October 31, 2025 • 24 mins
(October 31, 2025)
Have Halloween decorations become too scary? Some parents are complaining. The history of daylight savings. What states want to ban it and which ones don’t participate. Harvard says it’s giving away too many As to undergrads. Men in California are in crisis and are falling through the cracks.
Have Halloween decorations become too scary? Some parents are complaining. The history of daylight savings. What states want to ban it and which ones don’t participate. Harvard says it’s giving away too many As to undergrads. Men in California are in crisis and are falling through the cracks.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles show
on demand on the iHeartRadio f.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI handle here on a Halloween Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
October thirty one. Some of the least stories we're looking at.
President Trump and his wife Milania are going to be
handing out candy to trick or treaters tonight at the
White House, and as you would imagine, the kids are
probably going to be screened.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
They have to be.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I don't know if you've ever seen a five year
old getting cavity searched. It is not a pleasant concept.
They just don't understand it at all. Okay, moving on,
don't give you that look, will stop it.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's searching at screening kids.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You know, they have to because you never know when
a five year old is going to pick up an
oozy and shoot up the first lady and the president. Okay,
now here is a question. Oh real quickly before we
dive into it. Neil and I are broadcasting a week
from tomorrow at the wild Fork Wild Fork Store in
(01:05):
lagoona Neguel from two to five tons of samples because
it's thanksgrilling and not just costco sample size, I mean
samples and.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
The Zelman's are going to be there.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, and then I assume there's gonna be some giveaways
there too, So it's always terrific. So come on out
plan A two to five o'clock and that's Neil's broadcast.
Of course I'll be there and it is one of
the highlights of our year for sure. Okay, I have
a question to ask you or actually this was out
of the New York Times, and the question is, have
(01:38):
Halloween decorations become simply too scary where it's not just
haunted houses where they go in which I will never
go in because I'm scared, you know, crapless when I
go into one of those houses. I'm talking about the
decorations on the street. Home Depot, for example, has those
massive Costco has them those massive fifteen foot skeletons with
(02:02):
lights and the sound, and you know, is it too
scary for kids? At this point we don't know because
there hasn't been a study. How do you do a
study on that one? Just it's a general question, and
so I don't do Halloween decorations and goes balls to
the wall with Halloween decorations. As a matter of fact,
(02:22):
what she does is put balls at the wall because
people are decapitated and parts are taken off. And do
you get scarier and scarier as far as your decorations
during the year.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It does.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
They're evolving, I must say. You collect and you collect,
and it just continues to evolve and you get better,
more high end stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, but the high does the high end stuff translate
into scarier stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Some of it? I don't know that. I think they're
just making things more graphic.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Now, Like you said, you can go to Home Depot,
you can go to Walmart, you can go Target, and
they have more graphic decorations.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Those skeletons that I see, those moving skeletons and moving
devils at fifteen feet high and they're animatronic. I mean
they got to scare a little kids. I get frightened
of those. Neil, you're into those. By the way, thank
you for the total equivocal answer, and that helped not
one bit Neil talking to you. You are into the
(03:26):
animatronic stuff. I built some myself. I love it, but
I like spooky, not gory.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I mean if I don't mind going to gory stuff
myself or anything like that, but I would never put
it in my front yard because I don't think that
that's fair to neighbors to have that. But out in
Burbank we went, there's tons of houses decorated not far
from the station, and we were out there. They have
the big Clown House of course, the Skeleton House of Burbank, and.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
They were all.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And vibrant and cool, but they're they they were spooky
and some jump scare stuff, but the real gory stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
And it's becoming more gory, isn't I mean, the you know,
the haunted how even the haunted houses becoming a gorri er.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You know?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
For example, you know they tell the kids that I
give them a story about John Wayne Gacy and then
they go into one of those rooms and there's a
fat guy with a clown outfit.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I will tell you know what they're doing it some
of these these bigger haunts this year is they're bringing
odor into it. They're bringing sense smell into some of
these and that's a big thing. Now, uh And that's
that's just I'm out. I will tap out if they're
I've heard some of them are very upsetting. Certain mazes
(04:51):
just are a sensory overloaded.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
What kind of what kind of smell can you produce? Well,
how does smell equal gory? Well equal at a queen? Well,
think about it.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
If you limit your senses, so something you see is
one thing, but if you're getting this smell of what
it is, because there's there's also a level of fright
that is in when you're scared. When you're scared, you
know the smell. Let's just say there there's a one
(05:25):
haunted maze that I saw where it's in an insane
asylum and somebody sitting there eating out of a bedpan
and it smells like someone's that eating out of a
bedpantells like plotting flesh or it's wow, yeah, things that
aren't my jam. I know you're thinking, where is it?
