June 4, 2026 • 23 mins
(June 04, 2026)
RFK Jr. wants access to medical records. More candidates are using their personal wealth to campaign than ever before… should voters care? How a simple cookie became one of hospitality’s best traditions. ‘Boomerang Kids’ are the new normal.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Bill Handle here. Good morning on a Thursday, June fourth.
A lot going on today. Todd Blanche is named as
the acting the acting head of the Department of Justice,
and we'll see what happens. And then yesterday we talked
(00:29):
about Poulty being named as head of the Intelligence Director
of National Intelligence, who has absolutely zero experience in security
and intelligence. I mean zero. I mean I have more.
You have more. But it's real simple. You're an ally.
You get in no matter what.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Okay. Now, Robert F.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Kennedy was named US Health Secretary, as you know, why
because he was an early adopter and he was an
early friend of the president while he was running. And
what he is doing now and additional is craziness with vaccines.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
As we know, he is.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Now pursuing the federal government gaining access to most of Americans'
medical records. Why because he wants to research the link
between vaccines and autism. And as you can imagine, the
mainstream medical establishment is saying he's crazy because there is
(01:28):
no connection. Study after study after study, there is no
study that exists that there is a connection. There was
one that the anti vaxxers relied on by a guy
who retracted it, who lost his license to practice medicine.
And there's the proof that autism causes that vaccines cause
(01:53):
vaxes of autism. And so what they want to do
the Department Health and Humans Serve US is grabbing data
from actually a very little known state system that allows
hospitals and clinics to exchange information, detailed information. But that's
in real time when there's a medical issue they want
(02:13):
to know about it. If someone has, for example, a
blood disorder and goes to another hospital, goes to another facility,
they exchange information. Now, what the Health Secretary wants to
do is get information on a federal level for Americans
who have gone to the doctor, private information in the
(02:38):
quest to connect vaccines to autism, which of course there
is no connection. But keep in mind RFK Junior has
never lost his pension for vaccines being the cause of autism.
When he was in front of the Senate for confirmation,
he lied straight out.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
He lied.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
He was asked, do you believe in what medical science says?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And Bill Cassidy, Senator from Louisiana, who is gone now
because he was primaried out a doctor who was involved
in vaccine programs in Louisiana. He headed vaccine programs, was
the deciding vote to confirm RFK Junior. That is a
tough one and so there are a lot of people
(03:33):
that are really upset about this. And what Kennedy has
done is reject the current federal government's vaccine monitoring system,
which does not include grabbing information from everybody in the country,
private information, private medical information. And there are deck ignoring
(03:55):
decades of researchs, research showing immunizations are safe and effective
for most people. And let's repeat, there is no connection
between vaccine and autism, now can there be? Well, yeah,
you get ten thousand people who have been vaccinated and
(04:18):
let's say fifty of them or two of them now
become autistic. Well, here's the argument. Let's get those same
kids who are autistics autistic, and every single one of
them have passed the McDonald's on their way to school,
(04:39):
every single one past the McDonald's. Therefore, there's the argument
going past the McDonald's causes autism.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That's what this is about.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And it is just, you know, there are certain things
that this administration are is insane but it's not going
to hurt us. You know, the Donald J. Trump Kennedy
Center for Performing Arts. Okay, I mean that's just ridiculous.
But all right, Trump RX Okay, put his name on it,
(05:14):
his signature on the dollar bill.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
That's just kind of stupid to remove the treasure building
that arc to Trump.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
You know, it's it's stupid.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's going to destroy the skyline of downtown or at
least the monument themall. Okay, that's not going to affect you.
I mean it is. You go to Washington, you look
at this thing. Go come on, guys, really all of
that having UFC fighting on the White House lawn. Okay,
you know, fine, you know that's ridiculous. But this stuff is,
(05:46):
this is dangerous. This is they're going to grab, they
want to grab all of your personal medical information. That's
a tougher one.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now, one of the big stories about Tom Stier, who
is not going to win and is not going to
make it to the general for a governor coming up
in November, and here is what is interesting from him.
