Speaker 1: You're listenings KFI AM six forty. The bill handles show
Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio f It is a Thursday Morning, December.
Speaker 2: The Fifth.
Speaker 1: Life continues on Oh just to quick pastapon numbers. Oh,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna do that at seven twenty
Speaker 1: with Michelle and I'll give you our pasta fon numbers.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about a topic that Neil and
Speaker 1: I bring up and talk about all the time, and
Speaker 1: that's the cell by dates on food. In California has
Speaker 1: now banned sell by.
Speaker 2: Dates on food.
Speaker 1: Silver You're not going to see cell by anymore because
Speaker 1: sell by dates, well, those dates don't indicate, for example,
Speaker 1: when your milk goes bad.
Speaker 2: I drink milk all.
Speaker 1: The time a week, week and a half after sell
Speaker 1: by because is still good. I mean, that's fine to
Speaker 1: look at milk. You just you taste in. If it's
Speaker 1: still reasonably sweet, you're okay. Now, with the exception of
Speaker 1: infant formula, these date labels on food not federally regulated
Speaker 1: or required. It's up to the manufactures or the state
Speaker 1: to determine what labels are necessary. There's an old California
Speaker 1: state law suggesting putting dated labels on foods help consumers
Speaker 1: know when their food has gone bad. Well, it's confusing,
Speaker 1: it's grosser focused, and it's not true. A new California
Speaker 1: law requires, in an effort to reduce food waste, we
Speaker 1: waste food at six million tons a year in California,
Speaker 1: and this Assembly Bills six sixty, which was passed, is law,
Speaker 1: although it doesn't go into effect until July one, twenty six,
Speaker 1: so it's a year and a half out. And it's
Speaker 1: designed to bring uniformity and common sense dated food labels
Speaker 1: for consumers because there's so many different days and there's
Speaker 1: so many different there are acronyms and sell by used
Speaker 1: by best buy, and so putting these two definitions, that's it.
Speaker 1: Now into that labeling will require grocery retailers and manufacturers
Speaker 1: to make all kinds of changes. They're going to have
Speaker 1: to develop new inventory systems, retrain employees, figure out what
Speaker 1: labels that are going to be used. Except there's only
Speaker 1: going to be two, so that part is easy.
Speaker 2: You know, there are more than fifty.
Speaker 1: Different phrases in food packaging, which makes it almost impossible
Speaker 1: for consumers to tell exactly what each label means. There's
Speaker 1: one that's kind of fun that's out there. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen this, but it is out there. One is called
Speaker 1: PEB with a date which is either please enjoy by
Speaker 1: or people experiencing barfing.
Speaker 2: I don't know which one.
Speaker 1: This is a nonsensical phrase, probably the barfing part. A
Speaker 1: policy associate at Californias Against Weights a waste. She said,
Speaker 1: it's out there, and those fifty phrases are not even
Speaker 1: used consistently among manufacturers. There's enjoy buy, and that might
Speaker 1: indicate the best date for quality on one product, and
Speaker 1: it can meet something completely different on another product. So
Speaker 1: how the hell do you know? So the new law
Speaker 1: bans food items from carrying cell by. You're not going
Speaker 1: to see cell by starting July first, twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: because sell by dates don't indicate freshness or safety. They're
Speaker 1: used by grossers to ensure inventory is rotated properly, especially
Speaker 1: on dairy products, meats. Perishable items have no indication on
Speaker 1: when your food might be spoiled. Ever, buy milk, I
Speaker 1: go to Costco and buy an elk. Always reached to
Speaker 1: the back of that the little line they put it
Speaker 1: in there, the what do they call that?
Speaker 2: You have? The different levels? You know you put God,
Speaker 2: I see it.
Speaker 1: I know it when I see it. I happened a
Speaker 1: hard time describing it. Okay, there's a bunch of milk
Speaker 1: bottles in front of you. You want to go to
Speaker 1: the back one. Yeah, okay, yeah, we'll figure this out.
