Speaker 1: You're listening to kf I AM six forty the Bill
Speaker 1: Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Good Morning, everybody,
Speaker 1: Bill Handle here Foody Friday, April twenty five.
Speaker 2: Don't know so much about Foody.
Speaker 1: Because Neil is sick this morning and he is not
Speaker 1: coming in, as is Cono this morning, not coming in,
Speaker 1: and so we have Tony in for Cono. The first
Speaker 1: six people we asked to fill in couldn't make it,
Speaker 1: so Tony agreed to grudgingly, Yes, grudgingly, that's true. Yes,
Speaker 1: Tony has quite a hike.
Speaker 2: That's okay.
Speaker 1: Those two are going okay. But who is here? We've
Speaker 1: got Amy? Good morning, Amy, Hey Bill, Happy Friday, Happy Friday,
Speaker 1: and good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2: All right? Is a Will here today?
Speaker 3: He is not okay, he'll be back Monday. Okay, all right,
Speaker 3: he's I'm not sick though the other two are sick.
Speaker 3: He's just on vacation.
Speaker 2: Who takes two day vacations?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't either, Will close sheperd.
Speaker 2: I guess. I mean, if you're gonna take a vacation,
Speaker 2: you take a vacation.
Speaker 1: The other thing I don't understand is taking your birthday
Speaker 1: day off. It's your birthday. Okay, boy, there's an accomplishment
Speaker 1: being born. That's something to celebrate. What are your choices?
Speaker 1: Whin you a Nobel prize or being born?
Speaker 2: Okay? The other one is personal day off? What is
Speaker 2: that about?
Speaker 3: Sometimes you just need a break.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what Saturday and Sundays are for. That's correct.
Speaker 1: And in my case, that's what Sundays are for. You
Speaker 1: know that I have in my entire working life, I
Speaker 1: have never worked a five day week.
Speaker 3: I did that six day thing for several years. I
Speaker 3: don't know how you've done it for as long as
Speaker 3: you do.
Speaker 2: You know you do. I don't want to tell you.
Speaker 1: What you do is you hate being at home, you
Speaker 1: hate your family, and you might as well be here.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. Okay, yesterday I had
Speaker 1: dinner with my daughter and we were having a conversation
Speaker 1: and she came up with something really interesting, and that is,
Speaker 1: do you know why popes cannot be organ donors?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I never thought of that either. Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1: And there are two reasons that popes, for example, Francis
Speaker 1: is not going to be an organ donor, and this
Speaker 1: was kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: One of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's not that's not the reason. That's not
Speaker 1: the reason he's eighty eight and dead.
Speaker 2: No. Two reasons. One, his body does not belong to him.
Speaker 1: It belongs to the church, so he cannot he does
Speaker 1: not have the authority to give up parts of his body.
Speaker 3: Isn't that sort of slavery?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sort of is, although you're kind of dead afterwards.
Speaker 1: So can you be a slave when you're dead? You
Speaker 1: can be a box and ashes, you know, you could
Speaker 1: be you know, breakfasted Bernie kind of dead.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: And the other reason is usually when someone is slated
Speaker 1: for sainthood, which of course Francis is going to be.
Speaker 2: That's a given the parts of his body they keep
Speaker 2: as relics.
Speaker 1: You ever gone to any one of these Catholic churches,
Speaker 1: one of the older ones, there's always a skull or
Speaker 1: there's a femur or a fingerbone or something in this
Speaker 1: gilded box. It has glass all around it, and you
Speaker 1: look in there and there's a piece of bone, and.
Speaker 2: They go, what the hell is that?
Speaker 3: Is that real?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Well, I don't know whether the bone is
Speaker 1: of the saint, because you know, for example, if you
Speaker 1: go to churches all over the world. You will see
Speaker 1: churches that have small pieces of the cross that Jesus
Speaker 1: was crucifight on. You put all of those small pieces
Speaker 1: of the cross together around the world, and you've got
Speaker 1: your medium sized lumber yard.
Speaker 2: So who knows.
Speaker 1: You go to top Copy Cap Museum in istan Bull,
Speaker 1: they have the skull of John the Baptist.
Speaker 2: Now is that really his skull? I don't know, you think,
Speaker 2: And then you have.
Speaker 1: Hearts and pieces of body, and it's just really weird.
Speaker 1: Not that the Catholic religion is and full of fruitcakes.
