June 16, 2025 • 20 mins
(June 16,2025)
G7 Summit: World leaders will still talk trade in Canada… They ‘can’t afford not to.’ 201 ways to say ‘f**k’: What 1.7BIL words of online text shows about how the world swears. The real fertility crisis? Financial security, a U.N. report says.
G7 Summit: World leaders will still talk trade in Canada… They ‘can’t afford not to.’ 201 ways to say ‘f**k’: What 1.7BIL words of online text shows about how the world swears. The real fertility crisis? Financial security, a U.N. report says.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kfi AM
six forty kfy AM.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Six forty Bill Handled.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Here.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's a Monday morning, June the sixteenth, and some of
the stories we're looking at. Israel and Iran continue to
launch waves of attacks on each other and we'll see who. Well,
it doesn't look like their caving anytime soon. A lot
of pressure from around the world and from the White House,
even to the point now where the President who said
(00:32):
he is going to make peace between them didn't quite happen.
Remember Donald Trump. Day one, he's going to stop the
war in Iran, in Israel with Gaza. Day one, he
was going to in fact stop the Ukraine war. Day one.
It's the economy was going to explode and be better.
(00:55):
I don't know. I think he underestimated clearly how difficult
it is out there. You know, life is not that clean.
You know, there are a lot of nuances. So what's
going on right now, Well, the annual G seven summit
is happening in Canada and the President is there. These
are the top seven economies and normally they would be
(01:18):
talking about what's happening in Iran and Israel. That would
be the topic of conversation, the number one topic, that's
the number two topic. The number one topic is trade.
That's what's going on. And the trade issue are the
tariff issues that the president has invoked. And the problem
(01:38):
is no one has any idea what the trade what
the tariffs are. Tuesday, they're one thing, Thursday there are
another he pulls back, he adds to it. And so
the President's latest if no trade deal has been negotiated
by July ninth, then dozens of country are gonna be
(02:01):
hit with massive tariffs, reciprocal tariffs, which actually makes sense.
And what Trump is saying is you charge us forty
percent for goods going in, and will charge you forty percent.
The problem is you can't do that across the board.
You can't. It's way more complicated, and the deals are
(02:21):
going to be struck. Remember when he said when this started,
we're gonna have a deal by tonight. We're gonna have
a deal by the end of the week. We're talking
to ninety countries right now. We're gonna have all these
deals coming in within the next two weeks. No why
because the trade deals are so complicated. Because when you
(02:43):
talk about tariffs, every single item has to be negotiated separately.
For example, jewelry. Okay, I have a friend of mine
who's a jeweler. I am talking to them a bunch
of years. But there are tariffs. You bring in a
ring that has a stone in, that's a different tariff
than bringing in the stone and the ring separately. You
(03:05):
pay less, so they assemble it here and that's two
different tariffs that have been negotiated. Imagine that across the board,
right Beef okay, you have beef, you have dried beef,
you have processed food, frozen, comes in, fresh, comes in,
(03:26):
all different terraffs, tens of thousands of items that are
individually negotiated, and you can't do it all in one
fell swoop. I think Trump is trying, but it's a
lot more. It's just a lot more complicated right now.
Ten percent tariff on practically everything coming into this country,
fifty percent tariff on steel and aluminum, twenty five percent
(03:49):
tariff on cars, and it's starting to take a toll
on foreign countries now. England, United Kingdom published last week
its economy shrink in rates not seen nearly two years.
Because and we're talking about two years ago that was
coming back from the pandemic. Exports of the USA fell
(04:10):
like crazy. The people that are going to be hit
the worst. The country's going to be hit the worst,
Europe and the United States. And the problem is it
has gone from we're going to have the greatest economy
in the world coming into this new administration to Okay,
we're gonna have a it's going to be a big
hit on the economy, but we're going to take it.