He put up two hundred and thirteen million dollars to
(06:18):
fund his campaign. So here is the question when a
candidate as rich as Stier, and that we had a
few invests a personal fortune, invest from their personal fortune
and running for public office.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Two questions. Does it represent a rich person just.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Trying to buy a seat or does it grant them
independence from powerful special interests? Because that's their argument, because
they don't have to count out anybody, because when anybody
is running for public office, most of the time is
begging for money.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You're calling donors, please, I need some money for.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Congress people every two years they're out hustling for money
and so or can both happen? I want to buy
a seat and I'm going to be independent, so is
He's not alone all together? In the state, more than
two hundred candidates have contributed about a quarter of a
billion dollars of their own money. That's an eightfold increase
(07:23):
since the last time governor ran in twenty twenty two.
Are you ready for that? That's how how much money
is being sent spent. So the last time a candidate
actually spent anything close to Styre was twenty ten, when
Meg Whitman gave over one hundred and forty million dollars
of her money to her campaign for governor, which she
(07:47):
did not make And if you go across statewide races
two thousand and six six Steve Poisoner gave fourteen million
dollars running for insurance Commissioner. Aline Kunlkakis shelled out eight
million dollars when she ran for Lieutenant governor. Yvonne Yee
dropped six million dollars on her campaign for controller four
(08:10):
years ago. And so so far senators we're talking about
state senators have given four million dollars to their campaigns.
That's the highest ever recorded for the state office or
the chamber. That's double, more than double of what candidates
put up twenty years ago. And congressional candidates in California
(08:33):
have put up more than twenty nine million dollars of
their own money to their campaigns.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So how many people have actually made it big races?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Well, Michael Bloomberg of New York, who is a billionaire.
You've heard of the Bloomberg the Bloomberg Channel. I think
you have Bloomberg financial interest all over the place. He
put up a pile of money and he won. But
he was a man of the people. He rode his
(09:09):
bicycle from his home to his office. He didn't live
in Gracy mansion, I think he lived at home, much
better house than Gracy Mansion could ever be. He rode
his bicycle, well, actually he rode his bicycle to the
nearest subway station and then he took the subway with
(09:30):
his bicycle and got off a block outside of his
office and then rode that So a true man of
the people. Although the photo of him in his bike
helmet was kind of fun. So whenever I I'm going
to get personal here for a moment, when I see
a candidate that is running for office and puts in
(09:53):
one hundred two hundred million dollars into their own campaign,
Meg Whitman put in money and she lost, I tend
to think more in terms of their buying the office.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
That's my thought.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
But don't isn't it. They're all buying the office. No
difference is they're doing it with their own money.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yes, that's the difference. And that's the big difference. Now,
you can argue buying the office. I mean if you're
not spending money. I mean, you know, if you're not
spending money on advertising, of course, but here's the argument
of spending other people's money. You are begging for it.
That's the problem. Now, some donors. It's automatic, you know.
(10:34):
It's that simple. George Soros, who is probably the largest
Democratic campaign contributor. I mean, he just tosses the money
around because he likes the candidate. They don't have to
ask him for money. But for the most part, donors
have to be asked for money.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
And no one likes it.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
No one likes it because you're cow telling and special interest.
Oh man, The unions will give you money, but they
expect you to, if not vote their way, as certainly
vote some of their way.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Same thing with corporations.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
The oil industry has its Assembly people, it has its
senators in Congress people, so it takes money. Jesse Unru,
who cooks story, a little handled history here. Jesse Unru
was the first Speaker of the California Assembly who created
a professional legislature. He brought the state legislature into the
(11:33):
big time where it was really influential for real. And
he was the Speaker of the Assembly for many, many years.
And he came up with probably the best quote ever,
and that is money is the mother's milk of politics.
And that says it all. Okay, moving on cookies, and
(11:58):
Michelle told me about these cookies. That are just unbelievable.
