Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles
Speaker 1: show on demand on the iHeartRadio. F election is coming
Speaker 1: out less than two weeks. One of the things that
Speaker 1: goes on and I love talking about this election because
Speaker 1: it is one of the weirdest elections that we have
Speaker 1: ever seen. One a vice president who was going to
Speaker 1: run his vice president, or Joe Biden, becomes a presidential
Speaker 1: candidate because Joe Biden is old and decrepit and clearly
Speaker 1: show that during the debate with Trump and on the
Speaker 1: other side, the most unusual both president and candidate in
Speaker 1: the history of the United States. One of the things
Speaker 1: that is so bizarre about the Trump campaign and Donald
Speaker 1: Trump as a president candidate in general is the number
Speaker 1: of people who worked for him, not only in business,
Speaker 1: but also worked for him in the White House. How
Speaker 1: they've turned against him, and people in the know, people
Speaker 1: who are there are and I'm talking about dozens and
Speaker 1: dozens of people who were there, have said.
Speaker 2: This guy is unfit. John Kelly is the latest.
Speaker 1: The former Marine general was the longest serving chief of
Speaker 1: staff for Donald Trump about a year and a half,
Speaker 1: and he has.
Speaker 2: Straight out come out.
Speaker 1: He was also Homeland Secretary Homeland's Security secretary. Now during
Speaker 1: his tenure, he drew a lot of internal criticism over
Speaker 1: his performance, and like many others, John Bolton being one
Speaker 1: of them, grew disenchanted distressed by well the President Donald
Speaker 1: Trump at the time considered Trump still considers Trump to
Speaker 1: be inappropriate and even more damning, reflecting no understanding of.
Speaker 2: The Constitution itself.
Speaker 1: And I am part of that crowd because whenever a
Speaker 1: candidate says, if I do not win, the election is
Speaker 1: rigged and the Constitution has been violated. Wow, to not
Speaker 1: elect me means the very Constitution of the United States
Speaker 1: has been violated and disappears. And Kelly also agrees with
Speaker 1: a lot of the policies of Trump, but just says
Speaker 1: he is straight out unfit. He has said things. Kelly
Speaker 1: says that here is a guy who doesn't not only
Speaker 1: doesn't understand the Constitution, but thinks that his presidency is
Speaker 1: way beyond the powers of any president.
Speaker 2: He can do whatever he wants, any time he wants.
Speaker 1: He has said that, he has said as president, there
Speaker 1: is no stopping me to do anything I want. That's
Speaker 1: pretty scary, and so Kelly just him straight out as
Speaker 1: a fascist.
Speaker 2: And he said, looks, let's look at the definition of.
Speaker 1: A fascist, fascian, fascist, far right, authoritarian, ultra nationalist political ideology,
Speaker 1: a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of the opposition,
Speaker 1: and believes in a natural societal hierarchy.
Speaker 2: And if you had to describe Trump, that is absolutely true.
Speaker 2: No guardrails.
Speaker 1: He does not believe in guardrails at all, and any
Speaker 1: guardrails that exist are unconstitutional. And it is hard to
Speaker 1: believe that there are so many.
Speaker 2: People who agree with that. I mean the scary part.
Speaker 1: And there's several different ways of people who support Trump.
Speaker 1: Some of them I understand completely. Yeah, I don't like
Speaker 1: the guy, but are much stronger than Kamala Harris, who's
Speaker 1: the way left of She's pretty liberal, no question about that.
Speaker 1: There are those that are going to hold their nose
Speaker 1: and vote for Trump. There are those that believe in policy.
Speaker 1: There are those and this is the scary one, which we're.
Speaker 2: Hearing more and more.
Speaker 1: I don't know the numbers. God has put Donald Trump
Speaker 1: in as president. If Donald Trump is not elected, it
Speaker 1: is a violation of God's law. That's a little scary.
Speaker 1: And so it runs the gamut and The problem is
Speaker 1: is that Donald Trump probably doesn't believe the God part.
Speaker 1: I don't think he does. I don't think he's that religious.
Speaker 1: But does he believe he is the answer to America? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: no question about it. Does he believe he is more
Speaker 1: important than the Constitution?
Speaker 2: No, he believes he is the Constitution.
Speaker 1: And anybody that goes against him, anybody who is an enemy,
Speaker 1: anybody who is against Trump's policy is someone who does
Speaker 1: not believe in the Constitution. That's exactly what Kelly says.
