Speaker 1: You're listening to k F I am six forty the
Speaker 1: Bill Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: F did we come out a little early cono that
Speaker 2: we normally do.
Speaker 3: Slightly?
Speaker 2: Well a lot?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean that was enough to sort of miss time,
Speaker 1: the chewing and the swallowing.
Speaker 3: I mean you had an intro and then like right
Speaker 3: when the intro hit, you took a bike.
Speaker 4: It was like like your normal sound, yeah, and then
Speaker 4: you took a bike.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Maybe I wasn't listening particularly. I saw that too.
Speaker 4: I was like, what in the.
Speaker 2: World, I know, I don't care.
Speaker 1: You know, here's my here's my sandwich, all right there
Speaker 1: it is Chiabata Costco on a ham and cheese, but
Speaker 1: cheese from Costco ham not from Costco because they.
Speaker 3: Don't have Shabata on a ham and cheese.
Speaker 2: So the press, yes, that is precisely it.
Speaker 1: Well, I was going to say something this morning coming
Speaker 1: into the Yeah, into the show, and I forget what
Speaker 1: it is. If I have my boot on, it's driving
Speaker 1: me completely nuts today I get my stitches out. That
Speaker 1: isn't that happy? Huh? You know, I should send the
Speaker 1: picture of my foot. It is absolutely disgusting. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try you know what, I'm going to try to get
Speaker 1: the x ray. The x ray is kind of neat
Speaker 1: because it shows this rod going right through my foot.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of fun. Okay, enough of that. Let
Speaker 1: me say hello to everybody. All right, Will, we'll start
Speaker 1: with you. Good morning, Will, Good morning?
Speaker 2: All right. Do you miss being a helicopter? I do, Will?
Speaker 2: It was a plane, but yes, can't find the sky
Speaker 2: was an airplane? But yes, I do miss it.
Speaker 1: Can't find the sky was an airplane? Now, how many
Speaker 1: people it was? Adjust you and the plane? Well, no,
Speaker 1: there's I understand the pilot. I'd do something to do
Speaker 1: with it too, but they don't trust me alone in
Speaker 1: the airplane. Yeah, because usually when you see photos of
Speaker 1: the helicopters in the sky, there's usually two or three
Speaker 1: traffic people for various stations in the back seat.
Speaker 2: We used to they used to do that, but uh yeah,
Speaker 2: we were the last of the Mohicans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so now it's will kfi on the ground.
Speaker 1: Do we even pitch KFI in the sky anymore? Or
Speaker 1: just KFI traffic?
Speaker 3: It's just traffic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think we even mentioned in the sky anymore.
Speaker 4: We were told to take it out.
Speaker 2: Well, you have to because Toyota or somebody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's because Toyota doesn't sell helicopters or airplanes.
Speaker 2: See how that works. All right, And good morning.
Speaker 5: Neil, Good morning, Willy Wolf, Yeah, Cono, good morning, Good
Speaker 5: morning Bill, and.
Speaker 2: Uh, heathery're good for you sleeping in this morning.
Speaker 4: By the way, thank you.
Speaker 2: That's quite a right.
Speaker 1: So Amy is still sick and uh, but everybody else
Speaker 1: is here, all right.
Speaker 2: Do we know what Amy has?
Speaker 1: Some kind of communicable disease where you know, big superating
Speaker 1: open sores that are like tripping.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but three days that's like.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Do you think though sores would be healing by now,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you?
Speaker 4: You would think so.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's that guys.
Speaker 2: All these open shankers that are all over her face.
Speaker 5: I love the fact that you project your entire entire
Speaker 5: childhood on everyone else on the program.
Speaker 1: Her face looking like a Pepperoni pizza with these red
Speaker 1: voice issues.
Speaker 4: Yeah, really lost her voice yesterday.
Speaker 6: But whatever's going around, it's spreading through the KFI news
Speaker 6: booth here because Deborah Mark has also been out for
Speaker 6: a few days, and so Michael and I are just hoping.
Speaker 4: We don't.
Speaker 6: We're fighting it off. What we what we might beginning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you're when you're on the radio, it's a
Speaker 1: little tough losing your voice.
Speaker 2: That one, I'll grant you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, but we're running out of people, So everybody,
Speaker 6: please get better.
