Can’t Afford to California: Home prices in California reached a new record high in April as sales increased despite elevated mortgage rates and the state’s seemingly insurmountable housing shortage. Cost of Cars: When comparing how many miles people drive gasoline, hybrid and electric vehicles, 3-year-old gas cars are driven 12,813 miles a year while EVs are driven 20 percent less, or 10,256 miles. Plug-in hybrids are driven 12,199 miles, or 4.8 percent less than gasoline cars, while standard hybrids are driven 12,471 miles, or 2.7 percent less than gasoline models. Can’t Relate: The notion that bots will one day be an adequate substitute for human contact misunderstands what loneliness really is, and doesn’t account for the necessity of human touch. Young or Dumb: Consumers, especially the rich, are spending big on the colossal, growing longevity industry — spas, food subscriptions, gym memberships and pills.
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You're listening to KFI AM six fortyon demand. So my daughter calls on
Friday, talk to my wife.She doesn't talk to me whenever there's an
issue, she talks to my wife. Sure, it's fine, it's fine.
It's fine that you are close toyour wife, to your mom,
and not to me. That's fine. Whatever. So she calls and she's
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all worked up, and what's theproblem. Her landlord is raising the rent.
Oh how much? Five hundred dollarsa month. Five hundred dollars a
month. Holy cow. Yeah.So evidently one of her roommates is moving
out, but that roommate's on thelease, and so they want to just
transfer the lease over. And thelandlord says, well, if you transfer
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the lease, it's a new leaseand then I get to raise your rates.
So she says, I don't knowwhat I'm gonna do. She's in
Wiho right now, and I knowshe loves her neighborhood, but I don't
know if she's gonna be able tostay there. So she's really worked up.
She's like, I have to getout by the end of June.
It's gonna be terrible and I can'tafford anything, and anywhere I go is
going to be too far from work. She's within walking distance right now,
and it's going to be too farfrom work. And I don't know what
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I'm gonna do. And she's veryupset. And the rent is so high.
So even if this landlord, youknow, listen, this landlord wants
to raise the rates by five hundredbucks, well, what you know,
she that's let's face it, that'smarket. She's been in this place for
like four years or something, right, I think she I think she covided
through this place. So I'm reallykind of bummed for because I think she's
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about to get a real hard smackof reality. And my daughter is twenty
five. I think I can neverkeep up. She's twenty six. Thank
you appreciate that. Cayla was feedingme math behind the scenes, thank you.
Killing So she's twenty six and shedoesn't want to have to be on
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more rent, and so she's kindof frustrated right now. She goes this
is this is a bad situation.It sounds rough. I've rows is a
lot of yeah, But if shegoes anywhere else, I think that's kind
of what the going rate is,especially in her neighborhood. That's wild.
I know. Oh my gosh,the economic times. I'm stressed. What's
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she going to do? That wasthe most bizarre sign of dismay I've ever
heard from you. Oh my god, the economic distress. Oh it's a
lot, is it is frustrating.I mean there's good news. I mean
she has a job, she's stillchasing. She wants to be a writer,
and you know how it is.It's not what you know too,
you know, you know that kindof thing. She has the right contact.
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She's like, I don't get it. I go to all these workshops
and I work so hard and Ido all this stuff and nothing's breaking for
me. And I feel really badfor her because I know, I mean,
let's face a showbizbabe, that's justwhat it is. Got to juggle
a million different jobs. He's inorder to meet you. Ever, hear
those stories of people that have becomereal successful and then you find out later
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like oh, Kristin Wigg used tobe a nanny for I forgot. She
was a nanny for Steve Carell.Now it wasn't Steve Krell, but it
was like a nanny for another wellknown actor or something of that sort and
then you find out, you know, you hear about jobs people had before
all of a sudden they hit.Those are my favorite kind of books.
I love to Yeah right, thoseare fun. Yeah, but it's not
so much fun when you're working ata dry cleaner's barely making rent and then
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your rent goes up, right,Yeah, no, not so yeah,
no, not so fun. SoI feel bad for it. But there
is a modicum of good news,and that is that grocery prices are starting
to come down just a little bit. Grocery prices fell on the whole for
April for the first time in twelvemonths. So we keep watching this inflation,
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and we know that inflation is stillgoing up three and a half plus
percent whatever else it is, whichis not helping with the cost of rent.
In fact, to another headline,California home prices just set in a
new record high. Oh great,just what we needed, another record high.
So statewide, the I think themedian home value statewide is simply like
nine hundred thousand dollars. Central Coastis over a million, Central Valleys under
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five hundred thousand. But if youlive way north in Weed Country, then
you can get a place for underfour hundred thousand, So you got that
going for you. So cal generallyspeaking, is right around the state wide
average. It's eight hundred and eightythousand dollars. So yeah, I mean
rent's gonna go up. And ifyou're trying to buy what'd we see last
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week? There was an article lastweek and said, if you want to
live in Orange County, in amedian priced home in Orange County, you
have to make more than three hundredand fifty thousand dollars a year. What
there are enough jobs paying that.I don't know how you get by on
that. And this is the badstuff. When I'm trying to talk to
my daughter, like sweetheart, butyou're not making three fitty, it's not
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happening. So what is a parentdo you do? I mean fifty,
I don't have three hundred and fiftythousand dollars a year? Do you have?
Do you have an extra three fittyyou can have? My daughter?
Well, you you're killing it inthe radio game. Me I just produce
here. So I was assuming thatyou and your wife could do it.
But listen, sag after is great, but it ain't that great. I
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really, I just I feel like, what is the answer for gen Z
like the younger millennials, people thatdid get a later start, because I
think it's just going to get moreexpensive going forward. So what is the
answer, Because three hundred and fiftythousand dollars a year isn't that easily attainable?
And that's that's oc right, Imean, you can live in lending,
you get things a little bit cheaper. But I also wanted to be
safe, you know, And sothat's where that's where as a parent,
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I'm really torn because I've watched alot of movies when I was younger about
parents telling their kids that they needto grow up and get a real job.
And I but I don't don't wanther to give up on her dream.
But at some point, I thinkshe's going to have to have You
know, how long do you getby on assistant manager coffee shop jobs?
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You know what I mean? Iworked with people. I worked with somebody
in the Bay Area, lovely person, very smart, very smart, very
creative. And she was in yourposition, Kila, and she'd been doing
it for a lot of years becauseshe was just she was waiting for her
comedy career to take off. Theproblem was she was like fifty eight.
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You know, Yeah, she hadno savings for retirement. She was living
with her mother. And she's like, well, I take care of my
mom, and that's great. AndI'm sure she was taking care of her
her older mother, but I don'tknow that she could have afforded to live
anywhere else. And so there's thisbig part of me as a parent.
I am so scared. I don'twant my daughter to end up like that.
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Of my three kids, she's theonly one with a bachelor's degree.
My son got into it and he'sa bunch of text certifications. So he's
doing pretty well and he's working hisway up the ladder, doing all the
things he should be doing. Right, He's on a good course. She's
got the degree, but it's adegree in writing, and unless something hits
And I told my wife, Iwish, I wish I could do something
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for her. We don't any contactshere. I mean, it's not like
I can call up a buddy atthe at one of the studios and say,
hey, well you get my daughtera Look. You know, I
can't even NEPO baby her. Thisis nothing. And you know how it
is, Well, it always justthe lines and the good thing is that
she does have the degree just tofall back on. Even if she could
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just become like get another another educationdegree or something like that and be a
teacher in writing or you know,it's always a it's agreed to have a
degree because you always have something tofall back on. But it is rough.
It's super rough when you have dreamsin the artistic community and there are
so many people that got there breaklater. Like I don't think Morgan.
I think Morgan Freeman was like fiftywhen he his first like major role,
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So it just, you know,you just never gets imagine can you imagine
living paycheck to paycheck and hope andthen calling your parents every now and again
for a little help until you're fifty. Granted, I mean it's great.
