WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:04.120 You're listening to KAPI AM six forty, the Bill Handles 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:08.279 show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:15.119 Yes, I just wanted to clear no. No, I appreciate that. 4 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:17.320 No, I appreciate when I'm wrong. 5 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:19.839 By the way, ladies and gentlemen, Neil will not be. 6 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:22.199 With us anymore on this show. It was good. I 7 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:24.440 It's been a pleasure. 8 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:29.519 And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's 9 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:30.679 Bill handle. 10 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:39.320 All right, everybody building up here on a Monday morning 11 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:43.079 for twenty four My voice scenes a little bit raggedy. 12 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:50.159 I am beep, sound like Mark Thompson. Don't I accept horrible. 13 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:51.799 I'm a little under the weather. 14 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:54.439 So here I am, and. 15 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:56.799 I'll be sounding like I'm a little bit under the weather. 16 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:59.719 Which is an interesting phrase in and of itself, because 17 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:00.640 I have and ask this. 18 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:05.000 Since we are all under the weather, every one. 19 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:08.760 Of this on this planet, why when we are ill 20 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:11.959 or not feeling well, we are particularly under the weather. 21 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:14.560 It's a maritime term. 22 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:19.480 It's you would go under the if you were ill, 23 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:21.280 you'd go down into the ship. 24 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:25.959 Yeah, but that's down under the ships. 25 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:28.239 Well, it's referred to under the weather. 26 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:31.640 But it makes no sense. I mean the only thing 27 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:33.560 that makes a lot of sense. If you're under the weather. 28 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:38.760 If you're on let's say the sixth level, deep into 29 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:41.680 a parking lot, you know, P six. There you are 30 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:45.280 under the weather. But for the most part, we are 31 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:48.439 all under the weather. It's very deep, very metaphysical matter 32 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:52.480 of fact. And let's do that. Let's dump one of 33 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:57.319 the one of our topics and talk about under the weather. No, 34 00:01:57.480 --> 00:01:57.840 let's not. 35 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:03.319 Oh, I was gonna say, I'm no, y, what have 36 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:06.439 you won? Mister Handle, you'll get it right away, mister Handle, 37 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:07.879 here at your service, mister Handle. 38 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:10.400 The good for you. 39 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:14.159 Good morning, uh, Neil, you certainly have it right, uh, 40 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:20.960 good morning, good morning, and good morning. You are very welcome. 41 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:23.199 And then Michael Monks and for Amy this morning. 42 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:23.639 Good morning. 43 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:27.280 Oh boy, that's mellow and soft, and you know, just 44 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:28.879 it's not gonna help you. 45 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:31.520 Michael Monks the only one in radio with style. 46 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:37.879 Michael Monks may be the only one in radio, right, 47 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:43.360 the last the last man's Oh, it's. 48 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:44.879 Very quite stylish, that guy. 49 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:50.479 All right, So weekends, So what a beautiful weekend it 50 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:53.840 was too, as you know, looking at the news, which 51 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:57.560 I do on a religious basis, across the Eastern Seaboard, 52 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:03.159 the snow, this storm, the number of people dying, people 53 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:05.919 in New Orleans under twelve feet of snow or whatever. 54 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:07.879 So crazy, crazy weather out there. 55 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:10.879 And here we are zipping along at seventy seventy one 56 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:14.719 seventy four shorts weather, just having a great time. 57 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:22.960 Okay, Yeah, beautiful indeed, Yeah, the earlier it's going to be, 58 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:25.360 it's going to be continuing to be beautiful. 59 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:26.439 Yeah, it's beautiful today. 60 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:29.479 When do we have another storm coming in or any 61 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:31.719 kind of a front coming in that's going to disrupt 62 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:32.560 our lovely weather. 63 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:35.280 No, there's no weather to be under. I don't know 64 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:37.280 how you got sick. It's so beautiful out there. 65 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:38.199 YA don't either. 66 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:39.680 I like rain. 67 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:44.000 It's not so much sun. It's not over X. You 68 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:46.479 get an st February, it's rain. 69 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:49.199 You talking about STD. 70 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:51.840 Yeah, there were a couple of conversations taking place there. 