January 22, 2026 • 25 mins
(January 22, 2026)
A surprising beneficiary of weight-loss drug? U.S. Airlines. ‘Death Café’ will explore end-of-life issues, over refreshments. Beyond Meats tests protein beverages in bid for much needed growth. VA promises hundreds of tiny homes on its West L.A campus; veterans want something nicer.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. Okay, I forgot what I forgot the topic
we were doing, and I thought you were just being
me and Kono And now here's Neil Savedra because I'm
bat or were you KFI AM six? I don't know
(00:23):
what topic it is? KFI six forty Live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Good Thursday morning to you, Neil Spadra
and the morning crew with you. Handle is out today,
He'll be back tomorrow, which means ask candle anything. I'm
(00:44):
not answering that it's that called ask candle anything? You
got an insuries? How much money do you have? Tell us?
All right? So you know, I host the four Report
on Saturdays two to five and I love doing it
talking about food, and we talked recently about how the
(01:04):
GLP won usage has gone up so much that it's
changing the way people eat and that has changed the
way restaurants look at food as well, and they're doing
smaller plates and it's changing that. But I will tell you,
(01:24):
in a bajillion years, I would not have guessed how
GLP won's and the loss of weight has changed this industry.
What industry, the airline industry. How crazy is this? So
if you didn't know, every piece of weight, every piece
(01:46):
of weight, every outs of weight that goes on a
plane is accounted for. The reason why it's so important
is because of the fuel usage. Fuels expensive. One of
the ways to cut down on costs is it cut
(02:07):
down on weight. So some of the things that go
on in the industry are switching the thickness of paper
in those magazines and things that you have, no joke,
no joke. So by doing that they have reduced costs
on planes. So it's crazy to think that they shifted
(02:31):
to the thickness of paper right to reduce weight. They
save money by doing that. Another thing they did is
they switched those little cards out that did the emergency
cards and they put them on the back of the
screens that are already there so you can see, you know,
(02:55):
this is what you have to do in case of
an emergency. That saved money. So just that little percentage
of weight ends up saving money. So now you've got
us airlines that are coming out looking at these weight
loss drugs and golp ones like ozambig would go v
(03:17):
those types of things, and this January twenty twenty six
report that came out from a financial firm called did Jeffries.
It highlights that this shedding of weight that we're going
through right now has this benefit that they didn't foresee
passenger weight, and they're looking at significant savings for airlines,
(03:41):
so fuel costs. You got this ten percent reduction in
average passenger weight, ten percent that could translate into roughly
two percent less total aircraft weight, reducing fuel costs by
up to one point five percent. Now that could be massive.
Four largest US carriers. You've got American Delta, who else?
(04:04):
You got United, you got Southwest. They could save as
much as five hundred and eighty million dollars annually. If
fuel expensives dip like that, that is huge. Those savings
could lift earnings per share for these airlines by up
(04:25):
to four percent just on that change. They have been focusing,
they being the airlines, have been focusing for a long
time on weight reduction. That's why we get penalized for
things more luggage. The weight of the luggage, you know,
the shifting around of all that weight, It plays a part.
(04:47):
Now I have never gotten to the play and this
is probably would be the tipping point, well literally for
me was I've never had to use an extender. I'm
a big guy, six feet tall, two fifty two fifty
five whatever I am right now, But that was my thing.
I was flying to Vegas to do broadcasts for the
(05:10):
Fork Report like once a month there to the wind,
which is gorgeous by the way, Holy smokes. It's like
the Disneyland and casinos. There's not a piece of trash
anywhere in there. And that was my thing. I'm like, man,
it's getting taught, but I haven't had to go to
the extender yet. That's when I think I'd be super
(05:31):
self conscious. But that I never thought that that weight
was not only a discomfort to me and maybe the
person next to me, but I lean that it could
cause a difference in the money made by the airline.
So they're looking at these changes. Not only did I
(05:51):
say that they were changing the paper from magazines, they
actually made it thinner so that that saved them money.
