Speaker 1: You're listening to kf I AM six forty the Bill
Speaker 1: Handles show on demand on the iheartradiop Not a pretty
Speaker 1: good start. News coming out of Washington, d C. Which
Speaker 1: we're going to cover obviously, the plane crash, the collision
Speaker 1: betwe the military helicopter and the civilian plane. At seven am.
Speaker 1: J Ratliffe, who is the iHeart aviation expert, is going
Speaker 1: to join us. I was listening to him explaining some
Speaker 1: aspects of it on Amy's show wake Up Call, and
Speaker 1: the guy obviously knows his stuff. But first, let me
Speaker 1: say good morning to everyone.
Speaker 2: Amy, good morning, good morning Bill or not so good
Speaker 2: but I know, you know, it's it's such a weird
Speaker 2: greeting when it's not a good morning, but you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, and we're going to get into it
Speaker 1: obviously at seven o'clock with Jay Ratliffe. And I've got
Speaker 1: just so many questions about how many near misses that
Speaker 1: we hear day and day, day after day, and then
Speaker 1: the collisions on the airport tarmac where wings are clipped
Speaker 1: and tails are clipped and playing well, that's very different
Speaker 1: because they cram those planes in and they're going thirty
Speaker 1: miles an hour from place to place on the ground. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Neil there you are, good morning or not so
Speaker 1: good morning to you, Willie Wolf and not so good morning. Hi, Hi,
Speaker 1: it's been a morning. It has to been a morning.
Speaker 1: AND's been putting this together and just scrambling as she does.
Speaker 1: And then now Kono is not here today, but Elmer
Speaker 1: is Elmer there you are. You know you have to
Speaker 1: say something. You can't just not. This is radio Elmer.
Speaker 3: I'm having a great morning.
Speaker 1: I can see that, and you sound like it. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: let you know what I'm going to go off into
Speaker 1: before we start the festivities in quotes. As we start
Speaker 1: with this horrific news. Yesterday, we've been talking about the
Speaker 1: various platforms Netflix raising their prices ridiculously, and how many
Speaker 1: platforms I have. I have zillions of them. So there
Speaker 1: was one that I'd forgotten I have, and it's BritBox
Speaker 1: and it is just British television. That's it, just British
Speaker 1: TV and they have some of the best documentaries. Now
Speaker 1: you know how totally obsessed I am with death, but
Speaker 1: not on the level that we're going to talk about today,
Speaker 1: the fun part of death and this documentary. Amy don't
Speaker 1: give me that look. And this documentary is about how
Speaker 1: funeral directors, how the funeral business is handled in in Britain,
Speaker 1: primary London and Muslim. They have a huge Muslim population,
Speaker 1: so how they deal with Muslim weddings. They have a
Speaker 1: huge Hindu population, and of course they have a very
Speaker 1: large black pack population as well as your standard to
Speaker 1: Anglican English white guys which actually are in the minority.
Speaker 1: So I was watching one last night and this was
Speaker 1: a black family, Christian black family, and and Neil, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've ever seen this, but there were
Speaker 1: about a dozen parishioners who as the crowd was leaving
Speaker 1: the chapel and the casket is being rolled down the
Speaker 1: aisle in and out the door on going on to
Speaker 1: the hearse, they had doves in their hands, about a
Speaker 1: dozen of them, and threw the doves in the air
Speaker 1: and it was actually it was kind of moving, you
Speaker 1: know that kind of now. I thought it was a
Speaker 1: really nice touch. Where forty yards, you know, down the road,
Speaker 1: there was a guy with a shotgun. I thought that
Speaker 1: helped a lot. Well, people got to eat that's true.
Speaker 1: That it is fascinating stuff. I love that platform, I
Speaker 1: really do. Brick blocks. I don't know why I'm giving
Speaker 1: him kudos, but it's just I like that stuff.
Speaker 3: So in Christianity, the dove represents the Holy Spirit. So
Speaker 3: just so you know, another show.
