September 2, 2025 • 23 mins
(Tuesday Sept 02,2025)
Trump’s September filled with tough deadlines. AI is unmasking ICE officers… can Washington do anything about it? Warren Buffett’s son battles Colombia’s booming cocaine trade. Americans are having less sex than ever.
Trump’s September filled with tough deadlines. AI is unmasking ICE officers… can Washington do anything about it? Warren Buffett’s son battles Colombia’s booming cocaine trade. Americans are having less sex than ever.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Do you remember on a Tuesday morning, September two, federal
judge just ruled that President Trump cannot deploy the National
Guard troops in California to execute law enforcement actions.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
But that's exactly what the posse Coomatatis Act says, that
federal troops cannot be police within the United States. Police
can be police within the United States, and National Guard,
but certainly not federal law enforcement and then no rational guard.
(00:42):
He said, the National Guard cannot be used, but they
can't be used to execute law enforcement arresting people. They
can't do it, never have been able to, and this
is the first time.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But they didn't in this They were brought in to
protect the federal buildings and that's at least that's what
the Trump administration tried to argue, that they were protecting
federal buildings and federal agents.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, then the judge either missed it completely or rule
that that's exactly what they were doing. And the plaintiffs
one on that one also really quickly before we get
onto the topic Friday, we do ask handle anything where
you asked me questions. Last week was terrific last Friday.
And here's how it works. You go onto during the
(01:27):
course of the show, the iHeartRadio app, click on the
bill handles show, click on the microphone the other and
the right hand corner, and just record a question of me.
And they're always embarrassing and we always enjoy it. Eight
thirty on Friday. Okay, Now, today the Congress comes back,
and man, the president is facing some really interesting issues.
(01:53):
For example, the President gave Russian and Ukrainian leader's deadline
to move forward with that peace process two weeks or
face possible retaliation. You ever notice it's always two weeks
for everything. It's really bizarre. It's just two weeks. It's
really weird. Okay. So you have the Russian Ukrainian situation,
(02:17):
the legality of his tariffs, that's another one. And this
has to do with the budget. That's the other thing.
Is there has to be a budget by the end
of the month or the United States shut just shuts down.
What does that mean, Well, other than essential workers, air
traffic controllers, that sort of thing that no one gets paid.
(02:41):
They go to work or they don't, but no one
gets paid. Now in they get paid retroactively of course,
but in the meantime, no money for groceries. All right.
The other thing about everybody's looking at the Putin meeting,
which is kind of bizarre. Have you ever noticed what
(03:01):
the president does. For example, what he did with Kim
Jong un made a huge deal. I'm meeting with Kim
Jong ugun. Nothing came out of that. Nothing, same thing
with Putin, nothing came out of that, and a big
deal is done. So that doesn't do very well. And
(03:23):
so progress installed on those meetings, progress installed on the
Peace Accord. Then the authority to take over the Metropolitan
Police Department in Washington that actually expires this month. And
he's looking at deploying the National Guard to more cities
and the judge said, nope, no National Guard troops in California.
(03:47):
And of course that will be appealed instantly. Our good
friend Robert Kennedy Junior scheduled to testify before the Senate
Finance Committee after he fired they of the CDC, after
he fired her after hiring her, and she just wouldn't
comply with the Robert Kennedy concept that somehow vaccines don't
(04:12):
do the job, or there's some issue with vaccines, and
so at science I mean legitimate science, and I use
the word legitimate. Basically has said to Robert if Kennedy
your nuts, also, we're going to hear what he says
about the cause of autism in his program Make American
(04:33):
Healthy Again. Great. Now, negotiation between two parties. This is
going to be interesting to get the budget in place
before the end of the month. Why well, two reasons. Actually,
one reason is that it has to be a sixty
vote majority other than the filibuster kicks in and then
(04:57):
the bill is killed. The budget is kill. He will
get every single Republican no matter what he asks for,
he gets all of them. I mean, he can ask
for the mouse outrageous stuff, and he gets him, and
he gets it. Now convincing ten Democrats to go his
way maybe a whole different thing. And last week he
(05:19):
actually were earthed members of both parties by canceling that
five billion dollars and fourign aid. And here's how he
did it. He did it through a maneuver called a
pocket recession. And it comes so close to the end
of the fiscal year that the money can't be spent
if you veto something. Literally at the end of a session,
(05:43):
there's no money you don't have time to move forward.
