WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:04.160 You're List Saints KFI AM six forty. The Bill handles 2 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:06.719 show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:11.359 The Democratic Party is in absolute disarray right now, and 4 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:14.240 part of this has to do with the leadership. And 5 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:15.880 I'm going to point at Chuck Schumer on this one. 6 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:18.920 Let me come back to this. We had the showdown 7 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:23.039 on Friday. When Bill got done with the show on Friday, 8 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:26.440 Ann reached out and she said, Hey, you're in on Monday. 9 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:28.039 What do you want Bill to tease over the weekend? 10 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:30.079 I said, an, I really don't know. I mean, for 11 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:32.439 Pete's sake, we don't have any ideas the is the 12 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:33.960 government going to be open or we're gonna go through 13 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:36.799 a shutdown. We don't know if if we're going to 14 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:38.600 have a new tariffs. We don't know what's going on 15 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:40.600 now over the weekend. What do we do? We started 16 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:43.679 bombing and Yemen. We did not shut down the government, 17 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:50.799 but then we sent Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador 18 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:56.320 and a judge said don't and Trump said, they're already 19 00:00:56.359 --> 00:00:59.960 in the air. And the l Salvadorian president he tweeted, 20 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:06.120 oops too late, oopsie, too late. So how would we 21 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:09.400 have predicted any of that. Literally, the only thing that 22 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:12.840 we thought might happen is the potential for US shutdown. 23 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:15.560 That's what we were watching on Friday. Things happen so 24 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.840 fast right now in this fire hose of chaos, the 25 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:23.079 Democrats can't keep up. And so while the Democrats are 26 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:25.799 trying to figure out are we mad about the shutdown 27 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:28.400 or are we mad that we didn't shut down? As 28 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.000 Chuck Schumer last week said we're going to shut down 29 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:34.159 the government because we're not going to allow a Trump 30 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:36.000 to cherry pick what he wants to spend money on, 31 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:39.719 and then later says, I've decided we have to do 32 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:41.799 this because it would be worse. Well, why didn't you 33 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:46.159 think that on Tuesday or Wednesday? Right, So he reverses course, 34 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:49.319 and so you had people that were rallying around Schumer 35 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:51.079 to begin with, and they went, all, right, Chuck, we're 36 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:53.200 in this. We love that you're fighting. And then on 37 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:58.560 Friday he says, nope, not. In the meantime, the government 38 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:02.799 didn't shut down. There was no shutdown. If the government 39 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:05.560 had shut down, the Democrats would have been blamed. And 40 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:09.360 in the past, when the government shuts down, the majority 41 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:13.159 of people, partisanship aside because you're going to have you're 42 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:14.639 gonna have people on the right that are always going 43 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:15.960 to blame the left and people on the left that 44 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:17.879 are always gonna blame the right. But in the past, 45 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:20.000 when the government has shut down, the majority of people 46 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.000 have blamed the Republicans. The Republicans are the ones that 47 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.759 have held the financing of the country hostage to try 48 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:27.919 to get what they can. That's happened in the past. 49 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:30.840 The Democrats were at the point where they could and 50 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:33.759 the Republicans challenged them to do it, and they did not, 51 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:37.479 which has got a lot of Democrat rank and file angry. 52 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:40.520 They said, this was our chance to do what the 53 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:42.560 Republicans have been doing to us. That's what they thought. 54 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:46.400 But what happened was the Republicans put them at a spot. 55 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:52.240 The Republicans dared them. They said, go ahead, look like 56 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:54.719 the party that's going to shut things down. We're the 57 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:58.599 party that's enacting tariffs, we're the party that's deporting people 58 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:00.520 all over the place. But you're going to be the 59 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:04.919 party that shuts things down. And so Schumer said, no 60 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:09.919 any bails, and he says, we've got to support this now. 61 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:12.800 Behind the scenes, all they needed were what seven. I 62 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:15.840 think democratic votes in order to overcome a filibuster, and 63 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:18.039 so I think Schumer probably did the math on that 64 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:20.560 and he said, all right, they've got seven. I'm going 65 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:24.599 to look like the guy who loses this. If if 66 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:27.840 I have seven defectors who aren't listening to leadership and 67 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:30.000 vote with the Republicans to keep the government open, I'm 68 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:32.759 going to look like I lose. Instead, what Schumer did 69 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:34.960 is he said, uh, okay, I am supporting it. Look, 70 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:38.360 they did what I wanted. So he's trying to save face. 71 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:41.159 But it was too late. He was just too late. 72 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:43.919 And so now the Democrats don't know what they're doing. 