Speaker 1: You're listenings can't fly AM six forty the bill handles
Speaker 1: show on demand on the iHeartRadio. F Oh, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask Amy's not in her chair. I want to know
Speaker 1: how the Dow is doing this morning. I'm looking at CNN.
Speaker 1: I think it's up one hundred and twenty two points
Speaker 1: something like that. So I'm particularly watching the market these
Speaker 1: days as everyone is find out what's going on with
Speaker 1: our economy, and the Dow is, you know, symbolic to
Speaker 1: some extent of what's happening out there. Now I'm going
Speaker 1: to move over to the medical side of news and
Speaker 1: what's going on in California. As we all know, our
Speaker 1: medical system in this country is broken. No one's arguing
Speaker 1: that even those that hate the concept of national health
Speaker 1: or socialized medicine or single payer, which is the same thing,
Speaker 1: can't argue with the fact we have.
Speaker 2: A broken system.
Speaker 1: And so with that, there are groups of people towns
Speaker 1: who are trying to get primary care physicians in their
Speaker 1: neighborhoods and cities, especially in rural areas and for example,
Speaker 1: the Central Valley up in central California. There are towns
Speaker 1: and there are no doctors, and they have to drive
Speaker 1: quite a ways away, especially for primary care physicians, or
Speaker 1: maybe an er twenty miles away or fifteen miles away,
Speaker 1: and that's where they get primary care.
Speaker 2: And that is horrible. It's a horrible use of resources.
Speaker 1: So these are general practitioners that are desperately needed, and
Speaker 1: you know, people are just spinning. There is the town
Speaker 1: of Salinas, for example, primarily a Latino city in central California,
Speaker 1: and Susan Sumanaretti is a primary care physician and she
Speaker 1: runs this Acacia Family Medical Group and just tries to
Speaker 1: get doctors and can't get them. She can't match the
Speaker 1: salaries offered by the larger health system, can't get the
Speaker 1: environment which doctors want to live. So they're trying everything
Speaker 1: they can, and one of them is cutting deals with
Speaker 1: insurance groups, saying we'll pay more salary, will make it
Speaker 1: more beneficial for doctors, will have them come over. Anything
Speaker 1: we can do, and we want to get paid by
Speaker 1: you guys insurance companies, because someone have to pay for them,
Speaker 1: and the long run, it makes sense, but you have
Speaker 1: to play the long game, and we don't play the
Speaker 1: long game in this country. Medical insurance companies do not
Speaker 1: play the long game.
Speaker 2: At all. Case in point bariatric surgery.
Speaker 1: It took forever for HMOs to jump on, even knowing
Speaker 1: that if someone is one hundred pounds overweight, it is
Speaker 1: far easier, cheaper even in the medium term, much less
Speaker 1: the long term to perform bariatric surgery because people did
Speaker 1: are one hundred pounds overweight have more heart attacks, they
Speaker 1: have diabetes, they have strokes, they're not as healthy, they're
Speaker 1: in the hospital, they have all kinds of joint injuries,
Speaker 1: and it is expensive to deal with all that and
Speaker 1: you can't You can at least, if not eliminate, but
Speaker 1: certainly curtail those medical issues by taking one hundred pounds
Speaker 1: off someone. And what's the easiest way of doing it.
Speaker 1: It used to be bariatric surgery. Now you have the
Speaker 1: wonder drugs, but they're still not as effective as bariatric surgery.
Speaker 1: Bariatric surgery is twenty five thousand dollars. What does a
Speaker 1: stroke cost for an insurance company? What does diabetes cost
Speaker 1: to treat for an insurance company?
Speaker 2: For an insured.
Speaker 1: Fifteen million Californias live in areas without enough primary care providers.
Speaker 1: It is it's a shanda. You know, our medical care
Speaker 1: is it's horrible. I mean wor short of doctors, nurse practitioners, physicians, assistants.
Speaker 2: And particularly in rural areas.
