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Speaker 2: Go to Europe. You don't see American cars. There see
Speaker 2: lots of Japanese cars. You see French cars, of course,
Speaker 2: you see German cars. You see Italian cars, and they
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Speaker 3: For some reason, they you just can't stay on the road.
Speaker 3: I never understood why.
Speaker 1: And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Here's Bill Handle, Good morning everybody, Bill Handle and the
Speaker 3: morning crew. It is a Tuesday morning Taco Tuesday, April eighth.
Speaker 2: By the way, that promo where I had mentioned the
Speaker 2: Italian cars, let me get new here the Italian cars
Speaker 2: slip off the road, and then Neil said, was at
Speaker 2: a joke about oily car? Yep, it certainly was all right,
Speaker 2: good morning to everyone. By the way, how long did
Speaker 2: that take for me to go back into depraved, racist,
Speaker 2: unbelievablely crude morning talk.
Speaker 4: Twenty two seconds?
Speaker 3: That is absolutely correct. Good morning, Amy, good morning Bill
Speaker 3: and the lovely Neil, Good morning, Neil.
Speaker 1: Good morning racist, thank you, and good.
Speaker 3: Morning good morning. And there's codo.
Speaker 2: I can't see you, kno, but I can certainly heart party.
Speaker 4: But me oh Yeah, it's not you this time. Bill.
Speaker 3: Oh, there you go, there you go. Hello and Will
Speaker 3: And I don't see Will. Is he running around?
Speaker 4: No, he'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's out making some real money as opposed to
Speaker 2: working here at iHeart. Okay, I want to start before
Speaker 2: we get into what's going on today, and of course
Speaker 2: a full day because news cycles are now twenty four
Speaker 2: to seven. Yesterday we talked about Jay North, Dennis Amenas
Speaker 2: dying and j North.
Speaker 3: I remember as a kid.
Speaker 2: Watch Jing Dennis the Menace religiously, and Jane North got
Speaker 2: his start.
Speaker 3: I'm reading his obituary. And he got his start. He
Speaker 3: became to Los Angeles, born in LA.
Speaker 2: And there was a local television show called Engineer Bill.
Speaker 3: And I remember that.
Speaker 2: Because I would watch it after school every day and
Speaker 2: they would have kids come on and sort of in
Speaker 2: the audience, but be part of the stick that was
Speaker 2: Engineer Bill. And he'd wear a hat and he had
Speaker 2: a little train, the train hat and the whistle and
Speaker 2: all of that. Anyway, so Jane North out of that,
Speaker 2: parlayed that into and his mom pushed him into a
Speaker 2: career as a child actor. And you know how you
Speaker 2: have memories come back. And I haven't thought about this
Speaker 2: literally in probably fifty years, and it just came back
Speaker 2: to me. There was also an afternoon show, Bozo the Clown.
Speaker 3: If you remember Boso.
Speaker 2: There was a Boso in every single town and Boso
Speaker 2: the Clown and we're talking back, and I was six
Speaker 2: eight years old, right, we Bozo the Clown. Every afternoon
Speaker 2: there was a kids show. People would go to the
Speaker 2: studio kids and they would do that version of stupid
Speaker 2: pet tricks, you know, kids whose dogs would roll over
Speaker 2: and you know, and that was all yeah, yeah, yeah, great,
Speaker 2: and you'd get some kind of little prize and you
Speaker 2: would and the parents would ride into the show and say,
Speaker 2: my kid's pet does insert name of whatever stupid trick
Speaker 2: and okay, producers would go, come on to the show
Speaker 2: and you do your thing. So I had a little
Speaker 2: cat named Sunset. I haven't remember this in decades, and
Speaker 2: she was just a little kitten, and we also had
Speaker 2: a dog, and kids, being kids, I would put the
Speaker 2: the I would put Sunset on my dog's back. I
Speaker 2: just got bored of taking a magnifying glass and put
Speaker 2: and lighting ants on fire, you know, during hot summer days, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, I didn't do, and so I put
Speaker 2: little Sunset on the dog's back and the dog would
Speaker 2: run around and Sunset, who was scared to death, right,
Speaker 2: we just grab on the dog as the dog went
Speaker 2: running around. I mean, okay, great, We're gonna go on
Speaker 2: Bozo the Clown because I've got a cat that runs
Speaker 2: around rides a dog. Called the producers and the producer said, yeah,
Speaker 2: that sounds good. So probably two weeks before Sunset and
Speaker 2: my dog, I forget the dog's name, we're going to
Speaker 2: be on the show.
