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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
- 0:04Speaker 2: KFI AM 640. Bill Handel here. Good morning.
- 0:12Speaker 3: It is a Wednesday morning, September 23rd. Yesterday, the president
- 0:17Speaker 3: spoke at the U.N. and some fun U.N. facts that
- 0:19Speaker 3: I'm going to share with you coming up the next segment.
- 0:23Speaker 3: And then today at 830, it's going to be Dr.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Jim Keeney.
- 0:28Speaker 3: Who, of course, is our medical expert. He's been doing
- 0:31Speaker 3: this for decades with us now. Okay, 10 years ago,
- 0:34Speaker 3: President Xi of China met with President Trump during Trump's
- 0:39Speaker 3: first term. And at that time, the U.S. really was
- 0:45Speaker 3: way ahead of the game with China. China couldn't compete
- 0:49Speaker 3: with the U.S., particularly in technology. Well, that has changed
- 0:54Speaker 3: big time. He and Trump and President Xi are going
- 1:00Speaker 3: to be meeting at.
- 1:01Speaker 2: The end of the week.
- 1:04Speaker 3: And it's a whole different world between China and the U.S.
- 1:09Speaker 3: China has emerged as a tech heavyweight. Homegrown tech talent
- 1:15Speaker 3: is moving Chinese AI models forward.
- 1:18Speaker 2: To very close to the U.S. The U.S.
- 1:20Speaker 3: Is still ahead of the rest of the world in AI,
- 1:21Speaker 3: but China is fast, fast approaching. We don't talk much
- 1:25Speaker 3: about the Beijing space program. Do you know they're landing
- 1:29Speaker 3: reusable rockets a la Elon Musk? And no one's paying
- 1:33Speaker 3: a lot of attention to it. They're going to be
- 1:36Speaker 3: landing people on the moon. They're working at moon bases.
- 1:40Speaker 3: I mean, they're basically where we are and are committed
- 1:43Speaker 3: to moving ahead. We're not that committed. But then China,
- 1:48Speaker 3: Whenever a decision is made by the president of China,
- 1:50Speaker 3: who is basically full dictatorial powers, and the Politburo, which
- 1:55Speaker 3: follows him, public sentiment doesn't matter. There are no politics
- 2:00Speaker 3: in China. So whatever the Politburo decides, they're moving forward. AI,
- 2:05Speaker 3: they're going forward with it. The space program, nothing gets
- 2:10Speaker 3: in the way of that. They don't care about budgets.
- 2:12Speaker 3: There is no overwhelming or even underwhelming opposition to that,
- 2:19Speaker 3: China's manufacturing has hit $ 1. 2 trillion in trade surplus. Now,
- 2:28Speaker 3: a lot of defining how wealthy a country is or
- 2:30Speaker 3: how well it does, it's its balance of trade.
- 2:33Speaker 2: The more a.
- 2:33Speaker 3: Country imports, the weaker it is. We import far more
- 2:40Speaker 3: than we export. China exports far more than it imports.
- 2:46Speaker 2: Which makes for a very strong economy, $ 1. 2 trillion positive
- 2:53Speaker 2: trade surplus for them.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Why?
- 2:56Speaker 3: Electronic vehicles. By the way, they own the electronic vehicle
- 3:00Speaker 3: industry around the world.
- 3:02Speaker 2: It's theirs.
- 3:03Speaker 3: And they would completely overwhelm the American car buying public.
- 3:08Speaker 3: because they build a phenomenal car at about half of
- 3:11Speaker 3: what we build it here.
- 3:14Speaker 2: Solar panels, mainly Chinese.
- 3:16Speaker 3: Chips are not only potato chips do they dominate the
- 3:22Speaker 3: world market on, but also computer chips.
- 3:26Speaker 2: Because they are selling those. And as I said, right now,
- 3:30Speaker 2: the U.S.
- 3:31Speaker 3: Is not allowing the high, high-end chips that are going
- 3:34Speaker 3: to be using AI to go to China. Okay, China says, great,
- 3:38Speaker 3: we'll manufacture our own. China is now keeping the U.S.
