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Speaker 2: Hey everybody, it is The Bill Handle showed Neil Savedra
Speaker 2: and the morning crew here for you.
Speaker 3: I think he'll be back Monday.
Speaker 2: He had foot surgery technically toet surgery, I guess, and
Speaker 2: had it removed from his mouth, which is good. We're
Speaker 2: very very proud of that and look forward to his
Speaker 2: return on Monday.
Speaker 3: Hopefully. If not, I will most likely be with you.
Speaker 2: So we've got a new pope, new pope, and I
Speaker 2: will tell you something.
Speaker 3: It's been nice.
Speaker 2: Producer Ann and I were talking about, like the energy,
Speaker 2: just hearing words of faith, people talking about the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 2: talking about God, talking about the presence of faith, and
Speaker 2: people surrounding Vatican City with excitement. There's just something refreshing
Speaker 2: about that. Now you're talking about what is one point
Speaker 2: four billion people are Catholics. I grew up in the
Speaker 2: Catholic Church. I personally became a Protestant around seventeen or so.
Speaker 2: My mom's still very active in the Catholic Church. It's
Speaker 2: a huge part of my life.
Speaker 3: It was exciting.
Speaker 2: It's not the first time i've seen this obviously happen
Speaker 2: with the smoke and all of that being here at
Speaker 2: KFI as well, But it was just interesting to see
Speaker 2: excitement around something that I don't know wasn't ugly. Now,
Speaker 2: you may not like the Catholic Church or not like
Speaker 2: the papacy or any of these things, and that's fine.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that, you know, and to see this
Speaker 2: all over the news is, I don't know, find it
Speaker 2: very refreshing and it's been kind of kind of cool
Speaker 2: to hear the crowds below chanting Viva Il Papa. Long
Speaker 2: lived the pope, So you know, what do we know
Speaker 2: about him now? Politically we're going to start understanding more
Speaker 2: and more about his issues. But there are some insights
Speaker 2: that we have right now. So Robert Francis Privos sixty nine,
Speaker 2: he's going to be the He is the twenty two
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty seventh rather occupant of the throne of
Speaker 2: Saint Peter. He will be known as Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 2: He is the first American to fill the role as pope.
Speaker 2: He does have a very deep tie to Latin America.
Speaker 2: Spent a lot of time as a missionary in Peru,
Speaker 2: and you know, that really ties him to many roots.
Speaker 3: But he was born here.
Speaker 2: He's born in Chicago, nineteen fifty five, parents of Spanish
Speaker 2: and Franco Italian descent. Prevo served as an altar boy.
Speaker 2: He was ordained in nineteen eighty two, so that's me.
Speaker 2: He became a priest at his first words as Pope
Speaker 2: Leo the fourteenth were to speak fondly about his predecessor,
Speaker 2: Pope Francis. And I'm sure that's probably part for the course,
Speaker 2: but still nice to hear saying that Pope Francis, who
Speaker 2: blessed us united and hand in hand with God, let
Speaker 2: us advance together. He told all the crowd that we're
Speaker 2: course cheering. And if you've never been to Vatican City,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's a very cool place. I mean the
Speaker 2: you tour it, and it's stunning the artwork there finished
Speaker 2: and unfinished. I mean, this stuff, it just is mind
Speaker 2: boggling to see the talent and creativity. You know, the
Speaker 2: gift of time is something that we you know, run
Speaker 2: out of. That's the one thing that's the one commodity
Speaker 2: that you can't make more of. Right, and you see,
Speaker 2: when there wasn't distractions in life, no TV, no, nothing right.
Speaker 2: The intensity of the art that took just intense amounts
Speaker 2: of time on your back, you know, to pay things
Speaker 2: like the Sistine Chapel, and it's just amazing. It just
Speaker 2: the history of it all is powerful. And the guy
Speaker 2: yelling at you in the Sistine Chapel, celensiou Celensiu, will
Speaker 2: forever be echoing through my head. So the new pope,
Speaker 2: he became archbishop in January of twenty twenty three. And
Speaker 2: this is what I didn't know, Like talk about boom
Speaker 2: boom boom. You know, somebody running up the ranks became
Speaker 2: archbishop in January twenty twenty three. Within a few months,
Speaker 2: Pope Francis made him cardinal and now he's the pope.
Speaker 2: I mean, so from twenty twenty three to now, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a that's a big old jump. As far as
Speaker 2: his views, these are something that are going to come out.
Speaker 2: Of course, it's gonna be hard to keep the excitement
Speaker 2: up because party poopers are already want to jump in
Speaker 2: and they're going to pick apart his faith and his
Speaker 2: belief system. And I guess that is part of the
Speaker 2: system as well, to figure out what somebody believes.
