April 28, 2025 • 26 mins
What are the Catholic church's rites after the death of a Pope and the election of a new one. The NATO country with no military is getting serious about defence. How the drug cartels took over social media. The worlds first sperm race.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listen Saints Camp. I am six forty the bill
handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio. F the fun
part with the death of a pope, I know, yeah,
I'm not Catholic, so I can have fun with it.
Matter of fact, if I were Catholic, I had fun
with it. And it's not so much the death of
Francis who pretty neat guy. I mean he as far
(00:22):
as changing the Catholic Church and the main tenants, he
did not. I mean, gay marriage still not allowed, certainly,
women priests still not allowed. Abortion still the same as
it has been. So the major concept, major precepts of
the Catholic Church hasn't changed much. His approach certainly changed
(00:42):
dramatically in terms of how he approached the pontificate, and
that he was much more a man of the people,
and clearly will just look at the burial. If you
look at his tomb in what's the name of that church,
Saint Mary whatever it is, the church that he was
at that he allowed. Here he goes Saint Mary Major Basilica,
(01:06):
which is not Saint Peter's. It's a tomb and all
he allows is his name, Franciscos, nothing else.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Pardon's room where he sleeps, where he slept every night.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Oh yeah, it was. He was a very much man
of the people. Yeah yeah, simple bad. Instead of the
papal apartments, of which they are just incredible. I mean
you talk about wealth, I mean these are the apartments.
I mean these are a lot of room, and the
bedrooms are huge and reached, all drawing rooms and sitting rooms.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
He took none of that. He never would live there.
He always went into.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
The guest There was a guesthouse that was built for
the cardinals during conclave, and it's used with various people
and priests visiting the Vatican, so it's in use all
the time. He took one of those rooms and would
eat in the cafeteria. I mean, this is a guy
who had none of the trappings of popes. He was
(02:05):
a very simple man. Well, when he was archbishop in
Buenos Aides, he would take the bus and go to work,
and or he would drive a car that was given
to him years and years before, this old clunker. And
that's just the kind of guy. He was very, very
simple guy. And as a matter of fact, the only
(02:25):
way that he could be buried outside of Saint Peter's
and the crypt under Saint Peter's is to change the
rules of the burial of popes and be buried as
a simple bishop, not that bishops are simple, but relative
to being a pope, allowing him to be buried outside
of the outside of the Vatican. So that's the kind
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of guy he was. But what I want to do
is talk about what happens now, because now it's time
to search, time to elect the new pope. There are
rules that have been in place for centuries. There are
a couple of myths I want to tell you about.
And there's one basic, basic rule that we in the
(03:12):
United States have similar to that. For example, the only
position in the United States judiciary that exists is the
Chief Justice of the United States, where you don't have
to be a judge.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
You don't have to have any judicial background. You could
just be a regular person off the street.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Now, is it going to happen? Of course not. A
pope does not have to be a priest. Anybody can
be named a pope no background. You can't be a
bishop without having been a priest before that that you
can't be, but you can be pope. You can be
elected pope when's the last time that happened? Thirteen hundreds
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And it used to be a political position why people
would buy into the popocity, into the papacy. You had
the Mediceese and they put fourteen year old guys on there, kids,
and you had entire families run the place, and money
was paid so that the election occurred. Those days. Not
so much anymore. So I want to come back and
(04:24):
start going into what is happening now and give you
some dates. And I love the myths that are there
and things that are still there after hundreds of years,
and how a little bit of technology is involved. And
we'll do that when I come back.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And some of the news that were carrying some of
the trending news. President Trump is waiting into the debate
around Columbus Day. He says he's bringing back Columbus Day
from the ashes, because, as you know, it's indigenous people
they in many parts of the country, California specifically, and
instead of celebrating Columbus, who enslaved people and killed a
(05:08):
lot of Native Americans, they're calling you Indigenous people days. Also,
President Trump wants to bring back smallpox Day because there
are still some Native Americans that have not been wiped
out by smallpox that are left. Okay, now I want
to go back to what is happening in the Vatican
(05:30):
and the search for the new Pope and this go
and oh the ceremony and how it's done is fascinating,
and a couple of myths I want to share with you.
