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- 0:01Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI A
- 0:05Speaker 1: M six forty. You are listening to the Bill Handle show.
- 0:12Speaker 1: You keep me waiting until let's get got it, and
- 0:15Speaker 1: you're a slow pole.
- 0:19Speaker 2: I wait. Fun Friday morning, June fifth, Usually it's a
- 0:24Speaker 2: foodie Friday Friday, but we're not doing foody Friday because Neil,
- 0:30Speaker 2: who is our foodie reporter, is out because he's having
- 0:35Speaker 2: bariatric surgery to actually reduce his ability to eat food.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Kind of ironic, isn't it?
- 0:42Speaker 2: No foody Friday and no ability for Neil to eat food?
- 0:47Speaker 1: Yeah, actually that works, It really does, all right.
- 0:51Speaker 2: The President of what a Shaker is railing against California.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Why because there's big cheating in our election process. Of course,
- 1:02Speaker 2: no evidence. Trump, who has been a very long critic
- 1:06Speaker 2: of our elections and mail in ballots, accused Democrats of
- 1:10Speaker 2: trying to steal the governor's race and the mayor's race.
- 1:15Speaker 2: And how is it that we are stealing it? Well
- 1:19Speaker 2: this time around, at least the argument, the accusation that
- 1:24Speaker 2: the ballot machines themselves, because everything is done by machine
- 1:28Speaker 2: these days, they're not flipping votes from a Republican to Democrats.
- 1:34Speaker 2: If you remember the allegation and Fox brought it up
- 1:38Speaker 2: and a lot of people got nailed. Fox I think
- 1:41Speaker 2: paid almost a billion dollars to Dominion because of pure defamation,
- 1:47Speaker 2: pure libel.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Because there's no proof at all.
- 1:51Speaker 2: So at least we're not hearing that the machines themselves
- 1:54Speaker 2: are taking Republican votes and flipping them over to Democrats.
- 2:00Speaker 2: I guess we have to be grateful for that. So
- 2:03Speaker 2: now what is going on, Well, it takes a long
- 2:06Speaker 2: time for California to in fact count the votes and
- 2:14Speaker 2: give us the results, and that's because of the way
- 2:17Speaker 2: we do the voting. So you've got Steve Hilton, a
- 2:21Speaker 2: Republican and Trump endorsed, holding the lead right now for governor,
- 2:26Speaker 2: and Democrats Javier Bserra and Tom Steyer still batting lean
- 2:31Speaker 2: out for second place. Whichever Democrat wins, and it's going
- 2:35Speaker 2: to be Javier Baseerra because the Democratic vote is all
- 2:39Speaker 2: going to go to the Democrat and there are more
- 2:41Speaker 2: Democrats by a long shot. Okay, then you have the
- 2:45Speaker 2: mayoral race where incumbent Karen Bass, who is going to
- 2:49Speaker 2: win reality television personality Spencer Pratt in second place, and
- 2:54Speaker 2: why is that such a big deal because in California,
- 2:58Speaker 2: it's the top two vote vote getters in the primary
- 3:02Speaker 2: who go on to the general election. Notwithstanding party, you're
- 3:06Speaker 2: gonna have two Republicans, you're gonna have two Democrats. You
- 3:08Speaker 2: can have one or the other, which look like looks
- 3:11Speaker 2: like it's going to happen this time around. And the
- 3:13Speaker 2: only way that anybody can win in the primary is
- 3:16Speaker 2: fifty percent plus one vote. Ain't gonna happen, certainly not
- 3:20Speaker 2: this time around. So Trump posted late Wednesday, here we
- 3:25Speaker 2: go with a very late and massive numbers of mail
- 3:28Speaker 2: in ballots. Look what's happening in California. The Democrats, right
- 3:35Speaker 2: before our very eyes, are stealing the votes. Now, this
- 3:38Speaker 2: has to do with the allegation and Republicans say this
- 3:42Speaker 2: that the entire mail in ballot system is rigged.
