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Speaker 1: Bill Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. So
Speaker 1: we'll call them unexplained incidents. We're not gonna go as
Speaker 1: far as calling them aliens, but we will say we
Speaker 1: don't understand it. I mean, there are unexplained things that
Speaker 1: we deal with every day. For example, this show, how
Speaker 1: do you explain it? No one can? And now handle
Speaker 1: on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle. It
Speaker 1: is a a froggy morning. It is a Wednesday morning,
Speaker 1: and it is June eleven. Good morning, everybody. Nice to
Speaker 1: have you with us. Sort of trying. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: be up. We're trying to be up this morning, you know,
Speaker 1: working nah, really well with the news lineup?
Speaker 2: Yeah, depressing lineup.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I got an echo going there someplace? Okay, is
Speaker 1: it my head? I don't think so, No, something's going
Speaker 1: on there, all right? In any case, can you hear
Speaker 1: the echo? Kno, huh, all right, I'm hearing it in
Speaker 1: my head.
Speaker 3: Really is in your head?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Well said, Now, I guess we have a mute issue.
Speaker 2: I don't know what does it sound like? What does
Speaker 2: it sound?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it sounds like. That's what it sounds weird,
Speaker 1: That's what it sounds like. Yeah, yeah, there we go.
Speaker 1: All right, morning everybody, now, yeah we yeah, I got
Speaker 1: straightened out, all right, Neil, good morning, Good.
Speaker 2: Morning, Willie Wolf.
Speaker 1: How are you okay? Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, my foot,
Speaker 1: my toe is healing. Strangely enough, I started walking again
Speaker 1: yesterday and I walked fifty feet outside my house and back.
Speaker 1: I was out of breath. I felt like I just
Speaker 1: run a marathon. Goes to show you when you don't
Speaker 1: do it for a month. Amy, good morning.
Speaker 3: If it is a good.
Speaker 1: Morning, wow, well said, this is getting better.
Speaker 2: And she's the light of the show.
Speaker 3: Where he is It started out to be this great
Speaker 3: day and then my mouth stopped working during wake up call,
Speaker 3: and then my hands stopped working obviously because I was
Speaker 3: pushing the wrong buttons all the time. And so I've
Speaker 3: just figured today is shot.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Well you know what, don't worry about it. I
Speaker 1: think you're having a stroke.
Speaker 3: Oh good, that would be a capa on the day.
Speaker 1: And Cono with his hat, good morning, and Ann and
Speaker 1: will is not here this morning? Is that what I heard?
Speaker 3: He is not He's taking the rest of the week off.
Speaker 1: Oh, good for him. And so what do we do
Speaker 1: about traffic? Will's not around? Well?
Speaker 3: Today we have Randy Fuller in.
Speaker 1: Oh hi there Randy Fuller.
Speaker 3: I just don't see him because he's not here in
Speaker 3: Burbank with us.
Speaker 1: Oh you're aware, Where are you, Randy? Like in a
Speaker 1: call center in uh India? Maybe in the mid city areas?
Speaker 1: Which city?
Speaker 2: La jelus? You don't know where mid city is in
Speaker 2: l I do.
Speaker 1: I just didn't know what city. Mid city is a
Speaker 1: lot of different city. Excuse me, this is iHeart right.
Speaker 1: I mean we could go to the far reaches of
Speaker 1: a call center in India and find out they're working
Speaker 1: for iHeart. Hey, no, my name isry uh he just anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, go ahead. You're trying to be racist. You're
Speaker 1: bad at it.
Speaker 2: I should go horrible.
Speaker 1: I know it was bad. It was bad. I know,
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: let's do it, guys. We still have a pair rama
Speaker 1: to cover protests and China announcements and day and so
Speaker 1: as we start handle on the news on this Wednesday
Speaker 1: morning with Amy Neil and me lead story, who is
Speaker 1: doing that cover? How do you listen to the sounds
Speaker 1: of Silence. Other than Simon and Garfunkle doing it, How
Speaker 1: does that possible?