Speaker 1: Is that why at when you do the Eucharist is
Speaker 1: the breast of Dove? No, they don't serve that, No, okay, right.
Speaker 3: But a show that I do recommend is The Repair Shop.
Speaker 3: If you've never seen that, I think it's fantastic. Oh
Speaker 3: it's just it's a really it's a repair shop with
Speaker 3: a bunch of experts in like this big barn, and
Speaker 3: people bring in antiques, antiques and stuff that are broken
Speaker 3: or they you know that some of them like go
Speaker 3: back and I saw one where where it was damaged.
Speaker 3: It was the only thing that was left of the
Speaker 3: house during the Holocaust and the war World War two,
Speaker 3: and they brought it in and they fix it. They
Speaker 3: do research, they find out what it's made of, and.
Speaker 1: They apparently to brand new. So a butter churn, for example,
Speaker 1: they brought back a very rare butter churn. It was spectacular.
Speaker 3: The stories are insane and some of them will leave
Speaker 3: you in tears. They're just amazing.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do it guys. All right, Unfortunately we're
Speaker 1: going to get to we start the day with some
Speaker 1: bad news. Handle on the news with Amy Neil and
Speaker 1: me lead story, YEP, American Airlines flight. It was a
Speaker 1: regional jet Canadian jet bombadier with I think sixty four
Speaker 1: people aboard, collides with a military helicopter as the plane
Speaker 1: was landing and just an explosion mid air. And they
Speaker 1: originally called the rescue people as a rescue operation, but
Speaker 1: no one survives those, so now it's a recovery of bodies.
Speaker 1: Jay Ratliffe, iHeart aviation expert, is joining us at seven
Speaker 1: o'clock this morning, and we're going to talk about various aspects,
Speaker 1: not only the crash itself, but could have been prevented.
Speaker 1: What the air control system is? Was that involved that
Speaker 1: all who was at fault? Could have been a mechanical issue.
Speaker 1: There are anti collision systems aboard certainly aircraft, commercial aircraft.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have those on military aircraft. Oh.
Speaker 3: I would imagine the military most certainly would have.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works. We'll find out. I'm
Speaker 1: going to ask you that question.
Speaker 3: Were there any survivors?
Speaker 1: Bill? No, No, they couldn't be survivors.
Speaker 3: Well, earlier on they were saying they pulled four people out.
Speaker 2: Those were erroneous reports from last night. Yeah, it's changed.
Speaker 1: It is. It is hard to survive anything like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just and what do we know. The
Speaker 1: altitude Amy has even reported.
Speaker 2: Was very low. I was hearing about four one hundred
Speaker 2: feet they were on approach to land.
Speaker 1: Okay, so even with that, let's say there was someone
Speaker 1: who survived the explosion. Probably not, but okay, they survived.
Speaker 1: Now they're falling four hundred.
Speaker 2: Feet into a thirty six degree river.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's where.
Speaker 2: They said you could survive for maybe fifteen or twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's yeah, that's so it four hundred feet into
Speaker 1: a river, you don't survive. All right, let's move on, Amy.
Speaker 2: Well, we actually have some positive news, and that's that
Speaker 2: eight more are out. Three more Israeli and five Thai
Speaker 2: hostages who've been held in Gaza for more than fifteen
Speaker 2: months have been released by Palestinian militants by Hamas. They
Speaker 2: were handed over this morning to the Red Cross in Gaza,
Speaker 2: who then transferred them to Israeli troops and took them
Speaker 2: back into Israel.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I find very interesting here is,
Speaker 1: first of all, the propaganda aspects of this. What Hamas
Speaker 1: is doing is as these hostages are being released, a
Speaker 1: dresses them in the same green fatigues the uniform that
Speaker 1: Hamas uses, puts them on a platform. They are surrounded
Speaker 1: by Hamas fighters with the AK forty seven's and the
Speaker 1: head covering and the face covering, and the first three
Speaker 1: Israelis were waving as if they were getting off of
Speaker 1: a spacecraft and had a crowd in front of them,
Speaker 1: and you know how you wave? Here I am and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, what is this about? I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: get it. I mean I can see they can try,
Speaker 1: but if I guess, if you're being released, you'll do
Speaker 1: anything your captors say. But why would you smile and wave,
Speaker 1: especially when their hostage is already being held and you
Speaker 1: know their hostages being held. So I don't quite understand
Speaker 1: how this is coming down. I really don't. And when
Speaker 1: you talk about the release of hostages, here's the release.
