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February 12, 2025 28 mins
(February 12, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Musk appears at White House as Trump signs executive order to continue downsizing federal workforce. Israel PM says Gaza ceasefire will end if Hamas does not free hostages. Flu levels have increased to highest in 15 years, CDC says. FBI says it found 2,400 new JFK assassination records.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF I
am six forty. I was sitting down and her family
with a walker comes by. She's with a walker and says,
do you mind if she sits down? I go, yeah,
I mind. You know, I'm sitting here. So she looked

(00:23):
down at me and said, I'm one hundred years old,
not in therefore I should sit down. And she was
just very proud of it. And I said, I don't
care how old you are, You're not taking this seat.
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle. Good morning everybody. It's Wednesday, February the twelfth.

(00:53):
It's uh, well, it's hump bad. Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.
You know, there are people that have not seen that
commercial yet. I think there are because they're pretty data.
It's a Geygo commercial Geico commercial. And for those people
that don't know, because it's you know, not young anymore,
it's an old camel go to YouTube and put just

(01:16):
look up Camel Geico Geico commercial and you'll see what
I'm talking about. Probably the funniest commercial I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
All Right, you say outdated references I'm sorry that new
you using outdated references as is now the references.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
No, No, the reference is not outdated. The reference is legitimate.
The reference is the relevant. The reference is topical or tropical,
depending on where you are. It is. I'm referring to
the commercial itself may be outdated.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well call me Rex the Wonder Horse.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Okay, Rex the Wonder Horse. Also commercials one of it, Well,
this goes back.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
This is dated.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
One of the most effective commercials was I think aspirin
commercial that had that hammer banging on your forehead over
and over and over again until you were throwing up.
How many times it ran it was one of the
most effective spots ever. All right, it is time to
say hello to the crowd. Amy, good morning, Hi Bill. Oh,

(02:20):
yes there is uh oh, your shoulders are showing. You
know that if you were in any one of the
Arrow countries, you would now be either shot or your
shoulders would be removed surgically. You know that, don't you?

Speaker 4 (02:34):
You wouldn't be shot. But when I was in Egypt,
there were a bunch of military guys walking by and
they were like like making motions like cover your shoulders,
and we're like it's ninety degrees.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Come on, does matter? Doesn't matter? Okay, So anyway, she
put her thing on over your shoulders. Now known as
a sweater, that's what it's known as a sweater and
convoluted device. You Yeah, but anyway, I was making a point.
You know, Arab countries are Arab countries. You don't do that, okay, Neil,

(03:06):
good morning, good morning, will Learr. We are and cono
hello dude.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Morning bill. Oh and that camel commercials twelve years old,
by the.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Way, Okay, I appreciate that you've seen it, have you not.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yes, I'm older than twelve.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Okay, And and good morning. My kids are not older
than twelve. Just to put that on the table. And
there an and good morning, good morning. Oh way, like
going on? You know the promos that are up there
on KFI when they run my show commercials, you know,
promos for the show. Does anybody ever think we have

(03:43):
a serious show that we think about, that we talk
about serious topics, or do they think this is just
an asinine, stupid, infantile show. I don't don't answer that.
Don't just don't answer that. I just thought that that
would be you know, good question.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, one that Cono plays at the top of the show,
doesn't necessarily mean that's the one that's running.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Throughout the week.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
I don't know or what are you talking about.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'm saying that what you just heard in that promo
that Cono played isn't necessarily what's been playing all week
to promote the show.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, okay, since I don't pay attention to promos anything
to do with me, I immediately turn off. You know,
my mind goes off. Are there some serious promos?

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yes, not to mention you know those aren't AI like
that is actually you saying those things?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, not arguing that, but it's publicists would say about
Kamala Harris, Donald Trump would say carefully edited to give
to skew the way this broadcast is. See, I'm comparing
myself to well to Donald Trump, not to Kamala Harris.
I don't know which one I'm more would be more

(05:00):
upset about. All right, all right, let's do it. Time
for handle on the news on this Tuesday Wednesday mornings.
Already Wednesday. No, it's good. Usually it's in advance. Okay,
let's do it. Uh, Mike, Mike, Amy and Neil and

(05:21):
me lead story. What's his name. Yesterday very strange at
Trump's usual at his desk, the Resolute Desk press conference
that he gives, very wide ranging and rambling, et cetera.