Speaker 3: I couldn't sleep.
Speaker 2: I was so excited about going on Bozo the Clown
Speaker 2: and showing.
Speaker 3: My dog, and I was excited, excited. I couldn't stand it.
Speaker 2: And my parents are gonna take me down after school's
Speaker 2: a live show. Woke up the morning that we're gonna
Speaker 2: go down, went into the other room and there is Sunset, dead,
Speaker 2: splayed out on the floor. I was in therapy for
Speaker 2: thirty years over that one. By the way, I'm not
Speaker 2: making that story up.
Speaker 3: This actually happened. Well I don't know, I don't even remember,
Speaker 3: but it was.
Speaker 2: It was a dead cat, you know right there, you know,
Speaker 2: just splayed out.
Speaker 1: You couldn't tie it. To the back of the dog.
Speaker 3: That would have been great. I wish I had thought
Speaker 3: of that, Neil.
Speaker 2: Those were the days before, well before we became Neil
Speaker 2: and Bill.
Speaker 5: Don't put me in there. I can see. It's kind
Speaker 5: of the making of a villain. That's your origin story.
Speaker 2: So anyway, that so, reading the bio of Jay North
Speaker 2: did that to me. All right, guys, are see all.
Speaker 3: These little anecdotes, these little stories.
Speaker 2: That's what happens when you do a show like this
Speaker 2: and memories come flooding back.
Speaker 3: All right, guys, you ready to do it? Traumatized? Still
Speaker 3: traumatized by that?
Speaker 2: All right, It's time for handle on the news with
Speaker 2: Neil and Amy and me leave. Sorry, Well, we're looking
Speaker 2: at tariff wars, that's for sure. China is calling Trump's
Speaker 2: new tariff threat a mistake upon a mistake, and this
Speaker 2: is a gamble on Trump's part, and he's right in
Speaker 2: the sense that we are at the opposite end of
Speaker 2: these various wars that we have in terms of tariffs.
Speaker 2: We get tariffed more so than any of their country
Speaker 2: in terms of a selling products and services to them,
Speaker 2: and it is unfair. Now, it's a lot more complicated
Speaker 2: than that, other companies are caving like Cracy. Other countries
Speaker 2: are caving, saying okay, let's sit down and talk. China
Speaker 2: Holding firm just said no, thank you, and we're going
Speaker 2: to go to war, and they're going to go to war.
Speaker 2: We're going to go to war with China and it's
Speaker 2: going to be a mess.
Speaker 3: And we'll see.
Speaker 2: It's a big gamble that Trump is taking. And if
Speaker 2: he's right, it's going to change. Everything's gonna be much
Speaker 2: more fair. Our economy will be better for it. If
Speaker 2: he's wrong, we're diving into a recession.
Speaker 3: And say one thing, Trump's got balls.
Speaker 1: This man has balls, yes, but they're made in America.
Speaker 3: They are made in America.
Speaker 2: That's correct, So they're but they're very expensive to sell
Speaker 2: because the other countries have tariffs.
Speaker 5: The thing is, how do you get China to blink
Speaker 5: everyone else? I think they're going to come to the
Speaker 5: table sooner or later. I just don't know how you
Speaker 5: do it with China.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you do, because China, first of all,
Speaker 2: is obviously in autocracy in the sense that the Communist
Speaker 2: Party controls it one and whatever the president says goes.
Speaker 4: Do they need us?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And we need them, so that's yeah, maybe that's gonna
Speaker 4: eventually bring them to the table. I'm optimistic.
