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- 0:01Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
- 0:04Speaker 1: six forty Bill Handled Here. It is a Thursday morning, February, Ay,
- 0:12Speaker 1: the nineteenth. As we're well into February. Some of the
- 0:15Speaker 1: big stories that we are following today. The President convenes
- 0:21Speaker 1: the inaugural meeting of the Donald Trump Board of Peace,
- 0:26Speaker 1: Donald Trump chairman, and it features Donald Trump in speaking
- 0:32Speaker 1: and we'll be getting information from Donald Trump anyway. The
- 0:36Speaker 1: Board of Peace is about rebuilding Gaza. That was the
- 0:39Speaker 1: original intent, and now it's about a world building program
- 0:46Speaker 1: and most countries are not involved because it looks like
- 0:51Speaker 1: it's a direct competition to the UN. Now here's some
- 0:56Speaker 1: big news out of England. British police arrested former Prince Andrew.
- 1:02Speaker 1: He is now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. I'll tell
- 1:05Speaker 1: you about that. There's some fascinating history there because of
- 1:09Speaker 1: a suspicion of misconduct in public office, which means or
- 1:14Speaker 1: because he's accused of sharing confidential information with Jeffrey Epstein
- 1:21Speaker 1: while he was that is Andrew serving as a British
- 1:25Speaker 1: Trade envoy. He is a working royal, or was a
- 1:29Speaker 1: working royal. And here's what happens with the royal family,
- 1:32Speaker 1: and we're talking about brothers and the yeah uncles and
- 1:37Speaker 1: certainly children of the royal family or the king or queen,
- 1:42Speaker 1: and they're given jobs to do. And in this case,
- 1:46Speaker 1: he was a British Trade envoy and he's accused of
- 1:50Speaker 1: sharing confidential information regarding his connections and discommunications with governments
- 1:59Speaker 1: and mainly other businesses with Epstein. Can't do that, it's
- 2:03Speaker 1: against the law. So big, big blow to the British monarchy.
- 2:08Speaker 1: Just another one. A couple things about Andrew, who is
- 2:11Speaker 1: no longer Prince Andrew because Charles King Charles took away
- 2:15Speaker 1: that title, so he is now Andrew mount Batton Windsor.
- 2:20Speaker 1: And there's some history there and I'm going to share
- 2:22Speaker 1: you a bit of handle history. The name Windsor only
- 2:26Speaker 1: came to the royal family after World War One. Before that,
- 2:31Speaker 1: the royal family was Saxe Coburg, Gotha. That was the
- 2:36Speaker 1: name of the British royal family. It was German, German.
- 2:41Speaker 1: They had German kings that didn't speak a word of
- 2:45Speaker 1: English because of the way royalty worked as a result
- 2:51Speaker 1: of the children the progeny of Queen Victoria. So that
- 2:55Speaker 1: was a German name. Well, World War One came around
- 2:58Speaker 1: in Britain. Of course Germany was an enemy. They had
- 3:03Speaker 1: to get another name because of the pushback. Do you
- 3:06Speaker 1: know it was so bad that people who owned docks
- 3:11Speaker 1: AND's and were taking them for walks, little Wiener docks,
- 3:15Speaker 1: they were being kicked in the street by people because
- 3:19Speaker 1: of a German connection. I mean it was crazy. Also,
- 3:23Speaker 1: the name Mount Botten German. It comes from Battenberg, which
- 3:29Speaker 1: is handed down to the royal family. So how did
- 3:33Speaker 1: the name Windsor comes about come about? It was the
- 3:36Speaker 1: secretary to King George who came up with that name
- 3:43Speaker 1: during World War two, and the name came out of
- 3:47Speaker 1: Windsor Castle and then it all it just became Windsor.
