April 30, 2025 • 30 mins
(April 30, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. China sends a stern video message to Trump: We won’t ‘kneel down.’ Convicted Cardinal Angelo Becciu pulls out of conclave to elect new Pope. What to know about his embezzlement sentence. UPS is cutting 20,000 jobs amid reduction in Amazon shipments. Hegseth announces he’s ending Pentagon involvement in Trump initiative empowering women championed by Ivanka Trump and Rubio. Trump eases auto tariffs.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. China sends a stern video message to Trump: We won’t ‘kneel down.’ Convicted Cardinal Angelo Becciu pulls out of conclave to elect new Pope. What to know about his embezzlement sentence. UPS is cutting 20,000 jobs amid reduction in Amazon shipments. Hegseth announces he’s ending Pentagon involvement in Trump initiative empowering women championed by Ivanka Trump and Rubio. Trump eases auto tariffs.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to CAPI Am six forty the Bill Handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio f guessing that Kevin Ferrell,
the consiglieri who is running the place in the absence
of the Godfather. He's the one that taps the dead
Pope's forehead with a silver hammer and.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Asks are you alive?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Are you alive?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Are you alive? Three times and then declares the Pope
is dead.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Pope is dead, and now handle on the news, ladies
and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
And good morning everybody. It's Handle in the morning.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Crew Wednesday, Humpday, Wednesday, April thirtieth, and it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Looks like we're all here.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The A team has come together once again. Cono, glad
to have you back.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
What did you have?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
What kind of a rare disease? Where you suffering from?
Or maybe still are.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It was the one called COVID nineteen.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Really you had the VID?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I had the VID? I didn't know it was still around?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, So how sick? How sick were you? Or are you?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I'm good, I'm good today.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
I had a fever for two days, fever and chills
for two days. My head was like an air balloon.
For four days. It was it was, it was bad.
It was worse than the first time in twenty nineteen.
So like the twenty twenty five version, it's it's worse.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's we've gotten it. Anybody else will help?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Will Will's gotten the COVID.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Oh yeah, oh maybe at least three times.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Three times, three times. I mean, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I mean I've had the crabs three times, but that
is you know, a whole different set of circumstances.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You know, if you were an Orthodox, you would you
be allowed to have crabs.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
No, that's very funny.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I like that, look because, as a matter of fact,
I once had him so bad I actually considered negotiating
with Red Lobster to see if they would be interested.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
At least it wasn't for the cheese biscuits.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Okay, anybody having breakfast. It didn't take us very long,
did it, Neil, Good.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf. Good to have you back. Kono.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, it is also and his back.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But she was at the one day you were at
the Beyonce concert, right, Yes, I was, and she.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Did her cowboy cowgirl.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Cowboy Carter.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
All cowboy Carter.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Was it wasn't at the super Bowl where she did
her thing, was it?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Or she came out and did the whole car.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I think it may have been with the cowboy cowboy
Carter thing with all the white Cadillacs.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And those outfits that she did. What am I? What
am I missing?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Where was that?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Lamar?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
So I don't know?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay, then I'm then I'm missing what would have been
it was at but it was a ludicrous anyway, Will
good morning, good morning, there you are, and Amy, good morning.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, hi Bill, Hey, we're all here. We're all there.
Hey real quickly. Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
We're putting together this June seventh thing where it's we're
all going to have dinner. We are going to have
dinner together, and we're going to invite five people plus one,
so it'll be five couples to join us at the
Anaheim White House. We've never done that where all of
us get together and you get to hang with us,
and then it's at the Anaheim White House. Because you
(03:41):
know what Bruno does, I mean, it's insanity the kind
of food that he has, it's so good. And so
we have to try to figure out a way how
do we choose the five people. You know, we want
to do a little bit more than just at random
you write, you come in, Uh, and we have.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
To figure that out.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
What we should do is have them to right in
with their address and then, you know, the six of
us go out to their house when they're sleeping and
shine a flashlight in the windows to see if there's
someone we want to have dinner with.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, it's a great idea. It's as good as anything
has come down the pipe.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
That's how I decided whether I was going to join
the Morning Short I.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Know, that's exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
That's almost went.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, that's almost. How about this, we have to think
of a way of doing it.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
We have a contest that the winner tells us what contest.
We have to choose the winner. In other words, we
don't like that idea either. What was the other one
that was thrown about?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh, trying to find a name for my house?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Uh? Yeah, I had no problem with the Persian Palace.
What do I do now? I can't do Persian Palace?
Do Persian palace? Do you know?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I don't know the name their house? Anybody else go
home to there?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
The president?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
The president?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, Gracie mansion in New York named after Gracie.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Grace land Well said, yes.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, I was talking about the the other five of us.
Anybody go home to their No, I didn't think so.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
No, I don't think so. But we have to figure
something out.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
We've got to figure out a way to uh, to
get to a winner other than just you write in
your name and we pull it out of a hat, which.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I don't think they do anymore. I think it's an
algorithm now, or something that.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Goes into a pile and then at random some numbers chosen,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
All right, Oh, that's it for that. Why don't we
do this?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
How about shickxel Largo.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Ooh, that's not bad, Shisa Largo. You know what, that's
not bad. Let me run in by the Shiksa and
see what she has to say.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
I would imagine anything that had to do with logo
would not fly.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, that's especially with her. Yeah, that's probably true. All right,
let's do it, guys. We could spend a long time
on that, but it's time for some news with everybody
who is back, which is nice handle on the news
with Amy and Neil and me lead story and alone
(06:27):
damn well, China is, well, we're playing Chicken Orange Chicken
with China exactly. And China says, we are not going
to do it. There's no way we're going to cave
on this. And the Trump administration, who was it was
(06:48):
Bennett who said that it's unsustainable for China to continue
on with these terraffs. It's unsustainable for us too, and
we're going to see who caves.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
One hundred and four. I told you yesterday. I was
talking to my you know, my partner.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Sample we are at one hundred and eighty five percent
tariffs right now.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
Why are you forty percent more than one hundred and forty.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Five Because what ends up happening is if a product
is made out of steel or aluminium, and the twenty
percent tariff is added to that if the product is
made out of it, and then a couple of other
tariffs that are thrown in there, some technical stuff, and
we're one hundred and eighty five percent and we're bringing
in a shipment and we have to we're going to.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Lose money on it. But it's just it's crazy. So
and China says, too bad.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
They're shutting down factories in China like nuts I mean
it's not as if they're not being affected dramatically.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's been a right now.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Probably China's being affected more than we are, but they're
staying firm.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I mean, there is no question about it.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Doug.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Could China was playing the long game?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
What could we legally take away their right to own
any property in the United States?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, we could.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I mean it'd be grandfathered in up to this point.
