Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty, KFI.
Speaker 2: AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 3: Good Morning.
Speaker 2: This is the Bill Handles Show, and he is on
Speaker 2: holiday vacation, but he returns on Monday. I'm Wayne Resnik.
Speaker 2: I'm filling in till nine and I'll be here tomorrow
Speaker 2: and Friday, and then I am officially retired.
Speaker 3: Completely.
Speaker 2: Now we're following some stories for you here at KFI,
Speaker 2: and the big one today, unfortunately, is not a nice one.
Speaker 2: Officials at New Orleans say at least ten people have
Speaker 2: been killed another thirty injured when somebody intentionally drove a
Speaker 2: car into a large crowd of people in the French Quarter.
Speaker 2: People are celebrating New Year's Eve. It was about four
Speaker 2: am local time there. Then this person, according to many witnesses,
Speaker 2: and the police got out and started firing a gun.
Speaker 3: Police engaged him in a gunfight.
Speaker 2: Two cops injured, the perpetrator dead, and some reports that
Speaker 2: they have found improvised explosive devices in the area. There's
Speaker 2: a press conference that's supposed to be happening sometime around
Speaker 2: eight o'clock our time, and when it happens we will
Speaker 2: dip in and see what new information they have for
Speaker 2: us from this tragedy.
Speaker 3: This may be good news.
Speaker 2: Illegal border crossings dropped to a four year low in November.
Speaker 2: According to data from the US Customs at Border Protection Agency.
Speaker 2: In November forty six six and ten people were stopped
Speaker 2: between ports of entry.
Speaker 3: In other words, we have.
Speaker 2: Designated places where you are allowed to show up, even
Speaker 2: if you don't have permission to come into the country.
Speaker 2: You are allowed to show up at a port of
Speaker 2: entry and say hi, I'm here. And you can do
Speaker 2: this if you're requesting asylum. Hello, I'm here, I need asylum,
Speaker 2: and then there are processes that we go through to
Speaker 2: determine whether you will get the asylum.
Speaker 3: But if you're not at.
Speaker 2: One of those things, man, it's game over for you
Speaker 2: now it used to be, and under federal law this
Speaker 2: is an interesting quirk.
Speaker 3: Really, it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Matter where you are when you present yourself if you're
Speaker 2: looking for asylum. But what the Biden administration did, after
Speaker 2: getting hammered by Donald Trump and many Republicans and other
Speaker 2: people as well, hammered over borders urges in the first
Speaker 2: part of Joe Biden's administration, they adopted a carrot and
Speaker 2: stick approach where they tried to make.
Speaker 3: It easier.
Speaker 2: To turn yourself in at a port of entry, in
Speaker 2: other words, do it the correct way if you will,
Speaker 2: or the preferred way, and then saying if you don't,
Speaker 2: if you come in between ports of entry, we're gonna
Speaker 2: declare you're automatically ineligible for asylum. And that is probably
Speaker 2: what is responsible for the drop in the number of
Speaker 2: encounters between these ports of entry, because I guess the
Speaker 2: word filtered out that if you try to come in
Speaker 2: that way, you're never, never, never, going to get asylum.
Speaker 2: So that is what's happening at the national level. That's
Speaker 2: still a lot of people, but it's headed in the
Speaker 2: correct direct action. And if you are someone who really
Speaker 2: wants to see those numbers go down even more, then
Speaker 2: you are in luck.
Speaker 3: I suppose.
Speaker 2: With the new administration coming in, I imagine they're going
Speaker 2: to be even more What they will probably do is
Speaker 2: keep the stick and get rid of the carrot.
Speaker 3: That will be my guess. In the meantime, a memo has.
Speaker 2: Leaked from Sacramento somewhere up there. A memo has come
Speaker 2: out that is a draft memo, and it's called Immigrant
Speaker 2: Support Network concept, and it's a game plan for how
Speaker 2: the state of California plans to help people who are
Speaker 2: here unlawfully. They're going to build regional hubs to coordinate
Speaker 2: support for undocumented immigrants. It'll be run by the California
Speaker 2: Department of Social Services, and it will help connect people
Speaker 2: to legal services, to unions, to their low sources. Funding
Speaker 2: from the Social Services Department for community outreach will be
Speaker 2: given to nonprofits.
