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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
- 0:04Speaker 1: six forty.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Muskin Stone, KFI AM six forty March ninth, The Handle
- 0:17Speaker 2: in the Morning crew.
- 0:19Speaker 3: Before we jump about getting stoned, quick reminder that Friday
- 0:25Speaker 3: mornings at a thirty we engage in ask Handle anything
- 0:28Speaker 3: created to embarrass me. And what you do is during
- 0:32Speaker 3: the show, you go to the iHeartRadio app it'll be
- 0:35Speaker 3: streaming us and just click on the microphone in the
- 0:38Speaker 3: upper right hand corner and you can record a question.
- 0:41Speaker 3: You'll have ten or fifteen seconds, and then Neil chooses
- 0:43Speaker 3: the questions. Hi, yeah, and then I answer them, and
- 0:47Speaker 3: Neil is desperate to find the questions that most embarrassed me.
- 0:51Speaker 4: Last week was particularly brutal.
- 0:54Speaker 3: Oh yeah, last so hard. Yeah, last week was brutal. Yeah,
- 0:58Speaker 3: Neil out did himself last week.
- 1:00Speaker 4: I don't want to give you.
- 1:00Speaker 3: Tell you a story about the first time I ever
- 1:03Speaker 3: smoked pot. And I was in high school at the time,
- 1:08Speaker 3: and I was at my friend's house and out came
- 1:11Speaker 3: the joints. His parents were missing, were gone, they went someplace,
- 1:14Speaker 3: and so I spent the weekend there as I usually did,
- 1:17Speaker 3: and now comes the joint and I started smoking the pot,
- 1:22Speaker 3: and all of a sudden I got hungry, really, boy,
- 1:25Speaker 3: that never happens. So there were some English muffins on
- 1:30Speaker 3: the counter, and I put in an English muffin in
- 1:33Speaker 3: the toaster and I burnt it really badly, and so
- 1:40Speaker 3: I was so hungry I went ahead and put butter
- 1:43Speaker 3: on it and ate ate burnt English muffin.
- 1:46Speaker 4: It tasted so good.
- 1:50Speaker 3: That I burnt the next four English muffins that I
- 1:56Speaker 3: put in the toaster a lot of food. And so
- 2:00Speaker 3: the next week when I went back again, do you
- 2:05Speaker 3: know what, I discovered?
- 2:07Speaker 4: English muffins that.
- 2:08Speaker 3: Aren't burnt are even better tasting than ones that are burnt. Boy,
- 2:14Speaker 3: what a revelation that is. So all through high school
- 2:20Speaker 3: I was pretty stoned. I don't know if I've shared
- 2:23Speaker 3: this story. I was in marching band in high school
- 2:27Speaker 3: and I played the baritone horn, and this is a
- 2:29Speaker 3: true story. I was so bad, particularly stoned, because the
- 2:34Speaker 3: entire band was stoned. We all smoked pot on Friday
- 2:38Speaker 3: nights before the game. As we were changing getting into
- 2:42Speaker 3: our uniforms that the bandmaster the teacher asked me not
- 2:48Speaker 3: to play, just march around and be a body there
- 2:53Speaker 3: because they needed people, and so we were marching around.
- 2:57Speaker 3: Now keep in mind, what do you think a group
- 3:00Speaker 3: of what seventy people in a marching band look like?
- 3:04Speaker 3: All of them stoned? Just moving around. Nothing made sense,
- 3:09Speaker 3: and it was good times had by all. And then
- 3:14Speaker 3: my dad caught me smoking the pot in the garage
- 3:20Speaker 3: one day, and for him in those days, it was
- 3:24Speaker 3: a gateway drug. Right, You smoke pot and the next
- 3:27Speaker 3: thing you know in his life is you pick up
- 3:29Speaker 3: a syringe full of heroin and you inject it directly
- 3:32Speaker 3: into your eyeballs.
- 3:34Speaker 4: He was that upset about it.
- 3:37Speaker 3: And so that was pot in my early life, right
- 3:42Speaker 3: when I was a teenager and into my twenties, early twenties,
- 3:46Speaker 3: and then nothing until I was twenty eight. Then it
- 3:48Speaker 3: was cocaine. I got zipped on cocaine where I took
- 3:51Speaker 3: the bar on cocaine.
- 3:52Speaker 4: I needed it, So it wasn't gateway.
- 3:56Speaker 3: Well yeah, six years later or eight years later, yeah, okay, congratulations,
- 4:01Speaker 3: there's your gateway. And so going back to those days,
- 4:07Speaker 3: and now I'm dating myself and people close to my age,
- 4:10Speaker 3: maybe you're fifty sixty years old or older. If you remember,
- 4:14Speaker 3: pot was pretty weak. It took a lot of pot
- 4:17Speaker 3: to get you stoned, and the stone was not really stoned.
