Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty.
Speaker 2: They used to be the cardinal and there was a
Speaker 2: Cardinal Cicola that was elected pope, and when it turned
Speaker 2: out that he was going to be known as Pope Sicola,
Speaker 2: it just didn't work out.
Speaker 3: That's actually funny. And now Handle on the news, ladies
Speaker 3: and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle. Good morning everybody. It is
Speaker 3: a Tuesday morning, April twenty two, and a lot going
Speaker 3: on today. We've got Pope news, Pope Sicola news. We
Speaker 3: have a couple other things I want to share with you.
Speaker 3: First to quick Hello, Will Coleschreiber, Good morning Will, Good
Speaker 3: morning Bill. Are you munching on a slice of pizza?
Speaker 3: How did you know that? Because it looked like a
Speaker 3: slice of pizza? Are you aware that it's six o'clock
Speaker 3: in the morning. It's is good anytime of day. That's true. Actually,
Speaker 3: actually that's true. Pizza's pizza? Now? Is that cold pizza?
Speaker 3: Or is that heat it up? See? I never understood
Speaker 3: cold pizza. People love cold pizza. I don't get it.
Speaker 3: Pizza chicken. I like cold fried. Cold fried chicken is great.
Speaker 3: I just don't get cold pizza. I don't. But then again,
Speaker 3: different strokes for different people. All right, So good morning
Speaker 3: to Will and good morning. Oh AND's looking there? You
Speaker 3: look bored as hell? Why could you look because you
Speaker 3: look bored? Okay, good, I feel better, Neil, good morning whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, I know you are. How did I start?
Speaker 3: When we went on? Said hello to each other before
Speaker 3: the show? What? What did I ask? What did I
Speaker 3: tell you? So?
Speaker 1: Is the show over yet? Or you said the show
Speaker 1: is almost over?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly what I said. Coda, good morning, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: And Amy, there you are, Hi, feel good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3: There you go. All right, before we get started, Oh
Speaker 3: just a quick let me tell you what happened to
Speaker 3: me yesterday. I was taking my walk and I walked
Speaker 3: past sort of an open field, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: And as I'm walking and I'm on the sidewalk and
Speaker 3: there's the fields to my left or am I right?
Speaker 3: In that case, I was going the other way, and
Speaker 3: there is a bobcat maybe twenty feet away. As I'm walking.
Speaker 3: The bobcat is walking parallel to me, and we're looking
Speaker 3: at each other, and he did not move a muscle
Speaker 3: other than following me as I was walking I looked
Speaker 3: at him, he looked at me. He went hmm, okay,
Speaker 3: and then he sauntered off. Now, bobcats are about the
Speaker 3: size of a medium sized dog. Lions, I wouldn't be
Speaker 3: here to talk about this if I ran into a
Speaker 3: mountain lion. Who is it? P one? P. Twenty two.
Speaker 3: That's way down the list. Yeah, that's what P. Twenty
Speaker 3: two is, way down on the list of people who
Speaker 3: listening to KFI. Uh. P one and two was pretty good,
Speaker 3: but when you start going that low, miserable. Okay. The
Speaker 3: other thing is Pope Francis is lying in state there.
Speaker 3: He is parked in the box uh for everybody to see.
Speaker 3: He is going to be buried on Saturday, which is
Speaker 3: kind of interesting. And he's not going to get buried
Speaker 3: in the crypt under the church under Saint in the Basilica,
Speaker 3: which normally most popes are. You go down there and
Speaker 3: then they are, you know, lined up underneath, you know,
Speaker 3: in the crypt. No, he's going to get buried in
Speaker 3: a local church that used to go to pray in
Speaker 3: all the time, and no ornate caskets at all for him.