And it's Double Tree and they have this cookie that
has actually become a big part of the hospitality at
least Double Trees. And so this all started, by the way,
or let me just give you a heads up right now,
(12:19):
a quick story, and this is the Washington Post. A
guy named Lucas Spence was surprised last year. He's going
through a trouble Double Tree owned by Hilton and at
the front desk he's checking in and this is Boston,
and he's asked if your group that he's with you
guys like cookies. Well, yeah, of course we like cookies.
(12:40):
And he said, I didn't know this was a thing,
a Double Tree. Well, by the second day, multiple swings
by the front desk, he amassed a stockpile of these cookies,
super chocolatey, walnut packed warmed. There they have a warmer
right there at the front desk, a cookie warmer. You've
(13:00):
seen those. And these cookies are and I've never eaten one.
They're supposed to be spectacular. Michelle, you've eaten them, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
They are incredible.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And Neil, you remember what they taste like. And Neil,
you've eaten them.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Oh, Yeah, Yeah, they're known for them. They're great.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, it's the Double Tree chocolate chip cookie.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
This was an idea that came up about forty years
ago where one of the managers wanted to sort of
welcome new guests and make them feel part of the family. Well,
since then, you now have seven hundred plus hotels have
(13:40):
served more than twenty million of these cookies, even to
the point where they were baked as part of an
experiment at the International Space Station in twenty nineteen. One
of the cookies is at the National Air and Space Museum. Well,
that's the one that went up, and during the early
days of the pandemic, Hilton actually released the formula, the
(14:03):
recipe and a couple things ingreetings like cinnamon oats, lemon juice,
which you don't usually hear about in cookies. And that's
basically to say that Double Tree, the Double Tree cookie
is a celebrity by itself. How about that, even to
the point where if you go to the Double Tree
(14:25):
at McLean right outside McLean Tyson's right outside of Washington,
d C. Outside there's a van. You know how they
have those fans that take people of the airport, et cetera.
On the side is a big statement, you know, a
big sign that says this will be a sweet ride.
(14:46):
The Wi Fi password includes the word cookie. The front
desk has the double deck warmer right there full of
freshly baked individually wrapped cookies. They have an allergy friendly version.
And also and when work is being done in room,
(15:06):
there is a sign right there asking guests to pardon
our crumbs. It's all about the cookie. They have locations
Double Tree in over five dozen countries, including Uzbekistan that
would just came aboard recently and guess what cookies are there?
Singapore Azerbaijan cookies and every entry in every new country
(15:33):
requires that a supplier can serve the area or make.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
The recipe of these cookies. They have to bake them.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
People traveling all over the world guess what they're going
to have that cookie?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
So they take it seriously.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
First thing, first thing, a chef said, I save the
cookie dough when a walk in freezer failed last year
at a at the McLean location, and so they don't
cook them there on the premises. What the hotel is
get frozen dough, hundreds of a frozen cookie dough, hundreds
(16:16):
of dough, hundreds of cookies worth of cookie dough and
they cook them and they're delivered and they are warmed,
and you can get as many as you want.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
They'll give you cookies all day long.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
By the way, it all started nineteen eighty six, they
were placed on a plate and a guest room was
a way to sit to end the day with a
special treat, and since then it exploded. Okay, so much
for that. It's fun story about cookies. And I'm not
a big chocolate chip cookie fan. I'm the only person
I know that doesn't particularly like chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
So strange, I don't.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I mean, I'll lead them sort of as No, it's
just sort of a last resis. I mean, I'm kind
of an oatmeal raisin kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Have you had my M and M cookies yet?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I don't think so. But I'm not crazy about Eminem's.
I'm plenty. What's wrong with me? That's our next segment,
and we're going to continue.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
That on for a while, a recurring segment. Yeah, that could.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
And I like snickerdoodles, I like cinnamon and sugar, but
I'm just not big on chocolate chips.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I wonder why.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Okay, we're going to end up with the boomerang kids
being the new normal. And what are boomerang kids. Well,
they're college students and graduates, young adults also struggling to
find their financial footing and guess where they're going back home.