Speaker 1: It's just that the Catholic religion is full of fruitcakes.
Speaker 1: And it's which is crazier. The Mormon religion. Mormon religion
Speaker 1: is you got zena and you have the golden tablets,
Speaker 1: and you've got this kid, twelve year old kid, Joseph Smith,
Speaker 1: digging up the tablets of gold in upstate New York, Paulmyra,
Speaker 1: not even Connecticut, which is a good neighborhood, but Paul
Speaker 1: Meyra Okay, so much for Mormons. You got Catholics where
Speaker 1: you have the body and the blood of Christ. Now
Speaker 1: it's not metaphor in the Catholic religion. It is not metaphor.
Speaker 1: It is actually the body and the blood of Christ
Speaker 1: that you take during communion, which I find completely hypocritical
Speaker 1: because at least in New Guinea, those headhunters actually eat people.
Speaker 1: Catholics don't any other religions. I can rip into Judaism.
Speaker 1: There's a nut religion. I'm talking about the far reaches
Speaker 1: part of it. Okay, emails go to management here at
Speaker 1: KFI as I make fun of the only ones that
Speaker 1: can't make fun is Buddhism.
Speaker 2: Why because they just sit there. I mean they just
Speaker 2: sit there.
Speaker 1: You know, last year one National Religious Award from the
Speaker 1: American Association of Anesthesiologists. Nothing happens, You just sit there. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're done, guys.
Speaker 3: I thought we were just getting started.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my god, you tribe on religion. Ah.
Speaker 1: And I haven't even gotten into ethnic people yet, have I. No,
Speaker 1: we start that in just a few moments. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: let's do it. I want to roll this morning. I
Speaker 1: was feeling terrible this morning until I started.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I started with the Pope. That was it, and why
Speaker 1: he can't be an ordinan donor?
Speaker 2: That was it? All right, guys, ready to do it?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 1: Okay, it's time for handling the news, Amy no deal
Speaker 1: and me lead.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 1: Well, Trump is now urging Putin to stop after saying
Speaker 1: there has to be a deal cut between Russia and Ukraine,
Speaker 1: the deal being that Putin gets everything he wants and
Speaker 1: Ukraine gets nothing. At that point, after that announcement was made,
Speaker 1: particularly by JD Vance saying if you don't cut the deal,
Speaker 1: we're walking away, Putin launches the most vicious attack against
Speaker 1: Kiev that he has in a year, and at that
Speaker 1: point Trump says, stop it. Let's get this peace deal done.
Speaker 1: Five thousand soldiers a week are dying. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's true or not, but.
Speaker 3: It reminds me of when before the invasion started, Biden
Speaker 3: did his stern warning also don't yeah nothing, the one
Speaker 3: word thing, stop, don't okay, nothing happens. It's got to
Speaker 3: be frustrating, though, because Trump is known or like touts
Speaker 3: himself as a deal maker. Yeah, and he's just not getting.
Speaker 2: How are those going?
Speaker 1: The Israeli Jamas war, this war, inflation prices cut in half,
Speaker 1: the best economy you've ever seen. Now a couple of
Speaker 1: he did do day one, there was the partning of all.
Speaker 1: January sixth defendants that happened day one, and executive orders
Speaker 1: in some other pardons, and then also gutting the various agencies,
Speaker 1: which we're going to talk about a little bit more
Speaker 1: later on.
Speaker 2: And where is that? No, No, are we going to
Speaker 2: I think so?
Speaker 1: Yes, eight o'clock the National Security Council. Okay, let's take
Speaker 1: a break and we're going to come back and we'll
Speaker 1: really dive into some stories. I'll try to figure out
Speaker 1: some other religions and ethnicities to offend.
Speaker 4: During the break, you're listening to Bill Handle on demand
Speaker 4: from KFI AM six forty and.
Speaker 1: And I, I mean we're sitting across from each other
Speaker 1: and and I. During the course of the break, we
Speaker 1: started discussing religion and whether or not there is God
Speaker 1: in the definition of God, and it got kind of
Speaker 1: interesting because I think God exists. If you're the winning
Speaker 1: football team and you are praying and God a sides
Speaker 1: you're going to win, Yep, there's God. Or you're in
Speaker 1: a bus full of kindergarteners and it gets into a
Speaker 1: crash and you survive and they all die. That was
Speaker 1: God saving your life. Too bad for those thirty four kids.