- 3:53Speaker 1: So keep in mind the Royal family of Britain, its
- 3:57Speaker 1: ancestry is straight out German. And so that's how Mount
- 4:02Speaker 1: Baton Windsor came into being. So Andrew is now Andrew
- 4:08Speaker 1: Mount Baton Windsor. And he lived in this royal cottage
- 4:14Speaker 1: with sixty rooms that was part of the estate of
- 4:18Speaker 1: the crown. And when his title was taken out taken off,
- 4:24Speaker 1: he then moved on to a private estate that King
- 4:27Speaker 1: Charles owns. He was moved on to there because his
- 4:33Speaker 1: previous residence was a governmental residence, and so King Charles says, okay,
- 4:38Speaker 1: this is where I'm going to park my brother. And
- 4:40Speaker 1: it was rough for Andrew. Still had the valets, still
- 4:44Speaker 1: had the chefs, still had the staff to help, still
- 4:49Speaker 1: had everything that a royal would have. And now I
- 4:52Speaker 1: think it has changed. It'll change rather dramatically. Now King
- 4:56Speaker 1: Charles is looking for a bridge in London under which
- 5:01Speaker 1: he's going to park his brother. Just another thing about Andrew,
- 5:05Speaker 1: and this is the good side. Do you remember the
- 5:07Speaker 1: Falkland Wars when the Argentina invaded the Falklands and claimed
- 5:14Speaker 1: that it was part of Argentina. And it was Margaret
- 5:17Speaker 1: Thatcher that sent the Royal fleet down and just kicked
- 5:20Speaker 1: the crap out of Argentina, took the falcons back and
- 5:23Speaker 1: it was straight out combat. Andrew was a rescue helicopter pilot,
- 5:28Speaker 1: I mean real combat. He was being shot at when
- 5:31Speaker 1: he was rescuing as he was flying around in his
- 5:35Speaker 1: helicopter when he was part of the Royal Navy. So
- 5:38Speaker 1: fascinating story I happened. The bottom line is he's been arrested.
- 5:43Speaker 1: Of course, he's not going to spend any time in jail,
- 5:45Speaker 1: but he could serve many, many years for this infringement,
- 5:53Speaker 1: for this violation of British law. All right, now, affordability
- 5:58Speaker 1: is a huge phrase that's being used because well, prices
- 6:05Speaker 1: have exploded. Now interestingly enough, inflation is down way down
- 6:13Speaker 1: to almost what the Fed wants. And so the President
- 6:18Speaker 1: is rightly taking credit for that, because it always stops
- 6:23Speaker 1: with the president and both when inflation goes down, it
- 6:28Speaker 1: is because of the President he takes the credit. And
- 6:31Speaker 1: when inflation goes up it's someone else's fault. That simply
- 6:35Speaker 1: seems to be what's going on. No surprise there. And
- 6:38Speaker 1: so affordability has absolutely become part and parcel of our thinking.
- 6:44Speaker 1: And so here we are with inflation genuinely going down
- 6:49Speaker 1: to almost exactly what the Fed wants. Yet why are
- 6:52Speaker 1: we still talking about all the crazy prices because it's
- 6:55Speaker 1: already baked in, that's all. Look at the price of meat,
- 7:00Speaker 1: it's science fiction. Look at the price of virtually everything
- 7:05Speaker 1: out there. Food has gone crazy. Power How about this one,
- 7:11Speaker 1: the cost of a car? And we've talked about that.
- 7:16Speaker 1: And there is an article in the Washington Post and
- 7:19Speaker 1: the headline reads the thousand dollars a month car payment
- 7:23Speaker 1: is now becoming the norm. The pandemic shortages are done.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Dealer lots have plenty of cars. You can find colors,
- 7:33Speaker 1: you can find the options that you want. The prices.
- 7:36Speaker 1: The problem is the prices. They're so big now. Auto
- 7:40Speaker 1: loans are much bigger, much longer to pay out, just
- 7:44Speaker 1: because it pencils out that way. So the average sticker
- 7:47Speaker 1: price for a new car or a truck now is
- 7:49Speaker 1: above fifty thousand dollars. And that that's what is the
- 7:54Speaker 1: straw that breaks the camel's back. The fifty thousand dollars
- 7:58Speaker 1: price tag forty nine thousand, five hundred is not you know,
- 8:03Speaker 1: fifty five hundred dollars more than forty nine to five.
- 8:06Speaker 2: I've never paid more now by used. Yeah, but I've
- 8:09Speaker 2: never paid more. I have never paid thirty thousand.