71 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:56.039 And yeah, it's immediately I go to the bottom. What 72 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:58.400 you're talking about? How wonderful the weather is I'm talking 73 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:01.919 about I'm why I under the weather? No his TDS. 74 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:04.599 No sex okay, what else? At least no sex with 75 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:07.280 anybody else. So I don't know. 76 00:04:07.479 --> 00:04:11.599 I don't know anyway, good morning, good morning, good. 77 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:14.400 Morning one, Good morning all. On this lovely Monday morning. 78 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:19.680 What do we have? We have some news year number three, 79 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:23.480 if there were in Ukraine starts a kind of interesting 80 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:33.040 anti Elon Musk stories from Trump loyalists, must says everybody, 81 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:36.959 every federal worker by tonight midnight has to send to 82 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:41.800 management what five things did he or she do during 83 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:47.120 the week? What did you accomplish during the week? And 84 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:52.399 Trump's backing that up. But Cash Patel, who would take 85 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:56.240 a swan dive off of a parking structure if Trump 86 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:59.920 told him to, is telling FBI do not fill the 87 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:05.319 And you have other departments senior management. Trump appointees are 88 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:07.439 telling the department don't fill those out. 89 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:10.160 But this is what's interesting. 90 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:13.000 You keep saying how these loyalists are going to be 91 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:16.199 in lockstep, and then we keep doing stories about how 92 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:16.920 they're not. 93 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:19.360 This is the only story I can think of. 94 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:23.560 No, there was another one where you had, gosh, what 95 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:25.279 was it last week? Look at us. 96 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:27.680 If we got a note saying that we got to 97 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:29.920 remember five things from last week, I don't know that 98 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:33.959 we could do it. Please name five meals you had 99 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:34.560 last week. 100 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:38.800 I can't, but I was watching with lindsay, I was 101 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:43.560 watching something last night and it's casually up on the 102 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.120 screen something happened since the Norman invasion. 103 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:46.879 And I turned to her. 104 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.879 I said ten sixty six Battle of Hastings, William the 105 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:51.480 Conqueror versus Alfred the King. 106 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:55.000 And she looked at me and said, of course, and 107 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:56.199 then we went back to watching. 108 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:01.040 Alfred the King just doesn't sound right. Alfred was king, 109 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:05.519 just like like cone. It doesn't roll off the mouth. 110 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:07.040 Alfred. 111 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:09.199 He also got an He also got an arrow through 112 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:13.079 his eyeballs, both of them. No, just one. 113 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:15.800 Okay, you ready to do it? 114 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:17.319 Yeah, that'll do it. 115 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:17.920 Okay, let's do it. 116 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:19.000 Let's go to Eastern Europe. 117 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:23.399 It's the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and 118 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:26.079 it comes at a time that US policy appears to 119 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:30.519 be shifting on that war quite dramatically. In fact, President 120 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:36.160 Trump has been highly critical of Ukrainian President Voladimir Zelensky, 121 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:41.120 who now says he'd be willing to step down as 122 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:46.079 president if Ukraine were granted membership to NATO. And so 123 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:49.079 this seems like a significant announcement from that president in 124 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:52.480 that country's quest to join that European alliance and that 125 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:53.360 includes America. 126 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:56.800 Yeah, I want to point something out. If you noticed 127 00:06:56.839 --> 00:07:01.000 that we bypassed now the news with Michael Monks, Neil 128 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:05.439 and me lead story. Michael blew right past that, and 129 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:11.439 Michael you went right into story number I think story 130 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:12.199 number two. 131 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:16.639 Sort of kind of Michael's defense though now we kind 132 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:18.360 of chatted about the Musk gives. 133 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:21.959 No no, no, no, no. We may have chatted. 134 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:29.160 Chatting does not count like now lead story. 135 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:34.720 Oh okay, well. 136 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:38.560 Yeah, the forty eight hours would have been we would 137 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:41.879 have put that all together. So Michael, who used to 138 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:43.800 be the only man left in radio. 