April 26, 2024 • 32 mins
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. USC cancels main graduation ceremony over protests, valedictorian controversy. Supreme Court on Donald Trump’s immunity claims: Key moments, explained. Choose between stability and ‘downward spiral,’ China tells Blinken during Beijing trip. Biden and 17 world leaders call for release of hostages held by Hamas. TikTok ban: Chinese owner Bytedance denies it’s willing to sell as US ban looms. Allstate could resume issuing new California home insurance policies.
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You're listening to Bill handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. You know
what they should do. They shouldjust take knives to their little hoofs and
then people can shoot them and saythat it was self defense. You guys
all suck, but no, youhave to do so. And it's you
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know, it's wow. You can'tdo that. They're invasive, they're wiping
out habitat. Let's do it humanly. Okay, yeah, by shooting them
back we go helicopter gunships with machineguns. Just and now handle on the
news, ladies and gentlemen. Here'sBill Handleman, and good morning everybody.
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It is a cooty Friday, Apriltwenty six, and let's say hello to
one and all. Good morning,Anne, Oh I'm first, awesome.
Hi, Yeah, you're first today. Yes, yes, And then let's
go to Amy Amy, Good morning, Good morning, Bill, Happy Friday.
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Oh, thank you so much.Kno, good morning. What's up?
Bill? Not much? Thank youfor pressing the button to make me.
Uh so I can hear programming.I thought it wasn't going to work,
and then you press the button andall of a sudden I could hear
progam programming. Uh, that's correct. And then finally it is Neil savedra
Neil, good morning, fourth screwedyou hand on? Yeah, exactly.
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The reason I bring up Neil Neillast is because Neil will not be here
during Foody Friday. He is takinghis wife to the doctor this morning for
a procedure. You won't even sharewith me. So, Neil, why
don't you share it with the restof us? It's none of my business.
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It's an ADDICTOMYU. So hello,I don't even know what an adicctomy
is. No, I wouldn't thinkso uh okay, yes I do.
Yeah, it took you a second. Yeah. So instead, okay,
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so nothing. Instead of this morningFriday, we're gonna have Jane Wells,
who is going to join us,and so that should be a lot of
fun. Wow, Okay, NeilAmy, you know what I'm going to
ask you guys? Do uh Forsome reason? And this happens to me
occasionally I get a case of vertigoand right now things are spinning and the
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good news has never happened while I'mdriving. So I okay, here we
go. Uh it's uh, Ican do this. You ready to do
it? Just came on? Areyou? Okay? Yeah? I just
came on. You know, it'sinteresting. Right as I was saying hello
to everybody, it just came on. Sometimes I get a case of rear
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window and Hitchcock reference. Oh okay, got her? Yeah Vertigo rear window.
Yeah, north by North South orright wicked north by Wicked Witch of
the East. What's movie Case ofthe Birds? Yeah? That pretty well
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describes this show, doesn't it?Yes? But are you dehydrated? Bill?
You know, I don't know.I don't think so. Maybe I
am. But it's, uh,it's kind of interesting. I mean,
it really is. Okay, I'llget it for a couple of seconds and
then I really get it, Andtoday I'm I've got it pretty good.
So let's do it, guys.I think I can pull this off.
If we're ready to go, I'mhand on the news on this Friday morning
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with Amy and Neil and me leadstory. Cancel s Is canceled the main
graduation ceremony. If the protesters wantedthat happening, it did? They have
one and they are sc IS tryingto figure something out. But the main
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graduation is finished, and people arenot very happy because there are people that
didn't graduate during the pandemic. Whoare scheduled to graduate now and there.
Well, I'm not talking about graduatingper se. I'm talking about the ceremony,
and they're not going to be ableto do it. Sixty five thousand
people show up to this graduation.Yeah, that's two weeks out. So
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you've got people who probably purchased aairline ticket. Oh absolutely absolutely. And
they're saying, we have many newactivities and celebrations to make this meaningful.
Well, usually they have the differentschools. They do have celebration. PhDs
and Social Work for example, willbe a separate graduation and their names actually
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are mentioned as they go across thestage and handle the diploma and congratulations that
sort of business. The main school, for example, the bachelor's degrees,
you don't get your name mentioned becauseyou just take too long. So here's
what they're doing. They're adding meaningful, memorable, uniquely sc events in places
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together with family, friends, facultyand staff. Celebratory release of the doves,
while the skate club skeet shooting clubis showing a demonstration, oh boy,
and performance is by the Trojan MarchingBand for example. But all right,
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so I'm going to be doing moreabout that at seven point thirty because
there is a real story behind that. I think depends on how long the
other segments go. We've been talkingabout the other segments going a little bit
longer. Sometimes I do two segmentswhere we're scheduled for one. Depending on
doing two schedule instead of one.What's with the behind the scenes. I
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always go behind the scenes. Comeon, Neil, You know I do
a lot of inside baseball. Ilike baseball. Yeah, it was,
you know, for example the awardsceremony that you know, what does Someone
talked about my star on the HollywoodWalk of Fame, and in reference to
it, I stood up and Iwas part of when I accepted the award
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saying, let me give you someinside baseball about this star. All right,
it's all about location. Don't gettoo impressed. If you're outside the
Pantagious Theater that's Beverly Hills. Ifyou go down past Cherokee in Hollywood Boulevard
where my star is, you wantto look at it, you won't be
able to because there's a guy ina tent living right over it. I
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go out there, and you know, some people put flowers and then they
wash them's out there. I puta fresh roll of toilet paper for the
homeless. And you know why becausepeople also curb their dog and go that's
where you go, right there,and they train their dog every day like
clockwork inside baseball. Okay, okay, absolute immunity on the line. The
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Supreme Court heard more than two anda half hours of arguments on the landmark
question of whether former President Trump isimmune from prosecution in a case that charges
him with plotting to overturn the twentytwenty presidential election. There was talk of
drone strikes and presidential bribes, ofa potential ruling for the Ages, and
of the founding fathers. Yeah,by the way, Trump's name came up
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once or twice. The justices werethey were not interested, particularly in this
case, which is kind of shocking. It was, as Gorsag said,