But yeah, we're not Chinese. Say you couldn't do that,
But you can say.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Foreigners not Chinese China, like if they're Chinese nationals.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, those are individuals. So here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
A lot, a lot of even in my area is
buying being bought up by China.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
China per se, and not Chinese, not Chinese people.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
The government of China's buying your Chinese. They're Chinese businesses,
they're not local.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, I understand that. But then again, ownership, it happens.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
All over the world.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Where you're like Mexico, Mexico, they could take your property
at any time if you're not.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, but I don't think you could in the United States.
I think you can make it illegal. You say there
has to be American ownership, that happens all over the
world where you have to have at least fifty one
percent owned by a local resident or a national country.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Gun.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I was just thinking, how would you turn this how
would you turn it up on China at this point, because.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well you could. I mean, there's all all maner of things.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The way it's being done, the cleanest way, even though
it's obviously pretty serious stuff, is the tariffs.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Those go in immediately done.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
They happen tonight and the prison declares two hundred percent
tariff starts at midnight. He can do that at eleven
o'clock in the evening and say he kicks in in
an hour, and so the rest of it is really difficult.
It talks about las be past tariffs are the way
to go right.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Now, and it's this is brutal. This is brutal.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Do you think the Maga hats are going to be
more expensive because I think those are made in China.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I think they are, or a lot of them are.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Yeah, the guy demanding to be let in is out.
So if you'll recall there was an Italian cardinal at
the heart of the Vatican's Trial of the Century. It's
Cardinal Angelo Betschu I'm not sure if I'm saying that right.
So he said that he's going to withdraw from the
(10:00):
enclave for the good of the church. He was convicted
of fraud and embezzlement in twenty twenty, and after he
got in trouble for all of this in twenty twenty,
he said he wouldn't participate in any future conclaves, but
then he recently said, hey, I have the right to
be there. I'm going to be in the Sistine Chapel
with the Arthur Cardinals starting on May seventh, and I'm
going to be part of this process. But then yesterday
(10:23):
he said, I have decided to obey, as I always
have done, the will of Pope Francis, not to enter
the conclave. While remaining convinced of my innocence.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
He got caught selling tickets to the other Cardinals to
go through the door.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh boy, are they gonna uh? Are they going to
rename him? The Cardinals sin.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Almost like no, no, it doesn't now, yeah, I know,
I know, And then we go right into what kind
of baseball team do these Cardinals have?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Very strong? Okay, moving on.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Neil, who's on third? Uh, ups just announced yesterday it's
planning to cut twenty thousand jobs. Everyone's cutting jobs part
of a cost cutting effort that's linked to the delivery
giant's decision to deliver fewer packages from Amazon. Now Amazon's
their biggest customer. I'm not sure what has motivated that,
(11:15):
but the shipping company operates in over two hundred countries
currently around gosh knocking on the door of half a
million employees, about four ninety and the layoffs will impact
about four percent of the workforce. And you know, they're
looking at getting closing seventy three of its buildings by
(11:37):
the end of June. Big doings, it is.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And I think they anticipate just less business also from Amazon.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Actually, I have a little clarification for you on this.
They are going to do less business with Amazon because
it says their margins are low. They you know, because
they do all that business that makes sense. So they're
going to specialize in more more high end or leve.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That makes sense. That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You go to the UPS store, for example, and you're
gonna pay X dollars to ship a product right in
a box.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
You go to a.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Small company like mine, we do it per container right
where we ship, we ship hundreds packages daily. You do
it on a level of a major retailer that ships thousands,
tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands a day, you're going
to get paid very little.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And they are.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
What they do is they bid against each other. That's
why you see some of these companies going from UPS
to FedEx to DHL back to UPS because everybody is bidding.
It's like coke and pepsi at restaurants. Whoever gets the
best deal and companies switch all the time. So that's
what happens in this business. Makes a lot of sense, Amy,
(12:52):
that they're just going to concentrate on on business that
just has better margins.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, that's great insight.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
Oh it's my turn again.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You're too busy informing us, Amy, Uh.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
So Pete Haig Seth May has stepped in it just
a little bit.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
He announced yesterday that he was ending the Defense Department's
women Peace and Security program. He said it was a
Biden initiative, but it was actually enacted during Trump's first
term and championed by daughter Ivanka Trump and Secretary of
(13:36):
Saint Marco Rubio when he was in the Senate was
a big backer of this one. So he went on
and he said, I proudly ended the women piece and
security program inside the Department of Defense. It's another woke,
divisive social justice Biden initiative. Well then he backtracked a
little bit and he said in a follow up post, Well,
(13:57):
the initiative was straightforward in security, foe because when it
was enacted in twenty seventeen, but then it was ruined
by by the right and Biden.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I was looking at some of the horrific weather reports
yesterday because there's some life threatening weather that's going across
the eastern Seaboard. I had no idea that the Democrats
were responsible for the weather yesterday, none whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You know what moving on?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Isn't it like a kid that doesn't want to eat
something because his brother looked at it or something. It was.