Speaker 4: It was a big hit actually the cover who did
Speaker 4: the cover it was a band called Disturbed. Not the
Speaker 4: biggest fan, but it was good. It was a big
Speaker 4: hit the charts.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just I'm a purist when it comes to
Speaker 1: that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 3: Someone did it on American Idol and it was fabulous.
Speaker 1: I'm a purist. It's not the same. There was a
Speaker 1: documentary on Paul Simon, by the way, and I think
Speaker 1: it's on either Netflix or maybe Apple TV, maybe A's Hulu,
Speaker 1: but anyway, I just it's just phenomenal, interesting guy, Paul Simon,
Speaker 1: to say the least. Okay, here's a lead story. Paramount.
Speaker 1: Paramount is laying off several hundred employees, and.
Speaker 2: What are you doing? What are you doing?
Speaker 1: What am I doing? Is that story five? Already? What
Speaker 1: are I just?
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 3: And that's it's stroke today.
Speaker 1: Okay, story story, yeah, story five? Got it, We'll get
Speaker 1: to it. Got mixed up, got mixed up?
Speaker 3: Got I also said to another lead story, did you
Speaker 3: get that?
Speaker 1: No? Okay? So I have two stories. Okay, two lead stories. Okay, One,
Speaker 1: President Trump just announced the US will get magnets and
Speaker 1: rare earth minerals from China under a new trade deal
Speaker 1: where Chinese triffs on China go to only fifty five percent.
Speaker 1: So that's Jane crazy. Why not today? What today is
Speaker 1: fifty five? Yesterday it was what fifty and last week
Speaker 1: it was one hundred and forty five and then that
Speaker 1: was suspended. You don't know. So anyway, that's a deal.
Speaker 1: We haven't heard from China yet, and I don't know
Speaker 1: how China's accepting a fifty five percent tariff.
Speaker 2: Okay, So that one office you have Trump laughing going
Speaker 2: watch watch I'm gonna change it again. Yeah, I know
Speaker 2: in LA's going to freak out about his pots and
Speaker 2: pains business.
Speaker 1: Watch's it's interesting. We're going to talk about that at
Speaker 1: some point. How how does a president wake up in
Speaker 1: the morning legally and say I think tariff today is
Speaker 1: going to be x and then that afternoon saying eh, no,
Speaker 1: let's make it this this number. And how does that
Speaker 1: happen legally? Because there are lawsuits of floating out there,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure we're going to get into that. The
Speaker 1: other big story is the curfew in Los Angeles that
Speaker 1: went into effect eight pm to six am, down two
Speaker 1: and so we'll see what happened. As matter of fact,
Speaker 1: what was the latest on that, Amy?
Speaker 3: Which one on the curfew, but there was a it's
Speaker 3: lifted now. It was in effect from eight pm until
Speaker 3: six am. And after the first hour they did a
Speaker 3: bunch of arrests because there were some people who didn't
Speaker 3: follow the curfew. And then it quieted it down. It
Speaker 3: was pretty quiet overnight.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what does work is if you have
Speaker 1: two hundred protesters or five hundred protesters, you bring ten
Speaker 1: thousand RB guys and police guys. That'll quell it, that'll
Speaker 1: stop it. And again, and the Trump administration is getting
Speaker 1: enormous flak for overwhelming force, disproportionate force. I tell you
Speaker 1: you have riots, I don't care how many people show up,
Speaker 1: you shut them down. And of course the political fallout
Speaker 1: on that one, Gavin Newsom, the president, it's just it's
Speaker 1: completely crazy, all right, Moving on Amy.
