October 31, 2025 • 24 mins
(October 31, 2025)
Have Halloween decorations become too scary? Some parents are complaining. The history of daylight savings. What states want to ban it and which ones don’t participate. Harvard says it’s giving away too many As to undergrads. Men in California are in crisis and are falling through the cracks.
Have Halloween decorations become too scary? Some parents are complaining. The history of daylight savings. What states want to ban it and which ones don’t participate. Harvard says it’s giving away too many As to undergrads. Men in California are in crisis and are falling through the cracks.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles show
on demand on the iHeartRadio f KFI handle here on
a Halloween Friday, October thirty one. Some of the least
stories we're looking at. President Trump and his wife Milania
are going to be handing out candy to trick or
treaters tonight at the White House, and as you would imagine,
(00:23):
the kids are probably going to be screened. They have
to be. I don't know if you've ever seen a
five year old getting cavity searched. It is not a
pleasant concept. They just don't understand it at all. Okay,
moving on, don't give you that look, will stop it.
It's searching at screening kids. You know, they have to
because you never know when a five year old is
(00:44):
going to pick up an oozy and shoot up the
first lady and the president. Okay, now here is a question,
Oh real quickly before we dive into it. Neil and
I are broadcasting a week from tomorrow at the wild
Fork Wild Fork Store in Laguna Neguel from two to
(01:07):
five tons of samples because it's thanks grilling and not
just costco sample size, I mean samples and Zelman's is
going to be there. Yeah, and then I assume there's
gonna be some giveaways there too, So it's always terrific.
So come on out plan at two to five o'clock
and that's Neil's broadcast. Of course I'll be there and
(01:27):
it is one of the highlights of our year for sure. Okay,
I have a question to ask you or actually this
was out of the New York Times, and the question is,
have Halloween decorations become simply too scary where it's not
just haunted houses where they go in which I will
never go in because I'm scared, you know, cropless when
(01:48):
I go into one of those houses. I'm talking about
the decorations on the street. Home Depot, for example, has
those massive Costco has them those massive fifteen foot skeletons
with lights and the sound, and you know, is it
too scary for kids? At this point, we don't know
because there hasn't been a study. How do you do
(02:10):
a study on that one? Just it's a general question.
And so I don't do Halloween decorations and goes balls
to the wall with Halloween decoration. As a matter of fact,
what she does is put balls at the wall because
people are decapitated and parts are taken off. And do
(02:30):
you get scarier and scarier as far as your decorations
during the year, it does.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
They're evolving, I must say. You collect and you collect,
and it just continues to evolve and you get better,
more high end stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, but the high does the high end stuff translate
into scarier stuff some of it? I don't know. I
think they're just making things more graphic. Now.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Like you said, you can go to Home Depot, you
can go to Walmart, you can go to Target, and
they have more graphic decorations.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Those skeletons that I see, those moving skeletons and moving
devils at fifteen feet high and they're animatronic. I mean
they got a scare, a little kiss. I get frightened
of those. Neil, you're into those. By the way, thank
you for the total equivocal answer, and that helped not
one bit, Neil talking to you. You are into the
(03:26):
animatronic stuff you built some myself, I love it, but
I like spooky, not gory. I mean I I don't
mind going to gory stuff myself or anything like that,
but I would never put it in my front yard.
Because I don't think that that's fair to neighbors to
have that. But out in Burbank we went and there's
(03:48):
tons of houses decorated not far from the station, and
we were out there. They have the big clown house
of course, the Skeleton House at Burbank, and they were
all on and vibrant and cool. But they're they they
were spooky and some jump scare stuff, but the real
(04:08):
gory stuff. And it's becoming more gory, isn't I mean,
you know, the haunted how even the haunted houses becoming
a gorri er. You know, for example, so you know
they tell the kids that I give them a story
about John Wayne Gacy and then they go into one
of those rooms and there's a fat guy with a
clown outfit.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I will tell you you know what they're doing it
some of these these bigger haunts this year is they're
bringing odor into it. They're bringing sense smell into some
of these and that's a big thing. Now, uh, And
that's that's just I'm out. I will tap out if
they're I've heard some of them are very upsetting. Certain
(04:50):
mazes just are a sensory overloaded.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Well what does that mean? What kind of what kind
of smell can you produce? Well, how does smell equal gory?
