WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:04.400 You're listenings KFI AM six forty. The bill handles show 2 00:00:04.599 --> 00:00:12.759 on demand on the iHeartRadio f It is a Thursday Morning, December. 3 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:14.240 The Fifth. 4 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:19.160 Life continues on Oh just to quick pastapon numbers. Oh, 5 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:20.760 you know what, I'm gonna do that at seven twenty 6 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:24.320 with Michelle and I'll give you our pasta fon numbers. 7 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:27.039 I want to talk about a topic that Neil and 8 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:29.600 I bring up and talk about all the time, and 9 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:33.960 that's the cell by dates on food. In California has 10 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:36.320 now banned sell by. 11 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:37.200 Dates on food. 12 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:40.920 Silver You're not going to see cell by anymore because 13 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:45.000 sell by dates, well, those dates don't indicate, for example, 14 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:46.000 when your milk goes bad. 15 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:50.439 I drink milk all. 16 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:52.320 The time a week, week and a half after sell 17 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:55.320 by because is still good. I mean, that's fine to 18 00:00:55.399 --> 00:00:57.320 look at milk. You just you taste in. If it's 19 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:01.280 still reasonably sweet, you're okay. Now, with the exception of 20 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:07.040 infant formula, these date labels on food not federally regulated 21 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:10.760 or required. It's up to the manufactures or the state 22 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:16.000 to determine what labels are necessary. There's an old California 23 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:20.400 state law suggesting putting dated labels on foods help consumers 24 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:24.680 know when their food has gone bad. Well, it's confusing, 25 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:31.359 it's grosser focused, and it's not true. A new California 26 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:35.680 law requires, in an effort to reduce food waste, we 27 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:40.040 waste food at six million tons a year in California, 28 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:45.640 and this Assembly Bills six sixty, which was passed, is law, 29 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:49.519 although it doesn't go into effect until July one, twenty six, 30 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:51.799 so it's a year and a half out. And it's 31 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:55.519 designed to bring uniformity and common sense dated food labels 32 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:59.719 for consumers because there's so many different days and there's 33 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:04.719 so many different there are acronyms and sell by used 34 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:11.280 by best buy, and so putting these two definitions, that's it. 35 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:16.879 Now into that labeling will require grocery retailers and manufacturers 36 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:19.719 to make all kinds of changes. They're going to have 37 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:23.960 to develop new inventory systems, retrain employees, figure out what 38 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:26.360 labels that are going to be used. Except there's only 39 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:29.400 going to be two, so that part is easy. 40 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:31.400 You know, there are more than fifty. 41 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:35.879 Different phrases in food packaging, which makes it almost impossible 42 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:39.039 for consumers to tell exactly what each label means. There's 43 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:41.639 one that's kind of fun that's out there. I haven't 44 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:45.439 seen this, but it is out there. One is called 45 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:54.039 PEB with a date which is either please enjoy by 46 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:56.319 or people experiencing barfing. 47 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:59.800 I don't know which one. 48 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:05.800 This is a nonsensical phrase, probably the barfing part. A 49 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:09.919 policy associate at Californias Against Weights a waste. She said, 50 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:14.280 it's out there, and those fifty phrases are not even 51 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:20.719 used consistently among manufacturers. There's enjoy buy, and that might 52 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:23.680 indicate the best date for quality on one product, and 53 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:26.520 it can meet something completely different on another product. So 54 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:29.439 how the hell do you know? So the new law 55 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:33.199 bans food items from carrying cell by. You're not going 56 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:36.639 to see cell by starting July first, twenty twenty six 57 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:44.080 because sell by dates don't indicate freshness or safety. They're 58 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:50.520 used by grossers to ensure inventory is rotated properly, especially 59 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:55.479 on dairy products, meats. Perishable items have no indication on 60 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:58.879 when your food might be spoiled. Ever, buy milk, I 61 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:01.560 go to Costco and buy an elk. Always reached to 62 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:06.240 the back of that the little line they put it 63 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:08.560 in there, the what do they call that? 64 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:13.439 You have? The different levels? You know you put God, 65 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:15.360 I see it. 66 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:17.360 I know it when I see it. I happened a 67 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:21.000 hard time describing it. Okay, there's a bunch of milk 68 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.199 bottles in front of you. You want to go to 69 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:26.560 the back one. Yeah, okay, yeah, we'll figure this out. 70 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:29.519 The back one where the date, the cell by date 71 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:32.759 is way way pressure because the fur you know up 72 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:36.879 at the front, it's a it's the cell by date 73 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:40.680 is newer used by is happens? You got to use 74 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:44.920 it now? Well, none of that works. It doesn't matter. 