May 28, 2025 • 28 mins
(May 28, 2025)
California makes rule change to girls’ track and field championship after Trump threatens to withhold federal funding from the state. U.S stops scheduling visa interviews for foreign students while it expands social media vetting. Sperm donor with rare genetic mutation fathered 67 children. Ten now have cancer prompting calls for reform. Walmart, Target, and other companies warn about growing consumer boycotts.
California makes rule change to girls’ track and field championship after Trump threatens to withhold federal funding from the state. U.S stops scheduling visa interviews for foreign students while it expands social media vetting. Sperm donor with rare genetic mutation fathered 67 children. Ten now have cancer prompting calls for reform. Walmart, Target, and other companies warn about growing consumer boycotts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio f It's aday Wednesday,
May twenty eighth. Oh quick reminder, ask Handle anything eight
thirty Friday morning. And this is where you get to
ask me whatever crazy or personal question. And as I've
(00:21):
told you before, this comes out of I'm constantly being
asked what the rest of the crowd is like? Here
a KFI, Cole Bolton, Tam, etcetera. Gary and Shannon, what Neil?
What Amy is like? No Oney cares about Kno? And also,
don't give me that cono.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Everybody cares about me? Bill? Oh yeah, everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Bill, Yes, the only person that has been singled out
and asked, how is Kno?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
What's he like? So here's what you do? Okay, and
people ask about me. I'm just part of that crowd.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So what I what I've done is I'm going to
answer all the personal questions that you may have.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And so you go to during.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
The course of the show the iHeartRadio app and click
on the Bill Handle show microphone the upper right hand
corner and record your questions and Neil mainly Neil chooses
the questions and I answer them on the air, and
I haven't heard them before, so they're great fun, great
humiliation for me now something that most of us believe.
I happen to be a big fan of trans rights.
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There's no question I was thoroughly offended. For example, when
the administration said all trans people members of the armed
forces are kicked out.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
That is horrible. If you can do the job as
well as anybody else.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Remember it used to be women couldn't fly fighter jets
because they were women, and then we found out that
they're as good as men.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Now are they better better than men? No? Are trans
better than the rest of us?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Well, if there is a girls sport and someone who
was previously a man now became a woman, there's.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
A physiological difference. And guess what.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
For example, the CIF which is a track and field
state championship in California.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Is getting a tweak. And why is that?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Because under California law, men who became women specifically have
to be treated the same, so they everybody else, so
they can go ahead and go into championships. And there
was just a championship in which a man who became
woman in a track and field in this case, the
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long jump won by as Amy reported this morning, by
three feet, not inches, but feet, clearly a huge advantage,
and there was an uproar and should have been an uproar.
Even Gavin Newsom says this is so unfair in the
vast majority of Americans that as I believe it. And
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so the CIF just made it. They just changed the
rules right now. I mean even in the law says
they have to be treated to say, but here's what
the CIF did. They said that anybody who would otherwise
qualify who was a woman and didn't qualify because it's
a question of ranking, if the person above them was
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a trans, we're going to treat those women who are
not as if they won. Okay, does that make sense?
Am I explaining that? In other words, trans are while
they're going to be treated fairly, the people who aren't
are going to be treated more fairly if they are
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beat by the trans person. And that is very different.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
That was just tweaked. And why it's.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
A big deal because California, after Trump signed an executive
order saying this trans business is not going to happen.
You were born a woman, you were born a man.
That's who you are. And I think that's rather controversial.
I don't buy that at all, but I do buy
the fact that there is a physiological difference. This is
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why men and women do not compete against each other.
Men are faster, they jump higher, they are stronger. That's
simply the way it works. Additionally, men are smarter, I
might add, but that's a personal view.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Ooh, ooh, I'm just gonna start booing. It's gonna be
like a melodrama now spoom.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
But you have to admit that in this case there
are differences. And even when someone trans and they take
the hormones and you know how to you know how
to make a hormone in any case, even with hormones,
and even with dejunking them. Uh, what is the ma
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medical term for someone undoing? Uh, you know, the Schwantz
a Schwantz ectomy, that's what it is. When it's all gone,
you still have the skeletal makeup of that person. You
still have some muscular body mass which makes you faster,
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jump higher, stronger. And therein lies the unfairness. And here's
why it's a big deal. Because the CIF, the California
Track and Field Organization said originally when Trump issued the order.
