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- 0:01Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
- 0:05Speaker 1: six forty.
- 0:08Speaker 2: And we'll be come the Scott's Sunning Kay City off.
- 0:22Speaker 3: I am six forty Bill Handle, Good morning, everybody on
- 0:26Speaker 3: a Monday morning, May eighteenth. One of the issues that
- 0:32Speaker 3: has actually recently come up in the mayor's race, in
- 0:35Speaker 3: addition to homelessness, of course, and the cost of housing
- 0:40Speaker 3: and the cost of living, all the normal stuff that
- 0:42Speaker 3: comes up. One of the things that did come up
- 0:45Speaker 3: during the mayor's debate. And you haven't seen this before,
- 0:49Speaker 3: and that is how Hollywood's production has become a crisis.
- 0:54Speaker 3: How wait a minute, Hollywood the entertainment capital of the
- 0:58Speaker 3: production capital of the world, Well.
- 1:02Speaker 2: Not so much anymore.
- 1:03Speaker 3: There is a video La City council Woman Nitia Raman
- 1:09Speaker 3: is there. She is in a back lot, empty back
- 1:12Speaker 3: lot of a studio. We don't know which one, they
- 1:14Speaker 3: don't name it, and she says points out to what's
- 1:17Speaker 3: behind her. Studios like this one used to be filled
- 1:19Speaker 3: with people, customers, electricians, set medics, caters, thousands of Angelino's
- 1:24Speaker 3: making a living. Now these lots are quiet. Since twenty eighteen,
- 1:30Speaker 3: shooting days in the city have fallen by half.
- 1:35Speaker 2: And then telling voters this is she was personal.
- 1:38Speaker 3: Her husband, who's a TV writer and producer, obviously is
- 1:41Speaker 3: caught up in this too, and she's criticizing Karen Bass's
- 1:45Speaker 3: leadership on the matter and saying, well, here are my
- 1:48Speaker 3: plans now. The production crisis, what they're calling it, has
- 1:53Speaker 3: really wrought Hollywood and the workforce has been decimated because
- 1:58Speaker 3: of that. And so what's happening now is one of
- 2:02Speaker 3: our signature industry, maybe the signature industry out of southern
- 2:06Speaker 3: California is now a political flashpoint alongside affordability, crime, homelessness,
- 2:13Speaker 3: as I said, and for decades so we didn't have
- 2:17Speaker 3: to worry about it. Elected officials didn't have to focus
- 2:20Speaker 3: on this problem because it really wasn't a problem, let
- 2:23Speaker 3: alone turning into a pain issue. I mean, it was
- 2:27Speaker 3: given local production would continue to play a dominant role
- 2:31Speaker 3: in the city's economy, and to the point where streaming
- 2:34Speaker 3: you had the major streaming services Netflix and Hulu, Amazon,
- 2:40Speaker 3: you couldn't rent a space on a sound stage in
- 2:44Speaker 3: this city, and they were building like crazy. Not so
- 2:46Speaker 3: much anymore. What's going on, well, consolidation. Every major film
- 2:51Speaker 3: company is buying every other one. Runaway production costs not
- 2:56Speaker 3: only the expense here in Southern California, but their attax
- 2:59Speaker 3: friendly stage. They give piles of money to productions and
- 3:03Speaker 3: then countries where let's say you have someone that makes
- 3:07Speaker 3: sixty dollars an hour here, says sound person or makeup person.
- 3:13Speaker 3: You know, I'm just leting that figure out. Well, you
- 3:15Speaker 3: get that same person overseas. You go to Croatia, you
- 3:19Speaker 3: go to New Zealand, and you're getting that same person
- 3:21Speaker 3: for fifteen dollars an hour. And they have people that
- 3:25Speaker 3: are as skilled here. It's just a whole lot cheaper.
- 3:29Speaker 3: And these jurisdictions are jurisdictions. You've got Georgia, You've got
- 3:35Speaker 3: South Carolina that simply are stealing the amount of film
- 3:40Speaker 3: and television business because they're saying, hey, we're going to
- 3:43Speaker 3: give you tax credits.