Speaker 3: If they're going to be a leader.
Speaker 2: This is not only a religious leader, but somebody who
Speaker 2: is off looked at and looked.
Speaker 3: Too for guidance. You have some pronouncements.
Speaker 2: We're gonna see whether when he makes these, whether he's
Speaker 2: going to continue his predecessors reforms in the Catholic Church
Speaker 2: dealing with women and participation. Seems to be very in
Speaker 2: line with that on that with Pope Francis. But he
Speaker 2: certainly has shown that he is in line with Pope
Speaker 2: Francis's view on migrants, of which he is a child
Speaker 2: of the poor, the environment. Former roommate of the new Pope,
Speaker 2: Reverend John Leyden Johnny Leyden sounds familiar, No, no one
Speaker 2: okay described prevost to the BBC is outgoing down to earth,
Speaker 2: very concerned with the poor. So he was born in
Speaker 2: the United States, but his grandparents were all immigrants French Spanish.
Speaker 2: He was raised in a very Catholic family, very engaged
Speaker 2: in the parish. Were both his parents. Now the first
Speaker 2: thing to come out and I talked about this were
Speaker 2: the Pope's views on LGBTQ plus folks. And it's still
Speaker 2: kind of unclear. Some groups believe that he's less supportive
Speaker 2: than Francis, But we don't know yet, we don't know.
Speaker 2: Speaking last year about climate change, Cardinal Prevost said that
Speaker 2: it was time to move from words to action. So
Speaker 2: we know that that seems to be a very strong
Speaker 2: focus of his.
Speaker 3: So we'll see as he.
Speaker 2: Makes pronouncements and you know, gets comfortable with his position
Speaker 2: as to what things he's going to do or not
Speaker 2: do in the church.
Speaker 3: Very very cool. What's in a name? Right?
Speaker 2: What does it mean? Why do do you change your
Speaker 2: name as a pope? Do you have to change your name?
Speaker 2: What is it all about? So you have Cardinal Robert
Speaker 2: Prevost appearing on the balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica, introduced
Speaker 2: by the name Leo the fourteenth will The first thing
Speaker 2: we know is that there was thirteen more before him.
Speaker 2: But the choice of the name in the Catholic Church
Speaker 2: does give a little bit of, I don't know, insight
Speaker 2: as to what the papacy might look like under this
Speaker 2: new leader. So by choosing Leo, the new two hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty seventh pope joins these other thirteen popes that
Speaker 2: had that name before him.
Speaker 3: So you look what they basically do.
Speaker 2: You start to look at the previous leos, and it
Speaker 2: shows in history that they were reformers, including Pope Leo
Speaker 2: the thirteenth, elected in eighteen seventy eight, So he spoke
Speaker 2: about human dignity, the dignity of labor. So that might
Speaker 2: be part because obviously, you know, popes select their people names.
Speaker 2: They've been doing it for some time centuries. They're often
Speaker 2: drawn to similar names of you know, previous pontiffs, but
Speaker 2: ones that they want to emulate. Right, that's kind of like,
Speaker 2: you know, how you name kids too, based on family
Speaker 2: members or something interesting that you know touched your life
Speaker 2: or in the case of our son Maximilian, a bloodthirsty, thirsty,
Speaker 2: murderous robot from the Black Hole movie. But have say,
Speaker 2: everybody does it their own way. So popes have been
Speaker 2: uh checked, you know, choosing their names for centuries. It
Speaker 2: wasn't always that way, but we know now because of
Speaker 2: the choice that this is probably going to be a
Speaker 2: lot of social focus teaching because these are some of
Speaker 2: the things that were done by previous pope leos. Now,
Speaker 2: in the early days of Tholicism, pope's you know, usually
Speaker 2: just used their baptismal name, whatever it was. Some pontiffs
Speaker 2: had names that if you you know, hear them now,
Speaker 2: they sound ridiculous, like Pope hilarious. No joke, that was
Speaker 2: a pope. Pope hilarious. Isn't that Alec Baldwin's wife's name.
Speaker 2: Maybe I got there wrong. There was pope some simplica, simplicious, simplicious,
Speaker 2: not a very smart pope maybe. But when Pope John
Speaker 2: the second was elected in five point thirty three a
Speaker 2: d he changed the president, opting for John over his
Speaker 2: given name.
Speaker 3: Mer curious.
Speaker 2: Now the belief is that that was probably shed because
Speaker 2: of the you know, Pagan Roman god of the same name.
Speaker 2: So this all kind of came about in the late
Speaker 2: tenth century that choosing a papal name became kind of
Speaker 2: standard practice, and it's what we tend to see today.
