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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
- 0:04Speaker 1: six forty.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Don't handle here, Good morning on April six, Monday. Some
- 0:10Speaker 2: of the stories we're looking at Tomorrow evening our time
- 0:15Speaker 2: five o'clock is the deadline for Iran to open up
- 0:19Speaker 2: the straight of horror moves. Other than if it doesn't,
- 0:22Speaker 2: the President will launch a massive air strike against Iran,
- 0:27Speaker 2: taking out power, infrastructure, oil infrastructure, trans oil transportation refineries.
- 0:35Speaker 2: I mean, it's not going to be fun at all
- 0:37Speaker 2: for Iran, and so far they're saying they're not coming
- 0:40Speaker 2: to the table, even though Pakistan has produced a fifteen
- 0:43Speaker 2: point ceasefire plan.
- 0:45Speaker 1: All right, so that'll be tomorrow night. We'll see that.
- 0:47Speaker 2: What happens in the meantime, there is a literally a movie,
- 0:52Speaker 2: an adventure movie that you could only see on the
- 0:55Speaker 2: big screen, and that was about the two crew members
- 1:00Speaker 2: on the F fifteen E Strike Eagle, the workhourse of
- 1:04Speaker 2: the US Air Force. Two crew members the plane was
- 1:08Speaker 2: hit from ground to air of I'm assuming missiles, and
- 1:13Speaker 2: they ejected from the debt the jet seconds after it
- 1:18Speaker 2: was hit by Iranian fire and it crashed. In the meantime,
- 1:22Speaker 2: what happened is the emergency exit. That's marked exit on
- 1:28Speaker 2: the cockpit. Those ejection seats went up in the air
- 1:32Speaker 2: and the parachutes opened. The Air Force was able to
- 1:36Speaker 2: find the pilot immediately and rescue him. However, the weapons officer,
- 1:42Speaker 2: the guy behind the pilot who handles the weapons.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Was lost. They could not find them.
- 1:48Speaker 2: He became separated, and then the search began from the
- 1:53Speaker 2: US Air Force and the Armed Services to find the
- 1:57Speaker 2: weapons officer, and the Entirehiher country of Iran was looking
- 2:01Speaker 2: for him. I mean everybody state, Iranian broadcaster as well.
- 2:09Speaker 2: We're saying find him or find them, you'll get a
- 2:12Speaker 2: sixty thousand dollars reward. Actually, I think they mentioned a
- 2:16Speaker 2: prize if you find the pilots. Well, he had to
- 2:20Speaker 2: find the pilot. What he had done was he went
- 2:23Speaker 2: up a seven thousand foot mountain and hid in a crevice,
- 2:30Speaker 2: and Iranian troops were at the bottom looking for him,
- 2:34Speaker 2: and it became such a close call that what the
- 2:38Speaker 2: CIA did was they started rumors that he had already
- 2:42Speaker 2: been found and he was on his way out in
- 2:45Speaker 2: a convoy out of Iran, hoping that the Iranians would
- 2:49Speaker 2: now start searching the ground and not the areas the mountains.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Well, it didn't work.
- 2:55Speaker 2: The Iranians, the Armed Services were at the bottom of
- 2:58Speaker 2: that mountain going up to find him. And what ended
- 3:02Speaker 2: up happening is the communications between the pilot and the
- 3:09Speaker 2: Air Force I guess the brigade or the division he
- 3:13Speaker 2: was in. They were in constant contact with each other
- 3:16Speaker 2: right from the get go, and so they knew he
- 3:20Speaker 2: was in that area, and he was able to communicate
- 3:23Speaker 2: via a super secret communication system that I think the
- 3:27Speaker 2: CIA developed. And they went with drone surveillance planes. Oh,
- 3:34Speaker 2: I mean what they used was virtually the entire assets
- 3:39Speaker 2: of the Air Force C one thirties. Those are the
- 3:42Speaker 2: propeller planes, those big ones. Also they used ground forces,
- 3:48Speaker 2: the rangers, delta forces, and they got him out. They
- 3:53Speaker 2: got him out, both pilots had been found. That is
- 4:01Speaker 2: that's a wonderful thing that they were able to get
- 4:03Speaker 2: him out. I didn't think they would. I mean, we're
- 4:06Speaker 2: talking deep into Iranian territory. We're talking the entire country
- 4:11Speaker 2: looking for this pilot, and yet he was able to
- 4:15Speaker 2: evade and the rescue happened. That is a huge win
- 4:21Speaker 2: for the United States and the military upheld its vision
- 4:27Speaker 2: and its concept that we leave no one behind, and
- 4:33Speaker 2: that is certainly the case here just a.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Moment.
