September 29, 2025 • 25 mins
(September 29,2025)
Bill recaps his European vacation and how he thinks Europeans view the US. What is making Los Angeles tourism tumble? You should be having more sex, and other myths, debunked.
Bill recaps his European vacation and how he thinks Europeans view the US. What is making Los Angeles tourism tumble? You should be having more sex, and other myths, debunked.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We expecting you.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Mine AM six forty Bill Handle. Yeah, The Love Boat
probably one of the worst television shows in the history
of television.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
How dare you? Yeah? Disagree? There you go. That's when
you have nothing else. Totally disagree as a matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
As a matter of fact, not only do you have
nothing else to do watching the Love Boat. Coming up
at eight thirty, I'm going to do a segment of
you should be having more sex and other myths myths
completely debunked. So if your choice between having sex and
watching The Love Boat, well, in my case, can I
(00:54):
tell you.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
All what your new wife? Send you that story?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's a whole I'll get into that. It's fun topic.
I'm going to debunk some myths. A couple of big
stories that we are looking at is the twenty two
year old man charged with killing Charlie Kirk. We'll have
a court hearing today and this has to do with
whether or not he is going to waive a preliminary
hearing and his court appointed attorney and him will make
(01:19):
that decision. Now, a preliminary hearing is just enough to
see whether there's enough evidence to bind someone over for trial,
and there's certainly is very low bar. I mean, very
few people don't get past the preliminary hearing. And so
what is all this about? Well, I think, well, I'll
tell you. What's going to happen is he's pleaded not guilty,
(01:40):
and there'll be negotiations going on. And the only negotiation
is will the death penalty be taken off the table?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
We're not going to kill you if you plead guilty.
And that's it, nothing more than a thing. Lest As
a matter of fact, I should talk about that more.
It's a great topic to talk about, is why people
plead not guilty and everybody, oh, he's guilty, he's guilty. Well,
of course, but I'll tell you about that later on. Okay,
I just got off of a cruise ship and it
(02:08):
was a cruise ship where people from all over the
world go to. I go on, I have to like those,
and I end up asking people a lot in the
conversations what do you think of America? Normally the conversation
always starts with where do you come from? That's me asking,
and I get the answer and then sometimes I'm asked,
where do you come from? None of your business in
(02:30):
those conversations. Those don't go well. And so from all
over the world I asked the question, or sometimes they
volunteered it, Oh, you come from America. And of course
the political aspect of what's happening, and it has to
do with Donald Trump. As much as we talk about
Donald Trump, they talk as much about Donald Trump and
(02:53):
what do you think? And it broke down into two
different categories. One was a personal review. One was simply
a personal perception, perception of Donald Trump not great.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
What I got was rude.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I got very rude, got personalized, self aggrandizing.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Is he the greatest?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Sound like Muhammad Ali, I'm the greatest, I'm the best,
I'm the good looking, the best looking, I'm the most.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I'm the best president ever lived.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And that doesn't go well, especially with Europeans and people
from other countries.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
They just don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Cruel in many ways, called getting very personalized. So that
was one where they talk about him as an individual,
and that did not bode well at all. Now, separate
from that was policy. Now Europe is pretty liberal. A
few countries have gone to the right where he is considered.
(03:53):
You know, the leaders are big fans of Donald Trump,
one of them of course being Hungary and another one Turkey.
And as far as policy is concerned, where we really
dove into it, how do you argue that he just
isn't the nicest guy in the world. For those of
you that love Donald Trump, you tell me how kind
he is. You tell me how he talks about perceived enemies.
(04:17):
By the way, when I say perceived enemies, we're talking
about people in the Justice Department in the FBI who
were ordered to do the investigation.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Doing their job and it didn't matter. They're perceived enemies.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
And so and boy they get ripped into by Donald Trump.
So tell me how kind he is to those people.
But as far as policy is concerned, it was all
over the place. Now, keep in mind, while we are
affected by tariffs, boy are they affected by tariffs because
it's the stuff that they sell to the United States.
(04:54):
And Donald Trump is absolutely right. Our balance of trade
is ridiculous in terms of what we export versus what
we import. And one of the positives of any country's
economy is selling more than buying. That creates a much
more positive economy, more money flows in than flows out.
(05:19):
And what he is saying is we're stopping that right now.
