WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:04.799 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:04.839 --> 00:00:05.679 six forty. 3 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:10.560 And this is KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here 4 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:15.560 on a Tuesday morning Taco Tuesday, October one. 5 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:17.079 Some of the big stories. 6 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:19.920 We are looking at the death toll from Hurricane Helene 7 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:23.120 worse than we thought, the damage worse than we thought. 8 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:25.960 And it is being described as. 9 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:32.399 Well apocalyptic, biblical in its destruction of that area. And 10 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:37.320 Israel has now begun its quote limited ground operation in 11 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:40.320 southern Lebanon targeting hes Belah. 12 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:42.200 And I will do that next segment. 13 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:44.759 And then the other big business bit of news is 14 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:48.479 tonight the Vans Waltz VP debate, which is going to 15 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:52.560 be watched big time. Now, normally nobody really cares, you know, 16 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:56.560 VP debates, Eh, they don't change much. However, this is 17 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:59.479 particularly important because this election is going to be so 18 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:04.280 razor in that even a few votes that are turned 19 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:07.120 one way or the other, or people feel strong enough 20 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:10.879 that they are going to vote in one sense or another, 21 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:13.519 can make a big, big difference here. So what are 22 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:16.560 you going to see tonight, Well, you've got Wall's sixty 23 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:19.799 year old Minnesota governor. Very matter of fact, Oshuck's kind 24 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:23.640 of Guy Vance is a forty year old Ohio senator. 25 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:27.120 I think he's eighteen months into his term. And you've 26 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:32.159 got two very different people. Walt's pretty true blue Democrat 27 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:40.159 liberal and Vance a very true red Republican. So what 28 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:44.079 are we going to see tonight? Okay, what we're going 29 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:46.359 to see is, first of all, their political views are 30 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:48.840 going to be and that's no surprise put on stage, 31 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:53.400 and they're very different. Walt's two term governor, former congressman. 32 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:58.120 Expect him not only to talk about his political philosophy 33 00:01:58.120 --> 00:02:02.640 and of course pitch Harris's views because he is that 34 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:06.400 she is his boss, but also he's going to push 35 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:09.520 hard that he's a high school teacher, assistant football coach, 36 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:13.159 just a regular kind of guy, very likable, you know, 37 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:14.120 like Uncle. 38 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:15.400 Tim kind of thing. 39 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:20.800 Vance a marine veteran, hard knows author of the best 40 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:24.840 selling book about his Appalachian family and values and socioeconomic 41 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:26.360 problems growing up. 42 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:28.599 By the way, I've read his book, He'll Billy Eology. 43 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:34.120 It is excellent. It is really good. In that book. 44 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:37.479 You're not seeing a crazy person, You're not seeing animals 45 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:37.960 being eaten. 46 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:39.879 Well, you are, because he grew up with the eight squirrels 47 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:42.360 and posts and stuff, but you. 48 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:47.080 Don't see any of the crazy you see today. He 49 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:51.000 takes a very conservative view, but in my opinion, logical, 50 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:55.120 well reasoned, and that's part of America that I pay 51 00:02:55.159 --> 00:03:00.639 attention to. So you're going to see him push his 52 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:06.199 war record. Marine veteran, as I said, went to an 53 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:08.560 Ivy League, came out first person to come out of 54 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:10.759 his family, his entire area that went to an Ivy 55 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:16.120 League school. And it's they're both interesting people, for sure. 56 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:20.240 One of the big issues, of course, is abortion. And 57 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.840 here Walls is real simple. He believes an abortion, even 58 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:26.159 to the point where he is going to be accused 59 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:30.319 of by vance of when he was a Minnesota governor. 60 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:32.879 Now we're talking to Walls backing a measure that would 61 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:36.560 allow abortion right up to the moment of birth, even 62 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:38.719 to the point at which doctors wouldn't be required to 63 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:41.800 provide life saving care to a baby who has survived 64 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:45.120 a botched abortion. Now, are there a few hundred late 65 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:46.879 term abortions given a year? 66 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:47.360 There are? 67 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:53.719 However, that is skewed, even though it is technically true. 68 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:55.319 It's not what it sounds like. But this is what 69 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:58.719 politics are about. It's not what it sounds like it 70 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:01.199 rarely is. You're gonna see a lot of simplistic stuff. 