Handel on the News

Amy King & Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Hamas responds to Gaza cease-fire plan seeking some changes. US says it’s ‘evaluating’ the reply. US intelligence suggests Sinwar believes Hamas has upper hand in negotiations with Israel, officials say. LA City Council ends Covid-19 vaccine mandate for city workers’ fired workers say decision comes too late. 8 people from Tajikstan with suspected ties to ISIS arrested in Los Angeles, other cities, sources tell ABC News. Chiquita found liable for financing paramilitary group. Biden administration proposes banning medical debt from credit reports. CDC announces new rules for bringing a dog into the US. A popular tourist destination in China has installed toilet timers… reactions are mixed.

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI A M six fortys. It's
going to be an annual shot youtake, like the flu shot, because
it mutates, and so it's goingto be a double hit. It's like
kids with the MMR shot months measlesrubella the MMR shots or is that the

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MMRP months months rubella measles parvo?I don't know. Uh is in parvo
for dogs? Yeah? Yeah,And now Handle on the news, ladies
and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle andgood morning everybody. On a Wednesday morning,

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June twelfth, it is as weevery week talk about home dayDay Wednesday,
where at the beginning of the show, we've uh, I'm just about
to do an arithmetic analysis of this. Uh it's less than a week to

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go, but then it becomes morethan a week to go at the beginning
of the show. Never mind,I'll figure this out at some point or
I won't. Let me say goodmorning to one and all. Good morning,
Anne, good morning Bill. Yeah, there we go. You know
you can actually move the mind.I know she's like reaching up, stretching
for the mic. It's on ahandle, move it down. Just hey,

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yeah, you've been a radio forhow long? Yeah a long time?
Yeah, me too, But Istill don't know how to press.
Today is good day about okay,Amy? Good morning? Hi there,
Bill, Hi there, Cono.You should throw me the you should throw
me the gang signs? Hey bro? Hey bro? Uh give you?

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Yeah? No, that's not agang sign. No, no, you
got to throw the gang It couldbe, but it has to go sideways
and you have to move it forward. Was that great story about that poor
guy who got beat almost to deathand he was approached by some gang people
and he was deaf and he wastrying to do sign language and they misinterpreted.

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That is a true story, bythe way, that was covered in
the news. I mean, wow, you know that's you gotta be a
little careful with the science. Theythought his signing was throwing gang signs,
or they didn't know they did,they knew what they Yeah, they thought
it was some throwing of gang signs, and you know, without really paying
attention, they immediately start beating himup because he was not part of their

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gang. Let's just say they canbe very gangs can be very volatile.
Is that fair to say? Thatis an awful story, and it's a
true story. I just googled it. Yeah, I thought you were lying.
No, no, no, it'sit's a horrible story. Wow,
the kid end up. I don'tthink he ended up dying, that he
just severely beaten, hospitalized and allof that. I mean it is.

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It's heartbreaking, it really is.Neil, good morning, well not so
good morning, as I just endedit. I ended your good part of
greetings Willy Wolf, the blind guythat got beat up by a min because
he wasn't enjoying the show. Uh, yeah, that's sort of horrible.
Yeah, all right, let's seewhat's news in the world. Okay,

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let me still. We're going tocover today. First of all, Jim
Keeney is on with us today.Have a story on how terrific Lax is
finally becoming that's a comedy routine,I might add, by the way,
I just that topic is a standup comedy routine. Lax is becoming a
good airport to go to, andeverybody bursts the laughter. All right,

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lots going on, guys, youready to do it? Yep, yep,
yep, yep. On this Wednesdaymorning, June twelfth, Let's do
it. Handle on, And didI say hello to you kono I did.
Yeah, the signs stuff whatever theyOkay. Uh can you imagine I
go through and I forget who Italked to out of the four of you
guys, I cannot get through anentire good morning salutation without forgetting that I

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said good morning to one or twoof you. One thing so similar?
Yeah, that's one Okay, youall look similar. Number two? Is
that more a comment on my memoryor how important you are to me?
And it's a solid combination, Ithink so too. Okay, handle on
the news on this Wednesday morning withAmy and Neil and me late story respond

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me well. After the position putforward by the US in relation to the
ceasefire in Gaza, Israel has saidyes sort of, although getting mixed signals
from Nitagna who yes, no,Well and more has to do with dismantling

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Hamas. Hamas is coming to thetable and they are evaluating, but they
want some changes. They want somechanges. And here's the bottom line.
I've said this over and over again. A basic premise of what Ntagna who
wants more important than anything else,Well, first thing in power. But
number two is dismantling Hamas as botha political and a military force. Just

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making it disappear. Hamas only caresabout its survival. That's it, and
it will be viewed if it survives, it will be viewed in Gaza as
it has won the war. It'salready being portrayed that way. And this
is what happened every time there wasan incursion into Gaza, every fight.

