January 12, 2026 • 23 mins
(January 12,2025)
Survey asked 1,000 Americans about their New Year resolutions. Gen Z’s lack of talking is harming their cognitive health. RFK Jr. & HHS recommended new dietary guidelines may create chaos with alcohol policy change-up. U.S. citizens are joining the military to protect undocumented parents.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty KFI DAM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good morning, everybody. It's Monday morning, January twelfth. And Neil
is back and Will is back, and then Amy and
Kono and we didn't go away anytime last week except
we did the week before or the week before that.
I'm trying to get my dates together, so I don't
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have any idea. Okay, oh, let me tell you what's
going on. Iran's foreign minister, I said, first of all,
as country is prepared to go to war, it's just crapple. However,
he's ready to negotiate with a Trump administration. And why
is that You wouldn't hear that before? Well, because, first
of all, the demonstrations are overwhelming. The protests are going
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across the country like crazy. In terms of the people
in Iran, they've just had it with a regime. Economy
has been totally destroyed, inflation is out of control, and
the regime is in more trouble than it has been
in years and years. The last thing it needs is
a war, the last thing it needs. And Trump has well,
(01:16):
he has threatened to go to war with her on
if they keep on shooting their people, which they are.
And by the way, everybody believes the president now when
he says things like that, I mean, no one has
any doubt that he would do exactly that. There is
no posturing on that level with Donald Trump. So they
are sweating bullets. And they said, if there is an attack,
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then the bases around the Middle East are going to
be at risk, both Israeli and American bases. God helped
herun If that happens, Israel will start pounding them immediately,
and so they're not in any position to do anything
other than negotiate.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay, now, New Year's resolution.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I I go to a gym three times a week,
and the last few times that I have gone since
the beginning of January, I cannot find a parking space
in the parking lot. It is jammed with people. And
(02:19):
it's easy for me. I have a trainer because I'm
not going to go by myself. I have a trainer,
and I always say the same thing to the trainer,
and that is and I insist whenever I'm working out
on the machines, I always tell them I want to
be next to the fat, ugly people. So I just
feel better. You know, these hard bodies drive me completely crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I feel they put you next to a mirror.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
No, that is actually not bad. There it goes my
next conversation. Thank you, neil Oh, you beat me to it.
And why is it so jammed? Well because of New
Year's resolutions and those of us who have been going.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I've been going for the last six months this gym,
both of it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And you can't really tell ken I don't look like
I'm going to a gym.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Not true. I will tell you.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I'm proud of the fact that you have been so
dedicated to working out, and people notice it. When we
do live events together. People are always saying how great
you look. And I agree, you've been very consistent with
walking and going to the gym when I know.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, no, I walk an hour a day and I
do that because, you know, as I hit my seventies,
it's you know, what you fall apart. If not, you're
you know, you're just not doing as well. So with
that resolutions, The Washington Post asked a thousand Americans about
their New Year's resolutions and a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I want to give you, and then we're going to
go around the room.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
The number, the percentage of people that actually make New
Year's resolutions forty eight percent. Fifty two don't even bother
because they know it's just not going to work. Right. Oh,
I'm going to look better, Yeah, look in the mirror,
Give me a break. Right, I'm going to eat better. Yeah,
go to Costco and get a burrito or two. No,
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it's not going to happen all right. Oh I'm going
to smoke less, or I'm not going to smoke at all.
That's why you have to unplug your smoke detector at home,
because there's so much smoke going on.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So give me a break. Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Young adults are most likely to make New Year's resolutions.
The older you get, the fewer you make. And that
makes sense because you spent a lifetime of making New
Year's resolution, which of course you've never kept, so you
just give up the ghost. And so the poll, and
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this is of course a poll the thousand people ask
respondents to describe their New Year's resolutions in their own words.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Four and ten forty percent.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Improving their physical health, give me a break. You're going
to fall apart and you're about to die four in
ten sided. Goals related to mental health. That's very important
for our crew here, mental health, spirituality or personal relationship.