(05:42):
It talks about the various executive orders he's signing. Elon
Musk was there standing up next to Trump and about
half an hour answering questions, and it was just terrific.
One reporter said, asked, how about transparency, and must say
we have total transparent and sye, just go to the website.
You go to the website. There is no total transparency.

(06:06):
Is there a conflict of interest? No, there's no conflict
of interest, even though Musk has billions and billions of
dollars with contracts with the US government. And then it
was just fantastic. So in any case, Oh, and he
had his kid on his shoulders or was it a
kid who was three years old? Two years old and

(06:28):
dancing around playing horsey with his kid? Didn't I get
that right? All right? We can do one more for
the break?

Speaker 4 (06:37):
What ceasefire on the verge of failing or is it
Israel's Prime minister has warned Hamas that it will end
the seasfire in Gaza and resume fighting if the Palestinian
group does not return the hostages as scheduled in the
ceasefire agreement, and Netanyahu then ordered Israeli forces to a

(06:59):
mass inside and around Gaza. Hamas had accused Israel of
violating the three week old ceasefire, saying that it was
blocking a humanitarian aid that's supposed to get into Gaza.
Of course, Israel has denied that.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, Hamas is holding on to the majority of hostages
still and is releasing little bits. It's a drip drip
drip of releasing hostages three at a time, four at
a time. And Israel is now saying, well, Thatchahu says,
you don't get them all, you don't get release of hostages.
By Saturday, We're going in the hostages. He's talking about

(07:39):
the rest of them, or the hostages that are to
be released pursuant to the agreement. Trump said all of
them Saturday. Otherwise all hell would break loose. And I
get to tell you Trump, he does not lie. He
is going to allow Israel to just go crazy. Israel

(08:04):
has to pretty well do what the United States once
because the arms that Israel has the fast fast majority
come from the United States, and Israel would run out
of arms that they couldn't do much, so we'll see
what happens, and to not return those hostages, you know.
And they were changing them from Palestinian prisoners, some prisoners

(08:25):
held without charges, youths that have thrown rocks, and some
convicted murderers are being returned. And so the bottom line
is innocent civilians versus Palestinian prisoners. I'm all for saying
they all come back, or we're going to blow you

(08:47):
to pieces. I have no problem with that, as you.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Can hear from handle Me Cono and just about everybody
else on the planet. Influenza levels in the United States
are at the highest they've been in fifteen years. As
winter whether persists, we got rain coming in right now.
As a matter of fact, second wave of the virus
caused more and more infections, according to the CDC most

(09:10):
recent weekly US Influence Surveillance reports shows that a seven
point eight percent of the visits to the healthcare providers
were respiratory illnesses.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
And this is worse. Uh, this is the worst since
the swine flew.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Hey you got a mute, I'm hearing it out here. Okay, okay,
by the way, Neo and I both have the cruds.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, I've had for.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
A couple of days.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
No bardon, Will's got it now.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, it's not bad enough. It's not one of those
where you have to stay home. It's just the cruds
where it's just difficult. Last night, I went to sleep
at seven o'clock. I got what nine hours of sleep?
And I'm still cruddy and I almost never get nine
hours of sleep.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Okay, okay, free at last. President Trump has met with
Mark Fogel at the White House. That happened last night
after Fogel was released from a jail in Russia. He
was a teacher and got arrested in August of twenty
twenty one after customs agents found medical marijuana in his luggage.

(10:28):
Fogel met with Trump and some of the key players
and all of that, including the guy who negotiated his release.
He was draped in an American flag and had a
beer in his hand.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Was it a medicinal beer?