73 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:45.759 They don't have any idea where they go from here, 74 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:47.800 and they can't keep up with this fire hose of 75 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:49.719 chaos that's coming out of the White House. They can't 76 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:53.840 do it all they know. The unifying message the Democrats 77 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:57.400 have right now nationwide is they don't like Trump. They 78 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:00.520 don't like Elon Musk. That's it. What to know about it. 79 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:05.000 They're confused. Bill Deblasio was on News Nation, former New 80 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:07.800 York City mayor Democrat, and he was asked about what's 81 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:12.759 going on with democratic issues, and he seemed bewildered as well. 82 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:15.680 Former Democratic mayor of New York City Builds A Blasio mayor. 83 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:19.519 Your party in DC deeply divided over this government funding bill. 84 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:21.199 How did Democrats now move forward? 85 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:24.920 Well, Hannah, we've got issues, so we have some real 86 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:27.439 things to resolve. But I also want to say, this 87 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:29.040 was a kind of impossible choice. 88 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:30.160 Let's be honest about it. 89 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.040 As a result the election, we were dealing with the 90 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.279 Senate reality where it was going to be a bad 91 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:38.079 outcome no matter what. Now, where was the mistake? I 92 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:40.959 would say it was in not setting the stage properly. 93 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:42.959 Before I continue here. One of the terms that you 94 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.319 hear used all the time, which is true but tends 95 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:50.639 to be used as an insult, is that elections have consequences. 96 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:54.399 And so what happens is Democrats don't get what they want. 97 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:56.399 We're seeing everything going on with Trump, and the Republicans 98 00:04:56.399 --> 00:05:00.680 will say, see, well, elections have consequences. You lost, right, 99 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:05.399 But then the Democrats are also saying this because you're 100 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:08.759 seeing a number of Trump voters getting doged. Those of course, 101 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:12.160 are making headlines because it's an easy headline for clickbait, 102 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:17.360 and so the Democrats are saying, oh, well, you fool around, 103 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:21.279 you find out elections have consequences. So everybody likes to 104 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:28.240 use that back and forth. Elections have consequences. I hate 105 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:30.079 the smugness of today's politicians. 106 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:34.480 This is where the Democrat leadership has said, Hey, everyone, 107 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:36.839 this is what we're really dealing with, and if we're 108 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:40.240 going to make this compromise choice to buy into this bill, 109 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:42.800 it's simply so we can live to fight another day. 110 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:46.519 And it's because we want to keep all the pressure 111 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:49.120 on Donald Trump and Elon Musk for what they're doing 112 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:50.839 to this country, what they're doing to the economy, what 113 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:53.000 they're doing to working people. That would have been a 114 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.279 coherent message to get people ready for sort of the 115 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:57.439 shock of having to accept this thing. 116 00:05:58.000 --> 00:05:59.120 Look, this has happened. Now. 117 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:01.600 Now the real question is can Democrats get back on 118 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:03.759 the offensive because there's a lot to work with and 119 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:05.480 I think a lot of Americans think what Trump and 120 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:08.720 Musk are doing is extreme. So I chopped this one 121 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:12.360 up to it really is. It's a bad situation, but 122 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:14.199 it's one we got to put past us and now 123 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:15.040 get on the offensive. 124 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.040 All right, So build a Blasio, former New York City 125 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:19.839 mayor and Democrat who says, let's just put it behind us, 126 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:22.399 let's focus on what's in front of us. The truth is, 127 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:25.879 you can't keep up. You cannot keep up. And this 128 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:28.920 is where the Democrats have no idea what they like 129 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:30.920 and don't like, which is why the latest polling you 130 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:33.519 maybe have seen this came out late last week. The 131 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:36.560 latest polling the Democratic Party is a new low. The 132 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:38.680 reason it has a new low is not because suddenly 133 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:41.279 everyone's become a Republican. The Republicans would want you to 134 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:43.600 think that everyone the country is shifting in their direction. 