WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:04.320 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF I 2 00:00:04.519 --> 00:00:11.679 am six forty. 3 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:15.720 Because they look like the nicest guy in the world. Though, yeah, 4 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:16.559 it totally does. 5 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:19.760 I know he you know, it's almost like you look 6 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:23.000 at sloths, right, the smile they have and they just, 7 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:25.679 you know, they look so sweet. In the meantime, they 8 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:29.719 have these claws that will rip you to shreds slowly. 9 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:34.159 And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. 10 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:36.119 Here's Bill Handle. 11 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:53.679 Okay, and good morning everybody. 12 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:58.520 Handle here. It is a someone doesn't have mute on. 13 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:02.079 It is a what day is it? 14 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:02.759 It's a Wednesday. 15 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:08.840 It's a humpday, April ninth, six days away from tax day. 16 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:11.280 Very exciting as we. 17 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:14.680 Move ahead, I can't wait to talk about what's going on. 18 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:18.239 I'm trying to get my partner on phone call into 19 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:21.239 him because, as you know, he and I both have 20 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:25.319 or involved in this Cookwaar business Cookwaar import business. And 21 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:31.480 you know where we get our cookwear China, China, and 22 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:35.879 we are reeling well, he's the one that handles it 23 00:01:35.959 --> 00:01:39.640 and talking to factories, our factories, not our factories, the 24 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:42.319 factories we deal with in China. And so I'm going 25 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:44.159 to come back and if I can get him aboard, 26 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:48.480 I want to talk or have him talk about a 27 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:52.799 personal story someone who is involved that I'm involved with. 28 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:55.120 So we have some connection, you have some idea. What's 29 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:55.480 going on. 30 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:58.159 In the meantime, let me say a quick hello to 31 00:01:58.319 --> 00:01:58.879 one an All. 32 00:01:58.959 --> 00:01:59.200 Neil. 33 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:01.519 There you are, Willie Wolf, Good morning. 34 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:06.319 Yes there, Will, I can see you with the best 35 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:07.120 haircut in the world. 36 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:09.719 How you doing Will here on this head? 37 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:13.879 Yeah? Will has no hair either. Actually Neil has no 38 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:16.560 hair either. No, Will has a head, just doesn't have hair. 39 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.879 Very very good. Anyway, good morning and good morning. 40 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:29.840 Hi. Hi, well said Amy, Good morning, Hi Bill, and Cono, 41 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:34.479 good morning, Good morning. You're not on zoom Cono, so 42 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:36.719 I can't see you working on it as you're in 43 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:37.639 the other room. 44 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:41.319 And we believe in when did you start working just 45 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:44.719 a few minutes ago? It just came on. Yeah, I 46 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:48.919 just came on. I was able to and I'm no 47 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:50.599 computer techo. 48 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:54.280 So I was. I was able to play with it. 49 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:56.960 I pressed some buttons, I went to certain places, I 50 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:00.879 went back and forth because Lindsay also just walked in 51 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:01.400 the room. 52 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:01.759 And fixed it. 53 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:04.280 Oh, okay, there's the truth. 54 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:06.159 Yeah, there's the truth. 55 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:09.240 All Right, guys, I don't know what's new with you, 56 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:11.560 but we have plenty that's new with us. 57 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.759 Let me get the stories. And you know. 58 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:19.199 Also, I'm very very excited because Neil finally, after low 59 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:24.360 these many months, what am I going to get? I'm 60 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:26.560 going to get the big Green Egg which Neil has 61 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:29.919 at his house. And it is a grilling mechanism. It 62 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:32.800 is a grilling machine, which is not much of a machine. 63 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:34.800 There aren't very many moving parts. I don't think there 64 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:37.680 are any, are there? Well, the lid opens. 65 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:40.719 Okay, that's a moving part, thank you very much. 66 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:46.520 That's like, that's like mechanized bathrooms because the toilet paper 67 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:48.280 roll actually works. 68 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:51.759 No, it's thousands of years old. The tech. 69 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:55.000 Yeah, it's fabulous. 