Speaker 2: I No, I don't think so, because you've got Trump.
Speaker 2: He's got three and a half years left and he's
Speaker 2: done unless he gets a lifetime at appointment, of course,
Speaker 2: and Congress says, we now have a lifetime president and
Speaker 2: we change the constitution. But Jinping yin ding On I
Speaker 2: always really screw up. Yeah, him too. You know, both
Speaker 2: both those guys are you know, they don't report to anybody.
Speaker 3: There's a pollop bureau there.
Speaker 2: But I mean the guy's as close to a dictator
Speaker 2: as you can get.
Speaker 5: He's not stupid. I like, like amy and optimistic. I
Speaker 5: just the China one is a tough one.
Speaker 3: Does they look like the nicest guy in the world.
Speaker 4: Though, Jinping, Yeah, he totally does.
Speaker 2: I know he You know, it's almost like you look
Speaker 2: at sloths, right, the smile they have and they just, you.
Speaker 3: Know, they look so sweet.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, they have these claws that will rip
Speaker 2: you to shreds slowly.
Speaker 3: But yeah, all right.
Speaker 4: Well the charge is murder. A youth soccer coach has
Speaker 4: now been charged with murdering a thirteen year old boy
Speaker 4: from San Fernando. His body was found along a road
Speaker 4: in Oxnard last week. Mar Garcia Akino was charged with
Speaker 4: murder with special circumstances, which means that he could be
Speaker 4: eligible for the death penalty. Law enforcement found the body
Speaker 4: of the thirteen year old boy after he failed to
Speaker 4: come home from a trip to Lancaster last week.
Speaker 3: Okay, what a weird story.
Speaker 2: Because family tried to call him, the coach picked up
Speaker 2: the phone and said, the kid is busy and can't
Speaker 2: come to the phone. This story is so weird that
Speaker 2: I just I just don't get it.
Speaker 4: And it's also weird to me that a thirteen year
Speaker 4: old was able to take a train on his own
Speaker 4: to Lancaster. It's thirteen.
Speaker 2: Well that's today. You know, fifty years ago you could
Speaker 2: no one bothered. You know these are all today have this.
Speaker 2: This is helicopter parenting. Where when I was a kid
Speaker 2: getting on a train going someplace else, no one would
Speaker 2: think twice, staying at home by myself, no one would
Speaker 2: think twice parents going away for a couple of days.
Speaker 3: When I was eight and big deal.
Speaker 5: I used to take a train to Hollywood all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know that shopping on Melrose.
Speaker 4: You know the BART system up in the Bay Area. Sure,
Speaker 4: we used to live up in Walnut Creek and my
Speaker 4: mom or my friend Stephanie's mom would literally take us
Speaker 4: down to the train station when BART first opened and
Speaker 4: say have a good day, and we go ride the
Speaker 4: trains all day because it was so fun. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: that was a different.
Speaker 2: Time, different time, absolutely, different time, different world.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we always had friends with us.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 5: The Supreme Court yesterday allowed President Donald Trump to enforce
Speaker 5: the Alien Enemies Act for now, handing the White House
Speaker 5: what is obviously a pretty major victory that will let
Speaker 5: immigration officials rely on a sweeping wartime authority to rapidly
Speaker 5: deport or any alleged gang members and the like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this has to do with does the President have
Speaker 2: the right to invoke the Alien Enemies Act? And the
Speaker 2: Court said, yeah, it's basically the president's call. It used
Speaker 2: to be that quote, wars were only allowed to be
Speaker 2: declared by Congress. You know when the last time Congress
Speaker 2: actually got involved and declared a war pursuant to the
Speaker 2: Constitution December eighth, nineteen forty, one.
Speaker 3: Day after Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 2: And there has never been a declaration of war since then, all.
Speaker 3: The wars we've been involved with.
Speaker 2: It is the president's call, and it's the president's call
Speaker 2: to say that person is an enemy alien and I'm
Speaker 2: going to invoke that, and therefore I can do what
Speaker 2: I can do, all of it under the Alien Enemies Act.