139 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:45.079 Now I'm gone too. 140 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:49.600 Oh yeah, oh yeah, okay, dancers that came out to 141 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:51.439 that song, it's just all of. 142 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:51.959 It and all that. 143 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:54.959 Okay. So here we are, Muscu is federal workers forty 144 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:56.079 eight hours. 145 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.480 Did you say Zelensky is willing to step down? 146 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:02.879 Michael, Yes, I did. That's that's where I am joined Natos. 147 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:07.480 Okay. Later on, I'm going to talk about Putin in 148 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:13.040 three years and what's going on in Ukraine and what 149 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:16.839 Putin's biggest ally now is Trump. I mean, he is 150 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:20.079 relying on Trump to win this war and continue on 151 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:24.040 with his policies and maybe we are at real, real crossroads. 152 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:26.639 A matter of fact, we are at crossroads. So two 153 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:29.319 stories ago, it was lead story. 154 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:31.519 And then Michael and now Neil. 155 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:33.120 I'm gonna put this back. I'm gonna put us back 156 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:34.720 on track. Neil story numbers. 157 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:38.840 Wow, Bill's gonna put us on tas correct. 158 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.200 That's the scariest damn thing I've ever heard. 159 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:46.000 All Right, Germany election, Mertz claims victory for his Conservatives, 160 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:54.840 and you have Chancellor Schultz, Shultz conceding defeat for his 161 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:58.759 center left Social Democrats after what he called a bitter 162 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:00.480 election result. 163 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:05.559 She knows that Chancellor Schultz is very fat. And where's 164 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:06.879 a World War two helmet? 165 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:13.879 I saw nothing that's very dated. By the way, it's 166 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:15.919 all Volcono, who is very. 167 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:17.679 Young, still got it. Well. 168 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:21.159 Yeah, but he loves his Nazi television references. 169 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:22.440 Don't we all know. 170 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:28.080 That the San Burdu thing, the i E. They love. 171 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:32.759 Yeah. Bottom line is right wing across Europe. Right wing 172 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:37.480 is sweeping the elections. Man. Not only are we not 173 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:42.919 only have we turned much more right wing, so is Europe. 174 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:45.559 And there are a few reasons for that which certainly 175 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:45.919 will cover. 176 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:47.600 Okay, we're mess right now. 177 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:49.919 Oh, it's all a mess, it's all you know, the world. 178 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:50.960 The world is. 179 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:52.080 A god awful mess. 180 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:55.480 It's been a crazy year for air travel. 181 00:09:55.519 --> 00:09:58.960 We've had some pretty significant disasters, some other close calls, 182 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:01.960 and now we've got American Airlines flight that was supposed 183 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:05.200 to go from New York to New Delhi that ended 184 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:09.679 up having to stop in Rome because of a bomb threat. 185 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:13.000 Now nothing came of that, fortunately, But Bill, what does 186 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:15.159 this do to people's feelings when a lot of folks 187 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:16.559 are already scared to fly anyway? 188 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:17.360 This can't be helping. 189 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:18.480 I mean the good news. 190 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:23.399 This threat really was a misinterpretation of a film critic 191 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:25.840 talking about a recent movie. 192 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:30.200 So you got to be very very careful these days. 193 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:30.679 You know. 194 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:35.480 You know what's weird, though, most of the flight versions 195 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.879 that we've heard have all been like somebody's drunk, or 196 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:43.240 somebody's trying to open the door, or somebody's screaming there's 197 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:44.000 someone in the back. 198 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:46.919 I haven't heard a bomb threat in a long time. 199 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:49.320 Now. This is scary, And I'll tell you why it's scary, 200 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:51.440 not so much that it is a bomb threat, because 201 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:54.200 it's not easy to put a bomb on an airplane. Anymore. 202 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:56.840 Terroristly have a much more difficult time doing that when 203 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:58.559 you could just rent a car or a truck and 204 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:01.919 then plow into a group revelers at an event or 205 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:06.440 downtown for example, during Marti Gras. It's we don't know 206 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:08.960 where it came from. It was not off the airplane. 