Speaker 1: This is pretty this is pretty extreme stuff. What makes
Speaker 1: this interesting. It's not just one former employee, and we
Speaker 1: can talk about employee of the employee. We're talking about
Speaker 1: former chief of Staff, Secretary of Homeland Security. You also
Speaker 1: had the former communications director, you had the former head
Speaker 1: of the Joint Chiefs, Mark Milly.
Speaker 2: I mean, it goes on and on, and people.
Speaker 1: Are genuinely frightened of a second Trump presidency.
Speaker 2: I am, I am straight out. But you know where
Speaker 2: I sit.
Speaker 1: I mean, there is a I don't have any hidden
Speaker 1: agenda here. You know exactly where I sit. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: talk about fundraising, both Republican and Democratic fundraising, which the
Speaker 1: Republicans are getting more heat than are the Democrats and
Speaker 1: all by that, although both are at fault here and
Speaker 1: then like everyone else, I don't know how many emails
Speaker 1: you're getting.
Speaker 2: I don't know how any blasts you're getting.
Speaker 1: I'm getting them constantly, several a day, in some cases
Speaker 1: dozens a day.
Speaker 2: And I'll dive into that when we come back.
Speaker 1: The FAA has published new rules, the final piece of
Speaker 1: the puzzle. They're calling it a new category of aircraft.
Speaker 2: It's not rotary, not a helicopter, not a plane.
Speaker 1: What is it? It is sort of the two together
Speaker 1: air taxis, and that's coming up. You're going to be
Speaker 1: able to take these air taxis now all over town
Speaker 1: and they're electric, so don't make any noise kind of neat.
Speaker 2: Well, we knew it was coming for sure.
Speaker 1: Now politics, because we have the presidential coming up in
Speaker 1: what thirteen days or we're going to pay attention to that,
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you are getting emails of
Speaker 1: course you are asking for donations to either party, stuff
Speaker 1: like if you believe what Kama is saying, check yes, don't.
Speaker 1: I am unaffiliated. I am not a member of either party.
Speaker 1: I am getting inundated by both sides more so the Democrats,
Speaker 1: they're going after me with a vengeance.
Speaker 2: Can't even imagine.
Speaker 1: If you are a registered member of the Republican or
Speaker 1: Democratic Party. And the problem is not the messages, frankly,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's disgusting, it's horrible. Leave me alone,
Speaker 1: so I delete the leite delite. It's the call for money.
Speaker 1: It's the call for money that's the problem. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll give money to a presidential I have in the past,
Speaker 1: haven't yet, haven't decided yet, maybe not even this year
Speaker 1: because I'm so disgusted across the board.
Speaker 2: And here is what's going on.
Speaker 1: The Republicans are being blamed for more practices that are
Speaker 1: considered well, do I want to use the word despicable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're asking for money, and in a deceptive way because
Speaker 1: if you look somewhere on their website you'll see just
Speaker 1: click here and it'll be a recurring donation. It's automatic.
Speaker 1: The Democrats are more open about that. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you you're in a lot of trouble with recurring anything.
Speaker 2: And there are a couple of stories.
Speaker 1: This is from The Independent, which is a.
Speaker 2: Non biased publication.
Speaker 1: In some of the story, one man's life savings was
Speaker 1: drained over two years because of the predatory messages from
Speaker 1: Republican various Republican political groups.
Speaker 2: CNN look at that, looks at that. CNN is biased.
Speaker 1: Okay, not as biased as the other side. I mean
Speaker 1: bias is relative. I mean it's difference seen CNN and
Speaker 1: Fox YEP. CNN is definitely biased. Fox is way more so.
Speaker 1: Life savings gone. Another case, an eighty year old woman
Speaker 1: with lung cancer gave more than hundred and eighty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars to the campaign of Trump and other Republicans and
Speaker 1: apologize to them for not getting donations in sooner because
Speaker 1: she was undergoing heart surgery. When she died, two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars was left in her bank account. And
Speaker 1: here are the most vulnerable. Older Americans, especially those living
Speaker 1: with neurological impairents of impairments have fallen foul the marketing poise.
Speaker 1: Now why is that? Well, you can argue that the
Speaker 1: Republican Party is more aggressive, but dive a.
Speaker 2: Little bit deeper.
Speaker 1: Older Americans are more susceptible to Republican in treaties because
Speaker 1: they are more conservative. It's that simple. They're more apt
Speaker 1: to give money and not know that they're given. So
Speaker 1: both campaigns are asking for donations like crazy.
Speaker 2: Over the last couple of days.
Speaker 1: It's donate to the Harris campaign and whoever, we're going
Speaker 1: to match the money or I mean, it's pretty aggressive stuff.
