June 5, 2026 • 23 mins
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Why does it take so long to count ballots in CA?... President Trump believes nefarious tactics are the reason. American’s born after 1970 are dying faster than previous generations. 10 American inventions discovered ‘by mistake.’
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI A
M six forty. You are listening to the Bill Handle show.
You keep me waiting until let's get got it, and
you're a slow pole.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I wait. Fun Friday morning, June fifth, Usually it's a
foodie Friday Friday, but we're not doing foody Friday because Neil,
who is our foodie reporter, is out because he's having
bariatric surgery to actually reduce his ability to eat food.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Kind of ironic, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
No foody Friday and no ability for Neil to eat food?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, actually that works, It really does, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
The President of what a Shaker is railing against California.
Why because there's big cheating in our election process. Of course,
no evidence. Trump, who has been a very long critic
of our elections and mail in ballots, accused Democrats of
trying to steal the governor's race and the mayor's race.
(01:15):
And how is it that we are stealing it? Well
this time around, at least the argument, the accusation that
the ballot machines themselves, because everything is done by machine
these days, they're not flipping votes from a Republican to Democrats.
If you remember the allegation and Fox brought it up
(01:38):
and a lot of people got nailed. Fox I think
paid almost a billion dollars to Dominion because of pure defamation,
pure libel.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Because there's no proof at all.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So at least we're not hearing that the machines themselves
are taking Republican votes and flipping them over to Democrats.
I guess we have to be grateful for that. So
now what is going on, Well, it takes a long
time for California to in fact count the votes and
(02:14):
give us the results, and that's because of the way
we do the voting. So you've got Steve Hilton, a
Republican and Trump endorsed, holding the lead right now for governor,
and Democrats Javier Bserra and Tom Steyer still batting lean
out for second place. Whichever Democrat wins, and it's going
(02:35):
to be Javier Baseerra because the Democratic vote is all
going to go to the Democrat and there are more
Democrats by a long shot. Okay, then you have the
mayoral race where incumbent Karen Bass, who is going to
win reality television personality Spencer Pratt in second place, and
why is that such a big deal because in California,
(02:58):
it's the top two vote vote getters in the primary
who go on to the general election. Notwithstanding party, you're
gonna have two Republicans, you're gonna have two Democrats. You
can have one or the other, which look like looks
like it's going to happen this time around. And the
only way that anybody can win in the primary is
fifty percent plus one vote. Ain't gonna happen, certainly not
(03:20):
this time around. So Trump posted late Wednesday, here we
go with a very late and massive numbers of mail
in ballots. Look what's happening in California. The Democrats, right
before our very eyes, are stealing the votes. Now, this
has to do with the allegation and Republicans say this
(03:42):
that the entire mail in ballot system is rigged.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Because the mail in ballot system skews Democrat, the day
of the voting skews Republican, And naturally, if you want
the Republicans to win, you're going to argue that the
entire system of mail in ballots, which exkews Democrat, is
(04:08):
unfair and in this case is.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Rigged, completely rigged.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So he says that the US Attorney's Office in LA
is investigating California elections.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Don't think that's going to happen. Maybe it will.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And when a spokesperson was asked, you know what's this about,
declined to comment and just said, look at the president's
statements and so what's happening. Oh, the fun part is
Trump talks about the Democrats. Governor Newsom comes back with
his own media post and he's now doing this tit
for tat. Trump is lying about California again. It's time
(04:46):
to take the phone away from Grandpa and put him
to sleep.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Okay, why not?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And California, every registered voter is mailed the ballot automatically,
and there are a bunch of ways to cast a vote,
either in person Democrats Republicans love it at dropboxes, through
the mail. Fraud Ballots return via the US Postal Service
are still counted as long as their postmarked honor before
election day fraud and arrive at the county elections office
(05:17):
within seven days fraud. Now, the Orange County Register says
it's not so much that the vote counting it takes
a long time. It's the process set by state law,
even giving voters time to fix a signature challenge on
mail ballot envelopes all fraud. And so this means county
(05:39):
elections officials cannot certify even legally certified local results until
June twenty six because of the process. So a quick
word before we bail out of here this segment is
that mail in ballots the way California does this is
fraud on its face. Eight other states do exactly the
(06:03):
same thing in Republican states. It is not fraud the
same process. In democratic states, it is fraud. And as
I've said many times, if a Democrat wins an election,
it is fraud, it is rigged. If a Republican wins
(06:23):
an election, it is a free election. In this country, effectively,
we should have a one party system because otherwise we
don't have a democracy. We don't have a fair vote.