207 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:12.480 We unspecified bomb threat that came through, was in an 208 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.799 email that came through. So all now someone has to 209 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:21.559 do coming in from a URL that cannot be traced 210 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:24.879 through various countries, which can be done coming in from 211 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:26.600 the dark web, And all of a sudden, here's your 212 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:33.159 bomb threat, Flight ninety seven five coming into Charles at 213 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:36.080 all to take it seriously, all yeah, which means that 214 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:38.120 every plane up in the sky will be or half 215 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:41.159 of them will be diverted. Scary stuff. Anyway, I landed 216 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:44.440 at Rome. Landed at Rome. And by the way, the 217 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:46.480 food is much better in Rome than it is in 218 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:47.080 New Delhi. 219 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:49.799 It's are you joking? 220 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:51.519 I am joking? 221 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:54.279 Indian food. I love Indian food. 222 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:56.159 It's probably the most sophisticated cuisine on. 223 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:00.480 The planet, absolutely absolutely layered. 224 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:04.960 All right, cash Betel, Hey, everybody guess what not only 225 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:08.960 was he sworn in his director of FBI. He's also 226 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:12.840 been or some are saying that he's expected to be 227 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:17.559 named as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, 228 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:22.759 and Explosives. So, you know, he was confirmed by the 229 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:27.600 Senate Thursday as FBI Director, very slim margin, fifty one 230 00:12:27.639 --> 00:12:32.480 to forty nine, two Republican senators joining all Democrats and dissent, 231 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:36.639 even though Handle keeps saying they're all in lockstep. But 232 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:39.919 the ATF like the FBI, is an agency with the 233 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:43.200 you know, within the Justice Department, more than fifty two 234 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:49.840 hundred employees, a budget of approximately one point six billion dollars. 235 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:52.240 Which is small. I mean that is small for a 236 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:56.080 budget because you got it as the FBI, not very much. 237 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:59.720 I mean it's big, but now certainly not what for example, 238 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:04.000 the Healthy Human Services headed by Robert Kennedy, that's over 239 00:13:04.039 --> 00:13:10.320 one hundred billion dollars defense his budget is I think 240 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:14.840 almost eight hundred billion dollars. I mean it is absolutely enormous. 241 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:18.679 And Cash Patel is head of the FBI, is under 242 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:19.840 Pam Bondi. 243 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:21.320 He reports to her. 244 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:24.879 And it's not unusual to have one person head of 245 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:31.840 several departments. For example, Henry Kissinger was both Secretary of 246 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:37.960 State and head of National Security. He also was headed 247 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:41.360 Security Council, so it has happened before. 248 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:45.159 Oh and our new program director not only oversees KFI 249 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:47.840 but also the sports property. 250 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:50.039 And I saw him washing cars, yeah downstairs. 251 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:54.440 Oh yeah, yeah, they're really moving downsizing. 252 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:57.799 It is fair to say, all right, let's go back 253 00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:58.480 to Ukraine. 254 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:02.000 And if you're wondering if we took a few steps 255 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:04.279 closer to peace, it doesn't look like it, not yet. 256 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:04.720 Anyway. 257 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:08.080 Here we are on the third anniversary of this all 258 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:12.320 out invasion of Ukraine by Russia and talks of finding 259 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:15.440 a piece finally, but Russia has just launched the largest 260 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:19.919 drone attack against Ukraine since the entire war started. So 261 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:23.360 nothing's slowing down their bill. 262 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:22.639 I know. 263 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:23.399 As a matter of fact. 264 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:26.200 Later on, I'm going to do a story about Putin 265 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:29.159 and the reality of what's going on, and none. 266 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:30.720 Of it is very good at all. 267 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:33.960 But some interesting stats I'm gonna throw up. 268 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:38.720 At you, all right, more than nine hundred Californians, including 269 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:42.279 fifteen children. Unfortunately, I have succumbed to the flu this season. 270 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:46.440 It's turned out to be one hell of a flu season. 