Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles
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Speaker 1: have tons to cover before nine o'clock. A quick word
Speaker 1: about ask Handle Anything. It's our new segment where you
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Speaker 2: You'll see a small microphone. Click on it, and then
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Speaker 1: answered some questions that normally I don't talk about, and
Speaker 1: so we're gonna have a good fun. So we do that,
Speaker 1: and I do that eight thirty on Friday, and then
Speaker 1: Neil and and they check out the answers or the questions,
Speaker 1: they listen to them. I don't hear them until they're
Speaker 1: actually broadcast on the air.
Speaker 2: So that's just fun at eight thirty.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth, who is our new Secretary of Defense, confirmed Friday,
Speaker 1: sworn in on Saturday. He has some big, big issues
Speaker 1: to deal with global conflicts, border security, administrative tasks, and
Speaker 1: at the top of his list is the president's priority
Speaker 1: to strengthen the US military presidence along the southern border,
Speaker 1: and connected to that, whether active.
Speaker 2: Duty forces should be used.
Speaker 1: For law enforcement, which by the way, is illegal under
Speaker 1: the posse Kobatatas Act, which says that active personnel cannot
Speaker 1: be used for law enforcement on US soil. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you in a minute how he is getting around that,
Speaker 1: because you can get around it.
Speaker 2: President can get around that.
Speaker 1: And a bunch of other issues are there, including the
Speaker 1: Pentagon's budget, aid to Ukraine, support for the ceasefire in Gaza.
Speaker 1: Ramas and Arab countries are not thrilled with Trump because
Speaker 1: he is so pro Israel, troop deployments in the Middle East,
Speaker 1: diversity programs in the military. And in a message to
Speaker 1: the military after he had sworn in on Saturday, he.
Speaker 2: Cited all these challenges.
Speaker 1: And summer ones his predecessor faced like reorent reorient, reorient, reorienting,
Speaker 1: thank you very much, Bill, the military from decades of
Speaker 1: Mid East focus and better deterring China. And that is
Speaker 1: very difficult to do. And he also told service members
Speaker 1: about other priorities, strengthening the defense industrial base, get the
Speaker 1: Pentagon to pass an audit, which I agree with.
Speaker 2: That makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: What he did on Saturday morning is he made a
Speaker 1: stop to the Pentagon right after he was sworn in,
Speaker 1: and there was no media coverage of that. He did
Speaker 1: it secretly, which you know, I don't have a problem
Speaker 1: with not everything should be.
Speaker 2: Covered by the media.
Speaker 1: The Pentagon later released an official photo of Hegseth, saying
Speaker 1: he was ready to work on behalf of America's warriors.
Speaker 1: All Right, a little pr photo op. You know, that
Speaker 1: makes sense. I mean that happens all the time. And
Speaker 1: his support staff has been meeting with military leaders, including
Speaker 1: the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Of Staff, and Hegseth is going.
Speaker 1: To experience what people are describing as drinking from a
Speaker 1: fire hose.
Speaker 2: He's got so much.
Speaker 1: To deal with and get up to speed on what
Speaker 1: two point one one million service members seven hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty thousand civilians in the Department are doing, some serving overseas,
Speaker 1: some in combat zone.
Speaker 2: So here are some key issues.
Speaker 1: By the way, he was confirmed with a tiebreaker by
Speaker 1: Vice President J. D.
Speaker 2: Vance.
Speaker 1: Three Republicans voted against him, including Mitch McConnell. All Right,
Speaker 1: he's going to face a barrage of information, what troops
Speaker 1: are available, what assistance the border patrol needs, because keep
Speaker 1: in mind, he ran on two different issues, one inflation,
Speaker 1: and he attacked Joe Biden on inflation and read the
Speaker 1: American electorate much much better than the Democrats. By the way,
Speaker 1: inflation the president does really not have much to do with.
Speaker 1: It's basically out of a president's control. But it doesn't
Speaker 1: make you know, the buck stops here.
Speaker 2: As far as his attack.
Speaker 1: On the Biden administration on the border and border security,
Speaker 1: Trump was absolutely right. He read it perfectly. Biden literally
Speaker 1: was open arms for the most part, even though he
Speaker 1: deported just a zillion people. The philosophy of this administration
Speaker 1: that just left was much more pro immigration asylum seekers.
Speaker 1: Trump had a remain in Mexico policy. Biden undid that.
Speaker 1: So I agree completely, and I was one of the people.