The top Republican on the Appropriations Committee called the move
a clear violation of law. But wait until, wait until
the budget comes up. She's that Susan Collin. She'll vote
in favor of it. Oh Man, it just doesn't it
doesn't stop. It really doesn't. Justice Department dealing with the
(06:09):
fight over the Jeffrey Epstein files. That's one of the issues,
oh Man. And after firing the commissioner of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, Remember he did that because he didn't
like the numbers. It's an independent agency which has nothing
to do with the White House. The Bureau of Labor
(06:30):
Statistics looks at numbers, looks at the number of people
who are unemployed, looks at the number of people who
are looking for work, looks at raw numbers, and then
makes not a decision, but we actually it does, makes
a decision of where the economy is going, how many
workers we have. Well, Trump did not like those numbers,
(06:55):
fired her and put in his own guy. And now
it doesn't matter what you're going to hear. The unemployment
figures are going to be tremendous. Everybody will be at work,
everybody will be working. There will be no unemployment. You've
got the tariffs, the reciprocal tariffs. An appeals court ruled
(07:18):
on Friday they're illegal, however, have until October fourteenth. They'll
still stay in place to allow the administration time to appeal.
Oh man, Well, here's the bottom line, and this is
some of the stuff that he has to deal with.
And this is a president who is expanding or trying
to expand the powers of the presidency. It's never been
(07:41):
done like this. We've never had a president, a president
or a presidency that has questioned the power of the
presidency in a way that he wants to stretch those
powers to the absolute minimum, to the point where the
courts are saying that's illegal. The Republicans in Congress are
(08:02):
going to give them all of it. Is there going
to be a stop We don't know. The last stop
gap is the courts. Okay, Oh, here is a topic, man,
And both sides have an excellent point. And usually that
is not the case. And usually I'm on one side
or the other. And of course you know that if
(08:23):
you listen to this show. So what am I talking about? Well,
this is Ai. Another story about AI, but this one
is kind of interesting because there's a guy out of
the Netherlands, Dominic Skinner, who is using AI to identify
ICE agents under their masks. How do you identify an
(08:45):
ICE ag under a mask? Well, according to his AI program,
if thirty five percent of his face, the ICE agent's
face is showing, AI can identify that agent. Oh man,
When I say both sides have an argument, how about
(09:06):
this those who want to keep ICE agents or any
police officer or any policing officer a secret. And why
are they doing that? Because once the information is out there,
these people are now going to be harassed. It's true,
their lives are threatened. I mean, that's where we've come
(09:29):
to in this world. And that's both sides. You know,
we're talking about Let's say you have those that have
masks that are identified. You've got people that are going
after the cops. And so the argument is we have
to be able to wear masks. Now. The other side
(09:49):
is police that wear masks. Now we're talking a totalitarian
society where the police can pick someone up with complete impunity.
We don't know who that copy is is, and therefore
do we have that Do we want that kind of society?
You've got libertarians to say, we don't want people arresting
(10:11):
folks that we don't know who it is. They're wearing masks.
I mean, look, not only look at the optics, look
at the law, look at where society is going. So
which way do you go do you protect officers so
their identity is not used? Well? For example, in La
City of La La County, the state of California, you
(10:34):
can't get the address of a cop. You can't get
private information. Why for exactly that fear And nowadays because
it's so crazy out there, the people who are unmasking
the police are engaging in threats. They do say this
is the address, they do say here's who it is,
(10:58):
and now the threat is real. And then you have
the civil libertarians they are saying, oh no, you can't
have the police and masks because that we can't have
a society like that. I mean, which way do you
go on that? When both sides are completely right and
completely wrong, which is why when you see an LAPD
(11:22):
Los Angeles Police Department officer, that's why he's wearing a
groucho mask so you can't tell who they are, and
they look very funny when they're doing it. Now do
I think that's funny? Yes? I do. Was that a
bad attempt at a joke? Yes it is? Was that
(11:42):
not funny? That is correct? However, the underlying story is
very legitimate and very scary. I, for one, do not
want to be arrested by someone in a mask. At
the same time someone in a mass arresting me. You
take off the mask and that person is threatened with
(12:04):
their lives In some cases, where do you go with that?
And I don't know the answer, I truly don't. Now.
