October 18, 2024 • 30 mins
Israel has confirmed that Sinwar is dead. Los Angeles...needs 22 Billion dollars to fix the homeless problem in the county. Let's talk about the business of Haunted Houses please. Let's just say baby food are for toddlers not for kids or adults that need to lose weight.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings KFI AM six forty, the Bill Handles show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Some of the stories that we are watching for you
here at KFI Southern California will be under a red
flag warning starting almost now, technically at nine o'clock, but
let's just say we're under a red flag warning now
because guess what's coming back? Those Santa Anna wins increasing
the fire risk, windy dry gusts up to fifty miles
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an hour, and that will be in effect this warning
through late tomorrow afternoon. The Dodgers beat the Mets last
night ten to two in Game four of the Championships Series.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
They lead the series three games to one.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Game four, which could decide it all in send the
Dodgers to the World Series starts at two oh eight.
So everybody who's at work today sounds like you're coming
down with a cold, all right. The other huge news,
international news is that Hamas leader Yahat Sinhwar.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Is dead. Now this listen.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
He is.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
He was he the leader of Hamas kind of sort of.
So first I guess I want to tell you what
happened and how he ended up so very dead, and
then I'll tell you why I said he maybe he's
not really the leader of Hamas or wasn't. And then
we'll get into the implications. And we're going to do
all of that before I have to take a break.
So watch this.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Here we go, here's my Marconi reel. Israel has been.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Trying to kill this guy, Yah Yah Sinoar for a
long time, and hein't been looking for him for a
long time, and he has been able to elude them
up until now. You know, one time they got a
beat on his location. By the time they got there,
he had fled, but he got out so close to.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
When the Israelis got there.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
There was a cup of coffee that he left behind
and it was still hot. Well, this time they got him,
but they didn't even know that they got him. The
fact of the matter is, for all their trying, it
took happenstance for Israel to kill Yaya Sinwar. Israel was
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running a patrol and it was a training mission, training
soldiers to become group leaders. And while they were doing that,
they saw three guys come out of a building, three
armed guys, and they fired and there was a scattering,
and one of the guys ran into a building, so
they sent a drone in to see, Hey, what's going
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on in there? And where is he in this building?
And they send the drone in, and the drones you
can see on the drone footage there's a guy sitting
in a chair.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
He doesn't look too good.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He looks like maybe he's already injured. He sees the drone,
he throws a stick at the drone and that would
be the last act of defiance for Yaya Sinoar, because
Israel opened fire. The building collapsed, and the next morning,
as they were sifting through the rubble, they found his body.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It looked like him.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
They wanted to be sure, so they tested his dental
records and his DNA and confirmed and have now announced
that they did kill ya Ya sin War. How did
they have all that information about him, you might ask, Well,
check this out. He was in prison in Israel for
a long time, this guy, and while he was in prison,
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he had cancer, and they gave him treatment for his cancer,
which is how they got all of this physical and
biological information about him. So he is dead now. Remember
I said, is he was he really the leader of Hamas?
He was certainly the leader of Hamas.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
In Gaza.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
But there's a group of exiled leaders that are in
a Cutter and their presence brings me to the last
part of this headline, what's next. You know, we've been
in the United States have been saying there should be
a ceasefire, and a lot of the world has been
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saying there's been a ceasefire, and many in Israel have
been saying there should be a ceasefire. And the main reason,
and this is true, the main reason there hasn't been
a ceasefire is ya Ya Sinwar, who was vehemently opposed
to any ceasefire. He's dead. The exiled leaders in Cutter
are They're more pragmatic. Also, they will listen to Cutter
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and Egypt. So it is possible now finally some kind
of a ceasefire can be had. But it depends a
lot now on Benjamin ne Yahoo in Israel, who is
not on the same page as even a lot of
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his own military leaders and intelligence officials, who say, you're
never gonna completely beat a moss.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's not possible.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
A cease fire is the best way to go, you know,
Butt in Yahoo, it's impossible to know what he's gonna
do now, what he could do is see this as
a huge win. Take the opportunity now to shift gears
into negotiating a ceasefire and getting the remaining hostages, those
that are still alive out. He could take that off ramp,
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or he could decide he's gonna fight until there's literally
not one single person who says they're part of AMAS anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
And we don't know yet which path he's gonna take.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
But this is hopefully a big turning point in this
situation because enough is enough, although after hundreds of years,
saying enough is enough is pretty feeble.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I just realized, let's get some news.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
From Amy King, and then when we come back, can
I borrow.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Twenty two billion dollars? Please?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I got a problem I got to solve. Yeah, that's
gonna be the city of Los Angeles very soon.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Some of the top stories we're watching for you. The
Department of Justice has announced that an Olympic snowboarder, Ryan
James Wedding is his name. He was at the Salt
Lake City Olympics that when he was not snowboarding, he
was building an international criminal empire that he shipped or
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had shipped thousands of pounds of cocaine through southern California
that he ordered murders and a man hunting on for him.
There's a fifty thousand dollars reward for information leading to
his arrest. His partner was arrested last week in Mexico.
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If his partner is smart, his partner is a singing
like a bird. All right, Let's get to the issue
at hand. Los Angeles homelessness. You know it, you love it.