We are going to treat men as men and women
as women. The CIF told Trump you can go, you
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can go stuff it, you can go pound sand we
are going to follow California law.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Well they're going, okay, here, we're going to make a change.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Here what we're going to say and is I explained
the new tweak And so I think we're on our way,
and I think we should. I don't know why California
just simply doesn't change the law, because we have a
super insanely liberal legislature that is getting more liberal by
the every election cycle. And this is one where I
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couldn't agree more men or men, women or women. It's
that simple. Only in regards to the physical ability. For example,
how about weightlifting? Should they be the same? No, they're
different people. How about IQ tests? Men are just smarter? No?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Maybe not another boo, please, Neil, You're not even worthy
of a boo anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
People are okaying on their own in the cars right now.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I don't need to join them.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Okay, fair enough. Now, Visa interviews for foreign students. Did
you know that foreign students before they get a visa
a student visa, actually have to be interviewed that has stopped,
and I'll explain why. It's a part of the new
immigration policy of the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I'll explain what's going on when we come back.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
MSNBC is just reporting and none of the other majors
yet have reported that the brother of ya Ya Sinhwar,
who was head of Hamas the military arm if you remember,
he was killed.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The brother, Mohammed.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Sinhwar took over and the Israelis has been looking for him.
As being reported, they got him that they killed Sinwar's brother.
So now the top two it is. I tell you,
these guys are they have to be. They're looking over
their shoulder every minute. If they don't stay in the tunnels,
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they're going to be looked for and killed.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean, it's you don't screw with the Israelis. You
really don't. Now, let me tell you what's going on
with foreign students.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
For a foreign student to come in the United States,
it's a student visa and there has to be a
interview scheduled. And what the US has just done the
State Department has halted the scheduling of new visa interviews
for foreign students. Now they had stopped all foreign students
from coming in interview or not. Lawsuit was filed, and
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so the State Department said, Okay, only upcoming interviews are
now halted. Here is what I don't understand about all this.
Does the government have a right to do that? Yeah,
probably because the government. Matter of fact, the government has
a right to halt all student visas period. But what
I don't understand is how the administration is viewing foreign
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students coming in and illegal aliens coming into this country,
as President Trump said in an executive order, and utilizing
even armed forces to help with not specifically in terms
of policing, but to help with all kinds of intelligence
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and support under the Alien Act, under the Foreign Alien Act.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I think that's what you call it, that the people.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Who are here across the border illegally are invading the
United States militarily. That law has only been used twice prior.
It was both when the US was invaded when the
US went to war. And somehow people coming into this
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country are invading the country militarily.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
When's the last.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Time you saw a group of illegal migrants coming in
armed and attacking the forces of the United States, attacking
the border. So I don't understand that. I can see that, Okay,
we don't want it. We want to secure the borders
from the illegal migrants coming in.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Because we're overwhelmed.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Services are being strong wretched, And there's all kinds of
arguments on both sides. Do they cost us? Do they
not cost us? Do they really have services? Well, they're
denied a lot of services. They're deny whether or not
denied medical or medicaid, but they pay taxes. But then
they go to school and we have to pay for
the schooling. I mean, there's a lot of arguments going
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back and forth. But arguing that they are invading the
United States militarily, that's you know, because that's the invasion
part of it under the Act, and so you know,
the president can call it. You know, the President can
say I'm going to establish martial law and then there
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has to be a basis for it, and you can
come up with something, and the Supreme Court is going
to say, yeah, yeah, he could probably establish martial law
along the border because of the invasion of the illegal migrants,
and I bet you the Supreme Court would uphold it.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We're suspending habeas corpus along the border across the border
because we're being invaded because it is war. Now does
president have the ability to do that? Probably, But you
wonder why are a student foreign students such a.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Threat to the United States?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Is it because otherwise Americans would get into school? Yeah,
I think that's probably true. So we cease being a
global member of the global community, the world community, and
what we do is we go inwards America.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
First. We did that prior to World War Two.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Until the invasion, until the attack on Pearl Harbor, where
we don't want to hear what is going on.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Around the rest of the world.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
We're not part of the global economy or we're not
part of the global community. We are on our own,
and that is I think, unfortunately, where we're going to go.
On the Great Depression, what happened. Of course, the entire
world went south. A few countries did okay, but the
Great Depression hit most of the world.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And what the United States.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Did was past the Smoot Holly Act, and in response
the Smoot Holly Act was insane tariffs. So only so
Americans would go to work, American products would be produced,
and we were going to protect ourselves against foreign products
and foreign invasion of goods being brought in let's not
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call it an invasion. Excuse me, that we were going
to bring the economy inside, so it would be American manufacturers,
American distributors, American workers, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Well, we look back at history.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The Smoot Holly Act exacerbated the Great Depression. It got worse,
and I mean a lot worse. And the argument we're
going to hear here is these tariffs, which are protection.
It is to protect American workers. I mean, there's no
question this is where President Trump wants to go. He
wants American jobs, American factories. He wants manufacturing, the distribution
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to happen right here and not overseas well. So he
throws in the only way to deal with it is
protective tariffs, and it's going to hurt our economy drastically.
