May 13, 2025 • 26 mins
(May 13,2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Edan Alexander: Israeli-American hostage returns to Israel after Hamas release. Trump signs executive order seeking to lower US drug costs by challenging prices in other countries. Global sea levels are rising faster and faster. It spells catastrophes for coastal towns and cities. Trump starts Gulf visit in Saudi Arabia, focus on mega economic deals.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Edan Alexander: Israeli-American hostage returns to Israel after Hamas release. Trump signs executive order seeking to lower US drug costs by challenging prices in other countries. Global sea levels are rising faster and faster. It spells catastrophes for coastal towns and cities. Trump starts Gulf visit in Saudi Arabia, focus on mega economic deals.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
I've rarely had this much fun doing this show. And
also let me tell you how much I love you
guys on this show.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I mean, I really really love you.
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a but not this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
This morning, it's wow.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I love you guys.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Good morning everybody, and welcome on a Tuesday morning, May thirteenth.
If you haven't guessed it yet, with the promo that
I love everybody, that was me higher than a kite
on opiates from my surgery. And strangely enough, you know
I don't like you as much as I did yesterday.
(01:00):
We're going back to normalcy, so let me say hello
to everybody. First of all, Amy is back, Amy, having
returned from Paris.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Hey, good morning for sure, bon sure.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Now, Paris, of course, is the city of lights. The
only problem with Paris is full of French people, but
that is a different topic.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
You are totally wrong. The French people were freaking fabulous.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
You are You also are on drugs during the entire trip.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I did not have foot surgery. No.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I was so surprised because I was totally prepared for
everyone to be sort of rude and they don't like
Americans and all of that.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
They were so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You know, maybe we approached it wrong because every time
I was introduced to someone French, I would call them
cheese eating surrender monkeys. Maybe that is not a way
to make friends, could be. Yeah, did you did you
take my advice and go someplace else to see the
Eiffel Tower?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Then the Eiffel Tower?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
We did.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
We did a river cruise on the sand River, so
we actually didn't go like up to the Eiffel Tower,
but we went like got right by it and saw
it by river and then you know, saw it from
We couldn't see it from the other place. We went
to Moltmart and saw that went to this chapel up high,
but you couldn't see the Eiffel Tower from there.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
But we did see it. We just didn't go like
up into it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Good for you and you didn't go into up on
the Eiffel Tower, which is a monumental waste of time
the French. Did any Frenchman to say abaga khan on you? No?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
And In fact, on our train ride, we went on
a high speed train from Paris to Bordeaux. One day
we rode back with these two French guys. They sat
next to U, so we talked the whole time. They
were friendly and lovely and just like it was just
such a cool surprise, and they were funny, and they
said that you know what they did. One guy said,
(03:04):
he goes, there was one thing a Frenchman cannot say,
what's that? And he goes squirrels. They can't say squirrels.
And so we laughed about it for the next hour,
because did.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You mention to them that the French caved in after
six weeks when the Nazis marched in.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
No or two?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
No, But we were there. See, I'm going to turn
everything negative you say into a positive. We were there
for the ve for the victory in Europe celebrations, which
is a huge thing over there.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
No, it is in both France and in England. And
it was so it's cool to be there during the no.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It was in which the French had very little to
do with it. Also, I want to point something out.
If you go back historically, do you know if you
ask anybody, everybody in France, fought in the resistance. Everybody, yeah, everybody, Oh,
I welcome back. Nice to have nice to have you back.
(03:57):
And Paris is kind of neat, and the food is
spictac killer that you have to admit.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
They take their food really serious.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
The food and the coffee and the wine, and the
atmosphere and the slidewalk cafes.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
It was just all spectacular.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Go to Disneyland Paris.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, why would anybody go to Disneyland Paris?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Neil you would, you would go to Disneyland Paris, Yes,
I would. Yeah, Disneyland Paris is Paris is Disneyland with wine. Well,
and the lines and when you go on the lines,
you know, waiting for the rides, you go backwards. You
don't actually move forwards, and they just have a thing
that's all yeah, and the Disney flag is all white
(04:41):
that flies above the rides.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay, we're done with that. Let's say hello will, good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Sure, well was your and I know you know that
shirt you're worry makes you look particularly fat.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I just want to point that out.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
That's so great to be here this morning.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Thank you, Yeah, good good morning.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Off his meds.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Right morning, Kono Neil, Good morning you exactly, yeah, and
and good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It's but by the way, I did take some payments
because I woke up this morning. They haven't kicked in yet,
so I'm going to go into a loving talk show host.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Hey, I love you, guys, I really love you. Okay,
let's do it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You've got a lot of news to cover this morning.
