WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.080 --> 00:00:04.440 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I 2 00:00:04.599 --> 00:00:16.399 Am six forty and now Handle on the news. Ladies 3 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:18.519 and gentlemen, here's not Bill Handle. 4 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:26.480 Hi, it's Chris merriland for Bill once again, what are 5 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:28.879 we is? It? Just? Is it just Tuesday? 6 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:33.000 This has been the longest the longest, I mean yesterday 7 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:35.039 was like the longest month I've ever experienced. So it 8 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:38.280 was really something good to be with you once again. 9 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:39.679 Congratulations. 10 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:43.719 Let me start this out, so if you if you 11 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:46.520 tune in on Sunday afternoons and evenings, that's. 12 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:47.520 That's normally when you hear me. 13 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:54.159 We follow oftentimes other guest hosts who are on Sunday afternoons, 14 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:56.960 and many times what we'll do is we'll invite somebody 15 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:59.600 in from one of the TV stations that we'll come 16 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:02.119 and host a couple of hours, and it's exciting for them. 17 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:05.159 They're very pretty people, so you know, we really get 18 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:08.079 a chance to highlight their intellect and instead of just 19 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:11.000 everybody that stares at the TV news and they just 20 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:14.439 oggle over the pretty people. One of the things that 21 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:16.879 goes on behind the scenes, though, is one of our anchors, 22 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:21.439 Andrew Caravella, is incredibly talented, but he is such a 23 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:25.560 selfie hog. Anytime one of these TV people comes in, 24 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:28.920 Caravella follows them around. 25 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:30.719 Can I get at a selfie? Can I get a picture? 26 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:31.159 Can I get it? 27 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:35.239 He must have one of those shrines in his in 28 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:38.920 his office or whatever. That is just him with pictures 29 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:42.599 of random people. Nobody gets more attention, whether it's from 30 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:47.159 anchor Andrew Carabella, or the the tech directors or even 31 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:50.719 my producer who just vanishes whenever Marla Teez comes in 32 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:53.760 from Fox. And she's been at a few times, and 33 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:56.000 Marla is a lovely person and she does a great 34 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:59.239 job when she's in. She just had a baby, and 35 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:01.840 so we want to start by saying congratulations to Marlata 36 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:05.680 as she just she gave birth and so that is great. 37 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:07.359 She is amy. 38 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:10.439 Do we count her as part of the KFI family? Absolutely, 39 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:11.879 she's KFI extended family. 40 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.439 Yep, Okay, all right, KFI extended family. 41 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:19.000 Welcoming and yes, Marlateez and she's got she got her 42 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:21.800 hands full now, which means that now Andrew Caravella has 43 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:23.560 to go get another selfie with her kid. I guess 44 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.240 which is gonna be awkward. But he doesn't care. He 45 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:27.039 just follows her around. 46 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:29.120 Hey, Marla, gotta get selfie. 47 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:31.560 And the thing is, it's not just one selfies. Every 48 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:34.479 time they come in, he gets another one. Don't you 49 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:36.520 think one would be enough? Is he creating like a 50 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:40.360 flip book of selfies? It's the weirdest thing. He's so bizarre. 51 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:43.000 All right, let's do a handle on the news, Chris 52 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:45.520 Merrill in four handle today. And you heard Amy talking 53 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:47.759 about this this morning during the wake up call. A 54 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:51.960 lot of attention on Hillary Clinton's emails and the private serp. 55 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:56.080 That's incorrect, that story's old. 56 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:00.960 All right, Well, nobody else is using unsecured, non governmental 57 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:05.240 equipment in order to pass confidential messages. 58 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:06.639 Around, So I guess we can move on. 59 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:11.479 Oh, Amy tells me we are, We are using unsecured 60 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:15.120 Oh well, why are we doing that? I thought we 61 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:18.120 learned our lesson from Hillary Clinton and her private email server. 62 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:20.919 Then then we go through this already, we already know 63 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:23.759 you're not supposed to use anything except government secured. 64 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:25.159 We didn't. 65 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:28.400 And don't you find it very strange that they're talking 66 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:31.840 about war plans or launching strikes or you know, the 67 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:36.840 specific zhivicy on a text message? Yeah, that just is 68 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:39.639 so bizarre and apparently Karen Travers was telling us this 69 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:42.879 text string went on for days. 70 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:46.840 Yeah, which is like, hey guys, you hanging this weekend? 