- 4:38Speaker 2: One hundred special operations forces were involved, as I said,
- 4:42Speaker 2: Seal Team six, Delta Force Commandos, Army rangers, helicopters, the
- 4:47Speaker 2: Sea one thirties.
- 4:48Speaker 1: There were three of them that were flying.
- 4:52Speaker 2: One side story is that the Sea one thirties got
- 4:55Speaker 2: stuck in the sand and couldn't take off, and so
- 5:00Speaker 2: licopters came in and grabbed the surviving officer and took
- 5:03Speaker 2: them out of Iranian airspace. Both pilots, incidentally, were injured,
- 5:07Speaker 2: although both are reported they're going to recover. And so
- 5:11Speaker 2: they blew up American forces blew up the Sea one
- 5:15Speaker 2: thirties because they didn't want the Iranians to get hold
- 5:18Speaker 2: of them. It is a huge win. Iran naturally called
- 5:24Speaker 2: it a victory and said we won. And I'm assuming
- 5:29Speaker 2: I don't have information is exactly what they said, but
- 5:32Speaker 2: I'm guessing the fact that the plane went down and
- 5:36Speaker 2: there was wreckage of the plane that they videoed, and
- 5:40Speaker 2: they showed that parts of the Sea one thirty they
- 5:43Speaker 2: have attacked armed forces.
- 5:45Speaker 1: And also the big story here, and that's on the
- 5:48Speaker 1: big picture story, is that the President announced the obliteration
- 5:53Speaker 1: of not only the nuclear program, but of all forces
- 5:59Speaker 1: ground to air, complete superiority of the skies. Well not quite.
- 6:05Speaker 1: They were able to shoot down this F fifteen to E.
- 6:09Speaker 2: And we're also hearing that intelligence of telling us about
- 6:12Speaker 2: half of their weapons, mainly drones and missiles, are still
- 6:18Speaker 2: in there, still in their inventory. So this thing is
- 6:25Speaker 2: that if it happens to well, there'll be tomorrow night
- 6:27Speaker 2: at five o'clock. We'll see if the President goes balls
- 6:30Speaker 2: to the wall.
- 6:31Speaker 1: On this one.
- 6:32Speaker 2: I think this is his last, his last moment of
- 6:36Speaker 2: moving the goal posts. Oh, we'll give it another five days.
- 6:40Speaker 2: We'll give it another ten days. We'll give it another
- 6:42Speaker 2: two days, and we'll see.
- 6:46Speaker 1: And he moved. Now, he moved the goal post closer.
- 6:49Speaker 2: Because it's now tomorrow five pm our time, we're going
- 6:54Speaker 2: to see what happens on that one. All right, let's
- 6:57Speaker 2: get local. Now, what's happening here in Los Angeles? Mayor
- 7:02Speaker 2: Karen Bass, who ran on homelessness and got elected on
- 7:09Speaker 2: I think that issue has a program called inside Safe,
- 7:14Speaker 2: and it is about moving people living in encampments, homeless
- 7:19Speaker 2: people into housing and their permanent well, first of all,
- 7:23Speaker 2: temporary housing and then into permanent housing, which costs beyond
- 7:29Speaker 2: the expensive. As I said many times, man to really
- 7:33Speaker 2: do a job is going to take all the money
- 7:34Speaker 2: in the budget. So there's a story in the La
- 7:37Speaker 2: Times about a guy named Jonathan Torres who was in
- 7:41Speaker 2: the program and he was then thrown out of the program.