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Nope, Nope, medic Here. If you hate someone and they're
going to Russia, just spoke a joint and breathe on
their luggage. Just blow on their luggage. You're great. You know,
there's fifteen years in prison. Russia's kind of nuts about that.
I think it's Singapore where you have a joint and
they just kill you. It's one of those countries where

(11:05):
you just keep your medicine at home, all right, God
a good idea.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
The FBI yesterday said it discovered discovered, Hey, what are
these twenty four hundred new records related to the assassination
of former President JFK As federal agencies worked to comply
with President Donald Trump's executive order last month to release
thousands of files regarding the nineteen sixty three November twenty

(11:38):
second assassination.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
I just finished probably the ninth or tenth documentary on
the Kennedy assassination that I have seen, and half of
them Lee Harvey Oswald is the only shooter. The other
half there were two or three shooters, all of them
pointing to various pieces of evidence. And it is I

(12:01):
don't know what those twenty four hundred are. First of all,
why they were sealed five million pages of records and
now another twenty four hundred, and the order was to
be released, and no one did. Biden didn't, Obama didn't,
George W. Bush didn't. It's doesn't make any sense. And

(12:22):
I think there will be released after fifty years. And
it's been long after fifty years of the assassination. All right,
you know we can what's on?

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Okay, the fight over the Gulf of America. So, as
you know, President Trump signed an executive order making the
Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of American and Google
Maps is updated and it now says Gulf of America.
But the Associated Press is digging in on this one.

(12:53):
They say it's style guide states that the news service
will refer to it by its agonal name, while acknowledging
the new name that Trump has chosen. The White House said,
you know what, you got to call it the Gulf
of America.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
You can't come in, Yeah, and go ahead, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
So I was just going to say, and AP said, no,
we're this is what we're doing. And so they were
not let into the Oval Office yesterday.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Is that one time or is it permanent? And Trump
Associated yesterday. If if they don't use the AP does
not use the Gulf of America as describing the Gulf
of Mexico, Trump will be sending troops into the AP
and will be attacking it. I bet you will be accurate.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
I bet, I bet you if it was a person
who wants to be identified as someone else. No one's
saying that they're dead naming the Gulf of Mexico. Stop
dead naming the Gulf of Mexico. Everybody gets the reference.
Oh boy, I don't get the reference. If you call somebody,

(14:06):
if you if you call Caitlyn Jenner Bruce, the whole
world would shut down and you would be that if
the APA called Bruce or Caitlyn Jenner Bruce Jenner, everyone
would flip out.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Okay, I'll buy that. Now is Gulpher Mexico four hundred years.
There's an argument there. Cape Canaveral, which became Cap Kennedy,
which became Cape Canaveral again four hundred years. Mount McKinley,
it's all a little goofy, yeah, Mount McKinley. Six.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Twitter, you're dead naming Twitter for people.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
But it'll change, but it will change as it comes up.
Remember when Trump was elected, and this is any president
who's elected, the name is sort of jarring. President Trump,
President Biden. It's kind of jarring for a while until
you get used to it. Say one thing that I
still have an issue getting used to even though I'm

(15:05):
in favor of it is a man and this is
the newspaper reporting this. Now, this is straight news. A
man saying my husband or a woman saying my wife,
that is jarring. Well, we get used to it, Yeah,
we will.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
I don't think about that anymore.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
I do still jarring to me. Huh, I do that.
And I'm in favor of gay people getting married.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
I'm in favor of people pushing back on Trump. I
just wish it was something a little more interesting.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
It's a lot of fun. Come on, you know, the change, Yeah,
I mean the evasion of the AP. Come on that,
the AP offices, that's kind of fun. And threatening to
arrest everybody if they don't use Gulf of America. I
think that's fun.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
I don't think he was gonna arrest everybody. He's gonna
arrest the whole country.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Didn't we see that? Didn't we see that AP reporter
trying to crash the Oval office was dragged off in handcuffs?
Do I have that right?

Speaker 3 (16:02):
No?

Speaker 1 (16:03):
Oh? Okay.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Lawyers representing the Trump administration agreed tuesday to temporary temporarily
stop the Elon Musk led Department of Government Efficiency from
accessing student loans and financial aid information after a University
of California group filed a federal lawsuit seeking to halt
the action.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
So yeah, this is with Elon Musk and Dodge the
development of government doge It's baby is set basically killing,
chopping up, putting into a blender of the baby with
the bathwater, and so they may be overreaching, who knows.

(16:48):
Although did you see the list of government programs that
are being funded one hundred million dollars for condoms in Guatemala,
ludicrous teaching or or helping LGBTQ weddings continue on. I
think it's pretty simplistic because it could be money to
an organization, and that is a small part of it.

