July 3, 2025 • 28 mins
(July 03, 2025)
Heather Brooker joins Neil Saavedra who hosts Handel on the News while Bill is out for an extended 4th of July weekend. House GOP holdouts fall in line, paving the way for final passage of Trump tax bill. Diddy denied bail at hearing, to remain in jail after verdict. Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw reaches 3,000 strikeout milestone. Girl who went overboard on Disney Dream cruise fell ‘backward through a porthole.’
Heather Brooker joins Neil Saavedra who hosts Handel on the News while Bill is out for an extended 4th of July weekend. House GOP holdouts fall in line, paving the way for final passage of Trump tax bill. Diddy denied bail at hearing, to remain in jail after verdict. Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw reaches 3,000 strikeout milestone. Girl who went overboard on Disney Dream cruise fell ‘backward through a porthole.’
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
Am six forty kf I AM six forty Live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. Happy Thursday morning to you. It
is July third. Nil Savedra here with the morning crew
handles off today and tomorrow. I will be with you
(00:22):
with the Gang tomorrow as well. Heather Brooker in for
Amy King and uh oh so Will Cole Schreuber just
hit me up. We were talking asking if anybody had
been locked in an area you know, and Will just
texted me locked in? Does jail count asking for a friend?
(00:44):
I don't know about you, but I kind of feel
like he's not asking for a friend. This seems personal.
I'd just ask you for a friend, that's all. Well,
if that, if we're going to go there, then I
have been locked in. So if we're going to be honest,
what so anyho, Neil, what was your prison name? I
(01:12):
don't want to want to say everything, but so is
that what you said? You're so dead, little man. That's prejudice.
It's just going to be a pile of blood. I
want to be beard and a hat. Oh now I'm
a woman. Wow. Is being revealed this morning this is uh,
(01:41):
this is not. Oh a buddy mine just hit me up.
He said, let's see a guy locked in a porta
potty at work one time, and it was hilarious. Well,
I'm sure that is all right, border agents. So you know,
we tend not to care about laws unless they to
us this human nature, if it's not something you bother with.
(02:03):
But there's all kinds of weird laws out there that
we don't know. Did you know that? And I don't
know if it's still this way, But if you put
a note, like you're sending a package to someone and
you put a note or a letter inside, you're supposed
to put a stamp on that, or at least at
one point, you were supposed to put a stamp on
that letter even though like you got to pay for
that letter inside the box, even though you're paying for
(02:24):
the box. There's all kinds of weird stuff like that
that either used to or still is out there. But
when it comes to you know, border control or customs
and border control agents, we don't think about that much
because we're here, right, we're Americans. But now there is
a focus on it because of course under the Trump administration,
(02:47):
they have their sweeping directive to increase national security by
way of checking who's coming in to our country. And
this puts the own on the US customs and border control.
Their security is increasing. They are having more scrutiny over travelers. Now,
(03:10):
what happens with that in a modern age is you're
looking for information on their phones and things that we
think as Americans, well, they couldn't do that. When you're
coming back into this country or you're coming into this country.
There's a lot they can do. They can search your
(03:32):
electronic devices, including social media, when you're at a border crossing.
So for US it might be a little different. But
if you're like a visa applicant, you're required to get
that visa, you're required to have your social media accounts public.
(03:53):
You couldn't make them private or anything like that. So
they're looking these are which is used to be more rare.
They're highly regulated, they say, and they've been used in
identifying and combating like the serious stuff you think about,
like serious crimes or terrorism, smuggling, human trafficking, visa fraud.
(04:20):
These are the things they're looking at. But you've got
a lot of lawyers coming out now and saying, oh no,
this is this is ramping up. So what used to
be more rare is starting to be seen more and more.
And I think, you know, you watch social media or
(04:41):
your see videos all the time. You can't get away
from him anymore. Of people going, there's this one wing
nut who says he's a constitutional lawyer. You guys ever
seen him where he's He'll rattle off something at a
cop will be arresting somebody that he doesn't even know,
and he'll walk up, I'm a constitutional lawyer. He's actually,
I think, been arrested or something a couple of times,
(05:03):
and I guess he's not as good of an attorney
as he thinks he is, or someone or something like that.
But anyways, there's a lot of these people that go,
you can't do that, You can't do that. I know
my rights. I don't know that most of us do.
We think we do, but depending on this situation, it
may be different. So can border agents look at your
social media account? Yeah? They can. For the average traveler,
(05:31):
you should be aware that you could be subject to
searches when you're coming back into your country. Now. I
have been to countries. My wife and I traveled quite
a bit before our son was born, and part of
that was wanting to go to more third world countries
and things like that, because I knew I had kidney disease.