- 8:13Speaker 1: For a car.
- 8:13Speaker 2: Okay, and I yet I've never paid more than twenty
- 8:16Speaker 2: seven Well, how long have you had your car?
- 8:19Speaker 1: You know?
- 8:24Speaker 2: God, I don't know, five years this week? Yeah, before
- 8:29Speaker 2: I had almost Yeah, you know, what do you think
- 8:33Speaker 2: has happened?
- 8:33Speaker 1: What do you think has happened since you last bought
- 8:35Speaker 1: your car? And now the average monthly payment has has
- 8:42Speaker 1: hit an all time high. The average now is a
- 8:44Speaker 1: little over eight hundred dollars per month. But let me
- 8:47Speaker 1: give you some stats. Twenty percent of new auto loans
- 8:50Speaker 1: have monthly payments of at least one thousand dollars. Patrick Mansei,
- 8:56Speaker 1: chief economists at the National Automobile Dealers Association, says, we're
- 9:00Speaker 1: approaching that threshold that people just don't want to go over,
- 9:05Speaker 1: and the auto industry is worried big time. I mean,
- 9:09Speaker 1: cars are selling, but they're looking at because you have
- 9:14Speaker 1: to have a car, and you and if you have
- 9:18Speaker 1: crap credit, they're going to sell you a car anyway
- 9:21Speaker 1: because you've got to get to work. You simply have
- 9:24Speaker 1: to have transportations. So there's a good risk. Although now
- 9:28Speaker 1: the risks are very high where they're grabbing cars, they're
- 9:34Speaker 1: repossessing cars like crazy, and the auto loan delinquency rates
- 9:40Speaker 1: have absolutely soared. So here's what the question is asking,
- 9:46Speaker 1: how far can this go? How far can you push
- 9:50Speaker 1: prices where the average consumer can afford to pay it?
- 9:54Speaker 1: You know what? No one knows, but they're saying, okay,
- 9:58Speaker 1: we're damn close. The last car with an asking price
- 10:02Speaker 1: of under two twenty thousand dollars was the Nissan Versa
- 10:06Speaker 1: and that was a little over seventeen thousand that ended
- 10:09Speaker 1: production in December. Other affordable subcompacts and that's the cheapest one.
- 10:15Speaker 1: Small cars obviously have disappeared, the Mitzi Bushi, the Mitsubishi
- 10:21Speaker 1: Mirage is gone, the Kia Rio is gone, the Hyundai
- 10:25Speaker 1: Accent is gone, the Chevrolet Spark is gone. And the
- 10:29Speaker 1: only one that's still left is the very famous the
- 10:33Speaker 1: Chevy paper Mache. That one is still around. And talk
- 10:39Speaker 1: about your crumple zone. Yeah, not much, not much. So
- 10:45Speaker 1: the car companies hate selling small cars too. On top
- 10:48Speaker 1: of that, and they're pushing for big cars because that's
- 10:50Speaker 1: where they make. All the money is on the big cars.
- 10:53Speaker 1: The small cars, the margin is very small. But at
- 10:57Speaker 1: the same time, people are going to just have to
- 10:59Speaker 1: buy small cars, especially suv crossovers, and to Neil's point,
- 11:05Speaker 1: used cars. Those are insanely expensive because that's where people
- 11:09Speaker 1: go to but the demand is so high. Case in point,
- 11:12Speaker 1: I have a Beamer, an electric Beamer that I lease.
