Latest / The Bill Handel Show / Handel on the News

Transcript

Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: Bill Handel. And good morning, everybody. Yes, we do start
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: another Monday morning, September 21. I didn't pay attention that
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: it was Yom Kippur today.
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: And this is the first time in my entire adult
• 0:34
  Speaker 3: life that I'm working on Yom Kippur, which I have
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: to ask for God's forgiveness on this one, even though
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: I don't particularly believe in God. And the reason is
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: it's Yom Kippur. In my contract, I don't work on
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: Yom Kippur. So I have to apologize. The good news
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: is that I'm not offending any Jews because no Jews
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: are listening.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: I'm It's the days of awe.
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: It's the holiest day of the religion where you fast
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: for 24 hours and contemplate your navel.
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: And it is, I mean, no water, no food for
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: 24 hours.
• 1:16
  Speaker 3: And when I was a kid, man, there were days
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: it was 100 degrees out there because it can get
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: very hot around this time of year. And so now
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: as far as fasting is concerned, I would start fasting
• 1:31
  Speaker 3: right at sunset after a big meal because people do that.
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: And then I'd go to sleep and then I'd wake
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: up in the morning and have breakfast. And so I
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: really wasn't a big faster. But in any case, so...
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: I apologize to one and all for working on Yom Kippur.
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: Okay. With that, let me say hello. Amy, shalom.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: And to you, too.
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: Thank you. And Kono, shalom.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: Can you mute, by the way? I'm getting yelled at
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: by Anne over here.
• 2:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: I didn't mute. You're right. You're right. No, you're right.
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: And shalom. What does Yom Kippur mean? Do you know?
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: You know what? I don't know.
• 2:18
  Speaker 3: I think it's days of awe. I think it's specifically
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: what it means.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: When's the atonement part?
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: All day. All day. Hey, Siri.
• 2:29
  Speaker 3: What do the words Yom Kippur mean? Let me see
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: what it says. The last day.
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: It tells me what it is. Come on.
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: It does mean day of atonement.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: It does. Okay.
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: So it's you atone. And you ask for forgiveness. But
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: I was talking to Ann.
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: You need to get on that, by the way. Yeah,
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: Day of Atonement. Are you kidding? He needs more than
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: a day. I can't do it in one day. That
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: list would be incredible.
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: That's why I can't. If I were Catholic, confession would
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: be very difficult for me because we'd be there for hours.
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: Hours.
• 3:05
  Speaker 3: And the line would just back up like crazy. It'd
• 3:08
  Speaker 3: be like the 405 freeway on a Monday morning at
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: 7 a.m.
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: All right. Anne, good morning to you. Good morning. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom.
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: And there is the lovely Will. Will, shalom. Shalom to you, sir.
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 3:25
  Speaker 3: Shalom, incidentally, is Hebrew for hello, goodbye, peace. It is
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: the all-inclusive word.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Kind of like aloha?
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, it's like aloha. Yeah, it
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: means everything.
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: Everything. It's... So that's shalom. Okay. Enough of the religious stuff.
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: I've been religion to death.
• 3:48
  Speaker 3: I told you about my daughter, Pamela, because I sent
• 3:51
  Speaker 3: both of them to a Jewish day school when they
• 3:53
  Speaker 3: were kids, mainly because I don't have a real strong
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: belief in God, as you know, and I wasn't going
• 3:58
  Speaker 3: to lay into my kids and put my belief on them.
• 4:02
  Speaker 3: So I sent them at least to give them a
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: basis of religion and And then they can make up
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: their own mind at that point. But I wanted them
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: to have some kind of religious base. And so when
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: they were finished with junior high school, the Jewish junior
• 4:16
  Speaker 3: high school, I gave them each.
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: I said, OK, you guys are done. Now it's your call.
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: You can stay in the Jewish day school where there's
• 4:28
  Speaker 3: a great story about that, too. And or you can,
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: you know, just go to regular secular high school. And Pamela,
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: my daughter, said, Dad, I'm all Jewed out. I'm not
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: interested anymore in going to religious school. And so with
• 4:44
  Speaker 3: the religious school, it was mandatory to speak Hebrew. Mandatory.
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: From literally the first day you go to school, they
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: taught Hebrew. And I remember going, and they.
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: Didn't teach Spanish. How do you... And I'm telling.
• 5:01
  Speaker 3: The head of the school, I went in there and
• 5:03
  Speaker 3: I was very upset. I go, how can you not
• 5:05
  Speaker 3: teach Spanish in Southern California? And she said, that's an elective.