My big one is spirituality. I am a very big
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spiritual kind of guy. Matter of fact, spiritual is my
Spiritual is my middle name.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You gotta pray more. In twenty twenty six, are you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Uh? Thirty seven percent made financial goals. Okay, I'm going
to make more money and that's always good plan to
focus on hobbies or to make household improvements.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Now, how many people make household improvements?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You? Neil, you are the diy kind of guy in
the biggest I mean you build houses by yourself.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
You know, I tell you if you know, I do love.
I do love fixing things. And I was up at
our cabin and big Bear and a lot of fixing.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You buy.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
What you do is you buy a cabin in your
case as far apart and you fix it yourself. I
mean you put in every I mean it's just astounding
the kind of stuff that you make.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Duct tape and popsicle sticks. No, that's what I do.
Actually I hire. No, I don't do it myself.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I hire people to put duct tape and popsicle sticks together.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
The Washington Post did a survey asked a thousand Americans
to describe New Year's resolutions, and.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Forty eight percent made them.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Fifty two percent of the people that were asked didn't
even make New Year's resolutions. Also, the younger you are,
the more you make New Year's resolutions, because those of
us who.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Are beyond our young years, well.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
We just don't make them because we're sort of sick
of making them. And of course, not going through. Physical
health topped the list that no surprising, followed by weight loss,
no surprise, trying to eat healthier, and you've got my
favorite one is the ones of personal relationships and more spirituality. Because,
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first of all, if you are making if you're making
a resolution to increase your spirituality, believe me, you and
I aren't hanging out.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
That's all there is to it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Did you resolve to decrease your spirituality?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You can't squelch it a little more. I can't.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Uh, there's no way I can swelch it anymore. All right,
So let me go around the room and talk a
little bit about New Year's resolutions, starting.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
With Amy, Amy, did you even make a New Year's resolution?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I did not, And here's why.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Because last year.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
At this time you asked us, Hey, do you guys
have New Year's resolutions? And I said, you know what,
I did make one. I'm going to organize my little
apartment and declutter and clear it out. And a year
I'm like, you know what, this year, I'm going to
organize my apartment and declutter and clear it out.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So no, okay for you.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So Amy decides she's gonna stay a hoarder and footsteps. Yeah,
there will be a television show, a segment of Hoarders
is going to be done on her apartment.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
All right, I will.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I'm going around the room new Year's resolutions, yes or no? Sure,
And this one's probably pretty obvious based on my progress
so far.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
But I'm by July, I'm gonna look like Brad Pitt.
Yeah that's gonna work out. Well.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Okay, first of all, let's talk about mirrors at your house. Okay,
that are important. No, that is correct, I can understand that.
And second of all, are we talking about morphology, body morphology,
body dysfunction. I'm gonna have a nice little waistline in
a big chest, and you know that'll be that. And
then you wake up and you realize that's just not
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the case.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Okay, thank you. Okay, and are are you having a
new Year's resolution? Yes or no? Yes? Okay, what's your
new Year's resolution? To take more like vitamins or just
be better?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I eat well, but I think I need The older
you get, the more you need kind of more in
your diet.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, I mean, and I were just talking about this.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, I'm now going to Costco three times a week
to buy frozen burritos instead of two times a week.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
All right, Neil, New Year's resolutions for you. I don't
make them, but I have like plans.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I plan to start building a.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
House, an apartment, building a skyscraper.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I pause because I'm like, I shouldn't say it's an
R two D two unit from from ground up.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Fully working robot Nice.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Said, for those of you that are listening and think
Neil is crazy, he will have a fully functional real
life size RTD rd RG.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, will probably take me about two years.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Oh, you should make a life size R two D
two that looks like a can of w D forty.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Oh that would be great. All right, cono New Year's resolution. No,
I think they're stupid.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Oh okay, yeah, I tend to agree, with you. It
was to get a new car, and he's it's going
to work out there.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, I know, poor Kono on his car blew up yesterday.
And I you know what, I I actually have a
new Year's resolution then I want to share with you.
