WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:03.040 You're listening to KFI AM six forty. 2 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:06.759 The bill handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app 3 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:10.439 Handle here Morning Crew, except for Neil, who's sick, except 4 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:15.480 for kno who's sick. And I'm here and I'm sick. 5 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:20.760 But that's questionable as to how sick I am? And yes, yes, 6 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:25.199 and that is correct? What part is sick? Interesting negotiation 7 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:30.320 going on right now between La County first Responders and 8 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:34.560 the county because contracts are rep so the union is 9 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:39.600 representing the deputies and firefighters and lifeguards made a public 10 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:44.880 pitch yesterday for more support in their contract negotiations, which 11 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:47.600 are not going particularly well. And they released a half 12 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:53.679 hour documentary highlighting first responders harrowing tales from the very 13 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:58.920 first day of the fires. And it is footage showing 14 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:03.200 these firefighters and cops really going all out. I mean, 15 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.959 it was dangerous, dangerous stuff, and they came to the 16 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.760 table for sure. And what this foot It's a piece 17 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:14.480 of propaganda. I mean, there's no issue about that. And 18 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:19.680 it's being used to pitch more money for first responders. 19 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:23.079 And they're all little incidents. 20 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:27.640 One is a sheriff's deputy talking about as she was 21 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:29.879 in the middle of the inferno. She was driving her car. 22 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:34.040 The tires melted on her car. A lifeguard talks about 23 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.400 from his body camera. There's video of him driving through 24 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:40.840 black smoke and spotting a beam from the flashlight and 25 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:43.640 finding a man whose house was about to be consumed 26 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:48.799 by flames. And firefighters sharing double working, double shifts without 27 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:52.719 food or sleep. And the union rep said, my members 28 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:55.280 don't whind. They don't complain, but they did a good job. 29 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:58.280 Well they're whinding. They're complaining. And has to do with 30 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:00.959 them getting more money. 31 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:02.599 Fair enough now. 32 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:06.680 A month ago, La County Chief Executive Fescia Devenport told 33 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:12.560 the unions no raises because of unprecedented financial pressures. First 34 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.080 of all, the county has a four billion dollar sex 35 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:20.039 abuse settlement on his hands, two billion dollars in wildfire costs, 36 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:24.120 and the White House. It looks like are you going 37 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:26.360 to cut hundreds of millions of dollars worth of public 38 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:30.639 health grants? So put all that together, no money, And 39 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:35.639 so the chief executive did his bit of propaganda. Los 40 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:40.520 Angeles County appreciates the essential contributions of our workforce, YadA, YadA, YadA, 41 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:46.800 but no rasis because we are facing serious budgetary challenges. 42 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:49.000 Now the county. 43 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:54.000 The county actually balanced its forty eight billion dollar budget 44 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:57.560 for the upcoming fiscal year. The City of Los Angeles 45 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:04.479 not so much. It's a billion dollars short. The officials 46 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:08.879 of the county are going to be able to balance 47 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:11.759 the budget even with the settlement, which can be paid 48 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:16.080 with bonds, and they have a rainy day fund which 49 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:20.240 is very rarely touched. It will be this time. That's 50 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:24.280 worth a billion dollars now. The City of La recently 51 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:27.759 gave its first responder significant pay raises, now a major 52 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:32.280 factor in the nearly billion dollar budget. 53 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:34.000 The budget deficit. 54 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:37.360 Unions are saying, you've got money left over for raises 55 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:40.800 and we want it now. I have a question about that. 56 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:46.319 Do they deserve raises? Well, everybody deserves a race. But 57 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:49.319 let me ask you something. Didn't they sign up for this? 58 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:55.639 Am I missing something here? You know, a cop saves someone, Okay, 59 00:03:55.800 --> 00:04:00.240 that's their job. You know, firefighters go in and the 60 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:03.080 fire is worse than they anticipated. Therefore they should get 61 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:03.479 a raise. 62 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:06.599 Hold on a minute, you sign up for. 63 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:10.800 It, that's your job, and if it's tougher, it's tougher, 64 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:16.920 then don't then do something else. And I have no 65 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:21.399 problem asking for raises because that's the job of the 66 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:28.519 unions and using everything they can to document how much 67 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:31.800 work they have to justify extra money. 