As always, let's do it. Handle on the news, Amy,
Neil and Me late story eaton Alexander, the last stone
living American hostage in Gaza, released by Hamas yesterday, eighteen
(05:49):
months in captivity. Israel was not involved in these negotiations.
It was the United States and Hamas and US clearly
trying to cowtow to Trump and the US because well,
hopefully for them that the US will have some kind
(06:12):
of influence on Israel coming in and decimating what's left
of Gaza, and we'll see what happens. I don't think
much is going to happen in that regard. We'll talk
more about that coming up a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
We'll do that over the next few weeks because this
is big news.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
As Israel says they're going in what they have gone
in and they are going to occupy for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Slashing prices with the swipe of a pen. President Trump
assigned an executive order that promises to crack down on
unreasonable or discriminate discriminatory practices by foreign countries that end
with Americans paying a lot more for prescription drugs. He said,
starting today, the US will no longer subsidize a healthcare
(07:02):
foreign countries, which is what we were doing. He said
that this order could lower prescription drug prices by as
much as ninety percent.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, this one yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I gave him such huge kudos for doing this, because
it's not just Medicare. It's not just what the government
purchases pharmaceutical drugs and the cost they pay, which when
it comes to Medicare, is totally socialized medicine. So it's
the government that negotiates with big pharma. This also goes
(07:36):
beyond that and says big Karma has to sell to
everyone in the United States prices that are equivalent to
the lowest prices that any foreign country buys drugs from Pharma.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Good thing, I tell you.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Biden tried to do that.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Well, he did, but to a very small degree and
this is good for Trump on this one.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
This had to this was too long in waiting. Hey,
quick reminder.
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Fair enough, let's return to.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Handle in the Morning Handle on the News with Amy
Neil and.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Me file under God Hates rich People. For around two
thousand years, global sea levels, you know, they went up,
they went down, they went up, they went down. Well,
in the twentieth century they started rising and they have
not stopped, and the pace keeps accelerating. This comes at
a time where you've got Trump stripping back all kinds
(09:36):
of organizations, and in this particular case, you've got PSI
are tasked with monitoring set oceans. But since nineteen ninety three,
satellites have been looking and it's they're just keep going
up and up and up, and so the rich people
are gonna drown.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, those long the beach, So you're.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Well, yeah, you're fifteen million dollars homes along the beach
in Malibu, for example, it's gonna look like Louisiana and
the swamps with houses up on stilts.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's not pleasant. It really isn't pleasant. It's gonna be
a rough future climate wise for everybody. I've said this before,
I'm kind of happy. I'm in the last half of
my life that I don't have to do for waste
fifty years.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Yeah, yeah, we're happy. You're in the last Oh yeah,
I will tell you this. Though everybody looks at this
as negative. Nobody looks at it and goes, well, you know,
now the poor people that were inland, they'll have ocean
front property.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Good for you. You're right, You're absolutely right.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
The Pope makes the plea. The new Pope, no less Pope.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Leo the fourteenth, has called for the release of imprisoned
journalists and affirmed the what he calls precious gift of
free speech in the press.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
The pope was.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Elected in a twenty four hour conclave last week, called
for journalists to use words for peace, to reject war,
and to give voices to the voiceless.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah it's typical pope stuff, but this is fine, thank you. Yeah,
we want you know what almost almost you know, it
almost sounds like a beauty pageant every time the Pope
does it, gives a speech.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah I want world peace. Yeah, that's what I want.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Now, this Pope is kind of fun because for some reason,
ABC News particularly and maybe it's because David Mura's Catholic,
and I don't know, but they went to his brothers,
who his brothers have a very close relationship with quote
Robbie the new Pope, and they are in touch with
(11:51):
each other every day, so there was kind of a,
you know, a fun spin to that. And he seems
like a very regular guy who is a very regular guy.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
He was playing wordle with his brother just before get him.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
In a headlock.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, I know, it was just it was kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And he speaks English obviously, comes from Chicago, and he
speaks Spanish, and he speaks Italian, so he is very international.
Of the pope speaks for the Chicago accident. Oh, one
of the things that was kind of fun when it
was ABC News again, did admit that Leo converted?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
He did convert.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
He went from Chicago deep dish pizza to the Italian
thin crust and devastated people in Chicago.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Actually, it's a misnomer. Chicago has great thin crust pizza.
Nobody talks about it, though.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
That's correct, you just.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Did, all right.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Trump started his visit to the Gulf in Saudi Arabia,
and he's talking basically about economic deals, not Gaza, not
Iran's nuclear program, but focusing on securing trillions of dollars
in investments rather than the other issues. And he even
got off the air Force one and punched.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
The air You don't see a president doing this very often.
