Latest / The Bill Handel Show / Cartel Leader “El Mencho” Killed | That Concludes 2026 Winter Olympics
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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listenings KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles Show
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- 0:10Speaker 2: You are listening to the Bill Handle Show.
- 0:15Speaker 1: Km I AM six forty Bill Handle here on Monday morning,
- 0:19Speaker 1: February twenty third. And a couple of things that we're
- 0:23Speaker 1: looking at some of the stories with the one we're
- 0:25Speaker 1: going to do right now about the Mexican cartel leader
- 0:29Speaker 1: being killed, but back east, a very powerful inner storm
- 0:33Speaker 1: worse than thirty years.
- 0:35Speaker 2: It's a bomb slic cyclone. It's crazy.
- 0:38Speaker 1: And as far as the administration news on the administration,
- 0:41Speaker 1: we're going to do some of that.
- 0:42Speaker 2: The Department of Homeland.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Security reversed its decision to defent to suspend TSA's pre
- 0:48Speaker 1: check program at the airport. So they reversed their decision
- 0:52Speaker 1: after reversing their decision, and then reverse that decision in
- 0:56Speaker 1: a reversal of that decision, and I'm expecting today a
- 1:01Speaker 1: couple of reversals.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Also.
- 1:06Speaker 1: I get emails you know that, saying Bill, You're so
- 1:09Speaker 1: unbiased when it comes to this sort of stuff. Yeah,
- 1:12Speaker 1: that's for sure. Okay, Moving into Mexico, it's a big story.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Mexico's most powerful drug kingpin and he was the head
- 1:22Speaker 1: of the Jalisco New Generation cartel was killed by Mexican
- 1:27Speaker 1: security forces. This happened yesterday and it was they were
- 1:31Speaker 1: obviously planned on getting him. They're going to capture him,
- 1:35Speaker 1: but they it was a firefight that ensued and he
- 1:38Speaker 1: and several others were killed. Part of the cartel Nemessio
- 1:44Speaker 1: Rubin a Seguera Cervantes, also known as El Mencho. The
- 1:49Speaker 1: Jewish members of the cartel held him to a great esteem,
- 1:53Speaker 1: and this is why they called him El Menho. That's
- 1:55Speaker 1: how he got his name. And the Jalisco, the western
- 2:00Speaker 1: state of Jalisco, is where all has happened. And as
- 2:02Speaker 1: a result of the killing of this cartel leader, the
- 2:08Speaker 1: capital of Jalisco, Guadalajada, has basically been shut down. The
- 2:16Speaker 1: shelter in place. That's Americans are told shelter in place.
- 2:19Speaker 1: You do not want to go out on the streets.
- 2:21Speaker 1: And you see video of buses and cars and buildings
- 2:25Speaker 1: being burnt because that was in reaction to this. The
- 2:28Speaker 1: cartel wants to show they're still in charge and just
- 2:31Speaker 1: losing the head of one, someone just comes right into place.
- 2:35Speaker 1: It's a what ten headed hydra or twenty five headed hydra.
- 2:39Speaker 1: You cut your knock off one head and two come
- 2:41Speaker 1: right back. And so oh se Guerta relatively new the
- 2:46Speaker 1: founder of the New Generation cartel, and it has become
- 2:51Speaker 1: one of the most powerful and violent organizations in Mexico.
- 2:56Speaker 1: Fetanyl cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine being smuggled into the US and
- 3:04Speaker 1: to be described as among the most violent cartels in Mexico.
- 3:11Speaker 1: They're already so violent that I don't even know where
- 3:15Speaker 1: you go with this one. And it's a fight, And
- 3:18Speaker 1: I guess this is relatively good news. And I'll tell
- 3:21Speaker 1: you why, because this is kudos to the president, and
- 3:25Speaker 1: when he deserves it, I go for it. He said,
- 3:27Speaker 1: we're going to stop this crap from coming in through
- 3:29Speaker 1: the border. The fentanyl, the myth is killing Americans and
- 3:34Speaker 1: we're going to put a stop to it. So he
- 3:36Speaker 1: puts ten thousand troops along the border and tells Mexico
- 3:40Speaker 1: in no uncertain terms, you are going to stop this.