Speaker 1: That's when the devil steps in. Ah, yeah, well why
Speaker 1: did God? Okay, but why did devil step in kill
Speaker 1: all of them?
Speaker 2: He's evil, but save you and he wants to hurt
Speaker 2: Okay people, Okay, there we go.
Speaker 1: Oh, we're gonna have fun discussions there. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Usually I have these discussions with Neil,
Speaker 1: you know, but I know, of all days, I know
Speaker 1: you're going in on this. I don't even know why.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do it more handle on the news,
Speaker 1: Amy and me talk.
Speaker 3: Talk, talk or not. China has denied any suggestion that
Speaker 3: it is in active negotiations with the Trump administration over tariffs.
Speaker 3: China's comments came after Trump said on Tuesday the things
Speaker 3: we're going fine and that the final tariff rate on
Speaker 3: Chinese exports would come down substantially from the current one
Speaker 3: hundred five percent.
Speaker 1: And he said he's talking to China. China said, no,
Speaker 1: we're not talking. I don't know who do you believe?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Exactly. I don't know who you believe. There's an article
Speaker 1: in Time magazine. I was listening to a piece on
Speaker 1: it coming in, and it was it's an interview, a
Speaker 1: very lengthy interview with Trump by Time magazine, and he
Speaker 1: says in the article that to that one hundred countries
Speaker 1: are actively negotiating with the United States. One hundred countries.
Speaker 1: And the reporter said, well, how many You haven't announced
Speaker 1: any of them. Well, we'll announce them, you know, when,
Speaker 1: when the time is appropriate. And then he switched and said,
Speaker 1: it's actually two hundred countries. Now, two hundred countries is
Speaker 1: virtually every country on the planet. You know that, it's
Speaker 1: two thirds of the countries on Earth. So we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. The only thing is that he blinked, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. She did not blink. She said, we're prepared.
Speaker 1: The Chinese play the long game, and they are prepared.
Speaker 1: He is a strong man who is prepared to have
Speaker 1: suffering go on.
Speaker 2: The Chinese have a history of this stuff of suffering.
Speaker 1: The United States not so much. Are we got tired
Speaker 1: of Vietnam. We're out of there. We got tired of Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: We're out of there. Chinese aren't out of there until
Speaker 1: they win. So I think Chinese is going to win.
Speaker 1: This one.
Speaker 2: Might take, okay, move on flying.
Speaker 3: In to fight the fires. California's officially added a second
Speaker 3: air tanker to its fire fighting fleet, just ahead of
Speaker 3: what is expected to be a drier than average summer,
Speaker 3: even though we're doing good for snowpack this year. For
Speaker 3: the third year in a row, the latest Sea one
Speaker 3: thirty hercules air tanker will join the Califire aerial fleet.
Speaker 3: It's the same and former US Coast Guard cargo plane
Speaker 3: that's being retrofitted for firefighting. The aircraft can drop four
Speaker 3: thousand gallons of water or fire retardant in under five seconds,
Speaker 3: can fly up to eight hundred miles per deployment, and
Speaker 3: its speed, range and payload capacity make it the most
Speaker 3: capable aircraft in Calfire's fleet, says Cawfire.
Speaker 2: We need a lot of them.
Speaker 3: There's actually seven out. We're just not all retrofitted a ready, mean.
Speaker 1: We not a lot with these wildfires, you know, and
Speaker 1: even then we don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: The best job to have, by the way, is the
Speaker 1: guy who measures the snowpack in the sierras. Do you
Speaker 1: know how do what the technology is that he uses.
Speaker 1: He puts a stick in the ground. I'm not exaggerating.
Speaker 1: He puts a long yardstick that has inches on the wood,
Speaker 1: and he puts it until it hits the ground and
Speaker 1: he measures how high the snow is and that is
Speaker 1: the level of your snowpack.
Speaker 3: And he only has to work like three days a year.
Speaker 3: They do like snowpacks every couple months.
Speaker 1: That I don't know, but I think he moves from
Speaker 1: place to place to measure the snowpack. It's not on
Speaker 1: the same and I think maybe they average it, but
Speaker 1: the technology is still a stick.
