April 10, 2025 • 25 mins
(April 10, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Trump limits tariffs on most nations for 90 days, raises China import tax. Kash Patel out as acting ATF director, replaced by Army Secretary. Newsmax defamed Dominion Voting Systems with false 2020 election claims, judge rules. Nightclub roof collapse kills at least 184 in Dominican Republic, including former MLB players. IOC says LA28 Olympics will be the first female majority games.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Trump limits tariffs on most nations for 90 days, raises China import tax. Kash Patel out as acting ATF director, replaced by Army Secretary. Newsmax defamed Dominion Voting Systems with false 2020 election claims, judge rules. Nightclub roof collapse kills at least 184 in Dominican Republic, including former MLB players. IOC says LA28 Olympics will be the first female majority games.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Ukrainian President of Vladimir Zelenski said two Chinese nationals fighting
in the Russian Army have been taken prisoner.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, usually it was North Koreans. Now it's Chinese that
they're fighting. I mean, these two denied they were Chinese,
and then it was well, then.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
What are you doing with egg rolls in your pocket?
Couldn't deny that? And now handle on the news, ladies
and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle. Good morning everybody, Bill Handle here.
Oh yes, it's now a Thursday, April tenth.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And do you remember when I said that as soon
as President Trump was elected, we were in for.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
A roller coaster ride? Yeah? Was I understating that?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
One?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Huh? All right, quick hello to one and all.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Neil, good morning, Hey, Willie Wolf, good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yes, and Amy morning to you, good morning, and will
good morning, Good morning, sir, and a good.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Morning, Good morning Bill. I don't know why I even
do this, all right, Cono, good morning, good morning. I
can't I can't see you on the zoom. I know
our my zoom is out.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I've got I don't want to say anything negative about
any particular provider of internet, Cox Cable. But I've been
having some problems with my Zoom and Internet.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
It's sporadic.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
So I'm switching over to a famous name brand, the
Abraham Lincoln brand of Internet providers.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
See that's a famous name brand. You get that. Hmm Okay,
I'm still to deep.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You're the only one I know that has these problems.
By the way, I know, I don't get it. I
don't get it, and I have so much going on
on my setup here. You have no idea I've got it.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I don't get it. I and I have and I
have two static ISP lines or USP or PTSD lines
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
The hell it can be.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yes, STD lines. Well, I've had that for a very
long time.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But it's switching over to fiber optics because this is
driving me nuts, and it's sporadic.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It comes in and out. Man, just so much fun
I bitching and moaning about something.
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a company that has actually come in and saved my ass.
I had some problems with my charger for my EV
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and they literally saved my ass. I should call them
to see if they can do something with my internet
striving me completely nuts. I can't see you guys. Well
that's not necessarily bad, but I can Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I can't. Yeah, I can't see you guys. It's really Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
We looked good today.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, I got the good looking group. We don't need you.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I don't know where I'd go with that one.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I was thinking of several responses to that, none of it,
none of which would keep us on the air through
the weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Okay, let's let's just do it, guys.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
There's so much to talk about today, and it's it's
exhausting as to what's going on. You talk about ups
and downs and the markets roiling, and I mean just
craziness going on.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So let's start it.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Handle on the news with Amy Neil and me lead story. Okay,
the tariffs that we're going to go into effect and
did go into effect immediately, that we're not going to
be pulled back, were pulled back. And now the President
(04:38):
literally hours after invoking many of these tariffs turned around
and said, now I got a whole withhold for ninety days.
Let's relax for a bit except China. I was about
to say that China, they are ratcheting up China. So
now China's at one hundred and twenty five percent tariffs yesterday,
(04:59):
And what time did we we have a Savile on
when we talked about our business, Because that's that's worth
am seven am. That's worth going back on demand and
listening to that segment because this is a business that
Savill and I have and we import cookware from China
using stainless steel.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
It's stainless steel cookware.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
He was we were going through the numbers every day.
I talked to Savile and just we're spinning the tariffs.
As of yesterday, we're one hundred and eighty four percent.
So for every one hundred dollars that we buy of product,
we have to spend another one hundred and eighty four
(05:42):
dollars for one hundred dollars. So we're at two hundred
and eighty four dollars for products that cost one hundred dollars,
And man, what do you do with it? You know,
it's there are people that are just going to be
out of business. There's a really good friend of Lindsay,
she's known since high school, and he's involved in the
chip world where his company brings in chips and sells
(06:07):
them after market on the resale market. He says, they're
out of business. Basically, yeah, they're What do you do?