Only when Republicans win. It's I have to tell you
I used to be you know, I've been anti Trump
(06:45):
in most ways for a long time. I've now reached
the point where I'm genuinely scared, and I thought I
would never get that genuinely scared. Setting up the fund,
the weaponization fund that Republicans won't even vote against. I
(07:06):
don't even know what to do with that. Okay, I
want to share something with you. If all generations since
World War Two, even from World War One, have lived
longer than the previous generations, that's a stat that's around.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, it's changed.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
There's a pattern researchers are calling an alarming number. There
is a nationwide deterioration in death rates beginning around twenty
ten and hits nearly every living adult at once, mainly
by progress installed against cardiovascular disease. And this after decades
(07:52):
have improved improvement. In other words, we have hit some
tremendous strides. We're living longer except where not, and here
is the operative number. Americans born after nineteen seventy are
dying at higher rates from heart disease, cancer external causes
(08:17):
than people born before nineteen seventy. Americans born in the fifties.
That was me marked the generational turning point. And before
that we showed steadily improvement to survival. As I said,
every generation doing better than the previous generation, but not
(08:38):
any more. And well, for most of the twentieth century,
there was an assumption that each generation would outlive the
one before it. Better medicine, better food, better lives decade
after decade until it stopped. Between twenty ten and twenty nineteen,
US life expectant to improve by one quarter years.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
That's it improved by three months.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
The average gain over the previous was one and three
quarter years. And we keep on falling behind among other nations.
If you look at twenty two peer nations, the gap
has gotten way bigger. The top performing country grew from
two and a half years to almost five years. Well,
(09:30):
ours have actually gone down. And you know what is
going on here? Well, the three major categories cardiovascular disease
we're doing better, but not that much better, and cancer
we're doing better. And then you have drug overdoses, suicides, homicides,
traffic accidents, all increasing over the last twenty years. And
(09:55):
people who were born in the forties saw improving survivor
at each stage of life. Hitting the fifties that slowed
even reversed. Now look at the research cigarettes people are
people are smoking less long term damage.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Okay, here's the other one.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
H IV AIDS the epidemic that increased or decreased the
survival rate. And you have the opiates that is a problem.
You put all of that together and we've got a mess.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
On our hands. Now if you smoke, I mean, let's
look at who.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Is more apt to live a longer life if you
are white or Asian and you live near an area
where you get world class medicine like we do. We
don't live in the inner city. We don't even we
don't live in Appalachia where doctors are paid by sides
of bacon and you can't to get an operation. You
(11:02):
have to go two hundred miles to get an operation.
That is a problem in major cities. I'm even going
to argue that our life inspectancy expectancy has gone up,
but if you look at the stats across the board,
not so much so. If you were born after nineteen seventy,
(11:25):
you're going to be dead next week. And that's what
the research proofs.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'm dying and you're going to live forever.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, I Am going to live forever, because yeah, that
is absolutely true. And let me see, Amy, you were
born before nineteen seventy, right, maybe okay, thank you will
before nineteen seventy maybe maybe? Okay, I love that cono. Yes,
you were born before nineteen seventy.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Not a chance, of course. Before year were you born? Yeah?
What year were you born, you know how long ago
in nineteen seventy. Hey, oh no, wow, I was born
nineteen eighty eight. You're a baby. Huh, you're gonna die.
(12:17):
My dad always said, we're all born terminal.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Good point. My mother died at ninety eight, way too long.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Think of all the quality time you had with her.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
No, I'm thinking no, I didn't have much quality time.
As a matter of fact, when she was in her
last several years of her life and when she was
in a board and care center and couldn't even recognize me,
which wasn't bad. I mean, those were some of the
best years we had. I was spending so much damn
money supporting her. First of all, I could have parked
(12:53):
her on the sidewalk and she wouldn't have known the difference.