this is a ruling for the ages. How could it not be Well,
it could have been very narrow.They could have said, just in this
case. Supreme Court does that allthe time. So I'm going to talk
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more about that. At seven twenty, Chinese leader Ji Jinping said that the
US and China should be friends,partners rather than adversaries. They met with
top American diplomat Anthony Blincoln just theearlier today, well, it being today
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earlier for China than now. Yeah, and it's pablom. While China is
screwing us over and over again,the Chinese authority, including President Ping,
is pinging us so good, Bill, this is why you're here, is
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telling us, oh no, no, we want normal relations. We love
you, you love us, andyou're really doing a miserable job in terms
of, for example, white danceand TikTok and accusing us of all kinds
of things which we're not doing,which they are doing. This is what
the Chinese do, play the longgame, and that's just just the way
they operate. A show of solidarity, President Biden and the leaders of seventeen
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countries have all joined forces and calledfor the release of hostages held by the
Palestinian militant group Hamas. Yeah,as I've said many times, none of
the demonstrators are calling for the releaseof hostages, which would sort of turbo
peace talks. Hamas is not interestedat all. Israel actually did come to
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the table a couple of months agoor a month ago, saying let's talk
about the release of hostages. Onthe Ramas side, once they release all
the hostages, they have no moreammunition. There's nothing more they can argue
with. There, there's nothing morethat they have in their well, their
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ammunition that they have that they canhold Israel accountable and say, hey,
here's why we want to move forward, because we're holding your hostages. That's
all gone, and now Israel hasfree reign and that's why Hamas is doing
that. And it's just a messbetween Hamas and the Israeli government. So
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here's the other part of it isthat Biden and the seventeen world leaders are
saying, let's go ahead and cuta deal, release of hostages on both
sides, and a permanent ceasefire.Okay, is that going to happen?
Who knows what happens when Hamas onceagain attacks. That's the fear, because
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Hamas has already said they're going toattack. Oh is Zeel comes back in
and flattens everything that's left. Imean, there is at this point no
peace. I don't see a wayout of it right now. At least
you have these world leaders saying therelease by hostages should be on the table,
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not the demonstrations. Demonstrations do notcall for Hamas to do anything,
just Israel to stop. So thereisn't a lot of reality there interesting twists.
Some mass officials are saying that themilitant group terrorists could give up armed
struggle against Israel if the Palestinians getan independent state in territories that were captured
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by Israel beck in the nineteen sixtyseven war. Yeah, a little issue
with that. Kamasa's charter still callsfor the destruction of Israel. That's a
problem. And there is one memberwho has said this of Kamasa's political bureau,
who is Istan Bull. Said thegroup would agree to disarm if that
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independent Palestinian state was established. Thetwo state solution, which is the only
solution that makes any sense whatsoever.But the problem is not solved unless Hamas
recognizes Israel, which it does not, and Israel recognizes Palestine and that is
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the West Bank and Gaza, whichit does not as a state. And
then and look at the let's sayPalestine, you have the West Bank,
which is this fairly big area,and then you have this little tiny strip,
I mean a little tiny strip ofland on the other side. So
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you have a country that's in theuh that is on both sides of Israel.
That is a problem. So Idon't think this is going to go
anywhere. I hope it does,but I don't think it's going to go
anywhere. Well, speaking of somethingthat's not going anywhere, kind of something
their noses that Congress, byte Dancesays we're not selling TikTok. The parent
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company of TikTok is Byteedance. Itsaid it has no plans to sell its
social media platform, which is itsfirst official will response since President Biden signed
the bill that could lead to anationwide fan of TikTok if it doesn't sell.
Yeah, well, I'm glad thatit has decided, that has made
a decision that the Senate in theHouse and the President signed is now a
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bill is now law that it hasto sell TikTok or it's going to be
banned in the US. Now they'rearguing First Amendment. They're arguing that the
government cannot overrule First Amendment First Amendmentrights. And the CEO of TikTok went
forward and just blasted it and onlytalked about First Amendment and how valuable TikTok
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is to the users and how importantit is to particularly young people and how
eight thousand vendors actually make their livingoff of TikTok. Didn't mention a word
about the fact that it is achiny owned company that's based in Beijing.
That one was sort of off thetable. And you think that was the
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point of this law. Now,yeah, but you'll see you go to
court. I mean, this willmove up, there's no question about it.
I thought it was kind of funnythat they cited the First Amendment.
Yeah, like, I don't thinkthat is allowed in China. No,
yeah, it is not. Nowthey're arguing that it really has nothing to
do with China, and the Chinesehave not yet asked for any information the
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Chinese government, and he said,and if they were to ask, we
would say no. Hmm, Chinesecompany saying no to the Chinese government.
We're not gonna let this happen.But it is always hilarious amy that we
get these things used against us,and it's like, you don't have that
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in your own country, No youdon't. Now they're arguing that the American
version of byte Dance really is notconnected to the ownership. That is a
sept totally separate I mean, they'renot arguing it's not owned by byte Edance,
but TikTok, but that it istotally separate and is not connected to
or under the control. I don'tknow about that. You know, no
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one else is buying it. Inwake of recent violence on the death buses
and the like here in Los Angeles, La Metro approves plan to install full
length protective barriers for the bus drivers, which is fantastic. Now you're going
to need acrylic boxes for all thepassengers as well, and then we'll be
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good. Yeah, And you know, I think the way they're going to
do it, and I don't knowhow else they do it other than you
go to the bank and you haveto put your money and everything underneath it
in this slot. Oh yeah,and that's the only way to protect the
bus drivers from this crazy I wouldn'tdo that. What a what a horrible
job. And the way they're treatedbus drivers on the roads, you know,
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nobody's giving them the right away.Nobody's like, what a rough gig.