(04:31):
We'll take it. It's very short period of time, but
it's going to make America greater. And then what's going
to happen. It's going to be a longer period of time,
a substantial period of time, because these things take a
while to kick in. But it's going to make America greater,
and it's going to cause some unemployment a lot. So
(04:56):
we'll see what happens with the tariffs. How the tariffs
have changed. How many times since Trump first announced the
terrorists half a dozen maybe maybe more.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Feels hard to keep track of.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That's exactly. And business business wants stability, and the business
wants consistency. That's what the markets want and not getting
it with what's going on right now. All right, let's
have some fun. There is an organization called Lingua and
it's a research organization that studies linguistics, as you can imagine,
(05:33):
and it's very well respected. And they just published a
new research project analyzing more than one point seven billion
words of online language across twenty English speaking regions and
they identified five hundred and ninety seven swear word forms,
(05:53):
from standard words to creative spellings like four can I
say this.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
No, it's arsehole, just used the a oh well okay,
and they didn't want to print it. Apparently back acronyms
like WTF, which is uh. I still don't know what
that means. You can tell me later. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And you would think Australians would be the number one
swearers in the world. You think about that, Actually the
Brits are in front of Australians, and you know, the
number one country in the world the swears the most.
And I mean by a long shot, you bet, oh yeah,
oh yeah, now it's I mean, there's all kinds of
(06:41):
stats I don't want to throw at you, but the
bottom line, vulgar language is relatively rare in terms of
overall world frequency word frequency except for US.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Are they large like text large? They look at every
social media. Yeah, they look at everything and every other word.
For us, between twelve and thirteen percent of Americans use
at least one vulgar word at any given time during
the day. And would you overall, the most frequent vulgar
(07:15):
word is.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo doo doo.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Do do do do do do. All you need to
do is to tell your typing and text correction it's
never duck.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
That's true. That is absolutely knowledge. As a matter of fact,
one study analyzed the word the f blom in social
networks on x and we definitely use it most more
frequently than anyone else.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's a special word though.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It actually is coming back from medi I think what
Shakespeare is credited with bringing it in, but it was
probably used before that. And it's really interesting why in
America we do it because, first of all, the ones
that don't conservative attitudes towards public morality, but even they
(08:13):
use I'm talking about the conservatives, the religious people use
those words. And why well, because there is a very
strong individualistic culture in America and we just believe in
public expression, whether or not you're conservative or not.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Liberals, you know, go crazy. I think the construction of
the F word is special. There's something about that launch
of the F and then the hard c K that
you feel better after.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Saying there is Ah. There is a bakery down in
San Juan Capistrano that I go to occasionally, and it's
f k n bread. Ah and is They do sourdough
and it's like fourteen dollars loaf, some of the most
x literally some of the most expensive, wonderful sour Is
(09:07):
it fkn good?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It is fkn good.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Also, there is one, just one religious based swear word
in that we use, just one that is used by
virtually everybody, the word damn. Oh, yes, yes, the word damn.
That was you know, I may have heard my dad
say the S word once or twice, but normally it
(09:32):
was damn it. My mom Catholic school, heard her say
the F word. Never heard my dad say the F word. Wow,
my dad was not a big cusser. My sorry, mom,
but you have a foul mouth.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, my kids, strangely enough, have a very foul mouth.
And I say, gosh, darn, you know what, they're not
a huge cusser. That's because I get to be the
would throw aside.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
But I mean like you and I spend a lot
of time together. I mean gees and rice, Oh Jesus Christ.
You mean as a as a squear word. Yeah, yeah,
you'd think that using the what people say is using
the Lord's name.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
That's why I use the word you offend in otherwise,
But I so I have if people use the lord's name.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oh how come nobody stubs their toe and says Buddha?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, it's a good point. Or why do so many
people at moments of joy scream out, oh God, oh God,
and they get very religious.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You think God pledgs the ears and goes. I'm not listening.
I'm not listening. I'm not listening.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Okay, uh, all right, I want to talk to you about,
uh well, the drop in the population. Matter of fact,
China used to have one child. Remember that used to
be the limit. If you you would be penalized. Right now,
Chinese is three is best because the population is dropping.
(11:05):
The Russian government is targeting the child free lifetime styles.