That's for starters. Second of all, knowing how much money
I was spending, I wouldn't go into her room by herself,
by myself, knowing I would grab a pillow. Okay, we
are done, all right. A couple of stories that I
want to share with you. This is ten ten American
(13:15):
inventions that were discovered by mistake, and I'm going to
go through a few of them. For example, corn flakes.
These are big, big things that happened serendipitously.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Corn flakes. Kellogg's cornflakes specifically.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Were invented well by the brother of doctor John Harvey,
and that was W. K. Kellogg and doctor what John
Harvey Kellogg was, or what he did, is he had
this sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, and it was a
health spa known all over the world. And he was
(13:56):
sort of a health.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Nut, if you will.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And what happened eighteen ninety four the brothers accidentally left
the pot of boiled wheat. I mean, they did a
lot of that crap and it dried out.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
So when WK returns, he puts the wheat through rollers.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
And outcome a single large flake that crisp when baked.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And he later applied that to corn. And there was
the Battle.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Creek Toasted corn Flake Company, which became kellogg mistake, a mistake.
Then there is the pacemaker, the implantable pacemaker, again by accident.
Wilson great Batch never went to medical school, and in
(14:52):
the late nineteen fifties he was building machinery to record
sounds that a heart makes, and he used the wrong resistance.
But the electrical pulse rate was steady, like a heartbeat,
and he wrote in his book, I stared at this
thing in disbelief and realized this is exactly what was
(15:12):
needed to drive a heart. Now, pacemakers were around at
that time, but they were huge external ones, and the
previous ones had to be hand cranked. Light bulb moment
put tiny versions into cardiac patients to regulate heart heartbeats,
and the first one implantable was placed in a dog
(15:35):
in nineteen fifty eight, and two years later.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
In a human being.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And here's one that probably is a myth, at least
if you read anything about how the company Raytheon came
into being. Okay, here is the story. Percy Spencer is
a Raytheon engineer and right after World War Two, he
has a chocolate bar in his pocket. He goes past
(16:02):
a magnetron and realizes that the bar was melting. What
he did was discover electro magnetic energy that could be
used to heat food quickly, and he tested it on
popcorn and eggs and boilers at work.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Well, what Raytheon said, that's kind of a myth, because
they knew because they were developing the magnetron shortwaves and
they knew during World War two and right afterwards what
it could do now moving it into a commercial sphere,
(16:38):
that one came later. The early models, models of what
later became the radar range, were as big as refrigerators,
and the opening where you put the food was tiny,
and it went for five hundred dollars then five thousand
dollars today, and it was mainly it was developed for restaurants,
(17:03):
and restaurants didn't use it because it was such a
tiny little little hole, little place where you could.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Cook the food.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
And they came out with a radar range, the first ones,
and since then, of course has taken out. Now Raytheon says,
that's a myth, right A look a lot like. Well,
here's one that's not that people say is a myth.
Drawing off your poodle in the MicroAge in the radar range,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
That's the best place to draw your.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Dog off after giving a giving a dog a bath.
Probably a myth. Now, No, actually, that one's real. I'll
tell you what else is absolutely real that people think
is a myth? Absolute truth? Richard Gear and the Gerbil
absolutely true. Okay, have you noticed the cars for kids
(17:56):
commercials are back on the air because an appeals court
has rule that pending a decision whether or not there's
a fraud involved with the commercials, the commercials can go on.
And so here's the problem is that what donators, people
that donate, I didn't know that the instead of going
(18:18):
to a whole panoply of charities, the money was actually
diverted into some Orthodox Jewish charities. So that made those
kids happy. And you will it's a really good donation.
They sound like you're coughing up phlegm. And you'll notice
(18:40):
that all the kids who get those donations, they all
how do you get a nine year old, nine year
old kid with a beard.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
They've been able to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Okay, back we go to ten inventions that happened by accident,
totally by accident.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Popsicles.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
In nineteen oh five, at the age of eleven, Frank
Epperson actually hit upon this innovation a long day of playing.