But now they're looking at other potential benefits to organizations
as well. Active wear brands, it's new Year, New U
type thing they're looking at like Lululemon, Nike, These kind
(06:12):
of form fitting active wear stuff that people with new
bodies are putting going towards these they're you know, you
heard Amy King talking about she's doing a new segment
every morning on her cleaning her closet. Fascinating. By the way,
Amy stu it is. I've been planning to do it
(06:34):
for like a year and a half. I'm teasing you,
but that's what people do. You clean your closet and
you get active wear. But food producers, like I said
the baby bel cheese has seen an increased demand for
these like smaller high protein snacks. I mean, this is
a major thing. The thing that we can't bank on
(06:54):
is we've learned that you gain weight very quickly and
more when you go off I mean not every bud eat,
but that's a concern most Yeah, there's a large part.
The new studies are saying it when you go off
the glps, the weight comes back and it comes back quick,
you know. And I'm and I get it. Hey, I'm
looking at surgery at this point at fifty six, haven't
(07:17):
lost the weight at this point. I've tried gone back
and forth. Used to yo yo, Now I just yo.
So you got to look at that. But it's fascinating
how even these little patterns, any of these things that
happened to us, that we start changing, it changes everything
around us. So next time, you know, we see these
(07:41):
you know the cost of airline. They're not going to
pass it back to us. We're still going to pay
the high prices. But they may be making more money
because we're thinner. So ask for more pretzels. Good Thursday
morning to you, Nil Svader in the morning crew with you.
We got Will the birthday, We've got Ann, We've got
(08:02):
Amy icy Kno, I see Jimmy, I see David. All right,
let's get into death, shall we not fun to talk about? Right?
They say death and taxes are the only guarantees in life,
but nobody wants to talk about either really, And there
(08:24):
is a group that says, ah, you need to talk
about it and get more comfortable with it. And this
is from the Orange County Deathworks Alliance. They've got an
event going on today for those interested. They call them
Death Cafe and it's going on tonight, Thursday, January twenty second,
from five to six fifteen pm. That's kind of precise,
(08:49):
and it's at the Neighborhood Congressional congregational rather a church
Bridge hall there at three four one, Saint Anne's driving
Una Beach. It's free. They happen monthly and it's just
a chat. So you get all kinds of caregiving folks together,
(09:11):
medical aid and dying, hospice, body disposition, home funerals, advice
on all these things. And you've got all kinds of workers,
whether it's doctors, caregivers, dulas, the people that deal with
death death on a daily basis. And I kind of
(09:32):
love this. I don't like that we make certain things taboo.
I think we're smarter than that. I think we're better
than that as a society. I would say that we're
better off doing it when we're younger, to make plans
and then change them as you get older if you
think you'd like something different. But I think as we
(09:54):
get closer and nobody knows their time, but I mean mentally,
as we think we're getting closer, that line keeps changing
every day. I mean there is I look back on
the fact that my father in two thousand and one
passed away at seventy three. Now he was sick, has
the same disease I have Thanks Dad. Out of the
(10:16):
seven kids, five of us got it. It's called polycystic
renal disease. Means my kidneys filled up with cysts. And
that's why I had to get the transplant six years ago.
God bless you, Julie, my donor. And and now I
look back on that he looked he looked ninety. I mean,
I look back on pictures of him, and he looked
(10:38):
so old, and yet I think of seventy. You know,
I buzzed handles chops all the time because I've known
him for thirty years. He doesn't look his age. He
doesn't act his age. He doesn't He's never you know,
he's he kind of eternally forty five to me forty six.
You know how people freeze the age when you met them,
(11:00):
kind of and they just kind of freeze in that state.
He's that way for me where I always see him
at that age. But we have to get a grip
on these things. And I know it's different. Like I
have no problem getting life insurance for myself, but every
time I'm given the option to get life insurance on
(11:22):
my wife or my son, it bothers me emotionally. I
don't want to think about them being harmed or dying
or being scared or any of those things. For me,
I just want to be a good husband and a dad,
and I want to leave them in the best position
I can. God bless my dad. He was a neat guy,
(11:43):
very loving man, and I connected with him on so
many ways. An artist, a creative, intelligent, but not educated.
And yes they're two different things. And read a lot,
explored a lot of things, questioned a lot of things,
but a lousy provider except when he was doing his art,
(12:07):
when he was really deep in doing design work and stuff.