Speaker 3: A pine box, a pine box, I think. Yeah, he's
Speaker 3: a very humble man. He really really was, and that
Speaker 3: was his will. They talked about his will, and I
Speaker 3: guess it doesn't even a lot. They don't leave a lot,
Speaker 3: do they. Pope's. Do popes even get a salary? I
Speaker 3: don't think they do. I don't think pope get a paycheck,
Speaker 3: but they get housing in three meals a day. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 3: in his case, obviously a lot more than that. He's
Speaker 3: a pretty good sized guy, but still very very simple guy. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, quick factoid? How much does the president make
Speaker 3: president of United States? Do do do? Do? Do? Do do? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Two fifty four hundred really four hundred thousand dollars a year?
Speaker 3: When Abraham Lincoln was president, how much did he get paid?
Speaker 3: Twenty five thousand dollars in those days, equivalent over five
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars today. So the president actually is receiving
Speaker 3: less money than Lincoln did relative to buying power. Although
Speaker 3: Mary Todd Lincoln just pissed away every dime that they eat,
Speaker 3: either of them had, I mean, he completely broke and
Speaker 3: what else. Other factoids. It used to be two hundred
Speaker 3: thousand dollars a year until George W got to raise
Speaker 3: to four hundred thousand dollars a year. He doubled his salary. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 3: president doubled his salary. Yeah, I mean the president's salary
Speaker 3: is like relative to right. Can you imagine running a
Speaker 3: a four or six trillion dollar bureaucracy and getting four
Speaker 3: hundred grand a year? Yeah? I don't think that's why
Speaker 3: they do it. You know how much JFK got? No,
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand dollars. Do you know how much he
Speaker 3: actually kept? Would he actually charged the government? None of it?
Speaker 3: One dollar? Trump did that his first term. Don't they
Speaker 3: a free room and board and all that, and food? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Uh huh, But they buy their own food and toothpastees.
Speaker 3: You know that they buy their own food unless it's
Speaker 3: the state dinner. But unless it's a formal dinner, but
Speaker 3: the stuff upstairs the family has. Yeah, they buy their
Speaker 3: own food. Government does not pay for their food.
Speaker 4: So Kono says that the pope does get or can
Speaker 4: get a stipend each month.
Speaker 3: They CONO just looked it up. Do we know how
Speaker 3: much that is? Thirty two thousand a month? Come on
Speaker 3: what it says? Oh? Come on? Both Francis deferred it
Speaker 3: though he either give it to two grand a month.
Speaker 3: According Holy moly, Hey Siri, Oh boy, we had to
Speaker 3: fling this out. Hey Siri, series just does the same
Speaker 3: thing I do. Does the pope receive a monthly salary
Speaker 3: or stipend? Uh? The pope receives a monthly God, I
Speaker 3: didn't know that. I would thought I would think that
Speaker 3: they don't. Wow. His estimated net worth is two point
Speaker 3: five million dollars.
Speaker 1: Holy that's just the shoes.
Speaker 3: So much for that pledge of poverty. Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 3: I don't think he pays for his own shoes. You know,
Speaker 3: he Isn't he wearing different shoes than other popes too?
Speaker 3: I think he's wearing I think he's wearing Converse, He's
Speaker 3: wearing something. It's uh.
Speaker 4: It seemed like a pretty humble guy in that sense.
Speaker 4: I don't think he wore.
Speaker 5: The big well they when they lay in state, they
Speaker 5: have those big red, weird shoes.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I don't mean to offend any Catholics. It's just
Speaker 3: strange to me. I mean, and he pays for nothing.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at this. What that's basically.
Speaker 4: You you make a lot of money and you pay
Speaker 4: for nothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's the whole point though, that's the whole
Speaker 3: He's in the same position. If you're in radio. If
Speaker 3: you're in radio, if you don't get it free, you
Speaker 3: don't need it. If you're a pope and you don't
Speaker 3: get it free, you don't need it. Although the Pope
Speaker 3: doesn't have two daughters that have credit cards, either in
Speaker 3: your name, or maybe he does and we don't know
Speaker 3: about it, that's a rumor I don't want to start.