- 11:15Speaker 1: This time, sometimes I buy, sometimes I lease. My lease
- 11:18Speaker 1: is up on my birthday August twenty five, and I
- 11:20Speaker 1: got a three year lease and by the way, the
- 11:22Speaker 1: payments are pretty high. I'm unloading it. I'm going for
- 11:26Speaker 1: a used car. I'm going for a mid size suv
- 11:32Speaker 1: that's going to be in the range of thirty five
- 11:33Speaker 1: thousand dollars. That's it. And I've always driven cars that
- 11:40Speaker 1: were pretty high priced. I mean, I can afford one
- 11:44Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month. Do I want to pay one
- 11:46Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month? No, because there's a threshold there,
- 11:51Speaker 1: so it's it doesn't bode well. Now here's another life
- 11:57Speaker 1: is wonderful, and that is aging. We are not built
- 12:00Speaker 1: to age. That's genetically just not the same, you know,
- 12:04Speaker 1: to turn. In the last century, forty five years of
- 12:07Speaker 1: age was the average life expectancy something like that. And
- 12:12Speaker 1: then when social Security came out in the nineteen thirties,
- 12:16Speaker 1: I think nineteen thirty four, nineteen thirty five, what people
- 12:19Speaker 1: did is they retired at sixty five and then they
- 12:22Speaker 1: died a year or two later. And this is why
- 12:26Speaker 1: the social security system is broke, and we keep on
- 12:30Speaker 1: paying more and more because we don't die at sixty
- 12:33Speaker 1: five or sixty six anymore. My mom lasted until she
- 12:37Speaker 1: was ninety eight, and she kept herself alive just to
- 12:41Speaker 1: screw with me. You know that she should have died
- 12:42Speaker 1: in ninety three, but and that's only because she was
- 12:46Speaker 1: basically just broccoli from the time of nineteen thirty, from
- 12:51Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three to nineteen ninety, from nine ninety three
- 12:55Speaker 1: to ninety eight. So anyway, we are getting old, and
- 13:00Speaker 1: it is not fun to get old. There's a wonderful
- 13:03Speaker 1: phrase youth is wasted on the young, and that says
- 13:08Speaker 1: a lot. So what do we do with the oldsters? Well?
- 13:12Speaker 1: I do a commercial, for example, SLC placement which helps
- 13:15Speaker 1: people put senior loved ones into and it says a
- 13:19Speaker 1: living facility. But those are not inexpensive. So what do
- 13:22Speaker 1: people do? I mean, you live on Social Security? Who
- 13:25Speaker 1: does that? I mean you go broke to me that
- 13:27Speaker 1: you're eating cat food. And here's another stat I want
- 13:31Speaker 1: to share with you. Older adults are an expanding portion
- 13:36Speaker 1: of California our population. By twenty thirty, individuals over the
- 13:43Speaker 1: age of sixty five will number outnumber those under eighteen.
- 13:48Speaker 1: So what happens is as you get old, living longer
- 13:54Speaker 1: means we see more loss, we experience more grief, we
- 13:59Speaker 1: face more isolation. And again, when we buried my mother,
- 14:06Speaker 1: no one was there except immediate family. That was it.
- 14:12Speaker 1: There are no friends, There were no acquaintances. And not
- 14:18Speaker 1: because my mother was unloved, although she was. It is
- 14:22Speaker 1: because there was no one left. They had all died
- 14:28Speaker 1: and she ended up in assistant living facility and then
- 14:31Speaker 1: she ended up in a Borden care and then I
- 14:35Speaker 1: did park her under a bridge. She couldn't tell the difference.
- 14:39Speaker 1: Getting old is no fun. So here's a thing, and
- 14:43Speaker 1: this is really important, and this is and I'm not
- 14:47Speaker 1: joking about this one, is seniors need to get together.
- 14:52Speaker 1: Seniors have to have the support. Seniors get incredibly lonely
- 14:58Speaker 1: because kids move away way and we just that's who
- 15:04Speaker 1: we are. We're we are. We have a hard mentality.
- 15:08Speaker 1: That's what human beings are about. We need to touch
- 15:10Speaker 1: and feel and talk, and when you're getting old, you
- 15:13Speaker 1: can't do it because there's no one there. So the
- 15:17Speaker 1: senior living centers are now being really funded, except that's
- 15:22Speaker 1: a social program. And you know that programs that are
- 15:26Speaker 1: funded by the state, the money is drying up because
- 15:29Speaker 1: those government, those state programs are funded by the FEDS
- 15:33Speaker 1: for the most part, in many ways and in many
- 15:36Speaker 1: and in many amounts. And that those days are gone,
- 15:39Speaker 1: so it's even worse for seniors to connect. And we
- 15:44Speaker 1: really do well, we live longer, and we're going to
- 15:49Speaker 1: get old, all of us. And was it Neil just said,
- 15:52Speaker 1: if you're going to make it to twenty thirty, you're
- 15:56Speaker 1: going to live a long long time. That's what the saying.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Science is so advanced now.