Speaker 3: That's okay, Yeah, it's great. What are eight trees worth
Speaker 3: three hundred and fifty thousand dollars? So there's that guy
Speaker 3: who has been arrested for cutting down eight trees in
Speaker 3: different neighborhoods around downtown La over a period of about
Speaker 3: a week from April fourteenth to nineteenth. Samuel Groft has
Speaker 3: been arrested, and the La County DA's office says that
Speaker 3: those eight trees that he cut down with a chainsaw,
Speaker 3: or allegedly cut down with a chainsaw, is going to
Speaker 3: cost the city three hundred and forty seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. Let's let's look at
Speaker 2: the figures here.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's fifty thousand dollars a tree right now? Forty
Speaker 3: thousand a tree is.
Speaker 2: It that it depends on the tree. That's not off base.
Speaker 1: It really isn't to bring in a full grown tree,
Speaker 1: is yeah, that can be forty grand. I mean I
Speaker 1: brought my I had an olive tree that died and
Speaker 1: I replaced it, and it was, you know, twenty feet high,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five feet high. So I replaced the tree.
Speaker 1: I could not believe how much that tree cost. Could
Speaker 1: not believe it. Trees are expensive. I mean, a little
Speaker 1: saplings aren't. But if you're bringing in a full grown tree.
Speaker 3: And they want full grown trees, you know, yes.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 3: I want to hear more about this olive tree. Do
Speaker 3: you pick olives off of it?
Speaker 2: No? Well, no, you spray it, so it doesn't.
Speaker 1: All of them well, because they're beautiful, because all of
Speaker 1: trees are gorgeous, because they're trunks.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's just something magical about olive trees.
Speaker 3: They are I saw them in the garden of.
Speaker 1: Yeah that is and you know what's interesting with what
Speaker 1: really is moving about the garden of this enemy. I mean,
Speaker 1: even though I'm not religious in the least, I do
Speaker 1: believe that Jesus existed. Uh, whether that was the garden
Speaker 1: of Gacinami or not. I mean, we don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: was he born at that spot up a calvalry? That
Speaker 1: was he actually crucified there? Probably not. But you go
Speaker 1: to the garden Ofame Gacinthemis Casami. I'm always horrible with words,
Speaker 1: and you literally look at these trees and you go,
Speaker 1: Jesus could have walked among these trees.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they're like two thousand years.
Speaker 2: Right, these are the very trees that were around.
Speaker 1: I mean that is you know, you know, whether you're
Speaker 1: religious or not, just the my thing is history and wow,
Speaker 1: you know, just this just floors you that the trees
Speaker 1: are that old. And when you go back to biblical times,
Speaker 1: they're talking about this tree.
Speaker 2: Now did he walk? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I can't believe you sprayed for all?
Speaker 1: No, No, you spray, you spray. Why don't you want
Speaker 1: because the olives make a mess, that's why they're horrible,
Speaker 1: and then you have to brine them, and you don't know,
Speaker 1: you don't want all of you?
Speaker 2: Why didn't you just buy a fruitless one?
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can, but you I have one, Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know our the ones I bought, were fruited
Speaker 1: and they you know, the olives, you spray them. It's
Speaker 1: like sort of you know, spaying a dog. You know,
Speaker 1: you just make sure that they don't. Yeah, we have
Speaker 1: effortless one planting. Okay, and that's it all right.
Speaker 2: One more.
Speaker 3: A new way to get to LAX. A direct connection
Speaker 3: between Los Angeles International Airport and Metro is going to
Speaker 3: be a step closer to reality when a transit station opens.
Speaker 3: That's going to happen in June. The La Metro Transit
Speaker 3: Center is scheduled to open June sixth at Aviation Boulevard
Speaker 3: and ninety sixth Street, and it's going to connect to
Speaker 3: the K and C lines and that will eventually not
Speaker 3: yet connect to the LAX people Mover train.
Speaker 1: And it opens June sixth, which is by June eighth,
Speaker 1: it's already obsolete because welcome to Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then the people Mover isn't scheduled open until
Speaker 3: two twenty six.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well for the Olympics, they built the horseshoe thing at
Speaker 1: LAX for the Olympics. Boy, that worked out, didn't it.
Speaker 1: The way the horseshoe works at LAX where you go
Speaker 1: on that loop that you turn. All right, we're done
Speaker 1: for this two segments, or these two segments.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and take a break. We'll come right back.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
Speaker 4: AM six forty Woody Friday.
Speaker 1: Except there's no food today. Neil is sick. He got
Speaker 1: food poisoning last night. Actually that's not true, but it
Speaker 1: sounds good, doesn't it, Woody Friday. Neil, Okay, never mind,
Speaker 1: Maybe he has foody poisoning that's very strong.