(05:47):
And how much can I get a free walk through?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I know, yeah, I I will tell you I I
do not do scary movies. I do not do haunted houses.
They scare me to death. I mean it's one of
those where guys jumped from the wall and the you know,
the chainsaw massacre, Jason comes out or Chucky comes out.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But I'm not good at that.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
People pay for great it's just on the front yard
when everybody can see it. Sometimes I think that stuff's
a little too much.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I'm coming with Bill. I can't do scary houses and
scary mazes things like that.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Really, it's just actors. That's your art.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, but you know you don't know that, Oh that
goes through your mind, right, something somebody's jumping out with
a chainsaw going for your neck. I mean you know
that it's not dangerous. But do you think it's only
an actor?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
No, I'm weird though, I'm like, oh my god, that
prop looked great. Oh that lighting was insane. I'm a
little weird that way.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I just don't like to be scared.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I know the actors, and I know it's a performance,
especially like at Halloween Hornins and not very far, not
scary farm and all that, but I just don't like
to be scared.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Oh, coming up, and this is the end of the
show on Friday, which I always absolutely love Foody Friday with.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Neil and we'll be talking about all things well a course,
the cost of costco story, which we always do.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And then at eight thirty it's Ask Handle Anything, where
questions are recorded by you and I answer them and
they're usually to the whole purpose is to humiliate me.
Now saving time daylight saving not savings. Daylight saving time ends.
It ends at two am Tomorrow night is actually into Sunday,
(07:31):
so Sunday morning to am.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And I want to debunk some of the bunks.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
And this is out of countryliving dot com. And I
assume that they know what they're talking about. And so
what happens is we set our clocks back one hour
before going to bed on Saturday. And here's why. Because
two o'clock in the morning, everybody's asleep. I mean, they
have to pick some time to do it. So two
(07:59):
o'clock in the morning it changes, and all of a sudden,
we're at standard time, all right, So we're going to
have extra light. Well during the fall and winter, we're
going to have extra light for navigating to school and
work in the morning.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We have more daylight in the morning.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So therefore, of course, what it's about is for farmers
who get up early and milk their cows and harvest,
they are going to have an extra hour according to time. Nope,
it actually wasn't started to help farmers at all. As
a matter of fact, the farm lobby at that time
(08:38):
campaigned against daylight Saving Time because it gave them, if
you look at it, one less hour in the morning
to milk their cows and send their crops to market,
because that's when they did it. And here's another myth.
Benjamin Franklin invented daylight saving time. Right, Actually, here's the story.
(09:02):
And I love doing this stuff history where I don't
know it, but we debunk all kinds of ideas. So
seventeen eighty four, Benjamin Franklin, who was Franklin, who was
living in the French capital, screwing everything that he could,
published a satirical essay in Joralde, Paris, and it was
(09:22):
about this Parisians rising with the sun to save money
on candles and lamp oil in the evenings. It was satire,
and yet it's taken as gospel.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
The here's one that no one will ever know.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And I'm going to ask you, guys, I don't even
want to ask, because you'll never know who actually invented
daylight saving time? Any idea? Guys, Now, you'll never guess
this done. Why didn't bother a New Zealand entomologist, George Hudson,
who proposed it in eighteen ninety five. In nineteen oh seven,
(09:58):
a guy named William will It wrote a book called
The Waste of Daylight, arguing for daylight saving time. Okay,
now here's what daylight saving time does is conserve energy, right,
And between nineteen seventy four and seventy five, that was
January seventy four to April seventy five, we went on
(10:20):
daylight saving time all year round because of the energy crisis.
In two thousand and five, Congress passes a law extends
daylight saving time by a month keep energy costs down.
The problem is, the National Bureau of Economic Research finds
that it for daylight saving times raised energy bills for
(10:40):
households in Indiana by one percent and extra nine billion
dollars a year. And frankly, that didn't help because the
time shift leads to increased cooling costs, so it actually
became more expensive. And when it becomes law, well Woodrow Wilson,
the president, first made it into law nineteen eighteen, and
(11:02):
that was repealed seven months later, and then Franklin Roosevelt
relaunches it in nineteen forty two, but it doesn't become
official until nineteen sixty six, when President Lyndon Johnson signs
a law. If you ever are on Jeopardy. This is
really good stuff to know, and we're going to be
doing a test afterwards. Now, who has daylight saving times?
