December 1, 2025 • 23 mins
(December 01, 2025)
Unclaimed Baggage: Inside the Alabama store that sells the contents of lost suitcases. Why are we so obsessed with ugly dogs. Is checking your phone all day bad for your health? Survey shows how much teenagers dislike the news media.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty three.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
KFI AM A six forty handle.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Here on a Monday morning, December one, tomorrow Pastapon, We're
gonna be broadcasting live all day, the entire all day
parts KFI from five am wake up call right through
eight pm with Conway and Love to see you there.
It's at the Anaheim White House Restaurant in Anaheim. We
have lots of good eies elements will be there with
(00:35):
free samples for example.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
All right, let me tell you a story. What happened
to me a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I was on a flight and I had a pair
of and I'd never spent this much money on a
pair of headphones in my life. Three hundred bucks for
a set of bows sounding or what does it sound?
Just depressing? Whatever the hell they call those things? Uh,
(01:02):
you know, cutting off sound? What do they call those?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Neil? Yeah, yeah, noise canceling? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I have to look at chat GP GTP again find
out about my memory anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So I put I wasn't using him. I put him
in that.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Little h the uh, you know a little thing in
front of you, you know a little the drawer thing.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Uh, and I left him on the airplane. I forgot
and uh as I did.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I didn't know that i'd left them on the airplane
until I got home, and then I went, oh my god,
and I was so upset. I didn't even call the
airline to make a claim. And a pair of bows
noise canceling.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Headsets gone out of my life.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Three hundred dollars, Thank you very much. So where do
they probably go? Well, there is a store in Scottsboro, Alabama,
and it's the only store of its kind. It's unclean
baggage store, see only one in the country where it
sells lost luggage, millions clothing items, jewelry, electronics, abandoned belonging.
(02:15):
Each year show up fifty thousand square feet of space,
rows of clothes and shoes and books, electronics, everything from
lost luggage to the stuff that's left on airplanes. Great
left handed chicken kitchen cheers, chen chicken chs sheers, Yeah,
(02:36):
kitchen cheers.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
There's one that was kind of neat.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Paper mache tinker bell from Peter Pan was dangling from
the ceiling and they got that one. Now, airlines generally
do not lose luggage, particularly today with the technology because
it's all bar coded as you know, and they just
the technology is terrific. However, occasionally they do or people
(03:03):
leaving them, that's the big one. People leaving them in
the overhead or the space in front of or behind
the seat and grab people just leaving, just leaving stuff
like it happened to me. Now you think that something
like this would be around for a long time. You know,
it started nineteen seventy, that's it. It started nineteen seventy
(03:26):
by this guy, Dole Doyle Owens. He had a friend
who worked for Trailways bus service.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
They did this, They sold the.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Unclaimed items they took from the bus Trailways bus. Can
you imagine what those unclaimed items were that you leave
on a bus a long trip on a bus. So
what he did, he saw what his friend did on Trailways.
He borrowed three hundred dollars an old Chevy pickup truck
(04:00):
and drove to Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
To collect the suitcases.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
In Washington, DC, they put ads in the newspaper in Scottsboro,
Alabama and announced they were selling items from unclaimed baggage.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So many people showed.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Up that quite often they just ran out of inventory
by the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
WHOA how is that for successful?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Now have you gone to that pawn shop that is
owned by pond Stars that you see on TV where
two thousand people line up and it's become a tourist attraction.
Go to Scottsboro, Alabama. That is the main tourist attraction.
More than a million people show up as tourists.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Now the store does get some unclaimed bags from trains
and buses, but as you can imagine, the vast majority
of this items left in seat pockets read bows, noise
canceling headsets at three hundred dollars, thank you very much.
There was a funeral caskede key once, a suitcase packed
(05:13):
with wigs, a jar full of sharp teeth, two live
rat snakes that were in a.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Duffel bag that was released. They even have a small
museum in the store.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
For example, inside someone left a suit of armor in
a suitcase didn't claim it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
A set of bagpipes.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
One of the favorite one is a puppet of Hoggle,
the grumpy dwarf used in the nineteen eighty six fantasy
movie Labyrinth, one of the worst movies that has ever
ever been filmed on the planet. So we go last
year where the last where we get the last numbers.