Well equal halloween? Well, think about it. If you limit
your senses, so something you see is one thing, but
if you're getting this smell of what it is, because
there's there's also a level of fright that is in
(05:18):
when you're scared. When you're scared, you know smell.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Let's just say there there's a one haunted maze that
I saw where it's in an insane asylum and somebody
sitting there eating out of a bedpan and it smells
like someone's eating out of a bedpante plotting flesh or
it's wow.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Y things that aren't my jam.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I know you're thinking, where is it and how much
can I get a free walk through?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I know, yeah, I I will tell you I I
do not do scary movies. I do not do haunted houses.
They scare me to death. I mean, it's one of
those where guys jumped from the wall and the you know,
the chainsaw massacre, Jason comes out or Chucky comes out.
But I'm not good at that.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
People pay for great it's just on the front yard
when everybody can see it. Sometimes I think that stuff's
a little too much.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm coming with Bill. I can't do scary houses and
scary mazes things like that. Really, just actors, that's your art. Yeah,
but you know you don't know that. Oh that goes
through your mind, right, something somebody's jumping out with a
chainsaw going for your neck. I mean you know that
it's not dangerous. But do you think it's only an actor?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
No, I'm weird though, I'm like, oh my god, that
prop looked great.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Oh that lighting was insane. I'm a little weird that way.
I just don't like to be scared.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I know the actors, and I know it's a performance,
especially like at Halloween, Hornines and not very far, not
scary farm and.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
All that, but I just don't like to be scared. Oh,
coming up, and this is the end of the show
on Friday, which I always absolutely love Footy Friday with
Neil and we'll be talking about all things well a
co course to cost of costco story, which we always do.
And then at eight thirty it's ask Handle Anything, where
(07:13):
questions are recorded by you and I answer them and
they're usually to the whole purpose is to humiliate me.
Now saving time, daylight saving, not savings. Daylight saving time ends.
It ends at two am Tomorrow night is actually into Sunday,
so Sunday morning to am. And I want to debunk
(07:36):
some of the bunks and this is out of countryliving
dot com, and I assume that they know what they're
talking about. And so what happens is we set our
clocks back one hour before going to bed on Saturday.
And here's why. Because two o'clock in the morning, everybody's asleep.
(07:57):
I mean, they have to pick some time to do it.
So two o'clock in the morning it changes, and all
of a sudden, we're at standard time, all right, So
we're going to have extra light. Well during the fall
and winter, we're going to have extra light for navigating
to school and work in the morning. We have more
daylight in the morning. So therefore, of course what it's
(08:19):
about is for farmers who get up early and milk
their cows and harvest, they are going to have an
extra hour according to time. Nope, that actually wasn't started
to help farmers at all. As a matter of fact,
the farm lobby at that time campaigned against daylight Saving
(08:40):
Time because it gave them if you look at it,
one less hour in the morning to milk their cows
and send their crops to market, because that's when they
did it. And here's another myth. Benjamin Franklin invented daylight
saving time. Right, Actually, here's the story. And I love
(09:02):
doing this stuff history where I don't know it, but
we debunk all kinds of ideas. So seventeen eighty four,
Benjamin Franklin, who was Franklin, who was living in the
French capital, screwing everything that he could, published a satirical
essay in jornaldd' Paris and it was about this Parisians
(09:23):
rising with the sun to save money on candles and
lamp oil in the evenings. It was satire, and yet
it's taken as gospel. The here's one that no one
will ever know. And I'm going to ask you, guys,
I don't even want to ask, because you'll never know
who actually invented daylight saving time? Any idea? Guys, Now,
(09:48):
you'll never guess this done. Why even bother a New
Zealand entomologist, George Hudson, who proposed it in eighteen ninety five.
In nineteen oh seven, a guy named William will It
wrote a book called the waste of daylight, arguing for
daylight saving time. Okay, now here's what daylight saving time
(10:10):
does is conserve energy, right, And between nineteen seventy four
and seventy five, that was January seventy four to April
seventy five, we went on daylight saving time all year
round because of the energy crisis. In two thousand and five,
Congress passes a law extends daylight saving time by a
month keep energy costs down. The problem is, the National
(10:33):
Bureau of Economic Research finds that it for daylight saving
times raised energy bills for households in Indiana by one
percent and extra nine billion dollars a year. And frankly,
that didn't help because the time shift leads to increased
cooling costs, so it actually became more expensive. And when
(10:57):
it becomes law, will Woodrow Wilson, the President, first made
it into law nineteen eighteen, and that was repealed seven
months later, and then Franklin Roosevelt relaunches it in nineteen
forty two, but it doesn't become official until nineteen sixty six,
when President Lyndon Johnson signs a law. If you ever
are on jeopardy, this is really good stuff to know.