You hear about it constantly. You know why you hear
about it constantly because it's a huge problem. It affects
every aspect of our lives, and it seems like it
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can never be solved. What is it going to take
to solve this problem of homelessness in La Well, ladies
and gentlemen, we have a report now, yes, a report,
all is well. A report has been revealed. It was
done by the Housing Department in the City of Los Angeles,
and it calculated the actual cost of fully solving homelessness
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in Los Angeles. What would even have to happen to
say it's fully solved? You've got about and this fluctuates
all the time, but around forty five thousand people who
are homeless, and about thirty thousand plus or minus are unsheltered.
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And the goal is what they call it, functional zero.
That would mean that it would be like that homelessness
in Los Angeles would be like measles that you basically
don't see it. Yes, rarely, there's some measles, but it's
rare and it's brief. And I guess the analogy to
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continue would be, and if somebody got the measles, they
can immediately get treated. And if somebody in a rare
circumstance needed a shelter bed, they could get one. That's
the idea of functional zero, the all but complete eradication
of any homelessness at any given time. So you will
need to build, according to this report, sixty thousand units
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of homeless housing housing. You'd need some supportive housing developments,
maybe twenty thousand of those. You would create another twelve
and a half thousand through a rental assistance program. Then,
remember we're trying to completely eradicate the problem. We have
to do something for the elderly or people suffering from
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severe mental illness. You're going to need certain special facilities
where there can be a high level of care for
the people who need it, and you need maybe nine
ten thousand of those beds, and then you still need
homeless shelters for situations for people who have never been
homeless and now they're suddenly homeless. And the goal here
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is uh, maybe ten, maybe twenty thousand beds in a
homeless shelter. So all that stuff you put into place,
and I think we can agree if you had all
that stuff, we wouldn't have a homelessness problem.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I mean, we could still have a homelessness problem.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
As to the people who for whom homelessness is not
a condition that they are experiencing, that it's a lifestyle
that they are choosing. Now, I'm not real big on
demonizing the homeless. I don't feel that way, but I
do acknowledge there are some people who don't have to
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be homeless. They're choosing to live that way for whatever
reasons they are, and they're going to be probably intractable
when it comes to help that's available. But Okay, I
don't know that it's a huge percentage of the homeless population,
and maybe that's a different issue. If you had all
of these housing units that they're talking about, then I
guess even ten years from now, even twenty years from now,
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if the population grows, and if the homeless population grows,
it won't grow because there's excess capacity to just help
them out right away, all right, So let's flip all
the cards. How much is this going to cost? Twenty
one point seven billion dollars?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Thank you? Okay, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Wait hold on, because we're talking about over ten years,
twenty one point seven billion dollars, an amount of money
that I can understand only intellectually. I can't feel it
in my bones, like what it would be like to
have that much money. But it's over a decade, and
there is funding. There's local funding, there's state funding, there's
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federal funding. So let's take a look at how much
we already have in the pipeline because maybe we're cool. No,
we have less than seven billion over the next ten
years already, So we've got to come up with I'm
not going to do math this early in the morning,
but many billions of dollars will need to come from
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somewhere where we don't have it now in order for
this plan to be put into place. Oh good, guess
what the La Times did. The math for me, fifteen
point four billion dollars, that's what we need. That's more
than the City of Los Angeles' annual budget. It's an
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impossible amount of money to find. I think, and maybe maybe,
you know, maybe I'm missing something. Maybe there's a bunch
of unbelievably wealthy, uh sugar daddies whose thing.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Isn't young women.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Their thing is helping the homeless, and La could become
their sugar baby by you know, building homeless shelters and
the and sugar daddy will pay for it. But I
don't think so. So, I mean, it's kind of discouraging news.
And and this is this is largely because in previous year, decades,
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really we haven't put enough into it. I mean, this
is what happens when you neglect something. At some point
it becomes a problem. You decide, oh, we really do
have to fix it finally, and then the price tag
is astronomical and you probably could have spent more modest
amounts of money regularly, but we didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Let's get some news from Amy King.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And then it is spooky season, and haunted houses are fun.
It depends on how haunted the haunted house is I'm
gonna I'm gonna tell you about like the extremes of
the haunted house selection that you might have available to you.
It's also now haunted houses are big business.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I'll tell you all about it.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
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We're watching some stories for you here at KFI so
Cal under a red flag warning starts at nine am today.
Santa Wins are coming back.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You know what they are.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
They're dry, they gust They really increase the fire risk
and this will be in effect through late tomorrow afternoon.
For weather nerds, Gusts are expected up to fifty miles
per hour, so just be careful. And the Dodgers beat
the Mets last night. Score was tended too. It was
Game four of the Championship Series.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
They lead the series three to one.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Game four today, which could decide at all and send
LA to the World Series, starts at two eight in
the afternoon, So please, you're gonna need to invent if
you're at work. A religious holiday that nobody knew existed before. Okay,
it is spooky season. Halloween is coming. One of the
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things that people like to do is go to haunted houses.