Speaker 3: We've seen this business model before. We've seen this business model.
Speaker 2: Where the government gives a bunch of money to nonprofits
Speaker 2: to help them raise awareness of whatever the goal is.
Speaker 3: Most recently we've seen this with homelessness.
Speaker 2: And that usually does not pay off very well. So,
Speaker 2: in any event, this was not meant for public disclosure,
Speaker 2: and the deputy Public Affairs director up there at California
Speaker 2: Department of Social Services named Scott Murray, he says, hey,
Speaker 2: we haven't finalized any planned This is a draft. It
Speaker 2: was for internal discussion only, so let's don't yell at
Speaker 2: us yet. Is basically, don't yell at us yet for
Speaker 2: what's in this memo. If we ever release it publicly
Speaker 2: and it becomes the official plan, I guess then you
Speaker 2: can start yelling at us. Let's get some news from
Speaker 2: the wonderful Michael Monks and then when we come back.
Speaker 2: What is the secret to happiness? What even is happiness?
Speaker 2: Is there something specific I could tell you to do
Speaker 2: today that would increase your happiness?
Speaker 3: Nobody knows.
Speaker 2: However, a bunch of scientists wanna find out. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tell you about this massive mega study that they have planned.
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Speaker 3: It's the Bill Handles Show, He's back.
Speaker 2: From his vacation on Wayne Resnik sitting in until nine,
Speaker 2: and some stories that we are watching for you here
Speaker 2: at KFI. There is a homicide investigation underway. A guy
Speaker 2: was found shot dead in the city of Paramount earlier
Speaker 2: this morning, about two am this morning, near the seven
Speaker 2: ten Freeway in Rose Krantz Avenue.
Speaker 3: If you know where that area is.
Speaker 2: All we know for sure is there is a person.
Speaker 2: He is a man, and he is dead from a gunshot.
Speaker 2: We don't have other details about who he is. There's
Speaker 2: no description of any shooters or suspects at this time.
Speaker 2: If you know something about it, and we like to
Speaker 2: do this, but I understand the chances are almost nil,
Speaker 2: but they're not entirely nil that someone hearing me right
Speaker 2: now might know something about it. Call the homicide Bureau
Speaker 2: at the Sheriff's Department three two three eight nine zero
Speaker 2: five five zero zero, or if you want to, if
Speaker 2: you have some information but you don't really want to
Speaker 2: get involved, you can call crime Stoppers anonymously eight hundred
Speaker 2: two two two eight four seven seven. We are awaiting
Speaker 2: a press conference sometime in the next forty forty five
Speaker 2: minutes about the incident in New Orleans where a man
Speaker 2: plowed his car into a large crowd of people in
Speaker 2: the French Quarter, killing ten injuring thirty, got out of
Speaker 2: the car started shooting. He was eventually killed by police.
Speaker 2: Boy doesn't see with news like that, it seems, how
Speaker 2: are you gonna be happy? But even on a good day,
Speaker 2: it's tough to know what you can do to be happy.
Speaker 2: And the Dalai Lama goes around and says, the purpose
Speaker 2: of life is to be happy, thank you, except can
Speaker 2: you tell me how?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: He can't, so he's of no help the Dalai Lama,
Speaker 2: but maybe Professor Elizabeth Dunn from the University of British
Speaker 2: Columbia will be of some help in answering the question
Speaker 2: what's the secret to happiness?
Speaker 3: Because she's teaming up with over.
Speaker 2: One thousand scientists in over seventy countries and they are
Speaker 2: going to try to get thirty thousand volunteers minimum for
Speaker 2: the Global Happiness Mega Study. They're really gonna try to
Speaker 2: quantify practical things that you could do.
Speaker 3: To increase your happiness.
Speaker 2: So what's gonna happen is they're gonna get all these
Speaker 2: volunteers and they are going.
Speaker 3: To have them do each of them one of seven.
