March 31, 2025 • 29 mins
(March 31, 2025)
Amy King and joins Neil Saavedra who is hosting Handel on the News all week. Myanmar earthquake death toll rises as world rushes to provide aid. Trump criticizes Putin and threatens adversaries with new tariffs as he barrels toward April 2 deadline. FDA’s top vaccine scientist is out steps down. Iran threatens ‘strong blow’ against US if Trump attacks. One dose of experimental drug nearly wipes out stealthy cholesterol in ‘remarkable’ trial.
Amy King and joins Neil Saavedra who is hosting Handel on the News all week. Myanmar earthquake death toll rises as world rushes to provide aid. Trump criticizes Putin and threatens adversaries with new tariffs as he barrels toward April 2 deadline. FDA’s top vaccine scientist is out steps down. Iran threatens ‘strong blow’ against US if Trump attacks. One dose of experimental drug nearly wipes out stealthy cholesterol in ‘remarkable’ trial.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. I know and now Handle on the news.
Ladies and gentlemen, here's not Bill Handle KFI AM six
(00:22):
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning to you,
Nil Savedra and for mister Bill Handle today, Happy to
be with you. Back from Italy. Where was I, you asked,
I was actually at mister Bill Handle's wedding. Yeah, look
at that third times of Charred.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Third time.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, yeah, the first one was short lived. He's talked
about it on the air. I think so if not
sorry about that, that could happen. I've known the man
for a long time. Beautiful, beautiful wedding. I was proud
to stand next to him as his best man. I
guess he quotes. I don't know how many people he
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went through. I'm pretty I'm pretty sure he's you know,
I was pretty low, but I'll take it. It was gorgeous.
It was the I gotta tell you. There were times
where my mouth was agape and I just laughed. Why. Okay,
so there's this one moment. First of all, it takes
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place at a castle, so I stayed at a castle.
I slept in a castle with my family, and my
family went with me, my wife Tracy, and my boy Max,
and we made a trip out of it a little
bit before and then after the wedding as well. So
you're in this castle looking, honest to God, legit castle
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just outside of Verona. Maybe it's in Verona, but it's
so it's stunning. I mean, you turn off the road
and those there's a big pillar in the gate that
you drive this long, you know, bush lined, and so
it's got all that gorgeous grounds, beautiful place, and that's stunning.
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They did a bunch of really fun things, like they
had a murder mystery dinner and the food was outstanding.
I only got to be a part a little bit
of that because I got real sick, and then my
wife got really there was a couple of something or
like the flu. I was talking to doctor Keeney who
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was there as well, and he said the flu influenza
was bad. It's bad this year, and that was what
was going around at the time. COVID hasn't really been
going around much right now, I guess. But so we
got sick, so I would mask up and go down
and say hello, and but stay away from people prior
to the wedding, so I didn't get to see all
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of that. But it was really beautiful. And I will
tell you this, I've known Bill for a long time,
a long time. I came to this station as his
intern in ninety four. And the guy's happy. I know
people are hurt when these things happen and things change
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and whatever. And I've been a friend of the family
for a long time before the girls were even born.
But it was a beautiful wedding. There was a point
where we went outside and it was pretty chilly, but
it's you're looking at these lights, these tiny little lights,
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and the side of this castle. And they had this
tradition o Arona cake, and it's like a pound cake
with this icing on it, and they went outside to
cut it, and then Bill gave a toast and at
the end of the toast, everybody yells Mazzle tof. The
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second we yell mazele tof out in the distance, fireworks
start going off. So my eight year old boys with us,
and he's like, holy hell, what is happening? And my
mouth drops because I didn't know about it. No one
It was a surprise to everyone except the bride and
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the groom, the longest fireworks show I have ever seen
in my entire life. Every time you thought it was over,
it started again. Now I am not just like my
friend Amy k King from Wake Up Call and The
(04:59):
Wiggle What Walk that we are no strangers to fireworks
and castles. She and I, Okay, we're Disney fans. I
have never ever seen. You could put all of my
fifty five years of Fourth of July is together, and
I've never seen fireworks like that. My wife, who is
(05:21):
pretty unshakable by anything, could not stop laughing because every
time we thought it was over, more came, and they
were more spectacular and more. It was just drones flying over.
And so my boy just the other day, we get
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back and my boy looks at me and goes, so
was yours and Mommy's wedding like that? And I go no,
not quite, and he goes bigger and I go no,
So he's ruined. This is his second wedding and he
was like two on the first one. He's ruined. Oh
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so they don't have like a murder theater, dinner thing
and fireworks and so it was. That was pretty spectacular.