There was a time where he did well, but he
wasn't off at the bar getting drunk. He wasn't with
the boys all. He came home, but not a great provider.
And so I saw, you know, when he passed away
in two thousand and one, what my mom had to
(12:30):
go with. There wasn't, you know, through and there was
nothing there, barely enough to cover his funeral. Very you know, simple,
But I'll tell you he knew exactly what he wanted
and what he wanted to be buried. He wanted a
mariachi band, he wanted these things, and he got those things.
(12:50):
And it was lovely simple, but a lovely funeral. He
didn't leave that to us. And I think that we
get so fearful of talking about death at a group
like the Orange County Deathworks Alliance. You know, I'm not
crazy about at These are my own personal reasons about
the medical aid in dying what they call made the
(13:13):
end of life option act of you know, killing yourself. Basically,
I get it. I get it, don't get me wrong.
I wrestle with it spiritually. I wrestle with it, you know,
in a lot of ways, because I think we're more
than our pain. I think we're more than I think
(13:34):
as long as the brain is there and active, there
can be things that can be learned and taught. But
that's easy for me to say. I'm not in pain,
so I wrestle with that. I don't know that I've
landed anywhere, but I wrestle with it. So God bless
these folks. They talk about death and dying shared over
tea and cakes and pastries, even cheese and crackers, and
(13:57):
what one person said was pretty decent wine for those
over twenty one, which is pretty much the people that
go there. So the death cafes are a global movement.
They're allowing people to discuss this taboo unfortunately taboo thoughts
and questions about the end of life and you know,
hospice and medical aid and all these things. And so
(14:20):
if you're interested, they have one going on tonight. This
death Cafe will be from five to six fifteen pm,
two day, Thursday, January twenty second, at the Neighborhood Congregational Church.
They have their bridges haul there three four one Saint
Anne's Drive in Laguna Beach. It is free. They happen
monthly and God bless them for answering questions of people
(14:44):
during something very very scary. Protein big deal right now.
Everybody's like, down with the protein. Everything's got protein, more
protein in it, here's more protein. I love that we're
always looking for new proteins. When we have great proteins, meat,
great protein, eggs, great protein, lentils, great protein, peanuts. There's
(15:09):
all kinds of things that we have naturally. But you've
got beyond meat. You remember, beyond me. They have the
meat analog. We'll say that. I don't want to say fake,
mean it just it sounds. I don't bias and I
don't mind the products themselves. I think they taste great
and if it actually did anything for you, I'd be
(15:35):
a little more on board. The only thing that these
meat analogs tend to do is they have zero cholesterol,
which is good. I mean, I'm not a doctor, but
I'm going to tell you the most recent studies about
food cholesterol is that it doesn't transfer the way we
once thought. You used to think eggs were bad and
all of those things, but the reality is it doesn't transfer.
(16:00):
It's like ten percent or less of it, you know.
But again I'm not a doctor. However, they had kind
of a burst. Everybody was investing in these meat alternatives,
ya yay, but as far as like sodium, they were
exactly the same, and now they started taking a dive.
(16:23):
The problem being that they are uber processed food and
so you can't talk about whole foods being great for
you and then have these processed products that, yeah, maybe vegan,
but not all healthful food is equal. Oreos are vegan,
(16:51):
so you can't look at vegan being healthy because there's
a lot of things that are vegan that are unhealthy.
So it's not about it's about the nutrients receiving. It's
a vessel of nutrients into your body. And by far,
I mean vitamins play a part with some people that
(17:13):
are prescribed them. I'm prescribed vitamin D and you probably
are too. There was a big thing some ten plus
years ago where studies came out saying we needed more
vitamin D in our diets, and so your doctor, probably
if you're over forty, started prescribing you to take vitamin D.
(17:34):
But most doctors, honest doctors, will tell you most supplements
and vitamins, multi vitamins and the like end up becoming
expensive urine unless you're prescribed to take them for whatever reason.
So getting nutrients from these things, getting proteins from these things, chemically,
(17:55):
your body is going to see certain proteins as the same.