Speaker 4: There's nobody left.
Speaker 3: Right, you're gonna have uh, this is Kono with the news.
Speaker 3: What's going on? Oh?
Speaker 1: You know, and later on and later, later on, I'm
Speaker 1: also going to be talking about something perfect, perfect. Later on,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be talking about what time it is,
Speaker 1: oh seven fifty, about entry level jobs and when you
Speaker 1: say there is we don't have anybody here.
Speaker 2: We don't have a bench anymore. No one can afford it.
Speaker 1: Radio stations, particularly they you grab people from other markets
Speaker 1: who would be in the talk show world, there aren't
Speaker 1: any It's very very tough out there, very weird.
Speaker 2: The model is totally different.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to segue into that coming up at
Speaker 1: seven fifty. Bottom line is, if you have kids that
Speaker 1: are entering the workforce, you're supporting them for the rest
Speaker 1: of your life.
Speaker 2: You can just hang it up. You're they're never gonna work.
Speaker 4: Are you thinking about that?
Speaker 2: It's true though.
Speaker 1: I had a conversation with my daughter last night and
Speaker 1: I said, how's you know looking for work?
Speaker 2: She's looking for work right now.
Speaker 1: She goes, there isn't anything out there, Dad, And I go, really,
Speaker 1: do you ever plan on having a job?
Speaker 2: She said, no, do you plan on hiring? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It's yeah, that's really not I mean, yes, as why
Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out something else. But very few
Speaker 1: people go to McDonald's for career, although that may be
Speaker 1: what's left.
Speaker 3: They just keep up in that minimum wage.
Speaker 2: Bro, Yeah, that's true. All right, guys, you're ready to
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 4: Let's do it.
Speaker 2: All right. It is a taco Tuesday, Wednesday, May twenty one.
Speaker 2: Time for handle on the.
Speaker 4: News with Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I knew that it's a taco Wednesday, Taco Wednesday, May
Speaker 1: twenty one.
Speaker 2: It's time for handling on today everybody.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's you eat, it's you eat your tacos sitting
Speaker 1: on a hump. Okay, why don't we do it handle
Speaker 1: on the news. We'll try this again with Heather Neil
Speaker 1: and me lead story. Well, Trump announces the big, beautiful
Speaker 1: Golden Dome.
Speaker 2: It's the new dome to.
Speaker 1: Protect the big beautiful country against the big beautiful enemies
Speaker 1: who are going to launch their big beautiful missiles at US.
Speaker 1: And it's much like the Patriot Missile system in Israel,
Speaker 1: which United States provides.
Speaker 2: By the way, the Iron Dome, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well gold is a soft metal. I just want that
Speaker 3: on the Yeah.
Speaker 1: But everything, listen, have you seen the way Donald Trump lives.
Speaker 1: I mean he is a little baroque. I would not
Speaker 1: say that his tastes in living arrangements understated elegance. He
Speaker 1: just likes a lot of baroken gold, So I'm not surprised. Also,
Speaker 1: it refers to the United States, so I mean there's
Speaker 1: there's a reason he does all that. But it's now
Speaker 1: going to be the Golden Dome space missile defense one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five billion dollars while we have no
Speaker 1: money and we are going broke and we're looking at
Speaker 1: what two trillion dollars in deficit right now because at
Speaker 1: the same time, the Big Beautiful Tax Act is cutting
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of programs. But I think the
Speaker 1: big Beautiful Dome or Golden Dome will somehow deal.
Speaker 2: With the big beautiful budget.
Speaker 1: It's sort of we'll talk more about it later on
Speaker 1: because it seems a little contradictory, doesn't it, all of it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 6: We're trying to save money, cut out, you know, waste,
Speaker 6: but this says over five hundred and forty two billion
Speaker 6: over the next twenty years.
Speaker 4: That's crazy, all right.
Speaker 6: Speaking of President Trump, he is on Capitol Hill right
Speaker 6: now stumping for that big, beautiful bill, and he kind
Speaker 6: of had a little bit of a warning for GOP holdouts.