(05:53):
It's genetic in my family, so I knew my kidneys
were gonna go bad, and I was going to most
likely Lord willing to have a transplant, and my immune
system would be down and be harder to travel to
some of these. So the thought was we'd travel to
the harder places first, and then when I got a kidney,
you go to Europe and you go to whatever places
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where medical advancements are are better, I guess. So we
have been to places where they pulled us aside and
you're going, you know, the badge is crooked and the
shirts are dirty, and they pull you into a room.
One time they actually my wife and I they said,
(06:36):
you know, kind of broken English, stand up and come
with us. And we both stood up and he goes no, no,
no to my wife and motioned to sit down. Just
the bus. Yeah, so it's I'm referred to as the
international boss at the House of Mike. Who's the international boss? Okay,
just the boss today. But and it's intimidating to say
(06:57):
the least you don't know if you're gonna they're gonna
want money or whatever. So do you have to make
your social media account public across the US borders? Yes
and no, So it depends on your immigration status. So
a basic search, which is most common. You know, they
can only look what's on your traveler what's on the
traveler's physical device, not stored in the cloud. There's also
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no requirements to have social media on your phone, so
lawful resident or US citizen could very well just kind
of clean up your profiles, turn the private logout or
that type thing delete. But if you're not in that category,
if you're visa applicant or you're a visitor, there's less leeway.
And since twenty nineteen, the US has required non immigrant
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visa applicants such as those that work has exchanged students
and things like that, to make their social media accounts
public so that they could be vetted. Can you refuse? Yeah,
travelers don't have to hand over their unlocked phones, but
you might just be denied coming back into the US
(08:08):
or coming into the US as a traveler. You can
scrub your phone and your social media if you want.
You can think about those things ahead of time, but
they can search your phone and check out your Instagram
and kind of interesting. We're learning more and more about
the powers that be when you're coming into this country
and when you're traveling. Keep those things in mind, all right.
(08:31):
So we've got flesh eating larvae basically maggots, not here
so much as in Texas and Mexico, but science skuiance
is coming to the aid once again. What would we
do without science? We love science. The US government they're prepared,
(08:53):
preparing right now, breeding billions of flies. So this is
they're going to dump these flies out of airplanes over
Mexico and southern Texas and they're fighting no joke, I'm
sorry at seven twenty two breakfast time to fight these
flesh eating maggots. Which was my nickname in prison. By
(09:16):
the way, I never said it, but that was so
it sounds like an absolute horror film. So the crazy
thing is this bug that they're trying, that they're defending against.
I could devastate the beef industry, decimate wildlife, even kill
(09:40):
household pets. Right, Oh, the bunch of ears just perked up.
Oh not kitting, not my pooky bear. But how crazy
is that? It's called the New World screw worm fly
no joke, So their larva eats fresh flesh, feed me seed.
(10:07):
More so, the US Orban of Magical Agriculture rather plans
to ramp up this breeding and distribution of adult male flies.
They sterilize them with radiation before releasing them. They mate
with the dames in the wild. The eggs laid by
the female aren't fertilized, they don't hatch, so there's fewer larvae,
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and over time the fly population dies out. It just
I mean, you can't breed, no seed, no breed, no larva,
no flesh eating. So most fly larva feed on dead flesh.
That's why you see maggots in you know that stuff
(10:57):
you watch watch a movie. If someone dies or a
CSI or something like that, they walk up and the
body's been there for a while. It's actually one of
the things they use to determine how long something's been there,
because the cycle of a fly less certain amount of time,
and if a body is decomposed, they can look at
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the larvae and go, okay, it would have taken this
much time to lay the eggs and all that stuff.
I know, gross but kind of fascinating, right, So most
fly larvae feed on dead flesh. We know that, we've
seen that. But the New World screwword fly and it's
(11:38):
Old World counterpart in Asia and I guess Africa. They
you know, those can cause problems with the dead flesh,
like the beef industry. So you're you're dealing with you know,
ground b for steaks or these that's a serious threat.
You know, any of that can do there. But these
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females lay their eggs in wounds, sometimes even exposed mucus. Wow,
this is one sexy story, but you know one thousand
pounds bovine can be dead from this in two weeks. Yeah, yeah,
very scary. Producer Anne whose face is contorted in a
(12:23):
way I've never seen before. But it really is sad
because it does cripple the animal and science. You know,
science is using the flies biology basically against it by
genetically creating the ability to keep it from the eggs
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being fertilized. So it's a tropical species, it's unable to
survive in Midwestern or you know like Great Plain winters
and things like that and different season type scooges. Right,
But the US and Mexico, you know, breeds and release
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ninety four billions sterile flies. They did this before from
nineteen sixty two through nineteen seventy five to eradicate a
pest back then, and we know that it works. We
know that we can put this together, make this happen
if we need to. You know, there's a couple of
(13:28):
humans that I think we could sterilize. Yeah, yeah, there's
a I mean, I'm not I don't even know if
Handele could breed now, but you know, if he could,
I'm just saying it might be something we should look at.
