August 30, 2024 • 27 mins
Kamala Harris’ first make interview takeaways. Gas tax revenue, Californians main transportation funding will drop by nearly $4.4 billion over the next decade. The surgeon general warns that parenting is hazardous to your health. South Korean children sued the government over climate policy… they just won.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Forty and this is KFI Bill Handle here on a
footy Friday, August thirty and a whole lot going on
in the World Space Station Boweing. The star Liner is
set to return home empty because they're not going to
put any astronauts on it. So the astronauts that currently
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came on it are at the ISS are going to
stay on the ISS for several more years.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's no fine. You know what, I heard a joke
that I thought was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
We should all go out and get ape and chimp costumes,
so when they finally come back in late September, it's
going to be like the Planet of the Apes.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
They'll go dabit dabit hell. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Also that story that Amy did about that work or
in the cubicle four days dead and no one noticed.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
What that shows you is how involved and uh and
people are with their coworkers. Yeah yeah, or how fargo Yeah,
all of those Yeah, one new for four days. Four
days you know what next to them is dead? Was
no surprise.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
They things still were taken out of her account and
she got overdraft. You know, tons of that. I just
kept just so she owes her own company.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Now, Okay, last night, much anticipated the Kamala Harris interview.
H Dana Bash or Dana Bash of CNN did the interview.
Of course, Tim Walls was also there, and it was
I thought that she did a good job.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I did.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
We'll talk about policy in a minute. I thought her
performance was pretty good. I'm gonna give her a good
solid bee. She was sharp, she didn't deviate a lot.
She followed her game plan, which is not to not
to say as much as possible. There's to me, there's
no question that she met what she had to do,
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and there was the appropriate and absolutely mandatory babble that
in pablum that any.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Any politician must do. I think it's a law.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I think you cannot just go forward and just answer
questions without deflecting.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So let me do this. I don't know where Amy
she went in another room. What grade would you give her?
Neil last night?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
C minus. I'll tell you why. I gave her that
high because I expected less. Okay, I don't think that
I gave her that because she did a great job.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I think I expected less. Well, I went the other way.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I'm giving her a solid b and here's why they
were looking at her performance hoping she were the Republicans
now hoping she would melt down coming off of Joe Biden,
wanting her to be convoluted, wanting her to not answer
the questions in a sort of a logical way, and
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in fact I thought she did. So now let's talk
about what she didn't do, and that is talk about
policy in a concise way that we can understand and
not deflect when questions were asked. So what I did
like about one of the questions that was asked of
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Dana Bash is the allegation that Donald Trump made about
her not really being black, that she became black for
political purposes, and she just brushed it aside, saying, you know,
same old tired playbook. Let's go on, We're done. And
Dana Bash said, do you want to expand on that?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Nope. That was one of the things that I like. Yep,
she was great.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
So now I thought she was hit with two and
then I'm going to talk to you about Tim Walls
for a moment. Two major questions that was asked that
she just spun, and that was she's changed her mind
on fracking. She came out against fracking when she was
running for president in twenty twenty during the primary, So
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straight out, I'm against fracking, and all of a sudden,
she's in favor of fracking, because being against fracking doesn't
it helps her in terms of the far left, the base,
that base, but if you're talking about the people in
the middle, the moderates, the swing boats, not so much.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And so she switched.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
How unusual politicians switching positions because the wind is blowing
a certain way. So she answered, she deflected, I have
not changed my values. I am in favor of fracking,
and we can both frack and create alternative energy systems
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at the same time. They can't be they are not
mutually exclusive. And then Dana Bash said, you said you
were against fracking and now you are in favor of it.
Would you like to talk about that? And she deflected
instantly she just wasn't going to talk about that. She
just came up with some happy horse crap my value.
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She did a lot of that. My values haven't changed,
my core value hasn't changed. And the only part she
left out is even if I have changed my mind
completely and have gone the other way, and I'm deflecting
like crazy. My core values haven't changed, as opposed to saying,
you know what, I was wrong, that's it. I was wrong. Yeah,
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I changed my mind. God forbid that. You can't change
your mind as if you've never changed your mind. Took
a good hard look, realized I was off based on
that one, and then realize fracking is important to our
economy and we can do alternative energy at the same time.
That would have been a great answer. Nope, not a chance.