Speaker 3: I have no problem starting the rumor that JD. Vans
Speaker 3: killed the Pope, which, by the way, did you see
Speaker 3: the memes yesterday? They went berserk on social media, So
Speaker 3: I don't mind that rumor. But I'm not going to
Speaker 3: argue that Pope Francis was anything other than a good guy,
Speaker 3: good pope.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's interesting too that he wants
Speaker 5: He specifically said he wanted to not be up on
Speaker 5: like a pedestal like other popes have been as they
Speaker 5: lie in state.
Speaker 3: He wanted to be in the coffin. That was his instruction. Yes,
Speaker 3: I think that's interesting too. Well, yeah, I mean you
Speaker 3: know the other ones, those pedestal business. You know, they
Speaker 3: put him up in there, and well I told you yesterday,
Speaker 3: Pope John Paul the second was he was up on
Speaker 3: a pedestal and if you remember he died in July
Speaker 3: I think it was. And man, they kept him up
Speaker 3: there for a while and it was not pleasant, it
Speaker 3: really wasn't. I mean, he was falling apart. Now, it
Speaker 3: was very, very difficult.
Speaker 5: Is that just so people can go and their respects?
Speaker 3: Is that what they do? Yeah? I've never understood to
Speaker 3: pay the respects. It's you know, it's a thing there,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, your soul, if you have one,
Speaker 3: is gone. That spark of life is not there. Basically
Speaker 3: you're a piece of meat. And yeah, and they should have
Speaker 3: a price per pound at the bottom of the casket.
Speaker 3: All right, let's take a break. We're coming up. Okay,
Speaker 3: Catholics you can reach. Why don't you send all your
Speaker 3: emails to Neil on that one.
Speaker 4: Okay, Catholics are smart enough to know not to give
Speaker 4: a rat's ass about anything that comes out of your
Speaker 4: pie hole, sir, excellent.
Speaker 3: All right, let's do it. Handle on the news with
Speaker 3: Amy Neil and me lead story La Mayor Karen will
Speaker 3: never be elected mayor again. Bess proposed her budget. It's
Speaker 3: a billion dollar shortfall, it's a deficit in the twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five twenty six fiscal year. She said, we're in
Speaker 3: good shape. The city is doing well except for the
Speaker 3: sixteen hundred employees that are going to be fired. Then
Speaker 3: the city is not doing so well and various programs
Speaker 3: and departments will be cut like crazy. There's just no money.
Speaker 4: What's that about four of the workforce for the city.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe if we were rent, what do we.
Speaker 4: Have about the fifty sixty thousand people working for Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's just it's so.
Speaker 3: I mean, it is bloated. The fire department is expected
Speaker 3: to go up thirteen percent. You bet, you're a sweet ass. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's fine. That you know what's nuts?
Speaker 4: She stated, Turmoil and uncertainty from Washington and a slowing
Speaker 4: economy are causing lower revenue projections to the tune of
Speaker 4: hundreds of millions of dollars. Okay, okay, what about the
Speaker 4: fact that the vast majority of this is going down
Speaker 4: in tax collection the city revenue that sales tax have
Speaker 4: slowed and city business taxes slowed well, city business taxes
Speaker 4: slowed because you can't do business in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: It is I mean, the bureaucracy is is very crazy,
Speaker 3: but a lot of it if not her fault. She
Speaker 3: can't control the big guy, the big economy of this
Speaker 3: country that he takes a fount of political leaders.
Speaker 1: Then you know what the fires and dealing with them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't. She's not blamed for starting the fires.
Speaker 3: And I don't think anybody's arguing, do we hold anybody accountable? Well,
Speaker 3: you do, because the buck stops here, right the bucks.
Speaker 3: It's the buck stops here at Harry Truman on his desk. Uh.