It was a great idea at first, but then Biden
looked at it ruined it. Yeah, now we're going to
get rid of it.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Uh yeah, harnish.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
It's pretty insane out there, all right, Los Angeles, speaking
of crappy budgets and people getting fired under a new
budget proposal. We all heard about this. Major cuts come
into the city of angels, but in this case it
means nearly half. I mean, it sounds huge, but I
think we have like six, So it'd be three of them.
(15:02):
Half of the city's animal shelters would close.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You know, we have more than that? Is it just
to that is there's more than six, aren't there?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I thought it was scanning scanning. I don't think it's
that many.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I know the stories about the West Valley where the
big animal shelters are during fires, they take that the
large animals read horses and cows and things.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Yeah, there are six, they're to shut down three of them.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Wow, yeah, you know the story.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Listen, it's horrible regardless. But you say, out of the
six they're shutting down three, it's like fifty percent of it.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Well it's still, it's still fifty percent. That's still and
already shelters are at a max.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And you look at the problem. Why they're at so full,
you know, because there's only for people to ye, no,
but maybe make it tougher for people to get animals
and uh, and how you know how they raise them?
And why are they so full? How can we have
so many animals? How can we're not space.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Well because well, because we used to have kill shelters, right,
a dog would go into the pound and gone, and
now relatively few are so there's more animals out there,
and well it's.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
It's a lot more Complicentdore.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
COVID and stuff got animals when they you know, I
think people are selfish. Animals are a commitment.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, you can get it's a bad thing to do.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Shutting one down is bad.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Well, I do you understand that it's a bad thing
to do. But I mean, if you're going to go
between uh, spending money on human needs in the city
versus what else are you gonna call?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
How much?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
How much more do we want to throw at the homeless?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Well, I don't want to. I could all the money
could go to animals instead of the home.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
I'm just you know, the homeless animals are already suffering
and beingsidy.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Do weize blue factories next to some of these?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Never mind?
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Bill?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
What I swear to God?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
I know where you love?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Actually I don't know the new address?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I do I have it?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
She does.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Okay, that's good to know.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I could have made another joke, could have gone the
other way. But I'm not going to.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You're never gonna cut anything and have someone be happy
about it. But we're a billion dollars in the hole.
Somebody did something stupid.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Yeah, I don't think the animals should be suffering for
this because of all the horrible decisions that are elected.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Leader. She's an animal fan.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
She this is she's animal fans.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Well, not so much an animal fan. Yeah, you know,
I mean an animal Yeah, okay, fine, I think they're
delicious when I cut my losses too, you know. Well yeah, whatever,
all right, we're done.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Okay, we can go on for this like this for
hours and hours an hours.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
No one finds a cow or a pig in the shelter,
is all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
That.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Actually that's not true.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The big animal shelters there are, they don't have to
be well, you.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Can't let them out.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Okay, anyway, we get going on, sound effect, Yeah, we
do this. This went in a weird direct. This went
in a weird direction.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Automakers and customers might be.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Able to breathe a little easier, not much. President Trump
has signed an executive order and a proclamation to ease
auto tariffs. So apparently the twenty five percent tarafone imported
cars will continue, and a new twenty five percent tariffon
auto parts will go into effect this weekend. But there's
some new fine print, and that is that the Trump
(18:40):
action allows for reimbursements for domestic car producers who are
importing car parts. So Trump said the reimbursements will help
give US car companies a little bit of a break.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You know, it's every day it's different. I mean literally
every day it's different. And the part of the story
that I find fascinating is that these major car companies
issued their responses or their statements, all of them thanking
the president profusely.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You knocked ten percent off one.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Hundred and forty or one hundred and eighty, and you
knock them off. Oh, thank you, thank you. We're looking
forward to working with you. I mean, come on, guys,
are you running that scared?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah? You are. They are.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It's amazing how business is running scared. Well, look at
what we reported yesterday. Look at what's going on with
that sixty minute story, and how the lawsuit that Trump
filed against sixty minutes for twenty billion dollars because it
was an unfair lawsuit. It was an unfair interview with
Kamala Harris when he was running against which she was
(19:46):
running against him, and so instead of a major news
outlet telling him to go pound sand which every single
media attorney says that Trump has no chance of winning,
Paramount is in negotiations to settle the lawsuit because Sherry
Redstone has to once to sell the company and needs
the Trump okay for it needs the administration.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You know, I have got a collection gotten it has
gotten crazy.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
What I have a recollection going back to our news director,
Chris Little. I can't remember the circumstance, but I because
I did a lot of the photo shopping and things
like that design work for KFI back then, and I
gave him a picture that we were going to use
on the website, and he said, we can't use that
for the news because you've altered it and there's certain limitations.
(20:32):
And then I remember, I don't want to say it's
the La Times because I'm not sure it might have
been New York I'm not sure, but they got popped
for slightly altering a photo because it was used in
the news and you can't do that the photo. The
photo can't be editorialized at all, and that's stuck with me.
(20:53):
And I think that I think it's not just about Trump.
I think it's a bigger deal than you play it
some times that it's not about editing for you know,
for time, but I'm sure the content is concise. One
is causibility of editing you know someone, Yeah, but when there's.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Use of a likeness, not use of likeness. This is
copyright rules that you're getting involved with. This is a
straight out You did a this was a.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Copyright This was you couldn't do anything to the photo
that changed.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Well, how do you do how let me ask, how
do you do a three hour interview and you bring
it down to seven minutes without editing it?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
That's editing it down. That's understood my po.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And that's exactly what sixty minutes said.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Is for instance, uh, sixty minutes. This was an old
joke that sixty minutes used to do. When it's the
bad guy who's talking, it's it's a close up. The
reason why you do that or a lower shot. The
reason why you do that is the same reason why
cinematographers do it is it changes your mood towards an image.
(22:00):
So when you push in on someone's face, their eye twitches,
their mouth.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
You know, I don't know. You know, I don't know
if that was the case. I would love to know
if that was the case. You know, what if that
was the case.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Matter if of course they do. Of course there's a bias.