- 3:45Speaker 2: And what does actually that mean. What are tax credits?
- 3:49Speaker 3: Well, it's money that is not going to be paid
- 3:53Speaker 3: by film companies that come in or do production in
- 3:56Speaker 3: Southern California that they owe and ultimately is the taxpayers
- 4:02Speaker 3: that pay it, because is revenue that would have come
- 4:05Speaker 3: in that is not coming in because of the jurisdictions LA.
- 4:11Speaker 3: And you've got San Francisco, and you got other jurisdictions.
- 4:15Speaker 3: The state wants film companies to work here, and therefore,
- 4:19Speaker 3: here's the break we're going to give you. Those tax
- 4:21Speaker 3: credits can be used, they can be sold. And there
- 4:25Speaker 3: are states, and I think there are certain production I
- 4:29Speaker 3: think North Carolina. Maybe it was Georgia that had a
- 4:31Speaker 3: program that they would pay for all the below the
- 4:36Speaker 3: line costs, not the actors and actresses, but below the line,
- 4:40Speaker 3: the production people, the camera people, the makeup people. I mean,
- 4:45Speaker 3: you can't go against that. So it's hard, especially when
- 4:49Speaker 3: you have the state. Although the state has money, you know,
- 4:52Speaker 3: the state's going to run in a surplus this year
- 4:54Speaker 3: and next.
- 4:56Speaker 2: So what can be done.
- 4:57Speaker 3: Well, one of the things that can be done is
- 4:59Speaker 3: just make it easier for permitting. And there are a
- 5:03Speaker 3: couple of stories here where one permit was given and
- 5:07Speaker 3: then it was shut down because someone complained and it
- 5:10Speaker 3: turned out there weren't enough parking places for the production.
- 5:15Speaker 3: And move forward. Okay, that don't that's a killer. And
- 5:19Speaker 3: that's just one example. So LA has to make.
- 5:23Speaker 2: It a lot easier.
- 5:24Speaker 3: California is moving in that direction, but LA does not
- 5:28Speaker 3: control California. Matter of fact, if you look at quote
- 5:31Speaker 3: Los Angeles that has one hundred jurisdictions in the area,
- 5:36Speaker 3: and all of them have different rules. So the great
- 5:40Speaker 3: films that have been made here in Los Angeles, Debbie
- 5:45Speaker 3: does the West Coast for example, Let's or the best
- 5:49Speaker 3: of John Holmes's films are no longer.
- 5:52Speaker 2: Going to be made here, which is kind of a shame.
- 5:59Speaker 3: And those early film especially the John Holmes films, they
- 6:02Speaker 3: played the long game on that one for sure.
- 6:04Speaker 2: Okay, we're done with that. One of the things that I.
- 6:12Speaker 3: Assume you thinks kind of fun if you're really into conspiracies,
- 6:16Speaker 3: is the issue of doctor Fauci and COVID and covering
- 6:20Speaker 3: up where COVID actually came from. And the argument is,
- 6:26Speaker 3: so there's two main arguments. One it came from a
- 6:29Speaker 3: lab in Wuhan, China, or it came from a meat
- 6:35Speaker 3: market in Wuhan, China, or it came from the store
- 6:41Speaker 3: near the Wuhan lab that was the Kentucky Fried Bat
- 6:46Speaker 3: store that it also came from.
- 6:49Speaker 2: So we don't know which of the three.
- 6:50Speaker 3: Now, the CIA did an investigation, and the CIA was
- 6:57Speaker 3: neutral about where the.
- 7:00Speaker 2: Virus came from.
- 7:02Speaker 3: Well a CIA Wilt's whistleblower told Congress under oath that
- 7:08Speaker 3: Anthony Fucci Fauci steered official investigators away from concluding that
- 7:16Speaker 3: COVID nineteen originated in that Chinese lab. Fauci retired in
- 7:21Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, significantly influenced the CIA's neutral founding on
- 7:28Speaker 3: the source of the virus by suggesting the agency consult
- 7:32Speaker 3: experts who were aligned with his view that it occurred spontaneously.