It's just a protein molecule, no matter how it's brought
into your body. Beyond Meat is now launching Beyond Immerse.
It's a line of fruit flavored carbonated protein drinks. This
is to diversify its offerings declining plant based meat sales
(18:17):
big time. By the way, you had the company's most
recent quarterly lost widening one hundred and ten point seven
million from twenty six point six million year over year
with the rever my face, you got it, I got it.
(18:38):
Thanks buddy. You know what, cono. I love when you cheerlead.
You got this, buddy, big fat, stupid lips. They'll get it.
Just keep going. Their revenue decreased by thirteen percent. It's
because people start looking at this. Yes, they taste good,
and they taste very very here's some great product out there,
(19:02):
but they're uber uber. I saw that they're uber processed.
So I think once you start going okay, beyond me
going okay. We tried to capture the vegans and that
really didn't work. We tried to get non vegans to
try it because it's tasty, and that's not working. And
(19:24):
now you're going to go to a fruit flavored carbonated
protein drink basically a soda at this point. And I
think that's the problem they're going in the If you're
going to try and be healthful, be healthful, but in
this case, I find this to be something that's going
to fall flat as well. There's other ways to get
(19:44):
protein in you without having it be a juiced based
process drink. All right. The VA I've said this many
times on this show and any opportunity I have to
talk about it, is that our veterans are precious and
(20:07):
the fact that we have any that are homeless is disgusting.
The reality that many have been wounded to the degree
that they are incapable of working or doing certain basic needs.
Any of them being homeless is a shame and I
(20:29):
hope that you agree with that. Now, can we all
do something about it? You know, I don't know. It's
like you go and you give to this group or
you give to that group, and then you hear good
things about this group, bad things about that group. But
beyond the charity, this is what the government should be
for in my view. So the VA that is the
(20:53):
Department of Veteran Veterans Affairs, they plan up to eight
eight hundred tiny homes on its West LA campus. If
you remember, this was the campus that had a bunch
of veterans camping out in the front. Again a shame,
a horrible shame. And so they were going to build
(21:16):
these They plan to build these eighty tiny homes. But
you know this is because the veterans they wanted, you know,
in court saying hey, we need housing. So this court order,
this housing order. They are going to put up these
eighty eight or eight hundred tiny homes. They say that
(21:38):
they're eight by eight foot sheds and they are absolutely unsuitable,
And that sounds about right to me. I grew up
in a family of seven kids. We all had to
double up except my sister. There was six boys, one girl.
She got her own room of the but you know,
(22:00):
the rest of us had to team up. And I
will tell you, I think our rooms were probably bigger
than eight by eight. That sounds like a jail cell.
So the disabled veterans are saying that the sheds are cramped,
sounds like it's flimsy probably and problematic for wheelchairs and walkers,
(22:22):
which the vast majority of them are dealing with. Now
this is you know, major tensions flaring up between the
VA as it struggles to comply with the twenty and
twenty four court order to build thousands of permanent and
temporary housing units. So now you got this planned by
(22:43):
the US Department of Veteran Affairs to put up these
eight hundred tiny homes this year out there in West Hollywood,
West Los Angeles, rather on their campus. But you've got
immediate pushback saying by the veterans they're the ones that
won the federal court order requiring that the agency build
(23:04):
these thousands of units are temporary and permanent housing. We
can't treat people that signed up to defend our country
if the need was there, that put their self in
(23:24):
this situation, we can't take care of them. Last all
that homeless money that you hear about, all that money,
especially in Los Angeles, that we don't know where it's
gone to. There's zero accounting or accountability on any of this.
(23:45):
It should go to veterans first, women and children, and
then we figure out. But the fact that we have
any veterans, I mean real veterans, not these guys that
are pretending to be veterans to squeeze money out of you.
(24:05):
The ones with the American flags, you're not sure if
they're real or not, or any of those things on
their wheelchairs, and we've all seen it, but in reality
we know they're veterans. Shame on us for allowing any
of them to be on the streets like this and
not giving the best premium care we can under the circumstances.