71 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:51.599 Who's in We're gonna start, We're going to meet it to. 72 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:57.479 Sizzler and then we're gonna make our way to what's 73 00:03:57.479 --> 00:03:59.000 the next thing good, Then we'll go to the game 74 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:01.879 and then maybe pizza Hut after. 75 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:04.240 I don't know whatever it is. So here's what was 76 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:04.680 going on. 77 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:07.360 Is it sounds like you had a number of high 78 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:10.360 end officials who were planning this attack in Yemen and 79 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:13.000 this was going to be on the hooty Rebels, right. 80 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:18.079 They were using the Signal messaging app. Now, Signal messaging 81 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:22.720 app is a little more secure than say Reddit. Signal 82 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:25.319 has end to end encryption, which does make it more 83 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:29.560 difficult to breach, but it is certainly not classified and it's. 84 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:31.160 Not what they call this skiff, you know. The skiff 85 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:32.240 is the high. 86 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:37.120 End the secured classified information chambers that they set up. 87 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:40.519 And so they were using this messaging app and it 88 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:44.439 sounds like we had the Secretary of Defense, we had 89 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:47.120 the Vice president, we had the National Security Advisor, and 90 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:53.240 then the National Security Advisor seems to inadvertently added the 91 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:58.439 phone number of a journalist. There are a lot of 92 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:03.120 questions swirling, like, how do you inadvertently add a journalist? 93 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:05.319 You have to have their phone number. 94 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:07.680 Did the journalists just happen to share the same name 95 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:10.040 or contact information, or was his phone number one digit 96 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:14.800 off of somebody else's it. The whole story is incredibly bizarre. 97 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:16.759 We'll talk more about this coming up at seven o'clock. 98 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:19.120 But the whole thing is bizarre because now we're using 99 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:22.480 this messaging app, reporter's been added. Reporter thought it was 100 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:25.439 a hoax because the reporter, to Amy's point, how odd 101 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:29.319 that they would use a messaging app to discuss war plans. 102 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:32.240 And he thought, this can't be real. Somebody's trying to 103 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:34.759 somebody's fishing here, somebody's trying to catch me. 104 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:36.959 I no, he says. 105 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:39.079 And then all of a sudden, they did start attacking 106 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:42.920 the houthy militants in Yemen. So and they did so 107 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:46.439 according to all of the different plans that were laid 108 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:49.240 out during this messaging app. Now, Pete Hegseith, the Secretary 109 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:52.000 of Defenses, we were not laying out any sort of 110 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:56.519 war plans. But also this journalist is stupid. You got 111 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:01.199 to understand journalists is dumb and nobody should believe the journalists. 112 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:02.920 And their their their dumbness. 113 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:06.319 The problem is the journalists brought receipts, as the kids 114 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:10.560 would say, and so with the journalists providing screenshots of 115 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:15.759 exactly went down, makes it very difficult to discredit the journalist. Again, 116 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:20.279 receipts are there. So this story is developing. No word 117 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:23.199 on whether or not Hillary Clinton's emails have ever been 118 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:27.639 found to be incorrect. What will be interesting, though the 119 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:30.120 Democrats are attacking this, is an unforced there by the Republicans. 120 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:32.399 The Democrats are attacking this, but it's going to be 121 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:34.360 very difficult for the Democrats to attack it because they 122 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:38.639 spent so long defending Hillary Clinton's private server usage. So 123 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:43.040 the only attack that they have is not necessarily that 124 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:49.439 they use the unsecured chat although again end to end encryption. 125 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:54.000 What they're going to argue is that the Republicans are hypocrites, 126 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:55.959 and I don't think the Republicans care. This isn't going 127 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:57.920 to cost any votes. It just is going to raise 128 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:03.160 some eyebrows along the way, Amy King, do you live? 129 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:06.639 Nation has settled because no one wants to go to court. 130 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:09.560 Right Live Nation has agreed to a twenty million dollars 131 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:13.240 settlement with its investors over the claims that the company 132 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:17.120 did not disclose risks of business practices that exposed the 133 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:22.079 firm to federal antitrust action. What kinds of business practices, Well, 134 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:30.120 things like charging high fees, bundling service, retaliating against venues 135 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:35.879 that used non Ticketmaster ticketing services. The lawsuit had claimed. 