Speaker 1: As I said, some of us face month long waits
Speaker 1: for appointments or have to travel long distance or go
Speaker 1: to an emergency room. As a matter of fact, there's
Speaker 1: a whole new cottage industry where mortuaries are set up
Speaker 1: right next to ers in California, so they don't have
Speaker 1: to transport the bodies while they're dying in the waiting
Speaker 1: room and they can just deal with it. By the way,
Speaker 1: that's absolutely not true, but it makes my point. Granted
Speaker 1: that's not the greatest analogy, I understand that, but still,
Speaker 1: and the problem is why aren't doctors willing to become
Speaker 1: primary care physicians? Well a couple of reasons. First of all,
Speaker 1: because it doesn't make as much money. And primary care
Speaker 1: physicians where they used to sit down with a patient
Speaker 1: and spend twenty minutes, half an hour or whatever talking
Speaker 1: to a patient, what's going on, Let's talk about your symptoms,
Speaker 1: let's talk about your lifestyle. Now it's five minutes in
Speaker 1: and out, as there isn't nearly as much satisfaction. And
Speaker 1: of course the paperwork for insurance.
Speaker 2: Forms that have to be filled out.
Speaker 1: It's not fun. So if you're gonna do it, you're
Speaker 1: gonna do it for the money. You might as well
Speaker 1: be a specialist. And there's a stat here that I
Speaker 1: was just reading and this actually makes a lot of sense,
Speaker 1: and you go, Okay, if I'm going to be a doctor,
Speaker 1: this is the way I'm going to go.
Speaker 2: What is the medical a.
Speaker 1: Primary care physician makes? Well, actually not bad. One hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty to two hundred thousand dollars a year. I
Speaker 1: mean that's after of course college, med school residency. So
Speaker 1: you're in debt or the doctor is in debt hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars. But then if you go into
Speaker 1: a subspecialty or specialty and maybe a fellowship. Now, if
Speaker 1: you're a neurosurgeon, the average in come is eight hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year, and you have a chance to
Speaker 1: talk to your patient. Now they're not answering very often
Speaker 1: because there they are on the table completely unconscious. Okay,
Speaker 1: that one didn't work either, did it?
Speaker 2: Bottom line? Thank you? And Amy's looking at me.
Speaker 1: This is why I get paid the big bucks, Amy,
Speaker 1: because I make these connections I'm the one that explains
Speaker 1: this to you. But the debt these doctors walk into
Speaker 1: are completely crazy.
Speaker 2: So it's a broken system. It just doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Case in point, I was over in Italy, as you know,
Speaker 1: I got married over there, and we ended up going
Speaker 1: on vacation afterwards to Palermo, the capital of Sicily, and
Speaker 1: Lindsay got very sick and we went to the local
Speaker 1: emergency room because that was the only pap.
Speaker 2: You could go.
Speaker 1: Doctor Sawer immediately went and saw e and t immediately.
Speaker 2: There was zero weight and there was no place to pay.
Speaker 2: This is Sicily.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever been to Sicily, but
Speaker 1: another name for Sicily and Italian is toilet.
Speaker 2: It is not a good place to go.
Speaker 1: But the medical care, granted, there are more potholes than
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in a major town in my life.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, yeah, I could do story
Speaker 1: after story after story on our broken medical care, and
Speaker 1: I will, and I will over the course of the
Speaker 1: next insert name or insert timeline here. All right, coming
Speaker 1: up the Alta Dina, the Eton and the Palisades fire.
Speaker 1: We talked about the inequities, how one is being treated
Speaker 1: better than the.
Speaker 2: Other, Okay, I've got a story there too.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 3: six forty.
Speaker 1: The Alta Dina the Eton fire in the Palisades fire,
Speaker 1: and there's some differences. Both places were burnt down to
Speaker 1: a crisp As you know, We've talked about this just
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of times, and there's a lot.
Speaker 2: Of disparity between the two.
Speaker 1: To one was a very wealthy area, the Pacific Palisades area,
Speaker 1: multimillion dollar homes. The other one they eat and fire
Speaker 1: in Altadena. The neighborhoods were nowhere near.