So it takes a lot raising a large colony of
these flies. It's easy in the most basic sense, but
(13:53):
you've got to, you know, give the female the cues
that she needs to lay her eggs, and the larvae
have to have enough new tree its. It's all these
weird things they have to do in the science to
make this come together. And then time sexy time first,
and then it doesn't fertilize, and then they slowly die out.
(14:17):
We shall see. I would hate to find it. See
these things adapt to different climates and come closer to
beautiful Southern California, Texas has a lot. That's what you
get when you're that big. You're going to get a
lot of weird crap in Texas and Florida, parts of Mexico. Yes,
all right, back to some more science, Hurricane science. Listen,
(14:42):
nobody likes cuts, and especially we get used to things.
There is a psychology that takes place when you have something,
even mentally. I was just talking to producer and we
were talking about, you know, money, when you have money
sometimes and you think, oh, this what I'm gonna use
it for, and then something comes up and you're like, well,
(15:03):
that's not what I wanted to do with that, or uh.
A one that we do a lot is when you're
in a parking area and you think that's my parking spot.
I saw that it's not your parking spot. It's nobody's
parking spot until somebody parks in it. And even then
it's not your parking spot. You're just using it. But
we get upset someone just took my parking spot. Well
it's not your parking spot. Now you might have had
(15:24):
your blinker on. You're there, and in a polite society
they should go, okay, that person was here. First, we
wait in line, but it's not your part. It's nobody's
parking spot. So this this kind of ties in. This
deals with hurricane science, and you've got the Trump administration
just like I mean, it's like in a movie when
(15:46):
someone gets mad and they just knock everything off the
shelves and off the off the desktop and every and
you're going, whoa, wha, wait wait wait wait, we're not
gonna We're not gonna go through them and say, okay,
this is a bill we have to pay, and this
is really important. This is a birth certificate. We should
probably hang on to that. But this is trashical thriller.
It gets scary. So the Trump administration is making lots
(16:11):
of changes, and I know that makes us all nervous,
cutting all kinds of stuff right and left, and we're
sitting fat. Does that mean everything needs to be cut? No,
but we're sitting fat. I think we can all agree
that we're sitting fat and we should be cutting things.
But what gets cut and the unintended consequences of those things,
(16:32):
I think is what makes us all nervous. Right, So,
when it comes to hurricane science, clouds are a problem. Okay,
you can't just take a photograph, look down, take a
photograph and say okay, here there's a hurricane coming, clouds
blocked that. So there is think of it this way
(16:52):
like an X ray. There is a science that allows
forecasters to see through the clouds and to see the
weather that's really taking place. Creates this very high resolution
(17:12):
three dimensional image at it's a game changer. It's just
one of those pieces of science says finally we can
see these things. Not only does it help with being
able to see what's going on and forecasting these hurricanes,
but it also helps predict storm tracking, how it's growing,
(17:33):
the direction it's going, all these things. Well, the United
States was better at predicting storm tracks and where they're
going than ever within the last year or so, just
cutting edge on forecasting hurricanes. But now you know Trump
(17:57):
administration has cut through forecasts, staff budgets and things like that.
But the biggest tool was this satellite data. So it's
called a Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder or ss MIS,
which is probably easier, rides on a series of these
(18:19):
satellites that allows forecasters to see the storm structure that would,
you know, in all other circumstances, would be invisible to them.
They do have these things called hurricane hunter planes. They
fly into storms and they get you know, all kinds
of information, three dimensional images, things like that. But the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is responsible for all
(18:43):
that hurricane forecasting, by the way, they only have two
of those aircraft. They you know, they can't be everywhere,
so they don't do it. The Department of Defense is
the one that processes and distributes all this crucial imagery
from these sensors that SSMIS. I feel like I'm going
(19:05):
to smell Mississippi on accident, So they're going to pull
that and stop giving that crucial imagery at the end
of the month. Now there are those that are saying
this threatens the National Hurricane Center's ability to see what's
(19:26):
forming and that we are going to backtrack off of
all that gain that we've had in the last year.
I know, we all worry about these things, and of course,
you know, when it comes to this, we're you know,
we don't have hurricanes here, but the concern is that
that in areas in the United States that do are
(19:47):
going to be hit. So the s s MS is
part of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. That's you know,
I think the Navy oversees all that and all is
being slated. That entire satellite program is slated to be
discontinued in September of twenty twenty six. So I guess
(20:12):
they've cited cybersecurity concerns for the closure. But we shall
see where this ends up and how this affects things
in the future. And these are the you know, it's
one thing to say, we all do this with our
own budgets, right you tweet things here, tweet things there
and say, oh, you've cut too much. Like I will
(20:34):
do everything I can to shove money into savings, you know,
especially as I get older. Right, I don't even want
to see it, take it out of my paycheck, shove
it somewhere, or I don't see it. I don't want
to know about it. Right. But then sometimes, you know,
because you can change that online, sometimes you go, holy smokes,
you get to check. You there's nothing here because you
(20:56):
cranked everything up and you're putting it away. So I
get that you're gonna need to some fine tuning and things.