We weren't going to go forward with that. A couple
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of other questions that were asked, one of them, and
they're making a big deal about this and I don't
know why. And that was when Dana Bash asked her,
would you name a Republican to your cabinet? And she said, yeah,
I would, and that flippantly, yeah I would. And Dana
Bash said, do you have anybody in mind? She said no, no,
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I haven't thought about it, not at all. And she goes,
I've got a lot of other things. I've got a
seventy something days of this election to deal with, and
so I'm not going to Basically, I'm not going to
worry about a Republican on my cabinet. Washington Post they
wrote that she pledged she would point a Republican.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
No, she didn't. She just flippantly said I would.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
There have been times when most presidents have in fact
nominated other people of the other side. Obama did, Bill
Clinton did, George W. Bush did, Trump didn't. He wasn't
going to name a Democrat, And by the way, Biden
wouldn't name a Republican. Don't we hate each other? Talk
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about polarization? All right, I'm going to come back talk
a little bit more. Oh by the way, Amy, you
were out of the room. What grade would you give
her for her performance last night? Not policy her performance?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Her performance? Yeah? Again, I said I wanted to find out.
I wanted to get answers like and like you said,
she she flip flopped and then dodged y. Yeah, of course,
but doesn't everybody do that? Yeah, but it's frustrating as
all that it is. What grade would you give her? Okay?
And what grade would you give her? I'll give her
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a bee. I gave her a bee too. I gave
her a bee. Yeah, okay, so you're saying she's a bee.
I would give her a bee.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I thought I think she met expectations. Is what I
thought she did. She could have really screwed the pooch
on that, and she didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And I think Dana gets a c too. She's a
better reporter than that.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, she didn't come back and say, and I've lost
a lot of interviews when I have said to interviewees
when hey answer the question did you and then a
deflection and say you're not answering the question? What ends
up happening is on these interviews is a question is asked, right,
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get pablum from the other side. Then it's repeated, would
you please respond to the question? They won't, and then
they move on to another topic. And the defense of
people you've interviewed. It's kind of hard when you say,
have you seen or did you know? That I have
a star on the Walk of Fame? And they go
what does that have to do.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
With the answer the question do you know that I
have a star on the Walk of Fame?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And they go, why are all the questions about you? Sir?
Don't deflect.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I don't think I've ever done that, but thank you
for reminding me, because I am. I am going to
start doing that, all right. Kamala Harris last night, this
was her much anticipated interview with CNN Donna Bash and
the expectation was pretty high or it was pretty low,
depending on what part of what side of the page
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you're on. I gave her a bee because I thought
her performance was pretty good. Now she went off, of
course and deflected like crazy asked. She was asked specific questions,
what will you do your first day?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
All right?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Then she went into babble. I want to make America.
I want America, make America up. Tunis looking at opportunity
and I want people to have optimism. And Dana asked
her again, what are you going to do specifically day one?
Now day one, a president can sign orders easily, he
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can have set up ready to go executive orders. Nope,
it was she's spun off and talked about her normal
just you know what politicians do. I want America to
be great. I want us to look at the world
in a different way. We have to move forward. I mean,
just typical clap trap, which I hated. The only specificity
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that she came up with six thousand dollars child credit
for newborns. If family has a newborn, you get six
grand on the child credit expands from I think a
child credit of thirty three thousand dollars or whatever per
child in general.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So that was new.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The rest of it not really, She got screwed a
little bit instead of admitting, yeah, I was for fracking
and now I am not deflected that one completely.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
The border prior to her.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Running, when she was running in twenty twenty, came off
as a progressive. In twenty twenty, open borders, We are
too tough on the immigrants that are coming into the
United States, illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
She's changed her mind on that one. So, and this is.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Why if you look at the polls, where Trump does
very well is on immigration, and what Trump does very
well is on the economy. And she was asked about
the economy, and she came up with a solid argument.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
She goes, in reality, inflation.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Is down under three percent, there are a lot of
jobs out there, and how many people are unemployed? Trump says,
you're all unemployed because the illegal aliens have taken all
your jobs. Well, none of that is true. Now she
has to get around. Yeah, inflation hit nine percent under
Joe Biden, and unfortunately that's baked in. There's no way
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around that. It did happen. Is it out of control?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
No? It's not.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I don't think she did a good job of saying, hey,
this is what happened, this is why, look what we
inherited prior to COVID. We had a great economy under Trump.
After COVID or during COVID, it was a disaster. Whose
fault is that COVID and then go on to say,
look what we've done. Since she didn't do a very
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good job of answering that question, then I want to
quick there are other ones too, but we're going to
run out of time.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Then we have tim walls. And that one was interesting.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
The big one was him talking about how he had
weapons of war, that he had war and he got
absolutely nailed on that because it's not true. He was
never in war. He was never in combat. I don't
think he was ever deployed overseas from.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
What I know.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And the way he explained that is, well, you know,
I say things, I'm passionate, I don't have particularly good grammar,
although I don't know what grammar had to do with that.