Speaker 6: Somebody asked him, you know, if they're going to face
Speaker 6: any challenges and he said possibly in the primary. And
Speaker 6: he said possibly when he was talking to reporters, So
Speaker 6: might kind of perceive that to be a little bit
Speaker 6: of a threat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's no idle threat. When President Trump makes that threat,
Speaker 1: you don't go my way. I'm going to primary you out.
Speaker 1: I'm going to endorse someone, and we're talking about within
Speaker 1: the Republican Party and we're not talking about the general election.
Speaker 1: I'm going to primary you out. I'm going to endorse
Speaker 1: someone who is running against you, who is on my
Speaker 1: side and will do my bidding. And if you don't
Speaker 1: fall in line, you are out the door. And it
Speaker 1: has happened before sometimes he's lost too.
Speaker 2: But believe me, he's done it in.
Speaker 3: The past, and he does have a perfect record with that.
Speaker 2: No he doesn't.
Speaker 1: No, he doesn't have a perfect record behind herschel Walker.
Speaker 1: He lost mement Oz. He lost on.
Speaker 2: The endorsement of that judge in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: And this is after one hundred million dollars went into
Speaker 1: a judge ship in Wisconsin and he lost.
Speaker 2: But he's won a lot of cases too, He's won
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: It's it's no idle threat. Okay, let's take a break,
Speaker 1: come back, and we'll continue on with more Handle on
Speaker 1: the News to handle on a Wednesday morning, Humpday, the
Speaker 1: twenty first of May, Let's continue more handle on the news.
Speaker 2: Heather in for Amy, Nel me and me. No, Neil
Speaker 2: in for Neil and me and for me. Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Wow here, Karen Bass, I'm going to applaud this one.
Speaker 5: Just yesterday announced a new policy to make it easier
Speaker 5: and more affordable to film in Los Angeles. So everyone
Speaker 5: is kind of coming or at least trying to make
Speaker 5: an effort to keep entertainment jobs local. You've got production
Speaker 5: going and relocating to other states, other nations, and I
Speaker 5: personally think this is a big deal. The Mayor's executive
Speaker 5: order direct city departments to one lower filming costs, speed
Speaker 5: up permitt reviews that give crews easier access to popular locations.
Speaker 3: You know, all these places we have here in LA
Speaker 3: like Griffith.
Speaker 5: Observatory, the Central Library, Port of La and also a
Speaker 5: cool thing which is a lot of city staff were
Speaker 5: required on set, and they're backing off on a lot
Speaker 5: of that as well.
Speaker 1: So I totally agree, except when they are filming on
Speaker 1: my street and going up the Persian Palace. There was
Speaker 1: one major street, one house of which two times a
Speaker 1: week there would be filming there.
Speaker 2: And come on, guys, you know, I mean.
Speaker 3: It's but it's part of the it's part of the industry.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: It's on my way to my house and they want
Speaker 1: I'd be okay if they let me crash the craft's table.
Speaker 3: Where I could get food, you'd get free snacks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they and they won't let me. So after that,
Speaker 2: you know, no thanks.
Speaker 5: We get scouted all the time. We just got scouted
Speaker 5: for a new film. But we've they've used our house
Speaker 5: for filming and they're you know, very good at Oh.
Speaker 2: You have your house, so you've made money on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Wow, yea, this next one would be great if
Speaker 3: it ends up happening, but who knows.
Speaker 2: Okay, what do you get for it?
Speaker 3: By the way, it depends, It depends how long.
Speaker 5: The last one it was only a couple of days,
Speaker 5: I think, And I don't know it's five six grand.
Speaker 3: It's like two days. And they didn't even use the inside.
Speaker 3: It was just the outside.
Speaker 2: Wow, if you get you can.
Speaker 5: But as much as it is about that, because you've
Speaker 5: got to protect your home and all that, but it
Speaker 5: really is about keeping these jobs in town. And they
Speaker 5: used to film in my area constantly, and I loved
Speaker 5: it because you knew it was going to the city
Speaker 5: and that's great.
Speaker 2: Meantime they were getting my way, so me going home.
Speaker 2: So you know, I don't care if they.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm sorry, film, yeah, and television, Trump's radio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well certainly it does. But do I get in
Speaker 1: people's way? Am I at your house?
Speaker 2: Am I stopping you from going to work? I am not? Okay?