(11:22):
Some states don't even honor daylight savings times.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Daylight saving time.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Here it is Hawaii, Nope, no daylight saving times, Arizona,
with the exception of the Navajo Nation. Navajo Nation says yes,
the rest of states says no. And then there are
some that are just fun. These are very very important
parts of America, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands,
Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. They don't have it, okay,
(11:56):
and certain states can bounce around because it is not
federal law.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Did that help guys, now that we're into daylight saving time?
Did it help you understand what this is about, because
it's sure as hell didn't help me understand what it's about.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I still don't get spring forward.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Then you go backwards, and when you do it fall backwards.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
I guess I don't understand how it would be without it,
Like how different it would be.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It would be daylight saving time, it would be standard
time all year long. Yeah, And Jim Keeney was on
the show on Wednesday, talked about how it actually is
detrimental to our health. All Right, a story I want
to share with you. This is about my kids when
they were about seven years old and they went to
a birthday party. And I took them to birthday party.
(12:46):
There were a neighbor down the street and they invited
the kids and other kids on the block and we
went to a bowling alley. It was going to be
a contest.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It was going to be.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
A little team by team contest in which they were
assigned teams and we're gonna see who's gonna win. Right.
It was a legitimate little play, a little uh you know,
it was a contest, bottom line, where they were gonna
do this. It was going to be a winner. There
(13:23):
were going to be some losers. I think there were
four teams and so uh, my kids just their team
came in second. So I fully expected them to get
the Blue Wealth, not the blue but the red ribbon first,
second or third.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Do you know what ended up happening.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Everybody got a little award that there was a little
ward with a guy bowling, you know, cheap cheap plastic
and it said.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
World's Greatest bowler but wait a minute, there was team
against team.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Oh no, no, we can't do that because everybody has
to feel good.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
And now we have kids.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
My kids think that because they get c's, they're as
good as the kids that get a's. And I keep
on telling you you're not as good. Do you understand
you're not as good?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
It's terrible, as horrible, Dad, love, we are as good. Okay,
let's move to Harvard. Harvard. Everybody's getting an A. Right.
Half of all the grades awarded at Harvard are now a's.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Wait a minute, okay, sixty percent our a's undergrads forty
percent a decade ago, less than twenty five percent twenty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So Harvard, and this, by the way.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Is now throughout the entire school system is everybody is
the same LAUSD. Everybody passes. Nobody gets thrown out for failing.
When I was at LA Unified School District, and I
grew up in the school district, which is why I
make fun of it. Is why I make fun of
(15:08):
iHeart because I work here.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
They failed students.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You got an F. If you came in with an
F average, you were done. You were thrown out of school.
In high school today, it is impossible to get thrown
out of high school. You passed no matter what, because
you are as good as everybody else. We're all the same.
(15:34):
Everybody likes us, everybody likes you. And the Trump administration,
and I agree with the Trump administration on this one,
is pressing the university getting rid of the DEI aspects
of it.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
That's fairly controversial one way or the other.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
But has pressed for university grade integrity. There isn't grade
integrity any more. Why do professors give a's to people, Well,
they want to be liked, you know why, because everybody
now schools hand out the surveys they do at the
(16:14):
end of the class. They hand out surveys. They didn't
when I was in school, when I was at LAUSD.
When I was in school, i would walk four miles
uphill and then i'd come back four miles uphill and
it would be snowing the entire time, even though I
was in the San Fernando Valley. Oh, it was rough
(16:35):
for me. But the point is is that grades were
real grades. Today grades are not real grades. The other
thing that's going on, and why do the professors they
want to do well on the surveys because that's important
to them. Okay, so there's one. There's also something called
imposter syndrome, and that is students who claim they are
(16:58):
struggling with impossible sir syndrome.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
And my kids did really well with that one.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Why because they said they grew up in a poor
family in the inner city and they didn't have the advantages,
and they were the first kids that ever went to college,
although my wife came out of UCLA, and of course
I came out with a law degree.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And no one checks, you know, they don't check. All
you have to do is say that you are. You
grew up.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
You're the first person to go to college in your family,
and you grew up poor, and you raise your siblings
and your parents are dead and you had to go
work in the mines and you lost your leg in
a mine accident and your kid. That's what happened to
my parents. Therefore, you used to let me in school. Automatic, Yep,
you're in school because nobody checks. Great inflation accelerated the
(17:58):
late nineteen twenties. Generally, the pandemic is where it really
started during remote learning, and the problem is it's never
gone down. And much the same of the argument what's
happening with the government shutdown. The Republicans are saying, and
they're right, is that the shutdown is over the increase.