Let's start with what I think is a myth generally
known as a myth, the carme Lango, who is the
guy who now handles the vote and what to do
(05:51):
with the pope and the burial all that, also known
as the Conziglieri. And what he does is that any
cardinal that doesn't do what he says up with the
horses dead horse's head on the bottom of the bed,
do I have? I don't think I have that right,
do I? No?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Just a bit outside the actual truth.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh okay, Anyway, the carme Lngo traditionally takes a silver
hammer and taps it on the forehead of the dead pope,
using the dead pope's given name, taps on it and
says it gives his name? Are you you know? Like
the say it was Frederico, Frederico, Are you alive, Frederica,
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Or you alive, Frederica? Are you alive? Three times? And
if no answer, he's dead. That's a myth that really
doesn't happen. However, the taking a hammer and crushing the ring,
that happens. So what the the apartments of the pope,
the doors leading into the pope's apartment in the Vatican,
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his his living quarters, which are innate, that is sealed
even though he never lived there. Francis never lived there,
and they still sealed it because that goes back centuries.
They had to do that. So now you have the
carmel ingo, who's an American this time around, by the way,
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and he is handling not only the burial and handles
the voting and handles how a pope was elected, but
he also handles a day to day business of a
vaticant because everybody resigns done no pope, and you've gotten
nobody running the Vatican except the day to day operations.
Who's sweeping the floors, etc. And so now begins a
(07:34):
sequence of events. And this was what happened. The confirmation
of the death. And there's two death certificates, one by
the Vatican religious one and one by the state. It's
the state of it's still Italy, and they have to
issue a death certificate and the transfer of the of
the coffin for public viewing with Saint Peter's a funeral,
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mass and burial that took place, and all of these
were done in exactly the days that you were allowed to.
After the funeral, there are nine days of official mourning.
That's what we're going through right now. The dial and
then during this period the cardinals start arriving in Rome
and gives everyone a chance to sit down and sort
(08:17):
of politic with each other. When do you think which
way we're going to go? Because this is a big
deal because it's not just who's going to be elected pope,
who's the vicar of Christ and God comes down and
tells us what's going on, which is what is said,
it's the politics of the church. Are we going to go?
This is the cardinals speaking. Are we going to go
to a more conservative bent? Are we going to go
(08:38):
to a more liberal view of the world. You had
John Paul the iecond who is much more liberal than
for example, Benedictus, Pope Benedict sixteenth, really conservative guy. Who
by the way, if you were, I don't know if
you remember, but he was comes out of Germany and
he was a quote unenthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth.
(09:00):
That is the truth. I love that one. That is,
by the way, I'm not exaggerating that one. He was
a member of the Hitler Youth, Benedict, but as he said,
he was an unenthusiastic member. Anyway, So everybody's sitting around
and they're talking about who's going to be the next
(09:20):
pope and who is actually who's going to lead the
direction of the church. And believe me, there's politicking like crazy.
One of the rules are in order to become pope,
you can't go after becoming a pope. That was like
in the days of presidential politics in the eighteen fifties
eighteen sixties. Abraham Lincoln was elected during the second go
(09:43):
round in the eighteen sixty four election. You can't say
I want to be president. Let me tell you how
slick this guy was. His surrogates went out and did
exactly what he said and made sure that he was
in fact the nomine It takes a real politician, I
gotta tell you, when it comes to a pope. You
(10:04):
can't say I want to be pope, but the people
who are your allies have to say you should be pope.
It's really fascinating stuff. And then you have the votes taken.
First of all, the Sistine Chapel. They all march into
the Sistine Chapel. Doors are locked, sealed, key is put
into the door, and the cardinals vote in the Sistine Chapel,
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and they can't say cell phones, computers, everything is locked up,
although you know they're not in there. They have rooms
where they sleep, and they eat in the cafeteria where
the food is pretty good, I understand. And then they
take their vote every day and actually twice a day.
And so they all sit around and they write down
(10:48):
the names. And here is the rectangular pieces of paper,
elijo or elijio in Summum pontificum. This is Latin, which
I don't speak very well. I elect a supprise upond
it written on the top. The cardinal makes his choice,
writes the name down, folds the paper in half, walks
to the front, declares, I call as my witness Christ,
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the Lord will be my judge, that my vote is
given to the one before God. I think should be elected.
Why not? And then he puts the ballot on a
tray and then the tray tips into the receptacle and
you've got three cardinals who check each ballot to make
sure it's filled out correctly, and then each name is
read aloud and counted, and the results are then said
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to the body, and then you start going now we
have a guy who has X number of votes, and
then it starts going back and forth like balloting. It's
like getting a nomination for the presidency. When there's a
real fight. Well that's what goes on there, and you
need two thirds and if you don't get two thirds
on I think the fifth or eighth ballot, then it
(11:54):
goes to the majority. And then you have the burning
of the votes. Every day the votes are burned, the
one that where you don't have a winner or a
newly elected pope, and out comes the smoke and the chimney,
and as black smoke they put in chemicals. Now black smoke,
no pope, white smoke Pope. And then whenin a matter
(12:19):
of hours, because now you have all of Rome coming
in Saint Peter's and we have a new pope, and
maybe an hour later doors open up. One of the
cardinals goes abemus bop them, we have a pope, and
out comes the new Pope, who tells us what his
(12:41):
name is because he chooses a name. He goes through
that list of baby names that you can buy that
little book and chooses one of those names and comes
out and he is announced as a new pope. In
the case of Francis, he took the name Francis. The
same thing with Ben to Dick. The same thing with
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John Paul the Second, who became John Paul the Second
a month after John Paul the First had died after
he was elected pope. Boy, that shook everybody up. You
had a pope. The cardinals had just left and they
were a month back home. Oh thank you, that's over.