70 00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:59.360 And we're putting together a broadcast at my house for 71 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:04.879 the Folk Report Show, and it's going to be neat 72 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:09.919 and we are going to have a contest where listeners 73 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.280 will absolutely not be able to come because if you 74 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:16.120 think I'm gonna have listeners show at up my house, 75 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:17.639 you are out of your mind. 76 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:20.199 Okay, it will. 77 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:25.879 We'll fly over and get aerial shots. It'll be great, Yes, 78 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:28.720 sure it will. Yeah, it'll be a whole thing. 79 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:29.959 Yeah. 80 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:33.319 So, because this is radio, and because this is Handle 81 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:38.079 trying to arrange free food, trying to arrange. 82 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:39.639 Well, I'm gonna try to get We're trying to get 83 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:40.240 the free food. 84 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:42.920 We're gonna have chefs there, we get the green egg 85 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:43.720 people showing up. 86 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:45.360 I wonder what else I can get for free? 87 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:48.759 Hey, I just wanted to take a minute and thank 88 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:50.879 you for breaking all the stereotypes. 89 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:51.759 It's very good at you. 90 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:55.199 Well, you know my philosophy with radio, and what is 91 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:56.000 my philosophy? 92 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:58.480 You can't get it for free, you don't need it. 93 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:01.399 That's correct. It's that simple. 94 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:05.439 Okay, guys, why don't we move ahead and go right 95 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:10.800 into Handle on the news on this Wednesday morning, April ninth, Amy, 96 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:11.959 did I say hello to you? Amy? 97 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:12.879 By the way you did? 98 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:15.959 Okay, and I've already forgotten you tell me that I 99 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:17.160 don't have early on set? 100 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:23.199 Huh? Amy and Neil and me late story. I'm ready 101 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:25.199 for a fight. This is warm. 102 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:30.120 Oh yeah, Well, China's doing it back and forth. Retaliatory 103 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:36.439 tariffs are coming back. So Trump, as we know a 104 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:40.480 few days ago, said thirty four percent tariffs because it's 105 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:42.480 an unplaying it's an unfair playing field. 106 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:45.759 Which it is, by the way. And but the problem is. 107 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:49.120 Trump is going at this as a with a very 108 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:53.000 fast bulldozer. And so China comes right back and says, okay, 109 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:56.279 thirty four percent on you. Trump comes back and says 110 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:58.759 one hundred and four percent. China comes back, I mean 111 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:00.759 within a matter of hours, back and forth. 112 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:02.639 Now it's eighty four percent. 113 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:03.519 Uh. 114 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:09.160 And while other countries are really sweating bullets. According to 115 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:13.319 the Trump administration, seventy countries have contacted the United States saying, okay, 116 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:16.920 let's talk about this tariff business. WHOA, we want some 117 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:17.879 kind of negotiation. 118 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:19.240 China is not. 119 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:23.959 And China is a big gorilla gorilla in this fight. 120 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:27.399 And so we're going to see how this pans out. 121 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:30.879 In the meantime, Amy, what the what are the futures? 122 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:32.759 The market opens up in half an hour? 123 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:37.240 The stock futures right now? The Dow off five seventy 124 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:40.959 three one on nine down for Nasdaq fift so right 125 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:44.759 around between one and two percent for the indexes right now. 126 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:50.560 All right, So we are just a hair skip and 127 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:54.680 a tear and the hair off of a tooth. Use 128 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.639 I'll get that at some point, I am, I am, 129 00:06:57.720 --> 00:06:58.399 I'm getting there. 130 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:03.439 Time to buy well, like here, it. 131 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:05.519 Is trying to figure here, it is trying to figure 132 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:09.319 out the market. We're about to go into a bear 133 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:13.040 market straight in, and then the talk of recession is 134 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:15.000 just getting more and more. It's I gotta tell you, 135 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:19.519 we're into some real interesting times. As I've said, Trump 136 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:21.519 gets elected, we're looking at a roller. 