(18:19):
One of the things is the increase in health care
costs because those healthcare costs, your insurance was subsidized by
the government during pandemic. During the pandemic, they increase the
insurance subsidies, and with the Democrats are saying, we have
to keep the insurance subsidies at the same level. That's
(18:40):
the issue. And I'm just off on a tangent on
that one. So you go to Havid, you go to university,
there's a good chance you're going to get an AD.
Your kid goes to high school. Doesn't matter if your
kid even shows up in high school, there's going to
be a pass.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Is in life wonderful.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
So I want to point something out you listeners, you
out there in radio land. I love that you are
all winners. You all are doing great. You all are
phenomenal human beings. It's like people who are against the
death penalty the sanctity of life. We are all life
(19:24):
and we deserve to be treated with respect. No, some
of you decide are so miserable and so horrible. You
deserve to die also if you're not adding to the
gene pool. And I consider there's two kinds of people
in my world, those that are well three, those that
are just taking up space they don't do much for society,
(19:47):
those that leave the world in a better place, and
those that are actually harm society. We're not all the same.
There are losers. Unfortunately, only too many of them listen
to this show, and we have an enormous number of them.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Okay, let me.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I've got to retract those of you who I used
to call losers who listen to the show.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
You are all winners, every one of you. All right.
I want to get serious for a moment.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
And the governor has called this issue a crisis, and
what it is about men in California are in crisis,
and this is researchers. California has half a million young
people from sixteen to twenty four that are in the
same predicament. They're not working, they're not in school, and
(20:42):
men particularly at work, and a lot of it has
nothing to do with their fault because at this point
there's mental illness going on and a lot of it.
Work is almost impossible to get in many cases. I
did a topic on who's considered a winner and a
winner and a loser last segment. And my daughter is
the poster child for this of working and going to school.
(21:06):
As I've told you many times, she has her bachelor's
degree in computer engineering entering a master's degree her skill set.
She can't get a job because of AI. Just can't
get a job. And she's in school. She's going to
but that's going to end, and so she feels terrible
(21:26):
and she feels like a loser. And that's what a
lot of these men feel like. And the other day,
you know, poor Pamela said, Dad, you know what I'm
really I feel like a loser. And I responded, because
that's what you are. Do you understand. Thank god she
doesn't take me seriously. But for men in California and
(21:50):
hundreds of thousands, that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
It's a real issue.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
We have four point six million Californian men between ages
sixteen and twenty four ten percent consider disconnected. Far these
are men Black and Native American men have higher rates
than that.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
So why well, so many drop out of school. Work
is varied.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You've got AI coming in and automation manufacturing jobs or
virtually justpairing, and they're mainly male oriented. These men have disabilities,
a lot of them struggling with addiction, struggling with mental
health challenges. Many are in prison. California's prison ninety six
percent are male. Most of the population that is homeless
(22:38):
male And unfortunately, there really isn't much that can be
done at this point. This is big picture stuff, long term,
big picture, very expensive to deal with this, and we're
going to see more and more of that as we
(22:59):
move forward and technology explodes, and we're doing so much better.
The disparity between the haves and the have nots just
in terms of money, not just in terms of money,
but in terms of mental health, in terms of feeling
good about being in society, feeling comfortable having friends. That
(23:20):
is a real problem for many many of these men.
So recognizing it is one thing, and this is absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
What's going on.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Recognizing it is one thing. It's like the homeless. We
recognize it, we know it's a problem. How do you
fix it? Well, big picture, long term, hideously expensive. I
just want to make you feel better. Okay, Now, Foody Friday,
who is that Neil? Who is that over there? That
(23:50):
young lady.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
That young lady is my son.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Oh okay, well, long hair, and there you go.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Don't let Max. Don't let Max, do not let Max.