- 7:45Speaker 2: And why is that. Well, one of the rules you
- 7:49Speaker 2: can't have people visiting you, it's just for you. Well
- 7:54Speaker 2: he had kept on having people visit him and he
- 7:58Speaker 2: got tossed. And there's a bunch of other reasons people
- 8:01Speaker 2: get tossed, drugs not coming back after three days, violence, threats,
- 8:07Speaker 2: screaming at people, all manner of reasons. And Karen Bass
- 8:12Speaker 2: is literally getting a lot of a lot of grief,
- 8:16Speaker 2: a lot of attacks because so far three hundred million
- 8:18Speaker 2: dollars and the number of people who are in housing
- 8:22Speaker 2: is dropping, the number of people who are leaving housing
- 8:27Speaker 2: is increasing, and she is getting flack. I'm now going
- 8:31Speaker 2: to defend her, and here's what she says, and it's
- 8:35Speaker 2: absolutely true.
- 8:37Speaker 1: The longer they're in this kind of.
- 8:38Speaker 2: Housing, the greater the chance they're going to leave and
- 8:43Speaker 2: go back on the street because of drugs, because that
- 8:48Speaker 2: is their drug addicts, they're mentally ill, they don't want
- 8:51Speaker 2: to stay, they don't want the rules to apply them,
- 8:55Speaker 2: and there's a bunch of rules, and so they go back.
- 8:58Speaker 1: And a story I want to share with you.
- 9:02Speaker 2: Is my brother's fiance who ended up being an alcoholic
- 9:06Speaker 2: and became schizophrenic. We found her on the street, living
- 9:09Speaker 2: on the street after three years, and we put her
- 9:13Speaker 2: into a motel and then we're able to find housing
- 9:17Speaker 2: for her in whatever program. And it was a regular
- 9:23Speaker 2: rent of Section eight I think, and people could come
- 9:26Speaker 2: and visit, and she had a couple of her homeless
- 9:29Speaker 2: friends come over and sleep on the floor. Now it's
- 9:33Speaker 2: on the carpet. It's in a heated place and air
- 9:35Speaker 2: conditioned place. During the summer, they went back on the street.
- 9:42Speaker 2: And I'm going, well, how do they go back on
- 9:44Speaker 2: the street, because that's where they're comfortable, that's where they live,
- 9:48Speaker 2: that's what they got used to alcoholics a lot of
- 9:52Speaker 2: mental illness, and that is the problem she's looking at
- 9:55Speaker 2: and you cannot control that. And as far as the
- 10:00Speaker 2: rules are concerned, and they're pretty stringent, the argument is
- 10:03Speaker 2: they have to be otherwise you've got drug abuse, you've
- 10:09Speaker 2: got mental illness. To the point where it's dangerous to
- 10:13Speaker 2: themselves and to other people. And that's just the cost
- 10:17Speaker 2: of doing business. And she is being attacked for that.
- 10:21Speaker 2: So in twenty twenty three the one year market of
- 10:24Speaker 2: the program, twenty percent had returned to the street. At
- 10:28Speaker 2: the two year term, thirty percent. Now it's finishing. As
- 10:33Speaker 2: it's at its finishing as third year, forty percent have
- 10:39Speaker 2: gone outdoors. There's just no way to control that. When
- 10:43Speaker 2: a third of the people just want to go back
- 10:45Speaker 2: on the street, they're going to want to go back
- 10:47Speaker 2: on the street and the encampments come back. And she's
- 10:50Speaker 2: been very aggressive about stopping the encampments, literally shutting them down.