Speaker 6: All right, So new details are coming out about the
Speaker 6: New Orleans jail break. A jail worker has been charged
Speaker 6: after admitting he helped the inmates escape. It was a
Speaker 6: maintenance worker and he's been arrested as being held on
Speaker 6: one point one million dollars bond.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's clearly no dress code for workers in
Speaker 1: that prison.
Speaker 2: That's for starters.
Speaker 1: And he claims that he was threatened to be shanked
Speaker 1: if he didn't do.
Speaker 2: That, that's his defense.
Speaker 3: And they threatened to be shanked every single day.
Speaker 1: I think so he could have reported, He could have
Speaker 1: reported it and now what. So they probably would have
Speaker 1: just transferred him to another part of the prison, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe his life would have been at stake.
Speaker 2: It's pretty crazy there. And these were bad guys that escaped.
Speaker 1: Also one of them where they wrote remember too easy
Speaker 1: too and then easy lol. So he they found him
Speaker 1: back at the college where he took English classes and graduated.
Speaker 5: All he had to do is give a heads up
Speaker 5: to the guys in the in the counter at the towers,
Speaker 5: say hey, they're going to be breaking out at this time.
Speaker 6: It's going to come out that he knowed like maybe
Speaker 6: his friends with them. I think you don't just do
Speaker 6: that to have murderers like so many of them.
Speaker 1: Again, you know, if you don't help me, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: shank you kind of thing. But how often has that happen.
Speaker 4: That's what they told me this morning. Get in here.
Speaker 4: We're going to shank you.
Speaker 2: Finial, We're very tough here. Uh Two.
Speaker 5: Ukraine, Kiev's European allies are now stepping in and slapping
Speaker 5: new sanctions just yesterday on Moscow. This is after the
Speaker 5: phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin produced anything
Speaker 5: major really on this three year old ward.
Speaker 3: They're in Ukraine.
Speaker 5: So the new European Union sanctions are going to target
Speaker 5: what they refer to as shadow fleet, these ships two
Speaker 5: hundred or so ships from Russia that are illicitly transporting
Speaker 5: oil and things like that to kind of skirt the
Speaker 5: Western restrictions.
Speaker 3: So they're saying, well, we're stepping in down.
Speaker 1: I don't know what more they can do other than
Speaker 1: stop the ships on the high seas, which Putin would
Speaker 1: consider an active piracy, or stop the countries from receiving
Speaker 1: the oil which they're getting at a huge discount from
Speaker 1: Russia under the table. And so I don't know where
Speaker 1: they can go with sanctions. Sanctions are very interesting. Sanctions
Speaker 1: go all the way from individuals. You can't do business
Speaker 1: in the United States, you can't travel in the United States,
Speaker 1: and if you have any money, we're going to freeze
Speaker 1: it to companies up to entire sectors of the economy. So,
Speaker 1: for example, the sector, the oil sector has been sanctioned.
Speaker 1: Russia cannot sell oil on the international open market, and
Speaker 1: there is a clearing house where money is paid called SWIFT.
Speaker 1: It's like a bank clearing house, and that's where countries
Speaker 1: buy oil from each other, so it goes through this Swift. Well,
Speaker 1: Russia has been kicked out as Swift as well as Iran,
Speaker 1: so they have to sell under the table. So the
Speaker 1: sanctions on that one is entire sectors, and that is
Speaker 1: really nails these countries. The fact that some oligarch has
Speaker 1: been sanctioned and he can't cut, he can't get a visa.
Speaker 2: To come in the United States. Come on, give me
Speaker 2: a break. Really serious stuff.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how much more sanctions that Europe can
Speaker 1: give or the rest of the world can.
Speaker 2: Nail against Russia.
Speaker 6: So we're getting more details on Joe Biden's health reports.
Speaker 6: Apparently USA today is reporting his last known blood test
Speaker 6: to screen for prostate cancer was in twenty fourteen. I
Speaker 6: read through this and I don't see where they're actually
Speaker 6: getting that information from. But they're saying that it was
Speaker 6: seven years before he became president. And of course Biden
Speaker 6: was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, to be fair Biden, and we're gonna talk Gym
Speaker 1: later on about this. Jim Keeney is coming aboard for
Speaker 1: Medical News.