When he went to Saudi Arabia a couple of other
Arab states for the primary purpose of business, not for
international relations, to bring huge investment into the United States.
And he's convincing the Mid East just start piling money
(13:38):
into America, which on a business level, that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
That's a very good thing business wise.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
And they are doing so not because the US is
a good investment. They're doing this because of a personal
relationship they want with Saudi Arabia with the United States.
And it seems to be the case. And then the
issue of the airplane. Here have an airplane if it's
a party favor after one of the dinners they have.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Is Saudi Arabia have much of a military.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Not really.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I mean, we are the ones that supply all the
arms to Saudi Arabia. It's not considered a major military. Uh,
it's not the only thing. They have to defend themselves
against is Iran, and in a very weird way, Israel
is their deterrent. They actually have a pretty good relationship.
They can't get they can't talk about it because it's
(14:34):
all lip service, of course to the Palaestadians, but they
rely on Israel to defend them as against Iran, because
that's that's the big one that part of the world.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Back to head on the news news with me and
a king Amy okay uh.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Ice is going to get that information.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
A federal judge has denied an injunction request to prevent
the Department of Homeland Security and the IRS from teaming
up to get US Customs and Immigration Enforcement ICE to
access taxpayer information. And the whole idea behind that is
that they would use that information to find illegal immigrants
who are subject to deportation. In the ruling, it said,
(15:18):
at its core, this case presents a narrow legal issue.
Does the memorandum of understanding between the IRS and DHS
violate the Internal Revenue Code? The order says it does not.
So it looks like if you're here illegally, ICE is
going to get your information.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
All right, I'm back, sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I really really had to pee and I try to
do it as quickly as I can during the course
of the show. I mean, I don't wash my hands
or shake, so I maan, I do it very quickly,
all right. My timing was off. What can I tell you?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
That's okay? You're on meds, right, Oh.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah, I'm on meds. I'm drinking
lots of coffee and it's a diuretic.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Well, we were just.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Talking about ice and how DHS and the IRS can
get the information on illegal immigrants or can give the
information on illegal immigrants who are subject to deportation.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
What a surprise.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I'm going to talk more about what's happening with illegal
immigrants in general, coming up at seven o'clock a Department
of Homeland Security. Because there's a lot of news going on.
You know, I should have shaken you know that. Okay,
let's move on, you know, I you know Will always
you know, for some reason, Will hasn't been around long
enough to just let that stuff, you know pass.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
We just easy to get back to the news.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Oh yeah, we can do that, Okay, moving on.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Jeez, thirty year stroke.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
This is Sean Colmes, The assistant US attorney Emily Johnson
told the jury as she pointed at mister Combs there
he leaned back in his chair there in Manhattan, and
she's continued, during this trial, you are going to hear
about twenty years of the defendant's crimes. Those crimes, she said,
(17:19):
include kidnapping, arson, drugs, sex crimes, bribery, and obstruction.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
And continued to go on and on and on and the.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
A lot of evidence his defense. Defense attorney says, he's
not a good guy. Granted this is he's not a
boy scout. However, what he did was consensual. Everything was
consensual sex. And then they showed the video of him
beating the crap out of his girlfriend in that hotel room,
(17:52):
grabbing her by the hair, pushing her to the ground,
and then kicking her. And I'd really like to see
the defense argue that that was consensual, right. I think
he's gonna have some real, real problems.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
She's taking the stand today or expected it.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yes, it's gonna be. And I think he had to.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Go to trial because the plea deal that he was
offered was horrific.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
It's almost if as if it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
You know.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
I've been hearing things like he's being real charming and
talking to people that work there and the security people,
and I wonder if is it just hubris that he
goes just let me take this, let me I don't
like or defend myself.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I mean, it doesn't help him that he's invited the
jury right there in the courtroom to join him in
an orgy.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Oh my gosh, how about a white party.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Uh huh yeah, yeah, speaking of white amy.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Yeah, Trump is not trying to kick everyone out. He's
letting a few people in.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
There was a flight that has landed in the US.
It has a group of fifty nine South Africans who
are all white. They've been granted refugee status by the
Trump administration. They were the first people to be granted
refugee status by the administration. They're not expected to be
the last Africaners to come to the US. So Trump
(19:12):
had said that these guys were being threatened and killed
in South Africa as they're like farm owners and as
the people of South Africa are taking them over again.