Speaker 2: And Neil is an amazing cook. You know that.
Speaker 1: It's say, you know, he does that food show, and
Speaker 1: it's not by accident. Is doing so well. The guy
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing, except for last night. All right,
Speaker 1: Amy more Handle on the news.
Speaker 3: George says he expects to get a full sentence. George Santos,
Speaker 3: the former congressman whose proclivity for lying fueled in unforeseen
Speaker 3: rise and spectacular fall, is going to be confronted on
Speaker 3: today with what that fallout is going to be. He's
Speaker 3: going to be sentenced for fraud and other stuff, and
Speaker 3: he's the least he would get would be two years.
Speaker 3: He pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and aggravated
Speaker 3: identity theft. Federal prosecutors want the sentence to be eighty
Speaker 3: seven months, which they say is necessary to protect the
Speaker 3: public from being defrauded by Santos. Again, Santos says he
Speaker 3: does expect to get the full seven years.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the only thing there that is ever of concern
Speaker 1: and which reduces the sentences is our mitigating factors. One
Speaker 1: of the big ones being showing remorse to the court,
Speaker 1: and he, of course is showing remorse. Doesn't everybody show
Speaker 1: remorse to the court. I don't understand how judges can
Speaker 1: believe remorse because everybody shows remorse.
Speaker 2: Buddy.
Speaker 1: Now, while he was showing a remorse, he was also
Speaker 1: attacking the Department of Justice and saying that this was
Speaker 1: prosecutorial overreach and it was a political witch hunt. And
Speaker 1: showing remorse at the same time. That's a little tough,
Speaker 1: no kidding. He's going to get the biggest, the longest
Speaker 1: sentence or a piece of work he is.
Speaker 3: Sounds like something kind of right out of the movies.
Speaker 3: But a senior Russian general has been killed in a
Speaker 3: car bombing. It happened today. The deputy head of the
Speaker 3: Main Operations Directorate of the General staff of the Russian
Speaker 3: Armed Forces was killed in the explosion of a Volkswagen golf.
Speaker 3: Investigators say the explosion was caused by an improvised explosive
Speaker 3: design device packed with shrapnel and loaded into his car.
Speaker 1: Now, if he had survived, would Volkswagen use that incident
Speaker 1: as a commercial? I'll bet you so. But they can't
Speaker 1: because he was killed and no one's blamed been blamed yet.
Speaker 1: Russia has not, Moscow has not yet blamed Ukraine.
Speaker 2: There will be you watch, Uh, how.
Speaker 3: About Nunya like Nonya? Business staff members at Columbia University
Speaker 3: and Bernard College in New York City say they were
Speaker 3: taken aback earlier this week after they got text messages
Speaker 3: on their personal phones linked to a survey which asked,
Speaker 3: in part if they were Jewish or Israeli. The survey
Speaker 3: came from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and outlined that
Speaker 3: it was part of a federal investigation into workplace practices
Speaker 3: at the schools.
Speaker 1: Now, it's offensive, but I don't know if FILS was
Speaker 1: meant to be discriminatory. To find out if you know
Speaker 1: we're going to discriminate against.
Speaker 3: Jews, he's meant to be the opposite.
Speaker 1: I think it's meant to be the opposite. I think
Speaker 1: that are you Jewish? And then it would be a
Speaker 1: follow up, Then you investigate whether that person was the
Speaker 1: target of any anti Semitic remarks or activities.
Speaker 2: I do think it's the opposite.
Speaker 1: However, it's ham handed, how unusual for schools now, and boy,
Speaker 1: what a way to do it right? And people were
Speaker 1: offended by that. I get offended. People ask me if
Speaker 1: I'm Jewish. I say, it's none of your business.
Speaker 3: Moving on, autism is no excuse. A judge has ruled
Speaker 3: that prosecutors can go after the death penalty against Brian
Speaker 3: Coburger if he's convicted of murdering for University of Idaho students.