- 7:38Speaker 3: James Erdman told the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
- 7:43Speaker 3: He said he testified doctor Fauci's role in the cover
- 7:46Speaker 3: up was intentional and the CIA was leaning towards the
- 7:53Speaker 3: lab leak theory, leaning towards it until Fauci's intervention, and
- 7:59Speaker 3: the quote is doctor Fauci influenced the analytical process and
- 8:03Speaker 3: findings by leveraging his position. Fauci's eighty five years old
- 8:09Speaker 3: former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
- 8:13Speaker 3: part of the National Institute of Health, wasn't there at
- 8:17Speaker 3: the hearing, and the hearing was boycotted by every Democratic member.
- 8:22Speaker 3: It was only Republican lawmakers in the hearing. Now the
- 8:26Speaker 3: Republicans have alleged that he rejected the theory that the
- 8:31Speaker 3: virus was engineered and leaked from the Wuhan Institute of
- 8:35Speaker 3: Virology because of a conflict of interests, and Fauci has
- 8:39Speaker 3: already very strenuously denied this.
- 8:42Speaker 2: Now, was it purposely leaked? You know, it's hard to.
- 8:45Speaker 3: Believe that it was purposely leaked because the Chinese were
- 8:49Speaker 3: the first to get got nailed with the COVID pandemic.
- 8:55Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like the it's not like hacking
- 8:58Speaker 3: into a ORGN computer system. Everybody got COVID around the world.
- 9:04Speaker 3: So I think the argument legitimately is was it leaked,
- 9:08Speaker 3: did it come from? Was it accidental? Some say it's not,
- 9:13Speaker 3: and Republicans have alleged that nope, it was all a
- 9:17Speaker 3: conflict Why well. Ran Paul, who's Republican and chaired the hearing,
- 9:23Speaker 3: repeatedly accused Fausci of covering.
- 9:25Speaker 2: Up the Wuhan Institute.
- 9:28Speaker 3: Because his former agency, funded by another body, the EcoHealth Alliance,
- 9:34Speaker 3: in turned finance research in wu Han on bat coronaviruses.
- 9:41Speaker 3: There are many coronaviruses, and bats seem to get them.
- 9:48Speaker 3: So what Paul has said this amounted to quote a
- 9:50Speaker 3: gain of function research. It involves deliberately making a virus
- 9:55Speaker 3: more infectious to humans to study its effects in a lab.
- 10:00Speaker 2: Ramp up the ramp up the degree of.
- 10:08Speaker 3: Contagiousness, contagiousness of contagion, so we can study it well.
- 10:14Speaker 3: Fauci said, that's never ever happened. The CIA initially came
- 10:20Speaker 3: to a neutral verdict, it was leaning towards the lab,
- 10:25Speaker 3: and then came to a neutral verdict on the origins
- 10:28Speaker 3: of COVID nineteen, but after a review changes position. In
- 10:33Speaker 3: January of last year, five days after Trump took office,
- 10:37Speaker 3: is when it changed his position and then went to
- 10:42Speaker 3: Fauci's direction. And now it's coming back big time. And
- 10:48Speaker 3: Fauci shares the consensus, scientific consensus that the coronavirus originated
- 10:53Speaker 3: in bats likely jumped via another species to humans, which
- 10:59Speaker 3: is very rare, and they think it may be a
- 11:02Speaker 3: civit cat. And this was Civit cats and other weird
- 11:07Speaker 3: animal for meat are sold in the Wuhan meat market.
- 11:11Speaker 3: And if you've ever seen pictures of the Wuhan meat market,
- 11:14Speaker 3: the only human being that I know that would ever
- 11:16Speaker 3: eat anything coming out of that would be Neil. Neil
- 11:22Speaker 3: at bad cibit cat. Yeah, kinds of weird birds. We
- 11:30Speaker 3: have a lot of crows in our neighborhood. I wonder
- 11:32Speaker 3: if you can eat those?