Speaker 3: Governor Newsom should be tarred and feathered, so says Speaker
Speaker 3: Mike Johnson. Of course, aligned himself with President Trump, saying
Speaker 3: the President is absolutely right in sending in National Guard
Speaker 3: troops and marines to LA because of the protests.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the tar and feather part. Johnson was very very
Speaker 1: smart on this one because he was asked about arresting
Speaker 1: Newsom and he goes, that's not my wheelhouse. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to get into that, but I think that Newsom
Speaker 1: should be tarred and feather. A political statement, right, which
Speaker 1: is it means absolutely nothing. There is no opinion too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's old school and it's just a political hit that
Speaker 1: has no legal significance. Commenting on whether the governor should
Speaker 1: be arrested that goes deeper, and Johnson didn't want to
Speaker 1: touch that. Interesting how we do this? It's not my lane.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give you a legal analysis on
Speaker 1: whether Gavin Newssen should be arrested, but he ought to
Speaker 1: be tarred and feathered. And it's really interesting. How is
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsen going to be arrested for I guess governing
Speaker 1: California inappropriately or wrongly? You got me on that one.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a break. We'll come back and
Speaker 1: maybe we'll get into this and make some sense. What
Speaker 1: do you think we started on We started with a
Speaker 1: cover of Sounds of Silence and that is very, very wrong.
Speaker 1: It's going to be quite that morning. I can tell all.
Speaker 3: Right, ims Ian's Iams from American Idol. It's really good.
Speaker 1: Of course, more handle on the news, Amy Neil and
Speaker 1: me all right.
Speaker 2: Defense Secretary Pete Higgseth is in the hot seat met
Speaker 2: with very sharp questions and criticism Tuesday by lawmakers who
Speaker 2: demanded details on a couple of things, including the move
Speaker 2: to deploy troops to Los Angeles, and they expressed bipartisan
Speaker 2: rather frustrations that Congress has not yet received a full
Speaker 2: defense budget from the Trump administration. So gosh, man, he
Speaker 2: got hit with a couple ones. Your tenuere as secretary
Speaker 2: has been marked with endless chaos. Well, I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's been that long, but I got to tell
Speaker 2: you they're looking at one hundred and thirty four million
Speaker 2: dollars apparently for the cost of the Marines and the
Speaker 2: National Guard to come to Los Angeles. Pretty substantial. I mean,
Speaker 2: you could with that kind of money, you could almost
Speaker 2: start to not have a train to nowhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'll tell you where you it would be
Speaker 1: a train in nowhere. It would be would be stopped
Speaker 1: or would be paid for and that's with the one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five billion dollar the Spaceballs program, you know,
Speaker 1: Golden Dome missile program across the entire United States. A
Speaker 1: lot of and a lot of the even Republican legislators said,
Speaker 1: come on, guys, you know how much money can you spend?
Speaker 1: The parade is going to be forty five million dollars.
Speaker 1: There's a story for you.
Speaker 2: It's legitimate for him to be questioned, isn't it on?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely didn't come from the governor.
Speaker 1: No, No, it happens all the time. It happens all
Speaker 1: the time. They're always put on the hot seat. You know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't and it doesn't matter what side you're on
Speaker 1: the other party nails. Who's ever in front of Congress,
Speaker 1: either a Republican I mean either a congressional or a
Speaker 1: Senate hearing. Those are not meant for. Well, what they are.
Speaker 1: What they are meant for is investigative purpose purposes so
Speaker 1: Congress can investigate the issue. All they are is grand
Speaker 1: standing nothing more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're always angry, and you know why because
Speaker 2: it takes time from them sleeping with their aids. So
Speaker 2: they gotta get up and they gotta do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what was no I'm talking about. So they're in
Speaker 3: the Oval Office and reporters are asking President Trump questions
Speaker 3: and they ask about Mexican President Claudia Sinbaum's comments about
Speaker 3: what was going on in LA and Trump said, well,
Speaker 3: what did she say? And the reporter said, well, she
Speaker 3: condemned the violence, and he said, I do too, And
Speaker 3: then Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam comes up
Speaker 3: and says, Claudia Shinbe Shinbaum came out and encouraged protests.
Speaker 3: She said, I condemn her for that. She shouldn't be
Speaker 3: encouraging violence. Well, violence. Shinbaum fired right back and said
Speaker 3: that's absolutely false, and then posted video of her saying, yeah,
Speaker 3: we condemned the violence. So now you know what no
Speaker 3: one was doing there.