271 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:51.799 Worst surges of the respiratory illness in years according to 272 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:54.919 a report released just this last Friday by the California 273 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:59.320 Department of Public Health. So about seven hundred and one 274 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:03.600 of the those flu victims were over sixty four years 275 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:07.120 of old of age. But you know, sixty four is 276 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:12.600 nothing these days, and that tracks with, you know, what 277 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:17.679 our conventional thought is with the illness disproportionately affecting older people. 278 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:22.200 But this is a pretty hardcore flu season. 279 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:23.440 Yeah, well it is. 280 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:26.559 And now this is case in point about how the 281 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.960 state of California is fighting the federal government because you 282 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:34.360 have the State of California talking about how what the 283 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:37.559 percentage is of those people who got the flu were 284 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:41.080 vaccinated and were not, and as you would guess, the 285 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:41.919 majority of people that. 286 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:45.759 Got the flu were vaccinated. 287 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.600 The Health and Human Services departments coming back and saying 288 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:51.279 that every single one of those flu cases is caused 289 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:54.240 by the flu vaccine. That's the only way you can 290 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:56.720 get the flu is to get the vaccine. 291 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:00.759 It's strange times living in Bill. 292 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:03.399 Yes, thanks RFK. 293 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:07.039 Yeah, and know also, if you take the flu vaccine, 294 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:09.720 your head will explode. You remember the movie Scanners, one 295 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:11.240 of my favorite movies of all time. 296 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.039 One of the best special effects moments in all of 297 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:16.000 film history. 298 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:19.279 I just did they ever show that in three D? 299 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:22.960 Always great, and they should and what they should do 300 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:27.080 is throw some slime out at the audience from the 301 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:28.240 stage the screen. 302 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:29.000 You know. 303 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:34.080 I was at I was chaperoning my son's third grade class, 304 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:37.960 second grade class rather at the Imax theater at the 305 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:41.120 Science Center, and we watched about Wales. It was really beautiful, 306 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:44.120 but it was in three D. And nothing funnier than 307 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:49.440 seeing a massive Imax theater filled with the second graders 308 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:52.440 reach out to grab the stuff that's coming out of 309 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:56.120 the screen at the same time. Pretty impressive, Pretty impressive. 310 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:58.080 I highly recommend the experience. 311 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.240 Well, we know that Evil has been tasked with finding 312 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:07.599 government efficiency, and there have been a number of federal 313 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:11.519 jobs that have been slashed across various departments, including the IRS, 314 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:15.480 but also National Parks, and now folks are starting to 315 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:19.440 feel these cuts directly because they like the parks. And 316 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:21.880 it looks like there's a little bit of tiny bit 317 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:25.880 of backtracking on some of these firing. So the National 318 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:28.559 Park Service says that it plans to bring back about 319 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:31.839 fifty of the folks who were fired, and they're going 320 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:35.799 to hire thousands more seasonal workers than they typically do, 321 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:39.000 about seventy seven hundred seasonal workers for the season. 322 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:42.839 That's the stat that I find so interesting because in 323 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:48.480 this era of firing everybody, they're actually bringing in twenty 324 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:53.119 five hundred giver take more workers seasonal workers than they 325 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:56.079 had over the last three years on average. So that's 326 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:59.440 part timers, yeah, part timers seasonal because people go to 327 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:03.319 the park in during the summertime, spring and summer. It's 328 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:05.160 the only time I've ever gone to a national park, 329 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:06.400 you know. 330 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:08.960 But we've done that too, and I've seen that with 331 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:11.000 this company throughout the years that every once in a 332 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:14.200 while there's layoffs and then some people will start to 333 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:16.799 come back because they go up. We cut a little 334 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:20.240 too tight. We'll see how that goes, all right. Anti 335 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:24.319 ice activists they're patrolling. They've got like their own group. 