WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:03.439 You're listening to k f I Am six forty the 2 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:07.320 Bill Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Coming 3 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:10.480 to the bottom of the hour. It is ask handle anything, 4 00:00:10.519 --> 00:00:12.679 and this is what the fun topics that we do. 5 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:18.280 Neil Savedra is not here today. Neil is sick, so 6 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:20.679 we're not doing Foody Friday today. Instead, I'm doing a 7 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:23.600 couple of other topics in the eight o'clock hour, the 8 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:26.399 first part of the eight o'clock hour. What else is 9 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:29.920 going on today? Oh, Kono is also sick, so we 10 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:34.320 have what's his face over there? Tony? Oh that's right. 11 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:40.600 How long have I known you, Tony? Since I started here? 12 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:43.840 So almost thirty years? Thirty years? Okay, I genuinely just 13 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:47.479 forgot your name one more time. I'm honest to god, 14 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:51.159 I genuinely just forgot your name. There you go. I 15 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:53.119 don't mind. That's time. Yeah, I know. I've been bored up. 16 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:54.920 I'm supposed to be invisible. No one's supposed to know 17 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:57.520 me anyway. Well, okay, well said, hey, let me tell 18 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:00.000 you what's going on at the National Security Council. Now, 19 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:02.560 I'm getting a lot of grief for talking a lot 20 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:06.120 about Trump. For the most part, negatively, because you know 21 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:08.599 where I am on this one. And at the same time, 22 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:11.920 I think I'm being fair, assuming that I have biased 23 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:13.959 and you accept the fact that I'm biased like crazy. 24 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:18.439 But when I believe Trump deserves credit, I give it 25 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:23.959 to him. Not with the National Security Council. The dismissals 26 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:28.480 at the National Security Council, I mean people are wheeling, 27 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:31.959 especially in the security aspect of the United States. National 28 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:36.159 Security Council is a part of the US government that 29 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:41.799 provides a forum for the president to consider pressing national 30 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:46.719 security and foreign policy issues. These are senior advisors and 31 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:52.560 they the NSSE is a sort of a think tank 32 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:58.840 for the president. Now, the NSC is not independent. The 33 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:02.159 NSC work for the president, There's no question about it. 34 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:06.159 But at the same time, there you put experts, or 35 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:11.120 presidents put in experts. Some experts were not particularly in 36 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:13.479 favor of the agenda of the president, but they're there 37 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:17.719 as a sounding board. Well, the sounding board was fired. 38 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:21.199 It was the first part of the federal workforce to 39 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:25.879 be purged when Trump returned to power in January, two 40 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:29.000 days into the second term. This is before Dodge came 41 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:32.840 in there. Okay, the Dodge arrives at the federal agencies 42 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:39.479 with orders were firing everybody way. Before that, the council's 43 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:44.479 new leaders banished dozens of career officials. Now the top 44 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:48.800 senior senior positions of the NSC. They're appointed by Trump, 45 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:52.280 there's no question about it, and they're to adhere to 46 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:57.120 Trump's or any president's agenda, with the understanding, here's some advice, 47 00:02:57.199 --> 00:02:59.719 mister president. You may not like it, but here is 48 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:06.719 the reality. Well, the top leaders banished dozens of career officials, 49 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:10.360 people who had been there that aren't political. It's just 50 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:15.080 they're there to work the system. Gone. They were told 51 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:19.000 on a conference call leave the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, 52 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:22.039 which is where they're located. One of them said, I 53 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:23.879 offered to bring my computer back, and they said, no, 54 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:27.000 you can't even come into the building. He said. Everything 55 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:31.520 was bizarre. Whole offices were emptied, including the unit focused 56 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:35.840 on the Western hemispheres done by hemisphere career experts were 57 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:41.879 pushed aside. None of the twenty six executive orders issued 58 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:44.319 by Trump on his first day was reviewed anymore by 59 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:49.000 NSC lawyers. NSC lawyers review everything that the president does 60 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:53.879 in terms of foreign relations and what they're doing, what 61 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:58.319 they do is they screen foreign policy decisions and actions 62 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:02.639 to ensure the president is lawfully using executive power. Well, 63 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:06.319 you don't need them if your position is everything I 64 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:11.000 do is legitimate and legal. I don't need anybody telling 65 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:13.680 me that what I'm doing is illegal if I believe 66 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:17.800 everything I do is legal. And the President has said 67 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:22.480 that a president, any president, but specifically, has ultimate power 68 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:27.720 to do anything he wants. And the Supreme Court has 69 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:32.639 effectively backed up that premise, saying if it is a 70 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:36.040 national issue, if the president is acting within the purview 71 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:42.120 of the presidency, then he cannot be held responsible in 72 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.160 any way. Congress can't nail him, certainly, the Department of 73 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:47.720 Justice can't nail him. He cannot commit a crime no 74 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:52.839 matter what he does. Well, the NSC you don't add anymore. 