Speaker 3: And that is she's not being blamed for starting the fires,
Speaker 3: or even she's not being blamed for somehow getting in
Speaker 3: the way of the fires or they're putting out of
Speaker 3: the fires or dealing with them. She's blamed for going
Speaker 3: to be in Ghana where that's going to cost her
Speaker 3: her job. I think that one alone, and also mismanagement.
Speaker 3: You know what pisses me off about this? You got Caruso, right,
Speaker 3: Rick Caruso, who spent one hundred million dollars of his
Speaker 3: own money, eminently qualified. They both campaign basically on the
Speaker 3: same issues, homelessness. She wins the mayor's race because of
Speaker 3: her political connections, because she's tied into the democratic machinery.
Speaker 3: We don't elect officials because of competence. That just doesn't
Speaker 3: happen anywhere anymore. This was just a political election because
Speaker 3: she knew everybody. The machinery came out, and you had
Speaker 3: a season business person who said, I'm going to help
Speaker 3: run this city because the bureaucracy needs some kind of
Speaker 3: legitimate leadership. Nope, let's elect a liberal who has never
Speaker 3: run anything business wise in her life. All right, moving on.
Speaker 5: Moving on, Yes, I need to go back to the beginning.
Speaker 5: So sorry lost my place. It's Harvard versus the White House.
Speaker 5: Harvard University has filed the lawsuit to stop the Trump
Speaker 5: administration from freezing two billion dollars in federal grants two
Speaker 5: point two billion in grants, and of course, the administration
Speaker 5: announced that they were holding up that funding because Harvard said, nah,
Speaker 5: we're not going to go along with your demands to
Speaker 5: limit activism. The administration wanted Harvard to change its admissions policies,
Speaker 5: remove DEI programs, crackdown on anti Semitism, and also crackdown
Speaker 5: on pro Palestinian protesters. The Harvard president, Alan Garber, said
Speaker 5: the university would not bend to demands, and just hours later,
Speaker 5: the government froze billions of dollars in funding.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And the argument is what is the funding for
Speaker 3: research for medical technological technological research have to do with this?
Speaker 3: And again in goes the argument in front of the courts.
Speaker 3: Does the government have a right to say to a
Speaker 3: private institution you must do a B, C, D and E.
Speaker 3: Now it does have a right to say you can't
Speaker 3: discriminate under Title seven for example. But we'll see what
Speaker 3: the courts have to say. Again, the fight is how
Speaker 3: much power does the administration have. Oh, here's the story Washington.
Speaker 4: The Education Department will begin collecting collections next month on
Speaker 4: student loans that are in default. So this includes the
Speaker 4: you know, all the basics, garnishing of wages. This is
Speaker 4: potentially millions of borrowers. Currently, roughly five point three million
Speaker 4: ball borrowers are in default on their federal student loans.
Speaker 4: If you remember, back in March of twenty twenty, when
Speaker 4: COVID hit, there was a massive amount of leniency about.
Speaker 3: Paying Yeah moratorium. Yeah, moratorium is still in place, and
Speaker 3: the Trump administration is saying that's enough, guys. You know,
Speaker 3: how about paying back your bills? How about paying back
Speaker 3: the amount of money that you owe. I'm going to
Speaker 3: do more about that at eight fifty and here in Well,
Speaker 3: it's a little more complicated. It's it's always more than
Speaker 3: just a yes or no. But I'm going to dive
Speaker 3: into a little deeper. And this one, I'm going to
Speaker 3: take the side of the Trump administration. That's coming up
Speaker 3: at eight fifty.
Speaker 5: Wait, you're going to take the side of the Trump administration.
Speaker 5: Mark that down?
Speaker 3: Everybody? Yeah, nobody, you know I yeah, Okay, mark that down.
Speaker 3: I'm taking the side of the Trump administration. This just
Speaker 3: in snowballs in hell. Okay, let's do one more. The
Speaker 3: ABC's of breaking up Google.