That had nothing to do with it. And then he
immediately went into talking about how dedicated he is the
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United States and this service twenty four years and he's
not going to denigrate anybody who's served JD Vance, which
he will not denigrate.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And he talked about his son.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
He was asked about Gus Wallas and we all saw
that where this guy was. This young man was crying,
I mean uncontrollably tears of joy, and you could see
the camera got him and he said, that's my dad crying.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Crying.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
It was one of the most extraordinary movement moments of
the campaign, or certainly of the convention, and it was
one of the I was tearing up because it was
just that.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Movement, or it was that moving.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Now the Republicans, to their credit, left that one alone
except for Ann Coulter. She decided she was going to
attack Gus the Sun, saying something like, and you say
that Trump is weird, look at this. She pulled that
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one off immediately.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So again it was deflection, deflection, deflection as.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Saying instead of saying, yeah, you know what, I said
that I misspoke. I was in front of a group
of people, I was talking about gun control and I
just misspoke. You never hear me say that anyplace else.
I've never said that. You won't see any video of
me saying that. Again, you know what I blew it. Okay,
next question. I don't know why people. I don't know
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why politicians don't do that. John McCain did when I
interviewed him. The worst interview I ever had was Schwarzenegger
when he was governor. He would not answer a question,
not a question well, Bill. I'd ask him something he
done well, Bill, and then he immediately went off in
his talking points.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It's not what's in the EA, it's what's in the EA. Yeah,
it's just get into the top anyway.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
So the bottom line is I think she met expectations.
When she asked for her support for Israel, I thought.
She came back with, I support Israel unconditionally.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
They have a right to defend themselves.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Basically, she said, they have a right to kick the
crap out of Palestinians. But then look at the horror
of Palestinians getting killed. We have to have a deal. Okay,
do you support Israel unconditionally the way Donald Trump does? Yes,
but the Palestinians are getting killed. Let's do both sides. Okay,
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Let's do up is down. Let's up is down at
the same time. And don't forget black is white at
the same time, And don't forget the sun is out
or it's raining at the same time. So you know, again,
I give her a bee because of her performance. And
she did no more than any other politician in terms
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of spinning deflecting, and I think she met I think
she met the expectations, certainly of the Democratic Party. Hey,
the US Surgeon General, Vivic Murphy has just issued an advisory. Now,
advisories are kind of neat. I mean, this is when
the Surgeon General says, this is dangerous stuff smoking. You
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remember that Edward Coop with unprotected sex, you know, go
out and buy cars, that sort of thing. Well, Murphy
now says that parenting. Parenting is harmful to your mental health.
Couldn't agree more. He cites an American Psychological Association report.
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Nearly half of parents report and I'm going to quote
now overwhelming stress most days compared to twenty six percent
of non parents.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Ooh, it's about twice as much.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Lonely or also twenty one survey sixty percent of parents
that they were lonely, only fifty five percent of those
without kids. Everybody's lonely, but it's substantially less. Elderly people
are lonely in stress single men are lonely in stress,
college students, gen X moms or lonely in stress. I mean,
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there's an epidemic of loneliness and stress in this country.
We've talked about what does it have to do with parenting. Now,
I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Hold on a minute. But I'm curious, Bill, I'm telling you.
I'm just your listeners want to know. I am.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Okay, Neil will not be here next week.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Actually he won't.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
He's filling in for Gary and Shannon with Marla tays right. Yes, anyway,
so fewer kids people are having kids.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
We know that for all kinds of reasons. People are
getting into.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Their careers, women are having children older and they can't
have kids.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I mean, it just goes on and on.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Most recently, Murphy has made mental health priority in his office. Okay,
so he has gone into mental health as his thing.
And as he looks at mental health, parents' loneliness is
kind of unique.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And here's a reason why.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Okay, First of all, he's saying, I'm not suggesting people
don't have kids. There are so many joys and benefits
that can come with parenting. I have no idea which
ones they are I have yet to figure out joys
and benefits of having kids, but go figure. But he says,
at the same time, it is expensive, it is harder
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to deal with kids, It is more stressful the internet.
How do you control the internet. How do you deal
with the school shootings? I mean, you wonder about your
kids going to school. I remember when my kids went
to school and then went to a Jewish day school,
and because they went to that kind of school, the
security was insane and you wonder if someone going to
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go in there. People are working longer hours, all kinds
of threats that are there that weren't there before, and
it just makes.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Parenting more stressful.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
And working at home, you've got loneliness.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
We know all about that.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And keep in mind, parental duties now extend way beyond
just a physical boundary grounded.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You're done, because even the most vigilant parents, and this
is according to Murthy, can't keep up with what kids
see and do online. And he's got some suggestions. Tech
companies have to make their platform safer. We know parental
controls don't work so and that's before we even get
to the sextortion scams and AI generated nudes, which just
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came up in the last few years, which kids kill
themselves over and the parents have to deal with it.