Speaker 1: Now I didn't vote for Trump, but I agreed with
Speaker 1: him on that issue. So he's going to deal with
Speaker 1: information on what troops are available, what the border patrol needs,
Speaker 1: where to house feed and transfer the troops and border personnel,
Speaker 1: and how much how involved will the military be in
Speaker 1: law enforcement on the border. So real, real quickly. Active
Speaker 1: duty forces are prohibited from law enforcement on US soil
Speaker 1: by the Posse Comitatis Act. Trump signed an executive order
Speaker 1: directing that the Defense and Homeland Security secretaries report back
Speaker 1: within ninety days whether Trump should invoke an eighteen oh
Speaker 1: seven law called the Insurrection Law, that allows troops to
Speaker 1: be used for civilian law enforcement on US soil if
Speaker 1: the president calls that an invasion and an emergency based
Speaker 1: on this eighteen oh seven law, if a president looks
Speaker 1: at the border, and no president ever has looks at
Speaker 1: the border and people crossing the border as an invasion,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people agree with him. Now, usually
Speaker 1: invasions are from some foreign government, some army. Not usually,
Speaker 1: you know, millions of people trying to cross the border
Speaker 1: independently of each other.
Speaker 2: If he calls.
Speaker 1: For that, he can use the military to enforce the law,
Speaker 1: not simply use for transportation, intelligence, logistics, wall buildings, support tasks,
Speaker 1: which was happening in the previous administration, Trump's previous administration.
Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, I want to finish
Speaker 1: this up, and we got a couple of fun topics
Speaker 1: that I want to cover with you.
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Speaker 4: six forty.
Speaker 2: It is a Monday morning, January twenty seven.
Speaker 1: We are covering some stories. Super Bowls coming up in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. The Eagle and the Chiefs are
Speaker 1: headed for the Super Bowl, the Chiefs third time and
Speaker 1: if they win, it's a three peat that's never been
Speaker 1: done in the history of the NFL. And then the
Speaker 1: eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops.
Speaker 2: Very very few.
Speaker 1: Survivors, some in their nineties, are still there, and they'll
Speaker 1: be gone in a couple of years probably, and so
Speaker 1: it'll just be history. You won't be able to point
Speaker 1: to anybody and say you were there. It is extraordinary.
Speaker 1: One of the most amazing things that ever happened to
Speaker 1: me was meeting people. This was years and years ago,
Speaker 1: and they were covered. They usually wore long sleeves and
Speaker 1: in one case I met someone who are short sleeves
Speaker 1: and there was the tattoo number on his arm. And
Speaker 1: that is one of the moments that I'll never forget
Speaker 1: for the rest of my life. I was just done
Speaker 1: by it.
Speaker 2: Okay, back we go to Pete Hegseith, who.
Speaker 1: Is today's first Day at work as Secretary of Defense,
Speaker 1: and as I explained, Boyd, does he have issues to
Speaker 1: deal with?
Speaker 2: I mean over and over again.
Speaker 1: One of the big ones, probably the biggest one at
Speaker 1: this point is the border patrol. And as I explained
Speaker 1: in the last segment, or the border itself, and that
Speaker 1: securing the border, which is probably the most important platform
Speaker 1: that Trump had. Inflation was a big one, and the
Speaker 1: border was I think even a bigger one. And Trump
Speaker 1: read the American electorate perfectly. And this is where the
Speaker 1: Democrats are looking at themselves. The Democrats are in disarray.
Speaker 1: There's anger about Joe Biden not dropping out sooner, not
Speaker 1: particularly thrilled with Kamala Harris, who probably would never have
Speaker 1: won the nomination if it had been a real open nomination.
Speaker 2: So that hurt.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that hurt deeply to the Democrats
Speaker 1: they misread the border issue completely, So hegseth Our new
Speaker 1: secretary of Defense is looking at the border and whether
Speaker 1: American troops will be on the border. Don't know how
Speaker 1: many troops will be affected. Well, by the way, another
Speaker 1: one that was big and is big for Trump stripping
Speaker 1: protections for transgender troops, which he had stripped during his
Speaker 1: first administration, Biden put him back.
Speaker 2: Trump is saying to the military through.
Speaker 1: Hegseeth, we will not have any diversity programs and certain
Speaker 1: no transgenders. By the way, the military has no idea
Speaker 1: who's transgender or not. They don't ask, so they're saying,
Speaker 1: we don't know, but somehow, okay, we have to find out.
Speaker 2: That's another one. I don't know how that works.