And we're going to be doing a test afterwards. Now,
(11:19):
who has daylight saving times? Some states don't even honor
daylight saving times? Daylight saving time here it is Hawaii, Nope,
no daylight saving times, Arizona, with the exception of the
Navajo Nation. Navajo Nation says yes, the rest of states
(11:40):
says no. And then there are some that are just fun.
These are very very important parts of America, American Samoa, Guam,
the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.
They don't have it, okay, and certain states can bounce
around because it is not federal law. Okay. Did that
(12:02):
help guys, now that we're into daylight saving time? Did
it helped you understand what this is about, because it's
sure as hell didn't help me understand what it's about.
I still don't get spring forward. Then you go backwards,
and when you do it fall backwards. That's it. I
guess I don't understand how it would be without it,
(12:23):
Like how different it would be. It would be daylight
saving time, it would be standard time all year long.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And Jim Keeney was on the show on Wednesday, talked
about how it actually is detrimental to our health. All Right,
a story I want to share with you. This is
about my kids when they were about seven years old
and they went to a birthday party. And I took
them to birthday party. There were a neighbor down the
street and they invited the kids and other kids on
(12:51):
the block and we went to a bowling alley. It
was going to be a contest. It was going to
be a little team by team contest in which they
were assigned teams and we're gonna see who's gonna win. Right.
It was a legitimate little play, a little uh you know,
(13:16):
it was a contest, bottom line, where they were gonna
do this. It was going to be a winner. There
were going to be some losers. I think there were
four teams and so, uh, my kids is their team
came in second. So I fully expected them to get
the Blue Wealth, not the blue but the red ribbon first,
second or third. Do you know what ended up happening.
(13:39):
Everybody got a little award that there was a little
ward with a guy bowling, you know, cheap cheap plastic
and it said world's Greatest bowler. But wait a minute,
there was team against team. Oh no, no, we can't
do that because everybody has to feel good. And now
(14:02):
we have kids. My kids think that because they get c's,
they're as good as the kids that get a's. And
I keep on telling you you're not as good. Do
you understand you're not as good? Oh, it's terrible, as horrible, dad,
We are as good. Okay, let's move to Harvard. Harvard,
everybody's getting an A. Right. Half of all the grades
(14:25):
awarded at Harvard are now a's. Wait a minute, okay,
sixty percent our a's undergrads forty percent a decade ago,
less than twenty five percent twenty years ago. So Harvard,
(14:45):
and this, by the way, is now throughout the entire
school system is everybody is the same LAUSD. Everybody passes.
Nobody gets thrown out for failing. When I was at
LA Unified school district, and I grew up in the
school district, which is why I make fun of it,
(15:07):
is why I make fun of iHeart because I work here.
They failed students. You got an F. If you came
in with an F average, you were done. You were
thrown out of school. In high school today, it is
impossible to get thrown out of high school. You passed
no matter what, because you are as good as everybody else.
(15:32):
We're all the same. Everybody likes us, everybody likes you.
And the Trump administration, and I agree with the Trump
administration on this one, is pressing the university getting rid
of the DEI aspects of it. That's fairly controversial one
way or the other, but has pressed for university grade integrity.
(15:57):
There isn't grade integrity any more. Why do professors give
a's to people, Well, they want to be liked, you
know why because everybody now schools hand out the surveys
they do at the end of the class. They hand
out surveys. They didn't when I was in school, when
(16:20):
I was at Lausdon. Well, when I was in school,
i would walk four miles uphill and then i'd come
back four miles uphill and it would be snowing the
entire time, even though I was in the San Fernando Valley. Oh,
it was rough for me. But the point is is
that grades were real grades. Today grades are not real grades.
(16:44):
The other thing that's going on, and why do the
professors they want to do well on the surveys, because
that's important to them. Okay, so there's one. There's also
something called imposter syndrome, and that is students who claim
they are struggling with impossible sir syndrome. And my kids
did really well with that one. Why because they said
(17:08):
they grew up in a poor family in the inner
city and they didn't have the advantages, and they were
the first kids that ever went to college. Although my
wife came out of UCLA, and of course I came
out with a law degree. And no one checks, you know,
they don't check. All you have to do is say
(17:30):
that you are you grew up. You're the first person
to go to college in your family, and you grew
up poor, and you raise your siblings and your parents
are dead, and you had to go work in the
mines and you lost your leg in a mine accident
and your kid that's what happened to my parents. Therefore,
you should let me in school. Automatic. Yep, you're in
(17:51):
school because nobody checks. Great inflation accelerated the late nineteen twenties. Durerally,
the pandemic is where it really started during remote learning,
and the problem is it's never gone down. And much
the same of the argument, what's happening with the government shutdown.