Speaker 2: In the same price range. The homes were much older.
Speaker 1: It was a historically black community, so there were a
Speaker 1: lot of black residents. And in this day and age,
Speaker 1: I mean, how does anybody in a medium or lower
Speaker 1: socioeconomic scale buy a home?
Speaker 2: I mean you can't.
Speaker 1: So how did these black families who are in that
Speaker 1: lower statistically lower economic level, how do they buy a house? Well,
Speaker 1: their parents, their grandparents bought these houses. This neighborhood has
Speaker 1: been around for a very long time. It has a
Speaker 1: heritage to it, It has a background. There is a
Speaker 1: culture that didn't exist, or it didn't exist. The silly
Speaker 1: doesn't exist in the Palisades.
Speaker 2: So here's what's going on.
Speaker 1: You have the fires, they're done, and now we're finding
Speaker 1: out that there's a lot of burglary going on, a
Speaker 1: lot of looting, if you will, going on where people.
Speaker 1: You got these cockroaches, these gangs, these individuals coming in
Speaker 1: at night and going through these empty homes, the ones
Speaker 1: that were burnt completely, even those are being robbed as
Speaker 1: these burglars, these thieves are combing through the debris the
Speaker 1: homes that survived. You know, keep in mind, people in
Speaker 1: many cases aren't even allowed in. I don't think are
Speaker 1: there any neighborhoods where people are still not being allowed in?
Speaker 1: And I don't know the answer to that, But up
Speaker 1: to this point, there were plenty of burglaries. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, if we look at this story in
Speaker 1: the La Times, burglaries are up four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: percent in the Altadena area compared with last year. And
Speaker 1: still burglaries away up in Palisades, but not even close.
Speaker 1: Homes that survived actually come with a curse now too.
Speaker 1: They are prime targets for these opportunistic thieves who prowl
Speaker 1: the neighborhood at night, so thieves have.
Speaker 2: Broken into windows.
Speaker 1: These are homes that survived, rated garages, ransacked the home.
Speaker 1: I mean just going through with a fine tooth comb
Speaker 1: because there's no one there. There are no neighbors to
Speaker 1: call the police. The police aren't driving up and down
Speaker 1: these empty streets. They have plenty of other places to go.
Speaker 1: In Pacific Palisades, year over year, burglary rates are about
Speaker 1: the same four hundred and fifty increase in Altadena Palisades
Speaker 1: about the same. What's going on? Do we not care
Speaker 1: about the African American community that lived in Altadena. Well,
Speaker 1: it gets a little more complicated than that, because at
Speaker 1: first glance, yeah, you're a bunch of racists. But you know,
Speaker 1: let me give you a practical, just a practical approach
Speaker 1: to this.
Speaker 2: How many ways you.
Speaker 1: Think you can get into Aldadena? How many streets come
Speaker 1: into Altadena? How many streets go into Pacific Palisades, One
Speaker 1: basically Sunset and the rest are these little offshoot streets
Speaker 1: that you have to go through the entire neighborhood. It
Speaker 1: is damn hard. It is much easier to patrol Pacific Palisades. Also,
Speaker 1: there is no more money because there are neighborhoods, you
Speaker 1: can afford private guards to drive up and down the streets.
Speaker 1: It is easier to protect this wealthy area than it
Speaker 1: is Altadena.
Speaker 2: But still the question remains, what is going on?
Speaker 1: Why isn't there much more of an effort, And does
Speaker 1: it boil down to people that have more money do
Speaker 1: a better job of protecting themselves?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I live in a gated community, right,
Speaker 1: so with now, I used to the Persian Palace live
Speaker 1: in a gated community.
Speaker 2: We had a guard twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1: And if I can remember, there were exactly two times
Speaker 1: in the twenty five years that we lived there that
Speaker 1: the houses were broken into. Once there was a neighbor
Speaker 1: down the street and the other time it was ours.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you how pleasant that was. But that's
Speaker 1: twice in twenty five years. Now, how often can.