I love Morgan Freeman. There's nobodybetter. But holy cow, now my
wife, of course, she didexactly what we do. She says,
listen, sweeter, She goes,I don't have any money, She says,
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we will not let you fall onyour face. You know you're not
going to live on the street.That won't happen. But I mean,
we could float her first and lastmonth's rent at the next place. But
I can't float her like a wholeplace. I can't afford to pay my
daughters or she's twenty six, Ican't be paying for her rent. I
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could help her out with first andlast month, right deposit whatever. You
know how it is when you're gettinga new a new place. But I
mean, how much as a parentdo you do you you know, do
you put out to your kids beforeyou say you gotta find something else.
I'm really torn on this because Idon't want to be a dream killer.
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Yeah, because you be the badguy. I don't want to be the
bad but I also want to bepractical. And again, I've watched lots
of movies where you get some parentthat tells your kids it's time to grow
up. And I don't want tobe that guy. How I majored in
theater performance. There's a dead endcareer, but that's what I wanted to
do. And I stumbled into radioand I love it and I'm so glad
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I did. But I have noother employable job skills. And I gotta
tell you, for a long timeI didn't have a contract in radio.
I was doing a lot of fillin work and I was getting that from
my folks like, maybe it's timefor you to go to home depot.
I don't go home depot. Iwant to spend all my money at home
depot. I don't want to workthere, and that would take all the
magic away. So anyway, that'sI'm sort of stuck. And then we
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keep getting stories about how prices keepgoing up, and it is a really
frustrating time. As you said,Kayla, what's what's the future look like?
It's really discouraging, especially as wehave more people going into retirement.
There isn't enough money for the socialprograms, and the only way to bail
out the social programs is going tobe to raise taxes on whom the working
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class working class is already living paycheckto paycheck. No thanks, all right,
speaking of rising costs, have yougotten your auto insurance bill lately?
I just got mine as a twentypercent increase, and I'm not alone.
I'm kind of miffed about this one, too, Greedy sobs. That's next.
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You're listening to KFI AM six fortyon demand. Off air, there
is an argument going on between producerKayla and myself. Kayla doesn't believe that
mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on Earth. I don't. I don't. Thank
yous are the deadliest animals on Earth? The deadliest animal on Earth? Yes?
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For that as more hang on audiostarted without my permission. Yes,
I thought that man was going totell me that mosquito. That would have
been great if I had all Ithought you did. I was a little
bit nervous, like, who's thislawyer? But yeah, no, I'm
going to stand my ground and Ican't be the only person that thinks like
that's on Earth number one, thedeadliest animal a mosquito. Yes, I
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understand malaria, I do. Ido, But I'm going to bring this
deadliest animal in the world. Ordid I say on Earth? You said
on Earth? I'm thinking that's awider no deadliest animal on Earth. Just
bing this mosquitoes, you're kidding me. It's not true. They kill between
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seven hundred and fifty thousand and amillion people every year. I'm googling it,
and mosquito did not come up onmine. Human actually came up on
mine. Robin says it's an insect, not an animal. Okay, well
Rob has no Robin, I loveyou, but can you define what insect
is? That is it is aninsect a plant. She's probably mad.
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I even told you, she said, she told me too, she told
me in my ear. I wasabout to call her out. So I
appreciate you doing it for me though. Yeah, so that that is wilify
as a mosquito. No, Robin'strying to claim that an insect isn't an
animal. Well, yeah, listento her. She's hurting your argument.
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Yeah, that's just yeah thing things. I don't know if you were trying
to help, Robin, thank you, But I think I think it has
to be like some kind of spider, maybe even some kind of sea animal
like a shark or something. No, more like a jellyfish that like stings
you and then you like get poisoned, okay, or sting right, But
mosquito just sounds it just sounds reallyreally avoidable. You know, round worms
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caused forty five hundred deaths per year. How how yeah, what do they
do? They cause an infection calledaskar siasis scarce siasis. Yeah, crocodiles
a thousand tapeworms, seven hundred peopleannually, hippopotami five hundred, elephants,
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five hundred lions, twenty two wolves, ten and sharks six. Oh I
just pulled up. Yeah, Isee that. Oh yeah, there's an
assassin bug on this list too.Oh, I haven't heard the assass assassin
bug came up a couple of times. That's pretty fun. Yeah. I
don't know who named that, butthey ought to. It's like the people
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that named the killer bees. Right, that's great, murder hornet. Yeah,
good one yea that my audio keepsstarting. All right, let's talk
about the auto. What's playing here, and that is that we are trying
to figure out ways to make thingsmore expensive to drive on the roads now
thanks to the car insurance mafia that'sout there, they are looking to make
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things more expensive for you in yourbill. If you have seen your auto
insurance rates lately, mine went upabout twenty percent, And I thought,
what, I didn't have any claims, my car wasn't stolen, I didn't
get any tickets. Why is thisgone up? And there's this in my
mind. I'm thinking that when Iwas young and I didn't have any money,
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but I still had to come upwith money for insurance, that should
have been the most I'd ever paidfor car insurance. All things being equal,
I don't have tickets or accidents orwhatever. Right, I get that,
right. No, I'm paying twiceas much now than I was when
I was seventeen. Part of that'sinflation, okay, I got that.
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But and part of it's because mycar right now is worth a lot more
than the eighty seven Chevy Spectrum wasthat I was driving back then. But
I have a clean driving record.Why am I paying so daga much?
It's ridiculous. Hundreds of thousands ofdrivers are going to see a nearly twenty
percent. This monotone reporter is withFox News Las Vegas increase in their rates
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this year. Customers are not happyabout it, but they say there's no
way out. We get no noticenone. It's just like a Christmas present,
only this kind of present nobody wants. Robert Diaz has been a State
Farm customer for fourteen years. Hiscar insurance rate has jumped nearly two hundred
dollars in the last two years.Yoh, this guy's with State Farm and
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his insurance rates keep going up.Somebody called Jake tell him to stop cutting
all those commercials with Patrick Mahomes.That's where the money's going. Pretty kicked
off. I got in full withinseconds. I got higher coverage because of
the drivers out there, and Iget penalized for protecting myself and protecting anybody
else. They were an accent withme. So instead of getting rewarded for
that, I get penalized for that, my rates go up. An that's
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garbage. I'm with him. Igot full coverage. I've got all the
coverage I need that. You know, if I get into an accident,
I'm set for life. If that'swhat I've got. Why does that keep
going up? Well, because youknow inflation is going on, there's supply
chain. Are we still screaming supplychain about things? No, he says,
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shopping around for other companies isn't anoption, despite his perfect driving record.
I try to get other companies togo ahead and let me come over.
But the thing is they don't wantto start me off at a good
rate. They will tell you,oh, yeah, well us it will
save you this and that, butit's not the situation in our situation.
We've tried it. But my fourforty press in five seventy six hundred somebody
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else of course, huh, Idon't know what he just said. It's
about four forty four seventy five.I don't know what that is. Most
expensive car insurance in America. Thegood news is California is not in the
top five. New York is themost expensive thirty three hundred dollars a year
on average for car insurance in NewYork and in Neveda it's almost three grand
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a year. Mine was bought anew car in January and my insurance is
about twelve fifty six months or twentyfive hundred is what mine is. But
now it's going to go up evenmore because I think a couple of weeks
ago, did you get it fixedfrom when your wife ran into was it
the mailbox? At that point,I didn't file a claim on that.
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Yeah, she back to, yeah, you paid out of pocket. I
did. Oh yeah, then it'llsay the same you're good. So yeah,
I appreciate that. So Kyle istalking about this. My wife came
in. We were on the air. I think it's been three weeks now,
right, Yeah, we were onthe air and my wife came in
during a commercial break and she hadthis like her face was ashen, and
I said, what's uh, what'sgoing on? And I could tell she
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was okay, So then I knewit had to be the car, and
she's like, I hit the polewith the car. So, yeah,
we got the estimate. What didI tell you? I thought it was
going to cost four grand? Yeahyou did. Yeah, yeah, seventeen
fifty okay, so not too bad. Our deductibles fifteen hundred, So I
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didn't make any sense to finally claimit would have cost us a lot more.