68 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:32.600 I get that. 69 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:36.800 I get that, you know, I don't hold them negatively 70 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:40.000 for doing everything they can. But at the same time, 71 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:46.240 do you cave on that one? I mean, it's oh, 72 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:50.199 you know, you sign up for it, you know, I mean, 73 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:54.680 what did we sign up for? We signed up for 74 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:59.720 sitting on our asses screaming into a microphone. However, threats 75 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:04.920 come down the pike, you know when you know, we 76 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:07.519 get fed free food when they come in. Sometimes we 77 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:09.279 don't get it as fresh as we would like it. 78 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:15.680 I mean, you know, there's sacrifices that we make. But 79 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:18.560 in reality, well that is reality actually, And for those 80 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:22.079 people who want to pitch from restaurants, which restaurants, which, 81 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:24.000 by the way, I'm going to promote that right now. 82 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:25.720 If you have a restaurant, you want a free pitch, 83 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:29.000 you give us free food, and we're fine with that. 84 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:30.839 That doesn't have much to do with this topic, but 85 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.120 just a good reason just to go out there and 86 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:35.040 put it on the table. 87 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:39.000 So you know, hey, we don't have money, we don't 88 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:39.560 have the money. 89 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:43.480 Now depends on how much money you're talking about. One 90 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.480 of the things that the shriff's deputies, the unions are 91 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:51.519 saying is other agencies, other departments are paying more money 92 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:56.240 than La County is, and we are losing deputies because 93 00:05:56.480 --> 00:06:00.360 they're leaving LA and they're going over there in LA 94 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:04.720 trained them at no small expense, and the attrition rate 95 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:08.480 is going down. Okay, that's a different story, got it. 96 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:12.680 But short of that, I don't think so. I don't 97 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:16.120 think so, because the philosophy is you signed up for 98 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:21.839 this deal and just because it became harder. I mean, 99 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:25.680 a lifeguard wants more money because a lifeguard was driving 100 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:28.279 down the street and was able to pull someone out 101 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:36.319 of a fire. Okay, you know now, And right coming up, oh, 102 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:38.720 the terroriffs. We have to talk about the tariffs, don't we. 103 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:42.360 There's a lot of bad news coming down the pike 104 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:46.480 with the tariffs. And let's talk about corporate America and 105 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.120 what's going going on and how it's responding. Now, keep 106 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:55.399 in mind, corporate America loves Donald Trump. Loves Donald Trump 107 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:00.319 because under Donald Trump's philosophy, corporate America does just rate. 108 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:07.439 Except so I'll talk about accept when we come up 109 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:08.560 and come back. 110 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:13.240 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 111 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:13.839 six forty. 112 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:15.319 So guess who comes in? 113 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:21.720 Amy comes into the broadcast our room and leaves her 114 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:25.120 little booth and is talking to Anne. And do you 115 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:29.720 know what we were talking about, which is general conversation 116 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:33.879 during the course of the breaks. Is the discussion is 117 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:39.680 what a dick I am? And that's basically our general conversation. Amy, 118 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:43.319 Is that not true? It is true? Thank you so much. 119 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:47.199 Now I want to talk about what's going on with 120 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:53.439 corporate America. Corporate America is basically hand in hand with 121 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:58.040 Donald Trump. Donald Trump's basic philosophy is corporate America is good, 122 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:01.920 very good, and let's help corporate America. And there's a reason, 123 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:03.759 I mean, you can be on one side or the 124 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:08.120 other of that argument. However, corporate America is going wait 125 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:10.360 a minute, sounding the alarm big time. 126 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:11.680 Why because of tariffs? 127 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:16.920 I mean, the world is reeling because of Donald Trump's 128 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:22.519 tariff position, and not just his philosophy on tariffs, Because 129 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:30.959 if his tariff position were consistent or was consistent, the 130 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:31.839 world could deal with that. 131 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:33.720 Business can deal with consistency. 