137 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:23.839 Coaster ride in this country. And it is absolutely true. 138 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:25.600 One of the things about Donald Trump man, there's no 139 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:28.439 hidden agenda with this man. He said, this is what 140 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:31.480 I'm going to do. We elected him. This is what 141 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:34.120 he is doing. A lot of people didn't think to 142 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:37.399 the extent he's doing it, and how rapidly he's doing it. 143 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:39.319 I mean, there are a lot of business folks that 144 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:42.920 are going, WHOA, wait a minute, Maybe we didn't want 145 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:46.800 this quickly. You know, you be careful what you wish for. Okay, 146 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:47.399 let's move on. 147 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:54.399 Where did all that money go? The newly appointed US 148 00:07:54.439 --> 00:08:00.040 attorney for Los Angeles' surrounding areas says they're forming a 149 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:04.360 criminal task force to investigate potential fraud and corruption involving 150 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:11.240 local homelessness funds. Bill Saley cited millions of dollars in 151 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:14.600 federal funds that have been allocated to address homelessness, and 152 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:17.560 yet the problem is getting worse and a recent court 153 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:22.040 ordered audit that found major flaws in homeless services and. 154 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:24.519 Our seven I'm gonna do this for I'm going to 155 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:27.240 dive more into it and then you'll let, you know, 156 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:31.480 throw your two cents in. And the response has been, 157 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:33.840 you know, there have been scathing reports on this of 158 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:36.720 what's going on with this homeless money in La County 159 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:42.080 shut off the La City Housing Authority and so money 160 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:46.000 is disappeared. It is horrible, and you know what the 161 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:48.840 city is saying, Oh, but we've gotten homeless people off 162 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:54.080 the street. Okay, how about the money that is gone, Well, 163 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:56.440 we've gotten homeless people off the street. 164 00:08:57.480 --> 00:08:57.679 Ah. 165 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:00.759 I can't wait for this one to pan out more. Neil, 166 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:01.799 you were going to say. 167 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:04.639 You know how many private jets you can take to Ghana? 168 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:07.919 The money that's missing a. 169 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:11.519 Lot, Yeah, but there were no private jets. You can't argue. 170 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:12.399 You can't argue. 171 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:16.000 A friend of mine, Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, last year, I 172 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.399 think maybe even the year before, started uh, you know, 173 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:23.240 sounding the alarm on this, and no one gave her 174 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:28.120 any attention, and she got pushback from City Hall, and 175 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:30.519 now it's coming out exactly what she was saying. There 176 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:32.279 was no accounting for the money at all. 177 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:36.840 Well, you're going to see with the new US Attorney 178 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:41.639 for Los Angeles appointed by Pam Bondi, a staunch Republican. 179 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:46.360 He comes from the state I think, state Senate, no 180 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:50.600 Assembly here in California. And keep in mind, the administration 181 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:57.559 hates California, hates La County, hates the city, hates Democrats, 182 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:00.679 all of which this is controlled by the Democrats. I'm 183 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.879 talking about the programs here. This thing is going to 184 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:06.759 blow up, and it should. It should if there is 185 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:10.799 wrongdoing here. If it's just pure negligence, well that's wrongdoing too. 186 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:13.120 On my the way I do it, all right. One 187 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:16.600 thing I know is that tax Day is coming. One 188 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:20.080 thing we don't know is who will be the IRS 189 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:24.320 Commissioner during that time, because it keeps changing. Acting IRS 190 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:28.799 Commissioner Melanie Krauss is expected to resign. According to two 191 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:35.360 administration officials, this agency's top leadership is rocking. She's the 192 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:40.519 third person to lead the IRS since January. Acting Commissioner 193 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:44.480 Doug O'Donnell left last month. Her departure comes after the 194 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:49.360 agency agreed to share tax information with federal immigration agents 195 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:54.919 to help them find immigrants in the US illegally. So 196 00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:59.039 I'm not sure that has to do with it, But anywhere. 197 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:01.519 The IRS is changing commissioners about as often as you 198 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:03.720 change your underwear, Neil once a week. 199 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:07.519 Moving on that. 200 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:14.919 Confused, Oh, no, score. 