In Colombia, the fight has been for years, decades about
the growing of the coca plant and it is very
(12:25):
profitable for local farmers through the company. There used to
be one hundred thousand of these now there are two
hundred and thirty thousand of these growers. How about families?
So there is a program in Colombia now where well,
there is a nonprofit that is trying to help people
(12:48):
to dump the coca planning and say let's do coffee instead.
Now it's a little problematic for two reasons. One, you
make about ten times more money with coca leaves. It
takes years to establish a coffee plantation or an area
we grow coffee, and it takes lots of equipment. Coca
(13:12):
plants they grow like weeds. You can get five or
six plants, five or literally five or six groups of plants.
What's the word I'm looking for on that? One crops
five or six crops a year, coffee one a year.
(13:32):
And the other thing is the cartels love when you
grow coca leaves. They're not particularly thrilled when the farmer
grows coffee. So there is a plan out there and
money is being spent. There is a company or a
group called Mercy Core, and it's a group that employs
(13:55):
nearly one thousand people and has entitled more than thirty
two hundred farming families to uproot their coca plants and
grow legal crops instead. It has spent one hundred and
seventy million dollars saying here is a story. You know
who's paying for it, Warren Buffett's son. How about that?
(14:17):
Would you think that that would happen? Not a chance.
And this is the seventy year old son of Warren Buffett,
who well has a fair amount of money or has
access to a fair amount of money, and they're trying
to do something. So the numbers are pretty small. Remember
(14:38):
there's one thousand people that work for this company, and
well they employ a thousand people, and you don't have
to spend very much money in Colombia to have an employee.
And they've enticed more than thirty two hundred farming families
to uproot their coca plants just around this area called
El Tombo and to grow legal crops. So thirty two
(15:00):
hundred families, So that's pretty impressive out of over two
hundred thousand families two hundred thousand farmers. So let's just
say there is not a lot of influence here. And
the Trump administration is about to look at Columbia because
(15:20):
there's going to be a June report about Colombia and
how much, how much coca leaves, the amount of coca
leaves that are being produced, and therefore, of course the
amount of money that the cartels make from coca leaves
where a cocaine is produced and sold is astronomical, and
(15:43):
it looks like the numbers have gone up, and the
Trump administration is saying if Colombia doesn't do something about it,
of which the US has pushed Columbia for years and
years to do something, and it just hasn't worked. Why
because the police are paid off, the army is paid off,
(16:05):
and the car tells are real simple about it. You
either do this or we kill you, and we kill
your entire family. And that's the hell of a threat.
So if Columbia hasn't done something about it, if the
numbers have not decreased in terms of the coca production
(16:28):
and they haven't, then aid to Colombia is going to
be cut and the tariffs are going to be increased,
and Columbia is sweating bullets on that one. Okay, let's
move over to some fun. Oh, this is going to
be good. Americans are having less sex than ever before.
(16:54):
Now this is science. Researchers at the Institute for Family
Studies at the University of Chicago, and they did a
full blown study and found thirty seven percent of people
age eighteen to sixty four reporting reported having sex at
least once a week. That's down from fifty five percent
(17:14):
in nineteen ninety and young adults even more striking, Almost
a quarter of people between the ages of eighteen twenty
nine or twenty four percent said they haven't had sex
in the past year. And that's twice as many as
twenty ten. So why here's a year. Yeah, not having
(17:36):
no sex in a year, they all think it's me.
That is absolutely true. Not in a year they haven't
had sex. Now a lot has been written about it,
and some of the reasons. Stunded social skills arise in
internet pornography, and the trend holds true for people right
(17:56):
up to sixty four. All sexual orientations, both married and single, peaceable.
After sixty four, there was no significant change because no
one after sixty four has sex. It looks like, now, why, well,
here's what the study shows. Declining marriage, declining cohabitation rates.
(18:18):
Turns out that people who live with a romantic partner
tend to have more sex. We've become so addicted to
our screens. We've normalized the experience of staring at the
screens instead of interacting. What they call it this bed rotting. Now,
the only part of sex that has increased dramatically is
(18:42):
sex with chickens. For some reason. The study shows that no,
actually I made that up. But it does sound good,
doesn't it. No, everybody's shaking their head. One of the
researchers said, we're experiencing a long term atrophy of the skill.
It takes to maintain relationships, not necessarily have sex, but relationships.