Speaker 1: The back one where the date, the cell by date
Speaker 1: is way way pressure because the fur you know up
Speaker 1: at the front, it's a it's the cell by date
Speaker 1: is newer used by is happens? You got to use
Speaker 1: it now? Well, none of that works. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: So the law boy, did I do a good job
Speaker 1: explaining that?
Speaker 2: One?
Speaker 1: Didn't I and I knew exactly what I was talking about.
Speaker 1: It's just saying it. And I get paid for this,
Speaker 1: by the way, I want to point that out. So
Speaker 1: there'll be a couple of emaals. So the new California
Speaker 1: law limits most labels to only two options. A quality
Speaker 1: label best if used by because there's plenty of food
Speaker 1: that loses quality but it's perfectly safe. For example, you
Speaker 1: go to the supermarket and the ground meat is gray.
Speaker 1: It's not that fresh red meat, and then it's sold at.
Speaker 2: A huge discount. That's perfectly safe. It just oxidizes and
Speaker 2: it turns gray.
Speaker 1: You can eat that, which of course is way past
Speaker 1: the used by date or the sell by date. And
Speaker 1: so there's only two labels that will be allowed quality,
Speaker 1: best if used by and safety used by. I mean
Speaker 1: that one boom. You got to use it, and you
Speaker 1: know what it's I think it's going to work out
Speaker 1: for us because that used by, sell buy, best used
Speaker 1: by and enjoy buy.
Speaker 2: That's really for the grossers, nothing else.
Speaker 1: Also, it might help well, it will help nonprofits like
Speaker 1: food banks, except more non perishables because the law is there.
Speaker 2: Now the dates should not be or should.
Speaker 1: Only be used as guidelines. We're being told that over
Speaker 1: and over again, only guidelines. There are some states, or
Speaker 1: for example, in Pennsylvania there's a milk labeling law that
Speaker 1: requires the sell by date no more than seventeen days
Speaker 1: after the milk is pasteurized straight out.
Speaker 2: Not California. You know, we're making it open.
Speaker 1: This makes a lot of sense, by the way, because
Speaker 1: Neil when he does.
Speaker 2: This show, when he does his Foody, when he has.
Speaker 1: The fork report, probably the number one question he gets
Speaker 1: is that question, sell by used by?
Speaker 2: What's the difference?
Speaker 1: Is it okay for me to continue using the product? I,
Speaker 1: for example, had and I asked this of Neil. I
Speaker 1: had some sour cream that expired us by October two
Speaker 1: and I pulled it out the other day and we're
Speaker 1: talking six seven weeks and it looked fine.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no mold or anything.
Speaker 1: I took a little spoon, took a taste, and it
Speaker 1: was perfectly fine. But having listened to the Fork report,
Speaker 1: I called Neil knowing that he's going to go go
Speaker 1: ahead as long as it's good. And he said, and
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding you. Seven weeks for sour cream? Are
Speaker 1: you nuts? So I guess seven weeks for sour cream
Speaker 1: passed used by is not a good thing. All right,
Speaker 1: coming up, I'm going to bring Michelle in here because
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit of the numbers
Speaker 1: of what we've done for Pastathon, and since Michelle really
Speaker 1: puts Pastathon together every year and she has for fourteen years,
Speaker 1: I want to bring in a little side baseball and
Speaker 1: something that you don't know but will not surprise you.
Speaker 1: And i'll talk about that coming up.
Speaker 3: All right, you're listening to Bill Handle on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: It is a Thursday morning, December fifth, and I want
Speaker 1: to point out that our annual pastapon the day is over,
Speaker 1: except you can still donate and I'll explain.
Speaker 2: To you or Michelle will.