- 10:58Speaker 2: This is a lose lose proposition. And you could spend
- 11:02Speaker 2: and it's three hundred million dollars so far, and you
- 11:04Speaker 2: could spend another three hundred million dollars, you'll be at
- 11:07Speaker 2: the same place. And the other thing, as she says,
- 11:10Speaker 2: the longer they're there, the bigger chance they leave. It's
- 11:16Speaker 2: absolutely true. I mean, this gal was living on the street,
- 11:21Speaker 2: on the sidewalk for three years, and she had been
- 11:26Speaker 2: raped a few times. She was missing some teeth because
- 11:29Speaker 2: she had been beat up. It's it's it's really tough.
- 11:36Speaker 2: Homelessness is a real, real problem here, and you can't
- 11:40Speaker 2: you can't fight mental illness. Now what Bass has said,
- 11:44Speaker 2: which is true, I think, and that is we have
- 11:47Speaker 2: to spend a lot more money for services and housing.
- 11:53Speaker 2: And it's absolutely true. And there's almost no limit to
- 11:57Speaker 2: what you can spend. And do you spend that? Does
- 12:01Speaker 2: that become front burner, way in front of everything else?
- 12:04Speaker 2: Some people say, yes, Okay, here's a question, and this
- 12:09Speaker 2: you don't know the answer because it's a weird one,
- 12:12Speaker 2: and that is do we have an animal abuse registry?
- 12:15Speaker 2: We have a Megan's Law, but we don't have a
- 12:18Speaker 2: registry where convicted animal abusers are known to the public.
- 12:23Speaker 2: And the people in favor of this, especially one state senator,
- 12:30Speaker 2: says we should. I mean, Florida is ahead of us.
- 12:35Speaker 2: Aggravated Animal Cruelty Registry started January one. Here's one that's interesting.
- 12:40Speaker 2: Tennessee launched its registry a decade ago.
- 12:46Speaker 1: And so does that make sense? Getos against it? The AOSPCA.
- 12:53Speaker 2: Wait a minute, how can they be against a registry
- 12:58Speaker 2: of people who have been convict of cruelty, pet cruelty
- 13:04Speaker 2: or animal cruelty?
- 13:07Speaker 1: And it is.
- 13:07Speaker 2: The weirdest philosophy argument they have is saying, if you
- 13:14Speaker 2: have one of these, then the prosecutors will be less
- 13:19Speaker 2: likely to prosecute because knowing you go on a registry
- 13:24Speaker 2: convicts you, and you're now known in this case for
- 13:27Speaker 2: ten years, So prosecutors will be less likely to prosecute.
- 13:32Speaker 2: Judges will be less likely to hand out sentences because
- 13:39Speaker 2: people are looking for ten years. And I'm talking about
- 13:42Speaker 2: on the record. So if you have a neighbor who
- 13:44Speaker 2: has a dog, or doesn't even have a dog, you
- 13:46Speaker 2: can look up on the registry if he or she
- 13:49Speaker 2: lives close to you, and that's an animal well, an
- 13:53Speaker 2: animal abuser.
- 13:55Speaker 1: I mean, it's just so weird. Now I didn't know.
- 13:58Speaker 2: This, but the ASPCA is a very interesting organization. It
- 14:04Speaker 2: brings in four hundred and forty six million dollars a year.
- 14:08Speaker 2: That was twenty twenty four. The top exec makes one
- 14:13Speaker 2: point two million dollars a year. And when you donate
- 14:17Speaker 2: to the ASPCA, and we're talking about the national organization,
- 14:22Speaker 2: the organization that does commercials that you see the commercials,
- 14:26Speaker 2: you know dogs in cages looking at you through the bars,
- 14:30Speaker 2: and you know dogs tied up or chained up, and
- 14:33Speaker 2: they I mean horrible, horrible situations. They collect money and
- 14:39Speaker 2: you send them money and it doesn't go to your
- 14:41Speaker 2: local ASPCA.
- 14:43Speaker 1: It stays with the national They don't share with the
- 14:46Speaker 1: local AASPCA.
