June 10, 2026 • 24 mins
(June 10, 2026)
Who is Steve Hilton and does he really have a chance to be California’s next governor. Remote work is taking a toll on your mental health. ‘Dynamic’ grocery pricing, what it means for you. Birthrates are down globally, blame your smartphone.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
AM six forty him Steve, Steve Stay High Am six
forty Bill Handle here, Good morning. It is a Wednesday morning,
June tenth. Though a lot going on today. Platner in
(00:22):
Maine has won the Democratic nod to running against Senator
Susan Collins in in Maine, and that is going to
be a very tight race and there's we'll talk a
lot about that coming up because it has huge national importance. Now,
the good natorial race here in the state of California.
(00:44):
We start with the basic rules, that is, the top
two vote getters in any race then go to the general.
This is statewide, go to the general election in November,
and doesn't matter what party. You can have two Democrats,
you can have two Republicans. In this case, you have
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one of each party. And so there it lines up.
And then there are a couple of issues in terms
of who Steve Hilton is very interesting guy and he
has turned what would be detrimental it would be something
that could be attacked into a real asset. Very smart
guy to do that too, all right, So he is
a Republican. He is not considered an ideologue. He's not crazy,
(01:30):
frothing at the mouth, a fundamentalist, maga Republican. Even though
Trump endorsed him and he well, still he can't say
that Joe Biden legitimately won the presidency in twenty twenty.
I just can't come to those terms, although he has.
Here's what he says amongst many Republicans is that Joe
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Biden was elected, and he was the president, and was
he legitimately elected. They don't go that far. Now, there
are plenty of Republicans that say Joe Biden shouldn't be president,
it wasn't president because it was a fraudulent presidency. He
has not gone that far, and he is going to
(02:14):
move away from that position because he's got to distance
himself from Trump during a primary. I mean, look what
Trump did to Cornyn and what he did to Cassidy,
two people running for established people running coming back for
their Senate seat, and he primaried them out in the primaries. Okay,
(02:37):
he's not going to primary. He's not going to move
people to one way or the other. When he endorses Hilton,
I think is going to hurt Hilton. Trump is upside
down more in California than any other state. It's hurtful.
It's going to be hurting them politically. There's no question
anybody with an R as part of their name on
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a on a ballot today, it's not going to help
in California. Okay. So Steve Hilton, who is he now?
He is a very interesting guy. He's a brit who
came to the US fourteen years ago that we haven't
seen since Arnold Schwarzenegger. But Arnold Schwarzenegger came to the
US what thirty years before he became governor. Hilton is
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fourteen years and he has immersed himself in politics In England,
he immersed himself in politics and was a senior advisor
to David Cameron, who won as a Conservative, and Hilton
has given a lot of credit for that. He's an entrepreneur,
a policy analyst, a Fox News host. He's been that too,
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and his political a position is fairly easy to understand,
and you would think this. He promised to breathe new
life into California. The party had not won a statewide
office in twenty years. He's going to bring radical change
to the state. Cost of living, shortage of housing, and
all of this he blames on the one party democratic
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rule because we are as close to one party here
in the state of California, super majority in the Senate
and the Assembly, and a Democratic governor. So that's California
for now. The odds are really stacked against him simply
because he's a Republican, that's it. And his connection, even
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previous connection to Donald Trump. I mean, he's still pro Trump,
but he's distancing himself. I think the big story here
is where he could be attacked. He is a brit
He is not an American. And when I say he
is a brit even that goes to dealing with some explanation,
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and that is he came to the United States adopted
America as his adopted home country, much like my parents did.
And he did exactly what my parents did. My parents
gave up their Brazilian citizenship to become American. But when
they did that in the fifties, that was the law.
You had to renounce any foreign citizenship. The law has
(05:19):
changed today. You can be a citizen of several countries.
You can have four passports. I have three. I have
American citizenship, I have Brazilian citizenship. I will have three,
and I'm getting Polish citizenship because you know, for the
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first time, I want to be the butt of Polish jokes.
I'm tired of just telling you how many questioning how
many polls does it take to screw in a light bulb? Okay,
by the way, there's a lot of those, and I'm
going to be the butt of many of those. The
point is, here's what he did is because he didn't
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have to because the law has changed and he could
stay a dual citizen. He voluntarily gave up his British
citizenry when he became an American, or he did it later.