Airlines mishandled. Basically six point three bags per thousand passengers,
(06:03):
and ninety nine point five percent of suitcases are actually
returned to customers. I don't know if you've ever had
a suitcase that was lost.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I went to another place.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I once had a suitcase that ended up in Singapore
and I was on my way to London at the time. Well,
they found it and delivered it and it was three
days later. They're really good about that. But if I
don't claim, if I just leave it and don't make
a claim, I'm done, even though they try to track
me down. A lot of people don't get tracked down,
which is why you now have a store fifty thousand
(06:38):
square feet and a million.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
People show up. Not bad, not bad at all.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Electronic items, by the way, that are also sold at
ridiculously low prices, they go ahead and scrub them so
personal information is gone.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Used underwear are not allowed. That's a no. No.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
New underwear is with price tags on them. People just
leave stuff. It's a great store. If I'm ever in Scottspurl, Alabama,
it's Northeastern Alabama, and what are the chances on me
ever going to Scottspurl, Alabama. Probably not huge, but hey,
unclaim bag of the uncleim baggage store. Great idea. Ugly dogs.
(07:28):
We are obsessed with ugly dogs. Matter of fact, one
of the best looking dogs that I think are just
absolutely gorgeous are sharpays because shar pays are so ugly
that they are great looking. And that in there's a
story there, because we are literally obsessed with ugly dogs
these days. Seems like every other dog is ugly, looks
(07:52):
like a rat, or looks like a person who has
some very strange disease. Right now, the number one ugly
French bulldogs. We're talking about dogs that don't have much
of a snout. You know, they're flat faced, and there is.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
A reason for that. And this is science, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I keep on telling you whenever these weird ass stories
come out. What I do is I like to look
at the studies that are done, surveys that are done done.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
By experts in the field.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
For example, Carly Fox is a senior vet at New
York Swartsman Animal Medical Center, and a study was done
and she said that flat faced dogs. And this I
didn't even know they had a name for those brachia
cephalic dogs.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
They've gone crazy in the last ten years.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Other members of the Stubnose Club include English bulldogs, Boston Terriers, pugs,
Brussel Brussels gryffons.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Everybody had heard of a Brussels Gryffons. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And then there are another group of really ugly dog
and they're called the rat pack Chihuahua's hairlines. Oh, here's
another one, hairless Zoe Lloyd see Queen tentels. That's a breed, okay,
good for me, Chinese cresteds. It's a hugely hair ugly,
(09:20):
hairless breed with those little tufts.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
On its head.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
You've seen those incredibly ugly dogs and people just love them.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Now why do people love them?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, let's start with most of them are small, and
since the post pandemic period, people demand small apartments the
cost of housing and you can't have big dogs. And
studies are showing and this one I didn't know. Flat
faced dogs have some kind of got another name for
(09:55):
this stuff. These are there's these are names that use
in science and that it's a kind of kin kinden
schemma or baby scheme, and that was coined to describe
infantile features that elicit caregriving reaction. Wide eyes, small noses, bigger,
(10:19):
rounder heads, which makes these dogs look more human. And
let's say a lab with a long snout. I have
two doxies, which I love, well, not really, but they
look like dogs. They're all snout. There's no way they
(10:40):
look like babies. However, the ones that are the pugs,
the ones that have flat faces, they look like babies
where it reminds people of babies, and there seems to
be a connection there.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Now, it comes at a pretty high cost to have
these dogs. I mean, it comes at a high cost
for them to be around. French cheese pugs.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
English bulldogs have more chronic eye disease, skin fold infections.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
That's what's wrong with the Sharpei.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
It's always getting some kind of a skin infection, spinal problems,
and that I think is with doxies. Breathing issues because
these dogs are bred and they have truncated airways.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
They don't have the airways that they should have.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
And one of the things about dogs, the genome allows breeding,
so you have many, many, many different varieties of dogs.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Remember the dogs all come from the wolf.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
And now we have dogs that are well, look at
the Brave American.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Kennel Association has dogs that are crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I once had a dog called it was just a
sweetheart of a dog, a caton to toular coton do touleer,
and that came actually came out of Matagascar where it
was bred and it was used.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It went to France and it was a lap dog.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
It was bred so French royalty in the upper crust
would have.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
A dog that wanted to sit on their laps.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
And those are the dogs that just curl up next
to you, and if they're not sitting on a lap,
they're not happy. One of the things about the doxies
is they are so affectionate. They cram up next to you.