Speaker 1: So Michelle is here, who was my producer for twenty
Speaker 1: six years before she was promoted to executive producer, and
Speaker 1: the entire station Good Morning and Pastafon happens every year
Speaker 1: and it's a big deal. We broadcast at the Anaheim
Speaker 1: White House, the entire station all day, every day part
Speaker 1: and Michelle puts all of it together, and without her
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have happened. So before we get into how
Speaker 1: this works, because I want to give a little inside
Speaker 1: baseball to people, Okay, and I want to tell you
Speaker 1: a story that you probably haven't heard.
Speaker 2: What are our numb right now?
Speaker 4: Our numbers as of six am this morning, one million,
Speaker 4: two thousand and sixty, so.
Speaker 2: We're at a million dollars? Yeah, all right?
Speaker 1: Does that include the numbers from Smart and Final and Wendy's.
Speaker 4: It includes the Smart and Final numbers up until yesterday,
Speaker 4: and it includes some, not all, of the Wendy's numbers.
Speaker 4: So you know, every day between now and Sunday, I'll
Speaker 4: get numbers from Smart and Final and Wendy's and include
Speaker 4: them daily.
Speaker 1: Okay, so last year we just went past one point
Speaker 1: three million dollars.
Speaker 4: Yes, do I think we're going to get past that? Ye?
Speaker 2: Are we pacing We're pacing ahead.
Speaker 4: We've been pacing ahead all since yesterday, every hour, we've
Speaker 4: been pacing ahead.
Speaker 2: So okay, we're ahead of where we were. All right.
Speaker 1: So a conversation you probably aren't aware of is Chris Berry,
Speaker 1: who is one of the real high end management people
Speaker 1: who I know is yeah, who I'm explaining who deal
Speaker 1: to everybody else. Chris Berry happens to be a guy
Speaker 1: who runs news talk stations across the country for iHeart,
Speaker 1: who is in town, and I was having a conversation
Speaker 1: with him, and I talked about the urpasta fon extravaganza and.
Speaker 2: How much money we raise.
Speaker 1: Now, whenever a station anywhere in the country doing a
Speaker 1: charity can reach two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, that
Speaker 1: is considered a home run.
Speaker 2: Beyond home runs.
Speaker 1: He has never heard of a local station having raised
Speaker 1: one point three million dollars.
Speaker 2: He was absolutely stunned.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he came out and saw a little bit of
Speaker 4: it early yesterday. He didn't. I was telling him to
Speaker 4: follow the Instagram because he didn't see the full impact
Speaker 4: of like the whole day, but it is. It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 2: And I mean we the first year we did.
Speaker 4: This, we did eighty thousand dollars and three thousand pounds
Speaker 4: of pasta in size.
Speaker 2: Right that was fourteen years ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now we are right now at forty tons of
Speaker 1: pasta and sauce and over a million dollars and we're
Speaker 1: on pacing and real quickly. Before I get into another
Speaker 1: question for Michelle, you can still donate. Go to any
Speaker 1: smart and final donate right there at the counter, or
Speaker 1: you can buy postaen sauce right there and then tell
Speaker 1: them this is for Pastathon. You go to any Wendy's
Speaker 1: five dollars or more donation, you get a coupon book
Speaker 1: worth a lot more.
Speaker 2: And that's through Sunday night. Yeah, through Sunday night.
Speaker 1: You can also go to kfiam six forty dot com
Speaker 1: slash Pastathon and you still donate and please do all right,
Speaker 1: Michelle not only put this together, she came up with
Speaker 1: this charity.
Speaker 2: So how did that happen?
Speaker 1: How does an organization like Katarina's Club become part of kay?
Speaker 4: So this is how it happened in nineteen ninety nine
Speaker 4: on this show. We did a thing with Bill Clinton
Speaker 4: and Monica Lewinsky when we had the deposition that Bill
Speaker 4: Clinton was doing Remember we did a play. We were
Speaker 4: looking for a place to do it, and we wanted
Speaker 4: to do at the Anaheim White House. So that was
Speaker 4: our first introduction into the Anaheim.