Of course there's a bias. I'm not arguing that. All
I'm saying is the twenty billion dollars in damage that
somehow was sustained.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I mean, I'm just.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Saying about the integrity.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
No, I understand, but there's there's always bias. There is
always bias, no matter what you do. You wake up
in the morning and you have bias. Right.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Problem this one is that CBS showed the answer that
Kamala Harris gave, and then when they played it again later,
they had edited to make her sound more articulate and understood.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And I guess that there's no question.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
If they hadn't done that.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
But let me but let me ask you something.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
How was the How was Trump damage to the point
of ten or twenty billion dollars by making her seem
more more lucid?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
If that's possible, that's a whole different thing.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Explain that to me.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I don't think he's got a case.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
No, but the issue is now we're going back to
the terri if.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
The issue here is everybody is running so scared that
now you have CBS actually negotiating with them. Yeah, we'll
pay you some money. We're sorry we did that. That
is the problem. And you know, I mean, there's no issue.
I mean you added anything. I mean I was lucky.
For example, my sixteen minute interview. They actually made me
look like a good guy. And I had already practice
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running down the street with a file covering my face
because I knew which way it was going to go.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And I happen to be lucky. They liked me.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Three minute interview out of a three hour interview.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
They liked me, so I was. I was very lucky.
But that's not the point.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I care about the money. I think he's doing this
so that we talk, so that people know I don't
trust the news.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
No, I don't think. Well, yeah that's a given.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
That's all Lias. That's worth more than the money.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
You know what. We are spending way too much time.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
My fault also on needories like we have to Yeah,
we have to edit it down. We've got a lot
of stories to cover, so let's go back and zip
through them.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
No vowels, only consonants for the rest of the hour.
It's your turn, Neil, Neil, it's your turn. Yeah. Wait,
oh boy, we're having quite a morning, aren't we. Okay,
I'll do Neil's.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait on missing seven.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Okay, that's the problem.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Okay, well okay, well, just GM recalls six hundred thousand SUVs.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That's all escalades and you can look it up. GM recall.
Thank you. Okay, Amy, Trump.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
And Bezos new besties.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Resident Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos yesterday after uh
they got wind that Amazon was considering displaying the cost
of US tariffs next prices for products on its website.
Senior officials told Trump about it. They were all mad. Said, hey,
(25:01):
we had a good call, he said. Bezos was very nice,
he was terrific, and he solved the problem very quickly.
Amazon apparently is not going to be listing the tariffs
out separately.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It doesn't look that way.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Some of the other sites like Timu and the like do.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
But well, Team Mos stuff only costs a dollar, so.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, that's true, right, it's going to be two bucks. Yeah,
that's a good point. Starter homes.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
You used to get a starter home, then you sell it,
work your way up well. In more than two hundred
and thirty US cities, including one hundred and thirteen of
course here in California, one million dollars is the starting
price for a starter home. This is a new report.
Zilo analyst found that the typical starter home is worth
(25:47):
at least one million dollars in these two hundred and
thirty three cities as of March. Now, if you look
back years ago, you had just eighty five cities had
million dollars starter homes, but now it has become no.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, you have to be fair though.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
California of course the most expensive place, but you have
to look at things not in just sheer numbers, but
per capita. Because if California has forty million people and
you have a state that has ten million people, okay,
of course California will have more, but it's you have
to look per capita.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
That's the only way you know.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
It's like lapd has ten thousand or ninety eight hundred cops. Well,
Houston has as many cops, and it's a city with far, far,
far fewer people.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
It's all per capita.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
It still California, New York, New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, yeah, it's miserable. You can't afford it no matter what.
Everybody's moving out.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
So the EV push is so successful we're running out
of money to fix the roads. California's gas tax is
fifty nine cents a gallon, and it is the primary
source of state funding for highways and roads. But as
more people move to electric vehicles, the gas tax revenues
have fallen. Gas tax is raised forty one percent of
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transportation revenue in twenty sixteen. By twenty twenty four it
was thirty six percent.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah, you know what's going south. There's no question there is.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
It's you're going against the middle here and they've got
to figure something out. And the more money and the
more they push evs, less revenue the state's going to
get from sale of gas. So it's a use tax
basically X number of miles you drive, which is fair.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Which well, kno gets COVID and now nobody cares about
authorizing COVID vaccines in the government. Coincidence maybe not so.
The head of the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday
that the agency is now looking at whether it will
still approve COVID nineteen vaccines for next winter. Basically, this
(27:45):
comes down to lack of data at least that's the
statement on booster shots and whether they're effective or helpful
or not. So this answer is kind of a change
from the Biden administration. Of course, the FDA officials back
plans to routinely update the COVID nineteen vaccine each year,
but now it looks like they're looking at possibly not
(28:07):
or at least doing more research.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, they're not.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I don't even think the FDA is allowing traveling cars
or aeroplanes anymore. You have to take a horse, horse
and buggy from city to city.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Well, but the horse has to be tested.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
That's not anymore.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
We love Luca, Luca don chic.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
You know New Lakers Superstar has stepped up and is
going to pay for the restoration of the mural of
Kobe and Gianna Bryant. It was vandalized over the weekend.
This beautiful mural of Kobe with a toddler age Gigi.
He's given her a kiss on the forehead and it
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was unveiled shortly after he and Gianna died in that
helicopter crash. Somebody came over over the weekend and just
tagged the hell out of it.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
This is why I think graffiti quote artists. I love
that word. It's like radio artists that we are. As
far as after his concern, graffiti artists should get twenty
five years to life. Okay, first offense ten ten years,
second offense twenty.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Five, Judge Bill Handle, that's right. Health Secretary RFK Junior
doubling down, he really thinks that we think too much
about infectious disease and that that's what's in the public attention,
and he wants to focus on chronic conditions and chronic
diseases like diabetes and children. And he said, also every
(29:40):
kid who gets autism diagnosis, why is the focus with
autism so much?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Because we're finding well, first of all, the focus with
autism two reasons. The one FDR because all of a sudden,
autism is at the forefront. Two, autism is at the
heart of all the medical conspiracy theory because everything caused autism,
particularly vaccines.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
That was a big issue.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
And the fact that autism quote has grown and it
has exploded in society, but it's only because the diagnosis.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
We didn't know what autism was ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
And yeah, yeah, of course, yeah yeah, but it's just
this autism is a flavor of the month, that's all. Yeah,
it's a basket of robins, you know, thirty one flavors
or twenty nine or whatever the hell flavors are.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
All right, we're done, guys. KF I am six forty.