I mean, it's crazy. So anyway, we've come back. We
the world economy has come back. So after three days
of hemorrhaging in the markets, yesterday, the market, after the
announcement that well, we're gonna hold off ninety days or
(06:29):
Trump's gonna hold off ninety days, the market then explodes
and it gains almost three thousand points. I mean, it's
just this is nuts. And now everybody's sitting back. Okay,
when does the next go round happen?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
All right?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Probably today because the down futures are down six hundred
and fifty per.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Of course, why not? Sure? Why not?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Now they're only down five hundred and seventy.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I feel better.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Yeah, okay, Oh it's my turn, is m okay to
change his cash. Bettel is out as the acting director
of the ATF. You may recall that he is the
FBI director and he's a close personal ally of President Trumps.
He was sworn in as the ATF's acting director in
(07:17):
late February, but now he's been replaced. US Army Secretary
Daniel driscoll is taking over. The Justice Department is confirming that,
but they're not saying why.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
And now we know that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives will now once again take credit cards.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Oh cash, okay, I get it now, thank.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
A little bit of a take me a minute, A
little bit of a stretch, a little bit by okay.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
A Delaware judge ruled that Newsmas defamed Dominion voting systems
by falsely accusing the company of ringing the twenty twenty
president presidential election. However, at this point it's going to
be up to a jury. They're going to have to
decide whether Newsmas intentionally smeared Dominion with actual malice. You
(08:10):
understand all this big stuff hand and must pay millions
of dollars in damages.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Malice, by the way, is not I want to get
the guy because I hate him. It's knowing that the
statement you're making is false.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
That's one.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Or it's so false you should have known that the
statement was false in this case, pointing out that Dominion
voting machines were rigged, and they were rigged in favor
of Joe Biden and Trump votes were in fact registered
as Biden votes over and over again, and they at
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some point in December of twenty twenty, they said, we
ran a clarification segment and we posted an article online
that we didn't have the evidence that Dominion manipulated any
votes relative to the months of day in and day
out and the constant statements the vote was rigged, Dominion
(09:11):
rig the votes.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So now it's up to a jury.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Fox, that character, that SNL character that would after saying
everything on the news go oh never mind.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh yes that's right, Yeah, yeah, what's their face?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Gilda Road, Yeah, Gilda.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah, I remember talking about In any.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Case, Uh, Fox as a matter of fact, had to
settle for almost eight hundred almost a billion dollars when uh,
when it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Said that dominion rigged the votes.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Also, now I don't know whether or not Newsmax is
probably going to settle for something, but I don't know
if they have anywhere near that kind of money.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Oh, this is not happy news at all, but a
rescue has now become recovery. In the Dominican Republic, of course,
the roof of an iconic nightclub collapsed and the death
toll is now up at least at two hundred and
thirteen people. At least three hundred people were inside the
jet Set nightclub early Tuesday morning when the roof came
(10:21):
down during a performance of merengue artist Ruby Perez. He's
one of the people who were killed, along with a
couple of Major League Baseball players. A former Dodger pitcher,
Octavio dettel Or Dotel, was one of the two killed.
They say that emergency responders have ended their rescue efforts
(10:42):
and it's now a recovery effort, so they're not expecting
to find anybody else.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
This is absolutely brutal. There are actually more people killed
than injured. Yeah, and that you never see well and.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Where there storms. What happened in the roof just collapse.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Just collapsed, and it collapsed at exactly the wrong time.