Do not do that. The White House talking about baby
bonuses if you have kids. JD Vance And what's happening
is a lot of countries are trying to reverse record
low birth rates. And a new report just came out
from the United Nations Population Fund, and it says that
(11:29):
the governments and all of us and organizations are operating
on something called the fertility fallacy, an assumption that young
people no longer want children, at least not as many
as they once did. And here is what's going on.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
When I first started in the world of surrogacy, helping
couples create families, it was all about fertility. That was it.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It was fertility. There is about a fifteen percent fertility
issue in this country. Fifteen percent of couples cannot have kids,
and we were there to help them have children. Adoption
is in reality, very difficult, you know, without being too crude, Well,
I mean, I'm going to tell you what the reality is.
(12:20):
White couples, which were the majority of my clients, wanted
white kids. I mean, that's you know, that's the way
it goes. You want kids to look a lot like you.
And there was a really small percentage of white kids
that were available. If you wanted to adopt, you would
have a probably mixed race, older kid with his or
(12:46):
her heart beating on the outside, with all kinds of
medical problems, special needs, and not a lot of people
do that. God bless those people that do. Those are
extraordinary people and I've run into them. So they came
to me for surrogacy. And when we used to do
initially artificial insemination surrogacy or egg donation, you'd get someone
(13:09):
to look as close to mom as possible. Well, I
once had a client, to a Swiss client that they
kept on saying no, no, no, to the potential egg donors. No,
not good looking enough, not good looking enough. And she
looked like Margaret Hamilton in the.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Wizard of Odds, I mean with the nose and she
had the boil with the hairs coming out on her chin.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Oh yeah, and she was big and it was uh yeah,
and yeah, we couldn't do it. They left because we
couldn't produce an egg donor good looking enough I mean jee,
I mean completely crazy. Uh yeah. It was really really
very strange. So it used to be about fertility. So
(14:02):
this United Nations Population Fund research study came out and
they researched people in fourteen countries on four continents, and
the number one reason that people don't have kids is
not is not because of fertility, because they're non infertile,
(14:24):
another reason they don't have kids. And my daughter Pamela
talks about this. She does not want to put a
kid into this world, not the way the world is going.
Between climate change, which is going to change.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
People have always said that what if your kid is
the one that solves these problems.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
My kid will never solve those problems. There is no chance,
not your kid. But I hate that.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
You know, everybody thinks we're in the worst times ever,
every single generations understand, but realistically, between climate change, people
are really you're just lazy and selfish and don't want
to deal with what it takes to be a parent. Well,
it's just an excuse. I don't want to bring somebody
to you know what, because you're a sappy you know,
(15:13):
yellow bellied whatever. Nobody has the grit to say, this
is what we do, this is what we do in life.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
This is our job to have kids.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
No, No, there are some people that don't have kids.
I think, God bless you. If you don't want them,
don't have them. But I'm saying, that's what you do.
That's what all everything in the animal kingdom, everything in
the plant king well, it used to be there's this
child free not child less philosophy. Now you choose to
(15:42):
be child free. My parents had no business having me.
Who you telling Okay, we've been saying that for years.
But I'll tell you why they had no business having
me is because the reason my brother and I were
born is because it.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Was the thing to do. There was something wrong with
you if you didn't have children.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well, I don't agree in that stuff, not anymore. I
don't think people should have to have that, but that
was that was exactly the culture that I was born into.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Let me come back. We'll pick this up and I'm
going to have I'm going to tell you about a
conversation I had with my daughter Barbara and my daughter Pamela,
and they have completely diversion.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Views on this and a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Actually the version very different, very different. Back we go,
I'm going to finish the issue of the real fertility
crisis that around the world, particularly the industrialized world. Well,
the population is not only decreasing in some countries, it
is tanking and in the United States, for example. But
(16:43):
for immigration, if it were just the what happens in
the United States amongst people that are Americans, naturalized or whatever,
non immigrants, then our population would just go down into
the toilet. And that is the problem. And as a
matter of fact, all.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Over the world.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
So, as I said, there is a study that just
came out from the United Nations Population Fund and in
dealing with record low birth rates, and so here is
the premise is number one reason fertility problems.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Okay, the world is getting more infertile. What's that about?
By the way, what do you mean? I like, it
seems like everyone I know that's trying to have a
baby is has issues that there are no fertility is
going crazy. So you think it's fertility. It is not fertility.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
You think it is lifestyle because once you have a kid,
for those of you that have children, your life changes completely.