And how do you do that? You throw tariffs on
you just simply say you sell cars, and you sell
them for forty thousand dollars. Okay, all of a sudden,
we're going to put a fifty percent tariff and they're
not going to be sixty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Oops.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That stops the sales pretty quickly. And what it does
is theoretically force people to buy more American cars, and
it works the other aspect of a tariffs, which everybody
understood as far as America is concerned. What Donald Trump
is trying to do is get manufacturing to come to
the United States, not going out of the United States. Well,
(05:55):
that seems to be working. Long term, what's going to happen?
I don't know. Remember those stories did about setting up
factories in China, all the car companies going over to Mexico,
the Machi Dortaes, those factories just south.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Of the border that sell billions and billions of.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Dollars car manufacturers manufacturing south of the border. Why, Well,
because labor is twenty eight thirty thirty five dollars an
hour and union benefits go to every major car manufacturer
down in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
What is it three.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Dollars an hour, five dollars an hour with almost no benefits.
It makes all the sense in the world. So, as
I said, it was two different views. The personal I
would even go so far as hatred, and the other
one is and I want to take a third tack
on it. They just don't understand what's going on here.
(06:48):
They just don't get it. They don't get how we
could have elected Donald Trump. They don't get how a
world leader can be that volatile, especially a leaded a
press in the United States, where the entire the industrialized world.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Matter of fact, the entire world relied on the economy.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The American economy is the juggernaut of the world economy,
and the stability of the American economy made other countries,
other economies function based on what we do.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's been thrown out.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So it was really interesting to know what people thought
of our president and our political system, and of course
the dissension, how Democrats and.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Republicans hate each other.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And they don't get that either, especially when you look
at the history of the United States.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
All right now. Some bad news.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
This is not really news, and that is fewer international
visitors are coming to LA for a whole bunch of reasons,
and it doesn't do well.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
The tourist industry has gotten nailed.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
US arrivals in La fell this summer, reversing years of growth.
And man, does that deal blow to the city's economy.
And what are the reasons? Well, you have January wildfires,
you have the immigration raids, you have the tear of threats,
perfect storm, Hollywood Boulevard's foot traffic dropped, long Hollywood Boulevard.
(08:27):
If you go along Hollywood Boulevard, it's a fraction. There
are so fewer people peeing on my star for example,
you can tell they don't scrub it as often. All right,
but a bunch of negative news. And we have just
been nailed by natural disasters. Ten percent drop in tourists
(08:50):
this year. And man, we have a bunch of setbacks.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Let me go through some other ones.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
The images of the destructive eaten Palisade fires in January,
just the perception.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Is causing tourists to say no, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
The immigration crackdown in June here in Los Angeles, that
those are covered around the world, and when you have
tourists looking at that, people that are considering coming to
southern California, all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Maybe we won't, maybe we'll go someplace else.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You also have the tariff policies where visitors coming from
other countries are looking at the politics of our country,
nailing them, hurting them, and they don't want to come
here and support our economy when their economy is being
hurt big time. So a lot of international tourists just
say no, thank you. On Hollywood Boulevard again, Fewer tourists,
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the ones who show up, spend less. According to Salim Osman,
who works for Ride Like a Star, a car company
where you can rent the Lamborghinis, and you can rent
the Carreras, and you can rent the Ferraris.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So you rent one.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
For a day and they go for about two hundred
bucks an hour according to him, whoa, and you're still
gonna not get laid. That is correct. It doesn't help
at all. I'm telling you right now, none of that helps.
Lisa didn't with me. And so around the Chinese theater,
(10:28):
remember the concrete handprints, they're still there. Fewer people hop
on the sight seeing buses, Fewer people stop inside Madame
Tusso's wax museum. Fewer people snap those photos with those characters,
people that dress up Spider Man, Mickey Maos, Superman. You
don't see fights anymore. Remember the two Batman's that were
(10:50):
there a couple of years ago that were staking out
their territory and they beat each other senseless. That is
a picture, by the way, that is a great video
watching these two vers actually put each other into the hospital.