And my resolution is to never ever make a New
Year's resolution. And uh, it's going to keep here. I
think you'll keep it. Yeah, this year, I'm going to
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keep it. So you know, as I said in the
previous segment, which drives me nuts. And this is sort
of the poster child the new Year's resolution. The gym
I go to, you can't find a parking spot. And
for the weight machines that I use. The machines one
of the things that I don't do. A lot of
exercises happen on the ground, you know, crunches and those
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sort of things you do on the ground.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I will not get on the ground. I have to sit.
And as my trainer.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Says, you are the laziest trainee I have ever had,
and I said, that is absolutely correct and that will
continue on for my entire life. Okay, fun topic I
want to share with you, and that is gen Z.
Talk a lot about the gen Z.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Lack of talk. Talking is harming cognitive health.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I mean for all of us young adults today struggle
to make an appointment, ask a question, dispute a bill,
and if they manage to leave a message and get
a call back, they may not even answer. And this
has expanded beyond telephobia, craving closeness, now reluctant to engage
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in face to face conversations. Opting for texting may seem convenient,
but it's costing this generation more ways than they realize.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And what will it take to get gen Z or
all of us talking?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And the social consequences are obvious. Businesses are starting to
worry that young employees won't be able to engage effectively
with coworkers and customers, which is why so many businesses are.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Saying we don't want remote work, we want you here.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Young adults are lonelier, Dating is declining, friend groups are shrinking.
Penises are more flaccid, by the way. I don't know
if it's true or not, but I just wanted to
get your attention. Talking is an important brain exercise.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
This is what studies showed. This is out of.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
The Washington Post, and again this is looking at science
why Because talking enhances are cognition.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I don't know if you've ever put that together.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Young adults frequently listen to other people's speech why and how,
via podcast, YouTube, TikTok, and they don't provide the same
cognitive the same cognition. Young adults just don't listen to
people face to face because why you know, I didn't
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know this. By the way, the mental effort required to
speak is much greater than that just listening and understanding.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Speaking is important.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Talking about goals boost mental focus and follow through. Athletes,
they'll tell you the routinely routinely coach to talk to
themselves to improse, improve perseverance, to improve how they play.
Coaches are constantly telling athletes talk to yourself, tell yourself
you're going to do okay. I always look down at
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my waist and I say you're gonna do better. I
talk to myself and it doesn't seem to work in
my case, unfortunately. So this really didn't hit home for me, unfortunately.
But the reality is this really is this is real.
Speaking about a topic speeds up learning against science, makes
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it more durable, It sticks with you.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
And continues to tune tune our brains.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
All the way to old age, when high rates of
social socializing guards against dementia, because there is a link
between silence and dementia. Again, this is a study done
by or referred to by the Washington Post. So why
do we avoid talking? Well, the pandemic is one likely culprit.
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It removed opportunities for young people to practice socializing. We
know it couldn't practice during that time. And this is
while they transition to adulthood, because in certain cases we're
still talking about remote work, which further reduces talking practice
and degrades social skills.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
And it does.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I mean, look at this, I don't talk to people.
I mean I'm talking, But do you think I'm listening
to myself?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I am not.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Do I listen to any of you on the air
talking to me, of course not. Do I pay attention
when you leave a message calling me a dick?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Of course I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And the point is is that my life skills, my
social skills.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Let's say they are questionable. Wouldn't you say, Neil.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Defined social any connection to humanity in any way?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah, they're okay, they're on the weaker side. Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So therefore it's kind of important that I do talk
well well, when I am with people, I do talk.
Here's what Leaving messages on the phone and getting a
phone call back is critically important. And you know that
Lindsey always makes fun of me. You know, Lindsay's a
couple of years younger than I am, and she texts
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and emails and whenever I leave messages, she makes fun
of me. And if you listen to her message, if
you call her on her phone, her messages. I don't
listen to messages either text me or email me.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Have you noticed people do that.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I don't pay attention to messages. Effectively, I don't want
to talk. I don't want to speak to you. Let's
speak via email or texts.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
And obviously day it transcribes your voicemail anyways, it does.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
But it's not the same.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
But it is not the same because the response gets cryptic.
