June 27, 2025 • 23 mins
(Friday 06/27/25)
Supreme Court to issue rulings today on birthright citizenship, porn sites, and more. Malaysia will stop taking U.S. plastic waste… What will California do? I have incontinence... how to avoid accidents when you leave home. Trump bans ‘negative’ signage at national park, asks visitors to report unpatriotic text.
Supreme Court to issue rulings today on birthright citizenship, porn sites, and more. Malaysia will stop taking U.S. plastic waste… What will California do? I have incontinence... how to avoid accidents when you leave home. Trump bans ‘negative’ signage at national park, asks visitors to report unpatriotic text.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
KFI AM six forty bill Handle Here. It is a
Friday morning, June twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
It's the Foody Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And coming up, since is Friday, we try to look
for just fun topics or eight o'clock course. It's fun.
It's also very educational with Foody Friday, Neil, and we
talk about all kinds of food eight thirty. Nothing particularly educational,
except you get to find out stuff about me that
(00:36):
I normally don't talk about. It's ask handle anything or
I just answer personal questions. And coming up at seven
point thirty today, another one that's fun and hugely educational
the issue of incontinence that here in America, and I'm
going to talk about incontinence.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Who what, Neil. I want to really share this one
with you. Who what? And how you deal with it? Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Are are you saying negative things about my helvic floor?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Sir? Yes, yes, I'm saying, well, not so much negative,
because it's very common, very common, more so than.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
People think I'm doing keebles right now.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yes, you are all right, We're I'm going to get
all into that at seven thirty now today, the Supreme
Court is going to issue its final rulings, because today
is the final day of the Supreme Court and the
big one, and it's going to rule on a few things.
First of all, there's two kinds of rulings today. They're
going to be like automatic yes, no, the easy.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Stuff, then some big ones.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
One of them, I think the biggest one, which I
find them more most interesting, is the birthright citizenship. And
that is President Trump's position that even if someone is
born in the United States, that someone should not have
a citizen the right to be a citizen if the
(02:06):
parents are here illegally.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Now, that is not unusual.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
There are many countries that do not give birthright citizenship
even with parents being legal. For example, people that work
in Kuwait, employees of various companies work in Kuwait, those
kids who are born in Kuwait are not citizens.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
The same thing here in the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
If a kid is born of diplomats, that's not a citizen.
So how does the president get around the Fourteenth Amendment
Section one? All persons born or naturalized the United States,
that's me and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens
(02:55):
of the United States and the state wherein they reside
some language about, you know, the state shall make no
law or enforce any law which.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Somehow abridges that position.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And here is it's so clear cut, isn't it. Well,
here is what the argument is subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
and the anti birthright citizenship people are arguing that illegal
aliens are not subject to the jurisdiction because they are
not here legally, which, by the way, let me take
(03:34):
my vast legal knowledge, and having studied constitutional law in
law school and having gone through the Fourteenth Amendment as
one of our primary subjects. The conclusion among most legal experts,
actually the legal word that's used to describe this position
(03:56):
is it is a croc And I'm not going to
finish the rest to that sentence, because everybody in the
United States is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States,
which means Fifth Amendment, which means the right to shut up,
which means the right to a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Everybody is.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So this argument is going to be so ridiculous it
makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So is the court's going to rule on birthright citizenship?
Yes or no? No, it's not. Here's what the court does.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
They rule whenever they can technical issues, yes, amy Yan, and.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That's what they did.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
We're getting word that the Supreme Court has handed down
a decision on this. They didn't rule, as you just said,
on whether Trump can ban birthright citizenship. They ruled that
district judges have limits. And they're referring to the district
judges who are issuing those nationwide injunctions.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Right and right, And that is a legitimate question. How
does a judge in Maryland, a district court judge, have
the right to block a position across the country.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And that's a very legitimate argument.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And so it was a district judge that made a
decision that birthrights citizenship is a constitutional Okay, well, no,
that's an issue for the Appeals Court and then the
Supreme Court. Because whatever an Appeals Court decision is made,
it's only for that district.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So you can have literally contradictory laws.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You have the Ninth Circuit ruling one way, you have
the Second Circuit ruling another way, and depending on where
you live. Now, when you have competing districts, that goes
to the Supreme Court virtually automatically. So this is what
the Court does is whenever it can, it does not
rule on.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
The big issue. It could have.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It could have straight on said birthright citizenship is constitutional,
an attack on it is unconstitutional. Or it could have
gone the other way, that there is no birthright citizenship
and all jurisdictions or subjects of the jurisdiction thereof, we're
(06:15):
going to ignore. They did that with a second amendment
with the militia language. Didn't even deal with it, just
ignored it. They just went right into the right of
Americans to bare arms. Shall not be a bridge. But
wait a minute, there's a whole sentence in front of that.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yes, Neil, So would this be retroactive if they could?