- 3:43Speaker 2: They put ten thousand troops.
- 3:46Speaker 1: And unlike El Choppo, who for years and years evaded
- 3:51Speaker 1: the police, even to the point where he was actually
- 3:54Speaker 1: when El Chopo was picked up and convicted, he built
- 3:59Speaker 1: his own prison and the Mexican authorities allowed him to
- 4:02Speaker 1: do that, and he had kitchens and hookers in there
- 4:06Speaker 1: and it was just a phenomenal way to live. Well,
- 4:12Speaker 1: those days are gone. So here you have the Mexican
- 4:14Speaker 1: authorities that went after him. They did assuming some kind
- 4:19Speaker 1: of intelligence. Here's the other bit of news is that
- 4:22Speaker 1: the US government was cooperating with the Mexican government.
- 4:27Speaker 2: And it's very different.
- 4:28Speaker 1: This is not the US government coming in, armed forces,
- 4:30Speaker 1: coming in and invading the sovereignty of Mexico. This is
- 4:34Speaker 1: cooperation between the FBI local authorities and the Mexican police
- 4:39Speaker 1: and Mexican federalies who were part of it.
- 4:43Speaker 2: And so this is good news.
- 4:45Speaker 1: And the drug importation has gone down pretty significantly. Maybe
- 4:51Speaker 1: they just gotten more clever about it. There's one It
- 4:57Speaker 1: was an interview that was done in Washington about one
- 5:00Speaker 1: forty nine year old man who splits his time between
- 5:02Speaker 1: New York and Puerto Vayata, and he said he walked
- 5:07Speaker 1: home and there were burnout car after burnt out car
- 5:11Speaker 1: after burnt out car. Is what the car As cartel
- 5:15Speaker 1: is doing in response to the killing of El Menshow
- 5:20Speaker 1: so good news. Mexico is absolutely cooperating with American authorities,
- 5:25Speaker 1: or it is the other way around. American authorities are cooperating
- 5:29Speaker 1: with Mexico, and there's a move out there and they
- 5:31Speaker 1: got him, although someone's gonna take his place, of course
- 5:34Speaker 1: they are. And well, we'll see the war continues and
- 5:38Speaker 1: it will all right. Now another bit of news. The
- 5:41Speaker 1: Winter Olympics is over.
- 5:43Speaker 2: It is Fiene. The games.
- 5:47Speaker 1: The closing ceremonies were in Verona, where I got married, incidentally,
- 5:52Speaker 1: and it was the Amphitheater there in Verona, which is
- 5:55Speaker 1: just their little version of the coliseum is just terrific.
- 5:59Speaker 1: It's beautiful, restored, it's a full amphitheater, and they do concerts.
- 6:04Speaker 2: It's just it's a wonderful place.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Verona is a neat city and this is where you know,
- 6:10Speaker 1: we got married, and so it's Italy is just a
- 6:14Speaker 1: neat place to go to whenever you go.
- 6:18Speaker 2: And as far as.
- 6:19Speaker 1: The Olympics concerned, people who went there got a real
- 6:23Speaker 1: joy in traveling. And doctor Jim came to my wedding
- 6:29Speaker 1: and he hung out in Verona, as many other people did.
- 6:32Speaker 1: And so now it's LA's turn and we're gonna have
- 6:36Speaker 1: the Summer Games in twenty twenty eight, and already the
- 6:41Speaker 1: clock is ticking.
- 6:42Speaker 2: Are we going to be ready?
- 6:44Speaker 1: A lot is going on, kind of a lot of controversy,
- 6:47Speaker 1: both with the games that just happened and what's happening
- 6:49Speaker 1: in LA. Already we've started with a lot of controversy
- 6:52Speaker 1: and that has to do with Casey Wasserman, who is
- 6:55Speaker 1: the chair of LA Olympics at twenty twenty eight eight
- 7:00Speaker 1: and is going.
- 7:02Speaker 2: To run it. Basically, it's creating it.