And then to have somebody stabby,stabby, shooty, shooty, punchy
punchy when you're a severely boring job. I've never met a bus driver after
fifteen years who says I love thisjob. I see some drivers here are
and you know, they give awave and appreciate you giving the right away
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and all these things. But stillit's like it's not like you get a
lot of love and appreciation. No, And that's and then by the way,
the love or the waving and gwelcome a board doesn't mean that they're
not bored with it. It's justthat they like people. Maybe they're not.
Usually it's bus drivers who drive forschools, drive kids to schools that
love their job first to leave andmaybe first to return. Huh. All
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State says it might start writing newhome policies again if the California Department of
Insurance approved some rule changes. Asyou recall, All State stopped writing new
homeowner policies in late twenty twenty twobecause of wildfire risk and also because it's
so expensive to rebuild the homes.And now three insurers that cover forty percent
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of the homes in California have eitherpaused new policies or put strict caps on
them because of this. But nowthey say that they might be back and
start writing new new policies again assoon. It's like the end of the
year. Yeah, which was interesting, which they have to go in front
of the insurance commissioner, because that'sthe way it works in California. No
matter what rates they want, ithas to go down or up whatever.
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The insurance commissioner says. A coupleof times the rates have dropped actually when
certain things have happened. For example, when it's collected too much money and
needed refunds, and the insurance commissionersaid, whatever circumstances you make too much
money, refund But that happens veryrarely. The point is is that they
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want a big increase. The insurancecommission is going to say, yes,
there's no question about it, andthey in all State is in view of
that going forward. Now don't youfind all State bailing out of California and
still keeping its name all State.It should be all but one state.
That is correct. That is thename that All State should use in California.
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Why don't they just do Why don'tthe commission say, listen, if
you're going to be a national provider, you have to provide for at least
that you know, contiguous states.Because this is a state issue. That's
for starters. There is no nationalissue as to home insurance. It is
definitely controlled by the states. Andsecond of all, it is very different
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in North Dakota relative to California.North Dakota doesn't have many hurricanes hitting it.
North Dakota does an well, Icould have wildfires. Where do they
not have wildfires? But if youhave what if you have these companies pulling
out of one particular state, thenit's like, okay, what are you
going to do for insurance? Agood point. I'll tell you what did
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I do for insurance? Because Ihad an all state policy or state farm,
I don't remember, and they saidyou're done in November last November,
and I couldn't get I was bearefor two weeks because they wouldn't renew,
and I finally found a policy thatmost of us don't have your kind of
money. That's not the point.The point is that The point is I
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couldn't find insurance, and when Idid find it, it was twice the
value, yes, twice as mucha cost. Bind it. We can't
pay for it. That's exactly thepoint. Mine doubled. That's not the
point that I can afford it.Mine doubled, and my deductible went up
and the coverage went down. That'swhat I'm saying. And oh, okay,
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fine, so I have enough moneyto afford it, now what But
I'm saying for the rest of usthat can So it's like we that's correct,
that's all. I'm giving you anexample of what happened to me,
that's all. And by the way, a lot of people don't do ninety
percent of their shopping at Costco.I do. It's an example of my
life. I know. I cansee your shirt, a Costco shirt.
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There you go. I rest mycase. Talk about a bump and pay.
Mayor Karen Bass picked someone to leadthe Los Angeles Department of Water Power.
Well guess what they're going to earnseven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a
year, almost twice as much asher predecessor. So good on you,
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lady. Yeah, it's this isa weird one because people are bitching and
moaning, how do you double thesalary? Well, DWP is an outlier
to begin with. It's nothing likemost other utilities around the country. It's
a nonprofit. It belongs to thecity actually, and which is always a
nonprofit, and it's just totally different. Owns its own power plants, which
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very few now do because they soldthem off during the run period. And
when you look at seven hundred andfifty thousand dollars, it's about the going
rate for utilities that are not privatelyowned. For privately owned utilities, it's
in the millions and millions of dollarsof the CEO. Remember this is a
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multi billion dollar company, is whatyou're talking about. So seven point fifty
actually is not incredible, it's notinsane. Now we were behind it looks
like, yeah, we were.And the skill set is unbelievable that you
need. Yeah, you can beable to run it into the ground.
Yeah and on it poorly well said. So far, so good, no
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work, no problem, at leastaccording to lawmakers. The lawmakers are trying
again to provide unemployment benefits to workerswho are on strike. In California,
State Senator Anthony Portantino from Burbank andState Senator Maria Elena Derazzo from Los Angeles
put up the bill that would makeworkers eligible to get unemployment benefits after being
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on strike for fourteen days. Theypassed this last year, but then Governor
Newsom vetoed it. Yeah, Imean think about this, you go on
strike, that's voluntarily not going towork. You go on strike at any
other field, if you're working,you go on strike, you leave voluntarily,
you don't get you don't get unemploymentinsurance. That's the law. And
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so now they're saying, well,when it comes to striking, you can
collect money, which of course takesaway the basic tenet of striking, the
basic philosophy we're not going to work, the company is not going to make
money. It shuts down effectively,and now we really start talking. This
takes away all or a lot ofthe incentives for the strikers to actually sit
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down, negotiate and agree to newmoney, new benefits. So why is
there a law that says the companiesstill can sell or will subsidize a company?
So because at that point we aresubsidizing the state London. There's an
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argument though about unemployment too, becauseyou put into it. But still it's
California is great for workers, great, so when it comes to strikers,
that's not considered a voluntary ceasing ofwork in which you're not entitled unemployment.