Speaker 1: Are some of the people that were capture or all
Speaker 1: the people that were captured during that October seventh rating,
Speaker 1: which twelve hundred Israeli's men, women, children who were citizens
Speaker 1: of this kibbutz and others were murdered and were captured
Speaker 1: versus Palestinians who have been convicted of murdering Israeli's and
Speaker 1: bomb attacks. Those are the exchanges, and so there's a
Speaker 1: lot wrong with this.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 4: six forty.
Speaker 1: Let's do it more Handle on the news as we
Speaker 1: jump into the news this morning, Amy Neil and.
Speaker 3: Me Well, the sparks flew. RFK Junior classed with Democrats
Speaker 3: overpasted comments about vaccines, abortion rights, and more. Democratic lawmakers
Speaker 3: confronted Kennedy with previous statements he had made to press
Speaker 3: him on his role in a deadly measles outbreak in
Speaker 3: Samoa and twenty nineteen, his views on COVID nineteen, and
Speaker 3: his previous claims falsely leaking linking vaccines to autism in children.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm doing more about that. Eight thirty. I'm going
Speaker 1: to go through it because some crazy stuff happened. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry I interrupted you.
Speaker 3: Now did you see the onesies that they that they
Speaker 3: put up that that what was unvaxed and unafraid or
Speaker 3: something like that for kids? And it was it was crazy.
Speaker 1: By the way, he's quite the communicator, isn't he. Can
Speaker 1: you understand a word he says when he.
Speaker 3: Talks, I'm not a fan.
Speaker 1: No, no, I'm there's two yet it's number one. Don't
Speaker 1: You can't understand him? And when you do understand him,
Speaker 1: he does one of two things. Either deflex, Oh no, well,
Speaker 1: what I really meant was this when you said vaccines
Speaker 1: are you will never trust a vaccine? What did you mean? Well,
Speaker 1: it meant that I really trust vaccines under certain circumstances.
Speaker 1: Or he just outright lies.
Speaker 3: Didn't he vaccinatee his children?
Speaker 1: Sorry? Yeah, he vaccinated his kids, he said while he
Speaker 1: was telling people that there's this thing as a safe
Speaker 1: vaccine and autism and dangerous, and he talked about at
Speaker 1: one point vaccines aren't tested enough. They haven't been around
Speaker 1: long enough, like polio nineteen fifty three, and I don't
Speaker 1: know how many hundreds of millions of kids and adults
Speaker 1: were vaccinated. I wonder what he would say about asper today.
Speaker 1: Aspirin's been around since the eighteen seventies, I think eighteen eighties.
Speaker 1: I wonder if we've tested that one enough.
Speaker 3: Wow, stomach bleeding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, careful, So I'm gonna do more about this at
Speaker 1: eight thirty and then there was and I'm gonna tease
Speaker 1: you a little bit, there was a comment made by
Speaker 1: a Republican senator that stunned me. I mean, I was
Speaker 1: just floored. All right, let's move on.
Speaker 2: Get moo's gonna get crowded. President Trump has signed a
Speaker 2: memo directing the federal government to prepare the US naval
Speaker 2: base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to take in tens of
Speaker 2: thousands of illegal immigrants. Most people, he said, don't even
Speaker 2: know about it. But we have thirty thousand beds at
Speaker 2: Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening American people.
Speaker 1: Do you have a story of Gitmo. It's fascinating stuff.