(19:08):
If you're exhausted, you're distracted, you want to have sex,
of course not. And all of the reasons for having
a limited sex life the exhaustion of parenting, yeah, no kidding,
relationship issues yeah, age issues yeah. Others had more of
(19:30):
the more of the moment reasons. Worry about the economy,
stress about the news, unhealthy attachment to their screens. Some
said they'd rather catch up on their sleep than have sex.
And well there's will you know, putting thumbs up, and
he's not alone. Your wife does both. Yeah, well, well,
(19:55):
here's what happens with my wife because well she's a
few years younger than I am, and am I worried
about my job? Yes, and the society because I talk
about this all the time the news. Yeah. So frankly,
when she wants to have sex, I hand her a
couple hundred dollars and go here, just take care of
(20:15):
yourself and leave me alone. And that seems to work
out very well. And well, they don't talk about this,
They don't talk about sex with yourself. That was not
part of the study. They're talking about sex with other
people and I can understand that. As a matter of fact,
(20:36):
I used to have very strong wrist muscles and they
have atrophied because if you don't use your muscles, they
don't work. And that's another thing. It's use it or
lose it, and that is what one of the studies shows,
and it is true. So there was sex during the pandemic,
(21:00):
not much now. When you look at sex, do you
remember the cascade when New York I think it was
in the city shut down for a couple of weeks
and the number of kids that were conceived was astronomical.
You think the same would happen during the pandemic. No, No,
(21:20):
and then the numbers after the pandemic dropped even more.
So it is something that they're looking at. And of course,
if you don't have sex, you don't have kids. But
then that's not true because my entire career is having
kids without sex with surrogate parenting. You have no idea
(21:43):
how many times I passed a surrogate month, I passed
a pregnant woman on the street and I asked, are
you getting paid for this? And they looked at me
like I was crazy, and I said, you should be
having a kid for free is out of the question.
So with all the joking that I'm doing about this,
(22:05):
and you love you know, I love these kinds of topics.
It is a serious thing. Societally, it is societally, it
is a serious thing. Less sex means a whole lot.
It goes simply beyond having less sex. I handle that,
all right, didn't I. You lost me at wrist muscles,
(22:31):
only the right hand. It was you know how, you're
right handed or left handed? You sit on it, you
sit on your hand. Huh. I know what he's saying. Huh, stranger.
(22:52):
All right, let's get out of here. Okay, let's get
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Do you remember on a Tuesday morning, September two, federal
judge just ruled that President Trump cannot deploy the National
Guard troops in California to execute law enforcement actions.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
But that's exactly what the posse Coomatatis Act says, that
federal troops cannot be police within the United States. Police
can be police within the United States, and National Guard,
but certainly not federal law enforcement and then no rational guard.
(00:42):
He said, the National Guard cannot be used, but they
can't be used to execute law enforcement arresting people. They
can't do it, never have been able to, and this
is the first time.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But they didn't in this They were brought in to
protect the federal buildings and that's at least that's what
the Trump administration tried to argue, that they were protecting
federal buildings and federal agents.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, then the judge either missed it completely or rule
that that's exactly what they were doing. And the plaintiffs
one on that one also really quickly before we get
onto the topic Friday, we do ask handle anything where
you asked me questions. Last week was terrific last Friday.
And here's how it works. You go onto during the
(01:27):
course of the show, the iHeartRadio app, click on the
bill handles show, click on the microphone the other and
the right hand corner, and just record a question of me.
And they're always embarrassing and we always enjoy it. Eight
thirty on Friday. Okay, Now, today the Congress comes back,
and man, the president is facing some really interesting issues.
(01:53):
For example, the President gave Russian and Ukrainian leader's deadline
to move forward with that peace process two weeks or
face possible retaliation. You ever notice it's always two weeks
for everything. It's really bizarre. It's just two weeks. It's
really weird. Okay. So you have the Russian Ukrainian situation,
(02:17):
the legality of his tariffs, that's another one. And this
has to do with the budget. That's the other thing.
Is there has to be a budget by the end
of the month or the United States shut just shuts down.
What does that mean, Well, other than essential workers, air
traffic controllers, that sort of thing that no one gets paid.
(02:41):
They go to work or they don't, but no one
gets paid. Now in they get paid retroactively of course,
but in the meantime, no money for groceries. All right.