If they don't, and I don't believe they can, But
if they could say that birthright you didn't, you.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Sure could not. I think they can. Yeah, the court
can say whatever the hell it wants that would affect me.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Actually unless unless there is a constitutional amendment or Congress
votes that it's retroactive.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah. Change.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
For example, Bill Clinton changed the IRS code and added
taxes retroactively. Wait a minute, how do you do that? Well,
that's what they did. The IRS made that decision and
the Court allowed it. All right, let's continue with a story.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I want to share with you about plastic waste.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
We generate a lot of plastic waste and it goes
into landfills, goes to recycling. But the reality is recycling
is not very much. It's a tiny percentage that is
used in recycling products. There's more and more, but still
it's a tiny percentage relative to the waste part of it.
(07:52):
And so what we used to do is sell it
to China. China would take our plastic waste. Matter of fact,
China would take our old clothes. Was in a situation
where it didn't have enough, it didn't have enough raw materials,
and so they would take anything and then they would
grab the trash, go through it, and then throw the
(08:14):
trash into landfills or whatever. So twenty eighteen, China said,
we're done with trash from you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Finished.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So now where does the plastic go. Well, one of
the rules, one of the policies, is we don't want
it in the landfill. So we wanted out of here,
and much of it was going overseas and it was
going to Malaysia. Now, Malaysia is one of the countries
(08:49):
that except the trash.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Well, effective July one.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's coming up in a few days they scrap plastic
market in Malaysia is done.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It is no longer. We're no longer.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Accepting it because we're in violation of the Basil Action.
The Basil Action law that came into being. California shipped
eight hundred and sixty four shipping containers ten million pounds
of plastic waste to Malaysia. That's only second to Georgia.
For some reason, Georgia beats it. So the Basil Convention
(09:35):
is an international treaty designed to reduce the international movement
of hazardous and other waste. The US never signed it
because that's what we do, is we move hazardous waste
all over the place.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So who has not signed that convention? Fiji, Haiti, the
United States.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So what is going to happen? Well, we have to
figure out where we're going to go with this. And
here is the reality is that the recycling world is
not really a world.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
It is more of a scam than anything else.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
If you look at the percentage of recycled plastics, if
you look at what's actually used, it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
It really doesn't.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
For example, did you know that some of the best
insulation in walls is made of denim that's used in genes.
It is absolutely its phenomenal insulation, probably better than anything else.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So how many old genes.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
That are tossed are used to make insulation in the
building world?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You tell me. Most people don't even know it exists.
And plastics are horrible because how long do they last?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I don't know, millennia in the world of landfills, and
so they do not decompose, they do not go into
the atmosphere in like methane. They don't do any good
at all except sully up the world. Although isn't it
better to have plastics in landfill than it is in
(11:27):
the ocean because of the microplastics. Yeah, so you know
what we're gonna do. No one takes it here. We're
dealing with it. We have a ton of plastic left
and we have to deal with it ourselves. It's a
big deal for people in the recycling business. Oh. By
the way, Amy and Neil, we were talking about Costco
(11:51):
this morning and today I'm going to go and do
a Costco run because I did one on Monday and
now I'm going to go today.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
For breakfast, this morning, I had a chicken bake. Wow,
look at you a Kirkland chicken.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Baked chicken bake.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
A chicken bakes are great.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It's uh it's a chicken and a little bit of
bacon and a sort of a light Caesar dressing wrapped
up and a crust a puff pastry.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's and then a super fancy hot pocket. Yeah, it
is really good.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Don't you get those outside at the where you get the.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
You do that outside too, but they also, because of
popular demand, they also sell them inside in a package,
a frozen package, and I think there are eight per box.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
And that's what I had this morning for breakfast. There's
nothing like it.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I just go get some of those.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You will really like them.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
They just made like one hundred thousand people really hungry.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, I know they're They're very very good. I don't
know why.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I I don't know why cost doesn't advertise on this
program or they don't advertise at all, and they don't
have to because they have people like me. All right now,
I want to do a story that I picked up
for the New York Times, and it's an important story
because a lot of you suffer from.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
This and it's about incontinence.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And you'd be surprised how many people actually have incontinence,
and they're not going to.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Tell you because it's so embarrassing. There are several this
different kind of incontinent SI.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I guess one is called stress incontinence, coughing, sneezing, laughing, jumping, pregnancy,
oh man, laughing during pregnancy because of the pregnancy itself
presses down on the bladder. Quick story, when Marjorie was
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pregnant with the kids, when she would laugh, it was
very tough, and I would take her out to dinner
and I would tell her jokes, and unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
For her, she still thought I was funny.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
It was a mess, and I thought it was the
funniest I just loved it, funniest.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Thing in the world. As the pe was going down
her leg. Hm.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Another one is urge in continence, when you feel the
urge and your bladder.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Isn't even full. This is as a result of nerve injury.