This has gone on for a long time. It was
a big issue in Zimbabwe when the government started giving
land back to the indigenous people.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well yeah, Well Mugabi, who was president of Zimbabwe Rhodesia
they changed the name, was a.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Dictator for forty or fifty years.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Any single handedly destroyed the country. It was the wealthiest
country in Africa. And then it became the poorest country
in Africa, and a lot of it because you had
the white farmers, you had successful farms and businesses were
in fact taken over because of the pendulum swinging, because
the insane racism and apartheid that the African Africans suffered,
(20:13):
and so hey, the pendulum swings. And now you have
a situation where much the same thing is happening, and
it's the Trump administration saying we don't want anybody else
other than white people, and white people are being prosecuted,
which they are probably and being persecuted, which they probably are,
(20:36):
and it's you know, welcome to the world. This didn't
happen when Nelson Mandela was president. Nelson Mandela was really
Gandhi and Martin Luther King. And it has gone south.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
So another of these big court cases, this time this
is against sc Johnson, and you've got a California woman
suing them, the maker of ziplock, because she says some
of its products contained undisclosed microplastics that mislead and harm consumers.
(21:12):
And these are things like uh that say, microwaves, say,
or freezers safe, all of these that imply it's safe
to use those, but the lawsuit claims that they're made
from materials that release microplastics when.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Used in the microwave for everything does.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, so it's just lawsuit after lawsuit. I don't know
if you were around before. Plastic was there when I
was a little one, and my parents used to make
sandwiches for me, uh and uh and for you, and
they were wrapped in wax paper.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
We had.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
We had plastic obviously when I was around, but uh,
I do remember wax paper being used on occasional.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, and it was and wax. I mean not that
they didn't have plastic. They did, but it was just
they did have the ziplock stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
And it was, oh, you know what I wanted. So
I thought I mentioned that.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
The movie The Graduate, because there's a scene in there
Ryan on it he goes plastics.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
You got to invest in plastics.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Lost in translation.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
President Trump's Special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, has broken with long
standing protocol by not having his own interpreter during three
high level meetings with Russia's President Putin. He used translators
from the Kremlin only instead. Witkoff met in February and March,
(22:44):
and in April and apparently used their translators. Western officials say,
if they speak to each other in Russian, he doesn't
know what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
And that doesn't make sense. I mean, you want.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Your own interpreter who can pick up nuances and inflection.
And so it was the Russian translator. So it ended
up happening as Putin would say something, the Russian translator
would then go to Witkoff and said, the president just
told you to go shove it where the sun Jones
don't shine, and didn't necessarily say that. But it makes
(23:21):
very little sense not toy have your own interpreter at all.
But you know, things have changed, to say the least.
Do you remember when Jimmy Carter brought when he went
to Poland and brought his own interpreter and she didn't
speak Polish.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
It was Gibberish that she was speaking. It's a great
it's oh yeah, look it up.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's a great story. It is a terrific story. How
she it was just crazy, all right.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
San Diego County educator who was once named Teacher of
the Year not so much anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
She's been sentenced to.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Thirty years to life for grooming and sexually assaulting two
young boys in her elementary school classroom there in National City.
Jacqueline Ma, that's what it looks like to me. Took
advantage of her role. She was a fifth and sixth
grade teacher at Lincoln Acres Elementary School, and she manipulated
(24:17):
the kids basically gifts special attention completing their homework.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
As sick as it is when high school teachers do
this to high school students.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
This is elementary school kids. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That's yeah, that one you just don't understand. I mean,
that is one sick lady.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
A sex stortion scheme heard around the world. Three years ago,
a California teenager killed himself as a result of being
sex storted online. Well, authorities have now arrested four men
in Ivory Coast for their roles in an international scheme
that the Department of Justice has targeted that of victims
(25:01):
around the globe.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Yeah, getting these kids to send compromising photos which are
what to do, and then and then start extorting them,
and then you reach a point where these kids just
go over the top and they kill themselves. There have
been unfortunately several stories of that, and these animals don't care,
you know, Okay, that's another one. You know, let's move
on to the next victim. It is heartbreaking, and let's
(25:29):
do one more to finish it up.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
All right, Santa Monica's palsade parts that stretch along Ocean Avenue.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
There, it's being.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Overridden, overrun by squirrels, lots of squirrels.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Although French people can't pronounce it, they are a problem.
It's been.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
The population's exploded since COVID, the COVID pandemic in twenty twenty, and.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
It's apparently nuts.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Like they're so desensitized that people jogging are trying not
to step on them because they're running through their legs.
People are feeding them. It's basically just another round of
homelessness in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
A couple of restaurants have opened up in that area,
which you're going to help the.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Population and squirrels a whole lot. All right, we're done, guys.
This is KFI AM sixty. You've been listening to the
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This morning, it's wow.