They had to come back and do it again because
(13:22):
John Paul the First or John Paul ended up dying. Okay,
does that help then? Yeah, I'm just helping you out, guys. Neil.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
You know, I'm trying to explain this to you how
it works.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I come to the morning show to get my theology fixed.
This is where I come as a theology student and teacher. Okay,
doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Uh, than you very much. All right? Coming up drug cartels,
which we know all about them, but how they use
and have you social media? And then at eight point fifty,
the world's first sperm race is on. As ridiculous as
that sounds, this is the real thing, a sperm race.
(14:13):
What is that about? It's coming up at eight fifty.
In the meantime, we're coming back with drug cartels and
social media.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Catholic Cardinals are setting May seventh as a start date
for the conclave to elect a new pote, a new pope,
and you'll see them locked up in the Sistine Chapel.
And by the way, that's going to be covered all
over the world as you can imagine. Hey, I want
to move over to social media for a moment, and
(14:46):
we've talked about social media.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Matter of fact, I was pretty late in coming to
social media.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Neil helps me do my social media on this show
is at Bill Handle Show, and we put up more
stuff on Instagram for the most part, and for us
it's fun. It's also fun for drug cartels using social media,
for example, beheading people, shooting them, torturing them.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
That seems to be a fun one.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
For drug cartels, but there is a method to their madness,
and it certainly is madness.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
They started in the early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You'd see on social media people hanging from overpasses, heads
being carted around, gang tortures. And what has happened is
cartels are now influencers. They have become influencers. They've converted
(15:41):
their criminality into a commodity. They broadcast and that's another
way of them staying away from authorities because what they've
become are they become producers of content. And what kind
of content, well, fleeing from custom this is custom agents
and these high speed boat chases, millions of likes farmers
(16:06):
harvesting poppy seeds. You scroll and you'll find people bagging
bales of one hundred dollars bills. And then the cartel
leaders they have tiger cubs running around and jogs, trapesing
about with decapitated heads. That's always fun, training a dog
to take a head running around someplace. And what the
(16:28):
higher ups do is they show their mansions, talk about
their personal journeys from being dirt poor all the way
to being super rich. It's kind of crazy, but I'll
tell you they're Also it also makes sense because here's
what they do and this have done. This is the
smart use. One is just a self aggrandizement. Aren't I terrific?
(16:50):
Look at me?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
You know I've got five million dollars in this suitcase?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You don't I've got all these beautiful women, I mean,
all of that just showing themselves off. Let's say the
police are going after them. Let's say the police have
some intelligence, and they have intelligence, police have intelligence. All
of a sudden, media just blows up with people announcing, oh,
(17:16):
I just saw him there, or I just saw this
group there, and they're paying people to run around and
they're making announcements that they've just seen someone or something
has happened that the police should be should be involved with,
and it floods social media and they're using this to
(17:37):
evade the police. And the police can't even keep close
to this. They can't deal with them. The police simply
the authorities don't have the ability. So social media is
being used to help them escape the police, also to
make themselves look great. They've become influencers and they've become
heroes to so many people, like Bandera music, which is
(17:59):
the music where they talk o the Narco what do
they call that music? Neil Narco Trafficante songs that were
very big and they still like you out there, Yeah,
because you know you're part of this whole group. You know,
you're you're a Hispanic you know, uh, you know, you
(18:19):
know what's going on with your stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I prefer Latino.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
All right, So you're Latino, you know all about the
narcos and you sing those songs and uh, you know, yeah,
you do that stuff. You know, you go to Mexican restaurant,
you ask the very actually been banned to sing like
Narco songs.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
What I need help with my taxes? You help me? Also,
it also hurts when I do this. This is a
legal issues.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Okay, well we're done. All right, let's leave that one alone.