They'd rather be next to you than not. I can
understand that the uglier the better. I am not going
(12:35):
to say that about relationships. That is not appropriate and
I would get that. I would get in huge trouble
if I did say that. So with people it is
not the case. Although, oh god, how I can be
totally racist at this point and talk about facial features
(12:57):
like long snouts.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Okay, you can't do that. I get it all right, okay.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Study, of course, there was surveys, and this has to
do with checking our phones.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
How often do you check your phone? A whole lot.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
More than you think. It's become literally an unconscious reflex.
It's similar to breathing or blinking. Now, here's some downside.
It begins to compromise your cognitive skills once it passes
a certain point. Studies that were done by Nottingham Trent
University in the UK and a university in South Korea
(13:40):
found that checking your phone about one hundred and ten
times a day, which a whole lot of people do,
signal a very high risk of problematic use. Now, this
is eight years research done at one of the researchers
at California State University, Domingus Hills. Right Here, participants checked
(14:01):
or unlocked their smartphones between fifty and more.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Than one hue.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Hundred times per day, every ten or twenty minutes while awake.
And then sixty six percent of Americans use the phone
within ten minutes of waking up. Sixty two percent check
them once at least once shortly before falling asleep. And
(14:27):
here's the problem. The phones and digital media in general
reinforcing for our brains, activating the same reward as the
pathway as drugs or alcohol. There's the connection. That's what
the surveys said, That's what the science says. The phones
create a compulsive habit loop where we check without even thinking,
(14:47):
and we actually experienced with withdrawal. We know when we
don't check the dozens of times a day that we do.
There was a survey conducted by you GUV in May
on phone use, and Americans were asked where they placed
their phones before going to sleep. Eight out of ten
(15:09):
said they keep them in their bedrooms, most often next
to their beds. That's me, by the way, I keep
mine right next to the bed. I also use it
as an alarm clock, and I never wake up at
the alarm clock time.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I always wake up earlier than that.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
And another study done in Singapore found that frequent interruptions
to check our devices lead to more attention and memory lapses.
Now we're in Thomas screen it's not screen time. Interestingly enough,
it's the frequency of the checks that is a much
stronger prediction of cognitive failures, because if you're constantly unlocking
(15:53):
your phone, it forces the brain to switch between tasks rapidly,
and it erodes the ability to focus on just one thing,
which we have to do. And this habit, boy, you
think it's widespread. More than half Americans check their phones
multiple times during social activities like eating.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
With other people.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
You're eating with people, there's Amy checking her phone. Because
she is checking her phone and she does it constantly.
Now why is it because she has cognitive disabilities? That's
one reason? Is another reason, because she is bored with
the show. Yes, is another reason, because she doesn't particularly
like being on the show, but she needs a paycheck.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yes, that is not accurate at all.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I've heard from very good sources that that is the case.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Your dogs, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
My dogs are talking to me. This will started in
two thousand and seven with the launch of the iPhone.
What Steve Jobs did was completely reinvent society. He also
did that with home computers. I mean, you talk about
a guy who's influenced society, and the habit of the
(17:09):
phone use, which happens one hundred times a day for
many of us, goes across generations. You would think that
older people who are not phone users would not use phones.