Speaker 2: Different interventions, if you will short happiness interventions. The most
Speaker 2: obvious example would be say taking a walk or doing
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes of yoga, or engaging in some kind of
Speaker 2: social interaction. And then I with surveys and crunching of data,
Speaker 2: they're going to find those activities or actions which can
Speaker 2: be shown to reliably increase your happiness. Now, this is
Speaker 2: all science, and science is supposed to be objective, but happiness.
Speaker 3: Is subjective.
Speaker 2: Joni Mitchell wants famously saying sometimes I'm happy, Sometimes I'm blue,
Speaker 2: I forgot the next part. My mood depends on you,
Speaker 2: or something like that. And there are people, by the way,
Speaker 2: this really complicates for me defining happiness. Usually in science,
Speaker 2: if you're trying to measure the effect of interventions on something,
Speaker 2: you define the something. So here they would start with
Speaker 2: some kind of scientific objective definition of happiness. Happiness looks
Speaker 2: different to you, to me, to anybody. In fact, you know,
Speaker 2: there are a lot of people who they're only happy
Speaker 2: when they're mad, or they're only happy when they're sad.
Speaker 3: I don't know if people.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm speaking about myself here, but I don't
Speaker 2: think I'm that weird. I don't know if people themselves
Speaker 2: can ever say in any given moment if they're happy
Speaker 2: or not. There's certain moments in your life when clearly
Speaker 2: you are happy and you feel happy, and if someone
Speaker 2: said are you happy right now?
Speaker 3: You would say, I'm happy.
Speaker 2: But a lot of times you don't even know, are
Speaker 2: am I happy right now? They've tried this before, but
Speaker 2: not to this scale, not this rigorously. Harvard one of
Speaker 2: the most famous studies on happiness was out of Harvard,
Speaker 2: where they followed to twoe hundred and sixty eight men
Speaker 2: who went into Harvard over the period of the late
Speaker 2: nineteen thirties, and they followed their lives, and that was
Speaker 2: the study that said, and you've heard this people this.
Speaker 2: Anytime anybody talks about happiness, they bring up this study.
Speaker 2: You know, you know what's important for happiness. It's not
Speaker 2: the money, it's not fame. It's having close relationships, and
Speaker 2: not only that, but having close relationships.
Speaker 3: You live longer.
Speaker 2: And that may be all well and good for these
Speaker 2: two hundred and sixty eight men. The thing about it
Speaker 2: is it's kind of a it's kind of a useless
Speaker 2: study because they were all the same kind of people.
Speaker 2: They were all white guys from well to do families.
Speaker 2: People like this is true some of the people who
Speaker 2: were in this study.
Speaker 3: John F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy, who would go on to be president, and Ben Bradley,
Speaker 2: who would go on to be the editor of the
Speaker 2: Washington Post. So when you have a group that's that
Speaker 2: is that homogeneous, it's not gonna help anybody, because guess what,
Speaker 2: not everybody is that. So this study is trying to
Speaker 2: get people from all genders, nationalities, generations, all of it,
Speaker 2: so that the results should.
Speaker 3: Be applicable no matter who you are.
Speaker 2: It's it's the only study I've ever seen that seems
Speaker 2: like it at least has a possibility of getting some answers.
Speaker 3: It's still got a flaw.
Speaker 2: Which is they they've identified seven specific interventions that they're
Speaker 2: going to test.
Speaker 3: And you know, how many things are there in life?
Speaker 3: How many things could you do today?
Speaker 2: How many things are out in the world that affect
Speaker 2: your life that might be relevant to whether or not
Speaker 2: you're happy, and that you could try to manipulate to
Speaker 2: be happier. You know, how do we know there's not
Speaker 2: something about how many particulates are in the air that
Speaker 2: affect your happiness, And so if you really wanted to
Speaker 2: be happy, you would have to move to a place
Speaker 2: with really clean air. So they still are only gonna
Speaker 2: be able to test a small part of what it
Speaker 2: is to be alive. But at least they're going to
Speaker 2: do it with a ton of people, and they got
Speaker 2: a bunch of scientists, and they're gonna have meticulous records,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna have the best, you know, data crunching
Speaker 2: algorithms that money can buy. And I am curious to
Speaker 2: see what those results are. It's not going to be
Speaker 2: for a while, and undertaking this big is going to
Speaker 2: take a very long time, and that makes me unhappy.