I mean it's over, you know, anything that you've done before.
But that is not really the reason. The number one
reason that they have found, the number one reason is economic.
It's just too damn expensive to have kids. That's the
number one reason people don't. So with that, last night,
(18:03):
I was having a conversation with my daughter Barbara, and
she talked about how she wants kids. So she's desperate
to have kids. She's thirty years old. She will be
in a few days. And she's married and she wants
to have kids, and I said, no, you don't. You're
not going to have kids. As a matter of fact,
(18:23):
I'm going to wait until she's asleep and unconscious that
I'm going to put el dopa into her arm so
she her birth control is going to go on forever,
or at least until she could afford it, which is
probably never. You can't afford to have kids. My other daughter, Pamela,
her position is, I don't want to bring kids into
(18:44):
the world. This is not a world I want to
bring kids into.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
She doesn't want them playing her video games.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
True, it doesn't want anybody's stealing your video games. But
it's the number. And Barbara, I have to tell you
she cannot afford having kids, and she desperately wants to
have kids. You can't do it. And young people in
their twenties.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
What do you have to afford?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh, kids are expended. Just my we were broke. My
mom had seven kids. Different, it's a different, different world.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
There are people in this world that aren't amish.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
You know that, and thank God for it. We wouldn't
have the cell phone.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Ye, Like I'm telling you it is.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Where's the expense?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Okay today it's you know, expensive disposable diapers cost astronomical
amounts of money.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
The clothing, that's why you put a sandbox in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
There you go, Yeah, just with it. You should take
turns with a cat.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And education is unless you're going to go to public school, which,
by the way, you go to La Unified.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You don't get much of an education. It just costs
a lot of money. Okay, we're done, guys. We'll do
all the Disney stuff tomorrow because we've had a lot
of Disney, a.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Lot of stuff going on with Disney and Disney World.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Okay, we're done, and so coming up, Gary and Shannon
are going to be here in just the moment or
two tomorrow morning. It starts with Ann and or excuse me,
Amy and Will.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
You haven't done that for a while.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I know, I just get confused, Amy, and so I'm
back on track, Okay, thank you, Okay, yeah, Amy and Will.
At five o'clock, Neil and I kick it off. We
come aboard six right until now and then, of course
Ann and Kono make the show happen, and sometimes, well
(20:28):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Six forty Bill Handled.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Here.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's a Monday morning, June the sixteenth, and some of
the stories we're looking at. Israel and Iran continue to
launch waves of attacks on each other and we'll see who. Well,
it doesn't look like their caving anytime soon. A lot
of pressure from around the world and from the White House,
even to the point now where the President who said
(00:32):
he is going to make peace between them didn't quite happen.
Remember Donald Trump. Day one, he's going to stop the
war in Iran, in Israel with Gaza. Day one, he
was going to in fact stop the Ukraine war. Day one.
It's the economy was going to explode and be better.
(00:55):
I don't know. I think he underestimated clearly how difficult
it is out there. You know, life is not that clean.
You know, there are a lot of nuances. So what's
going on right now, Well, the annual G seven summit
is happening in Canada and the President is there. These
are the top seven economies and normally they would be
(01:18):
talking about what's happening in Iran and Israel. That would
be the topic of conversation, the number one topic, that's
the number two topic. The number one topic is trade.
That's what's going on. And the trade issue are the
tariff issues that the president has invoked. And the problem
(01:38):
is no one has any idea what the trade what
the tariffs are. Tuesday, they're one thing, Thursday there are
another he pulls back, he adds to it. And so
the President's latest if no trade deal has been negotiated
by July ninth, then dozens of country are gonna be
(02:01):
hit with massive tariffs, reciprocal tariffs, which actually makes sense.
And what Trump is saying is you charge us forty
percent for goods going in, and will charge you forty percent.
The problem is you can't do that across the board.
You can't. It's way more complicated, and the deals are
(02:21):
going to be struck. Remember when he said when this started,
we're gonna have a deal by tonight. We're gonna have
a deal by the end of the week. We're talking
to ninety countries right now. We're gonna have all these
deals coming in within the next two weeks. No why
because the trade deals are so complicated. Because when you
(02:43):
talk about tariffs, every single item has to be negotiated separately.