Speaker 2: You say that?
Speaker 1: There's only twice in twenty five years in insert neighbor
Speaker 1: of an entire neighborhood here, Pacific Palace aides has more money,
Speaker 1: and it is unfair and we have to look at it.
Speaker 1: I mean, is there a reason, I mean, is there
Speaker 1: any kind of a racial reason for this? And at
Speaker 1: this point of course, you're seeing a lot of investigation,
Speaker 1: and the accusations are made immediately, and we, I mean,
Speaker 1: we tend to do that, don't We accuse people and
Speaker 1: accuse institutional racism. I don't know if I necessarily buy it.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, just on the physical aspect of just there's
Speaker 1: a lot. And then you have the issue of if
Speaker 1: you have a poorer neighborhood, do you have statistically I'm
Speaker 1: talking now, not in terms of specifics, but do you
Speaker 1: have more people in poorer areas who commit more crime
Speaker 1: simply because it's a poorer neighborhood as a given you,
Speaker 1: notwithstanding any racial makeup, just in general. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the answer is yes. So you put all of those
Speaker 1: factors together, and you've got, as always, poor people getting
Speaker 1: screwed of the system, as always, poor minority people getting
Speaker 1: screwed for whatever reason, and life just isn't fair. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, you can move to Yemen, where life
Speaker 1: is very fair, where everybody gets killed and everybody eats
Speaker 1: sand for breakfast. I think we'll stop at that point, Okay,
Speaker 1: And coming up, Oh, here's one Israel's experimentation with AI.
Speaker 1: All right, no surprise, you know, it's a technologically advanced country.
Speaker 1: But Israel's experimentation in the Gaza war and all kinds.
Speaker 2: Of ethical questions are being raised here.
Speaker 1: And I'll throw a couple of stats at you and
Speaker 1: you go, you know, these people are nuts.
Speaker 2: And I'll talk about that coming up.
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Speaker 3: am six forty.
Speaker 2: Let's see how a market is doing. I can't see
Speaker 2: it's way. Oh, it's up a little bit in amy.
Speaker 1: Not too bad doing okay, all right, So we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens over the next little WHI I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the what what we're guessing
Speaker 1: is going to happen, and what we're looking at the economy.
Speaker 1: And I'll be doing that. Matter of fact, I'll do
Speaker 1: that at seven fifty. And has to do with the
Speaker 1: first one hundred days of the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: Uh. Let's move on to AI. AI has all kinds of.
Speaker 1: Issues involved with it. Of course, its ability to dive
Speaker 1: into our lives AI in terms of facial recognition and
Speaker 1: privacy issues. There is an issue of AI that we're
Speaker 1: not involved with and israel Is, and that's with the
Speaker 1: Hamas Israeli war. Going back to twenty twenty three. Israel
Speaker 1: was trying to assassinate this Ibracam Biati top Hamas.
Speaker 2: Commander couldn't find him. He was in the tunnel somewhere.
Speaker 1: So what the Israelis did is they turned to a
Speaker 1: new military technology that's just infused with AI and it
Speaker 1: was developed about a decade earlier but hadn't been used
Speaker 1: in battle. And so with this they were listening, found
Speaker 1: able to listen to his calls, didn't know where he was,
Speaker 1: and tested this AI tool. This audio tool gave him
Speaker 1: an approximate location where he was making a calls, not
Speaker 1: specifically but approximately, but enough to know where he was.
Speaker 2: And boom, there came the airstrike and one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty five.
Speaker 1: Civilians died in that attack, but so did he, And
Speaker 1: then you have the whole ethical issue of the one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five civilians, how many men, how many
Speaker 1: innocent men and women and children were killed, And that
Speaker 1: is really at the heart of can we use should
Speaker 1: we use AI?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Israel is looking at this war and Hamas is an
Speaker 1: exit existential threat to its survival. October seventh and the
Speaker 1: kibbutz at the border were wiped out twelve hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty individuals were killed. Were massacred, men, women and children,
Speaker 1: I mean innocent people, just massacred, and Hamas figured, okay,
Speaker 1: well that's will show you.
