March 31, 2025 • 27 mins
(March 31, 2025)
Neil Saavedra fills in for Bill this week. KFI News White House correspondent speaks on Trump getting angry at Putin. A looming Real ID deadline in creating a real headache for fliers. 24/7 Reporter Rory O’Neill joins the show to talk about Musk and Ark of the Covenant. California international students on alert as Trump ramps up pro-Palestine activists.
Neil Saavedra fills in for Bill this week. KFI News White House correspondent speaks on Trump getting angry at Putin. A looming Real ID deadline in creating a real headache for fliers. 24/7 Reporter Rory O’Neill joins the show to talk about Musk and Ark of the Covenant. California international students on alert as Trump ramps up pro-Palestine activists.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Hey everybody, Niel Savadra in for mister Bill Handle, who's
still on vacation, the little Lovebird. He got married and
he will be back a week from today. I'm happy
to be back and sitting in for him and hanging
out with you. It's really weird. I missed you, No,
(00:26):
not you, the other one behind you, and it's great
to be back. I did the show the for Report
this Saturday, and it was nice to be back behind
the mic and hanging out with you good folks. So
thanks for tuning in and hanging out today. A lot
to cover as a matter of fact. We go back
to Washington, this time with John Decker, kfi's White House correspondent.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Hey John, good morning.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Hey, good morning to you.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Hook.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You're doing well today.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, I gotta tell you, you know, you come back from Italy.
Handle got married, so love was in the air, and
now I feel like I come back here and love
is no longer in the air. For Trump and the
Russian president putin what I think.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Things that way, what's really frustrated. I think the President's
just really frustrated with Vladimir Putin because you already have
one side, Ukraine that has agreed to a thirty day seafire.
They agreed to that several weeks ago. Russia has not.
Russia continues attacking Ukraine with missiles, with drone strikes in
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civilian areas, and the President said last week that Russia,
in his words, is dragging its feet. And then what
we heard from the President over the weekend is a threat,
a threat that if indeed Russia doesn't agree to a
thirty day ceasefire, the President would impose trade tariffs on
any country that purchases Russian oil, trade tariffs of twenty
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five percent. He's already done that with countries that purchase
Venezuelan oil, and he may do the same with countries
that purchase Russian oil as well.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So it's an interesting game.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And which is a polite way of saying that Trump
does things in a unique way, because it wasn't long
ago that he was referring to Zolensky saying that he
was sick of handling the war, and he falsely referred
to him as a dictator. And now he's coming after
(02:23):
putin saying that his attitude towards Zelensky essentially is not
going in the right location.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
His words, not mine.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, well, that's right, And it's interesting because it's coming
from President Donald Trump, the person who called a Latimer
Zelensky a dictator, the person who said that it was Ukraine,
not Russia that started the war in Ukraine. And of
course it was Russia that started this war three years ago.
And so now the president very disappointed. You know, he
thought he could come in, upon being sworn in as president,
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solve the war in Ukraine very quickly, and it's proven
to be much more difficult than he anticipated.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well that that first showing.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That you know, many people, myself included, thought was cringeworthy
in the Oval office when Zelensky came and people talked
about where he was dressed, and you had JD. Van
saying you haven't even thanked us, And it was a
you know, a bizarre scene to say the least, right,
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And then you fast forward now and you've got I mean, hey.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Didn't they set the precedent sort of?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I mean, wouldn't if you were putin, you'd say, Okay, finally,
this guy's on my side.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
He gets me.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
He's calling this guy a dictator, all of these things,
and you'd think that Putin is kind of responding to
that energy. And now there's a flip on this, saying,
as you pointed out, twenty five percent tear on all oil,
twenty five to fifty point tariff on all oil. So
(04:05):
he says Donald Trump for people that buy oil from Russia.
It just seems like there's two very different messages. And
I'm curious if there's any insight or any talk there
with colleagues and the like as to any sort of
strategy in this, Well, you made.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
A big mistake. The big mistake was getting inside.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Of Putin's head, and another.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Big mistake was getting inside Trump said, I don't think
anybody should try to do that. I certainly don't try
to do that. So you know, the president and President
Trump does what the president does, and sometimes, you know,
it's difficult to understand his thinking. I've heard people that
are big supporters of the president saying, you don't get him,
he's playing three dimensional chess. That may be true, but
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in any case, as it relates to the thirty day
season fire proposal that was put on the table. Vladimir
Putin has essentially rejected it. He's said to the US
national security team that's met with Russian officials, the only
way that we would even consider the possibility of a
ceasefire or a peace proposal is if you the United
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States removed from Russia all of those tough economic sanctions
that were placed on our country over the course of
the past few years. And that's a non starter as
far as the US is concerned. So I think both
sides right now are at a standstill in terms of
where this relationship goes and where the effort goes in
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terms of ending this ongoing war.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Well, if anyone from Disney and Pixar are listening inside
out three, the Putin and Trump addition, so we could
all get in their head would be.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'd go see that. A lot of people would see that.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't know, but cry the same way I did
in the other But very strange. You have words coming
out of Trump's mouth like being very angry, angry, and
even pissed off.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It is certainly a change.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Maybe he's smarter than all of us, and he is
playing something that we just can't keep up with. At
this point, We'll still have to see how this plays out.