- 3:46Speaker 1: Why is that?
- 3:48Speaker 2: Because the mail in ballot system skews Democrat, the day
- 3:53Speaker 2: of the voting skews Republican, And naturally, if you want
- 4:00Speaker 2: the Republicans to win, you're going to argue that the
- 4:03Speaker 2: entire system of mail in ballots, which exkews Democrat, is
- 4:08Speaker 2: unfair and in this case is.
- 4:10Speaker 1: Rigged, completely rigged.
- 4:13Speaker 2: So he says that the US Attorney's Office in LA
- 4:17Speaker 2: is investigating California elections.
- 4:20Speaker 1: Don't think that's going to happen. Maybe it will.
- 4:22Speaker 2: And when a spokesperson was asked, you know what's this about,
- 4:27Speaker 2: declined to comment and just said, look at the president's
- 4:29Speaker 2: statements and so what's happening. Oh, the fun part is
- 4:35Speaker 2: Trump talks about the Democrats. Governor Newsom comes back with
- 4:39Speaker 2: his own media post and he's now doing this tit
- 4:42Speaker 2: for tat. Trump is lying about California again. It's time
- 4:46Speaker 2: to take the phone away from Grandpa and put him
- 4:49Speaker 2: to sleep.
- 4:50Speaker 1: Okay, why not?
- 4:52Speaker 2: And California, every registered voter is mailed the ballot automatically,
- 4:57Speaker 2: and there are a bunch of ways to cast a vote,
- 4:59Speaker 2: either in person Democrats Republicans love it at dropboxes, through
- 5:03Speaker 2: the mail. Fraud Ballots return via the US Postal Service
- 5:09Speaker 2: are still counted as long as their postmarked honor before
- 5:12Speaker 2: election day fraud and arrive at the county elections office
- 5:17Speaker 2: within seven days fraud. Now, the Orange County Register says
- 5:22Speaker 2: it's not so much that the vote counting it takes
- 5:24Speaker 2: a long time. It's the process set by state law,
- 5:29Speaker 2: even giving voters time to fix a signature challenge on
- 5:33Speaker 2: mail ballot envelopes all fraud. And so this means county
- 5:39Speaker 2: elections officials cannot certify even legally certified local results until
- 5:44Speaker 2: June twenty six because of the process. So a quick
- 5:48Speaker 2: word before we bail out of here this segment is
- 5:52Speaker 2: that mail in ballots the way California does this is
- 5:57Speaker 2: fraud on its face. Eight other states do exactly the
- 6:03Speaker 2: same thing in Republican states. It is not fraud the
- 6:10Speaker 2: same process. In democratic states, it is fraud. And as
- 6:15Speaker 2: I've said many times, if a Democrat wins an election,
- 6:20Speaker 2: it is fraud, it is rigged. If a Republican wins
- 6:23Speaker 2: an election, it is a free election. In this country, effectively,
- 6:29Speaker 2: we should have a one party system because otherwise we
- 6:33Speaker 2: don't have a democracy. We don't have a fair vote.
- 6:36Speaker 2: Only when Republicans win. It's I have to tell you
- 6:40Speaker 2: I used to be you know, I've been anti Trump
- 6:45Speaker 2: in most ways for a long time. I've now reached
- 6:48Speaker 2: the point where I'm genuinely scared, and I thought I
- 6:51Speaker 2: would never get that genuinely scared. Setting up the fund,
- 6:58Speaker 2: the weaponization fund that Republicans won't even vote against. I
- 7:06Speaker 2: don't even know what to do with that. Okay, I
- 7:10Speaker 2: want to share something with you. If all generations since
- 7:15Speaker 2: World War Two, even from World War One, have lived
- 7:19Speaker 2: longer than the previous generations, that's a stat that's around.
- 7:26Speaker 1: Okay, it's changed.