That is a little tougher to deal with. So a
couple of things.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
If you have or know someone who has incontinence, and
by the way, again it's so much caught common. One
of the most common ways to cover it, or one
common way to deal with it is google exercises either
noodle coogel or potato cougle, which I happened to. Uh,
I'm a fan of noodle kogel myself.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Keegel, you don't actually put a Jewish sweet or savory
dish in your crotch.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Oh, I always get those two confused. You can also you.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Could also you could also consider medication anti col jeric
generic I have no idea blocks receptors.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
In the bladder to reduce contractions. That helps.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And then they're the fun ones, which are considered quote
minimally invasive procedures. Injecting bulking agents into the arethra and
they got that from Aretha Franklin.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Very few people know about that. That's where the name
came from.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
And so can you imagine bulking agents into the arethra
or surgically inserting a sling beneath it to help support it. Wow,
Botox into the bladder, Ooh, that's fun. That stiffens the
organ's muscles, neuro modulation, Surgically implanting a device that delivers
(16:07):
electrical impulses. You think that would help you pee more,
but it does help. So here are and this is
by the way, legitimate, I mean as much fun as
I'm having with this. So many people have this, that
this article was written and they talked to doctors specialize
in this. Identify public restrooms before forehead know where they are.
(16:34):
There are, for example, bathroom locator apps. Wherever you go
to public places. Traveling on a plane, up for.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
An aisle seat on a long ride.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Consider bringing a portable toilet or one of those little devices.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Oh you know what we do on long drive.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, we have those trucker bags or whatever that solidify urine. Yeah,
you can pee in them and then it just it
it's no longer liquid. Oh I didn't know that. Yeah,
it's got this stuff that absorbs liquid and then you
can throw it away safely. And okay, it doesn't still
all right, And I haven't gotten to the point where
(17:15):
I need boat crotch, but I okay.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
And then the last, the last story I want to
share with you, another Marjorie story is Marjorie is older
than I am. Not a lot, but she is older
than I am. And when I would do personal appearances,
you remember Neil, Marjorie would come along and I would
tell people, Uh, take when when you shake hands, take
(17:42):
a look on the side and you'll see the depends lines.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, you'll see the little lines of depends. And people
would do that.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
They would go up to Marjorie and sort of cock
their head around and look, and Marjorie would sort of
smile and say, I don't wear them.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Bill is a jerk now in new long fitting. Yeah,
absolutely true, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
In another page of the insanity that's going on with
this administration, the President has instructed the National Park Service
to scrub any language that he would deem negative, unpatriotic,
or smacking of improper partisan ideology.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Wooh.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
And these are signs and presentations at the visitor centers.
The administration is ordered the National Park and hundreds of
other monuments and museums supervised by the Department of Interior,
to ensure that all of their signage quoting by the way,
all of their signage reminds Americans of our extraordinary heritage,
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consistent progress towards becoming a more perfect union, and unmatched
record of advancing liberty, prosperity, and human and human flourishing.
And opponents and free speech advocates are spinning in disbelief.