The big theme parks usually do some kind of spooky
themes of various I'm gonna say, various degrees of effort
and effectiveness. I remember one year I was visiting my
family in Virginia and it was Halloween time and we
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went to King's Dominion and they had I forgot what
they called it, but it was some kind of fright
night thing or whatever you know, throughout the park and
this is all it was. And I kid you not,
it was fog machines everywhere, and then people would jump
out at you and that's all they did. Contrast that
with say Universal that does a full blown special effects,
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very impressive haunted house experience that I did go through
one year live on the air. Michelle Cube, I'm sure
you were here, Neil. I think you were here at
that time. I don't know if oh yeah, I remember
if you remember me going through there and screaming my
stupid head off until But here's the thing I want
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to say about that that haunted house, because but it
was all very impressive, and also nobody jumped out at you.
They would there were there were scenes, and they were
well constructed, but then something would like jump toward you.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And I want to say also something. There's a difference
between scaring somebody and startling somebody, and it's the eat
It's the easiest thing in the world to startle somebody.
To fill a person with fear is very different. So
this but this haunted hot there was like a Freddy
Krueger room, and there was and then I went into
this room. I'll never forget this. And I go into
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this room and it's pitch black except all on the walls.
The walls are covered in glowing butterflies. Not scary button,
just butterflies, black light butterflies, and it's beautiful. And then
one of the butterflies starts flying around the room and
it turns out that butterfly was on the hands, on
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the gloves of a person who was all in black,
and they were moving around the room making the butterfly
on their hands fly. There was nothing scary, nothing jumped
out at you. It was just this fantastic experience. But
I guess it doesn't it's not really that you wouldn't
say that's what you would expect in a haunted house,
because it wasn't trying to scare you.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
But it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So this brings me to the business of these haunted houses.
It seems to me like running a haunted house is
kind of like running a restaurant. There's a lot of
startup costs. You got to lease property, you've got to
find actors, you makeup props, you've got to do if
you're gonna do a really elaborate one, you've got to
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get animatronics.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
You have to build things.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You have construction costs, lighting, you have technology that you
have to use sometimes for communication between the actors. You've
got to pay for safety training, you've got to market
the thing. You've got to have nice insurance, and it
can cost a million and a half dollars a year
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to run a haunted house. So, just like restaurants, a
lot of these haunted houses fail within three years, but
there's such a demand for them that for every haunted
house that fails and closes, another one crops up in
its place. Because guess what, And I don't know why
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the National Retail Federation necessarily did this survey, but they
did it, and they found that last Halloween, somewhere between
forty five and fifty million people visited a haunted house attraction.
It's a five hundred million dollar a year industry. But
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kind of like with restaurants. You've got one restaurant, it's
crowded all the time, you can't get in, everybody wants
to go there.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
And then here's three other restaurants and they're empty.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And there are a small number of haunted houses that
are dominating the market. And some of them get reputations
and they become the hot thing, and others of them
fall by the wayside. And there's a huge range in
these haunted houses. You know, some of them are very quaint.
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You go in and a guy's dressed like a ghost
and he goes, ooh. And then you go in another
room and there's, you know, a guy with an axe
and he goes like, ha ha, I have an axe,
and that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
And then you have some haunted house experiences that the fact.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
That anybody would think to do this to people, and
that anybody would pay to have it done to them
below my mind. For example, in la there's a haunted
house event. It actually goes on all year round. It's
called Heretic House. And you go in there and they
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grab you, they tie you up, They kind of push
you around, they fake somefing you, They put you into
coffins and nail it shut. I don't know that they're
really nailing it shut, but that's what you experience. Sometimes
your clothes get torn. I don't know if you've heard
of blackout. Haunted House started in New York. It's expanded
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to la as well. You go in there and you
get water ported, you get suffocated with plastic. Again, I
assume it's all simulated and nobody's in any real danger.
But does that matter when somebody puts a plastic bag
over your head and one of these haunted houses, and
I think it's blackout? But if I'm wrong, I admit
that I'm only ninety percent sure that has this highly
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sexual component to it. And you go in a room
and there's like a naked woman in there, and it ends,
and I'm not sure they're still running the same thing.
And this is very gross what I'm about to say.
By the way, So if you're squeamish, or their kids,
or if they're kids, it's too late, sorry, But it
ends with somebody one of the casts. They vomit into
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a toilet and you have to reach into that toilet
to get.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
A key to get out.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Man, that's a world away from cute butterflies flying around.
Wait what, there's I'm telling you this real vomit or
probably not, probably not, but but does it again?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Does it? Ultimately?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Mat?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I mean, I think most people know what they're in
store for. If you want to go to blackout, you
know what's gonna happen. So I can't put myself in
the mind of a person who would want that. Can
I put myself in the mind of a person who'd
want to go through a thing? And there's kind of
cool special effects and it's kind of scary, but it's
not like it's not like traumatic. Yeah, not the other thing.
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So when you go to a haunted house this Halloween season,
just know that somewhere behind it is a proprietor who's
talking to his bookkeeper about whether they're going to be able.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
To stay in business. Let's get some news from Amy King.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And then, oh, my gosh, how at what age should
your child stop eating babyfood? You just think about the
answer to that question, when should they stop eating baby
food and start eating regular food? And then I'm gonna
tell you about a phenomenon that is getting larger and
larger where let's just say, kids are eating baby food
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way past when they should.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Some stories that we're watching for you here at KFI.