Speaker 2: You know, I didn't.
Speaker 1: One of the things I don't understand is the Kamas
Speaker 1: leadership and this attack on Israel. What did they think
Speaker 1: was going to happen. Let's forget about all the ethics.
Speaker 2: Involved here for a moment. Let's just talk practically.
Speaker 1: You attack Israel like this, what do you think is
Speaker 1: going to happen? Gaza has disappeared as a nation, as
Speaker 1: an entity. It is now a mound of rubble from
Speaker 1: top to bottom, where ninety percent of the people have
Speaker 1: been displaced. All the infrastructure has been wiped out. Boy,
Speaker 1: we showed them, didn't we. Here is the issue not
Speaker 1: only the Israeli.
Speaker 2: Ability to wage war, but.
Speaker 1: Its ability to find out where you are and find
Speaker 1: out how to wage war. And we're not talking about
Speaker 1: military might. We're talking about it's an intelligence ability. How
Speaker 1: we can go after infrastructure in people that otherwise we couldn't.
Speaker 1: And it's using AI more so than any place else
Speaker 1: in the world because it's a baptism of fire. I
Speaker 1: mean practically speaking, I mean, do you really want to
Speaker 1: go after Ai? I mean after Israel, especially if you're
Speaker 1: an Arabic country out of the Middle East. If you
Speaker 1: look at it, that part of the world, out of
Speaker 1: the Muslim world, Muslim world entirely. You know, one point
Speaker 1: eight billion or two billion people there have been in
Speaker 1: that part of the world, Muslim and Israel. Twenty two
Speaker 1: Nobel prizes over half have been Israel. One one point
Speaker 1: eight billion Muslims, nine million Jews in Israel over half
Speaker 1: of the Nobel prizes, all of them in science. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know how many programs you use.
Speaker 2: Do you use ways.
Speaker 1: That's Israeli? Do you use modern technology system? Good chance,
Speaker 1: that's Israeli. Are they smarter than everybody else? No, it's cultural.
Speaker 1: People are people.
Speaker 2: It's not a question of smarts.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody from one part of the world
Speaker 1: is smarter than the other part of the world. But
Speaker 1: I do believe there is a culture. I do believe
Speaker 1: there is a cultural difference. Israel has nine million people
Speaker 1: in it right now, three hundred and seventy million Arabs
Speaker 1: surrounding it. Who is going to go to war with Israel?
Speaker 1: Hamas tried it and look what's happening there. Not so
Speaker 1: good for Hamas. Lebanon was stupid enough to come into
Speaker 1: the battle on the side of Hamas solidarity, and that's
Speaker 1: in quotes. Well, Lebanon was decimated almost immediately, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden they pull back and go, you know what,
Speaker 1: maybe not, maybe this isn't such a good idea.
Speaker 2: And I don't know at what point.
Speaker 1: The Palestinians are going to figure out, you know what,
Speaker 1: maybe we shouldn't go to war because there isn't much
Speaker 1: ethical constraint in Israel with privacy, certainly not using AI
Speaker 1: to find out where the bad guys are and to
Speaker 1: track him down. All of the Kamas leadership, they are
Speaker 1: living in tunnels. They can't rear their head up above
Speaker 1: ground without having a good possibility of then getting those
Speaker 1: heads blown off.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yah, Sinlar, the head.
Speaker 1: Of the military arm of Hamas, probably the most wanted
Speaker 1: man in palis side in Gaza, he was killed. They
Speaker 1: tracked him down and they have to be running scared.
Speaker 1: And AI is now a big, big part of it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: A lot of people dying, yeah, a lot of innocence.
Speaker 1: They're dying across the board, and there's some real ethical
Speaker 1: concerns there. At what point does Israel mandate of peace.