I just don't find Putin to be the kind of
rollover puppy that responds to things like very angry and
pissed off.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
So wait and see.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Well, President Trump has indicated that he may have another
conversation with President Putin this week. We'll see what comes
out of that. But you know, as of you know,
the past few months, we've seen no indication that Russia
would like to end this war. You know, they may
say certain things, but rhetoric is meaningless unless you have
actions backing it up. And there's no action that Russia
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has taken which indicates they wish to end the war
with Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, the next action looks like it could come from Trump.
We'll see if these tariffs on oil material. John Decker,
kfi's White House correspondent, thanks so much for taking the
time to come on.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Always insightful, John.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Thank you, thanks a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Have a great day.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Byey as well. It's Neil sevadri in for Bill Handle
this morning. Happy to be with you back from vacation.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Was actually with.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Bill and my family out there as he got remarried
and beautiful, beautiful wedding, the ceremony everything was amazing, and
he'll probably he may call in on Thursday or Friday,
but he'll be back a week from two day dealing
with that. It's the first time I've flown internationally since.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
COVID. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I don't think I've flown internationally. Gosh, I probably haven't
flown internationally, and longer than that, maybe since my boy's
been born, so it could be eight years. So a
lot of different things going on. One in which is
the real ID, which I did like there was that
you know, you've got another deadline looming right, headache for
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flyers everywhere going you gotta go get this new real
ID thing.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Well they said that before. So in the middle of.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
COVID Uh, I went in there with the mask, more
bloated than usual and got my the worst picture I've
ever taken in my whole life.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I think.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I think I was so bloated that it looks like
my head is rectangle because it didn't fit in the frame.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It's really bad. Chins on chins on chins.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Rough, and the mask made my goate turned like a
not hard ninety degree.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
It was rough, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But I went and did all that because they said
that the it was coming and I got that real
life ID and then they then shortly after they put
it off.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Now I'm not saying.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
That it's gonna look any better if I prepped myself
and went in and took a new picture. I just
it obviously still cut Steff. Not to mention I had
to do it with my boy at the time. I
had to drag him into a DMV in the middle
of COVID, which was not fun. But May seventh is
the deadline to get your real ID getting a lot
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more real for people. It's it's not difficult, but you
need to have it because travelers, if you're gonna travel,
it all real ID, this upgraded driver's license, this identification
card you're gonna need, and you're gonna need another compliant
ID like a passport. You're gonna need all these things.
(09:51):
This is even to board domestic flights. Now on that date,
that's gonna change everything. And there's been years of delays.
Do not bet on that. Do not bet that. Hey,
you're going to have another delay and you're going to
get off and you're gonna be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Just get it done.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Federal officials are saying that now travelers are going to
need to take the May seventh date seriously, this date
is serious this time. I know this guy is falling.
These guys falling, Skuy's falling. But the Department of Motor
Vehicles sites across the country. People are scrambling to look
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up information to find out what's going on. Local DMV
offices have added hundreds of appointment slots, extended operating hours.
They're trying to meet the flood of Americans trying to
get an upgraded ID in time. And I will tell you,
I mean, the last time I was at the DMV,
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I don't think it was a horrible experience.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It seemed to move a little better than it had
in the past. So good on them. And I'm in La.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I mean, you go to awesome town or something to
get that's a peach there there. You go up the
hill and you go into Santa Clarita or what is it?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Is it? New Hall? I think has a DMV.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
That's a peach.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You get in, you get out. It's a real peach.
But you heard right, I said peach. I was born
in nineteen twenty three, which is a real peach. The
Bee's knees up there. But you go to La and
it's you know, so it's a hoarriblay. But I've done
it and you can get it done. And I'm going
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to tell you something else from your old buddy Neil
is get the global entry. Glet get your TSA stuff.
It's right there near the airport, that Homeland Security. You
go over there, you fill out everything online and then
you have to go in person. They call you up,
take your picture, do all that business, whatever it is,
(12:03):
and it makes flying so much easier. And coming back
is was easy coming back from Italy or in our case,
I guess it would have been in London because you
we did the layover. The only thing they didn't do
in this bugs me when I come back to America.
I know it's a little thing. I want them to
(12:24):
say welcome home, not even welcome back. I want them
to say welcome home. I'm an American.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I love coming back to my home and when they
say welcome welcome home, it means something to me. And
our guy didn't say welcome home. He was nice, sweet
to sell. You know, you might have said welcome back,
or somebody say welcome home. Anyways, get your real id.