Absolutely, But then we had arental car. We had to have
a rental car for a week,and I got the piece of crap,
biggest piece of trash car I've everdriven. Why because it was the cheapest,
and I was like, well,let's just do that. It's only
gonna be a few days. Andthen they kept saying, oh, it's
gonna be we gotta hold it forthe weekend. It's gonna be another day.
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And then when they were reassembling thepanels, they dropped the bumper and
scratched it and they had to redothe whole bumper, so it was like
another three days. Yike. Yeah, So I ended up spending three hundred
bucks on the cheapest rental car Icould find too, so that was not
fun. So it was a littleover two grand anyway, but my wife
don't, I'll pay for it.Okay, that's not really how that works.
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So whatever. So anyway, itcould be worse. We could be
in Nevada, Nevada over in Nevada, Vada. It was not in California,
but in Nevadaaada. However, ourhomeowners insurance is still crazy expensive because
the fires and places try to gogeus here. But there is good news.
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If you want to change the wayyou pay your taxes on your car.
This is not a question of if. This is a question of when
you pay about three hundred dollars ayear on average and state gas taxes,
the state will give you four hundreddollars to test what they call the per
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mile fee. And this is wherethis is what the anchor in KTLA kept
the now interrupting us earlier that asmore electric vehicles come in to use gas
tax revenue, which funds road repairs, well that is declining southern California.
So California is going to test aroad charge program as a stopgap. The
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state is recruiting about eight hundred driversto participate in a six month study we'll
start next year. Drivers will berequired to pay road charges each month based
on the number of miles driven.For their participation, California will pay each
person about four hundred dollars in giftcards. They will also get a gas
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tax refund at the end of thepilot program to sign up at caoadcharge dot
com. Okay, so they're gonnapay you in gift cards. I know
it's legit, but it sounds soscammy, doesn't it. It's like when
you get the phone calls it sayshello and from the IRS, and we're
going to arrest you for your taxesnot paid. You need to send us
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a target gift card. No,listen, one, you want us to
stop thinking that gift cards are partof a scam. Stop using gift cards
as payment. And then the otherdeal is this, we're going to go
to a mileage tax as we phaseout gasoline, We're gonna go mileage tax.
Where I run into issues is thatthe taxes and the fees that we
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pay on our electric bills right nowis higher than anywhere else in the country.
Our cost for power is so outrageous, and then we pay fees on
top of fees, on top offees, on top of taxes on that
You know what, why don't youhit up some of the power companies and
grab some of those fees to startcompensating for the gas taxes that you're falling
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short on instead of charging us moremileage taxes. If we're moving to electric
vehicles, why don't you go aheadand grab that fee from so cal Edison,
SDGENI or Pgenie. Why don't wego ahead and do that California?
Oh no, listen, I wouldbe very popular. But my ideas are
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not practical, but very popular,no doubt about that. You're already collecting
too many taxes collect from the peoplewho are ripping us all off. Do
that unbelievable. There is there's aproblem in America, and that problem is
we can't relate. You're listening toKFI AM six forty on demand off air,
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the debate rages on. I'm gonnabring it right out here in the
open again, Calea. Have youcome to the conclusion then that mosquitoes are
in fact the deadliest animal on earth? Well? I, oh, whoa?
That was that was crazy? Sorry? Yeah, I feel like I
got called out and thinking if amosquito was to bite me at maybe they
are pretty scary and maybe I shouldreconsider but I do want to say I
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wasn't saying they aren't dangerous at all. I just don't think they're number one.
Okay, but we haven't found anythingthat comes anything. There's something we'll
literally call an assassin, doesn't matter. There's a murder hornet too, but
it doesn't kill as many people asmosquitoes. Well, yeah, I guess
that's the point. And according tothis list, mosquitos apparently are number one
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over humans, which okay, andsnakes, really snakes, come on snakes.
Here's the good news. The goodnews is that mosquitoes aren't so bad
in the United States because we haveinoculations for so many of the diseases that
that they tend to carry, right, so yellow fever and things like that,
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Like we don't have we have vaccines, we have invoculations, we have
control measures. But in remote placesin the cradle of Earth Africa, still
getting supplies to people is very challenging, very difficult. In fact, I
think I didn't Bill Gates, isn'tpart of his whole deal? Like,
doesn't he do water and they're tryingto get mosquito nets to villages? Isn't
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that part of his whole Gates foundation, according to Google. Yes, yeah
that's what I thought. We gota we got a talk back for you
and for me. Yeah, foryou, this guy says. I mean,
he obviously is a smart dude.He's with me. Here's what he
says. Lady lady, that's you. That's okay. Congratulations, lady.
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You never had a title of nobilityin a while. I've made it.
Yeah, lady, you're gonna loseyour ground when you get bit by mosquito.
Yeah that has West Nile. Thereyou go, or something exotic,
there you go, exact Mosquito's gonnabe crying like a baby lady, like
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a baby lady, the baby lady. Yeah, baby lady, baby lady,
Yeah you are Wow. Well thefairy's not wrong. He's right.
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Cry if I got less Nile,how would you cry? Apparently? Whoy
that's right. Yeah, he doesa really good admentation of me. That's
pretty. Baby ladies crying baby lady, wow, Wow, lady lady sucks
being a baby lady. But I'mhappy not to have wes all and lay
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it sucks. Yeah, just calledout man. Yeah I will cry like
a baby. Yeah, I'm ababy. I don't want this guy to
be on the show. He's prettycool cat. He's a pretty cool cat.
He's an actor, he does impressions. I see nothing wrong with this
guy. Hey, lady, hehasn't he hasn't worked since the Budweiser commercials
in the nineties. Though, whatthat It's nice to bring that guy back.
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That's right, that's right. Ihappen to hear one of the promos
that we're running for Gary and Shannon, and they were talking, I think,
in the promo about AI, andhe said, you know, the
chat GPT just released their their latestchat bot. I guess. And it's
supposed to be able to talk withyou have almost full conversations, which is
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pretty cool. I think this iswe're seeing the evolution of what we all
expected AI was going to be.That it would it would be a personal
assistant for anybody that wanted one,right, which is cool. So much
so that you could say, hey, find me the best price for cabbage
and order it, and AI wouldof course respond with something like, you
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don't like cabbage, stupid, it'sgross, right, So thank you,
uh chat GPT for doing that.I am curious about this, and there
have been a lot of comparisons madeyou remember that movie her Joaquin Phoenix Fell
in Love with the AI, whichwas Scarlett Johansson was the AI. Yeah,
yeah, it was kind of Itwasn't a great film, but the
premise was pretty fun. Yeah yeah, I mean it was kind of a
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It was a bit dystopian, alittle bit creepy, And now we're seeing
that we're very close to that beinga reality. Oh I'm miss stupid.
Evidently, loneliness is a problem,as we all know, a lot of
people are being shut in, especiallythe elderly that are without others. And
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we saw this really come to lightduring COVID when you might have maybe you
lost dad years back, and momlives by yourself, and then you couldn't
go see mom because of quarantines,and we were all afraid. We certainly
didn't want mom to catch COVID andwe didn't want to be the ones to
give it to Mom. But thenwe know that loneliness is a real issue,
and it continues to be a realissue whether you're older or not.
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Loneliness is a problem for millions ofpeople. So the thinking is AI may
be able to provide you with somesemblance of companionship. You simply come home,
you say, hi AI. Idon't know if you name your AI.
Everybody's naming it like Barred or Idon't know if you're talking with Is
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Kortana still a thing? Or Microsoftis moving away from that, right,
they're going to copilot Barred is gogoal Siri on Apple or your Amazon thing?
Right, these are all early stagesof AI. In fact, I
think that there's gonna be AI incorporatedinto new operating systems on Apple. They're
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going to try to increase the viabilityof Siria, which was cutting edge at
the time, but of course it'ssort of fallen behind. But I was
reading this op ed that I thoughtwas really good. New York Times had
it and they were saying, it'snot really a substitute for other people.
Here's what they said, and Ithought there's value to this. Why I
worry about chatting with bots as apotential solution to loneliness is that it could
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be an approach that blunts the feelingsjust enough that it discourages or even prevents
people from taking that step off thecouch toward making real connections with others.
And some research indicates that a lackof human touch can exacerbate feelings of isolation.