Speaker 1: I'm making it up. That's what she was doing, making
Speaker 1: it up out of a whole cloth.
Speaker 3: But why why I understood?
Speaker 1: What was she didn't misunderstand. It's all political. It's all political,
Speaker 1: and that's what you get for putting a garden know him,
Speaker 1: you know in office?
Speaker 2: I would say, and it wasn't in the clip that
Speaker 2: I heard, but I thought there was something that was
Speaker 2: in her statement that pinged my ear too, and I
Speaker 2: can't remember what it is. I'd have to look it up,
Speaker 2: but it obviously wasn't the clip that they played. But
Speaker 2: there was something that Shinbaum said, yeah, and I can't
Speaker 2: remember it was, but there was something in one of
Speaker 2: the first statements where I went, that's an interesting way
Speaker 2: of saying.
Speaker 1: It, but yeah, but it could not be interpreted as
Speaker 1: being an advocate of the protests, that protests are good
Speaker 1: or what you're doing is right.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not to the degree that Noam said that. There
Speaker 2: was something that I remember did ping my ear and
Speaker 2: I can't but I don't have it in front of me.
Speaker 2: All right, there we go. Military members apparently booed Newsom
Speaker 2: and bid them Biden. This was a crowd filled with
Speaker 2: members of the military and their families. They is President
Speaker 2: Trump took to the podium the rivals that he is
Speaker 2: continuing to poke at even though they're out of office.
Speaker 2: The President kind of prompting during this the address at
Speaker 2: Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Now, if you remember, Fort
Speaker 2: Bragg was changed, the name was changed to Fort Liberty,
Speaker 2: I think for a little while and then it went back.
Speaker 2: Because this was during the time when they were getting
Speaker 2: rid of anything that honored Confederate generals, which I think
Speaker 2: is the right thing to do.
Speaker 1: And well, that's a topic. That's a topic. I mean
Speaker 1: the you know, Confederate Confederate generals are part of.
Speaker 2: History, yes, but they were they were enemies of the
Speaker 2: state at this point.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean they were and at the because
Speaker 1: of the but there's still but there's still because you
Speaker 1: don't celebrate them. They were named, there were military people,
Speaker 1: and it was a civil war where they set up
Speaker 1: their own country and on top of that, and this
Speaker 1: is what people and no it's not And this is
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you why. This is what people don't understand.
Speaker 1: In those days, particularly in the South, particularly in Virginia,
Speaker 1: the loyalty for the most part, for many many people
Speaker 1: throughout the country was towards their state. That was more
Speaker 1: important to them than for the country. Let's put this
Speaker 1: in context. The North, based on its political view correctly
Speaker 1: by the way, abolitionism was destroying the economy of the South.
Speaker 1: I mean that's a given. It's that simple. The economy
Speaker 1: of the South could not survive if it weren't for slavery,
Speaker 1: as horrific as that is, it could not have survived.
Speaker 1: So taking that in context, you're it was put in
Speaker 1: there now, whether those days are put in there now,
Speaker 1: whether or not you believe in what happened. Well, for example,
Speaker 1: George Washington was a slave owner and did not free
Speaker 1: his slaves. So if we go back in history, go,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, we have to put that in context. Okay,
Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson a slave owner.
Speaker 2: I get all of that.
Speaker 1: So the point I'm making is if we look at it,
Speaker 1: it's not as clear cut by the way I have.
Speaker 1: If you look at it and I would vote for
Speaker 1: Fort Liberty versus Fort Bragg, I would not necessarily Robert E. Lee.
Speaker 1: I think that is a different story. It's just he
Speaker 1: is a different character. You know, he was offered head
Speaker 1: of the Union forces. No, he was offered head of
Speaker 1: both both the Union and the Southern Forces. And because
Speaker 1: his loyalty to Virginia was there, So it's not that
Speaker 1: clear cut. But in the end, I disagree with the president,
Speaker 1: but I think we have to look at it history.
Speaker 1: It's more nuanced than that. And it became political with Trump.