71 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:04.680 You're going to see Vance at tak Wall attack walls 72 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.599 because he left and retired from the military in order 73 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:12.680 not to go to a rock. Walls is going to 74 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:15.560 come back and go, Well, let me put it this way. 75 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:19.480 My unit was deployed. We were notified the unit was 76 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:22.800 going to be deployed after I registered for Congress, and 77 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:26.560 I retired before that. And the accusation is still going 78 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:28.959 to be given. You retired so you wouldn't go to 79 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:34.600 a rock. Okay, he's going to Walls is going to 80 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:37.160 continue calling Vance and Trump weird. 81 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:39.160 It is. 82 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:42.639 By the way, Vance will also attack Walls on a 83 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:45.600 statement about weapons of war and that he was an 84 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.399 area of war, and that's absolutely true. 85 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:51.240 I want to know what Walls says about this one. 86 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:54.160 I think he's already said I misspoke, and I'd like 87 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:55.920 to see how he's going to get out of it 88 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:58.319 other than saying, you're right, I said that. I shouldn't 89 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:01.720 have said that I missed. Now what let's move on, 90 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:03.160 which would be the way to do it. 91 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:04.560 Now. 92 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:09.759 The interesting part are the dogs and cats statement that. 93 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:11.600 Vance has backed up. 94 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:17.639 He has said, yes, those Haitians eat their neighbor's pets, 95 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:21.360 or at least he has said that the President Trump 96 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:22.839 was right about that. 97 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:26.560 And then the reason he gave, and this one I think. 98 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:30.560 Is attackable instantly, and that is, if I have to 99 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:35.959 make up stories to get the people of the United 100 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:39.879 States to concentrate on the real problems we have, then 101 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:42.680 I will do it. And of course the question to 102 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:45.279 him is what other stories do you want to make up. 103 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:49.079 Let's say you want to attack a country, do you 104 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:54.120 make up a story about they attacked us first? Where 105 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:56.160 do you go with that? How do you have a 106 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:00.079 vice president of the United States make up stories of 107 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:08.399 the American people to further an agenda. You can't, I mean, 108 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:11.560 you know, I mean it's been done. Do you remember 109 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:16.040 Colin Powell with that little vial of what did he 110 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:20.240 say it was anthrax? He said this much anthrax will 111 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:22.600 kill five million people And it turned out to be 112 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:26.160 just basically a little viole of sweet and low, and 113 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:29.199 that proved that everybody was going to die. It was. 114 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:33.319 Now the argument is based on the intelligence was that legitimate? 115 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:36.199 I don't know you can argue that that was a 116 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:39.519 legitimate statement based on their view, and that's Trump's argument, 117 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:40.399 based on. 118 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:44.360 The information we got. It just happened to be a. 119 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:46.920 Woman who heard it from a woman who heard it 120 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:48.839 from a woman who made a phone call, and she 121 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:51.279 instantly called and said, oh my god, it was just 122 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:52.959 a rumor that I was repeating. 123 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:57.959 I think there's a difference. So we'll see, you'll see that. 124 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:02.959 Waltz talk about reproductive rights and the fact that Trump 125 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:07.759 named three people to the US Supreme Court, all anti 126 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:10.680 abortion and overturned Roe v. Wade, he is going to 127 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:13.399 have a hard time coming back at all on the 128 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:14.759 reproductive rights issue. 129 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:17.600 He said, I wanted to go to the States. That 130 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:21.600 was important for me. I don't know if I had 131 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:22.800 to argue, you know what. 132 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:27.079 I think he wanted his evangelical political base and he 133 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:33.480 got it, and he got it. So both sides have weaknesses, 134 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:36.279 both sides have strength. And then I'm going to end 135 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:38.839 with the fact that we've never had this happen before, 136 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:43.000 and that is a vice presidential candidate a debate where 137 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:46.879 you hear where you hear, or you get reports that 138 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:50.680 the debate. In this case, Walls is nervous about the debate. 