Speaker 1: It was at the end of the Spanish American War.
Speaker 1: The United States cut a deal a lease with Cuba
Speaker 1: for Gittmo in perpetuity, and the original cost of the
Speaker 1: lease was four thousand dollars per year. It has never changed.
Speaker 1: Originally it was with gold, and now the government every
Speaker 1: year pays Cuba four thousand dollars a year in a check,
Speaker 1: basically an attempt to wire. Since Castro, Cuba has refused
Speaker 1: to take the money, so there goes four thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: they say no, and we still get get Mo because
Speaker 1: they're the ones that are breaching. They won't take the money.
Speaker 1: So legally, it's like any tenant submitting the money and
Speaker 1: the landlord says, no, I'm not taking it. Well, you
Speaker 1: can't be thrown out on that one. There's Gitmo for you.
Speaker 1: It's a US base.
Speaker 3: What how weird they can't doot us out?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean theoretically they could, but are they going
Speaker 1: to Is Cuba going to invade git Mo and go
Speaker 1: to war with American forces in Guantanamo Bay? You think
Speaker 1: that's going to happen anytime soon? So it's an American base.
Speaker 2: Well, plus they need the four thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which they won't cash. By the way, they still
Speaker 1: refuse to cash it.
Speaker 3: Hm, it's been adding up, it had well, you know that's.
Speaker 1: The other question. And I did ask a landlord tenant
Speaker 1: attorney on that one, because at some point it doesn't
Speaker 1: add up or is it just waived where you don't
Speaker 1: know the money anymore because they refuse to take us
Speaker 1: since nineteen fifty nine. Okay, let's move on. Just say
Speaker 1: metaphysical question there all right?
Speaker 3: In response to President Donald Trump's executive order banning diversity,
Speaker 3: equity and inclusion initiatives, the Pentagon's Intelligence Agency has paused
Speaker 3: special events, programs and related events. This includes for Juneteenth,
Speaker 3: Martin Luther King Junior Day, Black History Month, Holocaust Days
Speaker 3: of Remembrance, and Pride Month. According to a memo that
Speaker 3: ABC News got its hand on, So despite being on
Speaker 3: the list of the Defense Intelligence agencies paused events and activities,
Speaker 3: the membo did clarify that Martin Luther King, Junior Day
Speaker 3: and Juneteenth will remain federal holidays.
Speaker 1: Now you can't say no to a federal holiday. H
Speaker 1: have to sort of remember that one. But the rest
Speaker 1: of them gone, Native American Remembrance Day, Holigost Remembrance, I mean,
Speaker 1: just all of them right down the line. No, thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go ahead and take a break. We'll
Speaker 1: come back and continue on with Handle on the News
Speaker 1: on this Thursday morning.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 4: six forty.
Speaker 1: More. Handle on the News, Amy, Neil and Me.
Speaker 2: Protecting themselves from Cash Patel. One of the people on
Speaker 2: Cash Patel's so called enemies list is moving their family
Speaker 2: before Patel's potential confirmation to lead the fbis his confirmation
Speaker 2: hearings get underway today. The individual who is speaking anonymously
Speaker 2: says that they're re locating in the coming weeks and
Speaker 2: taking other steps to keep their new home purchase anonymous.
Speaker 2: They said they're doing it because they're afraid Patel might
Speaker 2: weaponize the FBI against them or use his platform to
Speaker 2: inspire others to take action.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's look at what's going to happen. He
Speaker 1: writes a book in twenty twenty three entitled Government Gangsters,
Speaker 1: and it names fifty current or former US officials that
Speaker 1: he says are quote members of the executive branch, deep state,
Speaker 1: and are a dangerous threat to democracy. And these are
Speaker 1: the people that are taking action to not get nailed now.