(24:33):
That's an absolute shame, zero bright spot. The fact that
it gets pushed aside, that it's not priority one throughout
the country is an absolute blemish on America. It has
(24:56):
to be the focus to make sure that they're taken
care of and not homeless on the streets. You can't
do that to people that have lost body parts and
the like defending this country, or even if they opted
in to defend this country. You just got to take
care of them. It's like you know a person by
(25:19):
how they treat animals, you know, yeah, yeah, no person.
You know a country by how they treat those that
have that have dedicated themselves to defend this country. We
have to do better. We absolutely have to do better.
(25:39):
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. Okay, I forgot what I forgot the topic
we were doing, and I thought you were just being
me and Kono And now here's Neil Savedra because I'm
bat or were you KFI AM six? I don't know
(00:23):
what topic it is? KFI six forty Live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Good Thursday morning to you, Neil Spadra
and the morning crew with you. Handle is out today,
He'll be back tomorrow, which means ask candle anything. I'm
(00:44):
not answering that it's that called ask candle anything? You
got an insuries? How much money do you have? Tell us?
All right? So you know, I host the four Report
on Saturdays two to five and I love doing it
talking about food, and we talked recently about how the
(01:04):
GLP won usage has gone up so much that it's
changing the way people eat and that has changed the
way restaurants look at food as well, and they're doing
smaller plates and it's changing that. But I will tell you,
(01:24):
in a bajillion years, I would not have guessed how
GLP won's and the loss of weight has changed this industry.
What industry, the airline industry. How crazy is this? So
if you didn't know, every piece of weight, every piece
(01:46):
of weight, every outs of weight that goes on a
plane is accounted for. The reason why it's so important
is because of the fuel usage. Fuels expensive. One of
the ways to cut down on costs is it cut
(02:07):
down on weight. So some of the things that go
on in the industry are switching the thickness of paper
in those magazines and things that you have, no joke,
no joke. So by doing that they have reduced costs
on planes. So it's crazy to think that they shifted
(02:31):
to the thickness of paper right to reduce weight. They
save money by doing that. Another thing they did is
they switched those little cards out that did the emergency
cards and they put them on the back of the
screens that are already there so you can see, you know,
(02:55):
this is what you have to do in case of
an emergency. That saved money. So just that little percentage
of weight ends up saving money. So now you've got
us airlines that are coming out looking at these weight
loss drugs and golp ones like ozambig would go v
(03:17):
those types of things, and this January twenty twenty six
report that came out from a financial firm called did Jeffries.
It highlights that this shedding of weight that we're going
through right now has this benefit that they didn't foresee
passenger weight, and they're looking at significant savings for airlines,
(03:41):
so fuel costs. You got this ten percent reduction in
average passenger weight, ten percent that could translate into roughly
two percent less total aircraft weight, reducing fuel costs by
up to one point five percent. Now that could be massive.
Four largest US carriers. You've got American Delta, who else?
(04:04):
You got United, you got Southwest. They could save as
much as five hundred and eighty million dollars annually. If
fuel expensives dip like that, that is huge. Those savings
could lift earnings per share for these airlines by up
(04:25):
to four percent just on that change. They have been focusing,
they being the airlines, have been focusing for a long
time on weight reduction. That's why we get penalized for
things more luggage. The weight of the luggage, you know,
the shifting around of all that weight, It plays a part.
(04:47):
Now I have never gotten to the play and this
is probably would be the tipping point, well literally for
me was I've never had to use an extender. I'm
a big guy, six feet tall, two fifty two fifty
five whatever I am right now, But that was my thing.
I was flying to Vegas to do broadcasts for the
(05:10):
Fork Report like once a month there to the wind,
which is gorgeous by the way, Holy smokes. It's like
the Disneyland and casinos. There's not a piece of trash
anywhere in there. And that was my thing. I'm like, man,
it's getting taught, but I haven't had to go to
the extender yet. That's when I think I'd be super
(05:31):
self conscious. But that I never thought that that weight
was not only a discomfort to me and maybe the
person next to me, but I lean that it could
cause a difference in the money made by the airline.
So they're looking at these changes. Not only did I
(05:51):
say that they were changing the paper from magazines, they
actually made it thinner so that that saved them money.