So I said that, actually he's working a little bit
of makeup.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, all right, make up, long hair, Okay,
long hair, makeup.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Okay, Uh no, it's an anime. Yeah. Was he wearing
a dress? No? Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Max is going to be seeing a psychologist for the
next several years.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I just want to point that out.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Okay, the guy who is single handedly keep the psychology industry.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
My psychologist has a psychologist because of me.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
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KFI handle here on a Halloween Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
October thirty one. Some of the least stories we're looking at.
President Trump and his wife Milania are going to be
handing out candy to trick or treaters tonight at the
White House, and as you would imagine, the kids are
probably going to be screened.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
They have to be.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I don't know if you've ever seen a five year
old getting cavity searched. It is not a pleasant concept.
They just don't understand it at all. Okay, moving on,
don't give you that look, will stop it.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's searching at screening kids.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You know, they have to because you never know when
a five year old is going to pick up an
oozy and shoot up the first lady and the president. Okay,
now here is a question. Oh real quickly before we
dive into it. Neil and I are broadcasting a week
from tomorrow at the wild Fork Wild Fork Store in
(01:05):
lagoona Neguel from two to five tons of samples because
it's thanksgrilling and not just costco sample size, I mean
samples and.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
The Zelman's are going to be there.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, and then I assume there's gonna be some giveaways
there too, So it's always terrific. So come on out
plan A two to five o'clock and that's Neil's broadcast.
Of course I'll be there and it is one of
the highlights of our year for sure. Okay, I have
a question to ask you or actually this was out
of the New York Times, and the question is, have
(01:38):
Halloween decorations become simply too scary where it's not just
haunted houses where they go in which I will never
go in because I'm scared, you know, crapless when I
go into one of those houses. I'm talking about the
decorations on the street. Home Depot, for example, has those
massive Costco has them those massive fifteen foot skeletons with
(02:02):
lights and the sound, and you know, is it too
scary for kids? At this point we don't know because
there hasn't been a study. How do you do a
study on that one? Just it's a general question, and
so I don't do Halloween decorations and goes balls to
the wall with Halloween decorations. As a matter of fact,
(02:22):
what she does is put balls at the wall because
people are decapitated and parts are taken off. And do
you get scarier and scarier as far as your decorations
during the year.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It does.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
They're evolving, I must say. You collect and you collect,
and it just continues to evolve and you get better,
more high end stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, but the high does the high end stuff translate
into scarier stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Some of it? I don't know that. I think they're
just making things more graphic.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Now, Like you said, you can go to Home Depot,
you can go to Walmart, you can go Target, and
they have more graphic decorations.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Those skeletons that I see, those moving skeletons and moving
devils at fifteen feet high and they're animatronic. I mean
they got to scare a little kids. I get frightened
of those. Neil, you're into those. By the way, thank
you for the total equivocal answer, and that helped not
one bit Neil talking to you. You are into the
(03:26):
animatronic stuff. I built some myself. I love it, but
I like spooky, not gory.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I mean if I don't mind going to gory stuff
myself or anything like that, but I would never put
it in my front yard because I don't think that
that's fair to neighbors to have that. But out in
Burbank we went, there's tons of houses decorated not far
from the station, and we were out there. They have
the big Clown House of course, the Skeleton House of Burbank, and.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
They were all.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And vibrant and cool, but they're they they were spooky
and some jump scare stuff, but the real gory stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
And it's becoming more gory, isn't I mean, the you know,
the haunted how even the haunted houses becoming a gorri er.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You know?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
For example, you know they tell the kids that I
give them a story about John Wayne Gacy and then
they go into one of those rooms and there's a
fat guy with a clown outfit.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I will tell you know what they're doing it some
of these these bigger haunts this year is they're bringing
odor into it. They're bringing sense smell into some of
these and that's a big thing. Now, uh And that's
that's just I'm out. I will tap out if they're
I've heard some of them are very upsetting. Certain mazes
(04:51):
just are a sensory overloaded.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
What kind of what kind of smell can you produce? Well,
how does smell equal gory? Well equal at a queen? Well,
think about it.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
If you limit your senses, so something you see is
one thing, but if you're getting this smell of what
it is, because there's there's also a level of fright
that is in when you're scared. When you're scared, you
know the smell. Let's just say there there's a one
(05:25):
haunted maze that I saw where it's in an insane
asylum and somebody sitting there eating out of a bedpan
and it smells like someone's that eating out of a
bedpantells like plotting flesh or it's wow, yeah, things that
aren't my jam. I know you're thinking, where is it?