I think he did that a couple of years ago.
He gave up his British citizenship. So what he is
saying is beyond being born here, I came here and
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I became an American citizen, giving up where I came from.
That's how much I love this country. So the accusation
he's a carpetbagger, he came over here just enter politics.
He really has loyalty to Britain, all of that disappears
and he has turned what would be a detriment to
his favor. It's a good move politically speaking, although I
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also happen to believe. That's what he believes too. And
when my parents did this. Now I'm an American citizen
and I did not give up my citizenship to Brazil
even though law says when I became a citizen, I
had to. Why is that because I was a minor.
I became an American citizen automatically, and according to Brazilian law,
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I'm also a Brazilian citizen because I didn't give up
my citizenship, so he did. And it's a politically very
smart move. He's a smart guy, he really is. He
comes off well, he's friendly, he wears interesting shirts. He
is not a screaming right wing maga kind of guy.
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But he's going to lose. He's going to lose dramatically
because a Republican running for office in this state just
doesn't make it. There's a few districts, very few, in
which a national where it's a national office running for Congress.
But for the most part, I think we have I
don't even know how many districts we have in California,
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fifty three or fifty eight of which I think may
be Republican. All right, Now, a story that just came out,
a study that just came out in the journal Science
about remote remote work. Now, remote work is a good thing. Boy,
we all loved it, didn't We didn't have to go
into the office. I didn't have to get up and shower.
(08:18):
You could go dressed in like a pig, you could
smell like an Iraqi sheep herder, and nobody cared because
you were at home enjoying yourself. Now, at some point
it was started because we had to do it of COVID.
But and then when people got used to remote work,
they said, Okay, we really like it for all those reasons.
(08:39):
But it's easier. You spend time with your family, times
on your own. Your hours are basically your hours as
long as your work is done. The whole series of reasons.
And there were some employers that said, you know, we
really want people to be here. We want more control,
we want the socialization, and that has been a big quest.
(09:00):
So here is what the studies do say. First of all,
our workers are willing to give up anywhere from four
to ten percent of their money to have the ability
to work remotely. Okay, however, people in remote jobs have
seen a rise an hour spent alone during the workday.
(09:22):
That makes sense, but that translates into more visits to
mental health providers. In self reports, they're assessing their own
mental health negatively, and so the findings are suggesting that
people might be choosing poorly when it comes to their
well being. In other words, getting more and more involved
(09:43):
in working at home quite often means you're not going
to be socializing. You're not going to be as clearly
around the water cooler. By the way, are there any
water coolers left? I don't even know if people hang
around water coolers I have in our breakroom. It's very nice.
I'm sorry, Heather, we have one in our break room.
(10:03):
It's very nice. Okay, Well, I don't pay attention because
I have not deed. Iire to talk to anybody around
there in any case. This study looked at data from
five large national surveys on American workers and jobs that
are at work, place of work or remote work, and
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the jobs that allowed to be remotable job and then
jobs that can't be done remotable surgery, engineering, plumbing, but
software engineering, marketing that all can be done at home.
They found that workers in remotable jobs don't do as well.
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They simply don't do as well, and the problem is
our spent alone. That's really the issue. The hour spent
alone in a seventy two port rise and chain answers
the spending their entire day with no human contact because
you're alone. So you're married, well, the spouse is off
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to work, the kids are off to school, and there
you are alone, and you can only go so many
times and make yourself happy, you know what I mean?
In a day. The rest of the time you are
completely by yourself. Actually you're by yourself doing that also,
but that's a different, different topic. So remote jobs, emotional
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distress goes up more visit to mental health providers. That
is a problem. It turns all of that turns out
to be a problem with being alone. We are a
herd society. Aloneess does not wake make us work well.