Speaker 1: But you know, kicking to Biden, this wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 1: You know, look at the crowd, Look how big this
Speaker 1: crowd is Biden, when Biden wouldn't have this crowd. I mean, why,
Speaker 1: you know, why do you bring that up and pointing
Speaker 1: to the press. This is fake news up there, and
Speaker 1: everybody erupts and boos the press. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: at what point do you stop that crap?
Speaker 2: Isn't that kind of a no? No, as a as
Speaker 2: a political leader to use the military kind of.
Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, one hundred percent. Traditionally you do not use
Speaker 1: the military as a political as a political ploy, you don't.
Speaker 1: But this is a very different president who's rewritten and
Speaker 1: is rewriting all the rules. That's just to give it,
Speaker 1: whether you agree or not, whether you agree.
Speaker 2: Or military to be separate from politics.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wouldn't that be nice? All right, let's take a break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back and Neil, I think you have one
Speaker 1: more about paramount and we'll get through these as quickly
Speaker 1: as possible. And the news Amy Neil me Field as you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh yeah, it's still Neil.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's still Neil.
Speaker 3: Okay, what do you mean, Uh, isn't it?
Speaker 2: I thought we're doing the US China?
Speaker 3: Okay, that's me, it's me.
Speaker 2: No, I haven't I after that? Okay, No, We're on six,
Speaker 2: not seven, all right, so we're okay.
Speaker 1: The paramount story now.
Speaker 2: The Paramount story is the last story of the day.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, live radio, boys and girls.
Speaker 3: Okay, we have part of it.
Speaker 1: It looks like five by the way the way it
Speaker 1: was written. Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 3: Okay, we do have part of a deal. US and
Speaker 3: Chinese officials have agreed to a framework, but they're trade
Speaker 3: truce back on track and resolved China's export restrictions on
Speaker 3: rare earth minerals and magnets. That means rare earth minerals
Speaker 3: and magnets will be coming to the US, and the
Speaker 3: US is going to agree to let Chinese students in
Speaker 3: to go to our universities and college's. US Commerce Secretary,
Speaker 3: Howard Lutnik, says the framework puts meat on the bones
Speaker 3: of a deal reached last month in Geneva to ease
Speaker 3: retaliatory tariffs.
Speaker 1: Now, is it still fifty five percent that's coming in
Speaker 1: on these particular goods, the magnets and rare earths, Because
Speaker 1: part of this deal is still fifty five percent tariff
Speaker 1: on Chinese goods coming in, but there are a lot
Speaker 1: of exemptions. Remember when the first tariffs came along, and
Speaker 1: the exemptions were TVs and computers and high tech goods
Speaker 1: coming in from China. So I don't know what's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the story doesn't say if there's an exemption for
Speaker 3: these rare earths. I would think there would because we
Speaker 3: want those.
Speaker 1: Right, I think.
Speaker 2: So, Oh, seriously, you're not. I thought you're going to
Speaker 2: say like it was a real polarized conversation. No magnet jokes,
Speaker 2: no puns, no magnet jokes. Okay, Hey, I wanted to
Speaker 2: walk back what I said about Shinebab.
Speaker 1: I'm positive about that. I don't want to be negative
Speaker 1: about this story.
Speaker 2: I look tried to look for what pinged in my
Speaker 2: ear and couldn't find it. So I want to walk
Speaker 2: that back from earlier. All right, Moving on, President Donald
Speaker 2: Trump warned warned the neat protests during the weekend's major
Speaker 2: military parade in Washington will be met with very heavy force.
Speaker 2: If there's any protester who what's come out, they will
Speaker 2: be met with very big force.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there'll be plenty of protesters too. It's how far
Speaker 1: away from the parade will they be allowed to protest?
Speaker 1: I think that's the question.
Speaker 2: He said he hasn't heard of any protests.
Speaker 1: I think there are going to be plenty of protests.