132 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:39.200 What it can't deal with economies, markets, business. What can't 133 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.480 be dealt with is inconsistency and not knowing what the 134 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:46.360 hell is going to happen. And that's exactly what's going 135 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:49.480 on is I don't even think so much. It is 136 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:54.559 the implication and implementation implementation of the tariffs. 137 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:57.200 It's the fact that they're going all over the places. 138 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:00.279 Every day. It's different every day, it's different. 139 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:05.320 Right, And we're talking about the largest companies in America. PepsiCo, 140 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:09.320 American Airlines, Chipotle, IBM, Proctoring, Gamble, a bunch of others 141 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:14.240 announced quarterly earning this week, and earnings not only are down, 142 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:18.960 but the forecast because what the companies do is not 143 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:21.639 only here are earnings, but here is what we anticipate. 144 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:25.399 Here, here are our projections. And then the market comes 145 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:29.080 back with here is our projections. And this is what 146 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:33.639 a stock does well is, for example, when stock does better, 147 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.679 a company does better than projections. Stock goes up worse 148 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:40.480 than projections, even if they're making a lot of money, 149 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:46.279 the stock goes down. And so the markets are. 150 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:50.720 Very very sensitive to what is happening. Now, think of 151 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:57.279 what's going on with this because forecasting is so important 152 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:02.080 to any company, and how how do you forecast when 153 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:05.039 you have one hundred and forty five percent tariff coming 154 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:08.399 in on Chinese goods and the next day, well, we're 155 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:10.759 not going to have one hundred and forty five percent terroriffts, 156 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:13.120 but we're going to have some tariffs. We don't know 157 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:16.320 how much we're going to play in tariffs and when 158 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:18.120 they're going to go down or up. 159 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:20.559 No one has any idea. But I'll tell you what 160 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:21.200 is going on. 161 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:26.240 And it's not the major technological companies. They're fine. Apple 162 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:31.320 is fine. You've got the manufacturers of the iPhone, the 163 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:34.320 importers of the iPhone, those distributors, they're fine because those 164 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:36.679 were exempt from any tariff. 165 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:38.600 Now, originally it was going to be one hundred and 166 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:39.399 forty five percent. 167 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:42.159 Trump turned around and said, okay, we're going to exempt 168 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:46.080 or I'm going to exempt those companies because you know 169 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:50.120 it's a one hundred percent importation from China. Well, then you 170 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:55.679 have these small companies like mine and as you know, 171 00:10:55.879 --> 00:11:00.159 I'm a partner, my partner Savil, we have a small 172 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:05.000 company that inputs, imports, cookwear from China one hundred percent 173 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:06.279 made in China. 174 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:10.000 We have stopped everything everything. 175 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:14.039 We have a container at the Port of China ready 176 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:18.120 to go, and we stopped it done. We don't know 177 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:21.559 what the hell is going on. China, on the other hand, 178 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:24.559 doesn't know what's going on. So you know what they're doing. 179 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:28.600 Even if we wanted to release that container, because we 180 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:32.120 have already paid the deposit on it, if we wanted 181 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:38.159 to release it, China isn't allowing it to leave. They 182 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:44.559 have stopped all exportation. We have stopped all importation. That's 183 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:49.600 what's called the tariff war because nobody knows what the 184 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:53.240 tariff is going to be. Trump calls one hundred and 185 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:56.799 forty five percent tariff on Chinese goods coming in with 186 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:01.399 certain exemptions. China goes to all one hundred and twenty 187 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:05.159 five percent. That's an embargo. That's not a tariff, that's 188 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:09.200 a straight out embargo. No products are coming in, no 189 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:13.000 products leaving the United the United States going there, no 190 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:17.679 products coming here from China, and that is an embargo, 191 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:21.240 and that is a trade war. Especially now that the 192 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:24.960 world economy is predicated on exports and imports. You can't 193 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:30.000 you can't run your country without that happening. So the 194 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:35.799 companies are running scared. They are running scared, as they 195 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:40.440 should because you can't do that, Jerome Powell. 