We don't like to be hermits. We need people, absolutely
(11:56):
need people. There is a terrific study that was done
i think at the turn of the last entry, in
which infants were not held at birth, they were just
left there in the cribs they were fed versus infants
that were held and cuddled and nurtured. Huge difference. The
infants that were alone withered, just withered, and that helped
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prove the proposal that helped prove the posit that we
need people. And so, you know, I mean I work
alone for the most part, as does Neil. The rest
of the crowd are in studio right now in my
home studio, and I'm not talking to anybody. Well, I
(12:40):
do talk off the air because during the breaks I'd
like to offend everybody I work with. But you know,
I'm alone a lot, and I'm alone purposely a lot,
and I'm alone because no one wants to hang with
me a lot. And for me, it's not really fair
because I have all kinds of mental illness. Anyway. You know,
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I've been with a psychologist now for thirty years. I've
been seeing a psychologist. But Jews do that any Jew
that can afford a psychologist go as a psychologists. And
I go twice a week. And as I've said many
many times, on Tuesday, i hate my mother and when
I have sex with a dog, and on Thursdays it's
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exactly the opposite. Okay, Dynamic grocery pricing, it's becoming more
and more prevalent. And what is dynamic pricing? It changes,
Prices change in real time depending on how many people
are looking for a product at a given time, depending
on the cost of the product, the grocery for the grocer,
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depending on you know, what they're doing. Are they close
to an end by date or end sale day that
prices are going to go down. You see that all
the time, you know, reduced in priced, But that's not
real time. Real time time is it's right now And
there is a lot of controversy now. Dynamic pricing has
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been around forever, certainly with airlines, hotel rooms. Those prices change.
Disneyland dynamic pricing. Those prices change and can on a
daily basis. But those are one offs. You don't go
to Disneyland every day, you don't jump on an airplane
every day. You buy groceries every day, and so you're
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looking at it. And by the way, the technology is
what allows dynamic pricing. I mean you're not going to
have the clerk, the employee of the store going around
and putting stamps or putting new prices on every five minutes.
Obviously that's impossible. So what's happening is what you see
at gas stations which really have dynamic pricing. One it's
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a penny yesterday, it's two cents today, up, five cents, up,
ten cents down. All that hasn't happened in a while.
We're used to that, used to grocery shopping with dynamic pricing,
and it's coming now. Consumers say that whole point about
of dynamic pricing is so groceries, grocery stores can put
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their price up. That's what it's all about. A bunch
of people reaching for a bag of oreos. Okay, price
of oreos jumps another ten cents because we're doing really
well with oreos or running low on stock and its
supply and demand, and they just change the little electronic sign,
which I'm assuming is going to make them money in
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the long run. I think it's an investment that makes
sense because they don't have to pay clerks to go
around with those machines and stamp. You've seen those guys
that go ahead and you know there, that's a horrible job,
by the way, to have that, but they do it.
They do it all day long. Those jobs are going
to disappear with dynamic pricing. And let me tell you
(15:55):
how quickly it can change. So I'm buying an airline
ticket and okay, look at it, I'm going someplace. I go,
all right, I looked at the price on the computer. Okay,
it's just happened to us. Lindsay's looking at the price,
comes back to me a few minutes later and says,
here's the price, and I tell her go ahead and
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pull the trigger. Ten minutes have passed from the time
we or she looked at the price to the time
we pulled the trigger, and those seats have disappeared because
of dynamic pricing. All of a sudden, that super duper
puper deal has disappeared, and now we're up to normal
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retail or close to retail shopping. That's dynamic pricing. And
the grocery store, the grocery people are saying, no, when
prices go down for us, they're gonna go down for you.
The problem is no one believes it. That's the problem
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because inflation is part and parcel of that formula. So
Ben Winters, director of AI and Privacy at the Consumer
Federation of America, said, what companies are doing is using
a person's purchase history because also this can get crazy.
Facial recognition. Now, does that matter when you're buying an
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airline ticket? Of course, not, because you're buying it on
the internet, but you're buying shopping, you're right there and
facial recognition hits you. Well, you're on video when you
walk into the store, and using facial recognition, all of
a sudden that goes into the algorithm, and all of
a sudden, the store knows, in my case, I'm going
to buy my smoked salmon, and normally it's twenty four dollars,
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but they know that I really like it, and they've
recognized my face or the computer has, the algorithm has,
and all of a sudden it goes up a buck
and then maybe later on it goes down. Is the
technology there? You bet you now. The stores them cells
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are saying, oh, we would never do that. Well, you've
got privacy activists that would say, oh, yeah, you would. Now.