Speaker 2: I think so too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, he talked about how what the riots were
Speaker 1: in Los Ange Angelists and portrayed the entire town being
Speaker 1: up in a conflagration, and was particularly offended that the
Speaker 1: police were being attacked with concrete and with the scooters,
Speaker 1: those rental scooters, those lifts scooters, and he got very
Speaker 1: offended to the police were attacked. He also got really
Speaker 1: offended when the police were attacked during January sixth. Oh,
Speaker 1: hang on a minute, No, he wasn't didn't say much
Speaker 1: at all about the police being attacked. At one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty eight police injured. That just didn't happen on
Speaker 1: January sixth.
Speaker 2: That is the most bizarre part of this, I think
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 1: But he's offended by this, and he wasn't offended by that.
Speaker 2: I don't know how anybody can look at January sixth
Speaker 2: and not think that that is a huge, ugly mark.
Speaker 1: No, No, it was patriots. It was patriots who were
Speaker 1: upholding the constitution and trying to undo any illegal election.
Speaker 1: And the fact that one hundred and forty eight police
Speaker 1: officers were injured, that is that's just not a big deal.
Speaker 1: Except in Los Angeles cops were injured. That's a huge deal.
Speaker 1: And no one get And I have to tell you
Speaker 1: I don't either. Yeah I do, Yeah, I actually do.
Speaker 2: And it's well, yes, I mean I understand politically how
Speaker 2: people think that it's only violence when it's not what
Speaker 2: they want, right, you know. All Right to another one,
Speaker 2: Elon Musk. This is the scariest thing I've heard. Elon
Speaker 2: Musk's DOGE team reportedly installed a Starlink satellite internet system
Speaker 2: on the White House despite concerns from National Security Secret Service,
Speaker 2: and they're looking to, I think, take it down.
Speaker 1: Because yeah, of course they they have to do. This
Speaker 1: is just the same stars Starlink system that you have
Speaker 1: that we have at home. It's not even second person authentication.
Speaker 1: But this makes sense because if you look at White
Speaker 1: House security, if you look at the security experts, this
Speaker 1: is part of the deep state. And what is not
Speaker 1: part of the deep state is DOGE, which used to
Speaker 1: be kind of a neat thing with Elon Musk. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know, we haven't gotten many stories yet about
Speaker 1: Trump turning on DOGE because it's Elon Musk, and I
Speaker 1: don't know that story. I don't know if it's going
Speaker 1: to happen or not. We know that we know that
Speaker 1: Elon is not a big phase, not in pretty, is
Speaker 1: not in good graces with the president.
Speaker 2: But why would you allowed that something like that?
Speaker 1: Why they? Hell do you know? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It doesn't make any sense. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a break, we'll come back and we'll finish it
Speaker 1: all up. What are the odds of Cono actually playing
Speaker 1: the original version of the Sounds of Isolence by Simon
Speaker 1: and Garfunkle. By the way, when you look at the
Speaker 1: if you go back to the documentary I told you
Speaker 1: about that I think is on Netflix about Paul Simon,
Speaker 1: there's some things about how Simon and Garfunkle got together
Speaker 1: in a way you don't know at all it was.
Speaker 1: I was going, really, no kidding, it's it's a great story.
Speaker 1: And then they had a falling out. I thought it
Speaker 1: was Paul Simon that quit. It's Art Garfunkle that actually
Speaker 1: walked out of that group, that.
Speaker 2: Group of two. Huh, how'd that work out?
Speaker 1: Not well for him, that's for sure. He decided to
Speaker 1: go into acting. The problem is he's a crappy actor.
Speaker 2: Didn't he play eraser Head? You're not going to get that.
Speaker 1: I did get it. I did, and it was bad.
Speaker 1: Let's finish up handle. Let's finish up handle on the news, Okay, Amy,
Speaker 1: Neil and me.
Speaker 3: Look up in the sky. More delivery drones. Can you
Speaker 3: imagine what it's going to be like when everybody's doing this?