Deadlines come in May seventh. Don't blow it off.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Think you know what.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
They're going to extend it or there's going to be
some crazy thing that happens. Just get it done, and
for the love of God, maybe put a couple of
cucumber slices on your eyes. Freshen yourself up. Don't go
in like me. Seriously, I look at that picture and
it's like, ohba Doba Princess Leo, oh so lo. It's rough,
(13:15):
It's what I'm saying. All Right, interesting stories coming out.
We're bringing Rory O'Neil from twenty four to seven, reporter
with twenty four to seven on with us.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Hey Rory, good morning, Hey, good morning, Happy Monday.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Neil.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Right back at you, sir. Curious stories.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
We'll start with Elon Musk one million dollar checks being
handed out. He says, this happened on Sunday to Wisconsin voters.
He says, the the agenda and the future of civilization
rests on this.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Yeah, no small on that one. No pressure voters in Wisconsin.
This is all about a Supreme Court race there. They're
trying to get a conservative member on the foot on
the bench. Technically, it's a no party race, but BOSCA
has been supporting the conservative candidate there and then even
giving away one million dollars to two different voters last night,
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now calling them spokespeople for this campaign. The Democratic Attorney
General of Wisconsin tried to nip this in the bud,
but the Wisconsin Court, including the Supreme Court, which now
leans liberal, didn't want to get involved and let the
giveaway go ahead.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You know, Rory, I have this memory. I've been with
KFI for a long time, too long, and the promotional days,
we did a thing where we you think, we were
getting people to sign up to vote, to register to
vote right, and we were giving away a T shirt,
just a KFI T shirt and they we got our
(14:46):
handslapped or something. I mean, this was decades ago. For
giving out a T shirt in that circumstance. How can
someone give out a million bucks and the Wisconsin Supreme
Court go, eh, we don't want to touch this.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Well right, the Democratic Attorney General saying this amounts to
bribery as a violation of state law. You know, MOSCA
has done this before last year's election with President Trump.
Things got a little gray in the final weeks of
this campaign, but in this case, the Democratic ageist said
this is bribery and it breaks state law. There but
again the courts didn't even want to entertain a hearing,
(15:23):
which I thought was pretty remarkable, and the giveaway went forward.
They say that these two people are now being hired
as spokespeople for the cause. So it wasn't really this
for that kind of a giveaway for a million bucks
for your vote.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I mean, he's not given away a buck to two
million people for voting, which might might you know, actually
move the needle. Two people aren't going to move the needle,
I would imagine one way or the other. But it
is it is a curiosity to say the least that well.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It was eligible.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
You were only eligible though, if you supported this petition
and this vote.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
That was the that was what got you in, all right.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
So I'm told that we have to let you go,
that you don't have time to finish because I wanted
to get into Uh.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yeah, I'm afraid my clock is pretty jammed up this morning.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
What for KF I That's what I said.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Did we just become enemies? You're you're dead to me.
Rory O'Neill.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You talk to that Chris Berry guy and you tell him, hey,
oh it's Chris Berry. Absolutely, let me tell them gold.
So ob let's put that guy on the thing.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
All right, you go, Rory, you run to Poughkeepsie or
whatever small town you gotta gotta talk to you now
twenty four seven.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
My ass just down the coast as a matter of fact.
But that's okay. I gotta go right.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
My friend Walter's story without you bye. CIA found the
Ark of the Covenant. What this is a story that
I really wanted to get to.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
This is what. Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
We've done some weird ass things with the CIA and
undercover studies, and the reason I think that it's okay
is because the reality is you need to throw Spagheti
at the wall sometimes. I kind of think that's what
we're seeing with Donald Trump and kind of the hey,
something needs to be done. Let's try something. Well, back
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in the eighties, you had a secret project going on
with a CIA. Now I've heard about some of this,
and they had these psychics, right, and they were trying
to see if there was any realness, any actual science
behind certain psychic feats, one of which was remote viewing.
(17:45):
This is considered at best a pseudoscience. I think it's garbage.
One of the things that I started doing why I
got into theology and lank was debunking fake psychics and
things like that. I think a lot of that is
just garbage and trickery and the like. So I have
an interest in magic, slight of hand, mentalism, all these
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things and have for a long time.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
So I am not buying.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
That this took place this way, but it's fascinating that
they used this this secret project in the eighties, about
nineteen eighty eight, to have a remote viewer. In this case,
the viewer was just numbered number thirty two was tasked
with identifying and locating an object. Apparently they were not
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told what object they were looking for, but the person
viewer number thirty two in these now declassified CIA documents,
they were actually declassified back in August two thousand, but
they're coming back into our consciousness again, said that this
(18:58):
object that they were looking for was in the Middle least,
and then it was housed this house. The object was
housed and it was being protected by entities. They also
went on to say that the target is fashioned out
of wood, gold and silver, and then it had similar
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shape to a coffin and it's decorated with seraphim. Seraphim
is angels. They are a class of angels, Cherubim, cherubs
seraphim and the this is all ties in and that
they said the object was hidden underground in dark, wet conditions.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I don't know what it is with dark and wet conditions.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
With psychics, everything's always in a dark wet environment. You
know why it's being hiten, and chances are if it's dark,
it's probably wet. Please don't seclude that audio ConA thank you, buddy.