- 7:29Speaker 2: There's a pattern researchers are calling an alarming number. There
- 7:35Speaker 2: is a nationwide deterioration in death rates beginning around twenty
- 7:41Speaker 2: ten and hits nearly every living adult at once, mainly
- 7:48Speaker 2: by progress installed against cardiovascular disease. And this after decades
- 7:52Speaker 2: have improved improvement. In other words, we have hit some
- 7:56Speaker 2: tremendous strides. We're living longer except where not, and here
- 8:02Speaker 2: is the operative number. Americans born after nineteen seventy are
- 8:10Speaker 2: dying at higher rates from heart disease, cancer external causes
- 8:17Speaker 2: than people born before nineteen seventy. Americans born in the fifties.
- 8:23Speaker 2: That was me marked the generational turning point. And before
- 8:29Speaker 2: that we showed steadily improvement to survival. As I said,
- 8:35Speaker 2: every generation doing better than the previous generation, but not
- 8:38Speaker 2: any more. And well, for most of the twentieth century,
- 8:42Speaker 2: there was an assumption that each generation would outlive the
- 8:46Speaker 2: one before it. Better medicine, better food, better lives decade
- 8:51Speaker 2: after decade until it stopped. Between twenty ten and twenty nineteen,
- 8:56Speaker 2: US life expectant to improve by one quarter years.
- 9:01Speaker 1: That's it improved by three months.
- 9:07Speaker 2: The average gain over the previous was one and three
- 9:10Speaker 2: quarter years. And we keep on falling behind among other nations.
- 9:17Speaker 2: If you look at twenty two peer nations, the gap
- 9:20Speaker 2: has gotten way bigger. The top performing country grew from
- 9:25Speaker 2: two and a half years to almost five years. Well,
- 9:30Speaker 2: ours have actually gone down. And you know what is
- 9:36Speaker 2: going on here? Well, the three major categories cardiovascular disease
- 9:41Speaker 2: we're doing better, but not that much better, and cancer
- 9:45Speaker 2: we're doing better. And then you have drug overdoses, suicides, homicides,
- 9:50Speaker 2: traffic accidents, all increasing over the last twenty years. And
- 9:55Speaker 2: people who were born in the forties saw improving survivor
- 10:00Speaker 2: at each stage of life. Hitting the fifties that slowed
- 10:06Speaker 2: even reversed. Now look at the research cigarettes people are
- 10:15Speaker 2: people are smoking less long term damage.
- 10:18Speaker 1: Okay, here's the other one.
- 10:20Speaker 2: H IV AIDS the epidemic that increased or decreased the
- 10:25Speaker 2: survival rate. And you have the opiates that is a problem.
- 10:29Speaker 2: You put all of that together and we've got a mess.
- 10:32Speaker 1: On our hands. Now if you smoke, I mean, let's
- 10:37Speaker 1: look at who.
- 10:39Speaker 2: Is more apt to live a longer life if you
- 10:43Speaker 2: are white or Asian and you live near an area
- 10:47Speaker 2: where you get world class medicine like we do. We
- 10:51Speaker 2: don't live in the inner city. We don't even we
- 10:53Speaker 2: don't live in Appalachia where doctors are paid by sides
- 10:57Speaker 2: of bacon and you can't to get an operation. You
- 11:02Speaker 2: have to go two hundred miles to get an operation.
- 11:04Speaker 2: That is a problem in major cities. I'm even going
- 11:09Speaker 2: to argue that our life inspectancy expectancy has gone up,
- 11:16Speaker 2: but if you look at the stats across the board,
- 11:20Speaker 2: not so much so. If you were born after nineteen seventy,
- 11:25Speaker 2: you're going to be dead next week. And that's what
- 11:29Speaker 2: the research proofs.
- 11:31Speaker 1: I'm dying and you're going to live forever.
- 11:35Speaker 2: Yeah, I Am going to live forever, because yeah, that
- 11:39Speaker 2: is absolutely true. And let me see, Amy, you were
- 11:43Speaker 2: born before nineteen seventy, right, maybe okay, thank you will
- 11:49Speaker 2: before nineteen seventy maybe maybe? Okay, I love that cono. Yes,
- 11:55Speaker 2: you were born before nineteen seventy.