- 16:02Speaker 2: I know, if you just make it to twenty thirty,
- 16:05Speaker 2: there's going to be so much more technology to keep
- 16:09Speaker 2: you alive.
- 16:10Speaker 1: But we still but the body, we have not evolved
- 16:13Speaker 1: to live to ninety five or one hundred. Science can
- 16:17Speaker 1: keep us alive. Yeah, mechanically we're our brains because we
- 16:21Speaker 1: go into dementia, we go into Alzheimer's and other diseases
- 16:29Speaker 1: and a lot of us well, you know, I was
- 16:33Speaker 1: talking to Neil Man, you know do I never admitted
- 16:37Speaker 1: my age, And I think this has a lot to
- 16:38Speaker 1: do with it. Is I happen to be seventy four
- 16:42Speaker 1: and people tell me and I'm still pretty. You know,
- 16:44Speaker 1: I'm active, I work out, I do a lot of stuff.
- 16:47Speaker 1: I bound I little. I am spry. So when I
- 16:51Speaker 1: go to the couch to watch TV for the entire
- 16:54Speaker 1: day after the broadcast, I do it with a great
- 16:57Speaker 1: deal of verb verb, and and I'm very active in
- 17:01Speaker 1: moving over to the couch. You joke, but you are there.
- 17:05Speaker 2: You and I have conversations when you're working out all
- 17:07Speaker 2: the time, you're going for a walk. And as much
- 17:09Speaker 2: as I bust your chops, the fact is you're in
- 17:11Speaker 2: great shape and you don't actually have to read seventy
- 17:14Speaker 2: four at all.
- 17:15Speaker 1: Well, and you know what they tell me, And I
- 17:17Speaker 1: love this because this is a new phrase. Your only
- 17:21Speaker 1: your age is only a number. You've heard that many times. Yeah, okay,
- 17:28Speaker 1: I'm seventy four, and you know what that is. It's
- 17:30Speaker 1: a number. It's still seventy four. We're just getting old.
- 17:38Speaker 1: Wait till I get into dementia. I certainly hope. I'm
- 17:41Speaker 1: still working here, I pray and you yeah, okay, thank
- 17:46Speaker 1: you very much. Well we're done with that. Now. Quick
- 17:50Speaker 1: word about ask handle Anything, which is tomorrow eight thirty
- 17:57Speaker 1: where Neil and I engage in ask handle in Anything.
- 18:00Speaker 1: Actually you have to be part of it, and it's
- 18:02Speaker 1: all about embarrassing me. And we do it for half
- 18:04Speaker 1: an hour eight thirty to nine as we finish the week.
- 18:07Speaker 1: And here is what happens. You have to ask the
- 18:09Speaker 1: questions and then I answer them, and I don't hear
- 18:12Speaker 1: them until we broadcast them same time as you. And
- 18:15Speaker 1: so here's how it works. You go to the iHeartRadio
- 18:18Speaker 1: app while the show is being broadcast, and you'll click
- 18:21Speaker 1: on or you'll see the bill handle show being broadcast
- 18:24Speaker 1: and the upper right hand corner there is a microphone.
- 18:27Speaker 1: Click on that and you'll have a few seconds, ten
- 18:30Speaker 1: to fifteen seconds to record a question and I get
- 18:34Speaker 1: to answer it. And I'm pretty open, by the way
- 18:37Speaker 1: about my life. You know. You know how old's Lindsey.