(05:47):
And how much can I get a free walk through?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I know, yeah, I I will tell you I I
do not do scary movies. I do not do haunted houses.
They scare me to death. I mean it's one of
those where guys jumped from the wall and the you know,
the chainsaw massacre, Jason comes out or Chucky comes out.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But I'm not good at that.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
People pay for great it's just on the front yard
when everybody can see it. Sometimes I think that stuff's
a little too much.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I'm coming with Bill. I can't do scary houses and
scary mazes things like that.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Really, it's just actors. That's your art.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, but you know you don't know that, Oh that
goes through your mind, right, something somebody's jumping out with
a chainsaw going for your neck. I mean you know
that it's not dangerous. But do you think it's only
an actor?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
No, I'm weird though, I'm like, oh my god, that
prop looked great. Oh that lighting was insane. I'm a
little weird that way.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I just don't like to be scared.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I know the actors, and I know it's a performance,
especially like at Halloween Hornins and not very far, not
scary farm and all that, but I just don't like
to be scared.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Oh, coming up, and this is the end of the
show on Friday, which I always absolutely love Foody Friday with.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Neil and we'll be talking about all things well a course,
the cost of costco story, which we always do.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And then at eight thirty it's Ask Handle Anything, where
questions are recorded by you and I answer them and
they're usually to the whole purpose is to humiliate me.
Now saving time daylight saving not savings. Daylight saving time ends.
It ends at two am Tomorrow night is actually into Sunday,
(07:31):
so Sunday morning to am.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And I want to debunk some of the bunks.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
And this is out of countryliving dot com. And I
assume that they know what they're talking about. And so
what happens is we set our clocks back one hour
before going to bed on Saturday. And here's why. Because
two o'clock in the morning, everybody's asleep. I mean, they
have to pick some time to do it. So two
(07:59):
o'clock in the morning it changes, and all of a sudden,
we're at standard time, all right, So we're going to
have extra light. Well during the fall and winter, we're
going to have extra light for navigating to school and
work in the morning.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We have more daylight in the morning.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So therefore, of course, what it's about is for farmers
who get up early and milk their cows and harvest,
they are going to have an extra hour according to time. Nope,
it actually wasn't started to help farmers at all. As
a matter of fact, the farm lobby at that time
(08:38):
campaigned against daylight Saving Time because it gave them, if
you look at it, one less hour in the morning
to milk their cows and send their crops to market,
because that's when they did it. And here's another myth.
Benjamin Franklin invented daylight saving time. Right, Actually, here's the story.
(09:02):
And I love doing this stuff history where I don't
know it, but we debunk all kinds of ideas. So
seventeen eighty four, Benjamin Franklin, who was Franklin, who was
living in the French capital, screwing everything that he could,
published a satirical essay in Joralde, Paris, and it was
(09:22):
about this Parisians rising with the sun to save money
on candles and lamp oil in the evenings. It was satire,
and yet it's taken as gospel.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
The here's one that no one will ever know.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And I'm going to ask you, guys, I don't even
want to ask, because you'll never know who actually invented
daylight saving time? Any idea? Guys, Now, you'll never guess
this done. Why didn't bother a New Zealand entomologist, George Hudson,
who proposed it in eighteen ninety five. In nineteen oh seven,
(09:58):
a guy named William will It wrote a book called
The Waste of Daylight, arguing for daylight saving time. Okay,
now here's what daylight saving time does is conserve energy, right,
And between nineteen seventy four and seventy five, that was
January seventy four to April seventy five, we went on
(10:20):
daylight saving time all year round because of the energy crisis.
In two thousand and five, Congress passes a law extends
daylight saving time by a month keep energy costs down.
The problem is, the National Bureau of Economic Research finds
that it for daylight saving times raised energy bills for
(10:40):
households in Indiana by one percent and extra nine billion
dollars a year. And frankly, that didn't help because the
time shift leads to increased cooling costs, so it actually
became more expensive. And when it becomes law, well Woodrow Wilson,
the president, first made it into law nineteen eighteen, and
(11:02):
that was repealed seven months later, and then Franklin Roosevelt
relaunches it in nineteen forty two, but it doesn't become
official until nineteen sixty six, when President Lyndon Johnson signs
a law. If you ever are on Jeopardy. This is
really good stuff to know, and we're going to be
doing a test afterwards. Now, who has daylight saving times?