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If you have these terrorists come outand they're still alive, it's a win
and everybody explodes. So here's what'sgoing to happen. It's impossible to get
rid of Hamas. I'll tell youthat right now the war will end.
Hamas will declare victory, They've wonthe war, and all of Gaza will

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explode in celebration. There'll be nothingleft, but they'll explode in celebration,
dancing over the debris, and Hamaswill absolutely say wins the war. And
it doesn't matter if Gaza looks likeBerlin at the end of World War two.
Have you ever seen those pictures.There wasn't one building that was still

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standing, or if they were,it was just the walls. They were
ruins, and Hamas is willing todo that. But they're going to win.
They are going to win this war. I guarantee you, because that's
all they care about. But asI said, the war's gonna end.
You know, it's gonna end,and there'll be nothing left of Gaza.
There is nothing left of Gaza.And Bill, there is a little bit

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of an update because as you justmeant to then mention, the US says
it's evaluating Hamas's requests for amendments,and US Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln is
in the Middle East now. Hesaid the war in Gaza will go on
because of numerous changes proposed to theUS backed ceasefire plan. He says some

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of those changes are workable, someare not, But he did say that
they're going to keep keep trying toclose this deal. Yeah, they have
to, I mean, but there'sno question the war's going to end.
They are going to come to thetable. This cannot go on forever.
Wars end. At some point,Well who's who's Who's They going to come
to the table, Camas and Israel. They have to. They have no

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choice. That Israel can't politically affordto lose men like crazy and not get
the hostages back, and Hamas cannotsit there and celebrate a country that doesn't
exist. Anymore in name only,so now and it'll I think is Hamas

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is going to win because they willbe in charge the country with no infrastructure.
The guys who for example, runthe sewer system right and Gaza wake
up in the morning. They've gotnothing to do. How about the school
teachers, they wake up in themorning, you have nothing to do.
How about people run the utilities,wake up and have nothing to do.
How about people that build roads,they wake up and have nothing to do.

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That's what's going to happen. Ithas happening now, okay. And
then the second story, let's dothat. Women will go to Unil.
Story number three, and that issinwar. The guy who heads Hamas believes
he has the upper hand in negotiating. Okay, we'll find out. I
think he does. Because what youhave is israel Is they are split on

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what should be done. You've gota group says the hostages have to be
returned no matter what. Give Hamaseverything it wants. And then you have
the others, hardliners that say wehave to continue this war on the Gaza
side. No one is arguing aboutHamasa's position, no one. I mean,
you can't you get shot if yousay Hamas is wrong. Better or

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late than never, but bet ornever late. In the middle of the
pande the city of Los Angeles passedthe very controversial COVID nineteen VA vaccination mandate.
Of course, city employees were toldthat if they wanted to keep their
jobs, they had to be upto date with their shots yesterday. That
mandate, little late, some maysay, became history and as the city

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Council voted unanimously to end it,yeah, in a lawsuit by those people
that were fired police fire department personnelwho refused to get vaccines. No one's
gonna tell me to get vaccinated werefired, and they're suing the city.
I think they're gonna lose. Really, Yeah, because it is a genuine

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public concern. I think you cando that. For example, Jim Keeney
has to must get vaccinated or he'sjust not worrying. But where he just
wasn't working. That's all you wantto work on a hospital. The mandate
was there, No one could forceme to become vaccinated. You're right,
you know you're out of a job. So first were to ask first responders

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to get vaccinated during the course ofa pandemic, and even if they're wrong
about it, if it wasn't acapricious decision, if there was a rational
basis, and you can't, well, there are crazy to say there's no
rationality because there's no such thing asCOVID, or it doesn't hurt you,
it's actually good for you. Ihave no idea what these crazies are saying,

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but I think they're going to loseat least I think so. Well,
we did that with you and Zelmans. You couldn't come into the office
unless you've got Zelmans. Yes,well said, but then that's a contractual
issue, isn't it. Now?Come on in eight individuals with suspected ties