I just kind of thought this was a fun story,
all right. Coming up, this is a fun story, and
that is the world's first sperm race is on. And
this this is real. It is a I don't know legitimate,
but it is a true sperm race.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
And I'll explain how that works as we fitish the show.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1 (19:18):
As we end our show, and May seventh's could be
a big day. Cardinals are set to start conclave to
elect Pope Francis successor. And I did a very in
depth analysis and explanation of what it all means and
what is going to happen, and that was in the
(19:39):
I guess the previous well from eight o'clock a to
a thirty I think was the two segments that I did.
Now I want to end with.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Just fun, I mean seriously fun, especially for us guys.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The world's first sperm race happened on Friday. Now what
is that about. Well, this sperm racing startup. Three guys
who did very well in the tech world. They raised
the million dollars. Uh, and this is to raise awareness
(20:12):
in the worldwide decline in male fertility. So the reason
for this underlying all this is pretty serious stuff. We've
been hearing a lot about that lately. The fertility rate
is dropping precipitously in the first world countries, in the
industrialized world, and that's not really good. Male fertility is declining,
like a lot of the website says sperm Racing website.
(20:35):
It's quote manifesto reads it's happening quietly, steadily. Nobody's really
talking about it. And sperm racing isn't just a joke.
It's not just some viral idea for the Internet to
laugh at. It's something much bigger. And it is sperm racing.
It's a new sport started in Los Angeles. And let
(20:56):
me explain a little bit about it. First of all,
in a USC versus UCLA football basketball game, et cetera.
And this is a format where four competitors went head
to head, very interesting choice of words at a movie
studio in downtown LA. And now, the actual production of
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the sperm did not happen.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
This is not one of those films.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
It's not an event where everybody looked around and saw
four guys doing what they do. No, they produced their
sperm quote specimen. I love that privately. And then it
goes in these little dixie cups. You know, my kids
were born via in mutual fertilization. So they asked.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
For many years, ge, Daddy, where do I come from?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
And I pointed to this big slab of loo sight
with a dixie cup in there, and I said, that's
where you came from. And it was you know, they're
explaining it to their friends a little difficult in any case.
So it has everything that you would think any kind
of a sports activity like this would have. You have
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weigh in statistics, pre and post race interviews, betting opportunities,
live commentary, trash talking among the four participants guys obviously
in the sperm racing. And here's what happened. The sperm
samples are provided beforehand and they're presented to a quote
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lab assistant who then uses a microscope on the stage,
and the microscope is then projected onto screens, so you
actually can see the sperm and sperm swims. And that's
how you can find out or any doctor or any
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expert can find out what the sperm is about.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
There's more. There's first of all, the number of sperm
that are a.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Given well, I'm gonna get a little technical here because
I used to do this not only personally, but also
do this for a living, and that is the number
of sperm per ejaculate. And then the morphology how the
sperm is shaped, because you want sperm that looks like sperm,
but there's a huge number that doesn't look like that.
And you have the speed at which sperm moves forward
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and the direction and are they swimming off in different directions?
And what fertility wants is sperm that shaped correctly, that
moves ahead, that moves ahead at a good clip, and
then it fertilizes a single egg. Now the interesting part
of the single egg. Since you have millions of sperm
attacking an egg, how do you not have many many
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of the sperm hit the egg because it goes inside.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Well, I'm just this is an offshoot, just explaining what happens.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
There's something called the zona around an egg. As soon
as a sperm penetrates the zona, it immediately locks up
and it becomes armor to all the other sperm. It's
really interesting how works physiologically anyway, So you have the
sperm that are put into this medium and they're racing,
and whoever wins is.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
How what are they racing to the It's like it's
like the frogs in the Calaveris frog race.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Whichever frog jumps first and jumps in the right direction
and crosses the finish line, That's what happened.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
That's what this is. There is a finish line here.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Whichever sperm goes and hits it first has won the
sperm race. There's also a sperm Racing Professional sperm Analysis
kit that measures sperm concentration and motility and helps potential competitors.
Quote train. Now most of us have been training most
of our lives for this, uh, and now we can
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uh win or lose a race.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I won my race, and I have my two daughters.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Sometimes I wish I lost the race. You didn't win
a race. I won the race.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Someone squeezed you out at the finish line.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's enough.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
That had nothing to do with you.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
But this is kind of a fun way to really
deal with the fact that we do have a real
fertility problem in this country and the rest of the world.
We're done, guys. That's it. Ah, the swim race, finish,
chowd baby. All right, Tomorrow morning we start all over again,
Amy with wake up call and what Cono is.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Cole is probably gonna be here tomorrow because Cono still.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I think he's out.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
For a little bit, So Tony will be here with
Ann of course doing the show. Neil and I come
aboard at six am right about now. Gary and Shannon
are up next, and they'll be Pope News, no question
about it. Catching themorrow. Everybody This is KFI A six
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You're listen Saints Camp. I am six forty the bill
handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio. F the fun
part with the death of a pope, I know, yeah,
I'm not Catholic, so I can have fun with it.