- 11:56Speaker 1: Not a chance, of course. Before year were you born? Yeah?
- 12:03Speaker 1: What year were you born, you know how long ago
- 12:05Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy. Hey, oh no, wow, I was born
- 12:09Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight. You're a baby. Huh, you're gonna die.
- 12:17Speaker 1: My dad always said, we're all born terminal.
- 12:21Speaker 2: Good point. My mother died at ninety eight, way too long.
- 12:28Speaker 1: Think of all the quality time you had with her.
- 12:31Speaker 2: No, I'm thinking no, I didn't have much quality time.
- 12:36Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, when she was in her
- 12:38Speaker 2: last several years of her life and when she was
- 12:41Speaker 2: in a board and care center and couldn't even recognize me,
- 12:44Speaker 2: which wasn't bad. I mean, those were some of the
- 12:46Speaker 2: best years we had. I was spending so much damn
- 12:50Speaker 2: money supporting her. First of all, I could have parked
- 12:53Speaker 2: her on the sidewalk and she wouldn't have known the difference.
- 12:55Speaker 2: That's for starters. Second of all, knowing how much money
- 12:59Speaker 2: I was spending, I wouldn't go into her room by herself,
- 13:03Speaker 2: by myself, knowing I would grab a pillow. Okay, we
- 13:08Speaker 2: are done, all right. A couple of stories that I
- 13:12Speaker 2: want to share with you. This is ten ten American
- 13:15Speaker 2: inventions that were discovered by mistake, and I'm going to
- 13:19Speaker 2: go through a few of them. For example, corn flakes.
- 13:24Speaker 2: These are big, big things that happened serendipitously.
- 13:28Speaker 1: Corn flakes. Kellogg's cornflakes specifically.
- 13:32Speaker 2: Were invented well by the brother of doctor John Harvey,
- 13:40Speaker 2: and that was W. K. Kellogg and doctor what John
- 13:45Speaker 2: Harvey Kellogg was, or what he did, is he had
- 13:48Speaker 2: this sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, and it was a
- 13:52Speaker 2: health spa known all over the world. And he was
- 13:56Speaker 2: sort of a health.
- 14:00Speaker 1: Nut, if you will.
- 14:02Speaker 2: And what happened eighteen ninety four the brothers accidentally left
- 14:07Speaker 2: the pot of boiled wheat. I mean, they did a
- 14:10Speaker 2: lot of that crap and it dried out.
- 14:13Speaker 1: So when WK returns, he puts the wheat through rollers.
- 14:19Speaker 2: And outcome a single large flake that crisp when baked.
- 14:26Speaker 1: And he later applied that to corn. And there was
- 14:30Speaker 1: the Battle.
- 14:31Speaker 2: Creek Toasted corn Flake Company, which became kellogg mistake, a mistake.
- 14:39Speaker 2: Then there is the pacemaker, the implantable pacemaker, again by accident.
- 14:47Speaker 2: Wilson great Batch never went to medical school, and in
- 14:52Speaker 2: the late nineteen fifties he was building machinery to record
- 14:56Speaker 2: sounds that a heart makes, and he used the wrong resistance.
- 15:01Speaker 2: But the electrical pulse rate was steady, like a heartbeat,
- 15:06Speaker 2: and he wrote in his book, I stared at this
- 15:08Speaker 2: thing in disbelief and realized this is exactly what was
- 15:12Speaker 2: needed to drive a heart. Now, pacemakers were around at
- 15:17Speaker 2: that time, but they were huge external ones, and the
- 15:21Speaker 2: previous ones had to be hand cranked. Light bulb moment
- 15:26Speaker 2: put tiny versions into cardiac patients to regulate heart heartbeats,
- 15:32Speaker 2: and the first one implantable was placed in a dog
- 15:35Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty eight, and two years later.
