April 18, 2025 • 27 mins
(Friday 04/18/25)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra Bill for Handel on the News. Judge rules Google operates illegal ad monopoly. FSU shooter identified, used sheriff deputy mom’s weapon in killing. Trump amps up feud with Fed over rates, accuses Powell of ‘playing politics.’ Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return. Menendez brothers’ resentencing on hold until May.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra Bill for Handel on the News. Judge rules Google operates illegal ad monopoly. FSU shooter identified, used sheriff deputy mom’s weapon in killing. Trump amps up feud with Fed over rates, accuses Powell of ‘playing politics.’ Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return. Menendez brothers’ resentencing on hold until May.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You know a Soilent Green.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I didn't say fill the potholes with the homeless. I
think it's like your creativity.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You remember Soilent Green, one of the better movies where
people became food fish. Yeah, chilent greedest.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Paper and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Good morning everybody. It's a Friday. It's a foody Friday.
April eighteenth and Friday Friday. We always have a good time.
I had by all because we're gonna do a couple
of serious topics, but we try to get fairly fun,
fairly fun Fridays. Ooh, maybe we changed the name from
(01:11):
foody Friday to fairly fun foody Friday.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Fabulous?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What funny fabulous? Yeah, we'll figure that out in the meantime. Hello,
you know what I'm gonna start with Will this morning.
I've rarely done that. Hello, Will, Cole Schreiber to what
do I owe this? You owe this to the one
time in the history of this show that this will happen. Okay,
that's what you owe it to. You good morning, so
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enjoy it. While you can. Amy, Good morning, Hi Bill,
how are you good? The necklace? Of course you have
a mickey on your sweatshirt.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Couss, because I'm going to Disneyland today, of.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Course you are. What is that necklace thing? It's the
little rum.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It's a multi million dollar diamond necklace.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh that's it. Those are diamonds, got it?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Really, I can't see very closely my eyes. It is
going south on me. Uh kno, good morning, good morning,
and and good morning, good morning, and uh I think
finally last but least Neil, good morning, sir. What up?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Dog?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
What up? Dog? True dad? Yeah? Yeah dog? Hey homie?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Wait, Amy, what past do you have that you can
go today?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
What do you mean? What past do I have that
I can go today?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Aren't we blocked out right now?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I I have the Inspire key. There's more aspire?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Is that in reference to that Disney is inspired to
make more money by overcharging you for this particular pass.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
It is inspired to make more money, but it's not
overcharging me for this past.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, you guys to be honest, and I'm going to
be honest now. Is uh The Disney pass pays for
itself in very short period of time. Couple reasons. One
is now a per day pass is what eight hundred
nine hundred dollars and change?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Don't rile up us Disney folks man on a Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You know, Disney has never asked me to do commercials.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I wonder why.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, Kaiser has done the same thing with me. You know,
I'm a fan of Kaiser. I've been with Kaiser since
I've been five years old, so I've been around a
long time. When he came to America, almost the first
thing we did to sign up with Kaiser, And I
tell people, have Kaiser, it's phenomenal you've got I mean,
you've got a fifty to fifty chance they're going to
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kill you whenever you go there, granted, but if you're
one of the few people that survive, you're going to
be very happy with the service. Wow, no commercials from Kaiser.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
The geriatric unit called Geezer.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh not bad? Not bad?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Okay, it's pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, see, you know what it's not bad? Neil. Neil
occasionally has lines or retorts or views that I get
very angry with him because I'm pissed off that I
didn't think of those.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You should hear the ones I don't say, so that
you know, Oh, I've heard the ones you don't get fired.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Oh no, I've heard the ones you don't say. And
that's that's our law. That's my last broadcast here on
KFI is We're going to be putting together a what
is called a sizzle reel and it will simply be statements, comments, stories, interactions,
retorts that would never ever make it on the air,
or if they did, that would be the last day
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I'd have them. And that's exactly what the last day
is going to be about. Okay, fair enough. Oh, tonight
is an event that I am going to that none
of you will be invited to or are and that
is the anniversary of Caterina's cleb at Anaheim White House.
And they've been around, I think for twenty years and
they just hit ten million meals that Bruno has served
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to kids in need. I mean, it is phenomenal. So
just on, behalf of the kids, thank you, and behalf
that those those those of us that are gonna get
free food tonight, thank you. Uh And again the morning crew,
Bruno did say, please tell the morning crew that we
appreciate the work and they are not invited tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You know, how about a little shout out to Michelle Cube.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Oh yeah, Michelle is the one that first found Yeah,
and someone asked me, and someone asked me last night
or a couple of nights ago, exactly how it all started.
And you have to give Michelle the credit. She found
Catalina's club. She puts together our apastathon every year, and uh,
without Michelle, this could really not have happened. Well, actually
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a coc to be honest with you, probably not listen.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And she doesn't get paid extra to have, you know,
those long days to during pastathon and.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
All nobody gets paid extra to do anything at iHeart.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You see what she did for the wiggle wagglewalk too.