I don't know if you remember this Olympic snowboarder Ryan
James wedding. He was at the Salt Lake City Olympics
and the Department of Justice has announced that they want
him arrested big time, in as soon as possible, saying
alleging that he built an international criminal empire shipping thousands
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of pounds of cocaine through southern California, that.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
He was ordering murders, and they're looking for him.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
There's a fifty thousand dollars reward for information leading to
his arrest. And he had a partner, or has a
partner named Andrew Clark, who was arrested last week in Mexico.
So I don't know if mister Clark has any helpful
info about where this guy is. But also, if you're
arrested for being part of a criminal scheme and then
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you lead the authorities to somebody else that they're looking for,
can you still get the fifty thousand dollars hmmm.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Well, I don't like this.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
It's none of my business, and it's not hurting me,
by the way, but I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Imagine a woman.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
And every week and or imagine a man, you know what,
just or a two spirit, it doesn't matter. Imagine a
person and this is part of their routine. Every week
they go to Target. They fill up their shopping cart
with those baby food pouches. So kind of like a gogurt,
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but it's purade baby food in there. It's got a
little nozzle and they fill the cart every week twenty
four pack. After twenty four pack, you take it home
to give to their babies. No, No, to give to
their eighteen month old and four year old.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Now you might think, well, this is some isolated.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Weirdo who's feeding their kids that are way too old
for baby food in a pouch.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
No, it's a growing trend.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
The sales of these food pouches have increased since twenty ten,
and that is like fourteen years ago, but nine hundred
percent food pouches. Baby food pouches, Now, I would sell
the old fashioned puree in a jar. And there's a
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bunch of reasons for it that are probably immediately obvious.
You've gonna feed your baby baby food from a jar.
You gotta open the jar. You gotta get a spoon,
and you gotta sit there, and you gotta do the
airplane thing, and you gotta do it. You want to
feed your kid baby food and a pouch, you go,
You open it and you go here, hold it and
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suck on it, and you're done.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
You can feed yourself. The problem is, that's.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Fine if it's actually a little child who's supposed to
be eating baby food. But what's happening is parents are
giving this stuff to their kids as snacks and sometimes
as meals until they're one and two and three and
four and five and six and seven and I'll stop
counting now. And this is bad. First of all, it
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just seems weird and odd. It's like a mom still
breastfeeding her kid and the kid is twelve. But also
it's apparently bad for various reasons according to various experts.
So one problem is the normal way of getting a
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baby to become an adult who eats regular food is
that at some point you stop it with the baby
food and you start doing the little cut up real
food because babyfood all has the same texture it's just
that smooth puree.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
And you need to start introducing kids to.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Different textures and of course different flavors.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Well, if you keep throwing these pouches.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
At your kid, they are never going to adopt eating
anything else. And there's some people, including this pediatric gastroenterrologist
at the University of Tennessee, doctor Mark Corkins, and he said,
this trend of feeding your kids these baby food pouches,
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even when they're not babies anymore, it's actually turning out
the pickiest of eaters. You've got kids that are now eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
They will not eat vegetables, they won't eat regular fruit,
They'll only eat pure in a pouch. There's another problem
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that says you have to learn how to chew food.
You are not born being able to chew food. You
have to learn how to do it because and I
didn't know it because I eat now and I just
shove food down and I'm not thinking about what my
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mouth and jaw is doing. But apparently you need thirty
different muscles to all coordinate and use your tongue and
your jaw to manipulate and chew and swallow food. And
kids learn it because you start giving them little chunks
of food. You keep giving them. You're ad they never
have to learn that skill. Hey, I think we've yet seen,
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you know, a nation of twelve year olds who don't
know how to chew?
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Hey, Wayne, Yeah, A strange story. Back in my single
days and thinner, better looking days, not one, but at
least three different women that I dated that were either
actresses or let's say in front of the camera. They
I would be at their house and they'd go in
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the fridge to grab something and it'd be filled with
baby food. They would eat baby food to keep their weight.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, well it needs to needs to stop.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
But I mean as an adult, you're like, really, you know,
mashed peas well?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
They look convenience.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
But if you've all listen this way I feel about it.
So if you're a baby, you should eat baby food,
and if you're a toddler, you should be eating regular food.
And you know what though, if that happens and you're
an adult and you know how to eat regular food
and you choose to eat baby food, I feel like
at that point it comes back around and you know,
knock yourself out. But these kids can't decide about how
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they're fed and how it might hurt their development. Also,
baby food is not regulated the same way by the FDA.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Neil you probably remember this.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
It was just this year earlier, all those cinnamon apple
sauce pouches.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Oh yeah, because they were full of lead. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
You know how much lead you should have in your diet?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Zero? Yes? Is that the correct amount? Yes?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
There is.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
There is no amount of lead that is okay for
your system. Iron great, copper, less great lead?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Uh huh none? What about selenium?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Oh my gosh, I cannot start my day without selenium.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Hell all right, we're gonna get some news from Amy
King and and this is odd. There's a proposition that's
going to be on the ballot in November and nobody
is against it, and it still might not pass.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
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Some of the stories that we are watching for you
here at KFI Southern California will be under a red
flag warning starting almost now, technically at nine o'clock, but
let's just say we're under a red flag warning now
because guess what's coming back? Those Santa Anna wins increasing
the fire risk, windy dry gusts up to fifty miles
(00:31):
an hour, and that will be in effect this warning
through late tomorrow afternoon. The Dodgers beat the Mets last
night ten to two in Game four of the Championships Series.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
They lead the series three games to one.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Game four, which could decide it all in send the
Dodgers to the World Series starts at two oh eight.