- 11:34Speaker 1: No, oh, you eat crow almost every day.
- 11:36Speaker 2: Well, there you go.
- 11:37Speaker 3: I knew. I knew that was going to happen as
- 11:39Speaker 3: soon as I opened up my mouth. Okay, let me
- 11:42Speaker 3: tell you what's going on with Chick fil A. The
- 11:46Speaker 3: US government is suing Hatch Trick, which is a Chick
- 11:50Speaker 3: fil A franchise, And the way franchises work usually you
- 11:56Speaker 3: think of one person owning a McDonald's or Ajac in
- 12:00Speaker 3: the box. There are major companies that own dozens of
- 12:04Speaker 3: these franchises and they have I think there may be
- 12:08Speaker 3: some that own in the hundreds of stores. And the
- 12:12Speaker 3: EEOC chair Andrea Lucas is suing arguing that Hatch Hatch
- 12:23Speaker 3: Trick has prioritized religious discrimination cases and has filed She
- 12:29Speaker 3: has filed sixteen lawsuits recovering over sixty three million dollars
- 12:33Speaker 3: since January of twenty twenty five. And why is that, Well,
- 12:38Speaker 3: it's because there has been a turn in government under
- 12:43Speaker 3: the Trump administration that religious freedom First Amendment freedoms have
- 12:46Speaker 3: become paramount as opposed to separation of church and state.
- 12:50Speaker 3: Now it's freedom of religion and moving to the point
- 12:53Speaker 3: where that has become more important. Now, what's interesting about
- 12:57Speaker 3: this case is that the government is suing an organization
- 13:05Speaker 3: that supports and what it does is recognize the Sabbath
- 13:10Speaker 3: Sundays because that's Chick fil A, right, No chicken sandwiches
- 13:15Speaker 3: on Sunday, none at all, which is, by the way,
- 13:17Speaker 3: my idea for the greatest business opportunity. You get one
- 13:21Speaker 3: of those fried chicken trucks, those food trucks, and you
- 13:24Speaker 3: park it in the parking lot on Sundays at a
- 13:28Speaker 3: Chick fil A facility, at a location. You make a fortune.
- 13:32Speaker 3: In any case, this one is interesting because wait a second,
- 13:35Speaker 3: you're talking about suing an organization because it allows people
- 13:41Speaker 3: or actually forces his employees to take Sunday off because
- 13:45Speaker 3: of Christian beliefs. Now, you wouldn't think that was happening,
- 13:47Speaker 3: except there is one woman, a member of the United
- 13:52Speaker 3: Church of God, who is a manager at Hatchtrick. And
- 13:56Speaker 3: what she did is she was the Church of the
- 13:58Speaker 3: United Church of God celebrate Sabbath on Saturday, not on Sunday.
- 14:05Speaker 3: The Jewish religion does the same thing. Islam does the
- 14:08Speaker 3: same thing. Sabbath is Friday night to Saturday night. And
- 14:15Speaker 3: she was asked and was forced to work on Saturdays.
- 14:20Speaker 3: And you take Sunday off because Sunday is the day
- 14:23Speaker 3: of rest, that's when God rested.
- 14:26Speaker 2: And she says, no, my Sabbath is Saturday. I want
- 14:29Speaker 2: you to honor that. Chick fil A said, okay, but
- 14:34Speaker 2: you have to accept.
- 14:35Speaker 3: The lower paying job with fewer hours and benefits. She
- 14:38Speaker 3: said no, and then Chick fil A or this company
- 14:43Speaker 3: that's a franchise, he fired her. According to the EEOC,
- 14:48Speaker 3: and since taking charge of the EOC last year, Andrea Lucas,
- 14:52Speaker 3: who's the chair, made it a priority to pursue employers
- 14:56Speaker 3: whose actions might interfere with interfere with workers express seeing
- 15:00Speaker 3: their religious police. She's a conservative Christian and she believes
- 15:05Speaker 3: right or religious discrimination was overlooked and under prosecuted.