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I love you guys.
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And now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Good morning everybody, and welcome on a Tuesday morning, May thirteenth.
If you haven't guessed it yet, with the promo that
I love everybody, that was me higher than a kite
on opiates from my surgery. And strangely enough, you know
I don't like you as much as I did yesterday.
(01:00):
We're going back to normalcy, so let me say hello
to everybody. First of all, Amy is back, Amy, having
returned from Paris.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Hey, good morning for sure, bon sure.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Now, Paris, of course, is the city of lights. The
only problem with Paris is full of French people, but
that is a different topic.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
You are totally wrong. The French people were freaking fabulous.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
You are You also are on drugs during the entire trip.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I did not have foot surgery. No.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I was so surprised because I was totally prepared for
everyone to be sort of rude and they don't like
Americans and all of that.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
They were so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You know, maybe we approached it wrong because every time
I was introduced to someone French, I would call them
cheese eating surrender monkeys. Maybe that is not a way
to make friends, could be. Yeah, did you did you
take my advice and go someplace else to see the
Eiffel Tower?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Then the Eiffel Tower?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
We did.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
We did a river cruise on the sand River, so
we actually didn't go like up to the Eiffel Tower,
but we went like got right by it and saw
it by river and then you know, saw it from
We couldn't see it from the other place. We went
to Moltmart and saw that went to this chapel up high,
but you couldn't see the Eiffel Tower from there.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
But we did see it. We just didn't go like
up into it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Good for you and you didn't go into up on
the Eiffel Tower, which is a monumental waste of time
the French. Did any Frenchman to say abaga khan on you? No?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
And In fact, on our train ride, we went on
a high speed train from Paris to Bordeaux. One day
we rode back with these two French guys. They sat
next to U, so we talked the whole time. They
were friendly and lovely and just like it was just
such a cool surprise, and they were funny, and they
said that you know what they did. One guy said,
(03:04):
he goes, there was one thing a Frenchman cannot say,
what's that? And he goes squirrels. They can't say squirrels.
And so we laughed about it for the next hour,
because did.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You mention to them that the French caved in after
six weeks when the Nazis marched in.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
No or two?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
No, But we were there. See, I'm going to turn
everything negative you say into a positive. We were there
for the ve for the victory in Europe celebrations, which
is a huge thing over there.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
No, it is in both France and in England. And
it was so it's cool to be there during the no.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It was in which the French had very little to
do with it. Also, I want to point something out.
If you go back historically, do you know if you
ask anybody, everybody in France, fought in the resistance. Everybody, yeah, everybody, Oh,
I welcome back. Nice to have nice to have you back.
(03:57):
And Paris is kind of neat, and the food is
spictac killer that you have to admit.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
They take their food really serious.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
The food and the coffee and the wine, and the
atmosphere and the slidewalk cafes.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
It was just all spectacular.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Go to Disneyland Paris.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, why would anybody go to Disneyland Paris?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Neil you would, you would go to Disneyland Paris, Yes,
I would. Yeah, Disneyland Paris is Paris is Disneyland with wine. Well,
and the lines and when you go on the lines,
you know, waiting for the rides, you go backwards. You
don't actually move forwards, and they just have a thing
that's all yeah, and the Disney flag is all white
(04:41):
that flies above the rides.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay, we're done with that. Let's say hello will, good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Sure, well was your and I know you know that
shirt you're worry makes you look particularly fat.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I just want to point that out.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
That's so great to be here this morning.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Thank you, Yeah, good good morning.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Off his meds.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Right morning, Kono Neil, Good morning you exactly, yeah, and
and good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It's but by the way, I did take some payments
because I woke up this morning. They haven't kicked in yet,
so I'm going to go into a loving talk show host.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Hey, I love you, guys, I really love you. Okay,
let's do it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You've got a lot of news to cover this morning.
As always, let's do it. Handle on the news, Amy,
Neil and Me late story eaton Alexander, the last stone
living American hostage in Gaza, released by Hamas yesterday, eighteen
(05:49):
months in captivity. Israel was not involved in these negotiations.