How are park employees supposed to put put a sunny
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spin on slavery, Jim Crow Laws, the fight for civil rights.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
How does that advance liberty? When we had Jim.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Crow laws slavery, that's the advancement of liberty. Man's in
our National Historical site. This is in California. It was
the biggest of the camps, ten camps where one hundred
and twenty Japanese American civilians, the vast majority being citizens,
were imprisoned.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
They were in internment camps during the early nineteen forties.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
There went up to sign this is part of the
liberty of the United States. This is part of us
advancing democratic values. Just as we put one hundred to
two twenty thousand Japanese Americans into these camps. I mean,
think about that. That was fdr by the way that
wrote the order on those signs gets even better. It
(20:14):
includes a ker code visitors can use to report any
signs that are negative about either past or living Americans
that failed to emphasize the beauty, grandeur in abundance of landscapes.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
That's also part of the provision.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
And I wouldn't argue at all that politics are part
of this, because the Department is instructed to scrutinize signs
put ups in January of twenty twenty, when Joe Biden
became president. Only only those four years and beyond. And
(20:56):
the argument is that this language that was put up
perpetuates a false reconstruction of American history. What we didn't
have slavery, we didn't have Jim Crow laws, we didn't
put one hundred and twenty thousand Japanese Americans into internment camps.
Figure that one out, man. I don't know about this, well,
(21:21):
I do know it's crazy. The order directs federal employees
and historians to rewrite the quote revisionist history that is
now being used with language that exudes patriotism.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
We have to talk about patriotism.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I guess putting one hundred and twenty thousand Japanese Americans
civilians into internment camps as part of our patriotic move
just a quick word historically, do you know how many
cases of espionage were proven of one hundred and twenty
thousand Japanese Americans?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Zero? Zero.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
In the meantime, Germans look up the German American Bund,
which was a pro Nazi organization. They called themselves American Firsters,
led by Charles Lindberg. By the way, that talked about
(22:19):
not getting US involved in World War two, and the
Germans that were part of that, that organization was riddled
with spies that were spying for Nazi Germany. However, the
rest of it, what happened on the West coast with
the Japanese that's particularly offensive the Japanese, by the way.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Is by the way, just a quick little bit of history.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
When DeLorean was arrested and tried, you remember that on
the cocaine charge, and it was impossible for him to
be acquitted, impossible because they had the FBI had him
on video tape accepting cocaine, selling cocaine and getting hundreds
(23:05):
of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And you know how he prevailed.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
He got the one judge in the system who as
a kid was in one of those internment camps, Japanese
judge who did not trust the government in anything the
government said, and was a federal judge. All right, KF
I am six point forty. You've been listening to the
(23:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
KFI AM six forty bill Handle Here. It is a
Friday morning, June twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
It's the Foody Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And coming up, since is Friday, we try to look
for just fun topics or eight o'clock course. It's fun.
It's also very educational with Foody Friday, Neil, and we
talk about all kinds of food eight thirty. Nothing particularly educational,
except you get to find out stuff about me that
(00:36):
I normally don't talk about. It's ask handle anything or
I just answer personal questions. And coming up at seven
point thirty today, another one that's fun and hugely educational
the issue of incontinence that here in America, and I'm
going to talk about incontinence.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Who what, Neil. I want to really share this one
with you. Who what? And how you deal with it? Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Are are you saying negative things about my helvic floor?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Sir? Yes, yes, I'm saying, well, not so much negative,
because it's very common, very common, more so than.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
People think I'm doing keebles right now.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yes, you are all right, We're I'm going to get
all into that at seven thirty now today, the Supreme
Court is going to issue its final rulings, because today
is the final day of the Supreme Court and the
big one, and it's going to rule on a few things.
First of all, there's two kinds of rulings today. They're
going to be like automatic yes, no, the easy.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Stuff, then some big ones.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
One of them, I think the biggest one, which I
find them more most interesting, is the birthright citizenship. And
that is President Trump's position that even if someone is
born in the United States, that someone should not have
a citizen the right to be a citizen if the
(02:06):
parents are here illegally.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Now, that is not unusual.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
There are many countries that do not give birthright citizenship
even with parents being legal. For example, people that work
in Kuwait, employees of various companies work in Kuwait, those
kids who are born in Kuwait are not citizens.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
The same thing here in the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
If a kid is born of diplomats, that's not a citizen.