139 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:53.600 He is scared he is going to not do well. 140 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:57.199 I never heard that before. So we'll see Nu's tonight, 141 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:00.759 we'll carrie it live here on KFI and tomorrow certainly 142 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:03.319 announced that all right, Oh. 143 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:04.680 We knew this was going to happen. 144 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:08.319 And this is my wheelhouse because you know, I'm particularly 145 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:11.319 interested what happens with the Israeli defense forces in that 146 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:12.199 attire area of. 147 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:12.920 The Middle East. 148 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.759 I have friends in Israel. My great uncle lived in 149 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.000 Israel for many years. I have been to Israel many times, 150 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:23.680 so I am, and I have been to the Lebanon 151 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:27.199 Israeli border. I mean, you go to the border up 152 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:30.040 there when this kind of crapple, what isn't happening and 153 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:34.679 you literally are looking at Lebanese soldiers right on the 154 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:35.559 other side. 155 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:39.879 Of this fence. Well, you can't do that anymore. 156 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:44.200 All of northern Israel has been evacuated sixty thousand people, 157 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:48.879 and all of southern Lebanon has been evacuated one. 158 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:49.720 Hundred thousand people. 159 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:55.200 And after the terrorist attack on Israel October seventh by 160 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:59.000 those crazy Hamasa terrorists, they killed twelve hundred Israelis. 161 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:01.279 Boy that was a good move, wasn't it. Boy? They 162 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:01.960 got theirs. 163 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.200 They say, oh boy, someone over there has to say, 164 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:07.799 maybe that wasn't a good thing. Forty one thousand, forty 165 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:12.440 one thousand Palestinians have already been killed. Now everybody thinks 166 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:15.519 that there's forty one thousand civilians, that's not true. About 167 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:19.240 a third of them are Hamas fighters. They're militants, and 168 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:22.559 they go to war. They're the ones that went across 169 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:27.240 the border and massacred twelve hundred Israelis. And if they 170 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:29.240 didn't think Israel's going to fight back, boy, they got 171 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:32.399 another thing coming. So I think it's fair to say 172 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:37.639 that two thirds civilians have been killed in Palestine. And 173 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:42.879 well they call it Palestine, let's call it Gaza. And 174 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:46.519 so here's what happened with his Bellah. And that's the 175 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:50.120 group up north, a terrorist group up north that control. 176 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:50.840 All the southern Lebanon. 177 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:53.919 They are not only a terrorist group, they are a 178 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:57.960 fighting force, pretty sophisticated, and they are a government. They 179 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.919 give services to those people, and they and schools and hospitals. 180 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:06.200 And the problem with thought Hezbollah did And here's another one. 181 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:08.039 Maybe this one didn't work out either. 182 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:14.799 The second that October seventh happened October eighth, Israel invades Gaza, 183 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:21.320 they start launching missiles against Israel, sometimes one hundred a day. 184 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:25.039 Well that's a little problematic. What do you think Israel's 185 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:28.159 going to do? So they just gave it. They were 186 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:28.759 just sitting there. 187 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:30.919 It was a tit for tat for years, but it 188 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:37.600 really ramped up after Israel starts pounding Gaza and decimates 189 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:40.240 probably a third of Gaza or forty percent. 190 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:41.679 Of Gaza is a debris field. 191 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:46.559 So Hesbela decides to start launching these missiles just. 192 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:49.360 In solidarity with Hamas. 193 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:52.799 Let's say, just in solidarity, no invasion, no one went in, 194 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:56.159 there was no terrorist attack, it was just our brothers 195 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.840 in Gaza are being decimated by Israel. We are now 196 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:02.360 going to do what we can to destroy Israel or 197 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:03.320 to hurt Israel. 198 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:06.320 So let's send in the missiles. How'd that work out 199 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:07.720 for you? All right? 