201 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:17.080 Win for the First Amendment. A federal judge has ordered 202 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:20.000 the White House to restore the Associated Press is full 203 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:24.679 access to President Trump, saying that the effort to ban 204 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:29.919 Associated Press because of objections of its coverage violated the 205 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:32.600 First Amendment. So it was a pretty clear case of 206 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:34.879 a violation. This was a Trump appointed judge who made 207 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:38.840 the ruling. Trump officials started barring the Associated Press from 208 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:42.759 covering events in the Oval Office and on Air Force 209 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:49.440 one in February after AP refused to adopt the administration's 210 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:52.200 renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. 211 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:52.519 Yeah. 212 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:55.399 Now think about this, and the judge said this, there 213 00:11:55.559 --> 00:12:01.879 is absolutely no reason other than pure retribute to ban 214 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.559 the AP. All they did was say we are going 215 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:10.600 to use the internationally known UH term for the Gulf 216 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:13.080 of Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, which has been the 217 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:15.200 Gulf of Mexico for oh, I don't know, four hundred 218 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:21.559 years maybe, And because AP wouldn't do what Trump said, 219 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:23.639 and that is this is what we're going to call it. 220 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:26.960 They're banned and Judge said, no, no, no, no, you can't do that. 221 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:27.879 Uh. 222 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:33.440 It's first of all, press involvement and press access to 223 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:35.720 the presidency and the government is way too important to 224 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:37.559 have you just arbitrarily say that. 225 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:42.320 Come on, wasn't Trump just offended that they were dead 226 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:44.600 naming the Gulf of Mexico? 227 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:46.919 They were what dead naming? 228 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:50.159 Okay, I don't. 229 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:52.440 Refer to somebody trans as their old name. 230 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:55.480 Huh. 231 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:59.000 Never n the death poll of the roof collapse at 232 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:02.480 a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic. It claimed the 233 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:06.879 lives of people, you know, former athletes, politicians, climbed to 234 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:11.759 one hundred and thirteen on Wednesday. As rescue workers were 235 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:15.399 searching obviously very desperately to find survivors. More than one 236 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:19.159 hundred and fifty five people were taken the hospitals via 237 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:24.120 ambulance after this massive incident at the jet Set nightclub 238 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:25.960 in Santa Domingo. 239 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:29.559 You know, don't we hear of these every once in 240 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:30.240 a while. 241 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:32.799 Where they're like a roof collapse or a balcony or 242 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:33.960 something at a nightclub. 243 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:35.399 But look at the bad luck here. 244 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:38.799 Unless there were people on the roof or there was 245 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:41.399 an extraordinary weight on the roof during the course of 246 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:46.000 one of the nightclub's big nights, this thing could have 247 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:48.960 collapsed during the day when no one was there. It 248 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:51.799 could have collapsed at another time. It collapses in the 249 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:55.519 middle of it being jammed during an evening when the 250 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:56.759 festivities were going on. 251 00:13:56.840 --> 00:13:59.360 You talked the weight had something to do with it. 252 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:04.159 Wait the roof. Well, who was on the roof? 253 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:06.639 Oh, I thought they Well, I thought it was a 254 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:08.639 rooftop establishment. 255 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:11.440 Well, no, it was the roof that collapse in on it. No, 256 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:13.759 it was on the it was No, it was a 257 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:15.639 building that was on the ground. It wasn't up on 258 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.279 up in the air at all. The roof just collabs. 259 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:20.879 If you collapse, and if you look at video, my god, 260 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:22.879 it is horrific. 261 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:23.480 It really is. 262 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:26.240 All Right, forget the cavalry, let's call in the drones. 263 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:30.919 The Drump administration is considering launching drone strikes on drug 264 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:34.399 cartels in Mexico as part of its effort to fight 265 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:39.039 criminal gang trafficking and drugs across the southern border. The 266 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:43.080 administration hasn't made any final decision and has not reached 267 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:49.480 a definitive agreement about countering the cartels without Mexico's consent. 