And the bottom line is, even though Murthy says that
parenting is a joy, I think he's dreaming parenting. As
far as I'm concerned, it's all negative and no positive.
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And I hope my kids are listening, because if you are,
you know kids? You know?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Am I just saying that because I'm on the radio. No,
I mean every word of it. Neil, you're a parent, yes, sir,
I am all upside. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I'm an older parent. I'm fifty five years old. I
have a seven year old son, and it's different. We
traveled everywhere. My wife and I had ten years together
before we had a child, so it's reverse of what
a lot of people did.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
So for me, it's nothing but upside. Although I have
every single one of those fears you just shared it. Okay,
that's stressful. Yeah, but East seven. So when he gets
to be a teen, maybe ask me again. And by
the way, he has some answers. And that is government
should get involved.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Parents should recognize that that's going on and do something
about it. In terms of mental health, companies have to
get involved. Bosses have to recognize it. I mean, there
are ways around it, as far as Murthy is concerned.
And by the way, I think he's got a point,
I really do. You can see it. You can see
the stress and parents are the most stressful of all
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members of society except maybe you've got trans kids. And
you know, the stress level there is just completely insane.
I mean, it's beyond comprehension. But you know the bottom
line is, don't have kids to yourself a favor, great,
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thank you, Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I want to ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Can you imagine here in the United States a group
of kids as young as five suing the federal government
because of climate change? Wait a minute, how does that happen? Well,
South Korea, that's exactly what happened. You've got a group
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of plaintiffs. Obviously, attorneys have gone ahead and sued the
South Korean government for inadequate policies targeting climate change, arguing,
and this is the legal argument, that these kids' rights,
and of course everybody else's, have the right to live
in a clean environment, and that fundamental right has been
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violated by the government. South Korea pledged that by the
end of this decade, it was going to reduce carbon
emissions by forty percent from a twenty eighteen benchmark. Beyond that,
the government didn't specify any other targets. Now, the country's
Constitutional Court ruled that because there is a lack of
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checkpoints coming in the subsequent decades, it puts them in
a quote, an excessive burden on future generations and failed
to effectively guarantee gradual.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And continuous reductions through twenty fifty.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Bottom line is, you guys said you're going to do it,
you didn't do it. You're not doing it. You're violating
a fundamental right of ours because we have the right
to live in a clean, healthy environment. Okay, government recognizes that.
By the way, when the court recognized that, you bet,
South Korean government has violated that fundamental right. So what
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are the damages, Well, there really aren't any damages. What
the government must do is have to comply with what
they said they were going to do and have to
move towards an environment that is climate friendly or at
least to the extent that it can for the citizens
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of South Korea. Now, does that become an impossibility? Of course,
because climate change is worldwide, and what can one country
do not a lot. And you have to get every
country on board to do anything. And a quick word,
and this is the argument I would make on behalf
of the South Korean country are the South Korea plaintiffs
when they were suing me. Now I'm the government saying,
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no matter what we do, climate change is going to
be here. It's all going to hell in a handbasket.
And you say, all we can do is slow it down.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Where's the proof there.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Let's argue as far as what we can do, we
have hit critical mass.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's over as far as climate change is concerned, it's over.
Look at the nightly news.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Look at the storms that are happening, the heat waves
that are happening around the world, the Arctic ice melt
that's going on, by the way, that is that's incontrovertible.
I mean, you people can argue all day long, Oh,
climate change is a hoax.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
None of that is real.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Believe me, it's real now unless you are completely crazy
and deny reality. Let's look outside a nice sunny day.
It's raining. But wait a minute, I'm looking at the sky.
It's raining. You just don't get it. That's the problem.
And so and by the way, this isn't alone with countries.
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Let me see how many countries have actually gone along
with this. Sweden climate change has been supercharged. The United
Nations in twenty twenty one said it couldn't rule on
a complet ain't filed by activists, including Thunberg.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
You remember her, Greta Thunberg.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
So South Korea ruling is the first of its kind
in Asia, and it basically says stronger climate actions to
protect future generations.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Right in Germany, same thing. In twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Montana's top court in July heard an appeal for a
case won by young people arguing the state isn't doing
enough to combat climate change. That's on appeal they won Japan,
there was a youth led climate lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
So what's going on?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Well, all these countries, one hundred and twenty countries signed
the Paris Accord, you remember that, and everybody is violating
the Paris Accord. There just isn't being enough about it.
So go ahead and sue the government. You're gonna win.