You don't have long I leave long messages I do.
They just ramble on and on and people don't don't
particularly like it. Here's what happens. It's a visious cycle
because people that don't talk gravitate to non talking activities,
looking at their.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Phones, moving through life with earbuds.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I mean, I see that at the gym constantly discourages
anyone from striking up conversations like I want to strike
up conversations with people that don't have earbuds, give me
a break. And less frequent talking directed towards the elderly
who watch a lot of TV but talk very little.
That's a problem because researchers have said, we've got to
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get older adults talking more.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
There's the program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's called Adulting one oh one, which actually teaches or
teaches that treating talking is a teachable skill.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I mean, what does that tell you?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
All Right, we're done with that, and don't talk to me,
don't leave me a message. I'm just not interested. Oh yeah,
never mind. I was going to go in a different direction,
but we don't have time. All right now, I want
to share with you a program that's not very well known.
Let's start with We've got dreamers who are here in
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this country right who have come as a youngster, sometimes
very young, brought over by illegal alien parents, illegal migrants,
who have no idea they're illegal kids until they go
and get a driver's license, for example, oops, And they
can be deported and are they being deported. That's questionable.
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The other group of people are those that are born
in this country of illegal migrants.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
They are citizens.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Even though our president is moving for a birthright citizenship,
which means that someone who is born here of an
illegal migrant is not a citizen in the United States. Well,
that's going to be a tough one because the fourteenth
Amendment specifically says if you are born here, you are
a citizen of the United States. So what happens, especially
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now people are sweating bullets. There is a program called
the Parole in Place program, and this has to do
with enlisting in the military. Now, we start with only
US citizens and permanent residents are eligible to enlist in
the military. However, this program that was launched in twenty thirteen,
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provides undocumented parents and spouses of service members protection from
deportation and gives them an expedited pathway to permanent residency.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So here's what happens.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Is the program is in place, the kid is legal
born in the United States.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The child then serves in the military.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Because he or she's an American citizen, and under Parole
in Place, then requests the documentation the status of parents
now being able to become US citizens were certainly able
to be free of deportation. And there's the double hit here,
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which is a really good hit.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I mean, I'm a big fan of this program.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
When you think about it, not only does it help
people who are related to those who serve in the military,
because those who serve in the military are on another
level than those of us who have not served in
the military. There's another level of patriotism, one way of
looking at it.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
But it also helps recruiting. It helps recruiting.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Now, if someone is tossed dishonorable discharge or leaves or
other than serving honorably, then the parents are no longer eligible.
So you have some serious commitment to someone serving in
the military. Not only do we get a really qualified,
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motivated member of the military, we also have a situation
where kids who are born in this country can bring
their parents into the program, which.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Saves them from deportation.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Now, keep in mind we're talking about illegal migrants who
are wide open for deportation.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
And if you think, as Christine Holmes.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Says, we're only going after the worst of the worst, well,
the worst of the worst pick strawberries and they work
at they sit in front of home depot and try
to get a job for a casual labor.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Those are the worst of the worst. So who are
we kidding?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
And the Hispanic community is sweating bullets, I mean sweating bullets,
as they should because of the policy today of the
US government and ICE. So their story after story, you're
going to see more and more people lining up to
join the military.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And it makes a great deal of sense.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And can you imagine You've got a family member, you
have parents and who are on either the verge or
frightened of being deported, and they're not leaving the house
and they're not showing up to work because of the
legitimate fear of deportation. And you join the military, they
apply for the program and now we're home free. Not
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only are they saved from deportation, they're now on a
pathway to citizenship and are protected from deportation. So as
far as I'm concerned, it's a win win all the
way around. Okay, we are done, guys, and it's a Monday.
Neil is back, Will is back, and the rest of
us are here, so kno, and and obviously are back,
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not that anyone can notice.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And I am here.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
So Michael Monks is with Shannon today and we're back
again tomorrow. As we start yet another episode of the
morning show, this is I AM six forty more stimulating
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good morning, everybody. It's Monday morning, January twelfth. And Neil
is back and Will is back, and then Amy and
Kono and we didn't go away anytime last week except
we did the week before or the week before that.