She just she's very giving. It was you know Marion
Brown here.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's very strange. All right, guys. It's a Foody Friday,
which means that at eight o'clock we do Foody Friday
with Neil. At eight thirty it's asked handle anything. However,
at six am, which is right about now, it's handled
on the news Amy Neil and me lead story. Well,
federal judge ruled yesterday and this is the second time
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a ruling as like this has come down. Google has
created a monopoly allowing to control parts of the entire
online advertising industry. And what does that mean? Could be
asked to break apart part of its vast empire. And
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so I mean, we're talking about hundreds of billions of
dollars of revenue every year.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
So what do they do with that bill I mean,
if they're ordered to break it up, do they just
sell it off to friends?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah? Yeah, they spin it off, or it becomes an
independent country company.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
It could be a country it's worth enough.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, you're right, But they're just forced to sell it off,
spin it off, much like with Zuckerberg. It may happen
that he's going to be forced to spin off WhatsApp, Instagram.
Just sell it.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
People that rich don't lose money. What they do is
they shift it around Amy's sometimes they sell it out
control somehow some.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I mean, they're really good at what they do. It's
not an accident that these guys are billionaires and these
companies so overwhelmed the entire industry. Anothery're shooting.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Yeah, mass shooter uses his mom's gun. At eleven fifty
local time yesterday, gunfire rang out on the campus of
Florida State University in Tallahassee. Before it was done, two
people had been killed, five others were hurt, and then
the shooter was also quote neutralized by authorities.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Police. He's got killed, not killed, He's still alive.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Police are saying that the shooter's mom is a sheriff's
deputy with the Leone County Sheriff's Office and said that
the twenty year old shooter used his mom's weapon.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah. Now she's I think and should get in trouble
for failing to secure her weapon, allowing her twenty year
old to get access to that guy. Well, we're going
to find out you bet having her anyult.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
He's not a kid.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, but you're still talking about securing weapons. I think
you have to secure weapons period at your house. I mean,
and I don't know, maybe maybe not, maybe not in Florida.
Maybe in Florida. You have to make weapons available to
children and everybody else. He's not a child with big
arrows pointing to where the guns are or they're in
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a gun say with a big posted a note that
says here is the combination. This is Florida. But it
doesn't matter whether it's a child or not. Maybe it's
an enhanced law that's violated, but I think any gun
at home has to be secured.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
And I thought modern day age is twenty is still
a kid, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It depends eighteen. By the way, I may be dead
wrong about the law. Maybe it's just children, but I
would think against anybody, you have to secure the guns.
If a burglar comes in, what.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I think law enforcement, you would assume they have to
secure their sight arm when they get home.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, or it's even more a violation with law enforcement
because they are aware and they live with guns. All right,
all right?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
US President Donald Trump, maybe you heard of him, just yesterday,
launched a series of attacks against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
This is escalet. He's accusing the Central Bank chief of
playing politics by not cutting interest rates, asserting that he
had the power to evict Powell from his job. Hey,
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did we ever figure out if that's even possible? Bill?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It is possible, but only for cause. The law says
that a FED chair can be removed but must have
done something fundamentally wrong for cause, otherwise can't be touched.
Now nominated by the President, confirmed by the Senate, which
is how Powell got in. He's a Trump nominee, and
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so Trump is arguing that Powell's refusal to lower interest
rates is somehow political and it is anti Trump. Where
the FED is actually independent of the federal government. The
FED just does what the FED does monetary policy, totally
non political.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
What the FED is separate from the Feds.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
No, the Feds, Well, yeah, good point, the FED, the
Federal reserve system. This is it is in fact, just
a quick one. And now we go back to my background.
You've heard of that, you've been there, the Western Wall
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that Jews prey at in Jerusalem. The real Western Wall
is the western wall of the FED building.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Oh okay, nice, Moving on.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Maryland Center has gotten his way, well sort of, at
least half of what he wanted. Senator Chris van Holland
flew to l Salvador. He said his goal was to
meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and at first they said, nope,
you can't meet with him. But last night they did
get together and had a meeting. Attorneys are fighting to
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force the Trump administration and to facilitate his return to
the US, which so far the administration has said, nope,
he's staying there.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah. Interesting that he was able to meet because initially,
I mean he went down on his own, without any invitation,
without any agreement, without any appointment, and El Salvador said, no,
you're not meeting with him. And that's changed because there
was there was talk out there that he had been killed,
that he had been injured, that he was treated badly.
(12:28):
And there's a photo of him of Abrego with the
senator holding up that Trump gold card. Because Abrago seems
to have been able to raise five million.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Dollars, I wouldn't be surprised in this weird climate with
somebody raising five million dollars on like gofund me.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah. And so so he comes back and it becomes well,
he actually was here legally.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
We came here illegally.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
He came illegally granted, that's true.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
He was able to stay because the judge said, even
though you're probably a gang member, the threat of you
getting hurt in your home country is greater.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
So they let me.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Now a point I want to make to your point.