135 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:45.759 But the reason the Democratic Party has such a low 136 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:49.279 approval rating right now is because the Democrats don't know 137 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:52.240 what they want. And so how do you say, yes, 138 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:54.160 I like this when they don't know what they like? 139 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.839 Right now, they don't have any idea and leadership is 140 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:00.720 they're trying to read the tea leaves pick a direction 141 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:04.319 instead of picking a direction and sticking to it. They're 142 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:08.639 not in Meanwhile, it just makes them look like they're 143 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:12.759 the most incoherent party. But that fire hose of chaos continues, 144 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:16.240 that's not going to stop. In fact, the latest from 145 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:19.680 the White House, you can't possibly keep up with everything 146 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:22.279 that's going on the latest from the White House is 147 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:30.959 that presidential orders not issued by Trump are are void, void, vacant, 148 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:36.240 and of no further effect. My god, the twisted web 149 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:37.759 we weave. Pardon me. 150 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:42.680 Next, you're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf 151 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:45.360 I am six forty Amy. 152 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.720 What is it this year? You're rooting for the Dodgers 153 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:50.680 in the March badness. We'll see, we'll see how they fare, 154 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:54.079 but you got them slided. Is like a four seed 155 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:59.399 in the college basketball tournament. Verio, go Dodgers, Go Dodgers. 156 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:05.800 True sports fan to the bone on that one. All right, 157 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:16.600 the President is saying, uh, pardon me. Friends. So you 158 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:19.439 will recall that the president took office and the first 159 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:21.600 thing he did was one of the first things he did, 160 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:25.079 of course, was pardon all of the J six tourists. 161 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:28.160 You can't call them rioters. They were just simply taking 162 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:32.759 a tour of the Capitol building. And as with most tourists, 163 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:38.480 they then occupied other people's offices and desks, and they, 164 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:42.720 like most tourists do, wiped feces on the walls. One 165 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:45.399 has to wonder if they came prepared with feces or 166 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:47.559 if they were manufactured on site. We don't know. That 167 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:50.080 was never in the news reports. But just the same 168 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:53.360 they were pardoned. What about all those pardons that Biden 169 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:58.360 put out right before he got out the door, If 170 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:06.000 you will recall, he was preemptively pardoning his whole family, Fauci, Congress, 171 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:10.639 everyone that Trump said I'm gonna go after them during 172 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:20.600 the campaign, and then after the campaign Biden said, which 173 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:26.639 translates to you all get pardons. It was bidence. Now 174 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:30.480 President Trump says, no countcies a. 175 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:34.000 President Trump doubling down over the weekend on his claim 176 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:37.440 that his predecessor Joe Biden used an auto pen to 177 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:40.039 add his signature to crucial documents. 178 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:46.879 Oh, President's hate when you learn this one simple hack 179 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:48.399 to undo everything. 180 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:51.120 Mills Hayes is here with us this morning. So Mills 181 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:54.159 described this to us. What exactly is an autopen and 182 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:56.879 is there any evidence that President Biden was heavily relying 183 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:58.840 on one like President Trump claims? 184 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:00.919 It's from News Nation the I want to give them credit. 185 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:02.879 Well, good morning, Marky, happy to be back here. And 186 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:06.440 autopin is a device that replicates someone's signature. It's something 187 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:09.279 that celebrities often used to sign autographs for fans, and 188 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:13.320 it provides an identical signature every single time, like almost 189 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:16.279 a stamp. It's common knowledge that presidents use the device 190 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:18.799 to Harry Truman believed to be the first US president 191 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.159 to do so almost one hundred years ago, but the 192 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:24.399 White House doesn't exactly broadcast that they're doing it. For 193 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:27.840 obvious reasons. The issue here, according to President Trump, is 194 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:31.399 how much his predecessor was allegedly relying on it, and 195 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:34.879 overnight the President upping the antique, posting that the pardon 196 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:38.200 signed by President Biden our quote hereby declared void, vacant, 197 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:41.080 and of no further force or effect because of the 198 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:42.840 fact that they were done by autopin. 