So everybody who's at work today sounds like you're coming
down with a cold, all right. The other huge news,
international news is that Hamas leader Yahat Sinhwar.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Is dead. Now this listen.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
He is.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
He was he the leader of Hamas kind of sort of.
So first I guess I want to tell you what
happened and how he ended up so very dead, and
then I'll tell you why I said he maybe he's
not really the leader of Hamas or wasn't. And then
we'll get into the implications. And we're going to do
all of that before I have to take a break.
So watch this.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Here we go, here's my Marconi reel. Israel has been.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Trying to kill this guy, Yah Yah Sinoar for a
long time, and hein't been looking for him for a
long time, and he has been able to elude them
up until now. You know, one time they got a
beat on his location. By the time they got there,
he had fled, but he got out so close to.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
When the Israelis got there.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
There was a cup of coffee that he left behind
and it was still hot. Well, this time they got him,
but they didn't even know that they got him. The
fact of the matter is, for all their trying, it
took happenstance for Israel to kill Yaya Sinwar. Israel was
(02:25):
running a patrol and it was a training mission, training
soldiers to become group leaders. And while they were doing that,
they saw three guys come out of a building, three
armed guys, and they fired and there was a scattering,
and one of the guys ran into a building, so
they sent a drone in to see, Hey, what's going
(02:45):
on in there? And where is he in this building?
And they send the drone in, and the drones you
can see on the drone footage there's a guy sitting
in a chair.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
He doesn't look too good.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He looks like maybe he's already injured. He sees the drone,
he throws a stick at the drone and that would
be the last act of defiance for Yaya Sinoar, because
Israel opened fire. The building collapsed, and the next morning,
as they were sifting through the rubble, they found his body.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It looked like him.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
They wanted to be sure, so they tested his dental
records and his DNA and confirmed and have now announced
that they did kill ya Ya sin War. How did
they have all that information about him, you might ask, Well,
check this out. He was in prison in Israel for
a long time, this guy, and while he was in prison,
(03:37):
he had cancer, and they gave him treatment for his cancer,
which is how they got all of this physical and
biological information about him. So he is dead now. Remember
I said, is he was he really the leader of Hamas?
He was certainly the leader of Hamas.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
In Gaza.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
But there's a group of exiled leaders that are in
a Cutter and their presence brings me to the last
part of this headline, what's next. You know, we've been
in the United States have been saying there should be
a ceasefire, and a lot of the world has been
(04:21):
saying there's been a ceasefire, and many in Israel have
been saying there should be a ceasefire. And the main reason,
and this is true, the main reason there hasn't been
a ceasefire is ya Ya Sinwar, who was vehemently opposed
to any ceasefire. He's dead. The exiled leaders in Cutter
are They're more pragmatic. Also, they will listen to Cutter
(04:46):
and Egypt. So it is possible now finally some kind
of a ceasefire can be had. But it depends a
lot now on Benjamin ne Yahoo in Israel, who is
not on the same page as even a lot of
(05:08):
his own military leaders and intelligence officials, who say, you're
never gonna completely beat a moss.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's not possible.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
A cease fire is the best way to go, you know,
Butt in Yahoo, it's impossible to know what he's gonna
do now, what he could do is see this as
a huge win. Take the opportunity now to shift gears
into negotiating a ceasefire and getting the remaining hostages, those
that are still alive out. He could take that off ramp,
(05:42):
or he could decide he's gonna fight until there's literally
not one single person who says they're part of AMAS anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
And we don't know yet which path he's gonna take.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
But this is hopefully a big turning point in this
situation because enough is enough, although after hundreds of years,
saying enough is enough is pretty feeble.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I just realized, let's get some news.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
From Amy King, and then when we come back, can
I borrow.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Twenty two billion dollars? Please?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I got a problem I got to solve. Yeah, that's
gonna be the city of Los Angeles very soon.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Some of the top stories we're watching for you. The
Department of Justice has announced that an Olympic snowboarder, Ryan
James Wedding is his name. He was at the Salt
Lake City Olympics that when he was not snowboarding, he
was building an international criminal empire that he shipped or
(06:50):
had shipped thousands of pounds of cocaine through southern California
that he ordered murders and a man hunting on for him.
There's a fifty thousand dollars reward for information leading to
his arrest. His partner was arrested last week in Mexico.
(07:11):
If his partner is smart, his partner is a singing
like a bird. All right, Let's get to the issue
at hand. Los Angeles homelessness. You know it, you love it.
You hear about it constantly. You know why you hear
about it constantly because it's a huge problem. It affects
every aspect of our lives, and it seems like it
(07:32):
can never be solved. What is it going to take
to solve this problem of homelessness in La Well, ladies
and gentlemen, we have a report now, yes, a report,
all is well. A report has been revealed. It was
done by the Housing Department in the City of Los Angeles,
and it calculated the actual cost of fully solving homelessness
(07:58):
in Los Angeles. What would even have to happen to
say it's fully solved? You've got about and this fluctuates
all the time, but around forty five thousand people who
are homeless, and about thirty thousand plus or minus are unsheltered.
