Speaker 1: You're listening to KPI AM six forty the Bill Handles
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Speaker 2: Neil, I wish I had come up with this.
Speaker 1: Trump has ordered the National Earthquake Centers to now when
Speaker 1: reporting how severe an earthquake is, we'll be using the
Speaker 1: word magnitude.
Speaker 3: The greatest storyquake of all time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this earthquakes like that, it did big le damage.
Speaker 4: And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Speaker 4: Bill Handle.
Speaker 2: Warning everybody.
Speaker 3: Good morning.
Speaker 2: Hmm okay, it's early warning.
Speaker 1: Everybody handle here on a What day is It's a Monday,
Speaker 1: That's what it is, Monday, May fifth.
Speaker 2: Sinko, Yeah, sinko de mayo.
Speaker 1: I just remember that we have have we been making
Speaker 1: a deal about that. Heather, Heather Brooker is with us
Speaker 1: this entire week. Hello, Heather, it's this week and part
Speaker 1: of next week.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 2: Okay, what how many days next week?
Speaker 3: I think just one? Just one. Amy'll be back on
Speaker 3: Tuesday week from tomorrow.
Speaker 2: All right, so we have you for the whole week.
Speaker 2: Oh okay.
Speaker 1: I was listening to part of what you were doing
Speaker 1: sort of in between prepping for this show, and I
Speaker 1: didn't anybody.
Speaker 2: I didn't hear anybody go Sinco de Mayo. I did,
Speaker 2: Oh you did, I didn't.
Speaker 4: He asked everybody what they were going to be doing. Good? Good, good.
Speaker 2: She asked everybody what they would be drinking? Is what
Speaker 2: she actually asked.
Speaker 4: If they're going to be up late.
Speaker 5: And Will says he stays up till about five minutes
Speaker 5: before he goes on the air. Yeah, well, let party in.
Speaker 2: I know and actually did that. She was last night.
Speaker 2: She was at STA not stable. She was at so
Speaker 2: Fi again to what I am hanging out?
Speaker 1: They say, yeah, she works there, because we hear it.
Speaker 1: I heart sort of have to have second jobs. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what Starbucks do you work.
Speaker 2: For on weekend? What Starbucks do for Starbucks?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh the one on the Glendale No.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well anyway, good morning and good morning,
Speaker 1: and will to Bill handled Yeah right, Will, good morning, Good.
Speaker 2: Morning, sir.
Speaker 1: And let me see who else is left h certainly
Speaker 1: knos left morning and Neil. Neil is helping me. I
Speaker 1: got this new Green Egg sort of smoker barbecue thing.
Speaker 1: It's it's incredible and I've been very excited about it.
Speaker 1: And so Neil is helping me cook my way through it,
Speaker 1: and my first project was a brisket, which if you
Speaker 1: smoke for as many hours as you are supposed to,
Speaker 1: which I did, it's supposed to come out so tender
Speaker 1: and wonderful. I called Neil up and I said, Neil,
Speaker 1: would you like to play hockey?
Speaker 2: I just finished my brisket and it.
Speaker 5: Was decided to cook them the most difficult contest competition
Speaker 5: level meat as his first, not starting with a pulled
Speaker 5: pork or a whole chicken or something, and he smoked
Speaker 5: it longer than the bodies on the side of the Ganges.
Speaker 2: Yes, anyway, it was just not good. It was not good.
Speaker 2: So I think I'm gonna love it. You're excited and
Speaker 2: I'm excited.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a hard towards it.
Speaker 2: It's going to be it, yeah, because.
Speaker 4: A learning curd where you want to do it right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to fill up my days now because you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of businesses that I was involved in very
Speaker 1: heavily or no longer. Another business I'm involved with will
Speaker 1: probably be no longer.