199 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:48.000 Oh, who knew this thing that we've been using for 200 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.120 the last seventy years, come to find out totally illegal. 201 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:55.559 That's no one ever thought to challenge this in the past. 202 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:59.000 We just learned that it's totally illegal, and that anything 203 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:03.840 Biden did is now undone, and there it is anything 204 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:08.960 that was signed with autopen undone. So sid, what are 205 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:10.480 we gonna take back? Now? We're going to take back 206 00:11:10.519 --> 00:11:12.240 the pardons. What we're gonna do, We're gonna undo the 207 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:15.879 Chips Act. Is that right? We're gonna undo a stimulus package. 208 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:17.879 Do we all owe the government now at twelve hundred dollars? Check? 209 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:20.559 What are we doing? What are we undoing? Now, we're 210 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:23.919 just gonna undo everything. It's not really how it works. 211 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:28.279 In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them, he continues. 212 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:32.360 Those on the Unselect Committee, referring to the House committee 213 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:35.799 that investigated January sixth should quote fully understand that they 214 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:38.919 are subject to investigation at the highest level. 215 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:43.960 Okay, so now we're gonna investigate former congress persons and 216 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:50.200 current congress persons for investigating the former now current President Trump. 217 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:50.799 This is fun. 218 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:53.759 The fact is that they were probably responsible for the 219 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:57.519 documents that were signed on their behalf without their knowledge 220 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:01.879 or consent. This claim originated from the Hairritage Foundation's Oversight project. 221 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:05.759 They highlighted signatures from pardons that the president signed, including 222 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:09.679 those for Anthony Fauci, Mark Milly, and the January sixth Committee. 223 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.200 They alleged the signatures are identical, suggesting the use of 224 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:16.879 an autopen. They contrasted those signatures with the one announcing 225 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:19.679 Biden's withdrawal from the twenty twenty four presidential race, which 226 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:23.480 they say is noticeably different. The president suggested on truth 227 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:26.360 social quote. The person who was the real president during 228 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:29.480 the Biden years was the person who controlled the autopen. 229 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:32.639 He's what President Trump first said about the clean one Friday. 230 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:35.480 Okay, here we all crooked. Joe Biden got us into a. 231 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:39.440 Real mess with Russia and everything else. He did, frankly, 232 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:42.240 but he didn't know about it, and he generally speaking 233 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:46.000 signed it with autopen. So how would he know that autopen. 234 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:46.279 Is a big deal. 235 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:48.600 Ninety nine percent of the time I say do it, 236 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:52.240 but they come up and I sign it. But you 237 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:56.320 don't use auto pen. It's number one, is disrespectful to 238 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:56.919 the office. 239 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:00.480 You get the feeling that's going to come back because 240 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:04.799 right now people are scouring everything Trumps ever signed to 241 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:07.120 try to figure out if they're identical signature so they 242 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:09.639 can nail him for using the auto pen and asking 243 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:12.679 him then it was disrespectful to the office, which, of 244 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:15.919 course the Press Secretary will spin and say no, it's 245 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:21.399 only disrespectful when Biden does it. Yeah. Will he then 246 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:29.320 use the auto pen when he pardons George Floyd's killer? What? Yeah? 247 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:33.960 Prominent supporters President Trump, led by podcaster real life podcaster 248 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:37.879 Ben Shapiro, feeling a major push to pardon Derek Chauvin, 249 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:41.720 the white former Minnesota police officer convicted of killing George 250 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:44.399 Floyd in twenty twenty. So they continue to push this 251 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:48.480 whole pardon Chauven, and he says that the Shapiro says 252 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:50.879 that he has hopes that Chauven would be more easily 253 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:54.440 would be easily excuse me, would more easily be able 254 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:56.799 to win early release. At some point, if Trump wipes 255 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:58.840 away the federal conviction, he would of course still have 256 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:05.240 the state conviction. So uh, Biden pardons void, vacant, and 257 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:09.240 of no further effect. But Trump pardons could go to 258 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:10.879 the white cop that killed the black guy that set 259 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:16.559 off race riots across the country. This is fun. The 260 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:19.480 madness continues, only this time we actually knew it was coming. 261 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:25.039 March Madness. Good news for California schools. Both the men's 262 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:26.879 and women's sides will tell you what they are next. 263 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:31.559 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 264 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:32.159 six forty. 