And what's going to happen, Well, the court's going to
order the government has to do more. How much more
we don't know yet, but you have to come up
with a plan. What plan doesn't matter. You got to
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come up.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
With a plan.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
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Forty and this is KFI Bill Handle here on a
footy Friday, August thirty and a whole lot going on
in the World Space Station Boweing. The star Liner is
set to return home empty because they're not going to
put any astronauts on it. So the astronauts that currently
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came on it are at the ISS are going to
stay on the ISS for several more years.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's no fine. You know what, I heard a joke
that I thought was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
We should all go out and get ape and chimp costumes,
so when they finally come back in late September, it's
going to be like the Planet of the Apes.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
They'll go dabit dabit hell. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Also that story that Amy did about that work or
in the cubicle four days dead and no one noticed.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
What that shows you is how involved and uh and
people are with their coworkers. Yeah yeah, or how fargo Yeah,
all of those Yeah, one new for four days. Four
days you know what next to them is dead? Was
no surprise.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
They things still were taken out of her account and
she got overdraft. You know, tons of that. I just
kept just so she owes her own company.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Now, Okay, last night, much anticipated the Kamala Harris interview.
H Dana Bash or Dana Bash of CNN did the interview.
Of course, Tim Walls was also there, and it was
I thought that she did a good job.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I did.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
We'll talk about policy in a minute. I thought her
performance was pretty good. I'm gonna give her a good
solid bee. She was sharp, she didn't deviate a lot.
She followed her game plan, which is not to not
to say as much as possible. There's to me, there's
no question that she met what she had to do,
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and there was the appropriate and absolutely mandatory babble that
in pablum that any.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Any politician must do. I think it's a law.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I think you cannot just go forward and just answer
questions without deflecting.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So let me do this. I don't know where Amy
she went in another room. What grade would you give her?
Neil last night?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
C minus. I'll tell you why. I gave her that
high because I expected less. Okay, I don't think that
I gave her that because she did a great job.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I think I expected less. Well, I went the other way.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I'm giving her a solid b and here's why they
were looking at her performance hoping she were the Republicans
now hoping she would melt down coming off of Joe Biden,
wanting her to be convoluted, wanting her to not answer
the questions in a sort of a logical way, and
(03:14):
in fact I thought she did. So now let's talk
about what she didn't do, and that is talk about
policy in a concise way that we can understand and
not deflect when questions were asked. So what I did
like about one of the questions that was asked of
(03:38):
Dana Bash is the allegation that Donald Trump made about
her not really being black, that she became black for
political purposes, and she just brushed it aside, saying, you know,
same old tired playbook. Let's go on, We're done. And
Dana Bash said, do you want to expand on that?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Nope. That was one of the things that I like. Yep,
she was great.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
So now I thought she was hit with two and
then I'm going to talk to you about Tim Walls
for a moment. Two major questions that was asked that
she just spun, and that was she's changed her mind
on fracking. She came out against fracking when she was
running for president in twenty twenty during the primary, So
(04:25):
straight out, I'm against fracking, and all of a sudden,
she's in favor of fracking, because being against fracking doesn't
it helps her in terms of the far left, the base,
that base, but if you're talking about the people in
the middle, the moderates, the swing boats, not so much.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And so she switched.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
How unusual politicians switching positions because the wind is blowing
a certain way. So she answered, she deflected, I have
not changed my values. I am in favor of fracking,
and we can both frack and create alternative energy systems
(05:10):
at the same time. They can't be they are not
mutually exclusive. And then Dana Bash said, you said you
were against fracking and now you are in favor of it.
Would you like to talk about that? And she deflected
instantly she just wasn't going to talk about that. She
just came up with some happy horse crap my value.
(05:31):
She did a lot of that. My values haven't changed,
my core value hasn't changed. And the only part she
left out is even if I have changed my mind
completely and have gone the other way, and I'm deflecting
like crazy. My core values haven't changed, as opposed to saying,
you know what, I was wrong, that's it. I was wrong. Yeah,
(05:53):
I changed my mind. God forbid that. You can't change
your mind as if you've never changed your mind. Took
a good hard look, realized I was off based on
that one, and then realize fracking is important to our
economy and we can do alternative energy at the same time.
That would have been a great answer. Nope, not a chance.
We weren't going to go forward with that. A couple
(06:17):
of other questions that were asked, one of them, and
they're making a big deal about this and I don't
know why. And that was when Dana Bash asked her,
would you name a Republican to your cabinet? And she said, yeah,
I would, and that flippantly, yeah I would. And Dana
Bash said, do you have anybody in mind? She said no, no,
(06:38):
I haven't thought about it, not at all. And she goes,
I've got a lot of other things. I've got a
seventy something days of this election to deal with, and
so I'm not going to Basically, I'm not going to
worry about a Republican on my cabinet. Washington Post they
wrote that she pledged she would point a Republican.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
No, she didn't. She just flippantly said I would.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
There have been times when most presidents have in fact
nominated other people of the other side. Obama did, Bill
Clinton did, George W. Bush did, Trump didn't. He wasn't
going to name a Democrat, And by the way, Biden
wouldn't name a Republican. Don't we hate each other? Talk
(07:32):
about polarization? All right, I'm going to come back talk
a little bit more. Oh by the way, Amy, you
were out of the room. What grade would you give
her for her performance last night? Not policy her performance?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Her performance? Yeah? Again, I said I wanted to find out.