196 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:43.440 We're gonna I'm gonna fire Jerome Powell. I'm going to 197 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:44.639 figure out a way to. 198 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:49.240 Fire him legally, even though it is very difficult, it's 199 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:51.480 a little complicated. The only way that a fed share 200 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:54.360 can be fired is for cause. And Trump was looking 201 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:58.639 and this administration was actually exploring, let's figure out how 202 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.120 to fire him, and let's figure out cause. He makes 203 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:05.039 that announcement, and the stock market tanks a thousand points. 204 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:07.240 The world market reacts. 205 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:12.320 The IMF, the International Monetary Fund, comes out and says. 206 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:14.559 The world global growth is going. 207 00:13:14.440 --> 00:13:20.200 To slow dramatically because of these announcements. Next day, I'm 208 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:23.639 not going to fire Jerome Powell. No, I don't have 209 00:13:23.679 --> 00:13:27.639 no intention of firing Jerome Powell. But yesterday said you were, 210 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:33.080 I have no intention of firing Jerome Powell. Well, how 211 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:37.399 about one hundred and forty five percent tariff on China? Well, 212 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:42.039 China and I, she and I are talking and we're 213 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:46.639 negotiating it. The Chinese government says, no, we're not. No 214 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:51.799 one's sitting down with the administration. Nobody now from China. 215 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:55.320 What are you saying, Well, we're in talks, We're in 216 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:56.200 good talks. 217 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:58.960 No, well you have to believe someone. I don't know 218 00:13:59.000 --> 00:13:59.679 who to believe. 219 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:03.600 Is she making this up? Is Trump making this up? 220 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:08.840 At this point, I don't know. One hundred countries have 221 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:13.559 come to the table with Washington, and eighteen have proposals 222 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:19.320 on the table, which ones, well, we're not saying what 223 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:23.000 are the terms. Well, we're not saying, how about the proposal? 224 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:24.799 What does the proposal look like? 225 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:30.840 Well, we're not saying. You know, I don't know who 226 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:32.440 or what to believe at this point. 227 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:35.919 More importantly, all I know is that my company is 228 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:37.440 at a dead stop. 229 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:39.120 That's it. 230 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:42.519 I mean, we are stopped and we're just waiting to 231 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:46.480 see what happens. And we're not alone because there are 232 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:52.360 hundreds of thousands of companies in the same position. That's 233 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:55.440 why you had the leaders of Walmart, CEOs of Walmart 234 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:58.519 and Home Depot went to the White House and said, 235 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:01.240 you know what, we all the stuff that's on our 236 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:04.679 shells comes from China. We're a huge majority of it. 237 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:07.039 We're gonna have empty shells. 238 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:07.480 In three weeks. 239 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:14.639 And Trump comes back and says, Okay, it won't be 240 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:17.679 one hundred and forty five percent, it'll be it'll be less. 241 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:20.279 It won't be zero, but it'll be less. How much 242 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:24.200 will it be? Well, I can't tell you when is 243 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:26.240 right now? With one hundred and forty five percent. At 244 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:29.159 this moment, it's one hundred and forty five percent. I 245 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:31.440 bring in one hundred dollars worth of goods, I am 246 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:35.919 writing the government a check. By the way, with accumulative taxes, 247 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:39.559 ours is one hundred and eighty seven percent. So if 248 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:42.559 I bring in one hundred dollars worth of goods, I 249 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:45.080 have to write the government one hundred and eighty seven 250 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:49.039 dollars more for that hundred dollars worth of goods. 251 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:52.080 It's untenable. I mean, you can't do it. 252 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:57.159 Business is over, and so everybody is waiting, and Corporate 253 00:15:57.159 --> 00:16:00.000 America is just reeling. 254 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:00.639 As we're all reeling. 255 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:04.919 I mean, yeah, I can understand that you want to 256 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:08.840 level playing field. I get that that's fair. Is it 257 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:11.320 true that we are being ripped off? I don't know 258 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:13.039 if by the I don't know if it's ripped off. 259 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:18.240 Certainly there's no level playing field. You know, China charges 260 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:20.840 a lot more in tariffs and on American goods than 261 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:22.840 we do on Chinese goods by a long shot. 262 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:28.200 But do you do it this way? Okay? 263 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:33.399 Coming up playing incidents, have you noticed that there are 264 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:37.200 just a lot more of these crashes and near crashes 265 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:41.960 and these incidents of airlines you know we're about to 266 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.120 hit each other. I'll give you some real stats on that. 267 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:46.600 And it's kind of interesting stuff. 