For example, jewelry. Okay, I have a friend of mine
who's a jeweler. I am talking to them a bunch
of years. But there are tariffs. You bring in a
ring that has a stone in, that's a different tariff
than bringing in the stone and the ring separately. You
(03:05):
pay less, so they assemble it here and that's two
different tariffs that have been negotiated. Imagine that across the board,
right Beef okay, you have beef, you have dried beef,
you have processed food, frozen, comes in, fresh, comes in,
(03:26):
all different terraffs, tens of thousands of items that are
individually negotiated, and you can't do it all in one
fell swoop. I think Trump is trying, but it's a
lot more. It's just a lot more complicated right now.
Ten percent tariff on practically everything coming into this country,
fifty percent tariff on steel and aluminum, twenty five percent
(03:49):
tariff on cars, and it's starting to take a toll
on foreign countries now. England, United Kingdom published last week
its economy shrink in rates not seen nearly two years.
Because and we're talking about two years ago that was
coming back from the pandemic. Exports of the USA fell
(04:10):
like crazy. The people that are going to be hit
the worst. The country's going to be hit the worst,
Europe and the United States. And the problem is it
has gone from we're going to have the greatest economy
in the world coming into this new administration to Okay,
we're gonna have a it's going to be a big
hit on the economy, but we're going to take it.
(04:31):
We'll take it. It's very short period of time, but
it's going to make America greater. And then what's going
to happen. It's going to be a longer period of time,
a substantial period of time, because these things take a
while to kick in. But it's going to make America greater,
and it's going to cause some unemployment a lot. So
(04:56):
we'll see what happens with the tariffs. How the tariffs
have changed. How many times since Trump first announced the
terrorists half a dozen maybe maybe more.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Feels hard to keep track of.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That's exactly. And business business wants stability, and the business
wants consistency. That's what the markets want and not getting
it with what's going on right now. All right, let's
have some fun. There is an organization called Lingua and
it's a research organization that studies linguistics, as you can imagine,
(05:33):
and it's very well respected. And they just published a
new research project analyzing more than one point seven billion
words of online language across twenty English speaking regions and
they identified five hundred and ninety seven swear word forms,
(05:53):
from standard words to creative spellings like four can I
say this.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
No, it's arsehole, just used the a oh well okay,
and they didn't want to print it. Apparently back acronyms
like WTF, which is uh. I still don't know what
that means. You can tell me later. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And you would think Australians would be the number one
swearers in the world. You think about that, Actually the
Brits are in front of Australians, and you know, the
number one country in the world the swears the most.
And I mean by a long shot, you bet, oh yeah,
oh yeah, now it's I mean, there's all kinds of
(06:41):
stats I don't want to throw at you, but the
bottom line, vulgar language is relatively rare in terms of
overall world frequency word frequency except for US.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Are they large like text large? They look at every
social media. Yeah, they look at everything and every other word.
For us, between twelve and thirteen percent of Americans use
at least one vulgar word at any given time during
the day. And would you overall, the most frequent vulgar
(07:15):
word is.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo doo doo.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Do do do do do do. All you need to
do is to tell your typing and text correction it's
never duck.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
That's true. That is absolutely knowledge. As a matter of fact,
one study analyzed the word the f blom in social
networks on x and we definitely use it most more
frequently than anyone else.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's a special word though.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It actually is coming back from medi I think what
Shakespeare is credited with bringing it in, but it was
probably used before that. And it's really interesting why in
America we do it because, first of all, the ones
that don't conservative attitudes towards public morality, but even they
(08:13):
use I'm talking about the conservatives, the religious people use
those words. And why well, because there is a very
strong individualistic culture in America and we just believe in
public expression, whether or not you're conservative or not.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Liberals, you know, go crazy. I think the construction of
the F word is special. There's something about that launch
of the F and then the hard c K that
you feel better after.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Saying there is Ah. There is a bakery down in
San Juan Capistrano that I go to occasionally, and it's
f k n bread. Ah and is They do sourdough
and it's like fourteen dollars loaf, some of the most
x literally some of the most expensive, wonderful sour Is
(09:07):
it fkn good?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It is fkn good.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Also, there is one, just one religious based swear word
in that we use, just one that is used by
virtually everybody, the word damn. Oh, yes, yes, the word damn.