Speaker 5: Problems continue for Alphabet, It's back in court trying to
Speaker 5: prevent the breakup of its Google search empire.
Speaker 3: The fate of Google's search.
Speaker 5: Engine is in the hands of federal Judge Amit Meta,
Speaker 5: who ruled in August that Google illegally monopolized online markets
Speaker 5: for general search and general search text. The Justice Department
Speaker 5: is now asking the judge to break up Google by
Speaker 5: forcing it to sell off Chrome and maybe it's Android
Speaker 5: operating system.
Speaker 3: More on that one when we talked to ABC News
Speaker 3: technology reporter Mike Dubuski, And that's coming up at eight o'clock.
Speaker 3: This morning. All right, happierday everybody.
Speaker 4: For the fifty to fifth year, the world is using
Speaker 4: the data celebrate mother Nature, how you mom, your mom nature,
Speaker 4: and this wonderful planet we live on, so symbol of
Speaker 4: the environmental movement, all of that stuff.
Speaker 1: Go to earthday dot org if you want to know more.
Speaker 4: And it's been a day and is a day that
Speaker 4: acknowledges our planet, Yes, provides for us.
Speaker 3: That's true. And by the way they're going, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be celebrated by those twelve people who have died in
Speaker 3: the last couple of days because of the storms. Accidentally,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do a story about this coming up at
Speaker 3: where is it seven twenty about Earth Day. You know,
Speaker 3: it was created by Richard Nixon, came under his tutelage.
Speaker 3: He signed onto it, and that's Richard Nixon. The on
Speaker 3: Earth Day, he signed public the first time the US
Speaker 3: government actually proclaimed that the Earth was round. We were
Speaker 3: a little bit backward until then. I'm going to talk
Speaker 3: more about this.
Speaker 4: Have you seen the all the You go back and
Speaker 4: you watch the original Earth Day and the things they said,
Speaker 4: We're going to happen to the planet in ten years,
Speaker 4: fifty five years, ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the only state with the s. Yeah. The only
Speaker 3: thing the scientists were wrong about was the speed at
Speaker 3: which climate change was going to wipe out everything.
Speaker 4: I'm still looking for those bastards that created the first
Speaker 4: ice age, in the melting of the first ice age
Speaker 4: with all those factories people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I got it. It's just fine. We're just
Speaker 3: moving on. That's not worth commenting on.
Speaker 5: Okay, thirty minutes till the next shooting. Every thirty minutes,
Speaker 5: an emergency department treats another weapons injury. That's according to
Speaker 5: a new analysis from researchers at the Center for Disease
Speaker 5: Control and Prevention. They looked at ten different jurisdictions, including
Speaker 5: the District of Columbia. The report shows that there were
Speaker 5: more firearm injuries presented at night, on the weekends, and
Speaker 5: on holidays, especially Independence Day and New Year's Day.
Speaker 3: It's going to get much much better because there will
Speaker 3: be no researchers next year at the CDC. As a
Speaker 3: matter of fact, there will be no CDC that can
Speaker 3: issue these reports to us, So kickback. We're gonna be
Speaker 3: fine starting next year. It's crazy the amount of gun
Speaker 3: violence we have in this country. It's like beyond comprehension
Speaker 3: traveling in Europe. They just don't understand how we work.
Speaker 3: They don't get it. It's not even a moral judgment
Speaker 3: as to the weapons that we have in this country.
Speaker 3: And they don't understand the Second Amendment. They just don't
Speaker 3: get it. They just sit there and just shake their
Speaker 3: heads perplexed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is interesting talking to people in Europe, like
Speaker 4: are there guns everywhere?
Speaker 3: I'm like yeah, and you go, yes, yes, there are
Speaker 3: guns everywhere. You consider weird if you don't have one.
Speaker 3: I don't. Okay, how about this? So are we going
Speaker 3: to go rocking and walking around? I don't know if
Speaker 3: you feel like saying I don't have a weapon, Neil,
Speaker 3: do you have a weapon on me right now? Well?