136 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:41.000 The legal risks included a Justice Department investigation after Taylor 137 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:44.560 Swift Ara's tour on sale. Remember that whole Debaco where 138 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:47.079 it crashed the system and people couldn't get tickets and 139 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:50.560 all of that. Yeah, so they said their business practices 140 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:53.920 exposed those investors to legal risks and they settled. 141 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:57.360 Oh so they got rid of that. Doesn't this feel like? 142 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:00.720 This feels like we were arguing over ticket Master and. 143 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:06.720 Their business practices when Pearl Jam was complaining about them 144 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:10.360 back in the nineties. Thank god, what's old is new again? 145 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:14.600 I guess if you'll recall a few years back, we got. 146 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:14.959 A new. 147 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:20.000 Head of the postal service, Lewis de Joy, and he 148 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:23.040 came in and he started streamlining. He said, I'm going 149 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:25.160 to start cutting things and you may remember the photographs 150 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:27.000 of pulling some of the old equipment out and that 151 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:31.839 was being pushed out and disabled, and people were concerned 152 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:33.039 about will votes be counted? 153 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:35.519 Is this a way to delay the count on some 154 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:36.080 of these votes? 155 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:39.840 This is back in twenty sixteen, I think anyway, Now 156 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:42.919 Lewis de Joy is resigning as the head of the 157 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:47.600 Postal Service. So now the Postal Service, we don't know 158 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:50.360 what the future is going to be because there are calls. 159 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:52.000 For privatizing the US Postal Service. 160 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:56.519 The Trump administration is scrutinizing Uspsdjoy said that while the 161 00:08:56.519 --> 00:08:58.799 two hundred and fifty year old service had made beneficial 162 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:01.120 change to what had been in a drift in morb 163 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:04.039 an organization, there's still more work to be done. 164 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:05.159 He says. 165 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:06.919 It's been one of the pleasures of my life and 166 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:09.039 a crowning achievement of my career to have been associated 167 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:10.360 with his cherished institution. 168 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:14.600 So oh I. 169 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:17.840 Said twenty sixteen, No, it was a twenty twenty sod 170 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:21.600 Joia was appointed Postmaster General during the pandemic. He announced 171 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:23.639 plans actually that he was going to resign or that 172 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:24.600 he was going to retire. 173 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:25.720 Now he's just done it. 174 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:29.679 And we'll see what happens, because there's been conversation about 175 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:35.600 turning the postal service over to another government agency in 176 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:38.639 order to once again streamline what's going on. 177 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:41.360 And it's time to make a plan for summer. Yosemite 178 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:45.120 National Park has announced reservations are open for summer camping. 179 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:47.120 I haven't camped there in so long. It's so beautiful. 180 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:52.759 New reservation system and staff cuts caused delays in opening 181 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:57.279 up the reservation system back in February. The reservations were 182 00:09:57.320 --> 00:09:59.879 put on hold because they had to get approval for 183 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:04.639 to implement a new implement a new reservation system, and 184 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:10.159 then came the cuts, the DOGE cuts. But now they're 185 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:16.399 saying those people have been hired back and they're good 186 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:20.000 to go, and the reservation systems approved and they're gonna 187 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:21.879 take the reservations starting now. 188 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:24.919 If you got doged and then they called you and 189 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:27.600 they said, oops, we weren't supposed to doge, you would 190 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:28.279 you go back? 191 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:33.080 If I worked in a national park, probably probably a cool. 192 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:34.759 Nues that's true. Yeah, you make a good point, you 193 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:36.960 make it. I guess it depends on the job. But 194 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:40.120 if I'm just if I'm somebody working in an office 195 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:43.080 job for the government. I'm immediately trying to get my 196 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:44.960 resume out so somebody else will hire me, because I 197 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:48.639 don't want to deal with that that insecurity of wondering 198 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:50.159 if my job is going to be there tomorrow. We 199 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:54.440 doesn't have any idea to Venezuela. We have spoken more 200 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:56.600 about Venezuela in the last