I'm trying to get my dates together, so I don't
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have any idea. Okay, oh, let me tell you what's
going on. Iran's foreign minister, I said, first of all,
as country is prepared to go to war, it's just crapple. However,
he's ready to negotiate with a Trump administration. And why
is that You wouldn't hear that before? Well, because, first
of all, the demonstrations are overwhelming. The protests are going
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across the country like crazy. In terms of the people
in Iran, they've just had it with a regime. Economy
has been totally destroyed, inflation is out of control, and
the regime is in more trouble than it has been
in years and years. The last thing it needs is
a war, the last thing it needs. And Trump has well,
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he has threatened to go to war with her on
if they keep on shooting their people, which they are.
And by the way, everybody believes the president now when
he says things like that, I mean, no one has
any doubt that he would do exactly that. There is
no posturing on that level with Donald Trump. So they
are sweating bullets. And they said, if there is an attack,
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then the bases around the Middle East are going to
be at risk, both Israeli and American bases. God helped
herun If that happens, Israel will start pounding them immediately,
and so they're not in any position to do anything
other than negotiate.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay, now, New Year's resolution.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I I go to a gym three times a week,
and the last few times that I have gone since
the beginning of January, I cannot find a parking space
in the parking lot. It is jammed with people. And
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it's easy for me. I have a trainer because I'm
not going to go by myself. I have a trainer,
and I always say the same thing to the trainer,
and that is and I insist whenever I'm working out
on the machines, I always tell them I want to
be next to the fat, ugly people. So I just
feel better. You know, these hard bodies drive me completely crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I feel they put you next to a mirror.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
No, that is actually not bad. There it goes my
next conversation. Thank you, neil Oh, you beat me to it.
And why is it so jammed? Well because of New
Year's resolutions and those of us who have been going.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I've been going for the last six months this gym,
both of it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And you can't really tell ken I don't look like
I'm going to a gym.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Not true. I will tell you.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I'm proud of the fact that you have been so
dedicated to working out, and people notice it. When we
do live events together. People are always saying how great
you look. And I agree, you've been very consistent with
walking and going to the gym when I know.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, no, I walk an hour a day and I
do that because, you know, as I hit my seventies,
it's you know, what you fall apart. If not, you're
you know, you're just not doing as well. So with
that resolutions, The Washington Post asked a thousand Americans about
their New Year's resolutions and a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I want to give you, and then we're going to
go around the room.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
The number, the percentage of people that actually make New
Year's resolutions forty eight percent. Fifty two don't even bother
because they know it's just not going to work. Right. Oh,
I'm going to look better, Yeah, look in the mirror,
Give me a break. Right, I'm going to eat better. Yeah,
go to Costco and get a burrito or two. No,
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it's not going to happen all right. Oh I'm going
to smoke less, or I'm not going to smoke at all.
That's why you have to unplug your smoke detector at home,
because there's so much smoke going on.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So give me a break. Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Young adults are most likely to make New Year's resolutions.
The older you get, the fewer you make. And that
makes sense because you spent a lifetime of making New
Year's resolution, which of course you've never kept, so you
just give up the ghost. And so the poll, and
(04:41):
this is of course a poll the thousand people ask
respondents to describe their New Year's resolutions in their own words.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Four and ten forty percent.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Improving their physical health, give me a break. You're going
to fall apart and you're about to die four in
ten sided. Goals related to mental health. That's very important
for our crew here, mental health, spirituality or personal relationship.
My big one is spirituality. I am a very big
(05:14):
spiritual kind of guy. Matter of fact, spiritual is my
Spiritual is my middle name.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You gotta pray more. In twenty twenty six, are you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Uh? Thirty seven percent made financial goals. Okay, I'm going
to make more money and that's always good plan to
focus on hobbies or to make household improvements.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Now, how many people make household improvements?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You? Neil, you are the diy kind of guy in
the biggest I mean you build houses by yourself.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
You know, I tell you if you know, I do love.