- 7:05Speaker 1: I mean it's a big business to put on an
- 7:07Speaker 1: Olympic is no small deal. It's billions of dollars of
- 7:11Speaker 1: logistics are ridiculous in terms of.
- 7:14Speaker 2: Venues and roads.
- 7:16Speaker 1: I mean it used to be Olympics were in one place,
- 7:19Speaker 1: like the Coliseum in nineteen thirty two, and then you
- 7:22Speaker 1: had they expanded it to swimming and diving and all that.
- 7:25Speaker 1: It was still relatively closed in relatively small quarters. And
- 7:31Speaker 1: then it just blew up where now you have venues
- 7:34Speaker 1: across the city and Winter Olympics, well, you had Winter
- 7:38Speaker 1: Olympics in Milano, Cortina Krtino.
- 7:41Speaker 2: You had to drive.
- 7:42Speaker 1: Take a train for five hours and then go up
- 7:46Speaker 1: the mountain and that was one of the venues. I
- 7:50Speaker 1: mean that's the way it has gotten is pretty crazy,
- 7:53Speaker 1: and we're putting. What makes it a little bit easier
- 7:55Speaker 1: for us is we already have a lot of the venues.
- 7:58Speaker 1: We have the Coliseum which is going to be used.
- 8:00Speaker 1: That was the first Olympics in LA in nineteen thirty two.
- 8:04Speaker 1: Then Sofi Stadium has been built and I'm assuming're going
- 8:08Speaker 1: to use. The Aqua Center is already there, the Equestrian
- 8:12Speaker 1: Center is already there.
- 8:14Speaker 2: So we're in.
- 8:15Speaker 1: Pretty good shape. But it's still it's still going to
- 8:20Speaker 1: be a very big deal. I last time, around nineteen
- 8:23Speaker 1: eighty four, when the Olympics were here in Los Angeles,
- 8:26Speaker 1: I decided I wasn't going to stay. I had to
- 8:28Speaker 1: get out of town because I knew how crowded it
- 8:31Speaker 1: was going to get.
- 8:32Speaker 2: It was going to be a zoo.
- 8:34Speaker 1: With hundreds of thousands of people coming in, the roads
- 8:38Speaker 1: clogged and people going from venue to venue.
- 8:40Speaker 2: So I went to Australia.
- 8:43Speaker 1: I had some medical stuff to be done, surrogacy business,
- 8:47Speaker 1: and I was meeting with a group of doctors and
- 8:49Speaker 1: I had to do a couple of lectures. So I
- 8:50Speaker 1: decided that was what I booked it. And as I
- 8:53Speaker 1: was watching television the Olympics here, This entire city was
- 8:59Speaker 1: a ghost town. It was the roads were like they
- 9:03Speaker 1: were during COVID, which I didn't understand.
- 9:06Speaker 2: So my hanging out for this.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm thinking of going to the opening ceremonies
- 9:12Speaker 1: and that's going to be at so Far, I believe
- 9:14Speaker 1: is not AND's gonna be there because she works so far,
- 9:18Speaker 1: so she's gonna Those tickets are going to be like ridiculous.
- 9:22Speaker 1: And where else there opening ceremonies we have in two
- 9:24Speaker 1: different places, so.
- 9:25Speaker 2: It's so Memorial Coliseum.
- 9:27Speaker 1: Oh, the Coliseum again where they happened in nineteen thirty two.
- 9:31Speaker 1: That's kind of neat. I don't know if they're going
- 9:33Speaker 1: to use the same flame that they did in nineteen
- 9:36Speaker 1: thirty two.
- 9:36Speaker 2: I hope they did. It's very retro.
- 9:39Speaker 1: I mean, it's very old school, but the nostalgia the
- 9:43Speaker 1: history of it is tremendous because look at now, the
- 9:47Speaker 1: flame is as important as anything else. How they light
- 9:49Speaker 1: the flame and the way to design it and just
- 9:53Speaker 1: who's going to be lighting the flame. It's a huge deal.
- 9:56Speaker 1: So I'm hoping that happens. And when we look at
- 10:01Speaker 1: the Winter Olympics, it just happened in the American version
- 10:04Speaker 1: of our American team. We had a lot of controversy.