I take a picture of that with them. You bet
Palm Springs is doing okay. Who do you think what
(11:10):
group do you think was came the least the biggest
drop of tourists from another country? If you had to guess,
Neil Canadians. That is absolutely correct. And why is that? Well,
you think the president was just pissed off a few
Canadians when he said they should be the fifty first
(11:32):
state because Canada is a toilet and it is a
failing country and they should vote themselves as the fifty
first state and would be much much more successful. Well,
if you Canadians say, wait a minute, we're a sovereign country.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It's like Greenland. We're not interested.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
We like being greenland Onians, and we like being Canadians,
so that really hits people from China, India, German and
he also avoided US. Mexican tourists did not, they didn't
stay away. Over five percent more rivals, even with the
ice raids traffic to most Daly airports down. World Cup
(12:15):
coming next year, You've got the Olympics, and there's a
whole story about what's going on. I just read a
pay I just read an article about what they're trying
to do with LAX, how they're trying to somehow that's
LA Airports, it's its own authority, and what the money
is spending, and what's going to be happening to it,
and is it going to help. You've got that horrible
(12:36):
horseshoe around LAX. I just came into Lax. It couldn't
be worse. It's considered one of the worst airports in
the world. And that's being generous to LAX. So well,
I will probably talk more about that. So the decline
in tourism is really worrying a lot of people. I
mean for the rest of us. You know, if LA
(12:58):
gets a little less crowded, that's fine. I mean during
the World Cup, during the Olympics, are you going to
be anywhere near Los Angeles. I left LA in nineteen
eighty four. I made sure I was out of the country.
LA was a ghost town. By the way, it was
the best time to ever drive through the city. It
was like the worst days of the pandemic, where no
(13:20):
one was on the streets. That's how good it was
without a pandemic. All right, I want to have fun,
and I was talking about sex. I like talking about sex,
not necessarily having sex because I'm me, but talking about sex.
So there are some commonly held beliefs that frankly, are
(13:44):
just incorrect. And this what I'm about to tell you
is real research. These are studies. We study sex a
lot because sex is a very important part of our lives.
So recent studies have new insights about the desire timber
one to have sex, how to spark it, how to
(14:06):
maintain it. In my case, it's one hundred dollars bills
and other studies are overturning long held ideas about the
ideal frequency. How often should you have sex?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Now? That is the big one.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
That is the big debunking of the physical intimacy and
frequency issue. Misconceptions about sex are often passed along between friends.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Hed you get laid last night? I had the badge
you lie about that? Okay?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Uh parroted in chat rooms, hey did you get laid
last night?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
How'd you do?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And by therapists, doctors and therapists who ask you.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Hey, did you get laid last night? How did that fail?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And these therapists and doctors lack specific training and sexual issues.
You don't learn that stuff in medical school. You're either
too busy studying or too busy getting laid. I mean,
it's one of those two things that's going on. You
don't actually study sex well. Justin Garcia, executive director of
(15:18):
the Kinsey Institute. The Kinsey Institute is no small organization.
It was one of the it was probably the breakthrough
medical research organization that studied sexuality in the fifties, causeex
just wasn't studied. There wasn't research done on it, and
it had to do with erections. Legitimately had to do
with erections, how often men had orgasms and women.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I mean, it was just it was real science there.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And so coming from anybody from the Kinsey Institute, this
you pay attention to it. And Justin Garcia, whose executive
director said in absence of good information, we create a
mythology and then we treat it as gospel.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Now we shouldn't be surprised, he said.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And here's why sex education and research are perpetually underfunded
and often attack from politicians and religious groups. And think
about it, that's exactly what happens anytime you have sex education.
You have right wing religious groups that attack sex education
(16:28):
in and of itself.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Sex education should not be taught.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And we'll talk about gender identity, all of it lumped
up together, saying we should leave that alone. Well, the
problem is that doesn't do anybody any good. And he
goes on to say our own reticence plays a role too,
because people are uncomfortable talking about sex, just uncomfortable out
it about it. Oh, there go my dogs. Yes, that's
(16:56):
very funny. Also not true. That is also defa I
want you to know that that.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Is a libel case. I thought it was dal.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Wow, it's welcome to the Neil's The Majors Show.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Happy to be Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Neil is doing this show on Thursday too, where it's
Young Kipoor the Days of Awe And actually my case
is the Days of ah.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Where was I? Oh? Before Neil interrupted me. Funny but
interrupted me. Sex education and research perpetually underfunded because of
the attacks from politicians, religious groups, and we're uncomfortable talking
about sex, I mean think about that. We are so
according to the study, and again research, good relationships benefit
(17:50):
from good information. So there are several commonly held beliefs
about sex that recent research has just debunked. The perception
we have about sex in many cases just isn't true,
(18:12):
and so let's start debunking. A lot of people believe
that happy couples have a lot of sex, and those
that don't have a lot of sex are headed for
relationship trouble. According to Gurt Bermbaum, professor of psychology at
Reichman University in Israel, he says, no matter how much
sex we're having, we think we should be having more.