Speaker 3: Now I'm not talking about you know, I'm not talking
Speaker 3: about going down and saying that's my weapon. This is
Speaker 3: my weapon, this is my gun. Uh No, we're not
Speaker 3: not that kind of weapon. Do not have one on
Speaker 3: my person? Current? Oh? Thank you? That answers Amy, Do
Speaker 3: you have a weapon at home? I do not have
Speaker 3: a concealed carry permit. Wo see how everybody is dancing
Speaker 3: around this one? Wow? Cono gun at home? Had a boy?
Speaker 3: Oh good, God, thank everybody. Need to say anything, buddy,
Speaker 3: I understand that. So here I am okay, I'm by myself.
Speaker 3: Thank you will yes or no? Um? Okay, you've answered
Speaker 3: that question, boy, and answer and you're my last hope.
Speaker 3: Yes or no? How would you say? Don't come to
Speaker 3: my house? One of us? One of us? Thank you?
Speaker 3: Kamala okay. For those people that are thinking of breaking
Speaker 3: into my house, I just want to point something out.
Speaker 3: I may not have a weapon, but I have four
Speaker 3: German shepherds that are trained to eat you and weener dogs.
Speaker 3: And I have Lindsay, who you do not want to
Speaker 3: get into a fight, all five foot three, one hundred
Speaker 3: and ten pounds of her. You do not want to
Speaker 3: deal with it. He will throw her at you, right
Speaker 3: in your face. Yes, it's true. Actually she'll throw me
Speaker 3: at you, push.
Speaker 1: Her wheelchair right into your shins.
Speaker 3: Moving on, all right.
Speaker 4: Scott Peterson did he didn't he? After investigating the case
Speaker 4: for more than a year, the Los Angeles Innocence Project
Speaker 4: has filed voluminous evidence it says that show Scott Peterson
Speaker 4: did not murder his wife an unborn son in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty two. They say they've got four hundred pages, a
Speaker 4: four hundred page petition to the California Court of Appeals.
Speaker 4: They filed it just this Friday, so they're they're really
Speaker 4: pushing on this. He's now fifty two years old. He
Speaker 4: was a rested and charged with first degree murder and
Speaker 4: the death of his wife and second degree murder in
Speaker 4: the death of his unborn son, and a jury found
Speaker 4: him guilty following a six month trial in twenty two
Speaker 4: thousand and four.
Speaker 3: Rather, yeah, they're claiming prosecutorial misconduct as well as certain
Speaker 3: amount of evidence I should have been presented that was
Speaker 3: not or newly discovered evidence when the Innocence Project jumps in,
Speaker 3: You know what, they don't frivolously jump into these things.
Speaker 3: I think that they are their success and overturning is astronomical.
Speaker 3: All right, let's say break the Los Angeles group. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but it's all part of the same larger group is
Speaker 3: kind of stood away from this. Barry Shank matter of fact,
Speaker 3: who started that and then he ended up on the
Speaker 3: OJ defense, which I don't get.
Speaker 5: All right, the friendly Skuys are about to become the
Speaker 5: safer Skuys. So there's this aviation safety system that has
Speaker 5: failed twice in the last three years and cause the
Speaker 5: only airspace shutdown since nine to eleven. It's going to
Speaker 5: be replaced ahead of schedule. The NOOTAM system, it's a
Speaker 5: notice to airmen system was supposed to be replaced by
Speaker 5: twenty thirty, but now the FAA says the new moderate
Speaker 5: modernized system will be online by September. The FAA says
Speaker 5: it cut through red tape to get the critical work
Speaker 5: done as fast as possible.
Speaker 3: That doesn't happen very often when they're ahead of schedule,
Speaker 3: because the FAA, I mean, our flight control systems have
Speaker 3: been just an utter disaster for years and years, all right,
Speaker 3: new sum to the rescue.