We take care of everybody here inCalifornia, including except for businesses. Yeah,
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oh no, it's a horrible placefor me. For business and for
wealthy people. It's a horrible placeto have money. I'm sorry, no,
it's it's true. It's true.It's also a necessary place to have
money. Yeah, the well putamy the mansion tax kicks in the tax
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over a million dollar income. Now, granted, that is a lot of
money, and most of us don'tmake a billion dollar income. But very
few other states say, if youmake a lot of money, we're gonna
nail you far more than just thegraduated income tax, which we have in
every state. So California, it'sit's tougher to make money, and you're
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absolutely right, But the benefits keeppeople here too, businesses, because the
skill set of the workers, becauseof the temperature, I mean, the
climate. It's just a neat place. Because so many of us like sitting
on the four oh five and campingout there twice a day because it's a
parking lot. We just love it. Well, if you camp out long
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enough, you can get all kindsof subsidies here, that's correct California.
Yeah, and you don't need atent. All you need is your car
on the four five and there's anencampment. You know what else you can
get in a California school, youcan get Helal and Kosher school meals with
the Helal and Kosher School Meals Act, a proposed bill in the California legislature
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would require schools to provide kosher andwall mills meals if more than five percent
of the students request those kinds ofmeals. You know how many students are
going to request those kinds of meals? Zero? No, the other way
around, Kosher meals are better,their better quality because it takes a lot
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of stuff to make them hideously expensive. When the airlines used to give meals,
if you called ahead and asked fora kosher meal, you got a
much better meal. And they paybuckets of money, the airlines, And
they don't do it anymore for thatwhat they don't know? They don't give
you meals. Oh now peanuts arekosher. How is this not a separation
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of church and state. Well,because it's not. I don't want to
go into it. Because the schoolsays that California or the schools have to
give kids meals under whatever government programthere is, and they're who's going to
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sue? That's a California thing though, right, Yeah, I don't get
deals there's federal there's federal you know, mandates in terms of nutritional requirements,
et cetera. But California is nowgoing beyond and saying the Halal and Kosher
Schools Meals Act. What about Rustafarianscan get they get pop brownies. Yeah,
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and you can argue, well,vegetarian also, they always have vegetarian
meals available. But vegetarian isn't areligious It is for some people. Yeah,
but it's not. It's not acrossthe board. No, either is
KOSHERI there is halal. Let's takea break because we're not going to keep
on arguing this. Oh, youhave a good point, Neil. Some's
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kind of screwy with a secret Serviceagent. So one of the people assigned
to Vice President Harris's detail had tobe removed from their assignment after displaying behavior
that colleagues found quote distressing. Yeah, what does that mean? I don't
know, and they haven't said,but they did say that they called in
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medical personnel. But something was goingon and this happened Monday at Joint Bass
Andrews this first song secret servant,Man, it's not a servant. There's
service. But that's what I meant. There is a song. I'd say,
there you are, but you can'tsay, man, because we don't
know a secret Service person. Wellnow I know, I know, I
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know. I just it was abuzz a man. I think, I
think a fifth fight broke out.Actually it doesn't say so in this story,
but from what I had read,that a fifth fight broke out between
this Secret Service agents. And itturned out that rue, you know,
because one of them said I amtired of protecting her. You have to
and he said no, I don't, No, I understand. You know
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you have no choice. You haveno choice. So the rapper Travis Scott,
if you remember the Astra World tragedywhere you know, the crowd was
too big and apparently Travis Scott didn'tdo anything and blah blah blah. So
he'll face a civil trial stemming fromthis Astro World tragedy after the judge denied,
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you know, his particular bid tobe dismissed from the pending lawsuits,
even though others like Drake and othersperformers got removed from the pending lawsuits.
Yeah, because it was his concertand he was the headliner. And it's
interesting that he got nailed because hisargument was I'm not in charge of security,
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that's not my job, and you'dimagine, well, yeah, And
I find this interesting because if it'sthe if it's the venue that hires a
security and the performer has nothing todo with it, then why would the
performer be liable and other performers otherguests are not liable. Doesn't make a
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less producer of the event. Butagain, you hire, you hire security,
I guess the producer of the event. But is it is it his
company? Is he responsible? Isdoes he have a duty to make sure
security is adequate. That's the sameargument that is being used, or similar
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argument that's being used in the AlecBaldwin case is the performer has a duty
to make sure there are no bulletsin these guns. Come on, really,
so this is going to go upon a pel I think. I
think it's gonna win on appeal fromhim. Yeah. One of the producers
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may get nailed on this though,because apparently there were text messages or emails
or something went back and forth aboutthe crowd that they oversold the tickets.
No, I'm that's true, butwhat if what if driver Scott didn't even
know about it? Sure, okay, we still have a couple more.
Another step towards saving the planet,The first commercial hydrogen fuel station for big
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rig trucks in the US is upand running at the Port of Oakland.
It's said to be a small steptoward what hydrogen proponents see is a clean
new future for long haul trucking.So they've got the station has thirty hydrogen
fuel cell trucks, which could bethis great successor could be a flop.
And here's one of the problems.Hydrogen fuel is really expensive. It's like
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four times more expensive than gas,and the fuel cells the drive electric motors
to drive the trucks are also superexpensive, right and producing the stations themselves
a super expensive because there's no infrastructureat all. And so as of right
now, two types of non fossilfuel abilities to have cars and trucks drive
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on the street. One is EV's, the other one is hydrogen fuel,
which is never going to work outbecause it's just too damn expensive. And
then the other issues producing electricity forthe evs, producing the hydrogen fuel that
takes fossil fuels. But the differenceis how much it's certainly far less.