Speaker 1: It's gotten to the point now where Hamas wouldn't talk,
Speaker 1: and now they've actually in this courting. I think the
Speaker 1: bbc NC last week Hamas offered a return of all
Speaker 1: the hostages for a five year moratorium, a five year truce,
Speaker 1: and Israel saying not a chance, and why is that?
Speaker 2: And what five why five years? Well does that give.
Speaker 1: Hamas it's ability to reconstruct its military abilities? You think?
Speaker 1: Keep in mind Gaza in the last ten years spend
Speaker 1: all of its money on building those tunnels, and those
Speaker 1: tunnels are only about attacking Israel. That's all those are
Speaker 1: about is to remain hidden from Israeli forces. And they
Speaker 1: just don't do such a good job because Israel is well,
Speaker 1: they're just better and smarter at it. Are they smarter
Speaker 1: than No?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I don't think Israeli's per chance are smarter than Are
Speaker 1: Jews smarter than non Jews?
Speaker 2: No? Are they more neurotic than non Jews? Hell?
Speaker 1: Yes, more guilt absolutely, Mortsuda's.
Speaker 2: Yes up against the wall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of those things where Israel only has
Speaker 1: to lose once the Arab countries.
Speaker 2: Can lose over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: Israel has one shot, so the use of AI and
Speaker 1: somehow the ethical concerns I don't get. All right, so
Speaker 1: much for that first one hundred days, we're on top
Speaker 1: of it right now.
Speaker 2: What's happening.
Speaker 1: Well, we start with the approval rating of our president
Speaker 1: not so hot right now, and we'll be back and
Speaker 1: do that, and then oh, we's got.
Speaker 2: Plenty more to do the entire show, so don't go away.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 3: six forty.
Speaker 1: As we continue on a Monday morning, and usually nothing
Speaker 1: ever happens on the weekend except boy, those days are gone.
Speaker 1: And I've said this many many times before. There used
Speaker 1: to be something called a news cycle where something would
Speaker 1: happen and it would disappear after news cycle, in other words,
Speaker 1: it sort of had legs for a bit, and Saturday
Speaker 1: and Sunday it would disappear. And if there was a
Speaker 1: major story and you were part of it and didn't
Speaker 1: want it to go out, you'd release the press conference
Speaker 1: or the press release whatever on a Friday night. Because
Speaker 1: it disappears over the weekend. Those days are gone. It's
Speaker 1: news twenty four to seven, to say the least. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's one I want to share with you, and that is,
Speaker 1: as you know, polls are constantly being taken, especially in
Speaker 1: the well, especially in the world of the world, but
Speaker 1: in the rule a world of the president, polls are
Speaker 1: always being taken.
Speaker 2: As to the approval level of the president.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think anybody's surprised at President Trump's approval
Speaker 1: rating has dropped precipitously over the last week, and it's
Speaker 1: it's going south pretty quickly, and there's some reasons for it.
Speaker 1: First of all, we start with no president in modern
Speaker 1: times has moved quicker than Donald Trump to remake so
Speaker 1: many parts of the government, to literally change the government
Speaker 1: around and change the world economy around, which is part
Speaker 1: of what he believes he has the authority as president
Speaker 1: to do. And unfortunately, the maga Republicans out there believe
Speaker 1: he has the authority to wake up and do whatever
Speaker 1: the hell he wants. Be a terrorist, be a treatise,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter at all. Well, I think he has fumbled,
Speaker 1: and I'm not alone, particularly with.
Speaker 2: His tariff business.
Speaker 1: Now he is touting huge successes in the world of
Speaker 1: immigration and the border. You know, what I mean going
Speaker 1: to argue that I'll give that to him now. I
Speaker 1: don't know how important that is for you, but I'm
Speaker 1: willing to guess your job is more important than the
Speaker 1: illegal migrant being kept being picked up down to the
Speaker 1: local home depot certainly is to me or my four
Speaker 1: to oh one K plan being worth fifteen to twenty
Speaker 1: percent less than it was a couple of months ago.