Speaker 2: At eight thirty.
Speaker 1: When is it appropriate to test for the PSA, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, was bought by Southwest Airlines.
Speaker 2: You know that, don't you? So PSA really doesn't exists. No, No,
Speaker 2: it's no it was PSA, was it? Yeah? It was PSA?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so Southwest now does another test, blood test
Speaker 1: when you come aboard.
Speaker 2: In any case, it is medical.
Speaker 1: The basic medical science says that after the age of
Speaker 1: seventy there you don't have to test statistically. It makes
Speaker 1: no sense, right, Yeah, it moves so slowly, and he
Speaker 1: got it just as he turned seventy two, so he
Speaker 1: was within the parameters.
Speaker 2: And then you have to give you know, as much.
Speaker 1: As we make fun of Donald Trump, he just misspoke
Speaker 1: Grade nine cancer.
Speaker 2: Which doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: It was a Gleason's score of nine, which is a
Speaker 1: form that's where they it's not just it's not just
Speaker 1: first stage, second stage or a Gleason score. Uh, and
Speaker 1: there's also another score they use. So yeah, so he missed.
Speaker 5: Give him a break hut because he speaks in hyperbole
Speaker 5: so much that it was funny that it's like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this one goes up to eleven.
Speaker 2: It's just a gaff.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's it's it's the it's the Jackie Gleason's score.
Speaker 6: I'd be curious to know if this is going to
Speaker 6: change any of these the way that they test and
Speaker 6: the you know, the procedures for how they test, if
Speaker 6: they're going to maybe increase the age or lower the age,
Speaker 6: or start testing men more over seventy like curious to
Speaker 6: know if people someone will revisit those data.
Speaker 2: I don't know. We're gonna talk to Jim about it
Speaker 2: this morning.
Speaker 3: They don't do the finger test anymore.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately they don't. Fortunately they don't because.
Speaker 1: When I went in my last two physicals ago, my
Speaker 1: doctor said, and I go, okay, start pulling my pants
Speaker 1: down and starting to lean over, and he says.
Speaker 2: We don't do that anymore.
Speaker 1: The Kaiser Family Foundation, which does a lot of medical research,
Speaker 1: says statistically it doesn't do much at all. The mortality
Speaker 1: is the same. And I said, but I bought a
Speaker 1: coupon book.
Speaker 3: You slipped him at twenty and said, how about now.
Speaker 2: In there you buy ten and you get one free.
Speaker 2: It's like a car wash.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I want to I want to go
Speaker 4: back to bed.
Speaker 5: Sorry, he said, you're fine, and Bill goes, I want
Speaker 5: a second opinion.
Speaker 3: So the guy put a.
Speaker 2: Very nice Also, it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: What you really want to do is get a former
Speaker 1: basketball player who's gone to med school. That's the fun part. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is when you really want a very small Japanese
Speaker 1: protologist who's four foot eleven and a little tiny woman.
Speaker 1: What is he?
Speaker 2: All right, let's take it. Let's take a break. You know,
Speaker 2: you have no Heather, you have no idea. This is
Speaker 2: not for you. This is a that's not a conversation
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: All Right, We're coming back a hump day May twenty
Speaker 1: ONCET and we continue with handle on the news, Heather,
Speaker 1: Neil and.
Speaker 4: Me State farming. Oh sorry, what go ahead?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 2: You were me? Yeah? I said, I think it's Neil?
Speaker 4: All right? Is it you or me?
Speaker 3: It is me? God dear.
Speaker 5: The US Senate has passed a new bill that would
Speaker 5: offer a tax deduction on tips worth up to twenty
Speaker 5: five thousand dollars if enacted into law, though there are
Speaker 5: some things that have to be looked at. It would
Speaker 5: extend a business tax credits for payroll tax on tips
Speaker 5: in beauty and spa services. But if you if the
Speaker 5: employee compensation is you know, one hundred and sixty thousand
Speaker 5: dollars a year and prior in the prior tax year,
Speaker 5: they would not be eligible to claim the new tax
Speaker 5: deduction for tips.