They also go ahead if someone's alreadylone and not socialized and or engaging
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with humans as they have access to. Yeah, I think this is an
okay alternative because it's better than nothing, right. Yeah, they've had that
option to engage in touch and they'renot doing that, so I think it's
a good option. So I'm thatwas sort of my thought too. It's
not a it's not a it's nota solution, but it certainly is a
step for some people that will bebeneficial. I think their argument is that
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the downside is that it may discourageother people who otherwise would be able to
find real connections. They do saythis, which I thought was kind of
funny. Some of the companies thatare pouring money into developing AI are among
those that are putting return to officemandates in effect, so they certainly believe
in the value of human interaction onsome level, and I thought that was
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I thought that was really curious too. So we do have billions of dollars
being dumped into developing the AI,and some people are saying, wait a
minute, you're spending billions of dollarson that, But shouldn't we be investing
those billions of dollars and things likehousing and parks and libraries and other social
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infrastructures that can help people build realconnections. And I find that this is
one of the fallacies people always usewhen it comes to spending always, So
you have people say I can't believethat Microsoft is spending so much money on
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developing the next Windows, or Ican't believe Apple is spending so much money
on putting out their next iPhone.You know how many homeless people they could
help with that money, Yeah,lots, lots. They can help a
lot of homeless people one time.And that's the fallacy. There's no return
on investment when you just hand moneyout, and charities charity has to be
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part of the overall corporate structure.There's no sense in dumping billions of dollars
into developing evs when you could spendbillions of dollars to get homeless vets off
the street. Right. But ifyou spend billions of dollars on evs,
it's meant to generate trillions. Soif you develop something that people want and
they give you their money, thenyou've got money that you can uses profit
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development, and you can create analtruistic arm of your company, just like
we mentioned the Bill and Milinda GatesFoundation to try to stop mosquitoes from getting
Kayla. If you just hand yourmoney out to people who are less fortunate,
people aren't opening their wallets for that. So this is one of those
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arising tide lifts all ships situations,and I do think there is benefit in
seeing some corporate advancement. The problem, of course, in my opinion with
capitalism is that it puts maximizing profitsat the forefront. And I'm not anti
capitalist. I think capitalism is thebest economic model that we have on the
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planet, but I also think it'sfar from perfect. And one of the
issues is it puts maximizing profits first. In other words, you really shouldn't
create an altruistic or charitable arm unlessyou can see a return out of that
investment. I don't necessarily like that. I'd like to see sustain corporate growth
with sustain corporate partnership making a bettersociety. Not everybody has the same take.
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I know I sound like a socialist, I'm not, but I know
people saying you're soft hearted coward iswhat you are. You're just a you're
a big baby lady, Baby lady, that's what you are. Wow,
that's right. I'll tell you wherebusiness is booming. Youth for the youth
will go young or dumb. Nextyou're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
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Wow, wosh right, a newbill and CALLI is going to get
the knockdown because it's dumb. Hereit is kat La with the story on
anti aging for kids. Aawmakers inSacramento rejected a bill that would ban the
sale of anti aging skin products toyoung kids. The law failed to advance
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beyond the State Assembly Appropriations Committee yesterday. It would have prohibited kids under thirteen
years old from buying over the skin, over the counter skin creams, lotions,
and serums containing vitamin A and otherderivatives. The bill followed a social
media trend called Sephora kids. Yeah, with children buying and using skincare products.
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Oh okay, all right, sowhat's the problem. The problem is,
Oh, you know what is itharmful to the kids? Well,
it could be. It could bementally harmful. It may stunt their emotional
development and their acceptance of themselves andpush us more toward a society that values
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looks over someone's person. Stop it. Here's the truth. There is no
better time to try to look youngthan when you're young. You know where
most of us go wrong. I'mforty six and my wife just got me
some oil of a lay skin motionwith SPF in it. You know why
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I have a liver spot on myface. I got a liver spot on
my face. I'm forty six.You know what. I just started working
with this. It's a company calledBlack Girls Sunscreen, and they had a
podcast that I produce, and I'veactually learned the importance of sunscreen and sun
protection hugely important and it doesn't matteryour age. I'm sorry that you have
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a liver spot or whatever on yourbutt, but you should have been But
I will say that, yeah,you should have been using sunscreen for a
long time and it would have beenthat spot right. Yeah. And if
I had started using other face creamswhen I was young, I could have
kept my my skin taut and apractive well into my later years. Instead,
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I just look like a middle agedwhite guy with a liver spot now
on his face. We learned thesethings too late in life. I can't
undo that either, can I?Yeah, you can I'm sure I can.
I gotta talk with dermatologists and seeif I get Otherwise, I'm gonna
have to get a Mike Tyson facetattoo to cover it up. That's the
only thing you're missing, Chriss.Honestly, that's what I need. I
can't believe you don't have one already. Hey, what is the difference?
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I really don't. I genuinely don'tknow. You got to would you call
it a black Girl sunscreen? Well, it's just that's the name of the
company. It's not necessarily a differencewithin this within the sunscreen, that's just
the name of the company. Doesthe skin react differently? I get the
feeling, like, listen, youmay not have noticed this, Kailer.
I'm not black, You're not,no, so yeah, So I really
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don't know, Like, is itobviously the skin response to the UV raised
the same, But is it evenmore dangerous if you're black because maybe you
don't you're not burning like the visiblesigns. Actually yes, I actually just
learned that with the episode I justproduced. It actually is a little bit
more dangerous because we don't react aseasily. We're not turning red, we
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don't get sunburned, so we don'tunderstand the effects that it's having. A
lot of the times when we dogo to the dermatologists are going to get
our skin checked out, it's alittle bit too late because we're not getting
you know, the patches or thered marks. It doesn't mean that the
sun isn't having the same reaction.But Black Girl sunscreen is actually for everybody
though, although it's called that,and you don't have the little white cast
that you get sometimes with the sunscreenbrands. Yeah, yeah, it just
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it just goes on like lotion.It's really really good stuff. So,
uh, thank you for allowing meto ask that question, and you sound
like a giant racist because I reallydon't know. It's a genuine question,
and I thought there's got to bethere's there has to be a difference,
right, So thank you. Iappreciate that. God it wasn't so ignorant.
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Thank god my question had a reasonableno, you're green. If it
hadn't've been like no, of course, dummy, what do you think people
are different? Ignorant white guy dummy? Anyway, So anyway, California says,
listen, kids, stay young aslong as you can pack on that
vitamin A and vitamin C and allthe other stuff, and spend way too
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much money on the brand name.Nonsense. Because now here's the other side
of this. The wellness industry inAmerica's worth five hundred billion dollars and globally
two trillion dollars, which is reallyimpressive since we have such a small portion
of the overall population, and yetwe make up a quarter of the wellness
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industry. Nice. Eighty two percentof American consumers now say that wellness is
a top priority in their everyday lives, and the cost of keeping up with
supplements and spa sessions is rising.Per capita, spending on wellness in North
America is five thousand dollars. InEurope it's just shy of sixteen hundred dollars
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that's converted with exchange rate and everythingelse. I would also say that we
spend money on dentists here in theUnited States, which they don't do in
Europe. Evidently, you can goto extraordinary lengths if you have the money.
There's invite only pilates classes at seventyfive dollars a session, facelifts for
two hundred thousand dollars, and eliteclubs are charging thousands and monthly fees for
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saunas and ice baths. Be honest, though, the monthly fees are basically
there to keep riff raffle like usout. It's not because their ice baths
are better. It's just so theydon't have to deal with us. Wow,
yeah, exactly. High end Jimjust rolled out forty thousand dollars a
year longevity add ons. Customers aregetting access to individually tailored training and nutrition
(38:45):
programs, sleep coaching and massages andmore. I just thought if I had
a lot of money, I wouldhire a personal chef. It's always been
one of the things I want todo, a chef and a driver for
myself personally. You want the driver, yeah, what is there? Because
you're a bad driver? Yeah okay, ye see I'm a bad eater.
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So it's same motivation behind all ofit. Yeah, yeah, I love
that all right. Speaking of oldthe next hour, Kayla gets some vindication
for something she said last week.I thought she was nuts. She's not,
as I found it on TikTok,so it's totally true. And coming
up after we take a look atnews, there's no business like sell business.