They describe the arc as being protected by entities that
would destroy individuals who attempted to damage the object, especially Nazis.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Don't look at it, Miriam, don't look at it. Close
your eyes.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And then all the Nazis got zapped. Ah back when
there were bad guys in movies. So this is coming
up and this again people are looking into the Arc
of the Covenant. These are one of those things that
you know. Obviously Raiders of the Lost Arc put a
highlight on. This is considered to have the the two Tablets,
(20:43):
the ten Commandments that Moses was given in the what
was the thirteenth sixteenth century BC.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
So.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Obviously it's a big deal. The other one would be
the Goblet or the the the Holy Grail, and the
other would be the sort of Destiny, which was believed
to have been found, but I don't believe. So they
believed Hitler had it one time. That was the spear
that pierced the side of Christ.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Where's Indiana Jones when we need him?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I know, well he's ninety one.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
But he did the Arc of the Covenant and he
did the Holy Grail.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Well, the Arc of the Covenant, as far as we know,
is in a box somewhere. Right at the end of
the movie. They wheeled it into that big warehouse.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
No, but in the in the next remember in the
crystal was it the fourth movie Crystal School?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, it was the crystal skulls of the magnetic ball.
The balls can find it.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
It came out of the out of the storage facility.
But did it go back in. I don't remember. I
guess I'm have to go watch those movies again.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I don't know, but I remember they found dust in
it and then all the Nazis died.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Don't look at it, Marryott, Yeah, so what that was
such a great money.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Too, fantastic has watched it recently, so maybe if we
find it, we just take it to war torn area
is open it up and don't look at it, and
then everybody go, what's that and then it'll wipe out all.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
The bad guys. I don't know. Fascinates me.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Uh all right, this is one of those sticky wickets
that just get you fired up. And I'm a I'm
a I'm a logic guy. I think logic is life
and we need to focus on logic and less on
our emotions. But I'll tell you there's one thing that
pisses me off and gets me emotional, things like burning
the American flag. I know you've got the right to
(22:29):
do it, but it's still it still rubs me the
wrong way. Still, uh, gets my eye up and annoys me.
And when I saw the pro Palestine protests, not that
they took place, although I have my own views and
wrestling with that, I think AMAS are garbage and I
(22:54):
think that anybody supports them our garbage. And I think
to refer to the United States and our president as
a fascist. When you have an organization like HAMS that
would kill you rather than looking at you, and that
believes in the other takeover, an assimilation of all other
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faiths beliefs, and bowing to theirs alone. I don't know
how you can support that in any way, shape or form, period,
full stop. I just I can't. But there are principles
of the United States that we hold dear and that
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are a part of our liberty. So when guests come
here on a visa, a student visa, it is very
hard for me to see those people at a pro Palestinian.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
You protest.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
That blocked Jews from getting into libraries or parts of
the school that were hostile towards law enforcement, that did
not obey the laws of the land.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Now, albeit you had some.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Whimpy schools and the higher ups that did not enforce
basic rules of reason on their campuses. But when I
see that, yeah, I want them gone. I want them
to go. There's a scripture being a theologian. Sorry, there's
a scripture that says, anybody is allowed in your church.
(24:36):
You want them to come to your church, but don't
let them teach, because that church has a purpose to teach.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
The church is teaching, and.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I feel like having people come here to spread their
belief system is not why you come here. Now, you
can counter that I get it by saying there is
no belief system. Basically, in the United States, the freedom
of speech. It's the way the freedom of speech was enacted.
So now you've got UCLA students because now they give names,
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not the whole name, but now they get names and faces.
Because this pulls at our heartstrings. Right, So the person
who came here to study and they're a guest, exactly
when you come, when you're a guest at someone's home,
you don't redecorate it. They show you where the cereal is,
they show you where the milk is, and they say, Okay,
you can feed yourself, but you don't get to you
(25:29):
don't get to change everything. So now as federal authorities
act on President Trump's directive to deport international student activists,
he accuses them of being anti Semitic and pro homas.
I don't know how you can separate that seeming truth
from some of the stuff that I saw. Can't tell
(25:51):
me that was just hey listen, uh, there's apartheid going on,
and there's been oppression, and these people are exploding without oppressiveness.