You would think they're not phone users. The older generation.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
They do as much as much as young people do.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Bill, and what my mom is eighty seven and I
text back and forth with her.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, it's weird, and I am not. I don't automatically
default to the phone. So I'll ask for something, you know,
at the store, and Lindsey will call me and she
would say, well, get me this or that whatever she
wants to buy, okay, okay, and she sends me a
picture of what she wants.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I don't think that way. I don't eat. I don't
think that way. Oh I do.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, she's smart, she has she specific tastes, and you'll
mess it up.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Of course I will. And I still take notes. I
handwrite notes. The other thing I do is I'm trying
to get away from it.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I have a check book at home. What's a checkbook? Exactly?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And all when we pay our bills, and Lindsay does
most of our bills, it's all done electronically, literally, I say,
we have to pay this, and thirty seconds later said,
we just did.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I said, what do you mean you just did? You
didn't write a check, you didn't put it in the mail.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
And she said, Bill, you're one hundred and fifty years old.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
She takes a picture of the check and she deposits
it on our phone.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
She does that too, and transfers money from one account
to the other. Absolutely, yeah, it's all on the all
on the phone.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
See I what I do is I still believe this is.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I don't understand how cell phones work without a wire
to the wall. I just don't get it. Also, do
you notice how loud I am? You can ask Kno,
he has to pod me down to the lowest possible
level that exists.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Why am I so loud?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Because people listen to me in Ventura County and North
San Diego County and the Inland Empire, and.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I have to scream so they can hear me.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I don't understand the electronics of this microphone radio and
you being able to listen to what I have to say.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I am not a dinosaur. You you are not.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
A dinosaur in any other way. But when it comes
to technology.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
That's actually true. I'll buy that.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I mean to get up on all the other stuff.
You just don't take to technology. Now, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I'm just I don't understand it. It took me a.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Couple of years to learn how to print my stories
by myself in the morning. Took me years to get there. Okay,
we're done. I'll finish the program really just talking about
Pastathon because we're basically out of time, and we'll do
all the other topics tomorrow. Fifteenth annual KFI Pastathon is
here tomorrow, Giving Tuesday, five am to eight pm at
(20:30):
the Anaheim White House where all of us, everybody's on
the air, is broadcasting all day and we're helping to
feed twenty five thousand meals every week Katerina's Club, Chef
Bruno's charity does and we're going to be at the
Anaheim White House. Donate anytime at kfiam six forty dot
com slash Pastathon one hundred percent of course your donation
(20:51):
goes to Katerina's Club, and we have some partners this year.
Go to any smart and final donate any amount at
the checkout go to Yamava Resort and Casino. When you
cast your winning ticket at the kiosk, it'll ask you
if you want to donate your change, say yes and
pick Catarina's Club.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
And then are auction items.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
And they're i mean probably over one hundred auction items
that are here and just the ones on KFI. A
few are perennials that there every year, you know, Dodgers
Game with Dean and Tina, Dodgers Game with Gary and Shannon,
an Hour with John coblt co hosting his show, and
then for us Morning, the Morning Crew, we're doing something
(21:34):
we've never done before. Neil and I are going to
broadcast his show, The Fork Report at my house and
we are having a barbecue where we're gonna have pitt
masters and grill masters. It'll be catered by Anaheim White House,
and you'll be top bidder is going to join us
this very small private event, maybe twenty people there, and
(21:56):
the winning bidder is going to join us, and we'll
have a great time, probably put you on the air
embarrassed the hell out of you. You can grunt, You
don't have to be on the air, but you're gonna eat.
You come real hungry. And it's at my house and
there's certain things you can do. For example, you get
to see it in my chair where I broadcast every day.
Keeping in mind, during the summer, I don't wear underwear
(22:18):
or any clothes, so it's a pleasure sitting in my chair. Neil,
you're giving me the totally disgusting.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Look.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Well, in any case, that's all. That's tomorrow at Pastathon.
If you come in the morning during this show, you'll
have bagels and cream cheese and pastries and coffee and
those are real jew bagels. Also have a copy of
the addendum to my contract that specifies why it's real
(22:48):
jew bagels. It's in my contract and that's fun to see.
So please come out tomorrow for Pastathon all day long.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
With every day part that we have. All Right, we're done.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Gary and Shannon are up next, and next time we talk,
which it will be at the Anaheim White House Pastathon
and it starts tomorrow morning at five am with Amy
and Will and then Neil and I will come aboard.