That was you know, I may have heard my dad
say the S word once or twice, but normally it
(09:32):
was damn it. My mom Catholic school, heard her say
the F word. Never heard my dad say the F word. Wow,
my dad was not a big cusser. My sorry, mom,
but you have a foul mouth.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, my kids, strangely enough, have a very foul mouth.
And I say, gosh, darn, you know what, they're not
a huge cusser. That's because I get to be the
would throw aside.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
But I mean like you and I spend a lot
of time together. I mean gees and rice, Oh Jesus Christ.
You mean as a as a squear word. Yeah, yeah,
you'd think that using the what people say is using
the Lord's name.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
That's why I use the word you offend in otherwise,
But I so I have if people use the lord's name.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oh how come nobody stubs their toe and says Buddha?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, it's a good point. Or why do so many
people at moments of joy scream out, oh God, oh God,
and they get very religious.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You think God pledgs the ears and goes. I'm not listening.
I'm not listening. I'm not listening.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Okay, uh, all right, I want to talk to you about,
uh well, the drop in the population. Matter of fact,
China used to have one child. Remember that used to
be the limit. If you you would be penalized. Right now,
Chinese is three is best because the population is dropping.
(11:05):
The Russian government is targeting the child free lifetime styles.
Do not do that. The White House talking about baby
bonuses if you have kids. JD Vance And what's happening
is a lot of countries are trying to reverse record
low birth rates. And a new report just came out
from the United Nations Population Fund, and it says that
(11:29):
the governments and all of us and organizations are operating
on something called the fertility fallacy, an assumption that young
people no longer want children, at least not as many
as they once did. And here is what's going on.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
When I first started in the world of surrogacy, helping
couples create families, it was all about fertility. That was it.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It was fertility. There is about a fifteen percent fertility
issue in this country. Fifteen percent of couples cannot have kids,
and we were there to help them have children. Adoption
is in reality, very difficult, you know, without being too crude, Well,
I mean, I'm going to tell you what the reality is.
(12:20):
White couples, which were the majority of my clients, wanted
white kids. I mean, that's you know, that's the way
it goes. You want kids to look a lot like you.
And there was a really small percentage of white kids
that were available. If you wanted to adopt, you would
have a probably mixed race, older kid with his or
(12:46):
her heart beating on the outside, with all kinds of
medical problems, special needs, and not a lot of people
do that. God bless those people that do. Those are
extraordinary people and I've run into them. So they came
to me for surrogacy. And when we used to do
initially artificial insemination surrogacy or egg donation, you'd get someone
(13:09):
to look as close to mom as possible. Well, I
once had a client, to a Swiss client that they
kept on saying no, no, no, to the potential egg donors. No,
not good looking enough, not good looking enough. And she
looked like Margaret Hamilton in the.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Wizard of Odds, I mean with the nose and she
had the boil with the hairs coming out on her chin.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Oh yeah, and she was big and it was uh yeah,
and yeah, we couldn't do it. They left because we
couldn't produce an egg donor good looking enough I mean jee,
I mean completely crazy. Uh yeah. It was really really
very strange. So it used to be about fertility. So
(14:02):
this United Nations Population Fund research study came out and
they researched people in fourteen countries on four continents, and
the number one reason that people don't have kids is
not is not because of fertility, because they're non infertile,
(14:24):
another reason they don't have kids. And my daughter Pamela
talks about this. She does not want to put a
kid into this world, not the way the world is going.
Between climate change, which is going to change.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
People have always said that what if your kid is
the one that solves these problems.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
My kid will never solve those problems. There is no chance,
not your kid. But I hate that.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
You know, everybody thinks we're in the worst times ever,
every single generations understand, but realistically, between climate change, people
are really you're just lazy and selfish and don't want
to deal with what it takes to be a parent. Well,
it's just an excuse. I don't want to bring somebody
to you know what, because you're a sappy you know,
(15:13):
yellow bellied whatever. Nobody has the grit to say, this
is what we do, this is what we do in life.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
This is our job to have kids.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
No, No, there are some people that don't have kids.