• 5:12
  Speaker 3: And I go, but Hebrew is mandatory?
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on.
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: And she goes, well, that's just the way we work.
• 5:21
  Speaker 3: And I go, think about this. Matuka, that was her name, obviously.
• 5:24
  Speaker 3: And I said, what good is Hebrew for? What can
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: you do that? It's good for the prayers.
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: And then if you go to Israel and you speak Hebrew,
• 5:33
  Speaker 2: the only thing that you're going to be able to
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: say that they understand is his head is over there
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: while his arms are back this way. And over there
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: on that street, on that corner are his legs. That's it.
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: And anyway, got to be horrific. So anyway, so much
• 5:52
  Speaker 2: for that. What else? I'm really on a diatribe this morning,
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: aren't I? Or at least on a tangent. Oh, how unusual.
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: You guys ready to do it? Yes.
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: On this Yom Kippur morning, a lot of things going on.
• 6:07
  Speaker 3: Football yesterday, I watched the game. It was very good.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: Which one did you watch?
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: I watched the Kansas City game.
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: It was not a good game.
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: It was a great game.
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: It was a horrible game.
• 6:17
  Speaker 3: I thought both sides did a pretty good job. They
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: made some mistakes, but I thought it was a good game.
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: It was very exciting. It was, it was, it was
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: one in the last second. So anyway, are you guys
• 6:30
  Speaker 3: ready to do it?
• 6:30
  Speaker 4: Yep. Yeah.
• 6:32
  Speaker 3: What a weird Yom Kippur morning I went through. Okay guys,
• 6:35
  Speaker 3: let's do it. Uh, it is time for, Oh, and
• 6:38
  Speaker 3: Neil is not here today. Neil actually has taken Yom
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: Kippur off and very, very strange.
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: Uh, Let's do it. Handle on the news. Amy and
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: me and NoNeil, lead story.
• 6:52
  Speaker 3: Well, as you know, CNN, MSNOW, Politico have been thrown
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: off of the White House beat. The Trump administration says
• 7:05
  Speaker 3: that's it. You are no longer able to, you're denied
• 7:10
  Speaker 3: entry to the White House. And of course, they file
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: a lawsuit instantly saying, saying that their First Amendment rights have.
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: Been denied.
• 7:21
  Speaker 3: And the president said, they're a bunch of liars, and
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: I don't want them to have access. I don't want
• 7:28
  Speaker 3: liars to have access to the White House.
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: Can he do it? You know, he's the one that decides.
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, he was dumb about it.
• 7:36
  Speaker 3: What he should have done is given them access and
• 7:38
  Speaker 3: just never called on them. Assault.
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: Just, okay, you can be in the press room.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: He couldn't help himself from calling on them.
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: That's probably true.
• 7:48
  Speaker 3: But there, you can't argue saying, oh, the president has
• 7:51
  Speaker 3: to give equal right or equal time to all the
• 7:54
  Speaker 3: news outlets. How many news outlets are accredited to the
• 7:59
  Speaker 3: White House? 20, 30?
• 8:03
  Speaker 2: And a lot of them now are bloggers.
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: Right-wing bloggers are now deemed to be journalists. OK, so
• 8:12
  Speaker 3: we'll see what happens with that one. Got a fun
• 8:15
  Speaker 3: couple of Trump stories today. Another insanity story. But let's
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: move on, Amy. OK.
• 8:22
  Speaker 4: By the way, it says that there's hundreds have hard passes,
• 8:27
  Speaker 4: but there's not a solid set number.
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: So how does it work? So how does it work
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: in the White House?
• 8:32
  Speaker 3: Because you have there they are in the Oval Office
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: and there are maybe 20, 30 reporters in there. with
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: the microphones hanging over and the cameras and, uh, yeah,
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: you don't get.
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: In every day. Like we've, we talked to John Decker.
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: He's our white house correspondent periodically.
• 8:48
  Speaker 4: And he he'll like say, Hey, I'm going to be
• 8:51
  Speaker 4: in the oval today, but it doesn't happen every day.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: Cause there's not room for all.
• 8:54
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 8:55
  Speaker 3: So it must be something rotating. And, uh, Again, Trump
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: made a point. He's saying it's fake news. Everything that
• 9:01
  Speaker 3: CNN reports about him is fake news. And he's just
• 9:05
  Speaker 3: tired of fake news being broadcast.
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: Well, remember, he tried this with John Acosta.