75 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:57.399 And that's exactly what happened. They got tossed. And I'll 76 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:01.079 tell you what's happening up there is they are reeling. 77 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:04.240 I use that word a lot, really, because I think 78 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:09.319 that's a lot of reaction to Trump's decision, not only 79 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:14.920 by business and individuals and the world markets and the 80 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.839 economic powers around the world, but within the administration, people 81 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:21.680 are going, what the hell's going on. We don't know. 82 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:27.120 For example, the tariffs. The announcement of the tariffs, he 83 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:31.079 didn't go to the senior economic advisors. They were taken 84 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:33.319 for a loop. They heard at the same time we did, 85 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:37.120 all of a sudden, here's some tariffs. We're going for 86 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:42.439 one hundred and forty five percent on China. Huh. Really, 87 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:50.399 at least with that the senior advisor's Treasury secretary other's 88 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:55.879 way up there. Commerce Secretary turned around and said, mister President, 89 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:59.279 maybe you don't want to do that, announcing that he's 90 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:02.920 going to fire your own Powell. The day after, when 91 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:05.399 the market tanked and a thousand percent or a thousand 92 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:10.160 points went south on that, he at least listened when 93 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:15.800 they said, you really can't do that, because saying you're 94 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:19.079 going to fire Jerome Powell the head of the Fed. 95 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:27.439 Instantly the entire world economic powers react because it wasn't 96 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:30.879 just our stock market that went down. We're talking about 97 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:35.120 markets across the world tanked, and there was real fear 98 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:38.480 that a trade war was going to start. By the way, 99 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:41.199 that fear is still here that a trade war is 100 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:46.279 going to start, and a full blown trade war, well, 101 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:48.720 that blows up the economy. Let me give you a 102 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:53.000 little bit of history. Okay, the depression hits, and one 103 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:55.480 of the things that was done during the depression is 104 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:00.199 that they pot past the Smoot Holly Act. Congress did 105 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:04.240 And what it did is it was a protectionist bill 106 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:08.240 that set up tariffs so it would be American products 107 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:12.399 that would only be sold by law. Nothing could be effectively, 108 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:15.439 nothing could be imported in. And it was to protect 109 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:19.959 American American business, American employees, et cetera. It was one 110 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:25.439 of the major movers of the depression. It went completely 111 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:28.800 the other way. And that is the argument that's going 112 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:34.439 on right now is that tariffs are going to actually 113 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:40.279 do so much harm to our economy that the workers, 114 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:45.879 the business, the implementation, the investment by the various companies 115 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:50.040 American companies are simply not going to happen. How many 116 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:54.800 companies have announced since the embargo, since the tariff argument 117 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:57.639 was brought up, since the announcement, that they're going to 118 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:03.360 be spending billions of dollars here Now the administration has said, 119 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:06.519 oh yeah, companies are lining up and trillions of dollars 120 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:13.399 have been promised. Trillions, not billions. Okay, we'll see if 121 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:19.839 that works. Unfortunately, trillions of dollars of new investment in factories, 122 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:24.120 et cetera. That's years down the road. Embargoes are going 123 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:27.480 on right now. When Trump announced one hundred and forty 124 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:32.279 five percent embargo, that happened at midnight. All right, Moving 125 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:38.440 on California film tax credit, that debate returns. Why because 126 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:41.440 in this day of age, the golden age of television 127 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:45.200 and streaming and the number of movies that are being produced, 128 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:49.559 these folks are leaving California like crazy. And I'll talk 129 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:53.159 about that coming back, because we'll see what California is doing. 