200 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:12.480 Israel intercepts thousands and thousands of pagers that they use, 201 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.879 and the reason they use pagers is because cell phones 202 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:19.480 can be intercepted. Right, those cell phones, Well, I guess 203 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:23.600 what Israel did. Thousands went in, they got them before 204 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:27.159 they went and then pushed the trigger and twenty five 205 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:30.879 hundred people had their ears blown off, or their weight 206 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:34.919 or their arms blown off. And then the walkie talkies, 207 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:39.240 which of course also Israel can't intercept. They got hold 208 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:44.919 of those and hundreds of people were severely injured, and 209 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:48.759 well thousands of people were injured, hundreds were killed. And 210 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:52.360 so now Israel they keep on launching missiles, and what 211 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:54.639 Israel says is Okay, now we're going to. 212 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:55.440 Go after you. 213 00:11:55.559 --> 00:11:57.600 Guys, we suggest you stop, and now we're going to 214 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:02.240 go after the leadership of Hezbollah. Took out the senior 215 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:08.360 leadership massive attacks, knowing exactly where the leadership were a 216 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:10.440 matter of fact, they had undergrade, you know where the 217 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:14.720 headquarters of Hesbola underground, and they. 218 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:16.279 Knew exactly where it was at. 219 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.440 Down comes the bunker buster bombs, boom, and you've got 220 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:24.759 the entire hierarchy, not only the head of Heusbola, but 221 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:29.000 most of the underlings. Now they're gone, and the attacks 222 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:32.240 keep on coming and coming. And guess what happened. We 223 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:36.279 knew there was going to be incursion. Yep, Israel is 224 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:41.759 now on Lebanese soil. They've done it before. Two thousand 225 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:44.519 and six was a bad move by Israeli. 226 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:47.320 They went into the Janine, the. 227 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:51.879 Camp, the refugee camp, and there were massacres that occurred. 228 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:54.720 Ariel Sharon got into a lot of trouble for that 229 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:58.200 because they just killed innocent people. I mean literally, the 230 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:01.600 Israeli army. It was war crimes. It was straight out 231 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:05.759 war crimes at what Israel did. But they were and 232 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:11.120 then they occupied Lebanon for eighteen years. Well that's the 233 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:14.000 last thing Israel wants to do is start occupying both 234 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:20.720 Gaza and Lebanon. But everybody's everybody's on the record at 235 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:24.440 this point. Israel doesn't sit there defensively anymore, not even 236 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:27.159 a chance you hit Israel. And one of the things 237 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:30.000 about the Israeli government and at Tanyahu and the war 238 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:33.679 cabinet is We're gonna hit three times harder than you 239 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:37.279 hit us, five times harder than you hit us. And 240 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:42.480 they're now moving into South Lebanon. Hezbollah was considered one 241 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:45.159 of the top military forces in the entire Middle East, 242 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:50.919 supply trained by Iran. Hisbola is a proxy of Iran, 243 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:56.120 like the Houti's in Yemen, and like the various terrorist 244 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:01.399 groups up and down in Iraq. Iraq, which also has 245 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:04.399 a population of terrorists and attacking Israel. 246 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:06.559 Well, Israel is not taking it. 247 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:09.039 It is straight out war as far as their concern, 248 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:14.720 and his blot is not what it was touted to be. Nope, 249 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:20.080 it has been seriously degraded. And now we'll see what happens. 250 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:25.559 The incursion has happened. Now Israel says it's a limited incursion. 251 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:29.519 Well, his Bola starts fighting. Seriously, it's not going to 252 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:31.039 be so limited at least I don't think so. 253 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:35.679 And the United States theoretically wasn't told about it. Certainly 254 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:39.559 the air attacks, the United States wasn't told about this one. 255 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:43.559 Biden admitted, Yeah, he knew about this and gave him 256 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:44.120 a green light. 257 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:46.000 Because the United States has. 258 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:50.799 Huge influence in Israel because they provide massive arms to Israel, 259 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:54.799 and without those arms, much like Ukraine, Ukraine is in 260 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:58.320 deep trouble as Israel, not as deep because Israel has 261 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:04.279 a very sophistic hated arms industry, but at the same time, 262 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:06.759 it needs a whole lot more munitions than what it 263 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:09.720 can produce in the United States is the primary supplier. 264 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:12.639 All right, So we'll talk about that. Okay. 265 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:16.399 Now, something I've been fighting for for literally forty years 266 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:21.080 finally came to fruition. The governor just signed a bill, 267 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:25.320 our governor requiring the large health insurance companies to cover 268 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:26.840 in vitro fertilization. 