(18:12):
The Republicans are saying, and they're right, is that the
shutdown is over the increase. One of the things is
the increase in health care costs because those healthcare costs,
your insurance was subsidized by the government during pandemic. During
the pandemic, they increase the insurance subsidies, and with the
(18:34):
Democrats are saying, we have to keep the insurance subsidies
at the same level. That's the issue. And I'm just
off on a tangent on that one. So you go
to Havid, you go to university, there's a good chance
you're going to get an AD. Your kid goes to
high school. Doesn't matter if your kid even shows up
(18:55):
in high school, there's going to be a pass. Is
in life wonderful. So I want to point something out
you listeners, you out there in radio land. I love
that you are all winners. You all are doing great.
You all are phenomenal human beings. It's like people who
(19:19):
are against the death penalty the sanctity of life. We
are all life and we deserve to be treated with respect. No,
some of you decide are so miserable and so horrible,
you deserve to die also if you're not adding to
the gene pool. And I consider there's two kinds of
people in my world, those that are well three, those
(19:43):
that are just taking up space they don't do much
for society, those that leave the world in a better place,
and those that are actually harm society. We're not all
the same. There are losers. Unfortunately, only too many of
them listen to this show, and we have an enormous
(20:04):
number of them. Okay, let me. I've got to retract
those of you who I used to call losers who
listen to the show. You are all winners, every one
of you. All right. I want to get serious for
a moment. And the governor has called this issue a crisis,
(20:26):
and what it is about Men in California are in crisis,
and this is researchers. California has half a million young
people from sixteen to twenty four that are in the
same predicament. They're not working, they're not in school, and
men particularly at work, and a lot of it has
nothing to do with their fault because at this point
(20:48):
there's mental illness going on and a lot of it
work is almost impossible to get in many cases. I
did a topic on who's considered a winner, a winner,
and a loser. Last segment. And my daughter is the
poster child for this of working and going to school.
As I've told you many times, she has her bachelor's
(21:10):
degree in computer engineering, entering a master's degree her skill set.
She can't get a job because of AI. Just can't
get a job. And she's in school, she's going to
but that's going to end, and so she feels terrible
and she feels like a loser. And that's what a
lot of these men feel like. And the other day,
(21:30):
you know, poor Pamela said, Dad, you know what I'm
really I feel like a loser. And I responded, because
that's what you are. Do you understand. Thank god she
doesn't take me seriously. But for men in California and
hundreds of thousands, that's the problem. It's a real issue.
(21:54):
We have four point six million Californian men between ages
sixteen and twenty four, ten percent considered disconnected. Far these
are men Black and Native American men have higher rates
than that. So why well, so many drop out of school.
Work is varied. You've got AI coming in and automation
(22:17):
manufacturing jobs or virtually dispairing and they're mainly male oriented.
These men have disabilities, a lot of them struggling with addiction,
struggling with mental health challenges. Many are in prison. California's
prison ninety six percent are male. Most of the population
(22:37):
that is homeless male And unfortunately, there really isn't much
that can be done at this point. This is big
picture stuff, long term, big picture, very expensive to deal
with this, and we're going to see more and more
(22:58):
of that as we move forward and technology explodes, and
we're doing so much better. The disparity between the haves
and the have nots just in terms of money, not
just in terms of money, but in terms of mental health,
in terms of feeling good about being in society, feeling comfortable,
having friends. That is a real problem for many many
(23:22):
of these men. So recognizing it is one thing, and
this is absolutely true. What's going on. Recognizing it is
one thing. It's like the homeless. We recognize it, we
know it's a problem. How do you fix it? Well,
big picture, long term, hideously expensive. I just want to
(23:43):
make you feel better. Okay, Now, Foody Friday, who is
that Neil? Who is that over there? That young lady?
That young lady is my son. Oh okay, well, long hair,
and there you go. Don't let Max. Don't let Max.
Do not let Max. So I said that actually working
(24:05):
a little bit of makeup. Yeah, yeah, all right, makeup,
long hair, Okay, long hair, makeup? Okay, uh no, it's
an anime. Yeah. Was he wearing a dress? No? Okay.