Speaker 3: And it's got to be I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why people who rely on tips don't
Speaker 1: pay taxes. It's part of their pay and that's considered
Speaker 1: part of their pay. I mean, it used to be
Speaker 1: the only group of people that were not taxed on
Speaker 1: tips were Moyles, and I understand that, But the rest
Speaker 1: of the people I don't get. Clearly a cheap political
Speaker 1: ploy as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3: Do you think would they just weigh it? Would it
Speaker 3: be by the ounce?
Speaker 2: I don't know, Heather, do you know what who a
Speaker 2: oil is? By the way, I do not.
Speaker 6: I'm assuming it's something Jewish it is.
Speaker 1: Once you look up, why don't you look up m
Speaker 1: o h e l moil uh not taxed on tips.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's wait, let's wait for m o h e l.
Speaker 2: I believe moyl.
Speaker 4: Is a Jewish ritual circumciser.
Speaker 2: That's correct. Not taxed on tips, that is absolutely correct.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, let's move on.
Speaker 4: Why did I come into work today?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Praying for Amy's health right now.
Speaker 6: Amy, you better get back here, Amy King. I will
Speaker 6: go to her house myself and be like, listen, lady,
Speaker 6: all right. People are upset over State Farms announcement. We
Speaker 6: actually did a pull on the kfi's instagram asking people
Speaker 6: how they feel about this story, and people are upset.
Speaker 6: State Farm is saying they're going to raise premiums by
Speaker 6: seventeen percent for homeowners starting in June, and then they
Speaker 6: could push that figure as high as thirty percent by
Speaker 6: the year twenty twenty six. Condo owners and runners will
Speaker 6: face a fifteen percent increase in June and it could
Speaker 6: go up as high as fifty two percent on their
Speaker 6: on their insurance their property.
Speaker 3: Called this bill.
Speaker 2: I didn't hand up.
Speaker 1: They have no choice, and the insurance commissioner who makes
Speaker 1: the call in California's kind of weird because it's the
Speaker 1: insurance commissioner who says that yay or nay to insurance
Speaker 1: company wanted to raise rates and.
Speaker 2: He has no choice.
Speaker 1: These companies, how can you not charge more money considering
Speaker 1: the wildfires and considering the risk of earthquake. They have to,
Speaker 1: And so the insurance commissioner understands they have to. And
Speaker 1: so all those people that are screaming, oh, these profits
Speaker 1: are ridiculous and they shouldn't charge and it's not helping
Speaker 1: the consumer, well it isn't, but you know, and then
Speaker 1: move out of California because this is legitimate.
Speaker 3: You raise your people need to use your services. Seems
Speaker 3: kind of counterintuitive.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, don't they have that when people have
Speaker 6: to use Uber to go to lax and they have
Speaker 6: those surge prices. You know, this kind of feels like
Speaker 6: an extended surge price a little bit. We also just
Speaker 6: got a massive rate hike on our car insurance. I
Speaker 6: don't know if that.
Speaker 1: Because everybody's because all these insurance companies are losing money,
Speaker 1: and to prove it, they're out of California.
Speaker 2: They leave.
Speaker 1: Oh no, well you're making too much money. Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: you know what, We're making too much money. That's why
Speaker 1: we're leaving the state.
Speaker 2: Now they come.
Speaker 3: Back place where people don't use our services.
Speaker 2: Right in there.
Speaker 1: So now they're there. They've come back because a lot,
Speaker 1: because the rates were and are being raised, and now
Speaker 1: they're back to making a profit.
Speaker 2: God forbid.
Speaker 1: We live in a capitalistic society where private companies like
Speaker 1: making money and if they don't, they either go out
Speaker 1: of business or they leave.
Speaker 2: What a shocker.
Speaker 1: All right, let's come back and finish up Handle on
Speaker 1: the News on this Wednesday morning. It is a Wednesday,
Speaker 1: May twenty one. We finished Handle on the News with
Speaker 1: Amy gone, Heather here, Neil here, not gone?
Speaker 2: And me okay, state Neil, Neil, Neil not gone?
Speaker 3: What's that?
Speaker 2: Never mind? We're just doing a show. You're studying. There's
Speaker 2: only one person allowed to do this, you know that, Neil?
Speaker 1: And you you missed your Uh.
Speaker 2: It's your turn.
Speaker 3: I'm on.