And yes we do have armed security. Dana will be
there and Dana is legally blind and does have Parkinson's
(23:23):
and so it is a pleasure having armed security from Dana.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
We're done. This is KFI AM sixty. You've been listening
to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Catch my show Monday through Friday, six am to nine am,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty three.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
KFI AM A six forty handle.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Here on a Monday morning, December one, tomorrow Pastapon, We're
gonna be broadcasting live all day, the entire all day
parts KFI from five am wake up call right through
eight pm with Conway and Love to see you there.
It's at the Anaheim White House Restaurant in Anaheim. We
have lots of good eies elements will be there with
(00:35):
free samples for example.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
All right, let me tell you a story. What happened
to me a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I was on a flight and I had a pair
of and I'd never spent this much money on a
pair of headphones in my life. Three hundred bucks for
a set of bows sounding or what does it sound?
Just depressing? Whatever the hell they call those things? Uh,
(01:02):
you know, cutting off sound? What do they call those?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Neil? Yeah, yeah, noise canceling? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I have to look at chat GP GTP again find
out about my memory anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So I put I wasn't using him. I put him
in that.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Little h the uh, you know a little thing in
front of you, you know a little the drawer thing.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Uh, and I left him on the airplane. I forgot
and uh as I did.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I didn't know that i'd left them on the airplane
until I got home, and then I went, oh my god,
and I was so upset. I didn't even call the
airline to make a claim. And a pair of bows
noise canceling.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Headsets gone out of my life.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Three hundred dollars, Thank you very much. So where do
they probably go? Well, there is a store in Scottsboro, Alabama,
and it's the only store of its kind. It's unclean
baggage store, see only one in the country where it
sells lost luggage, millions clothing items, jewelry, electronics, abandoned belonging.
(02:15):
Each year show up fifty thousand square feet of space,
rows of clothes and shoes and books, electronics, everything from
lost luggage to the stuff that's left on airplanes. Great
left handed chicken kitchen cheers, chen chicken chs sheers, Yeah,
(02:36):
kitchen cheers.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
There's one that was kind of neat.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Paper mache tinker bell from Peter Pan was dangling from
the ceiling and they got that one. Now, airlines generally
do not lose luggage, particularly today with the technology because
it's all bar coded as you know, and they just
the technology is terrific. However, occasionally they do or people
(03:03):
leaving them, that's the big one. People leaving them in
the overhead or the space in front of or behind
the seat and grab people just leaving, just leaving stuff
like it happened to me. Now you think that something
like this would be around for a long time. You know,
it started nineteen seventy, that's it. It started nineteen seventy
(03:26):
by this guy, Dole Doyle Owens. He had a friend
who worked for Trailways bus service.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
They did this, They sold the.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Unclaimed items they took from the bus Trailways bus. Can
you imagine what those unclaimed items were that you leave
on a bus a long trip on a bus. So
what he did, he saw what his friend did on Trailways.
He borrowed three hundred dollars an old Chevy pickup truck
(04:00):
and drove to Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
To collect the suitcases.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
In Washington, DC, they put ads in the newspaper in Scottsboro,
Alabama and announced they were selling items from unclaimed baggage.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So many people showed.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Up that quite often they just ran out of inventory
by the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
WHOA how is that for successful?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Now have you gone to that pawn shop that is
owned by pond Stars that you see on TV where
two thousand people line up and it's become a tourist attraction.
Go to Scottsboro, Alabama. That is the main tourist attraction.
More than a million people show up as tourists.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Now the store does get some unclaimed bags from trains
and buses, but as you can imagine, the vast majority
of this items left in seat pockets read bows, noise
canceling headsets at three hundred dollars, thank you very much.
There was a funeral caskede key once, a suitcase packed
(05:13):
with wigs, a jar full of sharp teeth, two live
rat snakes that were in a.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Duffel bag that was released. They even have a small
museum in the store.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
For example, inside someone left a suit of armor in
a suitcase didn't claim it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
A set of bagpipes.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
One of the favorite one is a puppet of Hoggle,
the grumpy dwarf used in the nineteen eighty six fantasy
movie Labyrinth, one of the worst movies that has ever
ever been filmed on the planet. So we go last
year where the last where we get the last numbers.