He was granted status to stay here, okay.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
And that grant legal status or they just decided not
to kick him out.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Oh no, no, he has legal status, but he can
be removed instantly. The administration has the ability to remove.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
That all about paperwork, right, So it's.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
About granting the ability to stay. Now, the administration says
he got tossed even though he was an accident because
he's a member of MS MS thirteen, and his defense
his lawyers are saying, there is he has never been
charged or there is no evidence that has been presented
in court. They're not refuting, by the way, that he
is a member of MS or not. They're not denying, saying,
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oh no, he's not. His of course his family is
all his defense attorneys are saying, there is no evidence
that you've been able to produce. Is it the same?
Probably not. There's a big difference between someone actually being
guilty and there's not enough evidence to prove that action court.
With tattoos or not that we've seen. Now, well, there's
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pictures of him with tattoos all over the place. I mean,
the guy's tatted up like crazy. But you would think
that the administration would show a tattoo showing he's a
member of MS thirteen.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Okay, so what about this one bill, Because then Carolyn Levitt,
who's the Press secretary, did produce reports that he had
like beat up his girlfriend a couple of Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That doesn't mean he's a member of MS thirteen. By
the way, beating up his girlfriend is probably beating up
his girlfriend is probably enough to get him tossed because
it has to do with we there's a moral aspect
to being allowed in the United States. You have to
be a good moral character, or the government can determine
if you're a good moral character.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Well, that's for sure. There is information about him beating
up his girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, I mean, but the point of this story is
that the government mistakenly tossed him into prison. He got
part of a group of people.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Which means this is all based on a technicality.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Uh No, I don't know, because the judge had once
he was in the air. The judge has ordered that
he'd be returned. Is it a technicality or was it
a mistake? If you get if you get arrested because
someone else's name is Savedra and it happens all the time,
for example, when you have a do not if you're
on the do not fly list, and you just have
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to say, is that a technicality? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
We know who he is and we know that he's
probably not a good guy, So on a technicality, we're
saying he shouldn't have been. That's just weird to mean. Well,
on the side of us being protected, I'm all right
with that.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, I am all right.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
We're gonna take an identity. It's not anything like that.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
No, it's just that he got rounded up and where
he normally would not have been tossed out. If they
were more careful, they wouldn't have thrown him out. We're
coming because the bad guys are being deported. Just the
bad guys. Well, there's no proof he's ever been charged.
You can't just assume someone's a bad person because they
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have a Latino surname unless it's Savedra. We're coming back tattoos.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I have a Latino surname, absolutely, But.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That's where it's I don't have a right anywhere phone
called the ice.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
The Menenda twins or brothers resentencing bit is delayed, so
you have this highly anticipated resenting hearing everybody who's waiting
for yesterday for the convicted killers Eric and Lyle Menendez.
If you remember, if you're familiar or forgot, in nineteen
eighty nine, they shot their parents in the face basically
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the Beverly Hills mansion there and with a shotgun, if
I'm not mistaken, and even went outside and reloaded it.
So it kicked off yesterday, but it unraveled pretty darn quickly,
and it was postponed by the judge. The hearing was
set to decide whether the brothers serving a life sentence
without the possibility of parole, should receive a new sentence.
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It could allow.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Nathan Hachman, because someone mute, please Nathan Hawkman, the attorney.
The DA has been fighting this. He wants to keep
them in jail. And what he did is asked for
a continuance and he got it. He got it, So
we'll follow that one up on May third.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
You know what bugs meet. There's something in the logic
called infinite regression where you just keep adding a link
to the chain, right, instead of answering something. So I
get that they might have been horrifically tortured and abused
as children, which is I get it, that's horrible, But
if what if their father was horrifically abused as a child,
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and you keep pushing this.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, you know it's a good point.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, so nobody's accountable at that point, you just keep
pushing the blame back. Ultimately, have to be accountable for
your own actions, regardless of what happened to you, unless
it's directly self defense.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
That's true, that's true. You know. For example, just give
me an example. My dad, because he's old school, beat
the crap out of me when I was a kid.
Does that mean I'm justified in playing kickball with my daughters?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Well, yeah, defense. I don't think it was because you know,
he was old school. I think any parent would have
beat you.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Thank you. He actually was seriously bipolar. But that's a
different issue. Okay, moving on.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Amy uh making the deal for minerals.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Meetings between Ukraine and the United States on a rare
earth minerals deal, for me to say, have been hailed
as really productive and positive. That according to Ukraine's President
Volodomyr Zelenski, remember the deal was close to being done
and then they had that blowout in the Oval office
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between Zelensky and Trump. But now a memorandum of intent
could be signed as early as today and then they'd
work on the full agreement. And in the agreement, apparently
we get the minerals, they get our protection.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, I don't understand a lot of this. First of all,
the political aspect of this. China controls most rare earth
mineral around the world. I think they have eighty percent,
which means if they stop it, stop exporting it. I mean,
the world of iPhones, computers, cars just disappears because it's
they're absolutely necessary to create all of that. Ukraine has
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a lot of this. Why the United States by treaty
couldn't get all of it don't know. Well, maybe the
deal is we'll support you and send you you'll you'll
get arms and we get the rare earths. And if
that pans out, okay, not a bad deal. We don't
pay for it, well we do indirectly, but we're gonna
get a lot more credit for most of the world
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by supply supplying Ukraine with arms than just buying rare earths.