three weeks and I think 201 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:01.720 we ever have in the past. Donald Trump saying yesterday 202 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:03.679 that he is going to impose a twenty five percent 203 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:08.639 tariff on any nation that purchases oil from Venezuela, saying, 204 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:11.639 Venezuela has been very hostile to the United States and 205 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:15.600 the freedoms which we espouse. Therefore, any country that purchases 206 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:18.039 oil and or gas from Venezuela will be forced to 207 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:19.960 pay a tariff of twenty five percent to the United 208 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:24.000 States on any trade they do with our country. So 209 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:28.480 he's claimed that Venezuela has purposefully and deceitfully sent criminals, 210 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:32.360 including violent individuals and members of gangs to the United States. 211 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:35.120 My favorite is when he says that they are sending 212 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:38.799 people from insane asylums. I don't think anyone has used 213 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:42.000 the phrase insane asylums since the nineteen seventies. But by god, 214 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:44.639 we hear they're sending people from insane asylums, and that 215 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:46.960 just makes me giggle every time I hear it. So 216 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:52.320 Venezuela is attacking us by sending gang members, and so 217 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:55.639 we are going to impose tariffs, which of course will 218 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:59.600 raise prices on everything for the Americans, and that'll show. 219 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:02.600 Back to you. I got nothing else. 220 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:07.720 Not so warm welcome. Denmark's prime minister had some not 221 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:17.320 so welcoming words at information that Trump's administration is sending 222 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:20.759 a delegation to Greenland this week. She says it's putting 223 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:25.879 unacceptable pressure on Greenland. Trump of course has his site 224 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:30.919 set on seizing Greenland and using it as reserves of 225 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:35.200 critical minerals, and of course strategically it's a pretty strong 226 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:40.279 location in the Arctic. The prime minister said that, or 227 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:44.120 said that Greenlandic representatives were clear they do not want 228 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:46.679 a visit now, and added, we don't even have a 229 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:50.480 government because they just had elections. Oh yeah, but anyway, 230 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:53.279 Usha Advance is leading the delegation that's head in there 231 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:55.080 on Thursday. 232 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:57.080 So what is she going to do? Is she going 233 00:12:57.159 --> 00:12:59.080 to plant the flag and claim it for America? 234 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:02.879 I don't know. I Mike Wallas is going too, but yeah, 235 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:04.399 I was kind of curious why she's going. 236 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:07.679 We will check with the Atlantic and see if they 237 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:10.240 got any text messages about what the plans are. 238 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:12.240 Can you give us an update on the Greenland visit? 239 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.720 Yeah, we may have. We may be sharing that information too. Yeah. 240 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.759 I don't know how this is. I don't know how 241 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:21.399 this plays out, that we somehow end up with Greenland. 242 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:25.600 This feels like a massive distraction. I understand the strategic 243 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:27.879 value of it in the Arctic Circle. We have a 244 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:31.679 very very small piece of the Arctic Circle in northern Alaska. 245 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:34.320 That's the only claim to the area that we have. 246 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:37.960 So with Trump talking about Canada and Greenland, it's like 247 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:40.679 he's trying to take a great deal of that Arctic Circle. 248 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:44.559 I just don't think either Greenland or Canada are suddenly 249 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:45.320 going to say. 250 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:49.519 Oh, you know what, we win the wave of this invitation. Yeah, 251 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:50.360 I just don't see it. 252 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:51.759 Well, I didn't know this. 253 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:52.080 We do. 254 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:55.159 We have a military base on Greenland. We used to 255 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:58.080 have like more was it twenty or thirty We were 256 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:01.200 talking to our White House correspondent on Decker there was 257 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.159 like twenty or thirty bases on Greenland at some point. 