Max is going to be seeing a psychologist for the
next several years. I just want to point that out.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Okay, the guy who is single handedly keep the psychology
industry wi.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
My psychologist has a psychologist because of me. I support
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You're listenings KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles show
on demand on the iHeartRadio f KFI handle here on
a Halloween Friday, October thirty one. Some of the least
stories we're looking at. President Trump and his wife Milania
are going to be handing out candy to trick or
treaters tonight at the White House, and as you would imagine,
(00:23):
the kids are probably going to be screened. They have
to be. I don't know if you've ever seen a
five year old getting cavity searched. It is not a
pleasant concept. They just don't understand it at all. Okay,
moving on, don't give you that look, will stop it.
It's searching at screening kids. You know, they have to
because you never know when a five year old is
(00:44):
going to pick up an oozy and shoot up the
first lady and the president. Okay, now here is a question,
Oh real quickly before we dive into it. Neil and
I are broadcasting a week from tomorrow at the wild
Fork Wild Fork Store in Laguna Neguel from two to
(01:07):
five tons of samples because it's thanks grilling and not
just costco sample size, I mean samples and Zelman's is
going to be there. Yeah, and then I assume there's
gonna be some giveaways there too, So it's always terrific.
So come on out plan at two to five o'clock
and that's Neil's broadcast. Of course I'll be there and
(01:27):
it is one of the highlights of our year for sure. Okay,
I have a question to ask you or actually this
was out of the New York Times, and the question is,
have Halloween decorations become simply too scary where it's not
just haunted houses where they go in which I will
never go in because I'm scared, you know, cropless when
(01:48):
I go into one of those houses. I'm talking about
the decorations on the street. Home Depot, for example, has
those massive Costco has them those massive fifteen foot skeletons
with lights and the sound, and you know, is it
too scary for kids? At this point, we don't know
because there hasn't been a study. How do you do
(02:10):
a study on that one? Just it's a general question.
And so I don't do Halloween decorations and goes balls
to the wall with Halloween decoration. As a matter of fact,
what she does is put balls at the wall because
people are decapitated and parts are taken off. And do
(02:30):
you get scarier and scarier as far as your decorations
during the year, it does.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
They're evolving, I must say. You collect and you collect,
and it just continues to evolve and you get better,
more high end stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, but the high does the high end stuff translate
into scarier stuff some of it? I don't know. I
think they're just making things more graphic. Now.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Like you said, you can go to Home Depot, you
can go to Walmart, you can go to Target, and
they have more graphic decorations.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Those skeletons that I see, those moving skeletons and moving
devils at fifteen feet high and they're animatronic. I mean
they got a scare, a little kiss. I get frightened
of those. Neil, you're into those. By the way, thank
you for the total equivocal answer, and that helped not
one bit, Neil talking to you. You are into the
(03:26):
animatronic stuff you built some myself, I love it, but
I like spooky, not gory. I mean I I don't
mind going to gory stuff myself or anything like that,
but I would never put it in my front yard.
Because I don't think that that's fair to neighbors to
have that. But out in Burbank we went and there's
(03:48):
tons of houses decorated not far from the station, and
we were out there. They have the big clown house
of course, the Skeleton House at Burbank, and they were
all on and vibrant and cool. But they're they they
were spooky and some jump scare stuff, but the real
(04:08):
gory stuff. And it's becoming more gory, isn't I mean,
you know, the haunted how even the haunted houses becoming
a gorri er. You know, for example, so you know
they tell the kids that I give them a story
about John Wayne Gacy and then they go into one
of those rooms and there's a fat guy with a
clown outfit.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I will tell you you know what they're doing it
some of these these bigger haunts this year is they're
bringing odor into it. They're bringing sense smell into some
of these and that's a big thing. Now, uh, And
that's that's just I'm out. I will tap out if
they're I've heard some of them are very upsetting. Certain
(04:50):
mazes just are a sensory overloaded.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Well what does that mean? What kind of what kind
of smell can you produce? Well, how does smell equal gory?
Well equal halloween? Well, think about it. If you limit
your senses, so something you see is one thing, but
if you're getting this smell of what it is, because
there's there's also a level of fright that is in
(05:18):
when you're scared. When you're scared, you know smell.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Let's just say there there's a one haunted maze that
I saw where it's in an insane asylum and somebody
sitting there eating out of a bedpan and it smells
like someone's eating out of a bedpante plotting flesh or
it's wow.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Y things that aren't my jam.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I know you're thinking, where is it and how much
can I get a free walk through?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I know, yeah, I I will tell you I I
do not do scary movies. I do not do haunted houses.