Speaker 2: Oh we didn't hear you, did you? No? No, you're
Speaker 2: not on. Something happened. Okay, maybe you want to turn
Speaker 2: microphone on?
Speaker 3: What why hear me?
Speaker 2: Well, now I can. It's the you know what, why
Speaker 2: don't we do this?
Speaker 1: A much better news broadcast is you go ahead and
Speaker 1: do your story and turn off your mic. I think
Speaker 1: that would be more entertaining late term. You can do it,
Speaker 1: you know, you can do do it in an American
Speaker 1: sign language. That will really flip our listeners out. That's
Speaker 1: American sign language, and I'd rather not. If that's okay
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 3: I'll do this again for the deaf people in the back.
Speaker 5: Almost ten years to the day after a massive oil spill,
Speaker 5: you know, wrecked Santa Barbara's coastline. There, tons of drilling
Speaker 5: platforms were closed. Now a Texas based company says it
Speaker 5: has resumed crude oil production in those nearby federal waters.
Speaker 5: And this is you know, pissing a lot of people
Speaker 5: off in my environmental activists, some state and local officials
Speaker 5: as well Sable Offshore Corp. Is the group doing this,
Speaker 5: announced that started extracting oil last week from one of
Speaker 5: three long shuttered platforms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to see now, I'm going to see
Speaker 1: oil drilling off the coast again.
Speaker 2: Well, but we knew it.
Speaker 1: It's not a surprise if you remember one of the
Speaker 1: campaign promises, drill, baby, drill, and that is what's happening.
Speaker 2: Big surprise. I don't know why people are bitching now.
Speaker 6: All right, So in the war of words, Neil Young
Speaker 6: is now chiming in on the fights between Bruce Springsteen
Speaker 6: and President Trump. He has notoriously been one of Donald
Speaker 6: Trump's most vocal critics, and he said, he wrote this
Speaker 6: on his website, Bruce and thousands of musicians think you
Speaker 6: are ruining America. You worry about that instead of the
Speaker 6: dying kids in Gaza. He said, that's your problem, and
Speaker 6: I am not scared of you.
Speaker 1: I wonder what Trump is going to say about him,
Speaker 1: because you remember he posted about Taylor Swift Ben after
Speaker 1: he said he hated her. Her popularity dropped. I don't
Speaker 1: know where he got those stats. And of course Springsteen
Speaker 1: is a dried out prune of a rocker who is
Speaker 1: not very talented.
Speaker 4: So he could say anything about Neil Young. I'm sure
Speaker 4: it'll it all.
Speaker 2: I just can't wait, can't wait.
Speaker 4: It'll be a physical It's something about his physical appearance.
Speaker 4: I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Uh no, you can go towards his voice too, Okay, too,
Speaker 3: all right?
Speaker 5: So, speaking of Trump, he's upset at Walmart and says
Speaker 5: that they need to eat their the tariffs because they're
Speaker 5: talking about raising prices.
Speaker 3: So now they're going back and forth.
Speaker 5: Because this possible price hike coming our way if you
Speaker 5: shop there. And Walmart just said, hey, listen, we've always
Speaker 5: worked to keep.
Speaker 3: Our prices as low as possible.
Speaker 5: We won't stop doing that, but you know, we can
Speaker 5: only hold things off as long as we can when
Speaker 5: you have really small detail margins, and the tariffs are
Speaker 5: going to affect us.
Speaker 1: There's quite interesting that the President the United States is
Speaker 1: calling a major corporation and say I will decide whether
Speaker 1: you raise your prices or not. You will not raise
Speaker 1: your prices because of the tariffs. So I'm assuming at
Speaker 1: the next ward I'm assuming at the next board of
Speaker 1: directors meeting, Trump will be will be named CEO of
Speaker 1: Walmart and will make all the decisions for Walmart. I
Speaker 1: mean this is called Goldmart, now, I know, big golden,
Speaker 1: big golden Mart, big beautiful golden Walmart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Trump Mark.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 6: Christy Nome is saying that habeas Corpus is a tool
Speaker 6: that the government in the Trump administration can use to
Speaker 6: broaden its crackdown at the US Mexico border. She was
Speaker 6: testifying before a Congressional committee when she was asked about
Speaker 6: that concept and Democrats pushing back, saying that that's not
Speaker 6: what it's supposed to be for that legal principle requires
Speaker 6: that government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she just, uh, well, this is Maggie Hassen, who
Speaker 1: is And ask Nome describe what is habeas corpus and
Speaker 1: Noam says it is the president's ability to deport people
Speaker 1: whenever he wants. I'm paraphrasing, and she said, no, it's not.