It was it collapsed when the place was jammed, that
it could have collapsed any other time.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So it's horrific. Horrific luck.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Or mind you think there's gonna be an investigation or
two as to the structure of the building.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I would imagine. Yeah. The twenty twenty eight Olympics will
be the first to feature more women than men, the
International Olympics Committee announced just yesterday after approving the metal
events and athletes quota for them, citing high ticket demand
for women's events in Paris, broadcast numbers that are equal
(11:45):
to or higher than men's sports, increased media coverage, and
greater international investment in women's sports. So they said, this
first female majority Olympics is a complete package.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Also new events that have men who have become women.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, well that may be why it's there's more women
in this one.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Why, That's what I'm thinking, and more interest.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Interest if eventually they do add like a trans category, you.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Know what they might.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
When you think about it, that is actually not that
crazy because physiology is different. Those people that argue, you know,
I'm in favor of obviously the trans community, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Uh, you know, it's then of my business.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
But if you're if my kid, for example, was competing
and my daughters were competing, and we're competing against someone
who was a man now became a woman, well, you know,
the physiology is different. The muscle mass, even though that
could be changed as different, the skeletal mass is different,
which is why men are always faster than women. You
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know when you look at what happens with you know,
the various races and the games. I mean, women can't
jump as high as men, nor can white guys when
it comes to you know, white men can't jump either.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
But that's a different issue.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Okay, why don't we move on because I think I'm
about to get in trouble?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Wasn't I good idea?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Okay, you can add trash to the list of things
that cost more pretty soon. The La City Council has
moved forward with a proposal. It's not a done deal yet,
but it would increase trash collection fees the first time
in seventeen years.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
They've raised fees, by the way, by fifty four percent.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Charge. No, don't they charge per can.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I don't trash?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Been?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well? It will fee or something?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, well they do.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
In my in my area where there's the a charge
for regular trash and for the recycled bin and for
the bin that it collects the tremin et the Yeah. Yeah,
and we're about to get we're ordering more of the
recycle because Lindsay goes crazy and we get packages from
(14:12):
Amazon all day long. So we need a bigger bin
or more bins on the recycled part.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, that's really our case.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Pardon you're being good to the environment?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, that's one you know what that Actually, that's one
of the things I'm fanatic about. Usually I don't give
a rats, but on the recycled part of the world,
I'm pretty careful about that.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
We need to get better at that. There's too much, way,
too much word.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
The problem is, though, that we got better when everybody
said recycle and we started recycling like crazy, and then
they went, eh, we can't do.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
That well because because at the recycle point they're not recycling.
For example, we have recycle bins all over the station,
right and you you know those blue bins or you
put paper in there. I think it goes in the
same place as the trash does.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
But is isn't it? Singapore that has no like they
have a complete system where there is no waste.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Well, trash is illegal in Singapore. They turn you're not
allowed trying to turn.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
The plastic into roads and building bricks and do it.
I mean their system is in Saye, you know, if
we're going to charge more, I would like to see
that the people that are actually driving the trucks and
picking up trash get more and not just go to
the bottom live of the government.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
They do pretty well, and they're increasing these fees. They're
saying specifically because of the billion dollar deficit they're trying
to generate small.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yah, big deficit with the trash.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
House. Republican leaders just yesterday scrapped plans to vote on
the Senate's framework to advance key parts of President Trump's
legislative agenda. So kind of a setback. That came in
the face of opposition from hardline conservatives. So you've got
a lot going on. The delay marks a blow to
not only Speaker Johnson who pushed forward that, you know,
(16:09):
kind of do this all speedy and get this pushed through.
But obviously it's a it's a blow to President Trump.
Maybe not here's why step as you think.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, here's why what's going on, Because at one point
during the Biden years and during the Democratic years, you
had Republicans, particularly a hard right Republicans, screaming about the
deficit every year, saying you cannot spend more money than
comes in. They were deficit hawks. Trump comes in, that
disappears completely. There's no such thing as a deficit hawk
anymore in the Republican party.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
We're looking at two trillion dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Deficit every year now under Trump, and you have a
few Republicans that are saying, Okay, that's it.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
We can't take it anymore. We're finished.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
We cannot sustain this kind of deficit and this kind
of negative, negative economic well philosophy. I guess in this country,
you cannot keep on spending half of your budget. Every
year you make one hundred thousand dollars, you spend one
(17:15):
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, so you borrow it next year,
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, next year, two hundred
thousand dollars on your hundred thousand dollars income. That's what
the United States is doing. And they're finally saying we're done,
that's enough of that and Trump wants more tax cuts
and the deficit is going to grow. Remember when he
came into office, he was bitching and moaning about what.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Obama did.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
That Obama hit a twenty trillion dollar national debt. It's
now at thirty six trillion dollars and it doesn't matter.
Let's just keep on borrowing until the cows come home,
very expensive cows, wagu beef cows.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Where were those cows going? How come they need to
come home?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Well, they were going to. I don't you know what.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I can't think of a good answer without being completely crude.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Let's just move on.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
That should be a drop.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
That should you know, you're right?