- 15:38Speaker 1: In a human being.
- 15:42Speaker 2: And here's one that probably is a myth, at least
- 15:45Speaker 2: if you read anything about how the company Raytheon came
- 15:50Speaker 2: into being. Okay, here is the story. Percy Spencer is
- 15:56Speaker 2: a Raytheon engineer and right after World War Two, he
- 16:00Speaker 2: has a chocolate bar in his pocket. He goes past
- 16:02Speaker 2: a magnetron and realizes that the bar was melting. What
- 16:08Speaker 2: he did was discover electro magnetic energy that could be
- 16:12Speaker 2: used to heat food quickly, and he tested it on
- 16:15Speaker 2: popcorn and eggs and boilers at work.
- 16:17Speaker 1: Right.
- 16:18Speaker 2: Well, what Raytheon said, that's kind of a myth, because
- 16:25Speaker 2: they knew because they were developing the magnetron shortwaves and
- 16:31Speaker 2: they knew during World War two and right afterwards what
- 16:33Speaker 2: it could do now moving it into a commercial sphere,
- 16:38Speaker 2: that one came later. The early models, models of what
- 16:44Speaker 2: later became the radar range, were as big as refrigerators,
- 16:49Speaker 2: and the opening where you put the food was tiny,
- 16:55Speaker 2: and it went for five hundred dollars then five thousand
- 16:58Speaker 2: dollars today, and it was mainly it was developed for restaurants,
- 17:03Speaker 2: and restaurants didn't use it because it was such a
- 17:06Speaker 2: tiny little little hole, little place where you could.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Cook the food.
- 17:10Speaker 2: And they came out with a radar range, the first ones,
- 17:15Speaker 2: and since then, of course has taken out. Now Raytheon says,
- 17:19Speaker 2: that's a myth, right A look a lot like. Well,
- 17:23Speaker 2: here's one that's not that people say is a myth.
- 17:25Speaker 2: Drawing off your poodle in the MicroAge in the radar range,
- 17:29Speaker 2: that's true.
- 17:30Speaker 1: That's the best place to draw your.
- 17:32Speaker 2: Dog off after giving a giving a dog a bath.
- 17:37Speaker 2: Probably a myth. Now, No, actually, that one's real. I'll
- 17:40Speaker 2: tell you what else is absolutely real that people think
- 17:44Speaker 2: is a myth? Absolute truth? Richard Gear and the Gerbil
- 17:51Speaker 2: absolutely true. Okay, have you noticed the cars for kids
- 17:56Speaker 2: commercials are back on the air because an appeals court
- 17:59Speaker 2: has rule that pending a decision whether or not there's
- 18:05Speaker 2: a fraud involved with the commercials, the commercials can go on.
- 18:10Speaker 2: And so here's the problem is that what donators, people
- 18:14Speaker 2: that donate, I didn't know that the instead of going
- 18:18Speaker 2: to a whole panoply of charities, the money was actually
- 18:22Speaker 2: diverted into some Orthodox Jewish charities. So that made those
- 18:28Speaker 2: kids happy. And you will it's a really good donation.
- 18:37Speaker 2: They sound like you're coughing up phlegm. And you'll notice
- 18:40Speaker 2: that all the kids who get those donations, they all
- 18:45Speaker 2: how do you get a nine year old, nine year
- 18:48Speaker 2: old kid with a beard.
- 18:49Speaker 1: They've been able to figure it out.
- 18:52Speaker 2: Okay, back we go to ten inventions that happened by accident,
- 18:59Speaker 2: totally by accident.
- 19:01Speaker 1: Popsicles.
- 19:03Speaker 2: In nineteen oh five, at the age of eleven, Frank
- 19:06Speaker 2: Epperson actually hit upon this innovation a long day of playing.