(18:35):
That was a statement he made after he was leaving
a brothel in Israel, and he studies sex and relationships.
He said, different couples have different sexual needs that make
some some prefer a lot of sex, others prefer a
lot less sex. The trick is to sort of have
a meeting there, and a couple's ideal frequency changes over time, age, length,
(18:59):
of relations and ship length of penis. But I think
that stays the same, hopefully, Illness, stress all impacting it.
And then there's a sweet spot. Now I'm not talking
about g spot. I'm talking about the sweet spot where
people have sex and average of once a week. That
seems to be the sweet spot. They report a greater
relationship and life satisfaction the people who have it less
(19:23):
or even more frequently. And this is a research included
a review of two hundred and seventy nine studies published
in Nature Reviews Psychology and co written by Burnbaum, who
wrote most of it in a brothel. And those who
have sex more than that aren't any happier.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, don't think you don't think it's funny Bill that
his last name is burn Bomb. Hmm, no bomb for burning. Yeah,
I get it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
He says once a week is enough to maintain connection,
and more might become routine exhausting, No kidding. And the
idea of that sexual overglow or afterglow is real, That
actually is real.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Now here's a fun one.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Almost everyone, ninety seven percent of the population have sexual fantasies.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
According to Justin lim Mahler or lim Moeller.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
A senior researcher at the Kinsey Institute, and he's been
conducting one of the most comprehensive studies ever done on
fantasies and a therapists say sometimes we shouldn't allow people
come to share these with partners because it could create
some unnecessary conflict. Others are saying, wait a minute, the
(20:44):
research shows that actually the opposite is true. Most people
report positive experiences when they share their fantasies, even with
the fantasy about opening up a monogamous relationship to other people.
You know, I have to be honest, I'm one of
the ninety seven percent. I have fantasies mainly to do
(21:05):
with having sexual with that grandmother and she is dead,
so there's a double hit there for me. I know
this is actually a serious topic, but I have to
throw a handlesque view towards this. Fantasies don't have to
be acted upon. Well, actually they should be, but sharing
(21:25):
those fantasies can actually bring partners closer, create more excitement
in the bedroom, lead to greater relationship and sexual satisfaction.
So Lee Miller says, to determine what's right for you,
I ask why you want to share? Is the jazz
things up in the bedroom, help your partner understand you
(21:47):
better act out your fantasy. Now my grandmother comes into
it again. And you don't have to share every fantasy
you have. Yeah, there's some that maybe you want to
keep to yourself. You know, the kangaroos, the bicycle chains,
those sort of things, maybe you don't want to share. Now,
you watch any movie with a sex scene, and you'll
(22:07):
see two people overcome with lust ripping off each other's
clothes off, which they don't. By the way, everybody in
the movies has unless you're watching a porno film.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Everybody has sex and clothes. And so people believe.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
That the most passionate, satisfying sex just happens.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Well, that's not true.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
People who plan for sex, like date night, find it
just as good as spontaneous sex.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
That's what the study show.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
As a matter of fact, people who planned for sex
had it more often and enjoyed it more. Amy Muse,
professor of psychology at a brothel at New York University
in Toronto and a director of Sexual Health and Relationships Lab.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I got to tell you.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
The study of sex is all over the place. We
tend to suppress it. It is big, big scientific news,
and so she says planning can build anticipation. In other words,
fun sex is sometimes playing sex. Fun sex is fantasies.
(23:20):
In my case, Well again, I don't want to share
with you, but you can ask lindsay how many times
we'll have a little planning date and I just hand
her two hundred dollars and say, here, take care of yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I have a headache tonight. What can I tell you?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
The other thing I've often noticed, now this is just
personal advice, okay, and I follow this advice, and that
is one of my greatest fears is yelling out the
wrong name in that moment of ecstasy.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
So what I do is yell out my name.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And now I know I'm a jerk, but at least
I don't yell out the wrong name because that can
become real problematic. Oho, it just seems to work for me.
I think we'll end it at that point. What do
you think, guys?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Sure we're gonna go wash our brains? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
All right, Gary and Shannon are up and we're back again,
except I have to tell you Thursday, I'm not here
because of young keep poor.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
So you get Neil again for that day. And Neil.