Matter of fact, if I were Catholic, I had fun
with it. And it's not so much the death of
Francis who pretty neat guy. I mean he as far
(00:22):
as changing the Catholic Church and the main tenants, he
did not. I mean, gay marriage still not allowed, certainly,
women priests still not allowed. Abortion still the same as
it has been. So the major concept, major precepts of
the Catholic Church hasn't changed much. His approach certainly changed
(00:42):
dramatically in terms of how he approached the pontificate, and
that he was much more a man of the people,
and clearly will just look at the burial. If you
look at his tomb in what's the name of that church,
Saint Mary whatever it is, the church that he was
at that he allowed. Here he goes Saint Mary Major Basilica,
(01:06):
which is not Saint Peter's. It's a tomb and all
he allows is his name, Franciscos, nothing else.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Pardon's room where he sleeps, where he slept every night.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Oh yeah, it was. He was a very much man
of the people. Yeah yeah, simple bad. Instead of the
papal apartments, of which they are just incredible. I mean
you talk about wealth, I mean these are the apartments.
I mean these are a lot of room, and the
bedrooms are huge and reached, all drawing rooms and sitting rooms.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
He took none of that. He never would live there.
He always went into.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
The guest There was a guesthouse that was built for
the cardinals during conclave, and it's used with various people
and priests visiting the Vatican, so it's in use all
the time. He took one of those rooms and would
eat in the cafeteria. I mean, this is a guy
who had none of the trappings of popes. He was
(02:05):
a very simple man. Well, when he was archbishop in
Buenos Aides, he would take the bus and go to work,
and or he would drive a car that was given
to him years and years before, this old clunker. And
that's just the kind of guy. He was very, very
simple guy. And as a matter of fact, the only
(02:25):
way that he could be buried outside of Saint Peter's
and the crypt under Saint Peter's is to change the
rules of the burial of popes and be buried as
a simple bishop, not that bishops are simple, but relative
to being a pope, allowing him to be buried outside
of the outside of the Vatican. So that's the kind
(02:48):
of guy he was. But what I want to do
is talk about what happens now, because now it's time
to search, time to elect the new pope. There are
rules that have been in place for centuries. There are
a couple of myths I want to tell you about.
And there's one basic, basic rule that we in the
(03:12):
United States have similar to that. For example, the only
position in the United States judiciary that exists is the
Chief Justice of the United States, where you don't have
to be a judge.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
You don't have to have any judicial background. You could
just be a regular person off the street.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Now, is it going to happen? Of course not. A
pope does not have to be a priest. Anybody can
be named a pope no background. You can't be a
bishop without having been a priest before that that you
can't be, but you can be pope. You can be
elected pope when's the last time that happened? Thirteen hundreds
(04:01):
And it used to be a political position why people
would buy into the popocity, into the papacy. You had
the Mediceese and they put fourteen year old guys on there, kids,
and you had entire families run the place, and money
was paid so that the election occurred. Those days. Not
so much anymore. So I want to come back and
(04:24):
start going into what is happening now and give you
some dates. And I love the myths that are there
and things that are still there after hundreds of years,
and how a little bit of technology is involved. And
we'll do that when I come back.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And some of the news that were carrying some of
the trending news. President Trump is waiting into the debate
around Columbus Day. He says he's bringing back Columbus Day
from the ashes, because, as you know, it's indigenous people
they in many parts of the country, California specifically, and
instead of celebrating Columbus, who enslaved people and killed a
(05:08):
lot of Native Americans, they're calling you Indigenous people days. Also,
President Trump wants to bring back smallpox Day because there
are still some Native Americans that have not been wiped
out by smallpox that are left. Okay, now I want
to go back to what is happening in the Vatican
(05:30):
and the search for the new Pope and this go
and oh the ceremony and how it's done is fascinating,
and a couple of myths I want to share with you.
Let's start with what I think is a myth generally
known as a myth, the carme Lango, who is the
guy who now handles the vote and what to do
(05:51):
with the pope and the burial all that, also known
as the Conziglieri. And what he does is that any
cardinal that doesn't do what he says up with the
horses dead horse's head on the bottom of the bed,
do I have? I don't think I have that right,
do I? No?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Just a bit outside the actual truth.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh okay, Anyway, the carme Lngo traditionally takes a silver
hammer and taps it on the forehead of the dead pope,
using the dead pope's given name, taps on it and
says it gives his name? Are you you know? Like
the say it was Frederico, Frederico, Are you alive, Frederica,
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Or you alive, Frederica? Are you alive? Three times? And
if no answer, he's dead. That's a myth that really
doesn't happen. However, the taking a hammer and crushing the ring,
that happens. So what the the apartments of the pope,
the doors leading into the pope's apartment in the Vatican,
(06:51):
his his living quarters, which are innate, that is sealed
even though he never lived there. Francis never lived there,
and they still sealed it because that goes back centuries.