The other thing about everybody's looking at the Putin meeting,
which is kind of bizarre. Have you ever noticed what
(03:01):
the president does. For example, what he did with Kim
Jong un made a huge deal. I'm meeting with Kim
Jong ugun. Nothing came out of that. Nothing, same thing
with Putin, nothing came out of that, and a big
deal is done. So that doesn't do very well. And
(03:23):
so progress installed on those meetings, progress installed on the
Peace Accord. Then the authority to take over the Metropolitan
Police Department in Washington that actually expires this month. And
he's looking at deploying the National Guard to more cities
and the judge said, nope, no National Guard troops in California.
(03:47):
And of course that will be appealed instantly. Our good
friend Robert Kennedy Junior scheduled to testify before the Senate
Finance Committee after he fired they of the CDC, after
he fired her after hiring her, and she just wouldn't
comply with the Robert Kennedy concept that somehow vaccines don't
(04:12):
do the job, or there's some issue with vaccines, and
so at science I mean legitimate science, and I use
the word legitimate. Basically has said to Robert if Kennedy
your nuts, also, we're going to hear what he says
about the cause of autism in his program Make American
(04:33):
Healthy Again. Great. Now, negotiation between two parties. This is
going to be interesting to get the budget in place
before the end of the month. Why well, two reasons. Actually,
one reason is that it has to be a sixty
vote majority other than the filibuster kicks in and then
(04:57):
the bill is killed. The budget is kill. He will
get every single Republican no matter what he asks for,
he gets all of them. I mean, he can ask
for the mouse outrageous stuff, and he gets him, and
he gets it. Now convincing ten Democrats to go his
way maybe a whole different thing. And last week he
(05:19):
actually were earthed members of both parties by canceling that
five billion dollars and fourign aid. And here's how he
did it. He did it through a maneuver called a
pocket recession. And it comes so close to the end
of the fiscal year that the money can't be spent
if you veto something. Literally at the end of a session,
(05:43):
there's no money you don't have time to move forward.
The top Republican on the Appropriations Committee called the move
a clear violation of law. But wait until, wait until
the budget comes up. She's that Susan Collin. She'll vote
in favor of it. Oh Man, it just doesn't it
doesn't stop. It really doesn't. Justice Department dealing with the
(06:09):
fight over the Jeffrey Epstein files. That's one of the issues,
oh Man. And after firing the commissioner of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, Remember he did that because he didn't
like the numbers. It's an independent agency which has nothing
to do with the White House. The Bureau of Labor
(06:30):
Statistics looks at numbers, looks at the number of people
who are unemployed, looks at the number of people who
are looking for work, looks at raw numbers, and then
makes not a decision, but we actually it does, makes
a decision of where the economy is going, how many
workers we have. Well, Trump did not like those numbers,
(06:55):
fired her and put in his own guy. And now
it doesn't matter what you're going to hear. The unemployment
figures are going to be tremendous. Everybody will be at work,
everybody will be working. There will be no unemployment. You've
got the tariffs, the reciprocal tariffs. An appeals court ruled
(07:18):
on Friday they're illegal, however, have until October fourteenth. They'll
still stay in place to allow the administration time to appeal.
Oh man, Well, here's the bottom line, and this is
some of the stuff that he has to deal with.
And this is a president who is expanding or trying
to expand the powers of the presidency. It's never been
(07:41):
done like this. We've never had a president, a president
or a presidency that has questioned the power of the
presidency in a way that he wants to stretch those
powers to the absolute minimum, to the point where the
courts are saying that's illegal. The Republicans in Congress are
(08:02):
going to give them all of it. Is there going
to be a stop We don't know. The last stop
gap is the courts. Okay, Oh, here is a topic, man,
And both sides have an excellent point. And usually that
is not the case. And usually I'm on one side
or the other. And of course you know that if
(08:23):
you listen to this show. So what am I talking about? Well,
this is Ai. Another story about AI, but this one
is kind of interesting because there's a guy out of
the Netherlands, Dominic Skinner, who is using AI to identify
ICE agents under their masks. How do you identify an
(08:45):
ICE ag under a mask? Well, according to his AI program,
if thirty five percent of his face, the ICE agent's
face is showing, AI can identify that agent. Oh man,
When I say both sides have an argument, how about
(09:06):
this those who want to keep ICE agents or any
police officer or any policing officer a secret. And why
are they doing that? Because once the information is out there,
these people are now going to be harassed. It's true,
their lives are threatened. I mean, that's where we've come
(09:29):
to in this world. And that's both sides. You know,
we're talking about Let's say you have those that have
masks that are identified. You've got people that are going
after the cops. And so the argument is we have
to be able to wear masks. Now. The other side
(09:49):
is police that wear masks. Now we're talking a totalitarian
society where the police can pick someone up with complete impunity.