I think Bill might call in later in the week,
Thursday or Friday, and we'll chat about it. But it
was All I can say is that he's very happy,
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and God bless him. Everybody has their own opinions about
things in life, me included, but he seems genuinely happy,
as does Lindsay, his new bride. And it was neat
to share in that. Was even sick as a freaking
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dog that I was, it was it was neat to
be a part of that and to see him in
that state. So uh, it was a wonderful time. And
Italy's gorgeous. And I will tell you this, I've said
this before many times. Art, education and travel are always
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worth what you pay for them, and it doesn't You
don't have to go nuts. Usually you're not in the
room much at all, So go and you know, get
a nice clean room with a bed. Chances are you're
not going to find a king bed, you just Europe
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does not have king beds. Uh, So you just get
a room that's comfortable and clean and go explore. You
don't have to you don't have to go nuts. My
wife has always been very good. Probably you know, we've
traveled the world prior to Max being born. This was
his first international trip and he took it like a champ.
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Loves traveling, and so I just encourage you to, you know,
you put a little bit aside here, a little bit
aside there, but you'd be surprised what you can do inexpensively.
And there's people that kind of go nuts on one
side or the other. But the reality is you're barely
in your room. You want to get out, so you
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just need it to be clean and it can be simple.
I've stayed in really lovely places and it was nice,
but I've stayed in these little, tiny places that had
so much character and and those are what stick with me.
So I'm not saying you have to go to a hostel.
But it was really beautiful and everyone did a lovely job,
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and it was neat to see a small group of
people there to support them. You know, people that you
might know here from the show, like doctor Keeney was there,
and Anthony and and Raisin from Zelman's were there because
he's known them for thirty plus years. Two it was
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just neat to see. You know, it's a beautiful thing.
I mean, all weddings are beautiful. You know, it just
is it's about the couple and all of that and
them connecting and it was really lovely. So but I'm
happy to be back and I'm thrilled to be here
filling in for Handle this week. I'll be with you
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through the entirety of this week and then I believe
HANDLE comes back the following Monday, right, so it'll come
back Monday and things we'll be back to the craziness
normal that is the morning show. Let's start handling the
news lead story. Can you see it? This is a
rough one. If you've ever been to this part of
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the world where where Southeast Asian, Southeast Asia, multiple places
come to together and won in the triangle there. It
just is a beautiful place. And this is horrific. Magnitude
seven point seven quake hit Friday, centered near the northern
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city of Mandalay, and you know, talking about a very
improv impoverished part of the world, already dealing with years
of a civil war. The number of confirmed deaths from
me and mar and this devastating earthquake approached seventeen hundred
on Sunday and is expected to climb You there, yep,
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did I wake you Nope, you are right.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You know, I know you got the wiggle and the
waggle and the walk and everything.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
But great. I didn't know if you had more to
say about the earthquake.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It's horrible.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It is, it's awful.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It's so when they first get numbers start coming in,
and so after the earth quick first happened, you know,
it's like, oh, three people are dead and ninety year missing,
and you're like, oh, maybe it's not as bad, but
then they start finding the people and this one was
just horrific. And then one of the worst things that
happened was a building, a high rise that was under construction,
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collapsed and they said it came down in about six seconds.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And you see the videos of those high rises with
the pools and stuff like that, and all the water's
coming up with this sash out.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Can you imagine if you were in the pool at
that time.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah, you can see that somebody's walking by the edge
of the pool. A couple people are walking by the
edge of the pool of one of them that I saw.
And when you think about how you know the power
of these things and what they can do, and then
you know, I'm looking at at ruins in Rome that
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are still standing, not completely, but still standing, and the
properties of building and the techniques that have changed over
the centuries, and still mother Nature whips up a seven
point seven and it's good night all the way around.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well, the tariffs are coming, Yes, the tariffs are coming.
President Trump has imposed a April second deadline for the tariffs,
and he's threatening more for people, but he also said
he's open to making deals. So April second is what
Trump is calling Liberation Day, where he's promising reciprocal tariffs
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on several countries and twenty five percent tariffs on cars
and car parts. And then he also warned that there
could be more tariffs on Russia. And Iran said he
he's really upset with Putin right now because he doesn't
feel like he's really coming to the table with this
the whole ceasefire thing with Ukraine and Russia. And he
(12:56):
said the talks aren't going in the right direction, and
you might just slap some tariffs on as a result.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Love exciting and new, but now they're breaking up. It'll
come together. Just to tell you that this is a
long game. If you think otherwise, you're missing the point,
do I know what's in the head of Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
President Trump has his own plans, But I will tell
you this, if you think this is short term, you're
missing the boat. My concern is that we don't have
the testicular fortitude in this country to stick with anything
that might put us in a position of inconvenience until
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it gets better, which is a sad place to be.
And this is not a statement about the presidency. It's
a statement about this one particular part, which is, yeah,
we may be eating it, but you know what, I
drive American, so is my wife, So you know what,
(14:10):
it's not going to be something that sneezes and goes away.
And if you assume that, then that's not a good
thing for any of us. All Right, this story that
we'll be talking about more later on this morning, you
have doctor Peter Marx, the Food and Drug Administration's top
vaccine regulator. He resigned, some say a person familiar with
(14:33):
the matter told NBC News that Marx was forced out,
but at this point it seems he does not want
to get behind you know what's going on right now
when it comes to the FDA and RFK Junior being
(14:54):
in command of this Department of Health and Human Services.