Speaker 2: Based on these terraffs. So I gotta fill I got
Speaker 2: to figure out what I'm going to do. And one
Speaker 2: of them is what I told you.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm looking into getting a master's degree in in history,
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm checking out a couple of schools, and
Speaker 1: the hobby is going to be cooking with the green
Speaker 1: egg and smoking. I'm very excited about this stuff.
Speaker 6: I love history. That's one of my side passions. I
Speaker 6: love to read, like nonfiction history books and things like that.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, well, then we're on the same page for sure.
Speaker 2: How many kids did Joseph Goebels have?
Speaker 3: Twenty?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Well, said sick.
Speaker 4: Two of them were his own, six or seven? Yeah.
Speaker 2: What was his wife's name?
Speaker 3: Marge? Close?
Speaker 4: Magda?
Speaker 2: Not bad?
Speaker 4: Not bad? Okay, she did the Anglican pronunciation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Hitler's dog's name Bob, Bob is close. It was Blondie, Okay.
Speaker 5: Of course it was Blondie. A real name is Blondie,
Speaker 5: blue eyed, superior race.
Speaker 2: But that's correct. And what kind of dog was it?
Speaker 4: This is?
Speaker 2: That's an easy one.
Speaker 1: Rottweiler German shepherds sense Yeah it does.
Speaker 2: Okay. We got a lot to talk about today. How
Speaker 2: is the Beyonce show?
Speaker 3: That was good?
Speaker 1: She's yeah, yeah, Cowboy Carter thing is you know doing
Speaker 1: very well.
Speaker 2: Also Cowboy Carter there you go, and I kind of
Speaker 2: liked the song too.
Speaker 1: And then Lady Gaga in Rio, Uh, two million people
Speaker 1: show up.
Speaker 2: To her concert.
Speaker 1: How do you get two million people at a concert?
Speaker 1: You do it along the entire Copa Cabana beach.
Speaker 4: Oh is that where it was? Yeah? We stayed right
Speaker 4: across from that, you remember, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: And uh, what's the beach next to Copa Cabana actually
Speaker 1: the one that's even more upsdale? Uh huh LeBlanc that's right, Okay,
Speaker 1: what I mean?
Speaker 4: Two million?
Speaker 1: It was a free concert for starters, so you don't
Speaker 1: usually get in for free concerts. But man, you know,
Speaker 1: what do you do when you're at the back of
Speaker 1: that group of pep people, when you're two million fans
Speaker 1: down the road?
Speaker 3: You just have a drink and then go home?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess, yeah, it's all aren't you just better
Speaker 1: off just listening either on Spotify or you know, on
Speaker 1: your shuffle program or whatever.
Speaker 6: I can't even wrap my head around two million people
Speaker 6: being on a beach at once and like anybody hearing
Speaker 6: anything or having a good time, Like that's just insane.
Speaker 2: What do you do?
Speaker 1: What do you do?
Speaker 2: When you have to go. I mean you pee on people?
Speaker 4: What, yeah, Sante Monica on Memorial Day, you'll see it.
Speaker 3: Two million people though, just.
Speaker 4: Go out there, you'll see it.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, guys, all right, let's start.
Speaker 1: Sinko Tobayo with the crowd. Heather and Neil and me
Speaker 1: and lead story.
Speaker 2: You know's just talking to Anne.
Speaker 1: As much as we want to stay away from Trump
Speaker 1: News because we do it every single day, guess what
Speaker 1: we have to do Trump news again. And he did
Speaker 1: an interview and we'll talk more about that coming up
Speaker 1: at seven o'clock. He did an interview on what is
Speaker 1: it to press the meat? If I'm correct? Thank you
Speaker 1: for a laughing.
Speaker 4: That's funny.
Speaker 5: You should go home because you're not going to be
Speaker 5: funnier than that. The rest of the week nailed it
Speaker 5: right off the top.