(08:20):
And the goal is what they call it, functional zero.
That would mean that it would be like that homelessness
in Los Angeles would be like measles that you basically
don't see it. Yes, rarely, there's some measles, but it's
rare and it's brief. And I guess the analogy to
(08:45):
continue would be, and if somebody got the measles, they
can immediately get treated. And if somebody in a rare
circumstance needed a shelter bed, they could get one. That's
the idea of functional zero, the all but complete eradication
of any homelessness at any given time. So you will
need to build, according to this report, sixty thousand units
(09:11):
of homeless housing housing. You'd need some supportive housing developments,
maybe twenty thousand of those. You would create another twelve
and a half thousand through a rental assistance program. Then,
remember we're trying to completely eradicate the problem. We have
to do something for the elderly or people suffering from
(09:32):
severe mental illness. You're going to need certain special facilities
where there can be a high level of care for
the people who need it, and you need maybe nine
ten thousand of those beds, and then you still need
homeless shelters for situations for people who have never been
homeless and now they're suddenly homeless. And the goal here
(09:55):
is uh, maybe ten, maybe twenty thousand beds in a
homeless shelter. So all that stuff you put into place,
and I think we can agree if you had all
that stuff, we wouldn't have a homelessness problem.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I mean, we could still have a homelessness problem.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
As to the people who for whom homelessness is not
a condition that they are experiencing, that it's a lifestyle
that they are choosing. Now, I'm not real big on
demonizing the homeless. I don't feel that way, but I
do acknowledge there are some people who don't have to
(10:36):
be homeless. They're choosing to live that way for whatever
reasons they are, and they're going to be probably intractable
when it comes to help that's available. But Okay, I
don't know that it's a huge percentage of the homeless population,
and maybe that's a different issue. If you had all
of these housing units that they're talking about, then I
guess even ten years from now, even twenty years from now,
(10:57):
if the population grows, and if the homeless population grows,
it won't grow because there's excess capacity to just help
them out right away, all right, So let's flip all
the cards. How much is this going to cost? Twenty
one point seven billion dollars?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Thank you? Okay, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Wait hold on, because we're talking about over ten years,
twenty one point seven billion dollars, an amount of money
that I can understand only intellectually. I can't feel it
in my bones, like what it would be like to
have that much money. But it's over a decade, and
there is funding. There's local funding, there's state funding, there's
(11:40):
federal funding. So let's take a look at how much
we already have in the pipeline because maybe we're cool. No,
we have less than seven billion over the next ten
years already, So we've got to come up with I'm
not going to do math this early in the morning,
but many billions of dollars will need to come from
(12:00):
somewhere where we don't have it now in order for
this plan to be put into place. Oh good, guess
what the La Times did. The math for me, fifteen
point four billion dollars, that's what we need. That's more
than the City of Los Angeles' annual budget. It's an
(12:21):
impossible amount of money to find. I think, and maybe maybe,
you know, maybe I'm missing something. Maybe there's a bunch
of unbelievably wealthy, uh sugar daddies whose thing.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Isn't young women.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Their thing is helping the homeless, and La could become
their sugar baby by you know, building homeless shelters and
the and sugar daddy will pay for it. But I
don't think so. So, I mean, it's kind of discouraging news.
And and this is this is largely because in previous year, decades,
(13:00):
really we haven't put enough into it. I mean, this
is what happens when you neglect something. At some point
it becomes a problem. You decide, oh, we really do
have to fix it finally, and then the price tag
is astronomical and you probably could have spent more modest
amounts of money regularly, but we didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Let's get some news from Amy King.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And then it is spooky season, and haunted houses are fun.
It depends on how haunted the haunted house is I'm
gonna I'm gonna tell you about like the extremes of
the haunted house selection that you might have available to you.
It's also now haunted houses are big business.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I'll tell you all about it.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
We're watching some stories for you here at KFI so
Cal under a red flag warning starts at nine am today.
Santa Wins are coming back.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You know what they are.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
They're dry, they gust They really increase the fire risk
and this will be in effect through late tomorrow afternoon.
For weather nerds, Gusts are expected up to fifty miles
per hour, so just be careful. And the Dodgers beat
the Mets last night. Score was tended too. It was
Game four of the Championship Series.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
They lead the series three to one.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Game four today, which could decide at all and send
LA to the World Series, starts at two eight in
the afternoon, So please, you're gonna need to invent if
you're at work. A religious holiday that nobody knew existed before. Okay,
it is spooky season. Halloween is coming. One of the
(14:46):
things that people like to do is go to haunted houses.