- 3:42Speaker 3: in check, and China is moving ahead very quickly as
- 3:46Speaker 3: a major world player, where the U.S., because of President Trump,
- 3:52Speaker 3: wants to cut back on its influence on the world.
- 3:56Speaker 2: But at the same.
- 3:56Speaker 3: Time saying that I will decide, that America will make
- 4:01Speaker 3: the decisions, that is me, America will make the decisions
- 4:04Speaker 3: for the rest of the world.
- 4:06Speaker 2: But we don't want any part of the rest of
- 4:08Speaker 2: the world. So I don't understand that. And then the
- 4:11Speaker 2: big issue with Taiwan, China has always said that Taiwan
- 4:15Speaker 2: belongs to China.
- 4:16Speaker 3: It's just another province of China. We have obviously accepted
- 4:22Speaker 3: China as a sovereign nation. We do not recognize Taiwan
- 4:27Speaker 3: as an independent country, but we are incredible allies, and
- 4:31Speaker 3: it's just a matter of time. I think China is
- 4:34Speaker 3: just sitting back and waiting, and we don't know if
- 4:37Speaker 3: the attack is going to come, but the United States
- 4:39Speaker 3: has been weakened considerably because the U.S. is a bulwark
- 4:45Speaker 3: against the Chinese invasion and takeover of Taiwan. Well, contrary
- 4:49Speaker 3: to the administration, we are low on armaments. The Iranian
- 4:54Speaker 3: war has sucked up a lot of those armaments.
- 4:58Speaker 2: So that confidence that China has is diversifying trade from
- 5:03Speaker 2: the U.S. markets, building out its technological self-sufficiency, building its
- 5:10Speaker 2: own major robotics, AI, biotech space, new energy infrastructure.
- 5:16Speaker 3: Because China is also going crazy with alternative energy, moving
- 5:21Speaker 3: ahead with that technology. We are moving back because the
- 5:25Speaker 3: president just does not like green energy. He just is
- 5:29Speaker 3: dead set against alternative energy, arguing that if you get
- 5:33Speaker 3: rid of alternative energy, consumers have more choices if it's
- 5:37Speaker 3: all oil and emissions, oil and gas.
- 5:42Speaker 2: So there's some weird stuff going on. However, China has issues.
- 5:46Speaker 3: Youth unemployment, hundreds of millions of workers rely on the
- 5:50Speaker 3: gig economy. Local governments struggle under debt. They had a
- 5:55Speaker 3: property crisis that was insane, still going on. But it's
- 6:00Speaker 3: a different world. Oh, and then you have the company Huawei, big,
- 6:05Speaker 3: big company, announced that its next generation of AI chips
- 6:10Speaker 3: are going to be released ahead of schedule next year.
- 6:14Speaker 3: And they're going to be sold all over the United States,
- 6:15Speaker 3: all over the world. Very, very different political landscape. And
- 6:21Speaker 3: the world is changing right in front of our very eyes. OK,
- 6:24Speaker 3: a lot going on today.
- 6:25Speaker 2: The U.N.
- 6:26Speaker 3: Continues this week with speakers. Yesterday, a much awaited speech
- 6:33Speaker 3: by the president. 30 minutes, which for President Trump is
- 6:38Speaker 3: not very long. I'll tell you a little bit about
- 6:40Speaker 3: the rule for U.N.
- 6:42Speaker 2: Speakers.
- 6:42Speaker 3: That's really a lot of fun. But a couple of
- 6:45Speaker 3: things that the president, the fact checkers went crazy. Of course,
- 6:49Speaker 3: I was watching on the TV screen. I have a TV,
- 6:53Speaker 3: big TV in front of me and I do the
- 6:55Speaker 3: multi washing watch. So I have four channels going on
- 6:59Speaker 3: the screen and one of them and I have to.
- 7:02Speaker 2: They choose for you. You can't select. But the multi.