The stores are saying that we're really only using dynamic
pricing to lower prices for items that are nearing sell
by dates or they want to move because there's too
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much inventory. If it's a box of cereal and it's
going to go out of code in three days, you
reduce the price. And by the way, that's good because
I'm making sure the grocery store says, I'm making sure
it moves through and not creating more food weight, more
food waste. Okay, that's the upside, right does anybody believe
that too? And prices might fluctuate for a bunch of
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other reasons. The changing costs to the grocer, that's the
most common. The manufacturer is raising prices, doing inflation, or
lowering prices because they use a world commodity like chocolate
or flour or corn. Higher gas prices, increase labor costs
because a new contract kicks in and all of a
sudden there's more money. So the bottom line is we're
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going to see prices change dynamically, and I think that's
going to happen across the board because when it hits
the grocery store, and it is, but it's going to
get much more prevalent. I think that's the last step
in grocery pricing, in dynamic pricing, where everything is going
to be dynamically priced. Well, Uber does that constantly. You
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look at the ride share companies. Man try to get
a car leaving an event like a concert, and see
how much money you're going to pay for that relative
to the middle of the concert, and you may pay
half of what the price is that's dynamic pricing. It's
no fun. It really isn't It makes sense, makes sense
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on a monetary level, but not for us, I don't
think so. Okay, a story about infertility. And as you know,
thirty years I spent in the world of infertility, not
only practicing law, but having a surrogacy agency. And this
is all about creating kids. And this is all about
creating kids with embryos. And to create kids with embryos,
you need to fertilize an egg, or an egg has
(20:23):
to be fertilized with male sperm, because that's sort of
the way it works. And infertility has gone up decade
after decade, and really don't know why. The answer is
nobody really can prove why. I mean, there have been
some theories, one of them based on real science. For example,
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testes that is gonads nerds have to be kept at
one degree below body temperature, which is why men who
are undergoing infertility treatments are told to stay away from jacuzzies.
They's too hot. And this is why physiologically during the
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summer it's well, I'm gonna get a little bit. Uh.
It's a little as real though, and that is during
the summer, the scrotum sort of drops and you get
to be a bell ringer during the winter. There's a
lot of shrinkage that goes on, as men will know
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and will tell you about it. That has to do
with the temperature of the testicles. And that's what everybody thought,
was it. But you know what, there is a common
denominator and that you're ready for this. Every time there
was a change, every time infertility went up, every single
time there was a stat that was given, you know
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what was a commonality around the world iPhones, smartphones? I mean,
why is that? I mean that's kind of crazy. So
that seemed to be the common driver. And then there
was a second study that came out and the authors wrote,
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countries with very different healthcare systems, welfare regimes, abortion laws,
religious traditions, recessions, demographic trends all saw exactly the same thing.
Fertility declines accelerated once smartphones became a mass phenomenon. So
what does that mean. Well, that's going to lead to
(22:36):
more studies, is what it's going to mean. And is
it that people are simply not engaged as much, You
don't have sex as much. Maybe maybe the incidence of
sexual encounters drops dramatically the use of smartphones. But this
is beginning the study of this entire issue. And believe me, infertility.
(22:59):
We're talking fit teen percent of the population is infertile,
either male or female, part of any couple. Uh, it's
it's a no small deal. Having dealt with this for
many years, and so now off to the after the
races they go and trying to figure out what exactly
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it is that's smartphones And that's a commonality. I mean
that's across the board every place in the world, every
socioeconomic socioeconomic level, because everybody poor people have smartphones too.
I mean, there is no one that doesn't have a
smartphone in h this in we're in the world. I mean,
(23:42):
go to the weirdest, smallest village in the middle of
the Amazon jungle where or in New Guinea where you'll
see guys running around with the bones through their noses,
chanting around a campfire, and then they'll have a smartphone
in their hands. So we're gonna see what happens with that.
That is going to be interesting stuff. Okay, coming up,
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we have a huge housing shortage in the United States,
particularly California, particularly southern California, and there's a new law
and I won't say it's controversial, Well, I guess it
is if you live near any of where this is
going to happen. And it's going to create a million
new apartments and condos in California, is what the proponents say.