Speaker 1: So the Korean War as well, I mean, I know.
Speaker 3: The police action. It wasn't the Congress did not vote
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was considered a police action, not a war,
Speaker 2: not a declared war. It was a UN action, is
Speaker 2: what it was. The United States was part of the UN.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 4: A good day to be a Gator? Cougar's not so much.
Speaker 4: Florida has won its third national championship. Kno said it
Speaker 4: was a nail bier last night. The Gators won at
Speaker 4: sixty five sixty three after overcoming a twelve point second
Speaker 4: half deficit and then making one final defensive stand where
Speaker 4: they prevented Houston from getting a shot off before the
Speaker 4: clock ran out.
Speaker 2: How many forty year old women with teenage boyfriends are upset?
Speaker 3: What do you think right now in this country?
Speaker 1: Where are you going?
Speaker 2: Cougar's Yeah, yeah, gotcha, thank you very much. Kono is
Speaker 2: set up for this. He starts laughing immediately.
Speaker 3: Boys, I got on.
Speaker 4: I got that one quick, and Neil and I are
Speaker 4: both h.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was brought up in a time where jokes
Speaker 1: were funny.
Speaker 3: Thank you for that, Neil.
Speaker 2: No people, you know, people go, do you really does
Speaker 2: Neil do that to you when you guys were just
Speaker 2: together alone and you're not on the air constantly.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we rid of each other though, that's what
Speaker 5: that's what friends are for. Supreme Court declined Monday to
Speaker 5: decide whether New York law requiring residents to have got
Speaker 5: to love these descriptions in law right built good moral
Speaker 5: character to carry a handgun, whether it's constitutional, leaving in
Speaker 5: place most of the state's ban on carrying weapons in
Speaker 5: sensitive places, so schools, parks, theaters and the like. You know,
Speaker 5: who gets to define good moral character?
Speaker 3: And you're right.
Speaker 2: That's the problem is laws fail because of vagueness. That's
Speaker 2: one of the rules of law that you cannot have
Speaker 2: a law that is too vague and it just falls
Speaker 2: on its face, just can't be enforced because it is.
Speaker 5: Listen to the description bill, this makes sense. Having the
Speaker 5: essential character, temperament, and judgment necessary to be entrusted with
Speaker 5: a weapon and use it only in a matter that
Speaker 5: does not endanger oneself or others.
Speaker 1: It makes sense, But how do you yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 2: Who makes that decision? And where is the line? I
Speaker 2: guess they can invoke the reasonable man theory. I mean
Speaker 2: judges are the law is and juries are always asked
Speaker 2: to invoke what would a reasonable person do under these circumstances?
Speaker 2: You can use that, but that is generally in a
Speaker 2: criminal trial. When you're looking at that, this one is,
Speaker 2: you know, what's good moral character. I'm surprised the court
Speaker 2: upheld that one. I really am and this is ever good.
Speaker 2: And by the way, this is in favor of gun control.
Speaker 2: You know this is a pro gun control uh measure?
Speaker 2: Oh RFKJ god, I love them.
Speaker 4: Get ready for a lot of rotted out teeth. US
Speaker 4: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior has says that he
Speaker 4: plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Speaker 4: to stop recommending floridation for communities around the country. In addition,
Speaker 4: the EPA announced yesterday that it is reviewing new scientific
Speaker 4: information on potential health risks of Florida and drinking water. Now,
Speaker 4: Kennedy can't order communities to stop using fluoridation, but can
Speaker 4: direct the CDC to stop recommending it.
Speaker 3: This is insane.
Speaker 2: There was an issue about Florida putting fluoride in the
Speaker 2: water when I.
Speaker 3: Was a kid. We're talking in the fifties, all right.
Speaker 2: There was huge discussion about this and it was controversy
Speaker 2: to putting fluoridated water in the LA system, the LA
Speaker 2: water supply system.
Speaker 3: Right, we're going to put fluoride in there. No, you're not.
Speaker 3: Why because it was a communist plot.