(11:22):
Some states don't even honor daylight savings times.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Daylight saving time.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Here it is Hawaii, Nope, no daylight saving times, Arizona,
with the exception of the Navajo Nation. Navajo Nation says yes,
the rest of states says no. And then there are
some that are just fun. These are very very important
parts of America, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands,
Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. They don't have it, okay,
(11:56):
and certain states can bounce around because it is not
federal law.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Did that help guys, now that we're into daylight saving time?
Did it help you understand what this is about, because
it's sure as hell didn't help me understand what it's about.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I still don't get spring forward.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Then you go backwards, and when you do it fall backwards.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
I guess I don't understand how it would be without it,
Like how different it would be.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It would be daylight saving time, it would be standard
time all year long. Yeah, And Jim Keeney was on
the show on Wednesday, talked about how it actually is
detrimental to our health. All Right, a story I want
to share with you. This is about my kids when
they were about seven years old and they went to
a birthday party. And I took them to birthday party.
(12:46):
There were a neighbor down the street and they invited
the kids and other kids on the block and we
went to a bowling alley. It was going to be
a contest.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It was going to be.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
A little team by team contest in which they were
assigned teams and we're gonna see who's gonna win. Right.
It was a legitimate little play, a little uh you know,
it was a contest, bottom line, where they were gonna
do this. It was going to be a winner. There
(13:23):
were going to be some losers. I think there were
four teams and so uh, my kids just their team
came in second. So I fully expected them to get
the Blue Wealth, not the blue but the red ribbon first,
second or third.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Do you know what ended up happening.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Everybody got a little award that there was a little
ward with a guy bowling, you know, cheap cheap plastic
and it said.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
World's Greatest bowler but wait a minute, there was team
against team.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Oh no, no, we can't do that because everybody has
to feel good.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
And now we have kids.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
My kids think that because they get c's, they're as
good as the kids that get a's. And I keep
on telling you you're not as good. Do you understand
you're not as good?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
It's terrible, as horrible, Dad, love, we are as good. Okay,
let's move to Harvard. Harvard. Everybody's getting an A. Right.
Half of all the grades awarded at Harvard are now a's.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Wait a minute, okay, sixty percent our a's undergrads forty
percent a decade ago, less than twenty five percent twenty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So Harvard, and this, by the way.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Is now throughout the entire school system is everybody is
the same LAUSD. Everybody passes. Nobody gets thrown out for failing.
When I was at LA Unified School District, and I
grew up in the school district, which is why I
make fun of it. Is why I make fun of
(15:08):
iHeart because I work here.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
They failed students.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You got an F. If you came in with an
F average, you were done. You were thrown out of school.
In high school today, it is impossible to get thrown
out of high school. You passed no matter what, because
you are as good as everybody else. We're all the same.
(15:34):
Everybody likes us, everybody likes you. And the Trump administration,
and I agree with the Trump administration on this one,
is pressing the university getting rid of the DEI aspects
of it.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
That's fairly controversial one way or the other.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
But has pressed for university grade integrity. There isn't grade
integrity any more. Why do professors give a's to people, Well,
they want to be liked, you know why, because everybody
now schools hand out the surveys they do at the
(16:14):
end of the class. They hand out surveys. They didn't
when I was in school, when I was at LAUSD.
When I was in school, i would walk four miles
uphill and then i'd come back four miles uphill and
it would be snowing the entire time, even though I
was in the San Fernando Valley. Oh, it was rough
(16:35):
for me. But the point is is that grades were
real grades. Today grades are not real grades. The other
thing that's going on, and why do the professors they
want to do well on the surveys because that's important
to them. Okay, so there's one. There's also something called
imposter syndrome, and that is students who claim they are
(16:58):
struggling with impossible sir syndrome.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
And my kids did really well with that one.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Why because they said they grew up in a poor
family in the inner city and they didn't have the advantages,
and they were the first kids that ever went to college,
although my wife came out of UCLA, and of course
I came out with a law degree.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And no one checks, you know, they don't check. All
you have to do is say that you are. You
grew up.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
You're the first person to go to college in your family,
and you grew up poor, and you raise your siblings
and your parents are dead and you had to go
work in the mines and you lost your leg in
a mine accident and your kid. That's what happened to
my parents. Therefore, you used to let me in school. Automatic, Yep,
you're in school because nobody checks. Great inflation accelerated the
(17:58):
late nineteen twenties. Generally, the pandemic is where it really
started during remote learning, and the problem is it's never
gone down. And much the same of the argument what's
happening with the government shutdown. The Republicans are saying, and
they're right, is that the shutdown is over the increase.