They scare me to death. I mean, it's one of
those where guys jumped from the wall and the you know,
the chainsaw massacre, Jason comes out or Chucky comes out.
But I'm not good at that.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
People pay for great it's just on the front yard
when everybody can see it. Sometimes I think that stuff's
a little too much.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm coming with Bill. I can't do scary houses and
scary mazes things like that. Really, just actors, that's your art. Yeah,
but you know you don't know that. Oh that goes
through your mind, right, something somebody's jumping out with a
chainsaw going for your neck. I mean you know that
it's not dangerous. But do you think it's only an actor?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
No, I'm weird though, I'm like, oh my god, that
prop looked great.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Oh that lighting was insane. I'm a little weird that way.
I just don't like to be scared.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I know the actors, and I know it's a performance,
especially like at Halloween, Hornines and not very far, not
scary farm and.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
All that, but I just don't like to be scared. Oh,
coming up, and this is the end of the show
on Friday, which I always absolutely love Footy Friday with
Neil and we'll be talking about all things well a
co course to cost of costco story, which we always do.
And then at eight thirty it's ask Handle Anything, where
(07:13):
questions are recorded by you and I answer them and
they're usually to the whole purpose is to humiliate me.
Now saving time, daylight saving, not savings. Daylight saving time ends.
It ends at two am Tomorrow night is actually into Sunday,
so Sunday morning to am. And I want to debunk
(07:36):
some of the bunks and this is out of countryliving
dot com, and I assume that they know what they're
talking about. And so what happens is we set our
clocks back one hour before going to bed on Saturday.
And here's why. Because two o'clock in the morning, everybody's asleep.
(07:57):
I mean, they have to pick some time to do it.
So two o'clock in the morning it changes, and all
of a sudden, we're at standard time, all right, So
we're going to have extra light. Well during the fall
and winter, we're going to have extra light for navigating
to school and work in the morning. We have more
daylight in the morning. So therefore, of course what it's
(08:19):
about is for farmers who get up early and milk
their cows and harvest, they are going to have an
extra hour according to time. Nope, that actually wasn't started
to help farmers at all. As a matter of fact,
the farm lobby at that time campaigned against daylight Saving
(08:40):
Time because it gave them if you look at it,
one less hour in the morning to milk their cows
and send their crops to market, because that's when they
did it. And here's another myth. Benjamin Franklin invented daylight
saving time. Right, Actually, here's the story. And I love
(09:02):
doing this stuff history where I don't know it, but
we debunk all kinds of ideas. So seventeen eighty four,
Benjamin Franklin, who was Franklin, who was living in the
French capital, screwing everything that he could, published a satirical
essay in jornaldd' Paris and it was about this Parisians
(09:23):
rising with the sun to save money on candles and
lamp oil in the evenings. It was satire, and yet
it's taken as gospel. The here's one that no one
will ever know. And I'm going to ask you, guys,
I don't even want to ask, because you'll never know
who actually invented daylight saving time? Any idea? Guys, Now,
(09:48):
you'll never guess this done. Why even bother a New
Zealand entomologist, George Hudson, who proposed it in eighteen ninety five.
In nineteen oh seven, a guy named William will It
wrote a book called the waste of daylight, arguing for
daylight saving time. Okay, now here's what daylight saving time
(10:10):
does is conserve energy, right, And between nineteen seventy four
and seventy five, that was January seventy four to April
seventy five, we went on daylight saving time all year
round because of the energy crisis. In two thousand and five,
Congress passes a law extends daylight saving time by a
month keep energy costs down. The problem is, the National
(10:33):
Bureau of Economic Research finds that it for daylight saving
times raised energy bills for households in Indiana by one
percent and extra nine billion dollars a year. And frankly,
that didn't help because the time shift leads to increased
cooling costs, so it actually became more expensive. And when
(10:57):
it becomes law, will Woodrow Wilson, the President, first made
it into law nineteen eighteen, and that was repealed seven
months later, and then Franklin Roosevelt relaunches it in nineteen
forty two, but it doesn't become official until nineteen sixty six,
when President Lyndon Johnson signs a law. If you ever
are on jeopardy, this is really good stuff to know.