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Kfi am six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six fortyon demand. So my daughter calls on
Friday, talk to my wife.She doesn't talk to me whenever there's an
issue, she talks to my wife. Sure, it's fine, it's fine.
It's fine that you are close toyour wife, to your mom,
and not to me. That's fine. Whatever. So she calls and she's
(00:23):
all worked up, and what's theproblem. Her landlord is raising the rent.
Oh how much? Five hundred dollarsa month. Five hundred dollars a
month. Holy cow. Yeah.So evidently one of her roommates is moving
out, but that roommate's on thelease, and so they want to just
transfer the lease over. And thelandlord says, well, if you transfer
(00:46):
the lease, it's a new leaseand then I get to raise your rates.
So she says, I don't knowwhat I'm gonna do. She's in
Wiho right now, and I knowshe loves her neighborhood, but I don't
know if she's gonna be able tostay there. So she's really worked up.
She's like, I have to getout by the end of June.
It's gonna be terrible and I can'tafford anything, and anywhere I go is
going to be too far from work. She's within walking distance right now,
and it's going to be too farfrom work. And I don't know what
(01:07):
I'm gonna do. And she's veryupset. And the rent is so high.
So even if this landlord, youknow, listen, this landlord wants
to raise the rates by five hundredbucks, well, what you know,
she that's let's face it, that'smarket. She's been in this place for
like four years or something, right, I think she I think she covided
through this place. So I'm reallykind of bummed for because I think she's
(01:30):
about to get a real hard smackof reality. And my daughter is twenty
five. I think I can neverkeep up. She's twenty six. Thank
you appreciate that. Cayla was feedingme math behind the scenes, thank you.
Killing So she's twenty six and shedoesn't want to have to be on
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more rent, and so she's kindof frustrated right now. She goes this
is this is a bad situation.It sounds rough. I've rows is a
lot of yeah, But if shegoes anywhere else, I think that's kind
of what the going rate is,especially in her neighborhood. That's wild.
I know. Oh my gosh,the economic times. I'm stressed. What's
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she going to do? That wasthe most bizarre sign of dismay I've ever
heard from you. Oh my god, the economic distress. Oh it's a
lot, is it is frustrating.I mean there's good news. I mean
she has a job, she's stillchasing. She wants to be a writer,
and you know how it is.It's not what you know too,
you know, you know that kindof thing. She has the right contact.
(02:44):
She's like, I don't get it. I go to all these workshops
and I work so hard and Ido all this stuff and nothing's breaking for
me. And I feel really badfor her because I know, I mean,
let's face a showbizbabe, that's justwhat it is. Got to juggle
a million different jobs. He's inorder to meet you. Ever, hear
those stories of people that have becomereal successful and then you find out later
(03:04):
like oh, Kristin Wigg used tobe a nanny for I forgot. She
was a nanny for Steve Carell.Now it wasn't Steve Krell, but it
was like a nanny for another wellknown actor or something of that sort and
then you find out, you know, you hear about jobs people had before
all of a sudden they hit.Those are my favorite kind of books.
I love to Yeah right, thoseare fun. Yeah, but it's not
so much fun when you're working ata dry cleaner's barely making rent and then
(03:29):
your rent goes up, right,Yeah, no, not so yeah,
no, not so fun. SoI feel bad for it. But there
is a modicum of good news,and that is that grocery prices are starting
to come down just a little bit. Grocery prices fell on the whole for
April for the first time in twelvemonths. So we keep watching this inflation,
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and we know that inflation is stillgoing up three and a half plus
percent whatever else it is, whichis not helping with the cost of rent.
In fact, to another headline,California home prices just set in a
new record high. Oh great,just what we needed, another record high.
So statewide, the I think themedian home value statewide is simply like
nine hundred thousand dollars. Central Coastis over a million, Central Valleys under
(04:15):
five hundred thousand. But if youlive way north in Weed Country, then
you can get a place for underfour hundred thousand, So you got that
going for you. So cal generallyspeaking, is right around the state wide
average. It's eight hundred and eightythousand dollars. So yeah, I mean
rent's gonna go up. And ifyou're trying to buy what'd we see last
(04:40):
week? There was an article lastweek and said, if you want to
live in Orange County, in amedian priced home in Orange County, you
have to make more than three hundredand fifty thousand dollars a year. What
there are enough jobs paying that.I don't know how you get by on
that. And this is the badstuff. When I'm trying to talk to
my daughter, like sweetheart, butyou're not making three fitty, it's not
(05:06):
happening. So what is a parentdo you do? I mean fifty,
I don't have three hundred and fiftythousand dollars a year? Do you have?
Do you have an extra three fittyyou can have? My daughter?
Well, you you're killing it inthe radio game. Me I just produce
here. So I was assuming thatyou and your wife could do it.
But listen, sag after is great, but it ain't that great. I
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really, I just I feel like, what is the answer for gen Z
like the younger millennials, people thatdid get a later start, because I
think it's just going to get moreexpensive going forward. So what is the
answer, Because three hundred and fiftythousand dollars a year isn't that easily attainable?
And that's that's oc right, Imean, you can live in lending,
you get things a little bit cheaper. But I also wanted to be
safe, you know, And sothat's where that's where as a parent,
(05:49):
I'm really torn because I've watched alot of movies when I was younger about
parents telling their kids that they needto grow up and get a real job.
And I but I don't don't wanther to give up on her dream.
But at some point, I thinkshe's going to have to have You
know, how long do you getby on assistant manager coffee shop jobs?
(06:11):
You know what I mean? Iworked with people. I worked with somebody
in the Bay Area, lovely person, very smart, very smart, very
creative. And she was in yourposition, Kila, and she'd been doing
it for a lot of years becauseshe was just she was waiting for her
comedy career to take off. Theproblem was she was like fifty eight.
(06:35):
You know, Yeah, she hadno savings for retirement. She was living
with her mother. And she's like, well, I take care of my
mom, and that's great. AndI'm sure she was taking care of her
her older mother, but I don'tknow that she could have afforded to live
anywhere else. And so there's thisbig part of me as a parent.
I am so scared. I don'twant my daughter to end up like that.
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Of my three kids, she's theonly one with a bachelor's degree.
My son got into it and he'sa bunch of text certifications. So he's
doing pretty well and he's working hisway up the ladder, doing all the
things he should be doing. Right, He's on a good course. She's
got the degree, but it's adegree in writing, and unless something hits
And I told my wife, Iwish, I wish I could do something
(07:19):
for her. We don't any contactshere. I mean, it's not like
I can call up a buddy atthe at one of the studios and say,
hey, well you get my daughtera Look. You know, I
can't even NEPO baby her. Thisis nothing. And you know how it
is, Well, it always justthe lines and the good thing is that
she does have the degree just tofall back on. Even if she could
(07:39):
just become like get another another educationdegree or something like that and be a
teacher in writing or you know,it's always a it's agreed to have a
degree because you always have something tofall back on. But it is rough.
It's super rough when you have dreamsin the artistic community and there are
so many people that got there breaklater. Like I don't think Morgan.
I think Morgan Freeman was like fiftywhen he his first like major role,
(08:01):
So it just, you know,you just never gets imagine can you imagine
living paycheck to paycheck and hope andthen calling your parents every now and again
for a little help until you're fifty. Granted, I mean it's great.
I love Morgan Freeman. There's nobodybetter. But holy cow, now my
wife, of course, she didexactly what we do. She says,
listen, sweeter, She goes,I don't have any money, She says,
(08:24):
we will not let you fall onyour face. You know you're not
going to live on the street.That won't happen. But I mean,
we could float her first and lastmonth's rent at the next place. But
I can't float her like a wholeplace. I can't afford to pay my
daughters or she's twenty six, Ican't be paying for her rent. I
(08:46):
could help her out with first andlast month, right deposit whatever. You
know how it is when you're gettinga new a new place. But I
mean, how much as a parentdo you do you you know, do
you put out to your kids beforeyou say you gotta find something else.