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of John's. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: John Paul's. As a matter of fact, there was for
Speaker 2: a long time. It was just a single name. And
Speaker 2: these are this is how anything changes, right.
Speaker 3: You have.
Speaker 2: A name or one way of doing something, and then
Speaker 2: someone says, you know what, I want two names and
Speaker 2: they do John Paul. Then all of a sudden, John
Speaker 2: Paul becomes the norm to be able to pick two names. Now,
Speaker 2: the late seventeen hundreds to the mid nineteen hundred saw
Speaker 2: a wave of Pius's Pope Pious. Well more recently, we've
Speaker 2: had a lot of popes that I've grabbed towards John
Speaker 2: and Paul, and so that becomes kind of you know,
Speaker 2: that's like Pope John or Pope John Paul is like
Speaker 2: what I think about as a pope. You know, these
Speaker 2: were these were like pope's growing up now, growing up
Speaker 2: in a Catholic household. These were the names that you
Speaker 2: heard and tied to the pope. And it's kind of
Speaker 2: what sticks in my head. But I assume now and
Speaker 2: understand more theology now as to why they may pick
Speaker 2: a certain name tying to somebody that they want to
Speaker 2: emulate or they But back then I just thought, oh,
Speaker 2: they just picked a religious name. Right, This pope pointed
Speaker 2: something out in scripture, and you go, oh, that sounds
Speaker 2: that sounds pretty Catholic, biblical.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead with that.
Speaker 2: But it is interesting that this may foreshadow some of
Speaker 2: the things that may be coming out of the papacy
Speaker 2: from here on forward. So we will keep an eye
Speaker 2: on everything Pope. I wonder when the the pope citement
Speaker 2: is going to die down?
Speaker 3: Are we going to have? Like by Monday?
Speaker 2: People are still gonna be excited by the pope because
Speaker 2: this is going to be the first Mass Mother's Day Mass.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be the first first Mass. I think the
Speaker 2: excitement will be around for a while, especially because he's American. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I'm just glad to see people talking about
Speaker 2: something that's a little more positive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a little more positive, I'll take They missed the
Speaker 4: most important part about this pope. What he's a white
Speaker 4: Sox fan? Oh wow? Is that a decree? Is that
Speaker 4: like something now that has come is official? Like all Catholics? Yeah,
Speaker 4: his brother confirmed it. Oh boy, I know the Cubs
Speaker 4: earlier in the day were trying to claim him.
Speaker 3: Of course they no, no, no, no, no. White. Does
Speaker 3: that make people like him either more or less if
Speaker 3: he's a white Sox fan? I think more more of
Speaker 3: an underdog?
Speaker 2: Hmmm all right, well, people of faith, we usually are
Speaker 2: more of an underdog, all right. I know a lot
Speaker 2: of folks in the film and television industry, entertainment industry
Speaker 2: here in Los Angeles. There was a time where I
Speaker 2: wanted to go into it myself. I really loved making props.
Speaker 2: I love you know, I love all of the costumes,
Speaker 2: the props, the sets, special effects. Actually got to do
Speaker 2: special effects on a film when I was in my
Speaker 2: early twenties. It was a religious film and it was
Speaker 2: super super cool to do just.
Speaker 3: Being around it. I love it.
Speaker 2: Never went down that path, but have a lot of
Speaker 2: friends that are in it, and I think we forget
Speaker 2: about that. I think we forget that. Our economy has
Speaker 2: partnered with the film industry for a long time. It's
Speaker 2: what built hollywood Land into Hollywood, what made what we
Speaker 2: have here in southern California special. It's very easy to
Speaker 2: get jaded from the small percentage. Like the actors and
Speaker 2: directors people get paid big money and you can go,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, you know, well, you know, why should
Speaker 2: I cry it here for them? But trust me, there
Speaker 2: are thousands of people that aren't in that category that
Speaker 2: are making those movies happen. From you know, the prop makers,
Speaker 2: from the special effects people, from you know, food and beverage,
Speaker 2: people that come in for craft services, from security, from PA's,
Speaker 2: from lighting, the grips, the best boys that all these
Speaker 2: people that you see that their titles scroll by super
Speaker 2: fast after the really slow single card names are up there.
Speaker 2: These are the people that make movies, that make television.
Speaker 2: They're affected too, and a lot of them have lived
Speaker 2: here in southern California for that very reason.
Speaker 3: So now we have now we have Trump coming out.
Speaker 2: And saying that on Truth Social, and keep in mind
Speaker 2: True Social is kind of a sketchpad for the president.