And we're going to be doing a test afterwards. Now,
(11:19):
who has daylight saving times? Some states don't even honor
daylight saving times? Daylight saving time here it is Hawaii, Nope,
no daylight saving times, Arizona, with the exception of the
Navajo Nation. Navajo Nation says yes, the rest of states
(11:40):
says no. And then there are some that are just fun.
These are very very important parts of America, American Samoa, Guam,
the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.
They don't have it, okay, and certain states can bounce
around because it is not federal law. Okay. Did that
(12:02):
help guys, now that we're into daylight saving time? Did
it helped you understand what this is about, because it's
sure as hell didn't help me understand what it's about.
I still don't get spring forward. Then you go backwards,
and when you do it fall backwards. That's it. I
guess I don't understand how it would be without it,
(12:23):
Like how different it would be. It would be daylight
saving time, it would be standard time all year long.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And Jim Keeney was on the show on Wednesday, talked
about how it actually is detrimental to our health. All Right,
a story I want to share with you. This is
about my kids when they were about seven years old
and they went to a birthday party. And I took
them to birthday party. There were a neighbor down the
street and they invited the kids and other kids on
(12:51):
the block and we went to a bowling alley. It
was going to be a contest. It was going to
be a little team by team contest in which they
were assigned teams and we're gonna see who's gonna win. Right.
It was a legitimate little play, a little uh you know,
(13:16):
it was a contest, bottom line, where they were gonna
do this. It was going to be a winner. There
were going to be some losers. I think there were
four teams and so, uh, my kids is their team
came in second. So I fully expected them to get
the Blue Wealth, not the blue but the red ribbon first,
second or third. Do you know what ended up happening.
(13:39):
Everybody got a little award that there was a little
ward with a guy bowling, you know, cheap cheap plastic
and it said world's Greatest bowler. But wait a minute,
there was team against team. Oh no, no, we can't
do that because everybody has to feel good. And now
(14:02):
we have kids. My kids think that because they get c's,
they're as good as the kids that get a's. And
I keep on telling you you're not as good. Do
you understand you're not as good? Oh, it's terrible, as horrible, dad,
We are as good. Okay, let's move to Harvard. Harvard,
everybody's getting an A. Right. Half of all the grades
(14:25):
awarded at Harvard are now a's. Wait a minute, okay,
sixty percent our a's undergrads forty percent a decade ago,
less than twenty five percent twenty years ago. So Harvard,
(14:45):
and this, by the way, is now throughout the entire
school system is everybody is the same LAUSD. Everybody passes.
Nobody gets thrown out for failing. When I was at
LA Unified school district, and I grew up in the
school district, which is why I make fun of it,
(15:07):
is why I make fun of iHeart because I work here.
They failed students. You got an F. If you came
in with an F average, you were done. You were
thrown out of school. In high school today, it is
impossible to get thrown out of high school. You passed
no matter what, because you are as good as everybody else.
(15:32):
We're all the same. Everybody likes us, everybody likes you.
And the Trump administration, and I agree with the Trump
administration on this one, is pressing the university getting rid
of the DEI aspects of it. That's fairly controversial one
way or the other, but has pressed for university grade integrity.
(15:57):
There isn't grade integrity any more. Why do professors give
a's to people, Well, they want to be liked, you
know why because everybody now schools hand out the surveys
they do at the end of the class. They hand
out surveys. They didn't when I was in school, when
(16:20):
I was at Lausdon. Well, when I was in school,
i would walk four miles uphill and then i'd come
back four miles uphill and it would be snowing the
entire time, even though I was in the San Fernando Valley. Oh,
it was rough for me. But the point is is
that grades were real grades. Today grades are not real grades.
(16:44):
The other thing that's going on, and why do the
professors they want to do well on the surveys, because
that's important to them. Okay, so there's one. There's also
something called imposter syndrome, and that is students who claim
they are struggling with impossible sir syndrome. And my kids
did really well with that one. Why because they said
(17:08):
they grew up in a poor family in the inner
city and they didn't have the advantages, and they were
the first kids that ever went to college. Although my
wife came out of UCLA, and of course I came
out with a law degree. And no one checks, you know,
they don't check. All you have to do is say
(17:30):
that you are you grew up. You're the first person
to go to college in your family, and you grew
up poor, and you raise your siblings and your parents
are dead, and you had to go work in the
mines and you lost your leg in a mine accident
and your kid that's what happened to my parents. Therefore,
you should let me in school. Automatic. Yep, you're in
(17:51):
school because nobody checks. Great inflation accelerated the late nineteen twenties. Durerally,
the pandemic is where it really started during remote learning,
and the problem is it's never gone down. And much
the same of the argument, what's happening with the government shutdown.