- 7:05Speaker 3: View on my program of the YouTube TV that I
- 7:09Speaker 3: use is BBC MSNOW. CNN and Fox. And as I
- 7:16Speaker 3: said yesterday, it was fascinating. As the speech was going on,
- 7:20Speaker 3: CNN and MSNOW were fact-checking as it went along, as
- 7:24Speaker 3: what Trump was saying. And President Trump would say something
- 7:29Speaker 3: and the CNN fact-checker would go, that's a lie. That's
- 7:33Speaker 3: a lie. That's not true. And that was CNN and MSNOW.
- 7:38Speaker 3: Then you have BBC. No value judgment. This is what
- 7:43Speaker 3: the president is saying and just carried what the president
- 7:45Speaker 3: is saying. So, two, he's a liar. One, straight reporting. Fox,
- 7:51Speaker 3: the president gives a strong speech in front of the U.N.
- 7:55Speaker 2: That was it. That was their headline.
- 7:58Speaker 3: And I'm thinking that describes perfectly the polarization of this country.
- 8:05Speaker 2: That says it all. So the president nailed the U.N.
- 8:09Speaker 3: I mean, and said, I will decide what happens with
- 8:12Speaker 3: countries and I have to decide whether Iran is going
- 8:17Speaker 3: to be part of the world, the community of nations,
- 8:19Speaker 3: or I'm going to annihilate the entire country.
- 8:22Speaker 2: That's language that the UN really appreciates.
- 8:25Speaker 3: Why?
- 8:25Speaker 2: Because the UN was conceived for that not to happen.
- 8:29Speaker 2: So he was.
- 8:30Speaker 3: Ripping into the very body that he was talking about.
- 8:34Speaker 3: And keep in mind, the UN was created by the
- 8:36Speaker 3: United States. Okay, now the fun part, the historical part.
- 8:41Speaker 3: So the United Nations, quote, kindly reminds world leaders to
- 8:46Speaker 3: keep their speeches to 15 minutes, right? Now, you think
- 8:51Speaker 3: the Oscars run long. Let me tell you what happens
- 8:55Speaker 3: with the UN. The UN says adhering to the clock
- 9:00Speaker 3: is essential. 200 speakers over six days. So you have
- 9:05Speaker 3: to keep it to 15 minutes. Does anybody pay attention?
- 9:09Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
- 9:10Speaker 2: Can you tell a sovereign country what it can and
- 9:14Speaker 2: cannot do? Not as far as the UN is concerned.
- 9:18Speaker 3: International relations expert said part of being sovereign means no
- 9:22Speaker 3: one gets to tell you what to do.
- 9:24Speaker 2: Okay. So now president.
- 9:27Speaker 3: Spoke for half an hour in his talks yesterday in
- 9:33Speaker 3: his remarks.
- 9:34Speaker 2: And a lot of it was exaggerated. No, no, no exaggeration.
- 9:37Speaker 3: I mean, it's no exaggeration to say that a lot
- 9:40Speaker 3: of it is exaggeration and a lot of it is bombast.
- 9:43Speaker 3: And a lot of it is, aren't I great? I'm
- 9:44Speaker 3: the greatest president who ever lived stuff. And we got that.
- 9:48Speaker 2: So, 30 minutes.
- 9:50Speaker 3: You know who holds the record for a General Assembly speech?
- 9:55Speaker 2: It was September 26, 1960. Fidel Castro. four and a
- 10:01Speaker 2: half hours in front of the general assembly. He spoke
- 10:06Speaker 2: four and a half hours. He was wearing his military
- 10:10Speaker 2: fatigues that he always did. lashed out at capitalism, global capitalism,
- 10:15Speaker 2: defended Cuba's Soviet alliance, aired grievances about New York, interestingly enough.
- 10:22Speaker 3: Now, the overall U.N. record, the all-time U.N. record, this
- 10:29Speaker 3: was for a Security Council meeting in 1957, and it
- 10:35Speaker 3: belonged to, the record is V.K. Krishna Menon, the Indian
- 10:39Speaker 3: defense minister at that time, at the Security Council meeting. Now,
- 10:45Speaker 3: the UN General Assembly is Castro at four and a
- 10:49Speaker 3: half hours. In front of the Security Council, the world
- 10:54Speaker 3: record is Mr. Menon, the Indian defense minister. And are
- 11:01Speaker 3: you ready for this?