265 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:34.720 A lot of people. I talked with the people yesterday. 266 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:36.200 I do a show on Sunday afternoons, and I was 267 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:38.279 talking with people and they were saying, Wow, I was 268 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:40.480 really excited about the LA Marathon. I was so excited 269 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:42.879 to see an American win the LA Marathon and it 270 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:44.919 was They said, dude, were you watching the LA Marathon? 271 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:47.639 And I had to be honest, doesn't sound terrible, no, 272 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:52.480 because I was watching college basketball. The greatest two days 273 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:57.679 in American sports are this Thursday and Friday. And I've 274 00:14:57.679 --> 00:14:59.759 had this argument with people before and they go, no, no, no, 275 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:04.559 it's wild Card weekend of the the NFL. They love that. 276 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:08.879 Don't get me wrong, those are great two big football fans, 277 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:12.679 the biggest sport in America. But for absolute engagement from 278 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:21.159 non fans, for the chaos that is almost planned, there's 279 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:24.080 a reason they call it madness, and that is that 280 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:26.679 as you watch on Thursday and Friday, you're gonna have 281 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:32.240 teams from places you've never heard of before. I did 282 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:35.039 this amy to be fair. I know you're not a 283 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:39.919 big college basketball fan, but I was asking the Weekend 284 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:43.840 tech Raoul, who is a sports fan? And I said, Row, 285 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:47.440 where is Lipscomb University? I don't know. We don't have 286 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:51.240 any idea. There's schools you've never heard of that suddenly 287 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:53.759 are making national attention. An's gonna jump in here and 288 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:56.399 tell me that she went to Lipscomb. No she didn't. 289 00:15:57.080 --> 00:15:58.720 Are they underdogs? I'm going to root for him. I 290 00:15:58.720 --> 00:15:59.960 would like to root for the underdog. 291 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.600 They are underdogs against the Cyclones of Iowa State. So 292 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:09.559 let's go Lipscomb. Let's do it right. California school is 293 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:10.559 pretty well represented. 294 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:12.919 It'd be hard to have a cheerleading team for that. 295 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:18.440 I don't even know what hold on? What is their 296 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:24.240 Uh have to figure out what their mascot is, lipsm University. 297 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:28.000 I bet Lipscomb University is being googled today more than 298 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:31.000 it ever has ever. Uh, it's in Nashville. 299 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:34.279 It's uh, Lou the Bison. 300 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:35.679 Is It's the Bison. 301 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:37.559 He's a cute mascot. 302 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:40.679 Did you say that you knew the name of the Bison, 303 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:42.519 Lou Lou? 304 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:43.080 Yeah? 305 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:50.960 Oh all right, Well go Lipscomb. Well done. I'm making 306 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:54.320 it in there, Bison. So I love that you You 307 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:56.919 hear about these schools you've never otherwise heard of, and uh, 308 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:58.960 and then you always root for these underdogs and you 309 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.360 just go, this is the year here. Let's go Saint 310 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:09.279 Francis anyway. Uh, California school is pretty well represented. I 311 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:13.039 think we've got San Diego State is in U see 312 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:13.759 San Diego. 313 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:17.519 Are you talking about the men's or the women's Now, 314 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:18.079 I'm talking. 315 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:19.599 About the men's. We're gonna get the women's here in 316 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:21.920 a second, because I know that they're even better representative 317 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:26.160 the yeah, way better. But let's let's I know, women's 318 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:29.119 ratings are up, but men's ratings are gonna be bigger. 319 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:30.759 So we're just gonna focus on that here for for 320 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:32.480 just a moment, and then we'll give the women their due. 321 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:36.279 Uh but yeah, UCLA is in there, so anyway, good 322 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:39.759 representation from the California schools. All right, go to the 323 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:44.319 women's the women's bracket because two number one seeds from 324 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:48.680 Southern California, right, this is big lely. So you've got 325 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:52.079 USC and UCLA. And USC says that they feel slighted 326 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:55.279 because they they got the fourth number one seed and 327 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:58.440 they said that they should have been ranked higher. They 328 00:17:58.440 --> 00:18:02.799 say they feel disrespect due by being there. But yeah, 329 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:05.640 UCLA's the number one overall seed, which is pretty great. 