It was the United States and Hamas and US clearly
trying to cowtow to Trump and the US because well,
hopefully for them that the US will have some kind
(06:12):
of influence on Israel coming in and decimating what's left
of Gaza, and we'll see what happens. I don't think
much is going to happen in that regard. We'll talk
more about that coming up a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
We'll do that over the next few weeks because this
is big news.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
As Israel says they're going in what they have gone
in and they are going to occupy for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Slashing prices with the swipe of a pen. President Trump
assigned an executive order that promises to crack down on
unreasonable or discriminate discriminatory practices by foreign countries that end
with Americans paying a lot more for prescription drugs. He said,
starting today, the US will no longer subsidize a healthcare
(07:02):
foreign countries, which is what we were doing. He said
that this order could lower prescription drug prices by as
much as ninety percent.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, this one yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I gave him such huge kudos for doing this, because
it's not just Medicare. It's not just what the government
purchases pharmaceutical drugs and the cost they pay, which when
it comes to Medicare, is totally socialized medicine. So it's
the government that negotiates with big pharma. This also goes
(07:36):
beyond that and says big Karma has to sell to
everyone in the United States prices that are equivalent to
the lowest prices that any foreign country buys drugs from Pharma.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Good thing, I tell you.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Biden tried to do that.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Well, he did, but to a very small degree and
this is good for Trump on this one.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
This had to this was too long in waiting. Hey,
quick reminder.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
On Friday at eight thirty, we do a segment Ask
Handle Anything, And we started that a few months ago
only because it's so much fun. And that came out
of the fact that all of us are asked about.
All of us know, what's Handle like, what's Neil like,
what's co built like? And so I thought that we
(08:25):
would just I'd answer questions of any kind. And it's
fun because usually insanely humiliating, and I'm pretty.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Honest about it. So here, and we have to record
them because obviously you're part of that. So here's what
you do. During the course of the show.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
You go onto the iHeartRadio app and click onto KFI
and the microphone in the upright hand corner click onto that,
and you have fifteen seconds in which to ask a
question of me. I don't want your opinion on anything.
It is not a forum for your opinion. It is
just asked me anything about anybody? You know, what do
(09:01):
I think of everybody around here?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I hate them?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
So anyway, during the course of the show iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Fair enough, let's return to.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Handle in the Morning Handle on the News with Amy
Neil and.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Me file under God Hates rich People. For around two
thousand years, global sea levels, you know, they went up,
they went down, they went up, they went down. Well,
in the twentieth century they started rising and they have
not stopped, and the pace keeps accelerating. This comes at
a time where you've got Trump stripping back all kinds
(09:36):
of organizations, and in this particular case, you've got PSI
are tasked with monitoring set oceans. But since nineteen ninety three,
satellites have been looking and it's they're just keep going
up and up and up, and so the rich people
are gonna drown.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, those long the beach, So you're.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Well, yeah, you're fifteen million dollars homes along the beach
in Malibu, for example, it's gonna look like Louisiana and
the swamps with houses up on stilts.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's not pleasant. It really isn't pleasant. It's gonna be
a rough future climate wise for everybody. I've said this before,
I'm kind of happy. I'm in the last half of
my life that I don't have to do for waste
fifty years.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Yeah, yeah, we're happy. You're in the last Oh yeah,
I will tell you this. Though everybody looks at this
as negative. Nobody looks at it and goes, well, you know,
now the poor people that were inland, they'll have ocean
front property.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Good for you. You're right, You're absolutely right.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
The Pope makes the plea. The new Pope, no less Pope.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Leo the fourteenth, has called for the release of imprisoned
journalists and affirmed the what he calls precious gift of
free speech in the press.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
The pope was.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Elected in a twenty four hour conclave last week, called
for journalists to use words for peace, to reject war,
and to give voices to the voiceless.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah it's typical pope stuff, but this is fine, thank you. Yeah,
we want you know what almost almost you know, it
almost sounds like a beauty pageant every time the Pope
does it, gives a speech.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah I want world peace. Yeah, that's what I want.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Now, this Pope is kind of fun because for some reason,
ABC News particularly and maybe it's because David Mura's Catholic,
and I don't know, but they went to his brothers,
who his brothers have a very close relationship with quote
Robbie the new Pope, and they are in touch with
(11:51):
each other every day, so there was kind of a,
you know, a fun spin to that. And he seems
like a very regular guy who is a very regular guy.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
He was playing wordle with his brother just before get him.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
In a headlock.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, I know, it was just it was kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And he speaks English obviously, comes from Chicago, and he
speaks Spanish, and he speaks Italian, so he is very international.
Of the pope speaks for the Chicago accident. Oh, one
of the things that was kind of fun when it
was ABC News again, did admit that Leo converted?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
He did convert.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
He went from Chicago deep dish pizza to the Italian
thin crust and devastated people in Chicago.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Actually, it's a misnomer. Chicago has great thin crust pizza.
Nobody talks about it, though.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
That's correct, you just.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Did, all right.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Trump started his visit to the Gulf in Saudi Arabia,
and he's talking basically about economic deals, not Gaza, not
Iran's nuclear program, but focusing on securing trillions of dollars
in investments rather than the other issues. And he even
got off the air Force one and punched.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
The air You don't see a president doing this very often.