Speaker 5 (18:15):
That should okay, sweeping a mistake under the rug. The
Justice Department says it's going to drop charges against a
man they had alleged to be a major leader of
MS thirteen. His lawyer says it's the first step toward
immediately deporting him to El Salvador. Attorney General Pambondi said
(18:38):
last month that Henry via Toros Santos was an MS
thirteen leader on the East Coast. He was horrible, violent,
one of the worst of the worst criminals. But now
the Justice Department without explanation, is dismissing the single federal
charge he faced for unlawfully having a weapon. The government,
(18:58):
she said, or prosecute said, no longer wishes to pursue
the instant prosecution at this time.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Now keep in mind this one is the government is
dropping the charges, why so they can deport him. His
attorney is saying, no, no, keep the charges alive against
my client, so he can't be deported. So he's in
the United States for trial. Because once he's deported, he
ends up in that Nicaraguin prison, which is far worse
(19:26):
than standing trial. It's a complete reversal of what normally happens. Yeah,
it's fascinating. It's just fascinating what's going on. By the way,
all of this under the Aliens Edition Act, which the
Supreme Court said Trump is allowed to do it. There
are four parts of the Aliens Edition Act, one of
which says that a president can declare an emergency and
(19:48):
then habeas corpus disappears. He can do whatever the hell
he wants, throw people out of the country. And it's
been used three times in the history of the United States,
during Washington and during World War One and World War II.
The Japanese when they were interred in the internment camps
here in California, Arizona, etc. Under the Aliens Edition Act.
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That is how the president was able to put these
people without trial, without hearings, into internment camps. This is
the fourth go round. It's never been done in peacetime.
And Trump did it by declaring basically, we've been invaded,
by declaring a national emergency, effectively saying we're at war.
(20:31):
Never been done before. You think there's new stuff with
this president, You think, all right.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Avlo Airlines an ultra low cost carrier, a major hub
just out here at the Hollywood Burbank Bob Hope Airport.
I'm an old school guy. That way has reached an
agreement with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE on
a multi year deal to provide the agency with charter
(20:57):
flights to assist with the deportation efforts. Then is is
people have to not bathe, they have to take off
their shoes, and of course pay extra for luggage.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yes, of course, because illegal aliens were being deported have
so much luggage, and they fight for the emergency row
uh the seats and pay extra money for that. By
the way, there have been charters before. The US government
charters airplanes when the soldiers were returning from Vietnam War,
(21:30):
for example, the major the vast majority were on chartered planes.
But this one is just for deporting illegals, and the
numbers are going to get huge under the new.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Policy to make the most airlines.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
You have. You'd rather wouldn't you rather be in a
Nicaraguan prison than on Avalo airlines?
Speaker 5 (21:53):
No, Avella is actually nice. Or they fly to like
non major hubs. So from Burbank they fly to my
hometown of Medford direct, which almost nobody else does. Or
they fly to Vegas, or they're flight to Renos, so
they're low costs, but they do have a lot of fees.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, you know what they're going to do. It's going
to look like India Bill. They're going to get their
money's worth. They're going to have people sitting on the
wings on the top of the plane.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Do they get seatbelts on the wings?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
No?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Be fun to watch, all right.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Amy expanding plans moving forward but not done yet. A
plan to renovate the Convention Center back who was directed
back in the nineteen seventies. Moving forward, La City Council
has agreed to spend almost twenty eight million dollars for
design and technical work. Now, that doesn't authorize the massive renovation,
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but it apparently shows that the council is behind the idea.
A final a vote is expected in July, when the
project costs are more clear and a city agreement is finalized.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
So the plan, yeah, they'll do it.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yeah, The plan is to start construction by the end
of this year and then finish in twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah. I mean though, I mean they were going to
do it.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
The problem with the La conventions and her who does
it compete with Anaheim because of Disneyland and knots where
people love to go and the number one convention hub
on the planet and that well at least in the United States,
is Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
How do you compete with Las Vegas? You don't?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
All right? This is a weird ass story. Woman was
shot in Eagle Rock in like her neighbor's yard or
something after a man hunt for a hit and run suspect.
And it happens to be Jillian Shriner, who she's an author,
but she's the wife of Weezer bass player Scott Shriner,
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who's playing at Coachella this weekend, or was supposed to.
We'll see what happens.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, she came out.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
It is strange she came out of the house with
a gun because there was a guy who had run
off from a hit and run and then he came
into her backyard, stripped down to his underwear and started
watering plants. It was really bizarre, And then she came
out with a gun. Cops said put it down, she refused.
They ended up shooting her in the show.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
First of all, yeah, the guy did his underwear watering,
so people would think that he owned the house and
that was part of what he does. But as far
as she's concerned, I have no problem with the fact
that she had a weapon.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Uh, you know, she's for whatever. Maybe she thought I
got to put it down.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, when the cops show up and draw and show
up with weapons and say drop the gun, do you
in your right mind do anything other than drop the gun?