And part of protectionism is to say the programs that
we've had where the United States and this is where
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we are at the top of the heap.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I'm not an exceptionalist.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I believe America is the greatest country in the world,
but there are certain areas where we're not infant mortality,
we're number forty three. For example, literacy, we're down in
the twenties.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
And innovation. We're at the top education.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
We're at the top when you talk about the higher education,
the university level.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And we were always a beacon, we were a magnet.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
And by the way, the schools do great because foreign
students pay retail and the schools need it.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
We don't want that anymore. No furners, we don't want.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
And one of the things that the Trump administration is
doing is saying to Harvard, we want in addition to
the sorry, I'm coffee, In addition to the administration overseeing
Harvard's policies, the way they teach, who they hire, DEI programs,
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and reporting to the administration on a regular basis. This
is a university, a private university. And if that didn't happen,
and it doesn't happen because Harvard is fighting it. Federal
money is cut off for research, medical research. It's gotten crazy.
So foreign students and by the way, a lot of
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them stay here, they try to get jobs here. And
these are the top of the heap. Let me tell you,
the people that come over and go to MIT and
go to Berkeley as foreign students and get these extraordinary
technical degrees are very valuable people.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I mean, they do a lot for us.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
A lot of this doesn't make a lot of sense. Ah,
I'll tell you what does make a lot of sense.
Sperm donation and my personal involvement with sperm donation. Not
that personal involvement. Well yeah, there's that too. But there
is a case that's just brought up, and this has
worldwide implications at this point. Starting today, if you are
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flying Southwest, you can kiss goodbye the two bags for free.
Now thirty five dollars for one bag, forty five dollars
for a second bag, one hundred and fifty dollars for
a third bag, and overweight luggage will require paying up to.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Two one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Okay, that's a shame because that was the last of it,
the last major carrier offer free luggage.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It's a shame and that was their claim to fame too. Well,
so much for that.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
There is a story out of Europe where the sperm
sperm donor sperm of a man carrying a genetic mutation
has been linked to a whole bunch of cancers with
the kids that were born of that sperm. His sperm
was used to conceive at least sixty seven kids, forty
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six families and across eight European countries, because it's not
just the United States, it's a European block is one country.
And what happened was he has this very rare genetic
disorder that was not caught. And the problem is there's
no regulation of sperm donation, whether here or there in Europe.
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Regulation as to the efficacy yes, but the number of
donors no, and the kind of testing no. Now what
makes the story interesting. They didn't know we had it
when he donated his sperm. And the argument is, now,
you should have known, you should have tested. We have
twenty thousand genes in our bodies at least, and to
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test for everything that we know we can test for
is hundreds tens of thousands, at least hundreds thousands of dollars.
Can't do it now they do genetic testing.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
As you know.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
In my world of infertility, third party reproduction, my surrogacy practice,
we did sperm donation, egg donation, embryo freezing, et cetera.
We used a sperm bank, or our couples used a
sperm bank, and the testing was, you know, pretty extensive.
Did we spend tens of thousands of dollars testing no,
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we tested for the big ones. We looked at genetics,
but again, looking at genetics is just interviewing. You know,
we're not going to ask for medical records from parents
and grandparents. How does someone get medical records from grandparents.
I wouldn't know how to do it, or even parents,
So it's sort of a crapshoot. And the argument is,
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I think the only way, and this is what they're saying,
is limit the number of children can be conceived.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
There was one.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Story of this European guy who conceived between five and
six hundred children.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Out of one sperm donation, out of one guy.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
And then we were talking at Anne this morning, said
the average income of sperm donor would you say, Anne
was in the eighty thousand dollars a year range, that's
what a sperm donor.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Gets one hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That's a lot of money. And then she argued, Wow,
and all of us, every guy out there, I mean,
we practice a lot, there's no question about it, but
we don't get paid for it. Well, let me tell
you the reality of sperm donations. Since I worked with
sperm donor banks. A matter of fact, I worked with
a guy who created the largest sperm donor bank.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
In the country, in the world now.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And it is not easy being a sperm donor. I
mean the testing you have to go through. And then
it's not like you're at home having a rip roaring
good time. It's very clinical. He had his medical office
where the donation took place. It is hard in a
clinical setting to create the sperm to you know, to ejaculate,
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and you have to do it very clinically in little cups,
so you have to aim very carefully, and there's a
lot of alcohol involved in douching yourself and it's just
I mean, there's a lot to it. And then this
doctor was very very good because realizing that, you know,
guys have to be excited, how do you.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Do that in a lab?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
And so he had rooms where he did this, where
he had men do this, and it was I mean,
it looked like an Iranian whorehouse inside those rooms, and
it was red flocked wall paper and there was a
fish tank. And then he had every porno you could
have imagined videos. Debbie does Dallas and New York and
LA and Chicago all at the same time. There was
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Barnyard Love, Ben Loves Adam, I mean, just everything you
could possibly imagine, and.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
So he was able to create because.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Scientifically speaking, just want to This is my experience. Scientifically speaking,
the more excited man is, the better the sperm count.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
So and that is not it's hard to do so
to speak. So there is a lot to it.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
And usually where sperm donation actually happen medical students. Why
because people want bright, in most cases good looking sperm donors,
which is why Neil, you'll never be asked to be
a sperm donor.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I just want to point that out.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
I also have a genetic kidney disease.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah that doesn't help either. Yes, yeah that you can't have.