I'm really torn on this because Idon't want to be a dream killer.
(09:07):
Yeah, because you be the badguy. I don't want to be the
bad but I also want to bepractical. And again, I've watched lots
of movies where you get some parentthat tells your kids it's time to grow
up. And I don't want tobe that guy. How I majored in
theater performance. There's a dead endcareer, but that's what I wanted to
do. And I stumbled into radioand I love it and I'm so glad
(09:28):
I did. But I have noother employable job skills. And I gotta
tell you, for a long timeI didn't have a contract in radio.
I was doing a lot of fillin work and I was getting that from
my folks like, maybe it's timefor you to go to home depot.
I don't go home depot. Iwant to spend all my money at home
depot. I don't want to workthere, and that would take all the
magic away. So anyway, that'sI'm sort of stuck. And then we
(09:52):
keep getting stories about how prices keepgoing up, and it is a really
frustrating time. As you said,Kayla, what's what's the future look like?
It's really discouraging, especially as wehave more people going into retirement.
There isn't enough money for the socialprograms, and the only way to bail
out the social programs is going tobe to raise taxes on whom the working
(10:13):
class working class is already living paycheckto paycheck. No thanks, all right,
speaking of rising costs, have yougotten your auto insurance bill lately?
I just got mine as a twentypercent increase, and I'm not alone.
I'm kind of miffed about this one, too, Greedy sobs. That's next.
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You're listening to KFI AM six fortyon demand. Off air, there
is an argument going on between producerKayla and myself. Kayla doesn't believe that
mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on Earth. I don't. I don't. Thank
yous are the deadliest animals on Earth? The deadliest animal on Earth? Yes?
(10:56):
For that as more hang on audiostarted without my permission. Yes,
I thought that man was going totell me that mosquito. That would have
been great if I had all Ithought you did. I was a little
bit nervous, like, who's thislawyer? But yeah, no, I'm
going to stand my ground and Ican't be the only person that thinks like
that's on Earth number one, thedeadliest animal a mosquito. Yes, I
(11:18):
understand malaria, I do. Ido, But I'm going to bring this
deadliest animal in the world. Ordid I say on Earth? You said
on Earth? I'm thinking that's awider no deadliest animal on Earth. Just
bing this mosquitoes, you're kidding me. It's not true. They kill between
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seven hundred and fifty thousand and amillion people every year. I'm googling it,
and mosquito did not come up onmine. Human actually came up on
mine. Robin says it's an insect, not an animal. Okay, well
Rob has no Robin, I loveyou, but can you define what insect
is? That is it is aninsect a plant. She's probably mad.
(12:03):
I even told you, she said, she told me too, she told
me in my ear. I wasabout to call her out. So I
appreciate you doing it for me though. Yeah, so that that is wilify
as a mosquito. No, Robin'strying to claim that an insect isn't an
animal. Well, yeah, listento her. She's hurting your argument.
(12:24):
Yeah, that's just yeah thing things. I don't know if you were trying
to help, Robin, thank you, But I think I think it has
to be like some kind of spider, maybe even some kind of sea animal
like a shark or something. No, more like a jellyfish that like stings
you and then you like get poisoned, okay, or sting right, But
mosquito just sounds it just sounds reallyreally avoidable. You know, round worms
(12:50):
caused forty five hundred deaths per year. How how yeah, what do they
do? They cause an infection calledaskar siasis scarce siasis. Yeah, crocodiles
a thousand tapeworms, seven hundred peopleannually, hippopotami five hundred, elephants,
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five hundred lions, twenty two wolves, ten and sharks six. Oh I
just pulled up. Yeah, Isee that. Oh yeah, there's an
assassin bug on this list too.Oh, I haven't heard the assass assassin
bug came up a couple of times. That's pretty fun. Yeah. I
don't know who named that, butthey ought to. It's like the people
(13:35):
that named the killer bees. Right, that's great, murder hornet. Yeah,
good one yea that my audio keepsstarting. All right, let's talk
about the auto. What's playing here, and that is that we are trying
to figure out ways to make thingsmore expensive to drive on the roads now
thanks to the car insurance mafia that'sout there, they are looking to make
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things more expensive for you in yourbill. If you have seen your auto
insurance rates lately, mine went upabout twenty percent, And I thought,
what, I didn't have any claims, my car wasn't stolen, I didn't
get any tickets. Why is thisgone up? And there's this in my
mind. I'm thinking that when Iwas young and I didn't have any money,
(14:24):
but I still had to come upwith money for insurance, that should
have been the most I'd ever paidfor car insurance. All things being equal,
I don't have tickets or accidents orwhatever. Right, I get that,
right. No, I'm paying twiceas much now than I was when
I was seventeen. Part of that'sinflation, okay, I got that.
(14:46):
But and part of it's because mycar right now is worth a lot more
than the eighty seven Chevy Spectrum wasthat I was driving back then. But
I have a clean driving record.Why am I paying so daga much?
It's ridiculous. Hundreds of thousands ofdrivers are going to see a nearly twenty
percent. This monotone reporter is withFox News Las Vegas increase in their rates
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this year. Customers are not happyabout it, but they say there's no
way out. We get no noticenone. It's just like a Christmas present,
only this kind of present nobody wants. Robert Diaz has been a State
Farm customer for fourteen years. Hiscar insurance rate has jumped nearly two hundred
dollars in the last two years.Yoh, this guy's with State Farm and
(15:28):
his insurance rates keep going up.Somebody called Jake tell him to stop cutting
all those commercials with Patrick Mahomes.That's where the money's going. Pretty kicked
off. I got in full withinseconds. I got higher coverage because of
the drivers out there, and Iget penalized for protecting myself and protecting anybody
else. They were an accent withme. So instead of getting rewarded for
that, I get penalized for that, my rates go up. An that's
(15:52):
garbage. I'm with him. Igot full coverage. I've got all the
coverage I need that. You know, if I get into an accident,
I'm set for life. If that'swhat I've got. Why does that keep
going up? Well, because youknow inflation is going on, there's supply
chain. Are we still screaming supplychain about things? No, he says,
(16:12):
shopping around for other companies isn't anoption, despite his perfect driving record.
I try to get other companies togo ahead and let me come over.
But the thing is they don't wantto start me off at a good
rate. They will tell you,oh, yeah, well us it will
save you this and that, butit's not the situation in our situation.
We've tried it. But my fourforty press in five seventy six hundred somebody
(16:33):
else of course, huh, Idon't know what he just said. It's
about four forty four seventy five.I don't know what that is. Most
expensive car insurance in America. Thegood news is California is not in the
top five. New York is themost expensive thirty three hundred dollars a year
on average for car insurance in NewYork and in Neveda it's almost three grand
(16:57):
a year. Mine was bought anew car in January and my insurance is
about twelve fifty six months or twentyfive hundred is what mine is. But
now it's going to go up evenmore because I think a couple of weeks
ago, did you get it fixedfrom when your wife ran into was it
the mailbox? At that point,I didn't file a claim on that.
(17:18):
Yeah, she back to, yeah, you paid out of pocket. I
did. Oh yeah, then it'llsay the same you're good. So yeah,
I appreciate that. So Kyle istalking about this. My wife came
in. We were on the air. I think it's been three weeks now,
right, Yeah, we were onthe air and my wife came in
during a commercial break and she hadthis like her face was ashen, and
I said, what's uh, what'sgoing on? And I could tell she
(17:41):
was okay, So then I knewit had to be the car, and
she's like, I hit the polewith the car. So, yeah,
we got the estimate. What didI tell you? I thought it was
going to cost four grand? Yeahyou did. Yeah, yeah, seventeen
fifty okay, so not too bad. Our deductibles fifteen hundred, So I
(18:03):
didn't make any sense to finally claimit would have cost us a lot more.
Absolutely, But then we had arental car. We had to have
a rental car for a week,and I got the piece of crap,
biggest piece of trash car I've everdriven. Why because it was the cheapest,
and I was like, well,let's just do that. It's only
gonna be a few days. Andthen they kept saying, oh, it's
gonna be we gotta hold it forthe weekend. It's gonna be another day.