- 11:03Speaker 2: Yep. Eight and a half hours, he spoke without stopping.
- 11:09Speaker 2: I don't even want to do something fun for eight
- 11:11Speaker 2: and a half hours. Well, Castro used to give these
- 11:13Speaker 2: four and five hour speeches. I mean, constantly. That's what
- 11:16Speaker 2: he did.
- 11:16Speaker 3: You know, we look at President Trump who goes off
- 11:20Speaker 3: script and will spend 40 minutes, an hour, and everybody
- 11:23Speaker 3: thinks that's ridiculously long. Castro was four, five hours, and
- 11:28Speaker 3: you had to stand there and listen to it. If
- 11:32Speaker 3: you are a member of the Communist Party or any
- 11:34Speaker 3: part of the hierarchy of the Castro government. And you
- 11:39Speaker 3: had to be smiling. It's not as bad as Kim Jong-un,
- 11:43Speaker 3: where if you don't smile enough at the speeches, they
- 11:46Speaker 3: shoot you. That you have to clap very loudly. But
- 11:52Speaker 3: it's General Assembly means absolutely nothing, by the way.
- 11:55Speaker 2: The U.N.
- 11:56Speaker 3: Is a complete, utter joke. And the president is absolutely right.
- 12:01Speaker 3: It's a waste of time, although he'll tell everybody how
- 12:05Speaker 3: it works.
- 12:06Speaker 2: Okay.
- 12:07Speaker 3: Also, before I get into what's happening in the mayor's
- 12:10Speaker 3: race for L.A., a quick announcement, and I'm going to
- 12:15Speaker 3: announce this a few times, is that I am starting
- 12:19Speaker 3: a podcast. Everybody starts podcasts. You know, the world does
- 12:22Speaker 3: a podcast. And this is a travel podcast because I
- 12:26Speaker 3: love to travel and I do crazy stuff. So Lindsay
- 12:29Speaker 3: and I are starting our podcast. It's called Excessive Baggage.
- 12:35Speaker 3: That pretty well describes all of it. And we have
- 12:38Speaker 3: a website already, excessivebaggage.com. And our Insta, the address is excessivebaggagepodcast.
- 12:51Speaker 2: That's it. Excessivebaggagepodcast.
- 12:54Speaker 3: And that's up on Instagram.
- 12:56Speaker 2: Okay. Now, what's going on with the mayor's race? Poll
- 13:00Speaker 2: just came out.
- 13:01Speaker 3: LA Times Berkeley IGS poll shows that Nithya Raman, super
- 13:07Speaker 3: left wing, who trailed Karen Bass in every poll up
- 13:12Speaker 3: to today, well, she's ahead of the game.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Why is she ahead?
- 13:17Speaker 3: Because you had Spencer Pratt, the conservative, the Republican, who
- 13:22Speaker 3: didn't make it in the primary. The way California works
- 13:25Speaker 3: is really weird. The top two vote getters in primaries
- 13:28Speaker 3: go on. And if they're both in the same party,
- 13:30Speaker 3: so be it. So now you have two Democrats running.
- 13:34Speaker 3: And so most of the votes that went to Spencer
- 13:39Speaker 3: Pratt now have become undecided. So at this point, Rahman
- 13:43Speaker 3: is favored by 39% of likely LA voters, 28% for Bass.
- 13:48Speaker 3: They've switched. 33% of voters still undecided. Huge number. So
- 13:57Speaker 3: director of the Berkeley poll said Rahman clearly has the advantage.
- 14:02Speaker 3: because her task is a little less onerous than Bass.
- 14:05Speaker 2: It is easy.
- 14:06Speaker 3: It's much easier to attack than it is to defend
- 14:10Speaker 3: in politics.
- 14:13Speaker 2: All you have to do is attack the other guy.