- 19:12Speaker 2: He left a stir in his cup of soda overnight
- 19:16Speaker 2: it was very cold outside, so the next morning it
- 19:20Speaker 2: had frozen. A quick flip upside down there is your popsicle,
- 19:26Speaker 2: which actually was an epsicle at that time, and he
- 19:30Speaker 2: patented it nineteen twenty four.
- 19:33Speaker 1: And that letter changed his name.
- 19:35Speaker 2: Instead of epsicle, it went to popssicle, as in your
- 19:39Speaker 2: pop or just straight out popsicle. And then he sold
- 19:43Speaker 2: his rights and to a whole bunch of different companies
- 19:47Speaker 2: that it went.
- 19:48Speaker 1: To saran wrap.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Ralph Wiley was a now chemical scientist for decades, and
- 19:55Speaker 2: he was a college student working there, and one day
- 19:58Speaker 2: he in all colleague note that a dry cleaning agent that.
- 20:03Speaker 1: They were working on had turned the flask white.
- 20:09Speaker 2: Why well, they had a hard time scraping it off
- 20:13Speaker 2: the glass flask. And then the clean became the key.
- 20:19Speaker 2: And so during the early days of World War Two,
- 20:21Speaker 2: the army used it as a rap to keep equipment
- 20:23Speaker 2: on boats dry, and post war it became saran wrap. Huh,
- 20:31Speaker 2: that's cool, all right.
- 20:34Speaker 1: A couple more, oh, Scotch guard.
- 20:37Speaker 2: A chemist, Patsy Sherman three M chemist had been working
- 20:41Speaker 2: on a new type of rubber for the Air Force
- 20:44Speaker 2: that could withstand exposure to jet fuel, and in nineteen
- 20:47Speaker 2: fifty three a lab worker accidentally spilled some of her
- 20:53Speaker 2: samples on her tennis shoes, and she tried to get
- 20:56Speaker 2: it off using soap, alcohol solvents, and so she Shaw
- 21:01Speaker 2: saw the potential in the sneaker mishap, and so with
- 21:06Speaker 2: her supervisor using that information there.
- 21:09Speaker 1: It was they developed Scotch Guard. And the one that
- 21:14Speaker 1: I like the most is a bubble wrap.
- 21:18Speaker 2: Bubble Wrap is my absolute favorite invention. I'm going to
- 21:23Speaker 2: tell you, I think bubble wrap is better than sex
- 21:31Speaker 2: because popping those bubbles is so satisfying, and you can
- 21:38Speaker 2: have bad sex. I mean it does happen. You will
- 21:41Speaker 2: never have a bad experience. Popping those bubbles on bubble
- 21:44Speaker 2: wrap a complete mistake. You know, it's almost as good
- 21:49Speaker 2: as popping a pimple. There's just something wonderful about it.
- 21:53Speaker 2: You know, you squeeze and all of that. Maybe come on,
- 21:58Speaker 2: tell me you haven't tell me you haven't popped a
- 22:01Speaker 2: zi work.
- 22:01Speaker 1: Too, of course you have.
- 22:04Speaker 2: It reminds me of Doctor Pimple Popper, which is like
- 22:06Speaker 2: all the rage and everybody.
- 22:07Speaker 1: I love that show.
- 22:09Speaker 2: I love that show, Doctor pimple Popper. If you want,
- 22:15Speaker 2: especially before breakfast, you want to see Doctor pimple Popper.
- 22:19Speaker 1: All the guys are nodding their heads.
- 22:21Speaker 2: Conna's like, yeah, ze City, I love those.
- 22:26Speaker 1: She's in the ill An Empire. She's the Uplander Claremont
- 22:28Speaker 1: Rancho somewhere over there. So cool, seriously cool.
- 22:33Speaker 2: Okay, a story about immigrants, A good story about immigrants
- 22:39Speaker 2: that we are not paying to, paying attention to enough.
- 22:43Speaker 2: I'll share that with you. Matter of fact, I'll share
- 22:45Speaker 2: a personal story with you about just that when we
- 22:47Speaker 2: come back. Kf I am sixty.
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