Speaker 3: So hurry up, guys.
Speaker 2: Now, let's get some news from Michael Monks. And then
Speaker 2: with all the talk about how President elect Donald Trump
Speaker 2: is big on tariffs and the different arguments that take
Speaker 2: place about what are tariffs and does he understand what
Speaker 2: tariffs are? And is it really gonna work or is
Speaker 2: it just going to cause inflation? Here's the thing. There's
Speaker 2: another there's another angle here, which is what if the countries.
Speaker 3: Find a way around them.
Speaker 2: What if you imposed tariffs and nobody had to pay
Speaker 2: them because they were too clever. That's what I'm gonna
Speaker 2: talk about next right here on KFI AM six forty
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty.
Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Good morning, It's the Bill Handles Show. Wayne Resnik sitting
Speaker 2: in Bill's back from his vacation. On Monday, we are
Speaker 2: expecting a a news conference in New Orleans about the
Speaker 2: incident overnight where somebody plowed their car into a bunch
Speaker 2: of people in the French quarter. Ten killed, thirty injured.
Speaker 2: The perpetrator taken out by the cops in a in
Speaker 2: a gunfight because he came out of the car and
Speaker 2: started shooting a gun. And when that news conference happens,
Speaker 2: we're gonna We're gonna take it now.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's happening till nine. I just saw
Speaker 4: an update. Oh not till nine now, okay, Well then
Speaker 4: that will be all right. Well that'll be somebody else's
Speaker 4: issue to deal with. Thank you, Michelle. Some other stories
Speaker 4: that we're watching for you.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're only about a little less than half
Speaker 2: an hour away from the start of the one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty sixth the annual Rose Parade, that historic five
Speaker 2: and a half mile route floats will start at Orange
Speaker 2: Grove Boulevard.
Speaker 3: I love they have the whole route in here. Listen, nobody.
Speaker 3: I don't need to read the whole route to you.
Speaker 3: Everybody knows the route goes up Colorado Boulevard.
Speaker 2: That's roads are clut Look, here's the thing. Obviously roads
Speaker 2: are closed over there near the parade. Don't go over
Speaker 2: there unless you're gonna go to watch the parade. If
Speaker 2: you're going for some other reason, you're going to be
Speaker 2: a very angry puppy. But they say the roads and
Speaker 2: traffic should be back to normal by two o'clock this afternoon.
Speaker 2: And then guess what else happens the Rose Bowl game
Speaker 2: Ohio State v.
Speaker 3: Oregon. That should be a good all right, we'll see.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about this President elect Donald Trump
Speaker 2: wants to put a bunch of tariffs. I'm going to
Speaker 2: talk specifically about China right now. China's not the only
Speaker 2: country that he's talking about, but China is a makes
Speaker 2: a point about what we might expect as to the
Speaker 2: success of tariffs imposed by the new administration.
Speaker 3: So here's a little story for you. Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: In twenty eighteen, there was a president and his name
Speaker 2: was Donald J. Trump, and there was a country called China. Kids,
Speaker 2: and in China, amongst all the other things they made,
Speaker 2: they made bicycles. And this president, Donald J. Trump slapped
Speaker 2: some tariffs on these Chinese bicycles. He didn't fly over
Speaker 2: there and slapped the bicycles, but he imposed stiff tariffs
Speaker 2: on these bicycles twenty five percent. So if you're a
Speaker 2: seller of bicycles, in the United States and you want
Speaker 2: to import bicycles from China, you're gonna have to pay
Speaker 2: a twenty five percent tariff in addition to whatever you
Speaker 2: have to pay.
Speaker 3: For the bike.
Speaker 2: And the idea was, that'll teach China to make a
Speaker 2: bunch of bikes and send them to us. And then
Speaker 2: here's what happened. China said, Oh, here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2: We look at the rules of the tariffs. Okay, we'll
Speaker 2: take the final assembly of these bikes, and we won't
Speaker 2: do it in China. We'll open facilities in Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Cambodia.
Speaker 3: And then guess what.