Airlines mishandled. Basically six point three bags per thousand passengers,
(06:03):
and ninety nine point five percent of suitcases are actually
returned to customers. I don't know if you've ever had
a suitcase that was lost.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I went to another place.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I once had a suitcase that ended up in Singapore
and I was on my way to London at the time. Well,
they found it and delivered it and it was three
days later. They're really good about that. But if I
don't claim, if I just leave it and don't make
a claim, I'm done, even though they try to track
me down. A lot of people don't get tracked down,
which is why you now have a store fifty thousand
(06:38):
square feet and a million.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
People show up. Not bad, not bad at all.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Electronic items, by the way, that are also sold at
ridiculously low prices, they go ahead and scrub them so
personal information is gone.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Used underwear are not allowed. That's a no. No.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
New underwear is with price tags on them. People just
leave stuff. It's a great store. If I'm ever in Scottspurl, Alabama,
it's Northeastern Alabama, and what are the chances on me
ever going to Scottspurl, Alabama. Probably not huge, but hey,
unclaim bag of the uncleim baggage store. Great idea. Ugly dogs.
(07:28):
We are obsessed with ugly dogs. Matter of fact, one
of the best looking dogs that I think are just
absolutely gorgeous are sharpays because shar pays are so ugly
that they are great looking. And that in there's a
story there, because we are literally obsessed with ugly dogs
these days. Seems like every other dog is ugly, looks
(07:52):
like a rat, or looks like a person who has
some very strange disease. Right now, the number one ugly
French bulldogs. We're talking about dogs that don't have much
of a snout. You know, they're flat faced, and there is.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
A reason for that. And this is science, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I keep on telling you whenever these weird ass stories
come out. What I do is I like to look
at the studies that are done, surveys that are done done.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
By experts in the field.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
For example, Carly Fox is a senior vet at New
York Swartsman Animal Medical Center, and a study was done
and she said that flat faced dogs. And this I
didn't even know they had a name for those brachia
cephalic dogs.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
They've gone crazy in the last ten years.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Other members of the Stubnose Club include English bulldogs, Boston Terriers, pugs,
Brussel Brussels gryffons.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Everybody had heard of a Brussels Gryffons. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And then there are another group of really ugly dog
and they're called the rat pack Chihuahua's hairlines. Oh, here's
another one, hairless Zoe Lloyd see Queen tentels. That's a breed, okay,
good for me, Chinese cresteds. It's a hugely hair ugly,
(09:20):
hairless breed with those little tufts.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
On its head.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
You've seen those incredibly ugly dogs and people just love them.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Now why do people love them?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, let's start with most of them are small, and
since the post pandemic period, people demand small apartments the
cost of housing and you can't have big dogs. And
studies are showing and this one I didn't know. Flat
faced dogs have some kind of got another name for
(09:55):
this stuff. These are there's these are names that use
in science and that it's a kind of kin kinden
schemma or baby scheme, and that was coined to describe
infantile features that elicit caregriving reaction. Wide eyes, small noses, bigger,
(10:19):
rounder heads, which makes these dogs look more human. And
let's say a lab with a long snout. I have
two doxies, which I love, well, not really, but they
look like dogs. They're all snout. There's no way they
(10:40):
look like babies. However, the ones that are the pugs,
the ones that have flat faces, they look like babies
where it reminds people of babies, and there seems to
be a connection there.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Now, it comes at a pretty high cost to have
these dogs. I mean, it comes at a high cost
for them to be around. French cheese pugs.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
English bulldogs have more chronic eye disease, skin fold infections.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
That's what's wrong with the Sharpei.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
It's always getting some kind of a skin infection, spinal problems,
and that I think is with doxies. Breathing issues because
these dogs are bred and they have truncated airways.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
They don't have the airways that they should have.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
And one of the things about dogs, the genome allows breeding,
so you have many, many, many different varieties of dogs.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Remember the dogs all come from the wolf.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
And now we have dogs that are well, look at
the Brave American.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Kennel Association has dogs that are crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I once had a dog called it was just a
sweetheart of a dog, a caton to toular coton do touleer,
and that came actually came out of Matagascar where it
was bred and it was used.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It went to France and it was a lap dog.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
It was bred so French royalty in the upper crust
would have.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
A dog that wanted to sit on their laps.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
And those are the dogs that just curl up next
to you, and if they're not sitting on a lap,
they're not happy. One of the things about the doxies
is they are so affectionate. They cram up next to you.