268 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:49.960 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I 269 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:51.080 Am six forty. 270 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:55.000 It's not Foody Friday because Neil is sick this morning. 271 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:58.559 So we're gonna hold off Foody Friday until next Friday. 272 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:01.799 And we're still going to do ask Handle anything, which 273 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.000 we do on a Friday. And it's always great, great 274 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:07.880 fun when people ask me questions, personal questions, and generally 275 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:10.240 I'm a well first of all, I answer them. You know, 276 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:13.519 my life's an open book. I don't keep much I hidden, 277 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:18.079 and they're generally humiliating and it's just fun. 278 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:18.720 All right. 279 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:22.839 So now let me move over to why we don't 280 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:25.880 fly on airplanes or why you are concerned about flying 281 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:26.799 on airplanes. 282 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:27.319 Because you're gonna die. 283 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:31.839 I mean, look at videos planes crashing. 284 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:33.759 It's gotten to the point. 285 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:38.160 Now where even small planes crashing somewhere out and you know, 286 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:39.839 buffalo breath wyoming. 287 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:43.599 It becomes national news. Well, there's a. 288 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:45.720 Plane with a single pilot and it crashed into a 289 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:49.400 parking lot and the pilot was killed. Okay, I mean 290 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:51.599 that's rough for the pilot and his family. I get that, 291 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:57.799 but okay, that's national news. The point is that we're 292 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:03.319 seeing videos because everybody as a video of everything, and 293 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:08.079 so if there is a fire on a jet, right 294 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:14.400 on an airliner, and an airliner lands safely, okay, that's 295 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:16.240 all you would get. Oh no, no, you have the 296 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:20.519 video now of that fire and people screaming in the 297 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:24.079 cabin and the panic which you never had before, and 298 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:25.960 all of a sudden, you know. 299 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:26.720 That's become news. 300 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:30.960 There is nothing that happens in the air, on the ground, 301 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:35.119 in a store, in your house that can't and won't 302 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:37.799 be covered by a video. So now we have some 303 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:45.880 stats that crash between the helicopter and the plane in Washington, 304 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:51.079 DC was the first of those fatalities with big airlines 305 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:55.640 in twenty years in the United States, when you used 306 00:18:55.640 --> 00:19:00.440 to hear the stat that flying on an airliner in 307 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:03.799 the United States or anywhere around the world is the 308 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:08.720 safest form of transportation that exists, far safer than you're 309 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:11.960 getting in the car and driving far safer than you're 310 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:15.559 getting on a motorcycle or getting on a bicycle or 311 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:19.759 taking a train, because trains do have head ons and 312 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:23.720 you do have derailments more often than you can imagine. 313 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:26.079 Far safer. 314 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:28.599 And when we used to say far safer, it is 315 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:32.759 now far safer than far safer, it's actually far safer 316 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:37.799 than that. That is that is the actual truth and 317 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:40.839 the stats, and that's according to the NTSB National Transportation 318 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:46.559 Safety Board NTSSE. NTSB data shows that last year, for example, 319 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:49.920 was the lowest number of helicopter fatalities in the US 320 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:54.839 since two thousand and seven, and that's with fifteen people 321 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:57.839 since two thousand and seven last year. 322 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:02.599 Now, most of the incidents are with small planes. 323 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:08.279 That because there are a lot more and many more 324 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:11.160 small planes out there. Again, we go to the Bureau 325 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:14.640 of Transportation Statistics, five hundred and. 326 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:16.839 Seventy two commercial aircraft in the air. 327 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:22.279 This is in twenty twenty three, general aviation civilian owned 328 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:29.279 small airplanes two hundred and ten thousand. So just by 329 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:35.960 sheer numbers, you're going to see more crashes and incidents 330 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:36.920 with small airplanes. 331 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:38.799 Oh, I'm not going to get on a small airplane. 