Speaker 2: The Anaheim White House looks like the White House.
Speaker 4: So it was ten years later. Was in twenty ten.
Speaker 4: I saw Bruno being interviewed on TV about how he
Speaker 4: mortgaged his home to continue feeding these three hundred kids
Speaker 4: a night from the Boys and Girls Club, and I
Speaker 4: couldn't figure out why he sounded familiar. And when I
Speaker 4: brought it home to my husband, Tim, who wrote the
Speaker 4: play in ninety nine, he said, that's the guy that
Speaker 4: who owns that restaurant. And so I called Bruno and
Speaker 4: I said, hey, do you remember us from this event?
Speaker 4: And he goes, of course I remember you. And I said, well,
Speaker 4: we heard about what you did. We would like to
Speaker 4: talk to you. I'd like to bring you on the
Speaker 4: air with Bill. And so we had him on with
Speaker 4: you for one segment that that year in twenty ten,
Speaker 4: and at the end of the segment. You kind of
Speaker 4: just said, hey, if you want to help Chef Bruno,
Speaker 4: if you send us a check, we'll make sure he
Speaker 4: gets it. And in I think it was six weeks,
Speaker 4: we got eighty thousand dollars and we sent it to
Speaker 4: him and that's when I said to Bruno, we got
Speaker 4: to do something bigger. And at the time, our boss
Speaker 4: Robin was looking for a charity, a local charity to support,
Speaker 4: and I brought it to her and I said, here's
Speaker 4: what we'd like to do. We should do an event
Speaker 4: out there, and she agreed, and that's how we started
Speaker 4: connecting with you know, Katerina stuff, been making it an
Speaker 4: all day thing.
Speaker 2: It's uh, well, we're fifty percent of the entire income.
Speaker 4: Yes, and that's not just due to us and our
Speaker 4: amazing listeners, but over the years, I've built this relationship
Speaker 4: with Smart and Final.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's terrific. You've done it.
Speaker 1: You've done a hell of a job. I mean this,
Speaker 1: that's going to be your legacy for sure. And since
Speaker 1: we raised one point three million dollars for Katerina's Club,
Speaker 1: the charity, if you happen to have a charity and
Speaker 1: you would like to get KFI involved, it is not
Speaker 1: going to happen because we already have a charity and
Speaker 1: it's Katerina's Club.
Speaker 2: Go to another radio station.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know it's it's it's a twenty hour
Speaker 4: day for me. Yeah, I have a pasthon. But I
Speaker 4: start I don't know if you know this, but I
Speaker 4: start planning this in June. June is when I start
Speaker 4: planning everything. And then August is when it really kind
Speaker 4: of ramps up and it goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the logistics are astounding, and Michelle, you do it.
Speaker 1: So not only thank you for this on this behalf
Speaker 1: on those of those kids, but also I just you know,
Speaker 1: just blown away.
Speaker 2: But then you happen to be very organized. That's that's
Speaker 2: who you are. That's who I am.
Speaker 1: That's who you are, all right, coming up an infertility crisis.
Speaker 1: This is my wheelhouse. By the way, go to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty dot com slash pastathon and we will
Speaker 1: come back with this great story about infertility and is
Speaker 1: it a real problem in the United States? Matter of fact,
Speaker 1: the rest of the world. That my wheelhouse. So of
Speaker 1: course I have stories about infertility. I made well, I
Speaker 1: did it for thirty years long time. My kids are
Speaker 1: part of that story, I mean all of it.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 3: six forty.
Speaker 1: The police are searching for that gunman. Gunman who killed
Speaker 1: United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and what looks like a
Speaker 1: targeted assassination came up behind him that when he was
Speaker 1: walking into a meeting at a hotel, an investor meeting,
Speaker 1: and stunman just came up with a silence er, I mean,
Speaker 1: right out of a movie, and popped him in the
Speaker 1: head and ran away.