75 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:48.040 So the law boy, did I do a good job 76 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:48.680 explaining that? 77 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:48.879 One? 78 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:51.920 Didn't I and I knew exactly what I was talking about. 79 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:55.720 It's just saying it. And I get paid for this, 80 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:57.639 by the way, I want to point that out. So 81 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:00.879 there'll be a couple of emaals. So the new California 82 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:05.120 law limits most labels to only two options. A quality 83 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:10.839 label best if used by because there's plenty of food 84 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:16.000 that loses quality but it's perfectly safe. For example, you 85 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:21.399 go to the supermarket and the ground meat is gray. 86 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:24.759 It's not that fresh red meat, and then it's sold at. 87 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:29.720 A huge discount. That's perfectly safe. It just oxidizes and 88 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:30.639 it turns gray. 89 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.839 You can eat that, which of course is way past 90 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:37.079 the used by date or the sell by date. And 91 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:41.399 so there's only two labels that will be allowed quality, 92 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:45.160 best if used by and safety used by. I mean 93 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:50.319 that one boom. You got to use it, and you 94 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.800 know what it's I think it's going to work out 95 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:56.399 for us because that used by, sell buy, best used 96 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:57.240 by and enjoy buy. 97 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:00.480 That's really for the grossers, nothing else. 98 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:04.319 Also, it might help well, it will help nonprofits like 99 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:07.560 food banks, except more non perishables because the law is there. 100 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:11.360 Now the dates should not be or should. 101 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:13.120 Only be used as guidelines. We're being told that over 102 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:17.680 and over again, only guidelines. There are some states, or 103 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:21.240 for example, in Pennsylvania there's a milk labeling law that 104 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:26.519 requires the sell by date no more than seventeen days 105 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:29.759 after the milk is pasteurized straight out. 106 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.000 Not California. You know, we're making it open. 107 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:35.519 This makes a lot of sense, by the way, because 108 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:37.839 Neil when he does. 109 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:40.600 This show, when he does his Foody, when he has. 110 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:44.079 The fork report, probably the number one question he gets 111 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:47.720 is that question, sell by used by? 112 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:48.600 What's the difference? 113 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:53.480 Is it okay for me to continue using the product? I, 114 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:57.560 for example, had and I asked this of Neil. I 115 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:04.399 had some sour cream that expired us by October two 116 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:08.040 and I pulled it out the other day and we're 117 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:13.279 talking six seven weeks and it looked fine. 118 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:14.959 I mean, there's no mold or anything. 119 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.199 I took a little spoon, took a taste, and it 120 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:21.800 was perfectly fine. But having listened to the Fork report, 121 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:24.199 I called Neil knowing that he's going to go go 122 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:27.240 ahead as long as it's good. And he said, and 123 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:32.319 I'm not kidding you. Seven weeks for sour cream? Are 124 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:38.959 you nuts? So I guess seven weeks for sour cream 125 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:42.759 passed used by is not a good thing. All right, 126 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:47.399 coming up, I'm going to bring Michelle in here because 127 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:49.160 I want to talk a little bit of the numbers 128 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:53.279 of what we've done for Pastathon, and since Michelle really 129 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:56.959 puts Pastathon together every year and she has for fourteen years, 130 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:01.439 I want to bring in a little side baseball and 131 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:06.079 something that you don't know but will not surprise you. 132 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:08.920 And i'll talk about that coming up. 133 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:13.279 All right, you're listening to Bill Handle on demand from 134 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:14.959 KFI AM six forty. 