So you've got rfk's people coming out saying that Peter
Mark's doctor to you, by the way, does not want
to get behind restoring science to its golden standard and
promoting radical transparency, then he has no place at the
(15:15):
FDA under the strong leadership of Secretary Kennedy. Make no mistake,
RFK is an activist. He's an activist. And if you,
as a Republican, hate activists and hate when they don't
(15:37):
look at the big picture and make decisions based on
their activism and claim that it has to do with
some science or some research, then you should be skeptical,
at bare minimum skeptical of what RFK is doing. And
I will tell you that when you have broad sweeping
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and I'm not sure saying there isn't changes that need
to be made, or science that needs to be done,
in studies that need to be done, and believe in
all of that. However, I want people to start thinking
again for themselves, not because someone has an R or
a D behind their name. I don't understand that. And
if you think that gutting everything is the answer, then
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you are the same cut from the same cloth as
the people that wanted to defund the police, which is asinine.
And we've gotten to a point in this country where
we do not reason anymore. You can't think for yourself.
You can't say a good thing about Trump without people going, oh,
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then you're all in for Trump. Whatever is no, Or
you can't say a good thing about liberals or someone
else with a different idea without going, oh, you're this
and that, and I hear your calls, Oh my gosh.
When Chris Merrill was in it was comedy. Someone who
was screaming about how he's the most liberal guy in
(17:07):
the world, and someone screaming about how he's a Trumpist
and all these I'm like, do you listen. People try
and tell me what I believe all the time and
it cracks me up. But I'm telling you, just because
something needs to be done and we need to take
time to look at things closer, does not mean that
(17:27):
you should be throwing out decades of science that have
not only been proven through the experimental phases but also
through real life use. I don't need to reinvent the wheel.
There's no need. The tests have been done. We don't
(17:50):
need round roads and square wheels. It's done, we can
move on. So if you're on these types of bandwagons,
to me, you're no different than what I refer to
as the WingNuts that wanted to defund the police.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Well, Iran's not bowing to pressure from Trump at this point.
Iran says it will deal a strong blow against the
US if it gets attacked. Now. That threat comes after
President Trump warned that he might bomb their country if
they don't agree to a nuclear weapons deal, and then
(18:26):
Iran said yesterday rejected direct negotiations with the US. Remember
Trump said them a letter and said hey, let's talk,
and Iran's like, nope, don't want to. Don't trust you.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
More parking lots in the Middle East. Maybe geez, wheeze,
what's happening all right? A single dose of an experimental
drug dramatically reduced levels of deadly form of cholesterol. And
for a long time it was thought to be untreatable
and it's hard to find it doesn't it's undetected by
routine tests, and it's undeterred by anything any existing drugs,
(19:02):
any diet or exercise. We're learning a lot more about
cholesterol than we ever knew for a long time. We
thought cholesterol, your cholesterol was directly attributed to food, and
it's not in the same way, in the same sense.
But I'm not a doctor, and we're learning more and more.
So this new drug is hopefully going to be an
(19:22):
answer to this very stubborn type of cholesterol.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Okay, So here's my question. They said that it doesn't
show up on tests, it's under undeterred by drugs, diet, exercise.
But if it doesn't show up on tests, how do
you know if you have it?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Well, for however, they have poked around and prodded, they
know that it is there, and then it exists. And
I would imagine there's different things that you know, like,
for instance, you don't see wind. You see how trees
and things react to wind.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Right, nice analogy.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
So that's a good look in the case of something
like this. Oftentimes they're seeing the reaction of other things
to something and not the something itself. Does that make sense? Yeah, okay,
all right? Amy.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
The President says he couldn't care less if your cars
cost more US. President Trump said on Saturday he did
not warn car industry executives against raising prices. His tariffs
on foreign made cars go into effect starting Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Excuse me, you are right? Yep, he told NBC News
shopping for a car.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yeah, okay, he told NBC News he couldn't care less
if they raised prices. He said that his permanent tariffs
on foreign made automobiles would boost US car sales, and
he said, I hope they raise their prices because if
they do, people are going to buy American made cars.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I just reached out to my GMC truck and it
has no comment and does not care either. I don't care,
all right, sports News, I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Have to do this because you don't care about sports.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
No, I don't. I don't have the sports scene. I
like fighting.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Have kno do it? Heycono, he's totally into this NC
Double A thing.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, So two exciting weeks? Have have they been? Two
exciting weeks of the NC Double A? They've been very exciting. Yes,
the men's tournament, but the women's tournament as well. USC
and UCLA are both in the Elite A and they
can meet in the final four. So there you go, man,
and I've never seen you awake. Twenty five Final four
field is set. Brackets started with sixty eight teams earlier
(21:37):
this month, it's shrunk and shrunk. We've got a quartet
out there right now, right, Are you excited? I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah, it's all It's the second time in NC Double
A history that four number one seeds are in the
final four.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
So that's pretty entertaining.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Well, that is pretty interesting. I'm at least an upset
or two.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I find your enthusiasm upsetting.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Houston is the number one defensive efficiency and Duke is
the number one offensive in efficiency and they're meeting on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Go to be It's gonna be great. Is everybody in
the ie this excited about it?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I would say a lot of people in the United
States are pretty excitable, in the United States whole country. Well,
I'm happy to see you fired up, buddy. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Good to see your beaty little eyes popping out glasses. Right.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
This one's this is probably going to leave a mark,
I would imagine, though. The parents have been eleven year
old girl are well outraged after a school employee apparently
forced their daughter to duck tape her mouth because she
was talking too much. The child is a sixth grader
at Blair Middle School in Pasadena. So here's what apparently happened.