- 14:50Speaker 2: And so if you think you're donating to help animals
- 14:55Speaker 2: in your area, you are not. And if people make
- 14:59Speaker 2: the mistake in it assumption, hey, they're not going to
- 15:02Speaker 2: tell you not it is. I had no idea the
- 15:06Speaker 2: ASPCA ran like that, which is why, for example, Amy,
- 15:14Speaker 2: does the Wiggly Piggy walk a walkable walk not run
- 15:21Speaker 2: every year?
- 15:23Speaker 1: Yeah? That one?
- 15:24Speaker 2: And that's for the local It's for the Pasadiana Humane Association.
- 15:28Speaker 1: Isn't it? Yes, for Pasadena? Okay, that's local.
- 15:31Speaker 2: You give money to that and what ends up happening
- 15:35Speaker 2: is that goes to that organization.
- 15:37Speaker 1: Did I give you this year? By the way, Amy,
- 15:39Speaker 1: you have not? Oh?
- 15:41Speaker 2: Okay, I generally give every year and so this slipped
- 15:45Speaker 2: through the cracks.
- 15:48Speaker 1: Yeah? Please ky if I am six forty dot com
- 15:50Speaker 1: slash wiggle okay, super easy.
- 15:54Speaker 2: Yeah it is uh and I will do that today.
- 15:56Speaker 2: Would you know if I did it or not? Do
- 15:59Speaker 2: you have the name of people?
- 16:01Speaker 1: Yes? Okay? U much? You donate anonymous.
- 16:04Speaker 2: No, there's no chance. I want the credit. A matter
- 16:07Speaker 2: of fact, I want twice the credit.
- 16:10Speaker 1: I'll give it to you, Bill, okay.
- 16:13Speaker 2: And I usually yeah, I never talk about a charity
- 16:16Speaker 2: that I don't give to. I mean, granted, sometimes it's
- 16:19Speaker 2: two dollars, but I have that philosophy I talk about it.
- 16:23Speaker 1: I give all right.
- 16:25Speaker 2: I'm not going to give the ASPCA a national that's
- 16:28Speaker 2: for sure. And they spend what seventy one million dollars
- 16:33Speaker 2: for television advertising?
- 16:35Speaker 1: But wait, where does it go to? If it does it?
- 16:38Speaker 1: If it's national, we don't know where it goes to.
- 16:40Speaker 1: I don't know if it's that story to tell us, well,
- 16:43Speaker 1: I don't understand only national.
- 16:45Speaker 2: Animals, Yes, animals that are nationally known, and I don't
- 16:51Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that. Also, you know
- 16:54Speaker 2: the argument that the head honcho gets one point two
- 16:57Speaker 2: million dollars, Oh my god, how can someone get one
- 17:00Speaker 2: point two million dollars for a nonprofit? Well, it's an
- 17:04Speaker 2: organization that does four hundred and sixty million dollars a year.
- 17:10Speaker 2: That's that's a big organization. And that's pretty rarefied air
- 17:13Speaker 2: for someone to run that. Any other business that does
- 17:17Speaker 2: four hundred and fifty million dollars a year. The head
- 17:20Speaker 2: guy is definitely going to or the head woman is
- 17:23Speaker 2: definitely going to get at least one million, one point
- 17:26Speaker 2: two million dollars.
- 17:27Speaker 1: That's very low. And then you have the perks.
- 17:30Speaker 2: Most most companies give stock as you know stock options.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Here, the AOFPCA gives.
- 17:37Speaker 2: You animals and you you have up to fifteen or
- 17:41Speaker 2: twenty animals that you can bring home.
- 17:43Speaker 1: Okay, we're done.
- 17:46Speaker 2: Pete Headseth is the President's Secretary of a Defense Secretary
- 17:52Speaker 2: of War. One of the things about President Trump is
- 17:56Speaker 2: it really doesn't matter the credentials or the experience of
- 18:00Speaker 2: a cabinet secretary. Anybody who is loyal Pete Hegseth, for example,
- 18:06Speaker 2: his entire experience and gives him the quality the credits
- 18:11Speaker 2: for running the Department of Defense. He was a second
- 18:13Speaker 2: lieutenant in the army, granted a decorated soldier. I mean,
- 18:21Speaker 2: the guy was a real deal. But do you go
- 18:23Speaker 2: from second lieutenant to the Secretary of Defense.