Put your hands in the air and say, have you
ever heard of my husband's cover of Africa? It's the
best damn thing you've ever heard?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Was that an actual pop culture reference?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
One of my favorite songs, by the way, Wow and
have you And the cover sounds exactly the same as Toto.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I can't tell the difference.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Who would have known when you do a cover, this
sounds the same as the original song.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
What do you do with that? And the answer is yes,
it was a pop reference.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I'm so proud I instuted you like like Rex the
Wonder Horse. I'm just a gate.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Okay, we are done with the news. Let's do that.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Ukrainian President of Vladimir Zelenski said two Chinese nationals fighting
in the Russian Army have been taken prisoner.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, usually it was North Koreans. Now it's Chinese that
they're fighting. I mean, these two denied they were Chinese,
and then it was well, then.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
What are you doing with egg rolls in your pocket?
Couldn't deny that? And now handle on the news, ladies
and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle. Good morning everybody, Bill Handle here.
Oh yes, it's now a Thursday, April tenth.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And do you remember when I said that as soon
as President Trump was elected, we were in for.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
A roller coaster ride? Yeah? Was I understating that?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
One?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Huh? All right, quick hello to one and all.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Neil, good morning, Hey, Willie Wolf, good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yes, and Amy morning to you, good morning, and will
good morning, Good morning, sir, and a good.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Morning, Good morning Bill. I don't know why I even
do this, all right, Cono, good morning, good morning. I
can't I can't see you on the zoom. I know
our my zoom is out.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I've got I don't want to say anything negative about
any particular provider of internet, Cox Cable. But I've been
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See that's a famous name brand. You get that. Hmm Okay,
I'm still to deep.
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long time.
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driving me nuts, and it's sporadic.
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It comes in and out. Man, just so much fun
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Speaker 4 (03:43):
We looked good today.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, I got the good looking group. We don't need you.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I don't know where I'd go with that one.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I was thinking of several responses to that, none of it,
none of which would keep us on the air through
the weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Okay, let's let's just do it, guys.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
There's so much to talk about today, and it's it's
exhausting as to what's going on. You talk about ups
and downs and the markets roiling, and I mean just
craziness going on.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So let's start it.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Handle on the news with Amy Neil and me lead story. Okay,
the tariffs that we're going to go into effect and
did go into effect immediately, that we're not going to
be pulled back, were pulled back. And now the President
(04:38):
literally hours after invoking many of these tariffs turned around
and said, now I got a whole withhold for ninety days.
Let's relax for a bit except China. I was about
to say that China, they are ratcheting up China. So
now China's at one hundred and twenty five percent tariffs yesterday,
(04:59):
And what time did we we have a Savile on
when we talked about our business, Because that's that's worth
am seven am. That's worth going back on demand and
listening to that segment because this is a business that
Savill and I have and we import cookware from China
using stainless steel.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
It's stainless steel cookware.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
He was we were going through the numbers every day.
I talked to Savile and just we're spinning the tariffs.
As of yesterday, we're one hundred and eighty four percent.
So for every one hundred dollars that we buy of product,
we have to spend another one hundred and eighty four
(05:42):
dollars for one hundred dollars. So we're at two hundred
and eighty four dollars for products that cost one hundred dollars,
And man, what do you do with it? You know,
it's there are people that are just going to be
out of business. There's a really good friend of Lindsay,
she's known since high school, and he's involved in the
chip world where his company brings in chips and sells
(06:07):
them after market on the resale market. He says, they're
out of business. Basically, yeah, they're What do you do?
I mean, it's crazy. So anyway, we've come back. We
the world economy has come back. So after three days
of hemorrhaging in the markets, yesterday, the market, after the
announcement that well, we're gonna hold off ninety days or
(06:29):
Trump's gonna hold off ninety days, the market then explodes
and it gains almost three thousand points. I mean, it's
just this is nuts. And now everybody's sitting back. Okay,
when does the next go round happen?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
All right?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Probably today because the down futures are down six hundred
and fifty per.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Of course, why not? Sure? Why not?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Now they're only down five hundred and seventy.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I feel better.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Yeah, okay, Oh it's my turn, is m okay to
change his cash. Bettel is out as the acting director
of the ATF. You may recall that he is the
FBI director and he's a close personal ally of President Trumps.