- 10:09Speaker 1: We had some really bad injuries. Lindsay Vaughn who had
- 10:13Speaker 1: torn up her acla acl during a practice run and
- 10:17Speaker 1: then still went on to one of the events and
- 10:23Speaker 1: took a crash and just tore up her leg.
- 10:26Speaker 2: I mean four surgeries.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Did you see they never see did you see the
- 10:28Speaker 1: x rays of what her leg looked like with all
- 10:31Speaker 1: those pins and plates? I mean, just crazy. And she
- 10:36Speaker 1: was in the hospital bed and she had this contraption
- 10:39Speaker 1: on her leg with all of these steel rods going
- 10:43Speaker 1: in her leg. It was horrific. Then we had the
- 10:45Speaker 1: curling team. There was a little bit of controversy there.
- 10:49Speaker 1: Fake stones, I believe that's what they said. No, I
- 10:53Speaker 1: don't think that was the scandal, although it sounds good,
- 10:56Speaker 1: doesn't it.
- 10:57Speaker 2: Fake stones?
- 10:59Speaker 1: And then that's some great stuff. The women's hockey, the
- 11:03Speaker 1: men's hockey. The United States pulled out two gold medals,
- 11:07Speaker 1: and we had more gold medals than we've ever had
- 11:10Speaker 1: at Winter Olympics. In the meantime, the number one gold
- 11:13Speaker 1: medal country as always Norway. The United States has the
- 11:19Speaker 1: population of about what three hundred and forty million people,
- 11:23Speaker 1: and we received or won fewer gold medals than the
- 11:28Speaker 1: country of Norway, where the entire population is twenty two
- 11:33Speaker 1: hundred people, the majority of which were in the Olympics.
- 11:38Speaker 1: You know that, don't you go? I my numbers right,
- 11:42Speaker 1: I don't think so. Okay, but I'm close good enough.
- 11:46Speaker 1: We're done with that China. Now want to move into
- 11:52Speaker 1: my favorite company, bite me or bite Dance, and they
- 11:57Speaker 1: have some new software out there, and let me describe
- 12:02Speaker 1: what you can do with it. Imagine Tom Cruise and
- 12:05Speaker 1: Brad Pitt in hand to hand combat combat on a
- 12:10Speaker 1: rooftop that's full of debris, or even better, Donald Trump
- 12:15Speaker 1: taking on kung fu fighters in a bamboo grove that's entertaining,
- 12:21Speaker 1: or Kanye West dancing through a Chinese imperial palace singing
- 12:26Speaker 1: in Mandarin. Now seems absurd.
- 12:31Speaker 2: Well. Over the past week.
- 12:33Speaker 1: There were a slew of cinematic videos of celebrities and
- 12:38Speaker 1: characters in which are obviously absurd situations, and they've gone
- 12:41Speaker 1: viral online and they all have the same commonality. The
- 12:46Speaker 1: new AI intelligence tool from byte Dance. It's name seed Dance,
- 12:53Speaker 1: actually seed Dance two point zero, and it's among the
- 12:56Speaker 1: most advanced of its kind, and it has drawn a
- 12:59Speaker 1: lot of prey from its users for ease of use
- 13:03Speaker 1: and realistic nature. Because you think it actually is Donald
- 13:06Speaker 1: Trump in a kung fu fight. It is that good. Well,
- 13:11Speaker 1: it's among the best videos out there. But and you
- 13:15Speaker 1: can imagine, a few people got upset about this paramount.
- 13:18Speaker 1: Disney sent cease and desist letters saying you're infringing upon
- 13:23Speaker 1: our intellectual property. The Motion Picture Association SAG after also
- 13:28Speaker 1: condemned the company unauthorized use of copyrighted works and bite
- 13:34Speaker 1: the dance respondent. As all corporations do, we are very
- 13:41Speaker 1: careful about not invading other companies and it's the security
- 13:46Speaker 1: of our firm, and we want to make sure kids
- 13:49Speaker 1: don't use it for a negative purpose. So they responded
- 13:53Speaker 1: with a statement saying they're going to implement better safeguards.