(17:11):
So you know, I have no problem with the investigation,
but they're cutting, cutting, cutting like crazy. USAID. You know
how much of it is these ridiculous programs. Ninety nine
percent using to feed people, so you cut the whole thing.
So I've got some issues with that. I'd like the
idea of feeding starving people around the world, but and

(17:32):
I like the give an investigation too and telling these organizations, hey,
you want USAID, You're going to cut that crap out.
But that is an investigation into a particular program that
in what they're doing with the money. Oh, Fair Plan news.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
If I had a billion dollars, okay, it was a
million dollars and that was a bad rendition of it.
But the California Fair Plan got approve from the state's
Insurance Commissionery yesterday to make its member companies pay a
billion dollars that it says it needs to pay La
fire claims. So the deal is, the La Fare Plan

(18:15):
is for people who can't get fire insurance anymore. So
it's sort of the last resort. The plans backed by
the insurance companies.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Insurance companies, right, so.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
They've paid out like their estimated it's going to be
four billion dollars for homeowners affected by the fires. So
they said, well, we need a billion, and the insurance
company said, okay, we'll pay it, but we're going to
pass those costs along to everybody who has insurance policies in.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Galum, of which only half a billion has to be
paid by the insured, by the people who have insurance plans.
So it's they're divving this up, but the bottom line
in the end, we're going to pay. Of course, who
else is going to pay. The consumer is going to pay.
But it's I mean, what do you do?

Speaker 3 (19:01):
What do you do?

Speaker 1 (19:01):
And let's say you have a utility that's at fault
for this whole thing, so file against the utility, which
then goes bankrupt, which it's it's a mess anyway, any
way you do it, it's a it's a god awful mess.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
All right.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Your song was terrible, Amy, thank you, it was a
horrible I like this. Yeah, I'm sure you did.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
I love that song, not arguing that I loved your rendition.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yes, New US Defense ser Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected
to push NATO and EU to take more responsibility for Ukraine. Uh,
And it's gonna be expected. He's going to be expected
to urge members of NATO to increase their defense spending

(19:53):
to five percent of their respected GDPs and ramp up
their defense industrial base, start manufact entering weapons and equipment
and stuff like that more quickly.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
And that is what it's expected, and.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
It's going to happen. One of the things Donald Trump
did and I give him credit for this one, kudos. NATO,
which was created as a force to stop the Russians
from invade invading Russia invading Europe was a North Atlantic
Treaty Organization fund that I think it started in nineteen
forty eight or nineteen forty six, was funded to a

(20:30):
great extent by the US, and most of the countries
did not meet their requirements of funding. Two percent or
three percent of GDP had to go into NATO. They
just didn't do it until President Trump in his first
term said Okay, you don't meet your standards, we're pulling out. Congratulations. Well,

(20:56):
NATO doesn't exist very very well without the United States.
And guess what these countries did. They met their obligations.
And Hegseth is now saying regarding Ukraine, you're going to
meet your obligations or come to the table, or you know,
you're on your own. Unfortunately Ukraine would be on its own.

(21:18):
So you know, that's what happens in Democrats and Republicans earlier.
Just let these countries slide, and Trump is not. Trump
is holding their feet to the fire or is it
their butt to the fire. I've always wondered about that term. Yeah,
that makes sense.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Okay, together but separated. King Abdullah of Jordan sat together
with President Trump yesterday in the Oval Office. So they
sat together, but they are not. They're not exactly together
on what to do about the Palestinians. Of course, Trump,
as you know, said we got to move the Palestinians

(21:59):
out of the Gaza strip and we want him to
go to Jordan and Egypt. And King Abdullah basically said, no,
we are against the displacement of Palestinians. He said, the
United the Arab physician is unified. They're not behind us.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
There is only one country in the world, one leader
in the world that's saying okay to that, and that
is Neta Yahu, who is perfectly fine with Palestinians leaving
Gaza and Israel coming in as well as everybody else
into the new resort that Trump is going to build.
Did you notice how well Abdullah speaks English. It is