He was sworn in as the ATF's acting director in
(07:17):
late February, but now he's been replaced. US Army Secretary
Daniel driscoll is taking over. The Justice Department is confirming that,
but they're not saying why.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
And now we know that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives will now once again take credit cards.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Oh cash, okay, I get it now, thank.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
A little bit of a take me a minute, A
little bit of a stretch, a little bit by okay.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
A Delaware judge ruled that Newsmas defamed Dominion voting systems
by falsely accusing the company of ringing the twenty twenty
president presidential election. However, at this point it's going to
be up to a jury. They're going to have to
decide whether Newsmas intentionally smeared Dominion with actual malice. You
(08:10):
understand all this big stuff hand and must pay millions
of dollars in damages.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Malice, by the way, is not I want to get
the guy because I hate him. It's knowing that the
statement you're making is false.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
That's one.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Or it's so false you should have known that the
statement was false in this case, pointing out that Dominion
voting machines were rigged, and they were rigged in favor
of Joe Biden and Trump votes were in fact registered
as Biden votes over and over again, and they at
(08:50):
some point in December of twenty twenty, they said, we
ran a clarification segment and we posted an article online
that we didn't have the evidence that Dominion manipulated any
votes relative to the months of day in and day
out and the constant statements the vote was rigged, Dominion
(09:11):
rig the votes.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So now it's up to a jury.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Fox, that character, that SNL character that would after saying
everything on the news go oh never mind.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh yes that's right, Yeah, yeah, what's their face?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Gilda Road, Yeah, Gilda.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah, I remember talking about In any.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Case, Uh, Fox as a matter of fact, had to
settle for almost eight hundred almost a billion dollars when uh,
when it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Said that dominion rigged the votes.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Also, now I don't know whether or not Newsmax is
probably going to settle for something, but I don't know
if they have anywhere near that kind of money.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Oh, this is not happy news at all, but a
rescue has now become recovery. In the Dominican Republic, of course,
the roof of an iconic nightclub collapsed and the death
toll is now up at least at two hundred and
thirteen people. At least three hundred people were inside the
jet Set nightclub early Tuesday morning when the roof came
(10:21):
down during a performance of merengue artist Ruby Perez. He's
one of the people who were killed, along with a
couple of Major League Baseball players. A former Dodger pitcher,
Octavio dettel Or Dotel, was one of the two killed.
They say that emergency responders have ended their rescue efforts
(10:42):
and it's now a recovery effort, so they're not expecting
to find anybody else.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
This is absolutely brutal. There are actually more people killed
than injured. Yeah, and that you never see well and.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Where there storms. What happened in the roof just collapse.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Just collapsed, and it collapsed at exactly the wrong time.
It was it collapsed when the place was jammed, that
it could have collapsed any other time.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So it's horrific. Horrific luck.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Or mind you think there's gonna be an investigation or
two as to the structure of the building.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I would imagine. Yeah. The twenty twenty eight Olympics will
be the first to feature more women than men, the
International Olympics Committee announced just yesterday after approving the metal
events and athletes quota for them, citing high ticket demand
for women's events in Paris, broadcast numbers that are equal
(11:45):
to or higher than men's sports, increased media coverage, and
greater international investment in women's sports. So they said, this
first female majority Olympics is a complete package.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Also new events that have men who have become women.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, well that may be why it's there's more women
in this one.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Why, That's what I'm thinking, and more interest.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Interest if eventually they do add like a trans category, you.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Know what they might.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
When you think about it, that is actually not that
crazy because physiology is different. Those people that argue, you know,
I'm in favor of obviously the trans community, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Uh, you know, it's then of my business.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
But if you're if my kid, for example, was competing
and my daughters were competing, and we're competing against someone
who was a man now became a woman, well, you know,
the physiology is different. The muscle mass, even though that
could be changed as different, the skeletal mass is different,
which is why men are always faster than women. You
(12:58):
know when you look at what happens with you know,
the various races and the games. I mean, women can't
jump as high as men, nor can white guys when
it comes to you know, white men can't jump either.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
But that's a different issue.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Okay, why don't we move on because I think I'm
about to get in trouble?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Wasn't I good idea?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Okay, you can add trash to the list of things
that cost more pretty soon. The La City Council has
moved forward with a proposal. It's not a done deal yet,
but it would increase trash collection fees the first time
in seventeen years.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
They've raised fees, by the way, by fifty four percent.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Charge. No, don't they charge per can.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I don't trash?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Been?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well? It will fee or something?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, well they do.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
In my in my area where there's the a charge
for regular trash and for the recycled bin and for
the bin that it collects the tremin et the Yeah. Yeah,
and we're about to get we're ordering more of the
recycle because Lindsay goes crazy and we get packages from
(14:12):
Amazon all day long. So we need a bigger bin
or more bins on the recycled part.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, that's really our case.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Pardon you're being good to the environment?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, that's one you know what that Actually, that's one
of the things I'm fanatic about. Usually I don't give
a rats, but on the recycled part of the world,
I'm pretty careful about that.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
We need to get better at that. There's too much, way,
too much word.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
The problem is, though, that we got better when everybody
said recycle and we started recycling like crazy, and then
they went, eh, we can't do.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
That well because because at the recycle point they're not recycling.