Speaker 1: In any case, he said he didn't know if he
Speaker 1: needs to uphold the constitutional due process claus So, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's oh my god, oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: really no big deal. Donald Trump doesn't even know what
Speaker 1: due process is and says things just so outrageous that
Speaker 1: and people take this seriously. Problem is, you don't know
Speaker 1: where the line is that's the issue. But no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if I'm going to give
Speaker 1: due process to the illegal the illegal aliens that are here. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You know what goes.
Speaker 1: But I'll listen to my lawyers because they're very smart people.
Speaker 1: And what are the lawyers going to say? Ignore due process?
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it, mister president.
Speaker 4: But the headline was so great.
Speaker 5: I was about not knowing if he has to adhere
Speaker 5: to the Constitution.
Speaker 7: It's like, I know, just was not one that you
Speaker 7: would see with no. You see, but you see crazy
Speaker 7: ass stuff. You know, are you going to invade Greenland?
Speaker 7: I'm not going to say no.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine the United States military invading Greenland?
Speaker 2: Or we want.
Speaker 1: Canada to be our fifty first date? Well what if
Speaker 1: they say no? Now what do we do? Do we
Speaker 1: now invade Canada and force them to be our fifty
Speaker 1: first date? I mean, see, this stuff is just crazy making.
Speaker 1: So you know, you can't pay attention to the promise.
Speaker 1: It's the president and so you sort of have to.
Speaker 1: But I don't take this stuff seriously.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: But we'll talk more about that.
Speaker 4: O'clock.
Speaker 2: Let's do one more for taking a break, Heather.
Speaker 6: Okay, we briefly talked about this just a few minutes ago.
Speaker 6: But Brazilian police they've arrested two people over an alleged
Speaker 6: plot targeting Lady Gaga. That concert in Brazil, two million
Speaker 6: people were there, and apparently they went ahead with the
Speaker 6: event even after they got they found out about the
Speaker 6: plot to detonate explosives there during the concert, they went
Speaker 6: ahead and had the concert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they took care of the Brazilian police took
Speaker 1: care of it.
Speaker 2: And did a pretty good job. Yeah, it was sixty
Speaker 2: five hundred security. I mean just crazy.
Speaker 1: How much security did Beyonce get in? You know, what
Speaker 1: do they do about security at nowadays with major acts
Speaker 1: like Beyonce?
Speaker 3: At so far we have we have security everywhere.
Speaker 1: No, I understand, but how crazy is it when you
Speaker 1: look at it.
Speaker 3: There's a lot going on and the lot of scenes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: every inch of that place is on the lady. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 6: Mayor Karen Basque, she says she he's going to take
Speaker 6: a pay cut amid the city's a massive budget crisis.
Speaker 3: And I would say it's a crisis, a pretty big deal.
Speaker 6: She said on Friday that she's going to take a
Speaker 6: pay cut and hold off on scheduled raises for her staff,
Speaker 6: including their cost of living adjustment. Of course, the city
Speaker 6: faces a one billion dollar shortfall, and Bass's annual salary
Speaker 6: right now is about three hundred and one thousand dollars
Speaker 6: a Year's.
Speaker 5: That gonna help, not one thousand dollars cut, that's right,
Speaker 5: So we'll see what the cut is.
Speaker 1: Actually the fact that she's not getting a cost of
Speaker 1: living increase is quote a pay cut, and that is
Speaker 1: in quotes. When's the last time we got a cost
Speaker 1: of living increase?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 1: At iHeart let me seek No, no, no, Neil no, we'll know, Heather, no.
Speaker 2: And oh and and no. Well there you go.
Speaker 4: The your your paycheck is your raise kind of.
Speaker 1: You know today today, staying employed is your raise?
Speaker 6: Do cost of living? I mean, do these raiss even exist?
Speaker 6: I can't even remember the last time my husband had
Speaker 6: one at his job.
Speaker 4: Either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's if that's policy, which that can change instantly.
Speaker 1: And then you have when you have city policy, when
Speaker 1: you have contracts with unions, that sort of thing, usually
Speaker 1: that'll happen. But you just don't do that with private enterprise.