(22:38):
flawless English. He went to school in Great Britain and
the United States, and you can't tell that he's even
Arabic at all. You can't tell he speaks Arabic. He's
one of those people that speak absolutely perfect English, as
does Netanyahu, who went to school at MIT, and most

(22:58):
European leaders speak speak English. Castro spoke a decent English.
A lot of people don't know that. Now Putin does not.
The only thing you can say in English is we
kill you Americans. That's all he can say. Most of
the rest of the world speak pretty good English.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
The key is to only learn what you need.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
That's true, So Lenski speaks of decent English.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Hey, I have a question for you.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
I need you any Jew he can get into Israel
and find a safe haven.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
There, right, Yes, but there are some to make. Aliyah
is to go to Israel, to live there and become
a citizen. And as soon as you do that, if
you intend to become a citizen of Israel, as soon
as you get off the airplane and hit the tarmac,
you are a citizen of Israel. Now, if you're going

(23:57):
to visit, you're you're a visitor. Sure, but it is
a safe haven. I mean, there's no way if there
is any kind of discrimination, if there's any persecution of Jews,
you go to Israel. It's a safe haven. It's a
safe haven. Israel's created out of the ashes of the Holocaust.
I get it.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
How Come no Arab country wants any Palestinians.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Because they don't want to pay for it. Because the
Arabs don't really give a rats about Palestinians because it's
all lip service. The Arab countries only want to they
all knows, because that's who the Arab countries are, that's
what they're about me. So it's lip service back and forth.
For example, Saudi Arabia hates Israel, does not want anything

(24:46):
to do with Israel, although that's changing. Is it's been
lip service for years and years and years and years.
They're more scared of Tehran than they are of anything else.
Saudi Arabia has F sixteens, for example, the United States
had sold them F sixteen's. There is an extended tank
for fuel that's made by Israel. They're the only country

(25:09):
in the world that makes this kind of a tank
that you know, fuel tank that latches on the airplane,
it goes on the airplane, and Saudi Arabia wanted them,
so Israel. Israel manufactures them, and you know what they do.
It's a Cyprus company that distributes those fuel tanks to

(25:30):
Saudi Arabia and that's been going on for decades and decades.
So while Saudi Arabia gives the lip service we hate Israel, O,
we're in favor of the Palestinians. They're buying from Israel,
and they know it. And they were just about just
about to normalize relations with Saudi Arabia before the October

(25:52):
seventh attacks, and now they have to lip service again
once again. Jordan and Egypt are the only two Arab
countries that have normalized relations. And even then, I've gone
to Cairo from Israel. There are two flights a day
that leave that. Actually there's one flight a day that

(26:13):
goes from Tel Aviv to Cairo and then back from
Cairo to Tel Aviv. Let me tell you, you're agoing
to a place that does not like you. You fly
into Cairo on an l all plane. You're not landing
at the terminal. You're landing way off surrounded by armed forces.
At least that's the way it was last time I went.

(26:36):
You're going into a different part of the terminal and
you're guarded by the military, the Egyptian military. Believe me,
it's not a friendly place. Does that help answer the question? No,
it doesn't, but at least it gave you a pretty
good story. Indeed, okay, we can do one more.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Hold on, I'm trying not to steeze the start of
Black History Month and and Pride Month will no longer
be recognized.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
By Google and their Google I mean Google.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Calendar, and now users will have to manually add observed
commemorative months and public holidays themselves.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
That the tech company has said.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Basically, they for a long time worked with Time and
Date dot com to show public holidays national observances on
the Google calendar. But they get feedback and people say you,
how can we not have this on there? Or other
countries say why don't you have this? And they said,
maintaining all of those different things manually is just unsustainable.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, that's a croc. It has to do with the
uh anti quote political diversity movement that now is moving
towards the government. You look up what used to be
Black History months on Google today, it'll say no Black
History Month for you. Same thing with any other Juneteenth

(28:02):
doesn't exist. It goes right from the eighteenth through the twentieth.
That's it. They don't even recognize June nineteenth on the
Google calendar. But you still get National Pretzel Day. That
one still flies, which I think is very important, by
the way, because I love those soft pretzels with salt

(28:22):
on them and a little mustard you dip into them
very strong. Okay, I think we're done, aren't we pretty much?
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