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to ISIS have been arrested. Theywere arrested in Los Angeles, Philadelphia,
and New York. Where did theycome from? Well, they were reportedly
from Tajikistan and crossed into the UnitedStates from the southern border last year.
And when they did cross illegally,they were processed and initially allowed to enter

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after being vetted. No national securityissues were recovered. But now they're saying
they've been doing an investigation and something'sa little fishy and they may have ties
to ISIS. Oh yeah, that'sbecause they do investigations. You can't.
You can't get everybody, you know, when you cross the border. By
the millions, something's that have slippedthrough the cracks. This is one of
the big points that Trump is goingto make is making, is that terrorists

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are coming over in droves or not. And by the way, these guys
have no bill. Maybe they are, Maybe they are, but we at
this point look at the terrorists here. Are they connected with any physical act?
Were they planning anything? If theydid, there's no evidence they have
because these guys would instantly be triedor rain tried for terrorists act. What

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they're doing is they have ties toISIS. Isn't that a bad thing?
And not really, I don't thinkso. I don't think they're gonna be
deported, but I don't know.You. You are allowed to say isis
is a wonderful place. You areallowed to say I believe in what ISIS
is doing. You're allowed to dothat. Now, can you get involved

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with what they're doing? No?And the point is, I mean,
I believe these guys are tied toISIS. Don't misunderstand me, amy,
I really do. But we havea legal system where you have to actually
do a criminal act, criminal actand ties to isis you know they're gonna
I'll tell you what the defense attorneyare gonna argue if this thing goes and
that is that's our belief. We'renot doing anything, We're not promoting anything

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scary. But they're gonna toss them. They are, but they have to
do a lot of investigation, clearup the investigation level. All right.
Florida jury found the banana company ChikitaBrand's International liable for financing a Colombian para
military group Utu defens Us Hunidas deColombia, and they have been ordered to

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pay a total of thirty eight pointthree million to the families of the eight
victims of the AUC. That's alot of bananas. That is a lot
of bananas. If you don't payyour medical bills, it's not going to
affect your credit. If the Bidenadministration gets its way, it's proposed a
new plan that would remove medical debtfrom credit reports. Vice President Kamala Harris's

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office says that would mean more thanfifteen million Americans would be able to get
their credit scores raised by an averageof twenty points and could possibly lead to
the approval of about twenty two thousandmore mortgages a year. By the way,
I'm totally in favor of this becauseif you ask anybody in the credit
industry or any victim of being nailedon credit, the vast majority is because

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of medical medical bills which no onecan afford. If you have a medical
procedure, insurance, no insurance,you're fine, you're just broken in the
state, or the government will payfor the Feds will pay for it.
But if you have any kind ofa procedure, there's no way you're going
to be in debt and they're goingto ding your credit. And it's horrible,
and this makes a lot of sense. They should, they should ding

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flakes. What why don't they justcharge you for how much things really cost,
like instead of a fifteen dollars bandaid. I'll tell you why.
I'll tell you exactly why. Becausethey only get three cents or two and
a half cents from the government andfrom insurance companies who negotiate like crazy.

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So when they see someone walking inthe door that can pay either because the
insurance system is screwed up, youpay twenty percent, or they're making a
pile of money out of people whodo pay, they just check those prices
up to make up the difference alittle bit. I'm saying, this car
is having to pay back. Well, that's a whole system onto itself.

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And then you're talking about how dothey figure that out? Who pays it?
Then does the government pay it?Oh my god, that's national.
Now we're talking socialized medicine. Soit's our system has to be literally created
from the ground up one more time. It has to just destroyed. We
have a horrible medical system. It'sa good question, but the answer is
there is no answer unless we blowit up. All right. So we've

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got terrorists coming in through the southernborder, and now we're concerning ourselves and
focusing on pooches. According to theCDC, whether you're a US citizen,
legal US resident, or foreign national, they got a new rule that applies
to all dogs. That means puppies, service animals, dogs that left the

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United States and are returning, andyou got to follow them. You got
to appear healthy upon arrival, beat least six months of age. You
have to or the dog has to. Well I'm going to guess the dogs,
sir, but it's probably if you'reif you're not sure, i'd get
no, which is I know.I'm sorry, I just misunderstood and said
you have to appear healthy. Butokay, this is for the dogs.