Speaker 2: They just don't do that.
Speaker 1: Anymore because there's no money. I mean, well, no corporation
Speaker 1: is making plenty of money. But it's it's a different
Speaker 1: world now, it's totally a different world.
Speaker 5: I love how the one guy that none of this
Speaker 5: matters to is the one that gripes about it. Look
Speaker 5: at everyone else who it actually affects.
Speaker 2: Oh, oh, okay, are you talking about me?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm talking about Okay.
Speaker 2: Let's move on. Let's move on.
Speaker 4: I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 5: Yeah, cleaners, cooks, doctors, nurses, even drivers, and the elevator
Speaker 5: operas there at operators at the Vatican City.
Speaker 4: Should see Leiden Sieu, see Laden Sioul.
Speaker 5: All the support staff there for the cardinals that are
Speaker 5: going to elect the successor to Pope Francis, they're all
Speaker 5: taking an oath of secrecy. So ahead of the conclave
Speaker 5: that's starting on Wednesday, and the punishment for this bill
Speaker 5: already has automatic excommunication.
Speaker 1: There's an end around here. Get a job if you're
Speaker 1: a Mormon or a Jew, and there's no downside. I
Speaker 1: don't care if I'm excommunicated.
Speaker 5: Hold on one moment, if you'd bring in Moisha Mousa,
Speaker 5: our driver, Moisha you will be kicked out of the
Speaker 5: Catholic Church if you say anything.
Speaker 4: Oh good, he's fine, he says, no problem.
Speaker 2: So conclave is to you. It's going to be a
Speaker 2: lot of fun. Think that the cardinals are all in
Speaker 2: this room.
Speaker 1: Which they are, and they're all in secrecy hanging out together,
Speaker 1: which they do, but they also have to sleep.
Speaker 2: They go and eat in cafeteria.
Speaker 1: They they just can't talk to the outside world, nor
Speaker 1: can the people who are the service people there.
Speaker 6: Do you think they're watching the movie Conlave, Yeah, probably,
Speaker 6: I don't think they They.
Speaker 2: Have to take news.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like, this is how it's done.
Speaker 6: I felt that way though about like some movies for
Speaker 6: broadcast news. But anyway, I digress. Chinese leader Xi Jingping God,
Speaker 6: I hope I'm saying that right will pay an official
Speaker 6: visit to Russia. Apparently President Putin has invited him to
Speaker 6: take part in Victory Day celebrations to quote further discuss
Speaker 6: development of relations between the two countries and partnership and
Speaker 6: strategic interaction. Putin and Ji will sign a number of
Speaker 6: bilateral documents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're getting close.
Speaker 3: It is concerning close.
Speaker 2: Would you.
Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting because Trump wants to count out
Speaker 1: of Putin. And at the same time, Gee and Putin
Speaker 1: are getting very close, and you have Trump and g
Speaker 1: that are now moving further apart. It's all the geopolitics
Speaker 1: of this is really really strange.
Speaker 5: And Trump's like, what can I do to get his attention? Hey, hey,
Speaker 5: post that picture of me as a pope?
Speaker 2: Pope right, oh man, he's gonna love that.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 5: So you've got the White House backtracking on renaming Veterans Day.
Speaker 4: They got to have some sort of filter in that place.
Speaker 2: There is a filter there. Who's going to filter Donald Trump?
Speaker 4: Working for Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: So a day after President Donald Trump announced he was
Speaker 5: renaming November eleventh, the date that Veterans Day is observed
Speaker 5: as Victory Day for World War One, which just rolls
Speaker 5: off the tongue, White House is now saying that it'll
Speaker 5: be an additional proclamation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not going to be even though he had
Speaker 1: said it's replacement. That's it's not going to be that.
Speaker 1: Do you notice in the White House he always has
Speaker 1: that map on an easel that says Gulf of America.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: Right next to him. You wait, today, you're going to
Speaker 1: see Mark my words. Okay, I'm going to stand by this.