Speaker 4: Of course, California residents are now eligible to buy what
Speaker 4: basically is narcan and it's used to treat opioid over
Speaker 4: doses for twenty four dollars through the state's prescription website
Speaker 4: cal rx. This comes as gab Newsom office said that
Speaker 4: this is important life saving medications shouldn't come with a
Speaker 4: life altering price tag and cal r rex is about
Speaker 4: making essential drugs like this afford a pole.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and who's going to argue with this? By way,
Speaker 3: the twenty four dollars pay payment for two doses exactly
Speaker 3: what the state pays. So they're passing it on at
Speaker 3: dead costs and people's lives are saved big time with
Speaker 3: this when you overdose on opiate's and it's magic. I mean,
Speaker 3: it turns it around instantly as you're dying.
Speaker 5: Trump, well, his tweet or whatever you call it these days,
Speaker 5: triggered a massive sell off on Wall Street. So yesterday
Speaker 5: Trump tweets or posts on social says, with these costs
Speaker 5: trending so nicely down, we're you talking about the economy,
Speaker 5: He said, just what I predicted they would do. There
Speaker 5: can be there's almost no inflation, but there will be
Speaker 5: a slowing of the economy unless mister too Late, a
Speaker 5: major loser, lowers interest rates. Now and he was talking
Speaker 5: about Jerome Powell. Powell, and that's markets into it down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, market is up though right now, and it's just
Speaker 3: opened up, you know, just a half an hour ago,
Speaker 3: but it's up five hundred and thirty points, so it's
Speaker 3: coming back. It's just bouncing all over the place. And uh,
Speaker 3: the President wants to fire Powell. And if he does,
Speaker 3: if he is successful in firing Powell, the whole world
Speaker 3: market is going to reel on this. Uh. And by
Speaker 3: the way, I don't even know whether Powell deserves to
Speaker 3: be fired or not. That's a different issue. But just
Speaker 3: the uncertainty of what's going on is killing. The IMF
Speaker 3: just came out and the International Monetary Fund and just said, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, the market, the world economy is slowing down
Speaker 3: and will continue to do so because of this the
Speaker 3: terra force.
Speaker 5: I wonder if there's anybody around Trump now who says,
Speaker 5: you know, mister President, maybe don't send that tweet out, like.
Speaker 3: Uh, you don't know. And then the issue is, you know,
Speaker 3: is the president now going to run the FED? Is
Speaker 3: he going to make monetary policy in addition everything else,
Speaker 3: because the FED has always been independent. The president chooses
Speaker 3: the FED chair. As a matter of fact, Paul is
Speaker 3: chosen by Trump. But I think it's a six year
Speaker 3: term if I'm not mistaken, or an eight year term,
Speaker 3: and you can't get fired unless it's for cause. Okay,
Speaker 3: Moving on the White House.
Speaker 4: Just this past Friday morning launched a new website and
Speaker 4: this kind of focuses deep dive on the theory that
Speaker 4: the coronavirus that caused COVID nineteen was human made, that
Speaker 4: leaked from an infectious disease laboratory in Wuhan, China. Now,
Speaker 4: of course, at the beginning of this year, you have
Speaker 4: the CIA issuing a report that concluded the lab leak
Speaker 4: was likely, but with low confidence. If you remember, we
Speaker 4: talked about that, and similar conclusions have been made from
Speaker 4: the Energy and State departments as well. But this particular
Speaker 4: website takes the lab leak theory even further than most
Speaker 4: of those reports, saying that the virus possesses a biological
Speaker 4: characteristic not found in nature.
Speaker 3: And when you talk about a lab week, you know
Speaker 3: where that lab was, Wuhan, China, And you know who
Speaker 3: actually created who created this virus? Hillary Clinton when she
Speaker 3: was visiting China.