But it's the unintended consequences that I think are going
to be the point of contention once these things are gone.
But we'll have to wait and see all right, So
TikToker went to the talk viewers consumers and went off
(21:24):
on people who are chronically late. Says, you being chronically
late and wasting people's time and having poor time management skills,
isn't the quirky personality trait says that it you know,
it's a pain to everybody around you, is what it is?
(21:45):
Six million views of that, and that brought up, well,
why are people late? Now? Joke about it? Blacks and
Latinos have famously even you know, some moans and Hawaiian
time and things like that brown tyme, those types of
(22:05):
things culturally that for whatever reason, people will joke about.
There's also something referred to as time blindness. Now this
is interesting. A lot of it affects people with ADHD,
although it does you don't have to have ADHD to be,
you know, affected by it. I do have ADHD, and
(22:30):
so I do get affected by this. There are times
where you know, I could plan for things, and I
can schedule pretty good with understanding. Like you know, some
people go, oh, it should take fifteen minutes. I go,
I won't take fifteen minutes, you know, five minutes to
get in the car, five minutes to get out of
the car. There's going to be stop lights, you know,
(22:51):
all these things. So I will calculate that stuff in
but still oftentimes I'll be late or cut it very
very close. People like Bill Handle, he hates being late.
He is incredibly good about being on time. He cannot
stand being late, and he's just very good about getting
there early. That's just who he is. So there are
(23:13):
studies and people looking at this. So this viral video
goes out on the TikTok app speaking out against those
who are constantly late, and they say, you know, time
blindness isn't an excuse. But then you get some that
are more studied coming out and saying, no, there is
something there. If you frequently struggle with lateness, there might
(23:38):
be something deeper going on. And that's where this concept
of time blindness come in, because mental health experts say
that it's a real thing. It's a legitimate experience for
some people, especially for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD.
So time blindness is a difficulty for an individual who
(24:01):
just doesn't always understand the perception of time, how much
time has passed, how much time is left, how much
time it's going to take to do something, and it
can you know, really impair people from doing tasks that
you may or even me may find as simple. You know,
(24:22):
you just schedule it and you take care of it,
so they can get wrapped up in this and if
you know, figuring out when they're going to get somewhere
or how they're going to get somewhere. So, if you
have this so called time blindness, you struggle to keep
track and estimate time. With me, I can be distracted
(24:43):
very easily. Things get you know, a lot of tasks
will take me in one direction or another. So there
are some that believe this manifests in a purch a
particular part of the brain, the frontal lobe area responsible
for personality, judgment, self control, all kinds of things. But
(25:04):
this might play a part in the time conditions as well.
So what do they say to do well, alarms and scheduling.
That's what I do, alarms and scheduling. Take these scheduling apps.
They're going to be your new best pal and you
can use this technology to keep you on track. One
(25:25):
that I never thought of that I did find was
a fascinating is they say use an analog clock instead
of a digital one something about the nature of looking
at an old school clock face with a minute hour hand,
maybe a second hand as well, helps people with time
blindness kind of keep track of how long things take.
(25:45):
You're just looking at the moment differently, like for instance,
the studio here right in front of me here at
KFI there is I can see everybody in their studio
right now. I can see Kono, and I can see Heather,
you know Will on occasion as well, and you can
see everything. But right smack dab, there are three clocks.
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There is an analog version of the clock where I
can watch the seconds. There's the LA time clock which
is connected so we're all on the same time in
the building and that we're you know, on that specific time.
And then there's a segment timer where I can see
how long the segment is going as well. But that
analog clock is a point of focus for me. I
(26:34):
check at that clock to be able to see how
things are moving by and how to keep the story
moving in things like that. That does help. But the
fact that it's different than the digital clock, which we
have another big one on the wall as well that
counts down the seconds. I don't know why, but there
is something about watching it move that help. It gives
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you a speed where a digital clock doesn't always do that.
Get plenty of sleep, which I'm horrible at, horrible at.
I probably get less than seven hours on most days.
I think I'm probably in the five to six hour
range on average. And I hate saying that around people
like Ann who get up earlier than me. And of
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course when you're doing wake up call and your cono
and all that, these guys get up much earlier. But
getting sleep is important. And then see a specialist. If
you're struggling with time. It might just be that you
have ADHD or something some underlying problem, and you see
a specialist about that and say, well, what's wrong with me?