- 18:26Speaker 1: Well, when you are that loyal to the president, you do.
- 18:29Speaker 1: And Pete Hegseth has taken his view of.
- 18:34Speaker 2: The secretaryship of the cabinet to levels that we hadn't
- 18:38Speaker 2: seen before. Promotions, for example, usually promotions the Secretary of
- 18:44Speaker 2: Defense has nothing to do with it's done within the army.
- 18:47Speaker 2: It's done within the services. There is a panel of
- 18:50Speaker 2: senior officers who do the promotion and then or recommend
- 18:56Speaker 2: the promotion, and then it goes up to the Secretary
- 18:59Speaker 2: of Defense just signs off. Then it goes to the President,
- 19:03Speaker 2: who signs off. Then it goes to the Senate, who
- 19:07Speaker 2: unanimously agreed to allow the promotion.
- 19:12Speaker 1: Well, heg Seth has switched it over.
- 19:15Speaker 2: He is now overseeing the promotions panel itself. And if
- 19:21Speaker 2: there is a record of any one of the Armed
- 19:25Speaker 2: Services member even uttering anything other than the line, the
- 19:32Speaker 2: President's line, the president's belief out, they go and Pete
- 19:36Speaker 2: Hegseth has fired or held up more than a dozen
- 19:40Speaker 2: of these senior officers promotions. It's that simple. It is
- 19:46Speaker 2: the Armed Services have become political. That's it. They've become political,
- 19:52Speaker 2: and he stops them, and he stops the promotion, or
- 19:55Speaker 2: he fires him. The Chief of the Army, who is
- 19:59Speaker 2: on the Joint Chiet the Joint Staff, was just fired,
- 20:04Speaker 2: i mean forced to resign. And he still had a
- 20:08Speaker 2: couple of years to go because heg Seth didn't like
- 20:12Speaker 2: either his philosophy, his statements, his beliefs, and the statement is.
- 20:17Speaker 1: Or their belief is.
- 20:18Speaker 2: If you don't agree with the president his policies, mind you,
- 20:23Speaker 2: I mean, you're perfectly ready to follow his orders because
- 20:27Speaker 2: we have a civilian head of the armed services.
- 20:30Speaker 1: That's what this country is about.
- 20:32Speaker 2: But if you don't agree with everything the president does,
- 20:37Speaker 2: you're done. It has become so political and it's there's
- 20:43Speaker 2: no such thing as independence anymore.
- 20:45Speaker 1: It doesn't exist.
- 20:47Speaker 2: Department of Justice, the FBI, the Federal Reserve, we go
- 20:52Speaker 2: on and on FEMA, which are for the most part
- 20:55Speaker 2: independent agencies. They are now there simply to the the
- 21:00Speaker 2: bidding and the will of the President of the United States.
- 21:03Speaker 2: I mean things have changed. Well, for example, the war
- 21:07Speaker 2: in Iran, it's a singular decision by the president. No
- 21:11Speaker 2: one else was involved. He just decided that Iran is
- 21:17Speaker 2: going to be bombed, and we'll see what happens if tonight,
- 21:21Speaker 2: well actually tomorrow five o'clock our time, if it's going
- 21:24Speaker 2: to happen or not. Okay, Now, tailan, all autism, pregnant women,
- 21:34Speaker 2: it all connects. Of course, it does. Oh, that's the
- 21:38Speaker 2: other thing. Medicine. That's another one. That there's no such
- 21:43Speaker 2: thing as independence. And I'll share that story of why
- 21:47Speaker 2: talinol is causing shock waves, the warning from who the
- 21:55Speaker 2: president himself. I'll share that with you when we come.
- 22:01Speaker 2: This is kf I am six forty.
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