And Denmark that owns the Greenland Greenland, thank you very much.
And this all Greenland has to do with all of this,
Thank you very much, for that is a huge ally
of the US. Because Greenland has a lot of this too.
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So it's it's a complicated mess as always. All right,
let's do one more.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
All right, The Federal Grand Jury has returned a four
count indictment against Luigi Mangioni, the most Italian name on
the planet, the man accused, of course, in the December
fourth killing of healthcare executive in man Manhattan, originally charged
after his arrest in a federal complaint. But this indictment,
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and of course Attorney General Pam Bondi's April first announcement
that the prosecutors will seek the death penalty is more
aggressive and well, look at.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Kind of look at the kind of support he has
from women all over the countries like Ted Bundy, good
looking guy demonstrations Free Luigi Freeman Gioni. I have a
brilliant idea. Are you ready for this? This guy is
very good looking. What if the government were to create
a calendar of good looking death row inmates, oh boy,
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like fire department, like firefighters, and do it before and
after photo. I don't buy calendars, I would I listen.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
This is what keeps me on the straight and narrow,
because if I shot and killed somebody, my fat, ugly
ass would be in prison and there would be no
women cheering me on.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Would there'd be a few men in your cell chearing
you on and making you squeal? Okay, let's go ahead. No,
you're too ugly for you even for that.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
From boards to bikes, people up in Big Bear get
a rather historic opportunity this weekend. They could ski and
mountain bike in a single day. They've got an extra
long winter season, so it's the final weekend of skiing
at Bear Mountain, and then Snow Valley is launching its
summer season, which means that they're going to have lift
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served downhill, mountain biking, hiking, scenic skychair rides, and food.
Somebody at Snow Valley said it's a unique chance to
hit the Big Bear double.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Okay. So the stores that sell skis with wheels on them,
which are difficult to sell normally, they're they'ren't gonna be
in good shape, right, those wheels going down the hill.
I'm not a big skier, so I really don't know
how you have wheels.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Oh okay, you could do both, though, you could do
wheels with skis on them and skis with wheels on.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Them either way.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Actually have some great biking trails there and at Santa's
Village as well. There and gosh, right off the oat.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Oh wait, I remember Santa's Village. Is that still around.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It is.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Oh yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
You know they when I was a kid, they asked,
have they asked me to leave? I actually got kicked
out of.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
You were a kid, Yeah, what did you do?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well? Yeah, the little ones were getting on Santa's lap
and I kept on saying, this guy is a fake,
this is not real. And the parents got a little
upset with that.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
And okay, no Jews are allowed in there.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Especially the ones with oh the ones, the kids with
Yamaka's He threw them right off his lap. He just said,
not for you.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Well, wear a red one with a little ball on
the top. Nobody.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Now, then you're going to a Halloween party as the pope. Okay,
let's move.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
On all right. Hamas wants a comprehensive deal to end
the war in Gaza, swap all Israeli hostages for Palestinian
jailed in Israel. And this comes from a senior official
from the Palestinian militant group. They said they are, but
they are rejecting Israel's offer for an interim truce.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, it's there's gonna be no deal for a while.
Israel wants all the hostages back and then we'll start talking.
Hamas is willing to release the hostages if Israel permanently
leaves the permanently leaves Gaza and allows Gaza to keep
its arms, allowing it to still have an army, and
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cut a deal for reconstruction of Gaza where it's hundreds
of billions of dollars that we construct Gaza and they
want Israel too, Well, I guess spend more than it's
an annual budget. So well, that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
It'll happen, but not anytime soon, or I'm wrong and
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it will happen anytime soon. Damn, I'm good at this. Okay,
that's analysis for you.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Moving on, fire victims are fighting mad. The people who
lost their homes in the Eton fire either lost them
completely or had them severely damaged. Our accusing State Farm
of a pattern of delays and denials in handling their claims.
A group gathered in Pasadena yesterday demanding that the California
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Insurance Commissioner reject State farms proposed twenty two percent rate hike.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
One guy said, doing.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
This handling your claims is like having a full time job,
and he said to just have the insurance company. That's
really are you supposed to have your back? Completely abandon
you is a living nightmare.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Okay. First of all, asking an insurance company to have
your back is always very difficult, and there's two issues here,
and they're conflating the issues. State Farm wants twenty two
percent more just to be viable to pay claims because
it is so crazy out there in terms of wildfire
and coverage. On the other hand, if they're delaying paying
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out and investigating these fires to either find out whether
it's really that much damage to your home, which you
have a legitimate interest in doing, and there's delay in that,
then it's legitimate for the insurance commissioner to say, Okay,
until you start acting appropriately, you're not going to get
your twenty two percent. And so the two percent may
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be legit having nothing to do with their delay, just
simply keeping the company viable. And I think you have
to separate the two, and I don't know if they
have separated the two. I think done. Guys. That's it.