Thanks for spending the time with everybody.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You know, Neil always fills in for me because Neil
is on contract and they would have to pay someone
else to actually.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Do it, so Neil would be here. Tell me that's
not true. Neil, who the hell knows?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I do? I do?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I know?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
All right, Gary and Shanded up.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Next, we'll catch it a bar awarding Handle and the
morning crew.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
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We expecting you.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Mine AM six forty Bill Handle. Yeah, The Love Boat
probably one of the worst television shows in the history
of television.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
How dare you? Yeah? Disagree? There you go. That's when
you have nothing else. Totally disagree as a matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
As a matter of fact, not only do you have
nothing else to do watching the Love Boat. Coming up
at eight thirty, I'm going to do a segment of
you should be having more sex and other myths myths
completely debunked. So if your choice between having sex and
watching The Love Boat, well, in my case, can I
(00:54):
tell you.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
All what your new wife? Send you that story?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's a whole I'll get into that. It's fun topic.
I'm going to debunk some myths. A couple of big
stories that we are looking at is the twenty two
year old man charged with killing Charlie Kirk. We'll have
a court hearing today and this has to do with
whether or not he is going to waive a preliminary
hearing and his court appointed attorney and him will make
(01:19):
that decision. Now, a preliminary hearing is just enough to
see whether there's enough evidence to bind someone over for trial,
and there's certainly is very low bar. I mean, very
few people don't get past the preliminary hearing. And so
what is all this about? Well, I think, well, I'll
tell you. What's going to happen is he's pleaded not guilty,
(01:40):
and there'll be negotiations going on. And the only negotiation
is will the death penalty be taken off the table?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
We're not going to kill you if you plead guilty.
And that's it, nothing more than a thing. Lest As
a matter of fact, I should talk about that more.
It's a great topic to talk about, is why people
plead not guilty and everybody, oh, he's guilty, he's guilty. Well,
of course, but I'll tell you about that later on. Okay,
I just got off of a cruise ship and it
(02:08):
was a cruise ship where people from all over the
world go to. I go on, I have to like those,
and I end up asking people a lot in the
conversations what do you think of America? Normally the conversation
always starts with where do you come from? That's me asking,
and I get the answer and then sometimes I'm asked,
where do you come from? None of your business in
(02:30):
those conversations. Those don't go well. And so from all
over the world I asked the question, or sometimes they
volunteered it, Oh, you come from America. And of course
the political aspect of what's happening, and it has to
do with Donald Trump. As much as we talk about
Donald Trump, they talk as much about Donald Trump and
(02:53):
what do you think? And it broke down into two
different categories. One was a personal review. One was simply
a personal perception, perception of Donald Trump not great.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
What I got was rude.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I got very rude, got personalized, self aggrandizing.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Is he the greatest?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Sound like Muhammad Ali, I'm the greatest, I'm the best,
I'm the good looking, the best looking, I'm the most.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I'm the best president ever lived.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And that doesn't go well, especially with Europeans and people
from other countries.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
They just don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Cruel in many ways, called getting very personalized. So that
was one where they talk about him as an individual,
and that did not bode well at all. Now, separate
from that was policy. Now Europe is pretty liberal. A
few countries have gone to the right where he is considered.
(03:53):
You know, the leaders are big fans of Donald Trump,
one of them of course being Hungary and another one Turkey.
And as far as policy is concerned, where we really
dove into it, how do you argue that he just
isn't the nicest guy in the world. For those of
you that love Donald Trump, you tell me how kind
he is. You tell me how he talks about perceived enemies.
(04:17):
By the way, when I say perceived enemies, we're talking
about people in the Justice Department in the FBI who
were ordered to do the investigation.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Doing their job and it didn't matter. They're perceived enemies.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
And so and boy they get ripped into by Donald Trump.
So tell me how kind he is to those people.
But as far as policy is concerned, it was all
over the place. Now, keep in mind, while we are
affected by tariffs, boy are they affected by tariffs because
it's the stuff that they sell to the United States.
(04:54):
And Donald Trump is absolutely right. Our balance of trade
is ridiculous in terms of what we export versus what
we import. And one of the positives of any country's
economy is selling more than buying. That creates a much
more positive economy, more money flows in than flows out.
(05:19):
And what he is saying is we're stopping that right now.
And how do you do that? You throw tariffs on
you just simply say you sell cars, and you sell
them for forty thousand dollars. Okay, all of a sudden,
we're going to put a fifty percent tariff and they're
not going to be sixty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Oops.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That stops the sales pretty quickly. And what it does
is theoretically force people to buy more American cars, and
it works the other aspect of a tariffs, which everybody
understood as far as America is concerned. What Donald Trump
is trying to do is get manufacturing to come to
the United States, not going out of the United States. Well,
(05:55):
that seems to be working. Long term, what's going to happen?