So how does the president get around the Fourteenth Amendment
Section one? All persons born or naturalized the United States,
that's me and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens
(02:55):
of the United States and the state wherein they reside
some language about, you know, the state shall make no
law or enforce any law which.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Somehow abridges that position.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And here is it's so clear cut, isn't it. Well,
here is what the argument is subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
and the anti birthright citizenship people are arguing that illegal
aliens are not subject to the jurisdiction because they are
not here legally, which, by the way, let me take
(03:34):
my vast legal knowledge, and having studied constitutional law in
law school and having gone through the Fourteenth Amendment as
one of our primary subjects. The conclusion among most legal experts,
actually the legal word that's used to describe this position
(03:56):
is it is a croc And I'm not going to
finish the rest to that sentence, because everybody in the
United States is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States,
which means Fifth Amendment, which means the right to shut up,
which means the right to a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Everybody is.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So this argument is going to be so ridiculous it
makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So is the court's going to rule on birthright citizenship?
Yes or no? No, it's not. Here's what the court does.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
They rule whenever they can technical issues, yes, amy Yan, and.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That's what they did.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
We're getting word that the Supreme Court has handed down
a decision on this. They didn't rule, as you just said,
on whether Trump can ban birthright citizenship. They ruled that
district judges have limits. And they're referring to the district
judges who are issuing those nationwide injunctions.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Right and right, And that is a legitimate question. How
does a judge in Maryland, a district court judge, have
the right to block a position across the country.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And that's a very legitimate argument.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And so it was a district judge that made a
decision that birthrights citizenship is a constitutional Okay, well, no,
that's an issue for the Appeals Court and then the
Supreme Court. Because whatever an Appeals Court decision is made,
it's only for that district.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So you can have literally contradictory laws.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You have the Ninth Circuit ruling one way, you have
the Second Circuit ruling another way, and depending on where
you live. Now, when you have competing districts, that goes
to the Supreme Court virtually automatically. So this is what
the Court does is whenever it can, it does not
rule on.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
The big issue. It could have.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It could have straight on said birthright citizenship is constitutional,
an attack on it is unconstitutional. Or it could have
gone the other way, that there is no birthright citizenship
and all jurisdictions or subjects of the jurisdiction thereof, we're
(06:15):
going to ignore. They did that with a second amendment
with the militia language. Didn't even deal with it, just
ignored it. They just went right into the right of
Americans to bare arms. Shall not be a bridge. But
wait a minute, there's a whole sentence in front of that.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yes, Neil, So would this be retroactive if they could?
If they don't, and I don't believe they can, But
if they could say that birthright you didn't, you.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Sure could not. I think they can. Yeah, the court
can say whatever the hell it wants that would affect me.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Actually unless unless there is a constitutional amendment or Congress
votes that it's retroactive.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah. Change.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
For example, Bill Clinton changed the IRS code and added
taxes retroactively. Wait a minute, how do you do that? Well,
that's what they did. The IRS made that decision and
the Court allowed it. All right, let's continue with a story.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I want to share with you about plastic waste.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
We generate a lot of plastic waste and it goes
into landfills, goes to recycling. But the reality is recycling
is not very much. It's a tiny percentage that is
used in recycling products. There's more and more, but still
it's a tiny percentage relative to the waste part of it.
(07:52):
And so what we used to do is sell it
to China. China would take our plastic waste. Matter of fact,
China would take our old clothes. Was in a situation
where it didn't have enough, it didn't have enough raw materials,
and so they would take anything and then they would
grab the trash, go through it, and then throw the
(08:14):
trash into landfills or whatever. So twenty eighteen, China said,
we're done with trash from you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Finished.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So now where does the plastic go. Well, one of
the rules, one of the policies, is we don't want
it in the landfill. So we wanted out of here,
and much of it was going overseas and it was
going to Malaysia. Now, Malaysia is one of the countries
(08:49):
that except the trash.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Well, effective July one.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's coming up in a few days they scrap plastic
market in Malaysia is done.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It is no longer. We're no longer.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Accepting it because we're in violation of the Basil Action.
The Basil Action law that came into being. California shipped
eight hundred and sixty four shipping containers ten million pounds
of plastic waste to Malaysia. That's only second to Georgia.