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They're eating lunch back on March twenty fourth, and a
security guard told the girl, you know you're you're being
too loud, You're talking too much, and then she marched
her to the principal's office and told the girl to
put duct tape over her mouth, and then walked her
to her next class and told the teacher that she
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shouldn't take the tape off because she had a hard
time being quiet.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
The security guard maybe has some issues, you think.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I'm surprised if the security guard still has a job
at this point.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, I'd be pissed off too, rightly.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
So, have you ever put duct tape on your mouth?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It's a little personal question, Amy, No, I'm serious.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Answer, but I did it by mistake. Once I was
hanging some banners.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
You fell on the door knob, did you.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
No. I was hanging some banners at a baseball stadium,
and you know when you're ripping tape off, and I
was holding the banner up for a radio promotion, and
you know, just wasn't thinking, like put the tape up
against my mouth.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
It's very sticky.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh yeah, it took a few layers off.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
No, In the movies, when they do that and then
they rip it off. They've got asoline and stuff on there.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Oh yeah that's not real.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah that is real. It would take your lip with it.
Good news is apparently this young girl was asked by
the View to join the table, so she wants all right.
The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into Walt
Disney Company Leave Wald Alone and it's broadcast subsidiary ABC,
over the company's diversity, equity and inclusion programs. So the
(24:26):
belief I guess at this point is that although you know,
Disney has moved away from some of the DEI programs
that they have, they're saying, hey, they want to ensure
that Disney ends any and all discriminatory initiatives in substance
and not just in name. So more of this back
(24:49):
and forth is going to go on as the battle continues.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
By Hooker by Krook. Trump wants Greenland, so they keep
asking the President about Greenland, and Trump keeps saying it's important,
we need to have it. And in an interview on Saturday,
he said, I think there's a good possibility we can
take over Greenland basically without military force. But he said
(25:20):
he didn't take anything off the table, and meantime, the
Danish Foreign minister scolded the Trump administration for its tone
in criticizing Denmark and Greenland and said his country is
investing more into Arctic security and remains open to more
cooperation with the US.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Did you hear him? He was very balanced. It was
kind of funny. He's like, hey, listen, yeah, I enjoy
our relationship. But why you being a jerk?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Bro?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Why you gotta be a jerk about it? He doesn't
like his tone all right. Back in nineteen ninety seven,
woo Way Back Machine, I went on a ride with
mister Bill Handle at Magic Mountain. No, it was the
Superman roller coaster. We were one of the first people
to write it together back in ninety seven. I have
(26:10):
vivid memory. I think it was even in the newspaper
and you can see like a picture of us sitting
in it. It was pretty thrilling for the time. It
shut you up at this ninety degree angle. I mean
not true ninety but it goes ship and then you're
it really fast and then drops you down all that. Well,
this roller coaster since September had issues. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
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I can feel it. Come on kalele so Superman escaped
from Krypton. It was closed for maintenance in September. Necessary
parts aren't readily available, some parts are obsolete. You know
what I don't want to do. I don't want to
write a roller coaster with obsolete parts. Yeah, because there's
some guy in a warehouse somewhere with a file and
(26:57):
some hardened steel trying to replace that part. And I
don't feel good about it. And maybe he even has
an accent. I don't understand. I don't know. Something might
not be good. But yeah, I rode that and now
it's going the way of the Dodo bird. I mean,
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you want to end with this one? I don't know.
Just seems like they're a nice Trump little crescendo.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Trump hasn't ruled out a third term.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And he's not joking, and he made that clear.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah, he said to told NBC News there are methods
for doing so. He did say that there's a long
way to go, and he said it's very early in
his administration. But apparently there is something called a twenty
second amendment, as you can only have two. You can
only have two.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
They had more back in the day. They had to
put the Brakes on it. You get people too popular
and we'll see, we shall see. But he's not joking
about it, and he wanted to make that clear.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Did anyone serve well, I'm curious, who is the longest
serving president?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Oh? The one who changed it?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
FDR?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yes, so he was, well, didn't FDR. Isn't he the
one who said, noah, we had to put an end
to this because they just wanted to keep him.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
So it says he is the longest serving president. How
long was he in office?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I think he did a third term and they wanted
him for a fourth term.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Wasn't that It says nineteen thirty three to nineteen forty five.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
There you go, so twelve years, so three full terms.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, and I think they wanted him for another one.