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Okay, fair enough for Neil,go ahead, Okay, got to be
at least six months of age.Yeah, that could be anybody. Yeah.
By the way, sort of thatprecludes puppies, doesn't it. Yeah.
Yeah, microchip be accompanied by anonline submission receipt from the CDC Dog
Import Form, So yeah, youmight not get your dogs back in Oh.

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We used to have the quarantine.You know, it used to be
a two week quarantine period and youhad no choice. Still taking aim at
the Age House, Republicans are upefforts and moving forward with a vote to
hold the Attorney General Merrit Garland incontempt of Congress. They passed it in

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a committee and said let's take itto the full House, and it's over
Garland's refusal to allow the audio recordingsof President Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert
Hurr to be released. Yeah,and that's a legitimate argument, by the
way, I don't I don't havea problem with the Republican's position that when

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Garland invoked executive privilege. You canargue that, okay, But of course
contempt of Congress. This is,for example, their impeachment against majorcas They
couldn't even get a majority. Theycouldn't get their own people to go forward.
Same thing's going to happen here.This is all political ploy Come on,
please, contempt of Congress. Youknow, Bannon got contempt of kro

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of Congres got four months. Butthis is an individual who has no connection
to the who has absolutely no connectionto the government, to anybody, and
he claimed executive privilege. No,it doesn't work that way. So this
goes no place, I mean,no point. Why do they bother?
Well, I don't even know whythey bother what? Yeah, it's just

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they spend time on this crap.How about the impeachment of the president.
Remember that Joe Biden was going tobe impeached. Oh yeah, it's is
going to be impeached. Okay,where's that? Where'd that go? All
right, let's move on. I'mall right, exercise over this. This
is much more important. This nextstory. Well, you might get exercised

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out over this as well. JoeyChestnutt will not compete in this year's Nathan's
hot Dog eating Contest. I believeit's on the fourth July, right after
he struck a deal with a plantbased food company, Impossible Foods. He
has been a champion, a mustardyellow belt sixteen times, ate a world
record seventy six high hot dogs andbuns in ten minutes back in twenty twenty

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one. But he is going,you know, back and forth with the
mL E as they say, hey, he's not been banned for life.
We just have a standing, longstanding rule to not be you know,
not represent rival brands anyway. It'syou know, when you think about this,

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you know, he's not disclaiming.He's not saying I don't believe in
hot dogs anymore. You're not sayingI'm only I'm a vegetarian. Now it's
plant based. He just has thatcut of deal, and they're saying,
no, it's no Impossible Food,it's only real hot dogs. I don't
think it's a convening brand. Yeah, I know you want a hot dog.

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You want a hot dog, Iknow. And I like their stuff.
There's stuff's tasty, all of That'swhat I'm thinking. Have you tried
the an Impossible hot dog? I'vetried the burgers, but not burgers are
good. Yeah, oh, theburgers are good. Yeah, what amy?
I'm not sure. I mean Ihave I've have had plant based but
I think that I don't know ifI've tried the impossible versions. I think

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that you have a show coming upon set. No, I'll do a
taste test, okay. Yet anotherproblem for the Sixth Street Bridge, that
beautiful new landmark. It was celebratedas a new City Landmark, a ribbon
of light. But things are muchdarker these days because copper thieves have hit
the bridge again and again, strippingsome seven miles of wiring, leaving a

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lot of it in the dark.They're taking the copper because it's worth a
lot of money. This is nicething. Yeah, they keep on steal.
They should have watchtowers, they are, No, they should have zappers
on there, like when they tryto break in. They go, yeah
they could, and enough to electrocuteyou and one or two people being fried.

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That'll do it. We were enoughto kill them, just you know,
a good taste. No, no, no, you got no,
you got to kill them because that'svery easy. All you've got to do
was make custom wiring configurations. Thataren't red and black for positive and negative
or neutral, and you they haveto guess now as to which one's hot.