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I'll come back with that, but first, this is KFI
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
AM six forty him Steve, Steve Stay High Am six
forty Bill Handle here, Good morning. It is a Wednesday morning,
June tenth. Though a lot going on today. Platner in
(00:22):
Maine has won the Democratic nod to running against Senator
Susan Collins in in Maine, and that is going to
be a very tight race and there's we'll talk a
lot about that coming up because it has huge national importance. Now,
the good natorial race here in the state of California.
(00:44):
We start with the basic rules, that is, the top
two vote getters in any race then go to the general.
This is statewide, go to the general election in November,
and doesn't matter what party. You can have two Democrats,
you can have two Republicans. In this case, you have
(01:06):
one of each party. And so there it lines up.
And then there are a couple of issues in terms
of who Steve Hilton is very interesting guy and he
has turned what would be detrimental it would be something
that could be attacked into a real asset. Very smart
guy to do that too, all right, So he is
a Republican. He is not considered an ideologue. He's not crazy,
(01:30):
frothing at the mouth, a fundamentalist, maga Republican. Even though
Trump endorsed him and he well, still he can't say
that Joe Biden legitimately won the presidency in twenty twenty.
I just can't come to those terms, although he has.
Here's what he says amongst many Republicans is that Joe
(01:53):
Biden was elected, and he was the president, and was
he legitimately elected. They don't go that far. Now, there
are plenty of Republicans that say Joe Biden shouldn't be president,
it wasn't president because it was a fraudulent presidency. He
has not gone that far, and he is going to
(02:14):
move away from that position because he's got to distance
himself from Trump during a primary. I mean, look what
Trump did to Cornyn and what he did to Cassidy,
two people running for established people running coming back for
their Senate seat, and he primaried them out in the primaries. Okay,
(02:37):
he's not going to primary. He's not going to move
people to one way or the other. When he endorses Hilton,
I think is going to hurt Hilton. Trump is upside
down more in California than any other state. It's hurtful.
It's going to be hurting them politically. There's no question
anybody with an R as part of their name on
(02:59):
a on a ballot today, it's not going to help
in California. Okay. So Steve Hilton, who is he now?
He is a very interesting guy. He's a brit who
came to the US fourteen years ago that we haven't
seen since Arnold Schwarzenegger. But Arnold Schwarzenegger came to the
US what thirty years before he became governor. Hilton is
(03:25):
fourteen years and he has immersed himself in politics In England,
he immersed himself in politics and was a senior advisor
to David Cameron, who won as a Conservative, and Hilton
has given a lot of credit for that. He's an entrepreneur,
a policy analyst, a Fox News host. He's been that too,
(03:47):
and his political a position is fairly easy to understand,
and you would think this. He promised to breathe new
life into California. The party had not won a statewide
office in twenty years. He's going to bring radical change
to the state. Cost of living, shortage of housing, and
all of this he blames on the one party democratic
(04:08):
rule because we are as close to one party here
in the state of California, super majority in the Senate
and the Assembly, and a Democratic governor. So that's California
for now. The odds are really stacked against him simply
because he's a Republican, that's it. And his connection, even
(04:30):
previous connection to Donald Trump. I mean, he's still pro Trump,
but he's distancing himself. I think the big story here
is where he could be attacked. He is a brit
He is not an American. And when I say he
is a brit even that goes to dealing with some explanation,
(04:54):
and that is he came to the United States adopted
America as his adopted home country, much like my parents did.
And he did exactly what my parents did. My parents
gave up their Brazilian citizenship to become American. But when
they did that in the fifties, that was the law.
You had to renounce any foreign citizenship. The law has
(05:19):
changed today. You can be a citizen of several countries.
You can have four passports. I have three. I have
American citizenship, I have Brazilian citizenship. I will have three,
and I'm getting Polish citizenship because you know, for the
(05:41):
first time, I want to be the butt of Polish jokes.
I'm tired of just telling you how many questioning how
many polls does it take to screw in a light bulb? Okay,
by the way, there's a lot of those, and I'm
going to be the butt of many of those. The
point is, here's what he did is because he didn't
(06:03):
have to because the law has changed and he could
stay a dual citizen. He voluntarily gave up his British
citizenry when he became an American, or he did it later.
I think he did that a couple of years ago.
He gave up his British citizenship. So what he is
saying is beyond being born here, I came here and
(06:27):
I became an American citizen, giving up where I came from.
That's how much I love this country. So the accusation
he's a carpetbagger, he came over here just enter politics.