269 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:29.720 And let me tell you how far back I go 270 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:30.440 with IVF. 271 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:35.480 I started in the reproductive business, if you will, helping 272 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:41.720 infertile couples have children in nineteen eighty. The first IVF 273 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:46.840 baby was born in nineteen seventy eight, Louise Brown. And 274 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:49.799 there's a whole story there that I may end up 275 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:51.960 doing as a matter of fact, and I think I'm 276 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:56.120 gonna do that tomorrow because the history of IVF is fascinating. 277 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:58.200 A couple of guys, step Toe. 278 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:04.000 And Edwards, who buy themselves, created IVF and had no public. 279 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:06.759 Funding, had no hospital funding. They did it on their own. 280 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:11.159 And I was very fortunate to have met doctor Edwards 281 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:13.000 and sat down, had to talk with him. 282 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:14.840 A real pioneer. He isn't given enough credit. 283 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:19.279 But let's go back to IVF in vitrol for well, 284 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:25.200 let's talk about infertility. Infertility is traditionally not viewed as 285 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:29.600 a medical problem as far as insurance companies. If you're infertile, 286 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:33.799 it's not the same as cancer, broken bone, you need surgery. 287 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:37.120 It's just you're infertile, and therefore we're not going to 288 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:42.080 cover it because it's not a medical problem. Well, the 289 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:45.759 people who needed IVF to have children otherwise they couldn't, 290 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:49.720 and we're talking probably now in the millions which had 291 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:52.879 to pay for it for the most part, ask them 292 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:55.399 if infertility is a medical problem or not. 293 00:16:56.799 --> 00:17:00.320 My kids were born of in vitro fertilization, and. 294 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:02.440 I can't tell you how many kids were, and let 295 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:05.519 me tell you how expensive it was. The only good 296 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:08.359 news about my kids being born is I had twins, 297 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:12.160 so the unit costs dropped in half. I actually got 298 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:14.839 two for the price of one, so that made it 299 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:16.799 a little bit easier. It was a sale that day, 300 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:22.839 and I'll take it, but it was still hideously expensive. 301 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:25.640 I think it was at that time. It may have 302 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:29.079 been eighteen or twenty thousand dollars twenty nine years ago. 303 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:36.000 So the fight for in vitro fertilization has now come 304 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:39.359 to the point of something that I first asked for 305 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:43.279 because we knew by the way we were doing or 306 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:48.119 I was doing surrogacy before in vitro fertilization became any 307 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:50.680 kind of a medical success. When I first started, the 308 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:55.480 success rate was under five percent. Today it's in the 309 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:59.839 range of sixty percent. Matter of fact, the birth rate, 310 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:04.920 the fertilization rate is higher today within vitro, far higher 311 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:10.559 than it is with natural conception. Stooping your spouse, which 312 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:13.920 is now a waste of time. Don't even bother if 313 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:16.839 you want kids. Eh, you know what, go to the doctor. 314 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:18.519 You don't have to have sex. 315 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:23.119 You can get married like I did and not bother. 316 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:28.359 And as far as the in vitro story. 317 00:18:28.519 --> 00:18:30.720 It's tough for the women because they have to take 318 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:34.640 drugs to create more eggs than is normal. So it's 319 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:37.279 a medical procedure and it's not fun as far as 320 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:44.119 guys are concerned. Okay, not bad, not bad at all, 321 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:45.839 because you go in the other room. 322 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:47.960 Oh, I have a story I want to share with you. 323 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.319 One of my doctor friends, a urologist, male fertility expert, 324 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:55.359 who did sperm counts that had the biggest we created 325 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:57.359 the biggest sperm bank actually in the world. 326 00:18:57.880 --> 00:18:58.720 And he did this. 327 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:03.720 It was male infertility. And obviously how you deal with 328 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:08.559 male infertility is you have to have sperm specimens. You know, specimens. 329 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:12.400 You masturbate into a dixie cup. Matter of fact, if 330 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:15.759 you come to my house, my kids when they were young. 