(18:25):
And then when they were reassembling thepanels, they dropped the bumper and
scratched it and they had to redothe whole bumper, so it was like
another three days. Yike. Yeah, So I ended up spending three hundred
bucks on the cheapest rental car Icould find too, so that was not
fun. So it was a littleover two grand anyway, but my wife
don't, I'll pay for it.Okay, that's not really how that works.
(18:47):
So whatever. So anyway, itcould be worse. We could be
in Nevada, Nevada over in Nevada, Vada. It was not in California,
but in Nevadaaada. However, ourhomeowners insurance is still crazy expensive because
the fires and places try to gogeus here. But there is good news.
(19:11):
If you want to change the wayyou pay your taxes on your car.
This is not a question of if. This is a question of when
you pay about three hundred dollars ayear on average and state gas taxes,
the state will give you four hundreddollars to test what they call the per
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mile fee. And this is wherethis is what the anchor in KTLA kept
the now interrupting us earlier that asmore electric vehicles come in to use gas
tax revenue, which funds road repairs, well that is declining southern California.
So California is going to test aroad charge program as a stopgap. The
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state is recruiting about eight hundred driversto participate in a six month study we'll
start next year. Drivers will berequired to pay road charges each month based
on the number of miles driven.For their participation, California will pay each
person about four hundred dollars in giftcards. They will also get a gas
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tax refund at the end of thepilot program to sign up at caoadcharge dot
com. Okay, so they're gonnapay you in gift cards. I know
it's legit, but it sounds soscammy, doesn't it. It's like when
you get the phone calls it sayshello and from the IRS, and we're
going to arrest you for your taxesnot paid. You need to send us
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a target gift card. No,listen, one, you want us to
stop thinking that gift cards are partof a scam. Stop using gift cards
as payment. And then the otherdeal is this, we're going to go
to a mileage tax as we phaseout gasoline, We're gonna go mileage tax.
Where I run into issues is thatthe taxes and the fees that we
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pay on our electric bills right nowis higher than anywhere else in the country.
Our cost for power is so outrageous, and then we pay fees on
top of fees, on top offees, on top of taxes on that
You know what, why don't youhit up some of the power companies and
grab some of those fees to startcompensating for the gas taxes that you're falling
(21:26):
short on instead of charging us moremileage taxes. If we're moving to electric
vehicles, why don't you go aheadand grab that fee from so cal Edison,
SDGENI or Pgenie. Why don't wego ahead and do that California?
Oh no, listen, I wouldbe very popular. But my ideas are
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not practical, but very popular,no doubt about that. You're already collecting
too many taxes collect from the peoplewho are ripping us all off. Do
that unbelievable. There is there's aproblem in America, and that problem is
we can't relate. You're listening toKFI AM six forty on demand off air,
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the debate rages on. I'm gonnabring it right out here in the
open again, Calea. Have youcome to the conclusion then that mosquitoes are
in fact the deadliest animal on earth? Well? I, oh, whoa?
That was that was crazy? Sorry? Yeah, I feel like I
got called out and thinking if amosquito was to bite me at maybe they
are pretty scary and maybe I shouldreconsider but I do want to say I
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wasn't saying they aren't dangerous at all. I just don't think they're number one.
Okay, but we haven't found anythingthat comes anything. There's something we'll
literally call an assassin, doesn't matter. There's a murder hornet too, but
it doesn't kill as many people asmosquitoes. Well, yeah, I guess
that's the point. And according tothis list, mosquitos apparently are number one
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over humans, which okay, andsnakes, really snakes, come on snakes.
Here's the good news. The goodnews is that mosquitoes aren't so bad
in the United States because we haveinoculations for so many of the diseases that
that they tend to carry, right, so yellow fever and things like that,
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Like we don't have we have vaccines, we have invoculations, we have
control measures. But in remote placesin the cradle of Earth Africa, still
getting supplies to people is very challenging, very difficult. In fact, I
think I didn't Bill Gates, isn'tpart of his whole deal? Like,
doesn't he do water and they're tryingto get mosquito nets to villages? Isn't
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that part of his whole Gates foundation, according to Google. Yes, yeah
that's what I thought. We gota we got a talk back for you
and for me. Yeah, foryou, this guy says. I mean,
he obviously is a smart dude.He's with me. Here's what he
says. Lady lady, that's you. That's okay. Congratulations, lady.
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You never had a title of nobilityin a while. I've made it.
Yeah, lady, you're gonna loseyour ground when you get bit by mosquito.
Yeah that has West Nile. Thereyou go, or something exotic,
there you go, exact Mosquito's gonnabe crying like a baby lady, like
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a baby lady, the baby lady. Yeah, baby lady, baby lady,
Yeah you are Wow. Well thefairy's not wrong. He's right.
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Cry if I got less Nile,how would you cry? Apparently? Whoy
that's right. Yeah, he doesa really good admentation of me. That's
pretty. Baby ladies crying baby lady, wow, Wow, lady lady sucks
being a baby lady. But I'mhappy not to have wes all and lay
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it sucks. Yeah, just calledout man. Yeah I will cry like
a baby. Yeah, I'm ababy. I don't want this guy to
be on the show. He's prettycool cat. He's a pretty cool cat.
He's an actor, he does impressions. I see nothing wrong with this
guy. Hey, lady, hehasn't he hasn't worked since the Budweiser commercials
in the nineties. Though, whatthat It's nice to bring that guy back.
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That's right, that's right. Ihappen to hear one of the promos
that we're running for Gary and Shannon, and they were talking, I think,
in the promo about AI, andhe said, you know, the
chat GPT just released their their latestchat bot. I guess. And it's
supposed to be able to talk withyou have almost full conversations, which is
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pretty cool. I think this iswe're seeing the evolution of what we all
expected AI was going to be.That it would it would be a personal
assistant for anybody that wanted one,right, which is cool. So much
so that you could say, hey, find me the best price for cabbage
and order it, and AI wouldof course respond with something like, you
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don't like cabbage, stupid, it'sgross, right, So thank you,
uh chat GPT for doing that.I am curious about this, and there
have been a lot of comparisons madeyou remember that movie her Joaquin Phoenix Fell
in Love with the AI, whichwas Scarlett Johansson was the AI. Yeah,
yeah, it was kind of Itwasn't a great film, but the
premise was pretty fun. Yeah yeah, I mean it was kind of a
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It was a bit dystopian, alittle bit creepy, And now we're seeing
that we're very close to that beinga reality. Oh I'm miss stupid.
Evidently, loneliness is a problem,as we all know, a lot of
people are being shut in, especiallythe elderly that are without others. And
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we saw this really come to lightduring COVID when you might have maybe you
lost dad years back, and momlives by yourself, and then you couldn't
go see mom because of quarantines,and we were all afraid. We certainly
didn't want mom to catch COVID andwe didn't want to be the ones to
give it to Mom. But thenwe know that loneliness is a real issue,
and it continues to be a realissue whether you're older or not.
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Loneliness is a problem for millions ofpeople. So the thinking is AI may
be able to provide you with somesemblance of companionship. You simply come home,
you say, hi AI. Idon't know if you name your AI.
Everybody's naming it like Barred or Idon't know if you're talking with Is
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Kortana still a thing? Or Microsoftis moving away from that, right,
they're going to copilot Barred is gogoal Siri on Apple or your Amazon thing?
Right, these are all early stagesof AI. In fact, I
think that there's gonna be AI incorporatedinto new operating systems on Apple. They're
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going to try to increase the viabilityof Siria, which was cutting edge at
the time, but of course it'ssort of fallen behind. But I was
reading this op ed that I thoughtwas really good. New York Times had
it and they were saying, it'snot really a substitute for other people.
Here's what they said, and Ithought there's value to this. Why I
worry about chatting with bots as apotential solution to loneliness is that it could
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be an approach that blunts the feelingsjust enough that it discourages or even prevents
people from taking that step off thecouch toward making real connections with others.
And some research indicates that a lackof human touch can exacerbate feelings of isolation.