You've been listening to The Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
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the consiglieri who is running the place in the absence
of the Godfather. He's the one that taps the dead
Pope's forehead with a silver hammer and.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Asks are you alive?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Are you alive?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Are you alive? Three times and then declares the Pope
is dead.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Pope is dead, and now handle on the news, ladies
and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
And good morning everybody. It's Handle in the morning.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Crew Wednesday, Humpday, Wednesday, April thirtieth, and it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Looks like we're all here.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The A team has come together once again. Cono, glad
to have you back.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
What did you have?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
What kind of a rare disease? Where you suffering from?
Or maybe still are.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It was the one called COVID nineteen.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Really you had the VID?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I had the VID? I didn't know it was still around?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, So how sick? How sick were you? Or are you?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I'm good, I'm good today.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
I had a fever for two days, fever and chills
for two days. My head was like an air balloon.
For four days. It was it was, it was bad.
It was worse than the first time in twenty nineteen.
So like the twenty twenty five version, it's it's worse.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's we've gotten it. Anybody else will help?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Will Will's gotten the COVID.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Oh yeah, oh maybe at least three times.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Three times, three times. I mean, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I mean I've had the crabs three times, but that
is you know, a whole different set of circumstances.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You know, if you were an Orthodox, you would you
be allowed to have crabs.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
No, that's very funny.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I like that, look because, as a matter of fact,
I once had him so bad I actually considered negotiating
with Red Lobster to see if they would be interested.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
At least it wasn't for the cheese biscuits.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Okay, anybody having breakfast. It didn't take us very long,
did it, Neil, Good.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf. Good to have you back. Kono.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, it is also and his back.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But she was at the one day you were at
the Beyonce concert, right, Yes, I was, and she.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Did her cowboy cowgirl.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Cowboy Carter.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
All cowboy Carter.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Was it wasn't at the super Bowl where she did
her thing, was it?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Or she came out and did the whole car.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I think it may have been with the cowboy cowboy
Carter thing with all the white Cadillacs.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And those outfits that she did. What am I? What
am I missing?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Where was that?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Lamar?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
So I don't know?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay, then I'm then I'm missing what would have been
it was at but it was a ludicrous anyway, Will
good morning, good morning, there you are, and Amy, good morning.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, hi Bill, Hey, we're all here. We're all there.
Hey real quickly. Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
We're putting together this June seventh thing where it's we're
all going to have dinner. We are going to have
dinner together, and we're going to invite five people plus one,
so it'll be five couples to join us at the
Anaheim White House. We've never done that where all of
us get together and you get to hang with us,
and then it's at the Anaheim White House. Because you
(03:41):
know what Bruno does, I mean, it's insanity the kind
of food that he has, it's so good. And so
we have to try to figure out a way how
do we choose the five people. You know, we want
to do a little bit more than just at random
you write, you come in, Uh, and we have.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
To figure that out.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
What we should do is have them to right in
with their address and then, you know, the six of
us go out to their house when they're sleeping and
shine a flashlight in the windows to see if there's
someone we want to have dinner with.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, it's a great idea. It's as good as anything
has come down the pipe.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
That's how I decided whether I was going to join
the Morning Short I.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Know, that's exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
That's almost went.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, that's almost. How about this, we have to think
of a way of doing it.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
We have a contest that the winner tells us what contest.
We have to choose the winner. In other words, we
don't like that idea either. What was the other one
that was thrown about?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh, trying to find a name for my house?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Uh? Yeah, I had no problem with the Persian Palace.
What do I do now? I can't do Persian Palace?
Do Persian palace? Do you know?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I don't know the name their house? Anybody else go
home to there?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
The president?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
The president?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, Gracie mansion in New York named after Gracie.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Grace land Well said, yes.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, I was talking about the the other five of us.
Anybody go home to their No, I didn't think so.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
No, I don't think so. But we have to figure
something out.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
We've got to figure out a way to uh, to
get to a winner other than just you write in
your name and we pull it out of a hat, which.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I don't think they do anymore. I think it's an
algorithm now, or something that.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Goes into a pile and then at random some numbers chosen,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
All right, Oh, that's it for that. Why don't we
do this?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
How about shickxel Largo.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Ooh, that's not bad, Shisa Largo. You know what, that's
not bad. Let me run in by the Shiksa and
see what she has to say.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
I would imagine anything that had to do with logo
would not fly.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, that's especially with her. Yeah, that's probably true. All right,
let's do it, guys. We could spend a long time
on that, but it's time for some news with everybody
who is back, which is nice handle on the news
with Amy and Neil and me lead story and alone
(06:27):
damn well, China is, well, we're playing Chicken Orange Chicken
with China exactly. And China says, we are not going
to do it. There's no way we're going to cave
on this. And the Trump administration, who was it was
(06:48):
Bennett who said that it's unsustainable for China to continue
on with these terraffs. It's unsustainable for us too, and
we're going to see who caves.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
One hundred and four. I told you yesterday. I was
talking to my you know, my partner.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Sample we are at one hundred and eighty five percent
tariffs right now.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
Why are you forty percent more than one hundred and forty.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Five Because what ends up happening is if a product
is made out of steel or aluminium, and the twenty
percent tariff is added to that if the product is
made out of it, and then a couple of other
tariffs that are thrown in there, some technical stuff, and
we're one hundred and eighty five percent and we're bringing
in a shipment and we have to we're going to.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Lose money on it. But it's just it's crazy. So
and China says, too bad.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
They're shutting down factories in China like nuts I mean
it's not as if they're not being affected dramatically.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's been a right now.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Probably China's being affected more than we are, but they're
staying firm.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I mean, there is no question about it.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Doug.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Could China was playing the long game?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
What could we legally take away their right to own
any property in the United States?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, we could.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I mean it'd be grandfathered in up to this point.