332 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:41.599 You know, what's gotten to the point where small airplane 333 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:45.880 pilots general license are almost the equivalent of having commercial 334 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:50.519 license that the airline pilots have. Now, airline pilots have 335 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:52.960 a lot of thousands of hours in the air before 336 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:56.240 they're even made captain. But at the same time, it 337 00:20:56.440 --> 00:21:02.519 is tough as nails to take that test. Example, in 338 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:04.559 order to get the test, you need a specific number 339 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:07.799 of flight hours, and you have to pass a written test, 340 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:09.920 and then you have to go through a check ride, 341 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:12.240 and that check ride is no fund by the way, 342 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:16.599 and at the end of that, here's your private pilot license. 343 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:19.400 And every two years got to take another check ride 344 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:25.160 with a certified flight inspector and or instructor. And you 345 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:27.119 have to have a physical every two years to make 346 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:29.200 sure you're not going to croak on an airplane, because 347 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.960 occasionally you have a pilot have a heart attack and 348 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:36.240 you know, someone brings down the plane. You know, you've 349 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:38.319 seen those where the tower goes and now you move 350 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:40.480 this switch over here, by the way, that's a crop. 351 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:44.599 That's that's movies. When the pilot dies, you die. It's 352 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:48.640 not that it's it's pretty simple. Every year, every airplane 353 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:52.240 has to go through a very extensive annual inspection. A 354 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:55.480 maintenance suspection has to be done by a certified airframe 355 00:21:55.559 --> 00:21:56.839 and power plant mechanic. 356 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:01.720 You don't do that with your car. So on, people die. 357 00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:03.799 How many people die in car accidents every year? What 358 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:06.880 thirty thousand something like that? Amy was the figure on 359 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:09.000 that one. You know, all right, you don't have to 360 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:12.640 look that up panel look it up. I'll look it up, hey, siri. 361 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:20.359 How many Americans die in car crashes every year? Thirty 362 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:24.559 eight thousand Americans die in car crashes every year, all right? 363 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:29.039 And we're talking how many people died in plane crashes 364 00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:32.319 this year? I don't know, you know, a few dozen, 365 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:32.960 that's it. 366 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:35.799 But ours is one hundred, over one hundred a day. 367 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:40.119 It averages out to you're talking what the thirty eight thousand, yeah, 368 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:40.920 is over one hundred? 369 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:42.480 Yeah? I don't There aren't a hundred crash. 370 00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:45.799 There aren't one hundred fatalities a year, not even close 371 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:48.960 in the United States the airline fatalities in the air 372 00:22:49.960 --> 00:22:51.160 So it really is safe. 373 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:55.480 It's much safer, although it is still scary. Do you 374 00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:55.720 know that. 375 00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:59.400 George Norri, who of course does coast to coast over 376 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:02.640 night here on CAI. It's nationally syndicated show. I've run 377 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:04.880 into him three times on my way to Las Vegas, 378 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:07.160 and so we grab each other, sit each other on 379 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:08.720 the plane next to each other. Do you know what 380 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:12.519 the conversation is every single time? Who gets top billing 381 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:14.880 if the plane goes down? Is it George? 382 00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:15.279 Isn't me? 383 00:23:16.279 --> 00:23:20.160 That's our argument who It depends on the day. George says, 384 00:23:20.200 --> 00:23:21.559 I do. I say, George does? 385 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:24.200 All right? Coming up? 386 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:28.319 Ooh, tipping, tipping, tipping, tipping. Oh, I had an incident 387 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:30.440 yesterday that I want to share with you about tipping 388 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:32.480 and this we're all suffering from this. 389 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:37.000 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 390 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:37.599 six forty. 391 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:44.000 All right now, Oh, yesterday, So I'm taking my vacation. 392 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:47.160 I'm going to go in September, and yesterday I was 393 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:51.359 on the phone with one of these travel agent kind 394 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:53.480 of people that you know, find great deals for you. 395 00:23:53.559 --> 00:23:55.160 And it took about an hour and a half and 396 00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:56.160 the guy was terrific. 397 00:23:56.960 --> 00:24:00.440 We were going through all the different flights and how 398 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:04.119 much I am going. Can't go direct to where I'm going, 399 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:06.519 so I had to take connecting flights. So you know 400 00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:09.880 how much time layovers and which flight, and it took, 401 00:24:09.880 --> 00:24:11.079