- 15:09Speaker 2: In the Biden administration.
- 15:11Speaker 3: Certainly, the Biden administration did not push First Amendment freedom
- 15:15Speaker 3: of religion the way the Trump administration is pushing it.
- 15:18Speaker 3: It's a different philosophy which I find interesting on this one, hey,
- 15:22Speaker 3: is that.
- 15:23Speaker 1: Yes, the important thing is the people don't understand this. Christians,
- 15:27Speaker 1: modern day Christians don't observe the Sabbath, which is Saturday.
- 15:33Speaker 1: They observed the Lord's Day, which is Sunday. Two different things.
- 15:39Speaker 3: Okay, I'll tell you who doesn't believe it is too.
- 15:43Speaker 3: I'll tell you who doesn't believe it's two different things,
- 15:45Speaker 3: and that is Chick fil A. They think that the
- 15:49Speaker 3: Sabbath and the Lord's Day are one.
- 15:52Speaker 2: And the same day, and that is Sunday. I don't
- 15:54Speaker 2: know about that. I'm just saying, well, that's what the
- 15:56Speaker 2: lawsuit says. Clearly.
- 15:57Speaker 3: I'm just telling you, is that Chick fil A says,
- 16:00Speaker 3: we're not going to let you celebrate or take off
- 16:03Speaker 3: during your Sabbath the way you construe Sabbath. And if
- 16:07Speaker 3: you do, tell you what, you can go ahead and
- 16:10Speaker 3: not work lower paying job, fewer hours, and the EOC,
- 16:13Speaker 3: the equal employment whatever that oversees this religious the way
- 16:21Speaker 3: religion is handled, actually discrimination is handled in the workplace.
- 16:25Speaker 2: That's exactly what this is.
- 16:26Speaker 3: I just find it interesting, and this is to the
- 16:28Speaker 3: credit of the Trump administration. I'm telling you, I think
- 16:32Speaker 3: they are being even Stephen here. What they're saying is, yeah,
- 16:36Speaker 3: we love Christian nationalists. Part of MAGA is a belief
- 16:41Speaker 3: in Christian nationality, not all of it. But what they're
- 16:44Speaker 3: saying is, we don't care if someone celebrates the Sabbath
- 16:49Speaker 3: on Saturday, they have as much right as someone celebrating
- 16:53Speaker 3: the same on Sunday. And if you discriminate and don't
- 16:57Speaker 3: recognize that, guess what, We're gonna nail you and go
- 17:02Speaker 3: after you.
- 17:03Speaker 2: And that's exactly what's happening.
- 17:04Speaker 3: And I have to give you, I have to give
- 17:08Speaker 3: kudos to the administration. She's also gone after employers that
- 17:12Speaker 3: required workers to receive COVID nineteen vaccines to return to work.
- 17:17Speaker 2: You know how I feel about that.
- 17:20Speaker 3: And she's also set up a task force to study
- 17:23Speaker 3: anti Christian bias in the federal government. So it's across
- 17:27Speaker 3: the board, and I'm fine with that. Chick fil A
- 17:33Speaker 3: close on Sundays. You know, the other super religious organization
- 17:38Speaker 3: is in an out burger, where if you go to
- 17:42Speaker 3: in an out burger and you look at their cups,
- 17:44Speaker 3: at the bottom of their cups is a phrase from
- 17:48Speaker 3: the Bible. But here's the difference. Where Chick fil A walks,
- 17:51Speaker 3: the walks the walk and talks. The walk talks and
- 17:55Speaker 3: talks it as it walks. It's still open on Sundays.
- 18:02Speaker 3: See that's okay, I'll buy that. Good for the Trump
- 18:07Speaker 3: administration on this one, I have to say it's true.
- 18:09Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
- 18:11Speaker 3: Apple is making some hit products with insane profits.
- 18:17Speaker 2: That's Apple. I mean, it knows what it's doing.