I'm broken? And I think we're all kind of on
(27:40):
a spectrum, I really do. I think we all have
a lot of these things bipolarity, ADHD, and then some
of us having a little more than others. You know,
you're on the spectrum somewhere in there, because it's too
common these things all right, stick around. Much more to come,
as we've got an hour to go hang out today
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before Gary and Shannon come aboard special holiday weekend. Of course,
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
Am six forty kf I AM six forty Live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. Happy Thursday morning to you. It
is July third. Nil Savedra here with the morning crew
handles off today and tomorrow. I will be with you
(00:22):
with the Gang tomorrow as well. Heather Brooker in for
Amy King and uh oh so Will Cole Schreuber just
hit me up. We were talking asking if anybody had
been locked in an area you know, and Will just
texted me locked in? Does jail count asking for a friend?
(00:44):
I don't know about you, but I kind of feel
like he's not asking for a friend. This seems personal.
I'd just ask you for a friend, that's all. Well,
if that, if we're going to go there, then I
have been locked in. So if we're going to be honest,
what so anyho, Neil, what was your prison name? I
(01:12):
don't want to want to say everything, but so is
that what you said? You're so dead, little man. That's prejudice.
It's just going to be a pile of blood. I
want to be beard and a hat. Oh now I'm
a woman. Wow. Is being revealed this morning this is uh,
(01:41):
this is not. Oh a buddy mine just hit me up.
He said, let's see a guy locked in a porta
potty at work one time, and it was hilarious. Well,
I'm sure that is all right, border agents. So you know,
we tend not to care about laws unless they to
us this human nature, if it's not something you bother with.
(02:03):
But there's all kinds of weird laws out there that
we don't know. Did you know that? And I don't
know if it's still this way, But if you put
a note, like you're sending a package to someone and
you put a note or a letter inside, you're supposed
to put a stamp on that, or at least at
one point, you were supposed to put a stamp on
that letter even though like you got to pay for
that letter inside the box, even though you're paying for
(02:24):
the box. There's all kinds of weird stuff like that
that either used to or still is out there. But
when it comes to you know, border control or customs
and border control agents, we don't think about that much
because we're here, right, we're Americans. But now there is
a focus on it because of course under the Trump administration,
(02:47):
they have their sweeping directive to increase national security by
way of checking who's coming in to our country. And
this puts the own on the US customs and border control.
Their security is increasing. They are having more scrutiny over travelers. Now,
(03:10):
what happens with that in a modern age is you're
looking for information on their phones and things that we
think as Americans, well, they couldn't do that. When you're
coming back into this country or you're coming into this country.
There's a lot they can do. They can search your
(03:32):
electronic devices, including social media, when you're at a border crossing.
So for US it might be a little different. But
if you're like a visa applicant, you're required to get
that visa, you're required to have your social media accounts public.
(03:53):
You couldn't make them private or anything like that. So
they're looking these are which is used to be more rare.
They're highly regulated, they say, and they've been used in
identifying and combating like the serious stuff you think about,
like serious crimes or terrorism, smuggling, human trafficking, visa fraud.
(04:20):
These are the things they're looking at. But you've got
a lot of lawyers coming out now and saying, oh no,
this is this is ramping up. So what used to
be more rare is starting to be seen more and more.
And I think, you know, you watch social media or
(04:41):
your see videos all the time. You can't get away
from him anymore. Of people going, there's this one wing
nut who says he's a constitutional lawyer. You guys ever
seen him where he's He'll rattle off something at a
cop will be arresting somebody that he doesn't even know,
and he'll walk up, I'm a constitutional lawyer. He's actually,
I think, been arrested or something a couple of times,
(05:03):
and I guess he's not as good of an attorney
as he thinks he is, or someone or something like that.
But anyways, there's a lot of these people that go,
you can't do that, You can't do that. I know
my rights. I don't know that most of us do.
We think we do, but depending on this situation, it
may be different. So can border agents look at your
social media account? Yeah? They can. For the average traveler,
(05:31):
you should be aware that you could be subject to
searches when you're coming back into your country. Now. I
have been to countries. My wife and I traveled quite
a bit before our son was born, and part of
that was wanting to go to more third world countries
and things like that, because I knew I had kidney disease.
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It's genetic in my family, so I knew my kidneys
were gonna go bad, and I was going to most
likely Lord willing to have a transplant, and my immune
system would be down and be harder to travel to
some of these. So the thought was we'd travel to
the harder places first, and then when I got a kidney,
you go to Europe and you go to whatever places
(06:14):
where medical advancements are are better, I guess. So we
have been to places where they pulled us aside and
you're going, you know, the badge is crooked and the
shirts are dirty, and they pull you into a room.