I do love fixing things. And I was up at
our cabin and big Bear and a lot of fixing.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You buy.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
What you do is you buy a cabin in your
case as far apart and you fix it yourself. I
mean you put in every I mean it's just astounding
the kind of stuff that you make.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Duct tape and popsicle sticks. No, that's what I do.
Actually I hire. No, I don't do it myself.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I hire people to put duct tape and popsicle sticks together.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
The Washington Post did a survey asked a thousand Americans
to describe New Year's resolutions, and.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Forty eight percent made them.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Fifty two percent of the people that were asked didn't
even make New Year's resolutions. Also, the younger you are,
the more you make New Year's resolutions, because those of
us who.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Are beyond our young years, well.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
We just don't make them because we're sort of sick
of making them. And of course, not going through. Physical
health topped the list that no surprising, followed by weight loss,
no surprise, trying to eat healthier, and you've got my
favorite one is the ones of personal relationships and more spirituality. Because,
(07:10):
first of all, if you are making if you're making
a resolution to increase your spirituality, believe me, you and
I aren't hanging out.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
That's all there is to it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Did you resolve to decrease your spirituality?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You can't squelch it a little more. I can't.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Uh, there's no way I can swelch it anymore. All right,
So let me go around the room and talk a
little bit about New Year's resolutions, starting.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
With Amy, Amy, did you even make a New Year's resolution?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I did not, And here's why.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Because last year.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
At this time you asked us, Hey, do you guys
have New Year's resolutions? And I said, you know what,
I did make one. I'm going to organize my little
apartment and declutter and clear it out. And a year
I'm like, you know what, this year, I'm going to
organize my apartment and declutter and clear it out.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So no, okay for you.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So Amy decides she's gonna stay a hoarder and footsteps. Yeah,
there will be a television show, a segment of Hoarders
is going to be done on her apartment.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
All right, I will.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I'm going around the room new Year's resolutions, yes or no? Sure,
And this one's probably pretty obvious based on my progress
so far.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
But I'm by July, I'm gonna look like Brad Pitt.
Yeah that's gonna work out. Well.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Okay, first of all, let's talk about mirrors at your house. Okay,
that are important. No, that is correct, I can understand that.
And second of all, are we talking about morphology, body morphology,
body dysfunction. I'm gonna have a nice little waistline in
a big chest, and you know that'll be that. And
then you wake up and you realize that's just not
(08:57):
the case.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Okay, thank you. Okay, and are are you having a
new Year's resolution? Yes or no? Yes? Okay, what's your
new Year's resolution? To take more like vitamins or just
be better?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I eat well, but I think I need The older
you get, the more you need kind of more in
your diet.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, I mean, and I were just talking about this.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, I'm now going to Costco three times a week
to buy frozen burritos instead of two times a week.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
All right, Neil, New Year's resolutions for you. I don't
make them, but I have like plans.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I plan to start building a.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
House, an apartment, building a skyscraper.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I pause because I'm like, I shouldn't say it's an
R two D two unit from from ground up.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Fully working robot Nice.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Said, for those of you that are listening and think
Neil is crazy, he will have a fully functional real
life size RTD rd RG.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, will probably take me about two years.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Oh, you should make a life size R two D
two that looks like a can of w D forty.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Oh that would be great. All right, cono New Year's resolution. No,
I think they're stupid.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Oh okay, yeah, I tend to agree, with you. It
was to get a new car, and he's it's going
to work out there.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, I know, poor Kono on his car blew up yesterday.
And I you know what, I I actually have a
new Year's resolution then I want to share with you.
And my resolution is to never ever make a New
Year's resolution. And uh, it's going to keep here. I
think you'll keep it. Yeah, this year, I'm going to
(10:47):
keep it. So you know, as I said in the
previous segment, which drives me nuts. And this is sort
of the poster child the new Year's resolution. The gym
I go to, you can't find a parking spot. And
for the weight machines that I use. The machines one
of the things that I don't do. A lot of
exercises happen on the ground, you know, crunches and those
(11:10):
sort of things you do on the ground.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I will not get on the ground. I have to sit.