• 9:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: And he caved.
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: It wasn't. I think they filed a lawsuit and the
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: White House caved pretty quickly. If I remember, it didn't
• 9:18
  Speaker 3: even go into litigation.
• 9:20
  Speaker 4: We'll see what happens with this one. Not done yet,
• 9:23
  Speaker 4: but they're getting closer, apparently, to a deal that. Paramount
• 9:29
  Speaker 4: is in advanced talks with state attorneys general to resolve
• 9:34
  Speaker 4: the lawsuit that's blocking its merger with Warner Brothers Discovery.
• 9:39
  Speaker 4: California's attorney general, Rob Bonta, has been leading the 12
• 9:43
  Speaker 4: state coalition. He's been pressing to hit a settlement deal
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: with Paramount. They've been talking things or they're getting on
• 9:51
  Speaker 4: the same page. But not everybody's on board. New York
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: Attorney General Letitia James has been resisting the deal and
• 9:58
  Speaker 4: is seeking additional protections for workers. Connecticut and two other
• 10:02
  Speaker 4: states have also voiced reservations about the settlement.
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: So what happens when the lead state turns around and says,
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: let's cut a deal? Wouldn't you think that that entire
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: the entire lawsuit or yeah, it would be a lawsuit
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: would would be cut off at its knees.
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: And why is the lead state pushing out for a
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: settlement that's also a good point that's a good point
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: why well.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: Because thousands of jobs are going to leave if paramount leaves.
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: Well thousands of jobs it's yeah i mean they're going
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: to leave no matter what doesn't matter what the state.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: Does thousands more jobs right they'll take them all.
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but would this stop– yes, they would.
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: But when you look at the number of jobs that
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: are hemorrhaging in the entertainment industry here in Southern California,
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: it's going no matter what because money talks, and it's
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: just too damn expensive.
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: Setting the stage, the U.S. and China have apparently agreed
• 11:01
  Speaker 4: to set up an AI dialogue ahead of their high-stakes
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: summit that's happening on Thursday at the White House between
• 11:10
  Speaker 4: President Trump and President Xi Jinping.
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: U.S.
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: Trade Representative Jameson Greer said the two sides had also
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: formalized a board of trade that they had discussed when
• 11:21
  Speaker 4: Trump met with Xi in Beijing back in May.
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: Now, there's a real interesting contradiction going on here. AI
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: is being looked at very carefully here in the United States,
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: particularly when that researcher for Anthropic resigned and talked about
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: how the end of the world was going to come
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: with the use of AI if we don't slow it down.
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: So you've got legislators and you've got people even within
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: the industry are saying, we've got to slow this down.
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: This is going too rapid a pace. And so the
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: president is undoing that completely. He goes, no, we have
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: to go balls to the wall. And the reason is,
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: and he's absolutely right, the Chinese are going. If we
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: slow down, the Chinese are going to not only catch
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: up with us, but surpass us. And they're going to
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: own AI. And when he says whoever owns AI owns everything,
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: he is right. So what the hell do you do? Now,
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: as far as the meeting between the U.S. and China
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: is concerned, it doesn't matter what deal is cut. China
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: just turns around, lies about it and totally ignores almost
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: any deal the United States cuts with it. So you'll
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: see a lot of panoply. You'll see the typical. Let's
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: make it as big as an event as possible. Lots
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: of bands, you know, lots of military folks.
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: OK, moving on.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: Houthis are dialing it up. Saudi Arabia.
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: It says Houthi rebels tried to attack its capital with
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: a ballistic missile on Saturday. That's the first targeting of
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: Riyadh since things escalated with the Tehran-backed rebels. That has
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: opened a new front in the Iran war. The Saudis
• 13:08
  Speaker 4: say that the missile was intercepted. Residents in Riyadh, though,
• 13:12
  Speaker 4: say that they did hear an explosion and later saw
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: a plume of smoke near the airport. The Houthis have
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: tried to attack civilian infrastructure in the Red Sea port
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: city of Yanbu, which is where a key Saudi pipeline
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: ends as well.
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: We'll see.
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: It's been reported Saudi Arabia said that the Houthis tried
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: to attack Mecca, which is the holiest site in all
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: of Islam. And man, it's just gone. If it keeps
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: on going this way and the Houthis look like they're winning,
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: they're moving ahead and Houthis are. allies of Iran.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: And so this war is going to continue with some
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: real inroads being made by Iran and its proxies.