They had to do that. So now you have the
carmel ingo, who's an American this time around, by the way,
(07:11):
and he is handling not only the burial and handles
the voting and handles how a pope was elected, but
he also handles a day to day business of a
vaticant because everybody resigns done no pope, and you've gotten
nobody running the Vatican except the day to day operations.
Who's sweeping the floors, etc. And so now begins a
(07:34):
sequence of events. And this was what happened. The confirmation
of the death. And there's two death certificates, one by
the Vatican religious one and one by the state. It's
the state of it's still Italy, and they have to
issue a death certificate and the transfer of the of
the coffin for public viewing with Saint Peter's a funeral,
(07:56):
mass and burial that took place, and all of these
were done in exactly the days that you were allowed to.
After the funeral, there are nine days of official mourning.
That's what we're going through right now. The dial and
then during this period the cardinals start arriving in Rome
and gives everyone a chance to sit down and sort
(08:17):
of politic with each other. When do you think which
way we're going to go? Because this is a big
deal because it's not just who's going to be elected pope,
who's the vicar of Christ and God comes down and
tells us what's going on, which is what is said,
it's the politics of the church. Are we going to go?
This is the cardinals speaking. Are we going to go
to a more conservative bent? Are we going to go
(08:38):
to a more liberal view of the world. You had
John Paul the iecond who is much more liberal than
for example, Benedictus, Pope Benedict sixteenth, really conservative guy. Who
by the way, if you were, I don't know if
you remember, but he was comes out of Germany and
he was a quote unenthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth.
(09:00):
That is the truth. I love that one. That is,
by the way, I'm not exaggerating that one. He was
a member of the Hitler Youth, Benedict, but as he said,
he was an unenthusiastic member. Anyway, So everybody's sitting around
and they're talking about who's going to be the next
(09:20):
pope and who is actually who's going to lead the
direction of the church. And believe me, there's politicking like crazy.
One of the rules are in order to become pope,
you can't go after becoming a pope. That was like
in the days of presidential politics in the eighteen fifties
eighteen sixties. Abraham Lincoln was elected during the second go
(09:43):
round in the eighteen sixty four election. You can't say
I want to be president. Let me tell you how
slick this guy was. His surrogates went out and did
exactly what he said and made sure that he was
in fact the nomine It takes a real politician, I
gotta tell you, when it comes to a pope. You
(10:04):
can't say I want to be pope, but the people
who are your allies have to say you should be pope.
It's really fascinating stuff. And then you have the votes taken.
First of all, the Sistine Chapel. They all march into
the Sistine Chapel. Doors are locked, sealed, key is put
into the door, and the cardinals vote in the Sistine Chapel,
(10:26):
and they can't say cell phones, computers, everything is locked up,
although you know they're not in there. They have rooms
where they sleep, and they eat in the cafeteria where
the food is pretty good, I understand. And then they
take their vote every day and actually twice a day.
And so they all sit around and they write down
(10:48):
the names. And here is the rectangular pieces of paper,
elijo or elijio in Summum pontificum. This is Latin, which
I don't speak very well. I elect a supprise upond
it written on the top. The cardinal makes his choice,
writes the name down, folds the paper in half, walks
to the front, declares, I call as my witness Christ,
(11:08):
the Lord will be my judge, that my vote is
given to the one before God. I think should be elected.
Why not? And then he puts the ballot on a
tray and then the tray tips into the receptacle and
you've got three cardinals who check each ballot to make
sure it's filled out correctly, and then each name is
read aloud and counted, and the results are then said
(11:33):
to the body, and then you start going now we
have a guy who has X number of votes, and
then it starts going back and forth like balloting. It's
like getting a nomination for the presidency. When there's a
real fight. Well that's what goes on there, and you
need two thirds and if you don't get two thirds
on I think the fifth or eighth ballot, then it
(11:54):
goes to the majority. And then you have the burning
of the votes. Every day the votes are burned, the
one that where you don't have a winner or a
newly elected pope, and out comes the smoke and the chimney,
and as black smoke they put in chemicals. Now black smoke,
no pope, white smoke Pope. And then whenin a matter
(12:19):
of hours, because now you have all of Rome coming
in Saint Peter's and we have a new pope, and
maybe an hour later doors open up. One of the
cardinals goes abemus bop them, we have a pope, and
out comes the new Pope, who tells us what his
(12:41):
name is because he chooses a name. He goes through
that list of baby names that you can buy that
little book and chooses one of those names and comes
out and he is announced as a new pope. In
the case of Francis, he took the name Francis. The
same thing with Ben to Dick. The same thing with
(13:01):
John Paul the Second, who became John Paul the Second
a month after John Paul the First had died after
he was elected pope. Boy, that shook everybody up. You
had a pope. The cardinals had just left and they
were a month back home. Oh thank you, that's over.