Speaker 2: And they're still looking for him. It's really really crazy.
Speaker 1: And if you happen to own some bitcoin and you
Speaker 1: bought it at under a penny a bitcoin, it's now
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: It just hit one hundred thousand. That is a good investment.
Speaker 1: Now, there is an article came out of New York
Speaker 1: Times and it's I've shared this with you before, but
Speaker 1: I want to throw some figures at you. And I'm
Speaker 1: not going to get too wonky here. But the question
Speaker 1: is does the US have an infertility crisis?
Speaker 2: The answer is absolutely, And the rest of the world.
Speaker 1: The the first world countries all do the developed countries,
Speaker 1: and there are several reasons for it, and the reason
Speaker 1: I love to talk about this is this is my wheelhouse.
Speaker 1: When I started in nineteen eighty doing surrogacy, which deals
Speaker 1: with infertile couples where women cannot conceive and cannot conceive
Speaker 1: or carry someone else carries for them a surrogate, and
Speaker 1: it had to do with women being infertile, also to
Speaker 1: some extent men being infertile, and even then we were
Speaker 1: talking about the problem of infertility. Now, in my case,
Speaker 1: I like infertility because the more infertile there people were
Speaker 1: out there, the more business I got. And I love
Speaker 1: the idea of women being paid to carry children for couples.
Speaker 1: By the way, with the kidding aside, you have no
Speaker 1: idea of the kind of trouble I was in and
Speaker 1: what we were looking at.
Speaker 2: I was talking to the Attorney.
Speaker 1: General in the DA of la as to whether I'm
Speaker 1: going I was going to jail paying women they under
Speaker 1: the law that's called slavery. You can't buy people and
Speaker 1: paying for custody of a child. That's exactly what we did.
Speaker 1: And so I had no problem with surrogacy, obviously to
Speaker 1: the point where I would go past pregnant women on
Speaker 1: the sidewalk and I go, are you getting paid for that?
Speaker 1: And if they said no, I got upset. You know,
Speaker 1: how dare you not get paid for being pregnant? So
Speaker 1: the issue of infertility goes way back, and I got
Speaker 1: into it in nineteen eighty and it actually started back
Speaker 1: I think in the sixties. Robert Kennedy, the nominee to
Speaker 1: lead the Department of Health and Human Services, hopefully not
Speaker 1: asked in a September post on X and he asked
Speaker 1: a doctor who was in fact consulting to him, why
Speaker 1: are so many couples infertile?
Speaker 2: And there are a whole bunch of reasons why that
Speaker 2: would be.
Speaker 1: Trump has made a big deal saying that of infertility
Speaker 1: that he would task Kennedy with investigating this decades long
Speaker 1: increase in chronic health problems, including infertility and infertility for
Speaker 1: many years was not considered a legitimate health problem. IVF,
Speaker 1: for example, was not covered by insurance. To this day, surrogacy,
Speaker 1: which is absolutely necessary for some couples to create a family,
Speaker 1: is not allowed in certain states or the contract is unenforceable.
Speaker 2: And this is where I kind of take credit.
Speaker 1: I usually don't, but California became the first state in
Speaker 1: the United States to enforce surrogacy contract and I was
Speaker 1: involved with that. That was my contract that was arguing
Speaker 1: in front of the California's Supreme Court, so that was
Speaker 1: kind of neat. So how do scientists track fertility? And
Speaker 1: this is the question. The CDC measures fertility rate and
Speaker 1: you'll hear this as because there's so many different ways
Speaker 1: of doing this. The number of live births in a
Speaker 1: year per one thousand women between the ages of fifteen
Speaker 1: and forty four they're considered child bearing years. In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, and that was the most recent numbers available.
Speaker 1: The fertility rate, the number of live births in a
Speaker 1: year per one thousand women between those ages, the fertility
Speaker 1: rate was around fifty four births per thousand women of
Speaker 1: reproductive age.
Speaker 2: That's a historic low.