But yeah, we're not Chinese. Say you couldn't do that,
But you can say.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Foreigners not Chinese China, like if they're Chinese nationals.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, those are individuals. So here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
A lot, a lot of even in my area is
buying being bought up by China.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
China per se, and not Chinese, not Chinese people.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
The government of China's buying your Chinese. They're Chinese businesses,
they're not local.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, I understand that. But then again, ownership, it happens.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
All over the world.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Where you're like Mexico, Mexico, they could take your property
at any time if you're not.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, but I don't think you could in the United States.
I think you can make it illegal. You say there
has to be American ownership, that happens all over the
world where you have to have at least fifty one
percent owned by a local resident or a national country.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Gun.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I was just thinking, how would you turn this how
would you turn it up on China at this point, because.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well you could. I mean, there's all all maner of things.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The way it's being done, the cleanest way, even though
it's obviously pretty serious stuff, is the tariffs.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Those go in immediately done.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
They happen tonight and the prison declares two hundred percent
tariff starts at midnight. He can do that at eleven
o'clock in the evening and say he kicks in in
an hour, and so the rest of it is really difficult.
It talks about las be past tariffs are the way
to go right.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Now, and it's this is brutal. This is brutal.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Do you think the Maga hats are going to be
more expensive because I think those are made in China.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I think they are, or a lot of them are.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Yeah, the guy demanding to be let in is out.
So if you'll recall there was an Italian cardinal at
the heart of the Vatican's Trial of the Century. It's
Cardinal Angelo Betschu I'm not sure if I'm saying that right.
So he said that he's going to withdraw from the
(10:00):
enclave for the good of the church. He was convicted
of fraud and embezzlement in twenty twenty, and after he
got in trouble for all of this in twenty twenty,
he said he wouldn't participate in any future conclaves, but
then he recently said, hey, I have the right to
be there. I'm going to be in the Sistine Chapel
with the Arthur Cardinals starting on May seventh, and I'm
going to be part of this process. But then yesterday
(10:23):
he said, I have decided to obey, as I always
have done, the will of Pope Francis, not to enter
the conclave. While remaining convinced of my innocence.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
He got caught selling tickets to the other Cardinals to
go through the door.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh boy, are they gonna uh? Are they going to
rename him? The Cardinals sin.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Almost like no, no, it doesn't now, yeah, I know,
I know, And then we go right into what kind
of baseball team do these Cardinals have?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Very strong? Okay, moving on.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Neil, who's on third? Uh, ups just announced yesterday it's
planning to cut twenty thousand jobs. Everyone's cutting jobs part
of a cost cutting effort that's linked to the delivery
giant's decision to deliver fewer packages from Amazon. Now Amazon's
their biggest customer. I'm not sure what has motivated that,
(11:15):
but the shipping company operates in over two hundred countries
currently around gosh knocking on the door of half a
million employees, about four ninety and the layoffs will impact
about four percent of the workforce. And you know, they're
looking at getting closing seventy three of its buildings by
(11:37):
the end of June. Big doings, it is.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And I think they anticipate just less business also from Amazon.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Actually, I have a little clarification for you on this.
They are going to do less business with Amazon because
it says their margins are low. They you know, because
they do all that business that makes sense. So they're
going to specialize in more more high end or leve.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That makes sense. That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You go to the UPS store, for example, and you're
gonna pay X dollars to ship a product right in
a box.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
You go to a.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Small company like mine, we do it per container right
where we ship, we ship hundreds packages daily. You do
it on a level of a major retailer that ships thousands,
tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands a day, you're going
to get paid very little.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And they are.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
What they do is they bid against each other. That's
why you see some of these companies going from UPS
to FedEx to DHL back to UPS because everybody is bidding.
It's like coke and pepsi at restaurants. Whoever gets the
best deal and companies switch all the time. So that's
what happens in this business. Makes a lot of sense, Amy,
(12:52):
that they're just going to concentrate on on business that
just has better margins.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, that's great insight.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
Oh it's my turn again.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You're too busy informing us, Amy, Uh.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
So Pete Haig Seth May has stepped in it just
a little bit.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
He announced yesterday that he was ending the Defense Department's
women Peace and Security program. He said it was a
Biden initiative, but it was actually enacted during Trump's first
term and championed by daughter Ivanka Trump and Secretary of
(13:36):
Saint Marco Rubio when he was in the Senate was
a big backer of this one. So he went on
and he said, I proudly ended the women piece and
security program inside the Department of Defense. It's another woke,
divisive social justice Biden initiative. Well then he backtracked a
little bit and he said in a follow up post, Well,
(13:57):
the initiative was straightforward in security, foe because when it
was enacted in twenty seventeen, but then it was ruined
by by the right and Biden.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I was looking at some of the horrific weather reports
yesterday because there's some life threatening weather that's going across
the eastern Seaboard. I had no idea that the Democrats
were responsible for the weather yesterday, none whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You know what moving on?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Isn't it like a kid that doesn't want to eat
something because his brother looked at it or something. It was.
It was a great idea at first, but then Biden
looked at it ruined it. Yeah, now we're going to
get rid of it.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Uh yeah, harnish.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
It's pretty insane out there, all right, Los Angeles, speaking
of crappy budgets and people getting fired under a new
budget proposal. We all heard about this. Major cuts come
into the city of angels, but in this case it
means nearly half. I mean, it sounds huge, but I
think we have like six, So it'd be three of them.