330 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:08.680 And then us C gets the They also get a 331 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:11.400 number one seed, but it's the fourth seed, so fourth 332 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:14.839 number one. I don't know, it gets confusing fast, but 333 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:17.680 really well represented on the women's side, especially with those 334 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:21.200 two number one teams. Who's your money on? Are you 335 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:24.039 going to do a bracket Amy King? Yeah, San Diego's 336 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:24.440 in there too. 337 00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:27.279 No, because if I do, I don't know enough about it. 338 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:29.799 My bradnet gets busted in the first round. It's just 339 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:30.599 throwing money away. 340 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:32.359 Everybody gets busted in the first round. 341 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:34.039 No, I want to do it. I only want to 342 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:34.839 do it if I can win. 343 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:39.799 So here's a couple of things. First of all, all 344 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:44.279 offices should be sponsoring their own bracket challenge. And I know, 345 00:18:44.359 --> 00:18:48.559 productivity drops and all that other crap, but it builds. 346 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:52.319 It builds morale, It builds camaraderie. It's great. Put together 347 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:55.000 a little prize doesn't have to be much, maybe some 348 00:18:55.680 --> 00:19:00.799 you know, little finger traps or some post it notes 349 00:19:01.680 --> 00:19:03.880 from lumin industry, something of the sort. Just put it 350 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:07.319 all together, some sort of a prize and it builds morale. 351 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:11.680 That's great. If you have never picked a bracket before, 352 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:14.279 you always hear these stories about people basing it on 353 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:20.240 the mascots, like the lou the Bison from Lipscomb, or 354 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:23.960 the color of the jerseys. I told the story yesterday. 355 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:26.079 A few years back. My wife, she didn't win it, 356 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:30.400 but she did a lot better than me. She chose 357 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:34.240 based on serial killers, so she filled out what she 358 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:37.200 called the most evil bracket. And so my wife went 359 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:39.799 through and she watches a lot of this investigation, Discovery 360 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:42.720 and all these other true crime shows. And my wife 361 00:19:42.759 --> 00:19:45.880 went through and she said, okay, if this school, you 362 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:48.720 know where where are the worst serial killers, the most 363 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:51.839 prolific serial killers and what school are they near? And 364 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:53.720 I can't remember. That may have been the year that 365 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:56.519 Wichita did really well. And she was like, well, BTK, 366 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:00.759 he's from Wichita. So she chose Wichita to to go 367 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:03.119 a lot farther than most people thought, and they they did. 368 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:03.920 Uh. 369 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:05.960 And then she would she would choose these other schools 370 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:08.279 at California schools well represented obviously a lot of serial 371 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:10.960 killers from here, Wisconsin and ed Geen, and then you've 372 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.480 got these others. Florida had this one and that one. 373 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:16.400 And then I go, okay, well, what are you gonna 374 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:18.480 do with Ted Bundy, because you know he was he 375 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:20.559 was uh, he was a serial killer in a number 376 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:22.640 of states. Shes as well, I'm gonna see Florida's gonna 377 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:24.480 do really well. Anyway, my wife ended up finishing I 378 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:28.000 think third that year based on what schools were closest 379 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:30.480 to the worst serial killers. That was her, That was 380 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:37.119 her bracket. That it was at that moment that I 381 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:39.680 was the most turned on I've ever been and the 382 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:42.240 most terrified of my wife that I've ever been. So 383 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:46.640 two things worked into that one. Just thoughts. I think 384 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:48.359 call it a waste of money if you want. I 385 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:51.279 think it's fun building around Amy. I think you should 386 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:53.119 do a bracket. You could be the only one that 387 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:57.200 picks lips come. I could they earned their the way 388 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:03.359 le sco lips come. Let's go. Speaking of bison, it 389 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:10.599 is a Wild Kingdom and influencers are being questioned by 390 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:15.440 Australia over their treatment of wombats. If you haven't heard, 391 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:19.079 you've got to hear this one. It is the most 392 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:23.279 twenty twenty five story I think maybe ever. That's next. 393 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:26.799 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I 394 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:27.920 am six forty. 395 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:30.880 How about a Wild Kingdom? Sad news? You heard Amy 396 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:37.440 King talking about this? Jackie in Shadow, have a dead 397 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:40.240 bird in the nest and a sad update. 398 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:43.039 This morning, friends of Big Bear Valley have confirmed that 399 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:46.240 the eaglet missing since Thursday night has died. 400 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:47.240 They say, it. 401 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:50.680