That's true.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
But one quick, do I have time for my story now?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I'll do it at some other time because I have
one of the funniest sperm donor stories you could ever imagine. Anyway,
what this brought up in Europe, I mean, the whole
point of this is the genetic testing. You're not going
to be able or they're not going to be able
to test every single genetic disorder or potential. It's only
going to be limiting the number of pregnancies, limiting the
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number of donations that anybody can make there is no regulation.
Now there is self regulation the sperm banks that I
have worked with, I think at that point it was
no more than five children, So the chances are really
reduced in terms of any kind of a medical disorder.
But the call now because of this case, and in
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my fine stories, but because of this case, you're looking
at sperm donation controls now all over the world.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Now why did I bring this up? Why am I
doing this? Because this is what I used to do.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Now this is my wheelhouse. So I just thought I
bring that to the table. Okay, so much for that.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
As the world turns.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Okay, let's talk about something that is affecting all of us,
to say the least, Walmart target other companies. You know,
these major companies have to issue statements every year, financial statements,
public statements they have to issue and then they have
to forecast what the next year is going to be.
Let me tell you what's going on actually giving warnings
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and giving risk factors. And I'll explain. Because of course
the politics has gone nuts on this. A quick word
about June seventh, Saturday.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Here's what we are going to do, morning crew.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I've never done this before, all of us are going
to have dinner at the Anaheim White House Saturday night,
June seventh, and we're inviting five people plus their guest
to join us. And it's going to be a lot
of fun because first the food is spectacular and you're
going to see us bad mouth each other to an
enormous extent, which is what we do anyway.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
And so go to the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
During the course of the show, click the bill handle
show in the upper right hand corner of microphone. Click
on that, and then you have fifteen twenty seconds to
tell us why you should go or why you want
to go to dinner with us, And don't tell me
because it's you've loved the show, you've been listening for years.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I'm not interested in that.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I want to hear some good stuff. Why you should go,
why you want to go? All right, now, let's move
over to what's going on corporately and the world today.
Corporate America is required public companies required to disclose risks
of their businesses every year in regulatory filings. Got to
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tell investors and the world. This year Walmart Target Home Depot.
A huge number of companies are advising investors about customer
and legal backlash to their DEI programs, to their policies, environmental,
social and governance ECG initiatives, and giving notice of the
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risks of rolling back these programs. Now, businesses typically warn't
shareholders about economic downturns, data breaches, natural disasters, tax code changes,
that's the normal stuff. But they're adding new disclosures in
response to the political divide corporations increasing diversity in the workplace,
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decreasing diversity, promoting LGBTQ rights, taking down those rights, climate
change one way or the other, and the companies are
facing a catch to situation. They can't win. They cannot
win because here's what happens. There's three ways a company
can go in this day and age, either pro LGBTQ rights,
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pro climate change issues, right pro DEI programs, or the
other way, or remaining silent, which is what corporations normally did.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
They were not political animals.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Well, obviously, if you're going towards lbgt TQ rights and
its ilk, the right is going to go crazy. If
you go the other way, the left is going to
go crazy. And this is the part that's interesting. Staying
neutral is also horrible because corporation must take a position
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according to the left, according to the right, and companies
are spinning now and the political.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Change is huge. I mean, the winds have certainly.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Shifted because companies because of political correctness. And I'm not
arguing that I thought went way overboard on the DEI
programs and the minority programs, and it was.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I thought they went too far. Now those are all
being yanked. And it's not just the.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Risk politically, it's customers. Target got nailed. Target had one
of the strongest DEI programs out there. Target is attacked
by the right end the administration, and so they pulled
back on a whole lot of these programs and now
there's a backlash on that and sales have fallen dramatically.
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It is well, for example, Target had Pride Month, a
merchandise selection LBGTQ, right Mond, you had a T shirts
that were the rainbow colors, et cetera. Well, guess what,
the right wing started a boycott and it worked.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Target sales went down.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Bud Light do you remember Anheuser Bush with bud They
had a trans influencer and this was on this was
on his channel right and he that caused such a
backlash that bud Light for the first time in decades,
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went to number two in sale of beer. I mean
it hit to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
The number one beer now is what is number one beer?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Corona MODELO. Yeah, but then that's but then that's but
then that's real beer too, as opposed to the water A.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, American beer is not regarded very highly in the world.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Coming up, talking about boycotting, Canadians are boycotting the US,
as you know, and the question is for those few
people and Canadians are not very happy with Americans right. Well,
the tourist business in Canada is a different thing. Are
American travelers still welcoming Canada? Yeah, they are desperate for
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American travelers. I'll explain why when we come back.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
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show on demand on the iHeartRadio f It's aday Wednesday,
May twenty eighth. Oh quick reminder, ask Handle anything eight
thirty Friday morning. And this is where you get to
ask me whatever crazy or personal question. And as I've
(00:21):
told you before, this comes out of I'm constantly being
asked what the rest of the crowd is like? Here
a KFI, Cole Bolton, Tam, etcetera. Gary and Shannon, what Neil?