About half of us parents with adult children ages eighteen
(17:51):
to thirty five say that a child has moved back
home at some point.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Five percent of those are moving back because of money
economic necessity. Others are choosing to live with their parents
to focus on long term financial goals, for example, saving
money for a down payment on a place of their own.
Some are actually moving back because they like their parents,
which I have no idea how that works. I've never
(18:23):
understood that. And even when they're employed, usually their entry
level wages can't keep up with the cost of inflation,
especially over the last few years. Why because the high
cost of housing. Certainly here in Southern California, job loss
or reduced income. Now, let's look at rents nationally, A
(18:46):
one bedroom is sixteen hundred and forty four dollars. In California,
it's over twenty two hundred dollars. Certainly in Southern California
it's more than that. New York is the most expensive,
over three thousand dollars if you're living in Manhattan, and
that's for an apartment the size of a closet. So
there are and of course studies have done. There are
(19:08):
five situations why kids, well adult kids move back home.
One massive student loans, which is another reason, crazy student loans.
Or they're overwhelmed with consumer debt. You got that credit card.
They've gone nuts. Buying a car, for example, it used
(19:29):
to be I remember buying a car, and that was
a nice car. You know, reasonable down payment, not a
whole lot of money. Three hundred dollars a month in
car payments over three years.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, those days are gone.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Consumer debt, not earning enough money to survive on their own, Yeah,
you just can't. It's too expensive. Or they want to
save for a major goal. I mean that works. That's
not a bailout, it's a hand up. Maybe they're trying
to build an emergency fund or save for a down
(20:05):
payment on the house, as if they were going to
be able to do that. In this survey, thirty four
percent of young adults say their primary reason for living
at home was to save for a down payment.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
That was the big one.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And the survey also found that sixteen percent of homeowners
did receive a down payment from their parents or help
out with a down payment. Number five, they want to
come home for help, but your budget is stressed. Here's
the parents are just willing to adjust their lifestyle to
(20:39):
support adult children. I don't understand that one. Either cutting
back on dining out, entertainment, travel, home improvements, new car
purch purchases. One in five would reduce their own personal
savings or their retirement contributions to help their kids.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
That one.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I don't know how kids can take that kind of money.
Maybe they just don't know when parents are helping out.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And here is a basic rule of thumb.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
If your kid is gainfully employed, charging rent is sort
of a given, which I never did. But that's a
Jewish thing. You don't charge rent for kids. You shouldn't
be up for debate. Here's how much I here is
how much money. I want your roof, your rules. So
(21:32):
helicopter kids. That's the way it goes. And say, you know, Neil,
you'd be the first one that would help max out
and he would live with you until he's forty eight.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I hope if you needed it.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
So there's the other thing. Yeah, parents want their kids
to their kids to live with them.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
That's right. On the other hand, I see Kno shaking
his head.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Right, Yeah, my wife said no to boarding school.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, all right, So in Kono's world, the kids out
at eight, you know, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Okay, Well, we are to.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Get as tall as he is. It's a threat. He's
got to get him out of the house.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, and they're as tall as he is by the
age of well, just as a finished kindergarten. Okay, guys,
we are done. Neil is out of here for the
next two weeks and is out of here for the
next I think week and a half.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
She's coming back. Neil's coming back at some point.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
So Amy, it's when are you leaving Tuesday?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Am I going to do the show by myself?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Handle all the time?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I've got will, I've got Kno with me. Am I
going to do the show by myself?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Well? Keep you know, think of it this way. You
get paid more than all of us together. You might
as well do the show by yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
No, the whole read my contract. I don't do the
show by myself, not even close. All right, we're done, guys.
So tomorrow we start our sort of modified show.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Who's filling in for you? Amy? Is it Heather?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Ms Brooker will be here starting Tuesday. Good. I like Heather.