Speaker 2: I mean, the fact that they've arrested.
Speaker 1: An illegal limit okay or DEI program at work, and
Speaker 1: you're so offended by that, Okay?
Speaker 2: Now, is that as important as your business going under?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking at a business that I'm involved
Speaker 1: with with everything has stopped completely. We import from China.
Speaker 1: Cookwears we're stopped cold. Do I really care if a
Speaker 1: DEI program is in place or not? Do I care
Speaker 1: if there's a gay issue. Do I care about the
Speaker 1: rights of trans people? When I'm looking at I've got
Speaker 1: twenty employees and we don't know when do I fire
Speaker 1: them all?
Speaker 2: I don't know what's more important. And I think people
Speaker 2: are waking up.
Speaker 1: And starting to realize we've got some issues going on
Speaker 1: here and this war against China with the tariffs.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you. We're hearing from the administration.
Speaker 1: Well, it's going to be tough on China and China
Speaker 1: it's unsustainable. No, no, unsustainable is here. China plays the
Speaker 1: long game. She is an autocrat. He has complete total
Speaker 1: power in that country. There are some guard rails here,
Speaker 1: there are no guardrails there.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you something else.
Speaker 1: The Chinese people are used to being upended completely and
Speaker 1: having their world turned around.
Speaker 2: We're not.
Speaker 1: We get tired of things, sometimes quicker than in other times.
Speaker 1: Afghanistan we're done, Vietnam, we're done. I don't think there's
Speaker 1: been a China We're done story anytime recently. And the
Speaker 1: Chinese people have a history of sort of tightening their
Speaker 1: belts and sucking it up.
Speaker 2: We're not that way.
Speaker 1: And so to think that g is going to cave
Speaker 1: before China, well before the United States will, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've got some doubts. And certainly the market has turned
Speaker 1: around and said, okay, we're not happy with what's going on.
Speaker 1: The world is not happy. The IMF International International Monetary
Speaker 1: Fund has said that world global economic growth is going
Speaker 1: to slow down and dramatically because of this tariff wor
Speaker 1: that's going on, and the President keeps on changing his
Speaker 1: mind every day.
Speaker 2: It's something new.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have teriffs, We're not gonna have tariffs. We're
Speaker 1: going to exempt certain industries from tariffs. Okay, we're not
Speaker 1: going to charge China one d and forty five percent tariffs.
Speaker 2: We're going to reduce that.
Speaker 1: It will it won't be zero, but it'll be something.
Speaker 1: And now we're back up to one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: five percent. We're holding firm.
Speaker 2: I tell you where do we go? And this is
Speaker 2: just a start.
Speaker 1: If this thing holds, if this tarifor continues, not only
Speaker 1: are being hundreds of thousands of businesses. Small business is
Speaker 1: gone wiped out, but you're also gonna see when you
Speaker 1: go to Walmart empty shelves, You're gonna go to Loew's
Speaker 1: or at home depot empty shelves.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be fun.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, this is a president that doesn't give up.
Speaker 1: He's gonna double down. He's gonna quadruple down and say
Speaker 1: it's a win and argue that it is a win
Speaker 1: no matter what. Day one, remember the day one promises,
Speaker 1: but you said day one, I really and I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: I wasn't serious when I said day one. I was
Speaker 1: jesting when I said day one.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, enough of me.
Speaker 1: With my Trump situation going on, seems like every day
Speaker 1: I do it Trump and you.
Speaker 2: Know, okay, now we're gonna have fun.
Speaker 1: Dead popes and just what happens with I love the
Speaker 1: secrecy and the just just the way things are done
Speaker 1: in the Catholic Church going back hundreds of years. How
Speaker 1: do you go from A to B A being a
Speaker 1: no longer alive pope to be a new pope and
Speaker 1: everything in between. Oh, the rules are spectacular. There's so
Speaker 1: much fun and some myths that I want to share
Speaker 1: with you. That's all coming up. KF I am six
Speaker 1: point forty.
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