What Amy is like? No Oney cares about Kno? And also,
don't give me that cono.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Everybody cares about me? Bill? Oh yeah, everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Bill, Yes, the only person that has been singled out
and asked, how is Kno?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
What's he like? So here's what you do? Okay, and
people ask about me. I'm just part of that crowd.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So what I what I've done is I'm going to
answer all the personal questions that you may have.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And so you go to during.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
The course of the show the iHeartRadio app and click
on the Bill Handle show microphone the upper right hand
corner and record your questions and Neil mainly Neil chooses
the questions and I answer them on the air, and
I haven't heard them before, so they're great fun, great
humiliation for me now something that most of us believe.
I happen to be a big fan of trans rights.
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There's no question I was thoroughly offended. For example, when
the administration said all trans people members of the armed
forces are kicked out.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
That is horrible. If you can do the job as
well as anybody else.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Remember it used to be women couldn't fly fighter jets
because they were women, and then we found out that
they're as good as men.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Now are they better better than men? No? Are trans
better than the rest of us?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Well, if there is a girls sport and someone who
was previously a man now became a woman, there's.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
A physiological difference. And guess what.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
For example, the CIF which is a track and field
state championship in California.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Is getting a tweak. And why is that?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Because under California law, men who became women specifically have
to be treated the same, so they everybody else, so
they can go ahead and go into championships. And there
was just a championship in which a man who became
woman in a track and field in this case, the
(02:40):
long jump won by as Amy reported this morning, by
three feet, not inches, but feet, clearly a huge advantage,
and there was an uproar and should have been an uproar.
Even Gavin Newsom says this is so unfair in the
vast majority of Americans that as I believe it. And
(03:02):
so the CIF just made it. They just changed the
rules right now. I mean even in the law says
they have to be treated to say, but here's what
the CIF did. They said that anybody who would otherwise
qualify who was a woman and didn't qualify because it's
a question of ranking, if the person above them was
(03:22):
a trans, we're going to treat those women who are
not as if they won. Okay, does that make sense?
Am I explaining that? In other words, trans are while
they're going to be treated fairly, the people who aren't
are going to be treated more fairly if they are
(03:44):
beat by the trans person. And that is very different.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
That was just tweaked. And why it's.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
A big deal because California, after Trump signed an executive
order saying this trans business is not going to happen.
You were born a woman, you were born a man.
That's who you are. And I think that's rather controversial.
I don't buy that at all, but I do buy
the fact that there is a physiological difference. This is
(04:12):
why men and women do not compete against each other.
Men are faster, they jump higher, they are stronger. That's
simply the way it works. Additionally, men are smarter, I
might add, but that's a personal view.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Ooh, ooh, I'm just gonna start booing. It's gonna be
like a melodrama now spoom.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
But you have to admit that in this case there
are differences. And even when someone trans and they take
the hormones and you know how to you know how
to make a hormone in any case, even with hormones,
and even with dejunking them. Uh, what is the ma
(05:00):
medical term for someone undoing? Uh, you know, the Schwantz
a Schwantz ectomy, that's what it is. When it's all gone,
you still have the skeletal makeup of that person. You
still have some muscular body mass which makes you faster,
(05:20):
jump higher, stronger. And therein lies the unfairness. And here's
why it's a big deal. Because the CIF, the California
Track and Field Organization said originally when Trump issued the order.
We are going to treat men as men and women
as women. The CIF told Trump you can go, you
(05:40):
can go stuff it, you can go pound sand we
are going to follow California law.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Well they're going, okay, here, we're going to make a change.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Here what we're going to say and is I explained
the new tweak And so I think we're on our way,
and I think we should. I don't know why California
just simply doesn't change the law, because we have a
super insanely liberal legislature that is getting more liberal by
the every election cycle. And this is one where I
(06:11):
couldn't agree more men or men, women or women. It's
that simple. Only in regards to the physical ability. For example,
how about weightlifting? Should they be the same? No, they're
different people. How about IQ tests? Men are just smarter? No?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Maybe not another boo, please, Neil, You're not even worthy
of a boo anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
People are okaying on their own in the cars right now.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I don't need to join them.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Okay, fair enough. Now, Visa interviews for foreign students. Did
you know that foreign students before they get a visa
a student visa, actually have to be interviewed that has stopped,
and I'll explain why. It's a part of the new
immigration policy of the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I'll explain what's going on when we come back.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
MSNBC is just reporting and none of the other majors
yet have reported that the brother of ya Ya Sinhwar,
who was head of Hamas the military arm if you remember,
he was killed.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The brother, Mohammed.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Sinhwar took over and the Israelis has been looking for him.