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So it's like diffusing a bomb everytime. Yeah, I don't think
that. I don't think it worksthat way. You just cut everything and
you do it with rubber gloves andyou're fine. No, No, you've
got to kill ever done handiwork.No, No, you actually have you
have to kill them. Are youtelling me? If you take cutters and
you just cut all the just rightthrough them and you have on gloves that
don't conduct, you're still going toget electrocuted. You know what Amy just

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said, I've got a segment forthe hot dog thing. I think we
got a segment here for you.Yeah, okay, look at me contributing.
I actually think that I wish Billthere was some way to change those
laws that are crimes against the cityto be terrorism of Oh. Absolutely,
yeah, twenty five life. Okay. A postil tourist destination in China has

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installed toilet timers, so instead ofjust like occupied and not occupied, they
have occupied not occupied, and thenthey have a timer to let them know
how how much that deuce is costingeverybody. As far as time. Now
they're not saying they're not saying theykick you out. They're just saying it's
going to be shaming. Toilet shaming. Now, you go to France or

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you go to Europe and they havethose really neat toilets. I think the
one we have in the south Land, one of the beaches has one,
and they're the sort of the stainlesssteel toilets and you put in whatever.
In Europe, it's a euro andthe door opens up and you walk in
and it's completely sanitized. The toiletpaper is sort of in a container and

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they have just it's all aluminum orit's all stainless steel. You go in
there, that's timed. I thinkyou only have twenty minutes. And if
it turns out that you're in therefor twenty minutes, the door opens up,
Hello, wow, yeah it does. And then when the door closes
and before you put in the nextcoin for the next person, the thing

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completely sanitizes itself. I mean it'syeah, twenty minutes. Depends on how
good a book you have. Let'sgo. Yeah, I mean it's well
lit. So you bring in yourbook. Is someone who brings it a
thick book? Okay? I tellyou it wouldn't bother me because I'm a
seven year old that opens the doorall the time, goes, hey daddy,

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all right, hey buddy, comeon in. All right. A
double dose of economy news coming out. First of all, the CPI is
out for the month, and inflationis going up at a three point three
percent rate, which is down alittle bit in the last couple of months.

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And then later today the Federal Reserveis expected to announce whether they're going
to leave the key inflation, arethe key interest rate alone or lower it?
Probably leave it alone. And threepoint three, I mean, it's
it's being described as horrific, terrible. We've never had it worse than the
world before. Three point three isnot bad, No, But when you

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added the other three point three andthe other six and the other nine and
that, well, no, that'san annualized rate. So it's if it's
three percent three point three, that'sa and it keeps ongoing. If it's
next month it's three point two,and then the month after that it's three
point eight. You analyze annualize thatby the end of the year. But
it is not bad. It isnot bad. It's if it were bad.

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The FEDS would instantly raise the interestrate because the economy is going too
quickly, but it's not good enoughto lower it. Probably the target's still
two percent, that's right, butvery rarely if we ever hit target.
So it's of good news and eh, you know, it's it's more of

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a report. Lawyers for Elon Muskyesterday said never mind. They moved to
dismiss the billionaire's lawsuit against open Aiand the CEO, Sam Altman. Months
and months of this battle legally goingback between co founders of the artificial intelligence

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startup. This really comes down toMusk accusing that chet GPT maker of abandoning
its original nonprofit mission. They didn'tsay why they pulled out. However,
there were some emails that were publishedthat showed that Musk had said, Hey,
you're gonna have to make a tonof money, right. It was
kind of hard. Yeah, it'skind of hard to argue I'm suing you

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because you didn't say a nonprofit.But at the same time, here are
my emails saying you can't be one. We need more money. Yeah,
no, wonder they dropped it.Okay, some passengers are getting a little
payout. Singapore Airlines has offered tenthousand dollars to those who suffered minor injuries

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during that flight on May twentieth.It ended up killing a person. Those
who suffered more serious injuries remember ithappened when they hit turbulence, are invited
to discuss customized compensation, but willbe provided twenty five thousand dollars up front,
and the company said in a statementthis will be part of the final
compensation these passengers will receive. Iwant to know. We don't get the

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We don't get the numbers as towho was injured and who was wearing seat
belts or not. Well, that'sthe question I had for you. If
I know a plane and I know, well it's not required though, no,
no, only when that light ison, and if a clearer turbulence
hits, you can go flying allover. I've often wondered why it isn't
mandatory to wear seat belts while you'rein your seat. We always talk talk

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about people who were killed in carcrashes if someone was not wearing a seatbelt.
That's always announced in the news.It is never announced of people that
are injured on airplanes. Who waswearing a seatbelt and who wasn't, and
I've often wonder that why they don'tmake it mandatory. It's mandatory not to
smoke. It's mandatory for your traceseats to be up in a up right

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locked position. It's all mandatory.Why not when the plane's in flight,
if you're not up, you seatbelt yourself. All right, We're done,
guys. KFI AM six forty liveeverywhere in the iHeartRadio app. You've
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