He really has loyalty to Britain, all of that disappears
and he has turned what would be a detriment to
his favor. It's a good move politically speaking, although I
(06:50):
also happen to believe. That's what he believes too. And
when my parents did this. Now I'm an American citizen
and I did not give up my citizenship to Brazil
even though law says when I became a citizen, I
had to. Why is that because I was a minor.
I became an American citizen automatically, and according to Brazilian law,
(07:12):
I'm also a Brazilian citizen because I didn't give up
my citizenship, so he did. And it's a politically very
smart move. He's a smart guy, he really is. He
comes off well, he's friendly, he wears interesting shirts. He
is not a screaming right wing maga kind of guy.
(07:33):
But he's going to lose. He's going to lose dramatically
because a Republican running for office in this state just
doesn't make it. There's a few districts, very few, in
which a national where it's a national office running for Congress.
But for the most part, I think we have I
don't even know how many districts we have in California,
(07:56):
fifty three or fifty eight of which I think may
be Republican. All right, Now, a story that just came out,
a study that just came out in the journal Science
about remote remote work. Now, remote work is a good thing. Boy,
we all loved it, didn't We didn't have to go
into the office. I didn't have to get up and shower.
(08:18):
You could go dressed in like a pig, you could
smell like an Iraqi sheep herder, and nobody cared because
you were at home enjoying yourself. Now, at some point
it was started because we had to do it of COVID.
But and then when people got used to remote work,
they said, Okay, we really like it for all those reasons.
(08:39):
But it's easier. You spend time with your family, times
on your own. Your hours are basically your hours as
long as your work is done. The whole series of reasons.
And there were some employers that said, you know, we
really want people to be here. We want more control,
we want the socialization, and that has been a big quest.
(09:00):
So here is what the studies do say. First of all,
our workers are willing to give up anywhere from four
to ten percent of their money to have the ability
to work remotely. Okay, however, people in remote jobs have
seen a rise an hour spent alone during the workday.
(09:22):
That makes sense, but that translates into more visits to
mental health providers. In self reports, they're assessing their own
mental health negatively, and so the findings are suggesting that
people might be choosing poorly when it comes to their
well being. In other words, getting more and more involved
(09:43):
in working at home quite often means you're not going
to be socializing. You're not going to be as clearly
around the water cooler. By the way, are there any
water coolers left? I don't even know if people hang
around water coolers I have in our breakroom. It's very nice.
I'm sorry, Heather, we have one in our break room.
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It's very nice. Okay, Well, I don't pay attention because
I have not deed. Iire to talk to anybody around
there in any case. This study looked at data from
five large national surveys on American workers and jobs that
are at work, place of work or remote work, and
(10:24):
the jobs that allowed to be remotable job and then
jobs that can't be done remotable surgery, engineering, plumbing, but
software engineering, marketing that all can be done at home.
They found that workers in remotable jobs don't do as well.
(10:48):
They simply don't do as well, and the problem is
our spent alone. That's really the issue. The hour spent
alone in a seventy two port rise and chain answers
the spending their entire day with no human contact because
you're alone. So you're married, well, the spouse is off
(11:09):
to work, the kids are off to school, and there
you are alone, and you can only go so many
times and make yourself happy, you know what I mean?
In a day. The rest of the time you are
completely by yourself. Actually you're by yourself doing that also,
but that's a different, different topic. So remote jobs, emotional
(11:33):
distress goes up more visit to mental health providers. That
is a problem. It turns all of that turns out
to be a problem with being alone. We are a
herd society. Aloneess does not wake make us work well.