135 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.040 It is a Thursday morning, December fifth, and I want 136 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:24.600 to point out that our annual pastapon the day is over, 137 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:27.000 except you can still donate and I'll explain. 138 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:27.720 To you or Michelle will. 139 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:31.560 So Michelle is here, who was my producer for twenty 140 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:34.960 six years before she was promoted to executive producer, and 141 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:40.320 the entire station Good Morning and Pastafon happens every year 142 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:43.360 and it's a big deal. We broadcast at the Anaheim 143 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:46.480 White House, the entire station all day, every day part 144 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:49.600 and Michelle puts all of it together, and without her 145 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:52.600 it wouldn't have happened. So before we get into how 146 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:54.399 this works, because I want to give a little inside 147 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:56.600 baseball to people, Okay, and I want to tell you 148 00:08:56.679 --> 00:08:58.960 a story that you probably haven't heard. 149 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:01.320 What are our numb right now? 150 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:04.200 Our numbers as of six am this morning, one million, 151 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:07.159 two thousand and sixty, so. 152 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.159 We're at a million dollars? Yeah, all right? 153 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:13.559 Does that include the numbers from Smart and Final and Wendy's. 154 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:16.480 It includes the Smart and Final numbers up until yesterday, 155 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:19.759 and it includes some, not all, of the Wendy's numbers. 156 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:23.399 So you know, every day between now and Sunday, I'll 157 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:26.840 get numbers from Smart and Final and Wendy's and include 158 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:27.720 them daily. 159 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:31.919 Okay, so last year we just went past one point 160 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:32.879 three million dollars. 161 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:34.919 Yes, do I think we're going to get past that? Ye? 162 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:37.480 Are we pacing We're pacing ahead. 163 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:41.240 We've been pacing ahead all since yesterday, every hour, we've 164 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:41.879 been pacing ahead. 165 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:43.960 So okay, we're ahead of where we were. All right. 166 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:49.840 So a conversation you probably aren't aware of is Chris Berry, 167 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:52.840 who is one of the real high end management people 168 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:55.960 who I know is yeah, who I'm explaining who deal 169 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:58.759 to everybody else. Chris Berry happens to be a guy 170 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:02.360 who runs news talk stations across the country for iHeart, 171 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:05.840 who is in town, and I was having a conversation 172 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:11.480 with him, and I talked about the urpasta fon extravaganza and. 173 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:12.480 How much money we raise. 174 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:16.960 Now, whenever a station anywhere in the country doing a 175 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:22.080 charity can reach two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, that 176 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:24.440 is considered a home run. 177 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:26.279 Beyond home runs. 178 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:30.919 He has never heard of a local station having raised 179 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:32.279 one point three million dollars. 180 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:34.799 He was absolutely stunned. 181 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.320 Yeah, he came out and saw a little bit of 182 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:39.799 it early yesterday. He didn't. I was telling him to 183 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:42.600 follow the Instagram because he didn't see the full impact 184 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:45.960 of like the whole day, but it is. It's pretty incredible. 185 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:47.799 And I mean we the first year we did. 186 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:50.720 This, we did eighty thousand dollars and three thousand pounds 187 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:51.639 of pasta in size. 188 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:53.000 Right that was fourteen years ago. 189 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:56.240 Yeah. Now we are right now at forty tons of 190 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:59.840 pasta and sauce and over a million dollars and we're 191 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:02.360 on pacing and real quickly. Before I get into another 192 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:05.519 question for Michelle, you can still donate. Go to any 193 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:09.120 smart and final donate right there at the counter, or 194 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:12.120 you can buy postaen sauce right there and then tell 195 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:15.679 them this is for Pastathon. You go to any Wendy's 196 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.799 five dollars or more donation, you get a coupon book 197 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:19.799 worth a lot more. 198 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:22.080 And that's through Sunday night. Yeah, through Sunday night. 199 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:26.360 You can also go to kfiam six forty dot com 200 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:29.440 slash Pastathon and you still donate and please do all right, 201 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:34.559 Michelle not only put this together, she came up with 202 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:36.320 this charity. 