258 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:08.960 Now we don't have those, well, exactly, we've got the one. 259 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:12.000 Well could we reopen those? Is that? 260 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:15.639 Is that an issue? I just wonder what the endgame is. 261 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:18.000 One thing about Trump is what we know how the 262 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:21.120 deal works, right, and that is that you say I 263 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:23.879 want this, I want so much, and if you don't 264 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:25.679 give it to me, there's going to be hell to pay. 265 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:29.840 And then they negotiate down to something else and they go, Okay, 266 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:31.840 well you're obviously not going to get all of that, 267 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.279 but we will let you reopen ten bases or something 268 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:35.480 like that. 269 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:37.799 Right, So, I mean, maybe that's the end goal. I 270 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:39.519 don't have any idea. I just don't. 271 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:42.960 I don't know what the I don't know what the 272 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:47.879 negotiating goal is when he talks about these things. Meanwhile, 273 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.240 Greater Los Angeles a rental market facing increased competition. According 274 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:54.879 to new research from rent Cafe, the wildfire is adding 275 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:57.759 uncertainty to the rental market outlook. Don't know exactly how 276 00:14:57.759 --> 00:14:59.440 that's going to play out as well. The data shows 277 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:01.799 both eastern and western Los Angeles County have become more 278 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:06.360 challenging for renters compared to early twenty twenty four Eastern 279 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:09.759 La County, which includes parts of La Long Beach, Pasadena, Pomona, 280 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:13.639 and Downy, more than half the renters are renewing their leases. 281 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:16.240 That's up from just shy of half a year ago. 282 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:20.679 Rerant Cafe reporting that that suggests that renters are prioritizing stability. 283 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:21.440 They're not moving around. 284 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:23.159 In fact, they're hanging out of their place because they 285 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:24.840 don't want to have to try to find someplace else. 286 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:30.159 Apartment supply has gone up slightly from last year, which 287 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:33.720 is good occupancy rate ninety six percent, So if you're 288 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:38.000 looking for a place, your selections are not. 289 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:41.320 Huge. 290 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:45.039 Apartments vacant for an average of just about six weeks. 291 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:48.799 They say competition is intense and they are only about 292 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:54.080 there are about thirteen perspective renters available per unit. Wow, yeah, 293 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:56.000 which means you are fighting with everybody else if you 294 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:57.279 want to get in. And you wonder why rent is 295 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:58.759 so high, it's because they can charge whatever they want. 296 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:01.679 They've got thirteen people trying to get an abyate every rental. 297 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:04.639 Yeah, and an extra what ten thousand people who need 298 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:06.360 a place to stay thanks to the ryers. 299 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:08.919 Right, So now what do you do? 300 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:10.720 This is why so many people that have a place 301 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:14.399 aren't They're not jumping ship, they're just signing renewals. I 302 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:18.039 don't know. I really don't know. If you're looking for 303 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:21.320 a place, I don't know what you do. What a 304 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:23.720 tough situation to be in. And even if you can 305 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:27.080 find a place, can you afford it? And if you are, 306 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:29.440 if you're a homeowner. In fact, Anne and I were 307 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.480 talking about this yesterday, it feels like if you're a 308 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:37.279 homeowner in southern California, I mean anywhere in southern California here, 309 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:43.840 Orange County, La County, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura. Always, 310 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.679 if you are a homeowner, you are in one of 311 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:49.039 two camps. You either have owned your home for a 312 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:51.559 while and you are house rich, meaning you have a 313 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:53.120 lot of equity. You might not have a whole lot 314 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:54.519 in your bank account, but you have a lot of 315 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:57.480 equity in your house. And so your house rich or 316 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:01.559 your house poor, which means and you could potentially be both, 317 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:05.839 because if your house poor means are you are dedicating 318 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:11.000 a significant amount, far more than recommended of your salary 319 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:15.319 your earnings to paying for your mortgage. And so if 320 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:17.440 that's the case, it's possible you have a bunch of 321 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:20.480 equity in your home and you're also paying a ton 322 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:24.240 on your home. You may still be house poor, paying 323 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:27.839 say forty to fifty percent of your salary to your mortgage, 324 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:29.759 but have a bunch of equity in your home. The 325 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:31.599 good news is if something were to change in your life, 326 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:33.519 you could always sell your house and then take that 327 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:39.839 equity and move someplace cheaper like Cheyenne, because who doesn't 328 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:40.839 want to be in Cheyenne. 329 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:42.559 It's a nice place to be. 330 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:46.799 Is it sunny in eighty in Cheyenne in market right now? 331 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:47.880 No? No, it is not. 332 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:53.160 Nope, it's not. But you can afford it. So you 333 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:58.000 just describe the sunshine tax I think, Amy King, would 334 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:01.319 you accept diamonds that have been processed? 