I wanted to get answers like and like you said,
she she flip flopped and then dodged y. Yeah, of course,
but doesn't everybody do that? Yeah, but it's frustrating as
all that it is. What grade would you give her? Okay?
And what grade would you give her? I'll give her
(08:04):
a bee. I gave her a bee too. I gave
her a bee. Yeah, okay, so you're saying she's a bee.
I would give her a bee.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I thought I think she met expectations. Is what I
thought she did. She could have really screwed the pooch
on that, and she didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And I think Dana gets a c too. She's a
better reporter than that.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, she didn't come back and say, and I've lost
a lot of interviews when I have said to interviewees
when hey answer the question did you and then a
deflection and say you're not answering the question? What ends
up happening is on these interviews is a question is asked, right,
(08:46):
get pablum from the other side. Then it's repeated, would
you please respond to the question? They won't, and then
they move on to another topic. And the defense of
people you've interviewed. It's kind of hard when you say,
have you seen or did you know? That I have
a star on the Walk of Fame? And they go
what does that have to do.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
With the answer the question do you know that I
have a star on the Walk of Fame?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And they go, why are all the questions about you? Sir?
Don't deflect.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I don't think I've ever done that, but thank you
for reminding me, because I am. I am going to
start doing that, all right. Kamala Harris last night, this
was her much anticipated interview with CNN Donna Bash and
the expectation was pretty high or it was pretty low,
depending on what part of what side of the page
(09:38):
you're on. I gave her a bee because I thought
her performance was pretty good. Now she went off, of
course and deflected like crazy asked. She was asked specific questions,
what will you do your first day?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
All right?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Then she went into babble. I want to make America.
I want America, make America up. Tunis looking at opportunity
and I want people to have optimism. And Dana asked
her again, what are you going to do specifically day one?
Now day one, a president can sign orders easily, he
(10:17):
can have set up ready to go executive orders. Nope,
it was she's spun off and talked about her normal
just you know what politicians do. I want America to
be great. I want us to look at the world
in a different way. We have to move forward. I mean,
just typical clap trap, which I hated. The only specificity
(10:40):
that she came up with six thousand dollars child credit
for newborns. If family has a newborn, you get six
grand on the child credit expands from I think a
child credit of thirty three thousand dollars or whatever per
child in general.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So that was new.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The rest of it not really, She got screwed a
little bit instead of admitting, yeah, I was for fracking
and now I am not deflected that one completely.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
The border prior to her.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Running, when she was running in twenty twenty, came off
as a progressive. In twenty twenty, open borders, We are
too tough on the immigrants that are coming into the
United States, illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
She's changed her mind on that one. So, and this is.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Why if you look at the polls, where Trump does
very well is on immigration, and what Trump does very
well is on the economy. And she was asked about
the economy, and she came up with a solid argument.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
She goes, in reality, inflation.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Is down under three percent, there are a lot of
jobs out there, and how many people are unemployed? Trump says,
you're all unemployed because the illegal aliens have taken all
your jobs. Well, none of that is true. Now she
has to get around. Yeah, inflation hit nine percent under
Joe Biden, and unfortunately that's baked in. There's no way
(12:12):
around that. It did happen. Is it out of control?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
No? It's not.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I don't think she did a good job of saying, hey,
this is what happened, this is why, look what we
inherited prior to COVID. We had a great economy under Trump.
After COVID or during COVID, it was a disaster. Whose
fault is that COVID and then go on to say,
look what we've done. Since she didn't do a very
(12:43):
good job of answering that question, then I want to
quick there are other ones too, but we're going to
run out of time.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Then we have tim walls. And that one was interesting.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
The big one was him talking about how he had
weapons of war, that he had war and he got
absolutely nailed on that because it's not true. He was
never in war. He was never in combat. I don't
think he was ever deployed overseas from.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
What I know.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And the way he explained that is, well, you know,
I say things, I'm passionate, I don't have particularly good grammar,
although I don't know what grammar had to do with that.