As being reported, they got him that they killed Sinwar's brother.
So now the top two it is. I tell you,
these guys are they have to be. They're looking over
their shoulder every minute. If they don't stay in the tunnels,
(07:41):
they're going to be looked for and killed.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean, it's you don't screw with the Israelis. You
really don't. Now, let me tell you what's going on
with foreign students.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
For a foreign student to come in the United States,
it's a student visa and there has to be a
interview scheduled. And what the US has just done the
State Department has halted the scheduling of new visa interviews
for foreign students. Now they had stopped all foreign students
from coming in interview or not. Lawsuit was filed, and
(08:17):
so the State Department said, Okay, only upcoming interviews are
now halted. Here is what I don't understand about all this.
Does the government have a right to do that? Yeah,
probably because the government. Matter of fact, the government has
a right to halt all student visas period. But what
I don't understand is how the administration is viewing foreign
(08:40):
students coming in and illegal aliens coming into this country,
as President Trump said in an executive order, and utilizing
even armed forces to help with not specifically in terms
of policing, but to help with all kinds of intelligence
(09:01):
and support under the Alien Act, under the Foreign Alien Act.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I think that's what you call it, that the people.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Who are here across the border illegally are invading the
United States militarily. That law has only been used twice prior.
It was both when the US was invaded when the
US went to war. And somehow people coming into this
(09:31):
country are invading the country militarily.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
When's the last.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Time you saw a group of illegal migrants coming in
armed and attacking the forces of the United States, attacking
the border. So I don't understand that. I can see that, Okay,
we don't want it. We want to secure the borders
from the illegal migrants coming in.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Because we're overwhelmed.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Services are being strong wretched, And there's all kinds of
arguments on both sides. Do they cost us? Do they
not cost us? Do they really have services? Well, they're
denied a lot of services. They're deny whether or not
denied medical or medicaid, but they pay taxes. But then
they go to school and we have to pay for
the schooling. I mean, there's a lot of arguments going
(10:20):
back and forth. But arguing that they are invading the
United States militarily, that's you know, because that's the invasion
part of it under the Act, and so you know,
the president can call it. You know, the President can
say I'm going to establish martial law and then there
(10:44):
has to be a basis for it, and you can
come up with something, and the Supreme Court is going
to say, yeah, yeah, he could probably establish martial law
along the border because of the invasion of the illegal migrants,
and I bet you the Supreme Court would uphold it.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We're suspending habeas corpus along the border across the border
because we're being invaded because it is war. Now does
president have the ability to do that? Probably, But you
wonder why are a student foreign students such a.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Threat to the United States?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Is it because otherwise Americans would get into school? Yeah,
I think that's probably true. So we cease being a
global member of the global community, the world community, and
what we do is we go inwards America.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
First. We did that prior to World War Two.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Until the invasion, until the attack on Pearl Harbor, where
we don't want to hear what is going on.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Around the rest of the world.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
We're not part of the global economy or we're not
part of the global community. We are on our own,
and that is I think, unfortunately, where we're going to go.
On the Great Depression, what happened. Of course, the entire
world went south. A few countries did okay, but the
Great Depression hit most of the world.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And what the United States.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Did was past the Smoot Holly Act, and in response
the Smoot Holly Act was insane tariffs. So only so
Americans would go to work, American products would be produced,
and we were going to protect ourselves against foreign products
and foreign invasion of goods being brought in let's not
(12:30):
call it an invasion. Excuse me, that we were going
to bring the economy inside, so it would be American manufacturers,
American distributors, American workers, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Well, we look back at history.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The Smoot Holly Act exacerbated the Great Depression. It got worse,
and I mean a lot worse. And the argument we're
going to hear here is these tariffs, which are protection.
It is to protect American workers. I mean, there's no
question this is where President Trump wants to go. He
wants American jobs, American factories. He wants manufacturing, the distribution
(13:09):
to happen right here and not overseas well. So he
throws in the only way to deal with it is
protective tariffs, and it's going to hurt our economy drastically.
And part of protectionism is to say the programs that
we've had where the United States and this is where
(13:30):
we are at the top of the heap.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I'm not an exceptionalist.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I believe America is the greatest country in the world,
but there are certain areas where we're not infant mortality,
we're number forty three. For example, literacy, we're down in
the twenties.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
And innovation. We're at the top education.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
We're at the top when you talk about the higher education,
the university level.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And we were always a beacon, we were a magnet.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
And by the way, the schools do great because foreign
students pay retail and the schools need it.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
We don't want that anymore. No furners, we don't want.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
And one of the things that the Trump administration is
doing is saying to Harvard, we want in addition to
the sorry, I'm coffee, In addition to the administration overseeing
Harvard's policies, the way they teach, who they hire, DEI programs,
(14:30):
and reporting to the administration on a regular basis. This
is a university, a private university. And if that didn't happen,
and it doesn't happen because Harvard is fighting it. Federal
money is cut off for research, medical research. It's gotten crazy.