- 18:19Speaker 3: So you've got the Neo laptop five hundred and ninety
- 18:22Speaker 3: nine dollars and this is an Apple product. How is
- 18:26Speaker 3: it so cheap? Well, what it does is use chips
- 18:30Speaker 3: with slight defects.
- 18:33Speaker 2: And I wasn't aware that.
- 18:35Speaker 3: Well, I was aware that chips with slight defects were around,
- 18:37Speaker 3: but usually they throw them out. Well, it turns out
- 18:41Speaker 3: that there are enough out there because keep in mind,
- 18:43Speaker 3: even a small percentage of slight defects to fight defective
- 18:47Speaker 3: chips are out there.
- 18:49Speaker 2: That you can actually use them.
- 18:50Speaker 3: So what Apple has done is taking these chips and
- 18:54Speaker 3: repurpose them. iPhones have the highest level of chips. Well,
- 19:00Speaker 3: you have cheap o creepo computers that don't need even
- 19:03Speaker 3: they don't need that Chrome for example.
- 19:06Speaker 2: Need a much lower level of computing power.
- 19:10Speaker 3: And that's what Apple has done, and it's beat everybody
- 19:14Speaker 3: out there.
- 19:15Speaker 2: It's been doing this four years with huge success.
- 19:20Speaker 3: And so they are now on the Verge or they
- 19:23Speaker 3: have with the Neo laptop, they can now compete with PCs.
- 19:30Speaker 3: They can compete with androids on the phones, the ones
- 19:34Speaker 3: that are not as sophisticated. Their seventeen eiphone doesn't need
- 19:40Speaker 3: the high end chip. And so this is what Apple
- 19:43Speaker 3: has done, and this is why Apple is one of
- 19:46Speaker 3: the most valuable companies on the planet because they just
- 19:49Speaker 3: know what they're doing. They're squeezing profits from lesser performing processors.
- 19:54Speaker 3: And since Apple now has processors made specifically for Apple,
- 19:59Speaker 3: They've designed it manufactured in Taiwan. They're manufacturing a cheaper
- 20:04Speaker 3: or a less powerful chip which is not as expensive,
- 20:09Speaker 3: and they're using those across an entire panoply of products.
- 20:16Speaker 2: Hey, I think that's a great idea.
- 20:18Speaker 3: I really do I have Apple products, except I use
- 20:22Speaker 3: a PC for Handle on the Law, Because when we
- 20:26Speaker 3: do a call in show, there's the screening program where
- 20:30Speaker 3: you can see the screen, you can see the questions
- 20:32Speaker 3: and you log on to phone calls. Yeah, Fred, you're
- 20:35Speaker 3: on KFI. Well, Bill, my dog just ate my cat?
- 20:40Speaker 3: Do I have a case? Can the cat su I mean,
- 20:43Speaker 3: you know, my ridiculous questions that I get on Handle
- 20:45Speaker 3: on the law. That's a PC that runs that program,
- 20:50Speaker 3: and it is nothing compared to the way, for example,
- 20:55Speaker 3: my Apple screen is the Apple CPU. We have Apple
- 21:00Speaker 3: tops we have and so that's that's why they.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Do as well as they do. They're very smart, smart
- 21:07Speaker 2: people for sure. And you look at Tim Cook, who
- 21:11Speaker 2: is a successor to.
- 21:14Speaker 3: Steve Jobs, and you know, no one is ever going
- 21:17Speaker 3: to replace Jobs.
- 21:19Speaker 2: Cook has in a big, big way.
- 21:22Speaker 3: He has brought to a company to a level that
- 21:25Speaker 3: Steve Jobs could probably never imagine.
- 21:28Speaker 2: All right, coming up, Carl's Junior.
- 21:32Speaker 3: Carl's Junior may very well go bankrupt here in totally
- 21:38Speaker 3: as a company filing for Chapter eleven. How is that possible,
- 21:42Speaker 3: Carl's Junior. I'll explain, and I'll give you one very
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