They also go ahead if someone's alreadylone and not socialized and or engaging
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with humans as they have access to. Yeah, I think this is an
okay alternative because it's better than nothing, right. Yeah, they've had that
option to engage in touch and they'renot doing that, so I think it's
a good option. So I'm thatwas sort of my thought too. It's
not a it's not a it's nota solution, but it certainly is a
step for some people that will bebeneficial. I think their argument is that
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the downside is that it may discourageother people who otherwise would be able to
find real connections. They do saythis, which I thought was kind of
funny. Some of the companies thatare pouring money into developing AI are among
those that are putting return to officemandates in effect, so they certainly believe
in the value of human interaction onsome level, and I thought that was
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I thought that was really curious too. So we do have billions of dollars
being dumped into developing the AI,and some people are saying, wait a
minute, you're spending billions of dollarson that, But shouldn't we be investing
those billions of dollars and things likehousing and parks and libraries and other social
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infrastructures that can help people build realconnections. And I find that this is
one of the fallacies people always usewhen it comes to spending always, So
you have people say I can't believethat Microsoft is spending so much money on
(30:33):
developing the next Windows, or Ican't believe Apple is spending so much money
on putting out their next iPhone.You know how many homeless people they could
help with that money, Yeah,lots, lots. They can help a
lot of homeless people one time.And that's the fallacy. There's no return
on investment when you just hand moneyout, and charities charity has to be
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part of the overall corporate structure.There's no sense in dumping billions of dollars
into developing evs when you could spendbillions of dollars to get homeless vets off
the street. Right. But ifyou spend billions of dollars on evs,
it's meant to generate trillions. Soif you develop something that people want and
they give you their money, thenyou've got money that you can uses profit
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development, and you can create analtruistic arm of your company, just like
we mentioned the Bill and Milinda GatesFoundation to try to stop mosquitoes from getting
Kayla. If you just hand yourmoney out to people who are less fortunate,
people aren't opening their wallets for that. So this is one of those
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arising tide lifts all ships situations,and I do think there is benefit in
seeing some corporate advancement. The problem, of course, in my opinion with
capitalism is that it puts maximizing profitsat the forefront. And I'm not anti
capitalist. I think capitalism is thebest economic model that we have on the
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planet, but I also think it'sfar from perfect. And one of the
issues is it puts maximizing profits first. In other words, you really shouldn't
create an altruistic or charitable arm unlessyou can see a return out of that
investment. I don't necessarily like that. I'd like to see sustain corporate growth
with sustain corporate partnership making a bettersociety. Not everybody has the same take.
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I know I sound like a socialist, I'm not, but I know
people saying you're soft hearted coward iswhat you are. You're just a you're
a big baby lady, Baby lady, that's what you are. Wow,
that's right. I'll tell you wherebusiness is booming. Youth for the youth
will go young or dumb. Nextyou're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
(32:55):
Wow, wosh right, a newbill and CALLI is going to get
the knockdown because it's dumb. Hereit is kat La with the story on
anti aging for kids. Aawmakers inSacramento rejected a bill that would ban the
sale of anti aging skin products toyoung kids. The law failed to advance
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beyond the State Assembly Appropriations Committee yesterday. It would have prohibited kids under thirteen
years old from buying over the skin, over the counter skin creams, lotions,
and serums containing vitamin A and otherderivatives. The bill followed a social
media trend called Sephora kids. Yeah, with children buying and using skincare products.
(33:38):
Oh okay, all right, sowhat's the problem. The problem is,
Oh, you know what is itharmful to the kids? Well,
it could be. It could bementally harmful. It may stunt their emotional
development and their acceptance of themselves andpush us more toward a society that values
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looks over someone's person. Stop it. Here's the truth. There is no
better time to try to look youngthan when you're young. You know where
most of us go wrong. I'mforty six and my wife just got me
some oil of a lay skin motionwith SPF in it. You know why
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I have a liver spot on myface. I got a liver spot on
my face. I'm forty six.You know what. I just started working
with this. It's a company calledBlack Girls Sunscreen, and they had a
podcast that I produce, and I'veactually learned the importance of sunscreen and sun
protection hugely important and it doesn't matteryour age. I'm sorry that you have
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a liver spot or whatever on yourbutt, but you should have been But
I will say that, yeah,you should have been using sunscreen for a
long time and it would have beenthat spot right. Yeah. And if
I had started using other face creamswhen I was young, I could have
kept my my skin taut and apractive well into my later years. Instead,
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I just look like a middle agedwhite guy with a liver spot now
on his face. We learned thesethings too late in life. I can't
undo that either, can I?Yeah, you can I'm sure I can.
I gotta talk with dermatologists and seeif I get Otherwise, I'm gonna
have to get a Mike Tyson facetattoo to cover it up. That's the
only thing you're missing, Chriss.Honestly, that's what I need. I
can't believe you don't have one already. Hey, what is the difference?
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I really don't. I genuinely don'tknow. You got to would you call
it a black Girl sunscreen? Well, it's just that's the name of the
company. It's not necessarily a differencewithin this within the sunscreen, that's just
the name of the company. Doesthe skin react differently? I get the
feeling, like, listen, youmay not have noticed this, Kailer.
I'm not black, You're not,no, so yeah, So I really
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don't know, Like, is itobviously the skin response to the UV raised
the same, But is it evenmore dangerous if you're black because maybe you
don't you're not burning like the visiblesigns. Actually yes, I actually just
learned that with the episode I justproduced. It actually is a little bit
more dangerous because we don't react aseasily. We're not turning red, we
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don't get sunburned, so we don'tunderstand the effects that it's having. A
lot of the times when we dogo to the dermatologists are going to get
our skin checked out, it's alittle bit too late because we're not getting
you know, the patches or thered marks. It doesn't mean that the
sun isn't having the same reaction.But Black Girl sunscreen is actually for everybody
though, although it's called that,and you don't have the little white cast
that you get sometimes with the sunscreenbrands. Yeah, yeah, it just
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it just goes on like lotion.It's really really good stuff. So,
uh, thank you for allowing meto ask that question, and you sound
like a giant racist because I reallydon't know. It's a genuine question,
and I thought there's got to bethere's there has to be a difference,
right, So thank you. Iappreciate that. God it wasn't so ignorant.
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Thank god my question had a reasonableno, you're green. If it
hadn't've been like no, of course, dummy, what do you think people
are different? Ignorant white guy dummy? Anyway, So anyway, California says,
listen, kids, stay young aslong as you can pack on that
vitamin A and vitamin C and allthe other stuff, and spend way too
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much money on the brand name.Nonsense. Because now here's the other side
of this. The wellness industry inAmerica's worth five hundred billion dollars and globally
two trillion dollars, which is reallyimpressive since we have such a small portion
of the overall population, and yetwe make up a quarter of the wellness
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industry. Nice. Eighty two percentof American consumers now say that wellness is
a top priority in their everyday lives, and the cost of keeping up with
supplements and spa sessions is rising.Per capita, spending on wellness in North
America is five thousand dollars. InEurope it's just shy of sixteen hundred dollars
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that's converted with exchange rate and everythingelse. I would also say that we
spend money on dentists here in theUnited States, which they don't do in
Europe. Evidently, you can goto extraordinary lengths if you have the money.
There's invite only pilates classes at seventyfive dollars a session, facelifts for
two hundred thousand dollars, and eliteclubs are charging thousands and monthly fees for
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saunas and ice baths. Be honest, though, the monthly fees are basically
there to keep riff raffle like usout. It's not because their ice baths
are better. It's just so theydon't have to deal with us. Wow,
yeah, exactly. High end Jimjust rolled out forty thousand dollars a
year longevity add ons. Customers aregetting access to individually tailored training and nutrition
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programs, sleep coaching and massages andmore. I just thought if I had
a lot of money, I wouldhire a personal chef. It's always been
one of the things I want todo, a chef and a driver for
myself personally. You want the driver, yeah, what is there? Because
you're a bad driver? Yeah okay, ye see I'm a bad eater.
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So it's same motivation behind all ofit. Yeah, yeah, I love
that all right. Speaking of oldthe next hour, Kayla gets some vindication
for something she said last week.I thought she was nuts. She's not,
as I found it on TikTok,so it's totally true. And coming
up after we take a look atnews, there's no business like sell business.
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