We don't like to be hermits. We need people, absolutely
(11:56):
need people. There is a terrific study that was done
i think at the turn of the last entry, in
which infants were not held at birth, they were just
left there in the cribs they were fed versus infants
that were held and cuddled and nurtured. Huge difference. The
infants that were alone withered, just withered, and that helped
(12:19):
prove the proposal that helped prove the posit that we
need people. And so, you know, I mean I work
alone for the most part, as does Neil. The rest
of the crowd are in studio right now in my
home studio, and I'm not talking to anybody. Well, I
(12:40):
do talk off the air because during the breaks I'd
like to offend everybody I work with. But you know,
I'm alone a lot, and I'm alone purposely a lot,
and I'm alone because no one wants to hang with
me a lot. And for me, it's not really fair
because I have all kinds of mental illness. Anyway. You know,
(13:01):
I've been with a psychologist now for thirty years. I've
been seeing a psychologist. But Jews do that any Jew
that can afford a psychologist go as a psychologists. And
I go twice a week. And as I've said many
many times, on Tuesday, i hate my mother and when
I have sex with a dog, and on Thursdays it's
(13:22):
exactly the opposite. Okay, Dynamic grocery pricing, it's becoming more
and more prevalent. And what is dynamic pricing? It changes,
Prices change in real time depending on how many people
are looking for a product at a given time, depending
on the cost of the product, the grocery for the grocer,
(13:45):
depending on you know, what they're doing. Are they close
to an end by date or end sale day that
prices are going to go down. You see that all
the time, you know, reduced in priced, But that's not
real time. Real time time is it's right now And
there is a lot of controversy now. Dynamic pricing has
(14:06):
been around forever, certainly with airlines, hotel rooms. Those prices change.
Disneyland dynamic pricing. Those prices change and can on a
daily basis. But those are one offs. You don't go
to Disneyland every day, you don't jump on an airplane
every day. You buy groceries every day, and so you're
(14:26):
looking at it. And by the way, the technology is
what allows dynamic pricing. I mean you're not going to
have the clerk, the employee of the store going around
and putting stamps or putting new prices on every five minutes.
Obviously that's impossible. So what's happening is what you see
at gas stations which really have dynamic pricing. One it's
(14:50):
a penny yesterday, it's two cents today, up, five cents, up,
ten cents down. All that hasn't happened in a while.
We're used to that, used to grocery shopping with dynamic pricing,
and it's coming now. Consumers say that whole point about
of dynamic pricing is so groceries, grocery stores can put
(15:11):
their price up. That's what it's all about. A bunch
of people reaching for a bag of oreos. Okay, price
of oreos jumps another ten cents because we're doing really
well with oreos or running low on stock and its
supply and demand, and they just change the little electronic sign,
which I'm assuming is going to make them money in
(15:34):
the long run. I think it's an investment that makes
sense because they don't have to pay clerks to go
around with those machines and stamp. You've seen those guys
that go ahead and you know there, that's a horrible job,
by the way, to have that, but they do it.
They do it all day long. Those jobs are going
to disappear with dynamic pricing. And let me tell you
(15:55):
how quickly it can change. So I'm buying an airline
ticket and okay, look at it, I'm going someplace. I go,
all right, I looked at the price on the computer. Okay,
it's just happened to us. Lindsay's looking at the price,
comes back to me a few minutes later and says,
here's the price, and I tell her go ahead and
(16:16):
pull the trigger. Ten minutes have passed from the time
we or she looked at the price to the time
we pulled the trigger, and those seats have disappeared because
of dynamic pricing. All of a sudden, that super duper
puper deal has disappeared, and now we're up to normal
(16:40):
retail or close to retail shopping. That's dynamic pricing. And
the grocery store, the grocery people are saying, no, when
prices go down for us, they're gonna go down for you.
The problem is no one believes it. That's the problem
(17:02):
because inflation is part and parcel of that formula. So
Ben Winters, director of AI and Privacy at the Consumer
Federation of America, said, what companies are doing is using
a person's purchase history because also this can get crazy.
Facial recognition. Now, does that matter when you're buying an
(17:23):
airline ticket? Of course, not, because you're buying it on
the internet, but you're buying shopping, you're right there and
facial recognition hits you. Well, you're on video when you
walk into the store, and using facial recognition, all of
a sudden that goes into the algorithm, and all of
a sudden, the store knows, in my case, I'm going
to buy my smoked salmon, and normally it's twenty four dollars,
(17:47):
but they know that I really like it, and they've
recognized my face or the computer has, the algorithm has,
and all of a sudden it goes up a buck
and then maybe later on it goes down. Is the
technology there? You bet you now. The stores them cells
(18:07):
are saying, oh, we would never do that. Well, you've
got privacy activists that would say, oh, yeah, you would. Now.