So foreign students and by the way, a lot of
(14:52):
them stay here, they try to get jobs here. And
these are the top of the heap. Let me tell you,
the people that come over and go to MIT and
go to Berkeley as foreign students and get these extraordinary
technical degrees are very valuable people.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I mean, they do a lot for us.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
A lot of this doesn't make a lot of sense. Ah,
I'll tell you what does make a lot of sense.
Sperm donation and my personal involvement with sperm donation. Not
that personal involvement. Well yeah, there's that too. But there
is a case that's just brought up, and this has
worldwide implications at this point. Starting today, if you are
(15:32):
flying Southwest, you can kiss goodbye the two bags for free.
Now thirty five dollars for one bag, forty five dollars
for a second bag, one hundred and fifty dollars for
a third bag, and overweight luggage will require paying up to.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Two one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Okay, that's a shame because that was the last of it,
the last major carrier offer free luggage.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It's a shame and that was their claim to fame too. Well,
so much for that.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
There is a story out of Europe where the sperm
sperm donor sperm of a man carrying a genetic mutation
has been linked to a whole bunch of cancers with
the kids that were born of that sperm. His sperm
was used to conceive at least sixty seven kids, forty
(16:27):
six families and across eight European countries, because it's not
just the United States, it's a European block is one country.
And what happened was he has this very rare genetic
disorder that was not caught. And the problem is there's
no regulation of sperm donation, whether here or there in Europe.
(16:50):
Regulation as to the efficacy yes, but the number of
donors no, and the kind of testing no. Now what
makes the story interesting. They didn't know we had it
when he donated his sperm. And the argument is, now,
you should have known, you should have tested. We have
twenty thousand genes in our bodies at least, and to
(17:13):
test for everything that we know we can test for
is hundreds tens of thousands, at least hundreds thousands of dollars.
Can't do it now they do genetic testing.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
As you know.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
In my world of infertility, third party reproduction, my surrogacy practice,
we did sperm donation, egg donation, embryo freezing, et cetera.
We used a sperm bank, or our couples used a
sperm bank, and the testing was, you know, pretty extensive.
Did we spend tens of thousands of dollars testing no,
(17:44):
we tested for the big ones. We looked at genetics,
but again, looking at genetics is just interviewing. You know,
we're not going to ask for medical records from parents
and grandparents. How does someone get medical records from grandparents.
I wouldn't know how to do it, or even parents,
So it's sort of a crapshoot. And the argument is,
(18:06):
I think the only way, and this is what they're saying,
is limit the number of children can be conceived.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
There was one.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Story of this European guy who conceived between five and
six hundred children.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Out of one sperm donation, out of one guy.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
And then we were talking at Anne this morning, said
the average income of sperm donor would you say, Anne
was in the eighty thousand dollars a year range, that's
what a sperm donor.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Gets one hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That's a lot of money. And then she argued, Wow,
and all of us, every guy out there, I mean,
we practice a lot, there's no question about it, but
we don't get paid for it. Well, let me tell
you the reality of sperm donations. Since I worked with
sperm donor banks. A matter of fact, I worked with
a guy who created the largest sperm donor bank.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
In the country, in the world now.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And it is not easy being a sperm donor. I
mean the testing you have to go through. And then
it's not like you're at home having a rip roaring
good time. It's very clinical. He had his medical office
where the donation took place. It is hard in a
clinical setting to create the sperm to you know, to ejaculate,
(19:19):
and you have to do it very clinically in little cups,
so you have to aim very carefully, and there's a
lot of alcohol involved in douching yourself and it's just
I mean, there's a lot to it. And then this
doctor was very very good because realizing that, you know,
guys have to be excited, how do you.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Do that in a lab?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
And so he had rooms where he did this, where
he had men do this, and it was I mean,
it looked like an Iranian whorehouse inside those rooms, and
it was red flocked wall paper and there was a
fish tank. And then he had every porno you could
have imagined videos. Debbie does Dallas and New York and
LA and Chicago all at the same time. There was
(20:02):
Barnyard Love, Ben Loves Adam, I mean, just everything you
could possibly imagine, and.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
So he was able to create because.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Scientifically speaking, just want to This is my experience. Scientifically speaking,
the more excited man is, the better the sperm count.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
So and that is not it's hard to do so
to speak. So there is a lot to it.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
And usually where sperm donation actually happen medical students. Why
because people want bright, in most cases good looking sperm donors,
which is why Neil, you'll never be asked to be
a sperm donor.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I just want to point that out.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
I also have a genetic kidney disease.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah that doesn't help either. Yes, yeah that you can't have.