(18:19):
One of the things is the increase in health care
costs because those healthcare costs, your insurance was subsidized by
the government during pandemic. During the pandemic, they increase the
insurance subsidies, and with the Democrats are saying, we have
to keep the insurance subsidies at the same level. That's
(18:40):
the issue. And I'm just off on a tangent on
that one. So you go to Havid, you go to university,
there's a good chance you're going to get an AD.
Your kid goes to high school. Doesn't matter if your
kid even shows up in high school, there's going to
be a pass.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Is in life wonderful.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
So I want to point something out you listeners, you
out there in radio land. I love that you are
all winners. You all are doing great. You all are
phenomenal human beings. It's like people who are against the
death penalty the sanctity of life. We are all life
(19:24):
and we deserve to be treated with respect. No, some
of you decide are so miserable and so horrible. You
deserve to die also if you're not adding to the
gene pool. And I consider there's two kinds of people
in my world, those that are well three, those that
are just taking up space they don't do much for society,
(19:47):
those that leave the world in a better place, and
those that are actually harm society. We're not all the same.
There are losers. Unfortunately, only too many of them listen
to this show, and we have an enormous number of them.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Okay, let me.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I've got to retract those of you who I used
to call losers who listen to the show.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
You are all winners, every one of you. All right.
I want to get serious for a moment.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
And the governor has called this issue a crisis, and
what it is about men in California are in crisis,
and this is researchers. California has half a million young
people from sixteen to twenty four that are in the
same predicament. They're not working, they're not in school, and
(20:42):
men particularly at work, and a lot of it has
nothing to do with their fault because at this point
there's mental illness going on and a lot of it.
Work is almost impossible to get in many cases. I
did a topic on who's considered a winner and a
winner and a loser last segment. And my daughter is
the poster child for this of working and going to school.
(21:06):
As I've told you many times, she has her bachelor's
degree in computer engineering entering a master's degree her skill set.
She can't get a job because of AI. Just can't
get a job. And she's in school. She's going to
but that's going to end, and so she feels terrible
(21:26):
and she feels like a loser. And that's what a
lot of these men feel like. And the other day,
you know, poor Pamela said, Dad, you know what I'm
really I feel like a loser. And I responded, because
that's what you are. Do you understand. Thank god she
doesn't take me seriously. But for men in California and
(21:50):
hundreds of thousands, that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
It's a real issue.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
We have four point six million Californian men between ages
sixteen and twenty four ten percent consider disconnected. Far these
are men Black and Native American men have higher rates
than that.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
So why well, so many drop out of school. Work
is varied.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You've got AI coming in and automation manufacturing jobs or
virtually justpairing, and they're mainly male oriented. These men have disabilities,
a lot of them struggling with addiction, struggling with mental
health challenges. Many are in prison. California's prison ninety six
percent are male. Most of the population that is homeless
(22:38):
male And unfortunately, there really isn't much that can be
done at this point. This is big picture stuff, long term,
big picture, very expensive to deal with this, and we're
going to see more and more of that as we
(22:59):
move forward and technology explodes, and we're doing so much better.
The disparity between the haves and the have nots just
in terms of money, not just in terms of money,
but in terms of mental health, in terms of feeling
good about being in society, feeling comfortable having friends. That
(23:20):
is a real problem for many many of these men.
So recognizing it is one thing, and this is absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
What's going on.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Recognizing it is one thing. It's like the homeless. We
recognize it, we know it's a problem. How do you
fix it? Well, big picture, long term, hideously expensive. I
just want to make you feel better. Okay, Now, Foody Friday,
who is that Neil? Who is that over there? That
(23:50):
young lady.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
That young lady is my son.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Oh okay, well, long hair, and there you go.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Don't let Max. Don't let Max, do not let Max.
So I said that, actually he's working a little bit
of makeup.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, all right, make up, long hair, Okay,
long hair, makeup.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Okay, Uh no, it's an anime. Yeah. Was he wearing
a dress? No? Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Max is going to be seeing a psychologist for the
next several years.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I just want to point that out.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Okay, the guy who is single handedly keep the psychology industry.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
My psychologist has a psychologist because of me.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I support two of them. Kf I A M six forty.
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