- 4:21Speaker 3: And I remember we used to buy lids of pot,
- 4:25Speaker 3: that's what they called them, lids, and it was the
- 4:27Speaker 3: bottom of a baggie and it was an ounce of pot.
- 4:32Speaker 3: And I'll never forget it costs ten dollars ten dollars
- 4:35Speaker 3: for an ounce of pot, and you didn't get very
- 4:38Speaker 3: high relative to today today you get so stoned on
- 4:45Speaker 3: like two puffs. Moving over to a high school, Riverside
- 4:51Speaker 3: County is called Liberty High not our Riverside County.
- 4:54Speaker 4: This is in Wisconsin, and.
- 4:55Speaker 3: They're at the front lines of a battle to keep
- 4:58Speaker 3: weed out of American high school. So I just talked
- 5:01Speaker 3: about how my history of smoking dope as we used
- 5:05Speaker 3: to call it in high school. We smoked a lot
- 5:08Speaker 3: of it, particularly in marching band, where I didn't play
- 5:12Speaker 3: the baritone horn because I was so bad they wouldn't
- 5:14Speaker 3: let me play it. But still marching around, And what's
- 5:18Speaker 3: going on with high school students, Well, too many are
- 5:22Speaker 3: getting stoned now. The legal age to buy recreational marijuana
- 5:26Speaker 3: is twenty one in California, eighteen for medical marijuana, and
- 5:31Speaker 3: we were the first state to allow medical marijuana and
- 5:34Speaker 3: so high school students shouldn't get it. But you know
- 5:37Speaker 3: how easy it is get pot older siblings, friends, even acquaintances,
- 5:41Speaker 3: And so legalization has completely shifted how cannabis is perceived.
- 5:47Speaker 3: It was a bunch of us getting stoned and we
- 5:50Speaker 3: had to do it secretly, couldn't do it in front
- 5:53Speaker 3: of the authorities. We were breaking the law. Well, obviously
- 5:57Speaker 3: that's change. Now it's mainstream health and wellness. Lindsay uses
- 6:04Speaker 3: pot every night for pain and sleep aid, and so
- 6:07Speaker 3: many people do. It's simply a given that pot is
- 6:13Speaker 3: an aid. So it's easy that that translates to high
- 6:18Speaker 3: school students. And the edibles, right, you get them from dispensaries,
- 6:23Speaker 3: and they're in cute flavors and cute packaging.
- 6:27Speaker 4: Strawberry cough is Kittles as z.
- 6:30Speaker 3: Kittles, and so marijuana looks like it's safe, it's stylish,
- 6:36Speaker 3: it's fun, it's organic, it's all natural. And some University
- 6:42Speaker 3: of Michigan survey studies, twenty six percent of twelfth graders
- 6:45Speaker 3: eight percent of eighth graders said they have used pot
- 6:48Speaker 3: in the last year. Wow, that's pretty impressive, isn't it,
- 6:53Speaker 3: Except for what pot does to young people. Because in reality,
- 6:59Speaker 3: having on from something that's illicid and kind of fun.
- 7:05Speaker 3: And boy, I remember how much weight I put on
- 7:09Speaker 3: when I started smoking pot. There ain't nothing like a good,
- 7:14Speaker 3: hearty meal stoned on your butt tastes so damn good.
- 7:19Speaker 3: And anybody who opens up a restaurant or a food
- 7:23Speaker 3: establishment next to a dispensary is a genius, a business
- 7:27Speaker 3: genius because you can't lose money. So what's going on
- 7:32Speaker 3: now is shifting back again to something that is not
- 7:36Speaker 3: particularly good for you, especially young people. There is a
- 7:41Speaker 3: growing body of scientific research and it reveals how dangerous
- 7:45Speaker 3: THC is, which is the component, main component, the psychoactive
- 7:52Speaker 3: component of marijuana, and it has to do with teenagers
- 7:56Speaker 3: and growing brains. Now you've heard that teenagers people in
- 8:03Speaker 3: their early twenties. The brain is not fully developed until
- 8:06Speaker 3: they're probably mid twenties, which is why we do crazy
- 8:10Speaker 3: ass stuff when we are younger than that.
- 8:13Speaker 4: I mean, we think we're invincible.
- 8:14Speaker 3: The stuff I used to do, man life threatening stuff.
- 8:19Speaker 3: I going, this is nuts, And that's what teenagers do.