We don't know who that copy is is, and therefore
do we have that Do we want that kind of society?
You've got libertarians to say, we don't want people arresting
(10:11):
folks that we don't know who it is. They're wearing masks.
I mean, look, not only look at the optics, look
at the law, look at where society is going. So
which way do you go do you protect officers so
their identity is not used? Well? For example, in La
City of La La County, the state of California, you
(10:34):
can't get the address of a cop. You can't get
private information. Why for exactly that fear And nowadays because
it's so crazy out there, the people who are unmasking
the police are engaging in threats. They do say this
is the address, they do say here's who it is,
(10:58):
and now the threat is real. And then you have
the civil libertarians they are saying, oh no, you can't
have the police and masks because that we can't have
a society like that. I mean, which way do you
go on that? When both sides are completely right and
completely wrong, which is why when you see an LAPD
(11:22):
Los Angeles Police Department officer, that's why he's wearing a
groucho mask so you can't tell who they are, and
they look very funny when they're doing it. Now do
I think that's funny? Yes? I do. Was that a
bad attempt at a joke? Yes it is? Was that
(11:42):
not funny? That is correct? However, the underlying story is
very legitimate and very scary. I, for one, do not
want to be arrested by someone in a mask. At
the same time someone in a mass arresting me. You
take off the mask and that person is threatened with
(12:04):
their lives In some cases, where do you go with that?
And I don't know the answer, I truly don't. Now.
In Colombia, the fight has been for years, decades about
the growing of the coca plant and it is very
(12:25):
profitable for local farmers through the company. There used to
be one hundred thousand of these now there are two
hundred and thirty thousand of these growers. How about families?
So there is a program in Colombia now where well,
there is a nonprofit that is trying to help people
(12:48):
to dump the coca planning and say let's do coffee instead.
Now it's a little problematic for two reasons. One, you
make about ten times more money with coca leaves. It
takes years to establish a coffee plantation or an area
we grow coffee, and it takes lots of equipment. Coca
(13:12):
plants they grow like weeds. You can get five or
six plants, five or literally five or six groups of plants.
What's the word I'm looking for on that? One crops
five or six crops a year, coffee one a year.
(13:32):
And the other thing is the cartels love when you
grow coca leaves. They're not particularly thrilled when the farmer
grows coffee. So there is a plan out there and
money is being spent. There is a company or a
group called Mercy Core, and it's a group that employs
(13:55):
nearly one thousand people and has entitled more than thirty
two hundred farming families to uproot their coca plants and
grow legal crops instead. It has spent one hundred and
seventy million dollars saying here is a story. You know
who's paying for it, Warren Buffett's son. How about that?
(14:17):
Would you think that that would happen? Not a chance.
And this is the seventy year old son of Warren Buffett,
who well has a fair amount of money or has
access to a fair amount of money, and they're trying
to do something. So the numbers are pretty small. Remember
(14:38):
there's one thousand people that work for this company, and
well they employ a thousand people, and you don't have
to spend very much money in Colombia to have an employee.
And they've enticed more than thirty two hundred farming families
to uproot their coca plants just around this area called
El Tombo and to grow legal crops. So thirty two
(15:00):
hundred families, So that's pretty impressive out of over two
hundred thousand families two hundred thousand farmers. So let's just
say there is not a lot of influence here. And
the Trump administration is about to look at Columbia because
(15:20):
there's going to be a June report about Colombia and
how much, how much coca leaves, the amount of coca
leaves that are being produced, and therefore, of course the
amount of money that the cartels make from coca leaves
where a cocaine is produced and sold is astronomical, and
(15:43):
it looks like the numbers have gone up, and the
Trump administration is saying if Colombia doesn't do something about it,
of which the US has pushed Columbia for years and
years to do something, and it just hasn't worked. Why
because the police are paid off, the army is paid off,
(16:05):
and the car tells are real simple about it. You
either do this or we kill you, and we kill
your entire family. And that's the hell of a threat.