Speaker 1: You will see a map of the United States that
Speaker 1: says Trump Land.
Speaker 2: No, yes, I saw this.
Speaker 1: The words united States will be uh will be removed.
Speaker 2: And I'm making that up.
Speaker 1: But I'm just like, yeah, but you know what the
Speaker 1: point is, why not do you not see that happening?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 5: I would not be surprised to dream about Trump the amountain.
Speaker 2: I think it is hilarious.
Speaker 1: I find while on one hand, I'm really concerned, on
Speaker 1: the other hand, this is entertainment value on a level
Speaker 1: that I have not seen since we reported on a
Speaker 1: couple of mass murders.
Speaker 2: This is really great stuff.
Speaker 6: The National Endowment for the Arts looks like they withdrew
Speaker 6: and canceled grant offers to numerous arts organizations around the country.
Speaker 6: This happened on Friday night. They sent out a bunch
Speaker 6: of email notifications, just a few hours after President Trump
Speaker 6: proposed eliminating the agency in his next budgets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you're going to see cuts like crazy. What
Speaker 1: you're going to see increase is defense big time. You're
Speaker 1: going to see certainly border control big time. And the
Speaker 1: humanities are gone, Educational programs are gone, scientific programs and
Speaker 1: the agencies are being gutted.
Speaker 2: It's just the way it goes. And I love the
Speaker 2: way they write.
Speaker 1: For example, the email it went down to this particular organization,
Speaker 1: this play.
Speaker 3: What is it to say, the Portland Playhouse?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Portland Playhouse, Thank you for that.
Speaker 1: The administration is now going to prioritize projects that elevate
Speaker 1: historically black colleges and universities. But wait a second, isn't
Speaker 1: it historically back black college? DEI by definition?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Huh so how does that work? Do you elevate by removing?
Speaker 1: I guess see a lot of this doesn't make a
Speaker 1: whole lot of sense, but you know it'll pan out
Speaker 1: at some point.
Speaker 2: Oh popemobile news.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, so that popemobile.
Speaker 5: If you're worried about that it's going to go away
Speaker 5: or not be used properly, Well, no, they got to
Speaker 5: use one of Pope for instances. The popemobiles is being
Speaker 5: transformed into a mobile healthcare unit and this is for children.
Speaker 5: It's going to be sent to the Goza Strip. And
Speaker 5: this is one of his final wishes before passing. He
Speaker 5: entrusted the popemobile.
Speaker 2: Uh as terrific as this is. I have a question Neil.
Speaker 1: They're going to retrofit it with medical equipment for diagnosis, examination,
Speaker 1: treatment of children, life saving supplies, and I'm assuming there'll
Speaker 1: be a waiting room uh in there too for because
Speaker 1: it's sort of an emergency thing. Where do you put
Speaker 1: all of that stuff in a potmobile. It's the size
Speaker 1: of a mini van.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not huge, but.
Speaker 5: Uh, you know, retrofitted that, I'm sure they can disseminate
Speaker 5: u you know, medicine and things like that, popesicles. They're
Speaker 5: gonna have to get rid of the music on top of.
Speaker 1: True new new clinic on wheels, staff with doctors. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be like a clown car. How many doctors can
Speaker 1: you put in there? By the way I think this
Speaker 1: is you know, it's a very good idea, and then
Speaker 1: there's a lot of humanity to this idea.
Speaker 4: I think it.
Speaker 1: Of course Israel will Israel will blow it to pieces
Speaker 1: as soon as it goes into Gaza, and you'll see
Speaker 1: pieces and volunteers all over the place.
Speaker 5: What interestingly enough, it it is lexand.
Speaker 4: It is made it like it's bulletproof glass. So maybe
Speaker 4: that might help a little.
Speaker 1: Bit, a little bit against a missile coming in off
Speaker 1: and F sixteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would work.
Speaker 4: I said a little. Oh all right.
Speaker 2: Another one.