That had nothing to do with it. And then he
immediately went into talking about how dedicated he is the
(13:33):
United States and this service twenty four years and he's
not going to denigrate anybody who's served JD Vance, which
he will not denigrate.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And he talked about his son.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
He was asked about Gus Wallas and we all saw
that where this guy was. This young man was crying,
I mean uncontrollably tears of joy, and you could see
the camera got him and he said, that's my dad crying.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Crying.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
It was one of the most extraordinary movement moments of
the campaign, or certainly of the convention, and it was
one of the I was tearing up because it was
just that.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Movement, or it was that moving.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Now the Republicans, to their credit, left that one alone
except for Ann Coulter. She decided she was going to
attack Gus the Sun, saying something like, and you say
that Trump is weird, look at this. She pulled that
(14:42):
one off immediately.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So again it was deflection, deflection, deflection as.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Saying instead of saying, yeah, you know what, I said
that I misspoke. I was in front of a group
of people, I was talking about gun control and I
just misspoke. You never hear me say that anyplace else.
I've never said that. You won't see any video of
me saying that. Again, you know what I blew it. Okay,
next question. I don't know why people. I don't know
(15:09):
why politicians don't do that. John McCain did when I
interviewed him. The worst interview I ever had was Schwarzenegger
when he was governor. He would not answer a question,
not a question well, Bill. I'd ask him something he
done well, Bill, and then he immediately went off in
his talking points.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It's not what's in the EA, it's what's in the EA. Yeah,
it's just get into the top anyway.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
So the bottom line is I think she met expectations.
When she asked for her support for Israel, I thought.
She came back with, I support Israel unconditionally.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
They have a right to defend themselves.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Basically, she said, they have a right to kick the
crap out of Palestinians. But then look at the horror
of Palestinians getting killed. We have to have a deal. Okay,
do you support Israel unconditionally the way Donald Trump does? Yes,
but the Palestinians are getting killed. Let's do both sides. Okay,
(16:09):
Let's do up is down. Let's up is down at
the same time. And don't forget black is white at
the same time, And don't forget the sun is out
or it's raining at the same time. So you know, again,
I give her a bee because of her performance. And
she did no more than any other politician in terms
(16:31):
of spinning deflecting, and I think she met I think
she met the expectations, certainly of the Democratic Party. Hey,
the US Surgeon General, Vivic Murphy has just issued an advisory. Now,
advisories are kind of neat. I mean, this is when
the Surgeon General says, this is dangerous stuff smoking. You
(16:54):
remember that Edward Coop with unprotected sex, you know, go
out and buy cars, that sort of thing. Well, Murphy
now says that parenting. Parenting is harmful to your mental health.
Couldn't agree more. He cites an American Psychological Association report.
(17:16):
Nearly half of parents report and I'm going to quote
now overwhelming stress most days compared to twenty six percent
of non parents.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Ooh, it's about twice as much.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Lonely or also twenty one survey sixty percent of parents
that they were lonely, only fifty five percent of those
without kids. Everybody's lonely, but it's substantially less. Elderly people
are lonely in stress single men are lonely in stress,
college students, gen X moms or lonely in stress. I mean,
(17:53):
there's an epidemic of loneliness and stress in this country.
We've talked about what does it have to do with parenting. Now,
I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Hold on a minute. But I'm curious, Bill, I'm telling you.
I'm just your listeners want to know. I am.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Okay, Neil will not be here next week.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Actually he won't.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
He's filling in for Gary and Shannon with Marla tays right. Yes, anyway,
so fewer kids people are having kids.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
We know that for all kinds of reasons. People are
getting into.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Their careers, women are having children older and they can't
have kids.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I mean, it just goes on and on.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Most recently, Murphy has made mental health priority in his office. Okay,
so he has gone into mental health as his thing.
And as he looks at mental health, parents' loneliness is
kind of unique.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And here's a reason why.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Okay, First of all, he's saying, I'm not suggesting people
don't have kids. There are so many joys and benefits
that can come with parenting. I have no idea which
ones they are I have yet to figure out joys
and benefits of having kids, but go figure. But he says,
at the same time, it is expensive, it is harder
(19:12):
to deal with kids, It is more stressful the internet.
How do you control the internet. How do you deal
with the school shootings? I mean, you wonder about your
kids going to school. I remember when my kids went
to school and then went to a Jewish day school,
and because they went to that kind of school, the
security was insane and you wonder if someone going to
(19:36):
go in there. People are working longer hours, all kinds
of threats that are there that weren't there before, and
it just makes.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Parenting more stressful.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
And working at home, you've got loneliness.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
We know all about that.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And keep in mind, parental duties now extend way beyond
just a physical boundary grounded.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You're done, because even the most vigilant parents, and this
is according to Murthy, can't keep up with what kids
see and do online. And he's got some suggestions. Tech
companies have to make their platform safer. We know parental
controls don't work so and that's before we even get
to the sextortion scams and AI generated nudes, which just
(20:22):
came up in the last few years, which kids kill
themselves over and the parents have to deal with it.