130 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:57.919 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 131 00:08:57.919 --> 00:08:58.759 six forty. 132 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:02.840 Footy Friday without the food. Neil is not feeling well. 133 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:06.519 Hopefully back on Monday, and so next Friday we'll do 134 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:10.159 the foody Friday part of our show. Also tonight, the 135 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:12.360 Dodgers are back in LA and they take on the 136 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:16.320 Pirates with the first pitch at seven. Listen to all 137 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:18.879 the Dodger games on AM five to seven The LA Sports. 138 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:21.799 Stream all Dodgers games and HD on the iHeartRadio app 139 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:26.080 Keyword AM five seven the LA Sports. It's sponsored by 140 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:30.159 Zen She she handcrafted sushi made fresh every day and 141 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:35.039 it's at rals near the deli counter. Film and TV 142 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:40.519 I have that right hold on, Okay, there we go. Whoa, oh, 143 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:42.240 there you are. Okay, I had a glitch. They are 144 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:46.039 going on in my headset film and TV production in 145 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:51.679 Southern California. Well, film was actually created Southern California, or 146 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:54.799 Southern California created the film industry and the TV industry. 147 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:59.039 I mean it's just synonymous. We are the film industry. 148 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:02.960 And for many years, decades, the first part of the 149 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:09.320 last century right into well recently, everything was done in Hollywood. 150 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:12.240 Occasionally there would be location shooting, but for the most part, 151 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:15.600 everything was done in Hollywood. Well that ended because you 152 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:19.679 have various countries and certainly various states realized, you know, 153 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:25.120 having films made here is really a good thing. Because 154 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:29.720 production companies coming in in film where we are spend 155 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:33.639 a whole lot of money. They pay their people, well, 156 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:36.600 they have to put them up in hotels, they need 157 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:41.279 at restaurants, providing jobs for a whole lot of companies 158 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:45.360 out there. And we're talking about you know, films are 159 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:47.679 and the tens, the hundreds of millions of dollars. So 160 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:50.759 it's no joke. And so what they started doing is 161 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:54.840 offering tax credits and in some cases offering straight out 162 00:10:54.840 --> 00:11:01.360 money will help you make a film. Here, Georgia, the Carolinas, 163 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:07.480 You've got countries that are doing this. New Zealand with 164 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:14.559 Peter Jackson, You've got Ukraine doing this when you're talking 165 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:18.639 about Game of Thrones. I mean, everybody's lining up. They 166 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:21.080 want production companies, so they're giving tax credits and they're 167 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:26.720 giving money. So California is looking at hemorrhaging of the 168 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:30.679 film industry, film and television industry, and now the industry 169 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:33.399 has come to Sacramento and said, we need help. I mean, 170 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:36.759 we need help. And this is one of those issues 171 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:40.840 where both the unions and the production companies, the movie 172 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:44.600 and television producers are step in step. I mean they 173 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:49.240 are lined up together, and that never happens because all 174 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:52.399 of them want to keep the industry here in southern California. 175 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:58.679 So two bills have been introduced intended to make California's 176 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.080 film and TV production more competitive, the incentives more competitive, 177 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:07.639 increasing the tax credit up to thirty five percent of 178 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.639 qualified expenditures and expanding the types of productions that would 179 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:15.120 be eligible. So the tax credit people ask, what is 180 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:19.480 that about, Well, companies own or companies owe the state 181 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:23.240 of California taxes. Any company that works here in the 182 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:29.240 state pays taxes, the film credit tax thirty five percent. 183 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:33.360 What it does, it can be used by that company 184 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:39.960 for any tax that it owes in the state of California. 185 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:46.480 And so imagine you owe property taxes and you engage 186 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:50.279 in a certain field or do some kind of a job, 187 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:55.000 and doing that it cuts your tax liability by a third. 