I'm you know, I like you too. I mean you're no.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Heather, but you know you're certainly a big part of
the show. Okay, we're done, guys, catch you.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
In the morning.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
We do, and Will is going to be here right, Okay,
Will is here because he is not entitled any vacation
and we'll never get it.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
As is Kno. This is KFI a M sixty. You've
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Speaker 2 (23:39):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Bill Handle here. Good morning on a Thursday, June fourth.
A lot going on today. Todd Blanche is named as
the acting the acting head of the Department of Justice,
and we'll see what happens. And then yesterday we talked
(00:29):
about Poulty being named as head of the Intelligence Director
of National Intelligence, who has absolutely zero experience in security
and intelligence. I mean zero. I mean I have more.
You have more. But it's real simple. You're an ally.
You get in no matter what.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Okay. Now, Robert F.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Kennedy was named US Health Secretary, as you know, why
because he was an early adopter and he was an
early friend of the president while he was running. And
what he is doing now and additional is craziness with vaccines.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
As we know, he is.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Now pursuing the federal government gaining access to most of Americans'
medical records. Why because he wants to research the link
between vaccines and autism. And as you can imagine, the
mainstream medical establishment is saying he's crazy because there is
(01:28):
no connection. Study after study after study, there is no
study that exists that there is a connection. There was
one that the anti vaxxers relied on by a guy
who retracted it, who lost his license to practice medicine.
And there's the proof that autism causes that vaccines cause
(01:53):
vaxes of autism. And so what they want to do
the Department Health and Humans Serve US is grabbing data
from actually a very little known state system that allows
hospitals and clinics to exchange information, detailed information. But that's
in real time when there's a medical issue they want
(02:13):
to know about it. If someone has, for example, a
blood disorder and goes to another hospital, goes to another facility,
they exchange information. Now, what the Health Secretary wants to
do is get information on a federal level for Americans
who have gone to the doctor, private information in the
(02:38):
quest to connect vaccines to autism, which of course there
is no connection. But keep in mind RFK Junior has
never lost his pension for vaccines being the cause of autism.
When he was in front of the Senate for confirmation,
he lied straight out.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
He lied.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
He was asked, do you believe in what medical science says?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And Bill Cassidy, Senator from Louisiana, who is gone now
because he was primaried out a doctor who was involved
in vaccine programs in Louisiana. He headed vaccine programs, was
the deciding vote to confirm RFK Junior. That is a
tough one and so there are a lot of people
(03:33):
that are really upset about this. And what Kennedy has
done is reject the current federal government's vaccine monitoring system,
which does not include grabbing information from everybody in the country,
private information, private medical information. And there are deck ignoring
(03:55):
decades of researchs, research showing immunizations are safe and effective
for most people. And let's repeat, there is no connection
between vaccine and autism, now can there be? Well, yeah,
you get ten thousand people who have been vaccinated and
(04:18):
let's say fifty of them or two of them now
become autistic. Well, here's the argument. Let's get those same
kids who are autistics autistic, and every single one of
them have passed the McDonald's on their way to school,
(04:39):
every single one past the McDonald's. Therefore, there's the argument
going past the McDonald's causes autism.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That's what this is about.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And it is just, you know, there are certain things
that this administration are is insane but it's not going
to hurt us. You know, the Donald J. Trump Kennedy
Center for Performing Arts. Okay, I mean that's just ridiculous.
But all right, Trump RX Okay, put his name on it,
(05:14):
his signature on the dollar bill.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
That's just kind of stupid to remove the treasure building
that arc to Trump.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
You know, it's it's stupid.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's going to destroy the skyline of downtown or at
least the monument themall. Okay, that's not going to affect you.
I mean it is. You go to Washington, you look
at this thing. Go come on, guys, really all of
that having UFC fighting on the White House lawn. Okay,
you know, fine, you know that's ridiculous. But this stuff is,
(05:46):
this is dangerous. This is they're going to grab, they
want to grab all of your personal medical information. That's
a tougher one.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now, one of the big stories about Tom Stier, who
is not going to win and is not going to
make it to the general for a governor coming up
in November, and here is what is interesting from him.