Speaker 1: I guess every birth control, every birth certificate has to
Speaker 1: be looked at, and then you strip down and you
Speaker 1: show your sponts or your lack of fonts. There's the
Speaker 1: Pentagon budget. Trump ran on the vow to make the
Speaker 1: US military more lethal. He's also got assistance to the
Speaker 1: Ukraine to deal with. Don't know how much. Trump has
Speaker 1: said that's not our war. However, Israel is our war.
Speaker 1: Because he is so ardently pro Israel. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a real interesting, interesting issue. And then Dey, which
Speaker 1: during the hearings confirmation hearings Headseth said that depolicies divide
Speaker 1: troops and don't prioritize meritocracy.
Speaker 2: Department is going.
Speaker 1: To immediately comply with Trump's order and by the way,
Speaker 1: those who do not comply with the DEI order or
Speaker 1: removal of DEI programs, will no longer work at the Pentagon,
Speaker 1: will no longer be in charge, or will be demoted.
Speaker 1: Problem is, there aren't any full time workers assigned to DEI.
Speaker 2: So how do you deal with that?
Speaker 1: Someone say in favor of DEI, someone who writes positive
Speaker 1: positively of DEI.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what has been happening.
Speaker 1: Websites have been deleted, pages of websites, even the mention
Speaker 1: of diversity, and by the way, they're being pulled in
Speaker 1: inconsistent ways. Heigsith has railed against women in combat, although
Speaker 1: he's come back and said if they meet the standards.
Speaker 2: Which by the way, is not a bad idea.
Speaker 1: If you set standards, do you say that, since women
Speaker 1: can't do fifty push ups, we're gonna let women who
Speaker 1: do thirty push ups, or firefighters who have to lift
Speaker 1: eighty pounds of hoes, we are going to let women
Speaker 1: lift forty pounds of hoes, or carrying dead weight down
Speaker 1: a ladder. In terms of rescuing people, there's an argument.
Speaker 1: There is an argument there. So he's got some interesting
Speaker 1: stuff to deal with, to say the least, and we're
Speaker 1: going to see how he deals with it. And again,
Speaker 1: as I said earlier, is he going to at all pushback? Nope,
Speaker 1: not even a little pushback, because in the world of Trump,
Speaker 1: it's fealty. For example, during his first a minute he
Speaker 1: had a twenty seven year old director of communications.
Speaker 2: Who did nothing.
Speaker 1: You don't have a director of communications in the Donald
Speaker 1: Trump world because he is his own director of communications,
Speaker 1: and he is. He doesn't need one, So why even
Speaker 1: has one. I mean, there is no better communicator as
Speaker 1: crazy as Donald Trump can be. I mean, the guy
Speaker 1: understands the media more than I think any other president has.
Speaker 2: Ever understood the media.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up age verification, laws to protect minors
Speaker 1: from porn. I always like talking about laws relating to porn.
Speaker 2: It's just what are those things? Do you protect minors
Speaker 2: from porn?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: How do you do it?
Speaker 1: Eh?
Speaker 2: Don't know.
Speaker 1: And are the protections really protections? Eh don't know. First
Speaker 1: Amendment protecting miners, all of it coming right down the pike.
Speaker 2: And then milk.
Speaker 1: You know, milk has been a problem and an argument
Speaker 1: people have on milk for one hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 2: Here in the United States.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI am
Speaker 4: six forty.
Speaker 1: So the Supreme Court, I want to share this with you,
Speaker 1: has heard arguments actually January fifteenth, about a Texas law
Speaker 1: that requires pornography websites to confirm a user's age before
Speaker 1: allowing them to view adult content, either by uploading a
Speaker 1: photo of a government issued ID or allowing the face
Speaker 1: to be scanned. And these laws have been passed in
Speaker 1: a total of nineteen states since twenty twenty three, intended
Speaker 1: to protect miners from the harmful effects of porn, and
Speaker 1: studies have found online porn can have on underage viewers.
Speaker 1: The problems including ink christ misogyny. These are studies sexual aggression,
Speaker 1: mental health issues, unsafe sex, carpal tunnel syndrome, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, some real issues.
Speaker 1: The Free Speech Coalition argued the law does little protect miners,
Speaker 1: violates US law First Amendment, which is pretty broad. Although
Speaker 1: this Court may really go broad on this in terms
Speaker 1: of protecting minors. Free speech in porn, I think is
Speaker 1: going to be a problem. Free speech in religion is
Speaker 1: going to be an issue.