He left a stir in his cup of soda overnight
it was very cold outside, so the next morning it
had frozen. A quick flip upside down there is your popsicle,
(19:26):
which actually was an epsicle at that time, and he
patented it nineteen twenty four.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
And that letter changed his name.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Instead of epsicle, it went to popssicle, as in your
pop or just straight out popsicle. And then he sold
his rights and to a whole bunch of different companies
that it went.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
To saran wrap.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Ralph Wiley was a now chemical scientist for decades, and
he was a college student working there, and one day
he in all colleague note that a dry cleaning agent that.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
They were working on had turned the flask white.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Why well, they had a hard time scraping it off
the glass flask. And then the clean became the key.
And so during the early days of World War Two,
the army used it as a rap to keep equipment
on boats dry, and post war it became saran wrap. Huh,
(20:31):
that's cool, all right.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
A couple more, oh, Scotch guard.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
A chemist, Patsy Sherman three M chemist had been working
on a new type of rubber for the Air Force
that could withstand exposure to jet fuel, and in nineteen
fifty three a lab worker accidentally spilled some of her
samples on her tennis shoes, and she tried to get
it off using soap, alcohol solvents, and so she Shaw
(21:01):
saw the potential in the sneaker mishap, and so with
her supervisor using that information there.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
It was they developed Scotch Guard. And the one that
I like the most is a bubble wrap.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Bubble Wrap is my absolute favorite invention. I'm going to
tell you, I think bubble wrap is better than sex
because popping those bubbles is so satisfying, and you can
have bad sex. I mean it does happen. You will
(21:41):
never have a bad experience. Popping those bubbles on bubble
wrap a complete mistake. You know, it's almost as good
as popping a pimple. There's just something wonderful about it.
You know, you squeeze and all of that. Maybe come on,
tell me you haven't tell me you haven't popped a
zi work.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Too, of course you have.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It reminds me of Doctor Pimple Popper, which is like
all the rage and everybody.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I love that show.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I love that show, Doctor pimple Popper. If you want,
especially before breakfast, you want to see Doctor pimple Popper.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
All the guys are nodding their heads.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Conna's like, yeah, ze City, I love those.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
She's in the ill An Empire. She's the Uplander Claremont
Rancho somewhere over there. So cool, seriously cool.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Okay, a story about immigrants, A good story about immigrants
that we are not paying to, paying attention to enough.
I'll share that with you. Matter of fact, I'll share
a personal story with you about just that when we
come back. Kf I am sixty.
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You keep me waiting until let's get got it, and
you're a slow pole.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I wait. Fun Friday morning, June fifth, Usually it's a
foodie Friday Friday, but we're not doing foody Friday because Neil,
who is our foodie reporter, is out because he's having
bariatric surgery to actually reduce his ability to eat food.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Kind of ironic, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
No foody Friday and no ability for Neil to eat food?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, actually that works, It really does, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
The President of what a Shaker is railing against California.
Why because there's big cheating in our election process. Of course,
no evidence. Trump, who has been a very long critic
of our elections and mail in ballots, accused Democrats of
trying to steal the governor's race and the mayor's race.
(01:15):
And how is it that we are stealing it? Well
this time around, at least the argument, the accusation that
the ballot machines themselves, because everything is done by machine
these days, they're not flipping votes from a Republican to Democrats.
If you remember the allegation and Fox brought it up
(01:38):
and a lot of people got nailed. Fox I think
paid almost a billion dollars to Dominion because of pure defamation,
pure libel.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Because there's no proof at all.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So at least we're not hearing that the machines themselves
are taking Republican votes and flipping them over to Democrats.