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
You know a Soilent Green.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I didn't say fill the potholes with the homeless. I
think it's like your creativity.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You remember Soilent Green, one of the better movies where
people became food fish. Yeah, chilent greedest.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Paper and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Good morning everybody. It's a Friday. It's a foody Friday.
April eighteenth and Friday Friday. We always have a good time.
I had by all because we're gonna do a couple
of serious topics, but we try to get fairly fun,
fairly fun Fridays. Ooh, maybe we changed the name from
(01:11):
foody Friday to fairly fun foody Friday.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Fabulous?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What funny fabulous? Yeah, we'll figure that out in the meantime. Hello,
you know what I'm gonna start with Will this morning.
I've rarely done that. Hello, Will, Cole Schreiber to what
do I owe this? You owe this to the one
time in the history of this show that this will happen. Okay,
that's what you owe it to. You good morning, so
(01:39):
enjoy it. While you can. Amy, Good morning, Hi Bill,
how are you good? The necklace? Of course you have
a mickey on your sweatshirt.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Couss, because I'm going to Disneyland today, of.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Course you are. What is that necklace thing? It's the
little rum.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It's a multi million dollar diamond necklace.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh that's it. Those are diamonds, got it?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Really, I can't see very closely my eyes. It is
going south on me. Uh kno, good morning, good morning,
and and good morning, good morning, and uh I think
finally last but least Neil, good morning, sir. What up?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Dog?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
What up? Dog? True dad? Yeah? Yeah dog? Hey homie?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Wait, Amy, what past do you have that you can
go today?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
What do you mean? What past do I have that
I can go today?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Aren't we blocked out right now?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I I have the Inspire key. There's more aspire?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Is that in reference to that Disney is inspired to
make more money by overcharging you for this particular pass.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
It is inspired to make more money, but it's not
overcharging me for this past.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, you guys to be honest, and I'm going to
be honest now. Is uh The Disney pass pays for
itself in very short period of time. Couple reasons. One
is now a per day pass is what eight hundred
nine hundred dollars and change?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Don't rile up us Disney folks man on a Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You know, Disney has never asked me to do commercials.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I wonder why.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, Kaiser has done the same thing with me. You know,
I'm a fan of Kaiser. I've been with Kaiser since
I've been five years old, so I've been around a
long time. When he came to America, almost the first
thing we did to sign up with Kaiser, And I
tell people, have Kaiser, it's phenomenal you've got I mean,
you've got a fifty to fifty chance they're going to
(03:40):
kill you whenever you go there, granted, but if you're
one of the few people that survive, you're going to
be very happy with the service. Wow, no commercials from Kaiser.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
The geriatric unit called Geezer.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh not bad? Not bad?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Okay, it's pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, see, you know what it's not bad? Neil. Neil
occasionally has lines or retorts or views that I get
very angry with him because I'm pissed off that I
didn't think of those.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You should hear the ones I don't say, so that
you know, Oh, I've heard the ones you don't get fired.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Oh no, I've heard the ones you don't say. And
that's that's our law. That's my last broadcast here on
KFI is We're going to be putting together a what
is called a sizzle reel and it will simply be statements, comments, stories, interactions,
retorts that would never ever make it on the air,
or if they did, that would be the last day
(04:38):
I'd have them. And that's exactly what the last day
is going to be about. Okay, fair enough. Oh, tonight
is an event that I am going to that none
of you will be invited to or are and that
is the anniversary of Caterina's cleb at Anaheim White House.
And they've been around, I think for twenty years and
they just hit ten million meals that Bruno has served
(05:03):
to kids in need. I mean, it is phenomenal. So
just on, behalf of the kids, thank you, and behalf
that those those those of us that are gonna get
free food tonight, thank you. Uh And again the morning crew,
Bruno did say, please tell the morning crew that we
appreciate the work and they are not invited tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You know, how about a little shout out to Michelle Cube.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Oh yeah, Michelle is the one that first found Yeah,
and someone asked me, and someone asked me last night
or a couple of nights ago, exactly how it all started.
And you have to give Michelle the credit. She found
Catalina's club. She puts together our apastathon every year, and uh,
without Michelle, this could really not have happened. Well, actually
(05:51):
a coc to be honest with you, probably not listen.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And she doesn't get paid extra to have, you know,
those long days to during pastathon and.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
All nobody gets paid extra to do anything at iHeart.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You see what she did for the wiggle wagglewalk too.