I think, God bless you. If you don't want them,
don't have them. But I'm saying, that's what you do.
That's what all everything in the animal kingdom, everything in
the plant king well, it used to be there's this
child free not child less philosophy. Now you choose to
(15:42):
be child free. My parents had no business having me.
Who you telling Okay, we've been saying that for years.
But I'll tell you why they had no business having
me is because the reason my brother and I were
born is because it.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Was the thing to do. There was something wrong with
you if you didn't have children.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well, I don't agree in that stuff, not anymore. I
don't think people should have to have that, but that
was that was exactly the culture that I was born into.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Let me come back. We'll pick this up and I'm
going to have I'm going to tell you about a
conversation I had with my daughter Barbara and my daughter Pamela,
and they have completely diversion.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Views on this and a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Actually the version very different, very different. Back we go,
I'm going to finish the issue of the real fertility
crisis that around the world, particularly the industrialized world. Well,
the population is not only decreasing in some countries, it
is tanking and in the United States, for example. But
(16:43):
for immigration, if it were just the what happens in
the United States amongst people that are Americans, naturalized or whatever,
non immigrants, then our population would just go down into
the toilet. And that is the problem. And as a
matter of fact, all.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Over the world.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
So, as I said, there is a study that just
came out from the United Nations Population Fund and in
dealing with record low birth rates, and so here is
the premise is number one reason fertility problems.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Okay, the world is getting more infertile. What's that about?
By the way, what do you mean? I like, it
seems like everyone I know that's trying to have a
baby is has issues that there are no fertility is
going crazy. So you think it's fertility. It is not fertility.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
You think it is lifestyle because once you have a kid,
for those of you that have children, your life changes completely.
I mean it's over, you know, anything that you've done before.
But that is not really the reason. The number one
reason that they have found, the number one reason is economic.
It's just too damn expensive to have kids. That's the
number one reason people don't. So with that, last night,
(18:03):
I was having a conversation with my daughter Barbara, and
she talked about how she wants kids. So she's desperate
to have kids. She's thirty years old. She will be
in a few days. And she's married and she wants
to have kids, and I said, no, you don't. You're
not going to have kids. As a matter of fact,
(18:23):
I'm going to wait until she's asleep and unconscious that
I'm going to put el dopa into her arm so
she her birth control is going to go on forever,
or at least until she could afford it, which is
probably never. You can't afford to have kids. My other daughter, Pamela,
her position is, I don't want to bring kids into
(18:44):
the world. This is not a world I want to
bring kids into.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
She doesn't want them playing her video games.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
True, it doesn't want anybody's stealing your video games. But
it's the number. And Barbara, I have to tell you
she cannot afford having kids, and she desperately wants to
have kids. You can't do it. And young people in
their twenties.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
What do you have to afford?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh, kids are expended. Just my we were broke. My
mom had seven kids. Different, it's a different, different world.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
There are people in this world that aren't amish.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
You know that, and thank God for it. We wouldn't
have the cell phone.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Ye, Like I'm telling you it is.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Where's the expense?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Okay today it's you know, expensive disposable diapers cost astronomical
amounts of money.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
The clothing, that's why you put a sandbox in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
There you go, Yeah, just with it. You should take
turns with a cat.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And education is unless you're going to go to public school, which,
by the way, you go to La Unified.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You don't get much of an education. It just costs
a lot of money. Okay, we're done, guys. We'll do
all the Disney stuff tomorrow because we've had a lot
of Disney, a.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Lot of stuff going on with Disney and Disney World.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Okay, we're done, and so coming up, Gary and Shannon
are going to be here in just the moment or
two tomorrow morning. It starts with Ann and or excuse me,
Amy and Will.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
You haven't done that for a while.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I know, I just get confused, Amy, and so I'm
back on track, Okay, thank you, Okay, yeah, Amy and Will.
At five o'clock, Neil and I kick it off. We
come aboard six right until now and then, of course
Ann and Kono make the show happen, and sometimes, well
(20:28):
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