335 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:10.039 Uh? I don't know. Here's what happened after and nearly 336 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:12.640 a month, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of diamond 337 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:15.920 ear rings have now been recovered from a man accused 338 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:21.799 of stealing them. So Jason Gilder or Jaython Gilder, I'll 339 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:25.759 get to that from Houston, Texas was arrested on February 340 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:30.599 twenty sixth after allegedly robbing a Tiffany and Company store 341 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:35.440 in Orlando. During his arrest, Gilder was seen swallowing a 342 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:40.480 few items. Well, that was February twenty sixth, and on 343 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:45.519 March tenth, detectives recovered three of the four Tiffany and 344 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:49.960 Company diamond ear rings, and then the fourth ear ring 345 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:51.960 was recovered on March twelfth. 346 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:54.279 Oh, so they must have done surgery. 347 00:18:53.920 --> 00:19:00.880 Then Nope, they just waited for nature to take its course. 348 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:04.359 And then they they took the ear rings and went 349 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:07.880 back and cleaned them. And I don't know are they 350 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:10.640 going to try to sell them. Maybe there's a discount. 351 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:13.359 I would think there's got to be a discount on that. 352 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:16.880 Do you suppose that he also swallowed the blue box? 353 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:18.119 No? 354 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:22.240 Or just the earrings? The just the earringstulf. 355 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:23.440 Athough you remember, you know, I mean if they're if 356 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:25.519 they depends if they were clip ons or if they 357 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:28.119 were pierced ear rings. You know, they have the studs. 358 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:30.680 You think that could get caught up somewhere along. 359 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:35.039 Oh yeah, oh that'll that'll shred your your innards. You 360 00:19:35.160 --> 00:19:38.640 don't want to swallow those. It's like it's like trying 361 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:39.640 to pass nails. 362 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:44.759 Here's the more interesting part there were four freeze. 363 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:46.559 What is more interesting than that. 364 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:52.319 Four diamond ear rings? Yeah, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. 365 00:19:54.119 --> 00:19:57.400 I just think that the value on those hundreds of thousands. 366 00:19:57.640 --> 00:19:59.200 You make a really great point. 367 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:01.880 I still don't think I want to them. 368 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:03.720 I think you have to sell them at a discounted rate 369 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:06.640 at this point, don't you buy? Do they go on 370 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:09.400 a little clearance shelf at Tiffany's, Like when you walk 371 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:13.480 in the store it says fifty percent off. I think 372 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:15.240 I would buy those from my wife. I just wouldn't 373 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:18.440 tell her. If somebody brought you a little blue box 374 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:20.440 with Tiffany's diamond earrings in it that were all shiny 375 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:22.839 when you open the box, it's not like you're gonna 376 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:25.839 smell them, so you would go, oh my gosh, you 377 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:28.119 got me Tiffany's. These They are beautiful. I love you 378 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:31.519 so much, and you just you don't tell her. You 379 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:34.880 don't share that they were. 380 00:20:35.079 --> 00:20:38.440 Processed, and it's not like you're going to ask, honey, 381 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:40.640 these are beautiful, but did somebody swallow them and then 382 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:42.519 they had to poop them out to run back? 383 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:44.480 That's it doesn't come up in conversation. 384 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:46.000 So I think you're safe. 385 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:48.680 Yeah, absolutely all right right. 386 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:52.559 In fact, my wife's engagement ring, which he still wears, 387 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:56.920 was recovered during a kulidoscopy. So I got a good 388 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:03.839 deal on that. I got that from poo Nile get it. No, 389 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:08.720 getting a lot, no, no, un noted airlines flying from 390 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:11.039 Los Angeles to China had to turn around. 391 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:12.519 Whoops. 392 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:15.519 One of the pilots took off, but he forgot something 393 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:20.480 his passport that's frowned upon. So the flight took off 394 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:23.880 from lax at two o'clock Saturday, two hundred and fifty 395 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:26.599 seven passengers on board, thirteen crew members getting ready to 396 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:29.000 settle in for that long flight bound for Shanghai. Two 397 00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:33.000 hours later, the pilot says, cower. 398 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:33.920 This year is flight one. 399 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:38.920 They're gonna make a return to the runway. It seems 400 00:21:39.079 --> 00:21:41.440 I forgot my wallet. So they turned around headed back 401 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:44.559