I don't know. Remember those stories did about setting up
factories in China, all the car companies going over to Mexico,
the Machi Dortaes, those factories just south.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Of the border that sell billions and billions of.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Dollars car manufacturers manufacturing south of the border. Why, Well,
because labor is twenty eight thirty thirty five dollars an
hour and union benefits go to every major car manufacturer
down in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
What is it three.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Dollars an hour, five dollars an hour with almost no benefits.
It makes all the sense in the world. So, as
I said, it was two different views. The personal I
would even go so far as hatred, and the other
one is and I want to take a third tack
on it. They just don't understand what's going on here.
(06:48):
They just don't get it. They don't get how we
could have elected Donald Trump. They don't get how a
world leader can be that volatile, especially a leaded a
press in the United States, where the entire the industrialized world.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Matter of fact, the entire world relied on the economy.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The American economy is the juggernaut of the world economy,
and the stability of the American economy made other countries,
other economies function based on what we do.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's been thrown out.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So it was really interesting to know what people thought
of our president and our political system, and of course
the dissension, how Democrats and.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Republicans hate each other.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And they don't get that either, especially when you look
at the history of the United States.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
All right now. Some bad news.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
This is not really news, and that is fewer international
visitors are coming to LA for a whole bunch of reasons,
and it doesn't do well.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
The tourist industry has gotten nailed.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
US arrivals in La fell this summer, reversing years of growth.
And man, does that deal blow to the city's economy.
And what are the reasons? Well, you have January wildfires,
you have the immigration raids, you have the tear of threats,
perfect storm, Hollywood Boulevard's foot traffic dropped, long Hollywood Boulevard.
(08:27):
If you go along Hollywood Boulevard, it's a fraction. There
are so fewer people peeing on my star for example,
you can tell they don't scrub it as often. All right,
but a bunch of negative news. And we have just
been nailed by natural disasters. Ten percent drop in tourists
(08:50):
this year. And man, we have a bunch of setbacks.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Let me go through some other ones.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
The images of the destructive eaten Palisade fires in January,
just the perception.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Is causing tourists to say no, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
The immigration crackdown in June here in Los Angeles, that
those are covered around the world, and when you have
tourists looking at that, people that are considering coming to
southern California, all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Maybe we won't, maybe we'll go someplace else.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You also have the tariff policies where visitors coming from
other countries are looking at the politics of our country,
nailing them, hurting them, and they don't want to come
here and support our economy when their economy is being
hurt big time. So a lot of international tourists just
say no, thank you. On Hollywood Boulevard again, Fewer tourists,
(09:52):
the ones who show up, spend less. According to Salim Osman,
who works for Ride Like a Star, a car company
where you can rent the Lamborghinis, and you can rent
the Carreras, and you can rent the Ferraris.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So you rent one.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
For a day and they go for about two hundred
bucks an hour according to him, whoa, and you're still
gonna not get laid. That is correct. It doesn't help
at all. I'm telling you right now, none of that helps.
Lisa didn't with me. And so around the Chinese theater,
(10:28):
remember the concrete handprints, they're still there. Fewer people hop
on the sight seeing buses, Fewer people stop inside Madame
Tusso's wax museum. Fewer people snap those photos with those characters,
people that dress up Spider Man, Mickey Maos, Superman. You
don't see fights anymore. Remember the two Batman's that were
(10:50):
there a couple of years ago that were staking out
their territory and they beat each other senseless. That is
a picture, by the way, that is a great video
watching these two vers actually put each other into the hospital.