Speaker 2: Now, those bikes no tariff. They are Chinese bikes, the
Speaker 2: parts are Chinese. They were largely still made in China,
Speaker 2: but because of the way tariff rules were, because the
Speaker 2: final assembly was in a different country, they weren't subject
Speaker 2: to the tariff in the first place. And there's a
Speaker 2: guy named Arnold Kamler. He's the chief executive of a
Speaker 2: bike company called Kent International, and he said, what happened
Speaker 2: and the result of the tariffs was not an increase
Speaker 2: in domestic production of bicycles. The net effect of the
Speaker 2: terraffs was that Chinese factories and China set up Chinese
Speaker 2: factories in other countries. That's what happened, and that is
Speaker 2: likely to happen again if tariffs are put on goods
Speaker 2: from China other countries. I'm not talking about them because
Speaker 2: number one, I don't have a nice story for you
Speaker 2: about how another country evaded terriffs. And also China can
Speaker 2: do it because it's such a big country and they
Speaker 2: do everything at such scale. It does cost money to
Speaker 2: move part of your manufacturing to another country. It's less
Speaker 2: expensive than I guess whatever happens to your manufacturing with
Speaker 2: these big tariffs. But smaller countries subject to terrafts wouldn't
Speaker 2: necessarily be able to make these moves. But also other
Speaker 2: countries subject to terrifts, perhaps Mexico for example.
Speaker 3: Aren't really the target.
Speaker 2: This is really a battle between the United States and China,
Speaker 2: and so it's what China can or can't do that's
Speaker 2: gonna matter.
Speaker 3: Some Chinese companies just moved.
Speaker 2: Their factories to other parts of Asia or even Latin America,
Speaker 2: so it's the same Chinese product.
Speaker 3: Basically, it takes the long.
Speaker 2: Way around the world to come into the United States.
Speaker 2: And it does not produce a tariff. What are the
Speaker 2: purposes of the tariff? What are you trying to do?
Speaker 2: There's actually two reasons. The I believe this is the
Speaker 2: reason that President elect Trump is talking about, which is
Speaker 2: there's a competition tariff. This is where what you're trying
Speaker 2: to do is you're trying to punish foreign makers who
Speaker 2: undercut the marketplace and ship a bunch of cheap crap
Speaker 2: to the United States. Although remember, you know, we make
Speaker 2: it sound like there's a guy in China who wakes
Speaker 2: up and he goes today, Today, I shall ship ten
Speaker 2: thousand cheap bicycles to the United States, flooding the market
Speaker 2: with cheap bicycles and making it impossible for US bike
Speaker 2: manufacturers to compete. But you're not going to get up
Speaker 2: and send ten thousand bicycles to another country just because
Speaker 2: let's keep in mind that we are part of this equation.
Speaker 2: That guy wakes up and he sends ten thousand cheap
Speaker 2: bicycles to somebody here in the United States who asked
Speaker 2: for them. So in any event, the idea is, well,
Speaker 2: they won't be cheap because there's let's say, a twenty
Speaker 2: five percent additional cost to bring in a cheap bicycle
Speaker 2: from China, which means really a tariff is a punish.
Speaker 3: It's not a punishment against China.
Speaker 2: It's a punishment against American businesses who are.
Speaker 3: Importing stuff from China.
Speaker 2: It's basically saying, we're gonna make it more expensive for you,
Speaker 2: some distributor in the United States to sell cheap Chinese
Speaker 2: bikes instead of more expensive American bikes. But the idea
Speaker 2: is to prop up and protect the American in this case,
Speaker 2: bicycle makers by making the competition less robust. Well, if
Speaker 2: the Chinese bike makers find ways around the tariffs, then
Speaker 2: you can't accomplish your goal. There's another kind of tariff.
Speaker 2: It's actually a revenue tariff. It's not really designed to
Speaker 2: help American companies compete. It's really designed just to raise
Speaker 2: money for the American government. And they have been used
Speaker 2: in the history of this government. And I know that
Speaker 2: President elect Trump has talked about not as much as
Speaker 2: he's talked about, you know, dinging these countries for their
Speaker 2: cheap goods with tariffs, even though that's not what happens.