- 13:58Speaker 2: Now, this is.
- 13:59Speaker 1: Chiny technology that's coming out on a regular basis, but
- 14:02Speaker 1: this one is the most controversial China's government.
- 14:06Speaker 2: Okay, what's China government doing about this? It's helping out.
- 14:10Speaker 1: It's made advanced tech a key tenant of their development strategy.
- 14:15Speaker 1: And to give you an idea, there was a televised
- 14:18Speaker 1: Lunar New Year celebration this week on Chinese television, and
- 14:24Speaker 1: the latest humanoid robot stole the show Martial Arts spinkicks, backflips.
- 14:29Speaker 2: That's China for you. And there's nationalist fervor.
- 14:34Speaker 1: Going around where the Chinese are simply bettering, bettering us.
- 14:39Speaker 1: They're just doing a better job than us. We're the
- 14:41Speaker 1: greatest country in the world. Except and now let's go
- 14:45Speaker 1: through that list. One of them is AI that can
- 14:49Speaker 1: be used by any one of us. So this is
- 14:52Speaker 1: an AI video generation model not publicly available to everyone,
- 14:58Speaker 1: but it is described as the most sophisticated of its
- 15:01Speaker 1: kind ever images, audio video, text prompts and churning out
- 15:06Speaker 1: short scenes, polished characters, motion editing control at a much
- 15:13Speaker 1: lower cost and much better quality. So here are the Chinese,
- 15:18Speaker 1: and you know, the same of it is that I'm
- 15:22Speaker 1: gonna miss seeing Donald Trump in a kung fu fight.
- 15:27Speaker 1: You have to admit that's pretty entertaining. So lawsuits a plenty.
- 15:33Speaker 1: There's going to be international conversation about this. You can
- 15:36Speaker 1: bet the government of the United States is going to
- 15:38Speaker 1: get involved. And Byte Dance says, oh, we're gonna have
- 15:41Speaker 1: some safeguards. Yeah, I believe all of that, don't you now.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Tourism and some obvious reasons. The big one is actually
- 15:51Speaker 1: the ice immigration and customs enforcement in the way that
- 15:57Speaker 1: people are being treated. It's gotten worldwide and worldwide announcement too.
- 16:03Speaker 1: So here's a stat I want to throw this at you.
- 16:07Speaker 1: This is from the New York Times. Last year tourism
- 16:10Speaker 1: grew worldwide. The United States was the only major destination
- 16:17Speaker 1: to see a decline in foreign visitors. That's a six
- 16:21Speaker 1: percent drop. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council.
- 16:26Speaker 1: The only countries that did worse than the United States
- 16:30Speaker 1: South Sudan.
- 16:32Speaker 2: They had a drop in tourism.
- 16:35Speaker 1: Because there is not much to see other than a
- 16:38Speaker 1: few rocks and a few other countries, but not big
- 16:42Speaker 1: destination countries, so visitors from Canada and then Canada is
- 16:47Speaker 1: the big one, second largest source of tourism after Mexico.
- 16:50Speaker 1: Mexico's number one, Canada plunged twenty eight percent.
- 16:56Speaker 2: That is a big drop. Other places.
- 17:02Speaker 1: Vacationers from Germany and France also declined dramatically.
- 17:07Speaker 2: For some reason. Britain was about even that's kind of weird.
- 17:12Speaker 1: The senior vice president of the US Travel Association goy
- 17:15Speaker 1: named Eric Hanson said, when eleven million international visitors aren't
- 17:19Speaker 1: showing up, the result is billions of dollars in economic
- 17:23Speaker 1: losses to the travel industry.
- 17:26Speaker 2: And now why well, the Trump.