I take a picture of that with them. You bet
Palm Springs is doing okay. Who do you think what
(11:10):
group do you think was came the least the biggest
drop of tourists from another country? If you had to guess,
Neil Canadians. That is absolutely correct. And why is that? Well,
you think the president was just pissed off a few
Canadians when he said they should be the fifty first
(11:32):
state because Canada is a toilet and it is a
failing country and they should vote themselves as the fifty
first state and would be much much more successful. Well,
if you Canadians say, wait a minute, we're a sovereign country.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It's like Greenland. We're not interested.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
We like being greenland Onians, and we like being Canadians,
so that really hits people from China, India, German and
he also avoided US. Mexican tourists did not, they didn't
stay away. Over five percent more rivals, even with the
ice raids traffic to most Daly airports down. World Cup
(12:15):
coming next year, You've got the Olympics, and there's a
whole story about what's going on. I just read a
pay I just read an article about what they're trying
to do with LAX, how they're trying to somehow that's
LA Airports, it's its own authority, and what the money
is spending, and what's going to be happening to it,
and is it going to help. You've got that horrible
(12:36):
horseshoe around LAX. I just came into Lax. It couldn't
be worse. It's considered one of the worst airports in
the world. And that's being generous to LAX. So well,
I will probably talk more about that. So the decline
in tourism is really worrying a lot of people. I
mean for the rest of us. You know, if LA
(12:58):
gets a little less crowded, that's fine. I mean during
the World Cup, during the Olympics, are you going to
be anywhere near Los Angeles. I left LA in nineteen
eighty four. I made sure I was out of the country.
LA was a ghost town. By the way, it was
the best time to ever drive through the city. It
was like the worst days of the pandemic, where no
(13:20):
one was on the streets. That's how good it was
without a pandemic. All right, I want to have fun,
and I was talking about sex. I like talking about sex,
not necessarily having sex because I'm me, but talking about sex.
So there are some commonly held beliefs that frankly, are
(13:44):
just incorrect. And this what I'm about to tell you
is real research. These are studies. We study sex a
lot because sex is a very important part of our lives.
So recent studies have new insights about the desire timber
one to have sex, how to spark it, how to
(14:06):
maintain it. In my case, it's one hundred dollars bills
and other studies are overturning long held ideas about the
ideal frequency. How often should you have sex?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Now? That is the big one.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
That is the big debunking of the physical intimacy and
frequency issue. Misconceptions about sex are often passed along between friends.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Hed you get laid last night? I had the badge
you lie about that? Okay?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Uh parroted in chat rooms, hey did you get laid
last night?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
How'd you do?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And by therapists, doctors and therapists who ask you.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Hey, did you get laid last night? How did that fail?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And these therapists and doctors lack specific training and sexual issues.
You don't learn that stuff in medical school. You're either
too busy studying or too busy getting laid. I mean,
it's one of those two things that's going on. You
don't actually study sex well. Justin Garcia, executive director of
(15:18):
the Kinsey Institute. The Kinsey Institute is no small organization.
It was one of the it was probably the breakthrough
medical research organization that studied sexuality in the fifties, causeex
just wasn't studied. There wasn't research done on it, and
it had to do with erections. Legitimately had to do
with erections, how often men had orgasms and women.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I mean, it was just it was real science there.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And so coming from anybody from the Kinsey Institute, this
you pay attention to it. And Justin Garcia, whose executive
director said in absence of good information, we create a
mythology and then we treat it as gospel.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Now we shouldn't be surprised, he said.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And here's why sex education and research are perpetually underfunded
and often attack from politicians and religious groups. And think
about it, that's exactly what happens anytime you have sex education.
You have right wing religious groups that attack sex education
(16:28):
in and of itself.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Sex education should not be taught.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And we'll talk about gender identity, all of it lumped
up together, saying we should leave that alone. Well, the
problem is that doesn't do anybody any good. And he
goes on to say our own reticence plays a role too,
because people are uncomfortable talking about sex, just uncomfortable out
it about it. Oh, there go my dogs. Yes, that's
(16:56):
very funny. Also not true. That is also defa I
want you to know that that.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Is a libel case. I thought it was dal.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Wow, it's welcome to the Neil's The Majors Show.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Happy to be Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Neil is doing this show on Thursday too, where it's
Young Kipoor the Days of Awe And actually my case
is the Days of ah.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Where was I? Oh? Before Neil interrupted me. Funny but
interrupted me. Sex education and research perpetually underfunded because of
the attacks from politicians, religious groups, and we're uncomfortable talking
about sex, I mean think about that. We are so
according to the study, and again research, good relationships benefit
(17:50):
from good information. So there are several commonly held beliefs
about sex that recent research has just debunked. The perception
we have about sex in many cases just isn't true,
(18:12):
and so let's start debunking. A lot of people believe
that happy couples have a lot of sex, and those
that don't have a lot of sex are headed for
relationship trouble. According to Gurt Bermbaum, professor of psychology at
Reichman University in Israel, he says, no matter how much
sex we're having, we think we should be having more.
(18:35):
That was a statement he made after he was leaving
a brothel in Israel, and he studies sex and relationships.