Speaker 2: He's also mentioned a few times that maybe we won't
Speaker 2: have an income tax anymore because we'll raise so much
Speaker 2: money from tariffs. So he's I don't know if he's
Speaker 2: talking about one set of protective tariffs and another different
Speaker 2: set of revenue tariffs, or he's he's thinking these terraffs
Speaker 2: will be both kinds of tariffs at the same time.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a what was that skit? It's a
Speaker 2: floor wax and a dessert topping from Saturday Night Live,
Speaker 2: some product two in one. But here's the thing, So
Speaker 2: that discussion, what is it? Do they work? Who's really
Speaker 2: paying it? It almost it's irrelevant if they're not being paid.
Speaker 2: And China has is already pretty dang good at adjusting
Speaker 2: how they do business, and right now in China they
Speaker 2: are at least three big companies.
Speaker 3: There may be more, but there's at least three big ones.
Speaker 2: Their business is helping Chinese companies find factory space in
Speaker 2: Mexico and hire workers in Mexico so that they'll have
Speaker 2: a base to make things and send them to the
Speaker 2: United States and not pay teriffs.
Speaker 3: One of their ads says.
Speaker 2: Seize the opportunity in Mexico and sees the market. So
Speaker 2: if we're gonna argue about tarras, let's first argue about
Speaker 2: how are we gonna make it so the tariffs have
Speaker 2: to be paid otherwise there's no point. Let's get some
Speaker 2: news from Michael Monks and then this trend. Now, look,
Speaker 2: I'm not upset about this.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't, I don't. I don't understand it.
Speaker 3: It's not for me. I'm not mad about it.
Speaker 2: But there's a big trend going on, particularly amongst gen
Speaker 2: z and it makes my feet hurt just reading about it.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what it is.
Speaker 2: It's KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm speechless at that discussion.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, it's a pill Handle show. He's on
Speaker 2: vacation until Monday. Not that far away, folks, Wayne residents
Speaker 2: sitting in until nine. And you know, there's some new
Speaker 2: laws that have taken effect today. In fact, we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about a lot of them coming right up.
Speaker 2: But one of them is very interesting to me. It's
Speaker 2: sent It Bill eleven hundred and it says it's illegal
Speaker 2: in a job posting to require applicants to have a
Speaker 2: valid driver's license.
Speaker 3: What there's there's only two conditions.
Speaker 2: There's only there's only certain ways now that you can
Speaker 2: require a job applicant to have a driver's license if
Speaker 2: you reasonably expect driving to be one of the job
Speaker 2: functions of the job, or if you believe that using
Speaker 2: an alternative form of transportation would not be comparable in
Speaker 2: travel time or cost to the employer. Otherwise, now this
Speaker 2: is this is you can't require the applicant to have
Speaker 2: a driver's license.
Speaker 3: It doesn't mean you have to hire them.
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of these ban the box laws
Speaker 2: where you can't require you know, can't ask people if
Speaker 2: they have a prior conviction, this kind of thing where
Speaker 2: you can't say, you know, don't you can't even apply
Speaker 2: if you don't have a driver's license. All this does
Speaker 2: is just force employers to not say specifically why they
Speaker 2: didn't hire you, and to waste everybody's time because now
Speaker 2: you've got to take the application and look at the application.
Speaker 2: Does this require you to give the person an interview?
Speaker 2: If you're an employer and you don't want to hire
Speaker 2: anybody who doesn't have a driver's license, you don't have to.
Speaker 2: That's not a protected class. So I understand I understand
Speaker 2: the thinking behind it. I'm not against the sentiment behind it,
Speaker 2: but it really I wonder if employers agree with me.
Speaker 2: It's really just wasting everybody time in a situation where
Speaker 2: you don't have to hire the person anyway, so you
Speaker 2: can still not hire them. You just have to jump
Speaker 2: through some more hoops first. But let's talk about this instead.
Speaker 3: Marathon running is the new hotness ladies and gentlemen. Now.
Speaker 2: Back in the nineteen seventies they called it jogging, and
Speaker 2: then about twenty five years later Oprah Winfrey ran a
Speaker 2: marathon I think it was the Marine Corps Marathon, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, millions of women started running half marathons,
Speaker 2: full marathons, ten ks, five k's, every kind of k.