And as my trainer.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Says, you are the laziest trainee I have ever had,
and I said, that is absolutely correct and that will
continue on for my entire life. Okay, fun topic I
want to share with you, and that is gen Z.
Talk a lot about the gen Z.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Lack of talk. Talking is harming cognitive health.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I mean for all of us young adults today struggle
to make an appointment, ask a question, dispute a bill,
and if they manage to leave a message and get
a call back, they may not even answer. And this
has expanded beyond telephobia, craving closeness, now reluctant to engage
(12:03):
in face to face conversations. Opting for texting may seem convenient,
but it's costing this generation more ways than they realize.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And what will it take to get gen Z or
all of us talking?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And the social consequences are obvious. Businesses are starting to
worry that young employees won't be able to engage effectively
with coworkers and customers, which is why so many businesses are.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Saying we don't want remote work, we want you here.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Young adults are lonelier, Dating is declining, friend groups are shrinking.
Penises are more flaccid, by the way. I don't know
if it's true or not, but I just wanted to
get your attention. Talking is an important brain exercise.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
This is what studies showed. This is out of.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
The Washington Post, and again this is looking at science
why Because talking enhances are cognition.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I don't know if you've ever put that together.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Young adults frequently listen to other people's speech why and how,
via podcast, YouTube, TikTok, and they don't provide the same
cognitive the same cognition. Young adults just don't listen to
people face to face because why you know, I didn't
(13:27):
know this. By the way, the mental effort required to
speak is much greater than that just listening and understanding.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Speaking is important.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Talking about goals boost mental focus and follow through. Athletes,
they'll tell you the routinely routinely coach to talk to
themselves to improse, improve perseverance, to improve how they play.
Coaches are constantly telling athletes talk to yourself, tell yourself
you're going to do okay. I always look down at
(14:01):
my waist and I say you're gonna do better. I
talk to myself and it doesn't seem to work in
my case, unfortunately. So this really didn't hit home for me, unfortunately.
But the reality is this really is this is real.
Speaking about a topic speeds up learning against science, makes
(14:24):
it more durable, It sticks with you.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
And continues to tune tune our brains.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
All the way to old age, when high rates of
social socializing guards against dementia, because there is a link
between silence and dementia. Again, this is a study done
by or referred to by the Washington Post. So why
do we avoid talking? Well, the pandemic is one likely culprit.
(14:53):
It removed opportunities for young people to practice socializing. We
know it couldn't practice during that time. And this is
while they transition to adulthood, because in certain cases we're
still talking about remote work, which further reduces talking practice
and degrades social skills.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
And it does.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I mean, look at this, I don't talk to people.
I mean I'm talking, But do you think I'm listening
to myself?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I am not.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Do I listen to any of you on the air
talking to me, of course not. Do I pay attention
when you leave a message calling me a dick?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Of course I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And the point is is that my life skills, my
social skills.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Let's say they are questionable. Wouldn't you say, Neil.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Defined social any connection to humanity in any way?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah, they're okay, they're on the weaker side. Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So therefore it's kind of important that I do talk
well well, when I am with people, I do talk.
Here's what Leaving messages on the phone and getting a
phone call back is critically important. And you know that
Lindsey always makes fun of me. You know, Lindsay's a
couple of years younger than I am, and she texts
(16:12):
and emails and whenever I leave messages, she makes fun
of me. And if you listen to her message, if
you call her on her phone, her messages. I don't
listen to messages either text me or email me.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Have you noticed people do that.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I don't pay attention to messages. Effectively, I don't want
to talk. I don't want to speak to you. Let's
speak via email or texts.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
And obviously day it transcribes your voicemail anyways, it does.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
But it's not the same.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
But it is not the same because the response gets cryptic.
You don't have long I leave long messages I do.