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: Well, first there was Space Force, and now Trump is
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: creating another force, AI Force. He says he's going to
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: name an official responsible for artificial intelligence, and form an
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: unspecified AI force. He compared the new AI force to
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: the Space Force. He also referenced policing bad aspects of
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: the AI industry through enforcement of existing criminal and civil laws,
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: but has so far rejected calls from lawmakers and industry
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: leaders for new guardrails on the technology.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: Now, here's the question.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: One of the things that when you look at, for example,
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: the Space Force, it's a.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: New bureaucracy, right? It's a brand new bureaucracy that has
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: to be established.
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: With its own management, with its own employees, with its
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: own office space, etc.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: And I mean, is there going to be a force?
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: Why not across the board?
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: And this is governmental stopping to spend, right?
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: So, well, we had a lot of fun going this.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: By the way, he has talked about the problem of AI.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: They want to stop, much like global warming. It is
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: a hoax. It is a hoax. The dangers of AI
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: are a hoax.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: Sad day for Cindy Crawford. Her son has died. His name,
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: Presley Gerber. He died at a rehab facility in LA.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: He was just 27 years old. He'd been open about
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: his struggles with mental health and substance abuse, speaking candidly
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: about treatment after he was charged with a DUI back
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: in 2019.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, now here's the question. 27 years old, do you
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: die of natural causes? Generally not. He's in a mental rehab,
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: and I'm going to guess here, and this I'm All right.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: There's I have no evidence whatsoever to pitch my case. However,
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: I think that this may have been a drug overdose
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: and somehow drugs were smuggled into the facility.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: That's my guess.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: That would be a bit controversial now, wouldn't it?
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: If that happened.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And I can't think other than him having some
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: underlying medical issue. I can't think of anything else. And
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: we're not going to know because of the HIPAA rules. Although,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: you know, we may find out. I mean, TMZ at
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: some point will get all the information. But I'd like
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: to know. Well, I mean, I don't care. I mean,
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: how he died. I mean, it's a heartbreaker for a
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: parent to lose a child. You know, as I've said
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: and repeated many times, that is not the way life
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: should work.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Parents should not bury their kids. It should go the
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: other way. All right. I think we have time for
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: one or two more.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Spreading it around. An unvaccinated person has been taking a
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: train around the state of California. And he has measles.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: The passenger came to the city of Los Angeles on
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: a train from Chicago. That was back on September 10th
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: to the 12th that he took that train ride. And
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: then once he got here, he spent several hours in L.A.,
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: and then headed to Bakersfield and to Stockton and Oroville, Sacramento, Emeryville.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: And he visited 10 counties before he left the state
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: and then showed up in Denver.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: And why do we always hear when someone has measles,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: you try to pin down where they've been, where they stayed,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: how long they were there, how many people they could
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: have run into. And that's because measles is the most
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: contagious disease that exists. From what I understand, we've talked
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: to Dr. Jim Keeney about that, that if you are
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: unvaccinated and you get measles, let's say you get measles,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: whether you're vaccinated or not, and you're in a room
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: full of people, it's I think a 95% chance that
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: everybody in that room will contract measles without vaccinations.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: But we, you know, So here's my question.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: And you you have your choice. Either you get measles
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: or you become autistic. If you get the if you
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: get the vaccination, which way would you go? Autism or measles? Kono,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: you you sort of have a little bit of both.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: You're on the right there on the spectrum there. Which
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: way would you go?
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I'd go measles. Would you go measles?
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's curable. It's an easy, you know, go to
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the doctor.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I got insurance. It's fine. I mean, you could die
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: from measles, you know?
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you just have it and don't do anything
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: If you go to the doctor.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: It's not too... Are you vaccinated for measles?
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't even have to ask. Amy, Will,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: and of course you're vaccinated for measles, right?
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: You had to be. You couldn't go to school.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Of course. I know. Of course. Everybody gets vaccinated for measles.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I remember getting my measles vaccination shot.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, do you?