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For example, at EV's far lessto produce the electricity in terms of the
environmental impact than a car driving aroundproducing methane and emissions, etc. I
think we're done, guys. That'sit. This is KFI AM six forty
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what they should do. They shouldjust take knives to their little hoofs and
then people can shoot them and saythat it was self defense. You guys
all suck, but no, youhave to do so. And it's you
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know, it's wow. You can'tdo that. They're invasive, they're wiping
out habitat. Let's do it humanly. Okay, yeah, by shooting them
back we go helicopter gunships with machineguns. Just and now handle on the
news, ladies and gentlemen. Here'sBill Handleman, and good morning everybody.
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It is a cooty Friday, Apriltwenty six, and let's say hello to
one and all. Good morning,Anne, Oh I'm first, awesome.
Hi, Yeah, you're first today. Yes, yes, And then let's
go to Amy Amy, Good morning, Good morning, Bill, Happy Friday.
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Oh, thank you so much.Kno, good morning. What's up?
Bill? Not much? Thank youfor pressing the button to make me.
Uh so I can hear programming.I thought it wasn't going to work,
and then you press the button andall of a sudden I could hear
progam programming. Uh, that's correct. And then finally it is Neil savedra
Neil, good morning, fourth screwedyou hand on? Yeah, exactly.
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The reason I bring up Neil Neillast is because Neil will not be here
during Foody Friday. He is takinghis wife to the doctor this morning for
a procedure. You won't even sharewith me. So, Neil, why
don't you share it with the restof us? It's none of my business.
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It's an ADDICTOMYU. So hello,I don't even know what an adicctomy
is. No, I wouldn't thinkso uh okay, yes I do.
Yeah, it took you a second. Yeah. So instead, okay,
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so nothing. Instead of this morningFriday, we're gonna have Jane Wells,
who is going to join us,and so that should be a lot of
fun. Wow, Okay, NeilAmy, you know what I'm going to
ask you guys? Do uh Forsome reason? And this happens to me
occasionally I get a case of vertigoand right now things are spinning and the
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good news has never happened while I'mdriving. So I okay, here we
go. Uh it's uh, Ican do this. You ready to do
it? Just came on? Areyou? Okay? Yeah? I just
came on. You know, it'sinteresting. Right as I was saying hello
to everybody, it just came on. Sometimes I get a case of rear
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window and Hitchcock reference. Oh okay, got her? Yeah Vertigo rear window.
Yeah, north by North South orright wicked north by Wicked Witch of
the East. What's movie Case ofthe Birds? Yeah? That pretty well
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describes this show, doesn't it?Yes? But are you dehydrated? Bill?
You know, I don't know.I don't think so. Maybe I
am. But it's, uh,it's kind of interesting. I mean,
it really is. Okay, I'llget it for a couple of seconds and
then I really get it, Andtoday I'm I've got it pretty good.
So let's do it, guys.I think I can pull this off.
If we're ready to go, I'mhand on the news on this Friday morning
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with Amy and Neil and me leadstory. Cancel s Is canceled the main
graduation ceremony. If the protesters wantedthat happening, it did? They have
one and they are sc IS tryingto figure something out. But the main
(04:10):
graduation is finished, and people arenot very happy because there are people that
didn't graduate during the pandemic. Whoare scheduled to graduate now and there.
Well, I'm not talking about graduatingper se. I'm talking about the ceremony,
and they're not going to be ableto do it. Sixty five thousand
people show up to this graduation.Yeah, that's two weeks out. So
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you've got people who probably purchased aairline ticket. Oh absolutely absolutely. And
they're saying, we have many newactivities and celebrations to make this meaningful.
Well, usually they have the differentschools. They do have celebration. PhDs
and Social Work for example, willbe a separate graduation and their names actually
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are mentioned as they go across thestage and handle the diploma and congratulations that
sort of business. The main school, for example, the bachelor's degrees,
you don't get your name mentioned becauseyou just take too long. So here's
what they're doing. They're adding meaningful, memorable, uniquely sc events in places
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together with family, friends, facultyand staff. Celebratory release of the doves,
while the skate club skeet shooting clubis showing a demonstration, oh boy,
and performance is by the Trojan MarchingBand for example. But all right,
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so I'm going to be doing moreabout that at seven point thirty because
there is a real story behind that. I think depends on how long the
other segments go. We've been talkingabout the other segments going a little bit
longer. Sometimes I do two segmentswhere we're scheduled for one. Depending on
doing two schedule instead of one.What's with the behind the scenes. I
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always go behind the scenes. Comeon, Neil, You know I do
a lot of inside baseball. Ilike baseball. Yeah, it was,
you know, for example the awardsceremony that you know, what does Someone
talked about my star on the HollywoodWalk of Fame, and in reference to
it, I stood up and Iwas part of when I accepted the award
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saying, let me give you someinside baseball about this star. All right,
it's all about location. Don't gettoo impressed. If you're outside the
Pantagious Theater that's Beverly Hills. Ifyou go down past Cherokee in Hollywood Boulevard
where my star is, you wantto look at it, you won't be
able to because there's a guy ina tent living right over it. I
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go out there, and you know, some people put flowers and then they
wash them's out there. I puta fresh roll of toilet paper for the
homeless. And you know why becausepeople also curb their dog and go that's
where you go, right there,and they train their dog every day like
clockwork inside baseball. Okay, okay, absolute immunity on the line. The
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Supreme Court heard more than two anda half hours of arguments on the landmark
question of whether former President Trump isimmune from prosecution in a case that charges
him with plotting to overturn the twentytwenty presidential election. There was talk of
drone strikes and presidential bribes, ofa potential ruling for the Ages, and
of the founding fathers. Yeah,by the way, Trump's name came up
(07:39):
once or twice. The justices werethey were not interested, particularly in this
case, which is kind of shocking. It was, as Gorsag said,
this is a ruling for the ages. How could it not be Well,
it could have been very narrow.They could have said, just in this
case. Supreme Court does that allthe time. So I'm going to talk
(08:03):
more about that. At seven twenty, Chinese leader Ji Jinping said that the
US and China should be friends,partners rather than adversaries. They met with
top American diplomat Anthony Blincoln just theearlier today, well, it being today
(08:24):
earlier for China than now. Yeah, and it's pablom. While China is
screwing us over and over again,the Chinese authority, including President Ping,
is pinging us so good, Bill, this is why you're here, is
(08:46):
telling us, oh no, no, we want normal relations. We love
you, you love us, andyou're really doing a miserable job in terms
of, for example, white danceand TikTok and accusing us of all kinds
of things which we're not doing,which they are doing. This is what
the Chinese do, play the longgame, and that's just just the way
they operate. A show of solidarity, President Biden and the leaders of seventeen
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countries have all joined forces and calledfor the release of hostages held by the
Palestinian militant group Hamas. Yeah,as I've said many times, none of
the demonstrators are calling for the releaseof hostages, which would sort of turbo
peace talks. Hamas is not interestedat all. Israel actually did come to
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the table a couple of months agoor a month ago, saying let's talk
about the release of hostages. Onthe Ramas side, once they release all
the hostages, they have no moreammunition. There's nothing more they can argue
with. There, there's nothing morethat they have in their well, their
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ammunition that they have that they canhold Israel accountable and say, hey,
here's why we want to move forward, because we're holding your hostages. That's
all gone, and now Israel hasfree reign and that's why Hamas is doing
that. And it's just a messbetween Hamas and the Israeli government. So
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here's the other part of it isthat Biden and the seventeen world leaders are
saying, let's go ahead and cuta deal, release of hostages on both
sides, and a permanent ceasefire.Okay, is that going to happen?