Speaker 1: That number keeps on decreasing, decreasing, decreasing. Another way researchers
Speaker 1: look at fertility is something called the total fertility rate,
Speaker 1: so it's looking at it both in terms of infertility
Speaker 1: and fertility.
Speaker 2: It's two sides of the same coin.
Speaker 1: For total fertility rate estimates the average number of children
Speaker 1: that a woman is expected to have.
Speaker 2: During her reproductive years.
Speaker 1: And you hear about one point six one point four
Speaker 1: two point eight per thousand.
Speaker 2: That's the total fertility rate.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty three, the total fertility rate in the
Speaker 1: US was a little bit over one point six berths
Speaker 1: per woman, roughly two births per woman that were documented
Speaker 1: in two thousand and one, So it went from two
Speaker 1: thousand and one that was two down to one point six.
Speaker 1: By the way, in order to maintain a population, people
Speaker 1: have to have men women as a total number of
Speaker 1: people still being maintained at about two point two. And
Speaker 1: the reason population grows is because of immigrant population, not
Speaker 1: the birth rate. If you just look at the birth rate,
Speaker 1: our population is decreasing and decreasing pretty rapidly. I want
Speaker 1: to come back and talk about the birth rate, which
Speaker 1: is different as we look at infertility, and then maybe.
Speaker 2: A story or two of Yeah, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: some fun stories about.
Speaker 1: Reproduction and men and yeah, yeah, that's yes, Yes, that's
Speaker 1: the way it's done.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 1: Forty Bill Handle Here it is a Thursday morning, December
Speaker 1: the fifth. Coming up top of the hour, Joel Larsgard
Speaker 1: and then Moe Kelly. As we end the show. So
Speaker 1: we've got still a lot of show to do. By
Speaker 1: the way, I'm looking at this tree, this Christmas tree,
Speaker 1: and it's what seven feet eight feet tall, and listening
Speaker 1: to Dean Sharp, this comes from all dicks or all dick?
Speaker 2: Is that it the store?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: By the way, they're fighting a discrimination suit.
Speaker 1: You understand that right now because there are no females
Speaker 1: that work there, and it is and they're giving it away.
Speaker 2: They're giving away the tree. Boy, where am I going
Speaker 2: with all this? Huh So? In any case, I don't
Speaker 2: know how that works.
Speaker 1: But every year they come in and this thing fills
Speaker 1: up the room in the corner.
Speaker 2: And it's sort of an interesting tree.
Speaker 1: It's white, and it's this picture of it somewhere. It's
Speaker 1: just it's pretty unique Christmas tree wise. Any case, Back
Speaker 1: we go to infertility. I had to do that because
Speaker 1: how can I not make a joke out of that?
Speaker 1: Give me a break?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Back we go to infertility and this is the story.
Speaker 1: It came out of New York Times. And when I
Speaker 1: see infertility stories, I jump all over them because this
Speaker 1: is what I did for thirty thirty five years. I
Speaker 1: founded and ran the Center for Story Good parenting. Actually,
Speaker 1: my partner ran it, Karen for a bunch of years.
Speaker 1: My job was just to tell the joke jokes and
Speaker 1: that was absolutely true, and so paying attention. Infertility has
Speaker 1: always been a big part of my professional life outside
Speaker 1: of working here at KFI, and starting in nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: when I wrote my first surrogacy contract, the problem of
Speaker 1: infertility was already there and we as a as a society,
Speaker 1: Americans and other countries that developed countries world are becoming
Speaker 1: more and more infertile.
Speaker 2: And there's a bunch of different ways.
Speaker 1: What is infertile, Well, it's it's fertility rate is one definition.
Speaker 2: Birth rate is one.
Speaker 1: Infertility is another definition, for example, infertility that's in quote.