They had to come back and do it again because
(13:22):
John Paul the First or John Paul ended up dying. Okay,
does that help then? Yeah, I'm just helping you out, guys. Neil.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
You know, I'm trying to explain this to you how
it works.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I come to the morning show to get my theology fixed.
This is where I come as a theology student and teacher. Okay,
doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Uh, than you very much. All right? Coming up drug cartels,
which we know all about them, but how they use
and have you social media? And then at eight point fifty,
the world's first sperm race is on. As ridiculous as
that sounds, this is the real thing, a sperm race.
(14:13):
What is that about? It's coming up at eight fifty.
In the meantime, we're coming back with drug cartels and
social media.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Catholic Cardinals are setting May seventh as a start date
for the conclave to elect a new pote, a new pope,
and you'll see them locked up in the Sistine Chapel.
And by the way, that's going to be covered all
over the world as you can imagine. Hey, I want
to move over to social media for a moment, and
(14:46):
we've talked about social media.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Matter of fact, I was pretty late in coming to
social media.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Neil helps me do my social media on this show
is at Bill Handle Show, and we put up more
stuff on Instagram for the most part, and for us
it's fun. It's also fun for drug cartels using social media,
for example, beheading people, shooting them, torturing them.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
That seems to be a fun one.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
For drug cartels, but there is a method to their madness,
and it certainly is madness.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
They started in the early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You'd see on social media people hanging from overpasses, heads
being carted around, gang tortures. And what has happened is
cartels are now influencers. They have become influencers. They've converted
(15:41):
their criminality into a commodity. They broadcast and that's another
way of them staying away from authorities because what they've
become are they become producers of content. And what kind
of content, well, fleeing from custom this is custom agents
and these high speed boat chases, millions of likes farmers
(16:06):
harvesting poppy seeds. You scroll and you'll find people bagging
bales of one hundred dollars bills. And then the cartel
leaders they have tiger cubs running around and jogs, trapesing
about with decapitated heads. That's always fun, training a dog
to take a head running around someplace. And what the
(16:28):
higher ups do is they show their mansions, talk about
their personal journeys from being dirt poor all the way
to being super rich. It's kind of crazy, but I'll
tell you they're Also it also makes sense because here's
what they do and this have done. This is the
smart use. One is just a self aggrandizement. Aren't I terrific?
(16:50):
Look at me?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
You know I've got five million dollars in this suitcase?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You don't I've got all these beautiful women, I mean,
all of that just showing themselves off. Let's say the
police are going after them. Let's say the police have
some intelligence, and they have intelligence, police have intelligence. All
of a sudden, media just blows up with people announcing, oh,
(17:16):
I just saw him there, or I just saw this
group there, and they're paying people to run around and
they're making announcements that they've just seen someone or something
has happened that the police should be should be involved with,
and it floods social media and they're using this to
(17:37):
evade the police. And the police can't even keep close
to this. They can't deal with them. The police simply
the authorities don't have the ability. So social media is
being used to help them escape the police, also to
make themselves look great. They've become influencers and they've become
heroes to so many people, like Bandera music, which is
(17:59):
the music where they talk o the Narco what do
they call that music? Neil Narco Trafficante songs that were
very big and they still like you out there, Yeah,
because you know you're part of this whole group. You know,
you're you're a Hispanic you know, uh, you know, you
(18:19):
know what's going on with your stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I prefer Latino.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
All right, So you're Latino, you know all about the
narcos and you sing those songs and uh, you know, yeah,
you do that stuff. You know, you go to Mexican restaurant,
you ask the very actually been banned to sing like
Narco songs.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
What I need help with my taxes? You help me? Also,
it also hurts when I do this. This is a
legal issues.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Okay, well we're done. All right, let's leave that one alone.
I just kind of thought this was a fun story,
all right. Coming up, this is a fun story, and
that is the world's first sperm race is on. And
this this is real. It is a I don't know legitimate,
but it is a true sperm race.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
And I'll explain how that works as we fitish the show.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
As we end our show, and May seventh's could be
a big day. Cardinals are set to start conclave to
elect Pope Francis successor. And I did a very in
depth analysis and explanation of what it all means and
what is going to happen, and that was in the
(19:39):
I guess the previous well from eight o'clock a to
a thirty I think was the two segments that I did.