He put up two hundred and thirteen million dollars to
(06:18):
fund his campaign. So here is the question when a
candidate as rich as Stier, and that we had a
few invests a personal fortune, invest from their personal fortune
and running for public office.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Two questions. Does it represent a rich person just.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Trying to buy a seat or does it grant them
independence from powerful special interests? Because that's their argument, because
they don't have to count out anybody, because when anybody
is running for public office, most of the time is
begging for money.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You're calling donors, please, I need some money for.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Congress people every two years they're out hustling for money
and so or can both happen? I want to buy
a seat and I'm going to be independent, so is
He's not alone all together? In the state, more than
two hundred candidates have contributed about a quarter of a
billion dollars of their own money. That's an eightfold increase
(07:23):
since the last time governor ran in twenty twenty two.
Are you ready for that? That's how how much money
is being sent spent. So the last time a candidate
actually spent anything close to Styre was twenty ten, when
Meg Whitman gave over one hundred and forty million dollars
of her money to her campaign for governor, which she
(07:47):
did not make And if you go across statewide races
two thousand and six six Steve Poisoner gave fourteen million
dollars running for insurance Commissioner. Aline Kunlkakis shelled out eight
million dollars when she ran for Lieutenant governor. Yvonne Yee
dropped six million dollars on her campaign for controller four
(08:10):
years ago. And so so far senators we're talking about
state senators have given four million dollars to their campaigns.
That's the highest ever recorded for the state office or
the chamber. That's double, more than double of what candidates
put up twenty years ago. And congressional candidates in California
(08:33):
have put up more than twenty nine million dollars of
their own money to their campaigns.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So how many people have actually made it big races?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Well, Michael Bloomberg of New York, who is a billionaire.
You've heard of the Bloomberg the Bloomberg Channel. I think
you have Bloomberg financial interest all over the place. He
put up a pile of money and he won. But
he was a man of the people. He rode his
(09:09):
bicycle from his home to his office. He didn't live
in Gracy mansion, I think he lived at home, much
better house than Gracy Mansion could ever be. He rode
his bicycle, well, actually he rode his bicycle to the
nearest subway station and then he took the subway with
(09:30):
his bicycle and got off a block outside of his
office and then rode that So a true man of
the people. Although the photo of him in his bike
helmet was kind of fun. So whenever I I'm going
to get personal here for a moment, when I see
a candidate that is running for office and puts in
(09:53):
one hundred two hundred million dollars into their own campaign,
Meg Whitman put in money and she lost, I tend
to think more in terms of their buying the office.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
That's my thought.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
But don't isn't it. They're all buying the office. No
difference is they're doing it with their own money.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yes, that's the difference. And that's the big difference. Now,
you can argue buying the office. I mean if you're
not spending money. I mean, you know, if you're not
spending money on advertising, of course, but here's the argument
of spending other people's money. You are begging for it.
That's the problem. Now, some donors. It's automatic, you know.
(10:34):
It's that simple. George Soros, who is probably the largest
Democratic campaign contributor. I mean, he just tosses the money
around because he likes the candidate. They don't have to
ask him for money. But for the most part, donors
have to be asked for money.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
And no one likes it.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
No one likes it because you're cow telling and special interest.
Oh man, The unions will give you money, but they
expect you to, if not vote their way, as certainly
vote some of their way.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Same thing with corporations.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
The oil industry has its Assembly people, it has its
senators in Congress people, so it takes money. Jesse Unru,
who cooks story, a little handled history here. Jesse Unru
was the first Speaker of the California Assembly who created
a professional legislature. He brought the state legislature into the
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big time where it was really influential for real. And
he was the Speaker of the Assembly for many, many years.
And he came up with probably the best quote ever,
and that is money is the mother's milk of politics.
And that says it all. Okay, moving on cookies, and
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Michelle told me about these cookies. That are just unbelievable.
And it's Double Tree and they have this cookie that
has actually become a big part of the hospitality at
least Double Trees. And so this all started, by the way,
or let me just give you a heads up right now,
(12:19):
a quick story, and this is the Washington Post. A
guy named Lucas Spence was surprised last year. He's going
through a trouble Double Tree owned by Hilton and at
the front desk he's checking in and this is Boston,
and he's asked if your group that he's with you
guys like cookies. Well, yeah, of course we like cookies.