(15:02):
Half of the city's animal shelters would close.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You know, we have more than that? Is it just
to that is there's more than six, aren't there?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I thought it was scanning scanning. I don't think it's
that many.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I know the stories about the West Valley where the
big animal shelters are during fires, they take that the
large animals read horses and cows and things.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Yeah, there are six, they're to shut down three of them.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Wow, yeah, you know the story.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Listen, it's horrible regardless. But you say, out of the
six they're shutting down three, it's like fifty percent of it.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Well it's still, it's still fifty percent. That's still and
already shelters are at a max.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And you look at the problem. Why they're at so full,
you know, because there's only for people to ye, no,
but maybe make it tougher for people to get animals
and uh, and how you know how they raise them?
And why are they so full? How can we have
so many animals? How can we're not space.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Well because well, because we used to have kill shelters, right,
a dog would go into the pound and gone, and
now relatively few are so there's more animals out there,
and well it's.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
It's a lot more Complicentdore.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
COVID and stuff got animals when they you know, I
think people are selfish. Animals are a commitment.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, you can get it's a bad thing to do.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Shutting one down is bad.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Well, I do you understand that it's a bad thing
to do. But I mean, if you're going to go
between uh, spending money on human needs in the city
versus what else are you gonna call?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
How much?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
How much more do we want to throw at the homeless?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Well, I don't want to. I could all the money
could go to animals instead of the home.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
I'm just you know, the homeless animals are already suffering
and beingsidy.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Do weize blue factories next to some of these?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Never mind?
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Bill?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
What I swear to God?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
I know where you love?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Actually I don't know the new address?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I do I have it?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
She does.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Okay, that's good to know.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I could have made another joke, could have gone the
other way. But I'm not going to.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You're never gonna cut anything and have someone be happy
about it. But we're a billion dollars in the hole.
Somebody did something stupid.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Yeah, I don't think the animals should be suffering for
this because of all the horrible decisions that are elected.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Leader. She's an animal fan.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
She this is she's animal fans.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Well, not so much an animal fan. Yeah, you know,
I mean an animal Yeah, okay, fine, I think they're
delicious when I cut my losses too, you know. Well yeah, whatever,
all right, we're done.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Okay, we can go on for this like this for
hours and hours an hours.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
No one finds a cow or a pig in the shelter,
is all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
That.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Actually that's not true.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The big animal shelters there are, they don't have to
be well, you.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Can't let them out.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Okay, anyway, we get going on, sound effect, Yeah, we
do this. This went in a weird direct. This went
in a weird direction.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Automakers and customers might be.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Able to breathe a little easier, not much. President Trump
has signed an executive order and a proclamation to ease
auto tariffs. So apparently the twenty five percent tarafone imported
cars will continue, and a new twenty five percent tariffon
auto parts will go into effect this weekend. But there's
some new fine print, and that is that the Trump
(18:40):
action allows for reimbursements for domestic car producers who are
importing car parts. So Trump said the reimbursements will help
give US car companies a little bit of a break.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You know, it's every day it's different. I mean literally
every day it's different. And the part of the story
that I find fascinating is that these major car companies
issued their responses or their statements, all of them thanking
the president profusely.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You knocked ten percent off one.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Hundred and forty or one hundred and eighty, and you
knock them off. Oh, thank you, thank you. We're looking
forward to working with you. I mean, come on, guys,
are you running that scared?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah? You are. They are.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It's amazing how business is running scared. Well, look at
what we reported yesterday. Look at what's going on with
that sixty minute story, and how the lawsuit that Trump
filed against sixty minutes for twenty billion dollars because it
was an unfair lawsuit. It was an unfair interview with
Kamala Harris when he was running against which she was
(19:46):
running against him, and so instead of a major news
outlet telling him to go pound sand which every single
media attorney says that Trump has no chance of winning,
Paramount is in negotiations to settle the lawsuit because Sherry
Redstone has to once to sell the company and needs
the Trump okay for it needs the administration.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You know, I have got a collection gotten it has
gotten crazy.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
What I have a recollection going back to our news director,
Chris Little. I can't remember the circumstance, but I because
I did a lot of the photo shopping and things
like that design work for KFI back then, and I
gave him a picture that we were going to use
on the website, and he said, we can't use that
for the news because you've altered it and there's certain limitations.
(20:32):
And then I remember, I don't want to say it's
the La Times because I'm not sure it might have
been New York I'm not sure, but they got popped
for slightly altering a photo because it was used in
the news and you can't do that the photo. The
photo can't be editorialized at all, and that's stuck with me.
(20:53):
And I think that I think it's not just about Trump.
I think it's a bigger deal than you play it
some times that it's not about editing for you know,
for time, but I'm sure the content is concise. One
is causibility of editing you know someone, Yeah, but when there's.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Use of a likeness, not use of likeness. This is
copyright rules that you're getting involved with. This is a
straight out You did a this was a.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Copyright This was you couldn't do anything to the photo
that changed.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Well, how do you do how let me ask, how
do you do a three hour interview and you bring
it down to seven minutes without editing it?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
That's editing it down. That's understood my po.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And that's exactly what sixty minutes said.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Is for instance, uh, sixty minutes. This was an old
joke that sixty minutes used to do. When it's the
bad guy who's talking, it's it's a close up. The
reason why you do that or a lower shot. The
reason why you do that is the same reason why
cinematographers do it is it changes your mood towards an image.
(22:00):
So when you push in on someone's face, their eye twitches,
their mouth.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
You know, I don't know. You know, I don't know
if that was the case. I would love to know
if that was the case. You know, what if that
was the case.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Matter if of course they do. Of course there's a bias.
Of course there's a bias. I'm not arguing that. All
I'm saying is the twenty billion dollars in damage that
somehow was sustained.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I mean, I'm just.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Saying about the integrity.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
No, I understand, but there's there's always bias. There is
always bias, no matter what you do. You wake up
in the morning and you have bias. Right.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Problem this one is that CBS showed the answer that
Kamala Harris gave, and then when they played it again later,
they had edited to make her sound more articulate and understood.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And I guess that there's no question.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
If they hadn't done that.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
But let me but let me ask you something.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
How was the How was Trump damage to the point
of ten or twenty billion dollars by making her seem
more more lucid?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
If that's possible, that's a whole different thing.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Explain that to me.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I don't think he's got a case.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
No, but the issue is now we're going back to
the terri if.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
The issue here is everybody is running so scared that
now you have CBS actually negotiating with them. Yeah, we'll
pay you some money. We're sorry we did that. That
is the problem. And you know, I mean, there's no issue.