188 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:59.759 That's big money. And that's what's happening here and what 189 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.039 these film companies are saying in the unions, this is 190 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:07.639 a lifeline for the entertainment industry battered in recent years 191 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:10.679 because you had the pandemic, which battered everybody. You had 192 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:14.919 the writers and actor strikes in twenty twenty three decimated 193 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:19.200 the industry. The studios are spending less money. I mean, 194 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:22.840 they do spend money on these tent pole pictures, but 195 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:26.480 as far as independent films and the kind of money 196 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:28.200 that's being spent and sort of the middle of the 197 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:32.440 line films, many fewer films are being made and television 198 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:34.759 shows are being made in southern California, and they're pulling 199 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:38.440 back money. Then you had the wildfires, and then you 200 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:44.720 had just this trend of the production companies leaving Rebecca Ryan, 201 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:48.879 who is the executive director of the Director's Guild of America, says, 202 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:50.919 we don't want to become the car industry in Detroit 203 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:57.240 or the aerospace industry in California. When our industry thrives, 204 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:02.440 we think California thrives. So the bill goes through the 205 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:07.039 State Senate Committee, Revenue and Taxation Committee, and the Assembly 206 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:14.200 Arts and Entertainment Committee unanimously. And so it's moving forward. 207 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:17.039 By the way, Governor Gavin Newsom called last year to 208 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:19.799 more than double the money allocated to the film and 209 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:22.960 TV tax credit program. And so you think it's an 210 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:28.159 automatic it's going to pass. Maybe not, Maybe not. The 211 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:31.320 tax credit program was introduced in two thousand and nine 212 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:37.320 under former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Surprised that Schwarzenegger would want 213 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:40.360 to bring a TV and film production back to the 214 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:46.759 back southern California. In a recent post on X, Assembly 215 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:49.480 member Corey Jackson said, and here's the issue on the 216 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:52.000 other side of this, saying, what are we doing giving 217 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:55.799 tax breaks to film companies when we could be spending 218 00:14:55.879 --> 00:15:00.679 money to help the homelessness and allow so many kids 219 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:04.039 to live in poverty, all of this for corporate and 220 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:08.120 movie studio tax breaks. So I think it just boils 221 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:12.039 down to simple numbers, that's it. And those people that 222 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:14.679 say we shouldn't spend the money on these tax credits, 223 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:18.799 let's help the poor, the homeless, that's help California citizens 224 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.440 who need help, the marginalized. And so the answer is 225 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:26.320 real simple as far as I'm concerned. Okay, X tax 226 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:28.960 credit is given to a production company to stay in 227 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:32.360 southern California or a film here. How much money does 228 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:38.600 it generate for the economy? Okay, let's figure it out. 229 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:41.960 And those that are saying that it's not worth it, Okay, 230 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:44.679 how much does it cost? What is the loss to 231 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:48.720 the economy? You take money out of our budget, or 232 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:51.039 at least you don't get money into our budget because 233 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:54.279 the tax we would normally get California normally get is 234 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:57.679 not getting. So that's a cost. What is the benefit? 235 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:02.279 And they just figure it out there it is. Now 236 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:06.960 I'm in favor because I kind of like California to 237 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:11.000 have this film production. Well that's not true. Actually, you 238 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:13.000 ever lived in a neighborhood or been in a neighborhood 239 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:15.720 where a film production company is out there. When I 240 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:19.600 had the Persian Palace, there was the major street leading 241 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:21.200 to my house and that was the only way I 242 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:24.000 could get in. There was a production company. There was 243 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.639 a house along the way and it was being used 244 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:31.360 by I think a TV show and it was once 245 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:35.559 a week for months at a time, they'd block off 246 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:40.039 the street and I'd have a cop sitting there, you know, 247 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:42.960 stopping traffic when we'd be backed up because this film 248 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:45.159 company was there. So, you know what, I've just changed 249 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:51.759 my mind. Screw the film companies. Let them film someplace else. Done. 250 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:56.399 See how I can do that, because I just remember that, Yeah, 251 00:16:56.600 --> 00:17:00.519 get out. Oh that's the only thing cops in forms 252 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:03.639 do that. Do you know that? It's the only time 253 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:08.359 where security is given by off duty cops and they're 254 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:13.559 in LAPD uniforms and on their motorcycles because usually cops 255 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:18.000 doing security can't be dressed as cops. They can on 256 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:23.319 that street. And I try to crash the craft's table 257 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:25.640 because the food is really good, and I'll park my 258 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:27.839 car and try to crash and have lunch. Can't do it. 259 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:35.680 Security is too good, unfortunately, coming up ask candle anything. 