They'd rather be next to you than not. I can
understand that the uglier the better. I am not going
(12:35):
to say that about relationships. That is not appropriate and
I would get that. I would get in huge trouble
if I did say that. So with people it is
not the case. Although, oh god, how I can be
totally racist at this point and talk about facial features
(12:57):
like long snouts.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Okay, you can't do that. I get it all right, okay.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Study, of course, there was surveys, and this has to
do with checking our phones.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
How often do you check your phone? A whole lot.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
More than you think. It's become literally an unconscious reflex.
It's similar to breathing or blinking. Now, here's some downside.
It begins to compromise your cognitive skills once it passes
a certain point. Studies that were done by Nottingham Trent
University in the UK and a university in South Korea
(13:40):
found that checking your phone about one hundred and ten
times a day, which a whole lot of people do,
signal a very high risk of problematic use. Now, this
is eight years research done at one of the researchers
at California State University, Domingus Hills. Right Here, participants checked
(14:01):
or unlocked their smartphones between fifty and more.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Than one hue.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Hundred times per day, every ten or twenty minutes while awake.
And then sixty six percent of Americans use the phone
within ten minutes of waking up. Sixty two percent check
them once at least once shortly before falling asleep. And
(14:27):
here's the problem. The phones and digital media in general
reinforcing for our brains, activating the same reward as the
pathway as drugs or alcohol. There's the connection. That's what
the surveys said, That's what the science says. The phones
create a compulsive habit loop where we check without even thinking,
(14:47):
and we actually experienced with withdrawal. We know when we
don't check the dozens of times a day that we do.
There was a survey conducted by you GUV in May
on phone use, and Americans were asked where they placed
their phones before going to sleep. Eight out of ten
(15:09):
said they keep them in their bedrooms, most often next
to their beds. That's me, by the way, I keep
mine right next to the bed. I also use it
as an alarm clock, and I never wake up at
the alarm clock time.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I always wake up earlier than that.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
And another study done in Singapore found that frequent interruptions
to check our devices lead to more attention and memory lapses.
Now we're in Thomas screen it's not screen time. Interestingly enough,
it's the frequency of the checks that is a much
stronger prediction of cognitive failures, because if you're constantly unlocking
(15:53):
your phone, it forces the brain to switch between tasks rapidly,
and it erodes the ability to focus on just one thing,
which we have to do. And this habit, boy, you
think it's widespread. More than half Americans check their phones
multiple times during social activities like eating.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
With other people.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
You're eating with people, there's Amy checking her phone. Because
she is checking her phone and she does it constantly.
Now why is it because she has cognitive disabilities? That's
one reason? Is another reason, because she is bored with
the show. Yes, is another reason, because she doesn't particularly
like being on the show, but she needs a paycheck.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yes, that is not accurate at all.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I've heard from very good sources that that is the case.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Your dogs, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
My dogs are talking to me. This will started in
two thousand and seven with the launch of the iPhone.
What Steve Jobs did was completely reinvent society. He also
did that with home computers. I mean, you talk about
a guy who's influenced society, and the habit of the
(17:09):
phone use, which happens one hundred times a day for
many of us, goes across generations. You would think that
older people who are not phone users would not use phones.