- 17:28Speaker 1: Administration is getting the blame for this one for a
- 17:30Speaker 1: couple of reasons, as I said, the political reason of
- 17:34Speaker 1: principally ice and also just people are just tired of
- 17:39Speaker 1: us in the administration. But also the administration has made
- 17:42Speaker 1: it a lot harder for travelers to enter the United States,
- 17:46Speaker 1: barring visitors from more than a dozen countries, introducing a
- 17:50Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty dollars visa integrity fee for some
- 17:56Speaker 1: tourists and business visas simply designed to discover visitors from overstaying,
- 18:01Speaker 1: but it turns out it discourages visitors from coming. Also,
- 18:06Speaker 1: more rigorous vetting at the border, increased searches of devices
- 18:12Speaker 1: and then some of them resulting in detentions and denial
- 18:14Speaker 1: of entries. And here's one that's really weird. Citizen of
- 18:19Speaker 1: countries who need an electronic authorization to visit the US
- 18:23Speaker 1: may soon be required to provide up to five years.
- 18:26Speaker 2: Of social media history.
- 18:28Speaker 1: What do you do with five years of social media history?
- 18:33Speaker 1: For hundreds of thousands of visitors coming in. That is
- 18:39Speaker 1: a tough one. Now are we going to do better? Well,
- 18:42Speaker 1: look what's happening this year. You've got the FIFA World
- 18:47Speaker 1: Cup this summer, the country's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
- 18:51Speaker 1: this summer, the Route sixty six centennial. I didn't even
- 18:55Speaker 1: know that was around, but I guess so. Twenty twenty
- 18:57Speaker 1: six has the potential for turning around. However, there are
- 19:04Speaker 1: a lot of travel experts that say, even with all
- 19:07Speaker 1: of that, you may see it actually drop not significantly
- 19:13Speaker 1: because of these events, or stay even or if it's
- 19:17Speaker 1: going to increase, it's going to increase the number of
- 19:20Speaker 1: tours incrementally. Now, when the World Cup is in the US, well,
- 19:28Speaker 1: when you have this centennial, not the centennial, the bi centennial,
- 19:33Speaker 1: what do they call that? The quasi buy almost centennial?
- 19:37Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty years? What do they call that?
- 19:41Speaker 1: When it's two hundred and fifty years? I think they
- 19:42Speaker 1: call it two hundred and fifty years? Fair enough, very strong.
- 19:46Speaker 1: This is why I do this. And you have that,
- 19:49Speaker 1: and you have a Root sixty six centennial, that's kind
- 19:52Speaker 1: of neat. You think you'd get a ton of visitors
- 19:56Speaker 1: that heretofore wouldn't come.
- 19:57Speaker 2: Not a chance.
- 19:59Speaker 1: It's just two difficult And how do we know that
- 20:03Speaker 1: it's going to be tough. Well, the tourist business actually
- 20:07Speaker 1: looks at Florida. Florida is the bellweather of the tourist
- 20:12Speaker 1: industry because so many people Canadians go to Florida because
- 20:15Speaker 1: there are sunbirds.
- 20:17Speaker 2: Sunbirds winner in.
- 20:18Speaker 1: Canada can be especially harsh, so they all come to Florida.
- 20:23Speaker 1: The tourism that has dropped a number of people from
- 20:26Speaker 1: Canada has dropped about eighteen percent. And so we're looking
- 20:30Speaker 1: at some real problems in the tourism industry.
- 20:34Speaker 2: And that's just part of it. So I have a
- 20:35Speaker 2: question because you know.
- 20:38Speaker 1: The midterms are coming up, and frankly, there seems to
- 20:43Speaker 1: be a lot of political backlash and we're going to
- 20:47Speaker 1: see what happens. Just the political statement can't wait for this.
- 20:52Speaker 1: It's fascinating, It's absolutely fascinating. And so there'll be plenty
- 20:55Speaker 1: of tourist spots that are going to be.
- 20:57Speaker 2: Open to you.
- 20:58Speaker 1: Oh the other thing they were interviewing, uh, somebody who
- 21:01Speaker 1: specializes in Disney travel. You know their agencies have specialize
- 21:04Speaker 1: just in Disney and the fellow who runs it said
- 21:07Speaker 1: the number of travelers who would come to Disney World
- 21:14Speaker 1: or Disneyland mainly Disney World or resorts have actually dropped substantially,
- 21:20Speaker 1: and the number of his clients going to Disney Tokyo
- 21:24Speaker 1: or Disney.
- 21:25Speaker 2: France has tripled. And that tells you something. KFI AM
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