She just she's very giving. It was you know Marion
Brown here.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's very strange. All right, guys. It's a Foody Friday,
which means that at eight o'clock we do Foody Friday
with Neil. At eight thirty it's asked handle anything. However,
at six am, which is right about now, it's handled
on the news Amy Neil and me lead story. Well,
federal judge ruled yesterday and this is the second time
(06:37):
a ruling as like this has come down. Google has
created a monopoly allowing to control parts of the entire
online advertising industry. And what does that mean? Could be
asked to break apart part of its vast empire. And
(06:59):
so I mean, we're talking about hundreds of billions of
dollars of revenue every year.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
So what do they do with that bill I mean,
if they're ordered to break it up, do they just
sell it off to friends?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah? Yeah, they spin it off, or it becomes an
independent country company.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
It could be a country it's worth enough.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, you're right, But they're just forced to sell it off,
spin it off, much like with Zuckerberg. It may happen
that he's going to be forced to spin off WhatsApp, Instagram.
Just sell it.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
People that rich don't lose money. What they do is
they shift it around Amy's sometimes they sell it out
control somehow some.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I mean, they're really good at what they do. It's
not an accident that these guys are billionaires and these
companies so overwhelmed the entire industry. Anothery're shooting.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Yeah, mass shooter uses his mom's gun. At eleven fifty
local time yesterday, gunfire rang out on the campus of
Florida State University in Tallahassee. Before it was done, two
people had been killed, five others were hurt, and then
the shooter was also quote neutralized by authorities.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Police. He's got killed, not killed, He's still alive.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Police are saying that the shooter's mom is a sheriff's
deputy with the Leone County Sheriff's Office and said that
the twenty year old shooter used his mom's weapon.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah. Now she's I think and should get in trouble
for failing to secure her weapon, allowing her twenty year
old to get access to that guy. Well, we're going
to find out you bet having her anyult.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
He's not a kid.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, but you're still talking about securing weapons. I think
you have to secure weapons period at your house. I mean,
and I don't know, maybe maybe not, maybe not in Florida.
Maybe in Florida. You have to make weapons available to
children and everybody else. He's not a child with big
arrows pointing to where the guns are or they're in
(08:59):
a gun say with a big posted a note that
says here is the combination. This is Florida. But it
doesn't matter whether it's a child or not. Maybe it's
an enhanced law that's violated, but I think any gun
at home has to be secured.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
And I thought modern day age is twenty is still
a kid, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It depends eighteen. By the way, I may be dead
wrong about the law. Maybe it's just children, but I
would think against anybody, you have to secure the guns.
If a burglar comes in, what.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I think law enforcement, you would assume they have to
secure their sight arm when they get home.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, or it's even more a violation with law enforcement
because they are aware and they live with guns. All right,
all right?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
US President Donald Trump, maybe you heard of him, just yesterday,
launched a series of attacks against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
This is escalet. He's accusing the Central Bank chief of
playing politics by not cutting interest rates, asserting that he
had the power to evict Powell from his job. Hey,
(10:11):
did we ever figure out if that's even possible? Bill?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It is possible, but only for cause. The law says
that a FED chair can be removed but must have
done something fundamentally wrong for cause, otherwise can't be touched.
Now nominated by the President, confirmed by the Senate, which
is how Powell got in. He's a Trump nominee, and
(10:37):
so Trump is arguing that Powell's refusal to lower interest
rates is somehow political and it is anti Trump. Where
the FED is actually independent of the federal government. The
FED just does what the FED does monetary policy, totally
non political.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
What the FED is separate from the Feds.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
No, the Feds, Well, yeah, good point, the FED, the
Federal reserve system. This is it is in fact, just
a quick one. And now we go back to my background.
You've heard of that, you've been there, the Western Wall
(11:23):
that Jews prey at in Jerusalem. The real Western Wall
is the western wall of the FED building.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Oh okay, nice, Moving on.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Maryland Center has gotten his way, well sort of, at
least half of what he wanted. Senator Chris van Holland
flew to l Salvador. He said his goal was to
meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and at first they said, nope,
you can't meet with him. But last night they did
get together and had a meeting. Attorneys are fighting to
(11:58):
force the Trump administration and to facilitate his return to
the US, which so far the administration has said, nope,
he's staying there.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah. Interesting that he was able to meet because initially,
I mean he went down on his own, without any invitation,
without any agreement, without any appointment, and El Salvador said, no,
you're not meeting with him. And that's changed because there
was there was talk out there that he had been killed,
that he had been injured, that he was treated badly.
(12:28):
And there's a photo of him of Abrego with the
senator holding up that Trump gold card. Because Abrago seems
to have been able to raise five million.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Dollars, I wouldn't be surprised in this weird climate with
somebody raising five million dollars on like gofund me.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah. And so so he comes back and it becomes well,
he actually was here legally.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
We came here illegally.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
He came illegally granted, that's true.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
He was able to stay because the judge said, even
though you're probably a gang member, the threat of you
getting hurt in your home country is greater.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
So they let me.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Now a point I want to make to your point.
He was granted status to stay here, okay.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
And that grant legal status or they just decided not
to kick him out.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Oh no, no, he has legal status, but he can
be removed instantly. The administration has the ability to remove.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
That all about paperwork, right, So it's.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
About granting the ability to stay. Now, the administration says
he got tossed even though he was an accident because
he's a member of MS MS thirteen, and his defense
his lawyers are saying, there is he has never been
charged or there is no evidence that has been presented
in court. They're not refuting, by the way, that he
is a member of MS or not. They're not denying, saying,
(13:53):
oh no, he's not. His of course his family is
all his defense attorneys are saying, there is no evidence
that you've been able to produce. Is it the same?