- 8:23Speaker 3: And that's because the brain isn't particularly functioning the way
- 8:27Speaker 3: it should.
- 8:28Speaker 4: Well, if you're.
- 8:29Speaker 3: In high school or student is in high school and
- 8:31Speaker 3: is smoking a fair amount of cannabis. Now we're talking
- 8:36Speaker 3: a pretty serious deficit. And so these studies, and a
- 8:40Speaker 3: lot of them have found that regular use of pot
- 8:44Speaker 3: by teens is linked to poor performance, deficits, and attention
- 8:48Speaker 3: and memory. The cannabis that I explained in the previous segment,
- 8:54Speaker 3: now sold in states where it's legal, much stronger than
- 9:00Speaker 3: the marijuana that was used decades past, like when I
- 9:03Speaker 3: did it, and I just explained that. If you missed
- 9:06Speaker 3: the last segment, by the way, it's kind of fun
- 9:08Speaker 3: if you podcasted, because it's a I think, a fun
- 9:12Speaker 3: personal story about when I started smoking pot. And what's
- 9:15Speaker 3: the most common way teens use marijuana.
- 9:18Speaker 4: They vape.
- 9:19Speaker 3: They vape, So schools like Liberty are ramping up detection
- 9:25Speaker 3: and deterrence.
- 9:27Speaker 4: However, that ain't easy.
- 9:29Speaker 3: There are actually vape sensors in the bathrooms.
- 9:34Speaker 4: It's not smoke because there's no smoke.
- 9:37Speaker 3: So somehow the technology is vape sensors. And the big
- 9:42Speaker 3: technology is our cameras. I mean that is the end all,
- 9:47Speaker 3: be all cameras, face recognition software, and even in bathrooms
- 9:53Speaker 3: obviously not the stalls or next to the urinals, although
- 9:57Speaker 3: can you imagine a camera next to a urinal and
- 10:02Speaker 3: then on a screen measures one to ten?
- 10:07Speaker 4: How impressive you are.
- 10:09Speaker 3: This is why I'm not in education, by the way,
- 10:13Speaker 3: I have ideas that are spectacular. The reality is that
- 10:19Speaker 3: students will do almost anything to hide the pot because
- 10:22Speaker 3: it's illegal to do it. In high school you can't
- 10:24Speaker 3: do it. It's illegal to do it if you're under eighteen.
- 10:29Speaker 3: So the students at Liberty, well, where do they hide
- 10:33Speaker 3: the contraband in their underwear, their bras, places where they
- 10:37Speaker 3: know school staff can't look. Not quite prison places. Kids
- 10:42Speaker 3: obviously flesh the evidence down the toilet when the police
- 10:47Speaker 3: or certainly the administrators show up. And recently at Liberty
- 10:53Speaker 3: they fished out about a dozen vape and cartridges and
- 10:57Speaker 3: pens from a toilet. So how dangerous is it? Well,
- 11:04Speaker 3: it's pretty dangerous. How about just if you use a
- 11:09Speaker 3: moderate amount of pot, Well, even a moderate amount of
- 11:12Speaker 3: pot for teenagers does not do well. So you know,
- 11:17Speaker 3: what do you do? Did my kids smoke pot? You know,
- 11:20Speaker 3: I didn't know if they did. I'm assuming they did.
- 11:25Speaker 3: They certainly lied to me about it, and I was
- 11:28Speaker 3: pretty stupid about it because it never even occurred to me. Well,
- 11:34Speaker 3: parents actually should pay attention, and certainly in schools they
- 11:38Speaker 3: pay attention because it does a lot of harm to kids.
- 11:42Speaker 4: It does.
- 11:44Speaker 3: All right, we're done with that, so let me tell
- 11:47Speaker 3: you what also is a mess. Climate change is real.
- 11:50Speaker 3: I've been talking about it for a very long time.
- 11:52Speaker 3: No matter how much grief Al Gore got when he
- 11:57Speaker 3: did his film and he talked about climate change and
- 12:01Speaker 3: he was ridiculed.
- 12:02Speaker 4: I'll tell you where he was wrong.
- 12:04Speaker 3: He was wrong in terms of how quick this was
- 12:08Speaker 3: going to come, as were scientists. The glaciers are melting
- 12:13Speaker 3: faster than ever before, and you have temperatures on the
- 12:19Speaker 3: seas rising faster than you've ever had before, and the
- 12:26Speaker 3: sea change or the rising seas. Sea level is well,
- 12:31Speaker 3: it's higher than it was before. Now there are hundreds
- 12:35Speaker 3: of scientific studies out there and hazard assessments by researchers
- 12:41Speaker 3: calculating that about ninety percent of the underestimated baseline coastal
- 12:47Speaker 3: water heights are by an average of one foot. In reality,
- 12:55Speaker 3: sea level is one foot higher.