Speaker 3: Remember that happened over Christmas in twenty twenty two. His
Speaker 3: attorneys had asked the judge to take the death penalty
Speaker 3: off the table because Coburger was recently diagnosed as being
Speaker 3: on the spectrum for autism. They said that mister Coburger's
Speaker 3: autism spectrum disorder reduces his culpability, negates the retributive, retributive
Speaker 3: and deterrent purposes of capital punishment, and exposes him to
Speaker 3: the unacceptable risk that he will be wrongfully convicted and
Speaker 3: sentenced to death. The judge said, I don't buy it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And although when there was emotion and he was
Speaker 1: in front of the court, the judge kept on yelling
Speaker 1: at him to.
Speaker 2: Look at the judge, Hey, look at me.
Speaker 1: See, that's an autism joke, because autistic people can't actually
Speaker 1: look at you in the face or in the eyes.
Speaker 2: Do you know that you probably did?
Speaker 1: Okay, for those of you that have autistic family members,
Speaker 1: I completely, totally, sincerely apologize.
Speaker 2: Okay, No, that's not true. That's another group I've offended today.
Speaker 3: We should just have a list.
Speaker 2: Today is a list.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: The funny thing is you guys that when Bill's face
Speaker 3: just lit up like, oh, look, I offended somebody.
Speaker 2: Else, you know, when iHeart it was clear.
Speaker 1: Channel changed their name and it bought the company, bought
Speaker 1: the previous company that owned KFI and Coast. They had
Speaker 1: a HR person come in and there was the whiteboard
Speaker 1: and brought in all of programming and it was a
Speaker 1: woman who was head of HR. And she took her
Speaker 1: black marker and on the whiteboard started writing what you
Speaker 1: can't say, and she went down about I don't.
Speaker 2: Know fifteen I raised my hand. She goes yes, I said.
Speaker 1: Hi, I'm the morning show host. And we opened the
Speaker 1: show at five oh six, just to let you know.
Speaker 1: By five oh eight, I've gone through half of those
Speaker 1: You know that, don't you.
Speaker 2: Oh, you can't do that. Guess who's still here. Let's
Speaker 2: take a break.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI Am
Speaker 4: six forty.
Speaker 1: But Francis his last day of the viewing by the
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people.
Speaker 2: It was supposed to end at eleven o'clock at night.
Speaker 1: The viewing, they kept it open all night because there
Speaker 1: were so many people going past the casket to look
Speaker 1: at pro Francis.
Speaker 3: They did it again on the second night too. They
Speaker 3: closed down for a couple more hours, but they basically
Speaker 3: kept it going just because so many people wanted to go. Y,
Speaker 3: you were going.
Speaker 2: To a funeral and looked at the body, you.
Speaker 3: Know, just the only one I've ever seen was my dad.
Speaker 2: It was awful. Oh yeah, it's just it's horrific.
Speaker 1: And I remember that I was a kid when I
Speaker 1: went to my first funeral, where you know, you go
Speaker 1: past the casket and you look down there's your dead person,
Speaker 1: and you know, as as the people in front of
Speaker 1: me are going, Oh, he looks so peaceful. You know,
Speaker 1: he looks like he's sleeping. He looks so rested. I
Speaker 1: go over there, he looks dead. There is a difference
Speaker 1: between dead and sleeping, and it's not fun. And then
Speaker 1: I don't understand people kissing the forehead of the dead person.
Speaker 1: That is beyond my comprehension. I mean, I just don't
Speaker 1: get it. And then people leave coins in there. I
Speaker 1: collected those. What does that person need them for? Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and finish up. Handle on the news,
Speaker 1: Amy O'Neil and me.
Speaker 3: Reversing course, the Trump administration is restoring financial support to
Speaker 3: a landmark study of women's health. Spokesman for the department
Speaker 3: Department of Health and Human Services said that the decision
Speaker 3: to defund, which shocked medical researchers, was reversed. They said
Speaker 3: that initially it looked like the study had exceeded its
Speaker 3: internal targets for contract reductions, but they said now they're
Speaker 3: working to restore funding for these essential research efforts.
Speaker 2: Hey, you think the administration is going to be a
Speaker 2: little bit fast here.
Speaker 1: In its attempt to in a legitimate attempt to get
Speaker 1: rid of waste in the bloat because it's it's hard
Speaker 1: to have an organization that has two million employees that
Speaker 1: a lot of them are protected by civil service, and
Speaker 1: there really is no responsibility. There's not a lot of
Speaker 1: accountability relative to let's say the private industry.
Speaker 2: But you know, you go pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: Through this and they are, oh, okay, whoops, we made
Speaker 1: a mistake. Let's refund YEP, it's going dough is going
Speaker 1: a little bit too quickly.