For some reason, Georgia beats it. So the Basil Convention
(09:35):
is an international treaty designed to reduce the international movement
of hazardous and other waste. The US never signed it
because that's what we do, is we move hazardous waste
all over the place.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So who has not signed that convention? Fiji, Haiti, the
United States.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So what is going to happen? Well, we have to
figure out where we're going to go with this. And
here is the reality is that the recycling world is
not really a world.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
It is more of a scam than anything else.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
If you look at the percentage of recycled plastics, if
you look at what's actually used, it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
It really doesn't.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
For example, did you know that some of the best
insulation in walls is made of denim that's used in genes.
It is absolutely its phenomenal insulation, probably better than anything else.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So how many old genes.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
That are tossed are used to make insulation in the
building world?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You tell me. Most people don't even know it exists.
And plastics are horrible because how long do they last?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I don't know, millennia in the world of landfills, and
so they do not decompose, they do not go into
the atmosphere in like methane. They don't do any good
at all except sully up the world. Although isn't it
better to have plastics in landfill than it is in
(11:27):
the ocean because of the microplastics. Yeah, so you know
what we're gonna do. No one takes it here. We're
dealing with it. We have a ton of plastic left
and we have to deal with it ourselves. It's a
big deal for people in the recycling business. Oh. By
the way, Amy and Neil, we were talking about Costco
(11:51):
this morning and today I'm going to go and do
a Costco run because I did one on Monday and
now I'm going to go today.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
For breakfast, this morning, I had a chicken bake. Wow,
look at you a Kirkland chicken.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Baked chicken bake.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
A chicken bakes are great.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It's uh it's a chicken and a little bit of
bacon and a sort of a light Caesar dressing wrapped
up and a crust a puff pastry.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's and then a super fancy hot pocket. Yeah, it
is really good.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Don't you get those outside at the where you get the.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
You do that outside too, but they also, because of
popular demand, they also sell them inside in a package,
a frozen package, and I think there are eight per box.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
And that's what I had this morning for breakfast. There's
nothing like it.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I just go get some of those.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You will really like them.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
They just made like one hundred thousand people really hungry.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, I know they're They're very very good. I don't
know why.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I I don't know why cost doesn't advertise on this
program or they don't advertise at all, and they don't
have to because they have people like me. All right now,
I want to do a story that I picked up
for the New York Times, and it's an important story
because a lot of you suffer from.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
This and it's about incontinence.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And you'd be surprised how many people actually have incontinence,
and they're not going to.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Tell you because it's so embarrassing. There are several this
different kind of incontinent SI.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I guess one is called stress incontinence, coughing, sneezing, laughing, jumping, pregnancy,
oh man, laughing during pregnancy because of the pregnancy itself
presses down on the bladder. Quick story, when Marjorie was
(13:56):
pregnant with the kids, when she would laugh, it was
very tough, and I would take her out to dinner
and I would tell her jokes, and unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
For her, she still thought I was funny.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
It was a mess, and I thought it was the
funniest I just loved it, funniest.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Thing in the world. As the pe was going down
her leg. Hm.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Another one is urge in continence, when you feel the
urge and your bladder.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Isn't even full. This is as a result of nerve injury.
That is a little tougher to deal with. So a
couple of things.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
If you have or know someone who has incontinence, and
by the way, again it's so much caught common. One
of the most common ways to cover it, or one
common way to deal with it is google exercises either
noodle coogel or potato cougle, which I happened to. Uh,
I'm a fan of noodle kogel myself.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Keegel, you don't actually put a Jewish sweet or savory
dish in your crotch.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Oh, I always get those two confused. You can also you.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Could also you could also consider medication anti col jeric
generic I have no idea blocks receptors.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
In the bladder to reduce contractions. That helps.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And then they're the fun ones, which are considered quote
minimally invasive procedures. Injecting bulking agents into the arethra and
they got that from Aretha Franklin.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Very few people know about that. That's where the name
came from.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
And so can you imagine bulking agents into the arethra
or surgically inserting a sling beneath it to help support it. Wow,
Botox into the bladder, Ooh, that's fun. That stiffens the
organ's muscles, neuro modulation, Surgically implanting a device that delivers
(16:07):
electrical impulses. You think that would help you pee more,
but it does help. So here are and this is
by the way, legitimate, I mean as much fun as
I'm having with this. So many people have this, that
this article was written and they talked to doctors specialize
in this. Identify public restrooms before forehead know where they are.