- 12:58Speaker 4: Than it was changed then it was thought.
- 13:00Speaker 3: Now it's a little complicated because wait a second sea
- 13:03Speaker 3: level sea level right, well, it's actually not sea level
- 13:09Speaker 3: is determined by a whole bunch of measures, and depending
- 13:14Speaker 3: on which country, which area you're looking at, where the
- 13:18Speaker 3: sea meets the land, that is sea level right, Well, no,
- 13:23Speaker 3: not really. A lot of factors don't get accounted for.
- 13:27Speaker 3: When satellites and land based models are used and the
- 13:31Speaker 3: studies are out there that calculate that sea level, the
- 13:35Speaker 3: rise impact usually doesn't look like the actual measures sea level.
- 13:40Speaker 4: I mean, how is that possible sea level is sea level?
- 13:44Speaker 3: Well, there's a zero meter figure and for example, in
- 13:49Speaker 3: some places in Indo Pacific that area, the difference is
- 13:53Speaker 3: close to three feet because of the way it is measured.
- 13:58Speaker 3: And I'm not going to go through the way the
- 14:00Speaker 3: factors because it's wonkier than hell.
- 14:04Speaker 4: But the bottom line is, I'm sorry.
- 14:06Speaker 1: Or say that we were gonna we're going to reach
- 14:10Speaker 1: the point of no return in twelve Oh, I think.
- 14:14Speaker 4: We've reached them.
- 14:15Speaker 3: I think critical my understanding, critical mass has already happened.
- 14:19Speaker 3: Now it's a question of slowing down how quickly we
- 14:24Speaker 3: reach levels that are well that are going to be
- 14:28Speaker 3: almost impossible to live in. If you have a fourteen
- 14:30Speaker 3: million dollar house in Malibu, for example, along the water
- 14:34Speaker 3: in ten years from now, it'll be worth fourteen thousand
- 14:36Speaker 3: dollars because it's going to be on stilts. You've seen
- 14:39Speaker 3: those homes in Louisiana, for example, in the Bayou. They're
- 14:42Speaker 3: all on stilts, and that's what is going to happen. Well,
- 14:47Speaker 3: look at the encroachment of the water. If you look
- 14:50Speaker 3: at homes on the beach and you go back twenty
- 14:53Speaker 3: five years, look how much more sand there was. Then
- 14:57Speaker 3: go to Alaska and and outside of either Anchorage or
- 15:04Speaker 3: Gnome or Fairbanks or whatever the hell city, it is
- 15:09Speaker 3: one of the big ones. And you have the men
- 15:11Speaker 3: in Hall Glacier that used to go out there and
- 15:14Speaker 3: there it was in front of you.
- 15:16Speaker 4: I mean literally, you'd walk out on the street and there.
- 15:18Speaker 3: Was you know, a quarter mile in front of you,
- 15:20Speaker 3: and I'm going there on hundreds of feet. Today the
- 15:23Speaker 3: men in Hall Glacier is miles away because of climate change.
- 15:30Speaker 4: But you know what.
- 15:30Speaker 1: Confused me this whole time? Didn't everything No, How did
- 15:34Speaker 1: the First Ice Age happen? And how did it melt?
- 15:38Speaker 1: And why why?
- 15:40Speaker 3: Because there no, there were legitimate changes, there's no question
- 15:43Speaker 3: about it. However, you think this is different because they
- 15:47Speaker 3: can because we know what carbon dioxide does to the atmosphere.
- 15:51Speaker 3: We know what methane does to the atmosphere. We have
- 15:55Speaker 3: measured the climate change over a matter of fifty years.
- 16:00Speaker 3: We're talking about to drop in the bucket. No, but
- 16:03Speaker 3: the point is that happens so quickly. It is happening
- 16:06Speaker 3: so quickly. The ice age when it came in and
- 16:10Speaker 3: then came out, even the little ice age ten years ago,
- 16:13Speaker 3: it wasn't overnight overnight meaning fifty seventy five years. It
- 16:17Speaker 3: happened over thousands of years. Well, this is happening in
- 16:21Speaker 3: fifty years. So this is not nature. This is the
- 16:26Speaker 3: punching out of the methane, and particularly methane.
- 16:30Speaker 4: Those cow farts just really do it. You know.
- 16:32Speaker 3: It's a huge problem that we have. And obviously the emission,
- 16:40Speaker 3: the emissions omissions whatever from cars, right from those tailpipes
- 16:47Speaker 3: and the power plants.