And the bottom line is, even though Murthy says that
parenting is a joy, I think he's dreaming parenting. As
far as I'm concerned, it's all negative and no positive.
(20:43):
And I hope my kids are listening, because if you are,
you know kids? You know?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Am I just saying that because I'm on the radio. No,
I mean every word of it. Neil, you're a parent, yes, sir,
I am all upside. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I'm an older parent. I'm fifty five years old. I
have a seven year old son, and it's different. We
traveled everywhere. My wife and I had ten years together
before we had a child, so it's reverse of what
a lot of people did.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
So for me, it's nothing but upside. Although I have
every single one of those fears you just shared it. Okay,
that's stressful. Yeah, but East seven. So when he gets
to be a teen, maybe ask me again. And by
the way, he has some answers. And that is government
should get involved.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Parents should recognize that that's going on and do something
about it. In terms of mental health, companies have to
get involved. Bosses have to recognize it. I mean, there
are ways around it, as far as Murthy is concerned.
And by the way, I think he's got a point,
I really do. You can see it. You can see
the stress and parents are the most stressful of all
(21:53):
members of society except maybe you've got trans kids. And
you know, the stress level there is just completely insane.
I mean, it's beyond comprehension. But you know the bottom
line is, don't have kids to yourself a favor, great,
(22:14):
thank you, Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I want to ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Can you imagine here in the United States a group
of kids as young as five suing the federal government
because of climate change? Wait a minute, how does that happen? Well,
South Korea, that's exactly what happened. You've got a group
(22:39):
of plaintiffs. Obviously, attorneys have gone ahead and sued the
South Korean government for inadequate policies targeting climate change, arguing,
and this is the legal argument, that these kids' rights,
and of course everybody else's, have the right to live
in a clean environment, and that fundamental right has been
(23:01):
violated by the government. South Korea pledged that by the
end of this decade, it was going to reduce carbon
emissions by forty percent from a twenty eighteen benchmark. Beyond that,
the government didn't specify any other targets. Now, the country's
Constitutional Court ruled that because there is a lack of
(23:24):
checkpoints coming in the subsequent decades, it puts them in
a quote, an excessive burden on future generations and failed
to effectively guarantee gradual.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And continuous reductions through twenty fifty.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Bottom line is, you guys said you're going to do it,
you didn't do it. You're not doing it. You're violating
a fundamental right of ours because we have the right
to live in a clean, healthy environment. Okay, government recognizes that.
By the way, when the court recognized that, you bet,
South Korean government has violated that fundamental right. So what
(24:01):
are the damages, Well, there really aren't any damages. What
the government must do is have to comply with what
they said they were going to do and have to
move towards an environment that is climate friendly or at
least to the extent that it can for the citizens
(24:22):
of South Korea. Now, does that become an impossibility? Of course,
because climate change is worldwide, and what can one country
do not a lot. And you have to get every
country on board to do anything. And a quick word,
and this is the argument I would make on behalf
of the South Korean country are the South Korea plaintiffs
when they were suing me. Now I'm the government saying,
(24:45):
no matter what we do, climate change is going to
be here. It's all going to hell in a handbasket.
And you say, all we can do is slow it down.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Where's the proof there.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Let's argue as far as what we can do, we
have hit critical mass.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's over as far as climate change is concerned, it's over.
Look at the nightly news.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Look at the storms that are happening, the heat waves
that are happening around the world, the Arctic ice melt
that's going on, by the way, that is that's incontrovertible.
I mean, you people can argue all day long, Oh,
climate change is a hoax.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
None of that is real.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Believe me, it's real now unless you are completely crazy
and deny reality. Let's look outside a nice sunny day.
It's raining. But wait a minute, I'm looking at the sky.
It's raining. You just don't get it. That's the problem.
And so and by the way, this isn't alone with countries.
(25:47):
Let me see how many countries have actually gone along
with this. Sweden climate change has been supercharged. The United
Nations in twenty twenty one said it couldn't rule on
a complet ain't filed by activists, including Thunberg.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
You remember her, Greta Thunberg.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
So South Korea ruling is the first of its kind
in Asia, and it basically says stronger climate actions to
protect future generations.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Right in Germany, same thing. In twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Montana's top court in July heard an appeal for a
case won by young people arguing the state isn't doing
enough to combat climate change. That's on appeal they won Japan,
there was a youth led climate lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
So what's going on?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Well, all these countries, one hundred and twenty countries signed
the Paris Accord, you remember that, and everybody is violating
the Paris Accord. There just isn't being enough about it.
So go ahead and sue the government. You're gonna win.
And what's going to happen, Well, the court's going to
order the government has to do more. How much more
we don't know yet, but you have to come up
with a plan. What plan doesn't matter. You got to
(27:03):
come up.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
With a plan.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
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