Speaker 1: When asked about it, his spokesperson said, you're referring to
Speaker 1: the glossary of a book. Well, yeah, the glossary of
Speaker 1: a book puts their names in alphabetical order. That's all
Speaker 1: it does. How does it change anything? And then of
Speaker 1: course the deflection cash Pattel will follow the constitution and
Speaker 1: enforce the law to take criminals off our streets, fight
Speaker 1: violent crime, put an end to the deadly fentanyl crisis
Speaker 1: is any notion of retribution is false and absurd. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go back to you have called them a dangerous
Speaker 1: threat to democracy. How about connecting those two. No, he's
Speaker 1: going to follow the constitution and it's fentanyl that's the problem,
Speaker 1: and taking criminals off our streets. By the way, he
Speaker 1: is going to, of course get every single Republican vote.
Speaker 1: He will be confirmed. It's insane coming up a thirty
Speaker 1: RFK his confirmation hearing. And I'm going to give you
Speaker 1: a quote from a Republican senator that actually stunned me.
Speaker 1: And all of this, I'm still able to be stunned.
Speaker 1: That's astounding. All right. How could you.
Speaker 3: Keep a house unlisted from the FBI?
Speaker 1: What you do from the FBI? Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: I mean you try to do anonymously. You do it
Speaker 1: through a trust, but they can find it. I mean,
Speaker 1: the FBI can find who you are. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: the FBI going after someone. What's going to happen is
Speaker 1: under the Trump administration, you will see the enemy's list,
Speaker 1: which absolutely exists. I mean, you're not going to see
Speaker 1: these people arrested, put in handcuffs, walking out of Congress.
Speaker 1: But I think you're going to see IRS, investigations, audits
Speaker 1: coming down hot and heavy on these people. I think
Speaker 1: you're going to see a lot of grief. I mean
Speaker 1: this president and through his cabinet picks and his administrative picks,
Speaker 1: he's big time into retribution.
Speaker 3: I hope you're on the list, all right, President Donald
Speaker 3: President Donald Trump signed to executive orders on school funding
Speaker 3: just yesterday that fulfilled promises he made on the campaign trail,
Speaker 3: if you remember, included school choice, ending funding for schools
Speaker 3: that support what the White House now calls radical indoctrination.
Speaker 3: Also on Win Day, he signed and executive order combating
Speaker 3: anti semitism. The order on school choice and issue Trump
Speaker 3: who been pushing for a long time now could be
Speaker 3: a huge win for conservative activists and politicians who have
Speaker 3: been advocating for decades to make it easier for families
Speaker 3: to spend taxpayer funds on private education.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's been a big issue separation of church and state.
Speaker 1: Where it was the courts were pretty adamant about saying
Speaker 1: we are not going to support with taxpayer dollars schools
Speaker 1: religious schools or schools that teach any kind of religion,
Speaker 1: and so that's turning around. By the way, you're going
Speaker 1: to see big changes afoot. It's going to screw up
Speaker 1: the public school education system. On the other hand, the
Speaker 1: public school education system really does not do a good job.
Speaker 1: When my kids were enrolled in day school Jewish day schools,
Speaker 1: I wanted to put them into Catholic schools actually, because
Speaker 1: Catholic schools are so good. And if I have a
Speaker 1: kid and I choice between education in a public education
Speaker 1: or Catholic school or religious education, I'll take the religious
Speaker 1: one and not for the religious purposes. The religious purposes involved.
Speaker 1: It's strictly academic.
Speaker 3: So we'll see, are they little cashews?
Speaker 1: Oh that's very strong, This is very strong. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I was gonna move on. But if you
Speaker 2: have more deja no.
Speaker 1: Let's move on because we can go forever. And I
Speaker 1: want to get through some stories.
Speaker 2: Okay, So guess who gets to pay? So cal Edison
Speaker 2: is asking state regulators to make its customers pay more
Speaker 2: than seven billion dollars in damages that it paid to
Speaker 2: the victims of wildfires. The CPUC is going to consider
Speaker 2: Edison's request to pass to its rate pairs one point
Speaker 2: six billion in damages from the twenty seventeen Thomas wildfire
Speaker 2: that was the one in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties,
Speaker 2: and then also five point four billionaire damages from the
Speaker 2: Woolsey fire in twenty eighteen, that was the one that
Speaker 2: burned through Ventura and La Counties and killed three people.