268 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:52.759 There could be some issues, but they are calling it 269 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:56.080 an option of last resort. Unclear whether American officials have 270 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:59.440 even floated the possibility of drone strikes to the Mexican government. 271 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.039 We've worked before. 272 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.639 I mean, do you have these joint tasks for task 273 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:08.799 force forces and you have the DOJ working with the 274 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:12.840 equivalent in Mexico. It happens all the time. The cartel 275 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:15.679 is no fun for anybody. But usually if the United 276 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:19.320 States says this unilaterally, which it has done these countries, 277 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:21.519 Mexico gets really pissed off. 278 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:26.519 Drones for drugs love it. 279 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:31.600 Chevron is in the process of moving its corporate operations 280 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:34.639 to the Houston area, which means they're laying off about 281 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:37.720 six hundred employees based in California. 282 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:40.559 Looks like it may go up again. 283 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:43.080 The company plans lay off about twenty five percent of 284 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:47.879 its workforce during the next two years. Is it restructures operations, 285 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:49.720 more cuts likely to come. 286 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:54.919 As they said, we'll see how it changes. 287 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:57.039 But officials in the companies say they're making the move 288 00:15:57.080 --> 00:16:01.840 from California because Texas offers more business friendly environment. 289 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:05.879 No crap, Yeah, Texas is kind of fine. You go 290 00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:08.399 to Houston and build. I don't know if there are 291 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:14.080 any zoning restrictions in Houston, for example, Southern California. California 292 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:17.480 in general, it's impossible to do anything. It's impossible to build, 293 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:20.759 it's impossible to develop, and it's possible to do business. 294 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:21.519 So guess what. 295 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:28.080 Everybody moves, Yet our population does not go down, and 296 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:32.120 that's because of immigration. Questionable as to the legality. Also, 297 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:33.200 I'm sorry, Amy. 298 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:36.080 Go ahead, Oh that's fine. Administration has to walk it 299 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:40.840 back again. Hag Seth has to walk back a ban 300 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:44.120 on he she and they them, And here's why. The 301 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:49.320 Air Force says that hag Seth announced a pro nine ban, 302 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:55.639 but then they realized that it we're in counter to 303 00:16:55.799 --> 00:17:00.519 a Biden Area era defense policy that bars the Pentagon 304 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:05.279 from establishing any pronoun policies. So the ban was announced 305 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:08.440 in February. It ordered the Air Force to immediately stop 306 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:11.720 using preferred nouns in any official communications. But then the 307 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:15.480 Air Force said this week we're changing because the pronoun 308 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:18.400 ban is a violation of the twenty twenty four Annual 309 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:21.839 Defense Policy, which again bans the Defense Department from making 310 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:27.000 any pronoun policy, whether it's before, against, or for the use. 311 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:31.160 Don't you find it surprising that the Pentagon is actually 312 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:36.480 paying attention to a policy instituted instituted by the Biden administration, 313 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:40.079 as opposed to just ignoring it and saying, take me 314 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:40.519 to court. 315 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:42.559 But how about the policy? 316 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:45.359 Who cares about people's pronouns? 317 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:45.799 Oh? 318 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:47.359 Really? Who cares? 319 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:47.559 Oh? 320 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:50.119 I don't know. How about this administration? Who's going nuts? 321 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:54.480 But if somebody wants to be referred to is. 322 00:17:54.640 --> 00:18:02.680 Not in the military, not in the military. 323 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:02.519 I guess it's tough to say yes sir, no sir. 324 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:06.960 Oh that's that's actually a good one, because you know 325 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:09.279 you would you would say to a female officer, you 326 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:10.200 would say yes, ma'am. 327 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:12.000 Yes you would a male. 328 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:13.920 Officer you would say yes sir. So if you had 329 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:16.480 a non binary officer, what would you say? 330 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:18.680 Yes them, yes them? 331 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:22.640 Or yes they yes they and in the South yes y'all. 332 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:28.920 Interestingly enough, in the Star Wars universe, the people that 333 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:31.720 are higher up are referred to as yes sir, even 334 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:32.920 if they're female. 