Speaker 1: And of course Nome has no idea what it is.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what the question is is does
Speaker 1: any cabinet member in the Trump administration have an IQ
Speaker 1: more than eighty two?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. And then, of course.
Speaker 5: Habeas corpus because the Latin doesn't track there.
Speaker 1: No, the habeas course is basically bring me the body
Speaker 1: or present the body, and that what that means. No,
Speaker 1: not quite, because there's plenty of murder without the body,
Speaker 1: with all the evidence around it. No, it is the
Speaker 1: concept that if the government arrests you, if the government
Speaker 1: detains you, you have the constitutional right to demand going
Speaker 1: in front of the court to have a hearing to
Speaker 1: say see if the government is right in detaining you. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: if there is no habeas corpus. The government can keep
Speaker 1: people in jail entertainment forever, whether a citizen, whether a
Speaker 1: charge is ever filed, just because of accusation. There is
Speaker 1: no there is no legal process by which the government
Speaker 1: can be held accountable except habeas corpus, which and this
Speaker 1: in the Constitution, it goes back to common law, by
Speaker 1: the way, hundreds and hundreds of years.
Speaker 2: That's a very serious, serious thing.
Speaker 1: Now, there have been suspension of habeas corpus, always in war,
Speaker 1: always in wartime, always and you know which, and usually
Speaker 1: it's presidents, do you know, although who else eliminated habeas corpus?
Speaker 1: I think Ulysses S. Grant when he was head of
Speaker 1: the of the US forces during the Civil War. And
Speaker 1: you know what president suspended habeas corpus the longest uh
Speaker 1: and uh, the stiffest habeas corpus act. Then when he
Speaker 1: suspended it, you know which president was to tell Abraham
Speaker 1: Lincoln during the Civil War.
Speaker 3: I guess that would make sense.
Speaker 1: Suspended habeas corpus three people in jail right from the
Speaker 1: beginning of the war and kept him in kept him
Speaker 1: in jail without charging them four years.
Speaker 2: Also, so that there's there's habeas.
Speaker 5: Corpus, also for old punk rockers Habeas Corpus, great band
Speaker 5: out of the Nardcore movement.
Speaker 1: It's correct, Okay, I think we're done. I think we
Speaker 1: had time for one more. Yeah, let's do one more,
Speaker 1: all right, neo okay.
Speaker 5: So back gas Buddy, uh that that fuel saving platform
Speaker 5: came out and said Memorial Day gas prices for those
Speaker 5: planning at the road are.
Speaker 3: Are coming down, just not here in California.
Speaker 5: So the national average price gasoline is projected to be
Speaker 5: three dollars and eight cents per gallon on Memorial Day,
Speaker 5: the unofficial start summer, but.
Speaker 3: Californiaids, who are already paying much more.
Speaker 5: Than the national average at the pump, will likely not
Speaker 5: see any of that. So the state gas price is
Speaker 5: at four dollars and eighty nine cents on average. National
Speaker 5: average is three dollars and seventeen cents.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kelly, yeah, somewhere at about a bucks seventy five
Speaker 1: more than anybody else dollar eighty maybe more than the
Speaker 1: national average.
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome to California.
Speaker 1: Used to be fifty fifty cents more because it was
Speaker 1: always it was always a little tougher, and the restrictions
Speaker 1: were always there, and you know, we had this summer blend,
Speaker 1: et cetera.
Speaker 2: But you know, no, not anymore. Two bucks. Come on,
Speaker 2: give me a break.
Speaker 1: We're done, guys, All right, coming up, John Decker, KFI
Speaker 1: White House Correspondent, who is our big, beautiful KFI White
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Speaker 1: that from now on.
Speaker 2: I'm going to I'm going to when you come well.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful Yeah, yeah, yes, we're gonna come back
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