One time they actually my wife and I they said,
(06:36):
you know, kind of broken English, stand up and come
with us. And we both stood up and he goes no, no,
no to my wife and motioned to sit down. Just
the bus. Yeah, so it's I'm referred to as the
international boss at the House of Mike. Who's the international boss? Okay,
just the boss today. But and it's intimidating to say
(06:57):
the least you don't know if you're gonna they're gonna
want money or whatever. So do you have to make
your social media account public across the US borders? Yes
and no, So it depends on your immigration status. So
a basic search, which is most common. You know, they
can only look what's on your traveler what's on the
traveler's physical device, not stored in the cloud. There's also
(07:21):
no requirements to have social media on your phone, so
lawful resident or US citizen could very well just kind
of clean up your profiles, turn the private logout or
that type thing delete. But if you're not in that category,
if you're visa applicant or you're a visitor, there's less leeway.
And since twenty nineteen, the US has required non immigrant
(07:45):
visa applicants such as those that work has exchanged students
and things like that, to make their social media accounts
public so that they could be vetted. Can you refuse? Yeah,
travelers don't have to hand over their unlocked phones, but
you might just be denied coming back into the US
(08:08):
or coming into the US as a traveler. You can
scrub your phone and your social media if you want.
You can think about those things ahead of time, but
they can search your phone and check out your Instagram
and kind of interesting. We're learning more and more about
the powers that be when you're coming into this country
and when you're traveling. Keep those things in mind, all right.
(08:31):
So we've got flesh eating larvae basically maggots, not here
so much as in Texas and Mexico, but science skuiance
is coming to the aid once again. What would we
do without science? We love science. The US government they're prepared,
(08:53):
preparing right now, breeding billions of flies. So this is
they're going to dump these flies out of airplanes over
Mexico and southern Texas and they're fighting no joke, I'm
sorry at seven twenty two breakfast time to fight these
flesh eating maggots. Which was my nickname in prison. By
(09:16):
the way, I never said it, but that was so
it sounds like an absolute horror film. So the crazy
thing is this bug that they're trying, that they're defending against.
I could devastate the beef industry, decimate wildlife, even kill
(09:40):
household pets. Right, Oh, the bunch of ears just perked up.
Oh not kitting, not my pooky bear. But how crazy
is that? It's called the New World screw worm fly
no joke, So their larva eats fresh flesh, feed me seed.
(10:07):
More so, the US Orban of Magical Agriculture rather plans
to ramp up this breeding and distribution of adult male flies.
They sterilize them with radiation before releasing them. They mate
with the dames in the wild. The eggs laid by
the female aren't fertilized, they don't hatch, so there's fewer larvae,
(10:34):
and over time the fly population dies out. It just
I mean, you can't breed, no seed, no breed, no larva,
no flesh eating. So most fly larva feed on dead flesh.
That's why you see maggots in you know that stuff
(10:57):
you watch watch a movie. If someone dies or a
CSI or something like that, they walk up and the
body's been there for a while. It's actually one of
the things they use to determine how long something's been there,
because the cycle of a fly less certain amount of time,
and if a body is decomposed, they can look at
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the larvae and go, okay, it would have taken this
much time to lay the eggs and all that stuff.
I know, gross but kind of fascinating, right, So most
fly larvae feed on dead flesh. We know that, we've
seen that. But the New World screwword fly and it's
(11:38):
Old World counterpart in Asia and I guess Africa. They
you know, those can cause problems with the dead flesh,
like the beef industry. So you're you're dealing with you know,
ground b for steaks or these that's a serious threat.
You know, any of that can do there. But these
(12:01):
females lay their eggs in wounds, sometimes even exposed mucus. Wow,
this is one sexy story, but you know one thousand
pounds bovine can be dead from this in two weeks. Yeah, yeah,
very scary. Producer Anne whose face is contorted in a
(12:23):
way I've never seen before. But it really is sad
because it does cripple the animal and science. You know,
science is using the flies biology basically against it by
genetically creating the ability to keep it from the eggs
(12:45):
being fertilized. So it's a tropical species, it's unable to
survive in Midwestern or you know like Great Plain winters
and things like that and different season type scooges. Right,
But the US and Mexico, you know, breeds and release
(13:07):
ninety four billions sterile flies. They did this before from
nineteen sixty two through nineteen seventy five to eradicate a
pest back then, and we know that it works. We
know that we can put this together, make this happen
if we need to. You know, there's a couple of
(13:28):
humans that I think we could sterilize. Yeah, yeah, there's
a I mean, I'm not I don't even know if
Handele could breed now, but you know, if he could,
I'm just saying it might be something we should look at.
So it takes a lot raising a large colony of
these flies. It's easy in the most basic sense, but
(13:53):
you've got to, you know, give the female the cues
that she needs to lay her eggs, and the larvae
have to have enough new tree its. It's all these
weird things they have to do in the science to
make this come together. And then time sexy time first,
and then it doesn't fertilize, and then they slowly die out.