The big theme parks usually do some kind of spooky
themes of various I'm gonna say, various degrees of effort
and effectiveness. I remember one year I was visiting my
family in Virginia and it was Halloween time and we
(15:08):
went to King's Dominion and they had I forgot what
they called it, but it was some kind of fright
night thing or whatever you know, throughout the park and
this is all it was. And I kid you not,
it was fog machines everywhere, and then people would jump
out at you and that's all they did. Contrast that
with say Universal that does a full blown special effects,
(15:34):
very impressive haunted house experience that I did go through
one year live on the air. Michelle Cube, I'm sure
you were here, Neil. I think you were here at
that time. I don't know if oh yeah, I remember
if you remember me going through there and screaming my
stupid head off until But here's the thing I want
(15:54):
to say about that that haunted house, because but it
was all very impressive, and also nobody jumped out at you.
They would there were there were scenes, and they were
well constructed, but then something would like jump toward you.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And I want to say also something. There's a difference
between scaring somebody and startling somebody, and it's the eat
It's the easiest thing in the world to startle somebody.
To fill a person with fear is very different. So
this but this haunted hot there was like a Freddy
Krueger room, and there was and then I went into
this room. I'll never forget this. And I go into
(16:33):
this room and it's pitch black except all on the walls.
The walls are covered in glowing butterflies. Not scary button,
just butterflies, black light butterflies, and it's beautiful. And then
one of the butterflies starts flying around the room and
it turns out that butterfly was on the hands, on
(16:56):
the gloves of a person who was all in black,
and they were moving around the room making the butterfly
on their hands fly. There was nothing scary, nothing jumped
out at you. It was just this fantastic experience. But
I guess it doesn't it's not really that you wouldn't
say that's what you would expect in a haunted house,
because it wasn't trying to scare you.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
But it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So this brings me to the business of these haunted houses.
It seems to me like running a haunted house is
kind of like running a restaurant. There's a lot of
startup costs. You got to lease property, you've got to
find actors, you makeup props, you've got to do if
you're gonna do a really elaborate one, you've got to
(17:38):
get animatronics.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
You have to build things.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You have construction costs, lighting, you have technology that you
have to use sometimes for communication between the actors. You've
got to pay for safety training, you've got to market
the thing. You've got to have nice insurance, and it
can cost a million and a half dollars a year
(18:01):
to run a haunted house. So, just like restaurants, a
lot of these haunted houses fail within three years, but
there's such a demand for them that for every haunted
house that fails and closes, another one crops up in
its place. Because guess what, And I don't know why
(18:24):
the National Retail Federation necessarily did this survey, but they
did it, and they found that last Halloween, somewhere between
forty five and fifty million people visited a haunted house attraction.
It's a five hundred million dollar a year industry. But
(18:45):
kind of like with restaurants. You've got one restaurant, it's
crowded all the time, you can't get in, everybody wants
to go there.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
And then here's three other restaurants and they're empty.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And there are a small number of haunted houses that
are dominating the market. And some of them get reputations
and they become the hot thing, and others of them
fall by the wayside. And there's a huge range in
these haunted houses. You know, some of them are very quaint.
(19:15):
You go in and a guy's dressed like a ghost
and he goes, ooh. And then you go in another
room and there's, you know, a guy with an axe
and he goes like, ha ha, I have an axe,
and that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
And then you have some haunted house experiences that the fact.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
That anybody would think to do this to people, and
that anybody would pay to have it done to them
below my mind. For example, in la there's a haunted
house event. It actually goes on all year round. It's
called Heretic House. And you go in there and they
(19:54):
grab you, they tie you up, They kind of push
you around, they fake somefing you, They put you into
coffins and nail it shut. I don't know that they're
really nailing it shut, but that's what you experience. Sometimes
your clothes get torn. I don't know if you've heard
of blackout. Haunted House started in New York. It's expanded
(20:16):
to la as well. You go in there and you
get water ported, you get suffocated with plastic. Again, I
assume it's all simulated and nobody's in any real danger.
But does that matter when somebody puts a plastic bag
over your head and one of these haunted houses, and
I think it's blackout? But if I'm wrong, I admit
that I'm only ninety percent sure that has this highly
(20:40):
sexual component to it. And you go in a room
and there's like a naked woman in there, and it ends,
and I'm not sure they're still running the same thing.
And this is very gross what I'm about to say.
By the way, So if you're squeamish, or their kids,
or if they're kids, it's too late, sorry, But it
ends with somebody one of the casts. They vomit into
(21:02):
a toilet and you have to reach into that toilet
to get.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
A key to get out.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Man, that's a world away from cute butterflies flying around.
Wait what, there's I'm telling you this real vomit or
probably not, probably not, but but does it again?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Does it? Ultimately?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Mat?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I mean, I think most people know what they're in
store for. If you want to go to blackout, you
know what's gonna happen. So I can't put myself in
the mind of a person who would want that. Can
I put myself in the mind of a person who'd
want to go through a thing? And there's kind of
cool special effects and it's kind of scary, but it's
not like it's not like traumatic. Yeah, not the other thing.
(21:50):
So when you go to a haunted house this Halloween season,
just know that somewhere behind it is a proprietor who's
talking to his bookkeeper about whether they're going to be able.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
To stay in business. Let's get some news from Amy King.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And then, oh, my gosh, how at what age should
your child stop eating babyfood? You just think about the
answer to that question, when should they stop eating baby
food and start eating regular food? And then I'm gonna
tell you about a phenomenon that is getting larger and
larger where let's just say, kids are eating baby food
(22:26):
way past when they should.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Some stories that we're watching for you here at KFI.
