, 310 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:19.599 Like there's the soda part, but you can sense the fiber part a little 311 00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:26.000 bit separately, and it's not that enjoyable. Here we go, ladies and 312 00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:33.440 gentlemen. Soon the world will be dominated by the great God Pringles, and 313 00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:45.480 more specifically, mister P Pringles Mingles. Mister P apparently is the mascot of 314 00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:49.480 Pringles, and mister P is gonna be the king of the snack world because 315 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:55.440 the parent company that owns Springles, Kelenova, used to be Kellogg's, changed 316 00:27:55.480 --> 00:28:00.519 their name, spun off their cereal division, said well, do the cereal 317 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:06.079 thing really anymore. We're gonna focus on snacks, and they are pinning their 318 00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:11.160 hopes on Pringles, which is already this is crazy to me. Three billion 319 00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:19.079 dollars a year from Pringles and they're not happy. They're not satisfied with Pringles 320 00:28:19.079 --> 00:28:23.279 selling three billion dollars a year. They want four billion dollars a year and 321 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:29.799 they say they can do it because the secret weapon of Pringles is since they're 322 00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:36.640 a manufactured disc, it's not really a disc but I can't think of a 323 00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:40.079 better word for the shape of a Pringles. We've all seen a Pringles. 324 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:48.119 But it's a manufactured crisp, and you can make it taste like anything anything 325 00:28:48.640 --> 00:29:00.880 everything Bagel, carnaitis, taco, sharp white, cheddar and ranch teraoki, 326 00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:11.200 hoban yerro, mango, bowl of breakfast, cereal steak and onions. I'll 327 00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:17.319 stop now you get the point. There are I believe it's one hundred and 328 00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:26.680 fifty or one hundred and sixty different Pringles flavors all over the world. And 329 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.039 this is how they're going to expand, because you see the area for expansion. 330 00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:36.319 I don't know they're gonna make Americans buy more Pringles, but you expand 331 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:41.039 worldwide. You go to a place that doesn't have any Pringles. They're eating 332 00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:45.359 some other kind of snack. Those are losers. We want to give them 333 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:48.799 Pringles. How are we going to get them to switch to Pringles. We'll 334 00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:52.680 find a flavor that they like over there, you know that country had I 335 00:29:52.720 --> 00:30:00.319 don't know, like in Belarus. They might have certain tastes and they'll figure 336 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:03.559 out what tastes do the people in Belarus like the most, and we'll just 337 00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:07.640 engineer a Pringle. It tastes like that and there you go. And it's 338 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:15.559 a very successful strategy because all of these special flavors sell like hotcakes. They're 339 00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:18.799 also expanding with you know, they're trying to do the healthy thing as well. 340 00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:23.279 The trend here today on Foody Friday is things that aren't really healthy that 341 00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:26.319 they try to make healthier. So, you know, they came out with 342 00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:33.960 these harvest blends, Pringles multi grain, got sweet potatoes in there, that 343 00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:38.839 kind of stuff. They're also getting into the spicy market with Pringles Scorching, 344 00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:45.839 and I guess what's coming out now is Pringles Mingles, which is like a 345 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:51.640 puffed snack, so it's not like a manufactured disc. It's like a kind 346 00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:53.160 of like a cheeto. I would imagine. It doesn't come in a can, 347 00:30:53.799 --> 00:31:00.640 comes in a bag. And this is their plot to take over the 348 00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:07.799 world. I think Pringles when I was a kid and when I was in 349 00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:11.799 college, pringles were like I really thought Pringles were the best tasting thing on 350 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:15.519 the planet, and I easily could eat a whole tube of Pringles at once 351 00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:21.039 easily. And then later as an adult, I bought some Pringles and I 352 00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:23.200 don't know if they changed anything or not, but they didn't seem as good. 353 00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:27.839 All Right, I am done here. Thank you to everybody on the 354 00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:32.680 show today. You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show. Catch My Show 355 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:37.599 Monday through Friday six am to nine am, and anytime on demand on the 356 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:37.839 iHeartRadio app.