And this is the concussive response to being oppressed. It's
not what I see, you don't rape people because of that,
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you don't kill and take hostages because of that. So
my frustration is trying to say America is different, our
freedoms are different, the things that we love and a
hole deer are different, and that means people are allowed
to protest. But once it becomes this type of activism,
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once the law is broken, and once you proclaim allegiance
or any sort of empathy for an enemy of our state,
our enemy of the state in the United States, maybe
I'm being irrational and not using logic that I love
(26:53):
so much. But bye, Neil Savandra in for Bill Handlemore
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Hey everybody, Niel Savadra in for mister Bill Handle, who's
still on vacation, the little Lovebird. He got married and
he will be back a week from today. I'm happy
to be back and sitting in for him and hanging
out with you. It's really weird. I missed you, No,
(00:26):
not you, the other one behind you, and it's great
to be back. I did the show the for Report
this Saturday, and it was nice to be back behind
the mic and hanging out with you good folks. So
thanks for tuning in and hanging out today. A lot
to cover as a matter of fact. We go back
to Washington, this time with John Decker, kfi's White House correspondent.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Hey John, good morning.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Hey, good morning to you.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Hook.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You're doing well today.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, I gotta tell you, you know, you come back from Italy.
Handle got married, so love was in the air, and
now I feel like I come back here and love
is no longer in the air. For Trump and the
Russian president putin what I think.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Things that way, what's really frustrated. I think the President's
just really frustrated with Vladimir Putin because you already have
one side, Ukraine that has agreed to a thirty day seafire.
They agreed to that several weeks ago. Russia has not.
Russia continues attacking Ukraine with missiles, with drone strikes in
(01:28):
civilian areas, and the President said last week that Russia,
in his words, is dragging its feet. And then what
we heard from the President over the weekend is a threat,
a threat that if indeed Russia doesn't agree to a
thirty day ceasefire, the President would impose trade tariffs on
any country that purchases Russian oil, trade tariffs of twenty
(01:51):
five percent. He's already done that with countries that purchase
Venezuelan oil, and he may do the same with countries
that purchase Russian oil as well.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So it's an interesting game.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And which is a polite way of saying that Trump
does things in a unique way, because it wasn't long
ago that he was referring to Zolensky saying that he
was sick of handling the war, and he falsely referred
to him as a dictator. And now he's coming after
(02:23):
putin saying that his attitude towards Zelensky essentially is not
going in the right location.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
His words, not mine.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, well, that's right, And it's interesting because it's coming
from President Donald Trump, the person who called a Latimer
Zelensky a dictator, the person who said that it was Ukraine,
not Russia that started the war in Ukraine. And of
course it was Russia that started this war three years ago.
And so now the president very disappointed. You know, he
thought he could come in, upon being sworn in as president,
(02:58):
solve the war in Ukraine very quickly, and it's proven
to be much more difficult than he anticipated.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well that that first showing.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That you know, many people, myself included, thought was cringeworthy
in the Oval office when Zelensky came and people talked
about where he was dressed, and you had JD. Van
saying you haven't even thanked us, And it was a
you know, a bizarre scene to say the least, right,
(03:31):
And then you fast forward now and you've got I mean, hey.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Didn't they set the precedent sort of?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I mean, wouldn't if you were putin, you'd say, Okay, finally,
this guy's on my side.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
He gets me.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
He's calling this guy a dictator, all of these things,
and you'd think that Putin is kind of responding to
that energy. And now there's a flip on this, saying,
as you pointed out, twenty five percent tear on all oil,
twenty five to fifty point tariff on all oil. So
(04:05):
he says Donald Trump for people that buy oil from Russia.
It just seems like there's two very different messages. And
I'm curious if there's any insight or any talk there
with colleagues and the like as to any sort of
strategy in this, Well, you made.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
A big mistake. The big mistake was getting inside.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Of Putin's head, and another.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Big mistake was getting inside Trump said, I don't think
anybody should try to do that. I certainly don't try
to do that. So you know, the president and President
Trump does what the president does, and sometimes, you know,
it's difficult to understand his thinking. I've heard people that
are big supporters of the president saying, you don't get him,
he's playing three dimensional chess. That may be true, but
(04:56):
in any case, as it relates to the thirty day
season fire proposal that was put on the table. Vladimir
Putin has essentially rejected it. He's said to the US
national security team that's met with Russian officials, the only
way that we would even consider the possibility of a
ceasefire or a peace proposal is if you the United
(05:19):
States removed from Russia all of those tough economic sanctions
that were placed on our country over the course of
the past few years. And that's a non starter as
far as the US is concerned. So I think both
sides right now are at a standstill in terms of
where this relationship goes and where the effort goes in
(05:39):
terms of ending this ongoing war.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Well, if anyone from Disney and Pixar are listening inside
out three, the Putin and Trump addition, so we could
all get in their head would be.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'd go see that. A lot of people would see that.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't know, but cry the same way I did
in the other But very strange. You have words coming
out of Trump's mouth like being very angry, angry, and
even pissed off.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It is certainly a change.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Maybe he's smarter than all of us, and he is
playing something that we just can't keep up with. At
this point, We'll still have to see how this plays out.