Speaker 1: Who else is going to pay? You have to go
Speaker 1: in front of the PUC, or in this case, you
Speaker 1: have to go in front of well, in this case,
Speaker 1: the PUC Public Utilities Commission to be allowed to raise rates. Okay,
Speaker 1: what if the PUC wasn't allowed, wasn't involved, and you
Speaker 1: have insurance companies and they're not regulated, Who is going
Speaker 1: to pay for the costs to the insurance companies or
Speaker 1: to the utilities when things burn down? Who's going to
Speaker 1: customers pay for it? When's the last time the provider
Speaker 1: paid for anything that sells and deals with the public. Okay?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know why they make this such
Speaker 1: a big deal. Of course, the consumers are going to pay,
Speaker 1: although they're saying, you know, these billions and billions of
Speaker 1: dollars Edison customer. Edison says, if both measures are approved
Speaker 1: one point six billion and five point four billion together,
Speaker 1: the average monthly bill is going to go from one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy seven dollars to one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: one dollars four bucks. So now four dollars is four dollars.
Speaker 4: You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KF I
Speaker 4: am six forty.
Speaker 1: Thursday morning, January the thirtieth January is thirty one days.
Speaker 1: I've never been able to figure that out. I never have.
Speaker 1: And I won't do tattoos on my knuckles because everybody
Speaker 1: thinks I go to prison or I went to prison.
Speaker 1: So January one, January thirty one, right, yes, got it, Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you. Now let's go back and we finish handle
Speaker 1: on the news. Amy here, Neil here, and I am here.
Speaker 3: Thank god. Meta Platforms has agreed to pay roughly twenty
Speaker 3: five million bucks to settle a twenty twenty one lawsuit
Speaker 3: that President Trump brought against the company and as CEO
Speaker 3: after the social media platforms suspended his account. This was,
Speaker 3: of course, following the attack on the US capital that
Speaker 3: year on January sixth. Of that money, twenty two million,
Speaker 3: will go to fund Trump's Presidential Library Prariy Library Library,
Speaker 3: with the arrest going to legal fees and the other plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but look at the circumstances that led up to this, right,
Speaker 1: Trump hates Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg hates Trump. Trump gets elected, Zuckerberg
Speaker 1: falls right into line with the other tech billionaires to
Speaker 1: their standing in line to see who can shove their
Speaker 1: heads up Trump's but the quickest and the farthest. And
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg was library.
Speaker 3: Saying that the Biden administration and leaned on him to
Speaker 3: to put false facts out or not put h stuff
Speaker 3: out by.
Speaker 1: I don't remember what the Biden administration. No, Biden administration
Speaker 1: was was very hard on disinformation and misinformation. Uh, and
Speaker 1: it was. There was a fight there, and Trump hated
Speaker 1: Suckerberg personally. So now and Zuckerberg took him off of
Speaker 1: the uh uh, took him off the platform. So so
Speaker 1: he suites Trump sues, and then it all goes away,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you have Zuckerberg sucking
Speaker 1: up the Trump, having dinner at Mar a Lago with Trump,
Speaker 1: and now they're talking to each other and basically Trump says,
Speaker 1: you know what, We're not going further until we get
Speaker 1: this lawsuit done. I'm suing you. I want it done.
Speaker 1: Thirty seconds later, twenty five million dollars, you got it,
Speaker 1: And a million dollars goes to the inauguration festivities because
Speaker 1: those are not paid for the government. You know, all
Speaker 1: the inauguration stuff has not paid for the government. Did
Speaker 1: you know that the prey and all that, that's all private.
Speaker 3: We can call them Suckerberg Now, huh, good wealth?
Speaker 1: Whoa excellent.