203 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:37.360 So how did that happen? 204 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:42.480 How does an organization like Katarina's Club become part of kay? 205 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:45.000 So this is how it happened in nineteen ninety nine 206 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:47.960 on this show. We did a thing with Bill Clinton 207 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:51.559 and Monica Lewinsky when we had the deposition that Bill 208 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:53.720 Clinton was doing Remember we did a play. We were 209 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:55.480 looking for a place to do it, and we wanted 210 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:56.960 to do at the Anaheim White House. So that was 211 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.120 our first introduction into the Anaheim. 212 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:01.960 The Anaheim White House looks like the White House. 213 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:05.559 So it was ten years later. Was in twenty ten. 214 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:08.360 I saw Bruno being interviewed on TV about how he 215 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:11.919 mortgaged his home to continue feeding these three hundred kids 216 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:14.639 a night from the Boys and Girls Club, and I 217 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:17.360 couldn't figure out why he sounded familiar. And when I 218 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:19.559 brought it home to my husband, Tim, who wrote the 219 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:22.639 play in ninety nine, he said, that's the guy that 220 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:25.200 who owns that restaurant. And so I called Bruno and 221 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:27.240 I said, hey, do you remember us from this event? 222 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:29.159 And he goes, of course I remember you. And I said, well, 223 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:31.120 we heard about what you did. We would like to 224 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:32.559 talk to you. I'd like to bring you on the 225 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:35.080 air with Bill. And so we had him on with 226 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:39.480 you for one segment that that year in twenty ten, 227 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:42.480 and at the end of the segment. You kind of 228 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:44.600 just said, hey, if you want to help Chef Bruno, 229 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:46.320 if you send us a check, we'll make sure he 230 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:49.360 gets it. And in I think it was six weeks, 231 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:51.679 we got eighty thousand dollars and we sent it to 232 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:54.080 him and that's when I said to Bruno, we got 233 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:56.159 to do something bigger. And at the time, our boss 234 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:59.840 Robin was looking for a charity, a local charity to support, 235 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:02.039 and I brought it to her and I said, here's 236 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:03.799 what we'd like to do. We should do an event 237 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:07.519 out there, and she agreed, and that's how we started 238 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:10.720 connecting with you know, Katerina stuff, been making it an 239 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:11.279 all day thing. 240 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:14.399 It's uh, well, we're fifty percent of the entire income. 241 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:17.120 Yes, and that's not just due to us and our 242 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:20.399 amazing listeners, but over the years, I've built this relationship 243 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:21.279 with Smart and Final. 244 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:22.759 Yeah, it's terrific. You've done it. 245 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:24.240 You've done a hell of a job. I mean this, 246 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.320 that's going to be your legacy for sure. And since 247 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:30.759 we raised one point three million dollars for Katerina's Club, 248 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:32.879 the charity, if you happen to have a charity and 249 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:35.279 you would like to get KFI involved, it is not 250 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:38.879 going to happen because we already have a charity and 251 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:40.080 it's Katerina's Club. 252 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:41.960 Go to another radio station. 253 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:44.200 Yeah, and you know it's it's it's a twenty hour 254 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:46.480 day for me. Yeah, I have a pasthon. But I 255 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:47.960 start I don't know if you know this, but I 256 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.840 start planning this in June. June is when I start 257 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:54.080 planning everything. And then August is when it really kind 258 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:55.840 of ramps up and it goes. 259 00:13:56.039 --> 00:14:00.480 Yeah, the logistics are astounding, and Michelle, you do it. 260 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:04.039 So not only thank you for this on this behalf 261 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:07.639 on those of those kids, but also I just you know, 262 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:08.600 just blown away. 263 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:10.879 But then you happen to be very organized. That's that's 264 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:12.320 who you are. That's who I am. 265 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:17.360 That's who you are, all right, coming up an infertility crisis. 