(16:34):
There are, for example, bathroom locator apps. Wherever you go
to public places. Traveling on a plane, up for.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
An aisle seat on a long ride.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Consider bringing a portable toilet or one of those little devices.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Oh you know what we do on long drive.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, we have those trucker bags or whatever that solidify urine. Yeah,
you can pee in them and then it just it
it's no longer liquid. Oh I didn't know that. Yeah,
it's got this stuff that absorbs liquid and then you
can throw it away safely. And okay, it doesn't still
all right, And I haven't gotten to the point where
(17:15):
I need boat crotch, but I okay.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
And then the last, the last story I want to
share with you, another Marjorie story is Marjorie is older
than I am. Not a lot, but she is older
than I am. And when I would do personal appearances,
you remember Neil, Marjorie would come along and I would
tell people, Uh, take when when you shake hands, take
(17:42):
a look on the side and you'll see the depends lines.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, you'll see the little lines of depends. And people
would do that.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
They would go up to Marjorie and sort of cock
their head around and look, and Marjorie would sort of
smile and say, I don't wear them.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Bill is a jerk now in new long fitting. Yeah,
absolutely true, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
In another page of the insanity that's going on with
this administration, the President has instructed the National Park Service
to scrub any language that he would deem negative, unpatriotic,
or smacking of improper partisan ideology.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Wooh.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
And these are signs and presentations at the visitor centers.
The administration is ordered the National Park and hundreds of
other monuments and museums supervised by the Department of Interior,
to ensure that all of their signage quoting by the way,
all of their signage reminds Americans of our extraordinary heritage,
(18:51):
consistent progress towards becoming a more perfect union, and unmatched
record of advancing liberty, prosperity, and human and human flourishing.
And opponents and free speech advocates are spinning in disbelief.
How are park employees supposed to put put a sunny
(19:14):
spin on slavery, Jim Crow Laws, the fight for civil rights.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
How does that advance liberty? When we had Jim.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Crow laws slavery, that's the advancement of liberty. Man's in
our National Historical site. This is in California. It was
the biggest of the camps, ten camps where one hundred
and twenty Japanese American civilians, the vast majority being citizens,
were imprisoned.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
They were in internment camps during the early nineteen forties.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
There went up to sign this is part of the
liberty of the United States. This is part of us
advancing democratic values. Just as we put one hundred to
two twenty thousand Japanese Americans into these camps. I mean,
think about that. That was fdr by the way that
wrote the order on those signs gets even better. It
(20:14):
includes a ker code visitors can use to report any
signs that are negative about either past or living Americans
that failed to emphasize the beauty, grandeur in abundance of landscapes.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
That's also part of the provision.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
And I wouldn't argue at all that politics are part
of this, because the Department is instructed to scrutinize signs
put ups in January of twenty twenty, when Joe Biden
became president. Only only those four years and beyond. And
(20:56):
the argument is that this language that was put up
perpetuates a false reconstruction of American history. What we didn't
have slavery, we didn't have Jim Crow laws, we didn't
put one hundred and twenty thousand Japanese Americans into internment camps.
Figure that one out, man. I don't know about this, well,
(21:21):
I do know it's crazy. The order directs federal employees
and historians to rewrite the quote revisionist history that is
now being used with language that exudes patriotism.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
We have to talk about patriotism.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I guess putting one hundred and twenty thousand Japanese Americans
civilians into internment camps as part of our patriotic move
just a quick word historically, do you know how many
cases of espionage were proven of one hundred and twenty
thousand Japanese Americans?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Zero? Zero.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
In the meantime, Germans look up the German American Bund,
which was a pro Nazi organization. They called themselves American Firsters,
led by Charles Lindberg. By the way, that talked about
(22:19):
not getting US involved in World War two, and the
Germans that were part of that, that organization was riddled
with spies that were spying for Nazi Germany. However, the
rest of it, what happened on the West coast with
the Japanese that's particularly offensive the Japanese, by the way.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Is by the way, just a quick little bit of history.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
When DeLorean was arrested and tried, you remember that on
the cocaine charge, and it was impossible for him to
be acquitted, impossible because they had the FBI had him
on video tape accepting cocaine, selling cocaine and getting hundreds
(23:05):
of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And you know how he prevailed.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
He got the one judge in the system who as
a kid was in one of those internment camps, Japanese
judge who did not trust the government in anything the
government said, and was a federal judge. All right, KF
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