Who knows what happens when Hamas onceagain attacks. That's the fear, because
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Hamas has already said they're going toattack. Oh is Zeel comes back in
and flattens everything that's left. Imean, there is at this point no
peace. I don't see a wayout of it right now. At least
you have these world leaders saying therelease by hostages should be on the table,
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not the demonstrations. Demonstrations do notcall for Hamas to do anything,
just Israel to stop. So thereisn't a lot of reality there interesting twists.
Some mass officials are saying that themilitant group terrorists could give up armed
struggle against Israel if the Palestinians getan independent state in territories that were captured
(11:24):
by Israel beck in the nineteen sixtyseven war. Yeah, a little issue
with that. Kamasa's charter still callsfor the destruction of Israel. That's a
problem. And there is one memberwho has said this of Kamasa's political bureau,
who is Istan Bull. Said thegroup would agree to disarm if that
(11:46):
independent Palestinian state was established. Thetwo state solution, which is the only
solution that makes any sense whatsoever.But the problem is not solved unless Hamas
recognizes Israel, which it does not, and Israel recognizes Palestine and that is
(12:07):
the West Bank and Gaza, whichit does not as a state. And
then and look at the let's sayPalestine, you have the West Bank,
which is this fairly big area,and then you have this little tiny strip,
I mean a little tiny strip ofland on the other side. So
(12:30):
you have a country that's in theuh that is on both sides of Israel.
That is a problem. So Idon't think this is going to go
anywhere. I hope it does,but I don't think it's going to go
anywhere. Well, speaking of somethingthat's not going anywhere, kind of something
their noses that Congress, byte Dancesays we're not selling TikTok. The parent
(12:52):
company of TikTok is Byteedance. Itsaid it has no plans to sell its
social media platform, which is itsfirst official will response since President Biden signed
the bill that could lead to anationwide fan of TikTok if it doesn't sell.
Yeah, well, I'm glad thatit has decided, that has made
a decision that the Senate in theHouse and the President signed is now a
(13:18):
bill is now law that it hasto sell TikTok or it's going to be
banned in the US. Now they'rearguing First Amendment. They're arguing that the
government cannot overrule First Amendment First Amendmentrights. And the CEO of TikTok went
forward and just blasted it and onlytalked about First Amendment and how valuable TikTok
(13:43):
is to the users and how importantit is to particularly young people and how
eight thousand vendors actually make their livingoff of TikTok. Didn't mention a word
about the fact that it is achiny owned company that's based in Beijing.
That one was sort of off thetable. And you think that was the
(14:07):
point of this law. Now,yeah, but you'll see you go to
court. I mean, this willmove up, there's no question about it.
I thought it was kind of funnythat they cited the First Amendment.
Yeah, like, I don't thinkthat is allowed in China. No,
yeah, it is not. Nowthey're arguing that it really has nothing to
do with China, and the Chinesehave not yet asked for any information the
(14:33):
Chinese government, and he said,and if they were to ask, we
would say no. Hmm, Chinesecompany saying no to the Chinese government.
We're not gonna let this happen.But it is always hilarious amy that we
get these things used against us,and it's like, you don't have that
(14:56):
in your own country, No youdon't. Now they're arguing that the American
version of byte Dance really is notconnected to the ownership. That is a
sept totally separate I mean, they'renot arguing it's not owned by byte Edance,
but TikTok, but that it istotally separate and is not connected to
or under the control. I don'tknow about that. You know, no
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one else is buying it. Inwake of recent violence on the death buses
and the like here in Los Angeles, La Metro approves plan to install full
length protective barriers for the bus drivers, which is fantastic. Now you're going
to need acrylic boxes for all thepassengers as well, and then we'll be
(15:43):
good. Yeah, And you know, I think the way they're going to
do it, and I don't knowhow else they do it other than you
go to the bank and you haveto put your money and everything underneath it
in this slot. Oh yeah,and that's the only way to protect the
bus drivers from this crazy I wouldn'tdo that. What a what a horrible
job. And the way they're treatedbus drivers on the roads, you know,
(16:07):
nobody's giving them the right away.Nobody's like, what a rough gig.