Speaker 1: But I'm not a dedicated Republican. I'm not one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty years old. Although I placed one on radio.
Speaker 1: An eighty one year old man told CNN his dad
Speaker 1: believed that he was in personal communication with Donald Trump
Speaker 1: Junior gave eighty grant. Now both have aggressive marketing tactics,
Speaker 1: as I said, emails, texts, even calls to reach the voter,
Speaker 1: the potential voter. There was a seventy eight year old
Speaker 1: woman who took limited showers and canceled her insurance plan
Speaker 1: to save money unknowingly, according to.
Speaker 2: This story, gave two hundred thousand.
Speaker 1: Dollars to the Democratic pull up groups. So both sides
Speaker 1: get it. Here is something that I want to share
Speaker 1: with you. Win Read, which is the official Republican party
Speaker 1: fundraising platform, offers refunds straight out to contributions made accidentally
Speaker 1: within sixty days. Act Blue, the Democratic fundraising program platform,
Speaker 1: also offers refunds on a case by case basis and
Speaker 1: any donations made through PayPal or Venmo over ninety days
Speaker 1: will not be refunded. And the Independent approached both of
Speaker 1: the parties, both of the platforms for comment and didn't
Speaker 1: get it. And so is this year worse than others?
Speaker 1: I think it is worse in the sense that we're
Speaker 1: being inundated.
Speaker 2: More and more and more.
Speaker 1: There's more money being thrown into this, certainly in social media.
Speaker 1: If you look at the ads here on KFI. Politicals
Speaker 1: have just started, but nothing like it was in the past. Broadcast,
Speaker 1: tieved TV, cable, nothing like it was in the past,
Speaker 1: because all the money is going to social all the
Speaker 1: money going to social means.
Speaker 2: TikTok.
Speaker 1: You'll see that, You'll see it on YouTube, and you
Speaker 1: will get personal emails and requests for money.
Speaker 2: I'm up to here with it.
Speaker 1: And if I look, well, I'm on the air for
Speaker 1: what three hours, and if I look at my phone,
Speaker 1: if I look at my emails, there would be three
Speaker 1: or four requests for money. For some reason, the Democrats
Speaker 1: are really pushing me. And I don't know why, because
Speaker 1: I'm not a Democrat. Maybe it's a demographic but I
Speaker 1: don't think so. So I don't know the answer all
Speaker 1: I want. All I know is I hate elderly people
Speaker 1: getting screwed. You know, they're vulnerable, and come on eyes Okay,
Speaker 1: coming up worldwide efforts to reverse the baby shortage and
Speaker 1: what's going on, because man, this was thirty years of
Speaker 1: my life professionally as well as personally. So I'll talk
Speaker 1: about that and then later on doctor Jim Keeney, we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about the new burger at McDonald's, the eMac,
Speaker 1: the e cole I Burger.
Speaker 2: So we've got a lot on the plate. We are looking.
Speaker 1: At some of the stories, and the Middle East continues
Speaker 1: on going crazy. FAA has just finalized published new rules
Speaker 1: regarding a third type of aircraft that is going to
Speaker 1: be available that's going to be flying around air taxis.
Speaker 2: It's not fixed wing, it's not rotary, it's both.
Speaker 1: So we have a third way to go and you'll
Speaker 1: see air taxis flying around the City's kind of neat.
Speaker 2: Okay. I want to talk about something that I have.
Speaker 1: Been involved with and was involved with for over thirty years,
Speaker 1: and that is dealing with the baby shortage. And there
Speaker 1: is a massive baby shortage around the world and we
Speaker 1: have one and if it weren't for immigration coming into
Speaker 1: this country, our population would just decrease dramatically, and it
Speaker 1: is decreasing, but very small degree.
Speaker 2: Here's the stat that I want to share with you.
Speaker 1: If you have a woman, for all the women of
Speaker 1: child bearing years who have children, two point one kids
Speaker 1: have to be produced in order to keep the population stable.
Speaker 2: So for those of you that have two kids, like
Speaker 2: I do not keeping up.
Speaker 1: It's not I am not replacing myself. It's that simple.
Speaker 1: So what do you do?
Speaker 2: What are countries doing?
Speaker 1: And, by the way, we're in relatively good shape because
Speaker 1: when it comes to countries that in Europe specifically, and
Speaker 1: we're talking about industrialized countries, first world countries, third world
Speaker 1: countries are a whole different animal for a couple of reasons,
Speaker 1: which I'll share with you later. So imagine this, you
Speaker 1: have kids, and if you do have kids, you get
Speaker 1: at least one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in cheap loans,
Speaker 1: a subsidized minivan, a lifetime exemption from income taxes.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: By the way, also cheap childcare, extra vacation time, free
Speaker 1: fertility treatments. That's what's being doled out in different parts
Speaker 1: of Europe and Europe is the most effective of the
Speaker 1: worldwide baby shortage.