Speaker 2: I don't take everything he says to be gospel or
Speaker 2: that it will come to fruition. I think he throws
Speaker 2: things out. That's his big, you know napkin where he
Speaker 2: just writes things down on. But he proposed on True
Speaker 2: Social that the US film industry was dying. He unveiled
Speaker 2: plans for tariffs on overseas made productions to reverse the trend,
Speaker 2: which he called a national security threat. Is it a
Speaker 2: national security threat? No, However, the fact that movies are
Speaker 2: leaving our country and are date for countries like Britain,
Speaker 2: Canada and the Czech Republic. This reversing that trend that
Speaker 2: we've had forever in Hollywood being in films shot here.
Speaker 3: You know, the.
Speaker 2: Biggest grossing film, a Minecraft movie shot in Canada.
Speaker 3: No reason why it needed to be shot in Canada.
Speaker 2: Now the thing that I don't get about Trump's position
Speaker 2: yet because yet I don't know that he's clarified. There's
Speaker 2: some films that need to be shot in Budapest because
Speaker 2: they take place in Budapest. So there are things that
Speaker 2: you are going to do that that's not I don't
Speaker 2: care about that personally. That's part. That's part for the course.
Speaker 2: You want excitement and all that. What I care about
Speaker 2: and what bugs me is Canada for America. They go
Speaker 2: to Canada dress the streets like American streets because it's cheaper.
Speaker 2: That should not be happening. We should do something about that.
Speaker 2: Newsome has reached out, there's no no one is going.
Speaker 3: Oh Newsom and Trump love each other.
Speaker 2: They don't. Newsom has made that very clear. And let's
Speaker 2: face it, Trump doesn't like anybody mostly so now gav
Speaker 2: Our very own gave Newsome. He's proposed a seven point
Speaker 2: five billion dollar tax credit program and offered to work
Speaker 2: with Donald Trump to boost US film production. And I
Speaker 2: think that that's that's a good thing. I think they
Speaker 2: both need to come together for this.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: If you want to slap some tariffs on playing other
Speaker 2: countries for US, I think I'm all right with that.
Speaker 2: But you can't just motivate negatively. We have to think
Speaker 2: if it's important enough, then you're gonna that you think
Speaker 2: we should throw one hundred percent tariffs on films made abroad,
Speaker 2: Then it's important enough to put money down and say
Speaker 2: we want tax credits and plans to boost US film.
Speaker 2: You can't just magically force people to do stuff here
Speaker 2: more expensively. You have to build in a system of
Speaker 2: incentives as well, and maybe a combination. Like I said,
Speaker 2: may say, if you're gonna go to Canada and dress
Speaker 2: it like New York, then kiss my ass. There's gonna
Speaker 2: be tariffs, but there should also be positive incentive incentives.
Speaker 3: You know, there's nothing.
Speaker 2: I remember, nothing that bums me out as a fan
Speaker 2: of film and television and the arts and going, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, what a cool scene that was? I wonder
Speaker 2: and it's, you know, supposed to take place in La
Speaker 2: or New York or something. I go, I wonder where
Speaker 2: that set was or where that location rather was and
Speaker 2: I look it up and it was Canada, Toronto, Toronto.
Speaker 2: But it's important enough to talk tariffs, it's important enough
Speaker 2: to talk benefits. I'm seeing people scrambling, very hard working
Speaker 2: people These aren't the single card names that you know.
Speaker 2: These are the people that bust their humps. I mean, really,
Speaker 2: if you've ever seen what a grip does, holy hell,
Speaker 2: like Swiss army knives of the film industry, I mean
Speaker 2: just just and lifting. They make nothing out of air
Speaker 2: force aluminum. In the film industry. It's all steel. It
Speaker 2: al weighs a ton, and it's moving in and out everywhere,
Speaker 2: and they're so meticulous that everything is wrapped up the
Speaker 2: way it came.
Speaker 3: Everything.
Speaker 2: I mean just some of the hardest work you've ever seen.
Speaker 2: But we think it's glamour and all. We need to
Speaker 2: protect the film industry and television and these things in
Speaker 2: Southern California. We must protect it in the United States.
Speaker 2: But I don't think the punishment with tariffs is the
Speaker 2: only way. I think there's a partial save when it
Speaker 2: comes to playing you know, Toronto for La New York
Speaker 2: or whatever. But because films are going to be done abroad,
Speaker 2: of course they are. They're neither going to be in
Speaker 2: London because they take place in London, those types of things.
Speaker 2: But we should also incentifize and maybe we might see something,
Speaker 2: something good come out of a relationship between Newsome and
Speaker 2: trump fingers crossed, or in Bill Handle's case, to's cross
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