I think he's the one that instilled that, that said, nah,
we got to put a It's like I need a break. Yeah,
Yetta put a limit on this somewhere, all right. Neil
Spader in for Bill Handle this morning. Happy Monday to you.
We'll be back with more. This is KFI heard everywhere
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Ladies and gentlemen, here's not Bill Handle KFI AM six
(00:22):
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning to you,
Nil Savedra and for mister Bill Handle today, Happy to
be with you. Back from Italy. Where was I, you asked,
I was actually at mister Bill Handle's wedding. Yeah, look
at that third times of Charred.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Third time.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, yeah, the first one was short lived. He's talked
about it on the air. I think so if not
sorry about that, that could happen. I've known the man
for a long time. Beautiful, beautiful wedding. I was proud
to stand next to him as his best man. I
guess he quotes. I don't know how many people he
(01:10):
went through. I'm pretty I'm pretty sure he's you know,
I was pretty low, but I'll take it. It was gorgeous.
It was the I gotta tell you. There were times
where my mouth was agape and I just laughed. Why. Okay,
so there's this one moment. First of all, it takes
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place at a castle, so I stayed at a castle.
I slept in a castle with my family, and my
family went with me, my wife Tracy, and my boy Max,
and we made a trip out of it a little
bit before and then after the wedding as well. So
you're in this castle looking, honest to God, legit castle
(01:55):
just outside of Verona. Maybe it's in Verona, but it's
so it's stunning. I mean, you turn off the road
and those there's a big pillar in the gate that
you drive this long, you know, bush lined, and so
it's got all that gorgeous grounds, beautiful place, and that's stunning.
(02:21):
They did a bunch of really fun things, like they
had a murder mystery dinner and the food was outstanding.
I only got to be a part a little bit
of that because I got real sick, and then my
wife got really there was a couple of something or
like the flu. I was talking to doctor Keeney who
(02:48):
was there as well, and he said the flu influenza
was bad. It's bad this year, and that was what
was going around at the time. COVID hasn't really been
going around much right now, I guess. But so we
got sick, so I would mask up and go down
and say hello, and but stay away from people prior
to the wedding, so I didn't get to see all
(03:11):
of that. But it was really beautiful. And I will
tell you this, I've known Bill for a long time,
a long time. I came to this station as his
intern in ninety four. And the guy's happy. I know
people are hurt when these things happen and things change
(03:32):
and whatever. And I've been a friend of the family
for a long time before the girls were even born.
But it was a beautiful wedding. There was a point
where we went outside and it was pretty chilly, but
it's you're looking at these lights, these tiny little lights,
(03:55):
and the side of this castle. And they had this
tradition o Arona cake, and it's like a pound cake
with this icing on it, and they went outside to
cut it, and then Bill gave a toast and at
the end of the toast, everybody yells Mazzle tof. The
(04:16):
second we yell mazele tof out in the distance, fireworks
start going off. So my eight year old boys with us,
and he's like, holy hell, what is happening? And my
mouth drops because I didn't know about it. No one
It was a surprise to everyone except the bride and
(04:38):
the groom, the longest fireworks show I have ever seen
in my entire life. Every time you thought it was over,
it started again. Now I am not just like my
friend Amy k King from Wake Up Call and The
(04:59):
Wiggle What Walk that we are no strangers to fireworks
and castles. She and I, Okay, we're Disney fans. I
have never ever seen. You could put all of my
fifty five years of Fourth of July is together, and
I've never seen fireworks like that. My wife, who is
(05:21):
pretty unshakable by anything, could not stop laughing because every
time we thought it was over, more came, and they
were more spectacular and more. It was just drones flying over.
And so my boy just the other day, we get
(05:43):
back and my boy looks at me and goes, so
was yours and Mommy's wedding like that? And I go no,
not quite, and he goes bigger and I go no,
So he's ruined. This is his second wedding and he
was like two on the first one. He's ruined. Oh
(06:07):
so they don't have like a murder theater, dinner thing
and fireworks and so it was. That was pretty spectacular.
I think Bill might call in later in the week,
Thursday or Friday, and we'll chat about it. But it
was All I can say is that he's very happy,
(06:30):
and God bless him. Everybody has their own opinions about
things in life, me included, but he seems genuinely happy,
as does Lindsay, his new bride. And it was neat
to share in that. Was even sick as a freaking
(06:52):
dog that I was, it was it was neat to
be a part of that and to see him in
that state. So uh, it was a wonderful time. And
Italy's gorgeous. And I will tell you this, I've said
this before many times. Art, education and travel are always
(07:15):
worth what you pay for them, and it doesn't You
don't have to go nuts. Usually you're not in the
room much at all, So go and you know, get
a nice clean room with a bed. Chances are you're
not going to find a king bed, you just Europe
(07:35):
does not have king beds. Uh, So you just get
a room that's comfortable and clean and go explore. You
don't have to you don't have to go nuts. My
wife has always been very good. Probably you know, we've
traveled the world prior to Max being born. This was
his first international trip and he took it like a champ.