I don't know if you remember this Olympic snowboarder Ryan
James wedding. He was at the Salt Lake City Olympics
and the Department of Justice has announced that they want
him arrested big time, in as soon as possible, saying
alleging that he built an international criminal empire shipping thousands
(22:53):
of pounds of cocaine through southern California, that.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
He was ordering murders, and they're looking for him.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
There's a fifty thousand dollars reward for information leading to
his arrest. And he had a partner, or has a
partner named Andrew Clark, who was arrested last week in Mexico.
So I don't know if mister Clark has any helpful
info about where this guy is. But also, if you're
arrested for being part of a criminal scheme and then
(23:22):
you lead the authorities to somebody else that they're looking for,
can you still get the fifty thousand dollars hmmm.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Well, I don't like this.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
It's none of my business, and it's not hurting me,
by the way, but I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Imagine a woman.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
And every week and or imagine a man, you know what,
just or a two spirit, it doesn't matter. Imagine a
person and this is part of their routine. Every week
they go to Target. They fill up their shopping cart
with those baby food pouches. So kind of like a gogurt,
(24:07):
but it's purade baby food in there. It's got a
little nozzle and they fill the cart every week twenty
four pack. After twenty four pack, you take it home
to give to their babies. No, No, to give to
their eighteen month old and four year old.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Now you might think, well, this is some isolated.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Weirdo who's feeding their kids that are way too old
for baby food in a pouch.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
No, it's a growing trend.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
The sales of these food pouches have increased since twenty ten,
and that is like fourteen years ago, but nine hundred
percent food pouches. Baby food pouches, Now, I would sell
the old fashioned puree in a jar. And there's a
(25:06):
bunch of reasons for it that are probably immediately obvious.
You've gonna feed your baby baby food from a jar.
You gotta open the jar. You gotta get a spoon,
and you gotta sit there, and you gotta do the
airplane thing, and you gotta do it. You want to
feed your kid baby food and a pouch, you go,
You open it and you go here, hold it and
(25:26):
suck on it, and you're done.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
You can feed yourself. The problem is, that's.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Fine if it's actually a little child who's supposed to
be eating baby food. But what's happening is parents are
giving this stuff to their kids as snacks and sometimes
as meals until they're one and two and three and
four and five and six and seven and I'll stop
counting now. And this is bad. First of all, it
(25:54):
just seems weird and odd. It's like a mom still
breastfeeding her kid and the kid is twelve. But also
it's apparently bad for various reasons according to various experts.
So one problem is the normal way of getting a
(26:14):
baby to become an adult who eats regular food is
that at some point you stop it with the baby
food and you start doing the little cut up real
food because babyfood all has the same texture it's just
that smooth puree.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
And you need to start introducing kids to.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Different textures and of course different flavors.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Well, if you keep throwing these pouches.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
At your kid, they are never going to adopt eating
anything else. And there's some people, including this pediatric gastroenterrologist
at the University of Tennessee, doctor Mark Corkins, and he said,
this trend of feeding your kids these baby food pouches,
(27:02):
even when they're not babies anymore, it's actually turning out
the pickiest of eaters. You've got kids that are now eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
They will not eat vegetables, they won't eat regular fruit,
They'll only eat pure in a pouch. There's another problem
(27:24):
that says you have to learn how to chew food.
You are not born being able to chew food. You
have to learn how to do it because and I
didn't know it because I eat now and I just
shove food down and I'm not thinking about what my
(27:44):
mouth and jaw is doing. But apparently you need thirty
different muscles to all coordinate and use your tongue and
your jaw to manipulate and chew and swallow food. And
kids learn it because you start giving them little chunks
of food. You keep giving them. You're ad they never
have to learn that skill. Hey, I think we've yet seen,
(28:06):
you know, a nation of twelve year olds who don't
know how to chew?
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Hey, Wayne, Yeah, A strange story. Back in my single
days and thinner, better looking days, not one, but at
least three different women that I dated that were either
actresses or let's say in front of the camera. They
I would be at their house and they'd go in
(28:32):
the fridge to grab something and it'd be filled with
baby food. They would eat baby food to keep their weight.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, well it needs to needs to stop.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
But I mean as an adult, you're like, really, you know,
mashed peas well?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
They look convenience.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
But if you've all listen this way I feel about it.
So if you're a baby, you should eat baby food,
and if you're a toddler, you should be eating regular food.
And you know what though, if that happens and you're
an adult and you know how to eat regular food
and you choose to eat baby food, I feel like
at that point it comes back around and you know,
knock yourself out. But these kids can't decide about how
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they're fed and how it might hurt their development. Also,
baby food is not regulated the same way by the FDA.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Neil you probably remember this.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
It was just this year earlier, all those cinnamon apple
sauce pouches.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Oh yeah, because they were full of lead. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
You know how much lead you should have in your diet?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Zero? Yes? Is that the correct amount? Yes?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
There is.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
There is no amount of lead that is okay for
your system. Iron great, copper, less great lead?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Uh huh none? What about selenium?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Oh my gosh, I cannot start my day without selenium.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Hell all right, we're gonna get some news from Amy
King and and this is odd. There's a proposition that's
going to be on the ballot in November and nobody
is against it, and it still might not pass.
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