260 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:38.799 We do it every Friday right here. Don't go away. 261 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:43.759 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 262 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:44.359 six forty. 263 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:47.720 I'm sorry, hold, I said, put on your headphones. I am. 264 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:50.839 I'm putting on my headsets, all right, hold on, hold on, 265 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:51.279 hold on? 266 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:55.359 Uh okay, I said, oh sure, blame me. 267 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:57.799 Oh I am blaming you. Thank you. So we're talking 268 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:03.200 about Disneyland and crazy I mean crazy stuff. We're talking 269 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:05.599 about how crowd it is. She's a disney fanatic. Of course. 270 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:08.480 She gets season tickets and I go. 271 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:10.880 I get season tickets to the Dodgers. I get an 272 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:12.640 annual pass. 273 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:15.039 The same thing, season tickets to both and she's telling 274 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:17.519 me about the VIP experience where you don't wait in 275 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:22.440 line for anything five thousand dollars per day roughly. Oh, 276 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:25.640 I'm sorry, but it's all day. Okay, great things, it's. 277 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:27.480 All day and it's a group of like eight to 278 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:27.960 ten people. 279 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:31.839 Okay, great, all right, it's time for do they have 280 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:36.640 a case or ask handle anything? That's even better where 281 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:39.759 basically people just ask questions of me and I just 282 00:18:39.799 --> 00:18:42.240 have a great time answering and it's completely humiliating. So 283 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:45.400 let's do it, Tony. First question, this. 284 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:49.359 Is for Bill Handle, ask handle anything. What's the deal 285 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:52.839 with your new wife versus your old wife? And how 286 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:57.279 many wives have you had? And all of us are 287 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:00.119 very curious. Yeah, doesn't you could please explain. 288 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:06.240 That dozens of wives? This is number two? And what's 289 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:09.480 with it? I got divorced and I marry someone else? 290 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:15.559 Is that complicated? That's the deal? Okay? Nice question. Well, 291 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:17.960 by the way, I hear these questions for the first time, 292 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:21.759 I mean we it would kneel and and go through 293 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:24.880 them and pick these out. Okay, next question, let's hey, 294 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:25.480 you handle this. 295 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:30.079 As Dave from Westcovina, I was wondering how much your 296 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:31.640 net worth was because I looked it up and it 297 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:35.119 set somewhere fifty five to seventy five million, which is crazy. 298 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:37.000 I don't know how you made that much money, but 299 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:37.960 I think it was long. 300 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:42.319 It is wrong by Yeah, here's the problem. It's where 301 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:44.359 you looked at me. Yeah. No, it's where you look 302 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:49.079 that up. And there are some that give my net 303 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:53.079 worth at ridiculously low, where I'm going, come on, I'm 304 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:56.680 doing better than that. And then there are others which 305 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:59.640 give my net worth and the hundreds of millions of dollars. 306 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:02.519 Let me ask you if I was worth anywhere near that, 307 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:05.599 do you think I would be sitting here answering that 308 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:11.359 question or would I have my assistance assistant answer the question? 309 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:14.920 So that net worth business because I always look it up. Man, 310 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.519 whenever there's we're talking about a star. What's Tom Cruise worth? 311 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:21.400 You know what's Donald Trump worth? Well? Ask Donald Trump. 312 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:24.359 He's worth one hundred and fifty billion dollars. But uh, yeah, 313 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:27.480 you it's But thank you. You're giving me a lot 314 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:31.640 of credit, much more, much more than I deserve. Okay, 315 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:32.880 onwards and upwards. 316 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:37.200 This is Karen and Jarrett from Magnolia Texas. We love camp. 317 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:40.519 We listened to you all the time. But why are 318 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:41.599 you such a dick? 319 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:44.559 Okay, that's a nice bill, you know, that's a very 320 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:46.799 good question. And by the way, thanks for being on 321 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:49.680 a speaker phone. That helps a lot. Uh so tell 322 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:53.759 you what what if I answer from back here? Huh 323 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:55.960 that's one of the reasons I'm a dick, all right, 324 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:00.400 you know what, because that's who I am. I have 325 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:03.920 always been that way, I probably always will be that way. 326 00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:07.839 And uh, I mean, ann am I off the air 327 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:11.440 a nice guy at all? No? No, I'm not. Now 328 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:13.799 do people hate me around here pretty much. They do. 329 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:16.759 They do. Ah, people ask me every day? How do 330 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:17.759 you work with them? I know? 331 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:18.200 You see? 332 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:20.720 And that is why we're doing Ask Candell Anything for 333 00:21:20.839 --> 00:21:25.599 exactly that reason, because people want to know Amy. People 334 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:28.680 ask about you. They asked me about you? Is she 335 00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:31.559 really this neel and freak? I go yes, yes, to 336 00:21:31.559 --> 00:21:36.640 the point where it's a sickness. Yes, Tony, nobody cares 337 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:42.680 about you. Okay. I just want to let you know, right, Amy, Yeah, 338 00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:43.200 why don't we? 339 00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:43.400 Uh? 340 00:21:43.559 --> 00:21:45.839 I was going to ask you a question, Ask Amy anything? 