You would think they're not phone users. The older generation.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
They do as much as much as young people do.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Bill, and what my mom is eighty seven and I
text back and forth with her.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, it's weird, and I am not. I don't automatically
default to the phone. So I'll ask for something, you know,
at the store, and Lindsey will call me and she
would say, well, get me this or that whatever she
wants to buy, okay, okay, and she sends me a
picture of what she wants.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I don't think that way. I don't eat. I don't
think that way. Oh I do.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, she's smart, she has she specific tastes, and you'll
mess it up.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Of course I will. And I still take notes. I
handwrite notes. The other thing I do is I'm trying
to get away from it.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I have a check book at home. What's a checkbook? Exactly?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And all when we pay our bills, and Lindsay does
most of our bills, it's all done electronically, literally, I say,
we have to pay this, and thirty seconds later said,
we just did.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I said, what do you mean you just did? You
didn't write a check, you didn't put it in the mail.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
And she said, Bill, you're one hundred and fifty years old.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
She takes a picture of the check and she deposits
it on our phone.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
She does that too, and transfers money from one account
to the other. Absolutely, yeah, it's all on the all
on the phone.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
See I what I do is I still believe this is.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I don't understand how cell phones work without a wire
to the wall. I just don't get it. Also, do
you notice how loud I am? You can ask Kno,
he has to pod me down to the lowest possible
level that exists.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Why am I so loud?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Because people listen to me in Ventura County and North
San Diego County and the Inland Empire, and.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I have to scream so they can hear me.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I don't understand the electronics of this microphone radio and
you being able to listen to what I have to say.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I am not a dinosaur. You you are not.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
A dinosaur in any other way. But when it comes
to technology.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
That's actually true. I'll buy that.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I mean to get up on all the other stuff.
You just don't take to technology. Now, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I'm just I don't understand it. It took me a.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Couple of years to learn how to print my stories
by myself in the morning. Took me years to get there. Okay,
we're done. I'll finish the program really just talking about
Pastathon because we're basically out of time, and we'll do
all the other topics tomorrow. Fifteenth annual KFI Pastathon is
here tomorrow, Giving Tuesday, five am to eight pm at
(20:30):
the Anaheim White House where all of us, everybody's on
the air, is broadcasting all day and we're helping to
feed twenty five thousand meals every week Katerina's Club, Chef
Bruno's charity does and we're going to be at the
Anaheim White House. Donate anytime at kfiam six forty dot
com slash Pastathon one hundred percent of course your donation
(20:51):
goes to Katerina's Club, and we have some partners this year.
Go to any smart and final donate any amount at
the checkout go to Yamava Resort and Casino. When you
cast your winning ticket at the kiosk, it'll ask you
if you want to donate your change, say yes and
pick Catarina's Club.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
And then are auction items.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
And they're i mean probably over one hundred auction items
that are here and just the ones on KFI. A
few are perennials that there every year, you know, Dodgers
Game with Dean and Tina, Dodgers Game with Gary and Shannon,
an Hour with John coblt co hosting his show, and
then for us Morning, the Morning Crew, we're doing something
(21:34):
we've never done before. Neil and I are going to
broadcast his show, The Fork Report at my house and
we are having a barbecue where we're gonna have pitt
masters and grill masters. It'll be catered by Anaheim White House,
and you'll be top bidder is going to join us
this very small private event, maybe twenty people there, and
(21:56):
the winning bidder is going to join us, and we'll
have a great time, probably put you on the air
embarrassed the hell out of you. You can grunt, You
don't have to be on the air, but you're gonna eat.
You come real hungry. And it's at my house and
there's certain things you can do. For example, you get
to see it in my chair where I broadcast every day.
Keeping in mind, during the summer, I don't wear underwear
(22:18):
or any clothes, so it's a pleasure sitting in my chair. Neil,
you're giving me the totally disgusting.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Look.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Well, in any case, that's all. That's tomorrow at Pastathon.
If you come in the morning during this show, you'll
have bagels and cream cheese and pastries and coffee and
those are real jew bagels. Also have a copy of
the addendum to my contract that specifies why it's real
(22:48):
jew bagels. It's in my contract and that's fun to see.
So please come out tomorrow for Pastathon all day long.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
With every day part that we have. All Right, we're done.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Gary and Shannon are up next, and next time we talk,
which it will be at the Anaheim White House Pastathon
and it starts tomorrow morning at five am with Amy
and Will and then Neil and I will come aboard.
And yes we do have armed security. Dana will be
there and Dana is legally blind and does have Parkinson's
(23:23):
and so it is a pleasure having armed security from Dana.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
We're done. This is KFI AM sixty. You've been listening
to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Catch my show Monday through Friday, six am to nine am,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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