(07:58):
Loves traveling, and so I just encourage you to, you know,
you put a little bit aside here, a little bit
aside there, but you'd be surprised what you can do inexpensively.
And there's people that kind of go nuts on one
side or the other. But the reality is you're barely
in your room. You want to get out, so you
(08:21):
just need it to be clean and it can be simple.
I've stayed in really lovely places and it was nice,
but I've stayed in these little, tiny places that had
so much character and and those are what stick with me.
So I'm not saying you have to go to a hostel.
But it was really beautiful and everyone did a lovely job,
(08:45):
and it was neat to see a small group of
people there to support them. You know, people that you
might know here from the show, like doctor Keeney was there,
and Anthony and and Raisin from Zelman's were there because
he's known them for thirty plus years. Two it was
(09:06):
just neat to see. You know, it's a beautiful thing.
I mean, all weddings are beautiful. You know, it just
is it's about the couple and all of that and
them connecting and it was really lovely. So but I'm
happy to be back and I'm thrilled to be here
filling in for Handle this week. I'll be with you
(09:29):
through the entirety of this week and then I believe
HANDLE comes back the following Monday, right, so it'll come
back Monday and things we'll be back to the craziness
normal that is the morning show. Let's start handling the
news lead story. Can you see it? This is a
rough one. If you've ever been to this part of
(09:50):
the world where where Southeast Asian, Southeast Asia, multiple places
come to together and won in the triangle there. It
just is a beautiful place. And this is horrific. Magnitude
seven point seven quake hit Friday, centered near the northern
(10:11):
city of Mandalay, and you know, talking about a very
improv impoverished part of the world, already dealing with years
of a civil war. The number of confirmed deaths from
me and mar and this devastating earthquake approached seventeen hundred
on Sunday and is expected to climb You there, yep,
(10:40):
did I wake you Nope, you are right.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You know, I know you got the wiggle and the
waggle and the walk and everything.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
But great. I didn't know if you had more to
say about the earthquake.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It's horrible.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It is, it's awful.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It's so when they first get numbers start coming in,
and so after the earth quick first happened, you know,
it's like, oh, three people are dead and ninety year missing,
and you're like, oh, maybe it's not as bad, but
then they start finding the people and this one was
just horrific. And then one of the worst things that
happened was a building, a high rise that was under construction,
(11:18):
collapsed and they said it came down in about six seconds.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And you see the videos of those high rises with
the pools and stuff like that, and all the water's
coming up with this sash out.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Can you imagine if you were in the pool at
that time.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah, you can see that somebody's walking by the edge
of the pool. A couple people are walking by the
edge of the pool of one of them that I saw.
And when you think about how you know the power
of these things and what they can do, and then
you know, I'm looking at at ruins in Rome that
(11:52):
are still standing, not completely, but still standing, and the
properties of building and the techniques that have changed over
the centuries, and still mother Nature whips up a seven
point seven and it's good night all the way around.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well, the tariffs are coming, Yes, the tariffs are coming.
President Trump has imposed a April second deadline for the tariffs,
and he's threatening more for people, but he also said
he's open to making deals. So April second is what
Trump is calling Liberation Day, where he's promising reciprocal tariffs
(12:34):
on several countries and twenty five percent tariffs on cars
and car parts. And then he also warned that there
could be more tariffs on Russia. And Iran said he
he's really upset with Putin right now because he doesn't
feel like he's really coming to the table with this
the whole ceasefire thing with Ukraine and Russia. And he
(12:56):
said the talks aren't going in the right direction, and
you might just slap some tariffs on as a result.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Love exciting and new, but now they're breaking up. It'll
come together. Just to tell you that this is a
long game. If you think otherwise, you're missing the point,
do I know what's in the head of Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
President Trump has his own plans, But I will tell
you this, if you think this is short term, you're
missing the boat. My concern is that we don't have
the testicular fortitude in this country to stick with anything
that might put us in a position of inconvenience until
(13:44):
it gets better, which is a sad place to be.
And this is not a statement about the presidency. It's
a statement about this one particular part, which is, yeah,
we may be eating it, but you know what, I
drive American, so is my wife, So you know what,
(14:10):
it's not going to be something that sneezes and goes away.
And if you assume that, then that's not a good
thing for any of us. All Right, this story that
we'll be talking about more later on this morning, you
have doctor Peter Marx, the Food and Drug Administration's top
vaccine regulator. He resigned, some say a person familiar with
(14:33):
the matter told NBC News that Marx was forced out,
but at this point it seems he does not want
to get behind you know what's going on right now
when it comes to the FDA and RFK Junior being
(14:54):
in command of this Department of Health and Human Services.