Speaker 2: But there's never been anything like twenty twenty four. Everybody's
Speaker 2: running marathons. I know it's not really that everybody is,
Speaker 2: but it kind of feels like it sometimes. The Paris
Speaker 2: Marathon set a record in April for the number of
Speaker 2: runners and finishers, and then that record was broken twice September,
Speaker 2: Berlin even more finishers, and New York City in November.
Speaker 2: The king right now over fifty five thousand people finish
Speaker 2: that marathon. That's the people who finished. Then you have
Speaker 2: the number of people who started it but they didn't
Speaker 2: finish it, and then you haven't. I will tell you
Speaker 2: the truth, there's somebody who's not trying to run marathons.
Speaker 3: I didn't know this.
Speaker 2: There's also, because I'm going to count them as part
Speaker 2: of this trend, hundreds of thousands of people enter lotteries
Speaker 2: to be able to get into these races. There's literally
Speaker 2: not enough marathons for the people who want to run marathons.
Speaker 2: I mean, officially, you can go out and run for
Speaker 2: twenty six point two miles anytime you like, be my guest,
Speaker 2: but to participate in an you know, like an official marathon,
Speaker 2: apparently for every person who runs it, there were maybe
Speaker 2: ten fifteen people who wanted to and there simply wasn't
Speaker 2: enough space. That's how popular it's become. Part of the
Speaker 2: reason is I remember seeing on TV the end of marathons,
Speaker 2: the end of the Boston Marathon or whatever, and everybody
Speaker 2: was like just this skinny nobody, fat, rail thin, sometime
Speaker 2: even kind of sickly looking bean poles coming across.
Speaker 3: The finish line. No, no, no, no, everybody's running it now.
Speaker 2: All sizes. Also, you don't have to run it really fast.
Speaker 2: Nobody really cares anymore if you're just running it for fun.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares anymore if you're just walking it. People of
Speaker 2: all sizes, speeds, ages, And it's the youngsters, ladies and
Speaker 2: gentlemen who are really driving this. The percentage of runners
Speaker 2: between age twenty and twenty four has been rising since
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. Gen Z, these people, they love marathons.
Speaker 3: Millennials. Here's what happened.
Speaker 2: There was a time when the millennials were running some marathons,
Speaker 2: but a lot of millennials are now doing orange theory
Speaker 2: or yoga or what is it, cardio bar or pilates
Speaker 2: or extreme pilates. But gen Z, they just want to
Speaker 2: go out and run and run and run and run.
Speaker 2: And it's the women who are driving it even more
Speaker 2: than the fellas.
Speaker 3: Of marathon runs. Gen Z women.
Speaker 2: This year, gen Z men, fifteen percent of marathon runners
Speaker 2: now together, that's thirty five percent.
Speaker 3: Of all marathon runners. Gen Z.
Speaker 2: That's great. Here's another phenomenon, run clubs. There's a Koreatown
Speaker 2: run club here in Los Angeles, and when they get
Speaker 2: together for their weekly training and workouts and all the
Speaker 2: stuff that they do. It's over one hundred and fifty people.
Speaker 2: That's too many people to be running altogether. In my
Speaker 2: humble opinion, some of this probably started with, honestly, the pandemic,
Speaker 2: because one thing you could still do is go out
Speaker 2: by yourself and run, and many people did take up
Speaker 2: running or walking during that time.
Speaker 3: But it's also this. I want to leave you with this.
Speaker 2: There's a bunch of new kinds of shoes that are
Speaker 2: like running on marshmallows. Hok is one brand. There's a
Speaker 2: brand called onn On Shoes and they have developed this
Speaker 2: high tech foam and the soles of these shoes are
Speaker 2: super cushioned. It doesn't make the shoe any heavier, and
Speaker 2: that's why it is really if you've ever worn one,
Speaker 2: it is like walking around or running on marshmallows. And
Speaker 2: I guess it makes it easier to run for twenty
Speaker 2: six point two miles without crying.
Speaker 3: If I run for two point six miles, I cry.
Speaker 3: I cry.
Speaker 2: If somebody says, hey, do you want to run two
Speaker 2: point six miles, I already start crying.
Speaker 3: Let's get some news.
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