And then to have somebody stabby,stabby, shooty, shooty, punchy
punchy when you're a severely boring job. I've never met a bus driver after
fifteen years who says I love thisjob. I see some drivers here are
and you know, they give awave and appreciate you giving the right away
(16:30):
and all these things. But stillit's like it's not like you get a
lot of love and appreciation. No, And that's and then by the way,
the love or the waving and gwelcome a board doesn't mean that they're
not bored with it. It's justthat they like people. Maybe they're not.
Usually it's bus drivers who drive forschools, drive kids to schools that
love their job first to leave andmaybe first to return. Huh. All
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State says it might start writing newhome policies again if the California Department of
Insurance approved some rule changes. Asyou recall, All State stopped writing new
homeowner policies in late twenty twenty twobecause of wildfire risk and also because it's
so expensive to rebuild the homes.And now three insurers that cover forty percent
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of the homes in California have eitherpaused new policies or put strict caps on
them because of this. But nowthey say that they might be back and
start writing new new policies again assoon. It's like the end of the
year. Yeah, which was interesting, which they have to go in front
of the insurance commissioner, because that'sthe way it works in California. No
matter what rates they want, ithas to go down or up whatever.
(17:42):
The insurance commissioner says. A coupleof times the rates have dropped actually when
certain things have happened. For example, when it's collected too much money and
needed refunds, and the insurance commissionersaid, whatever circumstances you make too much
money, refund But that happens veryrarely. The point is is that they
(18:03):
want a big increase. The insurancecommission is going to say, yes,
there's no question about it, andthey in all State is in view of
that going forward. Now don't youfind all State bailing out of California and
still keeping its name all State.It should be all but one state.
That is correct. That is thename that All State should use in California.
(18:27):
Why don't they just do Why don'tthe commission say, listen, if
you're going to be a national provider, you have to provide for at least
that you know, contiguous states.Because this is a state issue. That's
for starters. There is no nationalissue as to home insurance. It is
definitely controlled by the states. Andsecond of all, it is very different
(18:49):
in North Dakota relative to California.North Dakota doesn't have many hurricanes hitting it.
North Dakota does an well, Icould have wildfires. Where do they
not have wildfires? But if youhave what if you have these companies pulling
out of one particular state, thenit's like, okay, what are you
going to do for insurance? Agood point. I'll tell you what did
(19:11):
I do for insurance? Because Ihad an all state policy or state farm,
I don't remember, and they saidyou're done in November last November,
and I couldn't get I was bearefor two weeks because they wouldn't renew,
and I finally found a policy thatmost of us don't have your kind of
money. That's not the point.The point is that The point is I
(19:33):
couldn't find insurance, and when Idid find it, it was twice the
value, yes, twice as mucha cost. Bind it. We can't
pay for it. That's exactly thepoint. Mine doubled. That's not the
point that I can afford it.Mine doubled, and my deductible went up
and the coverage went down. That'swhat I'm saying. And oh, okay,
(19:55):
fine, so I have enough moneyto afford it, now what But
I'm saying for the rest of usthat can So it's like we that's correct,
that's all. I'm giving you anexample of what happened to me,
that's all. And by the way, a lot of people don't do ninety
percent of their shopping at Costco.I do. It's an example of my
life. I know. I cansee your shirt, a Costco shirt.
(20:19):
There you go. I rest mycase. Talk about a bump and pay.
Mayor Karen Bass picked someone to leadthe Los Angeles Department of Water Power.
Well guess what they're going to earnseven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a
year, almost twice as much asher predecessor. So good on you,
(20:41):
lady. Yeah, it's this isa weird one because people are bitching and
moaning, how do you double thesalary? Well, DWP is an outlier
to begin with. It's nothing likemost other utilities around the country. It's
a nonprofit. It belongs to thecity actually, and which is always a
nonprofit, and it's just totally different. Owns its own power plants, which
(21:04):
very few now do because they soldthem off during the run period. And
when you look at seven hundred andfifty thousand dollars, it's about the going
rate for utilities that are not privatelyowned. For privately owned utilities, it's
in the millions and millions of dollarsof the CEO. Remember this is a
(21:25):
multi billion dollar company, is whatyou're talking about. So seven point fifty
actually is not incredible, it's notinsane. Now we were behind it looks
like, yeah, we were.And the skill set is unbelievable that you
need. Yeah, you can beable to run it into the ground.
Yeah and on it poorly well said. So far, so good, no
(21:48):
work, no problem, at leastaccording to lawmakers. The lawmakers are trying
again to provide unemployment benefits to workerswho are on strike. In California,
State Senator Anthony Portantino from Burbank andState Senator Maria Elena Derazzo from Los Angeles
put up the bill that would makeworkers eligible to get unemployment benefits after being
(22:14):
on strike for fourteen days. Theypassed this last year, but then Governor
Newsom vetoed it. Yeah, Imean think about this, you go on
strike, that's voluntarily not going towork. You go on strike at any
other field, if you're working,you go on strike, you leave voluntarily,
you don't get you don't get unemploymentinsurance. That's the law. And
(22:36):
so now they're saying, well,when it comes to striking, you can
collect money, which of course takesaway the basic tenet of striking, the
basic philosophy we're not going to work, the company is not going to make
money. It shuts down effectively,and now we really start talking. This
takes away all or a lot ofthe incentives for the strikers to actually sit
(22:59):
down, negotiate and agree to newmoney, new benefits. So why is
there a law that says the companiesstill can sell or will subsidize a company?
So because at that point we aresubsidizing the state London. There's an
(23:21):
argument though about unemployment too, becauseyou put into it. But still it's
California is great for workers, great, so when it comes to strikers,
that's not considered a voluntary ceasing ofwork in which you're not entitled unemployment.