Speaker 3: Right now, Walmart says it's expanding its drone delivery service
Speaker 3: to five more major cities in the US. It has
Speaker 3: already done one hundred and fifty thousand drone deliveries since
Speaker 3: it launched its service in twenty twenty one. Now it's
Speaker 3: not coming here to la yet, but they're doing the
Speaker 3: drone delivery service in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa.
Speaker 3: What do they all have in common? Flat?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not going to be I'm not very impressed
Speaker 1: with this, to be honest with you. I will get
Speaker 1: on board when Walmart starts delivering pianos by drone. That
Speaker 1: is going to be impressive.
Speaker 2: All right, Moving on, Yes, Laurel and Hardy came to mind,
Speaker 2: but you have a thinking bugs bunny there. I was
Speaker 2: thinking of the music Box old film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is Laurel and Hardy. Great film.
Speaker 2: All Right. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans
Speaker 2: to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this
Speaker 2: year's hurricane season, offering the clearest timeline for all of
Speaker 2: this change. Long term plans. Dismantle the disaster relief program
Speaker 2: has been something that has been top of mind for
Speaker 2: this administration, and he wants to shift responsibility for response
Speaker 2: and recovery onto the states.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is not, in and of itself a bad idea.
Speaker 1: The problem is that the states don't have the resources
Speaker 1: to do this, and so their FEMA like response, whatever
Speaker 1: the states are going to call it, won't be able
Speaker 1: to pull it off like FEMA does. So when this happens,
Speaker 1: wait till a hurricane hits Florida, a very red state,
Speaker 1: or the states along the Mississippi when they flood like
Speaker 1: crazy and the states can't do what FEMA does. Is
Speaker 1: that going to change politics? No, of course not. But
Speaker 1: you're going to see big changes afoot when FEMA disappears.
Speaker 2: I mean, when the state is dealing with something like that,
Speaker 2: isn't it kind of harder resources?
Speaker 1: It's no, it's a question of how much money you have,
Speaker 1: what kind of resources.
Speaker 3: Well, they're still going to get federal funding, aren't they.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think they are. If they If they are, let
Speaker 2: me see if the understanding is that it comes from
Speaker 2: a different place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I understand. I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 1: This is a state issue. But will there be this
Speaker 1: will it be the same money? That's the issue there.
Speaker 3: There are problems with FEMA, and I think that that's
Speaker 3: what they're saying. It's gotten too big. But like, for example,
Speaker 3: when there were fires like the fires here, there were
Speaker 3: fires up in southern California or southern Oregon where I'm from,
Speaker 3: and it burned down a couple of towns, and they
Speaker 3: built all these FEMA homes, little temporary homes. They sat
Speaker 3: empty nobody. Yes, huge problem this money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, there are great stories about it, how they
Speaker 1: were by They built thousands of trailers, temporary trailers that
Speaker 1: they got the plywood from China to build it, and
Speaker 1: the plywood had levels of fermaldehyde that were so toxic
Speaker 1: they couldn't use it. And understood, you're absolutely right, But
Speaker 1: what agency doesn't have massive problems. That's the problem with
Speaker 1: the federal government. And it's uh, it's it's something, well,
Speaker 1: the federal government and any state agency, how much bureaucracyed
Speaker 1: does California have?
Speaker 2: How much you political bill? If it's a Republican in
Speaker 2: the House, then FEMA sucks and didn't move on time.
Speaker 2: If it's a to the Democrats, And if there's a
Speaker 2: Democrat in the House, then the Republicans say that FEMA
Speaker 2: sucks and didn't move on time.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, you know, And I think the question
Speaker 1: that is here and Amy, I don't know if we
Speaker 1: have the answer to that, will funding be cut? And
Speaker 1: that I think is the critical issue. I have no
Speaker 1: problem with states doing this with federal money because states
Speaker 1: are going to care more about their own issues. All Right,
Speaker 1: We're done, guys, big time. Coming up a little bit
Speaker 1: of fact checking over the what's going on here in
Speaker 1: southern California with the migrant issue, with the protests, and
Speaker 1: just thought i'd throw some facts at you because one
Speaker 1: of the things we don't get a lot are facts.
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