336 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:28.880 One group, Community Self Defense Coalition told KTLA that they've 337 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:32.359 busted two raids so far, one in Alhambra and the 338 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:35.319 other in San Fernando. And basically what they do is 339 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:39.720 they keep an eye out for ice coming and then 340 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:40.680 they let everybody know. 341 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:46.400 And what happens do they all scatter? Well, it doesn't say, 342 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:48.640 the story doesn't say what actually happens. 343 00:18:49.160 --> 00:18:53.000 Once people have been apprised, Hey here comes ice. 344 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:56.960 Well they don't answer doors, they don't you know, there's 345 00:18:56.960 --> 00:18:58.480 a lot of things they suppose they could. 346 00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:02.839 Do, and people have been passed out. We talked about 347 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:04.440 this the information cards. 348 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:08.799 So those who are about to be picked up or 349 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:12.759 are thinking they're going to be picked up, know their 350 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:16.200 rights because it's for someone who is undocumented. Nothing is 351 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:18.480 scarier than the authorities coming down. 352 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:20.880 Oh, I couldn't imagine. 353 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:24.599 Yeah, imagine this. They come from countries that are so corrupt. 354 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:28.599 Not only you have the criminal element, you've got the banks, 355 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:32.480 but the police are corrupt, and they're part and parcel 356 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:35.640 of killing you, extorting you. I mean, it's just really 357 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:37.319 brutal stuff, all right. 358 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:39.680 All right, So, of course we know that eggs are 359 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:42.880 very expensive right now, primarily because of bird flu, and 360 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:48.599 it's only getting worse apparently, and it's so bad that 361 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:52.000 the Border Patrol is seeing an increase in the amount 362 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:57.640 of eggs being smuggled across the United States border from Mexico. 363 00:19:57.839 --> 00:19:59.519 So I guess Americans are trying to get their hands 364 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:02.880 on those delay Mexican eggs in order to save a 365 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:05.880 few bucks, but you're really not supposed to be bringing 366 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:09.119 that type of product across either. So since they don't 367 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:12.119 have as many illegal immigrants to stop, they are finding 368 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:13.400 something else to crack down on. 369 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:18.319 Uh huh, very good. Here's a question I have. This 370 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:21.640 is not and this is Neil's wheelhouse. We're not talking 371 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:25.640 about a dozen or five dozen eggs. We are talking about. 372 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:29.599 Eighteen wheeler size egg cartons. 373 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:33.400 I mean, Honda, there was what a hundred thousand pounds 374 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:38.039 or one hundred thousand egg heist a couple of weeks ago. Heist. 375 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:40.720 You know, it used to be when you walk down 376 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:43.720 on Alvarado Street here in La you'd hear. 377 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:49.799 Mota, Mota, how are you here, wes ls I usus. 378 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:53.079 It's a different time, Bill, It's a different time. 379 00:20:54.279 --> 00:20:56.079 And we talked a little bit about it. 380 00:20:56.119 --> 00:20:58.720 When is when our egg is going to come back 381 00:20:58.920 --> 00:21:00.480 down to a reasonable. 382 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:03.799 I don't think we're gonna see it anytime real soon. 383 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:06.000 I think there's a lot of things that still need 384 00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:08.599 to happen. And as we talked about last week, you're 385 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:15.240 talking about one hen egg laying hen per person in 386 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:18.880 the United States to be at stable normal, And we 387 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:22.640 were probably less than half that now, Okay, so we 388 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:27.759 got a ways to go, all right. Israel's military deployment 389 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:34.599 tanks deployed tanks Sunday into the occupied West Bank. That's 390 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:38.880 the first time in more than two decades that you've 391 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:42.480 had tanks roll through the West Bank. And this is 392 00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:47.480 all part of Operation Iron Wall military campaign focused on 393 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:53.119 the northern West Bank, which launched last month, so just 394 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:57.839 two days after the Gaza ceasefire began. Of course, you've 395 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:03.079 got you know, Ghausians saying that this is an active 396 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:04.559 aggression as well. 397 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:05.720 As well is an active aggression. 398 00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:08.519 Israel's moving the other On the other hand, Israel is 399 00:22:08.519 --> 00:22:10.920 not taking any of this anymore. For example, the reason 400 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:14.440 the war may come into being again, one of the 401 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:19.440