Now I want to end with.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Just fun, I mean seriously fun, especially for us guys.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The world's first sperm race happened on Friday. Now what
is that about. Well, this sperm racing startup. Three guys
who did very well in the tech world. They raised
the million dollars. Uh, and this is to raise awareness
(20:12):
in the worldwide decline in male fertility. So the reason
for this underlying all this is pretty serious stuff. We've
been hearing a lot about that lately. The fertility rate
is dropping precipitously in the first world countries, in the
industrialized world, and that's not really good. Male fertility is declining,
like a lot of the website says sperm Racing website.
(20:35):
It's quote manifesto reads it's happening quietly, steadily. Nobody's really
talking about it. And sperm racing isn't just a joke.
It's not just some viral idea for the Internet to
laugh at. It's something much bigger. And it is sperm racing.
It's a new sport started in Los Angeles. And let
(20:56):
me explain a little bit about it. First of all,
in a USC versus UCLA football basketball game, et cetera.
And this is a format where four competitors went head
to head, very interesting choice of words at a movie
studio in downtown LA. And now, the actual production of
(21:18):
the sperm did not happen.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
This is not one of those films.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
It's not an event where everybody looked around and saw
four guys doing what they do. No, they produced their
sperm quote specimen. I love that privately. And then it
goes in these little dixie cups. You know, my kids
were born via in mutual fertilization. So they asked.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
For many years, ge, Daddy, where do I come from?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
And I pointed to this big slab of loo sight
with a dixie cup in there, and I said, that's
where you came from. And it was you know, they're
explaining it to their friends a little difficult in any case.
So it has everything that you would think any kind
of a sports activity like this would have. You have
(22:08):
weigh in statistics, pre and post race interviews, betting opportunities,
live commentary, trash talking among the four participants guys obviously
in the sperm racing. And here's what happened. The sperm
samples are provided beforehand and they're presented to a quote
(22:29):
lab assistant who then uses a microscope on the stage,
and the microscope is then projected onto screens, so you
actually can see the sperm and sperm swims. And that's
how you can find out or any doctor or any
(22:51):
expert can find out what the sperm is about.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
There's more. There's first of all, the number of sperm
that are a.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Given well, I'm gonna get a little technical here because
I used to do this not only personally, but also
do this for a living, and that is the number
of sperm per ejaculate. And then the morphology how the
sperm is shaped, because you want sperm that looks like sperm,
but there's a huge number that doesn't look like that.
And you have the speed at which sperm moves forward
(23:22):
and the direction and are they swimming off in different directions?
And what fertility wants is sperm that shaped correctly, that
moves ahead, that moves ahead at a good clip, and
then it fertilizes a single egg. Now the interesting part
of the single egg. Since you have millions of sperm
attacking an egg, how do you not have many many
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of the sperm hit the egg because it goes inside.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Well, I'm just this is an offshoot, just explaining what happens.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
There's something called the zona around an egg. As soon
as a sperm penetrates the zona, it immediately locks up
and it becomes armor to all the other sperm. It's
really interesting how works physiologically anyway, So you have the
sperm that are put into this medium and they're racing,
and whoever wins is.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
How what are they racing to the It's like it's
like the frogs in the Calaveris frog race.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Whichever frog jumps first and jumps in the right direction
and crosses the finish line, That's what happened.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
That's what this is. There is a finish line here.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Whichever sperm goes and hits it first has won the
sperm race. There's also a sperm Racing Professional sperm Analysis
kit that measures sperm concentration and motility and helps potential competitors.
Quote train. Now most of us have been training most
of our lives for this, uh, and now we can
(24:55):
uh win or lose a race.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I won my race, and I have my two daughters.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Sometimes I wish I lost the race. You didn't win
a race. I won the race.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Someone squeezed you out at the finish line.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's enough.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
That had nothing to do with you.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
But this is kind of a fun way to really
deal with the fact that we do have a real
fertility problem in this country and the rest of the world.
We're done, guys. That's it. Ah, the swim race, finish,
chowd baby. All right, Tomorrow morning we start all over again,
Amy with wake up call and what Cono is.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Cole is probably gonna be here tomorrow because Cono still.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I think he's out.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
For a little bit, So Tony will be here with
Ann of course doing the show. Neil and I come
aboard at six am right about now. Gary and Shannon
are up next, and they'll be Pope News, no question
about it. Catching themorrow. Everybody This is KFI A six
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