For example, we have recycle bins all over the station,
right and you you know those blue bins or you
put paper in there. I think it goes in the
same place as the trash does.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
But is isn't it? Singapore that has no like they
have a complete system where there is no waste.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Well, trash is illegal in Singapore. They turn you're not
allowed trying to turn.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
The plastic into roads and building bricks and do it.
I mean their system is in Saye, you know, if
we're going to charge more, I would like to see
that the people that are actually driving the trucks and
picking up trash get more and not just go to
the bottom live of the government.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
They do pretty well, and they're increasing these fees. They're
saying specifically because of the billion dollar deficit they're trying
to generate small.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yah, big deficit with the trash.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
House. Republican leaders just yesterday scrapped plans to vote on
the Senate's framework to advance key parts of President Trump's
legislative agenda. So kind of a setback. That came in
the face of opposition from hardline conservatives. So you've got
a lot going on. The delay marks a blow to
not only Speaker Johnson who pushed forward that, you know,
(16:09):
kind of do this all speedy and get this pushed through.
But obviously it's a it's a blow to President Trump.
Maybe not here's why step as you think.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, here's why what's going on, Because at one point
during the Biden years and during the Democratic years, you
had Republicans, particularly a hard right Republicans, screaming about the
deficit every year, saying you cannot spend more money than
comes in. They were deficit hawks. Trump comes in, that
disappears completely. There's no such thing as a deficit hawk
anymore in the Republican party.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
We're looking at two trillion dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Deficit every year now under Trump, and you have a
few Republicans that are saying, Okay, that's it.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
We can't take it anymore. We're finished.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
We cannot sustain this kind of deficit and this kind
of negative, negative economic well philosophy. I guess in this country,
you cannot keep on spending half of your budget. Every
year you make one hundred thousand dollars, you spend one
(17:15):
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, so you borrow it next year,
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, next year, two hundred
thousand dollars on your hundred thousand dollars income. That's what
the United States is doing. And they're finally saying we're done,
that's enough of that and Trump wants more tax cuts
and the deficit is going to grow. Remember when he
came into office, he was bitching and moaning about what.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Obama did.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
That Obama hit a twenty trillion dollar national debt. It's
now at thirty six trillion dollars and it doesn't matter.
Let's just keep on borrowing until the cows come home,
very expensive cows, wagu beef cows.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Where were those cows going? How come they need to
come home?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Well, they were going to. I don't you know what.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I can't think of a good answer without being completely crude.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Let's just move on.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
That should be a drop.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
That should you know, you're right?
Speaker 5 (18:15):
That should okay, sweeping a mistake under the rug. The
Justice Department says it's going to drop charges against a
man they had alleged to be a major leader of
MS thirteen. His lawyer says it's the first step toward
immediately deporting him to El Salvador. Attorney General Pambondi said
(18:38):
last month that Henry via Toros Santos was an MS
thirteen leader on the East Coast. He was horrible, violent,
one of the worst of the worst criminals. But now
the Justice Department without explanation, is dismissing the single federal
charge he faced for unlawfully having a weapon. The government,
(18:58):
she said, or prosecute said, no longer wishes to pursue
the instant prosecution at this time.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Now keep in mind this one is the government is
dropping the charges, why so they can deport him. His
attorney is saying, no, no, keep the charges alive against
my client, so he can't be deported. So he's in
the United States for trial. Because once he's deported, he
ends up in that Nicaraguin prison, which is far worse
(19:26):
than standing trial. It's a complete reversal of what normally happens. Yeah,
it's fascinating. It's just fascinating what's going on. By the way,
all of this under the Aliens Edition Act, which the
Supreme Court said Trump is allowed to do it. There
are four parts of the Aliens Edition Act, one of
which says that a president can declare an emergency and
(19:48):
then habeas corpus disappears. He can do whatever the hell
he wants, throw people out of the country. And it's
been used three times in the history of the United States,
during Washington and during World War One and World War II.