Speaker 2: The Court is going to back up.
Speaker 1: An attorney representing this free speech coalition said, I think
Speaker 1: their interest Texas really isn't in safety for minors. It's
Speaker 1: actually chilling pornography. First Amendment. Texas just doesn't like it's
Speaker 1: a very pro Christian state with a lot of very
Speaker 1: I don't even say pro Christian values.
Speaker 2: Let me put it that way.
Speaker 1: Where fundamental Republicans are not big fans of porno is
Speaker 1: a religious issue.
Speaker 2: For many, for others not so much.
Speaker 1: Now, Justice Amy Cony Barrett actually asked, wait a minute.
Speaker 1: Adults have to show ID in order to enter a
Speaker 1: movie theater that displays porno movies. So how does age
Speaker 1: verification laws online are any different?
Speaker 2: And here is the argument.
Speaker 1: The ACL you brought up, and that is ID at
Speaker 1: a store or a movie, you just show it. If
Speaker 1: you put it up online and you show your ID
Speaker 1: or somehow show you comply with the age.
Speaker 2: Requirements, that's online.
Speaker 1: That's in the data base, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: your information is in the database. Now, the reality is
Speaker 1: your information is in the database anyway. If you've ever
Speaker 1: used a credit card, if you've ever given your email
Speaker 1: to anybody, any organization, any store, you're there and people
Speaker 1: can mine it. You ever asked for example, if you
Speaker 1: look something up, I'm looking for a chicken of chicken,
Speaker 1: a kitchen gadget for my house. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I am inundated with ads for kitchen gadgets, everything involving kitchen,
Speaker 1: and I just looked up one item.
Speaker 2: You're there.
Speaker 1: So those people that are arguing that you have to
Speaker 1: put this up on the internet and somehow it's privacy,
Speaker 1: it isn't. There is no privacy at all. And how
Speaker 1: do we know. Well, porn Hub the biggest site in
Speaker 1: the world. And here is how much these age identification
Speaker 1: issues and requirements are in terms of porn websites.
Speaker 2: As soon in Louisiana, as porn.
Speaker 1: Hub complied, business dropped eighty percent and they just stopped
Speaker 1: doing business in many states.
Speaker 2: Across the country. It's that simple.
Speaker 1: Now. What those people that are against the age verification laws,
Speaker 1: they say, Hey, any kid can go on the dark web.
Speaker 1: Any kid can use VPN, a virtual private network.
Speaker 2: It's all encrypted.
Speaker 1: You can find any site anywhere and log on using
Speaker 1: VPN and you will never ever be caught or looked at.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens with the Supreme Court. Can't
Speaker 1: wait for this one. We'll see how far they go
Speaker 1: in allowing porn which adults can see any time anywhere. Now,
Speaker 1: there are some restrictions. Child pornography is a crime and
Speaker 1: should be to be absolutely nailed. Animal bestiality, Uh.
Speaker 2: I think that's a crime.
Speaker 1: Although watching people have sex with chickens, you know, as
Speaker 1: long as they're consenting adult chickens. I mean, does it
Speaker 1: really matter? All right, let's stop right there. Okay, fair enough,
Speaker 1: Neil stopped giving me.
Speaker 2: The look give me the weird uh? Okay?
Speaker 5: Uh about the bird flu? I think that could be transmission.
Speaker 2: No, that's very stupid. You're absolutely right. Okay.
Speaker 1: Worrying about the bird flu, by the way, is part
Speaker 1: of the next topic, and that's milk.
Speaker 2: And it had has divided him.
Speaker 1: Americans for more than one hundred and fifty years. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why this is so relevant today.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF I
Speaker 4: am six forty.
Speaker 2: Question for Neil.
Speaker 1: Neil, how do you feel about raw milk unpasteurized raw milk?
Speaker 5: Personally? I wouldn't gamble with it, I wouldn't drink it.
Speaker 3: You would not worth it to me.
Speaker 5: I don't think the benefits of raw milk out weigh
Speaker 5: the possible problems.
Speaker 2: This is where you disagree with Robert Kennedy.
Speaker 3: Junior, it won't be the only thing.
Speaker 2: I assure you, yes.
Speaker 1: And he is a big fan of raw milk. And
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, what he wants to do
Speaker 1: is if he gets to get head of the Department
Speaker 1: of Health and Human Services, is to say that we
Speaker 1: got a can you mute please?
Speaker 2: I'm getting an echo here.