Probably not. There's a big difference between someone actually being
guilty and there's not enough evidence to prove that action court.
With tattoos or not that we've seen. Now, well, there's
(14:14):
pictures of him with tattoos all over the place. I mean,
the guy's tatted up like crazy. But you would think
that the administration would show a tattoo showing he's a
member of MS thirteen.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Okay, so what about this one bill, Because then Carolyn Levitt,
who's the Press secretary, did produce reports that he had
like beat up his girlfriend a couple of Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That doesn't mean he's a member of MS thirteen. By
the way, beating up his girlfriend is probably beating up
his girlfriend is probably enough to get him tossed because
it has to do with we there's a moral aspect
to being allowed in the United States. You have to
be a good moral character, or the government can determine
if you're a good moral character.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Well, that's for sure. There is information about him beating
up his girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, I mean, but the point of this story is
that the government mistakenly tossed him into prison. He got
part of a group of people.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Which means this is all based on a technicality.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Uh No, I don't know, because the judge had once
he was in the air. The judge has ordered that
he'd be returned. Is it a technicality or was it
a mistake? If you get if you get arrested because
someone else's name is Savedra and it happens all the time,
for example, when you have a do not if you're
on the do not fly list, and you just have
(15:39):
to say, is that a technicality? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
We know who he is and we know that he's
probably not a good guy, So on a technicality, we're
saying he shouldn't have been. That's just weird to mean. Well,
on the side of us being protected, I'm all right
with that.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, I am all right.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
We're gonna take an identity. It's not anything like that.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
No, it's just that he got rounded up and where
he normally would not have been tossed out. If they
were more careful, they wouldn't have thrown him out. We're
coming because the bad guys are being deported. Just the
bad guys. Well, there's no proof he's ever been charged.
You can't just assume someone's a bad person because they
(16:22):
have a Latino surname unless it's Savedra. We're coming back tattoos.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I have a Latino surname, absolutely, But.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That's where it's I don't have a right anywhere phone
called the ice.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
The Menenda twins or brothers resentencing bit is delayed, so
you have this highly anticipated resenting hearing everybody who's waiting
for yesterday for the convicted killers Eric and Lyle Menendez.
If you remember, if you're familiar or forgot, in nineteen
eighty nine, they shot their parents in the face basically
(17:00):
the Beverly Hills mansion there and with a shotgun, if
I'm not mistaken, and even went outside and reloaded it.
So it kicked off yesterday, but it unraveled pretty darn quickly,
and it was postponed by the judge. The hearing was
set to decide whether the brothers serving a life sentence
without the possibility of parole, should receive a new sentence.
(17:21):
It could allow.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Nathan Hachman, because someone mute, please Nathan Hawkman, the attorney.
The DA has been fighting this. He wants to keep
them in jail. And what he did is asked for
a continuance and he got it. He got it, So
we'll follow that one up on May third.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
You know what bugs meet. There's something in the logic
called infinite regression where you just keep adding a link
to the chain, right, instead of answering something. So I
get that they might have been horrifically tortured and abused
as children, which is I get it, that's horrible, But
if what if their father was horrifically abused as a child,
(18:08):
and you keep pushing this.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, you know it's a good point.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, so nobody's accountable at that point, you just keep
pushing the blame back. Ultimately, have to be accountable for
your own actions, regardless of what happened to you, unless
it's directly self defense.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
That's true, that's true. You know. For example, just give
me an example. My dad, because he's old school, beat
the crap out of me when I was a kid.
Does that mean I'm justified in playing kickball with my daughters?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Well, yeah, defense. I don't think it was because you know,
he was old school. I think any parent would have
beat you.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Thank you. He actually was seriously bipolar. But that's a
different issue. Okay, moving on.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Amy uh making the deal for minerals.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Meetings between Ukraine and the United States on a rare
earth minerals deal, for me to say, have been hailed
as really productive and positive. That according to Ukraine's President
Volodomyr Zelenski, remember the deal was close to being done
and then they had that blowout in the Oval office
(19:15):
between Zelensky and Trump. But now a memorandum of intent
could be signed as early as today and then they'd
work on the full agreement. And in the agreement, apparently
we get the minerals, they get our protection.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, I don't understand a lot of this. First of all,
the political aspect of this. China controls most rare earth
mineral around the world. I think they have eighty percent,
which means if they stop it, stop exporting it. I mean,
the world of iPhones, computers, cars just disappears because it's
they're absolutely necessary to create all of that. Ukraine has
(19:53):
a lot of this. Why the United States by treaty
couldn't get all of it don't know. Well, maybe the
deal is we'll support you and send you you'll you'll
get arms and we get the rare earths. And if
that pans out, okay, not a bad deal. We don't
pay for it, well we do indirectly, but we're gonna
get a lot more credit for most of the world
(20:15):
by supply supplying Ukraine with arms than just buying rare earths.