(12:40):
And he said, I didn't know this was a thing,
a Double Tree. Well, by the second day, multiple swings
by the front desk, he amassed a stockpile of these cookies,
super chocolatey, walnut packed warmed. There they have a warmer
right there at the front desk, a cookie warmer. You've
(13:00):
seen those. And these cookies are and I've never eaten one.
They're supposed to be spectacular. Michelle, you've eaten them, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
They are incredible.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And Neil, you remember what they taste like. And Neil,
you've eaten them.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Oh, Yeah, Yeah, they're known for them. They're great.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, it's the Double Tree chocolate chip cookie.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
This was an idea that came up about forty years
ago where one of the managers wanted to sort of
welcome new guests and make them feel part of the family. Well,
since then, you now have seven hundred plus hotels have
(13:40):
served more than twenty million of these cookies, even to
the point where they were baked as part of an
experiment at the International Space Station in twenty nineteen. One
of the cookies is at the National Air and Space Museum. Well,
that's the one that went up, and during the early
days of the pandemic, Hilton actually released the formula, the
(14:03):
recipe and a couple things ingreetings like cinnamon oats, lemon juice,
which you don't usually hear about in cookies. And that's
basically to say that Double Tree, the Double Tree cookie
is a celebrity by itself. How about that, even to
the point where if you go to the Double Tree
(14:25):
at McLean right outside McLean Tyson's right outside of Washington,
d C. Outside there's a van. You know how they
have those fans that take people of the airport, et cetera.
On the side is a big statement, you know, a
big sign that says this will be a sweet ride.
(14:46):
The Wi Fi password includes the word cookie. The front
desk has the double deck warmer right there full of
freshly baked individually wrapped cookies. They have an allergy friendly version.
And also and when work is being done in room,
(15:06):
there is a sign right there asking guests to pardon
our crumbs. It's all about the cookie. They have locations
Double Tree in over five dozen countries, including Uzbekistan that
would just came aboard recently and guess what cookies are there?
Singapore Azerbaijan cookies and every entry in every new country
(15:33):
requires that a supplier can serve the area or make.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
The recipe of these cookies. They have to bake them.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
People traveling all over the world guess what they're going
to have that cookie?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
So they take it seriously.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
First thing, first thing, a chef said, I save the
cookie dough when a walk in freezer failed last year
at a at the McLean location, and so they don't
cook them there on the premises. What the hotel is
get frozen dough, hundreds of a frozen cookie dough, hundreds
(16:16):
of dough, hundreds of cookies worth of cookie dough and
they cook them and they're delivered and they are warmed,
and you can get as many as you want.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
They'll give you cookies all day long.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
By the way, it all started nineteen eighty six, they
were placed on a plate and a guest room was
a way to sit to end the day with a
special treat, and since then it exploded. Okay, so much
for that. It's fun story about cookies. And I'm not
a big chocolate chip cookie fan. I'm the only person
I know that doesn't particularly like chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
So strange, I don't.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I mean, I'll lead them sort of as No, it's
just sort of a last resis. I mean, I'm kind
of an oatmeal raisin kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Have you had my M and M cookies yet?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I don't think so. But I'm not crazy about Eminem's.
I'm plenty. What's wrong with me? That's our next segment,
and we're going to continue.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
That on for a while, a recurring segment. Yeah, that could.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
And I like snickerdoodles, I like cinnamon and sugar, but
I'm just not big on chocolate chips.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I wonder why.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Okay, we're going to end up with the boomerang kids
being the new normal. And what are boomerang kids. Well,
they're college students and graduates, young adults also struggling to
find their financial footing and guess where they're going back home.
About half of us parents with adult children ages eighteen
(17:51):
to thirty five say that a child has moved back
home at some point.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Five percent of those are moving back because of money
economic necessity. Others are choosing to live with their parents
to focus on long term financial goals, for example, saving
money for a down payment on a place of their own.