Speaker 1: He's the most visible raw milk enthusiast ad at that
Speaker 1: level out there. He wants to end the FDA's aggressive
Speaker 1: suppression of products, including raw milk, by the government. Why
Speaker 1: because the government you can buy raw milk. You can
Speaker 1: consume raw milk, but pasteurization you don't die because so
Speaker 1: many pathogens are in raw milk directly from the cows. Also,
Speaker 1: you had mentioned bird flu, and that comes from raw milk.
Speaker 2: How is that possible?
Speaker 1: Where bird flu has spread to about a thousand dairy herds,
Speaker 1: all in unpasteurized milk. It's being noted now milk. You know,
Speaker 1: it's been controversial for over one hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 2: How is that possible?
Speaker 1: Well, milk, if you go back to one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty years ago, is pure, It's natural. It reminds us
Speaker 1: of a simpler pastoral time. By the way, so does typhoid,
Speaker 1: fever and other disease diseases.
Speaker 3: Those were the days.
Speaker 1: Those were the days, my friend. Yeah, people go, oh
Speaker 1: those you know, those early days. Oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: not like today. No air conditioning. You had horses in
Speaker 1: the major cities before the cars, and you had forty
Speaker 1: six thousand tons of manure every day that had to
Speaker 1: be swept up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: What's funny, Bill Here in La whenever I see an
Speaker 5: apartment that says for rent old world charm, that means
Speaker 5: no air conditions.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way, okay, here is something. When did pasteurization start, Neil,
Speaker 1: I'm going to throw that at you.
Speaker 3: Would it be the early nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 2: Pretty close the eighteen nineties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it was pretty brilliant.
Speaker 2: You've had it pretty close. You know what it is.
Speaker 5: It's just heating it to a particular temperature over probably
Speaker 5: probably around one hundred and forty one degrees or so,
Speaker 5: for length of time to kill that bacteria. But it
Speaker 5: preserves calcium, it preserves protein, it preserves vitamin B, vitamin twelve.
Speaker 5: Pasteurization does not kill the benefits of milk.
Speaker 1: And the people that believe in raw milk, like OURFK
Speaker 1: Junior for some crazy ass reason, and they're more and
Speaker 1: more Americans are joining the fray somehow, I don't know.
Speaker 2: We want raw milk.
Speaker 1: Do you know that between nineteen oh seven and nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty three, New York's City's infant death rate decreased by
Speaker 1: more than fifty percent because pasteurized milk was mandated. You
Speaker 1: had to use pasteurized milk fifty percent it decreased. And
Speaker 1: then the World War One condensed milk, which is great
Speaker 1: for coffee, ooh sweet, condensed.
Speaker 3: Milk candy making.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's you know, pasteurization.
Speaker 2: People were against.
Speaker 1: It and there's no science there. And this is where
Speaker 1: OURFK Junior comes in. There is no science to what
Speaker 1: he says. He is part of the crowd that looks
Speaker 1: at pasteurization as getting rid of some of the healthful
Speaker 1: aspects that, as you pointed out, Neil pasteurization does nothing.
Speaker 1: That's like homogenizing milk. Right, let's go back to the
Speaker 1: old days before homogenizing milk, when cream floated to the
Speaker 1: surface and you use that for coffee and you drank
Speaker 1: non fat milk.
Speaker 2: You couldn't drink whole milk. All right, we're done.
Speaker 1: By the way, have you ever drunk or drank non
Speaker 1: pasteurized milk? No, no warm milk right there from the
Speaker 1: cow with dirt and twigs, and they're right on the teat,
Speaker 1: although they do clean it up with those milking machines.
Speaker 2: And what they do is they pasteurize the teat of
Speaker 2: the cow to one hundred and eighty degrees.
Speaker 5: Actually that's not pasteurizing, that's actually cooking. Yes, and you're
Speaker 5: boiling at that point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we do this again tomorrow. Guys, we
Speaker 1: start all over again. Robin, are you still here tomorrow? No,
Speaker 1: Kono comes back. No, we have someone else. Elmer's coming in,
Speaker 1: all right, and Michael Monks.
Speaker 2: You here tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'll be here, okay, fair enough, And you start with
Speaker 1: wake up call at five am. Neil and I and
Speaker 1: of course and and not Amy here tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Who am I missing here? Thanks of the roll call.
Speaker 3: This is really important, you know.
Speaker 2: I always try to tell everyone.
Speaker 1: Ever, whenever we come back tomorrow, I give I give
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