- 18:43Speaker 1: We just celebrated her eighteenth birthday, for example, and so
- 18:47Speaker 1: there is a lot to say and I will answer
- 18:51Speaker 1: those questions. She's a couple years younger than I am. Okay,
- 18:54Speaker 1: now I let's talk about something that's kind of wild
- 18:58Speaker 1: that it's called the prison influencer. Elizabeth Holmes got an
- 19:05Speaker 1: email from a guy same Lesson who suggested that she
- 19:10Speaker 1: should start a jail house venture fund. And okay, so
- 19:16Speaker 1: what she did, Elizabeth Holmes is the fraudster that got
- 19:19Speaker 1: a bunch of years in jail because remember she came
- 19:21Speaker 1: up with that testing of every disease in the world
- 19:24Speaker 1: with a drop of blood, and she manufactured all of that,
- 19:27Speaker 1: and so she thanked them for the kind words and
- 19:29Speaker 1: volunteered her person address. And it is now not uncommon
- 19:34Speaker 1: for prisoners to plead their cases on the Internet because
- 19:40Speaker 1: as legacy media recedes read networks and newspapers traditional ones,
- 19:48Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, of course, the internet news
- 19:52Speaker 1: and the Internet opinions just explode. What happens is felons
- 19:58Speaker 1: are leveraging this media to reha their image. Sam Bankman freed,
- 20:03Speaker 1: of course, who stole hundreds of millions of dollars, Harvey
- 20:06Speaker 1: Weinstein have turned to, for example, Tucker Carlson, Candice Owens
- 20:13Speaker 1: to present alternatives to their cases, and there's no one
- 20:18Speaker 1: there really to refute that, because there is their story.
- 20:27Speaker 1: One tech forward fella, Nicole diadon Netflix documentary called Orgasmain
- 20:34Speaker 1: Can't Wait for That now is awaiting sentencing, and there's
- 20:37Speaker 1: an AI version of her self reading a message to
- 20:40Speaker 1: our Instagram followers. We serf the World Wide Web and
- 20:45Speaker 1: we look at it like an information highway. One lawyer
- 20:48Speaker 1: who represents these people really compare it to a one
- 20:53Speaker 1: lane dirt road, and that is a perfect analogy. So
- 20:59Speaker 1: coming out of prison now are inmates allowed to use
- 21:04Speaker 1: the Internet. No, they have people that do it for them.
- 21:10Speaker 1: For example, George Santos, he ended up while he was
- 21:16Speaker 1: awaiting sentencing. What he did is he appeared on Carlson's
- 21:22Speaker 1: podcast and his episode is entitled Sam Bankman freed on
- 21:28Speaker 1: Life in prison with Diddy and how Democrats stole his
- 21:33Speaker 1: money and betrayed him. That's after he got out and
- 21:39Speaker 1: he went into by the way federal prison rules he violated.
- 21:45Speaker 1: And not every convict is a natural fit. Weinstein, he's
- 21:48Speaker 1: in his eighties. What does he know from the internet.
- 21:50Speaker 1: Holmes is in her thirties maybe now our forties, and
- 21:54Speaker 1: she is really savvy when it comes to the Internet.
- 21:58Speaker 1: The bottom line, Oh, Julane Maxwell is trying to do
- 22:02Speaker 1: exactly that a prison influencer fellon influencers, and what happens
- 22:08Speaker 1: is they're trying to reach MAGA. That's who they're trying
- 22:11Speaker 1: to reach, MAGA Mega followers and members of that particular community.
- 22:18Speaker 1: Why because they want out? How do they get out early?
- 22:21Speaker 1: The president lets them out? The President pardon Santos, his sentence,
- 22:27Speaker 1: seven year sentence was commuted. And so that's how you
- 22:32Speaker 1: get out. You get out getting on the good side
- 22:34Speaker 1: of the president. But there's a step you have to take.
- 22:38Speaker 1: You have to go through Mega and that happens on
- 22:42Speaker 1: the internet because mac I mispronounced it, Maga Maga Mega followers.
- 22:50Speaker 1: They get all of their information from the Internet and Fox.
- 22:53Speaker 1: They do not watch They don't read The New York
- 22:56Speaker 1: Times like I do every day. They don't look at
- 23:00Speaker 1: they don't watch Network Television or BBC like I do
- 23:03Speaker 1: every day. So you go on the conspiracy theories, Well
- 23:08Speaker 1: there is bankman freed. You know how I love this
- 23:12Speaker 1: absolutely Life in prison with Diddy and how democrats stole
- 23:18Speaker 1: my money and betrayed me doesn't get better, does it.
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