So if Columbia hasn't done something about it, if the
numbers have not decreased in terms of the coca production
(16:28):
and they haven't, then aid to Colombia is going to
be cut and the tariffs are going to be increased,
and Columbia is sweating bullets on that one. Okay, let's
move over to some fun. Oh, this is going to
be good. Americans are having less sex than ever before.
(16:54):
Now this is science. Researchers at the Institute for Family
Studies at the University of Chicago, and they did a
full blown study and found thirty seven percent of people
age eighteen to sixty four reporting reported having sex at
least once a week. That's down from fifty five percent
(17:14):
in nineteen ninety and young adults even more striking, Almost
a quarter of people between the ages of eighteen twenty
nine or twenty four percent said they haven't had sex
in the past year. And that's twice as many as
twenty ten. So why here's a year. Yeah, not having
(17:36):
no sex in a year, they all think it's me.
That is absolutely true. Not in a year they haven't
had sex. Now a lot has been written about it,
and some of the reasons. Stunded social skills arise in
internet pornography, and the trend holds true for people right
(17:56):
up to sixty four. All sexual orientations, both married and single, peaceable.
After sixty four, there was no significant change because no
one after sixty four has sex. It looks like, now, why, well,
here's what the study shows. Declining marriage, declining cohabitation rates.
(18:18):
Turns out that people who live with a romantic partner
tend to have more sex. We've become so addicted to
our screens. We've normalized the experience of staring at the
screens instead of interacting. What they call it this bed rotting. Now,
the only part of sex that has increased dramatically is
(18:42):
sex with chickens. For some reason. The study shows that no,
actually I made that up. But it does sound good,
doesn't it. No, everybody's shaking their head. One of the
researchers said, we're experiencing a long term atrophy of the skill.
It takes to maintain relationships, not necessarily have sex, but relationships.
(19:08):
If you're exhausted, you're distracted, you want to have sex,
of course not. And all of the reasons for having
a limited sex life the exhaustion of parenting, yeah, no kidding,
relationship issues yeah, age issues yeah. Others had more of
(19:30):
the more of the moment reasons. Worry about the economy,
stress about the news, unhealthy attachment to their screens. Some
said they'd rather catch up on their sleep than have sex.
And well there's will you know, putting thumbs up, and
he's not alone. Your wife does both. Yeah, well, well,
(19:55):
here's what happens with my wife because well she's a
few years younger than I am, and am I worried
about my job? Yes, and the society because I talk
about this all the time the news. Yeah. So frankly,
when she wants to have sex, I hand her a
couple hundred dollars and go here, just take care of
(20:15):
yourself and leave me alone. And that seems to work
out very well. And well, they don't talk about this,
They don't talk about sex with yourself. That was not
part of the study. They're talking about sex with other
people and I can understand that. As a matter of fact,
(20:36):
I used to have very strong wrist muscles and they
have atrophied because if you don't use your muscles, they
don't work. And that's another thing. It's use it or
lose it, and that is what one of the studies shows,
and it is true. So there was sex during the pandemic,
(21:00):
not much now. When you look at sex, do you
remember the cascade when New York I think it was
in the city shut down for a couple of weeks
and the number of kids that were conceived was astronomical.
You think the same would happen during the pandemic. No, No,
(21:20):
and then the numbers after the pandemic dropped even more.
So it is something that they're looking at. And of course,
if you don't have sex, you don't have kids. But
then that's not true because my entire career is having
kids without sex with surrogate parenting. You have no idea
(21:43):
how many times I passed a surrogate month, I passed
a pregnant woman on the street and I asked, are
you getting paid for this? And they looked at me
like I was crazy, and I said, you should be
having a kid for free is out of the question.
So with all the joking that I'm doing about this,
(22:05):
and you love you know, I love these kinds of topics.
It is a serious thing. Societally, it is societally, it
is a serious thing. Less sex means a whole lot.
It goes simply beyond having less sex. I handle that,
all right, didn't I. You lost me at wrist muscles,
(22:31):
only the right hand. It was you know how, you're
right handed or left handed? You sit on it, you
sit on your hand. Huh. I know what he's saying. Huh, stranger.
(22:52):
All right, let's get out of here. Okay, let's get
out of here. Kf I A M six forty. I'm
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