341 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:50.799 And I just I can't think of anything. What you 342 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:51.839 remember the Auto Club? 343 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:55.039 So ask Amy anything, because yours is. 344 00:21:56.519 --> 00:21:59.039 That's all? You know what? That's so good? You're right, 345 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:03.319 you are absolutely right. Oh I may steal that. Uh huh. 346 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:09.680 Ask handle anything but gas Gary and Shannon. That's kind 347 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:13.400 of cute, you know it is. Yeah, it's like the 348 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:17.240 Tim Conway Show. It's the Tim Conway Show. All right, 349 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:19.680 We're gonna take a break, come back, and we'll finish 350 00:22:19.799 --> 00:22:23.079 up with ask handle Anything on KFI. 351 00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:27.240 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 352 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:28.160 six forty. 353 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:33.880 Oh and Neil Isn't Here and Kono isn't here, but 354 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:39.079 Amy is and ann is and Tony in for Kono. 355 00:22:39.319 --> 00:22:41.240 And if you don't know who Tony is, don't worry 356 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:43.200 about that because none of us know who Tony is. 357 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:48.079 All Right, we're back to an ending ask handle anything, 358 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:51.240 and we do that every single week. Have you noticed 359 00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:55.440 the questions are coming in, I mean really personal questions. Yeah, 360 00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:59.799 you know it's yeah, okay, So let's go ahead and 361 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:04.640 we'll answer or I'll answer the rest of the questions Tony. 362 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:07.160 Next question, this isn't ask Bill anything. 363 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:10.440 Question Bill, I've listened to you for over thirty years, 364 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:13.079 and I've seen you go through a lot of physical pain. 365 00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:16.759 What has been the worst physical pain you've gone through? 366 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:19.279 And does that help you relate to Lindsay. 367 00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:23.160 I think the worst physical pain I ever went through 368 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:28.799 is when I was circumcised when I was eight days old. 369 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:34.279 It was it's a Jewish thing and it's it's a 370 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:37.759 little tough to say the least. So what is the 371 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:40.279 worst physical pain I've been through? Actually, probably my back 372 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:44.759 when I had my back went out and I got 373 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:49.000 an infection. It was in the hospital and I had 374 00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:54.480 a I had a cyst right next to my spinal cord, 375 00:23:54.920 --> 00:23:58.319 it got infected and it went into the spinal cord. 376 00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:01.720 And I've never ever experience pain like that in my 377 00:24:01.880 --> 00:24:06.240 entire life. And even pain medication just did absolutely nothing. 378 00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:08.400 And what was the part of the other part of 379 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:12.839 the question. I completely forgot how I can relate to 380 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:15.599 lindsay yeah, and she has a lot of pain too, 381 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:19.359 So we go through life in a lot of pain. 382 00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:22.000 As a matter of fact, everybody that I work with 383 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:26.279 goes through life in a lot of pain. Different way 384 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:28.759 of doing it, all right, Tony, See, I'm telling you 385 00:24:28.839 --> 00:24:33.200 these are questions that people ask an all the time. 386 00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:36.000 What's it like working with Bill? They asked me what's 387 00:24:36.039 --> 00:24:38.519 it like working with Amy? But I really think people 388 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:42.519 appreciate an honest answer. All right, I can't be that honest. 389 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:45.680 All right. Next question, Hey, handle, this is Terry and 390 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:49.759 Apple Valley. What did you get fired from Universal Studios? 391 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:49.880 For? 392 00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:59.640 Oh? Specifically because there were a whole series of incidents. 393 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:02.000 But the that I remember, and this is, uh, if 394 00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:04.119 I used to say things well, not that I don't 395 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:07.279 say things now, but uh, there was a group of 396 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:10.319 people that came in and when I was a tour 397 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:14.480 guid at Universal would talk about how movies were made 398 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:18.680 and when you uh the when, for example, you see 399 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:21.759 a ceiling right the way technically the way it works 400 00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:24.279 because there's lights coming in from the top, so you 401 00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:27.119