But now they're looking at other potential benefits to organizations
as well. Active wear brands, it's new Year, New U
type thing they're looking at like Lululemon, Nike, These kind
(06:12):
of form fitting active wear stuff that people with new
bodies are putting going towards these they're you know, you
heard Amy King talking about she's doing a new segment
every morning on her cleaning her closet. Fascinating. By the way,
Amy stu it is. I've been planning to do it
(06:34):
for like a year and a half. I'm teasing you,
but that's what people do. You clean your closet and
you get active wear. But food producers, like I said
the baby bel cheese has seen an increased demand for
these like smaller high protein snacks. I mean, this is
a major thing. The thing that we can't bank on
(06:54):
is we've learned that you gain weight very quickly and
more when you go off I mean not every bud eat,
but that's a concern most Yeah, there's a large part.
The new studies are saying it when you go off
the glps, the weight comes back and it comes back quick,
you know. And I'm and I get it. Hey, I'm
looking at surgery at this point at fifty six, haven't
(07:17):
lost the weight at this point. I've tried gone back
and forth. Used to yo yo, Now I just yo.
So you got to look at that. But it's fascinating
how even these little patterns, any of these things that
happened to us, that we start changing, it changes everything
around us. So next time, you know, we see these
(07:41):
you know the cost of airline. They're not going to
pass it back to us. We're still going to pay
the high prices. But they may be making more money
because we're thinner. So ask for more pretzels. Good Thursday
morning to you, Nil Svader in the morning crew with you.
We got Will the birthday, We've got Ann, We've got
(08:02):
Amy icy Kno, I see Jimmy, I see David. All right,
let's get into death, shall we not fun to talk about? Right?
They say death and taxes are the only guarantees in life,
but nobody wants to talk about either really, And there
(08:24):
is a group that says, ah, you need to talk
about it and get more comfortable with it. And this
is from the Orange County Deathworks Alliance. They've got an
event going on today for those interested. They call them
Death Cafe and it's going on tonight, Thursday, January twenty second,
from five to six fifteen pm. That's kind of precise,
(08:49):
and it's at the Neighborhood Congressional congregational rather a church
Bridge hall there at three four one, Saint Anne's driving
Una Beach. It's free. They happen monthly and it's just
a chat. So you get all kinds of caregiving folks together,
(09:11):
medical aid and dying, hospice, body disposition, home funerals, advice
on all these things. And you've got all kinds of workers,
whether it's doctors, caregivers, dulas, the people that deal with
death death on a daily basis. And I kind of
(09:32):
love this. I don't like that we make certain things taboo.
I think we're smarter than that. I think we're better
than that as a society. I would say that we're
better off doing it when we're younger, to make plans
and then change them as you get older if you
think you'd like something different. But I think as we
(09:54):
get closer and nobody knows their time, but I mean mentally,
as we think we're getting closer, that line keeps changing
every day. I mean there is I look back on
the fact that my father in two thousand and one
passed away at seventy three. Now he was sick, has
the same disease I have Thanks Dad. Out of the
(10:16):
seven kids, five of us got it. It's called polycystic
renal disease. Means my kidneys filled up with cysts. And
that's why I had to get the transplant six years ago.
God bless you, Julie, my donor. And and now I
look back on that he looked he looked ninety. I mean,
I look back on pictures of him, and he looked
(10:38):
so old, and yet I think of seventy. You know,
I buzzed handles chops all the time because I've known
him for thirty years. He doesn't look his age. He
doesn't act his age. He doesn't He's never you know,
he's he kind of eternally forty five to me forty six.
You know how people freeze the age when you met them,
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kind of and they just kind of freeze in that state.
He's that way for me where I always see him
at that age. But we have to get a grip
on these things. And I know it's different. Like I
have no problem getting life insurance for myself, but every
time I'm given the option to get life insurance on
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my wife or my son, it bothers me emotionally. I
don't want to think about them being harmed or dying
or being scared or any of those things. For me,
I just want to be a good husband and a dad,
and I want to leave them in the best position
I can. God bless my dad. He was a neat guy,
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very loving man, and I connected with him on so
many ways. An artist, a creative, intelligent, but not educated.