I just don't find Putin to be the kind of
rollover puppy that responds to things like very angry and
pissed off.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
So wait and see.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Well, President Trump has indicated that he may have another
conversation with President Putin this week. We'll see what comes
out of that. But you know, as of you know,
the past few months, we've seen no indication that Russia
would like to end this war. You know, they may
say certain things, but rhetoric is meaningless unless you have
actions backing it up. And there's no action that Russia
(06:48):
has taken which indicates they wish to end the war
with Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, the next action looks like it could come from Trump.
We'll see if these tariffs on oil material. John Decker,
kfi's White House correspondent, thanks so much for taking the
time to come on.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Always insightful, John.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Thank you, thanks a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Have a great day.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Byey as well. It's Neil sevadri in for Bill Handle
this morning. Happy to be with you back from vacation.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Was actually with.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Bill and my family out there as he got remarried
and beautiful, beautiful wedding, the ceremony everything was amazing, and
he'll probably he may call in on Thursday or Friday,
but he'll be back a week from two day dealing
with that. It's the first time I've flown internationally since.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
COVID. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I don't think I've flown internationally. Gosh, I probably haven't
flown internationally, and longer than that, maybe since my boy's
been born, so it could be eight years. So a
lot of different things going on. One in which is
the real ID, which I did like there was that
you know, you've got another deadline looming right, headache for
(08:11):
flyers everywhere going you gotta go get this new real
ID thing.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Well they said that before. So in the middle of.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
COVID Uh, I went in there with the mask, more
bloated than usual and got my the worst picture I've
ever taken in my whole life.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I think.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I think I was so bloated that it looks like
my head is rectangle because it didn't fit in the frame.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It's really bad. Chins on chins on chins.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Rough, and the mask made my goate turned like a
not hard ninety degree.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
It was rough, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But I went and did all that because they said
that the it was coming and I got that real
life ID and then they then shortly after they put
it off.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Now I'm not saying.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
That it's gonna look any better if I prepped myself
and went in and took a new picture. I just
it obviously still cut Steff. Not to mention I had
to do it with my boy at the time. I
had to drag him into a DMV in the middle
of COVID, which was not fun. But May seventh is
the deadline to get your real ID getting a lot
(09:30):
more real for people. It's it's not difficult, but you
need to have it because travelers, if you're gonna travel,
it all real ID, this upgraded driver's license, this identification
card you're gonna need, and you're gonna need another compliant
ID like a passport. You're gonna need all these things.
(09:51):
This is even to board domestic flights. Now on that date,
that's gonna change everything. And there's been years of delays.
Do not bet on that. Do not bet that. Hey,
you're going to have another delay and you're going to
get off and you're gonna be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Just get it done.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Federal officials are saying that now travelers are going to
need to take the May seventh date seriously, this date
is serious this time. I know this guy is falling.
These guys falling, Skuy's falling. But the Department of Motor
Vehicles sites across the country. People are scrambling to look
(10:33):
up information to find out what's going on. Local DMV
offices have added hundreds of appointment slots, extended operating hours.
They're trying to meet the flood of Americans trying to
get an upgraded ID in time. And I will tell you,
I mean, the last time I was at the DMV,
(10:53):
I don't think it was a horrible experience.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It seemed to move a little better than it had
in the past. So good on them. And I'm in La.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I mean, you go to awesome town or something to
get that's a peach there there. You go up the
hill and you go into Santa Clarita or what is it?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Is it? New Hall? I think has a DMV.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
That's a peach.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You get in, you get out. It's a real peach.
But you heard right, I said peach. I was born
in nineteen twenty three, which is a real peach. The
Bee's knees up there. But you go to La and
it's you know, so it's a hoarriblay. But I've done
it and you can get it done. And I'm going
(11:41):
to tell you something else from your old buddy Neil
is get the global entry. Glet get your TSA stuff.
It's right there near the airport, that Homeland Security. You
go over there, you fill out everything online and then
you have to go in person. They call you up,
take your picture, do all that business, whatever it is,
(12:03):
and it makes flying so much easier. And coming back
is was easy coming back from Italy or in our case,
I guess it would have been in London because you
we did the layover. The only thing they didn't do
in this bugs me when I come back to America.
I know it's a little thing. I want them to
(12:24):
say welcome home, not even welcome back. I want them
to say welcome home. I'm an American.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I love coming back to my home and when they
say welcome welcome home, it means something to me. And
our guy didn't say welcome home. He was nice, sweet
to sell. You know, you might have said welcome back,
or somebody say welcome home. Anyways, get your real id.
Deadlines come in May seventh. Don't blow it off.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Think you know what.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
They're going to extend it or there's going to be
some crazy thing that happens. Just get it done, and
for the love of God, maybe put a couple of
cucumber slices on your eyes. Freshen yourself up. Don't go
in like me. Seriously, I look at that picture and
it's like, ohba Doba Princess Leo, oh so lo. It's rough,
(13:15):
It's what I'm saying. All Right, interesting stories coming out.