Some are actually moving back because they like their parents,
which I have no idea how that works. I've never
(18:23):
understood that. And even when they're employed, usually their entry
level wages can't keep up with the cost of inflation,
especially over the last few years. Why because the high
cost of housing. Certainly here in Southern California, job loss
or reduced income. Now, let's look at rents nationally, A
(18:46):
one bedroom is sixteen hundred and forty four dollars. In California,
it's over twenty two hundred dollars. Certainly in Southern California
it's more than that. New York is the most expensive,
over three thousand dollars if you're living in Manhattan, and
that's for an apartment the size of a closet. So
there are and of course studies have done. There are
(19:08):
five situations why kids, well adult kids move back home.
One massive student loans, which is another reason, crazy student loans.
Or they're overwhelmed with consumer debt. You got that credit card.
They've gone nuts. Buying a car, for example, it used
(19:29):
to be I remember buying a car, and that was
a nice car. You know, reasonable down payment, not a
whole lot of money. Three hundred dollars a month in
car payments over three years.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, those days are gone.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Consumer debt, not earning enough money to survive on their own, Yeah,
you just can't. It's too expensive. Or they want to
save for a major goal. I mean that works. That's
not a bailout, it's a hand up. Maybe they're trying
to build an emergency fund or save for a down
(20:05):
payment on the house, as if they were going to
be able to do that. In this survey, thirty four
percent of young adults say their primary reason for living
at home was to save for a down payment.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
That was the big one.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And the survey also found that sixteen percent of homeowners
did receive a down payment from their parents or help
out with a down payment. Number five, they want to
come home for help, but your budget is stressed. Here's
the parents are just willing to adjust their lifestyle to
(20:39):
support adult children. I don't understand that one. Either cutting
back on dining out, entertainment, travel, home improvements, new car
purch purchases. One in five would reduce their own personal
savings or their retirement contributions to help their kids.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
That one.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I don't know how kids can take that kind of money.
Maybe they just don't know when parents are helping out.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And here is a basic rule of thumb.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
If your kid is gainfully employed, charging rent is sort
of a given, which I never did. But that's a
Jewish thing. You don't charge rent for kids. You shouldn't
be up for debate. Here's how much I here is
how much money. I want your roof, your rules. So
(21:32):
helicopter kids. That's the way it goes. And say, you know, Neil,
you'd be the first one that would help max out
and he would live with you until he's forty eight.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I hope if you needed it.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
So there's the other thing. Yeah, parents want their kids
to their kids to live with them.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
That's right. On the other hand, I see Kno shaking
his head.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Right, Yeah, my wife said no to boarding school.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, all right, So in Kono's world, the kids out
at eight, you know, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Okay, Well, we are to.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Get as tall as he is. It's a threat. He's
got to get him out of the house.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, and they're as tall as he is by the
age of well, just as a finished kindergarten. Okay, guys,
we are done. Neil is out of here for the
next two weeks and is out of here for the
next I think week and a half.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
She's coming back. Neil's coming back at some point.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
So Amy, it's when are you leaving Tuesday?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Am I going to do the show by myself?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Handle all the time?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I've got will, I've got Kno with me. Am I
going to do the show by myself?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Well? Keep you know, think of it this way. You
get paid more than all of us together. You might
as well do the show by yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
No, the whole read my contract. I don't do the
show by myself, not even close. All right, we're done, guys.
So tomorrow we start our sort of modified show.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Who's filling in for you? Amy? Is it Heather?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Ms Brooker will be here starting Tuesday. Good. I like Heather.
I'm you know, I like you too. I mean you're no.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Heather, but you know you're certainly a big part of
the show. Okay, we're done, guys, catch you.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
In the morning.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
We do, and Will is going to be here right, Okay,
Will is here because he is not entitled any vacation
and we'll never get it.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
As is Kno. This is KFI a M sixty. You've
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Speaker 2 (23:39):
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