Speaker 4: I think I think it's pronounced China, Yes, sir, I
Speaker 4: don't mean to correct you.
Speaker 3: But anyway, so, I mean, no one knows at this point,
Speaker 3: no one really knows it's you know, was it a
Speaker 3: an animal? Was it a civic cat? Was it? You know,
Speaker 3: did come out the local Kentucky Fried bat store? You
Speaker 3: know when near Wuhan? Who who the hell knows?
Speaker 5: Khalil's kid has arrived without him. The Department of Homeland
Speaker 5: Security denied Mahmoud Khalil's permission to be there for the
Speaker 5: birth of his first child. Of course, he is the
Speaker 5: guy who's a legal permanent resident, who is a prominent
Speaker 5: figure in pro Palestinian administrations at Columbia University. He's been
Speaker 5: detained in Louisiana for more than a month, and they
Speaker 5: put in the request saying, hey, can he please go
Speaker 5: and be there for the birth of his child?
Speaker 3: And they said no. You do want to get on
Speaker 3: the wrong side of this administration. You get on their radar,
Speaker 3: you're I think you're in a lot of trouble, especially
Speaker 3: if you fall in the line of illegal immigrant, which
Speaker 3: he is not, by the way, he is a I
Speaker 3: think he's a Green card holder if I'm not mistaken
Speaker 3: or yeah, I think a legal permanent resident, which the
Speaker 3: government can take away. They can take away that status.
Speaker 3: So of course that's going to court too. What isn't
Speaker 3: going to court?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would not want to be an illegal alien with.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The only thing that absolutely protects you is a
Speaker 3: US passport. That is the last straw. Even though the
Speaker 3: president has said he wants to deport US citizens to
Speaker 3: l Salvador, which is kind of difficult to do. But
Speaker 3: you don't want to be on the wrong end. And
Speaker 3: the courts are upholding, especially under the alienis Edition Act,
Speaker 3: and the governmental powers, the ability of the government to
Speaker 3: go much further than any government ever has. One of
Speaker 3: the things about this administration is test. It is testing
Speaker 3: the powers of the presidency.
Speaker 1: There's not some US citizens you wouldn't want to deport.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there are plenty. But where you going to
Speaker 3: deport them to? Well, you're a US citizen, Okay, you're
Speaker 3: a me. You can deport me to Brazil because that's
Speaker 3: where I come from. And I am a Brazilian citizen
Speaker 3: just by virtue of being born there. I could be deported.
Speaker 3: But the only way I could lose my citizenship is
Speaker 3: because of fraud in obtaining my citizenship. That they can
Speaker 3: take away your citizenship. But short of that, you were
Speaker 3: born in this country. Where are we going to deport
Speaker 3: you to? Even though you richly deserve to be deported,
Speaker 3: Where are you going to put you? Well, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of really nice places. Yeah. L Salvador who has
Speaker 3: agreed to take anybody from the US as long as L.
Speaker 3: Salvador gets paid, Well, I like Apoo says, there you
Speaker 3: go all right, one, more magic.
Speaker 4: Rush rooms, unsuper unsupervised use of psilocybin, or what we
Speaker 4: refer to as magic mushrooms. It's been accelerating, and especially
Speaker 4: here in the United States among adolescents and people thirty
Speaker 4: and older in this new study. So you're talking about that.
Speaker 4: People talk about micro dosing and things like that, but
Speaker 4: more and more people are calling for you know, poison
Speaker 4: control and the like from overdosing or having issues with it.
Speaker 4: You know, they sort of have been a little more
Speaker 4: lax about it. But adults, you know, since twenty twenty three,
Speaker 4: it's been higher estimates for co than cocaine or illicit
Speaker 4: opioid use or methanphetamines.
Speaker 3: It's on the rise, all right, But I don't do
Speaker 3: magic mushroom, so I don't care. Okay, guys, you can
Speaker 3: magic mushroom. You're away through life if you want, all right,
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