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: I do. Because it was before eighth grade. And my
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: friend Suki was afraid of needles. And so she was
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: running away from the nurse. It was really quite comical,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: the whole thing.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Eighth grade. Boy, they don't even. Yeah. They don't even
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: do that. Eighth grade. Now they do it.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: It's earlier now.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: I think before you get in elementary school. I think
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: before you even go into kindergarten.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Illegals need not apply.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Governor Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have opened
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: paid campus jobs to undocumented students at California's public colleges
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: and universities. It's the second time in two years Newsom
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: has struck down this kind of bill in his veto message.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: he said he was concerned about potential criminal and civil
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: liability for state employees if the bill became law. Newsom
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: rejected a similar bill in 2024.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Now, keep in mind, while immigration is, as far as
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: the people who are immigrant advocates, immigration is getting tougher
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: and tougher under the Trump administration. And that's one of
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: his promises that he made. And he's pretty well kept
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: that one, maybe gone a little bit far because that's
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: hurt him politically. But where does California go? Look at
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: the difference between California and the administration. This is the
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: fight of the year across the board. So the legislature
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: wants undocumented immigrants. students to be able to work, paid
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: campus jobs.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: And there's another bill in the works.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: And again, I hope he vetoes that one because for
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: every undocumented student who gets a diploma, they're also handed
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: a passport. And it's that, you know, welcome to California.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: By the way, that's not true, but it's not far
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: from the truth.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: North Korea is doing some saber rattling. North Korea fired
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: two missiles off its eastern coast. It's the second set
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: of tests in roughly a week and came days after
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Pyongyang accused the U.S. of driving tensions on the Korean
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Peninsula through a series of military drills. They're saying that
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: nearly three hours after a short-range ballistic missile was launched
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: toward the East Sea on Sunday, North Korea fired a
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: similar missile.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Now, a little bit of history here, speaking of North Korea.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Do you know the first animal that was put into
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: space by the Russians in 19, I think it was 1958, 1959?
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Any idea? Do you know who it was?
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: A monkey.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Or what it was? Nope, nope, nope, not. That was
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: the American ham, the chimpanzee. First animal to be put
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: into space.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Dog?
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, a dog. That's why I'm connecting that with
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: North Korea. And do you know the name of the dog?
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Laika.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: How's that for an obscure fact that no one pays
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: attention to and means nothing? Laika the dog. Nice dog.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Went up to space and died because there was no
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: way of bringing Laika back. Okay, moving on.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: More than just a pretty face. President Trump has proposed
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: that his 250-foot triumphal arch is now going to be
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: a top-grade military complex. It'll house drones, snipers, and ammo.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: He wrote on Truth Social that he agreed to convert
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: the arch, in his words, at the strong request of
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: the U.S. military and for national security purposes. He had
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: originally maintained... that the arch would be a new tourist attraction.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Right. So here's crazy again. This is at the behest
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: of the military. I guess the chief of staff called
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: him up and said, Mr. President, we need a triumphal
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: arch that's really for ammunition. to keep ammunition and make
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: it as a drone base. Yeah, of course, that's exactly
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: what he did. Much like the ballroom, it was for
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: national security. So now that we have an arc or
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: will have an arc, the Triumph, which is bigger than
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: the one in Paris, when do we get a national
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Eiffel Tower that's bigger than the one in Paris or
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: a St. Louis arch that's bigger than the one in St. Louis,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: all for national security? How does someone keep a straight
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: face with this? How do we what is the Republican
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: legislator do do what they're doing up to this point?
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: That's a great decision, Mr. President.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: You're the greatest president that ever is or ever was.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: How do you take this seriously? How does that work? OK,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: moving on.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: How does it keep getting done?
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: You know, you know what he does?
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Is first of all, he has the court on his
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Supreme Court on the issue with the ballroom national security.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: The court said, or I think John Roberts, Chief Roberts
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: said that even though he'll probably lose, he temporarily can
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: go forward because the argument they're making is it doesn't
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: matter what the court says. We're almost done with it.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: And that's exactly what's going to happen here. We're almost
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: done with it, so it really doesn't matter. You can't
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: stop it at this point. Right.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Well, at least it's understated and classy. Everything he does
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: is really interesting. I know. It's going to be insane.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Good taste.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: And his face. And here's a football pool.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: If this arch is built, what are the chances of
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: his head or a statue being somewhere on the arch?
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but you know it's going to be gold, right?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. You bet it's going to be gold because
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: that's so classy. All right. Well, let's do one more
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: and then we'll take a break.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Four-year college no longer needed for some. California community colleges
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: will be able to offer bachelor's degrees that duplicate programs
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: at Cal State University and UC schools. There were a
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: pair of bills that scrapped the state's ban on community colleges.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: that offered any bachelor's degrees that were already available at
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: CSU or UC. So now there's going to be a
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: new system built around regional workforce needs and a district
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: college's performance. CSU and UC, with your objections to the bills,
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: and they passed, Newsom signed it without comment, and they'll
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: kick in January 1st, 2028.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Now, Kodo, you went to, did you go to Northridge,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Cal State Northridge? Was that, did I get that right? No.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Where'd you go to school? Who, me?