- 14:15Speaker 3: You don't have a record to talk about as mayor
- 14:18Speaker 3: or president or governor. And Bass has some real, real problems.
- 14:25Speaker 3: One of them is the Palisades fire. She was in
- 14:27Speaker 3: Ghana at the time the fire broke out and didn't
- 14:30Speaker 3: come back quickly enough. By the way, this is the
- 14:32Speaker 3: same woman who said she'd never leave Los Angeles. She
- 14:35Speaker 3: would never leave L.A. during the tenure of her term. Well, okay.
- 14:41Speaker 2: She didn't tell the truth.
- 14:43Speaker 3: And that was the response, not only as she was gone,
- 14:46Speaker 3: but the city response.
- 14:47Speaker 2: It was all kinds of controversy. Homelessness.
- 14:50Speaker 3: Big controversy there because even though she argues, hey, look
- 14:55Speaker 3: at what we have done, there's still huge holes. I
- 14:59Speaker 3: don't even know how you can deal with homelessness. Rahman
- 15:03Speaker 3: in her district shows that homelessness has gone down while
- 15:07Speaker 3: it's gone up in the rest of the city. Bass
- 15:09Speaker 3: says it's gone down in your district because of my programs.
- 15:16Speaker 2: Okay, nice fight.
- 15:17Speaker 3: And also, I don't know if you've brought this up,
- 15:20Speaker 3: is I think Karen Bass is eminently unlikable. I mean,
- 15:26Speaker 3: I just don't like her, the way she comes off publicly.
- 15:30Speaker 2: It's like Hillary Clinton, notwithstanding any politics at all, just
- 15:34Speaker 2: not likable. And likability is a very big deal. So
- 15:40Speaker 2: if the vote were to be held today, Bass is out.
- 15:44Speaker 2: Bass is done.
- 15:45Speaker 3: And usually, you know, a second term, you're not struggling
- 15:48Speaker 3: for your life against a member of your own party politically.
- 15:54Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens. And who am I going
- 15:58Speaker 3: to vote for? Nobody, because I'm registered to vote in
- 16:00Speaker 3: Orange County. But if I were to vote today, and
- 16:06Speaker 3: which way would I go? You know, I'd flip a coin.
- 16:14Speaker 3: to see which polling place I would miss, drive past.
- 16:21Speaker 3: And I vote by mail anyway. And everything gets lost
- 16:25Speaker 3: in the mail. So I'm fine with that.
- 16:26Speaker 2: Okay, we're done. We're done. We're done with that. Hey,
- 16:29Speaker 2: yesterday we talked about Meta's new personal AI agent to
- 16:33Speaker 2: call Muse.
- 16:34Speaker 3: And it hit number one on Apple's U.S. App Store,
- 16:38Speaker 3: sending Meta stock up 11% just this past few days.
- 16:43Speaker 2: Now, here's the story.
- 16:44Speaker 3: Amazon has blocked Muse from accessing its site and purchasing items,
- 16:50Speaker 3: saying that Meta didn't have authorization to do so. Now,
- 16:53Speaker 3: you can shop on Amazon, of course. And what Meta
- 16:59Speaker 3: says and the program says, you can shop on Amazon
- 17:02Speaker 3: via Meta. And Amazon said, oh, no, no, no, no.
- 17:06Speaker 3: It was never given permission. We don't want anything interfering
- 17:11Speaker 3: with us as far as Meta is concerned.
- 17:13Speaker 2: And what Meta.
- 17:14Speaker 3: Does is it goes far deeper in terms of understanding
- 17:20Speaker 3: who you are, in terms of shopping. It learns who
- 17:23Speaker 3: you are. It looks at your emails. It looks at
- 17:26Speaker 3: your purchasing. It looks at everything about you far deeper
- 17:31Speaker 3: than any other program out there. Because that's simply where
- 17:34Speaker 3: AI is going and therefore makes it easy for you
- 17:39Speaker 3: to shop or your app to shop. And Amazon does
- 17:44Speaker 3: not want anybody else to get involved in between Shopper
- 17:49Speaker 3: and the app, the Amazon app. And that, have you noticed,
- 17:55Speaker 3: just a real quick aside, look anything up, right? The
- 17:59Speaker 3: other day I looked up something.