Speaker 2: And you have to keep.
Speaker 1: People coming into this world other than because you have
Speaker 1: economy shrinking, and that means you have more older people
Speaker 1: around and the younger people are not being born. That
Speaker 1: frankly will take care of older people, and not only
Speaker 1: only directly, and that's third world countries. But I'm talking
Speaker 1: about tax base. I'm talking about people who earn money
Speaker 1: who then pay into the system which then supports older
Speaker 1: people via Social Security or this upsidized housing or other
Speaker 1: programs Medicare for example. In our case, you've got an
Speaker 1: employment insurance, you know Social Security. When it was first
Speaker 1: it first founded in nineteen thirty five, the plan was
Speaker 1: for the workers to support older people through Social Security
Speaker 1: tax and it was about five workers for every retired person.
Speaker 1: And you retire sixty five and then you die in
Speaker 1: two or three years and the system keeps ongoing.
Speaker 2: Well, the system doesn't work anymore. Now you're down to.
Speaker 1: Two workers or three workers, two point something workers supporting
Speaker 1: every Social Security recipient. And let me tell you how
Speaker 1: long they last. My mother retired I think at fifty eight,
Speaker 1: and went on Social Security because she had some medical issues.
Speaker 1: She died at ninety eight, forty years of social security
Speaker 1: benefits that was not anticipated, and so people are living
Speaker 1: longer and those of us that are working are paying
Speaker 1: for it, and I hate it.
Speaker 2: I told my mother to die before.
Speaker 1: She was ninety eight, Starting at about ninety three, I
Speaker 1: was pushing her, for pushing her to kick the bucket,
Speaker 1: and she didn't do it.
Speaker 2: Just to screw with me.
Speaker 1: So you have a world by baby shortage, and it
Speaker 1: is not good. And birth rates have been falling across
Speaker 1: the developed world since the nineteen sixties, which I said,
Speaker 1: Europe has hit harder and faster, and reversing the decline
Speaker 1: in birth rates has become a national priority governments all
Speaker 1: over the world. First World governments China, Russia. Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: declared twenty twenty four the Year of the Family. And
Speaker 1: in the US you've got Donala Harris and Donald Trump
Speaker 1: are pledging to rethink family policies. Harris wants to offer
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars baby bonus. Trump has floated free in
Speaker 1: vitro fertilization and tax deductions for parents. Question number one,
Speaker 1: Who's going to pay for it? They're both out of
Speaker 1: their minds. And question number two or answer number two.
Speaker 1: It's because one of the reasons is because of the
Speaker 1: baby shortage.
Speaker 2: Also getting elected is a pretty important reason.
Speaker 1: All right. I want to come back and tell you
Speaker 1: what countries are doing and it is really interesting and
Speaker 1: why and who's doing what, and we are way behind
Speaker 1: the curve in terms of dealing with baby shortages, the
Speaker 1: worldwide baby shortage issue. I want to continue on with
Speaker 1: what's going on with the baby shortage around the world.
Speaker 2: And the reason I talk about this is because I
Speaker 2: was part of it.
Speaker 1: Well, I am part of the baby shortage because, as
Speaker 1: I said, statistically, two point one kids have to be
Speaker 1: produced by woman of child bearing age who does produce kids,
Speaker 1: and we're way below that. The United States is at
Speaker 1: one point six percent or one point six kids for
Speaker 1: every woman, and that means we're losing population. And the
Speaker 1: reason it's important not to lose population is because we
Speaker 1: need more young people there to pay for old people.
Speaker 1: We're talking about not just taking care of them, but
Speaker 1: through governmental programs, paying taxes. You can't have more old
Speaker 1: people than young people paying for them because the economies
Speaker 1: then collapse long term. So we need two point one
Speaker 1: ain't happening, and this is all over and where it
Speaker 1: really hurts. And by the way, this was something I
Speaker 1: dealt with in the world of surrogacy because people came
Speaker 1: in way later to have kids.
Speaker 2: That's one of the big problems of the shortage. And
Speaker 2: there are a lot.
Speaker 1: Of people outside of that that just don't want to
Speaker 1: have kids. For those of you that are considering having children,
Speaker 1: take it from a dad, don't do it.
Speaker 2: Just don't do it.
Speaker 1: You'll be far happier long term, medium term, short term.