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, I went to San Bernardino and then Fullerton.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Okay. Oh, State College. And Amy, you went to State College, right?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Oregon State.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, so that's a State College. It's considered a real college.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: I went to Cal State Northridge.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: And the premise here, and it makes sense, that if
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I wanted a real education, I should have gone to
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: junior college instead of Cal State Northridge.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: I actually... I actually won an award from Cal State Northridge.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Did you know that?
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: As a distinguished alumni, obviously no one on that committee
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: ever listened to this show.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: So this one takes shushing to a whole other level.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Ever been to the movie theater and somebody's making noise,
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: being loud, maybe talking on a cell phone and you
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: shush them? Well, apparently this guy took it to another level.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: A 34-year-old man was arrested for pepper spraying a moviegoer.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: At the Burbank AMC Theater.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: A moviegoer told KTLA that he called the police after
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: he heard the hissing sound of an aerosol spray moments
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: before someone screamed they had been pepper sprayed. Police found
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: the guy who did the spraying out in the lobby, apparently.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: And at least two other people had to be treated
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: at a hospital because they were exposed to the spray.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Did the police come in and try to sit everybody
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: down because he was getting a standing ovation for pepper
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: spraying this guy?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I am not aware of a standing ovation.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a hell of a story.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: That's why talking on a cell phone drives you completely crazy.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Damn right. Slap him upside the head.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Him or her.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Well, it's up to you, at least for now.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: A federal judge has temporarily barred the University of California
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: from enforcing parts of its misgendering policy against members of
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: a conservative group. They're saying there are likely First Amendment violations.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: So campus members of an education advocacy organization may refer
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: to transgender people using names and pronouns that are not
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: consistent with that individual's proclaimed gender. It is a preliminary injunction.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: So it's just a temporary ruling while the case against
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: the University of California proceeds and only protects members of
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: this particular group defending education.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Now, here is this very interesting legal issue here. And one,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: do they have the right to call anybody whatever they want?
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: If I wanted to call you Mr. Amy, according to
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: the law, it's probably the way the law is going
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: to be ruled. Yeah, it's a First Amendment right. Of
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: course I can call you Mr. I can call you
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: anything I want. Unless if I'm calling you Mr. to
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: harass you. to put you in a position where you
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: are going to be discriminated against. And if I'm doing
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: it for those purposes, then I can't do it.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: And where is the line? And so, okay. I mean,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: we'll be back.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Amy, I still think we have one or two more
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: to go.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Okay. Looks like Trump got what he wanted with Greenland.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: They got a deal.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Except that Greenland and Denmark are saying any agreement with
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: the U.S. to develop a significant military presence in the
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: strategic Arctic territory will not compromise Greenland's sovereignty. Trump announced
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: that agreement had been reached to give Washington permanent control
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: over Greenland's security. Denmark and the semi-autonomous territory expressed hope
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: that a deal would end friction with the U.S.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Now, here is the question.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: When he– when the president talked about taking over Greenland,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: either buying Greenland or possibly invading Greenland because Greenland is
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: strategically important to us, it's a national security issue, which
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: I don't have a hard time– which I don't disagree
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: with necessarily. because of their geographic location as well as
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: the rare earth minerals that are there. The argument was
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: among Trump advocates is that he's just doing that to
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: get a deal. Basically, he goes to these extremes and
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: in the end, he gets himself a deal.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: He got the deal.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Now, the deal is, I don't know if the deal
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: talks about the minerals that are going to come, but
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: permanent control or forever deals as far as the military
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: in Greenland and to the extent that U.S. adversaries cannot
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: build bases on Greenland. That was part of the deal.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: That's the argument is that Trump actually knows what he's
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: doing and there's a method to his madness. And if
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: this was now the issue is, do you think he
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: was just nuts or do you think he appeared to
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: be nuts to get this deal? I don't know the answer,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: but it it could be that he is just much,
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: much smarter than a lot of us thought or a
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: lot of us think. OK, we are done with the
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: news coming up. CNN, MSNOW, Politico banned from the White
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: House because the president is accusing them of fake news.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: And the lawsuits, of course, are flying.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: And it's just.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Another fun, fun day in the Trump White House. We'll
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: be back with that. KFI AM 640.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: You've been listening to The Bill Handel Show. Catch my
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: show Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.