And Denmark that owns the Greenland Greenland, thank you very much.
And this all Greenland has to do with all of this,
Thank you very much, for that is a huge ally
of the US. Because Greenland has a lot of this too.
(20:38):
So it's it's a complicated mess as always. All right,
let's do one more.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
All right, The Federal Grand Jury has returned a four
count indictment against Luigi Mangioni, the most Italian name on
the planet, the man accused, of course, in the December
fourth killing of healthcare executive in man Manhattan, originally charged
after his arrest in a federal complaint. But this indictment,
(21:06):
and of course Attorney General Pam Bondi's April first announcement
that the prosecutors will seek the death penalty is more
aggressive and well, look at.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Kind of look at the kind of support he has
from women all over the countries like Ted Bundy, good
looking guy demonstrations Free Luigi Freeman Gioni. I have a
brilliant idea. Are you ready for this? This guy is
very good looking. What if the government were to create
a calendar of good looking death row inmates, oh boy,
(21:44):
like fire department, like firefighters, and do it before and
after photo. I don't buy calendars, I would I listen.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
This is what keeps me on the straight and narrow,
because if I shot and killed somebody, my fat, ugly
ass would be in prison and there would be no
women cheering me on.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Would there'd be a few men in your cell chearing
you on and making you squeal? Okay, let's go ahead. No,
you're too ugly for you even for that.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
From boards to bikes, people up in Big Bear get
a rather historic opportunity this weekend. They could ski and
mountain bike in a single day. They've got an extra
long winter season, so it's the final weekend of skiing
at Bear Mountain, and then Snow Valley is launching its
summer season, which means that they're going to have lift
(22:38):
served downhill, mountain biking, hiking, scenic skychair rides, and food.
Somebody at Snow Valley said it's a unique chance to
hit the Big Bear double.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Okay. So the stores that sell skis with wheels on them,
which are difficult to sell normally, they're they'ren't gonna be
in good shape, right, those wheels going down the hill.
I'm not a big skier, so I really don't know
how you have wheels.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Oh okay, you could do both, though, you could do
wheels with skis on them and skis with wheels on.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Them either way.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Actually have some great biking trails there and at Santa's
Village as well. There and gosh, right off the oat.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Oh wait, I remember Santa's Village. Is that still around.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It is.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Oh yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
You know they when I was a kid, they asked,
have they asked me to leave? I actually got kicked
out of.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
You were a kid, Yeah, what did you do?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well? Yeah, the little ones were getting on Santa's lap
and I kept on saying, this guy is a fake,
this is not real. And the parents got a little
upset with that.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
And okay, no Jews are allowed in there.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Especially the ones with oh the ones, the kids with
Yamaka's He threw them right off his lap. He just said,
not for you.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Well, wear a red one with a little ball on
the top. Nobody.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Now, then you're going to a Halloween party as the pope. Okay,
let's move.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
On all right. Hamas wants a comprehensive deal to end
the war in Gaza, swap all Israeli hostages for Palestinian
jailed in Israel. And this comes from a senior official
from the Palestinian militant group. They said they are, but
they are rejecting Israel's offer for an interim truce.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, it's there's gonna be no deal for a while.
Israel wants all the hostages back and then we'll start talking.
Hamas is willing to release the hostages if Israel permanently
leaves the permanently leaves Gaza and allows Gaza to keep
its arms, allowing it to still have an army, and
(24:55):
cut a deal for reconstruction of Gaza where it's hundreds
of billions of dollars that we construct Gaza and they
want Israel too, Well, I guess spend more than it's
an annual budget. So well, that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
It'll happen, but not anytime soon, or I'm wrong and
(25:17):
it will happen anytime soon. Damn, I'm good at this. Okay,
that's analysis for you.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Moving on, fire victims are fighting mad. The people who
lost their homes in the Eton fire either lost them
completely or had them severely damaged. Our accusing State Farm
of a pattern of delays and denials in handling their claims.
A group gathered in Pasadena yesterday demanding that the California
(25:44):
Insurance Commissioner reject State farms proposed twenty two percent rate hike.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
One guy said, doing.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
This handling your claims is like having a full time job,
and he said to just have the insurance company. That's
really are you supposed to have your back? Completely abandon
you is a living nightmare.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Okay. First of all, asking an insurance company to have
your back is always very difficult, and there's two issues here,
and they're conflating the issues. State Farm wants twenty two
percent more just to be viable to pay claims because
it is so crazy out there in terms of wildfire
and coverage. On the other hand, if they're delaying paying
(26:26):
out and investigating these fires to either find out whether
it's really that much damage to your home, which you
have a legitimate interest in doing, and there's delay in that,
then it's legitimate for the insurance commissioner to say, Okay,
until you start acting appropriately, you're not going to get
your twenty two percent. And so the two percent may
(26:48):
be legit having nothing to do with their delay, just
simply keeping the company viable. And I think you have
to separate the two, and I don't know if they
have separated the two. I think done. Guys. That's it.
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