335 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:37.599 Huh okay, good to know. Huh yeah. 336 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:39.759 Yeah, if you're into Star Wars. 337 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:40.440 Yeah, I understand. 338 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:43.160 Is this me? 339 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:44.160 Yeah, that's you. 340 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:46.279 Okay, I was thinking about Star Wars. 341 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:56.440 Ukrainian President of Vladimir Zelenski said two Chinese nationals fighting 342 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:59.920 in the Russian Army have been taken prisoner in East 343 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:04.680 during Ukraine. They found you know, national documents, bank cards, 344 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:07.359 personal data, all this stuff, and they say they have 345 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:11.000 information that there are many more Chinese citizens in the 346 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:15.599 occupiers units than just these two. We've known about that 347 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:18.880 for a while, but they're starting to see it on 348 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:21.640 the front lines and now they've captured some. 349 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:24.920 Yeah, usually it was North Koreans. Now it's Chinese that 350 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:25.559 they're finding. 351 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:29.200 I mean, these two denied they were Chinese, and then 352 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:31.160 it was well, then what are you doing with egg 353 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:33.880 rolls in your pocket? Couldn't deny that? 354 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:35.440 Oh? 355 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:38.160 I just got a friend of mine, Greg just texted 356 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:39.920 me said you would refer to their rank? 357 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:44.319 Say yes, general, Oh all right, that makes sense. That 358 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:44.839 that makes sense. 359 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:46.359 Oh, here's an interesting factoid. 360 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:52.119 If you have an enlisted person as low as you 361 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:55.519 can go in the military who has received the Medal 362 00:19:55.519 --> 00:20:02.599 of Honor, General's Chief of the the Joint Chiefs salute 363 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:07.319 that soldier. Did you know that they actually you'll have 364 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:12.839 a general salute and enlisted man wearing the medal of Honor. 365 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:14.200 Wow. 366 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:15.880 Yeah, it's pretty impressive stuff. 367 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:23.079 You'd think they know better and do better by now. 368 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:26.720 A Roman Catholic priest is facing five felony counts of 369 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:30.160 child molestation and has been removed from his parish in 370 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:34.640 Downey after being arrested by Ellie Kanta Sheriff's deputies. Father 371 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:39.799 Jamie Ariaga Blood not guilty on Monday to assault with 372 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:43.720 intent to commit a felony against a person fourteen to 373 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:46.680 fifteen years old. This is the only person involved, but 374 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:49.279 officials say there may be more victims. 375 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:49.960 Yeah. 376 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:51.519 A couple of things about this, and this is where 377 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:55.079 I'm going to give the Catholic Church actually some creds here, 378 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:59.119 some kudos. First of all, the story LA Time story 379 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:03.480 starts with the arch diocese has been hit the largest 380 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:07.160 settlement and been hit with the largest legal issues in 381 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:10.039 I think the United States maybe the world. Eight hundred 382 00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:15.200 and eighty million dollars civil settlement with victims now one 383 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:19.160 point five billion dollars, so when they passed the plate. 384 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:22.279 If you're in church, this is a lot of this 385 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:25.039 is going to pay off victims and victims families. 386 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:30.200 But where the church used to protect these child molesting 387 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:35.440 priests and transfer them into other parishes and hide them 388 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:39.559 knowing they were child molesters. Now the church has gone 389 00:21:39.599 --> 00:21:43.720 the other way. Now the Catholic Church will not stand 390 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:46.920 for it. And they're going balls to the wall part 391 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:49.640 in the phrase, in this particular circumstance, but they're going 392 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:53.519 balls to the wall to make sure that these guys 393 00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:58.359 are arrested, they're held accountable. And so you know, I 394 00:21:58.359 --> 00:21:59.960 have to give credit for that, you really have to. 395 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:01.480 And that's not being told very often. 396 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:02.240 All right. 397 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:06.559 Elon Musk use one of Bill Handel's favorite words and 398 00:22:06.599 --> 00:22:12.559 referred to someone truly as truly a moron. So Elon 399 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:15.480 Musk took another job at President Donald trump senior trade 400 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:19.559 advisor Peter Navarro just yesterday calling him a moron on 401 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:23.799