I guess we have to be grateful for that. So
now what is going on, Well, it takes a long
time for California to in fact count the votes and
(02:14):
give us the results, and that's because of the way
we do the voting. So you've got Steve Hilton, a
Republican and Trump endorsed, holding the lead right now for governor,
and Democrats Javier Bserra and Tom Steyer still batting lean
out for second place. Whichever Democrat wins, and it's going
(02:35):
to be Javier Baseerra because the Democratic vote is all
going to go to the Democrat and there are more
Democrats by a long shot. Okay, then you have the
mayoral race where incumbent Karen Bass, who is going to
win reality television personality Spencer Pratt in second place, and
why is that such a big deal because in California,
(02:58):
it's the top two vote vote getters in the primary
who go on to the general election. Notwithstanding party, you're
gonna have two Republicans, you're gonna have two Democrats. You
can have one or the other, which look like looks
like it's going to happen this time around. And the
only way that anybody can win in the primary is
fifty percent plus one vote. Ain't gonna happen, certainly not
(03:20):
this time around. So Trump posted late Wednesday, here we
go with a very late and massive numbers of mail
in ballots. Look what's happening in California. The Democrats, right
before our very eyes, are stealing the votes. Now, this
has to do with the allegation and Republicans say this
(03:42):
that the entire mail in ballot system is rigged.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Because the mail in ballot system skews Democrat, the day
of the voting skews Republican, And naturally, if you want
the Republicans to win, you're going to argue that the
entire system of mail in ballots, which exkews Democrat, is
(04:08):
unfair and in this case is.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Rigged, completely rigged.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So he says that the US Attorney's Office in LA
is investigating California elections.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Don't think that's going to happen. Maybe it will.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And when a spokesperson was asked, you know what's this about,
declined to comment and just said, look at the president's
statements and so what's happening. Oh, the fun part is
Trump talks about the Democrats. Governor Newsom comes back with
his own media post and he's now doing this tit
for tat. Trump is lying about California again. It's time
(04:46):
to take the phone away from Grandpa and put him
to sleep.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Okay, why not?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And California, every registered voter is mailed the ballot automatically,
and there are a bunch of ways to cast a vote,
either in person Democrats Republicans love it at dropboxes, through
the mail. Fraud Ballots return via the US Postal Service
are still counted as long as their postmarked honor before
election day fraud and arrive at the county elections office
(05:17):
within seven days fraud. Now, the Orange County Register says
it's not so much that the vote counting it takes
a long time. It's the process set by state law,
even giving voters time to fix a signature challenge on
mail ballot envelopes all fraud. And so this means county
(05:39):
elections officials cannot certify even legally certified local results until
June twenty six because of the process. So a quick
word before we bail out of here this segment is
that mail in ballots the way California does this is
fraud on its face. Eight other states do exactly the
(06:03):
same thing in Republican states. It is not fraud the
same process. In democratic states, it is fraud. And as
I've said many times, if a Democrat wins an election,
it is fraud, it is rigged. If a Republican wins
(06:23):
an election, it is a free election. In this country, effectively,
we should have a one party system because otherwise we
don't have a democracy. We don't have a fair vote.
Only when Republicans win. It's I have to tell you
I used to be you know, I've been anti Trump
(06:45):
in most ways for a long time. I've now reached
the point where I'm genuinely scared, and I thought I
would never get that genuinely scared. Setting up the fund,
the weaponization fund that Republicans won't even vote against. I
(07:06):
don't even know what to do with that. Okay, I
want to share something with you. If all generations since
World War Two, even from World War One, have lived
longer than the previous generations, that's a stat that's around.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, it's changed.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
There's a pattern researchers are calling an alarming number. There
is a nationwide deterioration in death rates beginning around twenty
ten and hits nearly every living adult at once, mainly
by progress installed against cardiovascular disease. And this after decades
(07:52):
have improved improvement. In other words, we have hit some
tremendous strides. We're living longer except where not, and here
is the operative number. Americans born after nineteen seventy are
dying at higher rates from heart disease, cancer external causes
(08:17):
than people born before nineteen seventy. Americans born in the fifties.
That was me marked the generational turning point. And before
that we showed steadily improvement to survival. As I said,
every generation doing better than the previous generation, but not
(08:38):
any more. And well, for most of the twentieth century,
there was an assumption that each generation would outlive the
one before it. Better medicine, better food, better lives decade
after decade until it stopped. Between twenty ten and twenty nineteen,
US life expectant to improve by one quarter years.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
That's it improved by three months.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
The average gain over the previous was one and three
quarter years. And we keep on falling behind among other nations.
If you look at twenty two peer nations, the gap
has gotten way bigger. The top performing country grew from
two and a half years to almost five years. Well,
(09:30):
ours have actually gone down. And you know what is
going on here? Well, the three major categories cardiovascular disease
we're doing better, but not that much better, and cancer
we're doing better. And then you have drug overdoses, suicides, homicides,
traffic accidents, all increasing over the last twenty years. And
(09:55):
people who were born in the forties saw improving survivor
at each stage of life. Hitting the fifties that slowed
even reversed. Now look at the research cigarettes people are
people are smoking less long term damage.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Okay, here's the other one.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
H IV AIDS the epidemic that increased or decreased the
survival rate. And you have the opiates that is a problem.