Speaker 2: Will they have trouble coming to America? Maybe?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: The World Cup is in less than five hundred days,
Speaker 2: and fans, politicians, and other people involved, including FIFA, the
Speaker 2: governing body for soccer, are worried that immigration rules and
Speaker 2: long visa wait times are going to make it hard
Speaker 2: for supporters and even players to get into the US
Speaker 2: in time for the World Cup. They say that wait
Speaker 2: times for interviews for business and tourist visas are up
Speaker 2: to three hundred and thirty days at eighteen US embassies
Speaker 2: and consulates. Some of the longest waits are in India, Columbia, Peru,
Speaker 2: and Honduras. And most fans who are planning to come
Speaker 2: to the US to watch the World Cup, we'll have
Speaker 2: less than six months to get the necessary paperwork because
Speaker 2: they haven't announced the schedule yet.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what just happened to me and
Speaker 1: the US government. I am applying for citizenship in Poland,
Speaker 1: polid citizenship, so I have a European EU passport. I
Speaker 1: can do that through my father was born in Poland.
Speaker 1: I need some information from the US State Department, for example,
Speaker 1: a copy of my naturalization papers, a few other things.
Speaker 1: So I have someone helping me out. My niece is
Speaker 1: helping me out. And she's in the middle of this,
Speaker 1: and she called me and said the State Department. That
Speaker 1: department is now shut down. Trump ordered everything shut down.
Speaker 1: Well a day and the website is down. A day
Speaker 1: later it opens up. It'd been gone twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: The fee for those documents went from one hundred to
Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty dollars overnight.
Speaker 3: Wow, just like that.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome everybody. Okay, I think we have time
Speaker 1: for one or two more.
Speaker 3: All right. Former New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez was
Speaker 3: sentenced just yesterday to eleven years in prison. This is
Speaker 3: following his conviction on bribery and corruption charges after taking cash,
Speaker 3: a Mercedes Benz and my personal favorite gold bars as
Speaker 3: bribes in exchange for helping three businessmen and the Egyptian
Speaker 3: government yeah.
Speaker 1: He pled not guilty and explained away, I keep gold
Speaker 1: bars at home just in case the world falls apart.
Speaker 1: That's what we do, my wife and I. We keep cash,
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dollars in our house just in case.
Speaker 1: The Mercedes really wasn't a lease in my name. It
Speaker 1: was in my wife's name. And it has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with all of this pushing for the Egyptian government
Speaker 1: and helping them get some benefits from the US government,
Speaker 1: plus some businessmen who wanted some waivers for construction Egyptians. Nope,
Speaker 1: none of that.
Speaker 3: Actually, he got caught up in the pyramid scheme.
Speaker 1: God, you're on you know you are on fire.
Speaker 3: I don't think I slept well last night. I almost
Speaker 3: had a joke about the FIFA foe because they couldn't
Speaker 3: get it. But I no very strong today.
Speaker 1: No, today, you are on fire any and I hate that,
Speaker 1: by the way, I hate when they are more clever
Speaker 1: than I am. So let's not do it again.
Speaker 3: Okay, it must suck for you.
Speaker 1: Well if you keep on going. A quick announcement to
Speaker 1: make tomorrow and for the rest of the history of
Speaker 1: this show, Neil will not be with us. And we
Speaker 1: are now aggressively looking for someone else.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't be the first one to cancel me off
Speaker 3: their show.
Speaker 1: Oh that's true, all right, we're hold on about to sneeze.
Speaker 1: Oh hold on, God, I hate it when the sneeze
Speaker 1: is right there on this light.
Speaker 3: It's even worse when you're listening to it. Trust me.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, wow you oh there, you are? All right?
Speaker 1: Coming up the bad news the crash yesterday, that collision
Speaker 1: between a helicopter and a civil civilian aircraft, and Jay Ratliffe,
Speaker 1: who is the iHeart Aviation expert, is going to take
Speaker 1: us through what happened, could it have been averted? And
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of other questions about aviation in the US.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with that. You've been listening to the
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