- 16:50Speaker 4: I mean, it is a mess. It's a mess.
- 16:52Speaker 3: Just another story of life getting going in the crapper,
- 16:55Speaker 3: you know.
- 16:56Speaker 4: I just like doing those. They just make me feel
- 16:59Speaker 4: so good. Okay.
- 17:00Speaker 3: Eight, before we get into science fiction, which is no
- 17:03Speaker 3: longer science fiction, Neil, you have a Disneyland mentioned.
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- 18:07Speaker 4: And you'll have a choice.
- 18:09Speaker 3: Your choice to either go to Disneyland or buy a
- 18:11Speaker 3: new or get a new Mercedes. And the Disneyland tickets
- 18:16Speaker 3: are a touch more expensive, Okay.
- 18:18Speaker 1: I will tell you this that they're having their food
- 18:20Speaker 1: and wine through the twenty seventh of April.
- 18:23Speaker 3: That actually sounds that actually sounds great. Excellent, that actually
- 18:27Speaker 3: sounds great. Job there, Yep, all right, very quickly, I
- 18:31Speaker 3: want to talk to you about.
- 18:34Speaker 4: No, I don't tell you why.
- 18:36Speaker 3: Because I want to spend more time on this and
- 18:39Speaker 3: I don't have it because we're running a little late
- 18:42Speaker 3: on the breaks. So what I will do is tomorrow
- 18:45Speaker 3: I will talk about this topic. And it has to
- 18:48Speaker 3: do with NASA, the European State Agent's Space agency, and
- 18:55Speaker 3: an asteroid hitting the Earth and there are some out there,
- 19:02Speaker 3: and I'll explain what's going on, and that actually is
- 19:04Speaker 3: pretty good news. The big story that we are and
- 19:08Speaker 3: we'll do this one tomorrow too, Okay, all right. The
- 19:13Speaker 3: big story that we're covering is what's happening in Iran,
- 19:18Speaker 3: and that the Americans are Americans, and the Israelis are
- 19:22Speaker 3: pounding Iran as the war expands, and the new Supreme Leader,
- 19:29Speaker 3: the son of the old completely dead Supreme Leader, who
- 19:32Speaker 3: is a hardliner, and that says an awful lot about
- 19:35Speaker 3: which way Iran is going. And they are being quelcentrant
- 19:39Speaker 3: and they are saying, we don't care, we are going
- 19:42Speaker 3: to survive.
- 19:43Speaker 4: They are fighting. The regime is fighting for its life.
- 19:48Speaker 3: The Iranian targets now become They took out the low
- 19:52Speaker 3: fruit when the the bombing the bombardment started, and those
- 19:58Speaker 3: are military targets. A lot of those missile launchers killed,
- 20:03Speaker 3: of course the Supreme Leader as well as I don't know,
- 20:06Speaker 3: dozens of the hierarchy in both government and the clergy
- 20:11Speaker 3: and the military. And now it's a little bit more
- 20:17Speaker 3: civilian oriented where the bombing, the attacks are taking out
- 20:22Speaker 3: oil facilities, taking out command and control centers.
- 20:28Speaker 4: It's getting really dicey for Iran.
- 20:30Speaker 3: And what Iran is doing denying it at the same
- 20:33Speaker 3: time is attacking civilian targets around the Middle East, its
- 20:39Speaker 3: neighbors who have declared neutrality and still am not gone
- 20:43Speaker 3: to war, as Oman and Kuwait and the emirates in
- 20:46Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia are being attacked by Iran as Iran denies,
- 20:51Speaker 3: first denies that it had done it, and then now
- 20:54Speaker 3: is denying that these are military denies, these are civilian
- 20:57Speaker 3: targets as our neighborhoods are being attacked. Okay, guys, we
- 21:02Speaker 3: are done. Gary and Shannon up next tomorrow we come
- 21:06Speaker 3: back and there's still a whole lot to cover. It
- 21:10Speaker 3: starts with well tomorrow starts with wake up Call, and
- 21:13Speaker 3: that's Amy and Ann and Will Coleschreiber and Cono and
- 21:21Speaker 3: they all work their asses off, and then Neil and
- 21:23Speaker 3: I sort of saunter in at six o'clock and we
- 21:27Speaker 3: abuse you and make fun of you and just have
- 21:29Speaker 3: a rippering good time, don't we. Kneel absolutely, sah good,
- 21:34Speaker 3: all right, We're done. That's it Catch in the Morning.
- 21:36Speaker 3: As I said, Gary and Shannon are up next. This
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