- 18:01Speaker 2: Oh, I was there. I was looking at a barbecue grill.
- 18:03Speaker 3: Because I'm thinking of replacing mine because I want a
- 18:07Speaker 3: bigger one. And I did anyways, that I was just
- 18:10Speaker 3: looking at it just for fun. I have gotten more
- 18:13Speaker 3: barbecue stuff than you could ever imagine. I looked it
- 18:16Speaker 3: up once and all of a sudden now I'm being
- 18:20Speaker 3: inundated with barbecue grills and charcoal ads and accoutrement ads.
- 18:27Speaker 3: And here is a tongue, a bunch of tongs. And
- 18:30Speaker 3: here is Your thermometers, your meat thermometers, it goes completely
- 18:35Speaker 3: crazy is what it does. There's a lot of security issues, too,
- 18:40Speaker 3: because it turns out that Muse, this new program, is
- 18:47Speaker 3: going to teach itself all about you.
- 18:48Speaker 2: You go on there and it looks at everything you
- 18:51Speaker 2: have ever done, everything you've thought of buying. Just think
- 18:56Speaker 2: about it. It already knows. Think about Alexa. Alexa. By
- 19:00Speaker 2: the way, Alexa is live all the time. So I
- 19:02Speaker 2: have a conversation.
- 19:04Speaker 3: For example, I have a conversation with Lindsay about a
- 19:07Speaker 3: new barbecue conversation.
- 19:09Speaker 2: All of a sudden, I don't get this.
- 19:11Speaker 3: I'm looking at when I go on a website, those
- 19:13Speaker 3: pop-up ads are barbecues.
- 19:18Speaker 2: How do it know? Wait till you get back from vacation.
- 19:24Speaker 2: When I got back from my last vacation to France,
- 19:26Speaker 2: I had France, France, France, France, France. Vacations, trips for months.
- 19:32Speaker 2: It's just, there's no such thing as privacy. Oh, and
- 19:36Speaker 2: by the way, look up porno.
- 19:39Speaker 3: And you'll see, I didn't know that there were so
- 19:43Speaker 3: many products that you could buy if I were to
- 19:46Speaker 3: look up porno.
- 19:47Speaker 2: That's what someone tells me. I don't actually know this
- 19:49Speaker 2: for a fact. I have a theory.
- 19:52Speaker 1: I have a theory about the internet that you can
- 19:53Speaker 1: look anything up, no matter how innocent it is. And
- 19:57Speaker 1: by the second page of your search, there's pornography.
- 20:03Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. It doesn't matter what you're searching.
- 20:05Speaker 1: There will always be pornography that comes up within the
- 20:08Speaker 1: second page of your search.
- 20:09Speaker 3: Well, the Internet started like VHS that all started with pornography.
- 20:13Speaker 3: I mean, that's where the technology is. And I don't
- 20:16Speaker 3: know how many years ago I said, think of any,
- 20:20Speaker 3: any perverted, depraved act.
- 20:24Speaker 2: Sex with chickens. It doesn't matter. Matter of fact, sex
- 20:28Speaker 2: and just add a dot com to it. Just add
- 20:30Speaker 2: a dot com. Sex with chickens dot com. It's a
- 20:34Speaker 2: world of clubs and chat rooms and trips and tours,
- 20:42Speaker 2: sex with chicken tours, like all over the South. I mean,
- 20:46Speaker 2: that's the internet for you. All over the South? They
- 20:51Speaker 2: have a lot of sex with chickens in the South.
- 20:53Speaker 2: What can I tell you? Fair to know. All right.
- 20:56Speaker 2: Coming up, why LA developers aren't building apartments. Wait a second.
- 21:01Speaker 2: They're supposed to build apartments.
- 21:03Speaker 3: Look at the laws changed about ADUs and apartment buildings
- 21:06Speaker 3: next door.
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