Speaker 6: This one is really fascinating to me because I was
Speaker 6: just here a few weeks ago visiting in San Francisco.
Speaker 6: President Trump says he is directing the government to expand
Speaker 6: and reopen Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay. That's the
Speaker 6: notorious former prison on that little, tiny, hard to reach
Speaker 6: island there in the San Francisco Bay. It's been closed
Speaker 6: for more than sixty years and makes about sixty million
Speaker 6: dollars in revenue tourism revenue for the city of San Francisco.
Speaker 6: But he says he wants to house the most dangerous
Speaker 6: criminals there.
Speaker 1: They closed it down in the sixties because it was
Speaker 1: too expensive to run in the sixties, and since then
Speaker 1: the infrastructure has fallen even more apart. So I'm assuming
Speaker 1: the maintenance isn't wonderful on that thing. Although you saw
Speaker 1: al Capone cell which if you did, you take the
Speaker 1: tour I did.
Speaker 3: We did that. We walked my family and I walked
Speaker 3: the whole island.
Speaker 2: It's great fun.
Speaker 1: And you see the Birdman of Alcatraz, Alcatraz, what was
Speaker 1: his name, by the way, Birdman of Alcatraz one two,
Speaker 1: three four Robert Stroud and excuse me a little froggy
Speaker 1: this morning. And it's gonna cost a fortune. It's gonna
Speaker 1: cast as.
Speaker 4: If there is no other place to put an actual prison.
Speaker 3: I mean, you'd have to demolish the whole island. It was.
Speaker 3: It's completely in disrepair.
Speaker 6: There's half of the places you can't even go into
Speaker 6: because you can't. No, it's not safe for anybody to
Speaker 6: walk on it. And they have they have construction happening
Speaker 6: there right now, so we had to kind of walk
Speaker 6: in certain areas.
Speaker 4: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 4: Again.
Speaker 1: What it is is a statement. Naturally is it going
Speaker 1: to happen?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I cannot see him spending or the administration building on
Speaker 1: Alcatraz as.
Speaker 2: It's just, you know, it's another one of those things.
Speaker 1: It's it makes a statement. It gets into the news.
Speaker 1: We're saying it.
Speaker 5: Both knock it down, rebuild it, make it a prison,
Speaker 5: and still be a tourist attraction.
Speaker 3: Like assume that's the people go by and look at
Speaker 3: the active prisoners that are in there.
Speaker 1: Two guys are two guys are said to have escaped
Speaker 1: in all the years of Alcatraz, all right, I think
Speaker 1: we have Let's do one more and then we're done.
Speaker 4: All right, Grand Theft Auto number seven? Is that what
Speaker 4: it is? No? Six? Is it at six? Yeah?
Speaker 5: So it's at six. Uh, they're waiting for six and
Speaker 5: they've been waiting for six. And there's a big thing
Speaker 5: on line, all these memes that said, you know, I
Speaker 5: can't believe Trump became president again and we still don't
Speaker 5: have Grand Theft Auto six or whatever it is. But fans,
Speaker 5: very huge rabbit fans of Grand Theft Auto the video game.
Speaker 5: It's been delayed yeah yeah years now yeah, oh yeahs
Speaker 5: and years and now they're saying in about a year
Speaker 5: and change is when they're going to launch it.
Speaker 4: But they've done that before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is it's one of the great great successes
Speaker 1: of video games early on. Remember I always say, I've
Speaker 1: always enjoyed this the first Grand Theft Auto. Will you
Speaker 1: play a character that you go and have sex with
Speaker 1: a hooker you're not happy with what her sexual proclivities were,
Speaker 1: and you beat her up. You beat up a hooker
Speaker 1: who has not put out the way you wanted to
Speaker 1: put out. That's Grand Theft Auto. Well, I think that
Speaker 1: that's true. Cono you know this is that true?
Speaker 4: You know about beating hookers? Cono, you're from the Ie.
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