266 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:20.440 This is my wheelhouse. By the way, go to KFI 267 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:25.639 AM six forty dot com slash pastathon and we will 268 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:30.000 come back with this great story about infertility and is 269 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:32.639 it a real problem in the United States? Matter of fact, 270 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:35.480 the rest of the world. That my wheelhouse. So of 271 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:39.240 course I have stories about infertility. I made well, I 272 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:43.080 did it for thirty years long time. My kids are 273 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:44.480 part of that story, I mean all of it. 274 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:49.600 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 275 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:50.200 six forty. 276 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:56.000 The police are searching for that gunman. Gunman who killed 277 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:00.200 United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and what looks like a 278 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:05.759 targeted assassination came up behind him that when he was 279 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:08.840 walking into a meeting at a hotel, an investor meeting, 280 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:12.600 and stunman just came up with a silence er, I mean, 281 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:14.159 right out of a movie, and popped him in the 282 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:15.360 head and ran away. 283 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:17.919 And they're still looking for him. It's really really crazy. 284 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:20.519 And if you happen to own some bitcoin and you 285 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:23.799 bought it at under a penny a bitcoin, it's now 286 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:25.039 one hundred thousand dollars. 287 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:29.399 It just hit one hundred thousand. That is a good investment. 288 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:34.600 Now, there is an article came out of New York 289 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:38.879 Times and it's I've shared this with you before, but 290 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:41.639 I want to throw some figures at you. And I'm 291 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:44.320 not going to get too wonky here. But the question 292 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:48.000 is does the US have an infertility crisis? 293 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:51.440 The answer is absolutely, And the rest of the world. 294 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:58.440 The the first world countries all do the developed countries, 295 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:01.080 and there are several reasons for it, and the reason 296 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:03.759 I love to talk about this is this is my wheelhouse. 297 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:09.879 When I started in nineteen eighty doing surrogacy, which deals 298 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:15.960 with infertile couples where women cannot conceive and cannot conceive 299 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:19.720 or carry someone else carries for them a surrogate, and 300 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:22.559 it had to do with women being infertile, also to 301 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:27.919 some extent men being infertile, and even then we were 302 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:31.519 talking about the problem of infertility. Now, in my case, 303 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:35.559 I like infertility because the more infertile there people were 304 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:39.120 out there, the more business I got. And I love 305 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:44.200 the idea of women being paid to carry children for couples. 306 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:47.440 By the way, with the kidding aside, you have no 307 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:50.600 idea of the kind of trouble I was in and 308 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:51.799 what we were looking at. 309 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.159 I was talking to the Attorney. 310 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:56.039 General in the DA of la as to whether I'm 311 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:00.720 going I was going to jail paying women they under 312 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:05.440 the law that's called slavery. You can't buy people and 313 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:08.160 paying for custody of a child. That's exactly what we did. 314 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:13.440 And so I had no problem with surrogacy, obviously to 315 00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:16.720 the point where I would go past pregnant women on 316 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:18.640 the sidewalk and I go, are you getting paid for that? 317 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:21.519 And if they said no, I got upset. You know, 318 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:24.559 how dare you not get paid for being pregnant? So 319 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:29.640 the issue of infertility goes way back, and I got 320 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:32.599 into it in nineteen eighty and it actually started back 321 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:37.000 I think in the sixties. Robert Kennedy, the nominee to 322 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:39.880 lead the Department of Health and Human Services, hopefully not 323 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:44.680 asked in a September post on X and he asked 324 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:51.039 a doctor who was in fact consulting to him, why 325 00:17:51.079 --> 00:17:52.960 are so many couples infertile? 326 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:57.880 And there are a whole bunch of reasons why that 327 00:17:57.960 --> 00:17:58.279 would be. 328 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:04.400 Trump has made a big deal saying that of infertility 329 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:10.559 that he would task Kennedy with investigating this decades long 330 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:18.680 increase in chronic health problems, including infertility and infertility for 331 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:26.079 many years was not considered a legitimate health problem. IVF, 332 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:33.039 for example, was not covered by insurance. To this day, surrogacy, 333 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:38.319 which is absolutely necessary for some couples to create a family, 334 00:18:39.319 --> 00:18:44.039 is not allowed in certain states or the contract is unenforceable. 