They just ramble on and on and people don't don't
particularly like it. Here's what happens. It's a visious cycle
because people that don't talk gravitate to non talking activities,
looking at their.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Phones, moving through life with earbuds.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I mean, I see that at the gym constantly discourages
anyone from striking up conversations like I want to strike
up conversations with people that don't have earbuds, give me
a break. And less frequent talking directed towards the elderly
who watch a lot of TV but talk very little.
That's a problem because researchers have said, we've got to
(17:30):
get older adults talking more.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
There's the program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's called Adulting one oh one, which actually teaches or
teaches that treating talking is a teachable skill.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I mean, what does that tell you?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
All Right, we're done with that, and don't talk to me,
don't leave me a message. I'm just not interested. Oh yeah,
never mind. I was going to go in a different direction,
but we don't have time. All right now, I want
to share with you a program that's not very well known.
Let's start with We've got dreamers who are here in
(18:10):
this country right who have come as a youngster, sometimes
very young, brought over by illegal alien parents, illegal migrants,
who have no idea they're illegal kids until they go
and get a driver's license, for example, oops, And they
can be deported and are they being deported. That's questionable.
(18:32):
The other group of people are those that are born
in this country of illegal migrants.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
They are citizens.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Even though our president is moving for a birthright citizenship,
which means that someone who is born here of an
illegal migrant is not a citizen in the United States. Well,
that's going to be a tough one because the fourteenth
Amendment specifically says if you are born here, you are
a citizen of the United States. So what happens, especially
(19:04):
now people are sweating bullets. There is a program called
the Parole in Place program, and this has to do
with enlisting in the military. Now, we start with only
US citizens and permanent residents are eligible to enlist in
the military. However, this program that was launched in twenty thirteen,
(19:29):
provides undocumented parents and spouses of service members protection from
deportation and gives them an expedited pathway to permanent residency.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So here's what happens.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Is the program is in place, the kid is legal
born in the United States.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The child then serves in the military.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Because he or she's an American citizen, and under Parole
in Place, then requests the documentation the status of parents
now being able to become US citizens were certainly able
to be free of deportation. And there's the double hit here,
(20:14):
which is a really good hit.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I mean, I'm a big fan of this program.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
When you think about it, not only does it help
people who are related to those who serve in the military,
because those who serve in the military are on another
level than those of us who have not served in
the military. There's another level of patriotism, one way of
looking at it.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
But it also helps recruiting. It helps recruiting.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Now, if someone is tossed dishonorable discharge or leaves or
other than serving honorably, then the parents are no longer eligible.
So you have some serious commitment to someone serving in
the military. Not only do we get a really qualified,
(21:03):
motivated member of the military, we also have a situation
where kids who are born in this country can bring
their parents into the program, which.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Saves them from deportation.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Now, keep in mind we're talking about illegal migrants who
are wide open for deportation.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
And if you think, as Christine Holmes.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Says, we're only going after the worst of the worst, well,
the worst of the worst pick strawberries and they work
at they sit in front of home depot and try
to get a job for a casual labor.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Those are the worst of the worst. So who are
we kidding?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
And the Hispanic community is sweating bullets, I mean sweating bullets,
as they should because of the policy today of the
US government and ICE. So their story after story, you're
going to see more and more people lining up to
join the military.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And it makes a great deal of sense.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And can you imagine You've got a family member, you
have parents and who are on either the verge or
frightened of being deported, and they're not leaving the house
and they're not showing up to work because of the
legitimate fear of deportation. And you join the military, they
apply for the program and now we're home free. Not
(22:21):
only are they saved from deportation, they're now on a
pathway to citizenship and are protected from deportation. So as
far as I'm concerned, it's a win win all the
way around. Okay, we are done, guys, and it's a Monday.
Neil is back, Will is back, and the rest of
us are here, so kno, and and obviously are back,
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not that anyone can notice.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And I am here.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
So Michael Monks is with Shannon today and we're back
again tomorrow. As we start yet another episode of the
morning show, this is I AM six forty more stimulating
talk not talk talk.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
We used to do that talk radio. We don't say
that anymore? Do we say? Good night, Gracie? Good night Gracie.
You've been listening to The Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
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