We take care of everybody here inCalifornia, including except for businesses. Yeah,
(23:45):
oh no, it's a horrible placefor me. For business and for
wealthy people. It's a horrible placeto have money. I'm sorry, no,
it's it's true. It's true.It's also a necessary place to have
money. Yeah, the well putamy the mansion tax kicks in the tax
(24:06):
over a million dollar income. Now, granted, that is a lot of
money, and most of us don'tmake a billion dollar income. But very
few other states say, if youmake a lot of money, we're gonna
nail you far more than just thegraduated income tax, which we have in
every state. So California, it'sit's tougher to make money, and you're
(24:27):
absolutely right, But the benefits keeppeople here too, businesses, because the
skill set of the workers, becauseof the temperature, I mean, the
climate. It's just a neat place. Because so many of us like sitting
on the four oh five and campingout there twice a day because it's a
parking lot. We just love it. Well, if you camp out long
(24:48):
enough, you can get all kindsof subsidies here, that's correct California.
Yeah, and you don't need atent. All you need is your car
on the four five and there's anencampment. You know what else you can
get in a California school, youcan get Helal and Kosher school meals with
the Helal and Kosher School Meals Act, a proposed bill in the California legislature
(25:12):
would require schools to provide kosher andwall mills meals if more than five percent
of the students request those kinds ofmeals. You know how many students are
going to request those kinds of meals? Zero? No, the other way
around, Kosher meals are better,their better quality because it takes a lot
(25:33):
of stuff to make them hideously expensive. When the airlines used to give meals,
if you called ahead and asked fora kosher meal, you got a
much better meal. And they paybuckets of money, the airlines, And
they don't do it anymore for thatwhat they don't know? They don't give
you meals. Oh now peanuts arekosher. How is this not a separation
(25:57):
of church and state. Well,because it's not. I don't want to
go into it. Because the schoolsays that California or the schools have to
give kids meals under whatever government programthere is, and they're who's going to
(26:17):
sue? That's a California thing though, right, Yeah, I don't get
deals there's federal there's federal you know, mandates in terms of nutritional requirements,
et cetera. But California is nowgoing beyond and saying the Halal and Kosher
Schools Meals Act. What about Rustafarianscan get they get pop brownies. Yeah,
(26:38):
and you can argue, well,vegetarian also, they always have vegetarian
meals available. But vegetarian isn't areligious It is for some people. Yeah,
but it's not. It's not acrossthe board. No, either is
KOSHERI there is halal. Let's takea break because we're not going to keep
on arguing this. Oh, youhave a good point, Neil. Some's
(27:00):
kind of screwy with a secret Serviceagent. So one of the people assigned
to Vice President Harris's detail had tobe removed from their assignment after displaying behavior
that colleagues found quote distressing. Yeah, what does that mean? I don't
know, and they haven't said,but they did say that they called in
(27:21):
medical personnel. But something was goingon and this happened Monday at Joint Bass
Andrews this first song secret servant,Man, it's not a servant. There's
service. But that's what I meant. There is a song. I'd say,
there you are, but you can'tsay, man, because we don't
know a secret Service person. Wellnow I know, I know, I
(27:44):
know. I just it was abuzz a man. I think, I
think a fifth fight broke out.Actually it doesn't say so in this story,
but from what I had read,that a fifth fight broke out between
this Secret Service agents. And itturned out that rue, you know,
because one of them said I amtired of protecting her. You have to
and he said no, I don't, No, I understand. You know
(28:10):
you have no choice. You haveno choice. So the rapper Travis Scott,
if you remember the Astra World tragedywhere you know, the crowd was
too big and apparently Travis Scott didn'tdo anything and blah blah blah. So
he'll face a civil trial stemming fromthis Astro World tragedy after the judge denied,
(28:33):
you know, his particular bid tobe dismissed from the pending lawsuits,
even though others like Drake and othersperformers got removed from the pending lawsuits.
Yeah, because it was his concertand he was the headliner. And it's
interesting that he got nailed because hisargument was I'm not in charge of security,
(28:57):
that's not my job, and you'dimagine, well, yeah, And
I find this interesting because if it'sthe if it's the venue that hires a
security and the performer has nothing todo with it, then why would the
performer be liable and other performers otherguests are not liable. Doesn't make a
(29:22):
less producer of the event. Butagain, you hire, you hire security,
I guess the producer of the event. But is it is it his
company? Is he responsible? Isdoes he have a duty to make sure
security is adequate. That's the sameargument that is being used, or similar
(29:42):
argument that's being used in the AlecBaldwin case is the performer has a duty
to make sure there are no bulletsin these guns. Come on, really,
so this is going to go upon a pel I think. I
think it's gonna win on appeal fromhim. Yeah. One of the producers
(30:03):
may get nailed on this though,because apparently there were text messages or emails
or something went back and forth aboutthe crowd that they oversold the tickets.
No, I'm that's true, butwhat if what if driver Scott didn't even
know about it? Sure, okay, we still have a couple more.
Another step towards saving the planet,The first commercial hydrogen fuel station for big
(30:26):
rig trucks in the US is upand running at the Port of Oakland.
It's said to be a small steptoward what hydrogen proponents see is a clean
new future for long haul trucking.So they've got the station has thirty hydrogen
fuel cell trucks, which could bethis great successor could be a flop.
And here's one of the problems.Hydrogen fuel is really expensive. It's like
(30:47):
four times more expensive than gas,and the fuel cells the drive electric motors
to drive the trucks are also superexpensive, right and producing the stations themselves
a super expensive because there's no infrastructureat all. And so as of right
now, two types of non fossilfuel abilities to have cars and trucks drive
(31:12):
on the street. One is EV's, the other one is hydrogen fuel,
which is never going to work outbecause it's just too damn expensive. And
then the other issues producing electricity forthe evs, producing the hydrogen fuel that
takes fossil fuels. But the differenceis how much it's certainly far less.
(31:36):
For example, at EV's far lessto produce the electricity in terms of the
environmental impact than a car driving aroundproducing methane and emissions, etc. I
think we're done, guys. That'sit. This is KFI AM six forty
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