Speaker 1: The CDC looks this by assessing the number of married
Speaker 1: women between the ages of fifteen and forty nine forty
Speaker 1: nine having unprotected sex for at least a year without
Speaker 1: becoming pregnant. And these are people that want to become pregnant,
Speaker 1: and then you have impaired figunity and that's difficulty in
Speaker 1: getting pregnant. And there's a bunch of reasons for this,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to go through them. People were having
Speaker 1: kids later in life. My kids were born when I
Speaker 1: was forty four. You know, uh, my wife was in
Speaker 1: her forties when the kids were born. In twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: the average age which women had their first child was
Speaker 1: twenty seven point three years. I mean, that's old to
Speaker 1: have kids. Never been that old, and women over forty
Speaker 1: giving birth a steadily increased.
Speaker 2: Age is a big factor.
Speaker 1: The older couple is, the greater the chance they're going
Speaker 1: to struggle to conceive. Female fertility starts to decline at
Speaker 1: about age thirty two. It really falls significantly after thirty seven.
Speaker 1: Even male infertility well not as not as much. You know,
Speaker 1: you have these.
Speaker 2: Fathers who are out there.
Speaker 1: De Niro for example, al Pacino, and they're having kids
Speaker 1: in their seventies because sperm is still viable. Don't tell
Speaker 1: me God is not a man. When it comes to fertility,
Speaker 1: Obesity impacts ovulation in women. Sexually transmitted infections have climbed
Speaker 1: like crazy. And what do STDs have to do with fertility?
Speaker 1: Intimately connected. STDs and fertility are connected, especially chlamydia and.
Speaker 2: Gonorrhea. By the way, that was pretty obscure joke. But
Speaker 2: let's move on. And so the harmful, harmful chemicals. The
Speaker 2: other thing is.
Speaker 1: That's kind of a fun one that I always used
Speaker 1: to make jokes about whenever I had a client command
Speaker 1: and patient come in. And there were a couple of things.
Speaker 1: First of all, to check out whether male infertility. That's
Speaker 1: the first thing that's done is checking the male fertility
Speaker 1: the sperm specimen, because that's the easiest thing to do.
Speaker 1: And one of the things about your testicles, assuming you're
Speaker 1: a male or maybe not anymore, is that testicles have
Speaker 1: to be two degrees less than the body temperature, which
Speaker 1: is why in the winter tremendous suck shrinkage. Your balls
Speaker 1: have to move up and during the summer it's a
Speaker 1: very low it's low hanging fruit.
Speaker 2: You know. Do your balls hang low? Do they go
Speaker 2: to and fro? You know that? And that's true.
Speaker 1: That's why men are told don't get in the jacuzzi,
Speaker 1: stay away from the hot tub because it gets too hot.
Speaker 1: So there are don't wear tight underwear. This is legitimate.
Speaker 1: By the way you wear briefs.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The reason my dad was so fertile is he wore
Speaker 1: shorts and he had a gravity issue. And anyway, I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about that because there was a
Speaker 1: whole bell ringer issue to my dad and his thing.
Speaker 1: So that's a different topic. We'll cover it another point.
Speaker 1: But it is a huge problem and people just wanting
Speaker 1: kids way later and people not having kids, because that
Speaker 1: was the thing when my parents when I was born,
Speaker 1: my parents never even thought of do we want kids?
Speaker 2: Do we not? It's just you had to do it.
Speaker 1: If you're a married couple, you had to have kids,
Speaker 1: and if you didn't have kids, there was something wrong.
Speaker 1: Well it's a very different animal today today. More and
Speaker 1: more couples are choosing not to have kids. Why is
Speaker 1: that because kids.
Speaker 2: Getting your way?
Speaker 1: You've got huge prices in terms of how has gone up,
Speaker 1: food prices have gone up. And for those of you
Speaker 1: that have kids, let me tell you, your life becomes kids.
Speaker 2: You know. I think there's a term that's used.
Speaker 1: In psychology in terms of having kids.
Speaker 2: I think it's a pain in the ass.
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