Speaker 2: Seriously, that was the reason that people were against fluoridating
Speaker 2: the water because con means we're trying to put fluoride
Speaker 2: in the water.
Speaker 1: Okay, what was the community is fluoride red?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, actually I don't even know what color fluoride is,
Speaker 2: probably colorless. But the point is that was the reasoning
Speaker 2: for that. It was crazy red baiting during the fifties.
Speaker 2: Now we have Robert Kennedy and this is conspiracy theory, pseudoscience.
Speaker 3: By the way, fluoride has been around.
Speaker 2: For what fifty sixty years in our water system, and
Speaker 2: it is proven it stops or helps with cavities with kids,
Speaker 2: particularly poor kids that don't have great habits in terms
Speaker 2: of oral hygiene.
Speaker 3: And now he's trying to unravel that.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, guys, he has nuts, genuinely nuts.
Speaker 1: I tend to agree with you to what end. I
Speaker 1: don't understand this.
Speaker 3: I don't get it. I don't get at.
Speaker 1: Least a new vaccine.
Speaker 5: You could go, okay, well he's worried about its newness
Speaker 5: or something. But this has been around forever I know,
Speaker 5: And I feel like they're trying to make zero have
Speaker 5: a zero issue society, and you're not gonna do that
Speaker 5: with medicine.
Speaker 2: Well, look at the measles vaccine that he turned around on.
Speaker 2: This is just crazy. I mean, I don't have cavities
Speaker 2: because well a lot of it. I have very few
Speaker 2: because I drank fluoridated water. Matter of fact, look, no,
Speaker 2: my cheef right there?
Speaker 3: Can you see?
Speaker 4: Beautiful?
Speaker 3: There you go? You know you there? Oh yeah, there
Speaker 3: they are right there. Huh.
Speaker 1: We all thought your teeth were would okay?
Speaker 3: Well, said Chief Justice.
Speaker 5: John Roberts agreed Monday to pause a midnight deadlight for
Speaker 5: the Trump administration to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported
Speaker 5: to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Probably not a
Speaker 5: good place to be, so the temporary order comes hours
Speaker 5: after a Justice Department emerges. He appealed to the Supreme Court,
Speaker 5: arguing US judge overstepped her authority when she ordered this
Speaker 5: individual return to the United States.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, think about this. This is a call.
Speaker 2: Who decides who's going to be deported and who is
Speaker 2: not to be deported. Justice Department, they make a decision.
Speaker 2: They the State Department issues visas and passports, and it's
Speaker 2: strictly an executive office function. Okay, fair enough. So guy
Speaker 2: who was mistakenly deported and the government doesn't disagree that
Speaker 2: he was mistakenly deported. The government said, yeah, we made
Speaker 2: a mistake here, but it's not to the courts to
Speaker 2: say he has to come back.
Speaker 3: It's our call.
Speaker 2: Now the issue becomes does the Trump administration try to
Speaker 2: get him back and just say, oops, we made a mistake.
Speaker 2: Let's try to undo this mistake. Not really, because they
Speaker 2: think he is a member of the MS gang MS
Speaker 2: thirteen gang, and.
Speaker 1: Therefore where's the mistake.
Speaker 2: The mistake was reporting him with he's a I understand,
Speaker 2: but he was not here illegally.
Speaker 3: I don't believe I. I think they tossed him.
Speaker 2: He was under an asylum, some kind of an asylum program.
Speaker 2: I know it could be that at some point. I mean,
Speaker 2: there was an investigation going on, because that's what happens.
Speaker 2: When you walk in and he asks for asylum. The
Speaker 2: legal process starts, and at the end of it they
Speaker 2: can say no and kick you out. But you're here
Speaker 2: legally and you and you have the right to have
Speaker 2: all of these protections.
Speaker 3: But it's the government. It makes that call.
Speaker 2: And they're saying that the courts it's not up to
Speaker 2: the court. And what Chief Justice Roberts said is that's
Speaker 2: absolutely correct. It's not the government's call. Trump administration wants
Speaker 2: to bring him back, let him try. They're not even
Speaker 2: trying that. You said, Oops, that's that's a problems.