That's true.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
But one quick, do I have time for my story now?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I'll do it at some other time because I have
one of the funniest sperm donor stories you could ever imagine. Anyway,
what this brought up in Europe, I mean, the whole
point of this is the genetic testing. You're not going
to be able or they're not going to be able
to test every single genetic disorder or potential. It's only
going to be limiting the number of pregnancies, limiting the
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number of donations that anybody can make there is no regulation.
Now there is self regulation the sperm banks that I
have worked with, I think at that point it was
no more than five children, So the chances are really
reduced in terms of any kind of a medical disorder.
But the call now because of this case, and in
(21:39):
my fine stories, but because of this case, you're looking
at sperm donation controls now all over the world.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Now why did I bring this up? Why am I
doing this? Because this is what I used to do.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Now this is my wheelhouse. So I just thought I
bring that to the table. Okay, so much for that.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
As the world turns.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Okay, let's talk about something that is affecting all of us,
to say the least, Walmart target other companies. You know,
these major companies have to issue statements every year, financial statements,
public statements they have to issue and then they have
to forecast what the next year is going to be.
Let me tell you what's going on actually giving warnings
(22:25):
and giving risk factors. And I'll explain. Because of course
the politics has gone nuts on this. A quick word
about June seventh, Saturday.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Here's what we are going to do, morning crew.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I've never done this before, all of us are going
to have dinner at the Anaheim White House Saturday night,
June seventh, and we're inviting five people plus their guest
to join us. And it's going to be a lot
of fun because first the food is spectacular and you're
going to see us bad mouth each other to an
enormous extent, which is what we do anyway.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
And so go to the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
During the course of the show, click the bill handle
show in the upper right hand corner of microphone. Click
on that, and then you have fifteen twenty seconds to
tell us why you should go or why you want
to go to dinner with us, And don't tell me
because it's you've loved the show, you've been listening for years.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I'm not interested in that.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I want to hear some good stuff. Why you should go,
why you want to go? All right, now, let's move
over to what's going on corporately and the world today.
Corporate America is required public companies required to disclose risks
of their businesses every year in regulatory filings. Got to
(23:37):
tell investors and the world. This year Walmart Target Home Depot.
A huge number of companies are advising investors about customer
and legal backlash to their DEI programs, to their policies, environmental,
social and governance ECG initiatives, and giving notice of the
(23:59):
risks of rolling back these programs. Now, businesses typically warn't
shareholders about economic downturns, data breaches, natural disasters, tax code changes,
that's the normal stuff. But they're adding new disclosures in
response to the political divide corporations increasing diversity in the workplace,
(24:23):
decreasing diversity, promoting LGBTQ rights, taking down those rights, climate
change one way or the other, and the companies are
facing a catch to situation. They can't win. They cannot
win because here's what happens. There's three ways a company
can go in this day and age, either pro LGBTQ rights,
(24:46):
pro climate change issues, right pro DEI programs, or the
other way, or remaining silent, which is what corporations normally did.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
They were not political animals.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Well, obviously, if you're going towards lbgt TQ rights and
its ilk, the right is going to go crazy. If
you go the other way, the left is going to
go crazy. And this is the part that's interesting. Staying
neutral is also horrible because corporation must take a position
(25:25):
according to the left, according to the right, and companies
are spinning now and the political.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Change is huge. I mean, the winds have certainly.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Shifted because companies because of political correctness. And I'm not
arguing that I thought went way overboard on the DEI
programs and the minority programs, and it was.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I thought they went too far. Now those are all
being yanked. And it's not just the.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Risk politically, it's customers. Target got nailed. Target had one
of the strongest DEI programs out there. Target is attacked
by the right end the administration, and so they pulled
back on a whole lot of these programs and now
there's a backlash on that and sales have fallen dramatically.
(26:18):
It is well, for example, Target had Pride Month, a
merchandise selection LBGTQ, right Mond, you had a T shirts
that were the rainbow colors, et cetera. Well, guess what,
the right wing started a boycott and it worked.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Target sales went down.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Bud Light do you remember Anheuser Bush with bud They
had a trans influencer and this was on this was
on his channel right and he that caused such a
backlash that bud Light for the first time in decades,
(26:57):
went to number two in sale of beer. I mean
it hit to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
The number one beer now is what is number one beer?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Corona MODELO. Yeah, but then that's but then that's but
then that's real beer too, as opposed to the water A.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, American beer is not regarded very highly in the world.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Coming up, talking about boycotting, Canadians are boycotting the US,
as you know, and the question is for those few
people and Canadians are not very happy with Americans right. Well,
the tourist business in Canada is a different thing. Are
American travelers still welcoming Canada? Yeah, they are desperate for
(27:53):
American travelers. I'll explain why when we come back.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
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