And yes they're two different things. And read a lot,
explored a lot of things, questioned a lot of things,
but a lousy provider except when he was doing his art,
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when he was really deep in doing design work and stuff.
There was a time where he did well, but he
wasn't off at the bar getting drunk. He wasn't with
the boys all. He came home, but not a great provider.
And so I saw, you know, when he passed away
in two thousand and one, what my mom had to
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go with. There wasn't, you know, through and there was
nothing there, barely enough to cover his funeral. Very you know, simple,
But I'll tell you he knew exactly what he wanted
and what he wanted to be buried. He wanted a
mariachi band, he wanted these things, and he got those things.
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And it was lovely simple, but a lovely funeral. He
didn't leave that to us. And I think that we
get so fearful of talking about death at a group
like the Orange County Deathworks Alliance. You know, I'm not
crazy about at These are my own personal reasons about
the medical aid in dying what they call made the
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end of life option act of you know, killing yourself. Basically,
I get it. I get it, don't get me wrong.
I wrestle with it spiritually. I wrestle with it, you know,
in a lot of ways, because I think we're more
than our pain. I think we're more than I think
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as long as the brain is there and active, there
can be things that can be learned and taught. But
that's easy for me to say. I'm not in pain,
so I wrestle with that. I don't know that I've
landed anywhere, but I wrestle with it. So God bless
these folks. They talk about death and dying shared over
tea and cakes and pastries, even cheese and crackers, and
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what one person said was pretty decent wine for those
over twenty one, which is pretty much the people that
go there. So the death cafes are a global movement.
They're allowing people to discuss this taboo unfortunately taboo thoughts
and questions about the end of life and you know,
hospice and medical aid and all these things. And so
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if you're interested, they have one going on tonight. This
death Cafe will be from five to six fifteen pm,
two day, Thursday, January twenty second, at the Neighborhood Congregational Church.
They have their bridges haul there three four one Saint
Anne's Drive in Laguna Beach. It is free. They happen
monthly and God bless them for answering questions of people
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during something very very scary. Protein big deal right now.
Everybody's like, down with the protein. Everything's got protein, more
protein in it, here's more protein. I love that we're
always looking for new proteins. When we have great proteins, meat,
great protein, eggs, great protein, lentils, great protein, peanuts. There's
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all kinds of things that we have naturally. But you've
got beyond meat. You remember, beyond me. They have the
meat analog. We'll say that. I don't want to say fake,
mean it just it sounds. I don't bias and I
don't mind the products themselves. I think they taste great
and if it actually did anything for you, I'd be
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a little more on board. The only thing that these
meat analogs tend to do is they have zero cholesterol,
which is good. I mean, I'm not a doctor, but
I'm going to tell you the most recent studies about
food cholesterol is that it doesn't transfer the way we
once thought. You used to think eggs were bad and
all of those things, but the reality is it doesn't transfer.
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It's like ten percent or less of it, you know.
But again I'm not a doctor. However, they had kind
of a burst. Everybody was investing in these meat alternatives,
ya yay, but as far as like sodium, they were
exactly the same, and now they started taking a dive.
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The problem being that they are uber processed food and
so you can't talk about whole foods being great for
you and then have these processed products that, yeah, maybe vegan,
but not all healthful food is equal. Oreos are vegan,
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so you can't look at vegan being healthy because there's
a lot of things that are vegan that are unhealthy.
So it's not about it's about the nutrients receiving. It's
a vessel of nutrients into your body. And by far,
I mean vitamins play a part with some people that
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are prescribed them. I'm prescribed vitamin D and you probably
are too. There was a big thing some ten plus
years ago where studies came out saying we needed more
vitamin D in our diets, and so your doctor, probably
if you're over forty, started prescribing you to take vitamin D.
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But most doctors, honest doctors, will tell you most supplements
and vitamins, multi vitamins and the like end up becoming
expensive urine unless you're prescribed to take them for whatever reason.
So getting nutrients from these things, getting proteins from these things, chemically,
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your body is going to see certain proteins as the same.
It's just a protein molecule, no matter how it's brought
into your body. Beyond Meat is now launching Beyond Immerse.