We're bringing Rory O'Neil from twenty four to seven, reporter
with twenty four to seven on with us.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Hey Rory, good morning, Hey, good morning, Happy Monday.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Neil.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Right back at you, sir. Curious stories.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
We'll start with Elon Musk one million dollar checks being
handed out. He says, this happened on Sunday to Wisconsin voters.
He says, the the agenda and the future of civilization
rests on this.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Yeah, no small on that one. No pressure voters in Wisconsin.
This is all about a Supreme Court race there. They're
trying to get a conservative member on the foot on
the bench. Technically, it's a no party race, but BOSCA
has been supporting the conservative candidate there and then even
giving away one million dollars to two different voters last night,
(14:08):
now calling them spokespeople for this campaign. The Democratic Attorney
General of Wisconsin tried to nip this in the bud,
but the Wisconsin Court, including the Supreme Court, which now
leans liberal, didn't want to get involved and let the
giveaway go ahead.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You know, Rory, I have this memory. I've been with
KFI for a long time, too long, and the promotional days,
we did a thing where we you think, we were
getting people to sign up to vote, to register to
vote right, and we were giving away a T shirt,
just a KFI T shirt and they we got our
(14:46):
handslapped or something. I mean, this was decades ago. For
giving out a T shirt in that circumstance. How can
someone give out a million bucks and the Wisconsin Supreme
Court go, eh, we don't want to touch this.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Well right, the Democratic Attorney General saying this amounts to
bribery as a violation of state law. You know, MOSCA
has done this before last year's election with President Trump.
Things got a little gray in the final weeks of
this campaign, but in this case, the Democratic ageist said
this is bribery and it breaks state law. There but
again the courts didn't even want to entertain a hearing,
(15:23):
which I thought was pretty remarkable, and the giveaway went forward.
They say that these two people are now being hired
as spokespeople for the cause. So it wasn't really this
for that kind of a giveaway for a million bucks
for your vote.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I mean, he's not given away a buck to two
million people for voting, which might might you know, actually
move the needle. Two people aren't going to move the needle,
I would imagine one way or the other. But it
is it is a curiosity to say the least that well.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It was eligible.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
You were only eligible though, if you supported this petition
and this vote.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
That was the that was what got you in, all right.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
So I'm told that we have to let you go,
that you don't have time to finish because I wanted
to get into Uh.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yeah, I'm afraid my clock is pretty jammed up this morning.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
What for KF I That's what I said.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Did we just become enemies? You're you're dead to me.
Rory O'Neill.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You talk to that Chris Berry guy and you tell him, hey,
oh it's Chris Berry. Absolutely, let me tell them gold.
So ob let's put that guy on the thing.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
All right, you go, Rory, you run to Poughkeepsie or
whatever small town you gotta gotta talk to you now
twenty four seven.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
My ass just down the coast as a matter of fact.
But that's okay. I gotta go right.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
My friend Walter's story without you bye. CIA found the
Ark of the Covenant. What this is a story that
I really wanted to get to.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
This is what. Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
We've done some weird ass things with the CIA and
undercover studies, and the reason I think that it's okay
is because the reality is you need to throw Spagheti
at the wall sometimes. I kind of think that's what
we're seeing with Donald Trump and kind of the hey,
something needs to be done. Let's try something. Well, back
(17:21):
in the eighties, you had a secret project going on
with a CIA. Now I've heard about some of this,
and they had these psychics, right, and they were trying
to see if there was any realness, any actual science
behind certain psychic feats, one of which was remote viewing.
(17:45):
This is considered at best a pseudoscience. I think it's garbage.
One of the things that I started doing why I
got into theology and lank was debunking fake psychics and
things like that. I think a lot of that is
just garbage and trickery and the like. So I have
an interest in magic, slight of hand, mentalism, all these
(18:07):
things and have for a long time.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
So I am not buying.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
That this took place this way, but it's fascinating that
they used this this secret project in the eighties, about
nineteen eighty eight, to have a remote viewer. In this case,
the viewer was just numbered number thirty two was tasked
with identifying and locating an object. Apparently they were not
(18:34):
told what object they were looking for, but the person
viewer number thirty two in these now declassified CIA documents,
they were actually declassified back in August two thousand, but
they're coming back into our consciousness again, said that this
(18:58):
object that they were looking for was in the Middle least,
and then it was housed this house. The object was
housed and it was being protected by entities. They also
went on to say that the target is fashioned out
of wood, gold and silver, and then it had similar
(19:18):
shape to a coffin and it's decorated with seraphim. Seraphim
is angels. They are a class of angels, Cherubim, cherubs
seraphim and the this is all ties in and that
they said the object was hidden underground in dark, wet conditions.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I don't know what it is with dark and wet conditions.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
With psychics, everything's always in a dark wet environment. You
know why it's being hiten, and chances are if it's dark,
it's probably wet. Please don't seclude that audio ConA thank you, buddy.