331 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:18.200 G Daddy, where did I come from? I point to 332 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:22.160 this looseight sort of obeliss with a dixie cup in it, 333 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:26.680 and I go, that's where you came from. He had 334 00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:30.599 in his office what he called he had three rooms 335 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:35.359 that he called masturbatorium number one, number two, number three. 336 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:39.559 And science tells us the more excited a man is, 337 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:43.960 the bigger and the better the sperm count. This is 338 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:48.400 real science. So he wanted to maximize sperm counts. And 339 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:53.039 so therefore you have the three masturbatorium and you'd walk 340 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:55.599 in and those are the days of videotape, and you 341 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:58.759 had every porno videotape. 342 00:19:58.799 --> 00:19:59.759 You can imagine. 343 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:07.039 The walls were flecked, wall flecked wallpaper, red shag carpets. 344 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:09.359 It basically looked like an Iranian whorehouse. 345 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:15.559 And the magazines that he had there, I mean gay sex, 346 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:19.319 straight sex, I mean whatever turned you on, barnyard love, 347 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:24.000 whatever it was. And the excitement level, he was able 348 00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:26.519 to get really good sperm counts. 349 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:31.759 He was ahead of the curve. So the good news 350 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:32.279 is here. 351 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:36.799 It all goes back to in vitro fertilization is a 352 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:41.720 real medical problem and finally the law has caught up 353 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:43.920 with it. And as a matter of fact, and the 354 00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:48.319 story of IVF is unbelievable. I actually sat down and 355 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:54.839 debated the first IVF baby, Louise Brown in England, and 356 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:57.279 she could be one of the dumbest human beings I 357 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:01.440 ever met in my life. I'll explain why, no, no, 358 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:04.680 there's a reason that's not me, just that's me, just 359 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:07.400 them making it up. I will tell you the reason. 360 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:11.200 You're gonna go, yeah, pretty dumb. Yeah, yeah, handle, I understand. 361 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:13.759 So we ought to put that one together tomorrow because 362 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:19.799 that's a fun story. Okay, so much for that. Let 363 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:25.400 me tell you what is happening. California did a really 364 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:25.920 neat thing. 365 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:28.039 Now. I'm not a big fan. 366 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:30.880 Of a lot of the bills that are passed by 367 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:37.559 the California legislature super majority Democrat, very liberal Governor Gavin Duson, 368 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:39.440 So you know, we get a lot of bills that 369 00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:42.440 don't make a lot of sense. However, a bill just 370 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:47.400 passed that the governor signed that restricts the use of 371 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:50.160 the blood thinning rat poisons. 372 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:53.279 Rat poisons are not poisons. 373 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:56.480 That kill rats. What they do is they're anti coagulants. 374 00:21:56.960 --> 00:22:02.160 They don't let the blood coaculate, so internally internal bleeding 375 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:02.799 occurs and the. 376 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:03.799 Rats die of that. 377 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:06.799 The problem is that stays in the rat's body, and 378 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:10.599 so when you have a rat that is either dead 379 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:13.000 or really not doing. 380 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:14.440 Well, it's easy prey. 381 00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:17.880 So the raptors are out there, the pumas are out there, 382 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:23.160 the eagles are out there. The owls really go and 383 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:28.319 they're dying. They're dying. A Department Fish and Wildlife report 384 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:31.720 twenty twenty three, eighty eight percent of raptors, ninety percent 385 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:35.480 of pumas tested have been exposed to those pointment those poisons. 386 00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:39.759 So California has become the first state to restrict those 387 00:22:39.880 --> 00:22:44.400 kinds of poisons. Dean Sharp has been since he's been 388 00:22:44.440 --> 00:22:47.599 on the air, and he started six years ago, has 389 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:51.559 been talking about this use of poison and you don't 390 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:52.920 want to use those because it. 391 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:56.559 Kills the owls, It kills the creatures that feed on 392 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:01.799 these rats. Now, who is against this law? Well, oh, how. 393 00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:06.440 About the industry, the pesticide industry saying, hold on a minute, 394 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:10.240 Hold on a minute. You know, rats are a real 395 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:15.000 problem diseases. You get bubonic plague with rats because they 396 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:17.519 carry all these diseases and we have to get rid 397 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:24.000 of them, not particularly noting that wildlife dies because of rats. 398 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:28.519 And there are other ways of doing this. Frankly, I 399 00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:31.440 don't know if many that work as well. You get 400 00:23:31.480 --> 00:23:34.640 those little rat traps and then go out and release 401 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:37.559