(14:17):
We shall see. I would hate to find it. See
these things adapt to different climates and come closer to
beautiful Southern California, Texas has a lot. That's what you
get when you're that big. You're going to get a
lot of weird crap in Texas and Florida, parts of Mexico. Yes,
all right, back to some more science, Hurricane science. Listen,
(14:42):
nobody likes cuts, and especially we get used to things.
There is a psychology that takes place when you have something,
even mentally. I was just talking to producer and we
were talking about, you know, money, when you have money
sometimes and you think, oh, this what I'm gonna use
it for, and then something comes up and you're like, well,
(15:03):
that's not what I wanted to do with that, or uh.
A one that we do a lot is when you're
in a parking area and you think that's my parking spot.
I saw that it's not your parking spot. It's nobody's
parking spot until somebody parks in it. And even then
it's not your parking spot. You're just using it. But
we get upset someone just took my parking spot. Well
it's not your parking spot. Now you might have had
(15:24):
your blinker on. You're there, and in a polite society
they should go, okay, that person was here. First, we
wait in line, but it's not your part. It's nobody's
parking spot. So this this kind of ties in. This
deals with hurricane science, and you've got the Trump administration
just like I mean, it's like in a movie when
(15:46):
someone gets mad and they just knock everything off the
shelves and off the off the desktop and every and
you're going, whoa, wha, wait wait wait wait, we're not
gonna We're not gonna go through them and say, okay,
this is a bill we have to pay, and this
is really important. This is a birth certificate. We should
probably hang on to that. But this is trashical thriller.
It gets scary. So the Trump administration is making lots
(16:11):
of changes, and I know that makes us all nervous,
cutting all kinds of stuff right and left, and we're
sitting fat. Does that mean everything needs to be cut? No,
but we're sitting fat. I think we can all agree
that we're sitting fat and we should be cutting things.
But what gets cut and the unintended consequences of those things,
(16:32):
I think is what makes us all nervous. Right, So,
when it comes to hurricane science, clouds are a problem. Okay,
you can't just take a photograph, look down, take a
photograph and say okay, here there's a hurricane coming, clouds
blocked that. So there is think of it this way
(16:52):
like an X ray. There is a science that allows
forecasters to see through the clouds and to see the
weather that's really taking place. Creates this very high resolution
(17:12):
three dimensional image at it's a game changer. It's just
one of those pieces of science says finally we can
see these things. Not only does it help with being
able to see what's going on and forecasting these hurricanes,
but it also helps predict storm tracking, how it's growing,
(17:33):
the direction it's going, all these things. Well, the United
States was better at predicting storm tracks and where they're
going than ever within the last year or so, just
cutting edge on forecasting hurricanes. But now you know Trump
(17:57):
administration has cut through forecasts, staff budgets and things like that.
But the biggest tool was this satellite data. So it's
called a Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder or ss MIS,
which is probably easier, rides on a series of these
(18:19):
satellites that allows forecasters to see the storm structure that would,
you know, in all other circumstances, would be invisible to them.
They do have these things called hurricane hunter planes. They
fly into storms and they get you know, all kinds
of information, three dimensional images, things like that. But the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is responsible for all
(18:43):
that hurricane forecasting, by the way, they only have two
of those aircraft. They you know, they can't be everywhere,
so they don't do it. The Department of Defense is
the one that processes and distributes all this crucial imagery
from these sensors that SSMIS. I feel like I'm going
(19:05):
to smell Mississippi on accident, So they're going to pull
that and stop giving that crucial imagery at the end
of the month. Now there are those that are saying
this threatens the National Hurricane Center's ability to see what's
(19:26):
forming and that we are going to backtrack off of
all that gain that we've had in the last year.
I know, we all worry about these things, and of course,
you know, when it comes to this, we're you know,
we don't have hurricanes here, but the concern is that
that in areas in the United States that do are
(19:47):
going to be hit. So the s s MS is
part of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. That's you know,
I think the Navy oversees all that and all is
being slated. That entire satellite program is slated to be
discontinued in September of twenty twenty six. So I guess
(20:12):
they've cited cybersecurity concerns for the closure. But we shall
see where this ends up and how this affects things
in the future. And these are the you know, it's
one thing to say, we all do this with our
own budgets, right you tweet things here, tweet things there
and say, oh, you've cut too much. Like I will
(20:34):
do everything I can to shove money into savings, you know,
especially as I get older. Right, I don't even want
to see it, take it out of my paycheck, shove
it somewhere, or I don't see it. I don't want
to know about it. Right. But then sometimes, you know,
because you can change that online, sometimes you go, holy smokes,
you get to check. You there's nothing here because you
(20:56):
cranked everything up and you're putting it away. So I
get that you're gonna need to some fine tuning and things.
But it's the unintended consequences that I think are going
to be the point of contention once these things are gone.