You put all of that together and we've got a mess.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
On our hands. Now if you smoke, I mean, let's
look at who.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Is more apt to live a longer life if you
are white or Asian and you live near an area
where you get world class medicine like we do. We
don't live in the inner city. We don't even we
don't live in Appalachia where doctors are paid by sides
of bacon and you can't to get an operation. You
(11:02):
have to go two hundred miles to get an operation.
That is a problem in major cities. I'm even going
to argue that our life inspectancy expectancy has gone up,
but if you look at the stats across the board,
not so much so. If you were born after nineteen seventy,
(11:25):
you're going to be dead next week. And that's what
the research proofs.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'm dying and you're going to live forever.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, I Am going to live forever, because yeah, that
is absolutely true. And let me see, Amy, you were
born before nineteen seventy, right, maybe okay, thank you will
before nineteen seventy maybe maybe? Okay, I love that cono. Yes,
you were born before nineteen seventy.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Not a chance, of course. Before year were you born? Yeah?
What year were you born, you know how long ago
in nineteen seventy. Hey, oh no, wow, I was born
nineteen eighty eight. You're a baby. Huh, you're gonna die.
(12:17):
My dad always said, we're all born terminal.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Good point. My mother died at ninety eight, way too long.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Think of all the quality time you had with her.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
No, I'm thinking no, I didn't have much quality time.
As a matter of fact, when she was in her
last several years of her life and when she was
in a board and care center and couldn't even recognize me,
which wasn't bad. I mean, those were some of the
best years we had. I was spending so much damn
money supporting her. First of all, I could have parked
(12:53):
her on the sidewalk and she wouldn't have known the difference.
That's for starters. Second of all, knowing how much money
I was spending, I wouldn't go into her room by herself,
by myself, knowing I would grab a pillow. Okay, we
are done, all right. A couple of stories that I
want to share with you. This is ten ten American
(13:15):
inventions that were discovered by mistake, and I'm going to
go through a few of them. For example, corn flakes.
These are big, big things that happened serendipitously.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Corn flakes. Kellogg's cornflakes specifically.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Were invented well by the brother of doctor John Harvey,
and that was W. K. Kellogg and doctor what John
Harvey Kellogg was, or what he did, is he had
this sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, and it was a
health spa known all over the world. And he was
(13:56):
sort of a health.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Nut, if you will.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And what happened eighteen ninety four the brothers accidentally left
the pot of boiled wheat. I mean, they did a
lot of that crap and it dried out.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
So when WK returns, he puts the wheat through rollers.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
And outcome a single large flake that crisp when baked.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And he later applied that to corn. And there was
the Battle.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Creek Toasted corn Flake Company, which became kellogg mistake, a mistake.
Then there is the pacemaker, the implantable pacemaker, again by accident.
Wilson great Batch never went to medical school, and in
(14:52):
the late nineteen fifties he was building machinery to record
sounds that a heart makes, and he used the wrong resistance.
But the electrical pulse rate was steady, like a heartbeat,
and he wrote in his book, I stared at this
thing in disbelief and realized this is exactly what was
(15:12):
needed to drive a heart. Now, pacemakers were around at
that time, but they were huge external ones, and the
previous ones had to be hand cranked. Light bulb moment
put tiny versions into cardiac patients to regulate heart heartbeats,
and the first one implantable was placed in a dog
(15:35):
in nineteen fifty eight, and two years later.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
In a human being.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And here's one that probably is a myth, at least
if you read anything about how the company Raytheon came
into being. Okay, here is the story. Percy Spencer is
a Raytheon engineer and right after World War Two, he
has a chocolate bar in his pocket. He goes past
(16:02):
a magnetron and realizes that the bar was melting. What
he did was discover electro magnetic energy that could be
used to heat food quickly, and he tested it on
popcorn and eggs and boilers at work.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Well, what Raytheon said, that's kind of a myth, because
they knew because they were developing the magnetron shortwaves and
they knew during World War two and right afterwards what
it could do now moving it into a commercial sphere,
(16:38):
that one came later. The early models, models of what
later became the radar range, were as big as refrigerators,
and the opening where you put the food was tiny,
and it went for five hundred dollars then five thousand
dollars today, and it was mainly it was developed for restaurants,
(17:03):
and restaurants didn't use it because it was such a
tiny little little hole, little place where you could.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Cook the food.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
And they came out with a radar range, the first ones,
and since then, of course has taken out. Now Raytheon says,
that's a myth, right A look a lot like. Well,
here's one that's not that people say is a myth.