When he went to Saudi Arabia a couple of other
Arab states for the primary purpose of business, not for
international relations, to bring huge investment into the United States.
And he's convincing the Mid East just start piling money
(13:38):
into America, which on a business level, that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
That's a very good thing business wise.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
And they are doing so not because the US is
a good investment. They're doing this because of a personal
relationship they want with Saudi Arabia with the United States.
And it seems to be the case. And then the
issue of the airplane. Here have an airplane if it's
a party favor after one of the dinners they have.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Is Saudi Arabia have much of a military.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Not really.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I mean, we are the ones that supply all the
arms to Saudi Arabia. It's not considered a major military. Uh,
it's not the only thing. They have to defend themselves
against is Iran, and in a very weird way, Israel
is their deterrent. They actually have a pretty good relationship.
They can't get they can't talk about it because it's
(14:34):
all lip service, of course to the Palaestadians, but they
rely on Israel to defend them as against Iran, because
that's that's the big one that part of the world.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Back to head on the news news with me and
a king Amy okay uh.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Ice is going to get that information.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
A federal judge has denied an injunction request to prevent
the Department of Homeland Security and the IRS from teaming
up to get US Customs and Immigration Enforcement ICE to
access taxpayer information. And the whole idea behind that is
that they would use that information to find illegal immigrants
who are subject to deportation. In the ruling, it said,
(15:18):
at its core, this case presents a narrow legal issue.
Does the memorandum of understanding between the IRS and DHS
violate the Internal Revenue Code? The order says it does not.
So it looks like if you're here illegally, ICE is
going to get your information.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
All right, I'm back, sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I really really had to pee and I try to
do it as quickly as I can during the course
of the show. I mean, I don't wash my hands
or shake, so I maan, I do it very quickly,
all right. My timing was off. What can I tell you?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
That's okay? You're on meds, right, Oh.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah, I'm on meds. I'm drinking
lots of coffee and it's a diuretic.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Well, we were just.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Talking about ice and how DHS and the IRS can
get the information on illegal immigrants or can give the
information on illegal immigrants who are subject to deportation.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
What a surprise.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I'm going to talk more about what's happening with illegal
immigrants in general, coming up at seven o'clock a Department
of Homeland Security. Because there's a lot of news going on.
You know, I should have shaken you know that. Okay,
let's move on, you know, I you know Will always
you know, for some reason, Will hasn't been around long
enough to just let that stuff, you know pass.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
We just easy to get back to the news.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Oh yeah, we can do that, Okay, moving on.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Jeez, thirty year stroke.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
This is Sean Colmes, The assistant US attorney Emily Johnson
told the jury as she pointed at mister Combs there
he leaned back in his chair there in Manhattan, and
she's continued, during this trial, you are going to hear
about twenty years of the defendant's crimes. Those crimes, she said,
(17:19):
include kidnapping, arson, drugs, sex crimes, bribery, and obstruction.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
And continued to go on and on and on and the.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
A lot of evidence his defense. Defense attorney says, he's
not a good guy. Granted this is he's not a
boy scout. However, what he did was consensual. Everything was
consensual sex. And then they showed the video of him
beating the crap out of his girlfriend in that hotel room,
(17:52):
grabbing her by the hair, pushing her to the ground,
and then kicking her. And I'd really like to see
the defense argue that that was consensual, right. I think
he's gonna have some real, real problems.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
She's taking the stand today or expected it.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yes, it's gonna be. And I think he had to.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Go to trial because the plea deal that he was
offered was horrific.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
It's almost if as if it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
You know.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
I've been hearing things like he's being real charming and
talking to people that work there and the security people,
and I wonder if is it just hubris that he
goes just let me take this, let me I don't
like or defend myself.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I mean, it doesn't help him that he's invited the
jury right there in the courtroom to join him in
an orgy.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Oh my gosh, how about a white party.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Uh huh yeah, yeah, speaking of white amy.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Yeah, Trump is not trying to kick everyone out. He's
letting a few people in.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
There was a flight that has landed in the US.
It has a group of fifty nine South Africans who
are all white. They've been granted refugee status by the
Trump administration. They were the first people to be granted
refugee status by the administration. They're not expected to be
the last Africaners to come to the US. So Trump
(19:12):
had said that these guys were being threatened and killed
in South Africa as they're like farm owners and as
the people of South Africa are taking them over again.