But we'll have to wait and see all right, So
TikToker went to the talk viewers consumers and went off
(21:24):
on people who are chronically late. Says, you being chronically
late and wasting people's time and having poor time management skills,
isn't the quirky personality trait says that it you know,
it's a pain to everybody around you, is what it is?
(21:45):
Six million views of that, and that brought up, well,
why are people late? Now? Joke about it? Blacks and
Latinos have famously even you know, some moans and Hawaiian
time and things like that brown tyme, those types of
(22:05):
things culturally that for whatever reason, people will joke about.
There's also something referred to as time blindness. Now this
is interesting. A lot of it affects people with ADHD,
although it does you don't have to have ADHD to be,
you know, affected by it. I do have ADHD, and
(22:30):
so I do get affected by this. There are times
where you know, I could plan for things, and I
can schedule pretty good with understanding. Like you know, some
people go, oh, it should take fifteen minutes. I go,
I won't take fifteen minutes, you know, five minutes to
get in the car, five minutes to get out of
the car. There's going to be stop lights, you know,
(22:51):
all these things. So I will calculate that stuff in
but still oftentimes I'll be late or cut it very
very close. People like Bill Handle, he hates being late.
He is incredibly good about being on time. He cannot
stand being late, and he's just very good about getting
there early. That's just who he is. So there are
(23:13):
studies and people looking at this. So this viral video
goes out on the TikTok app speaking out against those
who are constantly late, and they say, you know, time
blindness isn't an excuse. But then you get some that
are more studied coming out and saying, no, there is
something there. If you frequently struggle with lateness, there might
(23:38):
be something deeper going on. And that's where this concept
of time blindness come in, because mental health experts say
that it's a real thing. It's a legitimate experience for
some people, especially for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD.
So time blindness is a difficulty for an individual who
(24:01):
just doesn't always understand the perception of time, how much
time has passed, how much time is left, how much
time it's going to take to do something, and it
can you know, really impair people from doing tasks that
you may or even me may find as simple. You know,
(24:22):
you just schedule it and you take care of it,
so they can get wrapped up in this and if
you know, figuring out when they're going to get somewhere
or how they're going to get somewhere. So, if you
have this so called time blindness, you struggle to keep
track and estimate time. With me, I can be distracted
(24:43):
very easily. Things get you know, a lot of tasks
will take me in one direction or another. So there
are some that believe this manifests in a purch a
particular part of the brain, the frontal lobe area responsible
for personality, judgment, self control, all kinds of things. But
(25:04):
this might play a part in the time conditions as well.
So what do they say to do well, alarms and scheduling.
That's what I do, alarms and scheduling. Take these scheduling apps.
They're going to be your new best pal and you
can use this technology to keep you on track. One
(25:25):
that I never thought of that I did find was
a fascinating is they say use an analog clock instead
of a digital one something about the nature of looking
at an old school clock face with a minute hour hand,
maybe a second hand as well, helps people with time
blindness kind of keep track of how long things take.
(25:45):
You're just looking at the moment differently, like for instance,
the studio here right in front of me here at
KFI there is I can see everybody in their studio
right now. I can see Kono, and I can see Heather,
you know Will on occasion as well, and you can
see everything. But right smack dab, there are three clocks.
(26:12):
There is an analog version of the clock where I
can watch the seconds. There's the LA time clock which
is connected so we're all on the same time in
the building and that we're you know, on that specific time.
And then there's a segment timer where I can see
how long the segment is going as well. But that
analog clock is a point of focus for me. I
(26:34):
check at that clock to be able to see how
things are moving by and how to keep the story
moving in things like that. That does help. But the
fact that it's different than the digital clock, which we
have another big one on the wall as well that
counts down the seconds. I don't know why, but there
is something about watching it move that help. It gives
(26:56):
you a speed where a digital clock doesn't always do that.
Get plenty of sleep, which I'm horrible at, horrible at.
I probably get less than seven hours on most days.
I think I'm probably in the five to six hour
range on average. And I hate saying that around people
like Ann who get up earlier than me. And of
(27:18):
course when you're doing wake up call and your cono
and all that, these guys get up much earlier. But
getting sleep is important. And then see a specialist. If
you're struggling with time. It might just be that you
have ADHD or something some underlying problem, and you see
a specialist about that and say, well, what's wrong with me?
I'm broken? And I think we're all kind of on
(27:40):
a spectrum, I really do. I think we all have
a lot of these things bipolarity, ADHD, and then some
of us having a little more than others. You know,
you're on the spectrum somewhere in there, because it's too
common these things all right, stick around. Much more to come,
as we've got an hour to go hang out today
(28:01):
before Gary and Shannon come aboard special holiday weekend. Of course,
most of you are off today and probably heading somewhere fun.
You can leave us talk back if you want something
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(28:23):
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