335 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:47.599 And this is where I kind of take credit. 336 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:51.480 I usually don't, but California became the first state in 337 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:55.559 the United States to enforce surrogacy contract and I was 338 00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:59.039 involved with that. That was my contract that was arguing 339 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:02.759 in front of the California's Supreme Court, so that was 340 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:07.799 kind of neat. So how do scientists track fertility? And 341 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:14.519 this is the question. The CDC measures fertility rate and 342 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:17.440 you'll hear this as because there's so many different ways 343 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:20.559 of doing this. The number of live births in a 344 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:23.640 year per one thousand women between the ages of fifteen 345 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:28.559 and forty four they're considered child bearing years. In twenty 346 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:31.960 twenty three, and that was the most recent numbers available. 347 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:36.880 The fertility rate, the number of live births in a 348 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:41.079 year per one thousand women between those ages, the fertility 349 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:44.799 rate was around fifty four births per thousand women of 350 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:45.680 reproductive age. 351 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:48.400 That's a historic low. 352 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:57.519 That number keeps on decreasing, decreasing, decreasing. Another way researchers 353 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:01.599 look at fertility is something called the total fertility rate, 354 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:06.319 so it's looking at it both in terms of infertility 355 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:07.559 and fertility. 356 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:10.839 It's two sides of the same coin. 357 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:16.319 For total fertility rate estimates the average number of children 358 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:18.200 that a woman is expected to have. 359 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:20.119 During her reproductive years. 360 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:23.720 And you hear about one point six one point four 361 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:25.240 two point eight per thousand. 362 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:26.960 That's the total fertility rate. 363 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:30.319 In twenty twenty three, the total fertility rate in the 364 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:33.519 US was a little bit over one point six berths 365 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:39.119 per woman, roughly two births per woman that were documented 366 00:20:39.759 --> 00:20:41.759 in two thousand and one, So it went from two 367 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:44.960 thousand and one that was two down to one point six. 368 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:50.079 By the way, in order to maintain a population, people 369 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:54.519 have to have men women as a total number of 370 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:58.839 people still being maintained at about two point two. And 371 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:03.519 the reason population grows is because of immigrant population, not 372 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:06.599 the birth rate. If you just look at the birth rate, 373 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:12.480 our population is decreasing and decreasing pretty rapidly. I want 374 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:16.480 to come back and talk about the birth rate, which 375 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:22.359 is different as we look at infertility, and then maybe. 376 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:24.400 A story or two of Yeah, I'm gonna give you 377 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:26.960 some fun stories about. 378 00:21:28.200 --> 00:21:33.799 Reproduction and men and yeah, yeah, that's yes, Yes, that's 379 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:34.519 the way it's done. 380 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:40.279 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six. 381 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:47.480 Forty Bill Handle Here it is a Thursday morning, December 382 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:51.759 the fifth. Coming up top of the hour, Joel Larsgard 383 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:56.680 and then Moe Kelly. As we end the show. So 384 00:21:56.680 --> 00:22:00.519 we've got still a lot of show to do. By 385 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:03.359 the way, I'm looking at this tree, this Christmas tree, 386 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:07.039 and it's what seven feet eight feet tall, and listening 387 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:10.920 to Dean Sharp, this comes from all dicks or all dick? 388 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:12.839 Is that it the store? 389 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:14.039 You know? 390 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:15.839 By the way, they're fighting a discrimination suit. 391 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:18.480 You understand that right now because there are no females 392 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:22.200 that work there, and it is and they're giving it away. 393 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:25.799 They're giving away the tree. Boy, where am I going 394 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:28.440 with all this? Huh So? In any case, I don't 395 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:29.039 know how that works. 396 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:31.000 But every year they come in and this thing fills 397 00:22:31.079 --> 00:22:32.759 up the room in the corner. 398 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:35.519 And it's sort of an interesting tree. 399 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:40.599 It's white, and it's this picture of it somewhere. It's 400 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:44.960 just it's pretty unique Christmas tree wise. Any case, Back 401 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:47.240