Speaker 3: Oh good gondola. Oh, Irvine may soon have a new
Speaker 3: way to see Great Park from the sky. The Great
Speaker 3: Park Board is voted to move forward with the latest
Speaker 3: step in developing an aerial gondola system over the outdoor space.
Speaker 3: Right now, Great Park is five hundred acres, but it's
Speaker 3: set to expand to like thirteen hundred acres, and when
Speaker 3: it's done, it's going to be larger than both Central
Speaker 3: Park in New York and Golden State Park in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: So they signed this agreement with a company called Swift Cities,
Speaker 3: which is a technology a transit technology startup a one
Speaker 3: year trial period worth about ten million dollars, and it'll
Speaker 3: cover eight gondolas operating between two stations that connect the
Speaker 3: visitor center and balloon with a planned retail facility, and
Speaker 3: that underdall also cover maintenance and operation for three days
Speaker 3: a week, and then the city is on the hook
Speaker 3: for the other four days.
Speaker 1: What's there to see there? You go your gondoliering or
Speaker 1: doing whatever. I don't know what the verb is for gondoling,
Speaker 1: and what's sort of sea under there? It's a park,
Speaker 1: just a park, Okay.
Speaker 3: All right, Sometimes the show must not go on. Carlos
Speaker 3: Santana had to cancel another show. It was planned for
Speaker 3: last night in Sugarland, Texas, but they canceled it after
Speaker 3: he tested positive for COVID nineteen. This show was canceled
Speaker 3: just a day after Santana was hospitalized and pulled out
Speaker 3: of his show on April twenty s second in San
Speaker 3: Antonio because he was dehydrated. A spokesperson said that he
Speaker 3: is doing well and is expected to resume his Oneness
Speaker 3: tour tonight in Thuckerville, Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: I had no idea that Santana is this big a deal.
Speaker 1: The fact that he canceled his show was national news.
Speaker 1: I was watching was it yesterday?
Speaker 2: The day before?
Speaker 1: I watched ABC and NBC you know, I'm a news junkie,
Speaker 1: and there it is national news that Carlos Santana has
Speaker 1: missed a show. I mean that is I don't get
Speaker 1: I guess I miss it that he's that huge a deal.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, I can see a Beatles concert where
Speaker 1: they exhume George Harrison and John Lennon.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a big deal. But did you know he
Speaker 2: was that big a deal?
Speaker 3: Amy, I did not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't get it, you know. Okay, can we
Speaker 2: do one more and then we are done?
Speaker 3: We can, But can we skip to the last one?
Speaker 2: Of course?
Speaker 3: No teeth, no problem. Scientists at King's College, London have
Speaker 3: found a way to grow living teeth in the lab.
Speaker 3: It sounds really gross, but it also sounds really cool.
Speaker 3: In their latest study, they say that they've made a
Speaker 3: breakthrough in replicating the environment required to grow teeth in
Speaker 3: the lab and it will. What they're doing is they're
Speaker 3: allowing cells to communicate with each other and that enables
Speaker 3: one cell to signal another to start growing stuff. And
Speaker 3: by mimicking natural conditions of early tooth development, this innovation
Speaker 3: brings scientists closer to recreating the process of forming teeth
Speaker 3: outside the body. And then of course one day it
Speaker 3: could be used to replace fillings and implants and offering
Speaker 3: more natural, durable alternative to dental fixes that we use today.
Speaker 1: Of course, science is going genetic engineering the ability to
Speaker 1: grow grow organs outside the body. I mean, cancer is
Speaker 1: going to be cured because there will be a magic
Speaker 1: bullet out there pretty neat, and people will live a
Speaker 1: very very long time. Right after you die, you know that, Amy,
Speaker 1: Then they'll have discovered something that extends life for fifty years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, we're done. Fair enough. Coming up.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's an interesting conversation going on between La County
Speaker 1: first responders and the county And these are firefighters and
Speaker 1: their cops, county sheriffs, and they want more money. Negotiations
Speaker 1: are here and they want more money. And the reason
Speaker 1: they want more money, or one of the main reasons,
Speaker 1: is kind of interesting, and I have an issue with that,
Speaker 1: and I'll share that with you when we come back.
Speaker 2: KFI AM six. You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 1: Catch My show Monday through Friday, six am to nine am,
Speaker 1: and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.