This has gone on for a long time. It was
a big issue in Zimbabwe when the government started giving
land back to the indigenous people.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well yeah, Well Mugabi, who was president of Zimbabwe Rhodesia
they changed the name, was a.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Dictator for forty or fifty years.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Any single handedly destroyed the country. It was the wealthiest
country in Africa. And then it became the poorest country
in Africa, and a lot of it because you had
the white farmers, you had successful farms and businesses were
in fact taken over because of the pendulum swinging, because
the insane racism and apartheid that the African Africans suffered,
(20:13):
and so hey, the pendulum swings. And now you have
a situation where much the same thing is happening, and
it's the Trump administration saying we don't want anybody else
other than white people, and white people are being prosecuted,
which they are probably and being persecuted, which they probably are,
(20:36):
and it's you know, welcome to the world. This didn't
happen when Nelson Mandela was president. Nelson Mandela was really
Gandhi and Martin Luther King. And it has gone south.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
So another of these big court cases, this time this
is against sc Johnson, and you've got a California woman
suing them, the maker of ziplock, because she says some
of its products contained undisclosed microplastics that mislead and harm consumers.
(21:12):
And these are things like uh that say, microwaves, say,
or freezers safe, all of these that imply it's safe
to use those, but the lawsuit claims that they're made
from materials that release microplastics when.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Used in the microwave for everything does.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, so it's just lawsuit after lawsuit. I don't know
if you were around before. Plastic was there when I
was a little one, and my parents used to make
sandwiches for me, uh and uh and for you, and
they were wrapped in wax paper.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
We had.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
We had plastic obviously when I was around, but uh,
I do remember wax paper being used on occasional.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, and it was and wax. I mean not that
they didn't have plastic. They did, but it was just
they did have the ziplock stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
And it was, oh, you know what I wanted. So
I thought I mentioned that.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
The movie The Graduate, because there's a scene in there
Ryan on it he goes plastics.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
You got to invest in plastics.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Lost in translation.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
President Trump's Special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, has broken with long
standing protocol by not having his own interpreter during three
high level meetings with Russia's President Putin. He used translators
from the Kremlin only instead. Witkoff met in February and March,
(22:44):
and in April and apparently used their translators. Western officials say,
if they speak to each other in Russian, he doesn't
know what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
And that doesn't make sense. I mean, you want.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Your own interpreter who can pick up nuances and inflection.
And so it was the Russian translator. So it ended
up happening as Putin would say something, the Russian translator
would then go to Witkoff and said, the president just
told you to go shove it where the sun Jones
don't shine, and didn't necessarily say that. But it makes
(23:21):
very little sense not toy have your own interpreter at all.
But you know, things have changed, to say the least.
Do you remember when Jimmy Carter brought when he went
to Poland and brought his own interpreter and she didn't
speak Polish.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
It was Gibberish that she was speaking. It's a great
it's oh yeah, look it up.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's a great story. It is a terrific story. How
she it was just crazy, all right.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
San Diego County educator who was once named Teacher of
the Year not so much anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
She's been sentenced to.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Thirty years to life for grooming and sexually assaulting two
young boys in her elementary school classroom there in National City.
Jacqueline Ma, that's what it looks like to me. Took
advantage of her role. She was a fifth and sixth
grade teacher at Lincoln Acres Elementary School, and she manipulated
(24:17):
the kids basically gifts special attention completing their homework.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
As sick as it is when high school teachers do
this to high school students.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
This is elementary school kids. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That's yeah, that one you just don't understand. I mean,
that is one sick lady.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
A sex stortion scheme heard around the world. Three years ago,
a California teenager killed himself as a result of being
sex storted online. Well, authorities have now arrested four men
in Ivory Coast for their roles in an international scheme
that the Department of Justice has targeted that of victims
(25:01):
around the globe.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Yeah, getting these kids to send compromising photos which are
what to do, and then and then start extorting them,
and then you reach a point where these kids just
go over the top and they kill themselves. There have
been unfortunately several stories of that, and these animals don't care,
you know, Okay, that's another one. You know, let's move
on to the next victim. It is heartbreaking, and let's
(25:29):
do one more to finish it up.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
All right, Santa Monica's palsade parts that stretch along Ocean Avenue.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
There, it's being.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Overridden, overrun by squirrels, lots of squirrels.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Although French people can't pronounce it, they are a problem.
It's been.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
The population's exploded since COVID, the COVID pandemic in twenty twenty, and.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
It's apparently nuts.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Like they're so desensitized that people jogging are trying not
to step on them because they're running through their legs.
People are feeding them. It's basically just another round of
homelessness in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
A couple of restaurants have opened up in that area,
which you're going to help the.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Population and squirrels a whole lot. All right, we're done, guys.
This is KFI AM sixty. You've been listening to the
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Speaker 2 (26:24):
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