Drawing off your poodle in the MicroAge in the radar range,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
That's the best place to draw your.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Dog off after giving a giving a dog a bath.
Probably a myth. Now, No, actually, that one's real. I'll
tell you what else is absolutely real that people think
is a myth? Absolute truth? Richard Gear and the Gerbil
absolutely true. Okay, have you noticed the cars for kids
(17:56):
commercials are back on the air because an appeals court
has rule that pending a decision whether or not there's
a fraud involved with the commercials, the commercials can go on.
And so here's the problem is that what donators, people
that donate, I didn't know that the instead of going
(18:18):
to a whole panoply of charities, the money was actually
diverted into some Orthodox Jewish charities. So that made those
kids happy. And you will it's a really good donation.
They sound like you're coughing up phlegm. And you'll notice
(18:40):
that all the kids who get those donations, they all
how do you get a nine year old, nine year
old kid with a beard.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
They've been able to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Okay, back we go to ten inventions that happened by accident,
totally by accident.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Popsicles.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
In nineteen oh five, at the age of eleven, Frank
Epperson actually hit upon this innovation a long day of playing.
He left a stir in his cup of soda overnight
it was very cold outside, so the next morning it
had frozen. A quick flip upside down there is your popsicle,
(19:26):
which actually was an epsicle at that time, and he
patented it nineteen twenty four.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
And that letter changed his name.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Instead of epsicle, it went to popssicle, as in your
pop or just straight out popsicle. And then he sold
his rights and to a whole bunch of different companies
that it went.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
To saran wrap.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Ralph Wiley was a now chemical scientist for decades, and
he was a college student working there, and one day
he in all colleague note that a dry cleaning agent that.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
They were working on had turned the flask white.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Why well, they had a hard time scraping it off
the glass flask. And then the clean became the key.
And so during the early days of World War Two,
the army used it as a rap to keep equipment
on boats dry, and post war it became saran wrap. Huh,
(20:31):
that's cool, all right.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
A couple more, oh, Scotch guard.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
A chemist, Patsy Sherman three M chemist had been working
on a new type of rubber for the Air Force
that could withstand exposure to jet fuel, and in nineteen
fifty three a lab worker accidentally spilled some of her
samples on her tennis shoes, and she tried to get
it off using soap, alcohol solvents, and so she Shaw
(21:01):
saw the potential in the sneaker mishap, and so with
her supervisor using that information there.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
It was they developed Scotch Guard. And the one that
I like the most is a bubble wrap.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Bubble Wrap is my absolute favorite invention. I'm going to
tell you, I think bubble wrap is better than sex
because popping those bubbles is so satisfying, and you can
have bad sex. I mean it does happen. You will
(21:41):
never have a bad experience. Popping those bubbles on bubble
wrap a complete mistake. You know, it's almost as good
as popping a pimple. There's just something wonderful about it.
You know, you squeeze and all of that. Maybe come on,
tell me you haven't tell me you haven't popped a
zi work.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Too, of course you have.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It reminds me of Doctor Pimple Popper, which is like
all the rage and everybody.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I love that show.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I love that show, Doctor pimple Popper. If you want,
especially before breakfast, you want to see Doctor pimple Popper.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
All the guys are nodding their heads.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Conna's like, yeah, ze City, I love those.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
She's in the ill An Empire. She's the Uplander Claremont
Rancho somewhere over there. So cool, seriously cool.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Okay, a story about immigrants, A good story about immigrants
that we are not paying to, paying attention to enough.
I'll share that with you. Matter of fact, I'll share
a personal story with you about just that when we
come back. Kf I am sixty.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
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