It's a line of fruit flavored carbonated protein drinks. This
is to diversify its offerings declining plant based meat sales
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big time. By the way, you had the company's most
recent quarterly lost widening one hundred and ten point seven
million from twenty six point six million year over year
with the rever my face, you got it, I got it.
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Thanks buddy. You know what, cono. I love when you cheerlead.
You got this, buddy, big fat, stupid lips. They'll get it.
Just keep going. Their revenue decreased by thirteen percent. It's
because people start looking at this. Yes, they taste good,
and they taste very very here's some great product out there,
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but they're uber uber. I saw that they're uber processed.
So I think once you start going okay, beyond me
going okay. We tried to capture the vegans and that
really didn't work. We tried to get non vegans to
try it because it's tasty, and that's not working. And
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now you're going to go to a fruit flavored carbonated
protein drink basically a soda at this point. And I
think that's the problem they're going in the If you're
going to try and be healthful, be healthful, but in
this case, I find this to be something that's going
to fall flat as well. There's other ways to get
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protein in you without having it be a juiced based
process drink. All right. The VA I've said this many
times on this show and any opportunity I have to
talk about it, is that our veterans are precious and
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the fact that we have any that are homeless is disgusting.
The reality that many have been wounded to the degree
that they are incapable of working or doing certain basic needs.
Any of them being homeless is a shame and I
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hope that you agree with that. Now, can we all
do something about it? You know, I don't know. It's
like you go and you give to this group or
you give to that group, and then you hear good
things about this group, bad things about that group. But
beyond the charity, this is what the government should be
for in my view. So the VA that is the
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Department of Veteran Veterans Affairs, they plan up to eight
eight hundred tiny homes on its West LA campus. If
you remember, this was the campus that had a bunch
of veterans camping out in the front. Again a shame,
a horrible shame. And so they were going to build
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these They plan to build these eighty tiny homes. But
you know this is because the veterans they wanted, you know,
in court saying hey, we need housing. So this court order,
this housing order. They are going to put up these
eighty eight or eight hundred tiny homes. They say that
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they're eight by eight foot sheds and they are absolutely unsuitable,
And that sounds about right to me. I grew up
in a family of seven kids. We all had to
double up except my sister. There was six boys, one girl.
She got her own room of the but you know,
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the rest of us had to team up. And I
will tell you, I think our rooms were probably bigger
than eight by eight. That sounds like a jail cell.
So the disabled veterans are saying that the sheds are cramped,
sounds like it's flimsy probably and problematic for wheelchairs and walkers,
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which the vast majority of them are dealing with. Now
this is you know, major tensions flaring up between the
VA as it struggles to comply with the twenty and
twenty four court order to build thousands of permanent and
temporary housing units. So now you got this planned by
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the US Department of Veteran Affairs to put up these
eight hundred tiny homes this year out there in West Hollywood,
West Los Angeles, rather on their campus. But you've got
immediate pushback saying by the veterans they're the ones that
won the federal court order requiring that the agency build
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these thousands of units are temporary and permanent housing. We
can't treat people that signed up to defend our country
if the need was there, that put their self in
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this situation, we can't take care of them. Last all
that homeless money that you hear about, all that money,
especially in Los Angeles, that we don't know where it's
gone to. There's zero accounting or accountability on any of this.
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It should go to veterans first, women and children, and
then we figure out. But the fact that we have
any veterans, I mean real veterans, not these guys that
are pretending to be veterans to squeeze money out of you.
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The ones with the American flags, you're not sure if
they're real or not, or any of those things on
their wheelchairs, and we've all seen it, but in reality
we know they're veterans. Shame on us for allowing any
of them to be on the streets like this and
not giving the best premium care we can under the circumstances.
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That's an absolute shame, zero bright spot. The fact that
it gets pushed aside, that it's not priority one throughout
the country is an absolute blemish on America. It has
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to be the focus to make sure that they're taken
care of and not homeless on the streets. You can't
do that to people that have lost body parts and
the like defending this country, or even if they opted
in to defend this country. You just got to take
care of them. It's like you know a person by
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how they treat animals, you know, yeah, yeah, no person.
You know a country by how they treat those that
have that have dedicated themselves to defend this country. We
have to do better. We absolutely have to do better.
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