Speaker 5: He's on one of the balconies at the warehouse coming Yeah,
Speaker 5: we tried.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't. You don't want to be on the
Speaker 3: wrong side of a white house. Oops. During this administration,
Speaker 3: party own people.
Speaker 4: Lawmakers in California are looking to pass legislation that would
Speaker 4: extend last call for alcohol past two am. The goal,
Speaker 4: according to lawmaker Matt Haney, who introduced this yesterday along
Speaker 4: with some other lawmakers in LA said is to attract
Speaker 4: tourism and boost the hospitality business in downtown areas that
Speaker 4: have still been trying to recover since the pandemic. The
Speaker 4: bill would set up hospitality zones, mainly in big cities
Speaker 4: La San Francisco, and if they set up that zone,
Speaker 4: they would be allowed to serve alcohol until four am
Speaker 4: on Fridays, Saturdays and state holidays.
Speaker 2: Amy, do you think that would help the tourism industry
Speaker 2: bar staying open till four o'clock instead of two am? No.
Speaker 2: I wish you'd be honest and just say, hey, I'm
Speaker 2: representing a bunch of bar owners and they want to
Speaker 2: make more money.
Speaker 4: Yeah. If it was Las Vegae, it would be different.
Speaker 4: It's not Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: It's just I don't think it down.
Speaker 5: LA's problem is not yeah, farah.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the argument is I have a
Speaker 2: constitutional right to get drunk at three am, get in
Speaker 2: my car and kill someone, and no one's going to
Speaker 2: get in the way of that.
Speaker 4: I can't believe that there hasn't been more pushback because
Speaker 4: of exactly that.
Speaker 5: All Right, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass maybe you heard
Speaker 5: of her. She named a new deputy mayor for public safety.
Speaker 5: It's a former FBI official, Robert Clark, this is going
Speaker 5: to be your top eight overseeing police and fire issues.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, good timing. And this is four months after
Speaker 5: Brian K. Williams, who was in that place it was
Speaker 5: placed on administrative leave after being accused of making a
Speaker 5: bomb thread against City Hall. You can't make this up.
Speaker 5: By the way, Williams still on city payroll.
Speaker 2: Hey, let me ask if Karen Bass were run today
Speaker 2: for mayor, how do you think she'd do ye?
Speaker 1: I don't think not well, I don't know. La is
Speaker 1: pretty stupid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, La is pretty stupid.
Speaker 5: And we get somebody who spends his own money on
Speaker 5: making La better and the Southland better and didn't.
Speaker 2: Choose him and was a This is a successful businessman
Speaker 2: who knows how to run a bureaucracy, who is not
Speaker 2: a traditional politico and they ran on basically the same ticket.
Speaker 2: There is no difference between the two of them. And
Speaker 2: so what does La do. La elects someone who was
Speaker 2: in the system before. Whether she was elected because of
Speaker 2: her race because she was black, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Today. I don't know if that's an advantage or a disadvantage.
Speaker 3: I have no idea, but the fact that she is.
Speaker 2: A traditional political operative not operative but political figure, and
Speaker 2: she had the Democratic political machinery. And to your point,
Speaker 2: you're absolutely right, La is La. Politics is politics, and
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter who has credentials, who runs, who doesn't.
Speaker 5: Cruso could live anywhere he wants, That's correct. He continues
Speaker 5: to stay and support Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's incredible, he is.
Speaker 1: And we didn't vote for him.
Speaker 3: Nope, Nope, we're stupid.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of it has to do with
Speaker 2: he spent one hundred million dollars of his own money
Speaker 2: because he could never he would never be able to
Speaker 2: get any kind of support that she did. She is
Speaker 2: deeply embedded in the Democratic machinery here in southern California,
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, and.
Speaker 3: I hope she gets nailed. I hope she does.
Speaker 2: She did a horrible job with the business with the
Speaker 2: fires and then try to worm her way out of
Speaker 2: it as a post I.