So you've got rfk's people coming out saying that Peter
Mark's doctor to you, by the way, does not want
to get behind restoring science to its golden standard and
promoting radical transparency, then he has no place at the
(15:15):
FDA under the strong leadership of Secretary Kennedy. Make no mistake,
RFK is an activist. He's an activist. And if you,
as a Republican, hate activists and hate when they don't
(15:37):
look at the big picture and make decisions based on
their activism and claim that it has to do with
some science or some research, then you should be skeptical,
at bare minimum skeptical of what RFK is doing. And
I will tell you that when you have broad sweeping
(15:59):
and I'm not sure saying there isn't changes that need
to be made, or science that needs to be done,
in studies that need to be done, and believe in
all of that. However, I want people to start thinking
again for themselves, not because someone has an R or
a D behind their name. I don't understand that. And
if you think that gutting everything is the answer, then
(16:25):
you are the same cut from the same cloth as
the people that wanted to defund the police, which is asinine.
And we've gotten to a point in this country where
we do not reason anymore. You can't think for yourself.
You can't say a good thing about Trump without people going, oh,
(16:46):
then you're all in for Trump. Whatever is no, Or
you can't say a good thing about liberals or someone
else with a different idea without going, oh, you're this
and that, and I hear your calls, Oh my gosh.
When Chris Merrill was in it was comedy. Someone who
was screaming about how he's the most liberal guy in
(17:07):
the world, and someone screaming about how he's a Trumpist
and all these I'm like, do you listen. People try
and tell me what I believe all the time and
it cracks me up. But I'm telling you, just because
something needs to be done and we need to take
time to look at things closer, does not mean that
(17:27):
you should be throwing out decades of science that have
not only been proven through the experimental phases but also
through real life use. I don't need to reinvent the wheel.
There's no need. The tests have been done. We don't
(17:50):
need round roads and square wheels. It's done, we can
move on. So if you're on these types of bandwagons,
to me, you're no different than what I refer to
as the WingNuts that wanted to defund the police.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Well, Iran's not bowing to pressure from Trump at this point.
Iran says it will deal a strong blow against the
US if it gets attacked. Now. That threat comes after
President Trump warned that he might bomb their country if
they don't agree to a nuclear weapons deal, and then
(18:26):
Iran said yesterday rejected direct negotiations with the US. Remember
Trump said them a letter and said hey, let's talk,
and Iran's like, nope, don't want to. Don't trust you.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
More parking lots in the Middle East. Maybe geez, wheeze,
what's happening all right? A single dose of an experimental
drug dramatically reduced levels of deadly form of cholesterol. And
for a long time it was thought to be untreatable
and it's hard to find it doesn't it's undetected by
routine tests, and it's undeterred by anything any existing drugs,
(19:02):
any diet or exercise. We're learning a lot more about
cholesterol than we ever knew for a long time. We
thought cholesterol, your cholesterol was directly attributed to food, and
it's not in the same way, in the same sense.
But I'm not a doctor, and we're learning more and more.
So this new drug is hopefully going to be an
(19:22):
answer to this very stubborn type of cholesterol.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Okay, So here's my question. They said that it doesn't
show up on tests, it's under undeterred by drugs, diet, exercise.
But if it doesn't show up on tests, how do
you know if you have it?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Well, for however, they have poked around and prodded, they
know that it is there, and then it exists. And
I would imagine there's different things that you know, like,
for instance, you don't see wind. You see how trees
and things react to wind.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Right, nice analogy.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
So that's a good look in the case of something
like this. Oftentimes they're seeing the reaction of other things
to something and not the something itself. Does that make sense? Yeah, okay,
all right? Amy.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
The President says he couldn't care less if your cars
cost more US. President Trump said on Saturday he did
not warn car industry executives against raising prices. His tariffs
on foreign made cars go into effect starting Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Excuse me, you are right? Yep, he told NBC News
shopping for a car.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yeah, okay, he told NBC News he couldn't care less
if they raised prices. He said that his permanent tariffs
on foreign made automobiles would boost US car sales, and
he said, I hope they raise their prices because if
they do, people are going to buy American made cars.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I just reached out to my GMC truck and it
has no comment and does not care either. I don't care,
all right, sports News, I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Have to do this because you don't care about sports.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
No, I don't. I don't have the sports scene. I
like fighting.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Have kno do it? Heycono, he's totally into this NC
Double A thing.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, So two exciting weeks? Have have they been? Two
exciting weeks of the NC Double A? They've been very exciting. Yes,
the men's tournament, but the women's tournament as well. USC
and UCLA are both in the Elite A and they
can meet in the final four. So there you go, man,
and I've never seen you awake. Twenty five Final four
field is set. Brackets started with sixty eight teams earlier
(21:37):
this month, it's shrunk and shrunk. We've got a quartet
out there right now, right, Are you excited? I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah, it's all It's the second time in NC Double
A history that four number one seeds are in the
final four.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
So that's pretty entertaining.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Well, that is pretty interesting. I'm at least an upset
or two.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I find your enthusiasm upsetting.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Houston is the number one defensive efficiency and Duke is
the number one offensive in efficiency and they're meeting on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Go to be It's gonna be great. Is everybody in
the ie this excited about it?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I would say a lot of people in the United
States are pretty excitable, in the United States whole country. Well,
I'm happy to see you fired up, buddy. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Good to see your beaty little eyes popping out glasses. Right.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
This one's this is probably going to leave a mark,
I would imagine, though. The parents have been eleven year
old girl are well outraged after a school employee apparently
forced their daughter to duck tape her mouth because she
was talking too much. The child is a sixth grader
at Blair Middle School in Pasadena. So here's what apparently happened.