The stores are saying that we're really only using dynamic
pricing to lower prices for items that are nearing sell
by dates or they want to move because there's too
(18:28):
much inventory. If it's a box of cereal and it's
going to go out of code in three days, you
reduce the price. And by the way, that's good because
I'm making sure the grocery store says, I'm making sure
it moves through and not creating more food weight, more
food waste. Okay, that's the upside, right does anybody believe
that too? And prices might fluctuate for a bunch of
(18:50):
other reasons. The changing costs to the grocer, that's the
most common. The manufacturer is raising prices, doing inflation, or
lowering prices because they use a world commodity like chocolate
or flour or corn. Higher gas prices, increase labor costs
because a new contract kicks in and all of a
sudden there's more money. So the bottom line is we're
(19:13):
going to see prices change dynamically, and I think that's
going to happen across the board because when it hits
the grocery store, and it is, but it's going to
get much more prevalent. I think that's the last step
in grocery pricing, in dynamic pricing, where everything is going
to be dynamically priced. Well, Uber does that constantly. You
(19:36):
look at the ride share companies. Man try to get
a car leaving an event like a concert, and see
how much money you're going to pay for that relative
to the middle of the concert, and you may pay
half of what the price is that's dynamic pricing. It's
no fun. It really isn't It makes sense, makes sense
(20:00):
on a monetary level, but not for us, I don't
think so. Okay, a story about infertility. And as you know,
thirty years I spent in the world of infertility, not
only practicing law, but having a surrogacy agency. And this
is all about creating kids. And this is all about
creating kids with embryos. And to create kids with embryos,
you need to fertilize an egg, or an egg has
(20:23):
to be fertilized with male sperm, because that's sort of
the way it works. And infertility has gone up decade
after decade, and really don't know why. The answer is
nobody really can prove why. I mean, there have been
some theories, one of them based on real science. For example,
(20:48):
testes that is gonads nerds have to be kept at
one degree below body temperature, which is why men who
are undergoing infertility treatments are told to stay away from jacuzzies.
They's too hot. And this is why physiologically during the
(21:11):
summer it's well, I'm gonna get a little bit. Uh.
It's a little as real though, and that is during
the summer, the scrotum sort of drops and you get
to be a bell ringer during the winter. There's a
lot of shrinkage that goes on, as men will know
(21:33):
and will tell you about it. That has to do
with the temperature of the testicles. And that's what everybody thought,
was it. But you know what, there is a common
denominator and that you're ready for this. Every time there
was a change, every time infertility went up, every single
time there was a stat that was given, you know
(21:53):
what was a commonality around the world iPhones, smartphones? I mean,
why is that? I mean that's kind of crazy. So
that seemed to be the common driver. And then there
was a second study that came out and the authors wrote,
(22:15):
countries with very different healthcare systems, welfare regimes, abortion laws,
religious traditions, recessions, demographic trends all saw exactly the same thing.
Fertility declines accelerated once smartphones became a mass phenomenon. So
what does that mean. Well, that's going to lead to
(22:36):
more studies, is what it's going to mean. And is
it that people are simply not engaged as much, You
don't have sex as much. Maybe maybe the incidence of
sexual encounters drops dramatically the use of smartphones. But this
is beginning the study of this entire issue. And believe me, infertility.
(22:59):
We're talking fit teen percent of the population is infertile,
either male or female, part of any couple. Uh, it's
it's a no small deal. Having dealt with this for
many years, and so now off to the after the
races they go and trying to figure out what exactly
(23:19):
it is that's smartphones And that's a commonality. I mean
that's across the board every place in the world, every
socioeconomic socioeconomic level, because everybody poor people have smartphones too.
I mean, there is no one that doesn't have a
smartphone in h this in we're in the world. I mean,
(23:42):
go to the weirdest, smallest village in the middle of
the Amazon jungle where or in New Guinea where you'll
see guys running around with the bones through their noses,
chanting around a campfire, and then they'll have a smartphone
in their hands. So we're gonna see what happens with that.
That is going to be interesting stuff. Okay, coming up,
(24:05):
we have a huge housing shortage in the United States,
particularly California, particularly southern California, and there's a new law
and I won't say it's controversial, Well, I guess it
is if you live near any of where this is
going to happen. And it's going to create a million
new apartments and condos in California, is what the proponents say.
(24:29):
I'll come back with that, but first, this is KFI
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