Speaker 3: Know she said, you know what, You're right. I blew it.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, people make mistakes. I made a huge mistake here.
Speaker 2: Now let's get to work and what can I do
Speaker 2: to make this better? Oh no, no, I didn't do
Speaker 2: anything wrong. No, No, it was just I mean, it
Speaker 2: was just one excuse after another.
Speaker 4: You may have to pay if you choose to buy now,
Speaker 4: pay later. Here's why. If you buy a pair of
Speaker 4: shoes or makeup and choose that option that pops up
Speaker 4: now to ooh, split it up into four installments, it
Speaker 4: could start showing up on your credit report. A firm
Speaker 4: is one of the largest buy now, pay later lenders
Speaker 4: and says that starting today, it's going to furnish all
Speaker 4: new loans to the credit agencies, similar to how a
Speaker 4: mortgage or a car loan shows up on your credit report.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, think about this.
Speaker 2: You can buy dozens of products on a buy now,
Speaker 2: pay later and it doesn't show up that you owe
Speaker 2: the money.
Speaker 3: It's not a question for saying you're a flake.
Speaker 2: It's a question of it is an outstanding loan that
Speaker 2: doesn't show up.
Speaker 3: And to your point, that's absolutely correct.
Speaker 2: By the way, you misspoke, it's not not you make
Speaker 2: four payments.
Speaker 3: You make four easy payments.
Speaker 4: Right right. I left out the easy I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Just for easy payments.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, here's your fifteen dollars purchase. Would you like
Speaker 4: to split that into four payments.
Speaker 5: I've done this for equipment before, you know, and there's
Speaker 5: no interest Usually no interest in.
Speaker 1: Payment because I pay it if you.
Speaker 4: Pay it off ahead four, But if you don't pay
Speaker 4: it off in four, then you get charged with the
Speaker 4: interest on the back end.
Speaker 3: Oh, I always pay it, and they backdate it.
Speaker 2: They go all the way back to the time you
Speaker 2: first started at eighty percent annual interest rate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to pay those off.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 5: This is a sad story. You got a nine year
Speaker 5: old Kentucky boy. He died in floodwaters, which is sad
Speaker 5: on its own, but he was walking to catch a
Speaker 5: school bus.
Speaker 1: And that the situation is.
Speaker 5: Now they're asking why why was school not canceled because
Speaker 5: they were having massive storms at the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's a good question.
Speaker 2: Some someone screwed the pooch on this one, and there
Speaker 2: was there's negligence here someplace, and it's unfortunately a cost
Speaker 2: us little boy is life.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I don't know if it's you know, because
Speaker 5: schools don't get paid if you don't the kids.
Speaker 2: Well, it depends on the state. It depends on the state.
Speaker 2: But still, either did the parents know? Was the weather
Speaker 2: report was that specific saying it is that dangerous? Did
Speaker 2: someone in the school system miss it? I'm going to
Speaker 2: the school system. First, first thing, I go to the
Speaker 2: school system, and then we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: That time to talk. President Trump made a kind of
Speaker 4: surprise announcement yesterday said the US and Iran are going
Speaker 4: to do direct talks about Tehran's nuclear program. Trump said
Speaker 4: yesterday that the talks are going to start on Saturday,
Speaker 4: and also issued issued a warning saying if the talks
Speaker 4: are unsuccessful, Iran is going to be in great danger.
Speaker 4: Now Tehran has or said that there will be talks,
Speaker 4: but it's Foreign minister says the talks in Oman will
Speaker 4: be indirect through mediators.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever been in a mediation,
Speaker 2: but you're in different rooms and the mediator runs back
Speaker 2: and forth with Hamas and Israel their negotiations through third parties,
Speaker 2: and usually it's at a hotel. They're on different floors.
Speaker 2: They won't even be on the same floor, in different rooms.
Speaker 2: So indirect talks are I don't think they're nearly as
Speaker 2: effective as looking someone in the eyeballs and talking, but
Speaker 2: we're not close to that yet, not with Iran.
Speaker 3: I don't know if we ever will be.
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