He said, different couples have different sexual needs that make
some some prefer a lot of sex, others prefer a
lot less sex. The trick is to sort of have
a meeting there, and a couple's ideal frequency changes over time, age, length,
(18:59):
of relations and ship length of penis. But I think
that stays the same, hopefully, Illness, stress all impacting it.
And then there's a sweet spot. Now I'm not talking
about g spot. I'm talking about the sweet spot where
people have sex and average of once a week. That
seems to be the sweet spot. They report a greater
relationship and life satisfaction the people who have it less
(19:23):
or even more frequently. And this is a research included
a review of two hundred and seventy nine studies published
in Nature Reviews Psychology and co written by Burnbaum, who
wrote most of it in a brothel. And those who
have sex more than that aren't any happier.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, don't think you don't think it's funny Bill that
his last name is burn Bomb. Hmm, no bomb for burning. Yeah,
I get it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
He says once a week is enough to maintain connection,
and more might become routine exhausting, No kidding. And the
idea of that sexual overglow or afterglow is real, That
actually is real.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Now here's a fun one.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Almost everyone, ninety seven percent of the population have sexual fantasies.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
According to Justin lim Mahler or lim Moeller.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
A senior researcher at the Kinsey Institute, and he's been
conducting one of the most comprehensive studies ever done on
fantasies and a therapists say sometimes we shouldn't allow people
come to share these with partners because it could create
some unnecessary conflict. Others are saying, wait a minute, the
(20:44):
research shows that actually the opposite is true. Most people
report positive experiences when they share their fantasies, even with
the fantasy about opening up a monogamous relationship to other people.
You know, I have to be honest, I'm one of
the ninety seven percent. I have fantasies mainly to do
(21:05):
with having sexual with that grandmother and she is dead,
so there's a double hit there for me. I know
this is actually a serious topic, but I have to
throw a handlesque view towards this. Fantasies don't have to
be acted upon. Well, actually they should be, but sharing
(21:25):
those fantasies can actually bring partners closer, create more excitement
in the bedroom, lead to greater relationship and sexual satisfaction.
So Lee Miller says, to determine what's right for you,
I ask why you want to share? Is the jazz
things up in the bedroom, help your partner understand you
(21:47):
better act out your fantasy. Now my grandmother comes into
it again. And you don't have to share every fantasy
you have. Yeah, there's some that maybe you want to
keep to yourself. You know, the kangaroos, the bicycle chains,
those sort of things, maybe you don't want to share. Now,
you watch any movie with a sex scene, and you'll
(22:07):
see two people overcome with lust ripping off each other's
clothes off, which they don't. By the way, everybody in
the movies has unless you're watching a porno film.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Everybody has sex and clothes. And so people believe.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
That the most passionate, satisfying sex just happens.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Well, that's not true.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
People who plan for sex, like date night, find it
just as good as spontaneous sex.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
That's what the study show.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
As a matter of fact, people who planned for sex
had it more often and enjoyed it more. Amy Muse,
professor of psychology at a brothel at New York University
in Toronto and a director of Sexual Health and Relationships Lab.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I got to tell you.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
The study of sex is all over the place. We
tend to suppress it. It is big, big scientific news,
and so she says planning can build anticipation. In other words,
fun sex is sometimes playing sex. Fun sex is fantasies.
(23:20):
In my case, Well again, I don't want to share
with you, but you can ask lindsay how many times
we'll have a little planning date and I just hand
her two hundred dollars and say, here, take care of yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I have a headache tonight. What can I tell you?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
The other thing I've often noticed, now this is just
personal advice, okay, and I follow this advice, and that
is one of my greatest fears is yelling out the
wrong name in that moment of ecstasy.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
So what I do is yell out my name.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And now I know I'm a jerk, but at least
I don't yell out the wrong name because that can
become real problematic. Oho, it just seems to work for me.
I think we'll end it at that point. What do
you think, guys?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Sure we're gonna go wash our brains? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
All right, Gary and Shannon are up and we're back again,
except I have to tell you Thursday, I'm not here
because of young keep poor.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
So you get Neil again for that day. And Neil.
Thanks for spending the time with everybody.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You know, Neil always fills in for me because Neil
is on contract and they would have to pay someone
else to actually.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Do it, so Neil would be here. Tell me that's
not true. Neil, who the hell knows?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I do? I do?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I know?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
All right, Gary and Shanded up.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Next, we'll catch it a bar awarding Handle and the
morning crew.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
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