The Japanese when they were interred in the internment camps
here in California, Arizona, etc. Under the Aliens Edition Act.
(20:09):
That is how the president was able to put these
people without trial, without hearings, into internment camps. This is
the fourth go round. It's never been done in peacetime.
And Trump did it by declaring basically, we've been invaded,
by declaring a national emergency, effectively saying we're at war.
(20:31):
Never been done before. You think there's new stuff with
this president, You think, all right.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Avlo Airlines an ultra low cost carrier, a major hub
just out here at the Hollywood Burbank Bob Hope Airport.
I'm an old school guy. That way has reached an
agreement with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE on
a multi year deal to provide the agency with charter
(20:57):
flights to assist with the deportation efforts. Then is is
people have to not bathe, they have to take off
their shoes, and of course pay extra for luggage.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yes, of course, because illegal aliens were being deported have
so much luggage, and they fight for the emergency row
uh the seats and pay extra money for that. By
the way, there have been charters before. The US government
charters airplanes when the soldiers were returning from Vietnam War,
(21:30):
for example, the major the vast majority were on chartered planes.
But this one is just for deporting illegals, and the
numbers are going to get huge under the new.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Policy to make the most airlines.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
You have. You'd rather wouldn't you rather be in a
Nicaraguan prison than on Avalo airlines?
Speaker 5 (21:53):
No, Avella is actually nice. Or they fly to like
non major hubs. So from Burbank they fly to my
hometown of Medford direct, which almost nobody else does. Or
they fly to Vegas, or they're flight to Renos, so
they're low costs, but they do have a lot of fees.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, you know what they're going to do. It's going
to look like India Bill. They're going to get their
money's worth. They're going to have people sitting on the
wings on the top of the plane.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Do they get seatbelts on the wings?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
No?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Be fun to watch, all right.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Amy expanding plans moving forward but not done yet. A
plan to renovate the Convention Center back who was directed
back in the nineteen seventies. Moving forward, La City Council
has agreed to spend almost twenty eight million dollars for
design and technical work. Now, that doesn't authorize the massive renovation,
(22:46):
but it apparently shows that the council is behind the idea.
A final a vote is expected in July, when the
project costs are more clear and a city agreement is finalized.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
So the plan, yeah, they'll do it.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yeah, The plan is to start construction by the end
of this year and then finish in twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah. I mean though, I mean they were going to
do it.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
The problem with the La conventions and her who does
it compete with Anaheim because of Disneyland and knots where
people love to go and the number one convention hub
on the planet and that well at least in the United States,
is Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
How do you compete with Las Vegas? You don't?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
All right? This is a weird ass story. Woman was
shot in Eagle Rock in like her neighbor's yard or
something after a man hunt for a hit and run suspect.
And it happens to be Jillian Shriner, who she's an author,
but she's the wife of Weezer bass player Scott Shriner,
(23:49):
who's playing at Coachella this weekend, or was supposed to.
We'll see what happens.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, she came out.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
It is strange she came out of the house with
a gun because there was a guy who had run
off from a hit and run and then he came
into her backyard, stripped down to his underwear and started
watering plants. It was really bizarre, And then she came
out with a gun. Cops said put it down, she refused.
They ended up shooting her in the show.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
First of all, yeah, the guy did his underwear watering,
so people would think that he owned the house and
that was part of what he does. But as far
as she's concerned, I have no problem with the fact
that she had a weapon.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Uh, you know, she's for whatever. Maybe she thought I
got to put it down.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, when the cops show up and draw and show
up with weapons and say drop the gun, do you
in your right mind do anything other than drop the gun?
Put your hands in the air and say, have you
ever heard of my husband's cover of Africa? It's the
best damn thing you've ever heard?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Was that an actual pop culture reference?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
One of my favorite songs, by the way, Wow and
have you And the cover sounds exactly the same as Toto.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I can't tell the difference.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Who would have known when you do a cover, this
sounds the same as the original song.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
What do you do with that? And the answer is yes,
it was a pop reference.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I'm so proud I instuted you like like Rex the
Wonder Horse. I'm just a gate.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Okay, we are done with the news. Let's do that.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
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