(18:12):
The Republicans are saying, and they're right, is that the
shutdown is over the increase. One of the things is
the increase in health care costs because those healthcare costs,
your insurance was subsidized by the government during pandemic. During
the pandemic, they increase the insurance subsidies, and with the
(18:34):
Democrats are saying, we have to keep the insurance subsidies
at the same level. That's the issue. And I'm just
off on a tangent on that one. So you go
to Havid, you go to university, there's a good chance
you're going to get an AD. Your kid goes to
high school. Doesn't matter if your kid even shows up
(18:55):
in high school, there's going to be a pass. Is
in life wonderful. So I want to point something out
you listeners, you out there in radio land. I love
that you are all winners. You all are doing great.
You all are phenomenal human beings. It's like people who
(19:19):
are against the death penalty the sanctity of life. We
are all life and we deserve to be treated with respect. No,
some of you decide are so miserable and so horrible,
you deserve to die also if you're not adding to
the gene pool. And I consider there's two kinds of
people in my world, those that are well three, those
(19:43):
that are just taking up space they don't do much
for society, those that leave the world in a better place,
and those that are actually harm society. We're not all
the same. There are losers. Unfortunately, only too many of
them listen to this show, and we have an enormous
(20:04):
number of them. Okay, let me. I've got to retract
those of you who I used to call losers who
listen to the show. You are all winners, every one
of you. All right. I want to get serious for
a moment. And the governor has called this issue a crisis,
(20:26):
and what it is about Men in California are in crisis,
and this is researchers. California has half a million young
people from sixteen to twenty four that are in the
same predicament. They're not working, they're not in school, and
men particularly at work, and a lot of it has
nothing to do with their fault because at this point
(20:48):
there's mental illness going on and a lot of it
work is almost impossible to get in many cases. I
did a topic on who's considered a winner, a winner,
and a loser. Last segment. And my daughter is the
poster child for this of working and going to school.
As I've told you many times, she has her bachelor's
(21:10):
degree in computer engineering, entering a master's degree her skill set.
She can't get a job because of AI. Just can't
get a job. And she's in school, she's going to
but that's going to end, and so she feels terrible
and she feels like a loser. And that's what a
lot of these men feel like. And the other day,
(21:30):
you know, poor Pamela said, Dad, you know what I'm
really I feel like a loser. And I responded, because
that's what you are. Do you understand. Thank god she
doesn't take me seriously. But for men in California and
hundreds of thousands, that's the problem. It's a real issue.
(21:54):
We have four point six million Californian men between ages
sixteen and twenty four, ten percent considered disconnected. Far these
are men Black and Native American men have higher rates
than that. So why well, so many drop out of school.
Work is varied. You've got AI coming in and automation
(22:17):
manufacturing jobs or virtually dispairing and they're mainly male oriented.
These men have disabilities, a lot of them struggling with addiction,
struggling with mental health challenges. Many are in prison. California's
prison ninety six percent are male. Most of the population
(22:37):
that is homeless male And unfortunately, there really isn't much
that can be done at this point. This is big
picture stuff, long term, big picture, very expensive to deal
with this, and we're going to see more and more
(22:58):
of that as we move forward and technology explodes, and
we're doing so much better. The disparity between the haves
and the have nots just in terms of money, not
just in terms of money, but in terms of mental health,
in terms of feeling good about being in society, feeling comfortable,
having friends. That is a real problem for many many
(23:22):
of these men. So recognizing it is one thing, and
this is absolutely true. What's going on. Recognizing it is
one thing. It's like the homeless. We recognize it, we
know it's a problem. How do you fix it? Well,
big picture, long term, hideously expensive. I just want to
(23:43):
make you feel better. Okay, Now, Foody Friday, who is
that Neil? Who is that over there? That young lady?
That young lady is my son. Oh okay, well, long hair,
and there you go. Don't let Max. Don't let Max.
Do not let Max. So I said that actually working
(24:05):
a little bit of makeup. Yeah, yeah, all right, makeup,
long hair, Okay, long hair, makeup? Okay, uh no, it's
an anime. Yeah. Was he wearing a dress? No? Okay.
Max is going to be seeing a psychologist for the
next several years. I just want to point that out.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Okay, the guy who is single handedly keep the psychology
industry wi.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
My psychologist has a psychologist because of me. I support
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