I mean you added anything. I mean I was lucky.
For example, my sixteen minute interview. They actually made me
look like a good guy. And I had already practice
(23:31):
running down the street with a file covering my face
because I knew which way it was going to go.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And I happen to be lucky. They liked me.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Three minute interview out of a three hour interview.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
They liked me, so I was. I was very lucky.
But that's not the point.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I care about the money. I think he's doing this
so that we talk, so that people know I don't
trust the news.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
No, I don't think. Well, yeah that's a given.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
That's all Lias. That's worth more than the money.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
You know what. We are spending way too much time.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
My fault also on needories like we have to Yeah,
we have to edit it down. We've got a lot
of stories to cover, so let's go back and zip
through them.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
No vowels, only consonants for the rest of the hour.
It's your turn, Neil, Neil, it's your turn. Yeah. Wait,
oh boy, we're having quite a morning, aren't we. Okay,
I'll do Neil's.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait on missing seven.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Okay, that's the problem.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Okay, well okay, well, just GM recalls six hundred thousand SUVs.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That's all escalades and you can look it up. GM recall.
Thank you. Okay, Amy, Trump.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
And Bezos new besties.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Resident Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos yesterday after uh
they got wind that Amazon was considering displaying the cost
of US tariffs next prices for products on its website.
Senior officials told Trump about it. They were all mad. Said, hey,
(25:01):
we had a good call, he said. Bezos was very nice,
he was terrific, and he solved the problem very quickly.
Amazon apparently is not going to be listing the tariffs
out separately.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It doesn't look that way.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Some of the other sites like Timu and the like do.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
But well, Team Mos stuff only costs a dollar, so.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, that's true, right, it's going to be two bucks. Yeah,
that's a good point. Starter homes.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
You used to get a starter home, then you sell it,
work your way up well. In more than two hundred
and thirty US cities, including one hundred and thirteen of
course here in California, one million dollars is the starting
price for a starter home. This is a new report.
Zilo analyst found that the typical starter home is worth
(25:47):
at least one million dollars in these two hundred and
thirty three cities as of March. Now, if you look
back years ago, you had just eighty five cities had
million dollars starter homes, but now it has become no.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, you have to be fair though.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
California of course the most expensive place, but you have
to look at things not in just sheer numbers, but
per capita. Because if California has forty million people and
you have a state that has ten million people, okay,
of course California will have more, but it's you have
to look per capita.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
That's the only way you know.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
It's like lapd has ten thousand or ninety eight hundred cops. Well,
Houston has as many cops, and it's a city with far, far,
far fewer people.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
It's all per capita.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
It still California, New York, New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, yeah, it's miserable. You can't afford it no matter what.
Everybody's moving out.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
So the EV push is so successful we're running out
of money to fix the roads. California's gas tax is
fifty nine cents a gallon, and it is the primary
source of state funding for highways and roads. But as
more people move to electric vehicles, the gas tax revenues
have fallen. Gas tax is raised forty one percent of
(27:01):
transportation revenue in twenty sixteen. By twenty twenty four it
was thirty six percent.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah, you know what's going south. There's no question there is.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
It's you're going against the middle here and they've got
to figure something out. And the more money and the
more they push evs, less revenue the state's going to
get from sale of gas. So it's a use tax
basically X number of miles you drive, which is fair.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Which well, kno gets COVID and now nobody cares about
authorizing COVID vaccines in the government. Coincidence maybe not so.
The head of the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday
that the agency is now looking at whether it will
still approve COVID nineteen vaccines for next winter. Basically, this
(27:45):
comes down to lack of data at least that's the
statement on booster shots and whether they're effective or helpful
or not. So this answer is kind of a change
from the Biden administration. Of course, the FDA officials back
plans to routinely update the COVID nineteen vaccine each year,
but now it looks like they're looking at possibly not
(28:07):
or at least doing more research.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, they're not.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I don't even think the FDA is allowing traveling cars
or aeroplanes anymore. You have to take a horse, horse
and buggy from city to city.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Well, but the horse has to be tested.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
That's not anymore.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
We love Luca, Luca don chic.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
You know New Lakers Superstar has stepped up and is
going to pay for the restoration of the mural of
Kobe and Gianna Bryant. It was vandalized over the weekend.
This beautiful mural of Kobe with a toddler age Gigi.
He's given her a kiss on the forehead and it
(28:50):
was unveiled shortly after he and Gianna died in that
helicopter crash. Somebody came over over the weekend and just
tagged the hell out of it.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
This is why I think graffiti quote artists. I love
that word. It's like radio artists that we are. As
far as after his concern, graffiti artists should get twenty
five years to life. Okay, first offense ten ten years,
second offense twenty.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Five, Judge Bill Handle, that's right. Health Secretary RFK Junior
doubling down, he really thinks that we think too much
about infectious disease and that that's what's in the public attention,
and he wants to focus on chronic conditions and chronic
diseases like diabetes and children. And he said, also every
(29:40):
kid who gets autism diagnosis, why is the focus with
autism so much?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Because we're finding well, first of all, the focus with
autism two reasons. The one FDR because all of a sudden,
autism is at the forefront. Two, autism is at the
heart of all the medical conspiracy theory because everything caused autism,
particularly vaccines.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
That was a big issue.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
And the fact that autism quote has grown and it
has exploded in society, but it's only because the diagnosis.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
We didn't know what autism was ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
And yeah, yeah, of course, yeah yeah, but it's just
this autism is a flavor of the month, that's all. Yeah,
it's a basket of robins, you know, thirty one flavors
or twenty nine or whatever the hell flavors are.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
All right, we're done, guys. KF I am six forty.
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