(22:49):
They're eating lunch back on March twenty fourth, and a
security guard told the girl, you know you're you're being
too loud, You're talking too much, and then she marched
her to the principal's office and told the girl to
put duct tape over her mouth, and then walked her
to her next class and told the teacher that she
(23:14):
shouldn't take the tape off because she had a hard
time being quiet.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
The security guard maybe has some issues, you think.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I'm surprised if the security guard still has a job
at this point.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, I'd be pissed off too, rightly.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
So, have you ever put duct tape on your mouth?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It's a little personal question, Amy, No, I'm serious.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Answer, but I did it by mistake. Once I was
hanging some banners.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
You fell on the door knob, did you.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
No. I was hanging some banners at a baseball stadium,
and you know when you're ripping tape off, and I
was holding the banner up for a radio promotion, and
you know, just wasn't thinking, like put the tape up
against my mouth.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
It's very sticky.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh yeah, it took a few layers off.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
No, In the movies, when they do that and then
they rip it off. They've got asoline and stuff on there.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Oh yeah that's not real.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah that is real. It would take your lip with it.
Good news is apparently this young girl was asked by
the View to join the table, so she wants all right.
The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into Walt
Disney Company Leave Wald Alone and it's broadcast subsidiary ABC,
over the company's diversity, equity and inclusion programs. So the
(24:26):
belief I guess at this point is that although you know,
Disney has moved away from some of the DEI programs
that they have, they're saying, hey, they want to ensure
that Disney ends any and all discriminatory initiatives in substance
and not just in name. So more of this back
(24:49):
and forth is going to go on as the battle continues.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
By Hooker by Krook. Trump wants Greenland, so they keep
asking the President about Greenland, and Trump keeps saying it's important,
we need to have it. And in an interview on Saturday,
he said, I think there's a good possibility we can
take over Greenland basically without military force. But he said
(25:20):
he didn't take anything off the table, and meantime, the
Danish Foreign minister scolded the Trump administration for its tone
in criticizing Denmark and Greenland and said his country is
investing more into Arctic security and remains open to more
cooperation with the US.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Did you hear him? He was very balanced. It was
kind of funny. He's like, hey, listen, yeah, I enjoy
our relationship. But why you being a jerk?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Bro?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Why you gotta be a jerk about it? He doesn't
like his tone all right. Back in nineteen ninety seven,
woo Way Back Machine, I went on a ride with
mister Bill Handle at Magic Mountain. No, it was the
Superman roller coaster. We were one of the first people
to write it together back in ninety seven. I have
(26:10):
vivid memory. I think it was even in the newspaper
and you can see like a picture of us sitting
in it. It was pretty thrilling for the time. It
shut you up at this ninety degree angle. I mean
not true ninety but it goes ship and then you're
it really fast and then drops you down all that. Well,
this roller coaster since September had issues. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
(26:33):
I can feel it. Come on kalele so Superman escaped
from Krypton. It was closed for maintenance in September. Necessary
parts aren't readily available, some parts are obsolete. You know
what I don't want to do. I don't want to
write a roller coaster with obsolete parts. Yeah, because there's
some guy in a warehouse somewhere with a file and
(26:57):
some hardened steel trying to replace that part. And I
don't feel good about it. And maybe he even has
an accent. I don't understand. I don't know. Something might
not be good. But yeah, I rode that and now
it's going the way of the Dodo bird. I mean,
(27:18):
you want to end with this one? I don't know.
Just seems like they're a nice Trump little crescendo.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Trump hasn't ruled out a third term.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And he's not joking, and he made that clear.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah, he said to told NBC News there are methods
for doing so. He did say that there's a long
way to go, and he said it's very early in
his administration. But apparently there is something called a twenty
second amendment, as you can only have two. You can
only have two.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
They had more back in the day. They had to
put the Brakes on it. You get people too popular
and we'll see, we shall see. But he's not joking
about it, and he wanted to make that clear.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Did anyone serve well, I'm curious, who is the longest
serving president?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Oh? The one who changed it?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
FDR?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yes, so he was, well, didn't FDR. Isn't he the
one who said, noah, we had to put an end
to this because they just wanted to keep him.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
So it says he is the longest serving president. How
long was he in office?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I think he did a third term and they wanted
him for a fourth term.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Wasn't that It says nineteen thirty three to nineteen forty five.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
There you go, so twelve years, so three full terms.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, and I think they wanted him for another one.
I think he's the one that instilled that, that said, nah,
we got to put a It's like I need a break. Yeah,
Yetta put a limit on this somewhere, all right. Neil
Spader in for Bill Handle this morning. Happy Monday to you.
We'll be back with more. This is KFI heard everywhere
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