They describe the arc as being protected by entities that
would destroy individuals who attempted to damage the object, especially Nazis.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Don't look at it, Miriam, don't look at it. Close
your eyes.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And then all the Nazis got zapped. Ah back when
there were bad guys in movies. So this is coming
up and this again people are looking into the Arc
of the Covenant. These are one of those things that
you know. Obviously Raiders of the Lost Arc put a
highlight on. This is considered to have the the two Tablets,
(20:43):
the ten Commandments that Moses was given in the what
was the thirteenth sixteenth century BC.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
So.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Obviously it's a big deal. The other one would be
the Goblet or the the the Holy Grail, and the
other would be the sort of Destiny, which was believed
to have been found, but I don't believe. So they
believed Hitler had it one time. That was the spear
that pierced the side of Christ.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Where's Indiana Jones when we need him?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I know, well he's ninety one.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
But he did the Arc of the Covenant and he
did the Holy Grail.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Well, the Arc of the Covenant, as far as we know,
is in a box somewhere. Right at the end of
the movie. They wheeled it into that big warehouse.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
No, but in the in the next remember in the
crystal was it the fourth movie Crystal School?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, it was the crystal skulls of the magnetic ball.
The balls can find it.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
It came out of the out of the storage facility.
But did it go back in. I don't remember. I
guess I'm have to go watch those movies again.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I don't know, but I remember they found dust in
it and then all the Nazis died.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Don't look at it, Marryott, Yeah, so what that was
such a great money.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Too, fantastic has watched it recently, so maybe if we
find it, we just take it to war torn area
is open it up and don't look at it, and
then everybody go, what's that and then it'll wipe out all.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
The bad guys. I don't know. Fascinates me.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Uh all right, this is one of those sticky wickets
that just get you fired up. And I'm a I'm
a I'm a logic guy. I think logic is life
and we need to focus on logic and less on
our emotions. But I'll tell you there's one thing that
pisses me off and gets me emotional, things like burning
the American flag. I know you've got the right to
(22:29):
do it, but it's still it still rubs me the
wrong way. Still, uh, gets my eye up and annoys me.
And when I saw the pro Palestine protests, not that
they took place, although I have my own views and
wrestling with that, I think AMAS are garbage and I
(22:54):
think that anybody supports them our garbage. And I think
to refer to the United States and our president as
a fascist. When you have an organization like HAMS that
would kill you rather than looking at you, and that
believes in the other takeover, an assimilation of all other
(23:15):
faiths beliefs, and bowing to theirs alone. I don't know
how you can support that in any way, shape or form, period,
full stop. I just I can't. But there are principles
of the United States that we hold dear and that
(23:36):
are a part of our liberty. So when guests come
here on a visa, a student visa, it is very
hard for me to see those people at a pro Palestinian.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
You protest.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
That blocked Jews from getting into libraries or parts of
the school that were hostile towards law enforcement, that did
not obey the laws of the land.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Now, albeit you had some.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Whimpy schools and the higher ups that did not enforce
basic rules of reason on their campuses. But when I
see that, yeah, I want them gone. I want them
to go. There's a scripture being a theologian. Sorry, there's
a scripture that says, anybody is allowed in your church.
(24:36):
You want them to come to your church, but don't
let them teach, because that church has a purpose to teach.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
The church is teaching, and.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I feel like having people come here to spread their
belief system is not why you come here. Now, you
can counter that I get it by saying there is
no belief system. Basically, in the United States, the freedom
of speech. It's the way the freedom of speech was enacted.
So now you've got UCLA students because now they give names,
(25:07):
not the whole name, but now they get names and faces.
Because this pulls at our heartstrings. Right, So the person
who came here to study and they're a guest, exactly
when you come, when you're a guest at someone's home,
you don't redecorate it. They show you where the cereal is,
they show you where the milk is, and they say, Okay,
you can feed yourself, but you don't get to you
(25:29):
don't get to change everything. So now as federal authorities
act on President Trump's directive to deport international student activists,
he accuses them of being anti Semitic and pro homas.
I don't know how you can separate that seeming truth
from some of the stuff that I saw. Can't tell
(25:51):
me that was just hey listen, uh, there's apartheid going on,
and there's been oppression, and these people are exploding without oppressiveness.
And this is the concussive response to being oppressed. It's
not what I see, you don't rape people because of that,
(26:11):
you don't kill and take hostages because of that. So
my frustration is trying to say America is different, our
freedoms are different, the things that we love and a
hole deer are different, and that means people are allowed
to protest. But once it becomes this type of activism,
(26:33):
once the law is broken, and once you proclaim allegiance
or any sort of empathy for an enemy of our state,
our enemy of the state in the United States, maybe
I'm being irrational and not using logic that I love
(26:53):
so much. But bye, Neil Savandra in for Bill Handlemore
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