Speaker 1: That's advice. So Europe is the place where it is
Speaker 1: the most well, the biggest problem in terms of replacing population.
Speaker 1: And we're talking about countries, and I want to talk
Speaker 1: about two specific countries that have gone to incredible lengths
Speaker 1: to deal with it.
Speaker 2: Norway and Hungary.
Speaker 1: They have fratillery rates of one point five one point
Speaker 1: four children for every woman, far below that replacement rate
Speaker 1: of two point one, which is needed to keep the
Speaker 1: population steady. And demographers are suggesting that the reluctance to
Speaker 1: have kids is maybe a fundamental cultural shift rather than
Speaker 1: a purely financial one. Now, a lot of people do
Speaker 1: it because of finances, because you can't afford kids any more.
Speaker 1: They eat a lot, they go to school. Diapers are
Speaker 1: a fortune. I am still paying for diapers and my
Speaker 1: kids are twenty nine years old.
Speaker 2: That's a different issue. We'll talk about that at another time.
Speaker 1: It is just expensive, and of course housing is insane.
Speaker 1: It just is a real big financial issue. But it's
Speaker 1: more fundamental than that. It is simply the way we
Speaker 1: are living. So what is going on with Norway and Hungary?
Speaker 1: The Prime Minister of Hungary is a guy that think
Speaker 1: of Victor Orbond, and he is a populist. He is
Speaker 1: a Donald Trump. He believes in populism, He believes in
Speaker 1: the small man, or at least he goes for the
Speaker 1: middle class. And you know that jd Vance is a
Speaker 1: big one for having kids. Tucker Carlson another one. And
Speaker 1: what Urbond does is he talks about having children and
Speaker 1: the traditional family model as a national duty. And it
Speaker 1: just makes more sense than immigration. Immigration is the only
Speaker 1: reason our population isn't just decreasing dramatically. Same thing with Europe.
Speaker 1: And here's the problem. This is the world of JD.
Speaker 2: Vance.
Speaker 1: In Hungary, the benefits are reserved for married, heterosexual middle
Speaker 1: class couples. Couples could divorce, leave, they lose their subsidized
Speaker 1: interest rates have to sometimes pay back the support. Hungary's
Speaker 1: population shrinking since the nineteen eighties. Urban, by the way,
Speaker 1: is a father of five, and he has expanded the
Speaker 1: family support system doing something about Hungary's fertility rate.
Speaker 2: Now, it did go up.
Speaker 1: From one point four to one point six kids for
Speaker 1: every woman, but is it anywhere near the two point
Speaker 1: one It is not. And the world is spinning. And
Speaker 1: the more kids you have in Hungry the better, the
Speaker 1: better the benefits if you have three or more. How
Speaker 1: about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in subsidized loans.
Speaker 1: How about a lifetime exemption from personal taxes if a
Speaker 1: mother has four more kids. How about both parents getting
Speaker 1: seven extra annual vacation days. Another program, thirty thousand families
Speaker 1: have used a subsidy to buy a mini van. I mean,
Speaker 1: that is a real issue, and it is a problem. Now.
Speaker 1: Third world countries not a problem. They're having kids like crazy.
Speaker 1: And one of the big reasons having kids, as I.
Speaker 2: See it, is.
Speaker 1: Because there's no safety net in those third world countries.
Speaker 1: And the only way that parents as they reach old
Speaker 1: age are going to be able to be supported to
Speaker 1: have as many kids as possible. One or two kids
Speaker 1: isn't going to do it for mom and dad who
Speaker 1: become older, three four, five kids. Yeah, same thing with
Speaker 1: the ability to work. Farmers, for example, need a bunch
Speaker 1: of kids. Traditionally they have. We used to be in
Speaker 1: agrarian society, so kids were important.
Speaker 2: We're not anymore.
Speaker 1: So you'll hear more about this, this worldwide shortage. It's
Speaker 1: a big deal, a big deal. Just wanted to share
Speaker 1: that information with you, all right, Coming up, Amy King,
Speaker 1: She this morning interviewed Colonel Nick Haig and he's aboard
Speaker 1: the ISS. She's talking to an astronaut as he is
Speaker 1: circling the world, circling the earth in the ISS. And boy,
Speaker 1: what an interview that was. And so share parts of
Speaker 1: it with you and Amy will do the voiceover in
Speaker 1: the introduction.
Speaker 2: Et Ce, I'm gonna throw it to Amy.
Speaker 1: Gives me a chance to still work on the show
Speaker 1: and not have to work. It's a wonderful thing. This
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